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Connecting the Dots - The Obama terrorist factor: Israel and America at a prophetic crossroad

by Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst

Israel has watched over the years as the US, under the Bush Administration, has diminished its standing as the gleaming centerpiece of Middle East stability by legitimatizing anti-Israel Islamists and terrorists with so-called democracies in Gaza, the Palistinian Authority, Pakistan, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, with the upcoming US presidential election, there looms another threat to Israel - a Barak Hussein Obama victory.

The radical socialist links to Obama, including domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, his Marxist mentor Frank Marshall Davis and others, do not prefigure well in that socialists and communists have always lined up against Israel.

But an even more compelling argument relates to Obama's close ties to former Palestinian Liberation Organization spokesman Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi and Obama served on the same board of directors for the leftist Woods Foundation that gave money by the buckets to Bill Ayer's terrorist wife Bernadine Dohrn. Khalidi, who was terrorist Yassir Arafat's "go to" propaganda man, was responsible for bringing Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinijad to spew his anti-American and Israel hate at Columbia University in 2007.
Obama said dinner conversations, share with his wife Michelle and Khalidi and his wife, served as "consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases...It's for that reason that I'm hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation - a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid's dinner table," but around "this entire world."

This was reported in the Los Angeles Times and by FOX News and by WorldNetDaily. Obama attended church for 20 years under pastor Jeremiah Wright, who honored nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and traveled with him to visit yet another former anti-Israel terrorist, Libya's Muammar Khadaffi. Obama has too many close associations with terrorists, ex-terrorists and friends of terrorists.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who claims he and Obama are "close as family," recently told the World Policy Forum in France that Obama will make "fundamental changes" - most importantly, in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interest first" would end. This, in addition to Obama's living family being Muslim, Louis Farrakhan calling Obama the "Messiah", and Kenyan children singing songs that Obama, their Muslim brother, will destroy America from within, does not bode well for Israel.

Yet with respect to their relationship with Israel, Americans hold their future in their voting hands. Genesis 12:3 speaks of Israel and the nations, saying, "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee."

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Obama raises stunning $150 million in September 
 
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama raised more than $150 million in September, a stunning and unprecedented eruption of political giving that has given him a wide spending advantage over rival John McCain.
The Democrat's campaign released the figure Sunday, one day before it must file a detailed report of its monthly finances with the Federal Election Commission.

Obama's money is fueling a vast campaign operation in an expanding field of competitive states. It also has underwritten a wave of both national and targeted video advertising unseen before in a presidential contest.

Campaign manager David Plouffe, in an e-mail to supporters Sunday morning, said the campaign had added 632,000 new donors in September, for a total of 3.1 million contributors to the campaign. He said the average donation was $86.

The Democratic National Committee, moments later, announced that it raised $49.9 million and had $27.5 million in the bank at the start of October. The party has been raising money through joint fundraising events with Obama and can use the money to assist his candidacy.

Obama's numbers are possible because he opted out of the public financing system for the fall campaign. McCain, the Republican nominee, chose to participate in the system, which limits him to $84 million for the September-October stretch before the election.

Obama initially had promised to accept public financing if McCain did, but changed his mind after setting primary fundraising records. His extraordinary fundraising is bound to set a new standard in politics that could doom the taxpayer-paid system. Many Republicans have begun to second-guess McCain's decision to participate in the program.

McCain, reacting to Obama's announcement, raised the potential for fundraising abuses. He said Obama is "completely breaking whatever idea we had after Watergate to keep the costs and spending on campaigns under control. ... That has unleashed now in presidential campaigns a new flood of spending that will then cause a scandal, and then we will fix it again"

While McCain said he was not suggesting the Obama campaign had done anything illegal or improper, he said "history shows us where unlimited amounts of money are in political campaigns, it leads to scandal."

Obama's monthly figure pushed his total fundraising to $605 million. No presidential candidate has ever run such an expensive campaign. His campaign raised $65 million in August, his previous best.

"The overall numbers obviously are impressive," Plouffe said in a campaign video. "But it's what's beneath the numbers in terms of average Americans who have had enough, who want a change and who are really fueling this campaign."

With his money, and a favorable political wind at his back, Obama has secured his foothold in states that have voted for Democratic presidential candidates in the past. But he has also been able to expand the contest to reliably Republican states, forcing McCain and the Republican Party to spend their money defensively.

Plouffe pointed out that the campaign is now spending resources in West Virginia. Obama running mate Joe Biden was scheduled to campaign in Charleston, W.Va., on Friday and the campaign has secured television advertising in the state for the next two weeks, according to ad data obtained by The Associated Press. Plouffe hinted at further expansion, noting that public opinion polls show the race tightening in Georgia and North Dakota.

As much as Obama raised, he needed a big fundraising month to justify his decision to bypass the public finance system. Financially, he has been competing not only against McCain, but against the GOP, which raised $66 million in September.

The combined Obama and DNC totals for September now give the Democrats a distinct financial advantage going into Election Day, just 16 days away.

 
 

[Soldier4Christ]

The communists are getting desperate. Shall we guess at just how desperate they will get?

[HisDaughter]

Colin Powell Endorses Obama
Former secretary of state for President Bush gives his backing to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

FOXNews.com

Colin Powell, the man who delivered to the United Nations the U.S. case for war against Iraq, announced Sunday that he is going to vote for Barack Obama for president.

The former secretary of state for President Bush said the next individual to serve as president of the United States will have to reach out to the world community, and he believes Obama has both style and substance to be successful in that role

"I think he is a transformational figure, he is a new generation coming into, onto the world stage and the American stage, and for that reason I'll be voting for Senator Barack Obama," Powell, who also served as President George H.W. Bush's Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Obama's campaign announced that Obama called Powell after the endorsement and said he looked forward to taking advantage of his advice over the next two weeks and possibly over the next four years.

A spokesman for the Obama campaign told FOX News the Democratic presidential candidate is pleased with the support.

"It was anticipated in some political circles, but I think it will be news to most Americans and it's good news to our campaign," said Obama adviser Brad Woodhouse.

Powell said with two weeks left until the election, he will not campaign for the Democratic presidential candidate.

Speaking with reporters after his appearance on NBC, Powell said that part of the reason he is supporting Obama is because he did not like the negative tone of John McCain's campaign, which has noted the links between Obama and domestic terrorist William Ayers.

"It troubled me. We have two wars. We have economic problems, we have health problems. ... Those are the problems the American people want to hear about, not about Mr. Ayers, not about who's a Muslim and not a Muslim. Those kind of images going out on Al Jazeera are killing us around the world," he said. 

"I thought it was over the top. It was beyond just good political fighting back and forth. ... We can't judge our people and we can't hold our elections on that kind of basis," he added.

Powell, who described himself as still a Republican, added that he also doesn't like the McCain camp's decision to call Obama a socialist because he wants to raise taxes on individuals and businesses making more than $250,000 a year.

"Taxes are always a redistribution of money. Most of the taxes that are redistributed go back to those who pay it -- in roads and airports and hospitals and schools -- and taxes are necessary for the common good, and there's nothing wrong with examining what our tax structure is and who should be paying more, who should be paying less. And for us to say that makes you a socialist I think is an unfortunate characterization and is inaccurate," he said.

While saying he doesn't want to see his taxes go up, Powell said he also doesn't want to see a $12 trillion debt and $500 billion annual deficit.

Appearing on "FOX News Sunday," McCain responded to the news of Powell's endorsement by saying he still admires and respects his old friend.

"Well, I have always admired and respected General Powell. We are longtime friends. This doesn't come as a surprise. But I am also very pleased to have the endorsement of four former secretaries of state ... and I am proud to have the endorsement of well over 200 retired army generals and admirals," McCain said, noting the support offered by Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger and Alexander Haig.

Powell, who has been critical of the war in Iraq despite repeatedly saying he supported the decision to go in, said he is more concerned with the future than the past.

"We now see that things are a lot better in Iraq. Maybe if we had put a surge in in the beginning, it would've been a lot better," he said.

[HisDaughter]

LONDONDERRY, N.H. -- A Londonderry high school student was supposed to sing the national anthem at Barack Obama's rally Thursday, but he ended up not being able to.

Just hours before he was to hit the stage, the Obama campaign told him he was no longer needed.

Zach Bengal, 17, said he was bumped because the campaign had to make time for more speeches.

He said the campaign worker who broke the news was apologetic and said they'd keep him in mind for the future. In a written statement, the campaign said it regretted what it called a miscommunication with Bengal, but it said several other New Hampshire residents were able to speak at the event.


Well by all means....lets cut out the 2 minutes it takes to sing OUR National Anthem so that folks have more time to spew socialist, mind bending, brain washing retoric.  I don't see a problem with that.

[HisDaughter]

From The Sunday TimesOctober 19, 2008

Barack Obama lines up a cabinet of stars as John McCain struggles on
The Democrat may recruit some big names, including Republicans, to see America through the crisis

With the economy on the brink of recession and the country in the midst of two foreign wars, Barack Obama is considering appointing a cabinet of stars to steer America through potentially its worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s if he wins the presidency on November 4.

Obama has a well-regarded, close-knit team of domestic and foreign policy advisers who would follow him into the White House and key administration posts. But he is also being urged to make some high-profile appointments who would command the confidence of the country at such a troubled time.

“It’s important to send a signal,” an Obama adviser said. “With a comparatively new person in office and the awful mess we’re in, these appointments are going to resonate around the world.” Obama, 47, has been warning his supporters that the election is not over yet. “Don’t underestimate our ability to screw it up,” he said last week. But should Obama win, he will not be short of big names to choose for his administration.

A host of well-known figures, including some Republicans, have indicated they would be willing to serve in some capacity as Obama begins to acquire a winner’s glow. From Senator John Kerry, the 2004 presidential candidate with hopes of becoming secretary of state, to Larry Summers, a former US Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, and Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator who has been tipped as defence secretary, there are plenty who have signalled their availability.

Obama is thought likely to cherry-pick a few high-profile names, while rewarding the loyalty and discretion of advisers such as his foreign policy expert Susan Rice who have served him so well throughout the campaign.

“He has no patience whatsoever with prima donnas,” said one leading Democrat policy adviser. “He’s surrounded himself with people who are pretty smooth in dealing with each other.” All eyes were on Colin Powell, the former secretary of state under President George W Bush, to see if he would declare his support for Obama in an interview on Meet the Press, the flagship political television programme, today.

Powell is unlikely to return to the cabinet after the mauling he received over the Iraq war, but could serve as a special envoy abroad. He is regularly consulted by Obama on foreign policy and military matters, and said last year: “I always keep my eyes open and my ears open to requests for service.”

In last week’s debate against John McCain, his Republican opponent, Obama indicated that he would adopt a bipartisan approach to government, citing the Republican senator Richard Lugar, who worked with him on a bill to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation, and General Jim Jones, the former Nato commander, as figures he admired.

“Those are the people, Democrat and Republican, who have shaped my ideas and who will be surrounding me in the White House,” Obama said.

If the Democrats win sweeping majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate as well as the White House, conservative voters could feel alienated from every branch of government. The McCain campaign is already playing up fears of a Democratic landslide to persuade Republicans and independents to back their man.

An editorial in The Wall Street Journal last week warned of a coming “liberal super-majority”. It is possible Democrats could win a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate, enabling them to pass whatever legislation they wanted, from higher taxes to greater union rights.

“Though we doubt most Americans realise it, this would be one of the most profound political and ideological shifts in US history. Liberals would dominate the entire government in a way they haven’t since 1965 or 1933,” the newspaper commented.

William Galston, a former White House policy adviser under Bill Clinton, said: “I don’t think Obama is going to give Republicans much on substance, so he would be well advised to give them some satisfaction on personnel.”

Some leading supporters, such as Kerry, may end up disappointed, even though he launched the then unknown Illinois politician’s career at the 2004 Democratic national convention. “Frankly, how many senators do you want in the cabinet?” wondered one Obama adviser. If he wins the presidency, Obama has to beware of countering his message of “change” on the campaign stump by appointing too many Washington insiders.

Republicans hope the wall-to-wall coverage of the attack by the baldheaded Sam “Joe the plumber” Wurzelbacher on Obama’s plans to increase taxes for those earning more than $250,000 a year has halted the Democrat’s momentum. Some polls have tightened in favour of McCain, 72, but Obama retains an average lead of nearly seven points.

David Plouffe, Obama’s coolly efficient campaign manager, believes his candidate is disproportionately strong in former Republican strongholds such as Virginia and Colorado. This could give Obama enough electoral college votes to push him past the winner’s post, even if he loses the traditional battle-ground states of Florida and Ohio to McCain. The polls suggest that Obama leads by eight points in Virginia, a state that George W Bush won by the same margin in 2004.

In a show of confidence that rattled Republicans, Obama travelled on Friday to Roanoke on the edge of the Appalachian mountains in southwestern Virginia in search of the white, working-class voters who eluded him in the primary campaign against Hillary Clinton.

McCain, in contrast, was fighting a rearguard, defensive action in the northern tip of the state yesterday to shore up his support among the high-tech, white-collar, suburban voters who have been deserting his party.

The youth vote and black vote have been mobilised to an unprecedented degree by the Obama campaign, which has raised $454m – nearly double McCain’s $230m – enabling it to spend on saturation advertising and organisation in areas that were once thought to be unwinnable. It is expected to announce a record-breaking haul of more than $100m in September.

The Democratic voter registration effort has reached far and wide. Althea Patterson, 40, an African-American insurance worker from Roanoke, said: “I’ve got friends who went out and got their criminal records expunged so they could vote for Obama.” Former felons are barred from voting without a judge’s dispensation.

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Senator Jim Webb, the Virginia Democrat and former marine who served as navy secretary in President Ronald Reagan’s administration, personally vouched for Obama’s integrity. “You can trust me and I trust him,” he told the rally in Roanoke. He cited the refrain from a country and western song to disparage McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate: “I know what I was doing but what was I thinking?”

With little more than two weeks until polling day, some leading Republicans suspect McCain is doomed. Peter Wehner, a senior White House official under Bush, said: “The Obama campaign is terrific. They’ve got boatloads of money and they’re using it well. I don’t think the race is over, but I always thought Obama would win. I’m a realist and I can read the polls and the electoral map as well as the next guy.” A persistent question for Obama is how to make the most of Hillary Clinton’s talents in government after she has helped to swing women and blue-collar workers behind him. Last week the New York senator put her chances of running again for president at “probably close to zero”, leaving just a little wiggle room in case Obama loses in a fortnight’s time and there is a vacancy.

Clinton added: “There’s an old saying: bloom where you’re planted.” In the event of an Obama victory, she hopes to inherit the mantle of lion of the Senate from Edward Kennedy and steer universal healthcare legislation through Congress.

However, members of Obama’s inner circle believe she would be tempted to accept an offer to become health secretary, which would give her the historic opportunity to devise and implement the policy. “That’s very possible. Senator Clinton would be terrific as health secretary,” said Congressman Patrick Murphy, a leading Obama supporter.

Sorting out the economy is going to be the biggest test of Obama’s presidency. “He’s got to do something bold and a lot of it will be psychological,” one of his advisers said. One of the names in the frame for Treasury secretary is Paul Volcker, the chairman of the Federal Reserve under President Ronald Reagan, who brought inflation under control in the early 1980s.

Admirers admit his age is against him – Volcker is 81 – but suggest he could oversee a financial rescue package before passing on the baton. Glenn Hubbard, the former head of the Council of Economic Advisers under Bush, said: “I can’t think of anyone else with the same stature.”

Volcker endorsed Obama back in January when Clinton was still the Democratic front-runner. “He would provide the confidence necessary to stabilise the markets and put together an economic plan to get the country moving again,” an Obama adviser said. “This is the man who solved the last economic crisis.”

Another leading candidate for the Treasury is Summers, who has been guiding Obama through the Wall Street melt-down. Summers was forced to quit as president of Harvard University in 2006 after suggesting controversially that men had a greater aptitude for science and engineering than women.

At a conference at Harvard Business School last week, Summers defended Obama’s plans to tax the wealthy by pointing to the huge rise in inequality over the past 30 years between the earnings of the top 1% and bottom 80% of the country. “It is immense compared to any discussion of changing the tax system here or there,” he said.

Obama may also want to reward Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F Kennedy, for overseeing his vice-presidential selection and bringing the coveted family name to his campaign. She has been variously tipped as ambassador to the United Nations, the Vatican and even Britain – her grandfather Joseph Kennedy was sent packing from the same job in 1940 after saying democracy was finished. However, she may wish to remain in America and build on her experience as an education reformer in New York.

As Obama ponders his choice of cabinet, he may recall that there is a precedent for appointing well-established “stars” to shore up a relatively inexperienced president. George W Bush brought the powerful triumvirate of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Powell into his cabinet – and all were heavily criticised for their performance.

Wehner has learnt from experience inside the White House that voters can soon tire of distinguished names if they are unhappy with the results. “There will be a lot of talk about bipartisanship and a honeymoon period, but that will disappear if the economy is stagnating or gets worse,” he said. “The public is very pragmatic and will make its judgment on results rather than optics. The acid test is how the country is doing.”

Candidates call truce for a night of jokes
For one night only, the candidates dropped their attacks and told jokes at a glitzy dinner in Manhattan

John McCain poked fun at criticisms that his campaign is in disarray

“Yes, it’s true that this morning I dismissed my entire team of senior advisers. All of their positions will now be held by a man named ‘Joe the Plumber’.”

“Senator Obama is ready for any contingency – even the possibility of a sudden and dramatic market rebound. I’m told that at the first sign of recovery he will suspend his campaign and fly immediately to Washington to address this crisis.”

“Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats I can’t shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me . . . I’m delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.”

Barack Obama mainly told self-deprecating jokes, but could not resist a jab at Hillary.

“Hillary Clinton is one of the toughest and most formidable presidential candidates in history. She’s broken barriers. She’s inspired millions. She is the primary reason I have all this grey in my hair now.”

“Contrary to the rumours . . . I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here . . . to save the planet Earth.”

As for his second name Hussein: “I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn’t think I’d ever run for president.”

“There was a point in my life when I started palling around with a pretty ugly crowd . . . that’s right . . . I’ve been a member of the United States Senate. Come to think of it, John, I swear I saw you at one of our meetings.”

[Soldier4Christ]

Their roots have grown long and deep indeed.

[Soldier4Christ]

How Obama friend tried to give nation to Muslim minority
Read 3-page agreement that promised to Islamize Kenya, protect terrorists

Reproduced here is a copy of the agreement between Kenyan opposition candidate Raila Odinga and leaders of his nation's Muslim minority. The Islamic leaders promised to strong-arm the country's Muslims into voting for Odinga in return for his transforming the mostly Christian nation into an Islamic state under the strict Islamic Shariah legal system.

During WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi's recent trip to Kenya, the document below was authenticated by Christian former members of Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement who fled the party when they discovered Odinga's plan to impose Islam on their country:

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78323

[Soldier4Christ]

News agency seeks outlet for Michelle Obama tapes
Promises to show campaign is covering up her rant calling Corsi 'evil'

The African Press International news agency – which reported that Michelle Obama called to protest its coverage of WND stories about her husband, characterized the source of the material as "racist" and described WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi as "evil" – has announced it is clear of legal hurdles and is seeking an American news source to distribute audio recordings of Michelle Obama's phone call.

An announcement printed on the press agency's website reads, "API is soon to conclude an agreement on which of the media channels in the US is to air the Michelle Obama tapes. This has come about because many news channels have shown great interest in getting the tapes so that they air to the American people before the elections."

API has delayed releasing the tapes before, saying it was offering Michelle Obama an opportunity to "come clean" and it was seeking legal counsel to avoid a lawsuit from the Obama campaign.

The latest announcement again cites legal worries for the delay.

"We are also seeking to agree with the particular channel that we will finally choose to give the tapes to, that they study the US laws properly so that we are not sued," the announcement reads. "Some have informed us that there are some states in the country that do not have laws that the Obama's can use in attacking API. It may be wise that the tapes get aired in such a State to avoid court cases being filed against us.

"The important thing we are discussing with the US news networks is if they are ready to take the whole responsibility in case the Obama camp reacts using the courts," the statement reads.

As WND reported, API said Michelle Obama called to accuse the agency of "colluding with American Internet bloggers in an effort to bring down her husband."

The Obama campaign, however, immediately denied there had been any telephone call from Michelle Obama, calling the alleged conversation "not real" and "made up."

Several news sources have eagerly anticipated the promised release of the audio tapes in order to determine which camp is telling the truth.

API Chief Editor Korir explained in an earlier statement the intense response news of the tapes' existence has created.

"A number of Americans who are die-hard Obama followers have tried their best to intimidate API using all kinds of threatening methods when they call in and when they e-mail us," the API statement said. "They are implying that API is planning to destroy Obama's chances to become the next U.S. president. API does not have a direct interest in the U.S. presidential elections and we want Obama supporters to understand that. However, when someone who may become the next first lady makes such comments as in the story we have published, the public have the right to know. Intimidation directed to the publishers of the story is not the answer.

"The delay to make public the recordings is expected to give time to Mrs. Obama to come clean and tell the American people that her comments were not meant to harm anyone but that she was reacting to the media pressure on her husband. She should also come out and tell the American people that she will not discriminate those who are not Obama fanatics if she becomes the first lady," the initial statement said.

Get the book that started it all, Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation," autographed by the author, exclusively from WND's online store.

Those on the other side of the political fence also were told to back off.

"Those who do not support Obama are actively pushing for the release of the recordings also, and we understand them very well. In many telephone conversations with them we, however, get disturbed when we realize that most of them want the recordings to be released because they want to use it to stop Senator Obama from being elected president. They state clearly that if the story is true and released now, the contents will sa[v]e America from a constitutional crisis that may come if things come out after the elections that proves Obama was adopted by a foreigner, thus, disqualifying him from the presidency," Korir wrote.

"API is not out to convince the American public of anything. We do not want to influence the outcome of the U.S. presidential elections. API got a true story and published it. The fact that the story has caused a stir was unexpected, but that does not mean API must rush in a manner that will cause problems to itself, just to satisfy those who want the audio tapes so badly," the first statement said. "When the legal concerns are cleared, which is happening in a short while, API will make public all the recordings available. This will also include comments, not yet published, which will most certainly put the Obama campaign spokesperson who had dismissed the story off balance."

After the initial API report, Tommy Vietor, an Obama campaign spokesman, told National Review's Byron York the conversation didn't happen.

"The answer is no, it's not real, the report is made up. She did not speak to the organization," Vietor said, according to York's report on National Review Online's blog "The Corner."

According to the API, the promised tapes should confirm that Michelle Obama did, in fact, scold the agency for not supporting the "African-American view."

"African Press International is supposed to support Africans and African-American view," she reportedly said. "It is strange that API has chosen to support the racists against my husband. There is no shame in being adopted by a stepfather. All dirt has been thrown onto my husband's face and yet he loves this country. My husband and I know that there is no law that will stop him from becoming the president, just because some American white racists are bringing up the issue of my husband's adoption by his stepfather. The important thing here is where my husband's heart is at the moment. I can tell the American people that my husband loves this country and his adoption never changed his love for this country. He was born in Hawaii, yes, and that gives him all the right to be an American citizen even though he was adopted by a foreigner."

API asked Michelle Obama to comment on the detention of Corsi during his visit last week to Kenya, where he was investigating the presidential candidate's links to a controversial strongman serving as prime minister.

"When API asked Mrs. Obama to comment on why Dr. Corsi was arrested by the Kenyan government and whether she thought Kenya's prime minister, Mr. Raila Odinga, was involved in Dr. Corsi's arrest, she got irritated and simply told API not to dig [into] that which will support evil people who are out to stop her husband from getting the presidency," the publication reported.

API also said the Democratic candidate's wife had some clear instructions for the publication.

"Mrs. Obama asked API to write a good story about her husband and that will earn API an invitation to the inauguration ceremony when, as she put it, her husband will be installed as the next President of the United States of America next year," the report said.

[Soldier4Christ]

Obama Broke Illinois Ethics Law as a State Senator

    Apparently, on Obama’s released tax records, he discloses income from speaking fees. The problem? Accepting payment for speaking fees when you’re a legislator is against Illinois state law

    Apparently, as an Illinois state legislator through 2004, Barack was prohibited from taking honoraria for speaking under the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act

    But what about Barack Obama’s 2000 and 2002 tax returns?

    2000: On his 2000 Schedule C-EZ, Barack reported that he received $16,500 as a “Foundation director/Educational speaker.”

    2001: On his 2001 Schedule C-EZ, Barack reported $98,158 from a Chicago law firm, Miner, Barnhill, for “Legal services/attorney” (and nothing for speaking)

    2002: On his 2002 Schedule C, Barack reported $34,491 for “LEGAL SERVCES / SPEAKING FEES.”

    These “speaking fees” are in addition to the amounts that Barack was paid as an employee, a lecturer at the University of Chicago, reported on the first page of his 1040s.

    That’s not change we can believe in.

    Just to sum up, the media can find Joe the Plumber’s tax woes within 24 hours of his having dared to question The One’s narrative, but they can’t find a clear ethical violation in the released records of a man who has been campaigning for President for two years now.

    Another truth-telling moment brought to you by our fair and objective news media.

[HisDaughter]

I doubt there are any that haven't heard about Joe the Plummer but just in case here is an article with the question he posed to Obama that has turned poor Joe's life upside down.  I am waiting to find the transcript of Mike Huckabee's interview with J.P.  When I do I or one of us will post it.
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Joe Wurzelbacher or "Joe The Plumber" as the world now knows him, had no idea that when Barack Obama wandered into his neighborhood last week for a few door knocks and a photo op with the "ordinary" people, that his question to Obama would so dramatically alter his life.

But it did.

Joe asked about Obama's tax plan--- I'm sure you've read all that. Obama's response, on camera, was not what the press wanted the "ordinary" folks to hear. Obama told Joe, "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

That's socialism.

A majority in the press also believe that, but they know a majority of Americans do not want to live under socialism, so this was a call to active duty for their candidate.

Obama's words were difficult to deny as they circulated around the world on video, so the press did what they have tried to do to Sarah Palin and others with whom they disagree: discredit and destroy.

They put out stories about Joe's divorce, his custody battle for his son, his unpaid taxes and a list of other hurtful "facts". Frankly, they have looked more deeply into the life of a plumber from Ohio than they have the life and relationships of their presidential candidate Obama.

This weekend Joe finally spoke publicly to Mike Huckabee about how he personally feels about the matter.

[HisDaughter]

October 20th, 2008 10:36 AM Eastern
Biden: If Elected, The World Will Test Obama With A Crisis
by Aaron Bruns
SEATTLE, WA — Joe Biden says he’s certain that if Barack Obama is elected president, there will be an international crisis to test his strength within the first 6 months of his presidency.

“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America.” he told a fundraising crowd in the Pacific Northwest on Sunday. “Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

“He’s gonna have to make some really tough - I don’t know what the decision’s gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s gonna happen.”

The Delaware Senator made similar remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser the day before. “We’re going to face a major international challenge. Because they’re going to want to test him, just like they did young John Kennedy. They’re going to want to test him. And they’re going to find out this guy’s got steel in his spine,” Biden said. He told the crowd to continue to stand by Obama and know they made the right choice even when the going gets tough.

The Democratic VP nominee has talked about the difficult environment the next president, no matter who he is, will step into — calling it the toughest since the Great Depression — but never before suggested that Obama in particular would be tested because of who he is.

The RNC and the McCain campaign both jumped on the remarks - with the McCain campaign claiming Biden guaranteed an international crisis in the event of an Obama election. South Carolina Senator and top McCain adviser Lindsey Graham already used the remark against the Obama campaign while introducing the Arizona Senator this morning.

In response, Biden spokesman David Wade says “Sen. Biden was making it clear that history has shown Presidents face challenges starting on day one, and with our nation fighting two wars and 21st century threats abroad, we know that we need steady leadership in tumultuous times, not the erratic lurching and stubborn ideology of John McCain.”

Well now.....this is very interesting.  Call me suspicious and/or paranoid, but this confirms the suspsions that I was having just yesterday only I didn't know that they were going to give a warning!  Yesterday I had the thought that if Obama was elected, the door would be opened BY OBAMA for a terrorist act in the U.S. for whatever reason.  Of course it would be denied by Obama and he would be made to look like the savior that he so likes to think he is, in the negotiations afterward, or maybe the helpless captive that lets our country be taken over.  If anyone can convince me otherwise you are welcome to try but it's quite the little coinieky dinky that I had this thought/feeling yesterday and here it is in print today!  I would much perfer that Biden's "prophecy" would refer to the Rapture but my suspicious mind is that he, like a child, either cannot keep a secret or that he thinks by letting a little out of the bag will bring him some glory when it does happen because he can say, "I told you so."

[HisDaughter]

Obama Shatters Records With Unprecedented Money Grab
Barack Obama's campaign contributions -- now more than $600 million -- raises new questions over the influence of money in presidential politics. 

No.  The real question is: What oil grubbing nation is "buying in" and what promises has Obama made to them?

FOXNews.com
Monday, October 20, 2008

Barack Obama's staggering fundraising prowess -- a record-breaking $150 million in September and more than $604 million since the start of his presidential bid -- has raised the game of political cash as well as questions over whether the public financing system is now obsolete.

Public financing restricts how much cash a candidate can raise and is meant to curb the influence of money in presidential campaigns. In an interview on "FOX News Sunday," McCain took issue with Obama's war chest, saying the exorbitant amount of cash has created the potential for scandal and lays a "predicate for the future that can be very dangerous."

"I'm saying that history shows us where unlimited amounts of money are in political campaigns, it leads to scandal...this is the first since the Watergate scandal that any candidate for president of the United States, a major party candidate, has broken the pledge to take public financing.  We enacted those reforms because of that scandal," McCain said.

Indeed, the sum of money raised by Obama far outdistances contributions received by McCain, who kept a pledge to use the public financing system employed by all previous presidential candidates since the Watergate-era reform was enacted.

Obama is the first major party candidate to opt out of public campaign financing in the general election --  George W. Bush dispensed with public financing during his 2000 Republican primary battle in which he defeated McCain.

By accepting public financing, McCain was given $84 million in funds to use between the Republican National Convention and Election Day. His campaign spent $37 million in September and has an additional $47 million available between Oct. 1 and Nov. 4.

In comparison, even before September's fundraising haul, Obama had $77 million on hand to spend. When October fundraising is counted, Obama is expected to surpass the $695.7 million combined total that John Kerry and President Bush raised in the 2004 election.

Obama raised $454 million dollars during the primary campaign -- covering the period from the start of his presidential bid to Aug. 31, 2008, days after he accepted the Democratic Party nomination. McCain raised $240 million during that same time.

In 2004, Bush raised $269.6 million during the primary campaign while Kerry raised $234.6 million. In the 2000 primary season, Bush and Al Gore raised $95.5 million and $48.1 million, respectively.   

In 1996, Bill Clinton acquired a total of $42.5 million during the primary campaign while his opponent Bob Dole raised $44.9 million.

Clinton raised $25 million in private donations seeking the Democratic nomination and got $12.5 million in matching money in 1992. President George H.W. Bush raised $27 million and got $10.1 million in matching money.

In 1988, both candidates -- Bush and Michael Dukakis -- were under a $23 million primary spending limit.

Obama's September take was made possible by more than 630,000 new donors, who contributed an average donation of just under $100, according to the Obama campaign. 

Despite the unprecedented number of dollars raised, the campaign is urging supporters to continue to donate. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe asked supporters over the weekend to dig just a little bit deeper, saying the campaign needs more cash to defend itself against McCain's "terrible" tactics in the final stretch.

"We can't afford to make any cuts. We have to execute everything that we think is required to win. We are also expanding the campaign into new battlegrounds," Plouffe said in a video message to supporters.

The Obama campaign has banked on the candidate's message of hope and change to attract millions of new contributors. Steve Weissman, associate director of the Campaign Finance Institute, said he doubts Obama will face a backlash because of his excessive haul.

"Obama raised half a billion (dollars) in the primaries so his campaign has set records for how much you can raise during the primary season -- and there hasn't been a backlash yet," Weissman said.

"There's not likely to be backlash if the message that's put out resonates with voters. Clearly, it's better to have more money than less. But the key to success is not money alone. ... We have had plenty of millionaire candidates who have failed, like (California Senate candidate) Michael Huffington, for example. The combination of the ability to get the message out and whether the message itself is one that resonates with people is critical," he added.

The campaign is hoping the Democratic presidential candidate's astounding sum of cash will translate into votes, and it is doing its best to spend it smartly.

Obama has bought a good deal of television ads with his haul, particularly in several traditional swing states like Ohio and Florida, as well as some new battleground states like Colorado and North Carolina. And the campaign has said it intends to up its ad spending in the final weeks before Election Day, Nov. 4. 

In an unusual move, the campaign has bought a half hour of political ad time to air concurrently on CBS and NBC on Oct. 29. Obama's campaign paid CBS $961,000 and NBC $891,250 for a total of more than $1.8 million.
But with $604 million, the campaign could buy more than 326 prime-time, half-hour blocks to be run simultaneously on both networks.

Looking at it another way, for $604 million, the Obama campaign could buy all the shares of La Salle Hotel (with $58 million leftover) and almost all the shares of Papa John's Pizza (with a market cap of $606 million)

The campaign could also buy almost all the shares of the Cheesecake Factory (market cap of $640 million) and more than 50 percent of Fannie Mae's outstanding shares (market cap of $1.016 billion)

For the average American, the figure could buy 25,036 Ford Tauruses and more than 140 million gallons of milk.
An individual making $50,000 a year would have to work 12,080 years to earn $604 million.

[HisDaughter]

Jack Cashill
WND Commentary
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Test shows Ayers penned Obama's 'Dreams'

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Posted: October 19, 2008
5:57 pm Eastern

© 2008 

As I have contended in previous articles, there is considerable and growing evidence that Bill Ayers made a significant contribution to Obama's "Dreams from My Father."

Among other indicators, I have cited the stunning parallels in nautical metaphors and postmodern themes, as well as the nearly miraculous transformation of Obama from struggling hack to literary giant in just a few years.

On Friday evening I received a welcome call from a member of Congress who has found the evidence as convincing as I have and has intervened to have writing samples tested through a university-based authorship program.

Although no such program is fully reliable, all preliminary comparisons that I have run have tested positive.

Two comparable nature passages – from "Dreams" and Ayers' memoir, "Fugitive Day," respectively – scored very nearly identically on the Flesch Reading Ease test.

On sentence length, a significant and telling variable, 30-sentence sequences from "Dreams" and "Fugitive Days," each dealing with "community organizing," scored very nearly identically again, "Fugitive Days" averaging 23.13 words a sentence and "Dreams" averaging 23.36 words a sentence.

By contrast, the memoir section of my own book about race, "Sucker Punch," averaged 15 words a sentence and tested significantly higher than either book on the Flesch Reading Ease test.

I also tested verb repetition in all three books, using as a base the first 60 distinctive verbs in "Fugitive Days." In "Dreams," an eye-popping 55 of those verbs appear. In "Sucker Punch," 37 do, this despite the fact that I am closer in age and education to Ayers than Obama is.

Ayers' involvement in Obama's memoir is not nearly as improbable as it might sound. Ayers served as something of a literary guru for his radical Hyde Park neighbors in Chicago.

Rashid Khalidi attests to this in the very first sentence of the acknowledgements in his 2004 book, "Resurrecting Empire."

"There are many people without whose support and assistance I could not have written this book, or written it in the way that it was written," he writes. "First, chronologically, and in other ways, comes Bill Ayers."

A friend of the PLO, even back in its terrorist days, Khalidi was as tight with Obama as he was with Ayers. Obama acknowledged as much when he toasted Khalidi on his departure from Chicago in 2003.

It would seem as natural, in fact, for Obama to have made use of Ayers' famed "dining room table" and the literary help that came with it as it was for Khalidi.

In fact, based on comparisons of style and word selection, Ayers seems to have had a much greater impact on Obama's work than on Khalidi's.

New evidence suggests that there was a good deal of literary back-scratching going on in Chicago's Hyde Park. Obama, for instance, wrote a short and glowing review of Ayers' 1997 book, "A Kind and Just Parent," for the Chicago Tribune.

Obama, whose photo is shown with the review, describes Ayers' book as "a searing and timely account of the juvenile court system."

In that same book, perhaps with a self-congratulatory wink, Ayers cites the "writer" Barack Obama as one among the celebrities in his neighborhood.

Ayers' likely ghosting of "Dreams" matters not so much because of what Ayers was, but rather because of what Ayers is: a man still intent on destroying an America that, in his own words, post 9-11, "makes me want to puke."

The congressman's real concern is that Ayers may have influenced Obama's political philosophy as much as he seems to have influenced his literary style. Consider the following passage from "Dreams":

Some [tourists] came because Kenya, without shame, offered to re-create an age when the lives of whites in foreign lands rested comfortably on the backs of the darker races; an age of innocence before Kimathi and other angry young men in Soweto or Detroit or the Mekong Delta started to lash out in street crime and revolution.
– Barack Obama, "Dreams from My Father"

Although Obama's memoir is generally more restrained and politic than Ayers' "Fugitive Days," passages like the one above make one wonder which is the real Obama.

The reference to "angry young men in Soweto or Detroit or the Mekong Delta" reflects Ayers' worldview of America as a "marauding monster," one that terrorizes its own citizens of color just as it does those in the third world.

Ayers does not define himself as being part of this monster but rather sees himself and his colleagues as saboteurs "behind enemy lines."

Curiously, Obama used the exact same phrase – "behind enemy lines" – to describe his own status while working in corporate America.

Obama's best defense here is that he did not write these passages and may not have understood their implications. For one, given his age, "Mekong Delta" was not likely a part of his vocabulary.

Ayers and his radical friends, however, were obsessed with Vietnam. It defined them and still does. To reflect their superior insight into that country, they have shown a tendency to use "Mekong Delta" as synecdoche, the part that indicates the whole.

In his 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days," for instance, Ayers envisions "a patrol in the Mekong Delta" when he conjures up an image of Vietnam.

Ayers' wife, Bernadine Dohrn, pontificated about "a hamlet called My Lai" in a 1998 interview, but to flash her radical chops, she located it "in the middle of the Mekong Delta," which is in reality several hundred miles from My Lai.

In "Sucker Punch," though I write extensively about Vietnam, I make no reference to the "Mekong Delta." I have never written those words before this article.

Similarly, Ayers would have had a much deeper connection than Obama to "Detroit," whose historic riot took place, shortly before Obama's sixth birthday.

Ayers was posted to Detroit the year after the riot and experienced its fallout firsthand. In 2007, on his blog, he "commemorate[d]" the 40th anniversary of what he predictably calls the "Detroit Rebellion."

For obvious reasons, the media and the Obama camp have held Obama blameless for knowing anything about anything before 1970.

"Why is John McCain talking about the sixties?" one Obama ad asks. "McCain knows Obama denounced Bill Ayers' crimes committed when Obama was just eight years old."

The fact that the Weather Underground did all of its bombing in the 1970s, a conscious deception on the part of Obama and his handlers, is not at issue here.

What is at issue is that, if my thesis is correct, Obama has maintained an intimate working relationship with a self-described "communist" whose actions Obama now calls "despicable" and "detestable" only because he has to.