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How the tables have turned. In September 2008, when GOP presidential nominee John McCain said "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," unemployment was 6.1 percent, the credit crunch had yet to reach the point that prompted President George W. Bush to propose a bailout, and Team Obama proclaimed that an out-of-touch McCain "just doesn't get it" on the economy. Now with unemployment at 8.1 percent, the $700 billion-plus Bush bailout has been followed by the $787 billion Obama stimulus package, and some D.C. Democrats already are arguing for another stimulus package because the first Obama stimulus bill didn't do...

TERRY GARDNER, a legal secretary in California, returned home from work recently to find two police officers waiting. They said her brother had told them he thought she might be having a breakdown because she had shaved her head. Ms. Gardner, 50, said in a telephone interview that she had told the officers that she was fine and had shaved her head for an advertising campaign by Air New Zealand, which had hired her to display a temporary tattoo. She turned around and showed them the message, written in henna on the back of her head: “Need A Change? Head...

“This much is clear: Barack Obama and William Ayers were friends before that relationship became a political embarrassment for the Illinois Senator–Obama did pal around with a terrorist. According to his campaign, Barack Obama no longer believes Ayers has been rehabilitated. And William Ayers did target his own country. So what part of Governor’s Palin’s remarks are ‘beyond the pale.’ Perhaps Mr. Plouffe does not like Governor Palin’s inference that Barack Obama palled around with Ayers because Barack Obama has a different view of America than most of us. Yet the Obama campaign has offered no alternate explanation–they have not...

I am baffled why it is racist to inquire about the racist Rev. Wright when Obama himself not so long ago boasted of the value of his friendship with Wright, and sympathetic journalists saw the radical Wright as a sort of proof of Obama's leftwing fides. And while we are battered by economic news, and Wright becomes a "distraction", that defensive argument is largely used out of embarrassment, since at one time most in the Obama circle once saw Wright, in the mode of the Ayers friendship and the ACORN patronage, as a definite plus. Only when he became a...

The media is ferociously attacking the McCain campaign’s new Web-based ad linking Barack Obama and Bill Ayers. The ad is very short: Obama's blind ambition. When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied. Obama. Blind ambition. Bad judgment. Congressional liberals fought for risky subprime loans. Congressional liberals fought against more regulation. Then, the housing market collapsed costing you billions. In crisis, we need leadership, not bad judgment. A second longer ad released on the Web at the same time continues this point and argues: Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, friends. They have worked together for years,...

To listen to the Obama spin-masters you’d think that the McCain campaign’s questioning of their candidate’s association with unrepentant terrorist bomber Bill Ayers is a smear tactic falsely elevating a casual relationship between the two men into one where they worked together in promoting Ayers’ far-left goals. Their reaction to the continuing revelations that disprove that claim is one of sheer panic – and they have a good reason to be scared witless that any in-depth probe of what went on between the two comrades will reveal Obama’s true colors – all of them dark red!

If the election for President and Vice President were held today and you had to make a choice for whom would you vote?

Does Barack Obama have Kenyan citizenship? No. He held both U.S. and Kenyan citizenship as a child, but lost his Kenyan citizenship automatically on his 21st birthday.

McCain: Ayers will come up in debate By: Andy Barr October 14, 2008 11:05 AM EST John McCain said Tuesday that Barack Obama is “probably ensured” that his association with 1960s radical William Ayers will come up in Wednesday’s debate. “I was astonished to hear him say that he was surprised that I didn’t have the guts” to bring up Ayers, McCain said on KMOX, a St. Louis radio station. “I think he is probably ensured that it will come up this time.” McCain was responding to Obama’s charge last week that the Arizona senator was willing to make attacks...

In another piece of bad news for the McCain campaign, Sen. Barack Obama has taken a solid lead in four large battleground states, a new set of polls indicates. Sen. Obama has double-digit leads in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. He leads by a slightly smaller margin in Colorado, according to new Quinnipiac University polls conducted in conjunction with The Wall Street Journal and Washingtonpost.com. His prospects have improved in the wake of two debates with Sen. John McCain, and are enhanced by the fact that the electorate that views him as better prepared to deal with the economy. Sen. Obama...

Urgent request to all Freepers to help Stanley Kurtz gain access to embargoed Chicago Annenberg Challenge documents. Documents pertaining to Barack Obama's unknown relationship with William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist.

With Election Day now in sight, John McCain and Sarah Palin need to turn up the heat. Frustrated conservatives are waiting for some spirit and energy. This race is far from over. In fact, these final three weeks are the most critical of the campaign. What the McCain/Palin ticket needs to do is to genuinely address and capitalize on the tremendous level of disgust, distrust and dissatisfaction of the American people towards our government. As I wrote in my new book “Ted, White and Blue,” a May 20, 2008 Rasmussen poll found that 62% of the American public support fewer...

Leftist bloggers in an effort to denounce growing Internet claims that Barack Obama was a full-fledged member of the DSA & ACORN founded New Party, have claimed that uncovered New Party press releases were misleading. In the effort to denounce the claims on sites such as Daily Kos, fringe left sites have denounced the claims by pointing to the claims in the press releases that Danny Davis was a prominent member of the New Party. The argument by the fringe left, in an effort to suppress the story, is simply that Davis is a member of the Democratic Party and...

Barack Obama has erased traditional Republican advantages in four key bellwether counties that President George W. Bush won in 2000 and 2004, according to a new Politico/InsiderAdvantage survey. Each county is critical to the outcome in the battleground state where it is located. In Reno, Nevada's Washoe County, Obama leads McCain by a 46-45 percent margin, with six percent undecided. Obama posts a wider 50-44 percent lead with five percent undecided in Raleigh, North Carolina's Wake County, and another 6-point lead in Hillsborough County, Fla., where Tampa is located. There, he edges McCain 47-41 percent, with 11 percent undecided. Among...

A note from Radarsite: So you think you know all there is to know about Bill Ayers and his lovely wife Bernadine Dorhn, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. They were just mixed up young kids, "War Protesters", even "60's radicals. But what they did was in the end pretty harmless and they have since repented. Well, get ready for some shocking revelations from Vodka Pundit's Will Collier. Traitorous, murderous and unrepentant -- these are just a few of the words which come to mind. There are many others of course. Read the following bombshell article and ask yourself what are...

It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. And guess what? Bill Ayers is still palling around with the same bitterly anti-American Afrocentric ideologues that he and Obama were promoting a decade ago. All this is revealed by a bit of digging, combined with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in...

I really thought we’d put this conspiracy theory to rest over the summer, but it has arisen like a zombie yet again to suck the credibility out of the conservative blogosphere. I have had at least 40 e-mails begging me to watch this video featuring Phillip Berg, a PUMA suing Barack Obama and the Democratic Party to prove Obama’s citizenship — even though Obama has already produced a certification of live birth from Hawaii that would get him a passport any day of the week: Last week, we got tons of e-mail purporting to claim that Berg had won in...

I counted Odingagate, foreignmoneygate, Acornvotegate, foulweatherfriendsgate or Ayersgate, Rezkomoneygate, Pseudo-citizengate, Aidandabetenemiesgate, Socialistnewpartygate, RevWrightgate, what else? Looks more and more likely all these will snowball into a Huge Dark Cloud over Obama by Election day! We the People, may not have big bucks, celebrity status, but we shall arise and use the weapons of emails, faxes and blogs, to do what the liberal mainstream media has failed to do! I realize I have been neglecting my work and sleep, but it's a small price to contribute a little towards the awakening of the brainwashed and brain dead American voters! I sense...

Why won't the McCain campaign attack Obama for an association more damaging than Bill Ayers—the one with Chicago pastor Jeremiah Wright? Unlike Ayers, the Rev. Wright indisputably was one of Obama's closest friends. Obama himself has said so. Nobody in America needs to be reminded of who Wright is. As long as you've decided to go after Obama's character and associations, Wright seems like the obvious place to start. The 30-second attack ad essentially writes itself. So Jeremiah Wright probably won't figure directly in this campaign. But at some point, it would be nice to hear Obama explain his relationship...

The media are piling on against John McCain and some pundits are predicting it's all over, that Barack Obama has somehow won the election. As the old saying goes, it's not over until the fat lady sings, and it's high time for the fat lady to sing about Obama's scary agenda and the many reasons why it is too risky to elect him president. We need to hear more about ACORN, the special-interest group that would like to steal this election by registering people who are not eligible to vote, such as registering ghost voters in Nevada under the names...

I've said repeatedly that Obama lies as easily as he breathes. More proof of this has been self-evident in his "giving 95% of voters a tax-cut." (Only I guess its not as self-evident as I would like it to be - because liberals are stupid and do not look at facts when their Messiah speaks.) But here's the thing. The bottom roughly 37% of citizens do not pay federal taxes. So that means that under his plan only 58% will get a "tax-cut". Those bottom 37%ers will be getting PURE WELFARE. Stolen directly from the small business owners of America...

This is Phillip Berg in his own words describing the Case against Obama's citizenship. This is beyond important. This is the largest Fraud ever comitted in US History if its correct, and the timer is ticking for Obama... he refuses to produce any records at all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs

Here, point by point, is why this is the most powerful argument against Obama that we cna use. - Obama chose to spent more time (6 days) in Kenya campaigning for his 'cousin" Odinga than he spent fact-finding in Iraq and Afghanistan - Obama chose to support a candidate who was an avowed Communist - Obama chose to support a candidate who backed imposition of Sharia law in a country that was over 80% Christian - Obama chose to support a candidate (Odinga) who supported minority Islamists who opposed the Kenya's support of the War on Terror - Obama chose...

Fox News/Rasmussen Reports polling this week in Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia shows a very stable race whose underlying dynamic strongly favors Barack Obama over John McCain. FL O 51 M 46 OH 0 49 M 47 VA o 50 M 47 MO O 50 M 47 NC O 49 M 49

May 29, 2008 By Cliff Kincaid Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist "journalist" named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin. http://sixties-l.blogspot.com/2008/06/network-behind-bush-bashing-book.html

During his career in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama never saw a tax increase that he didn't like. CBS News Jan 17, 2007 - 'Obama occasionally supported higher taxes, joining other Democrats in pushing to raise more than 300 taxes and fees on businesses in 2004 to help solve a budget deficit. The increases passed the Senate 30-28.' Fox News Feb. 27, 2008 - 'A new report says he supported more than 300 tax hikes during his eight years in the Illinois State Senate'. Yet, these reports do not even begin to demonstrate the fiscal irresponsibility practiced by Obama. Facing...

This is the result of countless hours of research, Over 90% of the dates and events can be easily documented. What happened during his Occidental and Columbia colleges days are exceptions. Feel free to use this in any U-tubes, articles or shows. There is no attempt to exaggerate, no need to. Any open minded, undecided voters reading this will find it troubling! How could this radical be a “decent guy”? A man is known by the company he keeps and the mentors he had! I highlighted the more important ones in BOLD. Worth reading even for you informed researchers. I...

I've been out of pocket since Thursday, but turned on the Sunday shows and nearly hurled. John Lewis plays the race card like no one else. The idea that he would use George Wallace's name to describe the McCain/Palin campaigning is sickening. John Lewis is not to be criticized given the abuse against him during the civil-right marches, but John McCain can be compared to Wallace despite his heroic service to this country and torture as a POW. Barack Obama's campaign has managed to paint Geraldine Ferraro, Bill Clinton, John McCain, and Sarah Palin as racists. Meanwhile, how dare anyone...

Firsthand News From Missionaries in Obama's Kenya Published in October 11th, 2008 Posted by Berlet98 in AMERICAN CULTURE TODAY, ISLAM IN ACTION, OBAMA, OUR WORLD, POLITICS The following unconfirmed communication was received from Kyle-Ann Shiver of CommonSenseRegained.com: Dear Readers, This came in from a reader I know well…need to pass this on as well. The experiences recounted last week by Jerome Corsi in Kenya are confirmed by this earlier communication and should be heeded. [Corsi, author of Obamanation, was recently “detained” in Kenya for “political activities” relating to promoting his book: Treatment of Anti-Obama Author in Kenya Called "Counter-Productive" and...

The Obama defenders are complaining that William Ayers’ radical bombings in the late 1960s and early 1970s are dismissible as "old news." They declare Obama's associations to be "irrelevant." (Somehow I'm prompted to wonder what they'd say if McCain were a friend of a 1940s Nazi prison camp guard.) Yet Obama's associations are relevant, as they are in fact current news, and they speak to his judgment, character and to his political proclivities and inclinations. And we can never forget that a man is known by the company he keeps. Here is a brief accounting of over a dozen of...

VIDEO LINK, Breitbart TV

This new web video produced by the RNC again hits on Obama's ties to unrepentent domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. It describes Ayers as a terrorist in the 1960s and 1970s and makes the point that a total of 7 people were killed by terrorists in the Weather Underground group. It also goes into a little more detail about Obama & Ayers' 8-year relationship as colleagues.

Suddenly, the presidential campaigns are addressing an issue that should have been at the forefront of this year’s election long ago. Call it “characters count.” We know people – especially public figures – by the company they keep. And we need to know much more about, to put it charitably, the characters that have figured prominently for years in Barack Obama’s life. Over the weekend, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin brought the issue to the fore by observing caustically that the Democrats’ would-be commander-in-chief has “palled around with terrorists.” The Obama campaign immediately deployed talking points and a television...

It’s time for John McCain to fire his campaign. He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obama’s. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed. He may be anyway. Bush is unpopular. The media is hostile. The financial meltdown has made things tougher. Maybe the...

Reuters C-SPAN Zogby Poll: Obama Widens Lead To 6 Points Over McCain October 12th, 2008 By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief A new Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll finds that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has widened his lead over Republican Sen. John McCain to six points which is outside the margin of error - -the latest in a series of polls showing McCain increasingly trailing the Illinois Senator: Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama took a step into rarified air this morning, standing for the first time outside the statistical margin of error in a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby likely voter poll. The survey shows him...

I have confirmation from another Freeper that they will pay $300.00 and I will pay $33.00 as a bounty to the first person who provides me with an electronic copy of "Fugitive Days" for the purpose of analysis to determine if Obama's "memoirs" were ghost written by William Ayers. I will use the "signature" software to compare Obama's writings with Ayers for a complete analysis. The purpose of this is to build upon and extend the work of Mr. Jack Cashill. See http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/more_proof_ayers_ghosted.htm

Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing. Then, five years later, this untested 33 year-old produced what Time Magazine has called -- with a straight face -- "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician." The public is asked to believe Obama wrote Dreams From My Father on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant. I do not buy this canard for a minute, not at all. Writing is as much a craft as, say, golf. To put this in...

There's a lot of frustration among conservatives over how Barack Obama's radical past seems to be making no impact whatsoever among the American public. His connection to communists in particular, from communist-terrorists like Bill Ayers to the communist agitator-journalist Frank Marshall Davis to fellow travelers like Saul Alinsky, has simply failed to resonate beyond the political right. Quite the contrary, the more information that becomes available on Obama's radical associations, the more he seems to widen his lead over John McCain, a man who was tortured by communists in Vietnam. I understand these frustrations completely. I'm also not surprised. I...

Audio link : Radio Interview on 10/7/2008 between Jerome Corsi and Sean Hannity talking about the visit to Kenya and how he got out of Kenya with the documents (emails) between Odinga and Barack Hussein Obama. The emails are to be the source of his TV show on Monday evening but you know that Sean will hype it on Monday’s radio show. Here is the Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x9VQ5_Iqzk

JERUSALEM – One of the main founders of the Weathermen terrorist organization is a signatory to an independent organization acting to ensure the election of Sen. Barack Obama, WND has learned. The group in question, Progressives for Obama, also includes among its ranks many former members of the 1960s radical organization Students for a Democratic Society, from which the Weathermen splintered, as well as current and former members of other radical organizations, such as the Communist Party USA and the Black Radical Congress. In its creed, first published in March in the Nation magazine, the Progressives for Obama founders state...

October 12, 2008 Many of us conservatives were not going to vote for you nor Obama, until you picked Gov. Palin as your running mate. Even Dr. James Dobson & Rush changed their mind and now are rooting for you! Many of us are working very hard to help you win, me personally have spent countless hours. We salute your military record and we understand your desire to be a gentleman in dealing with Sen. Obama, but this is a battle for the soul and future of America! Your unfortunate statement that,” No, Sen, Obama is a decent man whom...

From Freeper philly ray: Several things. It is alleged that Ed Hale, an avid Hillary supporter, has confirmed that he has in his possession a certified copy of a Kenyan birth certificate for Obama. This was reported by several posts I have read. Ed Hale's site and his radio station have been removed and it is stated that they were shut down for security reasons. Another posting I came across alleges that Phil Berg would neither confirm nor deny the report and that everything is being kept hushed for security reasons and that Phil Berg will not respond unitl he...

Someone is lying. According to Obama's Kenyan (paternal) grandmother, as well as his half-brother and half-sister, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii as the Democratic candidate for president claims. His grandmother bragged that her grandson is about to be President of the United States and is so proud because she was present DURING HIS BIRTH IN KENYA, in the delivery room. -This, according to several news sites and Pennsylvania attorney Philip J. Berg (see video below) who is, surprisingly, a life long democrat himself. Berg is the former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, and he has...

Odinga and Morris lovefest, painful to watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyprn8P8FaU

I will abandon this project unless I get some help. I need volunteers to commit to the project and give me their email address. I have had one Freeper donate money and several Freepers commit to help with non-monetary part only to flake out later. I asked Freepers for the following, but you people have only partially delivered. If someone has ghostwritten Obama's "memoirs" lets find out who. 1. Volunteer to find or type in Ayers book “Fugitive Days” into electronic form* 2. Money for basic analysis software- DONE(fellow freeper) 3. Obama’s “memoirs” translated into electronic form-Partially DONE(need to correct...

Sarah Palin sat down Friday night with Tribune-Review political reporter Salena Zito for a wide-ranging interview that covered the economy, education, energy and the Alaska governor's approach to governing. It was Palin's first face-to-face interview with a print reporter as Republican vice presidential candidate. John McCain's running mate was in Pittsburgh for a fundraiser at the Westin Convention Center Hotel, Downtown.

Most Americans wake every morning to news that Barack Obama will win next month's presidential election. Strategists even say the word "landslide" aloud. Every poll shows it, every pundit echoes it, and every analyst predicts it -- therefore it must be true, right? Let's take this political axiom to some of those who do the predicting, to project what America will look like under an Obama administration, governing with a Democrat congressional majority led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

sh.... Let me let y'all in on a little secret. Nothing pisses off the illegals and recent legal immigrants than when they have a relative that is here legally and he doesn't help his family out. Doesn't sign appications for green cards, etc.. no money... no help. If you want to really give the guy a suka punch, put out the ads with questions about how he doesn't have close ties to his extended family, why doesn't he help them out? How can he be so blessed in America and yet not try to assist his family to immigrate? Does...

While many in the media are accusing the McCain campaign of throwing everything they have at Barack Obama in the closing weeks of this presidential election cycle, other than Mark Hyman's Washington Times commentary today and World Net Daily's online coverage, little is being discussed about Obama's support of Kenya's tyrant Prime Minister Raila Odinga. This popular internet video at 6:26 in cites Obama's connection and support for Odinga. An edited version of this internet video exists here and an Obama/Odinga on the campaign trail is here. All 3 video embeds are at Eyeblast.tv. The Odinga association may be even...