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Holder omitted Blagojevich link from questionnaire Announced as a ‘special investigator to the Illinois Gaming Board’ in 2004 December 17, 2008 BY CHRIS FUSCO Staff Reporter/cfusco@suntimes.com Before Eric Holder was President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be attorney general, he was Gov. Blagojevich's pick to sort out a mess involving Illinois' long-dormant casino license. Blagojevich and Holder appeared together at a March 24, 2004, news conference to announce Holder's role as "special investigator to the Illinois Gaming Board" -- a post that was to pay Holder and his Washington, D.C. law firm up to $300,000. Holder, however, omitted that event from...

"The source said there were a list of names given to the Governor's office of candidates that would be acceptable to President-Elect Barack Obama."

Large numbers of Catholics and religiously unaffiliated voters heavily contributed to President-elect Barack Obama's huge margin of victory over Republican Sen. John McCain, according to an analysis of exit poll surveys by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. "Obama had a greater appeal for religious people," said John Green, a senior fellow at Pew. "I don't think we would have seen that support had Hillary [Rodham Clinton] been nominated." Catholics voted for Mr. Obama over Mr. McCain by a nine-point margin (54 percent versus 45 percent), a turnaround from 2004 when Catholics supported President Bush over Sen. John...

Read Bill Whittle in NRO today: I happen to know the person who found this audio. It is an individual person, with no more resources than a desire to know everything that he or she can about who might be the next president of the United States and the most powerful man in the world. I know that this person does not have teams of highly paid professionals, does not work out of a corner office in a skyscraper in New York, does not have access to all of the subtle and hidden conduits of information … who possesses no...

But Mr. Obama will most likely be our most liberal public policy president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. So where is the new Obama administration likely to take us? Seven things seem certain: The U.S., military will withdraw from Iraq quickly and substantially, regardless of conditions on the ground or the obvious consequence of emboldening terrorists there and around the globe. .... Income taxes will rise on middle- and upper-income people and businesses, and individuals will pay much higher Social Security taxes, all to carry out the new president's goals of "spreading the wealth around." Federal government spending will substantially increase....

Liberals have become so crass, so ignorant of history, and so idealogically blinded that we can now call them "National Socialists" without them realizing that we just painted them as NAZIs. We called Obama a socialist because he definitely is one. We've been countered with, "What's wrong with socialism?" Now we can simply call them National Socialists. They don't even KNOW we've just called them NAZIs. Give it a try and see how it plays. Report back on this thread for others to learn. What's wrong with socialism? Monday, October 27, 2008 1:04:01 AM · by Boucheau · 24 replies...

Yesterday, Barack Obama spoke in Colorado, and said something that may be of interest to Joe the Plumber: "Now, make no mistake: the change we need won’t come easy or without cost. We will all need to tighten our belts, we will all need to sacrifice and we will all need to pull our weight because now more than ever, we are all in this together." The tone is miserable, and the suggestion is vaguely collectivist.

the video has gone viral folks, the digg posted last night has gone from 180 to 720 diggs! it only takes 60 seconds to make an account and digg it (press digg) if it reaches 1K , it'll fly to the front page and millions in the MSM/Independent voters will see it. let's unite and use the web 2.0 vines to get our msg out!! my last vanity of the day

Last night, the question about Sarah Palin wasn't if she's risen too fast, but where she's been for so long. She may have given the best speech of either political convention. She delivered a brilliantly written text flawlessly. Politicians who've been on the national stage for decades could do no better, and usually do worse. Newsrooms across America must be in abject despair. The unlikely VP nominee the media hoped to crush out of the gate is unaffected by their condescension and scorn - and is bent on giving better than she takes. Miss Congeniality isn't afraid to administer an...

Time for the daily combative Kelly interview, featuring muppet-ish Obama spokestool Bill Burton in his recurring role. The beauty of this clip is how it ties the day’s two stories together in a bow. Got a question about The One’s penchant for socialist rhetoric? Then prepare to have your motives challenged and maybe your access cut off, on top of the abuse you’ll take once his vicious little cultists get involved. Just ask “extreme hate monger” David Freddoso. She came ready to play, though, didn’t she? The polling stats flow effortlessly! Exit quotation: “You may have the rest of the...

1.3M hits already today! Up from 1M early this afternoon!

There was a great article in the New York Times yesterday about Barack Obama’s time as a faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School. The timing was uncanny for me, as I had recently pulled some CD’s out of our archive room and been listening to some appearances that Obama made as a guest on Odyssey, the talk show I used to produce here at Chicago Public Radio. We had Obama, then a State Senator and Senior Lecturer at the Law School, on the program 3 times between 1998 and 2002. When he joined us, he was more...

The following is a true story about an event that actually occurred in Tampa, Florida just yesterday. It was written in email form to a friend of his who also happens to be a close friend of mine over the past 20 years. My friend forwarded it to me just for my perusal. The man sharing his experience in the original email is a man by the name of Joe … no, not Joe the plumber! I don’t feel comfortable about mentioning his last name as there are so many ‘kooks’ out there who would try to hunt him down...

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."-Barack Obama, July 2008 “I don’t believe people should be able to own guns.”-Barack Obama, Comment made to John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime The more people learn about Barack Obama the scarier he seems. Pete DuPont, writing in the Wall Street Journal, identified seven sure results of an Obama presidency with a Pelosi/Reid congress... 1. The U.S. military will withdraw from...

The audio recording of Barack Obama espousing his socialist philosophy of “redistribution of wealth� is all over the Internet and Fox News today (although the other media outlets are ignoring it), but there’s another disturbing section on that tape that has so far escaped notice. The link to the audio is here: Chicago Public Radio - Audio Library: Odyssey.At about 15:30, Obama compares what was going on in the United States during the time of Brown vs. the Board of Education to ... Nazi Germany. Yes, really. Here’s the quote: “...just to take a, sort of a realist perspective...there’s a...

Election '08: Barack Obama's economic blueprint sounds like one his communist father tried to foist on Kenya 40 years ago, with massive taxes and succor shrouded as "investments." As a Nairobi bureaucrat, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. advised the pro-Western Kenyan government there to "redistribute" income through higher taxes. He also demonized corporations and called for massive government "investment" in social programs. Barack Obama Sr., who died in 1982 at age 46 in a Kenya car crash. Writing in a 1965 scholarly paper, Obama's late father slammed the administration of then-President Jomo Kenyatta for moving the Third World country away from...

Dayton, Ohio - It's great to be back in Ohio. We need to win Ohio on November 4th, and with your help we're going to win here, and bring real change to Washington, DC. It's been a long campaign and we've heard a lot of words, and great campaign trail eloquence. The amazing thing is that we've learned more about Senator Obama's real goals for our country over the last two weeks than we learned over the past two years. It is amazing that even at this late hour, we are still learning more about Senator Obama and his agenda....

Below is a video/audio recording of Barack Obama in a 2001 interview talking about a 'reparative' strategy for wealth redistribution. There is also a transcript of the audio available here, thanks to Power Line News. This interview is a remarkable insight into what Obama thinks about taking your hard-earned dollars and giving them to someone else (he obviously knows better than you who needs your money and how it should be spent). Notice how Obama thinks the constraints the Founders put on government through the Constitution are a "tragedy" and that he regrets that even radical Supreme Court makeups have...

A radio discussion in which Barack Obama lamented failures to bring about 'redistributive change' as one of the 'tragedies' of history has reignited fears he will introduce socialist-style policies. The interview has been seized on by John McCain's campaign as proof that the Democratic nominee is a dangerous radical and that his recent hand comment to a plumber in Ohio that "when you spread the wealth around it's a good thing for everybody" was not an innocent slip. Mr McCain has made Mr Obama's remark to the plumber, Joe Wurzelbacker, the centrepiece of his faltering campaign in its final days,...

A 2001 Chicago Public Radio audiotape of Barack Obama surfaced and in it thie Presidential candidate laments that the Supreme Court under former Chief Justice Earl Warren did not go far enough. Obama said that the Supreme Court should have decided that government should have redistributed the wealth to African-Americans...

Obama advisor pushes back on 'redistribution' Ben Smith Ben Smith 35 mins ago A top legal advisor to Barack Obama, Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, said today that Obama's 2001 remarks on "redistributive change" -- pushed hard on the right today -- are being misinterpreted, and that he was actually articulating "conservative" legal principles, and that the then-law professor's "law-speak" was being misinterpreted. Obama's remarks came in a long interview on civil rights and Constitutional law with two other law professors on the Chicago public radio station WBEZ in 2001. (The full transcript is here, and audio is here.) Sunstein...

It's time to go vote tomorrow, and I just can't think of a reason to not vote for Obama/Biden. Below is my life story, showing you why it's time that I get my cut: I was born a poor, white child in the back of a Ford Pinto-or maybe just conceived-behind Wal-Mart in Corpus Christi, Texas. There I languished in the public school system, being forced to eat nothing but Spam and Deviled Eggs while awaiting LBJ’s “War On Poverty” to pull me out of the Corpus Christi ghetto. Painfully, I suffered under President Ronald Reagan’s jackboots. I agonized year...

Ron Howard For Obama: Although not particularly funny (like the Mac-PC commercials) or substantive (like the Mac-PC commercials) this celebrity endorsement is sort of amazing.

I just heard on the radio where Obama defended himself by saying to the effect "They called me a socialist because I want to give tax cuts to the middle class rather than the wealthy". He just admitted that he was a socialist right there in that comment, and we need to run with this like it's a pile of money and there's a group of homeless people behind us. He may have sank his own ship with that comment.

The Obama response to any discussion of his involvement with a former Weatherman leader, engaged in radical revolutionary tactics in the 1960s, has been that he (Obama) was only eight years old at the time of the Ayers involvement in acts of overt sedition, and that he has since denounced those actions. This, of course, is irrelevant to the issue of whether or not Obama and Ayers share a common Marxist ideology--a common vision of a new monolithic totalitarian Socialist America. Ayers may have changed his tactics, that does not mean that he has changed his goals. When Lenin and...

REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH: Theory vs. practice. And if you split the tip among two homeless guys, they can outvote the waiter every time!

Palin cautioned Iowans that under Obama’s “big government agenda,” their income, property and investments would be “shared with everybody else.” She labeled Obama’s plan to provide tax credits to lower and middle-income wage-earners “the philosophy of government taking more, which is a misuse of the power to tax.” “It leads to government moving into the role of taking care of you, and government and politicians and, kind of moving in as the other half of your family to make decisions for you,” she said. “Now they do this in other countries where the people are not free. Government as part...

A little over two months ago, not only were the Obamas measuring the drapes for the White House, all the One's followers were anticipating what they'd get in their "swag-bag" when he won the White House. Their mortgages paid off? New student aid? All workplaces unionized? Don't look now, but (shhhhhh) . . . the Messiah may well lose this little election. Pollsters have slavishly reported survey after survey based on some mythical "turnout model" relying on "new voters," demonstrated in the "early voting." Oops. Colorado's early voting showed a Republican advantage. Florida's early voting, so far, has produced a...

I knew it back in February. Barack Obama is a COMMIE. And, yeah, that is an epithet -- a dirty word -- a contemptuous slur, even. One can not be loyal to America and be a Marxist. Last winter I made that claim based on the people Obama chose to associate with and the causes he chose to support. * Obama claimed Frank Marshall Davis as his mentor. * Obama associated with Marxist domestic terrorists Ayers and Dorhn. * Obama's pastor advocated Black Liberation Theology which is a Marxist doctrine. * Obama campaigned for Socialist Bernie Sanders. * Obama was...

Oh man. Marxism is alive and well with the First Lady of the Obamanation… Most Americans, she said, don’t want much. “They don’t want the whole pie,” she told the women. “There are some who do, but most Americans feel blessed just being able to thrive a little bit. But that is becoming even more out of reach.”… “If we don’t wake up as a nation with a new kind of leadership…for how we want this country to work, then we won’t get universal health care,” she said. “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health...

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A plurality of voters (47%) say Barack Obama’s plan to raise taxes on those who earn over $250,000 a year is good for the troubled U.S. economy, even though 51% still believe that lower taxes are the best way to spur economic growth. Thirty-one percent (31%) disagree with Obama’s proposal, saying raising taxes on these upper-income earners will be bad for the economy, but 16% say the proposal will have no impact, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 10% think higher taxes are the best way to grow the economy, while 29% say taxes should stay...

Americans Are About To Make a Mistake As someone born in Ecuador with friends and relatives in Latin America, I’m terrified watching how people in the United States are being manipulated just like people in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador to put a Marxist in power. The similarities between Rafael Correa’s campaign for president of Ecuador and that of Obama for U.S. president are amazing. Correa had no experience but was young, charismatic and had good speaking skills. Correa’s slogans were the same as Obama’s: CHANGE, YES WE CAN, etc. Informed Ecuadorians were not able to convince their clueless...

Proof is in the Public Record. “The public record is our only proof,” says former Naval Intelligence Officer Marion Valentine. “In 1963, while serving in Navy Intelligence (1958-1967), I read the FBI file on Frank Marshall Davis. He had outlined the Communist plan to take over America from within, by installing educators at all levels of our educational system, gaining control of the media, getting Liberal judges appointed, recruiting, training and backing people to be elected to public office. “I have researched every piece of legislation I can find that the Liberal Democrats have passed since the early sixties, and...

Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of promoting economic policies that resemble “socialism” at a rally here Friday. Palin routed her jab while—again–discussing Joe the Plumber, an Ohio man named Samuel Joseph “Joe” Wurzelbacher who questioned Obama about his economic policies during an Obama campaign stop in Ohio last Sunday. The exchange has catapulted Wurzelbacher to the national stage. “Sen. Obama said that he wants to spread the wealth and he wants government to take your money and decide how to best to redistribute it according to his priorities,” Palin said. Here’s the zinger: “Joe suggested that sounded a little bit...

How bitter is the rhetoric getting out on the campaign trail and how red is the meat being tossed out to loyalists? Sen. George V. Voinovich, R-Ohio, told Meigs County Republicans that Democratic nominee Barack Obama is a "socialist." Here is the quote from Voinovich, reported on first today by the Daily Sentinel of Pomeroy, Ohio, during a visit he made to the Meigs County GOP headquarters. The paper reported that: "In relation to Obama, Voinovich told the audience: 'He is left of (Democratic senator from Massachusetts) Teddy Kennedy. With all due respect, the man is a socialist.'" A Voinovich...

Sen. John McCain stepped up his rhetoric against his Democratic rival on taxes in his weekly radio address Saturday, comparing his plan to "socialist" programs. The remarks were part of a theme McCain has used since the final presidential debate, but his most recent comments were the first time he used the word to describe Sen. Barack Obama. In the radio address, McCain didn't directly call Obama a socialist, but he let the now-famous Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher nearly do it for him. "You see, [Obama] believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that help us all make more of...

John McCain now says it's socialism, but Barack Obama insists, "When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." Forty-four percent (44%) of voters agree with Obama’s statement while 42% disagree in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Democrats think their candidate is right, but 78% of Republicans disagree. While Obama was campaigning recently, a plumber’s assistant named Joe Wurzelbacher asked the Democratic presidential nominee a critical question about his tax policy. Obama defended the policy, saying in part, "When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” McCain brought the incident up...

Anyone who is watching "Hannity and Colmes" this evening should find it strange that Scott Rasmussen is explaining and even openly defending the tax policies of Barack Hussein Obama. In particular, I noticed that Sean was telling Rasmussen that "businesses don't pay increased taxes, they pass that onto the consumer with increased prices." What the heck was Scott Rasmussen doing by explaining and even DEFENDING the tax proposals of Barack Obama? Isn't Rasmussen supposed to be an objective pollster?

House Democrats Contemplate Abolishing 401(k) Tax Breaks Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation’s $3 trillion 401(k) system, including the elimination of most of the $80 billion in annual tax breaks that 401(k) investors receive. House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-California, and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Washington, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, are looking at redirecting those tax breaks to a new system of guaranteed retirement accounts to which all workers would be obliged to contribute. A plan by Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economic-policy analysis...

This post is for journalists who care about the future of their country more than their careers. I have previously posted about Barack Obama's involvement in the socialist led Illinois New Party here, here and here. Below are scans from New Party News Spring 1996. They prove that Barack Obama was a member of the Illinois New Party and was endorsed by them in his 1996 Illinois State Senate race. Front page-scanned from a photocopy Front page close up-scanned from a photocopy Front page ultra close up-scanned from a photocopy Note that the text refers to Barack Obama as a...

Would Obama, Dems Kill 401(k) Plans? October 23, 2008 10:47 AM ET | James Pethokoukis | I hate to use the "S" word, but the American government would never do something as, well, socialist as seize private pension funds, right? This is exactly what cash-strapped Argentina just did in the name of protecting workers' retirement accounts (Efharisto, Fausta's Blog). Now, even Uncle Sam isn't that stupid, but some Democrats might try something almost as loopy: kill 401(k) plans. House Democrats recently invited Teresa Ghilarducci, a professor at the New School of Social Research, to testify before a subcommittee on her...

The Davis Plan and Connections to Obama In 1963, while serving in Navy Intelligence (from 1958-1967), I read the FBI file on Frank Marshall Davis. He had outlined the Communist plan to take over America from within, by installing educators at all levels of our educational system, gaining control of the media, getting Liberal judges appointed, recruiting, training and backing people to be elected to public office. I have researched every piece of legislation I can find that the Liberal Democrats have passed since the early sixties, and if you will research for yourself, you will find that they have...

Here is video of an interview conducted by WFTV (Orlando, FL) anchor Barbara Waters with Sen. Joe Biden. She asks Biden the tough questions about Barack Obama, which visibly angers Joe Biden. She confronts Biden on Obama's socialist policies, and even asks Biden what is the difference between a Karl Marx quote and what Obama is saying. Biden responded with, "Are you joking?" . . . . (Watch Video)

“I’ve looked over Jordan, and I have seen Things are not what they seem. What do you get for pretending the danger’s not real... Meek and obedient you follow the leader Down well- trodden corridors into the valley of steel.” - Roger Waters I am tired of all the dancing around the subject with respect to Barack Obama’s political, social, and economic views. He’s not a “liberal,” or a “Democrat,” or a “progressive,” or even a “socialist.” Let’s call it what it is, shall we? It’s time to use the “C” word. His policies are communist, pure and simple. Even...

WASHINGTON--In a matter of minutes, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) in an interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC's "Hardball" has gone where no other Republican has --mentioning Barack Obama and Tony Rezko, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Rev. Michael Pfleger, Bill Ayers and Saul Alinsky. Bachmann called for the media to probe members of Congress to determine who held "anti-American" views. Transcript courtesy Federal News Service

Analysts say McCain's 'socialism' claims may be a stretch12:25 AM CDT on Sunday, October 19, 2008By DAVE MICHAELS and TODD J. GILLMAN / The Dallas Morning Newsdmichaels@dallasnews.comtgillman@dallasnews.com CONCORD, N.C. – As John McCain trails Barack Obama in swing states he needs to win to claim the presidency, his campaign has promoted the idea that his opponent's tax and health-care policies evoke socialism. The claim was made after Mr. Obama remarked in Ohio last week that he wanted to "spread the wealth around." But such comparisons to socialism gloss over important facts, analysts say. Both Mr. McCain and his running mate,...

I have previously posted about Barack Obama's involvement in the socialist led Illinois New Party here, here and here. Below are scans from New Party News Spring 1996. They prove that Barack Obama was a member of the Illinois New Party and was endorsed by them in his 1996 Illinois State Senate race. Front page-scanned from a photocopy Front page close up-scanned from a photocopy Front page ultra close up-scanned from a photocopy Note that the text refers to Barack Obama as a New Party member, while Willie Delgado is only "NP endorsed" The New Party clearly drew a distinction....

What should be front page news informing and warning Americans is going entirely unnoticed by the MSM. It couldn’t be any more obvious the media are in the tank for Obama. In “Something New Here,” I laid out Barack Obama’s ties to the far-left New Party. Blogger Trevor Loudon, of New Zeal, did the pioneering work on this issue. Today, Loudon has posted good quality scans of New Party documents and pictures confirming Obama’s membership. We’ve seen most of this information before (although only recently), but never so clearly. With all its lengthy background pieces, has the New York Times...

In his books, Obama admits attending "Socialist Conferences" and coming into contact with Marxist literature. But he ridicules the charge of being a "hard-core academic Marxist". Through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone identified as a memebr of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, identified him as a CPUSA member. Obama developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis. Listening to his "poetry" and getting advice on his career path. You will find it briefly discussed in Obama's...