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Mainstream media’s contributions to Obama and Dems around ONE HUNDRED times greater than to McCain and GOP

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Big Media Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
By William Tate of American Thinker
New York Times refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq Op-Ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen, but true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: Follow the money.

Even the Associated Press--no bastion of conservatism -- has considered, at least superficially, the media's favoritism for Barack Obama. It's time to re-visit media bias. True to form, journalists are defending their bias by saying that one candidate, Obama, is more newsworthy' than the other. In other words, there is no media bias. It is we, the hoi polloi, who reveal our bias by questioning the neutrality of these learned professionals in their ivory-towered newsrooms.

Big Media applies this rationalization to every argument used to point out bias. 'It's not a result of bias', they say. 'It's a matter of news judgment.' And, like the man who knows his wallet was pick-pocketed but can't prove it, the public is left to futilely rage against the injustice of it all.
The 'newsworthy' argument can be applied to every metric: one-sided imbalances in airtime, story placement, column inches, number of stories, etc. Every metric, save one.

An analysis of federal election records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats by a 15:1 margin over Republicans, with $225,563 going to Democrats, only $16,298 to Republicans .

235 journalists donated to Democrats, just 20 gave to Republicans -- a margin greater than 10:1. An even greater disparity, 20:1, exists between the number of journalists who donated to Barack Obama and John McCain.

Searches for other newsroom categories (reporters, correspondents, news editors, anchors, newspaper editors and publishers) produces 311 donors to Democrats to 30 donors to Republicans, a ratio of just over 10:1. In terms of money, $279,266 went to Dems, $20,709 to Republicans, a 14:1 ratio.

And while the money totals pale in comparison to the $9 million+ that just one union's PACs have spent to get Barack Obama elected, they are more substantial than the amount that Obama has criticized John McCain for receiving from lobbyists: 96 lobbyists have contributed $95,850 to McCain, while Obama -- who says he won't take money from PACs or federal lobbyists -- has received $16,223 from 29 lobbyists.

A few journalists list their employer as an organization like MSNBC MSNBC.com, or ABC News, or report that they're a freelancer for the New York Times, or are journalists for Al Jazeera, CNN Turkey, Deutsche Welle Radio, or La Republica of Rome (all contributions to Obama). Most report no employer. They're mainly free-lancers. That's because most major news organization have policies that forbid newsroom employees from making political donations.

As if to warn their colleagues in the media, MSNBC last summer ran a story on journalists' contributions to political candidates which drew a similar conclusion: "Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left"

The timing of that article was rather curious. Dated June 25, 2007, it appeared during the middle of the summer news doldrums in a non-election year -- timing that was sure to minimize its impact among the general public, while still warning newsrooms across the country that such political donations can be checked. In case that was too subtle, MSNBC ran a sidebar story detailing cautionary tales of reporters who lost their jobs or were otherwise negatively impacted because their donations became public.

As if to warn their comrades-in-news against putting their money where their mouths are, the report also cautioned that, with the internet, "it became easier for the blogging public to look up the donors."

It went on to detail the ban that most major media organizations have against newsroom employees donating to political campaigns, a ban that raises some obvious First Amendment issues. Whether it's intentional or not, the ban makes it difficult to verify the political leanings of Big Media reporters, editors and producers. There are two logical ways to extrapolate what those leanings are, though.

One is the overwhelming nature of the above statistics. Given the pack mentality among journalists and, just like any pack, the tendency to follow the leader -- in this case, Big Media -- and since Big Media is centered in some of the bluest of blue parts of the country, it is highly likely that the media elite reflects the same, or an even greater, liberal bias.

A second is to analyze contributions from folks in the same corporate cultures.

That analysis provides some surprising results. Individuals who reported being employed by major media organizations made the following contributions:

NBC, NBC Universal: $104,184 to Democrats / $3,150 to Republicans

CBS: $45,508 to Dems / $966 to Republicans

ABC: $17,320 / $4,717

Turner Broadcasting, TBS: $30,161 / $3,950

Fox: $40,573 / $0

Fox News/Fox News Channel: $1,280 / $0

MSNBC: $210 / $282

CNN: $2,286 / $1,250

Associated Press: $2,550 / $545

Reuters: $10,745 / $3,450

Washington Post, Newsweek: $4,268 / $0

New York Times, NYT Co: $8,143 / $0

Time, Inc: $40,988 / $4,850 ($2,300 to Republicans was from someone identified as a jeweler, so the total may actually be $2,550)

Time Magazine: $1,250 / $0

USA Today: $6,067 / $0

Totals for the above:

$315,533 to Democrats ; $22,656 to Republicans -- most of that to Ron Paul, who was supported by many liberals as a stalking horse to John McCain, a la Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos with Hillary and Obama.

What is truly remarkable about the above list is that, discounting contributions to Paul and Rudy Giuliani, who was a favorite son for many folks in the media, the totals look like this:

$315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans (4 individuals who donated to McCain.)

Let me repeat that: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans.

A ratio of 100 : 1.

No bias there.

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Tapper Calls it Race-Baiting, Chiat thinks Obama should go negative, Alternative Iraqi read of Obama, money promises and that manger in Bethlehem

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

1) Is the MSM finally reporting on race-baiting? Jake Tapper, at Political Punch, is doing just that. During recent campaign stops, Obama trotted out the old race-bait bit about having a “funny name” and that no other presidents “look like me.”

Jake Tapper calls him on it - but good. Quoting Obama during stops in Rolla, Springfield and Union Missouri, Tapper shows how Obama continues to flog the idea that he is a victim of racist attacks by McCain.

Then in Union, Mo., this evening, Obama seemed to specifically accuse McCain and the GOP of peddling racism and xenophobia.

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“George Washington Under the Bus”

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

You know what? When I get slapped about too often by the “race card,” it loses all meaning. It is not only annoying and exploitative, it spoils — even forever damages — the serious use of accusations of racism.

Ripped off from Riverdaughter’s The Confluence:

The AP is reporting that Barack Obama is back to his old tricks of implying that anyone who does not support him, or dare criticize him is a horrible racist. I think this time though, he may have gone too far. While speaking on the campaign trail, Obama had the audacity to actually try to distance himself from the founding fathers of our country:

Democrat Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”

When asked by reporters if he was “playing the race card” Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs simply replied, “No”. So then, what did Obama mean?

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Obama’s big problem; lunch-pail Ohio Democrats ask “Who on earth is this guy?” ; McCain gains in bellwether Ohio

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Four articles to address whats happening to the self-proclaimed Messiah in Bellwether Ohio

1) The British Economist mag, a centrist-left publication provides an overview of why the State is critical to watch to understand the true state of the race

2) Today's Quinnepac polls shows the race is too close to call

3) Last weeks Ramussen poll explains how McCains numbers have shown big gains in the last two months of polling to the point where they believe he has a 10 point lead

4) What to watch for in Ohio...key to predicting the outcome by Jay Cost of Real Clear Politics

The big, bellwether battlefield

Jul 31st 2008 | COLUMBUS
From The Economist print edition


AP

BARACK OBAMA is doing everything he can to make it look as if the election is a mere formality, and adoring media types are keen to play along. Yet the latest USA Today-Gallup poll puts John McCain four points ahead, while the RealClearPolitics average of polls gives Mr Obama a meagre two-and-a-half-point lead. Optimistic Republicans recall that Michael Dukakis was 17 points ahead of George Bush senior in the summer of 1988, and still lost. So there is plenty of evidence to suggest that this election, like the previous two, could boil down to a tight race settled by close results in a handful of “swing” states.

Ohio is the quintessential battleground state. Bill Clinton won it by some of the narrowest of his margins for any big state—just two points in 1992 and six in 1996. In 2004 George Bush won Ohio, with its precious 20 of the 270 electoral college votes needed to secure the presidency, by a mere 118,600 votes. Had 60,000 Ohioans gone the other way, John Kerry would have been president.



Ohio is also a bellwether. It has voted for the winning candidate in all 11 presidential elections since 1960. In doing so, it has deviated from the national vote shares by only a couple of points. In 2004 it matched the national average exactly.

The reason is that it is such a microcosm of America. Ohio is a surprisingly diverse state—with everything from big cities to rolling fields, rustbelt industries to Appalachian poverty. In the Cup-o-Jo Cafe in Columbus, the state capital, 20-somethings sit around eating vegetarian food and talking about how much Mr Obama inspires them to hope for a better world. Out in the rural areas the signs on the road tell a different story—“Hell is real,” reads one, and then, a few miles later, “Repent!”.

Above all, Ohio reeks of “normality”. Not exactly in the statistical sense. Ohio’s median household income is 8% below the national average. Only 2% of the population is Hispanic. Median house prices are 23% below the national average. But it is average in a deeper psychological sense. Jason Mauk, the executive director of the Ohio Republican Party, says that “this is where national politicians go to get a gut check on middle America.”

The Democrats are optimistic about their chances of improving on their performance in 2004. In that year Mr Bush succeeded in making the election a referendum on national security and patriotism. This year support for the war is much softer than it was, and worries about domestic issues more pronounced. Ohio lost 236,000 manufacturing jobs during the Bush years. Worries about health care hit hard in a state where jobs are either threatened or disappearing.

The Ohio Democratic Party is also resurgent after a long period of Republican dominance. In 2006 Ted Strickland won the governorship by a 24-point margin, and Sherrod Brown easily dislodged a sitting senator. The Democrats also swept the board for statewide offices, giving them control of the state’s political machinery. In 2004 the Democrats argued, with some evidence, that Ken Blackwell, the staunchly conservative secretary of state, was not overzealous in ensuring that all Democrats could exercise their right to vote.

But the polls are nevertheless surprisingly close. RealClearPolitics gives Mr Obama an average 1.5-point poll lead. The most recent poll, for Rasmussen, gives Mr McCain a ten-point lead (this may be a rogue poll, but Mr McCain has been gaining in six other battleground states.)

Mr Obama, it seems, still has a problem connecting with the white working-class voters who hold the fate of Ohio in their hands—the people who dominate the old-manufacturing towns in the rustbelt around Cleveland and Akron in the north and the Appalachian countryside in the east. Mr Obama outspent Hillary Clinton by two to one in Ohio, running a blitz of ads attacking NAFTA. He had the benefit of a state-of-the-art organisation and considerable momentum from a string of victories. But he still lost the state by ten points.

Democrats argue that this was a pro-Clinton vote rather than an anti-Obama one. But this is optimistic. A quarter of Democrats nationwide tell pollsters that they are either leaning towards Mr McCain or undecided. The Ohio working class has a strong sense of tribal pride, often expressed in terms of suspicion of outsiders—particularly of the condescending coastal elites. The Democrats who have done well there have been southerners (Jimmy Carter and Mr Clinton), not big-city types or north-easterners.

Ohioans in places like Youngstown and Canton, where the landscape is littered with huge shuttered factories that once supported a prosperous middle-class, and where the only available jobs seem to be in Walmart or fast-food restaurants are cynical about mundane promises, let alone airy-fairy ones about change. They have heard it all before, and the jobs keep disappearing. One of the most common complaints you hear from lunch-pail Ohio Democrats is “Who on earth is this guy?”

This suggests that the fate of Ohio may be decided by exactly the same thing that it was in 2004—the relative strength of the party machines on the ground

Article 2 Winnepac shows Obama leads by 2 points which is within the margin of error and therefore too close to call (July 31 08)

1. If the election for President were being held today, and the candidates were

Barack Obama the Democrat and John McCain the Republican, for whom would you

vote? (If undecided q1) As of today, do you lean more toward Obama or McCain?

This table includes "Leaners".

LIKELY VOTERS...............................................

OHIO Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Wht Blk

Obama 46% 8% 84% 43% 46% 47% 42% 89%

McCain 44 89 11 41 45 44 49 2

SMONE ELSE(VOL) 1 - 1 2 1 1 1 -

WLDN'T VOTE(VOL) - - - - - - - -

DK/NA 8 3 5 14 8 8 8 9



Obama gets 47 percent of Ohio women likely voters, to McCain's 44 percent. Men split with 46 percent for Obama and 45 percent for McCain. White voters back McCain 49 - 42 percent, but Obama sweeps black voters 89 - 2 percent. The Democrat also leads 57 - 35 percent among voters 18 to 34 and 48 - 44 percent among voters 35 to 54, while McCain leads 48 - 41 percent among voters over 55.

In the First Lady matchup, Cindy McCain tops Michelle Obama 33 - 27 percent. Women split with 32 percent for McCain and 31 percent for Obama, while men prefer McCain 33 - 23 percent.

Ohio voters back 55 - 40 percent drilling for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge.

Looking for the best way to address the energy crisis:
  • 57 percent call for renewable energy sources;
  • 20 percent support drilling in Alaska and offshore sites;
  • 7 percent back nuclear power;
  • 7 percent say mandate higher mileage standards for cars;
  • 5 percent say release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Voters split on which candidate has a better energy policy, with 34 percent naming Obama, 33 percent naming McCain and 33 percent undecided.

"Not surprisingly, McCain's improved showing in Ohio stems from slightly better numbers among white voters. And, he has narrowed Obama's lead among women. This relatively small change in the horse race numbers is confirmed by a similar increased favorability for McCain and decreased favorability for Obama," Brown said.

Article 3

Rasmussen has McCain ahead by 10 points in Ohio

July 22 (most recent by Rasmussen)

John McCain has opened a modest lead over Barack Obama in the key swing state of Ohio. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Buckeye State shows McCain attracting 46% of the vote while Obama earns 40%. Last month and the month before McCain held a insignificant one-point lead over Obama.

Seven percent (7%) of voters say they’d prefer a third party candidate over either McCain or Obama and another 7% remain undecided.

When “leaners” are included in the totals, McCain leads Obama 52% to 42%.

McCain is now viewed favorably by 57%, little changed from a month ago. Obama gets favorable marks from 50% of the state’s voters, down three points from June but up three points since May.

Nationally, the candidates are very competitive in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

McCain is supported by 88% of Republicans and Obama earns the vote from 74% of Democrats. Both candidates gain three points from within their own party when leaners are included. However, McCain’s lead among unaffiliated voters jumps from a nine-point advantage without leaners to twenty-three points with leaners.

Among white Democrats in Ohio, Obama leads 71% to 21% (with leaners).

Fifty-one percent (51%) of Ohio voters believe most reporters are trying to help Obama win the election. Just 13% believe they are trying to help McCain and 21% think the journalists are attempting to present unbiased coverage. These figures are similar to the results of a national survey released yesterday.

Economic issues are most important to 49% of Ohio voters while national security concerns are the top priority for 24%. Obama has an eighteen point advantage among those most concerned with economic issues while McCain leads 79% to 21% among those who focus primarily on national security issues.

Sixty-four percent (64%) support offshore oil drilling while 22% are opposed. These figures are close to the national average. Fifty-four percent (54%) say reducing the price of gas and oil is more important than protecting the environment. Just 28% disagree and say protecting the environment is more important. A recent national survey showed that Al Gore’s proposals for clean energy are viewed by voters as unrealistic and costly.

Fifty-five percent (55%) believe the U.S. and its allies are winning the War on Terror while 23% believe the terrorists are winning. Those figures are a bit more optimistic than the national average. However, across the nation, confidence in the War on Terror is near the highest levels of the past four years. Forty-two percent (42%) of voters say that Afghanistan is the central front in the War on Terror while 28% believe that front is in Iraq. These figures, too, mirror the national findings.

Article 4
What To Watch in the Buckeye State

(1) If the national vote is close, expect Ohio to be close. It's a bellwether.

(2) Watch the mid-sized cities. They tend to vote with the winner. If Canton, Dayton, Springfield, and metro Toldeo go for the same candidate - he'll have the edge.

(3) Watch Franklin County (Columbus). If recent history is any guide, it will go for Obama. The question is by how much.

(4) Watch the exurbs. Obama promises to appeal to Republicans. These Republicans here are probably his best bet. McCain should still win the exurban counties of Cincinnati and Columbus, but Obama will be in good shape if he can turn them pink.

(5) Watch the eastern border. There are lots of "working class whites" here, the ones Obama had trouble with in the primaries. But it's not the strong Democrats he needs to worry about. It's the swing voters. If they vote McCain, these counties will be a lighter shade of blue than what Obama needs.

(6) Watch the south. It voted heavily for Clinton in the primary, and there are good reasons to expect it to support McCain. The bigger the margins, the better for the GOP.

(7) Watch Hamilton County (Cincinnati). Obama promises game-changing GOTV efforts. If he delivers, the first sign of success should be here. Traditionally, Hamilton County votes Republican, but just barely (and by steadily decreasing margins over the years). If Obama amplifies African American turnout enough to flip it, that's a sign that his plan's on track.

Source Jay Cost RCP

As for Jay's last point about the African American turnout there may not such a direct correlation. In the Quinnepac poll Nine per cent of black voters indicated they did not know who they would support...compared to 2% that said they would support McCain. Is this the Jesse Jackson Effect? In other words are members of the African American community worried about Obama but unwilling to show their preference to a third party?

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“I AM the One For Whom You Have Been Waiting”

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Obama was waxing lyrical about last week’s trip to Europe, when he concluded, according to the meeting attendee, “this is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for.”

The 200,000 souls who thronged to his speech in Berlin came not just for him, he told the enthralled audience of congressional representatives. “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions,” he said, according to the source.

Holy Cow. Now, I should admit that I was GOING to write some more about Kaine and his BFF, Obama, as well as their joint BFF, Joe Lieberman, but honestly, how can I resist THIS??

“(T)his is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for.”

And:

“I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”

Well, YEAH, if what the world has been waiting for, and what represents America returning to its “best Traditions” is an arrogant, narcissistic, sexist, thuggish, unethical, pandering, coercing, power-hungry Messiah-wannabe, then, yes - Obama is our guy!!! (more…)

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75% of us do NOT share Michelle’s miserable view of America; 75% dont think Michelle fits their idea of what a First Lady should be

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Every woman that I know, regardless of race, education, income, background, political affiliation, is struggling to keep her head above water.
Michelle Obama 4/16/07 Women for Obama lunch

What I've been struck by is the frustration of (the American people.) You know, I met a gentleman in Latrobe who had lost his job and was trying to figure out how he could find the gas money to travel to find a job. And that story, I think, is typical of what we're seeing all across the country.
Senator Obama seemingly listening to his wife's views 4/18/08 Philadelphia Democrat Debate

Michelle Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I’m young. Forty-f our!”

Source The New Yorker in an article

But according to the latest Quinnepac University poll in key battleground states only 25% of Americans claim their families financial situation was "falling behind"

Significantly the same poll indicates that only 1 in 4 Americans say Michelle Obama fits their idea of what a first lady should be. I wonder if its the same 25%?

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AFL-CIO Reminds Us About Obama Rumors

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The AFL-CIO endorsed Obama. They have released two mailers. The first mailer is here:

• “Does he wear a flag pin on his lapel? Yes, but not always. Like many presidential candidates, sometimes he wears a flag pin, sometimes he wears a breast cancer awareness pin, sometimes he wears his U.S. Senate membership pin and other times he wears no pin at all.”

• “Is he a Christian? Yes. He is a committed Christian. In 1985, he began working as a community organizer with a Christian church-based group seeking to improve the living conditions in poor Chicago neighborhoods.”

The mailer missed the mark! It reminds of us those rumors, that he is unpatriotic and a Muslim, rather than dispels them. Once again our family, friends and neighbors will be discussing the rumors anew. (more…)

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Obama plays race card again; condemned as “divisive, negative, shameful, and wrong”

Thursday, July 31st, 2008
McCain wants the presidential campaign to be about Barack Obama — that's why he talks about him so much.

To that end, McCain is helping frame a not-so-flattering portrait of Obama for voters. His ads have become increasingly tough; a third of his commercials portray Obama negatively, a new study concluded.

Polls show that the race remains tight nationally and in key battlegrounds. New state polls by Quinnipiac University show Obama leading McCain in Pennsylvania, and McCain and Obama tied in Ohio and Florida.

No doubt Obama has fame. He fills political venues with people. He breaks fundraising records with a massive donor base. He does not have a name recognition problem. But Obama himself concedes that his challenge is getting voters to see him as president.

"It's a leap, electing a 46-year-old black guy named Barack Obama," he said Wednesday.

He also said McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama, who is black, "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis on Thursday said Obama, with that comment, had "played the race card." He said the remark was "divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

In working to sow doubts about Obama, McCain and his campaign have worked on a specific story line that the Democrat is not tested, not ready to lead and too out of touch with the public.

Source extract from AP by Jim Kuhnhenn

While its true McCain appears to want to make the election a referendum about Obama, until this past week, when he was probably told by Axelrod on his return to the US that he had walked into a political trap, Obama had himself been anxious to make this a referendum about himself. Why? Apart from the his obvious conceit, I believe he was certain he could carry more than 50% of the voters on the strength of his own rhetoric. When it didn't happen by the end of June, I believe his campaign added Europe to his mandatory tour of Iraq and Afghanistan believing a speech in front of admiring Germans would convince another 6% of Americans that he was indeed the Messiah. Lets face it why would anyone even consider his opponent when Obama makes claims such as:
I am absolutely certain that generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless. This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." June 3 Minneapolis victory speech

If you believe his words, you'd be an idiot not to vote for someone who could create full employment with good paying jobs, heal the sick, heal all the troubles on
our terrorism plagued planet, and single-handedly put Al Gore out of business by stopping the tides rising. Of course, if you had concerns about his claims then you'd naturally want to make sure anyone but this snake-oil salesman was your next president.

Ever since Obama said June 3 was the moment when all this good stuff would start to happpen, I've been keeping track of his progress. Why? On June 26, I CONDITIONALLY endorsed Obama ...subject to seeing clear progress on all four issues before election day. While its true that gas prices have come down and June's economic data included some that indicate the economy is of improving, (with the rate of growth now on track to be just north of 2% in 2008, i.e. definitely NOT a recession, and certainly NOT the worst economic times since the Great Depression as Obama would have you believe,) I've seen zero progress in putting a stop to Al Gore's hysterical predictions of gloom. Even worse, while the Messiah was on his America Sucks World Tour, there were tragically hundreds of reported deaths from terrorism in parts of India and Turkey...which suggests he has made zero progress in healing the planet.


Americans are watching and taking good notes. Now that its clear his popularity has peaked below 50% he's desperately attempting to put the toothpaste back in the tube that he squeezed out when he unleashed his hubris on the American people. Now he's torn between accusing his opponent of being either racist or just too plain old to be President. He forgets that around a third of the population is already past 50 and probably not too keen to dismiss a candidate based solely on grounds of his age...something that would be completely unacceptable in the workplace. In any case, McCain's doctors have given a clean bill of health.

Making this General Election about anything but Obama is simply not going to happen. As I've written on numerous occasions, Obama's opponents had no need to produce a swift boat when Obama's mouth has been a self-destroying swift boat for many months. Obama started out by making this campaign a referendum on his miracle powers. His opponents have been only too willing to go along with his strategy. It too late to turn back now...he's already booked Mile High Stadium. Now Obama will have to live with the consequences of his hubris...and my advise to him would be to spend his time between now and election day delivering on his long and growing backlog of unfulfilled promises.

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Birth Certificate: Obama, Soetoro, or Dunham?

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

ADMIN. NOTE: This story was originally published Wed. night; this revised version is being re-posted because of its importance. Original comments are attached.

Guest Author, historian, and former journalist “Judah Benjamin” has given us three well-researched articles so far challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President. In his latest article, The Paper Trail: Obama’s Indonesian Background, Benjamin asserts that Obama acquired Indonesian citizenship when he was adopted by Lolo Soetoro, and that he might still hold Indonesian citizenship. All of Benjamin’s articles should be read in full. (Links are listed at the end.)

WHAT ABOUT THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?

Technical experts Techdude and Polarik maintain that the Certification of Live Birth (COLB) published on the Obama campaign’s official website, FightTheSmears, was forged. I have expressed skepticism about that, not because I question their skills, but because I find it hard to fathom that Obama, as audacious as he is, would publish a falsified birth document. When a newspaper announcement of Obama’s birth in Hawaii was discovered, I stated my belief that Obama was likely born in Honolulu. But I have maintained that Obama is hiding something about his background.

OBAMA, SOETORO, OR DUNHAM?
MY NEW THEORY ON THE COLB

Thanks to Judah Benjamin’s work, the mystery of Obama’s COLB is quickly being solved — at least in my mind. Here is my current theory of events:

1. Obama was born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961, with the legal name Barack Hussein Obama II, and Barack H. Obama Sr. was identified as his legal father. [NOTE: an alternative theory, that Obama was born in Canada, is still being researched.]

2. Obama was adopted by Lolo Soetoro in Hawaii sometime around 1965-1966.

3. As part of the adoption procedure, pursuant to Hawaiian law, Obama’s original Birth Certificate (BC) was SEALED, and a new Birth Certificate was issued with his new name, Barry Soetoro, and the name of his new father, Lolo Soetoro.

(more…)

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[UPDATE: Time Extended] URGENT: Complete This Survey by 2 p.m. ET

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

UPDATE: Do not be concerned if you missed the deadline. Keep submitting surveys because the number totals will continue to be updated. We got a huge response this morning but every single additional submission helps! And look for more posts, probably tomorrow, with more ACTIONS we can take.
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This is an urgent action alert. Please take action before noon 2 p.m. EST by clicking on this link.

The Drafting Committee of the Democratic National Convention is meeting this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Cleveland. This committee will draft the platform that the Platform Committee will debate and ratify at a meeting the following weekend.

Many people think the party platform is a document with no force, but it is actually binding on the party and the next DNC chair for four years. As Hillary supporters who believe the party needs to be reformed, it is absolutely critical that we use whatever opportunity we have to affect the platform.

The Obama Campaign invited voters to tell the Democratic Party what the Platform should be.

I Own My Vote responded by putting forward 10 possible platform planks that address the concerns of Hillary Clinton’s supporters and asking people who signed the I Own My Vote Pledge to vote on whether they agree or disagree with each plank. Each plank that receives a majority of the votes will be submitted to the DNC as part of the I Own My Vote Platform Suggestions.

It is imperative that we deliver the results to the Drafting Committee on Thursday afternoon before the committee meets. Hillary’s platform committee members are waiting for this platform.

It is our goal that over 1000 people will participate in our virtual platform meeting so we can show a real commitment to the positions we articulate. So please, sign the I Own My Vote pledge and visit the virtual platform committee now.

HERE ARE THE PLATFORM MEASURES YOU WILL BE ENDORSING. VOTE now, and then ponder the possibilities! We could actually change how the Democratic party operates its primaries! (more…)

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