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Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign slogan, "the audacity of hope," should have instead been "the audacity of deceit." After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby--four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business: "Making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent." Perhaps no other firearm issue has been more dishonestly portrayed by gun prohibitionists. Notwithstanding their predictions that the ban's expiration in 2004 would bring...

[Sound familiar???] Osawatomie: the Weather Underground newspaper Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:39 pm Zomblog has obtained an extremely rare copy of the first issue of Osawatomie, a newspaper published by the Weather Underground in 1975. Noteworthy passages are reproduced below, along with exact transcriptions. The full pages, with each passage in context in high resolution, are found at the bottom of this post. Much of Osawatomie, which was written at a time when the Dohrn-Ayers wing of the Weather Underground was transitioning from terrorism to “working from the inside” for revolution, concerns itself with the need to encourage “organizers”...

Just received this video from an Obama supporter. Watch video here. It is customized using my name, blaming me for not voting for Obama. It's interesting to see what the folks at MoveOn are up to in these last days before the election. Maybe the McCain people can come up with their own video, thanking people for a narrow upset victory.

All you need to know about Hussein.

Congratulations, Sen. Barack Obama, for helping to make our island existence part of a common destiny ("200,000 in Germany hear Obama call for allies' help," Associated Press article, July 25). I cannot bear to think of my grandchildren living a life of not coming from the best country in the world. We cannot go it alone. We need allies to ensure a nuclear-controlled future. We need allies to ensure camaraderie against terrorists. We need Europe. Obama has made a giant step for mankind as a citizen of the world. ANNE PRIGOSIN Westerville

It’s not the audacity of hope. It’s just plain audacity. This Barack Obama fellow acts as if he is someone important, as if he has ideas that we should hear. Now that is audacious, as is everything he does. That’s why I call him “The Audacious O,” a nickname I’ve decided to popularize. Earlier this month, for example, the Audacious O said he thought it was admirable that when Europeans come to this country, they can speak our language plus one or two others. When Americans travel to France, the Audacious O said, all we can say is, “Merci beaucoup,”...

Barack Obama has at least one thing right: the author of The Audacity of Hope is certainly audacious. The junior Illinois senator has been telling us for months now: “We are the hope of the future. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” If I believed that about myself, I’d be pretty audacious. Not to mention messianic. And so the political savior went to Berlin to stand on the shoulders of giants, and didn’t even have the courtesy to tip his hat to the president of the United States — Ronald Reagan...

Barack Obama to emulate John F Kennedy with Democratic nomination acceptance speech By Alex Spillius in Washington Last Updated: 7:37PM BST 07/07/2008Senator Barack Obama is to emulate John F Kennedy and accept the Democratic presidential nomination in a 76,000-seat American football stadium, the party has announced. Barack Obama has often been compared to Kennedy for his ability to inspire audiences through speechesThe Illinois senator's traditional, prime time end-of-convention speech is being switched to Invesco Field, the home of the Denver Broncos, from a smaller indoor sports arena hosting the rest of the Democratic national convention. It will be the first...

In his victory speech over Hillary, Barack Obama soared rhetorically about his feelings of humility. And yet he hardly sounded humble: "generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children (with mounting excitement) that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick, and good jobs for the jobless. This was the moment when the riiiiise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal."[bolding added] Now politicians are allowed some rhetorical overkill, but this is straight into Star Wars territory. There are no real precedents for this...

In his victory speech over Hillary, Barack Obama soared rhetorically about his feelings of humility. And yet he hardly sounded humble: "generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children (with mounting excitement) that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick, and good jobs for the jobless. This was the moment when the riiiiise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal."[bolding added] Now politicians are allowed some rhetorical overkill, but this is straight into Star Wars territory. There are no real precedents for this...

  June 23, 2008 Obama's next takeover...    This cartoon/graphic is free for noncommercial use in emails, blogs, and forums.  iowapresidentialwatch.com

“That’s not a man–take it away.” Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, with regard to Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill Someone who runs or hides from an obligation instead of standing behind his principles is a coward. Someone who says one thing and then does the opposite is a liar. Barack Obama’s recent treatment of Muslim-American voters, in conjunction with his own broken promise from The Audacity of Hope, proves him a coward and a liar....Barack Obama promised, in writing, to stand with Muslim-Americans should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. He acted by saying that it is a “smear” to...

Again: if Obama had simply acknowledged that he was known as a Muslim as a child in Indonesia, and had left Islam later, none of this (besides the ties to the Islamic supremacists in Kenya) would be of any concern. But he has made it a matter of concern by denying what has been affirmed by so many others.

As Paul notes below, Barack Obama denies having personally heard the now notorious statements of Jeremiah Wright: The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation. Obama reiterated this assertion in an interview on FOX News with Major Garret yesterday: None of these statements were ones that I had heard myself personally in the pews. One of them I had heard about after I had started running for president and I put out...

AUSTIN, Texas - The two sons of Ann Richards, the late former Texas governor, are objecting to an Internet video published by Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign that suggests their mother would have supported Clinton. . . . (From female voice on video): "Today Ann would be asking all of us to make a statement. She would be traveling to every small town and big city in Texas, urging us all to take a stand, be counted, to make a difference, to make history," it says while a picture of Richards and Clinton appears on the screen. "This one's for...

Barack Obama in The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama On Principles & Values: "Audacity of Hope" to change politics to reflect common good [During the early part of my US Senate race], no blinding insights emerged from months of conversation. What struck me was how much of what they believed seemed to hold constant across race, region, religion, and class. I told them that government couldn't solve all their problems. But with a slight change in priorities we could make sure every child had a decent shot at life and meet the challenges we faced as a nation. This...

Given the severity and scope of national problems that have emerged over the past year, it's become increasingly evident that Bill Clinton's presidency was largely "smoke and mirrors", an unmitigated disaster by any reasonable standard. Clinton's eight years of leadership, or lack thereof, left behind a legacy of rot and ruin for the American people that most notably reflected his: a) failure to properly address insidious rogue regimes, such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, which were radical Islamists in league with Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization that ultimately perpetrated the 9/11 atrocities; b) abysmal and inadequate efforts to rein in...

<p>Jamie Weinstein is a summer intern in the Capitol Hill office of Rep. Mark Foley, Florida Republican. He was delighted to secure a seat in the audience for the Monday evening taping of CNN's "Crossfire," and even more impressed when he was invited to ask a question — which he directed to Paul Begala, the show's co-host and a Democratic campaign strategist who helped Bill Clinton find his way from Arkansas to Washington.</p>