“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy.
CNN Political Ticker reported:(CNN) — Barack Obama told CNN Wednesday the recent uproar over his former pastor’s sermons has reminded him of the odds he faces in winning the White House.”In some ways this, this controversy has actually shaken me up a little bit and gotten me back into remembering that the odds of me getting elected have always been lower than than some of the other conventional candidates,” the Illinois senator told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an exclusive one-on-one interview.
Thanks to Jay for the latest on the Black Panthers for Obama webpage.They took it down.Considering his latest “G-damning America” minister debacle…Barack Obama decided his New Black Panther page would not help him regain the trust of voters.** Is the fact that the New Black Panthers sound exactly like his Rev.
The Muslim women in India are fighting back.The women want to make it illegal for men to divorce them by instant messaging, e-mail, phone and video conferencing.They would also be able to divorc their husbands under the new law if he made them indulge in unnatural sex.They have had enough.The Economic Times reported:New Delhi: The All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board has released the “Shariat Nikahnama” that they claim would give equal rights to both Muslim men and women.
UPDATE: Antiwar protesters hurl paint bombs at military recruiters!The Americans for Defeat of America congregated this week:Zombie Time has photos from San Francisco (That’s Mother Sheehan in the background.)John Lilyea has photos from Washington DC this morning.
Sizing Up Sacrifice:Click to EnlargeIraq War (5 years)– 3,990Batan Death March (one week)– 10,000Battle of Guadalcanal (186 days)– 7,099Battle of Guam (20 Days)– 3,000Operation Market Garden (9 days)– 3,664Battle of the Bulge (41 days)– 19,276Battle of Iwo Jima (39 days)– 6,821Battle of Pusan Perimeter (61 days-Korea)– 6,706Numbers from Schiele.us and Iraq Casualty CountIn February 2007 antiwar Democrat John Murtha said:”This is the most intensive combat I’ve seen since maybe some of the combat in Iwo Jima or some of those places in World War II.” …Far from it.Another Rovian Conspiracy corrected the Code Pink favorite.The Iraq War has been no Iwo Jima.More…
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My administration understood that America could not retreat in the face of terror–Because we acted, Saddam Hussein no longer fills fields with the remains of innocent men, women and children.
Did the newest governor of New York just false start?Although he told the media his two-timing days were over years ago, a former Olympic gold medalist says he was running with her this year.Diane Dixon won medals in the 4×400-meter relay at the 1984 games in Los Angeles and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.
Young women dared to discard their veils during the youth parties this week.A woman dances with men during the “Chaharshanbeh Soori” festival in Tehran March 18, 2008.
“I can no more disown [Rev.
Mouwafak al-Rubaie: “Withdrawal of US troops from Iraq would be a catastrophe.”FOX News has video of Iraqi National Security Advisor HERE.FOX News reported:Iraq’s National Security Advisor Mouwafak al-Rubaie told FOX News that he agrees that a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Iraq would be a catastrophe for Iraq tipping it into violent chaos.
“Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy.
The real gulag in Cuba is not run by the US.The real gulag is run by Castro.A group of women, known as the Ladies in White, march in Havana, Friday, March 14, 2008, to demand the release of their husbands and other political prisoners in Cuba.
The pro-defeatists at Think Progress went batty yesterday with the news that John McCain did not return to the Shorja Market in Baghdad on his 8th visit to the fledgling democracy this weekend.This was despite the fact that: “It is clear security is better on the street — it is clear there are more markets open, just the traffic jams alone tell you that things are better on the streets of Baghdad.” Instead…
Jeremiah Wright honored acting head of the Nation of Islam and noted anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan as Trinity United Church of Christ Man of the Year lasat year.The pastor obviously saw something he liked in the “controversial” leader.Wright also stole one of his famous anti-American lines from another famous Nation of Islam leader– Malcolm X.
Good.Put one of these guys in charge…The monks from Burma were not afraid to confront evil.While the Burmese monks were protesting for democracy and independence he sat in Spain extending his support from a continent away.While the Tibetan community was protesting for democracy he lashed out at his own people.
Initial reaction:The fact that Obama twisted his pastor’s offensive and outrageous remarks and made it into a race issue was clever.
Young Jason Mattera scores again.Last night on Hannity and Colmes Young America’s Foundation spokesman Jason Mattera aired his interview with Senator John Kerry.
Could you imagine if John McCain had a webpage dedicated to a white supremest group at his website?
Goodness– They were still applauding this Democratic Governor at the capital when he admitted to having extramarital affairs.Since David Paterson is legally blind it probably was a bit more difficult for this Democrat’s affair to go unnoticed more so than the last one and his hookers.The Daily News and LGF reported:The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state’s new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs.In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago.In the course of several interviews in the past few days, Paterson said he maintained a relationship for two or three years with “a woman other than my wife,” beginning in 1999.As part of that relationship, Paterson said, he and the other woman sometimes stayed at an upper West Side hotel — the Days Inn at Broadway and W.
So how does the media report a “Republican preacher scandal” compared to how it reports a “Democratic preacher scandal?”Craig Smith investigated and sent this in:CNN reported in late Feb 2000 that, “The members of Bush’s senior team in Austin, Texas, were only vaguely aware of Bob Jones University’s policies and past.
Why must the sky be blue?Why must the grass be green?Why must the Clinton’s lie when they open their mouths?Hillary opens up her ridiculous talk on the Iraq War with her “spiraling free fall into Kosovo sniper fire lie” that has already been discredited by everyone, even Sinbad the Entertainer.Hillary, honestly?Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) delivers a campaign speech on the war in Iraq at George Washington University in Washington, March 17, 2008.(REUTERS/Jim Bourg) Hillary remarks on the Troops:Good morning.
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The Audacity to Blame Others…Because you are all bigots and just don’t understand the blessed symbolisms and hallowed underpinnings of the Chicago Trinity United Church of Christ sermons by Rev.
“GOD D*MN AMERICA!”Today’s Huff-piece on Jeremiah Wright is a classic…Huffpo author Lecia Shorter argues that Jeremiah Wright was just speaking truth to power (“GOD D*MN AMERICA!”) and that Bill Clinton really was “Riding Dirty!”” to Power” or nutty racist preacher?The Huffington Post examines the deep meaning behind the words of G-Daming Rev.
The Cheney family made a trip into Baghdad today.US Vice President Dick Cheney (L), his wife Lynn (C) and daughter Liz (R) are greeted by US General David Patraeus in an unannounced visit to Baghdad.
The Chinese are allowing the people of Lhasa out of their homes.(International Campaign for Tibet)China paraded the captured protesters, both men and women, down the streets of Lhasa today in handcuffs.The Times Online reported, via Drudge:The Chinese Army drove through the streets of Lhasa today parading dozens of Tibetan prisoners in handcuffs, their heads bowed, as troops stepped up their hunt for the rioters in house-to-house searches.
Young 21 year-old Theodore Pedersen was one of the many young aides with no experience who worked for Former Democratic Governor Jim McGreevey.
Here is what Barack Obama said about his pastor and mentor Jeremiah Wright in his interview with the Chicago Tribune on March 16, 2008, via :”In fairness to him, this was sort of a greatest hits, they basically culled five or six sermons out of 30 years of preaching.” Jeremiah Wright- The Greatest Hits Collection:Side One:- God Damn America- Hillary Aint No N*gger- Bill Treated Me Like Monica- God Damn America (Remix)Side Two:- Racism is How this Country was Founded- Chickens Come Home to Roost- We’re the Same as Al-Qaeda- We bombed Nagasaki & Didn’t bat an eye- Barack’s Nodding His Head Yes- God’s Sick of this Sh*t!Here’s a bonus track- The Smooth Jams of Jeremiah:Get yours today!Hat Tip CraigUPDATE: Newsmax has another report claiming that Obama was in attendance during Wright’s hate sermons, but Tom Maguire begs to differ.UPDATE 2: Shocka!
The US media ignored today the 20 year Anniversary of the Halabja Massacre.ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, AP and Reuters did not run reports on this historic anniversary.
ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR SEX SCANDAL!!!Former Governor McGreevey aide spills the beans on “The Friday Special!”Former Democratic Governor James E.
In Aba county, Sichuan province, protesters attacked a police station with petrol bombs and fought street battles with riot police- The Guardian.People watch as Chinese military in full riot gear are transported in the back of army trucks in the Tibetan capital Lhasa.
Sweetness and Light noticed today that the Obama Campaign erased Wright without an explanation.Meanwhile…
in Tacoma…Antiwar protesters come clean.
Cuneyt C.
There are those who believe it was wrong to remove Saddam Hussein.
Barack Obama knew his pastor Jeremiah Wright was a liability LAST YEAR.(So did the media who refused to look into the story)But, he denied this last night when he made the cable rounds…Even though it is documented that Barack has attended these hatefilled sermons, via American Power.Obama said last night on FOXNews, via HotAir: “When I saw these statements which I had heard for the first time.
The primary season was just too much for them…The Left’s most popular blog Daily Kos is imploding faster than the Obama campaign.The reality-based community is showing clear-cut signs of meltdown.
John Lilyea has photos and videos from the pro-troop rally outside the Winter Soldier II sideshow from earlier today.Democracy Project lays into The Washington Post for their report supporting the allegations at the anti-military Winter Soldier II event.Vets For Freedom has an interesting post on a few of the phony soldiers associated with the current Iraqi Veterans Against the War group that is sponsoring the event this weekend.
On this day in 1973, Lt.
From Pop to Bang–Hussein al-Ahmad quits singing to join Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.Kuwaiti pop singer Hussein al-Ahmad has decided to put down the microphone and pick up the bomb.Al-Arabiya and ROP reported:A retired Kuwaiti superstar singer has recently the Gulf emirate for Afghanistan to join ranks with al-Qaeda and Taliban in fighting foreign troops there, according to a press report published Saturday.Hussein al-Ahmad, who was until recently one of the Gulf’s most famous pop stars, decided to join “his brother Mujahideen in Afghanistan to support Islam and fight along his fellow Muslims of al-Qaeda”, reported Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai Saturday.Al-Ahmad has previously told Kuwait’s Al-Rai TV that the reason he decided to quit singing was “a dream” where he saw his “own journey from this world into the Hereafter through death”.“I’ve seen horrors and terrors I don’t think anybody else have.
Telling the bigots to shut up…The Organization of Islamic States is through dealing with insults to Islam with peaceful protest (rioting?
Danish Socialist People’s Party Leader Villy Sovndal lashed out at Hizb ut-Tahir on his blog after the radical Islamist group threatened Denmark.
(Updated and Bumped)UPDATE: The BBC reported that shops are on fire in the Lhasa, the capital– deaths are reported.
The regime claimed turnout was at 65%.
**Implodapalooza Continues **This is getting really, really ugly…On Hannity and Colmes tonight new video was released of Reverend Jeremiah Wright spewing hateful racist messages at the pulpit.The latest collection of hate speech is just as bad as the last:(2 minutes from his sermons- WARNING on Language) I have to admit…
Implod-apalooza– Obama Campaign suffers major blow…The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review interviewed Barack Obama today, via LGF Quick Links.Below is what Barack said about his former pastor and mentor.But, in case you missed the cherry-pickings, here is a basket full…THE REV.
“Kerry Lied- Good Men Died!”Pro-Troop ProtesterWinter Soldier II Conference Will Jane Fonda appear on a tank?Will John Kerry throw someone else’s medals over the White House fence?Will the soldiers be real this time?Will there be pot?Another chapter on ‘How the Left supports the troops’ opens today.Winter Solder II opens up today in Washington.Jason Mattera will be there.John Lilyea is liveblogging.Someone (about 60 years old) just jumped up and shouted “Kerry lied, good men died” and was manhandled from the room by security.
Another Gazan child mysteriously comes up dead at a Hamas ministry building…The father of six-month-old Mohammed Bourai carries his dead son to his funeral in Gaza City following his death in an Israeli airstrike on a building housing the Hamas-run government’s interior ministry.
As if the nominating process has not been stressful enough for the Democratic Party…
Unfortunately…
There are mosques that preach Radical Islam.There are churches that preach Radical Christianity.Unfortunately, the leading Democratic nominee for president attends such a church.Unfortunately, its really not a surprise.Here is a collection of hate speech coming from the pulpit at Barack and Michelle Obama’s church Trinity United Church of Christ by Barack’s close friend and mentor of 20 years, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.THE REV.
He was there at the funeral, but that didn’t stop Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from giving the n-word a new life.After helping to bury the n-word last summer in Detroit at the NAACP annual meeting, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick resurrected the n-word this week on local TV.FOX News reported:Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick stood before hundreds of people last summer and triumphantly proclaimed: “Die, N-word, and we don’t want to see you ’round here no more.”But although Kilpatrick and other black leaders symbolically buried the racial slur in a mock funeral last July, he uttered it in his State of the City address Tuesday, which was carried live on local television and radio stations.Facing possible perjury charges from testimony during a whistle-blowers’ trial and criticism over sexually explicit text messages he sent to his former top aide, a defiant Kilpatrick lashed out at the media and opponents.
Lima Sahar is the first woman to make it to the finals of Afghan Star.Lima is also the first member of the Pashtun ethnic group to make the finals.An Afghan woman has never made it this far in the competition.Her family was forced to move from the Taliban center of Kandahar after she started the popular competition.And…
Usama Muhammad Id Bahr and Nabil Mahmud Jamil Halbiyyah blew themselves up in Jerusalem’s Zion Square on December 1, 2001.
Obama’s mentor and spiritual advisor G-damns America.
A VERY BAD IDEA- DNC OPENS ONLINE FILM COMPETITION…The city of Denver, Colorado initiated a taxpayer funded Cinemocracy Short Film Competition: During a year of monumental change, the Denver Film Society and Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee, invite you to share your definition of democracy.
