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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.

Newsweek’s love for Barack Obama knows no bounds. After Obama’s speech in Berlin, Newsweek published a headline that suggests an editor who’s spent six days drunk on a merry-go-round: “Obama’s Reagan Moment.” That deserves the Lloyd Bentsen retort: “I knew Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was a friend of mine. Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan.” The Newsweek piece sneered that while Obama and John Kennedy spoke to more than a hundred thousand people, Reagan spoke to a much smaller audience, “only about 20,000,” and they were outnumbered by leftist protesters the night before. They recalled, “Even some of Reagan’s aides...

Barack Obama finds himself stuck between Iraq and a hard place on the surge. Instead of just admitting that he miscalculated the potential effect of the surge when he opposed it in January 2007, he has instead tried rewriting history in order to prove himself correct. ABC’s Jake Tapper looks at the Obama rebuttal — and demolishes it: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, on January 10 2007 predicted that the surge of troops in Iraq would fail. “I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there,” he told MSNBC. “In fact, I...

McCain has a new smear ad out accusing Obama of snubbing injured troops because he couldn't take cameras along to visit them. That smear is gonna sting. If that label sticks, the Democrats could have another candidate like John Kerry on their hands, someone who people think has disdain for the military. That could sink Obama's ship. There is something he could do, of course, to head off this mounting criticism and to counter John McCain's promise that he is always there for the troops. Name Chet Edwards his running mate. Chet Edwards, the chairman of the Veterans Affairs committee,...

Does Barack Obama believe it's time for America to apologize to al Qaeda? Does he share the increasingly vocal calls of his fellow liberals that Americans should not just apologize to Osama and his followers but pay reparations as well? Having cited the U.S. treatment of Nazis, does he now believe the U.S. government should be subjected to a class action suit by his trial lawyer allies on behalf of any surviving Nazi soldiers or their descendants? You think I'm joking, right? Wrong. The push has begun among Obama's fellow-liberals for reparations to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda warriors. Look...

WASHINGTON -- Let's put aside the possible comparisons of Barack Obama on his foreign trip -- a true "tour de force," as one of the breathless headlines put it -- to Caesar marching down to Rome. We'll stop ourselves from calling him a modern-day Alexander the Great, Marco Polo or, merely, John F. Kennedy. But even without the hyperbole, we can say that the Democratic presumptive presidential candidate had a wildly successful trip. From making a basket in Kuwait with our troops, to dramatically posing for pictures before the Temple of Hercules outside Amman in Jordan, to giving a rousing...

This is my last post. Host Monster, the server where I had moved the blog www.larrysinclair0926.com to has deleted the site from their servers and will not host my web site any longer. Host Monster explained to me that they will cooperate with me and Mr. Sibley and provide Mr. Sibley with all information on those who visited the site and all attempts made to access the files and controls on the site. I am faxing the release authorization as I type this. Host Monster states that they do not wish to continue to Host my site as they have...

How eerie. What is going on here? Is the Obama campaign so stupid it cannot see how bad all this has become?

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CHICAGO » Sen. Barack Obama, speaking to a gathering of minority journalists yesterday, stopped short of endorsing an official U.S. apology to American Indians but said the country should acknowledge its history of poor treatment of certain ethnic groups. "There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for," Obama told hundreds of attendees of UNITY '08, a convention of four minority journalism associations. The Hawaii-born senator, who has told local reporters that he supports the...

In a strange development, supporters of Barack Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, are openly debating the nature and depth of Davis's commitment to the Communist Party and his relationship with the Democratic candidate. The debate has gotten heated. This unusual debate, which is taking place on Obama's official website, raises the question once again as to why Obama has not been asked by the major media about this relationship. Davis was identified as a Communist Party member by various investigative committees and acknowledged his party membership in a private letter obtained by John Edgar Tidwell, who was sympathetic to...

Sen. Barack Obama held a private session with a group of about two dozen Iranian-American donors shortly before a fundraiser this month in California after one of the participants said the Obama campaign would hold such a forum if local Iranian-Americans were able to raise $250,000. The forum -- which was not on Obama's public schedule and was closed to the press -- took place shortly before a fundraiser at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach, Calif., on July 13. That was less than a week before Obama's trip to the Middle East, where the U.S. relationship with Iran...

Having begun softly during the primary season, an incessant drumbeat has steadily gained strength and will soon reach its deafening crescendo as we march toward November: If you are white and vote for anyone other than Sen. Barack Obama (Savior-IL) for president you are a racist. Joe Klein says that anyone horrible enough to suggest that Obama -- who isn't even the official nominee of his party -- is being a bit presumptuous in touring Europe and the Middle East automatically couples that criticism with "the subterranean tinge of racism." Andrew Greeley says that black Americans (all, apparently) and the...

The latest report on Obama's missing thesis comes from MSNBC. Written his senior year at Columbia University, Obama's thesis was about Soviet nuclear disarmament. It's only natural to wonder what the budding socialist turned presidential candidate thought of nuclear proliferation in the early 1980s. The Obama campaign, proving every bit as secretive as the Office of the Vice President, has been less than forthcoming with details. "Spokesman Ben LaBolt wouldn’t even say whether Sen. Obama threw out his copy or lost it." At an earlier date, an aide actually told the New Republic the junior senator couldn't recall what he...

BERLIN - Berliners laid on the beer, sausages and a carnival atmosphere as the city got its first proper glimpse of the man anointed by the press as "the new, black Kennedy." Spectators started to gather in the Tiergarten park in the late morning waiting for Barack Obama to deliver an open-air speech at the Victory Column monument at 7:30 p.m., his only public address on a week-long tour. Television crews and vendors set up around the venue and along the June 17 Avenue, while some 1,000 police officers, along with private security guards, were mobilized for the visit. The...

This morning while trying to contact an individual who claimed to be one “James Barry” at 202-449-9737 I received a heck of a shock. See the previous article so I do not have to repeat it here. Since posting the article this morning about the above phone number being answered by the DC Lobbyist Law Firm of Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis, several things have become known that causes me to be of the opinion that HW&G is not being completely honest about the association between its firm and the owner of the phone number which I was called from and...

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - A Republican state senator from South Carolina is being criticized for a post on his blog that shows photos of Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden wearing similar clothing, along with a line that states the difference between the two is "a little B.S." The image was posted on Sen. Kevin Bryant's blog on Friday without an explanation from the politician. It appears to be a photo of a T-shirt, with images of bin Laden and Obama wearing turbans and the words "OBAMA" AND "OSAMA," with the "B" and "S" each highlighted in red. The American-Arab...

The Obamamessiah is far too busy campaigning to keep track of what his responsibilities in the Senate are to the American people. Perhaps that is why we have this latest little gaffe: (see link for video) Here’s the transcript: This, this, uh, this past week we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to, uh, call for divestment from Iran. The only problem? The U.S. Senate Banking Committee isn’t Obama’s committee. He doesn’t serve on it, nor does he serve on any of its subcommittees. Yet Mr. Smooth Operator over there effortlessly lied...

WASHINGTON: Every day around 8 a.m., foreign policy aides at Senator Barack Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters send him two e-mails: a briefing on major world developments over the previous 24 hours and a set of questions, accompanied by suggested answers, that the candidate is likely to be asked about international relations during the day. One recent Q. & A. asked, for example, whether Obama supported the decision by Iraq's prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to include a timetable for American troop withdrawal in any new security agreements with the United States. The answer, provided to Obama with bullet points, was...

PLACERVILLE (CBS13) ― It's a city that prides itself in the past. Placerville is known as 'Old Hangtown.' And people here even celebrate with symbols like a dummy hanging from a noose on the main downtown drag. But, the latest sign this city of 9,000 sees hangs below the name Saxton Chiropractic. Dr. Trent Saxton, Placerville's former mayor, put this message on his office marquee: IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DUCK SADDAM HUSSEIN BARACK H OBAMA OSAMA BIN LADEN The roadside sign has people doing more than a double-take. One business neighbor says a man stood in front of it...

I'm a lifelong Republican - a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole's presidential campaign team and was chief economist for Jack Kemp's Empower America. This November, I'm voting for Barack Obama. When I first made this decision, many colleagues were shocked. How could I support a candidate with a domestic policy platform that's antithetical to almost everything I believe in? The answer is simple: Unjustified war and unconstitutional...

WMNF Evening News Wednesday Listen to this entire show: Tags: John McCain, Barack Obama, 2008 election, NAACP, school vouchers A campaign surrogate for John McCain told WMNF today that Barack Obama should be "disqualified" to run for president because of his admitted past drug use. More on that in a moment. But first, John McCain received a polite reception in front of the NAACP at the group's annual meeting in Cincinati today. Whether that will transfer to any votes coming from those in attendance is a different story. The GOP nominee spoke to the nation's oldest civil rights organization, spotlighting...

The stunning comments from Democrat Sen. Barack Obama that the United States needs a "civilian national security force" that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the half-trillion dollar United States Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force have mysteriously disappeared from published transcripts of the speech. In the comments, Obama confirmed the U.S. "cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set." Campaign officials have declined to return any of a series of WND telephone calls over several days requesting a comment on the situation. Nor have they posted a transcript...

OK, it’s time to let the genie out of the bottle., and prove, once and for all time, that the images posted on the Internet are NOT true, original copies of Obama’s birth certificate (rather “Certification of Live Birth”, or COLB), that they NEVER WERE true, original copies, and if anyone tells you anything different, that they are flat-out wrong. Period. Exclamation point. I direct your attention back to my main thesis – and what I said in my first post, “Was Obama's "Certificate of Birth" manufactured?” I theorized that the fuzzy outline found in between the letters of the...

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 quick fix kinda stuff sounds good, and it may even feel good that first month when you get that check, and then you go out and you buy a pair...

New York, July 15 (IANS) Republican presidential candidate John McCain has denounced a satirical cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker magazine depicting Barack Obama in Islamic dress beside a burning US flag in the Oval Office though the weekly defended the “satire” and “spirit” behind the caricature. As the cartoon sparked a political and journalistic debate, McCain’ campaign quickly condemned it. McCain himself commented at a press conference: “I think it’s totally inappropriate, and frankly I understand if Senator Obama and his supporters would find it offensive.” The controversial cartoon shows Democrat presidential candidate Obama and his wife...

Wikipedia used to have "Obama, Jr." and now has changed to "Obama II" in the wake of the COLB. (hat tip Larwyn). Over at JOM Is there anything in Obama's books? I notice that the NYT back in 1990 referred to both father and son as simply "Barack Obama." An excerpt from a noteworthy 2007 Obama speech: There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim...

We are now on a non-Wordpress server so WP can no longer harass and hassle this blog at the request and behest of Obama for America or the Obama Blogonuts. It is time for Barack Obama and his supporters to face and acknowledge the truth. Instead Obama by and through his supporters and surrogates continue to publish outright lies to attempt to discredit me. Ladies and Gentleman, the most damning effort to date of this attempt by Obama by and through his supporters/surrogates will become crystal clear in the next couple of days. You will find that recently pro-Obama Blogonuts...

I am posting this article due to some pro Obama bloggers posting last week how they had the phone number for Mr. Young’s brother, that they were contacting Donald Young’s brother to record him denying any involvement by Barack Obama in the murder of his brother Donald Young. These people were boasting for days how they were going to publish recorded calls with the Young family trashing me and my claims that Barack Obama was involved in the murder of Donald Young. Then just as fast as they began boasting of these claims, they shut their mouths tighter than a...

Senator Barack Obama is expected to tell Gordon Brown that he wants the Special Relationship to be a more equal partnership when he visits Britain later this month. Sources in Washington said yesterday that on his first overseas visit since winning the Democratic Party's nomination, Mr Obama will tell the Prime Minister that he wants to eradicate the impression of Britain being Washington's poodle that emerged during the Bush-Blair years, after the UK followed the US into the unpopular war in Iraq. "He genuinely appreciates the UK and he genuinely would like to have more balance in the relationship," said...

On Today Show this morning, Matt Bauer asked Obama if he were president this morning, what his immediate response would be to Iran's missile tests. I think we've got to gather up all the intelligence necessary with the situation, but there's no doubt that we're seeing rising tensions in the area. To echo Ed, intelligence-gathering? This isn't a rumor of missile tests. U.S. systems detected and tracked at least seven of the missiles. The regime announced it on state-run TV, and showed missiles flying into the air (although perhaps it was file footage). And it's part of the reason why...

The Christian Defense Coalition has launched a campaign featuring this ad exposing one of Barack Obama's many far left abortion positions: Quoting a CBS News story on this today: Under the present version of the Hyde amendment, which was introduced in 1976 to limit federal funding of abortion, Medicaid now covers abortions only in cases of rape, incest, and life endangerment, according to the National Abortion Federation. As a state senator in Illinois, Obama voted against a bill similar to the Hyde amendment that prohibited the use of state funding to pay for abortions. That last sentence was inaccurate. Had...

TRENTON, N.J. - A local Republican Club in New Jersey has removed a slogan from its Web site that read, "Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole." The Pemberton Republican Club removed the slogan after Democrats alleged racist campaign tactics. The club's Web master, Ed Kuck, tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that he saw the slogan on an Internet site and copied it onto the club's Web page as a joke. The chairman of the Burlington County Democratic Committee says comparing Obama to O.J. Simpson was reprehensible.