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Media are gonna Barack around the clock
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | by Mark Steyn | by Mark Steyn

Posted on 01/21/2007 6:03:58 AM PST by Laverne

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1 posted on 01/21/2007 6:03:59 AM PST by Laverne
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2 posted on 01/21/2007 6:06:35 AM PST by sono (There are only two exit strategies - One is victory, the other defeat - Joe Lieberman)
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To: sono

Why not? Let the MSM be the one's to suck the oxygen out of Mrs. Clinton's campaign!


3 posted on 01/21/2007 6:19:40 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: Laverne
Hillary has hired a linguist to come up with an emotional phrase that will create the illusion that she, and her philandering husband, are the only ones capable of saving the universe from itself.
4 posted on 01/21/2007 6:20:10 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: Laverne

Recent photo of Barack Obama aka Mr Empty Suit:

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/509135/2/istockphoto_509135_empty_suit.jpg


5 posted on 01/21/2007 6:36:59 AM PST by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: Laverne

Barak Obama is going to get support from Moveon.org and the nutroots, as well as the NAACP and the Hispanic equivelent. Also, unions are lining up behind Obama, and the media love him more than Hitlary.


6 posted on 01/21/2007 6:51:09 AM PST by Thunder90
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To: Laverne
So I'm half awake reading this, having not noticed who the author was. I get to the line:
"I haven't smoked since I was 14 but I'm thinking of taking it up again just because the sophisticated refreshing nicotine taste helps take the partisan bitterness out of the atmosphere." and I think "Damn that 's a good line, sounds like Steyn!"

The man is a word-smith worthy of the Bard.
7 posted on 01/21/2007 7:06:17 AM PST by brothers4thID (Hillary: "We are going to take from you.. to provide for the common good")
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To: Thunder90
...the media love him more than Hitlary.

They should--he's their candidate in the race. They understand that they can spoof an election, so why not run their own candidate? And what better candidate to represent the media than someone's that all style and no substance?

8 posted on 01/21/2007 7:07:59 AM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: sono

its a dream come true, with the Repubs in disarray, only the Dems could pull their ass from the fire, its beyond Rove, it's gotta be THEBIGGUY himself, Barak Hussein Osama, schooled in a Madrass, white mother, absentee black muslim father for president.....the polls will put him 20 points ahead...and those 20 percent will say, "oh yes, Obama". Until they get alone in the booth and it hits them, "WTF am I doing", and the undecides, will never vote for this "guy"...we win in aught8.


9 posted on 01/21/2007 7:50:15 AM PST by wildcatf4f3 (Find out what brand the Ethiopians are drinking and send a case to all my generals.)
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Evangelicals Warned to Beware of Obama

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- Rev. Rob Schenck, President of the National Clergy Council and head of its affiliate, Faith and Action, a Washington, DC-based Christian outreach to policy-makers on Capitol Hill has updated and re-released an in-depth examination of the religious beliefs of Sen. Barack Obama titled, "Barack Obama: Sheep or Goat?" Sources close to the Illinois Democrat announced that he will be filing the necessary paperwork today with the Federal Election Commission in Washington, D.C. to begin a presidential campaign.



Obama has been widely touted as able to win the support of values voters. He has openly discussed his faith in his writings and media appearances, suggesting that it will guide him in policy decisions.


Schenck, who is a board member of the Evangelical Church Alliance, America's oldest association of Evangelical clergy and chair of its committee on church and society, traces the development of Sen. Obama’s religious views from being the son of a nominally Muslim father and a secular humanist mother to his current association with a liberal church denomination. Through the Senator’s written and spoken words, Schenck discovers that Obama is anything but an Evangelical Christian. Schenck points to Obama’s positions on key issues that are at variance with Evangelical beliefs, in particular:

- Rejection of the plenary authority and centrality of the Bible

- Failure to evidence a personal surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ

- Support for abortion in all its forms including partial birth abortion

- Support for same-sex unions

In November 2006, Rev. Schenck publicly criticized mega-church Pastor Rick Warren’s invitation to Sen. Obama to speak at his church. Schenck warned that Obama’s appearance in an Evangelical pulpit would be seen as an endorsement of the politician’s “liberal religiosity” as well as his ambitions for higher office.

Rev. Schenck discusses how quickly “Obama-mania” has penetrated the Evangelical community. His article is designed to help Evangelicals and other traditional Christians to determine Obama's true religious identity.

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/330251938.html


10 posted on 01/21/2007 8:11:40 AM PST by KeyLargo
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Steyn Ping!


11 posted on 01/21/2007 8:46:00 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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Some commentators say he's a blank slate. And how long is it since we've seen one of those? They used to have 'em in the schoolhouses back when the kids still learnt stuff instead of just discussing their sexuality with the guidance counselor all week long.

Just as an aside a good comment on American public education.....

But increasing numbers of the American people reject the post-9/11 paradigm, and there will be a lot of votes for the quiet-life option in 2008. A doctrinaire liberal disciplined enough to pass himself off as a blank slate with sappy soft-focus multiculti bona fides would seem to offer the most symbolically appealing repudiation of the war years.

To date I have thought Barry Hussein Obama has about a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected. Now I'm not so sure......

12 posted on 01/21/2007 8:54:03 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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Barack Hussein Obama:


13 posted on 01/21/2007 8:55:08 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: KeyLargo

Barack Hussein Obama will not get my vote.


14 posted on 01/21/2007 9:03:24 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!)
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Obama will never get elected. The voters are too easily confused with the name. In my church this morning, one elderly woman came up to me and told me about that "man that wants to swear in on the Koran, Barak Obama". She told me that he is running for president as a Muslim. I feel that there are too many confused people who think the same way. BTW, I didn't bother to correct her, why, when she is already voting against Obama?


15 posted on 01/21/2007 9:05:29 AM PST by sportutegrl (This thread is useless without pix.)
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Senate Resolution Opposes Iraq Troop Surge

A “sense of the Senate” resolution opposing President Bush’s new Iraq strategy was introduced by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich), and possible 2008 presidential candidates Sens. Joseph Biden (D-Del) and Chuck Hagel (R-Neb). The non-binding resolution states that “escalating the United States military force presence in Iraq is not in the national interest.” Bush has proposed adding 21,500 U.S. troops to the 132,000 already in the country.

“It’s a ‘guilt-free’ way of expressing our opposition to the President’s plan,” Levin said. “If it goes badly, we can say ‘we told you so.’ If, by some chance, the plan works—well, we didn’t cut off funding or do anything to stop it. So, we’ll be winners too.”

Biden agreed. “It’s a perfect ‘straddle’ for someone running for president,” Biden said. “Polls show the majority of Americans are now opposed to the war. This resolution says we’re with the American people. If the polls shift we will remind voters that we supported funding for the war.”

Hagel sees things a little differently. “Look, I’m a long-shot for the Republican nomination,” Hagel admitted. “McCain, Guiliani, and Romney are all lining up as ‘hawks.’ My only chance is if the whole war is a disaster. This resolution is a risk-free way for me to help bring that about. Without a united country behind him, Bush can’t win this. At the same time, I’m on the right side of the polls. I could be seen both as a visionary and a man of the people. It’s my best option if I’m ever going to be president.”

Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) denounced the resolution, calling it a “cowardly retreat from responsibility.” “My esteemed colleagues are proposing that we run away and leave our troops to drown in the Iraqi quagmire, while they concoct a clever scheme to deny responsibility,” Kennedy complained. “We need to have the courage to wade in and pull them out before it’s too late.”

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex) confessed he had mixed feelings on the proposed resolution. “At first, I was for sending more troops,” Reyes said. “You know, to crack down on those militia guys. But then when I heard Bush say he was for sending more troops I turned against the idea. Some are saying this is just ‘knee-jerk’ opposition to the President. But when you know as little as I do about this whole jihad thing using your head is not an option.”

Polls show that two-thirds of voters want the Democrats to negotiate a “do over” in the war on terror. The so-called “do over” is a gimmick used by children playing unsupervised games. To avoid endless arguing over whether a runner was out or safe, a ball in or out, the game goes back to where it was before the play initiated. “A ‘do over’ makes a lot of sense,” said poll respondent Bob Addlepate. “We should just go back to before 9-11 and forget about everything that happened rather than try to figure out how to make it right. It’s too hard.”

read more...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm


16 posted on 01/21/2007 9:08:16 AM PST by John Semmens
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Thanks for posting the pic. I don't know why, but I can't ever copy and paste pics, it never works for me.


17 posted on 01/21/2007 9:31:16 AM PST by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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Barack Obama IS the favored candidate of the moonbats. By 2008, most Americans will be tired of the Iraq War and the war years and 9/11. And Obama - the Seinfeld candidate of the post-modern political age will be very appealing. Hillary Clinton's mistake is in assuming Americans are worried about radical Islam. They aren't... mot when the Democrats and the Left spent the better part of the past decade desensitizing them to it. If Obama represents any current in Democratic Party politics today, its the see no evil, hear no evil and don't fight evil persuasion which is very powerful. Hillary is despised by these folks precisely because they want America to get out of the game, period and for that reason Obama's their man.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

18 posted on 01/21/2007 11:13:38 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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"And Obama - the Seinfeld candidate of the post-modern political age will be very appealing. "

Seinfeld was a show about nothing. Barak Obama a politician about nothing. Apt.


19 posted on 01/21/2007 11:25:17 AM PST by FastCoyote
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Exactly. He could win by a landslide precisely for that reason. People are just fed up with the ideological arguments in politics.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

20 posted on 01/21/2007 11:30:23 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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