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Even as Israelis and Palestinians plunged deeper into conflict, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama remained silent, refusing to budge from his one-president-at-a-time mantra. Obama takes office on Jan. 20 but has not commented on the Middle East crisis since Israel launched attacks on Gaza nine days ago. His advisers insist that only President George W. Bush can speak for America until then. The Palestinian death toll in nine days of Israeli attacks has risen to more than 500. Hamas, which ended a six-month ceasefire, has fired rockets deeper into Israel than ever before, hitting major cities and killing four Israelis. While...

Obama’s Failure To Prove His Alleged USA Birth Posted by papundits on 01/01/2009 http://papundits.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/obamas-failure-to-prove-his-alleged-usa-birth/ By Forseti Mr. Obama claims that he was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. As his only evidence that he meets the Article II, Section 1, Clause 4 of the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that a President be a natural born citizen, he produced a document called a “Certification of Live Birth,” which he posted on his website under the title: “Barack Obama’s Official Birth Certificate.” At first blush, it is case closed. A closer examination of the facts, however, reveals that Mr. Obama failed to...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama team, pledging the ''most open and transparent transition in history,'' gets and ''A'' for disclosing donors to the Jan. 20 inauguration and a ''F'' when it comes to revealing transition meetings with groups. Contrary to its own ''seat at the table transparency policy,'' meetings are not posted on a Web site. I'm giving a ''B'' to the Obama transition report on staff contacts with Gov. Blagojevich. The report was a summary narrative released last week of an internal inquiry into Gov. Blagojevich's selling-of-a-Senate seat scandal. While the Obama team deserves credit for disclosure -- including that...

Mike Massie got his first shotgun at the age of 10. Guns have been in Massie’s life since he was 5 years old and trudging along beside his father carrying an unloaded shotgun. His children know how to handle weapons; he even purchased his nephew’s first shotgun when the boy was just one month old. That’s why the Lynchburg resident is worried about what will happen to gun-control laws when President-elect Barack Obama takes office next month. “I feel that I have the right to bear arms legally to defend myself, my family and my property,” Massie said. “I don’t...

Obama has admitted two things today regarding the spreading scandal engulfing Governor Rod Blagojevich: Team Obama did have contact with Team Blagojevich recently, and Obama is not making a firm denial of wrong doing. Instead he is expressing ‘confidence’ there was no wrong doing. While the liberal rags (thank god these dinosaurs are facing financial extinction) keep trying to spin the fact Obama did not participate directly in discussions, we know members of the team are the responsibility of the team leader (thus Bush is responsible for Libby, etc). What is important is how the teams communicated, not what Obama...

CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday that he's confident no member of his staff was involved in discussing deals for his Senate seat with disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Obama also said once again that he had no discussions about the seat he is vacating with the Democratic governor, who was arrested by federal agents this week in connection with an alleged corruption scheme. "I was as appalled and disappointed as anyone," Obama said at a news conference called to announce a series of new appointments to the administration he is setting up. "I have never spoken to the...

Fox news, other news channel, presser coming up.

Barack Obama has attempted to distance himself from the crash and burn that is governor Rod Blagojevich. Obama can run but he can’t hide. Obama and Blagojevich took considerable amounts of money from convicted criminal Antoin “Tony� Rezko and top Obama aide, Michael Strautmanis, worked for Blagojevich.Rezko not only gave Obama money for his presidential bid and convinced others to ante up, he also advised Obama on the purchase of a new Chicago home.In the lead-up to the election numerous commentators pointed out Obama’s relationship with the corrupt dirt bag Rezko in addition to his relationship with terrorist William...

President-elect Barack Obama is no quitter. That is, he still sneaks a smoke from time to time, despite his pledge to conquer his nicotine addiction. He admitted on NBC's "Meet The Press" yesterday to having "fallen off the wagon" - and left himself some wiggle room to take a puff after he moves into the White House next month. Obama said he gave up the habit when he began his presidential run, but bummed the occasional cigarette on the campaign trail. When asked by moderator Tom Brokaw whether he'd finally quit, Obama replied, "You know, I have, but what I...

Once upon a time there was a politically ambitious man who told many lies about himself and his family. We shall call him Mr. X. During one of his early political campaigns a political enemy circulated rumors that Mr. X was born in a foreign country and therefore ineligible for high elective office. Mr. X denied the charge saying his father was a British subject but that he (X) was born here. Mr. X claimed that his mother had always lived in the U.S. which was untrue as she had lived in another country with her husband and had (a...

...Obama reported raising $104 million in more than five weeks immediately before and after Election Day. It was his second biggest fundraising period and a fitting coda to a successful presidential bid that shattered fundraising records. ...Obama exceeded the combined finances of the two major parties' nominees four years ago. George W. Bush and John Kerry pulled in a total of $653 million in the 2004 primary and general election campaigns, including federal public financing money. Obama's prowess at attracting money, one of the many characteristics that defined his campaign, could well spell the end of a 30-year experiment in...

NEW YORK (AP) — Barack Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, is writing a book about the historic election victory and has retained Washington attorney Robert Barnett, Obama's literary representative, to shop the proposal to publishers. The book has been tentatively titled, "The Audacity To Win," a reference to Obama's million-selling "The Audacity of Hope." Having helped manage one of the most sophisticated and highly praised campaigns ever, Plouffe plans not only an inside look at the Obama run but also advice for how to manage a large organization. "Hopefully, there will be some lessons on how to put together a...

WASHINGTON - In the last month of the presidential campaign, it was one of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's strongest attack lines: John McCain, they warned, would "tax your healthcare benefits for the first time ever." But now, some Congressional Democrats in charge of health reform are talking about doing just that. They would not go as far as McCain, who wanted to end the tax exclusion entirely for employer-sponsored insurance, which excludes money spent by employees and their employers on health benefits from income and payroll taxes. But some key Democrats are talking about limiting the benefit for workers,...

Thank you Tom DeFrank for asking the Idiot Question of the Week: Tom DeFrank: Mr. President-elect, as we all know we’re — as we all know, we’re two — two days away from the biggest shopping day of the year, and a lot of retailers are worrying that this year it could be a disaster that this economy can ill afford. Do you — do you have any shopping advice for nervous consumers? And are you planning to hit the malls yourself on Friday? OBAMA: Well, we are going to do some — some Christmas shopping. And Malia and Sasha...

It is still okay to discriminate against one group of Americans. This discrimination is not only legal, it is encouraged. You see members of this oppressed minority huddled outside in rain and snow, forbidden to seek refuge. No one feels sorry for them. And yet we may have just elected one of these pariahs as president. Smoking is a disgusting habit that can kill you and those around you. Barack Obama claims to have quit, but the evidence is ambiguous. And the media's lack of interest in this question supports the charge that Obama is enjoying a honeymoon with the...

The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne asks Obama advisers whether his appointments herald a shift to the center and is told that the answer is No: Obama's selection of a team of highly skilled pragmatists has already been described as a move to the political center, but Obama advisers and longtime acquaintances say that this is a misreading of the incoming president and his approach. They describe it as combining a practicality about means with an overriding concern about the corrosive effects of growing economic inequalities... Washington often divides the Democratic policy world between progressives and pragmatists. With Obama, as yesterday's...

President-elect Barack Obama Washington DC, Nov 23, 2008 / 07:48 pm (CNA).- Citing what they call America’s “promise of equality,” the Obama administration plans to push for homosexual rights by including protections of sexual orientation, “gender identity” and “gender expression” as civil rights. His office proposes expanding hate crimes statues and the adoption rights of homosexuals while supporting full civil unions for “LGBT couples” to give them “legal rights and privileges equal to those of married couples.”The proposals are announced under the Civil Rights section of their agenda presented at Change.gov, the web site of the Obama campaign’s self-described...

It appears that the Obama's backtrack on lobbyists in our new politics will not be the last. Hot Air is keeping track, and I'll be sure to keep all of you posted as well with my own observations. So what's the big beef now? Remember back when Obama could afford to say things without any consequences and he said this:

William Ayers has written a new afterword to his old book. He reveals that he and Obama were family friends. He also reveals some of his involvement in Obama's early political career. In summary, he proves what we already knew. Obama is a liar. In a new afterword to his memoir, 1960s radical William Ayers writes that the campaign controversy over their relationship was an effort by Obama's political enemies to "deepen a dishonest narrative" about the candidate. “We had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser...

Robert Malley, a top Middle East advisor that US President-elect Barack Obama promised months ago would play no role in his administration due to ties to Hamas, has reportedly been sent out on the next administration's first diplomatic mission. According to a report in Middle East Newsline, Obama dispatched Malley to Egypt and Syria late last week with a message that the he intends to mend and bolster relations with both nations, and to give greater weight to their concerns regarding regional conflicts than did President George W. Bush. During the Democratic Party primaries, Obama was lashed by critics for...

By popular demand, the list of expired Obama statements... Consumers should be aware that promises, pledged, and soul-healing rhetoric are only effective for a limited time; upon expiration they become "just words." IRAQ STATEMENT: “Based on the conversations we’ve had internally as well as external reports, we believe that you can get one to two brigades out a month. At that pace, the forces would be out in approximately 16 months from the time that we began. That would be the time frame that I would be setting up,” Obama to the New York Times, November 1, 2007 EXPIRATION DATE:...

[...] What is criminal about this story is that voters in coal producing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Virginia do not know how duplicitous Obama has been. These are Americans that will go into the voting booth and unknowingly vote for their own jobs to be eliminated because the MSM has failed to inform them of this. [...] Now let me bring your attention to this story found on Washingtonpost.com written just before May primaries when Barry was running against Hillary Clinton. Obama’s Coal Stance, in Kentucky and Beyond Over the past two weeks, Obama’s campaign has run an...

So here is Obama's problem -- Time Magazine on December 18th 2007(after an extensive intereview with BHO) says Barack Obama speaks Bahasa Indonesian. See URL: Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1695803,00.html QUOTE:"When prominent Indonesians visit the U.S., the first person they want to meet is Obama, says Parnohadiningrat Sudjadnan, the Indonesian ambassador to the U.S. 'Back home people think of him as one of us, or at least one who understands us,' he says, adding that they are delighted to find that Obama speaks passable Bahasa, the language spoken in Indonesia and Malaysia. " BUT.... On July 11th, 2008 Barak Obama says tells...

Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. that's just 1 of 50

WOW. Hannity is soo pissed tonight. lol. i'm glad he is just tearing down Obambi!

OBAMA SAYS IN TEXT: "In Albuquerque, before a massive crowd, Obama moves away from the (politically incorrect?) Lone Ranger and Tonto analogy to a new one: "It’s like Robin getting mad at Batman," he says of McCain's recent efforts to distance himself from Bush""

RALEIGH, N.C. – Barack Obama accused Republican rival John McCain on Wednesday of stooping to low tactics by labeling the Democrat a socialist. "I don't know what's next," Obama, the presidential candidate, said at an outdoor rally in North Carolina. "By the end of the week, he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich." Obama turned to ridicule to rebut McCain's daily references to Obama's encounter with "Joe the Plumber." McCain has capitalized on a moment when Obama told an Ohio plumber that he...

By CHARLOTTE EBY, Courier Des Moines Bureau DES MOINES --- Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama will head to Iowa Friday for a rally in the Des Moines area, just four days before voters are scheduled to head to the polls. The event will be open to the public, and details will be released later in the week. Obama had to cancel a planned trip to Iowa last week in order to visit his ailing grandmother in Hawaii. “Barack Obama’s campaign to change Washington has deep roots in Iowa, so it is fitting that he returns once again to remind Iowans...

The following is from an interview of John Lott by Dave Bose, substituting for Michael Medved on the Michael Medved radio show. Lott is currently a professor at the University of Maryland and is the author of "More Guns, Less Crime" and "Freedomonics." Lott taught at the University of Chicago the same time Obama was an instructor at Chicago. The transcript picks up approximately half way through the audio file... Dave Bose: Just before the break, Professor Lott, I was mentioning that actually know Barack Obama. You met at the college. John Lott: We were both at the University of...

A radio discussion in which Barack Obama lamented failures to bring about 'redistributive change' as one of the 'tragedies' of history has reignited fears he will introduce socialist-style policies. The interview has been seized on by John McCain's campaign as proof that the Democratic nominee is a dangerous radical and that his recent hand comment to a plumber in Ohio that "when you spread the wealth around it's a good thing for everybody" was not an innocent slip. Mr McCain has made Mr Obama's remark to the plumber, Joe Wurzelbacker, the centrepiece of his faltering campaign in its final days,...

Palestinian Media Watch points out that inside the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip, individual Gaza citizens are calling American homes to convince American voters to support Hamas' preferred US presidential candidate, Barack Obama. "23 year old [Palestinian] Ibrahim Abu Jayyab sits by the computer in the Nusairat refugee camp [in the Gaza Strip] trying to call American citizens, in order to convince them to vote for the Democratic candidate for president, Barack Obama... Most of the Palestinians feel hatred towards USA, whose administrations have always stood by Israel... Abu Jayyab's idea is to make telephone calls to American citizens through Internet sites...

The Protesters waving signs along College Avenue before Barrack Obama speak had more in common than just their opposition of the senator. Nearly half of them were foreign born. Countries like Romania, Holland, Germany and the Netherlands were represented in the group who said Obama will bring a socialist agenda that mirrors the agenda of European countries. Martin Boonstoppel, 47, and Juul Dijkstra, both of the Netherlands, said they wanted to protest what they saw as an unfair tax policy supported by Obama. "I lived under socialism and we were taxed huge amounts and it was going to people who...

For a shuddering preview Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's idea of spreading (other people's) wealth around read the November, 2008 Capitol Research Center Report on Obama's ACORN which discovered Ironically, ACORN and its affiliates, all reliable cheerleaders for higher taxes, are longtime tax deadbeats. A search of public records found more than 200 tax liens adding up to more than $3.7 million are associated with groups that share ACORN’s address on Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans. The most recent lien, in the amount of $23,383, was filed by the IRS against an ACORN affiliate, American Workers Associates Inc., on...

To Barack Hussein Obama, The New York Times carried a story on Saturday, October 4, 2008 that proved you had a significantly closer relationship with Bill Ayers than what you previously admitted. While the issue of your relationship is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America about it. The Chicago Sun reported on May 8, 2008 that FBI records showed that you had a significantly closer relationship with Tony Rezko than what you previously admitted. In the interview, you said that you only saw Mr. Rezko a couple of times a year. The FBI files showed...

Despite that fact that Atlas broke the campaign contribution story back in July no one paid attention (even the blogs ignored this huge story - huh), but Obama didn't ignore it. He answered almost immediately (with little prompting) saying the contributions from Gaza were returned. He knew the in-the-tank-for-Obama- media would buy it and bury it. He claimed to have refunded the donations but he didn't - go here here - posted at A tlas on August 26. He is laughing at us, at this country, at our laws, at the rule of law. Does he think he is above...

Obama Interview with GMA Journalist - Has no Regrets on Spreading the Wealth Around Comment

Obama, who arrived on his campaign aircraft around 7:20 p.m., immediately traveled under police escort to the Punahou-area apartment of his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who is reportedly gravely ill with cancer. After an hourlong visit, the Hawaii-born senator left for the Hyatt Regency Waikiki. Obama expects to leave tonight and return to the campaign trail in Nevada tomorrow

Democrat Barack Obama said today there is no reason to believe that he is more likely to be tested by an international crisis if elected than if rival John McCain is, and said the important question is how the next president responds. "Whoever is the next president is going to have to deal with a whole host of challenges internationally -- and a period of transition in a new administration is always one in which we have to be vigilant," Obama said after meeting here with his team of national security and foreign policy advisers. He was responding to a...

One of the good luck charms Senator Barack Obama carries around with him all the time is a St. Martin de Porres figure. Saint Martin de Porres is the patron saint of: interracial relations, social justice, public education, public health service, people of mixed race, and animal shelters. His feast day is November 3rd, the day before this year's election. To make your own prayer card click on the thumbnail of the image you want with either the traditional prayer to St. Martin de Porres as found on the real prayer cards, or my own tongue-in-cheek version that is a...

Comments from a southern New Mexico Republican leader that "Muslims are our enemies" and that Democrat Barack Obama is a "Muslim socialist" drew criticism Tuesday from religious leaders and a national Islamic group called on the party to repudiate the statements. Otero County Republican Women Chair Marcia Stirman made the comments in a letter published Tuesday in the Alamogordo Daily News, prompting a flood of e-mails from across the country to the southern New Mexico newspaper "I'm a Republican because: I believe in a sovereign God who sometimes gives us what we deserve. I believe Muslims are our enemies," Stirman,...

A 23-year-old Michigan man has admitted to plotting to set off a homemade bomb in the tunnels near the Xcel Energy Center, hoping it would cause a power failure and prompt cancellation of the Republican National Convention.

Original thread can be reviewed here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2109876/posts So, why is it taking so long? What is the judge waiting for? (Berg vs Obama) By NoobRep Today's Update by WestCoastGal Unless the Obama Campaign applies for a withdrawal of admission and shows GOOD CAUSE, as of today, October 21, 2008, the Obama Campaign has legally admitted that Barack Hussein Obama is ineligible to hold the office of Presidency. Full coverage of this court proceeding can be read here: http://www.americasright.com/ Below is today's legal admission! Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Berg: Due to Procedure, Obama and DNC Admit all Allegations According to Rule...

We need to list out Obama's lies. There were a bunch of them. Two to start the list;1.)Obama immediately critisized John Lewis for his racism charge 2). Obama never supported denying health care to babies that survived abortions

In a coordinated air and ground attack, Senator Barack Obama is charging that his Republican rival for the presidency, Senator John McCain, would make $882 billion in “drastic cuts to Medicare” to pay for his health care proposal. That assertion, which could resonate among elderly voters in swing states like Florida, is being angrily disputed by the McCain campaign. Mr. McCain’s top domestic policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, said Friday that the Democrat’s latest assault on the McCain health plan capped the “worst and most sustained distortion of policy in this entire campaign.” In fact, the Obama campaign’s new television advertisement,...

John McCain, The Republican candidate for President frustrates his supporters because he continuously does not complete his statements when discussing his opponent. Now his opponent, "That One" whom he once called a socialist and is one. This socialist has been deluging the media with outright lies about McCain positions on stem cell reasearch, health insurance, blaming the cause of meltdown on President Bush when this socialist played a major role in promoting the government program where his campaign associates made millions off of it. "That One" received the most campaign contributions $126,340. in the shortest time from the organizations his...

PITTSBURGH -- Allegheny County police are sifting through voter registration forms in an effort affiliated with a national investigation that has turned up thousands of allegedly fraudulent voter registration forms. Regulators are paying close scrutiny to registrations submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, a group dedicated to assisting the less fortunate across the country. “There appears to be a crime,” said Steve Zappala, Allegheny County District Attorney. “Clearly there are people on these applications who have not been solicited or may not exist. They’re forgeries.” On Wednesday, authorities in Las Vegas raided an ACORN...

The Dow Jones industrials fell under 9,000 this afternoon for the first time since the summer of 2003 as investor confidence that markets would stabilize appeared to collapse. At 3:40 p.m. ET, the blue chips were down 641 points, or 6.9%, to 8,617. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was off 74 points, or 7.5% to 911. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 94 points, or 5.4%, to 1,646. The S&P fell under a closely monitored support level of 960. A support level is important because it is supposed to trigger new buying. At those levels, the crash of 2008...

When I heard Barack Hussein Obama mention last night that the government invented computers, I immediately thought it was invented by kids (not Al Gore) working in a garage. Guess I was wrong as today I discovered the following on another blog: Was this a McCain moment by obama? Quick takeaway from the 2nd presidential debate - Obama claimed specifically that U.S. government invented the computer, and Obama was very wrong. The computer was developed over a long period of time, and by most historical accounts trace back to Europe with British and German inventors in the late 19th and...

Republican and Democratic opponents have traded insults over American health care. US Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called his Democratic opponent Barack Obama a bald-faced liar over his promises of reform on health-care issues. After Barack Obama told a crowd of 18,000 supporters in Virginia that McCain was playing a shell game of “giving you a tax credit with one hand but raising your taxes with the other," Senator McCain's campaign shot back: "Barack Obama is lying to voters. It's a bald-faced lie." Senator Obama used his rally speech in Virginia to take the focus off the US financial...

Please post the lies and gaffes that Obama made.    I know he made one --   Saying "the eight years the Bush administration has concentrated on Iraq." (I'm paraphrasing)   What a farce he is.     Please add the versions of Obama gaffes and detected lies that you heard.................