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Sen. Joe Biden's son, Delaware Attorney General Joe Biden, III, made a big splash last June from afar when his office interrupted a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in order to execute an arrest warrant against Larry Sinclair issued months earlier through a grand jury sealed indictment. As Sinclair was wrapping up his press conference where he laid out sex and drug allegations against Sen. Barack Obama, D.C. police, acting on an extradition order obtained by AG Biden, handcuffed Sinclair and took him into custody. He was held in a D.C. jail for days before...

The Democrats pulled out all the theatrical stops tonight. They filled a football stadium, built part of a Greek temple, and put on a fireworks show worthy of the 4th of July. Barack Obama, for his part, pulled out all the rhetorical stops. His speech was a patchwork of homey sentimentality, Clintonesque laundry lists, and Obama's version of Jesse Jackson's preacher man. If a particular riff that has worked somewhere on the stump didn't fit into one of these slots, it was given its own. All of these elements have worked for politicians at times and Obama pulls each off...

Barack Obama is in Montana today taking questions from a group of his supporters. Someone made a joke about dumping nuclear waste in one or more of John McCain’s houses. Obama get’s a big laugh from the idea and repeats it. Classy!

Barack Obama's rise through the rough-and-tumble politics of Chicago, his victory over a well-heeled and well-known front-runner and his ability to draw out new voters in droves shows character traits of a great president, said a panel of two Obama supporters and a presidential historian. They were in Denver today to discus the qualities it takes to distinguish the best in Oval Office occupants. Obama may be young and somewhat untested on a national level, but his actions so far show promise, they concluded. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., who is chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, argued that Obama's ability...

As the Democratic National Convention gets underway in Denver, the media is full of profiles of the party’s soon-to-be nominee. Who is Barack Obama? they ask, an odd question. After 19 months of campaigning shouldn’t they know? But reading the stories, it is clear that those covering him – despite the worshipful reporting -- are not finding the answer all that easy to pin down. Perhaps the reason is that, in surprising respects, Senator Obama resembles a certain similarly memorable but also enigmatic character from fiction, one who almost entirely invented himself – the Great Gatsby. Every first-class politician must...

Joseph R. Biden III, (right) son of presumptuous Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden II, through his Deputy Attorney General Susan Dwyer, threatens to seek a life sentence in a Delaware case that the Attorney General for Delaware has repeatedly refused to provide any documentation or discovery as requested and as is required by Delaware law. -------------------------- From: Dwyer Susan (DOJ) [mailto:Susan.Dwyer@state.de.us] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:11 PM Subject: RE: Larry Sinclair FYI…in talking with John Barber about the case today I realized that Mr. Sinclair is actually habitual eligible. That means I need written approval from a...

As David Freddoso noted in his book, Obama represents the merger of two of the worst aspects of Democratic politics --'60s radicalism and corrupt Chicago machine politics. With the addition of Slow Joe Biden to the ticket, Obama has added to his unsteady candidacy an epic amount Beltway cluelessness and arrogance unsupported by anything except frequent flier miles and Delaware's love for a chuckle-headed fellow with a big smile. Rob Long asks "Isn't [Biden] sort of the stupid person's idea of the smart person's candidate?" Yes, he is. But that's not fair to stupid people. Even stupid people who watched...

A new ad from the Matthew 25 Network, a liberal pastors' group that supports Barack Obama, commends him for being a good family man. The impliciation is that John McCain -- who has admitted to cheating on his first wife with the blond mistress who became his second and current wife -- comes up short in this regard. Among those featured in the ad is Kirbyjon Caldwell, the Houston pastor who is a family friend of George W. Bush. (He officiated at Jenna's wedding this spring.) Despite remaining close to the Bushes, Caldwell has endorsed Obama. McCain is never mentioned...

The National Enquirer is doing the job that the mainstream media has failed to do. The National Enquirer broke the story in December of 2007 of John Edwards having an affair with Rielle Hunter. No one took the National Enquirer seriously. Finally, Fox news confirmed the story months later and still the MSM has mostly downplayed the story. On March 17, 2008, the National Enquirer ran a story about Larry Sinclair and his allegations of a drug and sex encounter with Barack Obama in November 1999 as well as Larry Sinclair’s contact with murdered TUCC choir director, Donald Young. When...

August 12, 2008 EXCERPT Next up: Barrack Hussein Obama. Two supermarket tabloids who “print lies” like John Edwards had and is still having an affair have also been on Marxist Barack Hussein Obama. The Globe has published explosive allegations about Obama, a homosexual tryst with a man named Larry Sinclair and their nose candy (cocaine) fests back in 1999. Remember: Obama has admitted to using cocaine: “Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man…I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind.” Would-be black man? Obama...

Speaks for itself.

Joss Stone is set to write and record a campaign song for US Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama. According to The Sun, Stone was asked personally by Obama to write and record the song, which will be the theme song for his election campaign. Obama is said to favour Stone, a huge star in the USA, because she has appeal to both black and white US citizens. The newspaper quotes an anonymous source as saying: "She [Stone] believes he (Obama) is going to be the first black president and she is honoured to be a part of that."

Barack Obama's a swell guy, always willing to help out Chicago museums with federal taxpayer money… whether they need it or not. In 2007, after he began his presidential campaign, Obama sought a $1 million federal earmark for the Chicago Children’s Museum to build a new facility. The museum, as of the end of fiscal 2007, had revenue in excess of expenses of $23 million, and net assets of $37 million. If a museum is sitting on millions in profits, shouldn't they spend some of that before taxpayers nationwide are asked to kick in? The Chicago Children’s Museum just happens...

YORK, Pa. – One of the McCain campaign’s new themes, that Senator John McCain has always put his country first, has been seen by some analysts as a subtle suggestion that his opponent, Senator Barack Obama, has not. But as he introduced Mr. McCain at a campaign event here on Tuesday, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut made the attack a lot more explicit, calling the election a choice “between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put the country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate who has not.’’ Mr. Lieberman, the Connecticut Independent...

New York Magazine has done a special issue this week on race and the US election. There’s lot of good stuff in the package but this line from John Heilemann’s cover story stood out to me: “In October, Obama’s former pastor, Wright, will publish a new book and hit the road to promote it” This is a huge problem for Obama. It means that the whole controversy over Wright’s racialist sermons and his friendship with Obama is going to be returning to the news agenda just as undecided voters begin to make up their minds. Wright’s performance at the National...

While in Chicago this evening I came across an interesting item being sold in Obamaland. According to the packaging of this Obama doll "HE IS ALREADY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES" I find it unacceptable that Barack Obama is using "The Seal of The President of The United States" to sell dolls of his big ears and his forked tongue. This is an outright illegal and unauthorized use of the Presidential Seal. I also found something else interesting while in Chicago. Barack and Michelle Obama seem to have put their Chicago area home up for sale. I will be posting...

ORLANDO (NNPA) — The line of people at the Orlando World Center Marriott weaved through the corridors and wrapped around corners as well more than a thousand awaited the opening of the ballroom, where presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama was about to speak. “Yesterday, the crowd was polite to Sen. John McCain here at the National Urban League Conference. But, today, for Sen. Obama, it’s more of a love fest!” reported one excited CBS Radio newsman, among the horde of reporters observing the crowd waiting for Obama. He was right. People were waiting in line as early as 7...

America's largest Islamic civil liberties group on Wednesday defended Sen. Barack Obama after the Democratic presidential candidate's Muslim-outreach coordinator resigned because of a brief association with a suspected Muslim extremist. "Muslim bashers play a 'six degrees of separation' game of guilt by association with any Muslim who dares to engage in positive social or political activism," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director for the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The Muslim group's defense came two days after Chicago lawyer Mazen Asbahi, who was appointed national coordinator for Muslim-American affairs by the Obama campaign on July 26, stepped...

Does Barack Obama have a problem with the polls? Is his campaign less effective than it should be? Is there legitimate cause for concern that Obama could lose in what appears to be the most favorable non-scandal (meaning non-Watergate) year for Democrats since 1932? Two columns today take this issue on directly and here are the links: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12334.htl http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/obama_hasnt_closed_the_deal_ye.html Here is some additional data to consider when pondering the strength of Obama’s current campaign. I’ve calculated the average of the 15 most recent head-to-head national polls and Obama’s average is 47.2 and John McCain’s is 43.0. In three of these...

First lady hopeful Michelle Obama says that a recent John McCain campaign ad characterizing her husband as a self-involved celebrity on the order of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears has it all wrong. "It's funny to have anybody characterize Barack as an elitist," Obama told "Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts during an exclusive interview. "You know, this is the kid who was raised by a single mother, who didn't have access to many resources, who, you know, has walked away his entire life from lucrative careers to work in the community," she said of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee....

You would think liberals would get bored looking for coded racism. Since they can find it absolutely anywhere, it must be like shooting fish in a barrel. But then, so is making fun of moonbats like Timothy Noah, who declares that it's racist to notice how scrawny Obama is. Noah denounces a WSJ piece proposing that Obama's skinniness could be a liability. His keen insight has discerned that by skinniness, they really meant mulatto-ness. [A]ny discussion of Obama's "skinniness" and its impact on the typical American voter can't avoid being interpreted as a coded discussion of race. In the interests...

IF Techdude is right, and I believe he must be since his qualifications are impeccable (even Dr Neal Krawetz cannot deny that), the Certification of Live Birth posted on KOS and FTS is a Forgery based upon an original belonging to somebody other than Senator Obama. I believe that the information on it is probably based upon that contained in Senator Obama’s Original Birth Certificate, which he claims to have found as a boy. So, why a Forgery at all? Given that he had the Original Document at one point and used it to obtain his Social Security Papers, a...

I’m not sure this is even worth mentioning. I’d think nothing of it…except McCain’s top 10 list from the day before is still there. If you remember the list was “The 10 Ten Signs Obama is Overconfident About The Presidential Campaign”: 10. Proposed bill to change Oklahoma to “Oklobama” 9. Offered Bush $20 for the “Mission Accomplished” banner 8. Asked guy at Staples, “Which chair will work best in an oval-shaped office?” 7. The affair with Barbara Walters 6. Having head measured for Mount Rushmore 5. Guy sits around eating soup all day 4. He’s voting for Nader 3. Offered...

Via a Newsbusters 2005 flashback, D’oh-bama strikes again: “Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame,” says Barack Obama. “I’ve already had an hour and a half. I mean, I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.” So, not only is he afraid of himself, he’s sick of himself, too! Join the club, sweetie.

Well, that was quick. A little over a week ago, the Obama campaign proudly touted the appointment of a new Muslim outreach director. Now, he’s out following questions about his ties to a radical Muslim imam and the Muslim brotherhood. Doesn’t anyone do background checks for The One after all this time? From a July 31 Obama campaign website blog post: All - Assalamu-Aleikum. My name is Mazen Asbahi and I’ve been blessed and privileged to be serving the Obama for America Campaign as the National Coordinator for Muslim American Affairs. I’m also coordinating Arab American matters. I’m treating the...

LANSING, Mich. — Senator Barack Obama altered his position on Monday to call for tapping the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gasoline prices as he outlined an energy plan that contrasts with Senator John McCain’s greater emphasis on expanded offshore drilling and coal and nuclear technology. In a speech here and in a new advertisement, Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, also sought to portray his Republican rival, Mr. McCain, as “in the pocket” of oil giants that are profiting from gasoline priced at more than $4 a gallon. And in his speech, Mr. Obama called for a windfall...

I think Obamania and the youth craze may be wearing off, as voters are starting to see that there is no there there... Consider the latest 70 million barrels ploy. AP reports: "In a reversal, Barack Obama proposed Monday that the government sell 70 million barrels of oil from its strategic petroleum stockpile to help reduce gasoline prices." But wait — we have heard nothing from Obama the last 6 months other than a few million additional barrels per day would not make any difference at all. In contrast, 70 million taken out of the reserve equals less than 4...

Bill Clinton regrets some things he said - and didn't say - on the campaign trail. But there's one thing he still can't utter: Barack Obama is ready to be President. "You can argue that nobody is ready to be President," the former President told ABC News. "You can argue that even if you've been vice president for eight years, that no one can be fully ready for the pressures of the office," Clinton said Monday during a visit to Rwanda. That's probably not what Team Obama wanted to hear from the former commander in chief, whose role in Obama's...

Barack Obama's campaign will begin running a television ad Monday that attacks Republican John McCain's energy policies. "After one president in the pocket of big oil we can't afford another," says the ad, referring to President Bush's previous work in the oil industry. Obama hoped to emphasize energy and the economy in campaign stops this week in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, beginning with a speech Monday in Lansing, Mich. Gas prices over $4 a gallon have become a top issue in the presidential contest. Obama's spot trumpets his proposal to revive a windfall profits tax on energy companies and asserts...

Steinem is supporting Obama in the general race. “Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain’s policies are a disaster … He is anti every reproductive issue we’ve ever fought for.” She believes women will vote for Obama even if Clinton doesn’t get the much-mooted consolation prize of the vice-president’s spot on the Democratic ticket – a job Steinem doesn’t think is good enough for her anyway. Why? “It’s not an independent position, to put it mildly. I would rather see her as the president of the Senate.” For most of this decade, the conventional wisdom has had...

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain hasn't had a bad couple of weeks. First, the presumptive White House nominee turns the conventional wisdom on its head and outpoints Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) on the Democratic hopeful's trip to Europe. Instead of Obama using his photo opportunities with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicholas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to convince American voters that he's ready to run this country, his trip nets him surprisingly little beyond criticism about his self-image. And then, a McCain TV spot dictates the terms of the political discussion, drawing Obama into a messy...

Gwyneth Paltrow has urged fellow Americans living abroad to vote for Barack Obama in a new advertisement. (see link for video) The American actress, who lives in London with her husband, Chris Martin, the singer in the rock group Coldplay, leads a video encouraging ex-pats to register to vote from overseas in the presidential election in November. Speaking alongside several other Americans living abroad, Miss Paltrow says: "Start now - right now. I'll be voting from London, but you can vote from anywhere. If you live abroad, you've got to do it. Every single vote will count." She asks American...

Blogger and Brooklyn College Professor of Business Mitchell Langbert has been doing a yeoman’s job investigating the records of Senator Obama’s birth certificate. Despite the pleas from many quarters of the blogosphere, thus far his birth certificate has not been made public, except for a proven forgery on the Daily Kos site and his own campaign site Fight the Smears. At this time, there is no proof that Barack Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States, and therefore no proof of his eligibility to be president. What should be a simple matter of producing a paper document...

Washington, Aug 4 (ANI): Hollywood stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and their pregnant wives turned up at a Miami fundraiser for presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama on Saturday. Both the couples attended the orientation at club Set to pledge their support for Obama. According to reports, the actors also delivered speeches from the stage. “Jennifer Garner gave the first speech supporting Obama, and she was very witty, clever and funny,” Peoples Magazine quoted a source as saying. “She was followed by her husband Ben, then Matt Damon. The men gave serious political speeches on how the country needs...

From the outset of his burst upon the national scene (is it not strange that such an apparent super star could have been so anonymous in the Illinois State Senate, a body wherein it takes so very little to stand out? But I digress), I have always felt that Barack Hussein Obama bore a striking resemblance to Will Smith. As the campaign unfolds, and we learn more and more about our junior senator, perhaps it is fitting to pirate a proper nick name, "The Fresh Prince of Hot Air," a slight variation of the early success of his look alike....

ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., fought back against the perception that he’s shifted away from his opposition to off-shore oil drilling by suggesting he softened his position as a compromise toward a broader energy policy. Obama first indicated Friday in an interview with the Palm Beach Post that he would be willing to compromise on his opposition to off-shore drilling, and would consider expanding the current drilling boundaries -- if it was part of a plan to make the country more energy independent by developing more fuel-efficient cars and alternative energy sources. Today, at a press...

As the presidential candidates enter the three-month sprint to November, Barack Obama must be wondering: If that did not do it, what will? The antecedent of the pronoun "that" is his Berlin speech. The antecedent of the pronoun "it" is assuage anxieties about his understanding of the need to supplement soft power (diplomacy) with hard power (military force). He spoke in Berlin at the bullet-scarred base — it was in the crossfire 63 years ago as Russian troops neared Hitler's bunker about a mile away — of an 1873 monument to German militarism. To be precise, the monument celebrates the...

Barack Obama is a lot like Sean Penn or George Clooney. If you give him a script, he can deliver it pretty well. But if he tries to talk without a script that has been written for him by others, he quickly reveals that he is poorly-informed if not downright ignorant. Today he delivered another classic, by claiming that if only we would all properly inflate our tires, we could save as much gasoline as "all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling." Seriously: (see video at link) The stunned silence with which the crowd greets this howler...

**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TO THE MAIN STREAM** Obama Lies About His Birth Records and His Identity: Evidence Revealed The mystery of Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate is virtually solved. The findings have been documented in a series of reports published on two blogs, No Quarter and TexasDarlin, no thanks to the Main Stream Media, which has universally ignored this matter. (Links and disclaimers are at the end; assertions and assumptions are based on good-faith understandings of the truth. The remainder of this post represents draft theories.) Summary of Obama’s Deception Barack Obama has misled and deceived the American public about his...

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - A coalition of eight watchdog groups have found that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is more transparent in his disclosures about campaign contributions than Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), who has made his refusal to accept donations from Washington lobbyists a pillar of his campaign. The Center for Responsive Politics said in a report on Wednesday that both the McCain and Obama campaigns did not provide the exact amounts raised by bundlers, or people who gather contributions from as many individuals in a group or community as they can in order to sidestep the $2,300 federal limit on...

The word penumbra is an appropriate and wonderful word for describing the edges where the difficult answers reside. Penumbra has been used by The Supreme Court to describe privacy rights that are not explicitly found in the Constitution, the ones on the edges. The word avails itself to the description of pornography as "I know it when I see it." Each person may draw the line of description in a different place. What one may see as Art another may see as Porn. Where one draws the line may reflect matters of upbringing, religion, ethics, experience, associations, knowledge of history,...

NOTE: This post attempts to summarize the status of our investigation and current theories. (Links at end.) Guest Author Judah Benjamin has given us three well-researched articles, so far, challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President. He argues that the Constitution restricts people with “divided loyalties” from being POTUS, including those who have had multiple citizenships, and he hypothesizes that Sen. Obama became a citizen of Indonesia when he was adopted by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro. Benjamin also questions whether Obama may still possess Indonesian citizenship. To his credit, Benjamin offers to publish an apology to Sen. Obama if documentation...

46- year old Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has been compared to that of the Kennedy’s. But would the democratic candidate be quite so handsome without a nose job in his past? Make Me Heal looks at the rumors of an Obama rhinoplasty. Early pictures of law student Barack Obama reveal a geeky kid with a big nose and hair to match. The nose in his early pictures is quite wide and very round. Fast forwarding several years to the current presidential campaign, and Obama’s nose looks more refined at the tip, which is likely the result of a conservative rhinoplasty...

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The Republican National Committee has launched a new web ad called “Obama TV Ad In Berlin." Set to a techno dance beat, the web ad mocks Obama's appeal to Europeans, highlighting interviews with European Obama fans, including one man who sees parallels between the Democrat and Che Guevara. The ad also flashes the word "Hasselhoff," apparently comparing Obama's draw in Europe to that of the "Baywatch" star. Watch the ad below:

(CNN) — The nation's largest labor conglomerate says it's set to launch a major effort Tuesday to dispel ongoing rumors surrounding Barack Obama that continue to percolate more than 18 months after the Illinois senator launched his White House bid. The organization is set to send out mailers to more than 600,000 union homes in crucial battleground states — including Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — that directly address the false rumors that he is not a Christian, refuses to wear a flag pin on his lapel, and was not sworn into the Senate on the Bible. It also beats...

Barack Obama will stop at nothing to get elected president. The truth about his prayer at the Western Wall has finally been revealed. It was nothing more than a planned political stunt by his campaign. If his “private” prayer is to be “discovered,” should it not be about something other than “me, myself, and I“? The Israel Insider has the news story. http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/13021.htm “What initially seemed to be a journalistic scoop of dubious moral propriety now seems to be a case of an Israeli paper being played by the Barack Obama campaign. Maariv, the second most popular newspaper in Israel,...

Last night on Fox News’ Special Report, host Brit Hume asked the “All-Star Panel” for “help” in determining whether or not Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) got “a bounce” in the polls as a result of his recent trip to the Middle East and Europe. Referring to Obama’s Berlin speech that was reportedly in front of more than 200,000 people, neo-conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said he did not get a bounce because apparently, Americans don’t like it when politicians emulate Adolf Hitler at a Nazi rally: HUME: Panel, help. Did [Obama] get a bounce from the trip or not? […] KRAUTHAMMER:...

Rapper Ludacris unveils a new track in support of Sen. Barack Obama for president. In the track, titled “Politics: Obama is Here”, Luda calls Hillary Clinton the B-word and challenges black voters to “get off your ass and vote!”

This Barack Obama condescending chin raise exists thanks to The Ave. magazine via The Republic blog.