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Barack Obama faked Selective Service registration? - 11/13/2008

Barack Obama might have faked his Selective Service registration; see this. Schlussel has a copy of the form that Obama supposedly filled out as well as a print-out associated with the form. And, things don't add up. I'll let you wade through the details, but there actually appears to be something there.

Brooks Jackson/FactCheck spins Obama's Civilian National Security Force - 11/13/2008

... serves as a reflexive defender of Barack Obama rather than a fact checker.

In the tank: Google Maps front pages "Obama's Journey" - 11/12/2008

... CEO Eric Schmidt is a member of Barack Obama's Economic Transition Team (link), so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the increasingly-political company he heads has given the president-elect (and Joe Biden) a special treat that they've probably already gawked over. In Obama's case, he might even have had a private chuckle over it too. If you go to maps.google.com ne...

Gebe Martinez/Politico misleads about role of "Hispanic vote" in Obama win - 11/12/2008

Ethno-boosting hack Gebe Martinez of the Politico offers "GOP must tone down rhetoric to woo Latinos" (link): More than 10 million Hispanics voted last week, up from 7.6 million in 2004. If Hispanics were removed from the tallies, McCain would have had the winning edge in the battleground states of Indiana and New Mexico. Latinos also were a major factor in his losses in the former red s...

Take the Chicago Barack Obama Challenge! (list of all of Obama's mainstream associates) - 11/12/2008

Barack Obama supporters, I'm throwing the floor open to you. Will you dare take the Chicago Barack Obama Challenge? In comments, please list all the past associates of BHO who are completely mainstream. Just people, not organizations. And, "past" means those prior to, say, 2004 and doesn't include, say, his current associates, those who simply endorsed him at any time, and t...

Portland pre-teens want to name school after Barack Obama - 11/12/2008

One of the highly effective but largely ignored ways that Obama could have been opposed before the election would be to point out his cult-like followers as well as his plan to get pre-teens to join his movement.

Obama cabinet might include Democrat titans: Gore, Napolitano, Vilsack, Howard Dean, Caroline Kennedy... - 11/11/2008

The Barack Obama cabinet might include such Democratic Party titans as Al Gore, Arizona governor Janet Napolitano, former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, Caroline Kennedy, Howard Dean, Bill Richardson, John Kerry, and many more truly titanic names. This link has a "transition flowchart", a PDF showing some potential picks and all of them are truly great figures who will help the Repu... er, I...

Obama spins Civilian National Security Force as for Iraq rebuilding - 11/11/2008

Back in July, Barack Obama gave a speech in Colorado where he proposed creating a "Civilian National Security Force". That was just in one line of the speech, and it didn't appear in the version as prepared for delivery (copy here). Since that time, many have speculated over what he could have meant, and just recently Georgia congressman Paul Broun compared the creation of such grou...

I posted satires about Barack Obama... at his own site! - 11/10/2008

Now it can be revealed!

Cached copy of Barack Obama's change.gov agenda section - 11/10/2008

Barack Obama's change.gov - the official president-elect transition site - deleted their entire Agenda section over the weekend. There's apparently a cached copy here, although I haven't verified it since I didn't bother saving off my own copy. UPDATE: There's a better-looking version from Google's cache here. As with the other one I didn't verify it.

National Council of Ethnic Americans demands equal representation in Obama cabinet - 11/09/2008

... following missive: President-Elect Barack Obama: We are the Ethnic-Americans. During the election you reached out to us (my.barackobama.com/page/content/eahome) and asked for our support.

Mandatory community service still included in Obama's preK-12 education plan - 11/08/2008

... we discussed how one page at Barack Obama's new change.gov site said he'd push for mandatory community service. The campaign later changed that page to match the more voluntary-oriented statements the campaign made elsewhere. However, there's still one thing they'll probably want to send down the memory hole. The file barackobama.com/pdf/issues/PreK-12EducationFactSheet.pdf...

Washington Post admits coverage tilted to Obama, doesn't admit their incredibly biased coverage for him and their lies for him - 11/08/2008

... WaPo's lightest weight coverage of Barack Obama yet? * Ed O'Keefe of the Washington Post promoted a BHO campaign ad without noting that it took a John McCain quote out of context; Howard Kurtz of the WaPo also failed to note the full context for the quote. * Ed O'Keefe earlier helped Obama spread lies about Rush Limbaugh when he promoted a BHO campaign video and didn't point o...

AVWatch: Barack Obama's economic advisors include... Antonio Villaraigosa - 11/07/2008

... group - is one of the members of Barack Obama's economic advisory board. Even the L.A.

Obama's aunt gets immigration lawyer, considers appeal (to prevent President Barack from deporting her?) - 11/07/2008

... anyone else to point out that Barack Obama supported his illegal alien own aunt being deported at the same time as he opposed the deportations of millions of illegal aliens he's never even met. Pushing that story would help dispel the widespread feeling among his supporters that he's all sweetness and light.

"Latinos push for Cabinet posts": NCLR, MALDEF, NALEO trying to embed supporters in Obama administration - 11/07/2008

... be named to positions in the Barack Obama administration. Actually, it appears they want a quota system. And, it's not really "Latinos" as a group, but the familiar far-left pressure groups such as the NCLR, MALDEF, and NALEO. The second has an indirect link to the Mexican government, and the last has a direct link. The ethnic boosting "reporter" Gebe Martinez of the ...

Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel want mandatory community service?; contradicts earlier statements; 100 hours/year in college - 11/07/2008

Yet more fun with Barack Obama's president-elect website change.gov, as the page change.gov/americaserves has this: Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. This "requirement" contradicts not only past statements, b...

eCitizen's "Ask the President-Elect": yet another setup? - 11/07/2008

... submit video or text questions for Barack Obama. The questions that get the most votes will then be asked of our new president or his transition team, with three of the top vote getters being flown to MIT for a live event. And, it appears to be as much of a setup as similar past efforts.

Change.gov? Obama launches his own president-elect website - 11/06/2008

... website just to help usher in Barack Obama. And, it's not from the Bush-welcome-to-DC perspective, but instead from the Obama-I'm-in-charge-now perspective. He's even got a wonderful form you can use called "An American Moment: Your Story" (change.gov/page/s/yourstory): Start right now.

Evan Thomas/Newsweek on Obama's "creepy cult of personality" - 11/06/2008

... night's Charlie Rose show that Barack Obama has a "creepy cult of personality". See the video here. I didn't watch it and, of course, no one is around to provide a transcript or an accurate summary of his remarks, but word on the street is that he means it in a slightly good way. Note that Obama's personality cult was the first item in my non-partisan argument agains Obam...

Dueling sockpuppets: were some anti-Palin, anti-McCain comments from the Romney campaign? - 11/05/2008

Barack Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod owns an astroturfing company. And, during the campaign the comments at many major sites (WaPo, Politico, Digg, etc.) were chock full of sockpuppets posting lame jokes, comments insulting McCain and/or Palin, and comments extolling the virtues of The One. Could those two things have something to do with each other?

Assignment: backgrounders on Obama's transition staff - 11/05/2008

Barack Obama has named his transition staff and an advisory board thereto (link).

Reason Magazine tries to pretend they opposed Barack Obama - 11/05/2008

... list of their recent coverage of Barack Obama (reason.com/news/show/129922.html), and from that list those who don't read their Hit and Run blog frequently might think they actually opposed him. In fact, they served as a bit of a cheerleader for him and almost always showed a clear bias towards him and against McCain (as pretty much every visitor to their site knows, their editor Matt Welch ...

Your election day eve assignment - 11/03/2008

Should you decide to accept it: 1. Search out local forums in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and other coal states (such as at local newspapers) and make sure that as many people as possible know exactly what Obama's position on coal is. Urge them to contact all their friends. 2. Do the preceding throughout the U.S. and let them know that Obama's plans will cause electricit...

Video: Obama promises electricity rates will skyrocket under his plan (energy costs) - 11/03/2008

... Chronicle video (not just audio) of Barack Obama promising that under his energy plan, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket". The full transcript of the video is here; note this: You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know - Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about w...

Video of Obama wanting to bankrupt new coal-powered plants - 11/03/2008

... Chronicle video (not just audio) of Barack Obama discussing his cap and trade plan that would result in bankrupting new coal power plants. For the transcript of what's on the tape, see this. Note that there's a elision in there somewhere; if anyone has a full transcript of the whole interview that might be useful but I guess that's too much to ask. Note especially this: What I'...

Senator Bob Menendez to Neil Cavuto: "I hope you are not one of the ones forced off the air" - 11/03/2008

... argument with him about various Barack Obama plans.

Is Barack Obama still in frequent contact with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn? - 11/03/2008

Law professor Steve Diamond says a source close to the campaign says so. Unfortunately, until he gets someone to go on the record or at least a second source it's not really worth much right now.

Did Barack Obama flip the bird to John McCain? (give the finger) - 11/03/2008

Back in April, Barack Obama might have "flipped the bird"/"given the finger" to Hillary Clinton. In September, BHO said "You can put lipstick on a pig, itaBack in April, Barack Obama might have "flipped the bird"/"given the finger" to Hillary Clinton. In September, BHO said "You can put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig" (link) in what ...

Barack Obama is apparently not a friend to the coal industry - 11/03/2008

... just-released remarks from Senator Barack Obama about the nation's coal industry. "Regardless of the timing or method of the release of these remarks, the message from the Democratic candidate for President could not be clearer: the Obama-Biden ticket spells disaster for America's coal industry and the tens of thousands of Americans who work in it. "These undisputed, aud...

Rep. Jerrold Nadler: Obama didn't have the "political courage" to leave Rev. Wright's church (asking questions works) - 11/03/2008

... he thought he was helping Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., but it will ultimately be hard to make that case. Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugged has posted [link] some video of Nadler at a synagogue in Boca Raton trying to explain why Obama was able to stay in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years. He starts off my saying he has no idea of what he's talking about. And then he proceeds to ...

Is it correct to doubt Barack Obama's patriotism, as Joe the Plumber did? - 11/02/2008

... There's too many questions with Barack Obama and his loyalty to our country. And I question that greatly...

Obama wants his poor aunt to be deported, doesn't want millions of other illegal aliens to be deported - 11/02/2008

... CBS News, Katie Couric asked Barack Obama whether he would "support [his poor illegal alien aunt] being deported to Kenya". His response: If she is violating laws those laws have to be obeyed. We're a nation of laws.

Obama's first fulltime job at company with "substantial SDS ties" (Business International) - 11/02/2008

When he got out of Columbia University in the early 80s, Obama's first full-time job was at an apparently mainstream business reporting outfit called Business International. Now, it turns out that that company had a series of links with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) via their 1966-67 president Carl Oglesby. He led the non-violent wing of the SDS and was opposed to the violent wing c...

Just for us! Campaign adds official "European & Mediterranean Americans for Obama" (WASPs, Nordics not allowed) - 11/02/2008

... Americans: It's now safe for us to vote for Barack Obama, because he's recently added a section to his website just for us! Visit Obama's official new page just for us here: my.barackobama.com/page/content/eahome It's for white people, but not every white person: only those of us who are "ethnics".

Did Carla Marinucci cover up Obama's "bankrupt" coal plants plan? - 11/02/2008

... Chronicle conducted an interview with Barack Obama on January 17, 2008 in which he said things relating to his energy policy and his plan to bankrupt coal plants under certain conditions.

Will Barack Obama "bankrupt the coal industry"? - 11/02/2008

Barack Obama's not-exactly-brilliant opponents are once again setting themselves up for failure as they have so many times in the past. The latest example is the claim that Obama will "bankrupt the coal industry", which doesn't appear to be completely accurate.

Matriarch Sarah Obama says Barack Obama was born in Kenya (?) - 11/01/2008

Against my better judgment, I'm linking to this page supposedly containing audio and a transcript of a conversation held with Sarah Onyango Obama, matriarch of the Obama clan.

Obama, Farrakhan ties more extensive than thought - 11/01/2008

... Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama's ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had "an open line between them" to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries. "Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakha...

Obama supports failed "portfolio-assessment" education programs - 11/01/2008

... Melody Barnes, a spokeswoman for [Barack Obama's] campaign, said recently that Mr. Obama supports "portfolio assessment" of student performance. Portfolio assessment usually requires a student to perform various classroom assignments, like write essays, do individual projects, participate in group projects.

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