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Democrats fear that civil war may draw crowds but end in bloodshed While Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton go head-to-head to win the presidential nomination of the Democratic party, John McCain is busy uniting the Republican party Tom Baldwin in Washington Surging optimism among Democrats about regaining the White House this year has been tempered by fresh warnings that the battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama risks turning into a bloodbath before the Denver convention in August. The Democratic race has already smashed all records for turnout and fundraising, with millions of new voters and hundreds of donors galvanised...

Chip Wall can't help but zero in on the little stuff whenever he watches Barack Obama on TV. It's his old pal Stanley. For Wall and a few dozen others, Obama on the campaign trail often brings to mind Stanley Ann Dunham, Obama's mother and a strong-willed, unconventional member of the Mercer Island High School graduating class of 1960. "She was not a standard-issue girl of her times... "She touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she'd read about and could argue," the only child was a ... daughter of a father who wanted a boy so badly...

If anyone else running for president locked his granny away and refused to allow her to be seen, would the media complain? You betcha. But America's media have supinely allowed Barry Obama to pretend he has no white relatives. He has paraded his step-grandmother in Kenya, who never saw him until the 1980s, as his "granny," and locked the grandmother who actually raised him away in a closet. Now, the Chicago Tribune reports "the Obama campaign declined to make [his white grandmother] available." Is she sick? Not apparently. Bedridden? Hospitalized? Not apparently... What a disgrace. And like whimpering puppies the...

In February 2004, U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, sent a fund-raising letter with the "alarming news" that "right-wing politicians" had passed a law stopping doctors from stabbing half-born babies in the neck with scissors, suctioning out their brains and crushing their skulls.

"Barack Will Never Allow You to Go Back to Your Lives as Usual." Last night I appeared on Hugh's show, and his producer Duane mentioned a Michelle Obama speech at UCLA. Captain Ed talked about this a bit, but I hadn't seen anyone transcribe the part of the speech where it gets a little... unnerving. It starts at about 8:41 in the audio. Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort...

Free Obama's White Grandmother Andy Martin Wednesday, March 28, 2007 CHICAGO -- If anyone else running for president locked his granny away and refused to allow her to be seen, would the media complain? You betcha. But America's media have supinely allowed Barry Obama to pretend he has no white relatives. He has paraded his step-grandmother in Kenya, who never saw him until the 1980s, as his "granny," and locked the grandmother who actually raised him away in a closet. Now, the Chicago Tribune reports "the Obama campaign declined to make [his white grandmother] available." Is she sick? Not apparently....

In deciding whether or not to vote for John McCain for president, conservative Republicans as well as independents and disaffected Democrats must consider the antics of leading Democrats on the subject of the War on Terrorism. Senator Clinton, remembering full well the Clinton Administration’s concerns and policies, was for the pre-emptive strike into Iraq before she was against it. Shades of Senator (flip-flop) Kerry. Senator Obama is for immediate withdrawal from Iraq, but wants to invade Pakistan, a complex Muslim country that has been as staunch an ally to us as possible.

IT was early 1994 when Nelson Mandela gave a speech in a slum outside Cape Town and spoke in grand terms of a new beginning and how when he was elected president every household would have a washing machine. People took him literally. A few months later he became South Africa's first black president. That's when clerks in department stores in Cape Town had to turn people away demanding their free washer and dryer. Having spent some time as a reporter in South Africa watching the Mandela presidency I was reminded of that story this week when I travelled with...

Live! This Saturday! At the Colosseum! Hillary vs. Obama vs. Ron vs. Huckabee! That’s right, a four-way cage match for the White House! The ticket buys you the whole seat, but you’ll only need the edge! MTV and MySpace are collaborating this Saturday to put on what has to be the most interesting debate since the YouTube-CNN debates. In something generally unprecedented at this stage in a presidential campaign, candidates from both sides of the aisle will join each other in a debate to be covered as part of the MySpace/MTV Presidential Dialogue Series. This bizarre event will take place...

"...State Senator Barack Obama’s vote against allowing babies born alive to be deemed as “persons” made statewide headlines during his run for U.S. Senate. Republican candidate Alan Keyes repeatedly told the press he accepted the invitation to come from Maryland to run against Obama based primarily on Obama’s vote on the BAIPA while in the State Senate."

When I prepare to write this blog I take pride in researching the issues and where the candidates stand on them. It scared me when I wasn't able to get any substantive information on Barak Obama concerning the issues. So I visited his website, where I thought I would get detailed positions on the issues that matter to him. Instead, I found that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had more depth on the first page of his blog than the entire Barak Obama site. It sent chills down my spine to see that a dictator gave more information, on a blog no less,...

Barack Obama's new stump speech employs the homiletically lyrical style of his well-received Jefferson-Jackson Day delivery, while making oblique reference to the race card. On December 27, Barak Obama rolled out his new, revised stump speech to Iowa voters.   The speech uses several literary techniques typical of Old Testament Hebrew poetic parallelism.  For example: [Synthetic parallelism where successive lines add to the first.] I've met Maytag workers who labored all their lives only to see their jobs shipped overseas, who now compete with their teenagers for $7-an-hour jobs at Wal-Mart. I've spoken with teachers who are working at doughnut shops after school...

Two days after Barak Obama's latest foreign-policy gaffe—allowing reporters to see him reading a memo from his campaign advisors on how to spin the war in Iraq—there's a new round whispering among Washington's foreign-policy watchers as to whether the Illinois senator and presidential wannabe can really be taken seriously on these subjects. Similar chatter could be heard this summer after Obama's previous blunders on Pakistan and Israel-Palestine. This most recent episode occurred during Tuesday's Senate testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker. To be Reading a memo about how to politicize the war during their testimony showed incredibly...

Homosexual EGALE Group Cancels Ontario Party Leaders' Debate Due to Lack of Interest by Hilary White TORONTO, September 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ontario's leading homosexual lobby group has cancelled a planned leaders' "debate" due to lack of interest by leaders. The three main political parties in Ontario declined to attend the event that EGALE hoped would mimic one staged by their counterparts in the US. A pair of homosexual activist organisations in the US staged a political stunt last month in which most of the Democrat hopefuls for the presidential nomination were grilled by a panel to see which one...

Democrat Presidential Candidates in All-Gay-Issue "Debate" By Hilary White WASHINGTON, August 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Melissa Etheridge will be one of the questioners in what is being advertised as a debate on gay issues between front-runner Democrat candidates for President. The event will be televised tonight on MTV and is sponsored by homosexual activists. Human Rights Campaign, one of the most powerful gay lobby groups in the world, is co-sponsoring the event that will air at 9 p.m. Eastern time and 6 p.m. Pacific. The homosexual cable network Logo, is the other sponsor. Despite it being advertised as a debate,...

The polling is in, and Hillary made a big mistake in her sharp disagreement with Obama over whether the president should meet with leaders of rogue nations. According to the Rasmussen Poll, Democrats agree with Obama over Hillary by 55 percent-22 percent. Without a poll to pretest her comments, Hillary instinctively took the "insider" position that the president should only meet with such leaders after extensive probing by subordinates to assure that the meetings would be productive. But she was wrong. Democrats want the president to meet with leaders of such nations without preset conditions. At the South Carolina...

He is pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ and the man who led Barack Obama "from skeptic to self-described Christian," reports the New York Times. And he has some ideas and history many Americans will find troubling: In 1984, he traveled to Cuba to teach Christians about the value of nonviolent protest and to Libya to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, along with the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Mr. Wright said his visits implied no endorsement of their views. . . . Mr. Wright preached black liberation theology, which interprets the Bible as the story of the...

Sen. Barack Obama, already scrutinized for a gaffe in Richmond this week, is now being labeled a censor of fine art. The Illinois Democrat held a Tuesday fundraiser at the Plant Zero Art Center in Virginia's capital. At the request of the presidential candidate's campaign, the art gallery covered up an oil reproduction of the infamous photo showing pop star Britney Spears getting out of a car sans underwear. The painting has a $5,000 price tag. Plant Zero also took down a painting of a woman in a "Kill Lincoln" T-shirt — meant to pay homage to the 1980s movie...

Bam boom! Hillary's gloom? Barack deals big blow to her dream of riding money machine to victory - rakes in $25M. Hillary Clinton thought that raising more money than her rivals would be the easy thing. Yesterday, she found out how wrong she was. The Democrat's presidential campaign was rocked to the core as rival Sen. Barack Obama revealed he equaled, and possibly even bested, her in the cash dash she had counted on dominating. Obama announced he raised $25 million in the past three months from 100,000 people, compared with the record-setting $26 million haul Clinton pulled in from...