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Interesting articles to read for December 11, 2008   Some interesting articles to read: Obama wants to make amends with the Muslim world by giving a speech in a major Islamic capital soon after he is inaugurated.Obama also wants to “do what is traditional� during the swearing in ceremony and use all three of his names: Barack Hussein Obama. That ought to go over well with the birth certificate crowd!I’ve been asking this question .. when you say “buy American� does that include the foreign cars that are made in the United States?The White House and Democrats say they have come to a...

One watches with dismay as Democratic candidate Barack Obama manages to hide the truth on his longstanding, if indirect ties to two institutions: the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), listed by the US government in 2007 as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding trial; and the Nation of Islam (NoI), condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for its "consistent record of racism and anti-Semitism."

Firsthand News From Missionaries in Obama's Kenya Published in October 11th, 2008 Posted by Berlet98 in AMERICAN CULTURE TODAY, ISLAM IN ACTION, OBAMA, OUR WORLD, POLITICS The following unconfirmed communication was received from Kyle-Ann Shiver of CommonSenseRegained.com: Dear Readers, This came in from a reader I know well…need to pass this on as well. The experiences recounted last week by Jerome Corsi in Kenya are confirmed by this earlier communication and should be heeded. [Corsi, author of Obamanation, was recently “detained” in Kenya for “political activities” relating to promoting his book: Treatment of Anti-Obama Author in Kenya Called "Counter-Productive" and...

The MSM brain freeze caused by that infamous New Yorker cover cartoon has finally thawed and the humorless prigs who are in the tank for Barack Obama realized that it doesn’t look good when journalists denounce other journalists for exercising their free speech rights. The Obama campaign also belatedly realized its reaction to the broad satire was “really dumb damage control,” writes Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times: It was a huge PR mistake by a campaign that doesn't make many. The denunciations by both presidential campaigns accomplished one thing: They pushed a simple cartoon to the top of...

The cover of this week's New Yorker magazine depicts Obama in one-piece Muslim garb and headdress fist-bumping his booted, Afro-wearing wife Michelle in camo clothes with a rifle and ammo-belt slung over her shoulder beneath a portrait of Osama bin-Laden while the American flag burns in the fireplace -- in the presidential Oval Office. It's got everything incendiary except a vest bomb. Which is what should telegraph to most people that it's way over-the-top and, therefore, satire. But politicians don't like satire because it's subject to differing interpretations. Obama declined comment today, seeking not to elevate its importance. And his...

We can't tell if this is a barometer of how the fall general election might feel, but John McCain today compliments Barack Obama on his political acumen in a televised interview on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," a curious appearance for a candidate still trying to gather support from the Republican Party's social conservative base. Host Ellen DeGeneres asks McCain about Obama's contention that "a vote for you is basically a vote for" a third George W. Bush term. Says McCain: Good strategy. "I think it's a very intelligent campaign tactic. Obviously the president's popularity and approval ratings are low. So...

Obama's muslim Identity question....

by Mark Finkelstein February 7, 2006 - 19:39 There's been speculation today that Democrats and their MSM allies would turn on erstwhile hero John McCain in the wake of his breathtakingly critical letter to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama - whom we are legally required to refer to as a "rising star of the Democratic party." But at least one MSMer with impeccable Dem credentials - Chris Matthews - was reveling in the cat fight this evening. Obama and McCain apparently had a gentlemen's agreement that they would cooperate in a bi-partisan way on a lobbying reform bill. But it seems...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John McCain unleashed an unusually biting and blunt broadside Monday against one of his Democratic colleagues, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, accusing the freshman senator of backtracking on a previous commitment to help develop a bipartisan proposal for lobbying and ethics reform. "I'm embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics, I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss routinely used in politics to make self-interested partisan posturing appear more noble," the Arizona Republican said in a letter to Obama. "Please be assured I won't make the same mistake again." McCain...

From the Office of Senator John McCain comes this heroic smackdown of the other media darling in the Senate. The letter speaks for itself and it is brilliantly done. The Honorable Barack Obama United States Senate SH-713 Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Obama: I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your private assurances to me regarding your desire to cooperate in our efforts to negotiate bipartisan lobbying reform legislation were sincere. When you approached me and insisted that despite your leadership’s preference to use the issue to gain a political advantage in the 2006 elections, you were...