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This is an update of my 8:37 a.m. post -- at the bottom I've included a complete transcript of Prof. Charles Ogletree's attack on white Americans as racist. A reader suggested it would be good to post a transcript, and I'm putting both the old and new material in one new post to keep things simple. Also, don't miss the clip from Ogletree's speech in which he admits that the Obama campaign has hidden Rev. Wright until after the election (he even jokes about it, to much laughter from the Harvard crowd): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfXMap08CWcORIGINAL POST: Now we have TWO prominent Obama...

Here is video of Democrat Jerrold Nadler of New York laying out the case that Barack Obama is "not politically courageous," as evidenced by his staying in Jeremiah Wright's church (whom Nadler called a "nut") for 20 years because of political expediency. . . . .

Now we have TWO prominent Obama supporters recently injecting race into the campaign. Each calls Obama biracial (not black or African-American). 1. A senior advisor to Obama (Harvard law prof. Charles Ogletree) said in an Oct. 25 speech at Harvard that white Americans are racist, and they can't disprove that by electing Obama, because he's biracial: http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=135792. A Democratic congressman (Jerrold Nadler) recently said that Obama likely felt to have a political career he HAD to join Jeremiah Wright's radical black church, because he's biracial (i.e., to prove he was "black enough"), and once Obama realized "the guy's a lunatic,"...

At an event at a Boca Raton synagogue, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) said that the United States should let Russia invade Georgia. Beginning at the 3:50 mark in the following YouTube video, which was recorded by Pamela Geller of the blog Atlas Shrugs, Nadler says: We have not been willing to put our priorities properly. We have not been willing to say ... "Hey Russia, we won't expand NATO into the Ukraine and Georgia, right next to your borders, if you cooperate with us on Iran." ... I think Iran and Israel are a hell of a lot more important...

"Obama didn't have the political courage to make a statement and walk out." [of Reverend Wright's racist church] One of my stops on THE GREAT SCHLEP. I just came from an Jerrold Nadler event at the Boca Raton synagogue where he was lying through his teeth to make the case that Obama was good for Israel. ...Nadler would love to take back words uttered today at 4:45 in Boca Raton (the mouth of the rat) Nadler is asked how Obama could sit in Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church for 500 Sundays listing to the anti-semitic, anti-American diatribes This is not going...

There is a full force effort to push amnesty by stealth and deception that started last weekend. The Bush administration is going around the legislative process to push more 'guest workers'....30 million of 'em just isn't enough. Witness these headlines buried in the overlooked Sunday News. US to launch $1 BILLION 'Plan Mexico' Illegals may give state more clout - more seats in Congress Kucinich-Sponsored Resolution Approved at National Latino Congreso Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate U.S . lets in more immigrants for farms Study: illegal alien population may be as high as...

A few weeks ago, former White House aide Bradford Berenson testified before the House Judiciary Committee about the much-debated question of whether suspected-terrorist detainees should have habeas-corpus rights. During one exchange, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.) had this to say: "I don't see how you can pick up someone in New York and say that his rights are different or less because he's accused of being an enemy combatant, based on whatever information, as opposed to his being accused of being a murderer. . . ." Berenson responded: "[W]e need to be clear about what that means. It means that...

In the week after 9/11, Christie Whitman, the former head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, assured New Yorkers that "their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink." Today, Whitman will finally face tough questions about those fateful words at a congressional hearing headed by U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan). We now know the collapse of the twin towers and the fires which burned for months at Ground Zero triggered the worst toxic release our nation has seen: thousands of tons of asbestos, lead, chromium, benzene, PCBs, dioxins, highly-caustic cement dust and hundreds of other...

August 23, 2006 -- A furious Rep. Jerrold Nadler yesterday charged federal environmental officials are involved in what "amounts to a conspiracy to murder thousands of New Yorkers" by refusing to expand the clean-up area around Ground Zero. Nadler and other Democrats turned up at City Hall to denounce President Bush, the EPA, Gov. Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. "We're a blue state and we're a blue city," said Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. "If this was Ohio or Florida or Iowa, the response from the federal government

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted Tuesday to prevent law enforcement officers from confiscating legally owned guns during a national disaster or emergency. Republican Rep. Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana lawmaker who sponsored the bill, said firearms seizures after Hurricane Katrina left residents unable to defend themselves. "Many of them were sitting in their homes without power, without water, without communication," he said. "It was literally impossible to pick up a phone and call 911." The House voted 322-99 in support of the bill. Senators voted 84-16 earlier this month to include a similar prohibition in a homeland security funding bill....

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a New York-based wire service that serves Jewish newspapers worldwide, launched a scorching four-part series on the Ford Foundation. Written by investigative reporter Edwin Black, the series, "Funding Hate," alleged that Ford had provided financial support to several Palestinian nongovernmental organizations accused of anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic behavior at the United Nations World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in late summer 2001. A Ford spokesman denied the thrust of Black's allegations: "We have seen no indication that our grantees in Durban or elsewhere engaged in anti-Semitic speech or activities." One month later, after a political...

The Talk Shows Sunday, January 22nd, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill.; University of Maryland's men's basketball coach Gary Williams. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn. THIS WEEK (ABC): John Kerry, D-Mass.; Reps. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., and Jane Harman, D-Calif., chairman and ranking Democrat of the House Intelligence Committee; actor Gary Sinise. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. George Allen, R-Va., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat...

Washington -- House Democrats warned President Bush, top leaders of his administration and officials of the National Security Agency on Friday that if the political climate changes they could face criminal prosecution for ordering and carrying out warrantless domestic eavesdropping. "These are clearly crimes and the statute of limitations extends beyond this president's term,'' which will end in January 2009, said Rep. Jerry Nadler D-N.Y., at an ad hoc hearing called by House Judiciary Committee's Democrats to assail Bush's contention that his order for warrantless domestic wiretaps on American citizens is legal.

In the United States, roughly 10 per cent of all cancers, more than 100,000 cases a year, could be avoided if overweight and obesity did not exist, updated statistics on the proportion of cancer due to obesity say. The new projections stem from a review of published studies, updates to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) report from 2002, and data from the Nurses' Health Study II, which includes 116,686 women, Dr Graham Colditz said at a press briefing at the American Association for Cancer Research's international conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. By applying the current...

The general media view of Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor who has indicted “Scooter” Libby for perjury, obstruction of justice, and false statements in the Plame leak investigation is that he is an incorruptible “prosecutor’s prosecutor.” A closer look at an earlier communications interception case involving Senator Tom Harkin (D, Iowa) and the Libby case, a curious recommendation for him made by Representative Gerald Nadler (D, NY), and his own background all suggest something far different and more sinister. I. THE TWO CASES According to an October 22, 2005 NewsMax article, http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/22/142646.shtml Fitzgerald. was the U.S. Attorney assigned to investigate...

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are so pleased with reports that Leakgate prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is about to indict senior White House officials that they want him to lead an impeachment investigation into whether President Bush lied to Congress about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. "The CIA leak issue is only the tip of the iceberg,” House Judiciary Democrat Jerrold Nadler complains in a message posted to his web site. In a letter asking the Justice Department to expand the scope of Fitzgerald's investigation, Nadler says: "We now have reason to believe that high crimes may have been committed...

Two of the lowest bottom feeders in the congress have joined to try to pass a change in the immigration laws which would allow gay Americans to sponsor their alien partners for citizenship in the same way real couples are able to sponsor potential spouses. depends Leahy in the Senate S1278 and fat jerry nadler in the House HR 3006 are behind this sneaky move. So far it's bottled up in the House Committee on the Judicary. Call you Congress member and demand that it stay there. It's things just like this that should remind us daily of why we...

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Jerrold Nadler's Two Faces on Terror By Jacob LaksinFrontPageMagazine.com | June 13, 2005Last Friday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Patriot Act had already been adjourned, but Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic blimpish congressman from New York and one of the leftmost members of the House Judiciary Committee, was too wound up to care: “We are not besmirching the honor of the United States, we are trying to uphold it,” bellowed the hefty Nadler. By this, Nadler meant to defend his attacks on the alleged abuses of the (in fact) privileged  prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Thanks to the efforts of the...

c By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer 32 minutes ago The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot Act. The House Judiciary Committee hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew those sections of the post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set to expire in September. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the panel, abruptly gaveled the meeting to an end and walked out, followed by other Republicans. Sensenbrenner declared that much of the...