http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bitter/ en-us Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:47:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050907/posts Sen. Barack Obama claims there has been only a "shift in emphasis," not "wild shifts," in his political positions. Many already know the list: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, NAFTA, public financing of campaigns, abortion, gay marriage, Social Security taxes, the death penalty and negotiating with rogue nations.Possibly one of the more remarkable changes has been his position on guns. But despite Obama's recent concession on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" that there has been a "shift in emphasis" on various issues, on guns he held firm: "You mentioned the gun position. I've been talking about the Second Amendment being an... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050907/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:47:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048226/posts Barack Obama (B.O.) without a teleprompter makes Elmer Fudd sound like the late Winston Churchill. His wife was never proud of America before the year 2008. If his former Pastor donned a sheet, he could give a good impression of the Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. He hangs out with people who attempted to blow up the Pentagon. One of his favorite orators is the "Reverend" Louis Farrakhan. He thinks there are 57 states in America... RFFM.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048226/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:04:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047229/posts I was excited to see the U.S. Supreme Court affirm for the first time that the Second Amendment and our right to keep and bear arms was and is an individual right as intended by our Founding Fathers. Sen. John McCain understands this and he immediately praised the Court’s decision. Sen. Barack Obama still can’t figure out how he feels about it. Barack Obama has made many statements over the years that lead me to believe he would be the most anti-gun president ever elected to the White House and also leads me to believe that he doesn’t understand our... Mountain Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047229/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:43:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041857/posts Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream By Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam Doubleday, 256 pp., $23.95 A few months back, Barack Obama explained why he had not won more support from voters in Appalachia. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate,... The Weekly Standard | Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041857/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:34:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039100/posts 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. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039100/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:24:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038900/posts “Obama’s alleged support of the Second Amendment is utterly cynical and false.”April 13th, 2008 by Bruno Behrend So says the NRA, and they are 100% correct. The above headline is from one of their recent blast e-mails, and I must say that I endorse their view in this situation. _____ To understand Barack Obama on the Second Amendment, you have to know about the clash of character between the then-Chicago state senator and an ordinary citizen who exercised his right to armed self-defense in violation of a local gun ban. That citizen was a 52-year-old resident of Wilmette, Illinois, who,... NRA-ILA via Extreme Wisdom http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038900/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:53:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038108/posts By all accounts, Barack Obama should win this election. He and his brand control the image, the message and, to a large extent, the media of this election cycle. Yes, the media. He has enough money to buy ads every day from now to election day, glossy magazines cannot wait to put his image on their covers, Hollywood types are so smitten that they wear his image on their clothing and YouTube is bursting at the seams with homages to him. It is definitely his to win -- or to lose. It all hinges on two things: likability and character. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038108/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:59:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037803/posts Bill Clinton is so bitter about Barack Obama's victory over his wife Hillary that he has told friends the Democratic nominee will have to beg for his wholehearted support. Mr Obama is expected to speak to Mr Clinton for the first time since he won the nomination in the next few days, but campaign insiders say that the former president's future campaign role is a "sticking point" in peace talks with Mrs Clinton's aides. The Telegraph has learned that the former president's rage is still so great that even loyal allies are shocked by his patronising attitude to Mr Obama,... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037803/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:07:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037245/posts A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the U. S. ConstitutionThe aftermath of the Supreme Court’s historic affirmation of an individual’s right to bear arms illustrates the philosophical divide between the Left and Right, Conservative and Liberal. Liberals believe that rights emanate from the government while conservatives hold that the individual has inherent rights. When the Founding Fathers established America’s representative democracy the world was just beginning to emerge from the feudal and monarchic traditions that... Jeff Gannon - A Voice of the New Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037245/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:51:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036907/posts Gun-control advocates across the country reacted with shock and outrage at the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns today, saying the ruling would threaten gun-control measures in other states. If there was any doubt that other bans would be in peril, the National Rifle Association quickly put those questions to rest when it announced shortly after the ruling that it would file a flurry of lawsuits challenging restrictions in San Francisco, Chicago and several Chicago suburbs. The law in Washington, which spelled out rules for the storage of weapons and made it extremely... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036907/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:45:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036744/posts ABC News' Teddy Davis and Alexa Ainsworth Report: With the Supreme Court poised to rule on Washington, D.C.'s, gun ban, the Obama campaign is disavowing what it calls an "inartful" statement to the Chicago Tribune last year in which an unnamed aide characterized Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., as believing that the DC ban was constitutional. "That statement was obviously an inartful attempt to explain the Senator's consistent position," Obama spokesman Bill Burton tells ABC News. The statement which Burton describes as an inaccurate representation of the senator's views was made to the Chicago Tribune on Nov. 20, 2007. In a... ABC News Blogs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036744/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:18:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2036942/posts Here is Barack Obama's reaction today to the Supreme Court decision which struck down the D.C. Gun Ban and upheld 2nd Amendment Rights. Obama's statement is clearly politically calculated to minimize his being on the wrong side of this issue. Obama claims to have "consistently" supported the 2nd Amendment as an individual right . . . (see video) But listen to what Obama was saying just this past February about the D.C. Gun Ban . . . (see video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2036942/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:54:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036730/posts Sen. Barack Obama began a panel discussion at Carnegie Mellon University this morning with a bunch of really smart panelists from MIT, General Motors, AOL and the SEIU. Today marks Obama's first visit to the Steel City since April 21, the eve of the Pennsylvania primary; Obama won the city of Pittsburgh proper in the spring primary, but not the state. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036730/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:44:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036633/posts Today is the day. The folks at SCOTUS blog will be providing a live blog to follow developments as quickly as possible. SCOTUS Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036633/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:55:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2036254/posts Go to http://my.barackobama.com/uniteforchange and enter zip code 18702 (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a city of 50,000 or so that is almost entirely blue collar DEMOCRATIC in terms of its politics). The map shows Unite for Change events within 50 miles. Unite for Change events in Wilkes-Barre: ZERO Unite for Change events in Scranton (90,000 people): ONE In other words, the Obama campaign could not find one single person in DEMOCRATIC Wilkes-Barre who would associate his or her name with this phony smile on top of an empty suit. In nearby Scranton, which also is blue collar Democrat, only one person was willing... Obama for America (Unite for Change Events) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2036254/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:15:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035323/posts The Washington Post reports that Sen. Barack Obama is aggressively trying to reintroduce himself to voters, echoing the spin of Obama's advisers that not everyone knows him yet. In reality, Obama's major campaign challenge will not be to reveal, but to conceal his true identity. Obama is not trying to introduce himself to unreached voters, but is engaged in damage control with many he's already reached -- and insulted and disillusioned. As long as he was soaring above the fray with the lofty rhetoric of hope, change and unity, Obama could masquerade as a quasi-messiah figure. But once forced into... davidlimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035323/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:17:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031968/posts Red diaper baby Barack Obama's collectivist beliefs go way back. We dug up an enlightening old article, "What Makes Obama Run?" (by Hank De Zutter, Chicago Reader, Dec. 8, 1995) that offers more insight into what Obama, the Democrats' presumptive presidential candidate, thinks about America and traditional American values. The short answer: not much. In it Obama, at that time a candidate for the Illinois Senate, criticizes individualism as what intellectual John Ralston Saul has called the cult of the Hero: "In America," Obama says, "we have this strong bias toward individual action. You know, we idolize the John Wayne... Capital Research Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031968/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:21:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031108/posts He [Obama] warned that the general election campaign could get ugly. “They’re going to try to scare people. They’re going to try to say that ‘that Obama is a scary guy,’” he said. A donor yelled out a deep accented “Don’t give in!” “I won’t but that sounded pretty scary. You’re a tough guy,” Obama said. “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said. “Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.” Time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031108/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:33:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031172/posts Barack Obama is warning supporters that the general election fight between him and John McCain may get ugly, but the Illinois senator is vowing not to back down. "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," Obama said at a fundraiser in Philadelphia Friday, according to pool reports. "We don't have a choice but to win," Obama said, joking that he has heard "folks in Philly like a good brawl. I've seen Eagles games." Obama again said that the GOP will make try to make him look "scary" to voters. Obama pledging to swing back at... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031172/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:38:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2030675/posts Senator Obama refused Senator McCain's offer for the two of them to appear in 10 joint Town hall Sessions between now and the November Election. Camp McCain offered to join Senator Obama in 10 Town hall session through out the country leading up to the November election immediately after Clinton called it quits. These town hall session which McCain has become increasingly comfortable with were a great play from Camp McCain... Realizing that Obama doesn't do well without a script infront of him or being told what to think, McCain seized the opportunity to capitalize on this and pitched the... Right Up Front http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2030675/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:36:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029251/posts As the United States edges ever closer to tyranny with freedom dying a little more each year with the passage of new laws, the handing down of judicial rulings, and the promulgation of executive orders, it is assumed by increasing numbers that it is the role of government to provide for all of our needs and to save us from our own worst tendencies irrespective of whether or not these are matters we want massive bureaucracies poking into our private lives about. As bad as such intrusions are, the fear such a scenario provokes pales in comparison to the almost... Men's News Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029251/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:32:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024855/posts Having now left Trinity United Church of Christ, can Barack Obama escape responsibility for his decades-long ties to Michael Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright? No, he cannot. Obama’s connections to the radical-left politics espoused by Pfleger and Wright are broad and deep. The real reason Obama bound himself to Wright and Pfleger in the first place is that he largely approved of their political-theological outlooks. Obama shared Wright’s rejection of black “assimilation.” Obama also shared Wright’s suspicion of the traditional American ethos of individual self-improvement and the pursuit of “middle-classness.” In common with Wright, Obama had deep misgivings about America’s criminal... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024855/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:09:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024124/posts "The videos leave you with a visceral understanding that Black Liberation Theology, Barack Obama’s faith, calls for the undoing of society as we know it. It is flagrantly, even proudly racist. Adherents to this faith do not want to unite anything, but they are certainly calling for Change. In a big way." The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024124/posts#comment Sat, 31 May 2008 19:59:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023343/posts <p>Sen. Barack Obama issued a statement this afternoon after a video tape emerged showing Father Michael Pfleger 'speechifying' from the pulpit of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.</p> <p>In the statement Obama said he was "deeply disappointed" in Pfleger after his sermon was captured on videotape showing the priest mocking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and white people from the pulpit of Trinity, the home church of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Obama.</p> Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023343/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 02:49:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023164/posts Barack Obama’s favorability ratings among white women have significantly depreciated in recent months, particularly among Democrats and independents, posing an immediate obstacle for the likely Democratic nominee as he moves to shore up his party’s base. According to a new report by The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, half of white women now have a negative perception of Obama. Forty-nine percent of white women view Obama unfavorably, while only 43 percent hold a favorable opinion. In February, 36 percent of these women viewed Obama unfavorably while 56 percent had a positive perception of the likely Democratic... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023164/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 20:29:48 GMT