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Even though Obama's popularity has been sliding significantly, Shepard Fairey, designer of the viral blue-and-red Manifest Hope poster, thinks it's the perfect time to release a slick and comprehensive anthology of celebratory Obama-related artworks: Art for Obama, which he co-edited with Evolutionary Media Group founder Jennifer Gross, comes out October 2. In addition to getting a look at the imagery, we spoke with Fairey about Obama's approval ratings, how political art reaches beyond politics, and his thoughts on the artistic deification of our leader.Watch the Slideshow Siegel: Tell us about the idea behind Art for Obama. Fairey: People undervalue...

THE EVIDENCE IS HERE: This document contains over 60 pages of evidence and analysis proving Barack Obama’s use of a little-known and highly deceptive and manipulative form of “hack” hypnosis on millions of unaware Americans, and reveals what only a few psychologists and hypnosis/NLP experts know.

I have three wonderful daughters – two teenagers and one young adult. I can hardly imagine anything more horrible than the prospect that one of them might one day enter therapy for help with some common psychological problem such as anxiety, insomnia or depression and, at the end of that process, accuse me of childhood sexual abuse on the basis of "recovered" memories. Even though I would know with absolute certainty that such allegations were untrue, the chances are that nothing I could say or do would convince my accusers of this. > The problem is that there is very...

For some time, I have been wondering how Obama has managed to fool so many people. This past week, with his strange speeches at the Dem getaway, the Prayer Breakfast, and his pseech on Friday for the stimulus package, it struck me that something very unorthodox is going on. The hyperconfidence, the anger, the strange gestures—something was very unusual. I chalked it up to being “unPresidential” but it is something more sinister. NLP—neuro-linguistic programming, hypnosis, something is making rational people drool over this overrated clown. I found something that made sense to me: Zero is using hypnotic techniques in speaking...

Just in case anyone thinks that the reports of our new President Barack Hussein Obama using 70's style-mass-hypnosis techniques on his audiences are overblown, I came across a series of Barack Obama videos on an NLP training site. Apparently the experts agree not only that he's using it, but that he does it so well they can use his techniques to train others.

Barack Obama's speeches contain the hypnosis techniques of Dr. Milton Erickson, M.D, who developed a form of "conversational" hypnosis that could be hidden in seemingly normal speech. Obama's mesmerized cult like worship by millions may be the result of this brazen use of these techniques. Obama's techniques are thoroughly studied and discussed in this article. Unless one knows about these methods, they are not noticeable, but once you know about them, they are obvious.

Some poor bastard who was hypnotized into believing he was riding a horse on a Vegas stage wants payback after steering his invisible steed right off the damn stage. In a Nevada suit, Chad Lee claims that last year, hypnotist Thom Kaz put him under a spell during his Vegas show at Harrah's. He also says Kaz told Lee to "look between his legs and ride a prop," commanding him to believe it was a "black horse." Then, says Lee, he "ran off an elevated stage with the prop between his legs believing he was riding a black horse." The...

While John McCain's campaign has tried to tie its Democratic rival to socialism, one of the Arizona Republican's top surrogates said Barack Obama is not a socialist. McCain's campaign had seized on Sen. Obama’s statements that he plans to “spread the wealth around” and sought to tie the Illinois Democrat to socialism. But former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), while arguing that Obama’s economic plan is a “job-killer,” said Monday on CBS’s “Early Show”: “You know, I don’t think Barack Obama’s a socialist. I think a lot of his policies are inspired by the pathway [that] Europe took. I think...

KGO San Francisco Radio host Charles Karel Bouley (aka Karel) who, according to Wiki..., once played an audio of 'Ding-dong the Witch is Dead' as a 'tribute' to President Reagan upon his death and who wrote in a March 2007 article at the Huffington Post that White House spokesman Tony Snow's daily 'lying to the American people' caused his cancer, wants 'Joe the Plumber dead. During the 11-01-08 9PM Saturday broadcast of ABC national news, Karel, the local host can be heard over-talking the national news broadcast stating: "F*** GD Joe the GD Plumber!" "F*** him. F*** him." "I want...

Barack Obama wants to institute a Civilian National Security Force, a vast militia not unlike Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a personal army. He knows he would need such a force to protect him and to enforce his will on Americans. Americans will have not seen such arbitrary power used against them since the days of the Civil War when Lincoln put the Constitution in the bottom drawer of his desk and set about arresting anyone who opposed his policies to enforce the Union on southern States seeking secession. The moral issue was slavery. The Constitutional issue was states rights. If you...

Nietzsche is an atheist German philosopher who lived from 1844-1900 and together with others of the radical left of that time like Arthur Schopenhower created the intellectual atmosphere for Karl Marx and his Communist Manifesto. They called for changing society – but not to improve the life of people but to use them to gain power and keep it. He created the concept of "overman," the man stronger than others with the right to step over the weak, which attracted Hitler. The alternative to Marxism is not capitalism, as so many people believe. The only alternative is an answer to...

What sanity is left in these United States of America? That is the question very many people are asking - just two days away from a national Presidential Election. (Jim, John and moderators, of whom I was once chief, take note… this thing is not at all over.) WTFO?? (plz, excuse my foul-language-acronym – it’s unfortunately ‘endemic’) People are marveling at the ascendancy of an idiot. Worse… an idiot-traitor. Communist National leaders, Muslim dictatorships and terrorist organizations, like: Cuban Castro, Venezuelan Hugo Chavez, Nicaraguan Daniel Ortega, Libyan Muammar al-Gaddafi, Communist North Korean Kim Jong Il, Hamas - and almost every...

The Talk Shows Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain; David Plouffe, campaign manager for Obama.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.; former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.FACE THE NATION (CBS): David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Barack Obama; Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and John Ensign, R-Nev.THIS WEEK (ABC): David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Barack Obama; Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Govs. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Mark...

There has been a lot of speculation that Barack Obama might win the election due to his better "ground game" and superior campaign organization. I had the chance to view that organization up close this month when I canvassed for him. I'm not sure I learned much about his chances, but I learned a lot about myself and about this election.

URGENT: Speechwriter for Obama Quits, Voting McCain. Cites Obama Tearing Down Two Female Candidates and Working Class People. Now Unemployed, Wrote for Huffin gton Post. http://butasforme.com/2008/10/31/urgent-speechwriter-for-obama-quits-voting-mccain-because-obama-part-of-tearing-down-two-female-candidates-and-working-class-people/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-28/so-long-obama/

So now, in the waning days of the campaign, here is the alleged storyline: Those polls that show Barack Obama leading in the race against John McCain for president? Even widening his lead? Those polls are warped. According to some, among the millions of Americans who are telling pollsters that they could vote for Mr. Obama, there are (thousands of? millions of?) closeted racists who will not vote -- who never would vote -- for a black candidate under any circumstances. Their votes could tip the election to Mr. McCain. In politically obsessed circles, this supposed phenomenon is known as...

SNIP Yet beneath the energy and party atmosphere – with a crowd of 60,000 it was the biggest political rally in the history of Columbus – and the heady excitement that after this marathon campaign they had at last reached the cusp of history, many of these Ohioans were suffering a new mental condition on the eve of Election Day. It could be called “Victory Will Still Be Snatched From Us Compulsive Disorder”. “I am so afraid some ghastly trick will be played again and we’ll wake up on Wednesday morning and we’ll be where we were in the last...

CLEVELAND - Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will be in Cleveland on Sunday for a Change We Need rally. Also attending the rally is Bruce Springsteen, who will perform an acoustic set to encourage Obama supporters to turn out at the polls. The rally will begin at 3:45 p.m. at Malls B and C on Lakeside Avenue. Doors will open at 2 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Sorry about the vanity guys. I have been having an email discussion with my ACORN card carrying sister-in-law about politics. She started this by sending me an email about the McCain robot calls that the RNC has been doing this wee. Here is or discussion if anyone is interested... ME I was just wondering when n0bama was going to "spread the wealth" to his illegal immigrant aunt who he claims to be so proud of. I bet ACORN probably even registered her to vote....57 times! HER This nation was built on immigration. We are an entire nation of immigrants. People...

Obama is Hiding Mental History in His Medical Records. Sounds like a diagnosis for Adolf Hitler Obama Medical Records: Obama Refuses Release. What is He Hiding? 71 year old Sen. McCain has released his medical records but not the young and seemingly healthy Sen. Obama. Lets clear this up first. Barack Obama's name was "Barry Hussein Obama" but in college during his identity crisis he changed it to "Barack Hussein Obama" because Barry wasn't a black sounding name. He went with the traditional and formal African name Barack. Don't believe? Here is a high school yearbook picture of him with...

Confrontation not, good manners, mind your own business, and follow the "Golden Rule."

WASHINGTON – Voter turnout will be the highest in decades, dwarfing recent presidential elections, experts predict. The only question dividing experts is how huge will it be. Will it be the largest since 1968, largest since 1960 or even, as one expert predicts, the largest in a century? Soaring early voting levels hint at a big turnout, but that could just be the same voters casting ballots earlier instead of more voters hitting the polls. Weather should generally be favorable, according to forecasts. --snip-- Michael McDonald of George Mason University is so optimistic he's predicting the highest level in a...

Two liberal-looking people came to my door this afternoon. As soon as I saw their sticker I started laughing. It felt so good to tell them "Obama is a socialist. You will not change my vote." The lady asked why I thought he was a socialist. I looked at her and said "spread the wealth." She then started talking about how paying taxes is not bad and then asked me if I believed in paying taxes. I told her I do believe in paying taxes- but only my fair share and that it is not right to tax people who...

RUSH: What a depressing America this guy sees. Did you guys watch the commercial last night? You did? Well, I did. I did. I was in a good mood after I watched. I'll just share with you my notes and then we'll analyze this in greater detail. Anyway, greetings, folks, and welcome. It's Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address is ElRushbo@eibnet.com. Obama really is a depressing man, and he sees a depressing country. He sees an America with nothing but victims....

Back to the phones to Sandpoint, Idaho. This is Patricia. Glad you waited. Welcome to the program. CALLER: Hi, Rush. RUSH: Hi! CALLER: This is Pat, and I'm so thankful that you took my call. God bless you for keeping us informed and giving us the truth. RUSH: Thank you, ma'am. CALLER: I'd like to give you an example of the redistribution of wealth. My husband has worked for 30 years in law enforcement. He retired twice, and when he went to apply for his Social Security, because he had put into all this quarters doing part-time jobs raising our...

A prominent New Hampshire Republican is getting off the Straight Talk Express and hopping on the Obama bandwagon. Fred Bramante has stepped down from John McCain’s New Hampshire Leadership Committee to endorse Barack Obama. The former chairman and current member of the state Board of Education said he opposes McCain’s support of school vouchers, which would give parents taxpayer money to offset the cost of private schooling. Bramante said politicians must abandon the voucher idea if they want to improve education.

So here is Obama's problem -- Time Magazine on December 18th 2007(after an extensive intereview with BHO) says Barack Obama speaks Bahasa Indonesian. See URL: Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1695803,00.html QUOTE:"When prominent Indonesians visit the U.S., the first person they want to meet is Obama, says Parnohadiningrat Sudjadnan, the Indonesian ambassador to the U.S. 'Back home people think of him as one of us, or at least one who understands us,' he says, adding that they are delighted to find that Obama speaks passable Bahasa, the language spoken in Indonesia and Malaysia. " BUT.... On July 11th, 2008 Barak Obama says tells...

Despite Barack Obama's approval of abortion and homosexual activism, new polling by a prestigious Christian research group indicates that the Democratic presidential nominee is making significant inroads among voters who are classified as "born-again" Christians. The Barna Group for research says Obama is statistically tied (43 percent to 45 percent) with Republican John McCain among born-again Christian voters. "Born-again Christians" are defined by Barna as people who say they have made a personal commitment to Jesus and believe they will go to heaven because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their savior. Based on that definition,...

As Election Day rapidly approaches, many Americans are wondering why so many of their countrymen reject a genuine war hero with decades of experience, one whose pro-life, limited-government values pretty much reflect those of Middle America. Instead, these same countrymen are enthralled with a man who not only has no experience or qualifications for the job, but who is, in fact, the most radically left-wing major-party presidential candidate of our lifetime, having been mentored and supported for decades by terrorists (Ayers), communists (Davis), America-hating racists (Wright) and criminals (Rezko).

How many Barack Obamas does it take to change a light bulb? It is not Barack Obama who will change the light bulb. We are the change our light bulb is waiting for. I'm saddened that the lightbulb burned out. This isn't the lightbulb I knew. How many Obama supporters does it take to change a light bulb? One to change the light bulb and thousands of others to scream "yes we can".

Last night’s well-edited, technically proficient, dreary prime-time Barack Obama infomercial probably could be expanded into a five disc DVD set, complete with bonus interviews featuring more downtrodden Americans, detailed liner notes, transcripts of old law lectures, his personal revisions to the Constitution, and “never-before” seen footage of Mr. Obama healing the sick, raising the dead, feeding the hungry and personally redistributing wealth door-to-door. “Self indulgent” is far too mild a phrase to describe Obama’s thirty minute excursion into his super-ego – as I continue to hear Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” playing in my head – so I’ll just say...

Actress has had fun with impersonation on ‘SNL,’ but can't do four yearsTina Fey is generating big laughs and big audiences for “Saturday Night Live” with her impersonation of Gov. Sarah Palin, but the actress hopes it doesn't last. “We're gonna take it week by week. If she wins, I'm done,” Fey tells TV Guide in the Oct. 20 issue. “I can't do that for four years. And by ‘I'm done,’ I mean I'm leaving Earth.” The “30 Rock” star also said the election season and playing Sen. John McCain's running mate has been a fun and busy time. “Election...

Sen. Barack Obama, as a world-class liar, has come to the top in the list of the greatest lies ever told. Move over such old staples as, "Your check is in the mail," and "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." Consider the output of Sen. Obama. The lies bursting forth from one of the great world-class liars are so numerous and extraordinary it is impossible to rank the Top 10 or 20. They all deserve first place recognition. This column has already discussed some of the more noteworthy Sen. Obama lies, such as the first few...

After tonight, no surprise if Americans are disgusted by the vulgar ego and display of wasteful spending with the latest over-the-top Obama pitch. The primetime 30-minute interruption to make sure you heard him (like you didn't hear him for the last 2 years), on top of the 5:1 ad spending degrading and insulting an American hero is a complete insult to everyone's intelligence. I didn't watch it. I heard Hannity say it was embarrassing to watch at time. Gross.

Video here. Classic line when she refers to the flag pin, an "accessory" Obama dislikes. Anyone who has pictures of Sarah Palin, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Laura Ingraham, and other both principled and attractive conservative women, please post them all here. Who can post the most? Let the contest begin.

By Christopher Cook McCain's going to take this one. Take heart, and tell your friends: Obama is going down. Here are just some of the reasons:1. TrendsThe polls are trending McCain. Everywhere you look, you see a tightening. In the state numbers, in the horserace numbers. With five days to go, you want the momentum moving in your direction. 2.The polls always favor Democrats. The polls were wrong in 2000. They were wrong in 2004.The polling in years past has almost always shown Democrats with a bigger lead than they had, or with a lead when they were actually behind....

Senator Barack Obama’s infomercial drew 33.5 million U.S. viewers Wednesday night, according to Nielsen. The simulcast — the first of its kind since Ross Perot ran a political telecast on the eve of Election Day in 1996 aired on CBS, FOX, NBC, Univision, BET, MSNBC, and TV One between 8pm and 8:30pm EST. Perot’s 1996 telecast drew almost 22.7 million viewers. On an average Wednesday night, these networks draw a combined average of 30.3 million average viewers during the that half-hour daypart. In comparison, the final debate between the two presidential candidates drew 56.5 million U.S. viewers on October 15....

The politics of fear. We've heard it all before. But this time those that are perpetrating this fear tactic are solidly on the Obama Hoodwink Express. Once respected author, Erica Jong, has stated publicly what many of the Obamaniacs have been saying privately. If Obama doesn't get elected there will be pandemonium, riots in the streets and worse. Erica Jong Tells Italians Obama Loss 'Will Spark the Second American Civil War. Blood Will Run in the Streets' "If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. Isn't that quaint? Here...

A Federal Communications Commission investigation of on-air military analysts is providing a glimpse of what Democrats and an Obama administration will do to critics once they capture Washington. The FCC has sent letters to some of the nation's most prominent military analysts -- some of them pro-President Bush and pro-war -- suggesting they may have broken the law when they appeared on television stations to comment on and explain the war on terrorism. The FCC investigation raises the question of whether a Democrat-controlled Congress and White House next year will investigate -- and perhaps criminalize -- all sorts of actions...

Senator Barack Obama's $4 million-plus bought him a rating of 21.7 Wednesday night (Oct. 29) among the top 56 local TV markets measured by electronic meters, according to Nielsen. The half-hour informercial, aired at 8 p.m. on four networks, CBS, NBC, Univision and Fox, plus MSNBC and NY1. (The Nielsen data does not include BET, which aired the infomercial during different time periods.) Fox delayed the airing of the final game of the World Series by one-half hour to accommodate Obama's informercial. Only ABC ran its regularly-scheduled program, Pushing Daisies. An unusual presidential media tactic, Obama's infomercial was the first...

Warrenton gun shop owner Steve Clark said buyers fear restrictions on weapons that have been restricted before. (By John Mcdonnell -- The Washington Post) Buy Photo Americans have cut back on buying cars, furniture and clothes in a tough economy, but there's one consumer item that's still enjoying healthy sales: guns. Purchases of firearms and ammunition have risen 8 to 10 percent this year, according to state and federal data. Several variables drive sales, but many dealers, buyers and experts attribute the increase in part to concerns about the economy and fears that if Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois wins...

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama blanketed the airwaves Wednesday night with an unusual 30-minute advertisement on seven television networks in a splashy demonstration of the extraordinary financial resources at his disposal with less than a week to go before Election Day. There was nothing particularly special about the ad itself — which conjured up images of a country crying out for change against a suitably patriotic background — except for its length. Not since 1992, when independent billionaire Ross Perot self-financed a series of infomercials, has a presidential candidate aired program-length advertisements in prime time. [snip] The campaign hired Davis...

Morning Talk Shows renewed thread because the old one seems lost.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was less than upfront in his half-hour commercial Wednesday night about the costs of his programs and the crushing budget pressures he would face in office. Obama's assertion that "I've offered spending cuts above and beyond" the expense of his promises is accepted only by his partisans. His vow to save money by "eliminating programs that don't work" masks his failure throughout the campaign to specify what those programs are - beyond the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. A sampling of what voters heard in the ad, and what he didn't tell...

Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales offered his own endorsement of Obama for President with an oozy review of Obama’s half-hour infomercial, which he called "Obamavision." That certainly was supposed to carry more than one meaning, including a tribute to Obama’s visionary politics. It wasn’t hidden in tiny type on the home page like yesterday’s sleaze-Internet-cash story. It stood out in bold lettering: "An Appeal to the Masses | Poetic and practical, Obama's paid political broadcast was a montage of montages." Shales was more syrupy than that in the full text: Somehow both poetic and practical, spiritual and sensible, the...

Here is video of reaction to Barack Obama's 30-minute infomercial last night by his two biggest fans - Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews of MSNBC. At the 55-second mark of the video, Matthews begins his review of the infomercial by saying "it was Hollywood, it was romance....." There's more fawning from both if you want to hear it . . . . . (Watch Video)

CHAPEL HILL - After Shawn Turschak saw two sets of McCain-Palin signs disappear from his yard within hours of being planted, he took steps to protect the latest pair. On Monday, he ran wires from his house and hooked the signs into a power source for an electric pet fence. Then he mounted a surveillance camera in a nearby tree and wired it to a digital recorder. Tuesday afternoon, the camera saw this: A neighbor trotting up with an Obama-Biden sign, grabbing a handful of volts as he touched a McCain-Palin sign, then fleeing at top 9-year-old boy speed. A...

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has gained a foothold in another voter demographic: astronauts. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, endorsed the Democratic candidate on Wednesday in an op-ed published in the Orlando Sentinel. Comparing Obama’s inspirational capabilities to those of JFK, she writes, “He has inspired young people to engage with their communities and has excited them about the possibilities of what they can accomplish. That is in the best spirit of discovery.” Space travel is not just the subject of childhood fantasies though. It’s primed to be a major policy issue for the next administration. NASA, currently...

The cascade of criticism from the mainstream media, directed at Barack Obama, continues unabated. Reporters are outraged that Obama first committed to taking public funding for the general election, and then changed his mind. And they are further upset that he is outspending John McCain by ratios of four to one, or more. “Outrageous!” thunders The Washington Post editorial page. “A scandal waiting to happen.” The latest wretched excess from the Obama campaign, of course, is the Illinois Democrats’ decision to buy a “roadblock” of prime time TV for a speech tonight. “Gross overkill,” fumed The New York Times in...