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I wanted to post a follow up to today's column. Ross Douthat over at the Atlantic was kind enough to mention it today. He writes: Jay Cost makes the strongest possible case for campaigning on Ayers, Wright et. al. in the waning weeks of the election. He thinks that an issues-based campaign, pegged to McCain's bipartisan brand, made sense before the bottom dropped out of the economy; now, though, it's character or nothing. He notes that the sharpest, steepest drop in Obama's favorable numbers all year came during the initial wave of Wright-related coverage, and argues that this is the...

Critics of Senator Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they talk about his “past associations.” That just gives his many defenders in the media an opportunity to counter-attack against “guilt by association.” We all have associations, whether at the office, in our neighborhood, or in various recreational activities. Most of us neither know nor care what our associates believe or say about politics. Associations are very different from alliances. Allies are not just people who happen to be where you are or who happen to be doing the same things you do. You choose allies deliberately for a reason....

First Obama's racist pastor was exposed. Obama's response: "I might not know him as well as I thought." Then Obama's buddy, Tony Rezko, went to jail. Obama's response: "This isn't the Tony Rezko I knew." And now Obama's friend, William Ayers, is being scrutinized. The response from Obama's camp? Obama "didn't know the history."

The Obama campaign has come out saying that Barack Obama was unaware of former Weather Underground member William Ayer's past when the two met more than a decade ago (when Obama kicked off his Illinois political carrer in Ayer's living room). When Rev. Wright went on a tirade before the National Press Club, Barack Obama came out and said "This is not the man I knew." When Tony Rezko was being exposed as a crook, Barack Obama came out and said "This is not the Tony Rezko I knew." Is America dumb enough to believe that Barack Obama was clueless...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin expanded her attack on Democrat Barack Obama's character Monday to include his relationship with an incendiary former pastor as well as his ties to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers. In the process, Palin toned down her description of the Obama-Ayers relationship after her weekend remarks were criticized as exaggerated, but at the same time she embarked on a discussion of Obama's relationship with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., which Republican presidential candidate John McCain had signaled he did not want to be a part of his campaign.

I can't possibly understand why know one has asked this question. Obama has said that he never heard any of bad stuff said by Reverend Wright. Ok, so for us to believe that, we have to believe that Obama did not go to church the Sunday after 9/11. This was the Sunday after the most vile, visious attack in this nation's history. And Obama didn't go to church to seek guidance or pray for this nation. If that doesn't deserve a trip to church, what does? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9HUdF9OZa8 Either way, we would have to quesiton his judgement.

As someone who has written critically of John McCain on a host of issues, including the Keating Five, none of it compares to the life that Barack Obama has led and his belief system. Obama is not merely associated with domestic terrorists, Palestinian radicals, Marxists, and black liberation ideologues — he was their favorite candidate. They groomed him. They befriended him. He befriended them. He socialized with them. In other words, these people saw Obama as representing their views and aspirations and he saw them the same way. I am not among those who raise Obama's associations but add "of...

(FORT MYERS, FLA.) On the day when the McCain campaign released a new attack ad not-so-subtly titled “Dangerous,” Sarah Palin made a concerted effort to use words like “fearful” and “afraid” to describe Barack Obama, signaling her campaign’s decision to make the election a referendum on Obama’s character, rather than the issues facing the country. “I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America—as the greatest source of good in this world,” Palin said at a rally this morning in Clearwater, Fla. “I’m afraid this is someone...

Good grief. Lieberman: McCain draws the line at using Rev. Wright. "Wallace asked Lieberman if McCain would bring up Rev. Jeremiah Wright after condemning state Republican parties for running ads criticizing Obama for his relationship with the controversial figure." "Lieberman responded: “He [McCain] didn’t like that approach. Senator McCain feels that same way about bringing up Reverend Wright through his campaign. And that’s the kind of line drawing that I think John McCain is all about.” "Later on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume said the McCain camp would be “out of their mind” to not bring up Obama’s relationship with...

Pete Tiffany voted for George W. Bush in 2004 on the basis of an online quiz, which asked him 12 questions about his views on issues such as abortion, free trade and gay marriage, and told him which candidate was closest to his views. The 44-year-old construction worker in the battleground state of Virginia said he isn't sure how he will vote this year. "I want to say I'll vote on the economy, which Democrats are better on, but I'm not sure if the economy is all that bad," he said recently. "Obama's pastor bothers me, but I take everything...

Watching the TV news on both FOX and the lib channels it is becoming increasingly apparent that Obama is scared that he will be tied to Ayers adn Wright and the other kooks he hangs with. Even on "This Week" with Stephy, EVEN the once brilliant Peggy Noonan looked into the camera and spoke directly to the McCain ccampaign WARNING them NOT to bring up Ayers and to act like "adults" It's CLEAR, the Obama connections to radicals and kooks is his achilles heal and the entire left in his campaign and on TV including the pudits are WARNING McCain...

Hannity will try to shine some light on his past associations.I`ve got no idea how hard he`s going to hit but its worth an hour of our time.

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The National Jewish Democratic Council (double oxymoron, it has nothing to do with any Jews or Democrats we know), Jewsvote.org, and other shills would have Americans believe that Barack Obama supports Israel's right to exist. Perhaps he does, to the extent that the United Nations supports Israel's right to exist. Recall that it was the UN that adopted a resolution to the effect that Zionism is a form of racism. Barack Obama's pastor and spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright, agrees that Zionism is racism, and Barack Obama's church sanctioned the publication of this position in one of its official publications. The...

Branding his opponent as “erratic in a crisis,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans. Obama officials call it political jujitsu – turning the attacks back on the attacker. McCain officials had said early in the weekend that they plan to begin advertising after Tuesday’s debate that will tie Obama to convicted money launderer Tony Rezko and former Weathermen radical William Ayers. But Obama isn’t waiting to respond. His campaign is going up Monday on national cable stations with a scathing ad saying: “Three quarters...

Content of "disappeared" Trinity United Church of Christ bulletins could cost Obama the election. Napoleon's general Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle once told an associate, “My friend, any hussar who does not die by thirty is a blackguard.” We would not have appointed someone with this attitude to a command during the horse and musket era of warfare, because cavalry was too expensive an instrument to throw away in swashbuckling, glorious, but suicidal enterprises. Our ideal commanders would have instead had enough common sense to stay well away from intact infantry formations that presented solid hedges of fixed bayonets, but enough...

If a Presidential candidate was not only an enabler of racists and anti-Semites, but also an actual racist, would it be worth $10.17 to know that before you vote? $10.17 is the Amazon.com price for Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father, and used copies can be purchased for considerably less. As opposed to the smears and urban legends that are circulating about Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin, the following quotes from Dreams From My Father (paperback, ISBN 978-1-4000-8277-3) all have page numbers so you can verify for yourself that Barack Obama wrote this material. If you can find the book at a...

CBS News’ chief political consultant Marc Ambinder reports that a group called the Judicial Confirmation Network will spend over $1 million on a TV and print advertising campaign in a smaller markets in the key swing states of Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania featuring some controversial figures Barack Obama has been associated with.

He'll deliver the keynote address Nov. 7 at FMO's "State of the Black Union" event at Cahn Auditorium. "He was very humbled and honored that students at Northwestern wanted to give him this honor," Parker said. Wright is best known as the former pastor of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee. Clips of his sermons, in which he stated "God damn America" and suggested the AIDS virus was developed to infect blacks, were replayed constantly on cable news. "In light of the controversy surrounding statements made by you that have recently been publicized, the celebratory character of Northwestern's...

ELECTION DAY UNTIL JANUARY 20th, 2009 Thirty-five days until Election Day, and counting. What can we expect for the eleven weeks between November 4th and January 20th when the forty-fourth president of the United States takes the oath of office? If Senator Barack Hussein Obama wins: —Reverend Jeremiah Wright will reappear in full glory. He will be seated behind Obama in all his regalia, sneering and thinking, “We gots them now! God HAS damned America!” —Michelle Robinson Obama will be released from captivity and named Liaison to Recently Proud Americans and Ambassadorette to Nigeria so she can re-organize the efforts...

The most destructive issue against Obama is Jeremiah Wright. It is this issue that will ensure Obama defeat on November 4th 2008. The Reverend of hate, racism, and anti-Americanism is the most important factor that will cause 15% to 20% of the White democrats who voted for Kerry in 2004 to vote for John McCain and/or to simply stay home. These White democrats are mainly from the blue collar class and they concentrated in battleground states such as Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Minnesota, etc… These voters have had a problem voting for black person to begin with and for sure...

The McCain campaign and/or the 527 groups on the Republican side should bring back immediately the Reverend of hate, anti-American, and racism back to the debate and not only tie him to Obama but make it in such a forceful and clear way that the majority of voters will not distinguish between the two comes Elections Day. There is not a single issue that it is more damaging to Obama than his 20 years relationship with Wright church of hate and racism. The ads should be powerful and simple. Clips showing the Reverend of Hate trashing America and spouting his...

Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts: 1. Commitment to God 2. Commitment to the Black Community 3. Commitment to the Black Family 4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education 5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence 6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic 7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and...

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As the presidential campaign unwinds, we are increasingly seeing the dark (no racial pun intended) and sinister side of Barack Obama. When he instructed his followers to get in the faces of Independents and Republicans, it was THE turning point in his campaign. This statement incites violence, plain and simple. It shows that Obama has no desire to negotiate with his political enemies at home, unlike those abroad. It shows that he chooses intimidation over the power of ideas. It is becoming disturbingly clear that Obama is applying lessons learned from Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and the rest of his...

Via the Standard, I’m simply weak at the thought of the magnificent theatrical sorrow to which we’ll be treated when the blogosphere’s shrillest Obama mega-shills find out. If Joe Klein and Sullivan don’t already have pieces prepared for the occasion, consider their weekend schedules cleared. Remember, The One himself calls this a “legitimate issue.” Don’t be shocked if you see the McCain campaign pull the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright out of mothballs in new attacks against one-time parishioner, Barack Obama. McCain advisers say that they see “attack by association” as fair game now, arguing that Obama’s campaign has been using...

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Friends and Neighbors: Given the upcoming election, I have taken it upon myself to do a little research into Obama’s religion. From what I have heard, Obama attended Jeremiah Wright’s church for approximately 17 years. Obama recently told Bill O’Reilly that he went to church more or less twice monthly during this time. During an interview with Sean Hannity, Jeremiah Wright persistently asked Hannity how many James Cone books Hannity had read. For those of you who, like me, aren’t very familiar with James Cone, he is considered the father of a movement called “black liberation theology.” I have taken...

We've all seen the shocking clips of Reverend Wright screaming, "God damn America," "US of KKK," and declaring with seeming delight in his heart -- a mere 5 days after the 9/11 attacks -- that "America's chickens have come home to roost." While Obama unconvincingly attempted to dismiss Wright's rantings as mere out-of-context "snippets," the reality is that such sentiments are entirely consistent with the theology of Obama's church -- that is, black liberation theology. As Reverend Wright has explained, black liberation theology is based on the teachings of Dr. James Cone. So who is Dr. Cone and what does...

If you're like many of us, you become uncomfortable when anyone asks you why you’re voting against Obama. You can’t just tell the truth and say "it’s because he’s black." That's socially unacceptable. So you come up with an excuse like "I think he’s secretly Muslim" or "he compared Sarah Palin to a pig." But you can only get away with parroting McCain surrogate talking points for so long before people start laughing at you and asking you to become an Amway distributor. You need to vary your response, so it looks like you're not desperately latching on to the...

Sunday, September 14, 2008 Obama's Hidden Marxist Past Why does the media refuse to investigate Obama's Marxist past? Let's look at the evidence:

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First of all: fair warning. You have to be really, really shallow, or really, really patient to enjoy watching this interview between Eckhart Tolle and Oprah Winfrey. The "Pain Body," according to Eckhart--who has all the eyeless animation of a beige-colored tub of salt-free tofu--is the collective, atmospheric body of wrongs done to your demographic. If you're Native American, the victory of European settlers is your "pain body." If you're African-American, slavery is your "pain body." If you're a woman, the patriarchy is your "pain body." Keep in mind, you don't have to have been victimized by any particular evil,...

Jeremiah Wright: I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday, did anybody else see him or hear him? He was on Fox News, this is a white man, and he was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end. He pointed out, did you see him John, a white man, and he pointed out, an ambassador, that what Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Mohammed was in fact true, America’s chickens are coming home to roost. We took this country by terror, away from the Sioux, the Apache, the Arowak, the Comanche, the Arapahoe, the Navajo. Terrorism....

I know we've all had it a little up to here with the whole Messiah complex from Obama. From the pictures of him with halos, to the electric crosses burning brightly behind him, to the "Jesus was a community organizer" motif. But now it seems they're changing things up a little bit. Obama, according to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is now just like...(drumroll please)...The Virgin Mary. This from The New York Times: Twenty years ago,� he (Wright) told the crowd at Elmwood’s branch here on Clinton Avenue, “a scrawny little kid, pointed nose, big-eared, mama from Kansas, daddy from Kenya...

MOCKING REV WRIGHT ON YOUTUBE THE STORY ON FOX NEWS Elizabeth Payne, 37, told the Post that she and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, 67, had a sexual relationship this year and that she was fired from her job when the affair was made public. Payne had been working at Friendship-West Baptist Church as a secretary to the Rev. Frederick Haynes III, a longtime Wright protege. “I was involved with Rev. Wright, and that’s why I lost my job and why my husband divorced me,” Payne was quoted saying in Tuesday’s newspaper. She said she has filed a wrongful-dismissal claim with...

He almost wrecked Barack Obama's presidential dreams, and now firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker's marriage - and her job, The Post has learned. Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had a steamy sexual affair with the controversial, racially divisive man of the cloth while she was an executive assistant at a church headed by a popular Wright protégé. When word of the unholy alliance got out, Payne's husband dumped her, and she was canned from the plum job at Friendship-West Baptist Church, she told The Post. "I was involved with Rev. Wright, and that's why...

Here is video of Bill O'Reilly grilling Barack Obama on his radical associations with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. . . . (see video at link)

O PASTOR IN SEX SCANDAL REV. WRIGHT DONE ME WRONG: CHURCH LADY He almost wrecked Barack Obama's presidential dreams, and now firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker's marriage - and her job, The Post has learned. Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had a steamy sexual affair with the controversial, racially divisive man of the cloth while she was an executive assistant at a church headed by a popular Wright protégé.

We all know that CNN is cable television’s most fair and balanced independent-minded news station. In turn–and, apparently, irrespective of nuance–CNN is committed to asking the same questions of Republican and Democratic candidates. When convenient, it even tries to craft the same answers. In this vein, last night on AC-360, Anderson Cooper ran a special segment on Sarah Palin’s church, explicitly asking the same questions of Palin’s religious outlook as CNN formerly asked regarding the influence of Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Barack Obama’s outlook. Yet through this line of questioning, CNN drew an outrageously inaccurate analogy between Obama’s longtime mentorship...

Barack Obama’s former pastor has been cavorting with another man’s wife, whom he romanced while she worked at a church in Dallas run by one of his disciples, according to a report in the New York Post. Elizabeth Payne, 37, told the Post that she and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, 67, had a sexual relationship this year and that she was fired from her job when the affair was made public. Payne had been working at Friendship-West Baptist Church as a secretary to the Rev. Frederick Haynes III, a longtime Wright protege.

Jeremiah Wright, the firebrand pastor and former intimate of Barack Obama - the pair fell out when footage of Wright emerged damning America - is in the news again. On the front page of today's New York Post, he is accused of having an affair with one Elizabeth Payne, (pictured), a 37-year-old church worker, who has told this was the reason for the eventual breakdown of her marriage. Payne claims she and Wright, who christened Obama's children and presided over his marriage to Michelle, began their relationship while he was an executive assistant at a Dallas church headed by one...

firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker's marriage - and her job, The Post has learned. Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had a steamy sexual affair with the controversial, racially divisive man of the cloth while she was an executive assistant at a church headed by a popular Wright protégé. Payne's husband dumped her, and she was canned from the plum job at Friendship-West Baptist Church, she told The Post. "I was involved with Rev. Wright, and that's why I lost my job and why my husband divorced me," Payne said.

NEWARK — Senator Barack Obama’s embattled former pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright, praised Mr. Obama from a church pulpit here Sunday, comparing him to Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks...

They’ve already attacked her daughter, Bristol, and most people attacked the attackers because of those attacks. They’ve said she has no experience to be vice president and it turns out she has more administrative experience than Obama or Biden combined. They’ve floated rumors about her “affairs” and her husband’s “affairs,” suggested that baby Trig wasn’t her baby, dug up a twenty year old DUI on her husband, and they’re probably planning to say that she worked her way through college by hooking in Juneau since nothing else has succeeded in smearing Governor Sarah Palin. In the interim before publishing the...

SPECIAL NOTE: although this is on an auction site, I have not included a URL. This is not a solicitation. It is being posted to have an effect on political opinion. I am hoping people will ask questions on the item so Barack Hussein Obama can be skewered even more. STICK PUPPETS OF OBAMA AND HIS PALS - American-hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright, unrepentent terrorist bomber Bill Ayers, Michelle "never proud of her country" Obama, THE OPRAH, and a bonus surprise puppet. Oh, are you and your kids ever going to enjoy these. For generations, these items of political memorabilia will...

Andrew Sullivan claims a petard is about to be hoisted, in reference to a sermon recently given by the pastor of Governor Sarah Palin's church, one Larry Kroon. Sullivan clearly believes that it is exactly equivalent to some of the controversial sermon remarks of Barack Obama's pastor and mentor of twenty years, Jeremiah Wright (remember, Obama named one of his memoirs from a phrase his pastor coined, and praised him enthusiastically until the day he threw him in the garbage). The transcript of Larry Kroon's sermon is is at this link. The audio is here. Here is the portion we're...

John McCain did send a vetting team to Alaska to investigate Governor Sarah Palin's background before he chose her as his vice-presidential running mate, according to senior campaign officials. The trip to Alaska, disclosed for the first time, undermines Democratic claims that his choice of Mrs Palin, 44, was hasty, impetuous and had not been properly researched. The team of several specialist researchers was similar to the teams that investigated others on Mr McCain's vice-presidential shortlist. "There was a vetting team on the ground before she was named," a senior McCain adviser told The Daily Telegraph. "These were people who...

Wright also called Zionism “racist” in the Trinity United Church of Christ’s official publications. Although the Trinity United Church of Christ’s Trumpet Magazine appears to be inaccessible, Barack Obama’s pastor failed to cover all of his tracks, and we have retrieved a .pdf file of Jeremiah Wright’s “This is Where I Came In.” (this_where_i_came_in) It is hosted at tucc.org (the Trinity United Church of Christ) and therefore cannot be a forgery or smear. Rep. Wexler (D-FL) and the National Jewish Democratic Council would doubtlessly prefer that voters, and especially pro-Israel ones, not know about this but Jeremiah Wright’s “This is...

Sen. Barack Obama's controversial former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright re-surfaced yesterday, delivering a guest lecture at a Texas church in which he made racially, sexually charged comments regarding Obama's bid for the White House. "This ordinary boy just might be, come November the 4th, this ordinary boy from a single parent home with a daddy from Kenya and a mama from Kansas. This ordinary boy just might be the first president in the history of the United States to have a black woman sleeping at 1600 Pennsylvania, legally," Wright said at downtown Houston's Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. According to the...