Obama's Godfather

The president of the Illinois Senate is sitting in his statehouse office, talking in gravelly tones about political strategies and counter-strategies. Out of nowhere, the theme from "The Godfather" begins playing.

It turns out to be the ringtone on his cell phone — an appropriate song for the man who amounts to Barack Obama's political godfather.

Emil Jones Jr. helped Obama master the intricacies of the Legislature. When Democrats took control of the state Senate, Jones, though he risked offending colleagues who had toiled futilely on key issues under Republican rule, tapped Obama to take the lead on high-profile legislative initiatives that he now boasts about in his presidential campaign.

And in the time honored Obama tradition of trashing the people that helped him get where he is today, we have this:

Obama apparently didn't think much of Jones. In his memoir "Dreams from My Father," Obama dismisses him as "an old ward heeler" who had little clout left after backing the wrong candidate.

Source - Yahoo News!

Obama and Big Oil

It depends on what your definition of money is...

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has seized on a key feature of voters' economic concerns — rising fuel prices — and is casting himself as the candidate who could bring about energy independence because he is not beholden to energy companies.

Last week, Obama aired a television ad in Pennsylvania called "Nothing's changed" that outlines his energy proposals while declaring, "I don't take money from oil companies or Washington lobbyists, and I won't let them block change anymore."

THE SPIN: In his ad, Obama states: "Since the gas lines of the '70's, Democrats and Republicans have talked about energy independence, but nothing's changed except now Exxon's making $40 billion a year, and we're paying $3.50 for gas. ... I don't take money from oil companies or Washington lobbyists, and I won't let them block change anymore. They'll pay a penalty on windfall profits. We'll invest in alternative energy, create jobs and free ourselves from foreign oil."

THE FACTS: True enough, Obama does not take money from oil companies. No candidate does. It is illegal for corporations to give money to politicians. Corporations, however, do have political action committees that collect voluntary donations from employees and then donate them to candidates. Obama doesn't take money from PACs. He also doesn't take money from lobbyists.

But he does accept money from executives and other employees of oil companies and two of his fundraisers are oil company executives. As of Feb. 29, Obama's presidential campaign had received nearly $214,000 from oil and gas industry employees and their families, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Clinton had received nearly $307,000 from industry workers and their families and Republican Sen. John McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, received nearly $394,000, according to the center's totals.

Two of Obama's fundraisers are Robert Cavnar, the chairman and chief executive of Houston-based Mission Resources Corp., and George Kaiser, the president and CEO of Tulsa-based Kaiser-Francis Oil Co.

In January and February alone, Obama received nearly $18,000 from Exxon Mobil workers, according to Federal Election Commission records. Most of the donations were of $250 or less; the money came from workers ranging from executives to engineers to geologists to shift supervisors. Overall, he has raised about $34,000 from Exxon Mobil workers since the beginning of his campaign. Exxon Mobil employees have given Clinton about $16,000 since the beginning of last year.

Source- Yahoo News

Obama: Camelot connection a load of hooey

and pretty much a fairy tale.

Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his "very existence" to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.

The Camelot connection has become part of the mythology surrounding Obama's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. After Caroline Kennedy endorsed his candidacy in January, Newsweek commentator Jonathan Alter reported that she had been struck by the extraordinary way in which "history replays itself" and by how "two generations of two families -- separated by distance, culture and wealth -- can intersect in strange and wonderful ways."

It is a touching story -- but the key details are either untrue or grossly oversimplified.

Contrary to Obama's claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama's father. According to historical records and interviews with participants, the Kennedys were first approached for support for the program nearly a year later, in July 1960. The family responded with a $100,000 donation, most of which went to pay for a second airlift in September 1960.

Source- The Washington Post

Obama blows John Edwards...

...endorsement.

(Had you for a second there, didn't I?)

But now two months have passed since Edwards dropped out—tempus fugit!—and still no endorsement. Why?

According to a Democratic strategist unaligned with any campaign but with knowledge of the situation gleaned from all three camps, the answer is simple: Obama blew it. Speaking to Edwards on the day he exited the race, Obama came across as glib and aloof. His response to Edwards’s imprecations that he make poverty a central part of his agenda was shallow, perfunctory, pat.

Clinton, by contrast, engaged Edwards in a lengthy policy discussion. Her affect was solicitous and respectful. When Clinton met Edwards face-to-face in North Carolina ten days later, her approach continued to impress; she even made headway with Elizabeth.

Whereas in his Edwards sit-down, Obama dug himself in deeper, getting into a fight with Elizabeth about health care, insisting that his plan is universal (a position she considers a crock), high-handedly criticizing Clinton’s plan (and by extension Edwards’s) for its insurance mandate.

Source- New York Magazine

Obama: 20 years drinking Rev Wright's kool-aid

The Department of Justice reports that approximately 8,000 blacks were murdered in the United States in 2005. In one year, that's exactly double the total number of American military deaths during the entire five years of the war in Iraq; in one year, that's 10 times the average number of American military deaths per year since the start of the war.

A recent study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics at the Department of Justice shows that blacks committed murders in 2005 at a rate seven times higher than whites.

The vast majority of those 8,000 black murders in 2005 were intraracial -- black victims being killed by other blacks. Similarly, Justice Department statistics covering the years 1976 through 2005 show that 94 percent of black murder victims were killed by blacks, and 86 percent of white murder victims were killed by whites.

Conversely, in inter-racial terms, 6 percent of black murder victims during those years were killed by non-blacks while 14 percent of white murder victims were killed by non-whites.
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For 1976 through 2005, the Justice Department reports that blacks, 12 percent of the U.S. population, committed 52 percent of the nation's murders and were 47 percent of all murder victims.

Until I heard the racist and anti-American tirades of Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, it hadn't occurred to me that the murderous fires in the black community were being stoked from the pulpits inside black churches.

I wonder if it's ever occurred to Obama and Wright that it probably doesn't help young people in the black community when they're told that their country hates them, that the U.S. government gave them drugs and AIDS, and that jail and genocide are the officially-sanctioned plan for them.

Source- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Obama: What Moslems want from him...

In other words: Dhimmitude.

QUESTION: What are issues and recommendations for solutions that are unique to Muslim Americans?

1. A Law against harrassment [sic] of a Muslim women wearing Hijab at the Airport, DMV and other public arenas.

2. Institute a Law to allow Muslim Employees to take a hours off from work for Friday Jummah Prayer.

3. Make the 2 Eid's, recognized National Holidays on Calendars with days off from work.

4. Optional Halal meals in federal buildiings, [sic] public schools and colleges.

5. Provide prayer areas suitable for Salah and Jummah, in public and private facilities. (i.e. Malls, Airports, Universities and government buildings.)

6. Organize a Muslim American group to assist in recommendations for US foreign policy affecting majority Muslim countries.

Source- Muslim Americans For Obama

Obama: Sponsored Islamic Community Day bill

90th General Assembly Summary of SR0110 [ Home ] [ Back ] [ Legislation ]

Legislation: Please enter a bill number. Full Text Bill Status

Senate Sponsors: OBAMA.

Short description:
11/1/97-ISLAMIC COMMUNITY DAY
Synopsis of Bill as introduced:
Declares November 1, 1997 to be South Shore Islamic Community
Center Day.

Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE
Last action date: 99-01-12
Location: Senate
Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 0 SENATE - 0
END OF INQUIRY 

Want to check out more of Obama's Illinois Senate legislative record? Don't worry - it won't take long. (ha-ha. Most of his bills died on the vine in Session Sine Die.)

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Obama: Granny wasn't such a white racist after all

but she was a female pioneer of the Hawaiian banking industry.

Sam Slom was a Bank of Hawaii economist at the time and was married to a Korean-Chinese woman. Slom remembers looking at housing ads that openly expressed racial preferences.

The landlords' ads read, "'No haoles,' or 'AJAs (Americans of Japanese ancestry) Only,' or 'No Japanese,'" Slom said. "That's the way it was," said Slom, who is now a Republican state senator representing Kahala and Hawai'i Kai. "Did people talk about race? We had local jokes ... like that 'pake' (Chinese) guy or the 'yobo' (Korean) who did this or that. I certainly got my share of haole jokes. But I never heard Madelyn say anything disparaging about people of African ancestry or Asian ancestry or anybody's ancestry."

... several current and former Bank of Hawaii executives — some of whom were mentored by Dunham and knew her after she retired — said they were stunned by Obama's comments about his grandmother.

"I was real surprised that he indicated that," said Dennis Ching, who was a 23-year-old management trainee under Dunham beginning in 1966. "I never heard her say anything like that. I never heard her say anything negative about anything. And she never swore."

Bank of Hawaii — or Bankoh as it's known locally — was the No. 1 bank in the Islands in the late 1960s and early 1970s in terms of assets.

So Dunham's rapid ascension as one of the two highest female executives in 1970 was especially notable.

Source - The Honolulu Advertiser

Obama: Bowls for dollars, ends up in gutter.

Being a TWP I know Germantown PA well and...

let's just say that it's a VERY nice 'hood.

The just-retired pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago is pictured by apologists as a man who suffered in the preintegration South, who bore the indignities of segregated drinking fountains, whites-only diners and apartheid buses rolling through the night on the back roads deep in Dixie.

Wright’s attacks on white people are only natural, his advocates say, for a man who endured the endless humiliations of Jim Crow.

Wright, 66, actually spent very little time in the South, no farther south than Richmond, Va., where he attended a historically black college for a couple of years. After service in the Marines and the Navy, Wright got his bachelor’s degree from elite historically black Howard University, a mile from the Capitol.

Howard’s distinguished alumni include former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young, the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder and former secretary of the Army Togo West.

Wright earned a master’s degree in Chicago, and his doctorate in ministry in Dayton, Ohio.

He came from a comfortably off family in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. His father, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Sr., had been pastor of a Baptist church there since 1938, retiring in 1980. His mother, Mary Henderson Wright, had the leisure and resources to earn a doctorate in education from the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania.

Among African-Americans, Wright was an advantaged young man who prospered in post-segregation America. It prompts the question as to the wellspring of a fury that leads Wright to blame whites for infecting black people with AIDS and to spread the lie that white America supported Apartheid in South Africa, and that 9/11 was America’s just deserts for past aggression.

Why would an ordained minister who enjoyed so many benefits of a middle-class upbringing in the North engage so regularly in hate speech against whites?

Was it good business and smart politics in an upscale parish?

Hmmm?

-source- The Buffalo News.

What Obama has wrought: A disastrous regression in race relations

Trans-racial my TWP a$$.

The Chickens of Identity Politics Come Home to Roost? [Victor Davis Hanson]

Watching the parade of apologists for Rev. Wright’s hatred—“garlic noses”; “KKK of A;” “God Damn America;” “Condamnesia;” the U.S. deserved 9/11; America is no different from al-Qaeda; we caused the AIDs virus; Israel is a “dirty word” and sought an Arab and black ethnic bomb, etc—is, well, depressing. Instead of offering distance from Wright, far too many African-American professors and pastors interviewed on the cable stations the last few nights instead praised his brilliance and inspiration.

At best, there was a feeble ‘you just don’t get it’ about the venting and wink-and-nod culture of the black church. But the net message from the African-American liberal establishment, at least I fear, seems to be something like the following: ‘Wright is not going to offer an apology and we aren’t embarrassed about his ranting, which is not ranting at all, but rather historical and biblical exegesis which we endorse. And the problem is yours, not ours, since we expect exemption—given the history of race in this country—from your so-called norms of public discourse.’

This is what the triangulation of Obama has helped to unleash: most Americans will now doubt the moral authority of the African-American intellectual and religious community not just to question the questionable racial remarks of a Bill Clinton, Ed Rendell, or Geraldine Ferraro, but also the Wright-like crudity of a Don Imus or a Michael Richards. Context is now king.

This disastrous regression in race relations is the natural dividend of liberal identity politics, most recently brought to the fore by the wife of the first “black President”, the first “transracial” black Presidential candidate, and the “prophet” and “healer” Reverend Wright.

Barack Obama is on his way to a McGovern candidacy.

-source- The Corner

Obama: Babies are a punishment.

Some things are too disgusting for even this TWP to post.

-source-Not too disgusting to link.

Obama: Throwing down against our enemies with a throwback defense policy.

Obama takes a right turn on the Road to Change.

Sen. Barack Obama said Friday he would return the country to the more "traditional" foreign policy efforts of past presidents, such as George H.W. Bush, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.

At a town hall event at a local high school gymnasium, Obama praised George H.W. Bush — father of the president — for the way he handled the Persian Gulf War: with a large coalition and carefully defined objectives.

Obama began a six-day bus tour through Pennsylvania, the largest remaining primary prize in the contest with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Sen. John McCain is the Republican nominee-in-waiting.

-source- Associated Press

"By the sixth day I'm all unshaven and my suits are all wrinkled,"

On the Road to Change in Illinois. A promise for the penny and TMI for TWP.

He refused to let Illinois take the blame for stopping the production of pennies, and promised that he would look into it promised that he would look into it with one condition.

"I will seriously consider eliminating the penny as long as we can find Lincoln another place to land. Because Lincoln's a pretty important guy," Obama said.

And he told the crowd that they were "lucky" to get him on the first day of the bus tour. "By the sixth day I'm all unshaven and my suits are all wrinkled," he said.

-source- MSNBC

Philly Mayor: Obama Pastor Talk Beyond Pale

They said it, not me.



-source- ABC News Google headline screen capture

Obama's campus skit lap dance gets a rise out of the Moonbats

But...it was for a good cause.

North Dakota State University is investigating complaints about a campus skit in which a white student in blackface portrayed Barack Obama receiving a lap dance.

The same skit, part of a charity fundraiser held at a campus theater, also featured a depiction of cowboys having sex with each other, witnesses told The Forum newspaper, which first reported the backlash Friday.

"We're trying to find out the right approaches for accountability, but at the same time try to heal wounds that have occurred and allow the campus to move ahead," Janna Stoskopf, NDSU's dean of students, told The Associated Press on Friday.

The March 18 skit involving the NDSU Saddle and Sirloin Club was performed at the Mr. NDSU Pageant, which is sponsored by the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority and raises money for diabetes research.

People who attended it said a pageant contestant from Saddle and Sirloin dressed as a woman from the Internet video "I Got a Crush on Obama" and performed a strip tease for another student, who was wearing dark makeup and an afro wig.

In the background, two male students dressed as cowboys simulated anal sex while holding an Obama sign that one student ripped at the conclusion of the 30-second performance, the Forum reported.

"That seems to be consistent with what's been described to me," Stoskopf said.

-source- My Way News

Garlic Nose a compliment...really.

That's what I tried to tell Typical White Husband last night, too.

"The View’s" Joy Behar is so partisan as to spin an ethnic slur from Barack Obama’s pastor into a compliment. Discussing Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s "garlic nosed Italians" comments on the March 28 edition, Behar noted "he’s talking about the ancient Romans here," (apparently Reverend Wright did not know that Italy did not exist as a country until 1861) and claimed "the Roman nose has been celebrated in art and history...I don’t think it’s insulting." She also added that garlic in her diet helps with her "gorgeous complexion."

-source- Newsbusters

Obama: A new kind of politician

I mean, really - is their any other kind?

A college-age supporter for Barack Obama in Erie represented himself as a Hillary Clinton backer when he visited the local campaign office, the Clinton campaign said. And he tried to get information at Clinton’s campaign office in the West Erie Plaza on Thursday, the Clinton campaign said.

The Clinton campaign identified him as Sam Glenzer of Wisconsin. Glenzer could not be reached for comment.

Clinton campaign officials said Glenzer was a paid staffer, but Obama spokesman Matt Lehrich said he was a volunteer in Erie. Lehrich said Glenzer was asked to leave the campaign.

-source- GoErie.com

Obama throws pastor under the time warp machine bus

without so much as a backward glance.

“What they spoke to was, I think, a brilliant man who was still caught in a time warp back in the ’60s, early ’70s and the ’50s, where he grew up, and had a sense of where America was and didn’t have a good enough sense of how it had changed,” he said.

Obama disputed what he called an overstated notion that Wright was his “spiritual adviser” or “mentor.”

-source- Fox News

Obama embarks on "Road to Change"

across Keystone State.

Obama also explained what he would do for Pennsylvania if he would win the upcoming November election. He said the economy of cities like Johnstown was top on his list.

“You can turn communities around,” said Obama. "It requires someone who is fighting for workers and not for Wall Street."

The road to change is evidently paved with pork and powered by hot air.

"... he wants to provide more factory jobs by investing alternative energy sources like solar panels and wind power. As for deficient roads and bridges in the Allegheny region, Obama said he has a plan for those too.

"I think it's important to invest in infrastructure. I put forward $60 billion that will help infrastructure, above the normal highway transportation funds."

-source- WJAC-TV. News you can count on.

And if cows shi$ butter we wouldn't have to churn...

Obama would have left if Wright stayed. Honest.

"Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable staying at the church," Obama said Thursday during a taping of the ABC talk show, "The View." The interview will be broadcast Friday.

-source- Yahoo News.

When Barry became Barack...

Spin.

When Sen. Barack Obama moved from using the name Barry to Barack, his formal name, it was part of his almost lifelong quest for identity and belonging -- to figure out who he is, and how he fits into the larger American tapestry. Part black, part white, raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, with family of different religious and spiritual backgrounds -- seen by others in ways he didn't see himself -- the young Barry was looking for solid ground. At Occidental College, he was feeling like he was at a "dead end," he tells Newsweek, "that somehow I needed to connect with something bigger than myself."

-source- Hold your nose and click.

Greed bad, says Obama

then he goes down to Wall Street for a fund raiser.

Barack Obama went to New York Thursday and blamed lobbyists, greedy businessmen and complacent Washington politicians for creating “an ethic of greed” that led to today’s foreclosure crisis.

Not long after he left the stage, the Democratic presidential hopeful attended a fundraiser held by his campaign in a room in the Manhattan headquarters of Credit Suisse, one of the major investment companies caught up in the subprime lending mess.

-source- Politico

Obama: Muslim Wolf in Christian Clothing

The glib handling of criticism of his relationship with the anti-American ("God Damn America!") and anti-Israel ("a dirty word for Negroes") Reverend James Wright may have bought him a little time. But the legacy of dissimulation about his long-concealed identity is about to come crashing down around the ears of Barack Hussein Obama, courtesy of the assembled testimony of his family, friends, classmates and teachers.

-Consider the source- IsraelInsider

Obama stirs Money Honey's pot with

idea to double capital gains tax.

Then he just falls apart and starts babbling about Warren Buffet (sic).
-Full transcript at source-

BARTIROMO: "How do you plan to change the tax code when it comes to capital gains? How high will that 15 percent rate go?"

Sen. OBAMA: "Well, you know, I haven't given a firm number. Here's my belief, that we can't go back to some of the, you know, confiscatory rates that existed in the past that distorted sound economics. And I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton, which was the 28 percent. I would--and my guess would be it would be significantly lower than that. I think that we can have a capital gains rate that is higher than 15 percent. If it--and if it, you know--when I talk to people like Warren Buffet or others and I ask them, you know, what's--how much of a difference is it going to be if it's 20 or 25 percent, they say, look, if it's within that range then it's not going to distort, I think, economic decision making. On the other hand, what it will also do is first of all help out the federal treasury, which is running a credit card up with the bank of China and other countries. What it will also do, I think, is allow us to make investments in basic scientific research, in infrastructure, in broadband lines, in green energy and will allow us to give us--give some relief to middle class and working class families who have been driving this economy as consumers but have been doing it through credit cards and home equity loans. They're not going to be able to do that. And if we want the economy to continue to go strong, then we've got to make sure that they're getting a little relief as well."

-source- Ben Smith's Blogs at Politico.

Typical White Husband

is a garlic nose. Just sayin'.

The article also quotes him referring to Italians’ “garlic noses,” and characterizing Jesus’ crucifixion as “a public lynching, Italian-style.”

-source- Hold your nose and click.

Rev's Chickens Coming home to roost in $1.6 coop

Coop, sweet coop.

FOX News has uncovered documents that indicate Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.

-snip-
According to documents obtained from the Cook County Register of Deeds, Wright purchased two empty lots in Tinley Park, Ill., from Chicago restaurant chain owner Kenny Lewis for $345,000 in 2004.

Documents show Wright sold the property to his church, Trinity United, in December 2006, with the proceeds going to a living trust shared with his wife, Ramah.

The sale price for the land was just under $308,000, about $40,000 less than Wright’s original purchase two years earlier.

Public records of the sale show Trinity initially obtained a $10 million bank loan to purchase the property and build a new house on the land. But further investigation with tax and real estate attorneys showed that the church had actually secured a $1.6 million mortgage for the home purchase, and attached a $10 million line of credit, for reasons unspecified in the paperwork.

There is apparently nothing wrong with that, according to non-profit tax expert Jack Siegel of Charity Governance Consulting, who examined public documents FOX News obtained from the Cook County Register of Deeds and the Village of Tinley Park.

“At least looking at it from a public document standpoint, there’s clearly not a problem that jumps out or some sort of wrongdoing,” Siegel said.

Siegel characterizes the transaction as unusual, however, because of the way Wright sold the property to Trinity and the way the deal was financed, with the attached $10 million line of credit. Because churches are classified as private businesses, Trinity isn’t required to reveal its intended use for the line of credit. Nor, because it’s a non-profit entity, is it required to provide that information to the IRS. -snip-

-source- Fox News

Well, well, well.

May I be the first to advise you that Typical White Person

is happy to be back online with you.

Blogger thought I was a SPAM BLOG and took me off line for a few days.

And believe you me, I was itching to be blogging about Obama - it's like it's bred in my experiences or something.

Judas Iscariot Richardson

Democratic reconciliation on the horizon? Carville wishes Obama's new BFF a happy Easter.

"An act of betrayal," said James Carville, an adviser to the Clintons.

"Mr. Richardson's endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic," Carville said.

source - Herald Tribune

"Some little white no-good trasher in America..."

Another voter for Obama.

WTA head Larry Scott said Thursday that he strongly disagrees with comments made by Richard Williams, father of Serena and Venus, regarding racism on the women’s tour.

Saying he was disappointed by Williams’ recent remarks during an interview in India, Scott said in a statement: “The Tour has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to racism, and I have previously let Mr. Williams know that he should let me know if he ever had evidence of racist comments or acts in women’s professional tennis.”

While his daughters were playing earlier this month in Bangladore, India, where Venus reached the quarterfinals and Serena won the title, Williams told the Deccan Herald, “Well, I’m black and I’m prejudiced, very prejudiced. People are prejudiced in tennis. I don’t think Venus or Serena was ever accepted by tennis. They never will be.”

He said the media treated his daughters unfairly, that it was “the worst media job that they have done on any human being in the world,” and that if he were Serena and Venus, he would have quit playing.

“But if you get some little white no-good trasher in America like Tracy Austin or Chris Evert, who cannot hit the ball, they (the media) will claim this is great,” he said.

source - Yahoo Sports

Obama's drive thru order sounds like the Bill of Rights

That's what I want in my President.

"I'm sure," said Barack Obama in that sonorous baritone that makes his drive-thru order for a Big Mac, fries and strawberry shake sound profound, "many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed." Well, yes. But not many of us have heard remarks from our pastors, priests or rabbis that are stark, staring, out-of-his-tree, flown-the-coop nuts...

source - Mark Steyn at the OC Register

Obama hits beach, skips church over Easter vacation

When the going gets tough, the tough show their pecs.

Where the goys are...

Obama's allies are hoping the focus will stay off of Wright this Easter Sunday when the Democratic frontrunner skips services at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and heads on vacation.

Per ABC News' Sunlen Miller, sources familiar with Obama's plans say the Illinois Democrat is expected to go on a tropical vacation with the most likely bet appearing to be St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

source - ABC News

Obama spends $1.5 million a day

I wonder if Michelle is proud to be an American yet.

Obama's campaign spent at a rate of nearly $1.5 million a day in February, a crucial month that began with the Feb. 5 Super Tuesday and ended with both candidates marching to a showdown March 4 in Texas and Ohio. Clinton, riding her best fundraising period yet, spent about $1 million a day on average.

source - Associated Press

Turn toward Obama and smile

Nice to know this speech was so heartfelt. I so believe him now.

The Obama campaign distributed Gov. Bill Richardson's endorsement speech...note the stage direction:

I know Senator Obama well.

I first got to know him when I chaired the last Democratic National Convention, where he gave that wonderful keynote address.

And then, last year, as we campaigned against each other for the Presidency, I came to fully appreciate his steadfast patriotism and remarkable talents.

I also felt a kinship with him because we both had one foreign-born parent and we both lived abroad as children.

In part because of these experiences, Barack and I share a deep sense of our nation’s special responsibilities in the world. [Turn toward Obama and smile]

Barack Obama, you are an extraordinary leader who has shown courage, sound judgment and wisdom throughout your career.

You understand the security challenges of the 21st century, and you will be an outstanding Commander in Chief.

source - Marc Ambinder

He's a uniter, not a divider

According to a new poll by InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion, 82% knew about the controversy surrounding Barack Obama’s relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Obama’s speech about race in America. Of those who knew about the controversy and the speech, 52% said it made them less likely to vote for him. Moreover, 56% of blacks said the speech made them less likely to vote for him.

So Obama is bringing Americans together in a dislike of his speech, though I suspect that shared dislike does not represent much bridging of racial differences. Obama gave a speech focusing on race as a way to distract from the issue of religion, but the focus on race does not seem to have played well with blacks or non-blacks.

source - Protein Wisdom.

A case of the pot calling the kettle...Um dare I say it? - black?

Obama Campaign Claims Clinton Has 'Character Gap'

The Obama campaign responds by saying "Bill Clinton like McCarthy'

nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.

Bill Clinton: In so many words

Did you catch his drift?

The drift of a typical white person.

At a small VFW hall in Charlotte, NC, today, former president Bill Clinton contemplated a McCain/Clinton general election matchup, saying that it would be one between "two people who loved this country" without "all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics."

"I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country," said the former president. "And people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics."

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