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While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama’s event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartan’s correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, “Get me more white people, we need more white people.” To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, “We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.” “I didn’t know they would say, ‘We need a white person here,’ ” said attende....

When, and if, it comes time to look for a running mate, Barack Obama will be looking for "somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not an expert on.'' This was the senator's word at a closed-door fundraiser last night in San Francisco, the Huffington Post reports. Obama fielded a question on what he's looking for in a running mate, HuffPo''s Mayhill Flower writes. "I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not as expert on," the senator is quoted as saying. "I think a lot of people assume that might be...

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., seated with Memphis Mayor Willie W. Herenton, waits to speak about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and his legacy on the 40th anniversary of the assassination at the Mason Temple Church of God and Christ in Memphis, Tenn., Friday, April 4, 2008. Members of the Memphis Tennessee "Beloved Community" carry signs as they march to the former Lorraine Motel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, April 4, 2008. April 4 marks the 40th anniversary of the...

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OBAMA LAUNDRY LIST OF LIES as of April 03, 2008 (68 lies and counting)

Will Barack Obama accept the endorsement of a woman who helped torture John McCain? ...AND THE FACT THAT I HAVE TO EVEN *ASK* THIS SHOULD FILL HIS SUPPORTERS WITH SHAME. By Moe Lane Posted in Anti-war liberals Note the use of the word "should." Via Constant Reader fatimabrown we see this link of Jane Fonda announcing her support of Senator Barack Obama in the upcoming elections. Fonda, as all people know - and all decent people admit - is an actress who used her celebrity to first voluntarily engage in propaganda attacks by the North Vietnamese against the United States...

From Shailagh Murray's pool report on Obama's visit to the Italian Market in Philadelphia, where he met an extremely persistent photograph-seeker: Run in #1: outside the first shop, on the way in Man: Senator can I have a quick picture with you. (Obama has his arm on the guys arm in a very nice way, like he does when he shakes peoples hand) but Obama refuses to take a picture and walks away.) Man: It will take you two seconds. Don't cram me, I'm not doing anything to anybody. Jesus. Run in #2: after the first shop Man: "Senator can...

A tangle with a cop and an achy heartBy Jeri Rowe Staff writer Tuesday, Apr. 1, 2008 3:00 am GREENSBORO — Alexander Kohanowich is a patriotic guy. His six grandchildren call him Pop. For at least five years, Pop has traveled around our city, showing his support for American troops overseas. He doesn't say much. He just holds his signs at busy intersections and busy events to get people's attention. Maybe you've seen him. He'll hang, say, on Westover Terrace, near Wendover. He'll face east in the morning, west in the afternoon, so drivers can see his signs clearly, without...

Via Media Matters: During the March 31 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist repeatedly mocked Sen. Barack Obama’s bowling performance — which Scarborough called “dainty” — at a March 29 campaign stop at Pleasant Valley Lanes in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Deriding Obama’s score, he said: “You know Willie, the thing is, Americans want their president, if it’s a man, to be a real man.” Scarborough added, “You get 150, you’re a man, or a good woman,” to which Geist replied, “Out of my president, I want a 150, at least.” Later in the show, after NBC...

  Red, White & Black? by Paul R. Hollrah On March 23, 2007, a reception was held at the Tamiment Library at New York University. The occasion was the official opening of the archives of the Communist Party USA. The keynote speaker was Gerald Horne, noted Communist and contributing editor of the Communist Party journal, Political Affairs.  In his speech, Horne spoke glowingly of an African-American poet, Frank Marshall Davis, of Chicago, who moved to Honolulu at the height of the anti-communist fervor of the late 1940s. According to Horne, Davis was “certainly in the orbit of the Communist Party...

Barack Obama welcomes material too Krazy for Kos: Oil Industry and Bush were Complicit in 9/11 We now have incontrovertable proof that Barack Obama’s official Web site welcomes material for which Markos Moulitsas Zúniga said he would ban people for posting at the Daily Kos. Here is the screenshot, which we encourage our readers to download (don’t link, it uses this site’s bandwidth) and circulate with Obama’s picture right at the top.

During the recent media super storm: Obama's Pastor Disaster, CBS 2 Chicago has strangely not released video they have of Obama at Trinity United Church of Christ for a Book Signing / Church Service with Pastor Wright. According to a Chicago Tribune article, at the Service Obama spoke to the cheering congregation and the choir sang, "Hallelujah Barack". After the service Wright and Obama sat together, laughing , talking and signing books. Leaving one to wonder, if a republican candidate had this sort of controversy swirling around would the footage have found it's way to the national and cable news...

Must see - several clips of Obama before the speech and Obama during the speech, complete contradictions.

Barack Obama took the stage this morning to give what was billed as a "major speech on race." It was, of course, an attempt to rescue his campaign from the revelation that his so-called spiritual mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, espouses a virulently anti-American and antiwhite worldview called "black liberation theology." <--snip--> What Obama is evading is that this "profoundly distorted view" is not just some passing emotion. It is what Wright himself, in the "talking points" page of his congregation's Web site, describes as "systematized black liberation theology." As we noted yesterday, Wright credits James Cone of New York's...

One of the criticisms of the media's coverage of Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy - both from his opponents on the right and on the left, has been that he's been given a free pass on a lot of issue. The latest in particular had been the recently uncovered of Obama's former church minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who had made several incendiary remarks about race and the government. Eleanor Clift, known for her defense of Bill and Hillary Clinton on the syndicated show, "The McLaughlin Group," came to the defense of Obama in a March 17 appearance at The National Press...

In an interview with ABC News Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of talk radio host Don Imus. Obama said he would never again appear on Imus' show, which is broadcast on CBS Radio and MSNBC television. "I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude." Top Politics stories Obama said...

I have seen a like intro referencing crying at several left wing message boards a dozen times already. OK, this is what we are up against people. Crybabies that start crying over political speeches! Unbeleivable! Just who ARE these people that would cry over a political speech given solely because the guy was backed into a corner over an issue? To CRY over it?

"A More Perfect Union" Remarks of Senator Barack Obama Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 10:17:53 ET “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787. The document they produced was...

Sometime between April 2006 and today, the church Barack Obama has attended for 20 years, Trinity United Church of Christ, quietly edited the “About Us” page of their web site, removing their statement of commitment to “the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981.” Here’s the page from 2006, saved by the Internet Archive: Trinity United Church of Christ - About Us. And here’s the current page: Trinity United Church of Christ - About Us. The section that was removed: Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written...

Samantha Power, the able foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama who referred to Hillary Clinton as a "monster," has quit her role with the Obama campaign. That's too bad, because Power has always been more open and honest than most key players you will find in or around presidential campaigns. Of course, the offhand remark by Power in a discussion recorded by a Scottish journalist was politically incorrect -- both because it was hurtful to Clinton, someone the Anna Lindh professor of practice of global leadership and public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government has known for...

Obama's Soviet-style Press Relations By Greg McNeilly Feb 26th 2008 4:08PM Barack Obama's message has included "openness" from net neutrality to the government's relations with the public. He speaks of a new open era. But if his conduct, as a candidate, is a prelude to governance, then Obama's rhetoric is a sham and he'll be a hypocrite. The Politico reports today on the state of media openness with the Obama campaign. They compare his campaigning to the the 2000 campaign of then-Governor George W. Bush and the 2004 campaign of U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA). Bypassing the national media for...

U.S. President George W. Bush points toward the Oval Office in a reference to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (L) winning the presidency after they met at the White House in Washington March 5, 2008. McCain scored victories in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island on Tuesday to complete his improbable comeback from the political graveyard last summer to become his party's standard-bearer. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain and his wife Cindy point to the crowd at his Ohio and Texas primary election night rally in...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) campaign charged rival Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) campaign with breaking several rules in the Texas caucuses. The Clinton campaign called an “emergency” conference call with reporters that was interrupted by Obama’s chief counsel Bob Bauer, who called in and said the Clinton campaign only criticized the caucus process when it was losing. With Clinton facing what many consider must-win scenarios in both Ohio and Texas and both races too-close-to-call, the Clinton campaign charged that the Obama campaign had shut the doors on Clinton supporters at some of the caucuses, among other things. The campaign also...

February 29, 2008, 11:56 am Texas Democrats Fret About Possible Lawsuit Nick Timiraos reports from Houston on the presidential race. Democratic Party officials have raised concerns that expected record turnout for next Tuesday’s Texas presidential primary and caucuses could be marred by a lawsuit from the Clinton campaign over the party’s election rules, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported today. On a conference call with reporters this morning, David Plouffe, campaign manager for Sen. Barack Obama, blamed Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the row, suggesting that the Clinton camp wanted to slow or stop reporting of the caucus tally on election...

In the new issue of Us Weekly, presidential candidate Barack Obama invited news director Lara Cohen to join his campaign for a day. He described some of his best Just Like Us moments, and took our Presidential Pop Quiz (where he revealed that his daughters think Britney and Paris are "yuck"). Some excerpts from the Us interview: How familiar are you with Us Weekly? My wife reads it. --snip-- So, boxers or briefs? Bill Clinton said he wore boxers in a 1992 interview with MTV. I don't answer those humiliating questions. But whichever one it is, I look good in...

A message posted January 20, 2008 on the Islamist forum Al-Hesbah (hosted by NOC4Hosts Inc. in Florida, USA), by a member calling himself Al-Jawfi, suggests stirring up racial tension between African-Americans and whites in the U.S. by spreading inflammatory materials on the Internet. In the discussion thread, other members proposed posting racist materials against African-Americans (such as insulting jokes and pictures) on sites frequented by African-Americans, in order to arouse anger and bitterness in their community. Another suggestion was to post, on white supremacist sites, materials that present African-Americans as a threat to American society. The following are excerpts from...

To: watchdog “at” barackobama.com, media “at” barackobama.com, cc: njdc “at” njdc.org, info “at” njdc.org We direct your attention to this New York Sun article Farrakhan Lauds Obama as ‘Hope’ of World By Associated Press February 25, 2008 In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam said yesterday that a presidential candidate, Senator Obama, is the “hope of the entire world” that America will change for the better. The Chicago Tribune adds http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-farrakhan25feb25,0,6391391.story Speaking to thousands of members of the Nation of Islam at their annual convention Sunday in Chicago, Minister...

A spry Farrakhan sings Obama's praises By SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the "hope of the entire world" that the U.S. will change for the better. The 74-year-old Farrakhan, addressing an estimated crowd of 20,000 people at the annual Saviours' Day celebration, never outrightly endorsed Obama but spent most of the nearly two-hour speech praising the Illinois senator. "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and...

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement. Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a...

Here's an interview with Maria Isabel who is a ... (more) Added: February 12, 2008 Here's an interview with Maria Isabel who is a precinct captain for Barack Obama in Houston Texas. She was previously recently featured in a piece by the same TV station in which she was shown opening a new volunteer office for the Obama campaign. In the office, next to a small poster for Barack Obama, she had hung a HUGE Cuban flag emblazoned with the image of Che Guevara. Guevara was the Argentine murderer that helped establish the Castro dictatorship in Cuba before he was...

Che Guevara, who did so much (or was it so little?) to destroy capitalism, is now a quintessential capitalist brand. His likeness adorns mugs, hoodies, lighters, key chains, wallets, baseball caps, toques, bandannas, tank tops, club shirts, couture bags, denim jeans, herbal tea, and of course those omnipresent T-shirts with the photograph, taken by Alberto Korda, of the socialist heartthrob in his beret during the early years of the revolution, as Che happened to walk into the photographer’s viewfinder—and into the image that, thirty-eight years after his death, is still the logo of revolutionary (or is it capitalist?) chic. Sean...

Did the Clintons know what they were doing? I believe that they were unaware what they're doing to themselves by their vicious negative campaign against Sen. Barack Obama. They and their colleagues set out to destroy him by innuendo, distortion and smear. His brilliant victory in South Carolina over the weekend was too late. There is not enough time for him before next Tuesday to erase the images they have created -- a teller of fairy tales, a racial candidate, a friend of crooks. Sen. Hillary Clinton shouted him down in the debates, the former president exploded in temper tantrums....

A poisonous new exchange erupted on the Democratic campaign trail Wednesday as former president Bill Clinton accused his wife's chief rival Barack Obama, pictured, of a political "hit job. "(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand )

A leading Democratic candidate for president attends an “Afrocentric” church that bestows awards on Louis Farrakhan and practically defines itself through race-baiting. Burt Prelutsky asks, why isn’t Barack Obama’s faith-based problem making national headlines and the nightly news? One of the obvious differences between Democrats and Republicans is the role that religion plays in their presidential campaigns. For instance, every Democrat, while pretending to believe that “separation of church and state” actually appears somewhere in the Constitution, must also insist that religion plays an essential role in his or her life. But just about the only time you see them...

Rather than relieving racial tensions, might an Obama candidacy instead intensify them? Iowa Caucus results quickly shifted many Democrats' sense of Hillary's inevitability to one of Barack's providence.  The smooth-talking senator's surprising historic victory gave fellow blacks and liberal whites a common hope that monumental change was just over the horizon. The happy union didn't last a week. Explaining last week's celebrated upset, Newsday's Martin Evans told of Obama's: "... populist message hat has tapped into the desire of voters here to end decades of infighting between Democrats and Republicans, and to banish traditions of racial politics that have divided...

A few years back, a relative was visiting from out of town and showed us a snapshot. It was his son posing with a new acquaintance. Big smiles all around. The acquaintance was a priest. And he was black. Why carry around this otherwise unremarkable photo and make a show of it? Because the son is a five-alarm racist, and so is his dad -- the guy proudly displaying the snapshot. The subtext here -- about one micron below the surface -- was: "See? A black friend!"

Obama gets beefed-up protection By Joseph Curl January 7, 2008 MANCHESTER, N.H. — Secret Service presence has increased for Sen. Barack Obama since his dramatic win in Iowa, amid fears over the safety of the man seeking to become America's first black president. The Illinois senator's security now rivals that of President Bush, with a dozen Secret Service agents wearing dark suits and earpieces leading bomb-sniffing dogs through event venues, sweeping all equipment brought by journalists and flanking the candidate as he plunges into crowds of supporters. "For many black supporters, there is a lot of anxiety that he will...

Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam   By Daniel PipesFrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, January 07, 2008 In a recent analysis, “Was Barack Obama a Muslim?” I surveyed available evidence and found it suggests “Obama was born a Muslim to a non-practicing Muslim father and for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father.” In response, David Brock’s organization, Media Matters for America (MMfA), which calls itself a “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media,” has criticized one of my sources of information. MMfA contends...

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (R) greets supporters after his victory speech following his win in the Iowa caucus in Des Moines, Iowa January 3, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Young

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., arrives Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008, to speak in Davenport, Iowa. Democratic and Republican candidates are going all out Wednesday to encourage supporters to vote for them in the close Iowa caucus Thursday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) walks to his campaign bus in Dubuque, Iowa January 2, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (C) and her daughter Chelsea (rear) visit campaign workers at her Polk County field office in Des Moines, Iowa January 2,2008. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES) Democratic presidential candidate...

Obama's Church Obama mentioned his church during his appearance with Oprah. It's the Trinity Church of Christ. I found this interesting. Obama's church: Please read and go to this church's website and read what is written there. Click on the link below: This is the web page for the church Barack Obama belongs to: www.tucc.org/about.htm It is very alarming. Barack Obama is a member of this church and is running for President of the U.S. If you look at the first page of their website, you will learn that this congregation has a non-negotiable commitment to Africa. No where is...

Iowa voter butters up ObamaThu Dec 27, 2007 10:03pm ET By Carey Gillam A bust of Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama made of butter is on display at a campaign stop at South Tama County Middle School in Toledo, Iowa December 27, 2007 TOLEDO, Iowa (Reuters) - While presidential hopefuls were trying to butter up supporters ahead of the January 3 Iowa caucus, one would-be voter was literally buttering up her favorite candidate, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Norma Lyon, 78, a dairy farmer from Toledo, Iowa, used 23 pounds of butter to sculpt a life-sized bust...

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks during a campaign stop at Lawton-Bronson High School in Lawton, Iowa, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) reacts as she is greeted by supporters during a meeting in a high school in Lawton, Iowa December 27, 2007. (Andy Clark/Reuters) Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (L) introduces his wife U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) during a campaign stop in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa December 26, 2007. (Keith Bedford/Reuters) Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., shakes hands with Lois Countryman during...

"Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) buys food during a stop at a grocery store in Webster City, Iowa December 26, 2007 ."

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama speaks to supporters during a campaign rally stop at Monticello, Iowa, December 14, 2007. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (UNITED STATES) Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talks with supporters during a campaign rally stop at the Ohnward Fine Arts Center in Maquoketa, Iowa, December 13, 2007. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (UNITED STATES) Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., talks during the Des Moines Register Democratic Presidential Debate in Johnston, Iowa, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Democratic presidential hopefuls, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., from left, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson...

Clinton Adviser Resigns Over Obama Comments Obama Reveals Teen Drug Use In His Memoir POSTED: 9:51 am EST December 13, 2007 CONCORD, N.H. -- Bill Shaheen has resigned as co-chairman of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, reported WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H. The resignation comes in the midst of fallout over comments Shaheen made regarding candidate Barack Obama's past drug use. Shaheen earlier said he regrets having made the comments. In an interview with The Washington Post, Shaheen said the Democratic party should beware of picking Obama as its candidate because Republicans could dredge up his past. In his memoir, "Dreams...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has moved a campaign rally with talk show host Oprah Winfrey to a football stadium that can hold more than 80,000 people. ADVERTISEMENT The event had been scheduled for an 18,000-seat coliseum near the University of South Carolina campus, but the campaign ran out of the free tickets just two days after it began distributing them. Tickets will no longer be needed. "We wanted to make sure everyone in South Carolina who wanted to see Barack Obama and meet Oprah Winfrey had the opportunity," said Inez Tenenbaum, an Obama supporter and former...

We've just obtained a copy of the Obama Muslim smear email -- smear-mail? -- that the Iowa county chair volunteering for Hillary sent out. Key quotes: "Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii . When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya . His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia . When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia . Obama attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta." And: "Since it is politically expedient to be a CHRISTIAN when seeking major public office in the United...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a "madrassa" are not accurate, according to CNN reporting. Insight Magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times, reported on its Web site last week that associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, had unearthed information the Illinois Democrat and likely presidential candidate attended a Muslim religious school known for teaching the most fundamentalist form of Islam.