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Anyone who saw Barack Obama at Berlin's Siegessäule on Thursday could recognize that this man will become the 44th president of the United States. He is more than ambitious -- he wants to lay claim to become the president of the world.

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...

SDEROT, Israel (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama assured Israel and its U.S. Jewish supporters on Wednesday he was a friend who would not press for peace concessions that would compromise its security. Hailing Israel as a "miracle," he vowed staunch support and held only a low-profile meeting with Palestinian leaders in the occupied West Bank. Obama, seeking to allay wariness among some U.S. Jewish voters about his policy towards Israel, flew to Sderot, a town hit by rockets fired from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, saying he hoped to bring peace but would not dictate the terms of...

Senator Obama is currently in Iraq, touring the country and speaking in person with Iraqi and American officials, including commanding officers like General David Petraeus, the mastermind behind the successful troop surge that paved the way for an unprecedented new level of security and tranquility throughout Iraq. General Petraeus, among other officials (including Iraqis) have repeatedly warned Senator Obama in private discussions that any type of premature withdrawal of troops, without first meeting certain criteria and conditions, could prove catastrophic. Despite the media’s portrayals of Iraqi nationals wanting US forces out as soon as possible, most people with whom Obama...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama conferred with senior Iraqi leaders, U.S. officials and military commanders Monday, as a spokesman for the Iraqi government declared that it would like U.S. combat forces to complete their withdrawal by the end of 2010. The comments by spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh mark the second time in recent days that a senior Iraqi has endorsed a timetable for U.S. withdrawal that is roughly similar to the one advocated by Obama. Dabbagh suggested that a combat force pullout could be completed by the end of 2010, which would be about seven months longer than Obama's 16-month formulation....

Barack Obama said Tuesday that security in Iraq has improved and the United States must soon bring that war to an end so military forces can “finish the fight” against terrorists in Afghanistan. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, in the first press conference of his high-profile overseas trip, said political progress must still be achieved in Iraq. But following meetings with the political leaders of both Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama said he stands by his goal of withdrawing U.S. combat brigades from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.

Got the following e-mail from the Daily Outrage: We're proud to present you with 17 cartoons specially commissioned for the Daily Outrage! Check them out at http://www.dailyoutrage.com/archive.php?story_id=56 Here are some sample titles. Send your favorites to a friend! · OBAMA LEADS NEW POLITBURO! · GUILTY WHITES ELECT OBAMA! · MCCAIN - ALWAYS PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! · MICHELLE "ASHAMED TO BE AN AMERICAN" OBAMA! · OBAMA GOES TO MEETING WITH JACKSON! · OBAMA PRACTICES HIS FRENCH! · IF HE WASN'T BLACK, THIS CANDIDACY WOULD BE A JOKE · WE LOVE OBAMA - HE'S PRETTY AND YOUNG · WHO CARES...

According to a reporter friend, he has discovered the following quotes in Obama's books. Have not verified, but if they are there...... and "ooops!" From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.' From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.' From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of...

Barack Obama recently finished a $500,000 total overhaul of his 757. And as part of the new design, he decided to remove the American flag from the tail. What American running for President of the United States would remove the symbol of his country? And worse, he replaced the flag with it with a symbol of himself. Photo of plane reprinted with written permission of the photographer.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - CHOOSING THE NEXT PRESIDENT At this time in America, two men are campaigning for the Presidency of the United States. It is a time of war, a war against Islamic Jiahd, who hate America and want to destroy her. In dealing with this very real and imminent threat, both men had the opportunity earlier in their lives to travel abroad: As a result of that travel and their experiences during it, one heard the call to serve America, the other heard the call to, by his own admission, "change" America. As a result, in the...

NYT REJECTS MCCAIN'S EDITORIAL; SHOULD 'MIRROR' OBAMA Mon Jul 21 2008 12:00:25 ET An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES -- less than a week after the paper published an essay written by Obama, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The paper's decision to refuse McCain's direct rebuttal to Obama's 'My Plan for Iraq' has ignited explosive charges of media bias in top Republican circles. 'It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece,' NYT Op-Ed editor David Shipley explained in an email late Friday...

To those for whom Obama is an almost religious icon, the thought of him soiling himself by compromising his stances and breaking his promises, is a letdown of almost Biblical proportions. Poor Barack Obama. In the space of a few short weeks, he has gone from liberal savior with a 15-point lead over John McCain, to a mere mortal in a dead heat in the polls. He has alienated some of his base by flip-flopping on issues like the FISA vote, partial-birth abortion and most importantly, stating that he will continue to “refine” his Iraq War policy. In addition to...

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Governor Kathleen Sebelius has found herself in the middle of the KU t-shirt turmoil.

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has been known to show some fairly racy video clips of young women in various stages of undress. O'Reilly explains that while some viewers criticize him for showing salacious images as he denounces the decline of American culture, he has an obligation to show his audience the tawdry reality that prompted his righteous rant. Not so when it came to Jesse Jackson, who was caught criticizing Barack Obama for "talking down to black people" on a hot microphone off air at Fox studios on July 6. "The O'Reilly Factor" then aired some of Jackson's comments,...

Liberal activists are blasting Barack Obama for shifting toward the center on a variety of issues, creating a tension that poses risks for his candidacy. But in another sign of how the Internet is changing politics, the conflict has led to a surprisingly direct give-and-take between candidate and critics - a development that may prove healthy for the campaign. Just as Obama mastered Internet politics as he swept toward the nomination, now activists and bloggers are using some of the same tools to bring pressure to bear on the candidate. Obama, a former community organizer, is responding in kind -...

Why Beer Is Better Than Obama "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Benjamin Franklin Soldiers like beer. Sailors like beer. Marines like beer. Beer won't take half your paycheck. You're sad if there's no more beer. Beer makes life a little better. You know what's in beer. Beer doesn't come from Madrassas.

During my more than 60 years of covering national politics, I have never seen a candidate's principles and character so effectively tarnished — after so extraordinarily inspiring a start — as Barack Obama's. He has come to resemble another mellifluous orator I came to know in Boston during my first time reporting on a campaign — James Michael Curley, the skilful prestidigitator whom Spencer Tracy masterfully played in the movie "The Last Hurrah." Obama's deflation has not been due to ruthless opposition research by John McCain's team but by the "change" candidate himself. Like millions of Americans, I, for a...

When Barack Obama addressed the National Council of La Raza on Sunday, he pandered when he said America's immigration system "isn't working ... when companies hire undocumented immigrants instead of legal citizens to avoid paying overtime or to avoid a union; when communities are terrorized by (U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency) raids - when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel." When Obama accuses the men and woman who administer federal laws of viciously tearing nursing babies from their...

Billboards bearing a photo of the Twin Towers burning and a plea not to vote for Democrats has sparked controversy in Orlando, Florida. The person behind the billboard, Mike Meehan, is holding the Democrats responsible for the 9/11 attacks: "I'm holding the entire Democratic Party responsible for the attacks on 9/11," said Meehan, who wrote, sang, produced and recorded the song. He said people should not vote for Democrats because they are too focused on solving the problems in the economy when they should be focused on the war on terrorism. [. . .] "Democrats are relaxed on fighting the...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A controversial billboard in Orange County has a picture of the burning World Trade Center and the message, "Please Don't Vote for a Democrat." The man who paid for the ad says he's trying to help Republicans, but officials with both political parties are calling the billboard inappropriate. There are billboards up and down busy Orange Blossom Trail, but this at John Young Parkway (see map) one sticks out. "Just looking at it, I'm not thinking about Democrat or Republican, I'm thinking about the twin towers and all the people killed," resident Mary Anderson told Eyewitness...

What happens if it turns out that we've nominated two unelectable candidates for president? Do we get our money back? This illustration provided by The New Yorker magazine, the cover of the July 21, 2008 issue by artist Barry Blitt, shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist. The magazine says the cover is meant to satirize the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Obamas campaign, but Obama's campaign called it "tasteless and offensive." (AP Photo/New Yorker) Logic, common sense and the Constitution insist that either...

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BERLIN (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has slammed a request by Barack Obama to give a speech this month before the Brandenburg Gate as inappropriate, her deputy spokesman said Wednesday. The conservative leader said that while she would be pleased to meet the US Democratic presidential hopeful, it would be wrong for him to hold a "campaign rally" at the historic symbol of German unity. "It is unusual to do electioneering abroad," spokesman Thomas Steg told reporters. "It is unusual to hold election rallies abroad. No German candidate for high office would even think of using the National Mall...

Could it be? (We control the horizontal...vertical...you will be assimilated...you have been prepared...) Tu-voc, Star Trek Voyager Ba-rak Hussein Obama

WASHINGTON, US - BARACK Obama will buck tradition and accept the Democratic presidential nomination in August at a 75,000 capacity football stadium, the party said on Monday, in what will likely be a spectacular photo-op. The Illinois Senator's formal prime time speech is being switched to Invesco Field, home of the Denver Broncos American football franchise, from a smaller indoor hockey and basketball arena hosting the rest of the convention. Mr Obama attracted massive and enthusiastic crowds during his victorious primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, and party officials said the new venue would again help fire up grass-roots activists countywide....

Does Google Inc. violate the same "neutrality" principles that it wants mandated for Internet providers like Comcast Corp.? That's the argument being made by some who accuse the search behemoth of hypocrisy when it comes to free speech on the Internet. Here's the deal: Mountain View, Calif.-based Google recently drew the ire of several authors of anti-Obama blogs, hosted on the company's Blogger platform, whose posting rights were temporarily suspended after Google identified as them "potential spam blogs." "You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not...

Word is out that Barack Obama and his campaign's brain trust are thinking of staging the most audacious photo op in American political history. But this one will take place on German, not American, soil: Democratic US presidential candidate Barack Obama has requested permission to give an address at the Brandenburg Gate when he visits Berlin later this month, according to German media reports. If permission is granted, the address would be loaded with historical significance. The Brandenburg Gate is where former US President Ronald Regan gave a famous speech in 1987, during which he asked then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...

Nobama Network is a portal site designed to bring together the Grass Roots Movements in America spawned by outrage over the actions of the DNC disenfranchising voters, reassigning delegates, selecting their illegitimate Nominee and diminishing the most basic factor that makes America great, our right to vote and be heard! We are the Voice of the Voters! Democrats, Republicans, Independents, united we stand!

Are The NY TImes Obama Drugs Wearing Off ? Its taken a long time but it looks as if that hit of Barack Obama LSD that the NY Times too may be wearing off. Today's Times editorial criticized the "chosen one" for his flip-flops on public financing, the FISA bill, faith based federal programs, the death penalty and gun control. I think the best part is near the end, where the Times editorial board admonishes the Senator NOT to change is position on Iraq, obviously it was written before yesterday's flip-flop: Editorial New and Not Improved Senator Barack Obama stirred...

PATRIOTISM - A COMPARATIVE PICTORIAL STUDYOF THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN A TIME OF WAR JOHN MCCAIN SERVED AND SUFFERED FOR HIS COUNTRY WHILE BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, BY HIS OWN ADMISSION, WAS SMOKING DOPE MCCAIN CAME HOME & SERVED ABLY FOR DECADES IN THE US HOUSE & SENATE WHILE OBAMA BEFRIENDED DOMESTIC TERRORISTS & HATE FILLED AMERICANS WEATHERMAN BILL AYERS & BLACK MILITANT JEREMIAH WRIGHT MCCAIN HAS BEEN KNOWN FOR DECADES FOR HIS BIPARTISANSHIP IN THE US SENATE OBAMA IS KNOWN IN THE US SENATE AS THE MOST LIBERAL PARTSIAN MEMBER THERE NOW, BOTH WANT TO BE PRESIDENT. WHO...

This thread is for FReepers everywhere to post their anti-Obama bumper stickers, t-shirts, and yard sign pics, and relate their experiences with the same. Try and give a clear picture of the anti-obama sign, t-shirt, or bumper sticker out in the public. Date the sighting, and give the town and state. If you have had any experience with the same, particularly in discussing the election and the truth about Barack Hussein Obama with others, please relate them briefly. Please, no profane immoral, or explicit shots. Just good old fashioned American activism in educating and informing others. I'll start: NOBAMA '08...

Reaction to last week’s historic Supreme Court decision overturning the D.C. ban on guns illustrates how far the American people have come in embracing and understanding the Second Amendment. Democrats have accepted that they have been on the losing side, so much so that their presidential nominee is whitewashing his radical anti-gun record. In a statement last week on the Heller case verdict Sen. Barack Obama said “the D.C. gun ban went too far.” Obama went on to say in his post-Heller statement, “Today’s ruling, the first clear statement on this issue in 127 years, will provide much-needed guidance to...

The New York Post came up with three ways Barack Obama can prove he's really patriotic. Here's Fox and Friends reporting...

Obama’s Unity hug-fest with Hillary Clinton was nothing but symbolism. I’m told it looked fabulous on TV. As Ben Smith notes, it got a ton of coverage without providing any real news. But live, it was a dreadful event. Because Unity is such a small town, there was no place for everyone to park. The campaign set up off-site parking in Newport and Claremont, and attendees had to ride buses in. People arrived from as far as Massachusetts, as early as 6 a.m. to get good seats to the 1 p.m. event. When I caught the bus from Claremont at...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, one of the things that -- we talk about the Drive-By Media here quite a bit, and we analyze them a lot, and there have been periods of time in this program I've frankly gotten tired of it because everybody knows that they have a bias and everybody knows that they have an agenda, and what's news about it? I try to ignore 'em, and just can't. They are such a destructive force. They are so heavily aligned with the Democrats. But perhaps the thing of which they are the most responsible and guilty is a...

FINDLAY, Ohio - On his corner of College Street, Jim Peterman stares at the four American flags planted in his front lawn and rubs his forehead. Peterman, 74, is a retired worker at Cooper Tire, a father of two, an Air Force veteran and a self-described patriot. He took one trip to Washington in 1989 -- best vacation of his life -- and bought a statue of the Washington Monument that he still displays in a glass case in his living room. He believes a smart vote is an American's greatest responsibility. Which is why his confusion about Barack Obama...

Barack Obama has weighed-in on the issue of reinstating the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” After being repeatedly questioned about the candidate’s position, campaign Press Secretary Michael Ortiz stated in an email message that “Senator Obama does not support re-imposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters.” This position could be yet another one of those “deeply-held convictions” that Obama believes in unequivocally, similar to his long-held position on campaign finance reform. In January of 2007, Obama stated in a CNN interview with Larry King that the public-financing system “works.” Later that year, Mr. Obama challenged Republican presidential candidates to join him in limiting...

<p>"Barack Obama Is Not and Has Never Been a Muslim," followed by: "Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim."</p> <p>I have a few questions for Obama's campaign and anyone inerested in researching Obama's background...which when considering him for the President of the United States, we as voters in this Republic have a de facto responsibility to do when any questions arise.</p>

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-messianic figure, but once forced into...

I don’t begrudge Barack Obama the modesty of his accomplishments as a community organizer. Stemming the tide of urban decay in Chicago’s worst neighborhoods in the late 1980s was beyond even the most tireless efforts of one man. “Sisyphean” is the term that keeps coming to mind, but I would note that what Obama actually accomplished – “a successful effort to convince the city of Chicago to locate a jobs placement office on the far South Side and his part in a drive to push the city to clean asbestos out of a housing project in the same area [Altgeld...

Hillary Clinton supporters with anti-Obama Web sites are rallying together online. CNN's Abbi Tatton reports.

Communist China Protecting Obama Add to the list of people who love Obama -- the despotic, communist regime of China. We received information which we verified that the Chinese government has our site, and several other NOBAMA-type websites, blocked in their country. That's right, the despotic communist regime there in China doesn't want its people reading what we write here. They love Obama and all far-left people such as his buddy George Soros, because they represent what China and all other enemies of this country hope is the future of America -- despotism and total government control over the lives...

Poll Will the controversy about Obama's Birth Certificate affect the Intrade Price? Yes, he could be ineligible to be president by the "natural born" rules 40% [ 2 ] No, it's a Tempest in a Teapot 60% [ 3 ] Total Votes : 5

In a presidential campaign that has seen its fair share of bad songs, bad parodies, and the return of Chuck Norris, we can now add a tribute to James Bond. Repeating a slam first used earlier this week, John McCain yesterday released a Web-only ad that compares Barack Obama to the namesake of the 1962 Bond movie, "Dr. No." The Republican National Committee, echoing the message, has launched a web site emphasizing the theme and dubbing the Democratic candidate "Dr.NObama."

    WE OPPOSE YOUR SELECTED NOMINEE TO THE LEADERS OF THE FAILED DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Know that Barack Obama, the candidate that YOU selected to be the Democratic Party's nominee to run for president of the United States in 2008, will have to win the election in November with the votes of those YOU made into half-persons in Michigan and Florida. Know that the candidate that YOU selected will have to win with the votes of the people in states like West Virginia and Kentucky, people he completely ignored during the nomination process. AND KNOW THAT YOUR SELECTED NOMINEE WILL...

This is a video, about seven and a half minutes, of Gaddafi talking about the upcoming election. He is trying to explain Obama's comments about Israel--saying that although the Muslim world was shocked by his support for Israel they all hope this is just a lie in order to get elected. It goes downhill from there. In the process of all this Gaddafi refers to Obama as a Muslim and to his "Islamic identity."