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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (28537)	5/20/2008 9:36:57 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224757

Yawn...zZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (28537)	5/20/2008 10:01:14 AM
From: DizzyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224757

49% Say Victory in Iraq Likely if McCain Elected Monday, May 19, 2008 If John McCain is elected President, 49% of voters say it is at least somewhat likely that the United States will win the War in Iraq. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 20% believe victory in Iraq is likely if Barack Obama is elected in November. rasmussenreports.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (28537)	5/20/2008 10:38:23 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224757

Call to action for phone calls/emails to your senators(except for you Kenneth, since you probably favor Feinstein's underhanded amendment): numbersusa.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (28537)	5/20/2008 11:10:01 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224757

many of those were Operation Chaos votes. many others will fall away as Obammy shows his true (not blue) colors.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (28537)	5/20/2008 11:16:47 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224757

Koch: I May Back McCain Monday, May 19, 2008 7:30 PM By: Phil Brennan Article Font Size Former New York City Mayor Edward Koch, one of the country’s most prominent Democrats, says he may cross over and back Republican Sen. John McCain for president. In an exclusive Newsmax interview, Koch says McCain “has no equal” when it comes to opposing Islamic terrorism. Though Koch says he disagrees with most of McCain’s positions on domestic issues, he could support him because of his strong national security credentials. Koch carries significant weight with many Jewish Democrats in New York and across the country. He also has a history of playing the maverick and crossing party lines. He has backed several New York Republicans, including Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg for New York City mayor, Al D'Amato for the U.S. Senate, and George Pataki for New York governor. In 2004 he endorsed his first Republican for president, George W. Bush. Koch actively campaigned in several states, including Florida and Ohio. Bush won both states. Koch, a regular Newsmax pundit, also says in his interview that he still endorses Sen. Hillary Clinton for the White House and believes she should stay in the race. He says he is bothered by Sen. Barack Obama’s relationships with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and terrorist bomber William Ayers, and agrees with McCain that a pre-emptive strike against Iran may be necessary. Newsmax: You've been an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton. Do you think that the time has come for her to drop out of the race? Koch: No, definitely not. I think that she has done a splendid job so far and that the people who want to drive her out of the primaries are anti-democratic. Why shouldn't the people in every state have an opportunity to cast their vote? I think she's very brave, and while the chances of her ultimately succeeding are limited, nevertheless she can succeed. Her audience is now the superdelegates. Newsmax: In the event that she is not able to win the nomination, should she join the Obama ticket? Koch: If that can be arranged, sure. I think she would be a fine addition, but I hope that she prevails as the presidential candidate. That seems not to be in the cards, but you never know when it comes to politics. The Wright Controversy Newsmax: Do you think Barack Obama has gone far enough in distancing himself from the Rev. Wright? Koch: No one believes that he agrees with the positions of Rev. Wright. The problem is that he sat there for 20 years like a potted plant, and that is a distressing matter that has to be considered when and if he becomes the Democratic candidate. Newsmax: Are you bothered by his links to Louis Farrakhan and William Ayers? Koch: Obama has no links to Farrakhan. I am bothered by his not speaking out [about Rev. Wright] for 20 years. Newsmax: What about his links to Ayers? Koch: It bothers me that he still has good words for a non-repentant terrorist who says they didn't bomb enough. Newsmax: How do you feel about John McCain? Koch: I know him personally. I like him very much as a human being. I don't agree with most of his domestic policy positions, however. Newsmax: Who would be the better candidate against McCain — Hillary or Obama? Koch: There's no question that Hillary would be a tougher candidate for him. I think that the odds are that she would beat him, primarily because the Republicans are saddled with a record of non-achievement over the last eight years, and a president who I personally like but who is perceived by, I think it's now close to 80 percent of the public, as a failure. I don't think he's a failure on the issue of Islamic terrorism — I think he has stood up like a giant. But on all domestic issues he has a record of failure.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (28537)	5/20/2008 11:34:50 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224757

Dream candidate "Osama bin Laden must be chuckling in his safe house," wrote Shireen Burki in the Christian Science Monitor yesterday. "The 2008 campaign could very well give Al Qaeda the ultimate propaganda tool: President Barack Hussein Obama, Muslim apostate. The fact that Sen. Obama — son of a Muslim father — insists he was never a Muslim before becoming Christian is irrelevant to bin Laden. In bin Laden's eyes, Obama is a murtad fitri, the worst type of apostate, because he was blessed by Allah to be born into the true faith of Islam. "Should Obama become U.S. commander-in-chief, there is a strong likelihood that Al Qaeda's media arm, As-Sahab, will exploit his background to argue that an apostate is leading the global war on terror (read: attacks against fellow Muslims). This perception would be leveraged to galvanize sympathizers into action. "Al Qaeda, though, has struggled recently to recruit volunteers for this jihad. While bin Laden retains significant support as someone willing to stand up for Muslim concerns, most Muslims abhor Al Qaeda's terrorist methods, whose primary targets are innocent noncombatants. "But an apostate as head of the United States could change this equation. It would be a propaganda boost for Al Qaeda's mission. All one has to do is read Al Qaeda's public statements to recognize how frequently it makes baseless apostasy accusations against fellow Muslims who challenge its message or actions. "That's why Obama is bin Laden's dream candidate." Ms. Burki, incidentally, is a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington and the daughter of a Muslim father and a Christian mother. She spent her childhood in Pakistan.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (28537)	5/20/2008 12:35:12 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224757

Obama and the Black Media Obama can't even keep his commitments to black media outlets. Promised interviews, access, ads - ironic that the first black Presidential candidate is stiff-arming the black media. By Ray Robison Senator Barack Obama tries to be all things to all people with his vague language of change and hope. But sometimes he makes the mistake of promising something, only to see it turn out to be an inconvenience when it comes time to actually perform. Obama dazzled the crowd at the National Association of Black Journalists convention last August with a stirring speech followed by a question and answer session. The video of the event has been posted online and you can view it here. Highlighted at the NABJ website post about the event is his call for the black media to spotlight the "struggles that are happening in African American communities." His rhetoric for the black media to support the African-American community seemed a call to action by a man who wants to be a leader of not just that community but our nation. Of course, at the time it was widely reported that African-Americans were concerned with the "authenticity" of a man raised by whites, with no ancestors who had been enslaved in America. Perhaps it is worth examining whether his words match his deeds with respect to that community to find out what the rest of us can expect. At about 20 minutes into the video, Cheryl Smith of The Dallas Weekly asked the Senator a question. After noting his previous outreach to the black press she questioned "if elected will the black press receive the same consideration and respect?" In response the senator mentioned his history with local Chicago based black media and the support it provided him on local issues. Obama rattled off the names of a few local black press outlets such as the Chicago Crusader that he had dealt with in the past and told the assembled reporters that "if you all were covering me when nobody wanted to cover me then you should be able to cover me when everybody wants to cover me." The statement received a warm welcome and in response Senator Obama pledged to continue the practice "when I am in the White House". But it didn't take long for that promise to be forgotten. The Senator's concerns over "authenticity" transformed into concerns about being perceived by whotes as a racial candidate, once Bill and Hillary Clinton began their project of identifying him as the "black candidate." This man who runs on the premise of being something "new" in politics seems to have a strain of the "old" politics in him. A politician's promise is, after all, nothign but a politican's promise. In April this year a woman named Dorothy Leavell who publishes the Chicago Crusader and helms the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) blasted the senator and his campaign as a pack of "liars". A writer named Betty Pleasant who writes a column for the Los Angeles Wave, a local LA black media outlet revealed his betrayal and the anger it has provoked in the black media community. Pleasant reports that "Black publishers say they have been locked out of Obama's advertising game plan -- and even shunned in their attempts to cover the Obama operation." Ms. Pleasant writes that black media has chafed "at his campaign officials' insensitivity to, and total disregard of" black people. To make matters worse, as Pleasant reported, during a March meeting of the NNPA the publishers reminded the senator's staff of his pledge to support them. In response, Michael Strautmanis representing the Obama campaign acknowledged the problem and vowed to correct it by sending ad money and interview opportunities to the black media. By the end of April Ms. Leavell was hopping mad. "They lied to us" Leavell told Pleasant according to the article. Ms. Leavell's papers are based in Chicago and Indiana, the scene of major primary contests. According to Leavell they received no support from the campaign despite her repeated attempts to contact Strautmanis to hold him to the campaign's promise prompting her to declare them "the worst liars". And Leavell was not alone. Ernie Pitt, a North Carolina black media publisher called Obama's pledge an "easy promise to keep" while remarking that if he breaks a pledge on something so easy the "what can we expect if they get to the White House?" Lenora Carter of Texas complained that the Obama campaign refused access to the black media during the Texas primary. Carter claimed that "Blacks set up a headquarters for him here in the 3rd Ward at their own expense and he never visited it". She also says that he ignored the black radio station just "six blocks from where he was staying." Leavell summed up the situation thusly "many of our black communities may not turn out to vote in November, no matter who's running." The candidate has not helped assuage these concerns by avoiding campaigning in black neighborhoods ever since the Clintons played the race card. Many whites support Obama especially because he is seen as the fulfillment of our dreams for a colorblind society. Those whites look to Obama to relieve them of a guilt ingrained in them since childhood that as white Americans they are somehow responsible for the acts of our forefathers. To see the man who is held out by the mainstream media as the embodiment of a promise to push us over the racial equality finish line treating his pledges to black media so glibly, well what can the rest of us expect from him? Can he be the racial healer when he is the cause of the hurt? Can America expect him to keep his grandiose promises when he won't keep his personal pledges to his base? americanthinker.com