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Christopher Buckley shows: talent skips a generation - 10/10/2008

... conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon...

David Tanenhaus: how bad could Bill Ayers be if he made gingerbread-cookie houses with me? - 10/10/2008

... Bill, and Me/The Bill Ayers that Barack Obama and I worked with was no "domestic terrorist"' (link).

Kenya admits Jerome Corsi was detained due to his political activities - 10/09/2008

... investigation of links between Barack Obama and Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The original explanation was that his work permit had been lost.

The Cenk Uygur Race Card Play-O-Matic (John McCain, Fannie Mae) - 10/08/2008

... "Twist anything an opponent of Barack Obama says in order to play the race card". If BHO wins the presidency, expect them to abide by that rule endlessly. The latest example comes from multiple "liberals" who are trying to racialize John McCain referring to Barack Obama as "that one" at last night's "debate".

Andy McCarthy: "You guys are nuts". Me: "yes, and they refuse to do anything effective" - 10/07/2008

At The Corner, Andy McCarthy writes: Memo to McCain Campaign: Someone is either a terrorist sympathizer or he isn't; someone is either disqualified as a terrorist sympathizer or he's qualified for public office. You helped portray Obama as a clealy qualified presidential candidate who would fight terrorists. If that's what the public thinks, good luck trying to win this thing....

Lil' fascists: Barack Obama supporters on Jerome Corsi's detention in Kenya - 10/07/2008

... like that are done in support of Barack Obama, their response is a bit different. Here are some instances of those discussing the detention in Kenya of Jerome Corsi, author of the anti-BHO book Obama Nation.

Jerome Corsi detained in Kenya after investigating Barack Obama links to Kenyan president - 10/07/2008

... Obama Nation and someone that the Barack Obama campaign subsequently smeared - has been detained in Kenya. The official word is apparently that he hasn't been detained, but Corsi says his passport has been taken. He and his publicist apparently haven't been charged with any crimes, and contrary to other reports he hasn't been deported; he was scheduled to leave the country today.

CNN does expose on Barack Obama/Bill Ayers? - 10/06/2008

According to this, tonight's Anderson Cooper show on CNN included a segment from one of their other reporters that included this: But the relationship between Obama and Ayers went much deeper, ran much longer, and was much more political than Obama said. In comments, others agree that the segment was unexpected.

Dana Milbank/WaPo's dangerous smear of Sarah Palin, supporters - 10/06/2008

... regarding him misleading for Barack Obama - is back with an even more disgusting smear. This one a) portrays Sarah Palin supporters as bloodthirsty yahoos, b) tries to give the impression that Palin doesn't renounce bloodthirsty yahoos, and c) most importantly, raises the specter of Barack Obama being assassinated by a Palin supporter. Discussing a speech today in Florida ("In Fla., ...

Questions for Barack Obama about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - 10/06/2008

Please go to a Barack Obama public appearance, ask him one of the following questions (derived from a McCain campaign missive [1]), get his response on videotape, and then upload that to Youtube. If you can get a "good" answer from him it would have a devastating impact on his campaign. "Senator Obama: You got over $100,000 in campaign contributions from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and...

Who's behind the Obama Youth video, and why are they so successful? - 10/06/2008

... outfits - pledging allegiance to Barack Obama and describing how he's changed their lives. I linked to that video back on the second in the post about the then-previous example of BHO's personality cult. Something about the video producer's modus operandi sets off red flags, but it's probably nothing.

Marc Cooper/Huffington Post pretends Obama/Ayers similar to McCain/David Ifshin - 10/05/2008

Marc Cooper is an ultra-lightweight Huffington Post "reporter"; I used to leave comments at his site completely eviscerating what little immigration-related argument he could provide. After a while he had a mini-meltdown and stopped being able to present even a slightly cogent argument. He never once was able to respond to any of my points [1]. Now, the "reporter" offers "...

Scott Shane/NYT's pro-BHO spin on Bill Ayers/Barack Obama collaboration - 10/04/2008

... everything's fine and dandy, and Barack Obama and 60s radical Bill Ayers are not close. The fact that they aren't close and never were close and nothing funny went on and there's nothing to see here is especially important because Ayers is a former and allegedly unrepentant terrorist who's since been, in Shane's words, "rehabilitated". On the other hand, if you ...

Justin Rood/ABC News misleads about Sarah Palin divestment from Sudan - 10/03/2008

... "fact check" from the Barack Obama campaign: factcheck.barackobama.com/factcheck/2008/10/02/debate_reality_check_palin_wro_1.php That BHO page says "Palin's administration was complicit in killing Darfur divestment bill" and provides a few quotes in support of that claim. However, the BHO campaign "forgets" to point out that Palin later supported the bill whe...

Barack Obama: "This is not the ___Larry_Walsh_&_Matt_Ryan___ that I knew" (FBI raid) - 10/02/2008

The Obama Bus got all fired up, two soft thuds were heard, and then typing was heard from the campaign's teleprompter office as this was typed in: "This not the Larry Walsh and Matt Ryan that I knew" (link): The FBI on Wednesday raided the county offices of a former Illinois state senator who is a poker-playing buddy of Democratic presidential candidate Sen.

Pro-life, pro-Obama: Douglas Kmiec says abortion foes should vote for Barack Obama - 10/02/2008

Douglas Kmiec offers a warm welcome to his effort "Pro-life, Pro-Obama": "As Ronald Reagan's legal counsel and as a dean and professor at Catholic University and Notre Dame, I have worked to put the law on the side of life where it belongs. I believe we are all called to build a culture of life - but there's more to it than just hoping that the next Supreme Court justi...

Open Letter: How to Defeat Barack Obama - 10/01/2008

... going to throw the election to Barack Obama. I need your help to promote a very effective plan that will show that Obama isn't qualified.

Barack Obama: millions in very questionable campaign contributions - 10/01/2008

... update about gift cards.] The Barack Obama campaign has raised millions of dollars in very questionable contributions. The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) won't say whether they're conducting an investigation, but they have asked the BHO campaign to explain or to return some of it. That includes over $17,000 given in $25 increments by someone named "Good Will" and listi...

VP debate moderator Gwen Ifill: in the tank for Barack Obama? (didn't tell CPB, plays race card) - 10/01/2008

Unbeknownst to the McCain campaign (link), Gwen Ifill of PBS - host of Thursday's vice presidential debate - has a book due to be released Inauguration Day (link): Gwen Ifill of the Public Broadcasting Service program "Washington Week" is promoting "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama," in which she argues the "black political structure" of t...

Barack Obama supports community college for illegal aliens (North Carolina, "good citizens") - 9/30/2008

... colleges, and over the weekend Barack Obama brought his pander express there and told Greensboro's WUNC this: "For us to deny [illegal aliens] access to community college, even though they've never lived in Mexico, at least as far as they can tell ... is to deny that this is how we've always built this country up"...

FactCheck recompresses, removes EXIF data from Obama birth certificate photos - 9/30/2008

... released photos apparently showing Barack Obama's birth certificate (actually his "Certification of Live Birth" or "COLB"). At the time, I noted that the EXIF information (added by the camera) showed that the pictures had been shot months before and I mentioned such possibilities as them not setting up their camera correctly, a bad battery, and the like. Now, FactCheck ha...

Sarah Palin rape kit smear: chronology (Mary Pemberton/AP, DailyKos, Americablog, Eric Croft, Obama campaign) - 9/29/2008

... leave a comment. 9/15/08: the Barack Obama campaign began looking for a rape victim to appear in a TV ad (link). Kiersten Steward, director of public policy at the Family Violence Prevention Fund, served as a conduit between the campaign and victims and women's advocates... though she never was told about the nature of the commercial, [victims advocate Mikele Shelton-Knight] said she thought...

Open Debate Coalition: a failed format for fake debates - 9/26/2008

... is calling on John McCain and Barack Obama to open the presidential debates by allowing questions chosen by regular people and not just the MSM. However, what they support has not only been proven to be a failure, but two of the signatories helped show how such formats can be gamed and another was involved with the system that was gamed.

Public officials in St. Louis/Missouri threaten Obama opponents with criminal libel? (Jennifer Joyce, Bob McCulloch) - 9/25/2008

I suggest taking this with a grain of salt and waiting for a report from others, but: St. Louis and Missouri Democrat sheriffs and top prosecutors are planning to go after anyone who makes false statements against Obama during his campaign... St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce and St.

Shailagh Murray offers WaPo's lightest weight coverage of Barack Obama yet? - 9/25/2008

... most lightweight coverage of Barack Obama from the WaPo yet, although I'm sure there are many other posts and articles from them that compete for that title. Sen.

Barack Obama bundler Jodie Evans meets with Iran's Ahmadinejad (Code Pink) - 9/24/2008

Code Pink says [1] Calling it a "major step forward" in relations between Iran and the United States, leading activists Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans of CODEPINK Women for Peace a

Arizona Chamber of Commerce, MATT.org, Raul Yzaguirre start immigration "reform" ad campaign; Mexican government link? - 9/24/2008

... McCain (notably, one that depicts Barack Obama as a naïve fool willing to hang out with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez) — have created the appearance of a 501 organization that is acting more like a 527 political action committee... QueQue paid a visit to MATT.org's downtown limestone-and-log-cabin offices this week and was told by staffers that Martinez maintains a video-production office...

McCain suspends campaign, desperate stunt might work - 9/24/2008

John McCain is temporarily suspending his campaign, donning his cape, and rushing back to Washington in order to save the U.S. from financial ruin. He's also trying to reschedule the "debate" on foreign policy which was originally set for Friday. His full statement is here: ...I am confident that before the markets open on Monday we can achieve consensus on legislation that will sta...

FactCheck looks, can't find "Chicago Way" (McCain Obama ad) - 9/23/2008

... (factcheck.org/elections-2008/guilt_and_associations.html). The ad links Barack Obama to William Daley, Emil Jones, Tony Rezko, Rod Blagojevich. Per them, the first isn't dirty, the second is only a little dirty, and there's no evidence that BHO was involved in any funny business with the last two.

Has Winner & Associates been caught lying? (Ethan Winner, Chuck Winner) - 9/22/2008

... crawl. Lying in order to support Barack Obama is one thing, but getting caught at it is something very, very different. Not only that, but despite all their apparent best efforts to smear Palin, their video was only able to get several thousands of views. That, to me, screams incompetence. If you were ExxonMobil, Petronas, ChevronTexaco, or Bioengineering Resources International (BRI) [1], Shell ...

Border Patrol agent allegedly intentionally poisoned (Tucson) - 9/21/2008

Earlier this year, a Border Patrol agent in the Tucson sector named Denton Moberly was allegedly poisoned using a pesticide while eating at some sort of restaurant. The details haven't been publicly released, but a summary is here and a site with updates is here.

Lou Barletta - running on anti-illegal immigration - opens nine point lead against Democrat Rep. Paul Kanjorski - 9/18/2008

From this: Democratic U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski, who is an 11-term incumbent in the congressional district centered on Scranton-Wilkes Barre...

Barack Obama lies about Rush Limbaugh in Spanish-language ads - 9/17/2008

The Barack Obama campaign has a new Spanish-language ad that features racial demagoguery and a distortion of Rush Limbaugh quotes. You can see the ad here: "They want us to forget the insults we've put up with, the intolerance," the television ad's announcer says in Spanish as a picture of Rush Limbaugh appears onscreen with quotes of him saying, "Mexicans are stupid and ...

"Obama Waffles" kicked out of Values Voter Summit (Joan Lowy/AP) - 9/13/2008

... Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap. Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama Waffles boxes on Saturday, saying they had not realized the boxes displayed ''offensive material.'' The summit and the exhibit hall where t

Miguel Bustillo,Richard Fausset/LAT confused about legal vs. illegal workers (Howard Industries raid) - 9/02/2008

Last week, Howard Industries in Louisiana was raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement; as the raid was happening the legal workers at the plant reportedly cheered ICE, and the raid was initiated by a complaint from a union worker. Needless to say, such cannot stand to those who support illegal immigration.

Barack Obama acceptance speech: whines about things he supports; a descent - 8/28/2008

... acceptance speech in Denver, Barack Obama said among many, many other things: Passions fly on immigration, but I don't know anyone who benefits when a mother is separated from her infant child or an employer undercuts American wages by hiring illegal workers. Family separation is one of the risks of illegal activity, whether selling illegal clothing or working illegally. The only two ways to...

First Panderer: Michelle Obama says Hispanics shouldn't have to live in fear of immigration raids - 8/28/2008

From this: Hispanics should not have to live in fear of raids by immigration agents, Michelle Obama told a Hispanic caucus to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. ..."We would have an immigration policy that brings 12 million people out of the shadows," she told cheering caucus members who shouted "Yes we can" in Spanish. Hispanics are often the first to suff...

All Hail Obama! Invesco Field acceptance speech includes miniature Greek temple - 8/27/2008

On Thursday, Barack Obama will accept Athens' the Democratic Party's endorsement at Denver's Invesco Field on a set resembling a miniature Greek temple.

Nadir of Obamamania: Jason Alexander, other airheads pray for Barack Obama - 8/26/2008

I am declaring the nadir of Obamamania, as Dave Stewart (of the Eurythmics) offers a song called "American Prayer", which is along the same lines as previous Obama promotions from Will.I.Am. This one, however, features older nobodies rather than Will.I.Am's habit of featuring nobodies that cater to the teen market. And, it's as sad as it is hilarious. The nobodies appearing inc...

Open Letter to The Nation about their Open Letter to Barack Obama (immigration) - 8/25/2008

... Nation offered an Open Letter to Barack Obama (link) [1], listing some of the things he must stay true to in order to fulfill the progressive agenda.

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