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B. Hussein Obama/J. Robinette Biden - 8/23/2008

Move over B. Hussein Obama! Senator Joseph R. Biden's middle name is Robinette. Now, personally, I'm not going to stoop that low to trying to make jokes about a perfectly reasonable and probably family name, but I have no doubt that some others will.

Obama-Biden for president 2008 official site? - 8/22/2008

It looks like Barack Obama has selected Joe Biden as his 2008 presidential running mate, with Barak Obama as president and Joe Beiden as vice president. Will they have a new official site, or will they keep barackobama.com? I was considering buying bidenobama2008.com - the only major combination still available - but that order doesn't make much sense and anyway someone's already bought ...

FactCheck presents real Barack Obama birth certificate. Or do they... - 8/21/2008

... twists and turns surrounding Barack Obama's birth certificate appear to have ended with FactCheck.org claiming that they've seen and handled the real certificate, complete with an official stamp and everything. They've even got pictures here. Well, that ends that! Except, all they have is the "Certification of Live Birth" (known in the trade as a "COLB"), and no...

McCain fans: ask Barack Obama this very simple question - 8/20/2008

For months I've been encouraging people to get off their couches and ask the candidates tough questions, without luck. But, here's a chance for John McCain fans to ask Obama something McCain wants to know, and it's a very straightforward question about Obama's involvement with William Ayers. For a few years starting in 1995, BHO chaired the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which wa...

Barack Obama's close relationship with Bill Ayers (Chicago Annenberg Challenge; UIC coverup?) - 8/18/2008

Barack Obama claims that former terrorist Bill Ayers is little more than a "guy who lives in my neighborhood", but in fact they both worked on education matters for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in the 90s. Some details on this are here and here. Stanley Kurtz tried to gain access to the voluminous records about the CAC, which are stored, ironically enough, at the Richard J.

Barack Obama lying about premature abortion births bill - 8/18/2008

Barack Obama appears to be lying again, this time about a 2003 Illinois state bill that mirrored the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. The latter passed the Senate unanimously and then was signed by George Bush. Obama's contention in a recent interview with David Brody of CBN (and now CNN) and, IIRC, in the recent Saddleback Forum, was that the bill would have impacted Roe v. Wade. H...

Truth Fights Back, just not too well (John Kerry on anti-Obama smears) - 8/14/2008

... instance, consider the post "Barack Obama is not aligned with Weather Underground", which combines 3rd-grade-level writing with 3rd-grade-level thinking. This is the "smear" (truthfightsback.com/site/smear/200): Republicans have repeatedly pushed a bogus story about William Ayers, a member of the 60s-era Weather Underground.

Ask Obama or McCain a tough question, make $1000! - 8/11/2008

... to the first person who asks Barack Obama or John McCain one of my tough immigration questions. See this for the details, but bear in mind my offer expires on August 22.

Barack Obama is a dual citizen? Kenya? Indonesia? Sister's name on birth certificate? - 8/10/2008

Is Barack Obama a dual citizen of Kenya? The "Things you might not know about Barack Obama" post from "The Rocky" of the Rocky Mountain News (link) drops this bomb in the middle of their list: Holds both American and Kenyan (since 1963) citizenship. That's from four days ago and no correction is appended.

DNC platform draft: a healthcare lie?, same old immigration line with a Bush echo, Katrina, service, firearms, U.N. MDG - 8/09/2008

A draft of the Democratic National Committee's platform is in this PDF: link. As one might expect, it's full of vague, empty promises. 1. They refer to "the tens of millions of Americans without health insurance", which is a slight step-down from Obama's false claim that there are 47 million Americans without healthcare.

Exclusive: Secret Barack Obama training video - 8/09/2008

... us the following super-secret Barack Obama campaign training video. According to our unnamed source, all Level 2 and above BHO campaign volunteers - as well as all staffers and even members of the travelling press corps - are required to watch this video.

Judy Bachrach/Vanity Fair smears Lou Dobbs - 8/08/2008

... little validity. 2. She quotes Barack Obama lying about hate crimes doubling, simply to include his comments about Dobbs and Limbaugh. She doesn't do any real reporting in this case and point out that Obama lied. And, later in the article she quotes some hate crime statistics, so obviously she knows where to find them. Even the Washington Post's "Fact Checker" has called BHO o...

Barack Obama supporters angered, saddened by John McCain blog commenting scheme - 8/07/2008

In yet another bone-headed move, the John McCain campaign is encouraging their supporters to leave McCain talking points in commenting sections on blogs (link). If they do that they'll get points which can be redeemed for prizes, including cases of beer.

England: kids urged to become "Climate Cops", monitor "Climate Crimes" of parents, neighbors - 8/04/2008

... others' realities, as in July, Barack Obama proposed his Clean Energy Corps. But, even that wasn't as close as a new program from the British company NPower called "Climate Cops".

Barack Obama admits to playing race card - 8/02/2008

... the national scene. My name is Barack Obama. I'm African American. I was born in Hawaii. I spent time in Indonesia.

Barack Obama's "Low Road Express" - 7/31/2008

The Barack Obama campaign has launched a new mini-site called "Low Road Express". While when I first heard about it I thought it was about BHO playing the race card, it actually turns out to be a site about John McCain's supposed "negative attacks and false charges" (lowroadexpress.com). So, why is this here? Because the last time the BHO campaign started a site they forgo...

Camp Obama: two-day training sessions for BHO volunteers to promulgate Barack's message to the countryside - 7/30/2008

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" (my.barackobama.com/page/s/campobamaus, my.barackobama.com/page/s/campobama08la), a two-day session where we'd learn how to be effective organizers for the campaign.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra staffer served on Mexican government advisory board - 7/30/2008

From 2003 to 2005, Beatriz Mancilla served on the Mexican government's Institute for Mexicans Abroad, an advisory council to that government [1].

Chicago City Council to try blocking immigration enforcement (Danny Solis, Roberto Maldonado, Emma Lozano) - 7/30/2008

From this: Activists and several Chicago aldermen are investigating dozens of claims that city and county authorities violated immigrant rights, including federal immigration laws affecting jail inmates. ...''We understand the value that immigrants hold in our society, whether documented or undocumented,'' said Chicago Alderman Danny Solis, who is leading the hearings. Sol...

Barack Obama: please choose Tim Kaine as your vice presidential candidate - 7/28/2008

If I have any pull with the Barack Obama campaign - and I know I do - I urge them to select Virginia governor Tim Kaine as their vice presidential candidate. And, I do so because Kaine is a veritable genius. But, it's not just that. He's also known for making intelligent nominations to state panels. And, he can be counted on to keep the votes flowing in. Obama/Kaine '08!

Is my.barackobama.com trollproof? No, you just need to work at it - 7/28/2008

... Hawkins" started a blog at Barack Obama's site and posted an entry (my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/billhawkins) entitled "Which hate sites should be banned?" The post suggested that BHO take his push to drive hate off the airwaves to the Internet as well, and solicited BHO fans to list some sites that should be banned. Perhaps as a coincidence, I saw this post immediat...

Pew Hispanic: interest in immigration lags behind education, cost of living, jobs, healthcare, and crime - 7/24/2008

... majority of those surveyed support Barack Obama over John McCain (66% vs. 23%). And, interest in immigration is lower than that in education, the cost of living, jobs, healthcare, and crime.

Barack Obama's "scary globalist" speech (Berlin, Germany) - 7/24/2008

Barack Obama spoke in Berlin, Germany today in what shall be called (by me at least) his "scary globalist" speech. I'll leave it to specialists to discuss the rest, but here are some of his prepared remarks: ...the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden. In this new century, Americans and Europeans a...

More proof of GOP stupidity (Digg division) - 7/23/2008

... example of how the Democrats and Barack Obama are eating John McCain's lunch. In the US Elections 2008 subsection on Digg right now, almost all of the popular and "hot" (upcoming) stories are anti-McCain, a couple are anti-GOP in general, and almost all the rest are pro-Obama. Not a single pro-McCain story makes either list. And, several are from the Huffington Post.

Obama camp implies healthcare plan doesn't include illegal aliens; another lie? - 7/22/2008

... highlight his contention that Barack Obama's healthcare proposal covers illegal aliens. Lester Feder at the Huffington Post asked the BHO campaign about this: David Cutler, senior health care adviser to the Obama campaign, says Morris's argument flies in the face of the plain language of the Obama plan.

Dick Morris: McCain should stress that Obama's healthcare plan covers illegal aliens - 7/21/2008

... talking points should be that Barack Obama's universal healthcare plan covers illegal aliens. He has a point, but as he himself admits McCain is probably too wimpy to mention that out of the misguided belief that - since the NCLR would disapprove - he'd hurt himself with the largely mythical Hispanic vote.

Are you an embarrassment to Barack Obama? Take the quiz and find out! - 7/20/2008

In cooperation with the Barack Obama campaign (OK, not really), we've developed a quiz to help you find out whether you'd embarrass Barack Obama or not.

Shaun Casey, Barack Obama's faith advisor, supports illegal immigration, engages in false compassion - 7/19/2008

... surprise there. Late last month, the Barack Obama campaign hired Shaun Casey - a professor at Washington DC's Wesley Theological Seminary - as a religious affairs advisor. His exact title varies from report to report, but he'll be leading their outreach to evangelicals. And, he'll be stressing leftwing to far-left topics.

American allegedly assaulted at National Latino Congreso - 7/19/2008

A small number of people from the group No More Invasion protested in front of the National Latino Congreso/National Latino Congress yesterday, and one of their elderly female members was allegedly assaulted during the protest. There are pictures here. The LAPD arrested someone for the assault, and based on the picture and the text he appears to be from a group of anarchists/far-lefties who appare...

Obama favored over McCain at NCLR meet, PWW reports (Fairness Doctrine) - 7/15/2008

... convention where John McCain and Barack Obama spoke: "Incredibly, McCain did not even address the issues of the war in Iraq or his policy on health care.

John McCain at National Council of La Raza convention (charter schools, immigration "reform") - 7/14/2008

... immigration raids?] Yesterday, Barack Obama spoke at the National Council of La Raza convention. Today, it's John McCain's turn to pander to that far-left, extremist-funding, racist-awarding group, and his prepared remarks are here. "La Raza runs one of the largest housing counseling programs in the country that has helped tens of thousands of Latinos become homeowners with secure ...

Barack Obama praises Enrique Morones - 7/14/2008

Even I am shocked by how far Barack Obama is willing to take Hispandering and support for illegal activity. Before reading the script for his speech to the National Council of La Raza convention (the one where he accused his own government of terrorizing people), he praised open borders loon Enrique Morones (link): Obama, at the podium, had just thanked two top NCLR officials before his speech wh...

Barack Obama at National Council of La Raza convention (ICE as terrorists) - 7/13/2008

Barack Obama spoke at the National Council of La Raza convention earlier today. See below for more on the NCLR. BHO's prepared remarks are here. BHO said many of the things he's said before; apparently his scriptwriters engaged in a lot of copy-and-paste.

Barack Obama's "civilian national security force" (????) - 7/12/2008

Back on July 2, Barack Obama read his "public service" address, and it contained this line that hasn't received much notice: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set... We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded." What...

Barack Obama: "I ended up loving Texas!... It is fun to be in Fargo" (Jeff Zeleny/NYT) - 7/09/2008

The exact motivations for the Jeff Zeleny/New York Times article "As America Learns About Obama, He Returns the Favor" (link) aren't clear. I don't know whether he thinks he's doing him a favor, or whether his bosses have realized that BHO needs more experience before being selected for something and are trying to get him to withdraw from the race. However, in the recount ...

Barack Obama wants a bilingual, English-Spanish U.S. (+more American bashing) - 7/08/2008

One of Barack Obama's most shocking statements was issued earlier today at a high school in Powder Springs, Georgia, where he said, among other things, the following (link): "We live in a global economy. And, you know, I don't understand when people are going around worrying about, 'We need to have English- only.' They want to pass a law, 'We want English-only'.....

Obama gives interview to Access Hollywood; MSM pretends they do real reporting - 7/08/2008

Barack Obama gave an interview to Access Hollywood over the weekend, which was shown on their show as well as the Today Show.

Barack Obama's LULAC speech (another lie; overload!) - 7/08/2008

Barack Obama spoke to the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) earlier today. Some of his remarks were already covered here. The facts the MSM won't tell you about LULAC are here. A pre-convention BHO lie is here. However, there's much more. In fact, too much, but I'll try. Thank you, Mayor.

Barack Obama proud of attending immigration march (LULAC, Mexican government) - 7/08/2008

Barack Obama's prepared remarks for his speech at the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) convention include him taking pride in having marched in support of illegal immigration at the Chicago event on May 1, 2006. Unfortunately, no one has yet asked him why he'd be proud of marching at an event whose main organizers have links to the Mexican government.

Barack Obama lies yet again (uninsured Hispanics, healthcare for illegal aliens) - 7/07/2008

Barack Obama seems to think that just pandering isn't enough, he has to lie while doing it.

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