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Sen. Barack Obama stands next to the Eternal Flame at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in J'lem. Can I just say that I don't get the wreath thing. I know various leaders do this, but it isn't a Jewish custom to put flowers at a grave so I don't really get this. Obama and Bibi. Bibi looks cute, but it's hard to tell what he thinks about meeting Obama. Considering that Israelis favor McCain by 20 points and that Obama's fan club in Israel has only 57 members, probably not too much. Obama with clown Shimon Peres. Obama looks...

Danica Patrick Fight Video With Buxom Milka Duno: Practice at Honda Indy 200 By Jon Shanks Jul 21, 2008 Danica Patrick is at it again. The spicy Indy race car driver usually makes more noise off the track with her racy photos for maxim or her Go Daddy commercials with gals like Candice Michelle. She now has a cat fight to add to her resume, this one with the busty Milka Duno, a fellow female race car driver that turns heads off the track as well.

Is it normal to name lottery winners before the entry deadline? We previously reported (http://husaria.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/did-the-obama-campaign-violate-lottery-laws/) that the Obama campaign has, on at least three occasions, conducted what are allegedly illegal lotteries. The E-mail and online solicitations included: 1. Payment of consideration, in the form of a donation of at least some money. 2. An element of chance 3. A prize (expenses-paid trip to have dinner with Obama or meet Obama at the Democratic National Convention Only after Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety (law enforcement) complained to the Obama campaign that it was running a potentially illegal lottery (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69150) did the...

US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama listens to his introduction before making a foreign policy speech on Iraq and American National Security in Washington, July 15, 2008. Obama's overseas trip will be a high-risk debut on the world stage -- with the potential pitfalls at least as numerous as the likely rewards. The crowd looks on as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) June 27, 2008 in Unity, New Hampshire. American voters remain divided by race before a presidential election that will have the first black nominee from a major party...

Back in the fabled '60s, when Nancy Pelosi was wearing tie-dyed T-shirts and floral headdresses — and long before she could imagine single digit congressional approval ratings — there was a marketing phenomenon that mated, perfectly, with the San Francisco zeitgeist. Called the “Mood Ring,” it provided Haight-Ashbury sidewalk sitters a sort of love-the-one-you're-with radar: Finagle it onto your date's finger, and the ring would illuminate the path to her G-spot like a Garmin GPS. “At your next possible opportunity, make a U-turn.” Today's liberals have flocked to a human Mood Ring, and he's got built-in thermotropic antennae that measure...

THE call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated, and that is needed for long-term success in Iraq and the security interests of the United States. The differences on Iraq in this campaign are deep. Unlike Senator John McCain, I opposed the war in Iraq before it began, and would end it as president. I believed it was a grave mistake to allow ourselves to be distracted from...

Race gets snippy: Barack beats scissors. Papers cover Barack. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, leader of the Rainbow Coalition and director of United Eunuchs, wants action, not distraction, against an overpopulation of politicians. In a recent interview in the second stall of the Fox News studio bathroom, Jackson said the overwhelming number of stray politicians who are issuing Civil Rights messages should be dealt with sooner, rather than later.“There’s too much talkin’ and rappin’,” said Jackson. “And not enough happenin’. People need to see works, not words.”

When it comes to the elections, there's no doubt that Obama has it easier than McCain with the media. How much easier does Obama have it? Read this "Geeks On Caffeine" cartoon and see for yourself! Note: The author requests that you visit the web site and refrain from pasting the cartoon within the thread. Thanks!

The larger point of Jesse L. Jackson's criticism of Barack Obama -- if not the crude way he expressed it -- touched a nerve among some African American political activists who have been unhappy about the senator 's pointed critiques of absentee fathers and other problems in the black community. Eric Easter, a blogger on the joint Web site of Jet and Ebony, two black-oriented magazines, wrote yesterday that some of Obama's rhetoric "smacked of calculated political expediency" in an effort to win over white voters. The criticism was similar in some ways to the reaction to comedian Bill Cosby,...

Thank you, Jesse Jackson! It's been a long time since the self-proclaimed black leader did anything useful, but Jackson has now -- quite unintentionally -- turned a bright spotlight on Barack Obama's traditional views of parenthood. With his crude remarks several days ago, Jackson raised public awareness of an aspect of Obama's beliefs that would have received little news media attention otherwise. Apparently believing the microphone was off during a break on the set of "Fox & Friends," Jackson whispered to health-insurance executive Dr. Reed Tuckson, who is black, that Obama was "talking down to black people. I wanna cut...

If the Rev. Jesse Jackson has trouble with something Sen. Barack Obama has said, why does Jackson wish to have the senator from Illinois neutered? Don't get me wrong. Jackson is within his rights to charge...that Obama's pitch for federally supported faith-based initiatives is "talking down to black people." I don't share that assessment. But here's what nags at me: If Jackson's problem is with the words leaving Obama's mouth, why does he want to relieve the man of his testicles? Jackson, in a comment caught on a microphone that he thought was turned off, said of Obama: "I wanna...

Not sure what to make of this. Over the 4th July Ellison spent time in Kenya with Obamas grandma. This from Star Tribune: "The 10-day journey, which ended Monday, culminated in a July 4th reception at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Nairobi, Kenya, where Ellison met Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama, the grandmother of presidential candidate Barack Obama." I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for this conversation.

Barack Obama told a potential donor to his campaign that Hillary Rodham Clinton is on his list of possible vice presidential running mates, but that her husband's status as a former president makes matters "complicated." Jill Iscol, a faithful Democratic donor who was an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, said Obama reached out to her because he heard she was unhappy about the way the New York senator had been treated by the Democratic Party and the media. Obama replied that she is on his list, Iscol recounted, and that it would be a mistake not to have...

HOW much player-hate can fester in one man's heart? Apparently, quite a lot if you're the Windy City's World-Class Windbag. Jesse Jackson has spent his entire life in love with the microphone. He knows them intimately. He's such an aficionado of the mike that Detroit's beloved late mayor, Coleman Young, dismissed one of Jackson's failed vanity bids for the presidency by noting that "all he's ever run is his mouth." Jackson's claim to have been caught unbeknownst by a "hot mike" slurring and threatening Barack Obama is complete hogwash. Somewhere, deep down, he wanted the world - and Obama -...

Barack Obama graces the cover of Rolling Stone magazine for the second time in the campaign. After the first cover he got, I didn’t think it was possible to give him a more worshipful picture, but they have done so. In the first cover, they create the look of a mythical figure, no doubt the hero of their dreams. In the later cover, it’s as if Obama is too divine to even have words placed around him. Like it would be profane to sully a page containing his visage with normal language. Orthodox Jews won’t write the name “God,” believing...

Some say Obama's critics have taken their eye off the ball in focusing on his associations with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers, thus giving his far-left policies a pass. But that's a false choice. Those criticisms would have more validity but for the fact that Obama's associations and his approach to policy are inextricably intertwined, flowing from a particular -- and consistent -- mindset. It's no accident that Obama sat for 20 years and had his children baptized in a church whose pastor revved up his congregation by denouncing America with expletives, that he had a working relationship...

FINDLAY, Ohio -- On his corner of College Street, Jim Peterman stares at the four American flags planted in his front lawn and rubs his forehead. Peterman, 74, is a retired worker at Cooper Tire, a father of two, an Air Force veteran and a self-described patriot. He took one trip to Washington in 1989 -- best vacation of his life -- and bought a statue of the Washington Monument that he still displays in a glass case in his living room. He believes a smart vote is an American's greatest responsibility. Which is why his confusion about Barack Obama...

While everyone is focusing on Barack Obama's shifting positions on issues such as campaign finance, NAFTA, telecom immunity and Iraq, we're missing his incursion into enemy territory to capture those reviled, though politically coveted values voters. His recent proposal to adopt a modified version of President Bush's faith-based initiative is just another piece of his strategic plan to seduce evangelical voters to his cause. Obama is aiming for a threefer: wooing values voters, reconciling with small-town Americans, and neutralizing the taint of Jeremiah Wright and turning the religious issue into a net plus for his campaign. Hey, no one says...

US election: Barack Obama wobbles on withdrawing Iraq troops By Tim Shipman in Washington Last Updated: 12:20AM BST 04/07/2008 Senator Barack Obama has rushed to clarify his position on the Iraq War after he appeared to wobble on a commitment to withdraw US ground troops within 16 months, a central plank of his candidacy. Barack Obama speaks on his Iraq policy during a news conference in Fargo, North Dakota The Democratic presidential nominee used a press conference to say that the timetable was not set in stone and that he would adjust his plans based on conditions on the ground...

From the black conservatives who brought you radio ads two years ago claiming that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican come the new summer blockbusters: ads calling Sen. Barack Obama a racist and an elitist. King, of course, was an independent, not a Republican -- but that didn't stop the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) from airing their claim on urban radio. Now spots entitled "Arrogant Obama" and "Bitter Obama" are coming to radio stations serving black America, where more than 90 percent of voters supported Obama in Democratic primaries. The NBRA ads will begin airing July...

Last fall, Barack Obama explained why he hadn't been wearing an American flag pin on his lapel. "I won't wear that pin on my chest," the presumptive Democratic nominee said. "Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism." What a difference a presidential campaign makes. Obama, who suggested back then that the flag pin "became a substitute for I think true patriotism" after the Sept. 11 attacks, now regularly sports the patriotic symbol at campaign events. He even briefly employed...

Sen. Barack Obama did patriotism yesterday, today it is faith and by the end of the day both speeches will have been done in back-to-back states that swing: Missouri and Ohio. The Obama campaign said the Illinois senator plans to go to Zanesville, located in eastern Ohio, to visit a church program that provides food and clothing assistance to those in need.

Be afraid; be very afraid. If you think Barack Obama is arrogant and leftist, you ought to see those he will have to cater to if elected -- and, according to them, even to get elected in the first place. These leftist "netroots" are none too pleased with Obama's feint to the center the past few weeks, his "capitulation" on retroactive immunity for telecoms for cooperating with the government to monitor terrorist communications, his alleged disagreement with the Supreme Court for invalidating the death penalty for child rapists, and his flip-flop on the D.C. handgun case. They are abuzz about...

With President Obama in office, the days of governments extracting a top marginal rate of 60% will return. Could bell bottoms be far behind? Remember how the press made George Bush’s tax rate cuts look so “huge” in 2001 and 2003? A March 10, 2001, New York Times article by reporters Frank Bruni and Richard W. Stevenson typified the approach. The trick was to talk about the (scary) $1.6 trillion impact of the “cuts” while minimizing attention to their time frame. At the linked article, the reporters waited until the ninth paragraph to tell us that it was a “$1.6...

A list of reasons to vote against Barack Obama. The list will be updated throughout the campaign. Email it to undecided voters.

As Senator Barack Obama courted voters in Iowa last December, Representative Keith Ellison, the country’s first Muslim congressman, stepped forward eagerly to help. Mr. Ellison ...volunteered to speak on Mr. Obama’s behalf at a mosque in Cedar Rapids, one of the nation’s oldest Muslim enclaves. But before the rally could take place, aides to Mr. Obama asked Mr. Ellison to cancel the trip because it might stir controversy. Another aide appeared at Mr. Ellison’s Washington office to explain. “I will never forget the quote,” Mr. Ellison said, leaning forward in his chair as he recalled the aide’s words. “He said,...

Barack Obama tells Hillary Clinton supporters to 'get over it' By Toby Harnden in Washington Last Updated: 7:20PM BST 23/06/2008 Senator Barack Obama has angered senior allies of his vanquished Democratic rival Senator Hillary Clinton by telling them to "get over it". Barack Obama is trying to woo Hillary Clinton's supporters At a meeting with members of the Congressional Black Caucus last week, reported by ABC News, Mr Obama urged women who had backed Mrs Clinton to support him against John McCain, the Republican nominee. "If women take a moment to realise that on every issue important to women, John...

A Thursday afternoon meeting between Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus grew tense and emotional for a moment -- perhaps illustrating that weeks after Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., suspended her presidential campaign, some nerves remain frayed. Sources at the meeting said that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, a Clinton supporter, expressed the desire that Obama and his campaign would reach out the millions of women still aggrieved about what happened in the campaign and still disappointed that Clinton lost. Obama then said, "However, I need to make a decision in the next few months...

Many of you may have heard this audio clip before. However, prior to this morning, I haven't. I wondered why I have heard in the media over and over again that Republicans have been referring to Michelle Obama as Barack's 'baby's mama.' Well, all it takes is a simple youtube search and you find the audio clip of Michelle Obama calling herself exactly that.

Shades of Dukakis, Obama up 15 THE PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW BY: Salena Zito In May of 1988 after all of the Democratic primaries ended presumptive nominee Michael Dukakis enjoyed a 54 to 38 percent lead over then Ronald Reagan wing man George H.W. Bush. H.W. went on to win in that November handily This evening a new Newsweek poll shows Obama having a giant lead, from 51 percent to 36 percent, over McCain among registered voters across the country. Obama got his bounce, Dukakis style.

Hey, swing state Florida, I will not offshore drill The Sen. Barack Obama press machine issued this statement that Obama will deliver at his media avail this afternoon, in which he pledges (where have we heard that word before?) to keep the federal moratorium against offshore drilling in place: "When I am president, I will keep the moratorium in place and prevent oil companies from drilling off Florida's coasts," the statement reads. "That's how we can protect our coasts and still make the investments that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and bring down gas prices for good."

Barack Obama speaks sweet words on the campaign trail. He speaks of national unity and worldwide peace. He tickles our ears with his words. These are words Americans want to hear. He tells 75,000 adoring fans in Oregon that Iran is not a serious threat. The very next day in Montana he says, "I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave." Which is it, Mr. Obama? The leader of Iran repeatedly and virulently states that he wants Israel and the United States destroyed.

Bill and Jill Bill Burton, communications director extraordinaire for the Obama campaign reached out and touched someone today on the McCain campaign: his counterpart, Jill Hazelbaker. Here is the content of the email he sent out to reporters before the McCain conference call: “Jill – hope you’re well. We’d like to add our campaign counsel, Bob Bauer to your conference call with Trevor Potter so that we can arbitrate some of the disagreements that the two of them have over the meeting they recently had. If you can please shoot me the dial-in, Bob is available to join for the...

Congressman Altmire hearts McCain PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW By Salena Zito Rep. Jason Altmire, whose congressional district went overwhelmingly for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the six-week primary that was Pennsylvania, kind of likes Republican presumptive nominee Sen. John McCain’s proposal to invest in nuclear energy and clean coal. Here is the statement that he released today on McCain’s proposal to construct 45 nuclear reactors by 2030 and spend $2 billion a year in federal funding on clean coal. “I have always been a strong supporter of nuclear energy and clean coal technology, and I welcome Senator McCain’s announcement today that he is...

About June 7, the Home School Legal Defense Association learned that Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign may be planning to unveil a major new program to attract younger evangelicals and Catholics, using the name the “Joshua Generation Project” or the “Joshua Generation.” HSLDA is the owner of two federal trademark registrations, GENERATION JOSHUA® and GENERATION JOSHUA & Design®. Both trademarks were registered with the U.S. Patent ® Trademark Office in 2006 for use with “education services, namely conducting programs in the field of civic involvement and providing training for youth in the field of performing civic activity.” These trademark registrations...

Guest Michelle Obama (3rd L), wife of presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), appears on "The View" in New York June 18, 2008. From left to right are hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Obama, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Barbara Walters. Democratic US presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) talks with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (L) after meeting with his foreign policy panel of former U.S. government officials at a hotel in Washington June 18, 2008. Obama created the panel to give him advice and possibly fill top posts in his administration if he is...

Obama gets his bounce Posted June 18, 2008 8 :57 AM The Quinnipiac University poll released this morning shows Sen. Barack Obama ahead of Sen. John McCain in three critical battleground states: Pennsylvania -- Obama 52 percent, McCain 40 percent Ohio -- Obama 48 percent, McCain 42 percent Florida -- Obama 47 percent, McCain 43 percent These numbers finally give Obama the bounce that he and his team were looking for since Sen. Hillary Clinton left the race. Historically, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania have been "must win" states for the competing candidates in the general election -- the poll today...

"In America," Obama says, "we have this strong bias toward individual action. You know, we idolize the John Wayne hero who comes in to correct things with both guns blazing. But individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unite in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations."

Patti Doyle Solis, who's next Mark Penn? THE PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW By Salena Zito The Obama campaign is thanking the woman that helped steer the nomination in the Illinois senators direction by rewarding her justly -- naming her as the chief of staff to the future Obama vice-presidential running mate. In case you wondering who that "architect" is -- it is none other than fired Clinton staffer Patti Solis Doyle. Pretty sure that means that Hillary Clinton is not on that short list for veep for Obama. Solis is a native Chicagoan so I guess her close proximity to the campaign...

Big Al does Motown with Obama PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW By Salena Zito Oscar-winning, Nobel Prize sharing documentarian and one time Vice President Al Gore will do Motown with Sen. Barack Obama at the "Joe" (Detroit's Joe Louis Arena) tonight. Subject? Change that works for you. Gore finally endorsed the Illinois Senator today via an e-mail to supporters: "Over the next four years, we are going to face many difficult challenges -- including bringing our troops home from Iraq, fixing our economy, and solving the climate crisis. Barack Obama is clearly the candidate best able to solve these problems and bring change...

Hillary: Hello it's me PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW By Salena Zito Sen. Hillary Clinton's moment of silence is briefly over -- a photo album has been sent out by the Clinton campaign with an e-mail saying: "Together, you and I changed America forever. We touched so many lives over the course of this campaign, and I can't thank you enough for the support you showed me. I met so many wonderful people out on the trail, and I wanted to share some of those memories with you." Under the album, there is a place to contribute to the campaign. Sen. Clinton suspended...

When it comes to charging abuse in markets like the mortgage business, American politicians, right up the ladder, should zip their lips. They're not ones to talk. That's becoming ever more painfully clear with reports like the one Thursday from Condé Nast Portfolio suggesting that several key pols got favored treatment on their personal mortgages. The lucky winners included folks like Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Kent Conrad (D-ND), plus several former Cabinet secretaries: ex-Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson; ex-Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala (who is to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday) and ex-UN Ambassador and...

"Fightthesmears.com" could be "FighttheDiscussion.com" Democrat Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday that Michelle Obama never used the word "whitey" in a speech from the church pulpit as he launched a Web site to debunk rumors about his campaign." --NEDRA PICKLER, AP The Obama campaign is now going to be spending more time addressing rumors? "Yesterday I wrote about the new team that the Barack Obama campaign was building to counter internet rumor as well as deal with inconvenient truths, by way of offering the "party line" on how to counter the rumors or the damaging truths." --Susan Duclos, Wake Up America...

Jim Geraghty takes a look at longstanding blog buzz over Barack Obama’s birth certificate, which the campaign refused to release to the St. Petersburg Times in April: We tried to obtain a copy of Obama’s birth certificate, but his campaign would not release it and the state of Hawaii does not make such records public. Has anyone seen it? Why shouldn’t the record be in the public domain for presidential candidates? Geraghty walks through various rumors now circulating in the wake of the Obama campaign’s birth certificate blackout, including this one: Rumor Three: His mother did not want to name...

There is a general sense — after Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana — that the white working class is somehow illiberal, and so now the Obamiacs discuss, ponder, and fret over the “race question” ahead. But the problem is not, and has never really been, race, at least any more than it was in having a black secretary of state or Supreme Court justice or chairman of the Joint Chiefs, but simply the question of grievance. When Obama bought stock in the Trinity race industry, he sent a message that grievance-blaming America, the country’s past, whites, and...

Could Become a Political Liability Long-standing ties between a member of Senator Obama's new vice presidential search team and a prominent mortgage executive the senator has pilloried could become a political liability that hampers the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's ability to tap into public ire over the subprime mortgage crisis. James Johnson, one of three people tapped by Mr. Obama recently to oversee the search for his running mate, took at least five real estate loans totaling more than $7 million from Countrywide Financial Corp. through an informal program for friends of the company's CEO, Angelo Mozilo, the Wall Street...

BARACK'S BAD BUDSJune 8, 2008 If people are best judged by the company they keep, then Barack Obama has got some explaining to do. There's his long-term relationships with extremist preachers like Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger. And his association with '60s radical terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. And then there's his links with Tony Rezko - the Chicago political power broker who faces up to 20 years in prison after his conviction last week on 16 counts of wire fraud, mail fraud, money-laundering and soliciting bribes. Rezko was found guilty of corrupting two state boards as part of...

LONDON - Here's all Barack Obama has to do to meet the world's expectations if he's elected president of the United States: End an unpopular war in Iraq, heal misery in nations hit by the global food crisis and stop global warming in addition to building bridges to Muslim countries and reverse the unilateralist approach of the Bush administration. The euphoria that has swept much of the world at the sight of a young and idealistic black politician seizing the Democratic nomination has generated waves of anticipation. Yet Obama, precisely because of his lofty yet undefined message of hope and...

Edwards: number 2, not so much PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW By Salena Zito The AP is reporting that John Edwards said while traveling in Spain that a run for vice president for him won't be happening: "I already had the privilege of running for vice president in 2004, and I won't do it again," Edwards was quoted by Spanish newspaper El Mundo, as saying. Other leading daily newspapers carried similar comments. Edwards, a former presidential candidate himself in both 2004 and 2008, ran for vice president under Sen. John Kerry four years ago. Edwards threw his support behind Sen. Barack Obama late...