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Barack Obama co-chair Maria Elena Durazo met with Mexican president Felipe Calderon (also MALDEF's John Trasvina) - 2/19/2008

... [also a national co-chair of Barack Obama's campaign] and Los Angeles Neighborhood Legal Services Executive Director Yvonne Maria Jimenez, [Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund] President and General Couns

Dirt on Barack Obama: Exelon, Tony Rezko, William Ayers, Rashid Khalidi - 2/17/2008

... Johnson with this warning about Barack Obama's links to three questionable figures: Tony Rezko, William Ayers, and Rashid Khalidi. The first will go on trial later this month, the second is a self-admitted terrorist, the third an alleged "PLO activist". Earlier this month, the New York Times offered "Nuclear leaks, response tested Obama in Senate". Nuclear plants run b...

The "Peter Slevin Award for Mainstream Media Puffery" goes to... - 2/16/2008

Ripping a page from Mr. Power Glutes himself, I'm announcing a new feature, the awarding of The Peter Slevin Award for Mainstream Media Puffery.

Does Barack Obama understand the 14th Amendment or did he just misrepresent it? (anchor babies) - 2/16/2008

Back on January 12, Molly Ball of the Las Vegas Review-Journal offered "Obama rocks Vegas faithful" (via this).

[YOUR GROUP HERE] For Obama - 2/14/2008

... Democrats (and some Republicans), Barack Obama's campaign features group identities as one of the key features of their outreach, and that can be seen in the "People" menu at their site. For instance, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders have their very own special page at aapi.barackobama.com. Americans Abroad, you're special too: abroad.barackobama.com.

Barack Obama wants a global tax on the U.S. - 2/14/2008

... presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations. ...The legislation would commit the U.S.

Cuban flag with Che Guevara on wall at Barack Obama Houston (volunteers) office - 2/11/2008

... Che Guevara - is on the wall of Barack Obama's Houston office.

Barack Obama proud of marching for illegal immigration at Mexican government-linked events (Ted Kennedy) - 2/03/2008

On May 1, 2006 Barack Obama marched and spoke at the big Chicago illegal immigration march, an event whose main organizers include several people with links to the Mexican government and Mexican political parties. On this recent video, Maria Elena Durazo of the AFL-CIO - now a national co-chair of Obama's campaign - introduces Ted Kennedy at East Los Angeles City College and

If John McCain is the nominee, will immigration be off the table? - 2/02/2008

... Democratic candidate (whether Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton) on their immigration positions? The answer clearly is yes: the GOP leadership - just like the Democratic leadership - supports illegal immigration. Certainly, some 527 groups which are to some extent only nominally unaffiliated with the GOP may decide to press the issue, but the parties and the candidates won't.

Barack Obama misleads, does sales job on illegal immigration (CNN Democratic "debate") - 1/31/2008

At tonight's CNN/Politico/Los Angeles Times Democratic "debate" (link), per lightweight illegal immigration supporter Marc Cooper (link): The candidates also cautiously sparred on the potentially explosive issue of immigration with Obama rejecting a moderator's question that assumed that African-Americans were suffering because of illegal immigration.

Barack Obama reiterates support for driver's licenses for illegal aliens (Carolyn Lochhead) - 1/28/2008

... Chronicle offers this: Sen. Barack Obama easily won the African American vote in South Carolina, but to woo California Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. It's a huge issue for Latinos, who want them. It's also ...

Is Barack Obama a Muslim who practices Islam and who attended a madrassa? - 1/27/2008

Is Barack Obama a Muslim who practices Islam and who attended a madrassa (madrasa) in Indonesia? Despite whatever emails you might have received, it appears that the answer to that is no. According to him, he's a "committed Christian" (link).

Senator Bob Menendez floated as Hillary Clinton's vice presidential candidate - 1/24/2008

From this: John F.X. Graham, one of Hillary Clinton's National Finance Co-Chairs, thinks that...

Hillary Clinton voted to grab guns during emergencies, Barack Obama voted against it - 1/23/2008

One-sixteenth of a cheer for Barack Obama! For, back in 2006 he voted for an amendment that would prevent the federal government from spending any money on gun confiscation during a declared state of emergency. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton voted against it (i.e., on the gun grabbing side). Details on the amendment that was added to HR 5441 here.

Allez Obama! (the blogs are alive with sock puppets) - 1/21/2008

... supporting various candidates such as Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, and occasionally others.

Barack Obama's extremist church? (Trinity United Church of Christ) - 1/17/2008

Does Barack Obama belong to an anti-white, far-left church? Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ certainly appears to have made some interesting statements (link, link, link). The last includes excerpts from Obama's book.

Brian Williams/Tim Russert/MSNBC puffball Democratic debate (1/15/08 edition) - 1/16/2008

Yet another Democratic debate was held yesterday on MSNBC, featuring Brian Williams and Tim Russert as moderators (transcript link). It was as ripped-from-the-Soviet-archives as we've come to expect from such debates, only this featured even more questions solely about process and horserace and even fewer about issues. It also featured three extremely lightweight questions about immigration, ...

San Fran Nan brings gourmet touch to Congress (Nancy Pelosi, comrades grab baguettes on way to barricades) - 1/15/2008

... Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama tour the countryside telling prospective voters just how bad things are, some people in Capitol City are living it up: those lucky few who get to dine at the U.S. House of Representatives' own eating establishments. Thanks to Nancy Pelosi's "Greening the Capitol" plan (link), plucky leftwingers can fight for peace and freedom while di...

Hillary Clinton: "no woman is illegal" (campaigning in Vegas to people who aren't citizens) - 1/11/2008

... Union, which recently endorsed Barack Obama. And, she showed that, despite being a lawyer, she doesn't understand or support our immigration laws. She also campaigned to people who aren't citizens and might be illegal aliens.

Huckabee, Obama: what happens when no one asks tough questions - 1/03/2008

Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee have won the Iowa Caucuses. Neither are qualified for any elected office, and for the same reason: their strong support for illegal immigration.

Barack Obama knuckles under to demands of illegal immigration lobby (IIIC, "illegal aliens" term) - 1/02/2008

At the end of the article about the Iowa Interfaith Immigration Coalition there's this: Following the news conference, held at the First Christian Church near Drake University in Des Moines, teams visited the offices of Democratic and Republican candidates, delivering copies of the petition... Most of the Democratic contenders were engaged in a debate sponsored by National Public Radio. One g...

Barack Obama: not as smart as a 5th-grader - 12/17/2007

Last week, a fifth-grader asked Barack Obama a raw question about immigration and terrorism at a stop in Iowa. Obama's response shows that he's not qualified for any political office:

Fifth grader asks Barack Obama tougher question on immigration & terrorism than MSM; Sunlen Miller/Teddy Davis/Nancy Flores/ABC News spin - 12/14/2007

An Iowa fifth-grader asked Barack Obama a raw version of a tough question about immigration and terrorism.

Black and Brown debate features childish race card tricks (Richardson as Hillary's VP?) - 12/02/2007

The "Iowa Brown and Black Forum" was held yesterday. Edwards gave a shout out to Obama and said he wants to raise the minimum wage to $9.50; B. Hussein Obama agreed. Then, the card games began, with Obama saying: "When America gets a cold, black and brown America get pneumonia, and we've got pneumonia right now... We're moving in that direction, and we've got to do so...

CNN lies, misleads (11/15/07 Democratic debate edition) - 11/18/2007

The following video describes how CNN failed to note the material affiliations of some of the audience members who asked questions at Thursday's Democratic debate. And, one of the audience questions included an outrageous lie.

CNN, the most Soviet name in "news" (plants at Democratic debate) - 11/17/2007

Thursday's CNN Democratic debate featured more than wimpy questions and a CNN-approved lie. Some of the audience members who asked questions weren't just regular Joes and Janes. And, CNN failed to disclose those links. From the transcript: [Wolf Blitzer:] you're going to be hearing directly from voters here in Nevada. They're going to have a chance to ask these Democratic presi...

Campbell Brown/CNN asks simplistic question, gets stock Barack Obama answer (benefits for illegal aliens) - 11/16/2007

... giving. Campbell Brown asked Barack Obama a question about immigration that wasn't specific enough, allowing him to simply give his stock reply. Should we assume that Brown is completely naive and wasn't aware that politicians have a habit of doing this?

Barack Obama supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens, misleads about incentives - 11/15/2007

... (youtube.com/watch?v=UQXYYIdjjFg via this), Barack Obama does a partial Hillary Clinton on driver's licenses for illegal aliens, before unequivocally supporting them (followed only by, "but, I am going to be fighting for comprehensive immigration reform"; the "but" part generated peals of laughter from the audience). In addition to his chances being

CNN Democratic debate November 15, 2007 - 11/15/2007

Just started watching, and so far both questions CNN has gone to the audience for had major issues. First, the claim that the questioner was racially profiled is just that: a claim, not a fact. Second, the question about immigration contained a lie: terrorists have indeed crossed our southern border, as have tens of thousands of people from Special Interest countries like Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia,...

10Questions.com is a horrible idea, here's proof - 10/29/2007

10Questions.com is a new site that aggregates Youtube and similar political videos and allows visitors to vote on their favorite. The top 10 will then be asked of the presidential candidates, with the candidates then asked to upload replies. The site is co-sponsored by several blogs as well as the New York Times and MSNBC.

Senate blocks DREAM Act - 10/24/2007

... (R-KS), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), and Barack Obama (D-IL). Republicans voting for it were: Bob Bennett (R-UT), Norm Coleman (R-MN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Larry Craig (R-ID

Barack Obama endorses California DREAM Act; help discredit him - 10/10/2007

Barack Obama wants Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign Gil Cedillo's "California DREAM Act". From a statement (link): "If Governor Schwarzenegger vetoes the Dream Act a second time, he will compound the immigration crisis by driving thousands of children who are on the right path into the shadows...

Obama immigration interview: he'd make situation far worse (Kevin Johnson/UC Davis) - 9/25/2007

... interview about immigration with Barack Obama! Of course, it probably helped that all three of them "have served as members of an Immigration Policy Group for the Obama campaign". Another help was that the questions are complete puffballs and they didn't have any followup questions despite the answers being mostly stock replies and full of holes.

Democratic Spanish-language Univision debate September 9 transcript - 9/09/2007

The transcript contains some real valuable nuggets. Here's John Edwards: Just a few months ago, I was in Canton, Mississippi, as part of a poverty tour, and I met with poultry workers who worked in a poultry plant in Canton, Mississippi. And one of them was a man named Daniel who had been badly hurt on the job. And because of his injuries, he wasn't able to work.

Media alert: Elvira Arellano has left the sanctuary (L.A., DC on tour) - 8/17/2007

Elvira Arellano - the illegal alien who was ordered to be deported after being convicted of using a false Social Security number and who's been holed up in a Chicago church for a year and who's only a sympathetic figure to those on the far-left - has left her "sanctuary" and is currently on a road trip. The first stop: Los Angeles' La Placita Catholic Church, aka Our Lady ...

Democratic union debate: Barack Obama asked to state position on immigration! - 8/08/2007

Just recently I've complained about the presidential "debates" not featuring any questions or any real questions about immigration matters. Now, just as I revised my opinion of the MSM, I must revise that after reading the transcript of yesterday's Democratic debate put on by AFL-CIO.

CNN/Youtube Democratic debate: live coverage - 7/23/2007

[UPDATE 5: 10/15/08 McCain/Obama coverage here.] [UPDATE 4: 10/07/08 McCain/Obama coverage here.] [UPDATE 3: 10/02/08 Palin/Biden coverage here.] [UPDATE 2: 9/26/08 McCain/Obama coverage here.] [UPDATE: If you too think the debate sucked, please

Obama proud of "walking the walk" on supporting illegal immigration - 7/23/2007

... massive illegal activity. Senator Barack Obama walks the walk and he's not afraid to point that out. Speaking at the convention of the extremist-funding National Council of La Raza yesterday, he said: "Find out how many senators appeared before an immigration rally last year.

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama speak to extremist-funding National Council of La Raza - 7/22/2007

From this: Two top Democratic contenders in the presidential race are in South Florida to address the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights group. Sunday morning, New York Senator Hillary Clinton told the gathering at the Miami Beach Convention Center, she would prefer to pass a comprehensive immigration bill that would provide a path to legalization for ...

Barack Obama: some genocide is acceptable - 7/19/2007

... Is Okay" (link) or "Barack Obama, The Pro Genocide Candidate" (link), because I feel that the title is correct: presidential candidate and Democrat Barack Obama is simply saying that some level of genocide is perfectly acceptable.

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