In a fiery sermon taped and available on DVD, Barack Obama’s longtime pastor and spiritual adviser can be seen and heard saying three times: “God damn America.” (Well, most people won't notice that his public rant actually broke 3 laws: Illinios 1983 Code 12-14 Sec 50-67, Sec 50-69 and 720 ILCS 5/26-1. Just like most people won't mind that is calls for support for Obama from the pulpit violate US tax code.)
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., in his taped sermons, also questioned America’s role in the spread of the AIDS virus and suggested that the United States bore some responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Confronting the content of some of Wright’s sermons, parts of which have been aired this week on FOX News, the Obama campaign is continuing to distance itself from the pastor’s rhetoric. But it is stopping short of a full repudiation.
Wright’s supporters say his Afro-centric sermons accurately portray black America, and they contend his sermons are widely studied by theologians. But critics are now calling attention to some of his words from the pulpit.
The pastor delivered his final sermon last month and retired as leader of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Obama has attended the church for 20 years and calls Wright his spiritual adviser.
Click here to visit the Trinity United Church of Christ’s Web site.
In a fiery sermon in April 2003, Wright said: “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and wants them to sing God Bless America.
“No! No No!
“God damn America … for killing innocent people.
“God damn America for threatening citizens as less than humans.
“God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and supreme.”
In DVD copies of his sermons available for purchase, Wright can also be seen questioning America’s role in the spreading of the HIV virus that leads to AIDS. In another speech, made in the days after 9/11, he suggested that American foreign policy invited the terror attacks.
“We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki. And we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye,” Wright said.
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own backyard. America is chickens coming home to roost.”
The pastor also said: “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”
Late Thursday, the Obama campaign said it has distanced itself from certain comments made by the pastor. But it did not fully repudiate Wright himself — as some critics have called for.
“Senator Obama has said before that he profoundly disagrees with some of the statements and positions of Reverend Wright, who has preached his last sermon as pastor at the church,” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said. “Senator Obama deplores divisive statements whether they come from his supporters, the supporters of his opponent, talk radio, or anywhere else.” (Bullshit... only if the statement is made against Obama.)
Obama’s longtime relationship with Wright is continuing to spark controversy.
“This is not just someone that Barack Obama has a casual relationship with,” said Tom Bevan, executive editor of RealClearPolitics.com. He noted that Wright married Barack and Michelle Obama, and Wright’s words were the inspiration for the title of Obama’s book, “The Audacity of Hope.”
“Barack Obama has not out and out distanced himself from all of these comments … ,” said Patricia Murphy, editor of CitizenJanePolitics.com. “It’s unclear if he rejects all of these statements. I would assume that he does, but I think he is going to be pushed where he needs to come out and fully explain his relationship with his pastor.”
Some of Wright’s statements have raised eyebrows at a time the Internal Revenue Service is scrutinizing tax-exempt religious organizations for alleged violations of rules barring them from participating in political campaigns.
Prior to his retirement last month, Wright delivered commentary from the pulpit in which he praised Obama, as well as remarks focusing on the racial divide between Obama and Clinton.
“There is a man here who can take this country in a new direction,” Wright said during his Jan. 13 sermon.
During a Christmas sermon, Wright tried to compare Obama’s upbringing to Jesus at the hands of the Romans.
“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people,” Wright said. “Hillary would never know that.
“Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
In a Jan. 13 sermon, Wright said:
“Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”
So far the McCain and the Clinton campaigns has been shamefully quiet over Wright’s comments.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
PORK SPENDING SCORECARD
PORK SPENDING SCORECARD
We have a bit of bipartisan action taking place this week on the floor of the U.S. Senate. A Republican and a Democrat Senator: DeMint of South Carolina and McCaskill of Missouri, are going to offer an amendment to a bill that would require a two-thirds vote of the senate for any pork (or earmark, as they like to call it) spending to be approved.
McCain has vowed to be there to cast his vote for it. But Hillary and Obama have made no such vow. McCain is taking time off from his campaign to go to Washington just so he can vote on this amendment to end earmark spending.
In the meantime .. let's take a peek at the presidential candidate earmark records for the 2008 budget:
Hillary Clinton: 212 earmarks totaling $266 million.
Barack Obama: 53 earmarks totaling $126 million
John McCain: 0 earmarks totaling $0.0 million.
Hmmmm ... I wonder who is the better choice for getting the budget under control?
We have a bit of bipartisan action taking place this week on the floor of the U.S. Senate. A Republican and a Democrat Senator: DeMint of South Carolina and McCaskill of Missouri, are going to offer an amendment to a bill that would require a two-thirds vote of the senate for any pork (or earmark, as they like to call it) spending to be approved.
McCain has vowed to be there to cast his vote for it. But Hillary and Obama have made no such vow. McCain is taking time off from his campaign to go to Washington just so he can vote on this amendment to end earmark spending.
In the meantime .. let's take a peek at the presidential candidate earmark records for the 2008 budget:
Hillary Clinton: 212 earmarks totaling $266 million.
Barack Obama: 53 earmarks totaling $126 million
John McCain: 0 earmarks totaling $0.0 million.
Hmmmm ... I wonder who is the better choice for getting the budget under control?
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Hey Obama and Hillary are Niggers!
WARNING: Contains offensive language.
OK, she's not and the N word is a word I don't like to use. But If you listen to Political Activist / Pastor Jeremiah Wright Jr you find out that being called a nigger makes you a better candidate. Who knew that the KKK and other dim-witted hate groups would actually be supporting Obama by calling him a nigger?
(OK, I'm done using the N-word now not because I refuse to support Obama or because it's not PC but because my parents raised me better.)
Barack Hussein Obama's nut job of a pastor and the church he's served for 36 years should be in hot water over statements Wright has made from the pulpit in support of the under qualified Illinois senator's run for the White House.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. claims to follow the righteous path, but when it comes to the federal tax law, his Trinity United Church of Christ may have crossed the line. Wright praised Obama from the pulpit on Jan. 13 in what was billed as his final sermon at the Chicago church.
"There is a man here who can take this country in a new direction," Wright said during his sermon. (Backward is a new direction folks.)
It was not the first time Wright endorsed Obama from the pulpit. The title of Obama's second book, "The Audacity of Hope," was stolen from a sermon by Wright. (More proof that the Democrat's dancing monkey is not capable of originial thought.)
During a Christmas sermon, Wright tried to compare Obama's upbringing to Jesus at the hands of the Romans.
As Obama Talks Religion, Questions Surround His Controversial Pastor
"Hillary ain't never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person." Wright decried from the pulpit.
In his Jan. 13 sermon, Wright said: "Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain't! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty."
"It's pretty clear an indirect endorsement of Barack Obama — that's not something you're supposed to do according to the tax code," said Andrew Walsh, a professor at Trinity College who specializes in religion in politics.
The tax code bans churches from participating in or intervening in a political campaign. Violations can result in the loss of a church's tax exempt status.
"Senator Obama has said repeatedly that personal attacks such as this have no place in this campaign or our politics, whether they're offered from a platform at a rally or the pulpit of a church," said Bill Burton, a campaign spokesman.
"Senator Obama does not think of the pastor of his church in political terms. Like a member of his family, there are things he says with which Senator Obama deeply disagrees."
Obama defended Wright's longtime activism for blacks in America last week at a campaign event in Ohio.
"Jeremiah Wright ... has said some things that are considered controversial because he's considered that part of his social gospel," Obama said.
The Internal Revenue Service wouldn't comment on whether it is looking into potential tax violations at Trinity United. The church declined to make Wright available for an interview.
Congregant Dwight Hopkins, a professor of Theology at the University of Chicago, said there is no basis for the IRS to go after the church.
"From the church side they will say it's theology," said. "If it wasn't a senator running for president and it wasn't his church, then I think we could say all kinds of things."
The IRS has written dozens of letters warning churches against political advocacy from the pulpit. Yet it has revoked a church's tax-exempt status only twice in the last half-century.
Walsh said it's not typical for the IRS to enforce the rules.
"There's a tension here between the desires of the religious leaders to say important things in the public marketplace and the IRS rules, and so most of the time, the IRS does not enforce these rules," Walsh said.
The public scrutiny of these sermons comes in the wake of last month's revelation by the head of the United Church of Christ that the IRS is investigation a speech Obama gave at the denomination's national conference last year in Connecticut.
In a certified letter, Marsha Ramirez, IRS director, EO Examinations, wrote:
"Our concerns are based on articles posted on several Web sites including the church's which state the United States Presidential Candidate Senator Barack Obama addressed nearly 10,000 church members gathered at the United Church of Christ's biennial General Synod at the Hartford Civic Center, on June 23, 2007. In addition, 40 Obama volunteers staffed campaign tables outside the center to promote his campaign."
Some remarks attributed to Wright that have been posted on the Internet and cited in press accounts include:
“Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college.
"Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.
"We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. ... We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. ... We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means.
"And ... And ... And! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this shit!"
Click here to hear an audio clip of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
WARNING: Contains offensive language.
OK, she's not and the N word is a word I don't like to use. But If you listen to Political Activist / Pastor Jeremiah Wright Jr you find out that being called a nigger makes you a better candidate. Who knew that the KKK and other dim-witted hate groups would actually be supporting Obama by calling him a nigger?
(OK, I'm done using the N-word now not because I refuse to support Obama or because it's not PC but because my parents raised me better.)
Barack Hussein Obama's nut job of a pastor and the church he's served for 36 years should be in hot water over statements Wright has made from the pulpit in support of the under qualified Illinois senator's run for the White House.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. claims to follow the righteous path, but when it comes to the federal tax law, his Trinity United Church of Christ may have crossed the line. Wright praised Obama from the pulpit on Jan. 13 in what was billed as his final sermon at the Chicago church.
"There is a man here who can take this country in a new direction," Wright said during his sermon. (Backward is a new direction folks.)
It was not the first time Wright endorsed Obama from the pulpit. The title of Obama's second book, "The Audacity of Hope," was stolen from a sermon by Wright. (More proof that the Democrat's dancing monkey is not capable of originial thought.)
During a Christmas sermon, Wright tried to compare Obama's upbringing to Jesus at the hands of the Romans.
As Obama Talks Religion, Questions Surround His Controversial Pastor
"Hillary ain't never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person." Wright decried from the pulpit.
In his Jan. 13 sermon, Wright said: "Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain't! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty."
"It's pretty clear an indirect endorsement of Barack Obama — that's not something you're supposed to do according to the tax code," said Andrew Walsh, a professor at Trinity College who specializes in religion in politics.
The tax code bans churches from participating in or intervening in a political campaign. Violations can result in the loss of a church's tax exempt status.
"Senator Obama has said repeatedly that personal attacks such as this have no place in this campaign or our politics, whether they're offered from a platform at a rally or the pulpit of a church," said Bill Burton, a campaign spokesman.
"Senator Obama does not think of the pastor of his church in political terms. Like a member of his family, there are things he says with which Senator Obama deeply disagrees."
Obama defended Wright's longtime activism for blacks in America last week at a campaign event in Ohio.
"Jeremiah Wright ... has said some things that are considered controversial because he's considered that part of his social gospel," Obama said.
The Internal Revenue Service wouldn't comment on whether it is looking into potential tax violations at Trinity United. The church declined to make Wright available for an interview.
Congregant Dwight Hopkins, a professor of Theology at the University of Chicago, said there is no basis for the IRS to go after the church.
"From the church side they will say it's theology," said. "If it wasn't a senator running for president and it wasn't his church, then I think we could say all kinds of things."
The IRS has written dozens of letters warning churches against political advocacy from the pulpit. Yet it has revoked a church's tax-exempt status only twice in the last half-century.
Walsh said it's not typical for the IRS to enforce the rules.
"There's a tension here between the desires of the religious leaders to say important things in the public marketplace and the IRS rules, and so most of the time, the IRS does not enforce these rules," Walsh said.
The public scrutiny of these sermons comes in the wake of last month's revelation by the head of the United Church of Christ that the IRS is investigation a speech Obama gave at the denomination's national conference last year in Connecticut.
In a certified letter, Marsha Ramirez, IRS director, EO Examinations, wrote:
"Our concerns are based on articles posted on several Web sites including the church's which state the United States Presidential Candidate Senator Barack Obama addressed nearly 10,000 church members gathered at the United Church of Christ's biennial General Synod at the Hartford Civic Center, on June 23, 2007. In addition, 40 Obama volunteers staffed campaign tables outside the center to promote his campaign."
Some remarks attributed to Wright that have been posted on the Internet and cited in press accounts include:
“Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college.
"Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.
"We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. ... We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. ... We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means.
"And ... And ... And! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this shit!"
Click here to hear an audio clip of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
WARNING: Contains offensive language.
Will Doctor Death be Obama's Surgeon General
Kevorkian plans congressional run
Hmmm ... I wonder if Barack Hussein Obama will name him as the Surgeon General.
I mean Doctor Death is more qualified to be the top Doctor in this land than Barack Hussein Obama is to be the top exceutive.
Hmmm ... I wonder if Barack Hussein Obama will name him as the Surgeon General.
I mean Doctor Death is more qualified to be the top Doctor in this land than Barack Hussein Obama is to be the top exceutive.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Obama's "Change" equals Politics as Usual
Obama's Bisiness partner Real estate developer and Democrat money man, Antoin "Tony" Rezko is on trial in a Chicago federal courtroom on political corruption charges for allegedly buying influence with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration. Rezko is charged with 15 counts of fraud, as well as money laundering, bribery and attempted extortion. The trial is expected to last three to four months.
Rezko doesn't deny his role as a high-powered money man for major Democrats — including presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama when Obama served in the Illinois Legislature — but he refutes prosecutors allegations that he tried to shake down companies that wanted to do business with the state.
Tony Rezko's defense attorney wants to make it clear that in no way did the memo/e-mail entered as evidence today in court imply that Obama or other Illinois state lawmakers were "consulted" about any who should or should not be recommended to serve on a state hospitals planning board.
Defense attorney Joe Duffy says the memo shows that "Obama was one of the sponsors of the SB 1332, (designed to restructure the board). The memo had nothing to do with any recommendations." Obama and the rest of the lawmakers named in the memo voted in favor of SB 1332 in May 2004.
Yesterday, Rezko's defense team revealed an e-mail sent from an associate of David Wilhelm, the former campaign manager for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, to the governor's former general counsel, Susan Lichtenstein. The memo states that Obama -- then an Illinois state senator --consulted with other state lawmakers about who should serve as board members on the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board (IHFPB).
The IHFPB oversees the construction and expansion of Illinois hospitals. It's one of two state boards Tony Rezko is accused of trying to steal money from in what prosecutors call a "pay-to-play" scheme. Rezko never served on either board, but today two former employees with the governors office testified Rezko recommended dozens of people to those boards who eventually were appointed by the governor to serve. Prosecutors say Rezko's plan was to recommend people he knew would conspire with him to accept bribes and kickbacks from companies doing business with the boards.
Sen. Barack Hussein Obama's name surfaced briefly during day two of testimony in the public corruption trial of Chicago businessman and political fundraiser Tony Rezko.
During his opening statement to the jury, Tony Rezko's attorney described his client as a family man who came to the U.S. from Syria to pursue the American dream, eventually achieving that dream as a successful businessman.
Rezko is on trial in federal court accused of 15 counts of fraud, money laundering, aiding and abetting bribery and attempted extortion of a Hollywood movie producer, Tom Rosenberg (Million Dollar Baby).
Rezko was indicted in October 2006, accused of soliciting kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business. Rezko has a strong reputation in Illinois for being a political fixer. He's donated thousands of dollars to Illinois political campaigns, including U.S. Sen. Barack Hussein Obama.
Lead defense attorney, Joe Duffy, says Rezko has a long list of friends in Illinois politics including Obama. Duffy told the jury, "Tony Rezko met Barack Hussein Obama when Obama was a student at Harvard law school and he (Rezko) offered him a job with his business," which Obama declined. "Tony was a friend and supported Obama through the years."
Barack Hussein Obama's name was mentioned twice during defense attorney Joe Duffy's opening statement.
Duffy told the jury that Rezko had many friends in Illinois politics, too many to name. But he did name Obama and said how Rezko met the Democratic presidential candidate at Harvard Law School and how he offered Obama a job.
Rezko was indicted in October 2006 accused of soliciting kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business. Rezko has a strong reputation in Illinois for being a political fixer. He's donated thousands of dollars to Illinois political campaigns, including Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Barack Hussein Obama. Obama's campaign confirms that approximately $150,000 was donated by Rezko.
(Politics as usual. You would expect better from Al Sharpton ... I ment Jesse Jackson ... er... Oh Yeah, Borrat Insane Obama. Change my eye.)
Rezko doesn't deny his role as a high-powered money man for major Democrats — including presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama when Obama served in the Illinois Legislature — but he refutes prosecutors allegations that he tried to shake down companies that wanted to do business with the state.
Tony Rezko's defense attorney wants to make it clear that in no way did the memo/e-mail entered as evidence today in court imply that Obama or other Illinois state lawmakers were "consulted" about any who should or should not be recommended to serve on a state hospitals planning board.
Defense attorney Joe Duffy says the memo shows that "Obama was one of the sponsors of the SB 1332, (designed to restructure the board). The memo had nothing to do with any recommendations." Obama and the rest of the lawmakers named in the memo voted in favor of SB 1332 in May 2004.
Yesterday, Rezko's defense team revealed an e-mail sent from an associate of David Wilhelm, the former campaign manager for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, to the governor's former general counsel, Susan Lichtenstein. The memo states that Obama -- then an Illinois state senator --consulted with other state lawmakers about who should serve as board members on the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board (IHFPB).
The IHFPB oversees the construction and expansion of Illinois hospitals. It's one of two state boards Tony Rezko is accused of trying to steal money from in what prosecutors call a "pay-to-play" scheme. Rezko never served on either board, but today two former employees with the governors office testified Rezko recommended dozens of people to those boards who eventually were appointed by the governor to serve. Prosecutors say Rezko's plan was to recommend people he knew would conspire with him to accept bribes and kickbacks from companies doing business with the boards.
Sen. Barack Hussein Obama's name surfaced briefly during day two of testimony in the public corruption trial of Chicago businessman and political fundraiser Tony Rezko.
During his opening statement to the jury, Tony Rezko's attorney described his client as a family man who came to the U.S. from Syria to pursue the American dream, eventually achieving that dream as a successful businessman.
Rezko is on trial in federal court accused of 15 counts of fraud, money laundering, aiding and abetting bribery and attempted extortion of a Hollywood movie producer, Tom Rosenberg (Million Dollar Baby).
Rezko was indicted in October 2006, accused of soliciting kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business. Rezko has a strong reputation in Illinois for being a political fixer. He's donated thousands of dollars to Illinois political campaigns, including U.S. Sen. Barack Hussein Obama.
Lead defense attorney, Joe Duffy, says Rezko has a long list of friends in Illinois politics including Obama. Duffy told the jury, "Tony Rezko met Barack Hussein Obama when Obama was a student at Harvard law school and he (Rezko) offered him a job with his business," which Obama declined. "Tony was a friend and supported Obama through the years."
Barack Hussein Obama's name was mentioned twice during defense attorney Joe Duffy's opening statement.
Duffy told the jury that Rezko had many friends in Illinois politics, too many to name. But he did name Obama and said how Rezko met the Democratic presidential candidate at Harvard Law School and how he offered Obama a job.
Rezko was indicted in October 2006 accused of soliciting kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business. Rezko has a strong reputation in Illinois for being a political fixer. He's donated thousands of dollars to Illinois political campaigns, including Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Barack Hussein Obama. Obama's campaign confirms that approximately $150,000 was donated by Rezko.
(Politics as usual. You would expect better from Al Sharpton ... I ment Jesse Jackson ... er... Oh Yeah, Borrat Insane Obama. Change my eye.)
Monday, March 10, 2008
Spitzer, Hillary and Obama ... 3 peas in a pod.
Why am I surprised that Disgraced New York Gov. Spitzer being Under Pressure to Resign for being the latest Dim to be caught up in a sex scandal? It is common place for Dims to cheat on their wives and to steal money. ( NY Gov. Spitzer Snagged by IRS Probe Into Money Laundering)
Typical Dims being Dims.
(Please note in 2007 Sen Obama voted in line with the Democrat party 100% of the time making him the most liberal Senator in office last year. Yet the Dims' dancing monkey claims to be about change. While in the State assembly in Illinios he had a chance to make changes but instead of making waves he simply voted present on almost every heated issue that came to a vote. I think I have pointed out time and again what the Dims are all about. Fool the masses. Promise bennies for the poor. Expand Gov't. And all the time line your own pockets. Obama is no different than Hillary or Spitzer.)
Typical Dims being Dims.
(Please note in 2007 Sen Obama voted in line with the Democrat party 100% of the time making him the most liberal Senator in office last year. Yet the Dims' dancing monkey claims to be about change. While in the State assembly in Illinios he had a chance to make changes but instead of making waves he simply voted present on almost every heated issue that came to a vote. I think I have pointed out time and again what the Dims are all about. Fool the masses. Promise bennies for the poor. Expand Gov't. And all the time line your own pockets. Obama is no different than Hillary or Spitzer.)
Obama the Savior of Al-Qaida
Only in the whacked out PC world would Iowa Republican congressman Steve King have to defend his prediction that terrorists would celebrate if Democrat Barack Obama were elected president. (Obama will) certainly be viewed as a savior for them," King told The Associated Press. “That’s why you will see them supporting him, encouraging him.”King said his offices have been bombarded with calls — positive and negative — since he said Friday that al-Qaida “would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror.” (Well, that a duh statement.)
King cited Obama’s pledge to pull U.S. troops from Iraq, his father’s Muslim roots in Kenya and his middle name, Hussein, which King said has a meaning to terrorists.
Asked about the remarks as he campaigned in Mississippi, Obama said, “I think that Mr. King has it backwards. The fact that the continuation of a presence in Iraq as Senator McCain has suggested is exactly what, I think, will fan the flames of anti-American sentiment and make it more difficult for us to create a long-term and sustainable peace in the world. (Mr. Obama....think about what you just said. Do you not think that letting the Terrorists win, will not cause them to celebrate and make them bolder and the USA appear weaker to them? So, not only does Obama look like Curious George you are as dumb and naive as he is?
Obama denies being a Muslim but admits to having connections to the Islamic religion. He acknowledges spending part of his childhood in largely Muslim Indonesia and to smoking pot and selling crack. (Sounds like presidential material to me .... NOT!!!)
King cited Obama’s pledge to pull U.S. troops from Iraq, his father’s Muslim roots in Kenya and his middle name, Hussein, which King said has a meaning to terrorists.
Asked about the remarks as he campaigned in Mississippi, Obama said, “I think that Mr. King has it backwards. The fact that the continuation of a presence in Iraq as Senator McCain has suggested is exactly what, I think, will fan the flames of anti-American sentiment and make it more difficult for us to create a long-term and sustainable peace in the world. (Mr. Obama....think about what you just said. Do you not think that letting the Terrorists win, will not cause them to celebrate and make them bolder and the USA appear weaker to them? So, not only does Obama look like Curious George you are as dumb and naive as he is?
Obama denies being a Muslim but admits to having connections to the Islamic religion. He acknowledges spending part of his childhood in largely Muslim Indonesia and to smoking pot and selling crack. (Sounds like presidential material to me .... NOT!!!)
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Is Obama too black or too white?
For months we have heard Dims and fools like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson say Barack Obama's real problem isn't that he's too black — it's that he's too white.So, why did the new Hillary Clinton ad cause an Internet stir Today among nut jobs who claim it deliberately darkens Barack Obama’s skin color?
The buzz began earlier the day, when the liberal Web site DailyKos.com showed side-by-side screen grabs of Barack Obama taken during a debate with Clinton in Cleveland last week. The screen grab used in the ad showed a clearly darker-skinned Obama, prompting some to wonder if it was done to highlight his race.
Whatever the case, one posting on the DailyKos site charged that while darkening footage may be considered standard practice for political ads trying to “cast the target as sinister,” it is “not an acceptable excuse.”
OK Girls and boys, it's History lesson time. After O.J. Simpson was arrested (in 1994 for murder not 2007 for Robbery), multiple publications carried his image. Notably, TIME magazine published an edition featuring an altered mugshot, darkening his skin and reducing the size of the prisoner ID number. This appeared on newsstands right next to an unaltered picture by Newsweek. Outcry from minority rights groups followed. Illustrator Matt Mahurin of TIME was the one to alter the image, saying later that he "wanted to make it more artful, more compelling."
Then as now the one thing the media missed is that their own assertion that dark is more sinister is in and of itself racist.
Rush Caller insults Curious George by comparing him to Obama
I have to put this out there. I've been chuckling ever since I heard this this afternoon. A caller into Rush's show said her daughter said Obama looks like Curious George. Political cartoonists make him out to be Curious George-esque, but I see a resemblence in reality. My youngest loves Curious George, they have it on PBS every weekday morning! (Personally I think that Curious George is cuter and would make a better President.)".Anyone else grow up as a little kid reading Curious George books?
I loved them when I was little. And My kids all love them. However, I'm going to have a hard time looking at Obama again without thinking about Curious George. This is almost as good as Perot looking directly at the camera at saying
"I'm all ears".The whole thing leaves me asking, "This is news? "If ABC News ran an article everytime GWB was insulted by a dim they would triple their publication. (Well, their coverage and broadcast times.) 
Monday, March 3, 2008
English Should be the Official and Only Language Used in the United States.
English Should be the Official and Only Language Used in the United States.
Immigrants to the United States should be forced to assimilate by outlawing public use of their native languages. English is the Official State Language of twenty-seven of the fifty States. (U.S. English Foundation Inc 2005) English should be declared the Official language of the United States. The “English Only” movement is not about legalizing discrimination against minorities’ native tongues. It is about balancing diversity and cultural vitality with economic strength and the future of America’s Identity. Instead of "English Plus” or other bilingualism movements, “English Only” has to be embraced to overcome language barriers in the United States.
Frequently, a call to an automated business or government line will result in the caller being asked to press a number to continue in his or her choice of several languages. This makes little sense, since the overwhelming majority of private and public business transactions in the United States are conducted in English. (Shelby and Akaka 1996) Many States offer their Driver’s License test in multiple languages. (Hellegaard 1996). This makes no sense because their road signs are written English. The following is an outstanding example of the monumental waste of time and economic expense of translating all written or verbal instructions into every minorities’ language instead or forcing them it adapt to using English.
The title of this essay is “English should be the official and only language used in the United States.”
Translated into Spanish: “El inglés debe ser el funcionario y olamente
la lengua usados en los Estados Unidos.”
Translated into French: “L'anglais devrait être le fonctionnaire et seulement la langue utilisés aux Etats-Unis.”
Translated into German: “Englisch sollte das Beamte und die nur Sprache sein, die in den Vereinigten Staaten verwendet werden.”
Immigrants to the United States should be forced to assimilate by outlawing public use of their native languages. English is the Official State Language of twenty-seven of the fifty States. (U.S. English Foundation Inc 2005) English should be declared the Official language of the United States. The “English Only” movement is not about legalizing discrimination against minorities’ native tongues. It is about balancing diversity and cultural vitality with economic strength and the future of America’s Identity. Instead of "English Plus” or other bilingualism movements, “English Only” has to be embraced to overcome language barriers in the United States.
Frequently, a call to an automated business or government line will result in the caller being asked to press a number to continue in his or her choice of several languages. This makes little sense, since the overwhelming majority of private and public business transactions in the United States are conducted in English. (Shelby and Akaka 1996) Many States offer their Driver’s License test in multiple languages. (Hellegaard 1996). This makes no sense because their road signs are written English. The following is an outstanding example of the monumental waste of time and economic expense of translating all written or verbal instructions into every minorities’ language instead or forcing them it adapt to using English.
The title of this essay is “English should be the official and only language used in the United States.”
Translated into Spanish: “El inglés debe ser el funcionario y olamente
la lengua usados en los Estados Unidos.”
Translated into French: “L'anglais devrait être le fonctionnaire et seulement la langue utilisés aux Etats-Unis.”
Translated into German: “Englisch sollte das Beamte und die nur Sprache sein, die in den Vereinigten Staaten verwendet werden.”
Translated into Italian: “L'inglese dovrebbe essere il funzionario e soltanto la lingua usati negli Stati Uniti.”
Translated into Japanese: “英語は米国で使用される役人および言語だけべきである.”
Translated into Arabic: “اللغة الانجليزية سوفت كنت المسؤولة وفقط لغة يستعمل في الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة.”
Translated into Chinese (China): “英语应该是用于美国和语言的仅官员.”
Translated into Japanese: “英語は米国で使用される役人および言語だけべきである.”
Translated into Arabic: “اللغة الانجليزية سوفت كنت المسؤولة وفقط لغة يستعمل في الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة.”
Translated into Chinese (China): “英语应该是用于美国和语言的仅官员.”
Translated into Chinese (Taiwan): “英語應該是用於美國和語言的仅官員.”
Translated into Dutch: “Het Engels zou de ambtenaar en slechts de taal moeten zijn die in de Verenigde Staten wordt gebruikt.”
Translated into Greek: “Τα αγγλικά πρέπει να είναι ο ανώτερος υπάλληλος και μόνο η γλώσσα χρησιμοποιώ στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες.”
Translated into Indonesian: “Bahasa Inggris sebaiknya menjadi pejabat dan hanya bahasa yang dipakai di Amerika Serikat.”
Translated into Korean: “영어는 미국에서 사용된 관리 및 언어만이어야 한다.”
Translated into Portuguese: “O inglês deve ser o oficial e somente a língua usados nos Estados Unidos.
Translated into Russian: “Английской языком должна быть должностным лицом и только языком используемыми в Соединенных Штатах.”
Translated into Swedish: “Engelska bör vara representanten och endast språket som används i Förenta staterna.”
The above translations only cover fifteen of the 322 languages spoken in the United States. Twenty-four languages of those are spoken in every state and the District of Columbia. Wyoming has the fewest spoken languages with fifty-six while California has the most languages, with 207. (U.S. English Inc. 2005)
English, with 514,000,0000, speakers is second to only Chinese (Mandarin) with 1,740,000, 000 speakers, as the most widely spoken language in the world. French comes in third world wide. Spanish is the fourth most spoken language, with more than 100,000,000 million less than English Speakers. (Owen 1996).
Many foreign companies who do business successfully in the United States require that their salespeople learn English. English is considered to be the de facto language of the United States. In fact, almost all public business, and most private business, is conducted in English. (US Bureau of the Census 1990) It is a mater of shear economics not racial bigotry that English be declared the Official language of the United States.
Many minority leaders foolishly and harshly criticize the “English Only” movement of racial bigotry. They claim the “English Only” movement is a campaign of intolerance. They see it as a backlash against their advances in civil rights, education, and political empowerment. (Greenhouse 1996) "U.S. English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." Claims Raul Yzaguirre, president of the National Council of La Raza. “La Raza” is a Spanish phrase which literally translates as “The Race”. It is ironic that a group calling themselves “The Race” would openly accuse any other group of Racism.
President Theodore Roosevelt’s wise words from 1919 on the need for assimilation of immigrants into the United States’ society and on English language unification still ring true today. Roosevelt stated, "In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American ...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Declaring English as the Official Language of the United States is 230 years over-due. All the States indivially and the United States as a whole should take California’s and Georgia’s lead and enact tough Official English statutes (Torres 1996) All State and federal employees should be mandated to conduct official business solely in English. All bilingual state and federal forms should be abolished. English needs to be officially declared the National Language of the United Stated thus forcing immigrants to assimilate into the American society and ensuring the future of the American identity.
References:
Greenhouse, L. (1996). Supreme Court to Review Law Making State Employees Speak English. New York Times News Service.
Hellegaard, J. (1996). Official-English Laws Boost Discrimination, Says UF LawProfessor.
Owen, L. (1996) A Statement of Opposition to English as the Official /National language.
U.S. English Foundation Inc(2005) Facts and Figures. U.S. English Foundation Inc. Retrieved September 18, 2006 from http://www.us-english.org/inc/official/factsfigs.asp
Shelby, Richard Sen., & Akaka, Daniel K. Sen. (1996) Should English be declared the official language of the U.S.? PriceCostco Association.
Torres, J. (1996). Dole Support May Raise 'Official English' As Defining Issue in
Presidential Race. Hispanic Link.
US Bureau of the Census. (1990). Table 1. Language Use and English Ability, Persons 5Years and Over by State: 1990 Census. Retrieved September 19, 2006 from http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/language/table1.txt
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