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Barack Obama, Bill Ayers spoke on panel together in 2002 - 10/21/2008

... the news that on April 20, 2002 Barack Obama and Bill Ayers spoke on the same "Intellectuals in Times of Crisis" panel at a conference sponsored by The Center for Public Intellectuals and the University of Illinois-Chicago (link, copy here). This was after Ayers' August 2001 profile in Chicago Magazine picturing him stepping on a flag.

Conservatives: here's why not to vote for Obama or at least why to vote against him - 10/21/2008

... comprehensive argument against Barack Obama" (link). It lays out a non-smear case against BHO over several categories: abortion, taxes, his radical associations, foreign policy judgment, his disdain for the heartland, his habit of playing the race card, and his lack of accomplishments. And, it will serve a valuable purpose for those millions and millions of conservatives who were planning on...

Has Barack Obama (legalistically) admitted his COLB is a forgery and he's not a U.S. citizen? - 10/20/2008

I tend to be very doubtful of this, but I'm linking it here anyway just in case it turns out that Obama has fled the U.S. tomorrow.

Barack Obama going to Hawaii; is something else involved? - 10/20/2008

First, I hope that Barack Obama's grandmother is OK. Unfortunately, since we're dealing with someone who's running for president, there are some questions that need to be asked. I don't want to ask them, but is something else involved? For instance, see #107 here.

Valiant: private blog post about Obama - already cited over 500 times - saved from "memory hole"! - 10/20/2008

... sidelines in the battle to prevent Barack Obama from becoming president. Others are fully engaged, valiantly and intelligently fighting with all their force, fighting the good fight no matter what happens. For a perfect example of that, turn to this post: patterico.com/2008/10/20/evidence-of-obama-ayers-tie-sent-down-the-memory-hole-almost (hat tap: pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/026008.p...

"Amazing" Barack Obama/Bill Ayers audio - 10/19/2008

The title of this one is "Amazing Ayers Audio Unearthed from Same Week Obama worked with him!

37,000 Obama donations possibly from foreign currency; federal law violations? - 10/19/2008

From this (a followup to this): more than 37,000 Obama donations appear to be conversions of foreign currency. According to a Newsmax analysis of the Obama campaign data before the latest figures were released, potential foreign currency donations could range anywhere from $12.8 million to a stunning $63 million in all. With the addition of $150 million raised in September, this amount could b...

The "mainstream" Bill Ayers/Bernadine Dohrn guide to parenting - 10/19/2008

... seeped into projects funded by Barack Obama's Chicago Annenberg Challenge there's a public interest: ...At B.J.'s Kids, parents and teachers struggled to free our language from the constraints of a sexist society, and it became natural to hear conversations laced with terms like "mail carrier," "police officer," "cowhand," and "waitron" (wai...

Obama sees "merit" in taxing the heck out of people and then just redistributing it - 10/19/2008

... following quote (from this), Barack Obama is paraphrasing Warren Buffet, and that the following is not a direct quote from him. Only the "merit" part is from BHO himself.

Where was Barack Obama born? In Hawaii? In Kenya? Somewhere else? - 10/19/2008

... page for the latest.) Was Barack Obama born in Hawaii, or Kenya, or somewhere else? He claims to have been born in Hawaii, but no definitive proof has been provided. It is a false statement to definitively state that he was born in Hawaii, as some media sources have done. The most they should state is that there's a very strong possibility that he was born in Hawaii and he claims to have ...

Bill Ayers: just a guy from Barack Obama's office building, to whose group he gave at least $1 million - 10/18/2008

... ("CAC") - headed by Barack Obama - were in the same office building between 1995 and 1998. And, their offices were on the same floor of that building during at least part of that period.

Dana Milbank/WaPO lied about Secret Service; may have lied about "kill him" - 10/18/2008

... the remark had been made about Barack Obama. If Milbank hadn't wanted to give the wrong impression or help start a meme he would have written the article in a different fashion. Now, it turns out that the remark might have been made, or it might have been "tell him" instead (link). That's less clear-cut than the lie about the Secret Service, but based on the article's ove...

Rachel d'Oro/AP's sleazy race-baiting to support Barack Obama - 10/18/2008

... like this show exactly how a Barack Obama presidency would operate: surrogates - assisted by the mainstream media - would attempt to racialize every decision made by Obama in an attempt to silence critics. Alaska's black leaders say they're not surprised to see Gov. Sarah Palin at the center of the controversy over injecting the race issue into the presidential campaign. Palin, Repu...

The Barack Obama/Bill Ayers/ACORN/Klonsky/Dohrn/SSW/TLA document dump - 10/18/2008

"TLA" means "three letter acronym", but the others are real people or organizations. However, there's too much here to look through but others are willing to give it a go. * Rethinking Schools, Joyce Foundation, Deborah Leff, etc.

John Podesta/CAP/Obama transition team has minor link to ACORN - 10/18/2008

... foundation. He's also the head of Barack Obama's transition team. And, from acorn.org/index.php?id=8516 [1]: On September 22, ACORN and Floridians for All partnered with John Podesta, former chief of staff to president Bill Clinton and director of the Center for American Progress, and economist Robert Pollin to release a study on the economic impacts of raising Florida's minimum wa...

Justin Rood/ABC: no worries about voting fraud! (Dem-linked experts say; ACORN) - 10/17/2008

... "they" refers to three sources: a Barack Obama contributor, a former director of the leftwing, illegal immigration-supporting People for the American Way, and FactCheck. No others sources are allowed to weigh in.

Endorsement: Barack Obama for President - 10/17/2008

... I'm coming out in support of Barack Obama. However, after reviewing this blog's postings for the past couple of years, I've come to the sudden realization that I've been on the wrong track. Now, I am officially on the right track. I am on the track for Obama! I deeply regret all the lies I've told about Obama. Now, I pledge to only tell the truth. Barack is truly the best...

Joe Klein misleads about Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers - 10/16/2008

... being extremely misleading about Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers.

Barack Obama mocks McCain over Joe the Plumber (after day of leftwing attacks) - 10/16/2008

... of work (link) - here's Barack Obama mentioning him while mocking McCain at a rally:

Instead of "Joe the Plumber", how about "Pete the Prosecutor"? - 10/16/2008

... thing (link), after having asked Barack Obama a question about taxes at one of his public appearances and after being mentioned in yesterday's debate. He even got an interview with Katie Couric.

Lynn Sweet is misleading about the Obama-Ayers link (after McCain campaign made mistakes) - 10/15/2008

... speaking about the Bill Ayers-Barack Obama connection they haven't presented the matter in ultra-precise, lawyerly terms. First, Sarah Palin said that Obama was "palling around with terrorists".

Barack Obama supported gun control in 2000 (Alaska, Trinity United) - 10/15/2008

... recounting of a debate between Barack Obama, Donne Trotter, and George Roby - then vying to replace Bobby Rush - includes the following: All three said they were in support of gun control legislation, with Obama citing a need for higher taxes on ammunition and registration requirements on firearms, and Trotter citing his 1989 support of background checks and seven-day waiting periods in the Stat...

Barack Obama's biography, as of 2001 - 10/15/2008

A copy of Barack Obama's biography as of 2001 is in the extended entry, from Harvard (link). Among other things I didn't know was that he also worked as a community organizer in Harlem after graduating from Columbia in 1983. He's also listed as a "senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School"; the university's site confirms that designation: "Senior Le...

Land reform, ACORN-style: squatting campaigns they admitted were illegal - 10/15/2008

... considered writing a satire about Barack Obama proposing "land reform", aka "agrarian reform" (see, for instance, this). As it turns out, ACORN - a group with which he's been linked in one form or other for several years - was working on something similar, although they were serious.

Did Barack Obama fans shut down an internet radio show? (Blog Talk Radio) - 10/15/2008

Someone named Tracy who runs a show at Blog Talk Radio (blogtalkradio.com) called No Compromise Radio was conducting an interview of Phil Berg two days ago about the Obama/U.S. citizenship issue. She was 13 minutes into her show when BTR pulled the plug, apparently claiming that her show was: racially or ethnically offensive, defamatory, unreasonably violent, threatening, intimidating or harassing...

Barack Obama took Rezko's money while Rezko's tenants froze in Chicago winter (-7F) - 10/14/2008

... cheery holiday tale featuring Barack Obama from April 23, 2007: For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago's South Side. It was just four years after the landlords -- Antoin "Tony'' Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru -- had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with ...

Did Michelle Obama angrily defend Barack in a phone call? - 10/14/2008

... denounced their attempts to keep Barack Obama from becoming president: [API] is supposed to support Africans and African-American view... it is strange that API has chosen to support the racists against my husband. There is no shame in being adopted by a step father. All dirt has been thrown onto my husband's face and yet he loves this country.

Did Barack Obama help Kenya prime minister Raila Odinga raise funds? - 10/14/2008

The answer to that is... it could happen. See this. One of the debunkings of that claim that I've seen is that the "fact checkers" [1] couldn't find a $1 million transfer from the Obama campaign to Odinga, and that there's no such thing as the "Friends of Senator B.O." However, the wording at the first link implies that it wasn't a transfer so much as Obama ...

Is Jesse Jackson trying to undermine Barack Obama's candidacy? - 10/14/2008

... Jesse Jackson said that after Barack Obama is elected the] most important change would occur in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end. Jackson believes that, although "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" remain strong, they'll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House......

Barack Obama funded radical Afro-centric schools (Annenberg Challenge, Rev. Wright) - 10/14/2008

... ("CAC") - as run by Barack Obama - was only involved in "mainstream" educational projects. Now, it turns out that CAC gave $200,000 to Chicago's Coalition for Improved Education in South Shore ("CIESS"). That ran the South Shore African Village Collaborative ("SSAVC"), which was a network of Afrocentric schools, based on various radical teachings. N...

Bill Ayers calendar: "Days of Rage" ended 39 years ago... tomorrow Harvard Center bombed 38 years ago - 10/13/2008

When Barack Obama was just about eight years old, from October 8 to 11, 1969, the Weathermen held their "Days of Rage" riots in Chicago where dozens of their members were arrested and they smashed shop windows and the like in an attempt to "Bring the war home".

ACORN Ohio worked with Obama campaign on GOTV; ACORN/Project Vote did GOTV in battleground states - 10/13/2008

Barack Obama has long-term ties to the far-left group ACORN. And, those ties continued at least as late as February 2008, when ACORN's Ohio branch worked with the Barack Obama campaign on a GOTV effort. See this job announcement from Mari Engelhardt, political director of Ohio ACORN: GOTV for Obama! Ohio ACORN is doing a Get Out The Vote project with the OBAMA Campaign.

Karen Tumulty misleads for Barack Obama (Jeffrey Frederick) - 10/12/2008

... designed explicitly to support Barack Obama. It starts with something that could have been written by the BHO campaign: If John McCain is as serious as he says about running a "respectful" campaign against an opponent he considers "a decent person," word hasn't yet trickled down to his newly opened storefront field office in Gainesville, Virginia. Then, she shows her lack...

"Iraqi Billionaire Threatens Reporters Investigating Rezko Affair" (Nadhmi Auchi) - 10/12/2008

... Nadhmi Auchi in supplying loans to Barack Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko? Some point to media bias, but there is another factor. Working for Auchi, who was born in Iraq, attorneys from London law firm Carter-Ruck have for several months been flooding American and British newspapers and websites with letters demanding removal of material they deem "defamatory" to their client... ...The Oba...

Barack Obama link #49232: black nationalist and/or advisor to Saudi royal family? (Khalid al-Mansour) - 10/12/2008

Is Barack Obama linked to someone named "Khalid al-Mansour" ("KAM", aka "Khalid Mansour" or "Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour")? Is KAM the black nationalist and former Black Panther formerly known as Donald Warden? Or, is KAM the person who's an advisor to Saudi Arabian prince Alwaleed bin Talal?

No class: Barack Obama supporters boo Sarah Palin, eight-year old daughter - 10/11/2008

Some might question why the Philadelphia Flyers were celebrating hockey moms instead of getting to the game. Some might question why Sarah Palin was bringing her daughters out onto the ice.

Is "Barack Obama" a complete scam? (Philip Berg lawsuit; Indonesia) - 10/11/2008

Could "Barack Obama" be a complete fake? Hillary Clinton supporter and decades-long Democrat Philip Berg is suing Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), claiming he's not eligible to be president. From this: the Plaintiff, Philip J. Berg, a Philadelphia attorney, alleged that Defendant Barack Hussein Obama is not eligible for the Office of the President because Ob...

Bill Ayers in 2006: "education is the motor-force of revolution" (in Venezuela, with Hugo Chavez) - 10/11/2008

... (who's just some guy in Barack Obama's neighborhood and/or someone he used to serve on a couple boards with) gave a speech in November 2006 (when Obama was just 45 years old) at the World Education Forum in Caracas, Venezuela. The full text of his speech is at his site: billayers.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/world-education-forum with a copy here, and a discussion here. The speech is a bit....

Ana Marie Cox/Time lies about quote at McCain rally - 10/11/2008

... with, "I'm scared of Barack Obama...

Has Barack Obama admitted that he was an ACORN trainer? - 10/10/2008

About six hours ago, I posted Barack Obama lied about ACORN involvement (he was a trainer). Now, quicker than you can say "down the memory hole", the BHO campaign has changed their website to apparently admit that he was indeed a trainer for that organization.

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