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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 (31531)	6/20/2008 3:16:34 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224749

Pretty racist stuff eh?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (31531)	6/20/2008 3:17:12 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

Wow Kenneth a whopping 130 people were surveyed?! Stop the presses! LOL! You really are a sad little partisan parrot aren't you...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (31531)	6/20/2008 3:47:08 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224749

blacks are such racists

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (31531)	6/20/2008 6:33:11 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 224749

Obama Campaign Makes Muslim Supporters Disappear "Two Muslim women at Barack Obama’s rally in Detroit on Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women’s headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate." “The campaign has apologized to the women, both Obama supporters who said they felt betrayed by their treatment at the rally. “’This is of course not the policy of the campaign. It is offensive and counter to Obama’s commitment to bring Americans together and simply not the kind of campaign we run,’ said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. ‘We sincerely apologize for the behavior of these volunteers.’” Those are the first three paragraphs of an article by Ben Smith of politico.com. Do you see a pattern here? Of course you do. Senator Obama or Mrs. Obama or very close associates of the Obamas or the Obama campaign step in something, cumulatively a foul-smelling mountain of somethings in a fairly compressed period of time, and all of a sudden there are not enough buses to throw folks under, not enough sincere apologies to go around. Tony Rezko, client, campaign contributor, real estate buddy. When Rezko became a convicted felon, he wasn’t the person Obama knew. Reverend Wright, the Obama’s minister of 20 years, Obama’s spiritual mentor. Nope, the Obamas didn’t really get to hear any of those sermons where all that bad stuff was spewed, didn’t ever see one of the videos from the church store, didn’t hear anyone at the arugula market talking about them. Father Phleger, political contributor, longtime political associate, the white Catholic priest who gives new meaning to the word strange, gone on a midnight train to Purgatory, along with Obama’s church, congregation and new minister. William Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn, those lovable, wacky terrorist professors down the street who the Obamas don’t know all that well, even though Obama’s first political campaign was hatched at their house. Jim Johnson, the ultimate Washington insider chosen to head Obama’s vice-presidential search committee. When he ran into media exposure of sweetheart mortgages and questionable corporate compensation, well, he was just a volunteer with little responsibility, leaving the campaign almost before he had a desk to avoid those pesky distractions from the Obama gospel. Those are just some of the A-list embarrassments, far from all. It is instructive to note that Ben Smith’s politico.com article describes “two different Obama volunteers – in separate incidents” who “made it clear that headscarves wouldn’t be in the picture.” One, maybe the understanding observer sees as an aberration. Two, separately, sure seem like campaign training to us. The incident is minor, but it makes a major point when added to the totality. In the same week as the Muslim incidents, The New York Times has reported on Michelle Obama’s image “makeover” and the campaign’s attempts to lock down control of image and access to the candidate. From the Times: “The campaign on Monday barred cameras from a large gathering of African-American civic leaders Obama attended. It recently refused to provide names of religious figures with whom Obama met in Chicago and directed some of them to avoid reporters by using a special exit. And on Wednesday, the campaign orchestrated Michelle Obama’s appearance on the friendly set of ‘The View’ and a flattering spread in the pages of Us Weekly.” Reporters have long complained about the lack of direct access to Obama, and his knowledge and policy gaffes when he speaks extemporaneously are reason enough for the policy. Presidential campaigns are and must be as much stagecraft as they are substance, and none should be faulted for that necessity. This campaign is shaping up to be as brutal and vicious, from all quarters, as we have ever seen. Obama has portrayed himself as levitating above all that, but those who are paying close attention know that is not so. The continuing, consciously deceptive misrepresentation regarding John McCain’s “100 years in Iraq” statement is just one pronounced example. Whether the American people buy the Obama “package” they are being sold is an open question, but if they do, many may come to realize that the myths Obama seeks to perpetuate are not a lot different from those he seeks to knock down. cfif.org

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (31531)	6/21/2008 10:09:20 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

If Muslim heads of state think Obama is "one of them" is it a problem? "Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency." .... We still hope that this black man will take pride in his African and Islamic identity, and in his faith, and that [he will know] that he has rights in America, and that he will change America from evil to good, and that America will establish relations that will serve it well with other peoples, especially the Arabs. " Muammar Gaddafi memritv.org