http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/changewecanbelievein/ en-us Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:16:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034533/posts June 21, 2008 -- Awash in campaign cash, Barack Obama this week announced that he's opting out of the public-financing system for presidential campaigns. He'll be the first general-election candidate to do that since the system was set up. This gives new meaning to the notion of "politics of change." "In February 2007, I proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public-financing system in the 2008 election," he wrote in November. "My plan requires both major party candidates to agree on a fund-raising truce, return excess money from donors and stay within the public-financing system for the... NYP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034533/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:16:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034025/posts Barack Obama’s much touted campaign cries for “Change We Can Believe In” and the response of the everyday citizens of Europe to the recent “no” vote from the Irish are raising the same questions on two continents. What are the questions? Average Americans are not fully aware of the machinations of their own political system so when it comes to European politics they are largely in the dark. Admittedly most Europeans feel they are in the dark now too since the Irish vote to ratify the Lisbon Treaty was shot down on June 12, 2008. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034025/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:30:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033932/posts You'd better believe it. Senator Obama and his supporters dislike traditional Americanism, preferring the Darwinian doctrine of evolutionary change expressed in moral relativism. Senator Obama's army of followers are energized by inexperienced and immature students and by Baby Boomer anarchists eager to relive their activist days of the 1960s and 70s. They stand opposed to the historical traditions of the United States. Theirs is a world in which change is equated with sensual self-indulgence. Underlying this vision of change is Darwin's evolutionary hypothesis, applied to politics and social interaction by John Dewey in the early 20th century. Dewey taught Columbia... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033932/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:38:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2033818/posts Squeamish Marxist Democrats avert your eyes. I am about to swat you on the nose with a rolled-up Che Guevara poster. The tapestry of a carefully woven biography of Barack Hussein Obama is a cloth of deception and self-promotion this candidate has been weaving since childhood called in Arabic “Taqiyyah”, adapting and amending his life story to fit his circumstances. Focal Point USA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2033818/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:42:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2033337/posts Obama's Amerikkka Corps is coming to your town. Barack Obama's campaign is mobilizing 3,600 volunteers for six weeks of political work in 17 states, calling the campaign jobs "Obama Organizing Fellowships," the Washington Post reports. In exchange for working on the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate's campaign, fellows are promised training in community organizing techniques, which is a euphemism for leftist political agitation. (Perhaps fellows will be instructed in the fine art of fraudulent voter registration ACORN-style.) As this month's Foundation Watch report on Obama's radical roots notes: Agitation is what Chicago-born Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), the father of community organizing, called... Capital Research Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2033337/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:51:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032860/posts     The Chicago Sun- Times Ad This letter will be ran in a full page ad on a Sunday.   AN OPEN LETTER TO HOWARD DEAN, NANCY PELOSI, HARRY REID, SUPER DELEGATES, ALL DNP DELEGATES AND THE DEMOCRAT NATIONAL PARTY: FROM:   HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTER'S FOR JOHN MCCAIN (www.hcsfjm.com/) This is an open letter to inform you that we will not be backing, supporting or voting for Obama in November at the General Election.   We have heard all of you say that we are "FEW" or that we are a "SMALL" group of angry, bitter women, but that... Hillary Clinton Supporters for John McCain http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032860/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:57:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032746/posts When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, he notably dissented from liberal orthodoxy on welfare and the death penalty. Many observers have been wondering if Barack Obama will follow Clinton's example. They frequently raise school choice as a cause Obama could take up to show his independence from Democratic interest groups. It doesn't look as if that's going to happen, as ABC News's Jake Tapper reports: On the same day that he was extolling the need to shake up the "status quo" in education, Obama also defended his opposition to school vouchers. "We don't have enough slots for every... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032746/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:38:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2032276/posts Last week, the campaign of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama announced that it had established a “war room” to battle rumors spread on the Internet and amplified by other media reporting. Obama supporters will use a website titled “Fight the Smears” to identify allegedly untrue statements about their candidate and provide evidence in an effort to refute them. That sounds like a good public relations strategy, but the implementation will ultimately have a negative impact on Obama. The campaign employs the Media Matters for America model for dealing with so-called “smears.” In fact, Obama’s war room uses the George... Jeff Gannon - A Voice of the New Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2032276/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:01:06 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-bloggers/2031822/posts Videographer Hollywood7 has compiled caches of the web pages which have been scrubbed from barackobama.com. Check it out…. [you tube video at site] Texas Darlin Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2031822/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:28:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031632/posts An Illustrated Guide to Obama’s Gun-Grabbing The Democratic nominee wants to take away your guns — specifically, these guns. June 15, 2008 - by Bob Owens Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has come under fire in recent days for anti-Semitic comments posted at my.barackobama.com, a portion of the first-term senator’s website where almost anyone can create a user account and post their own content. Once the offending content was flagged by bloggers, it came down. Obama defenders point out that the offensive comments were not posted by the campaign, which is undoubtedly true. As Andrew Romano notes at Newsweek’s Stumper,... pajamasmedia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031632/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:34:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031701/posts Barack Obama may be lacking in judgment and experience – most recently demonstrated by the selection of former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson to vet his veeps (along with Eric Holder, who signed off on Bill Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich). But he’s a quick study, and he knows there’s a lot he doesn’t know. Because revealing the gaps in his understanding could be devastating to Obama's presidential hopes, understandably he's doing everything he can to conceal them. That involves not only stiff-arming the same Democrat and media establishment that has rushed to embrace him. It also undermines the reformist... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031701/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:50:36 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/2025436/posts How long can Barack Obama carry forward this ruse that he is a uniter, when he has placed himself in a climate that is, at the very least, quite accomodating to the anti-white racist perspective, vulgarity and anti-Americanism? It strained credulity that Obama could have been unaware of the toxic environment of his Trinity United Church of Christ and its pastor, Jeremiah Wright. That didn't pass the laugh test. But now we have the Rev. Michael Pfleger bursting on the scene and spewing the most offensive, racially charged remarks imaginable. Truly, if Obama weren't the darling of the MSM and... Insight http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025436/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:07:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025437/posts Erik Ericson of RedState.com has a very detailed article today on Barack Obama's connection to a neo-Marxist political party called the "New Party." (I wrote about the New Party here.) Basically, Obama sought out the group as a result of his work with another far left organization ACORN - a "non-partisan" acvitist group whose members have been convicted in several states of vote fraud. And not only did Obama receive their endorsement, he used many of the party's members as campaign workers on his first state senate campaign: American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025437/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:11:05 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/2023080/posts What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. Acorn is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because Acorn works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. Acorn likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama.... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023080/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 17:34:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020629/posts Right now, one of the most anti-gun politicians ever to set foot in Washington, D.C., may be just one election away from the Oval Office—and far too few gun owners realize the true threat to freedom this candidate represents. No, it’s not Hillary Clinton—we already know how bad she is. It’s Senator Barack H. Obama, D-Ill., the man who promises “change” while pretending to offer “hope.” But exactly what kind of “change” is Obama “hoping” for? It is far too easy for gun owners to slip into a false sense of security, unquestioningly accepting the candidate’s promises and proclamations regarding... The National Rifle Association http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020629/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 10:09:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013208/posts Americans are well acquainted with presidential candidate Barack Obama’s legendary pledges to bring “change” to America’s political and social landscape. (For example, see here and here and here.) Indeed, “Change We Can Believe In” is the slogan that adorns the homepage of his campaign website and so many of the placards displayed by the supporters who attend his speaking engagements. His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, is also well practiced at issuing calls for change. Her “Change and Experience” ad campaign was but an outgrowth of her 1993 declaration, as First Lady, that “remolding society is one of the great challenges... Point Of View http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013208/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 19:59:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017697/posts "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. From this story: WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama set his sights on November's general election Saturday as he campaigned in Oregon, where he hopes to declare victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.Obama has said Tuesday's primaries in Oregon and Kentucky could mark the end of his drawn-out battle with rival Hillary Clinton, and his campaign pressed home that message by... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017697/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2008 17:30:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017877/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama set his sights on November's general election Saturday as he campaigned in Oregon, where he hopes to declare victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama has said Tuesday's primaries in Oregon and Kentucky could mark the end of his drawn-out battle with rival Hillary Clinton, and his campaign pressed home that message by announcing a symbolic return to Iowa that day. Iowa was the scene of the Illinois senator's first victory in the 2008 presidential nominating race, and his campaign noted Saturday it is "a critical general election state that Democrats must... Drudge (AFP) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017877/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 01:50:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013838/posts Quote: "It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it." L.A. Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013838/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 01:06:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011375/posts  When Hillary and Obama speak of “change,” they mean the complete remaking of society via the radical, subversive methods of Saul Alinsky.  Democrats’ Platform for Revolution   By John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, May 05, 2008 Americans are well acquainted with presidential candidate Barack Obama’s legendary pledges to bring “change” to America’s political and social landscape. (For example, see here and here and here.) Indeed, “Change We Can Believe In” is the slogan that adorns the homepage of his campaign website and so many of the placards displayed by the supporters who attend his speaking engagements. His Democratic rival, Hillary... FrontPage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011375/posts#comment Mon, 5 May 2008 12:10:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992565/posts The Justice Department said Wednesday that Saddam Hussein’s principal foreign intelligence agency and an Iraqi-American man had organized and paid for a 2002 visit to Iraq by three House Democrats whose trip was harshly criticized by colleagues at the time. The arrangements for the trip were described in the indictment of an Iraq-born former employee of a Detroit-area charity group who was charged Wednesday with accepting millions of dollars’ worth of Iraqi oil contracts in exchange for assisting the Iraqi spy agency in projects in the United States. The indictment did not claim any wrongdoing by the three lawmakers, whose... new York times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992565/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:43:19 GMT