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Earlier this week, I wrote about the dirty tricks campaign against journalist Amir Taheri following his revelation that, in a private meeting in Iraq last July with Iraqi leaders, Barack Obama tried to persuade them to delay the agreement being hammered out with the US government on a draw-down of the American military presence. According to this account, which quoted Iraq’s foreign minister Hoshya Zebari (pictured), Obama had thus privately sought to undermine an American government foreign policy initiative – an explosive revelation. Taheri subsequently dismissed as tendentious Camp Obama’s response which he said deliberately confused two separate agreements under...

With Apologies to Allan Sherman Hello Faddah Hello Mama I'm Occupying Camp Obama I'm protesting Wall Street grabbings And trying to avoid the hobo stabbings On my iPhone With my last tweet I down-twinkled Jews on Wall Street Please don't worry About psychosis 'Cause my Guy Fawkes mask repels tuberculosis

If it’s not too premature, I would like to welcome my new neighbors, those detainees from the soon-to-be-closed Guantanamo prison camp, to the greatest state in the country — Illinois. I know that everyone thinks their own state is tops, but really, let’s get serious. The terrorists will be coming to a state that boasts stupendous agricultural bounty, hard-working and industrious people, and a political system that is the envy of the Western world. Well … maybe West Newark. To familiarize you with your new home, allow me to give you some fun facts about Illinois and offer you a...

"The next tip is to be absolutely ruthless," Jocelyn Woodards tells the campers. "We want you to be determined, ambitious, take a risk." No toasted marshmallows here. This is the second day of Camp Obama, a two-day (sometimes four-day) intensive training course in becoming an activist to help get Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) elected president. "It's not enough for you to be a supporter of Barack. You have to go out and build an organization that will deliver votes for Barack Obama," Woodards tells the 40 campers -- most in their 20s -- from around the country gathered at the...

WND has learned that a senior Obama campaign staffer involved in marshalling college students and other campaign volunteers to get out the vote tomorrow is an anti-military extremist who, even during the popular first Gulf war, steered minority youth away from service in the military. Sen. Barack Obama hired Jamillah Muhammad, an early community organizer friend in Chicago, to help train young volunteers in the "ruthless" agitation tactics of the late socialist organizer Saul Alinsky. The training sessions have been held at something called "Camp Obama" inside the campaign's Chicago headquarters. Muhammad, a black Muslim, led anti-military counseling in Chicago...

Obama Offices Different, Separate and Apart From Democrat Party Offices Does Obama Campaign Not Trust the Democrats? Or is it the Clintons? Will Election 2008 be remembered as the first contest between Republicans and Obamacrats–or the first between the Obamacrats and the Democrats? Senator Barack Obama is building a national organization separate and apart from the national Democrat Party apparatus–at least in any state where the outcome of the November election is at all in doubt. In state after state, the Obama campaign, in a break with tradition, has opened up its own offices–which largely push Barack Obama, and only...

Texas volunteers learn ropes at Camp Obama in Dallas 09:53 PM CDT on Sunday, October 5, 2008 By GROMER JEFFERS JR. / The Dallas Morning News gjeffers@dallasnews.com Unemployed and angry but with a strong sense of purpose, Shannon Curtis joined Barack Obama's volunteer army. Her first assignment: boot camp in Dallas, where the 27-year-old learned how to walk blocks, operate phone banks and become a precinct captain. She's being shipped with other Texans to one of the presidential battle's western fronts – the crucial swing state of Colorado. Ms. Curtis, who recently lost her job with a private equity firm,...

Election '08: Voters coast-to-coast are receiving e-mails from the Obama campaign encouraging them to sign up to learn pre-election agitation tactics at "Camp Obama." Red kerchiefs, anyone?When readers first alerted us to the camps, we thought it might be another hoax that migrated into inboxes. But it's for real. The unsolicited pitch goes like this: "Camp Obama attendees will receive real world organizing experience that will have a direct impact on this election. Graduates of Camp Obama will go on to become Deputy Field Organizers who will lead this campaign to victory in crucial battleground states around the country." The...

Democrats are noted for some real catchy slogans during campaigns. In 1960, John Kennedy ran under “A time for greatness.” By 1964, his successor, Lyndon Johnson used “All the way with LBJ.” In 1976 Jimmy Carter used, “A Leader, For a Change.” What a canard that one proved to be. In 1984 we heard “America Needs a Change” from the failed candidacy of Walter Mondale. By 1992 Bill Clinton won with “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow” followed by another win with “Building a bridge to the 21st century” in 1996. Nancy Pelosi ran under “A New Direction for America” in...

Team Obama has figured out a way to stop his slide in the polls. Summer Camp. The BHO campaign has sent out emails to me and probably millions of other lucky recipients encouraging us to sign up for a local "Camp Obama", a two-day session where we'd learn how to be effective organizers for the campaign. Hopefully a citizen reporter will sign up to report back with a critical eye, but for now all we have are the positive and very many negative connotations brought to mind. You can see a full copy of the email here, and if you...

And yet ANOTHER terrific song parody from our own Charles Henrickson. Attention radio programmers! This parody song IS available for airplay with appropriate REMUNERATION to Charles. You WON'T find better political parody song lyrics than his. HELLO DADDY, HELLO MAMA (A Letter from CampObama) Tune: "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)"OriginalHello DaddyHello MamaHere I am atCamp ObamaCamp's as prettyAs a paintingAnd they say we'll have some fun if we stop faintingOur Barack hasGifts of healingStevie Wonder'sOut four-wheelingI met OprahOver dinnerSince she's been here she's got thirteen inchesthinnerAll the campersDrink the Kool-AidThat the counselorsAt the school madeThis is...