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William Ayers, the domestic terrorist whose group bombed the U.S. Pentagon, killed a San Francisco policeman and robbed armored cars in their effort to stop the war in Vietnam.

Rashid Khalidi, the former communications director for the Palestinian Liberation Organization and an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the criminal conspiracy to fund the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.

Louis Farrakhan the homophobic black separatist, anti-Semite, and all-around general racist National Representative for the Nation of Islam has not only given Barack Obama his full endorsement but he has publicly announced that Obama is the new “messiah.”
Jesse Jackson, the professional race baiter and racist shakedown artist whose own 1984 presidential campaign was derailed, in part because of his off the record reference to New York City as “Hymietown.”

Jeremiah Alvesta Wright, Jr., the Pastor Emeritus of the Chicago mega-church, Trinity United Church of Christ, from which Barack Obama, after more than twenty years as a member in good standing, was forced to back away from after news releases of some of Wrights more scandalous comments were publically aired such as his claim that the United States deserved the September 11, 2001 attacks because of all of the innocent people we have killed in our attacks on other countries.

Tony Rezko, the Chicago slumlord who was one of Barack Obama’s earliest political supporters when he began campaigning for a seat in the Illinois Senate, and in 1996, when Obama was first elected to office it was to represent a district that included 11 of Rezko’s 30 low-income housing projects. In 2003, when Obama announced he was running for the U.S. Senate, Tony Rezko who was a member of Obama’s campaign finance committee held a lavish fund-raiser for his candidate on June 27, 2003, at his Wilmette mansion. After Obama became a U.S. senator, he and Rezko’s wife, Rita, bought adjacent pieces of property from a doctor in Chicago’s Kenwood neighborhood. The doctor sold the mansion to Obama for $1.65 million which was $300,000 below the asking price for the property; however Rezko’s wife paid the full price of $625,000 for the vacant lot next door. Six months after the deals closed, Rezko’s wife sold Barack Obama a large strip of her vacant lot next to his house for $104,500 so he could have a bigger yard. Eight months later, in October 2006, Tony Rezko was indicted for soliciting kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business under his close friend and associate, Illinois state Governor Blagojevich. Federal prosecutors maintain that $10,000 from this kickback scheme was donated to Obama’s run for the U.S. Senate.

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Franklin Raines, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Fannie Mae who took millions of dollars in compensation out of the enterprise before being forced into an “early retirement” and accused by The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight of abetting widespread accounting errors, which included the shifting of losses so senior executives, such as himself, could earn large bonuses.

Penny Pritzker, the national finance chair of Obama’s campaign is not simply a former board member of the failed Superior Bank S&L that engaged in irresponsible subprime mortgage lending during the 1990s, she and other members of her family were central figures in the development of “Mortgage Backed Securities,” which are now at the center of the financial crisis and real estate melt down. Penny Pritzker is the most active of Chicago patriarch Abraham N. Pritzker’s grandchildren and the Pritzker family is one of America’s wealthiest families. She is 46 years old and a Harvard-trained attorney. The Pritzker family assets, for which Penny Pritzker provides oversight, include the Hyatt hotel chain and the Marmon Group industrial conglomerate. Coincidentally, Penny Pritzker is the vice chair of the Chicago Public Education Fund, the successor organization to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge that was started by Bill Ayers and chaired by none other than Barack Obama. As the national finance chair of Obama’s campaign, Penny Pritzker oversees the massive job of bundling the multitude of small campaign contributions flowing into the Democratic candidate’s campaign treasury, a process that effectively hides the origin of Obama’s campaign funds flowing in from the political action groups of labor organizations and, if the rumors are true, from quite a few foreign interests as well, including many in the Middle East. Penny Pritzker is the Obama campaign worker who organized the very lucrative Barbra Streisand fundraiser held in Hollywood, and it was in her family’s New York Grand Hyatt Hotel where the gala reception was hosted for the U.S. hating Iranian despot, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Teal Baker, a lobbyist for Podesta Group, a K Street powerhouse representing the political interests of at least 18 American corporations

Emmett Beliveau, a lobbyist with Patton Boggs who represent the political interests of client firms such as Oshkosh Truck and Pinkerton Consulting.

Brandon Hurlbut, a lobbyist with B&D Consulting who represents the political interests of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies and the Allegheny County Housing Authority.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is possibly one of the greatest supporters of Barack Obama in the Middle East, and this is probably because Ahmadinejad and the repressive Islamic government of Iran stand to gain the most if Obama is elected. Barack Obama has made negotiations with Ahmadinejad a cornerstone of his foreign policy approach and he has said on more than one occasion that, as the president of the United States, he would be happy to negotiate a sweeping security agreement with Ahmadinejad’s regime, and that he would enter negotiations with Ahmadinejad “without preconditions” such as the pesky demand that Iran curtail their development of a nuclear arsenal for the purpose of wiping the nation of Israel off the map which Iran has been threatening to do for more years than most of us can remember. Ahmadinejad’s hatred of Jews exceeds even the psychotic fear and hatred of Jews expressed by Adolph Hitler who was directly responsible for slaughtering an estimated 11 million Jews between 1933 and the end of World War II. Entering into negotiations with Ahmadinejad would be a precedent setting reversal of one of the United States most consistent policies against negotiating with terrorist groups. By entering into these discussions, Obama would significantly increase the political stature and influence of Iran’s Islamic government in the Middle East and the naive actions of Barack Obama would be viewed by the world’s Muslims as a sign of weakness and an indication that the Satanist nation of America was finally caving in to the will of Allah.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a strong ally of Iran is another great fan of Barack Obama in the Middle East and the Syrian regime indicated their preference for Barack Obama through the words of their presidential adviser, Buthaina Shaaban who wrote, “The change suggested by Obama is essential not only for the U.S. but for the entire human family.” In the same fashion as Ahmadinejad’s regime in Iran, the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would gain greatly if Obama were elected president of the United States because of Syria’s close association with and support for the repressive Islamic government of Iran. Syria, Like Iran is also a terrorist sponsoring nation and there is a high degree of probability that the vast majority of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction were secretly spirited into Syria prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Syria, like Iran, has financed, trained and armed the majority of the terrorist insurgents fighting against U.S. and coalition troops in Iraq.

The Libyan dictator, Muammar al-Qaddafi, the proverbial fruit-fly of the entire Middle East, has called Obama “a fellow Muslim,” and stated that, “All the people in the Arab and Muslim world and in Africa applaud this man. They welcome him and pray for his success.”

Ahmed Yousef, the senior adviser to Gaza’s radical Islamic Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, and a representative spokesman for the terrorist group Hamas stated earlier this year that “We like Mr. Obama and we hope that he will win the election.”

Sheik Naim al-Kassim, the second in command of the terrorist group Hezbollah has expressed his encouragement for all Americans to vote for Barack Obama as a “step toward peace with Islam.” The word “peace” as it is used by the Hezbollah terrorist in that quote can be interpreted as “surrender.”

Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, the Lebanese pro-Hezbollah columnist has stated that there is “no doubt Arabs should welcome an Obama presidency.”

From Saudi Arabia, the president of Alghalyia Television, Hussein Shobokshi, wrote that an Obama victory “would mark an important moral transformation in the superpower and is a healthy indicator of the long-awaited improvement in the international arena.”

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With only six days remaining till Election Day 2008, Barack Obama has slipped from Monday’s 4.8 point lead over Republican John McCain to a dwindling 3.6 point lead this afternoon and the race now stands at 49.1% for Obama and 44.4% for John McCain. Since Sunday afternoon Obama’s support among the “most likely to vote” respondents has dropped at an average rate of one half point per day and if he maintains the current rate of descent through the morning of November 4th then he will be waking up on the morning of the election to find himself in a tied up race, neck to neck with John McCain.

Most of the political polling pundits have given credibility to the belief that if Obama is not a clear ten points ahead going into the election he may lose the race entirely. Of course those pundits have not factored in the vast number of illegal aliens that have registered to vote and the people that have registered through ACORN under a half dozen different names so the Democrats still have plenty of reasons to be hopeful. We will see, I still doubt that there are that many people in this country who want to see this nation fall into the hands of the socialists, and it’s possible, by the skin of our teeth we may pull this off yet.

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It’s never a good day that begins with the news of a death among the small circle of people that I have come to think of as friends, and even when that news is really not all that surprising, as in this particular instance, it drops a vacuum into the place where the sun is supposed to be shining and I end up stumbling through the day knowing that someone I cared about is now gone from this existence and the entire world is reduced by his passing.

Bob was not famous and he wasn’t financially well off. If you were to Google his name you would get nothing back that described the events of his life and I suppose his death will be largely unnoticed by most of the planet and possibly even quite a few who knew him.

Like many of my generation, Bob answered his nation’s call to arms at the glorious age of eighteen and at a time when others his age were heading off to homecoming dances and a new age of social awareness was just beginning to show signs of life. I don’t know what sort of dreams he might have had back then when he was still a young man but I know that like all of us who joined the United States Marine Corps in the mid sixties, he put them on hold.

With honor and courage, Bob Sopher completed his tour of duty in Southeast Asia and came home to a completely different country than the one he left. He fought the communists in the jungles of Vietnam and he did it so those who didn’t heed their nation’s call would never have to see the horrors he witnessed in the leech infested underbrush of a place that God wrote off as a total loss. Instead of coming home to a hero’s welcome, he came home to discover that the people he had been fighting for hated him for actions they believed to crimes against humanity. He began his tour of Vietnam as a young man but it was not a young man that returned home. Like all who went and lived to return, the haunting images were never far away and the soul was unalterably scared, and yet like the majority of those who came home from that hellish place, Bob carried his burden quietly and with stoic resignation.

He proved to be very competent with mechanical devices and took joy in the pleasure of performing a task well. As a worker he could always be counted on to carry his end of the load to the best of his ability and that is a hell of a lot more than I can say for a lot of the other people I worked with over the years. Bob and I retired from the same employer on the same day and though we exchanged telephone numbers and promises to call we never talked to one another again. In some ways I regret that, but in all honesty I can say that it was not necessary because we were connected by a common bond and neither of us needed the presence of the other to know that it existed and would exist forever in the darker shadows of our souls. While I am sorry to know that he is gone I know that he has already seen Hell and wherever he is now has got to be a vast improvement over that. Eventually we will meet again, but until that time, may he rest in peace.

According to a Zogby poll released at 4:00 pm this afternoon, Barack Obama is losing his lead over the Republican candidate John McCain and the Democratic nominee is now only 4.8 points ahead at 49.9% to McCain’s 45.1%. Obama has been dropping in the polls for the last four or five days and lost a half a point in the last twenty-four hours alone.

Many political analysts have ventured to predict that if Barack Obama is not leading the polls by a margin of at least ten points on Election Day that there is a very good chance that he will lose the election.

Personally, I tend to discount the polls simply because, more often than not, they have been wrong, and I remain hopeful that the polls indicating Obama’s popularity and support among the American voters are similarly wrong. It has nothing to do with me being a Republican or a die-hard McCain fan because I am not that impressed with the man even if he does come with the GOP stamp of approval. However, he is certainly a far better choice than an admitted Marxist who just happens to also be one of history’s most pathological liars.

Here’s to the hope that this trend continues and McCain wins this election by a landslide so we don’t have to listen to the Democrats whining about how we stole the election for the next four years.

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Newsmax reported yesterday afternoon that Barack Obama has essentially decided to ignore the Pennsylvania lawsuit alleging that he is not a “natural-born citizen” and is therefore ineligible to take the oath of as president of the United States. That lawsuit was filed by former Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General Philip J. Berg prior to the Democratic National convention in Denver with the hope that Obama would clear the matter up before he was nominated and the allegations were voiced by the Republican party, however, the Democratic candidate has contemptuously ignored the lawsuit since it’s inception and he has now failed to meet the thirty day deadline to respond to the court issued Request for Admissions and Request for the Production of Documents. The Request for Admissions and Request for the Production of Documents were submitted to Barack Obama’s lawyers on September 15, 2008 in the effort to persuade the Democratic candidate to relinquish the documentation necessary to prove his pace of birth and citizenship. The 30-day deadline for defendants to comply with a discovery request is set forth in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures.

In a civil suit this contentious the attorneys from both sides will normally haggle back and forth over the production of documents and the relevance of items requested. It is not uncommon for these discussions to delay the actual production of the documents beyond the thirty day period, however, in this case there have been no discussions or objections of any sort raised by Obama’s attorneys, and, in fact there has been absolutely no response of any nature whatsoever. Barack Obama and his lawyers have simply ignored the civil suit, the Pennsylvania court, Judge R. Barclay Surrick of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures and most of all, former Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General Philip J. Berg.

Understandably, Philip Berg filed a motion on Thursday for summary judgment stating that, “By not filing the answers or objections, the defense has admitted everything, admits he was born in Kenya, admits he was adopted in Indonesia, admits that the documentation posted online is a phony, and he admits that he is constitutionally ineligible to serve as president of the United States.” Berg also filed for a temporary restraining order against Obama on August 22nd however Judge R. Barclay Surrick denied Berg’s request for the temporary restraining order and put off ruling on the merits of Berg’s lawsuit.

On September 24, 2008, Barack Obama’s attorneys along with attorneys for the Democratic National Committee asked Judge Surrick to dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds that Berg’s claims were “ridiculous” and “patently false,” that Berg had “no standing” to challenge the qualifications of a candidate for president because he had not shown the requisite harm to himself.

On Friday, October 24, 2008, Judge R. Barclay Surrick of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania released a 34-page memorandum and opinion stating that Berg’s allegations of harm were “too vague and too attenuated” to confer standing on him or any other voters and the case was dropped without any of the requested documentation being made public.

A very similar civil case filed in the state of Washington was dismissed today by Superior Court Judge John Erlick, however, there are still civil suits pending in Hawaii, California, Florida, Georgia, New York, Connecticut and Georgia to compel Obama to release his birth records from Hawaii, or else decertify him as a candidate for the presidency.

Up to this point in time, Barack Obama has refused to cooperate with anyone on this matter and other than the obvious forgery posted on his campaign web site he has relied on his own denials and, more recently the denials of an allegedly “non-partisan” web site that is owned and operated by The Annenberg Public Policy Center.

The Annenberg Public Policy Center was established in 1993 by the former ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter Annenberg, and it is funded through an endowment established by the Annenberg Foundation for that purpose and it also subsidized by various federal agencies.

William Ayers was one of the three co-authors of the grant proposal submitted to the Annenberg Foundation in 1993 with respect to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). As a result of that grant proposal, in 1995 the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was awarded $49.2 million from the Annenberg Foundation.

Barack Obama was the founding chairman and president of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 through 1999. Obama resigned as chairman and president in September 1999 to run as a candidate in the 2000 Democratic primary for the 1st Congressional District of Illinois, but in 2001 he was again listed as being on the final board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was dissolved in 2002, however, there is no compelling reason to warrant the belief that Bill Ayers and Barack Obama erased all ties to the network of friends and associates formed during it’s seven years of operation. Furthermore, it is not unlikely to assume that those friends and associates included individuals working directly for the Annenberg Foundation that subsidized the Chicago Annenberg Challenge while it was in operation. While the level of influence Ayers and Obama might have with respect to the Annenberg Foundation is open for debate, there is every reason to believe that Ayers and Obama still maintain ties to friends and associates working within the Annenberg Foundation.

Given the possibility that Ayers and Obama may have some measure of influence over friends and associates working within the Annenberg Foundation it should be relatively easy to understand why the credibility of the Annenberg Public Policy Institute’s investigation into Obama’s birth certificate is still being regarded with a high degree of skepticism.

The high resolution photos of the birth certificate shown at FactCheck.org give far greater detail of the document than the photograph of the birth certificate given on Barack Obama’s campaign web site that initially raised the suspicion of forgery. In fact, the differences between the FactCheck images and those that appeared on the Obama web site are so remarkable that one could question whether or not they are of the same document. Despite that seemingly picky point, the fact that the information is released through an organization tied to the Annenberg Foundation and the fact that Barack Obama has been connected to the Annenberg Foundation in the past and may still have friends and associates working with that foundation today indicates that there may be a conflict of interest regardless of their reputation as a non-partisan group. Furthermore, there is still the word of three independent document forensic experts who have stated that the Hawaii birth certificate used by Barack Obama is a forgery.

It has been alleged that immediately prior to Barack Obama’s birth, his mother flew to Kenya with his father but their plans to fly to Hawaii were prevented by the late stage of her pregnancy. Senator Obama’s paternal grandmother, his half-brother and his half-sister have all claimed that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and that the family subsequently flew to Hawaii where the birth was registered. One account has it that Obama was born in Kapiolani Hospital and another that he was born at Queens Hospital, however, no records of Stanley Ann Dunham’s admission to either hospital prior to the birth of her son have ever been found.

If Senator Obama was actually born in Kenya, the law in effect at that time would hold that he would only have been considered a U.S. citizen if his mother was at least 19 years of age and since Stanley Ann Dunham was only 18 years old at the time of the birth, U.S. citizenship could not legally be passed on to Barack Obama and he would be ineligible to run for U.S. President pursuant to Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution. In addition, in the event that Barack Obama was somehow deemed to be a natural born citizen despite his Kenyan birth, the status of that citizenship again be questioned on the grounds that his mother became a resident of Indonesia in 1967 and married an Indonesian citizen who legally adopted her son and the registration document , made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia, shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro into the Catholic school made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro. The document lists Barry Soetoro as a Indonesian citizen, born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, and shows his Muslim step-father listed the boy’s religion as Islam.

Two developments have made the truth of this matter very difficult to find. The first being that Linda Lingle, the governor of Hawaii has placed the candidate’s birth certificate under seal and instructed the state’s Department of Health to make sure no one in the press obtains access to the original document under any circumstances, and the second is that Kenyan authorities have sealed their records on Barack Obama until after the November 4 election. If any of this is to be cleared up it will have to be with the cooperation of Barack Obama and up to this point he has flatly refused to cooperate.

While this may seem like one of the great conspiracy theories of all time there is a growing body of evidence to warrant the suspicion that Barack Obama may, in fact not be eligible to run for U.S. president despite the obvious fact that he is doing so, and Obama’s unwillingness to cooperate with the investigation of this matter makes it appear as if he has something to hide. Senator Obama would have nothing to lose by cooperating so long as everything he has claimed is accurate and truthful. By giving the American people access to the information, records and documents requested he could clear this matter up quickly and make those raising the questions look like conspiracy nuts bent on smearing his campaign.

Barack Obama could have easily gone into the Pennsylvania courtroom, produced the documents in question and settled forever any further discussion or question about his country of birth or his eligibility to run for the office of U.S. president, however, this is not what he chose to do, instead he sent a bus load of his own lawyers along with a busload of DNC lawyers into Pennsylvania’s Eastern District courtroom to express their combined outrage over what they deem a ridiculous and frivolous lawsuit while impressing on Judge Surrick that the man they represent is an influential U.S. Senator who just happens to have the potential of becoming the next president.

Admittedly, Judge Surrick may have been very impressed by the show of force, but the simple fact remains that among the American voters who feel the question of Obama’s eligibility had merit there will be no satisfaction coming out of the Pennsylvania courts, and the question remains unanswered with less than two weeks to go before the election.

Ultimately, while there is an entire host of reasons why someone would not vote for Obama, I find it entirely inconceivable to believe that any of those reasons carry as much weight as Barack Obama’s own stubborn and unreasonable refusal to prove that he is legally eligible to run for the office of president.

It wouldn’t fly for an illegal alien in a deportation hearing so why should the Democratic candidate for president be considered above the same laws that the rest of us are expected to honor?

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Obama On Immigration
Obama’s plan for universal health care would include coverage for the illegal aliens who make up the greatest percentage of this nation’s uninsured.

In March, Obama voted to table a Senate amendment that would support the withdrawal of federal assistance ‘to sanctuary cities that ignore the immigration laws of the United States and create safe havens for illegal aliens and potential terrorists.

Obama supported the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform legislation that was defeated in 2006. Whereas McCain has since taken the position that securing the borders must precede immigration reform, Obama continues to support full amnesty for all of the estimated 20 million illegal aliens currently residing in the U.S. and supports their eligibility for the federally mandated benefits such as Social Security regardless of the status of border security.

Barack Obama supports providing state-funded welfare benefits to legal immigrants.

While a state senator, Obama supported allocating state funds to provide Medicaid coverage to legal immigrants.

Obama has supported increasing the number of work visas issued each year, such as the H1-B visa and has worked to increase the number of immigrants coming into this country every year by every means possible.

Obama co-sponsored a bill that would provide federal funding to help states provide health care and education to non-U.S. citizens.

Obama strongly supports encouraging American children to become bilingual and, at one point suggested that it should be mandatory.

In June, Obama voted against a Senate provision that would declare English the national language of the United States.

“Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English, you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.”

Obama On National Security
At a time when this nation is being seriously threatened by psychotic third-world religious fanatics intent on developing ballistic missile systems capable of delivering nuclear payloads to any target on the planet including the United States of America, Barack Obama has stated that, if elected, he will gut the missile defense program created by President Reagan and cut “tens of billions” of dollars from the Defense Department.

He has entirely denied the positive affect of the troop surge in Iraq and has promised to withdraw American soldiers from that nation when we are standing on the edge of victory. A premature troop withdrawal from Iraq would entirely destabilize the country and encourage Iran to swiftly move in and replace the democratic government with a repressive Islamic theocracy. This would exacerbate the unrest throughout the Middle-East for decades to come and unwarrantedly boost Iran’s dominance over the region to our detriment. The forces of world-wide terrorism would become more entrenched than ever before and increase the probability of an attack against the heartland of America like never before.

Joseph Biden, Barack Obama’s running mate, stated on October 19, 2008, “Mark my words: It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy,” Biden said. “The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Watch, we’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” Even Joe Biden probably does not know how true his words might actually prove to be because the world is a very dangerous place and this is truer today than ever before. The former Soviet Union has dedicated vast sums of money toward rebuilding their military power and China is pouring unimaginable wealth into the development of high tech weapons systems and military training. The continued security of our nation is contingent on maintaining our military superiority and the price of not keeping the wide lead we currently have will be counted in the lives of American people lost as a direct result of Obama’s complete disregard for reality.

Obama On Abortion
As an Illinois legislator, Obama was the only senator to vote against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions. He refused to support the legislation to protect babies surviving late-term abortions because he did not want to concede that even though these children were alive and outside their mothers’ wombs, they were in fact “persons.”

Despite the fact that a representative from the National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) stated that “NARAL does not oppose passage of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act,” Obama voted against this bill in the Illinois senate and killed it in committee, and when the bill was referred to the senate’s Health and Human Services Committee, which Obama chaired, he refused to call the bill up for a vote.

As an Illinois senator, Obama opposed legislation to criminalize the transportation of minors across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

Obama On The Nation’s Economy
In 2005, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was in a position to prevent much of the financial agony that America is in now but the campaign contributions he received from Franklin Raines during his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign talked louder than his conscience.

Franklin Raines, while Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae, began a pilot program in 1999 to issue bank loans to individuals with low to moderate income, and to ease credit requirements on loans that Fannie Mae purchased from banks. Many authorities have noted that the expansion of easy credit to these high-risk home buyers was one of the major contributing factors to the subprime mortgage crisis.

On December 21, 2004 Raines accepted what he called “early retirement” from his position as CEO of Fannie Mae while the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigators investigated Fannie Mae’s alleged accounting irregularities. These “alleged accounting irregularities” included widespread accounting errors and the shifting of losses so senior executives, such as Franklin Raines, could earn large bonuses

In 2006, a suit was filed against Raines in order to recover some or all of the $90 million in payments made to him based on his overstated earnings, furthermore, Civil charges were filed against Raines and two other former executives for $110 million in penalties and $115 million in returned bonuses from the three accused. The settlement that ultimately came out of these court actions resulted in an agreement by the three accused to pay a combined total of approximately $3 million in fines. These “fines” are to be paid by Fannie Mae’s insurance policies.

In 2005, when a bill was introduced in the Senate to curtail the actions of lenders like Fannie Mae and forestall the economic disaster that many knew even then to be immanent, Barack Obama supported the individuals who eventually killed the bill.

On July 16, 2008, The Washington Post reported that former Fannie Mae CEO, Franklin Raines was being used as an economic adviser to Barack Obama’s campaign.

Obama On Race
Obama has portrayed himself as a candidate for all Americans, however, his close association with individuals like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the support he has received from people like Louis Farrakhan carries an entirely different message.

Barack Obama has wielded race as a weapon throughout most of his life. He has used the color of his skin for his benefit when he fraudulently applied for entrance at Harvard as an African-American despite the knowledge that he does not meet the legal standard required for this claim and he has fraudulently allowed himself to be portrayed as an African-American throughout his campaign for the presidency to gain the support of this nation’s black voters, most of whom he views as being vastly inferior to himself.

Obama’s refusal to denounce Wright’s intensely hateful, outrageous and racist teachings about “our racist competitive society,” and that American’s middle-class ideals are nothing more than a clever way to deceive black Americans into mindless cooperation ultimately serving our society as an alternative to “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,” is a certain indication of Obama’s acceptance of those beliefs, or at the very least his willingness to manipulate those beliefs for his own benefit.

Barack Obama has identified himself as an African-American and denied the truth that he is predominantly Arab. He has consistently failed to identify with black American culture because he has never lived in America as a black man. He grew up in white society, was raised by his white grandparents and attended expensive white private schools all of his life. He has never been poor, hungry, deprived or oppressed at any point in his entire coddled life and any attachment he professes for this nation’s black citizens stems more from his desire to manipulate than from any doubtful urge to actually benefit.

Barack Obama’s leadership will not be noted for bringing the American people together, but for furthering the divide between them. Obama’s perverse perspective on the status of race relations in this nation will create greater hostility and division than we have seen in many years and will inevitably destroy much of the progress that has been made toward America’s push for racial equality.

Obama On Taxes
Obama has stated that he will let the Bush tax cuts expire which will result in an automatic 5 percent tax increase for practically all taxpayers.

Obama has expressed a desire to double the capital gains tax from 15% to 30%.

Obama has said that he wants to increase the tax on dividends paid to stockholders

Obama wants to increase the amount of taxes paid on gasoline, electricity, natural gas and other forms of energy

Obama want to increase the estate tax and take a larger bite out of any money that we have left over after a lifetime of paying taxes on it already.

The tax increase required to pay for Barack Obama’s National HealthCare Plan alone will devastate the savings of most American citizens to benefit a relatively small group of people who do not have medical insurance and a growing body of evidence supports the fact that nearly half of these individuals are not even legal residents of this country and should be deported.

According to the National Taxpayers Union, Obama has proposed at least $287 billion a year in new government spending. He also co-sponsored a Senate bill to spend at least $845 billion a year to fight global poverty. Barack Obama will pay for these increases in government spending in the only and most obvious way possible – by dramatically increasing the tax burden on the American people to the point that our savings are entirely decimated and all hope of financial security at some point in our lives will be entirely destroyed.

Obama On Patriotism
Barack Obama refused to wear an American flag pin.

Barack Obama refused to put hand to heart during the national anthem.

When his Reverend Wright was busy trashing the United States of America from his pulpit, Obama said nothing in the defense of the nation he now hopes to lead.

Barack Obama told his rich friends and campaign contributors in San Francisco that the hard working folks in Middle America “cling to guns or religion” because they are bitter over the tough economic times.

Barack Obama stated on national television that he was embarrassed by the fact that so many Americans could only speak one language when foreign tourists coming over here to visit speak many languages.

Patriotism is what Americans feel when they see the flag, hear the anthem, or see an American soldier and realize that, despite it’s problems, they love America, and know beyond any doubt whatsoever that they are among the privileged few who can call America their home. What Barack Obama feels for the United States of America and the American people is contempt not patriotism.

Obama On Denial
Barack Obama has denied the American people access to the information necessary to clear up reasonable doubts about his actual country of birth, he has denied the statements about his early Muslim training he made in his own book when asked about his religious persuasion.

He has denied his close relationship with Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer and political fundraiser who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, offered him a job when he finished law school and gave him the lot that Rezko purchased next to Obama’s house.

Barack Obama has denied his close relationship to the domestic terrorist and Marxist, William Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government, took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971 and was responsible for killing a San Francisco policeman during a bombing. This is the same William Ayers in whose living room Obama’s political career began and it is the same William Ayers who served with Barack Obama on the board of the Wood’s Fund. It is also the same William Ayers who was instrumental in starting the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and got Barack Obama to serve as president of the board of directors.

Barack Obama, if elected, will destroy much of what we as working class Americans see as good and hopeful in our nation. He will make it nearly, if not entirely impossible for us to achieve financial security at any point in our lives and he will use our hard-earned income to finance the furtherance of idiotic government programs designed to benefit only the elitist politicians in Washington and increase their power and control over the American people. Under his leadership our government will become less responsive to the American people and more dictatorial in its control over our daily lives. Our nation will not be made more prosperous or more secure as a result of his leadership, and quite frankly, we will be lucky to survive four years of his policies intact. America needs change but it does not need to abandon the principles of liberty, freedom and democracy in the process of making those changes, and it certainly does not need to implement socialist reforms that history has repeatedly demonstrated to be so disastrous everywhere else. Barack Obama is a fraud and a charlatan and it is our duty and our obligation as American citizens to ensure that his ability to influence our destiny and the destiny of our children is never realized.

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The general average of the nation’s top five political polls indicate that Barack Obama is currently leading by 8.6% of the respondents, however, considering the 10/10 point margin of error that is common among these polls the results are relatively inconclusive, and the reality is that no one is yet certain how this race will eventually pan out. Furthermore, when you consider the liberally applied political slant of the pollsters the results become even more questionable. Essentially the bottom line, as we head into the final weeks prior to the election, is that the race for the top office is far from over and both sides have an equal chance to completely blow the election at the last minute.

One factor that many seem to be ignoring is the abysmally low approval rating received by the current Democrat controlled 110th session of the U.S. Congress. The historically low single digit approval rating deservedly earned by the currently Democrat dominated U.S. Congress casts a broad shadow across the results of political polls indicating Obama’s 8.6% lead. Granted, the American voters may be ignorant enough to believe that a Democratic president will make the most ineffective session of congress in our nation’s history marginally more effective, but that requires a phenomenal leap of faith that I am not sure is justified. I honestly don’t believe the American people are that ignorant. A Democratic president, especially one noted for being on the farthest left edge of liberal belief, can only exacerbate the current problem of congressional incompetence. More of the same does not equal change by any method of calculation and more of the same is exactly what this nation can expect if Barack Obama is elected.

While I have never been a fervent supporter of John McCain, I have already cast my absentee ballot in his favor. My decision to vote for McCain was not based on his sterling qualities, his brilliant ideas, his political integrity or his military record. My decision was based on fear. I do not want to see the United States of America slide further into socialism. I do not want to see our government become even less responsive to the will of the American people. I am opposed to being dominated by political tyrants and elitists who believe that they know what is best for all of us and are willing to force our compliance with their demands. I do not wish to see liberty and freedom diluted any more than they already are and I know that if the American government falls under the full control of the Democratic Party then all of these things will come to pass and the United States of America will become a thing of the past. History tells us that all nations ultimately fall, logic tells us that the United States will not be immune and that it too may someday fall, common sense tells me to avoid anything that will hasten the inevitable and that includes voting for Barack Obama.

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While you may have seen a dinky little blurb buried in the back of your morning newspaper about Sarah Palin’s rally in Carson, California, there are a couple of things that happened during that rally that the “professional” journalists neglected to mention. The first and least important was the attempted disruption of Sarah Palin’s speech by an Obama goon squad. The attempt was futile and they were quickly ejected. The second was that Shelly Mandel, president of the Los Angeles chapter of The National Organization for Women (NOW) personally endorsed Sarah Palin. That is nothing less than entirely phenomenal news and it would have been on the front page of every news paper in the country if the newspapers were even slightly objective, which they are not.

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