The Official Barak Obama thread

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Re: Barack Obama may be to Good for America

My cousin, a Obama supporter, says he has all the makings of being the Anti-Christ....

Revelation 13:11–14:

11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon. 12 He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. And he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life. 15 And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17 and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.


Hey, if the guy is really Damien from the Omen...who am I to deny the brotha his chance to destroy the world?

Obama for President!!!

your cousin is a fucking idiot

And whoever said Barack is a prophet...HAHAHAHAHAH, hell to the fuck no.
 

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Re: Barack Obama may be to Good for America

No, but an UN-emotional response to what was presented may just have that type of board....

It's repsonses like yours and like-minded others that provoke anti-Obama sentiment in Black America. I await your "To hell with you for not liking Obama...because blah, blah, blah...and blah," because I will then direct you to previous posts that show my candidate to be Obama.

Bush has nothing to do with the tea in China...he's gone in a few.

Who, of the likely suspects now running, fit the profile of the anti-Christ, as quoted in scripture...?

The "Uniter"....


CATCH 22

IF YOU UNITE PEOPLE YOU ARE THE ANTI-CHRIST.

THEN, IF YOU DIVIDE PEOPLE AND KILL MILLIONS --- YOU ARE A GOOD PRESIDENT...
 
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Obama does 'The View'

Four parts

Part 1 - The View cast discusses hot topics
[flash]http://youtube.com/watch/v/MQAjmM24f-E[/flash]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MQAjmM24f-E

Part 2 - Obama appears, discusses the Pastor Wright controversy
[flash]http://youtube.com/watch/v/fPTl4s_xIDY[/flash]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fPTl4s_xIDY

Part 3 - "The first 3 things I'll do when elected..."
[flash]http://youtube.com/watch/v/d1P1F064gIs[/flash]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=d1P1F064gIs

Part 4 - Campaign Tone & Taxes
[flash]http://youtube.com/watch/v/z_aJ0ydcxDw[/flash]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z_aJ0ydcxDw


all in all, a great appearance. They treated him fairly and I think he won over a lot of women, including the panel.​
 

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And the Winner is: ???



TIME Magazines next cover:


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Re: And the Winner is: Obama

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Re: And the Winner is: Obama


Wolf Blitzer Interviews (Next President) Barack Obama
regarding the Time Magazine Cover and other matters Pt 1


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Re: And the Winner is: Obama



Wolf Blitzer Interviews Barack Obama Pt 2


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Obama returns to Iowa to Declare Victory

<font size="5"><center>Obama returns to Iowa,
hoping to declare victory tonight</font size></center>


By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama heads back to the scene of his first breakthrough triumph Tuesday, hoping to use Iowa as a backdrop to announce that he's gained enough pledged delegates to all but clinch the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Illinois senator was looking for a split decision in two primary states — he's leading in Oregon and trailing in Kentucky — that aides predicted would put him ahead to stay among delegates elected in caucuses and primaries.

"When the votes are counted in Oregon and Kentucky, we could secure a majority of delegates elected by the voters," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said Monday.

"A clear majority of elected delegates will send an unmistakable message: The people have spoken, and they are ready for change."

The Illinois senator planned a rally for Tuesday evening in Des Moines, where his victory in precinct caucuses on Jan. 3 first signaled that he could defeat frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

Clinton's camp called it arrogant and presumptuous.

"Senator Obama's plan to declare himself the Democratic nominee tomorrow night in Iowa is a slap in the face to the millions of voters in the remaining primary states and to Senator Clinton's 17 million supporters," Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said Monday. "Premature victory laps and false declarations of victory are unwarranted. Declaring mission accomplished does not make it so."

The New York senator's campaign stressed that Obama won't able to clinch the nomination on Tuesday even if he does secure the majority of pledged delegates.

"There is no scenario under the rules of the Democratic National Committee by which Senator Obama will be able to claim the nomination tomorrow night," Wolfson said.

As of Monday, Obama had 1,915 delegates — elected and unelected — toward the 2,026 needed to take the nomination, according to the Associated Press tally. He gained two more unelected superdelegates Monday — Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Washington state Democratic Party chairman Dwight Pelz.

Clinton had 1,721.

Obama needs another 116 to clinch; she needs 305.

There are 179 delegates left to be awarded in primaries: 51 in Kentucky and 52 in Oregon on Tuesday; 55 in Puerto Rico on June 1; 15 in South Dakota on June 3, and 16 in Montana, also on June 3.

About 185 unelected superdelegates also have yet to say whom they'll support.

If Obama does emerge from Tuesday's voting with the majority of elected delegates, he believes it would be a powerful selling point to remaining uncommitted superdelegates.

It's also a stroke of political theater to mask some bad news Tuesday and overly dramatize the good, suggested one analyst.

"That's his way of putting pressure on the superdelegates," said Dennis Goldford, a political scientist at Drake University in Iowa. "But they've heard it already. They're already expecting it.

"And it's his way of throwing some sand in the lens of the camera Tuesday night when he's getting shellacked in Kentucky."

Obama trails Clinton in Kentucky by an average of 29 percentage points, according to a tally by the Web site www.realclearpolitics.com. He leads in Oregon by an average of 12 points.

McClatchy Newspapers 2008

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Re: Obama returns to Iowa to Declare Victory

<font size="5"><center>Obama on brink of delegate milestone</font size><font size="4">
Candidate looking to secure a majority of pledged delegates Tuesday</font size></center>


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May 19: Sen. Barack Obama speaks at a town hall
meeting in Billings, Mont.


WASHINGTON - Barack Obama will reach for a symbolic tipping point in the Oregon and Kentucky primaries Tuesday — a majority of pledged delegates offered in the Democratic presidential contest.

Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed there was "no way that this is going to end anytime soon" as she campaigned Monday across Kentucky, a state she was expected to win.

Obama was favored in Oregon, where supporters delivered the largest crowd of his campaign on Sunday.

Regardless of who prevails in those states, Obama is on track to secure the largest share of delegates who could be won in the long slog of primaries and caucuses since the snows of January.

If there were to be practical dividends in that achievement, they would come from persuading the remaining uncommitted superdelegates — the party insiders who are not tied to primary or caucus results — to pick up the pace of their endorsements.

Clinton still battling
Enough of them have done so already to transform Clinton's hopes for the nomination from improbable in recent weeks to worse.

Still, the New York senator soldiered on through event after event, ending her night Monday in Louisville before a crowd of several hundred, her voice raspy from the stage.

"There are a lot of people who wanted to end this election before you had a chance to vote," she said, husband and former President Clinton at her side. "I'm ready to go to bat for you if you'll come out and vote for me."

She argued at one stop that she is the "more progressive candidate" and dismissed Obama's large crowds, like the record rally by an estimated 75,000 in Portland on Sunday.

Clinton said Obama, who has refused to debate her since before the Pennsylvania primary last month, would "rather just talk to giant crowds than have questions asked."

Obama planned to spend the latest primary day in Iowa, the state of his opening electoral success. This, after he campaigned Monday in Montana, where voters will join those from South Dakota on June 3 in dropping the curtain on the 2008 primary and caucus season.

The Illinois senator rarely mentions Clinton now, except to praise her "magnificent" campaign — praise he can now afford to give his rival. He is tangling almost solely with Republican John McCain in a prelude to the fall general campaign.

Targeting McCain
"As we near victory in one contest, the next challenge is already heating up," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe wrote in a memo to supporters Monday. "President Bush and Senator McCain have begun coordinating their attacks on Barack Obama

Obama picked up the endorsement of Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia Monday, less than a week after Clinton overwhelmingly won the state's primary. Byrd is the longest serving member of the U.S. Senate.

Obama has led in pledged delegates since he won the first caucuses in Iowa on Jan. 3. The two candidates stayed close through Super Tuesday, when Democrats voted in 22 states and American Samoa. Obama won 13 more delegates than Clinton that day — out of nearly 1,700 at stake.

Obama built an imposing lead the following two weeks, winning 11 straight contests in states such as Louisiana, Maryland, Washington and Virginia. He led by 161 pledged delegates on Feb. 19, after victories in Wisconsin and Hawaii. The lead has been relatively unchanged ever since as the candidates spent the past three months trading victories.

Obama goes into Tuesday's contests with 1,610.5 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses. He needs 17 more to reach a majority of the 3,253 pledged delegates available. Clinton has 1,443.5 pledged delegates, according to the latest tally by The Associated Press.

NBC's national delegate count currently stands at 1444 for Clinton and 1602 for Obama. NBC’s estimated superdelegate count stands at 280 for Clinton and 299 for Obama.

[There are differences in how news organizations count delegates, how they award superdelegates, how they account for states that have held caucuses but have not yet chosen their delegates, and how they project the apportionment of delegates within Congressional districts where the vote was close. The Associated Press and NBC News conduct separate delegate counts.]

Downplaying significance
Clinton's campaign played down the significance of the milestone, accusing Obama of declaring victory without reaching the required number of overall delegates.

"Premature victory laps and false declarations of victory are unwarranted. Declaring 'mission accomplished' does not make it so," Howard Wolfson, Clinton's communications director, said in a memo to supporters.

Obama has a total of 1,912 delegates overall, including endorsements from superdelegates. Clinton has 1,721, according to the latest AP count.

Obama is a little more than 100 delegates short of the 2,026 needed to clinch the nomination. He cannot make up that ground in the Kentucky and Oregon primaries because of the proportional way in which Democrats award delegates. The two states have a total of 103 delegates at stake Tuesday.

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Obama says NO to Insider/Lobbyist Money

As new leader of the democratic party Obama has laid down the law and as of yesterday the DNC can no longer take money from lobbyist or PAC's special intrest groups...

“We will not take a dime from Washington lobbyists or PAC’s, we’re going to change how Washington works, they will not fund my campaign or my party, we’re going to change the way things are done and they are not going to drown out your voice,”

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<font size="5"><center>Obama Says, The White House
Will Be 'The People's House'</font size></center>



Black Press USA
by Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Editor-in-Chief

ORLANDO (NNPA)- The line of people at the Orlando World Center Marriott weaved through the corridors and wrapped around corners as well more than a thousand awaited the opening of the ballroom, where presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama was about to speak.

“Yesterday, the crowd was polite to Sen. John McCain here at the National Urban League Conference. But, today, for Sen. Obama, it’s more of a love fest!” reported one excited CBS Radio newsman, among the horde of reporters observing the crowd waiting for Obama.
He was right.

People were waiting in line as early as 7 a.m. Saturday morning for the anticipated 2 p.m. speech. The ballroom, which seated well over 1,000 people, had been close to full for presumptive Republican nominee McCain the day before. For Obama, an overflow crowd had to be seated in an adjacent room to watch the speech on close circuit television.

“I stand here before you today feeling no small amount of gratitude. Because I know that my story, and so many other improbable stories, would not be possible without all that the Urban League has done to put opportunity within reach of every American, Obama said in his opening statement to the cheering and applauding crowd. “It’s because of the doors you’ve opened, because of the battles you’ve fought and won, because of people in this room and all those who came before you, that I come here today as a candidate for President of the United States of America.”

It was two days of raw political campaigning by both candidates for the Black audience thirsting to hear perspectives on socio-economic issues. Marc Morial, NUL president and CEO, sat on a stool close to the podium as both candidates spoke. Morial then asked them questions based on issues included in the NUL’s “Opportunity Compact”, a comprehensive report on the state of Black America, which includes extensive research data and policy recommendations.

“This election is about the 47 million people who don’t have health care – including 1 in 5 African-Americans – people for whom one accident, one illness could mean financial ruin,” said Obama, promising to “guarantee health care for anyone who needs it.”

On the 2.5 million people facing foreclosure, Obama said he would support tax credits to help low and medium-income families as well as establish easier ways to refinance mortgage loans.

McCain, who received several strong applause during his speech, appeared more comfortable with NUL than he did before the NAACP audience a month ago.
“Equal access to public education has been gained. But, what is the value of access to a failing school? Equal employment opportunity is set firmly down in law. But with jobs becoming scarcer – and 400,000 Americans thrown out of work just this year – that can amount to an equal share of diminished opportunity,” McCain said.

But, McCain talked more about education reform than anything, again pitching his support for charter school vouchers, which fell on a silent audience. Most historic African-American groups oppose vouchers because they take money that could go to public schools and give it to private schools.

“Some parents may choose a better public school. Some may choose a private school. Many will choose a charter school. No entrenched bureaucracy or union should deny parents that choice and children that opportunity,” he told the quiet audience.

The most enthusiastic applause during the McCain speech was for his promise to reform school budgets ''to put the money and the responsibilities where they belong - in the office of the school principal.''

Still, it was Obama who drew obvious awe from onlookers.

''It was amazing, everything I thought it was going to be – inspirational and really hopeful,'' said a beaming Latoya Hoflin, who will be “15 in two weeks.”

Hoflin, from Atlanta, says since she’s not old enough to vote, she will “inspire others and try to get other people to vote for him.”

The Obama enthusiasm crossed the age spectrum. Dennis Rahiim Watson, president and CEO of the National Black Leadership Council and the chairman of the National Youth & Gang Violence Task Force, left the speech with a broad smile, saying he too has a new level of hope.

“Young Black children can be what they see. He has raised the level of our expectations of what we can be. So, I am touched. He felt the pulse of the people, very down to earth, very clear,” he said.

It was Obama’s ability to deliver a clear message that was first on the attack list for McCain.

“If there’s one thing he always delivers, it’s a great speech. But, I hpe you’ll listen carefully, because his ideas are not always as impressive as his rhetoric,” said McCain.

The quips about each other will no doubt escalate as both candidates get closer to the Nov. 4 election that could make Obama the first Black president in America’s history.

But, there’s one thing on which they both agreed. When Morial asked each whether they will host a White House celebration for the NUL’s 100th birthday celebration in 2010, they both gave emphatic answers.

“How could I say no?” laughed McCain.
Obama said he would because in his administration, the White House would be “the people’s house.”

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Missouri "Truth Squads" To Protect Obama Campaign

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From kmov.com (linked below):

"The Barack Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign."


St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce and St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch have been threatening citizens not to post negative character 'attacks' about Barack Hussein Obama. That incl More..udes negative information about 'soft money operations.'

Looks like Barack HUSSEIN Obama wants to "Change" your right to free speech.

Source:
http://www.kmov.com/video/index.html?nvid=285793&shu=1

More info:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/missouri-sheriffs-prosecuters-form.html
 

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Obama might be worse than Mccain, Bush and the rest of the NEOCONS!!!!!

BRZEZINSKI SEIZING CONTROL OVER US POLICY IN SLOW-MOTION CREEPING COUP

By Webster G. Tarpley

Washington DC, Feb. 23 -- Events of the past few
days indicate that the Zbigniew Brzezinski
faction of lunatic Russia haters have now won the
upper hand inside the secret councils of the
Anglo-American finance oligarchy, displacing the
hitherto dominant George Shultz-neocon faction.
Although George Bush and his cronies still occupy
the White House, the policies that are being
carried out are coming from the Brzezinski left
CIA machine. Brzezinski has returned to public
prominence in recent months due to his role as
top establishment controller for the Obama
campaign. But Brzezinski is not waiting for the
outcome of the November elections to take over
key parts of the US government. Brzezinski and
his left CIA allies are already moving to assert
their strategy, even as the neocons and their
characteristic obsessions are moved to the back
burner. The probability of an attack on Iran or
Syria is declining, even as the danger of
confrontation with Russia, China, and Pakistan –
all much more dangerous targets to trifle with – increases exponentially.

1. KOSOVO: The independence of Kosovo has opened
a new crisis front in Eastern Europe, with the
potential for very nasty complications in regard
to Russia. This is the essence of the Brzezinski
anti-Russian policy. Kosovo independence is of
course a flagrant violation of all existing norms
of international law, most notably the Helsinki
CSCE treaty of 1975 which finally put an end to
World War II by declaring that all borders in
Europe were to be considered final unless and
until any changes had been agreed through mutual
consultation of the interested parties. Since the
Serbian government in Belgrade is vehemently
opposed to Kosovo independence, the unilateral
actions of the US, British, and NATO are the very
essence of international anarchy. The new regime
in Kosovo goes far beyond the usual kleptocracy
of NATO puppets favored by Brzezinski and his
circles. The new regime in Kosovo is essentially
the terrorist KLA, an organization devoted to
gun-running, drug-running, and trafficking in
human slaves. The KLA is a Balkan version of Al
Qaeda, and both are wholly owned creations of the
CIA and British intelligence. With Kosovo
independence, the US, British, and NATO stand
ready to use armed force to defend the right of a
terrorist gang to assert sovereignty over a
segment of modern Europe. The criminal obscenity
of this policy could hardly be greater, but for
Brzezinski all methods are legitimate provided
that they increase tension with Moscow, and in
that respect Kosovo independence is already a glowing success.

2. US EMBASSY, BELGRADE: The attack on the US
embassy in Belgrade, Serbia by gangs of drunken
students is a classic Brzezinski operation. The
tactic of having an incensed rent-a-mob of
swarming adolescent patsies attack the US Embassy
in order to gin up a crisis is one of Zbigniew’s
signature specialties. During the time that
Brzezinski was running the foreign policy of
Trilateral puppet Jimmy Carter, there were bloody
attacks on the US embassies in Pakistan and in
Afghanistan, both countries that featured
prominently in Brzezinski’s arc of crisis theory.
Most famous of all was of course the attack on
the US embassy in Teheran, Iran, which led to the
taking of hostages and the huge international
crisis which helped to doom the Carter
administration to extinction at the polls. If US
diplomats or State Department personnel are taken
hostage anywhere in the world in the weeks and
months to come, this must be attributed to Brzezinski.

3. SPACE WARFARE: The shooting down by the
Pentagon of a US satellite over the Pacific is a
very provocative military stunt designed to
intimidate both Moscow and Beijing, who happened
to be Brzezinski’s immediate targets. This
reckless and irresponsible action has raised the
specter of an uncontrolled arms race reaching into outer space.

4. SYRIA: Zbigniew Brzezinski himself, fresh
from addressing a retreat of House Democrats in
Williamsburg Virginia, is now in Syria at the
head of a RAND Corporation delegation. The
purpose of this mission should not be construed
as peace in the Middle East, although some
foolish observers may read it in that way.
Brzezinski’s goal is immediately to lessen
Russian influence in Syria, including the closing
of certain naval facilities that the Russian navy
has maintained in that country. In the longer
run, Brzezinski would like to turn both Syria and
Iran into components of the ring he means to
forge around Russia for the purpose of the
strategic encirclement of that rival superpower.
Zbigniew’s argument against the neocons is, why
attack Iran and Syria, when you can turn them
into kamikaze stooges, play them against Russia,
and get rid of all of them that way? Europe and
China are destined to play similar anti-Russian roles in Brzezinski’s playbook.

5. BUSH IN AFRICA: President Bush may not know
what he is doing on his current visit to five
African countries, but Zbigniew Brzezinski knows
exactly what the mission is. The Brzezinski
policy is to foment destabilization and chaos in
Africa under the auspices of the new United
States African command (US-AFRICOM), all for the
purpose of driving the Chinese out of Africa. As
Zbigniew announced on November 30, 2007 in the
Washington Post, he intends to cut off Chinese
access to oil, other energy sources, and
strategic raw materials on the African continent.
Since the Anglo-Americans control the Persian
Gulf by direct military occupation, this is
tantamount to a policy of driving the Chinese in
on Eastern Siberia. Brzezinski believes that if
the Chinese cannot get their oil from Africa,
they will be forced to attempt the military
seizure of Russia’s oil wells in the Far East,
where there is much oil and very few Russians.
Both Moscow and Beijing know exactly what
Brzezinski is doing in this regard. This is the
kind of harebrained scheming by Lord Astor, Lady
Astor and Sir Neville Chamberlain which helped to
bring about World War II. The idea then was to
play Hitler against Stalin and get rid of both of
them that way. When that blew up in the faces of
the British, the result was World War II. This
time, it may well be thermonuclear World War III.

6. CIA UNILATERAL KILLINGS IN PAKISTAN: Back in
July 2007, Obama attracted much unfavorable
attention when he announced his plan to bomb
targets inside Pakistan without reference to the
government of that country. He was vigorously
criticized by Bush, McCain, and Mrs. Clinton.
Obama turned out to be a bigger warmonger than
Bush himself, since the tenant of the White House
said that it was absolutely essential to work
with the government of Pakistan against
terrorism, and not humiliate them unnecessarily.
Now it turns out that Obama’s puppet master
Zbigniew Brzezinski is more powerful than Bush on
this issue. The Washington Post of Tuesday,
February 19 revealed that a CIA Predator drone
aircraft had attacked the Pakistani town of Mir
Ali, killing a certain Abu Laith al-Libi,
supposedly a leading figure of the al Qaeda patsy
organization. The big news was that this time
around, the CIA had not sought approval from the
government of Pakistan. President Musharraf,
weakened by the CIA destabilization of his
country that is now ongoing, was only notified of
the operation once it was underway, meaning that
he was not even consulted in advance. Thus, the
aggressive policy put into Obama’s mouth by
Zbigniew Brzezinski has become operational US
policy, regardless of what the lame-duck Bush had
to say about this issue last summer. Pakistan is
now being targeted because of President
Musharraf’s strategic understanding with China.
Brzezinski intends to strip the Chinese of all
their traditional allies as part of his campaign
to smash the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
and any other foci of resistance inside Eurasia
against Anglo-American imperialism.

7. FALL OF ITALIAN GOVERNMENT: The European
government most friendly to Russia and most
reluctant to follow Brzezinski’s lead into
confrontation was the Italian regime of Romano
Prodi. Italy had launched a program of
large-scale economic cooperation with Moscow,
much of it mediated through the Italian oil
company ENI, a perennial outsider and rival of
the Anglo-American cartel. Underpinning the
cooperation between Italy and Russia was a
far-reaching rapprochement between the Vatican
and the Russian Orthodox Church aiming at forms
of ecumenical dialogue with obvious overtones of
political and economic cooperation. This dialogue
between the Roman Pope and the Russian Orthodox
Patriarch is something Brzezinski abhors. A few
weeks ago, Prodi was overthrown through the
actions of a Quisling political faction centered
on the Bank of Italy. The other European
governments, most notably Mrs. Merkel in Germany,
and Sarkozy in France, are currently in the
pocket of the Anglo-Americans. The British regime
of Gordon Brown has of course taken the lead in
fomenting confrontation with Russia through such
transparent provocations as the
Litvinenko-Berezovsky affair and the recent flap
about UK subversive activities in Russia
conduited through the British Council, supposedly
a cultural exchange organization, but in reality
a very aggressive arm of MI-6, which is now being
expelled from Russia. The policy being imposed by
Brzezinski is by its origins a London policy.

POLICE STATE MOVES TO ELIMINATE OBAMA’S COMPETITION

The campaign of scandal revelations against
Senator John McCain in the New York Times suggest
that the banking establishment is determined to
remove all obstacles that might impede the March
of Brzezinski’s puppet Obama to the White House.
In addition, Arizona Republican Congressman Rick
Renzi, a McCain ally, has just been indicted on
charges of extortion, wire fraud and money
laundering in an alleged scheme to profit from a
land deal. Renzi is an honorary co-chairman of
McCain’s presidential campaign. At the same time,
the controled corporate media continue to cover
up the explosive revelations of Larry Sinclair,
which have now been covered on numerous web sites
and in the supermarket tabloid, The Globe. Since
Karl Rove already knows all about these scandals,
Democratic primary voters need to know about them
too – otherwise they risk choosing a candidate so
thoroughly compromised as to be unelectable.

Obama is an intrinsically weak candidate, who
might well be defeated even by McCain in a normal
election, especially given the overwhelming
suspicion about Obama among Latino, Asian, and
Catholic voters. The motivation of the New York
Times smear campaign against McCain by his former
admirers and backers is to eliminate any serious
contenders who might hinder the new Messiah between now and November.

This is not the first time that the intelligence
community-police state apparatus has had to
intervene decisively to provide assistance to the
faltering ambitions of their puppet, Obama.
During his quest for a seat in the United States
Senate from Illinois in 2004, Obama received a
scandal boost not once but twice. Obama’s
opponent in the Illinois Democratic senatorial
primary of March 2004 was Marson Blair Hull, a
wealthy securities broker who spent $28 million
on television advertising and was heavily favored
to defeat Obama in that primary. But Hull’s
campaign was torpedoed by a barrage of well timed
media charges that he had abused his former wife.
Hull was therefore obliged to drop out of the race.

After Hull had been eliminated, Obama still had
to face his Republican opponent in the November
general election. Here his adversary was Jack
Ryan, an investment banker from Goldman Sachs.
Ryan had divorced his wife Jeri in 1999, and the
case was sealed at their mutual request. Suddenly
the Chicago Tribune and WLS television began
undertaking mighty exertions to get these divorce
records made public, even though they involved a
dispute about child custody. On June 22, 2004,
Los Angeles Superior Court judge Robert Schneider
released the court documents in question. They
revealed an accusation by Jeri Ryan against her
husband, now Obama’s political competitor, to the
effect that Jack Ryan had induced her to frequent
sex clubs in a number of locations, and had
attempted to coerce her into sexual intercourse
in the presence of third parties. Judge
Schnider’s decision was all the more
extraordinary because it was made in the face of
the direct opposition by both parties to the
divorce, and bore on a Family Court matter that
is normally kept vigorously secret. It was as if
some totalitarian invisible hand were intervening
in favor of the beleaguered Obama candidacy. At
this point Jack Ryan was compelled to abandon his
candidacy at the urging of Dennis Hastert, then
Speaker of the House. By now the Illinois
Democratic Party appeared to have gotten the
message that Obama enjoyed divine protection,
since they did not nominate a serious candidate
to oppose him in the November election. Instead,
they brought in a carpetbagger and well known
windbag in the person of Allan Keyes of Maryland,
who predictably went on to lose to Obama by the
most lopsided margin in Illinois political history.

This process also recalls the 1988 elimination of
top Democratic contender Gary Hart through a sex
scandal. Hart’s prospective opponent was Bush the
Elder, another intrinsically weak candidate
favored by the CIA who needed police state
assistance top make it to the White House. Gary
Hart was knocked out of contention by a scandal
involving Donna Rice, with whom Hart had been
embroiled with the help of underworld figure Don
Aronow, an ally of the Bush family.

With US missiles about to be installed in Poland
under the direct supervision of Ian Brzezinski,
the Pentagon’s top man for Eastern Europe, the
world is demonstrably moving towards a US –
Russian superpower confrontation with
unmistakable thermonuclear overtones. The one
missing ingredient in this pattern is a suitable
demagogue in the White House who can make an
appeal for national mobilization in this crisis,
including quite possibly a restoration of the
military draft, planeloads of body bags, and a
dimension of economic sacrifice and tax increases
which Bush never proposed. This is the role of
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s puppet and Manchurian
candidate, Obama. The anointed one can still be
prevented from carrying out the Brzezinski-Soros
plan to seize the Democratic presidential
nomination through the domestic equivalent of a
color revolution or people power coup.

The dynasty we need to worry about at this point
is neither the Clintons nor the Bushes. The main
concern today is an extension of the Brzezinski
dynasty. Zbigniew Brzezinski, founder of the
Trilateral Commission, member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, and RAND Corporation
operative, personally selected Carter as
president of the United States in the mid-1970s.
The resulting 1977-1981 Brzezinski Trilateral
administration was an unmitigated catastrophe,
leading to two decades of severe political
reaction from which this country has not
recovered. Given the ongoing breakdown crisis of
the Anglo-American banking and currency systems,
another Brzezinski administration would pose the
threat of thermonuclear war with Russia in an
infinitely more acute form than in the 1970s.
After a few months of Zbigniew Brzezinski running
the show, the era of Bush and the neocons might
begin to look like the good old days. It is still
possible to avoid this nightmare by timely action.

OBAMA'S CONTROLLERS: BRZEZINSKI CLAN OF RUSSIA HATERS, WORSE THAN
NEOCONS, BENT ON CRUSHING MOSCOW

Webster Tarpley at National Press Club Wed, 7 pm Jan 30.

In spite of healthy majorities opposing the US war in Iraq and our
trillion-dollar military budget, war candidates are dominating the
Democratic primaries. There is a danger they may be stolen by the
Brzezinski clique of eastern European revanchists who run Obama from
behind the scenes, says Washington-based investigative journalist and
historian Webster Griffin Tarpley.

"Behind Obama and Worse Than the Neocons: The Brzezinski Clan" is the
title of Tarpley's presentation to the National Press Club this
Wednesday evening. Tarpley has a track record of deconstructing
manufactured political myths. He exposes Obama as a puppet of the
Brzezinski war-with-Russia faction who craft his foreign policy, and
of Wall Street interests who dictate his right-wing economic platform.

For those who can't come and enjoy Tarpley's dynamic speaking and
fascinating slide show, his recent article on the Obama and Clinton
campaigns is the next best thing. It's entitled "Coup and
Counter-Coup in New Hampshire: Brzezinski Clan Color Revolution vs.
Diebold Vote Fraud." (Full text at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOnFreedom/message/4141.) The
spectacle of two competing covert operations masquerading as an
election is ominous for the future of democracy.

"Color Revolution" is a term for a subversive tactic of
destabilizing foreign countries, the CIA-inspired "people power"
revolution, like the rose, blue, pink, orange and velvet revolutions
in recent decades in Eastern Europe. High-flown rhetoric and fuzzy
ideals are the best weapons and the perfect cover story for an
attempt to permanently isolate and eliminate Putin's Russia as a
challenger to US-UK world domination. Behind Obama's edifying utopian
platitudes lurks the danger of war with Russia, a first-rate military
power in every way.

Obama's early success in the Iowa primary was engineered using "CIA
people power" or color revolution tactics. Tarpley explains the
ingredients: Media; Mobs (Rent-a-Mob or Dupe-a-Mob); symbols and
slogans; fake polling; and a suitable demagogue. In Iowa the fake
polls led to a "media swoon" over Obama and a premature proclamation
of his victory as the Democratic nominee.

The venue for Wednesday's talk will be a fitting one for hard-hitting
investigative journalism: the bi-weekly meeting of the McClendon
Group in the McClendon Room at the National Press Club. The room is
named in memory of Sarah McClendon of the McClendon News Service. She
was a rarity in American journalism that is sorely missed: a
Washington gadfly who made it a point to ask sharp questions at every
presidential press conference.

The McClendon Group carries on founder Sarah's "bi-weekly, but never
weakly" tradition of fearless questioning, with this week's guest
speaker, Webster Griffin Tarpley, another denizen of the Beltway
known for scoops that are too hot for the "free and democratic"
mainstream media to handle.

"Surviving the Cataclysm" is Tarpley's next book, on the current debt
crisis and the looming depression; it's due out this Spring. To hear
his blow-by-blow account of the financial markets meltdown and
primary battles, tune in to his World Crisis Radio program on
http://www.GCNLive.com. Streaming live on Saturdays, 2 to 4 pm ET, on
all four GCN networks, or tune in anytime
to http://www.gcnlive.com/On_Demand/WorldCrisisRadio.htm .

Tarpley does credit candidate John Edwards with introducing ideas
like a moratorium on foreclosures, and driving the primary debates in
a more populist direction. He notes that Edwards was cited by the
Wall Street Journal as the candidate most feared by the super-rich,
while Barak Obama picks up multimillion dollar donations from Goldman
Sachs. While Obama is not as fanatical on Iraq and Iran as Hitlary,
he has vented the bizarre notion of bombing Pakistan, a long-standing
American ally. In such company, John Edwards seems to be a saner
alternative, rating a Least of Evils vote in the primaries.

Progressive Press, Tarpley's publisher, is one of the few truly
independent political publishing houses in this country. The new
Progressive release, "The Nazi Hydra in America," delves into the
taboo tale of how the Bush dynasty financed Hitler, a story first
broken in "George Bush, the Unauthorized Biography," which Tarpley
co-authored. The uncanny parallels between the current Bush regime
and Germany in the 1930's are no historical accident - Homeland
Security, 9/11 Reichstag Fire, the erection of the juristic
scaffolding of a police state, were all brought to you by the very
same clique.

"9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA," a book which explodes the
"Myth of the 21st Century," is Tarpley's most recent published work.
It has been called the "bible of the 9/11 Truth Movement," and is the
standard-bearer for those who believe 9/11 was carried out by rogue
elements in the US power structure. This full-strength version of
"9/11 Truth" is the only one that works against war mania. Other
"alternatives" leave intact the terrorist world view purveyed by the war party.

United States of America (Press Release) June 7, 2008 -- By Webster G. Tarpley

Washington DC, June 6 – Yesterday's extraordinary simultaneous ouster of the Secretary of the Air Force and the Air Force chief of staff, followed by the naming of Trilateral Commissioner and Carter administration veteran James Rodney Schlesinger to purge USAF generals and colonels, dramatically documents the fact that power in Washington DC is no long in the hands of the Bush-Cheney-neocon clique, but has passed to the Brzezinski-Trilateral faction.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the firing of Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley, citing the failure of the Air Force to maintain the security of strategic nuclear forces, as shown in the infamous rogue B-52 incident of late August 2007, when a B-52 intercontinental strategic bomber with six nuclear armed cruise missiles flew from North Dakota to Louisiana totally outside of the purview of the USAF command control and communications systems. Gates also mentioned that four high-tech electrical nosecone fuses for Minuteman nuclear warheads were sent to Taiwan in place of helicopter batteries, along with other failures.

Gates is a leading member of the Principals' Committee, an interagency group which now runs the US government from day to day with scant reference to the discredited outgoing lame ducks Bush and Cheney, who stay on mainly as figureheads. The Principals' Committee has been in charge of the US government since no later than early May, around the time of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, when the controlled corporate media began trumpeting that Obama was the winner of the Democratic nomination. The Principals' Committee is made up of Pentagon boss Gates, Secretary of State Rice, NSC director Hadley, Joint Chiefs of Staff head Mullen, intelligence czar McConnell, along with a few others. These figures are now marching to the tune of Trilateral Commission bigwigs like Zbigniew Brzezinski, Joseph Nye, and the Rockefeller family. These are the same forces who own and control the Wall Street Manchurian candidate Obama. It is notable that the high-profile purge of the USAF came less than 48 hours after Obama had unilaterally proclaimed himself the Democratic presidential nominee.

The rogue B-52 flew with six nuclear cruise missiles from Minot AFB North Dakota to Barksdale AFB Louisiana last August 30. Source reports published by Wayne Madsen suggest that the B-52 was stopped by patriotic low-level USAF personnel. As the issue of whether to allow the plane to fly on to the Middle East went up the chain of command and expanded to involve the intelligence agencies, it transpired that the majority of the government and the establishment did not want the plane to attack targets in the Middle East. The scandal of the rogue B-52 broke on September 5, and a stand-down and nuclear census of the entire USAF soon followed. According to all indications, the B-52 was under the extra-legal control of the Cheney faction, which evidently planned to fly it to the Middle East and quite possibly use one or more of the nuclear cruise missiles in an attack on Iran and/or Syria, probably in cooperation or coordination with the Israeli air attack on Syria which occurred on September 6. The fact that the B-52 was blocked may have represented the last gasp of the Bush-Cheney-neocon faction, and the beginning of the hegemony of a different and far more dangerous group, namely the Brzezinski-Trilateral faction.

The Gates purge indicates that the new Trilateral masters of Washington DC do not trust the USAF generals who are so deeply compromised with the Bush-Cheney-neocon faction. The USAF was up to its neck in 9/11, and then in the rogue B-52 affair. The Trilaterals are accordingly driving out the old rogues, and replacing them with new rogue generals of their own, who are loyal to the insane Trilateral agenda. Brzezinski does not want nuclear weapons wasted on Iran, which he intends to turn into an expendable puppet or kamikaze pawn in his apocalyptic showdown with Russian and China. This is what Obama's appeasement of Iran actually aims at: Iran as a US asset to be played against Russia and China. Brzezinski wants to be in control of those nukes, since he may soon need them for use against Russia and China. Those who might celebrate the defeat of the Bush-Cheney-neocon group must rather face the fact that the US has just jumped out of the frying pan of conventional invasions and into the fire of looming thermonuclear confrontations among the great powers. This is the real nature of the change for which Obama is the public symbol.

Obama's foreign policy will be dictated in every respect by Trilateral co-founder Brzezinski. Obama is now supported and surrounded by Trilateral members David Rockefeller, Jay Rockefeller, Joseph Nye, Paul Adolph Volcker, Jimmy Carter, and many more. With James "Rodney the Robot" Schlesinger now helping to purge the Pentagon, including its associated intelligence agencies, the Trilateral grip on Washington DC is tightening. Obama's choice of a vice president will be dictated by long-time Trilateral stalwart Jim Johnson.

The rogue B-52 incident was forecast by me in an essay entitled "Cheney Determined to Strike in US with WMD This Summer," issued on July 21, 2007, and widely distributed on the internet and in print form. This was followed by the Kennebunkport Warning, which was posted online in the evening of August 26, 2007, less than 72 hours before the rogue B-52 nuclear missiles were loaded. By September 3, the Kennebunkport Warning was posted on 110,000 web sites worldwide. The precision and timeliness of this warning represent an unprecedented intelligence achievement.

But now, the danger of a US attack on Iran is very low. Brzezinski's hit list is much more ambitious, and includes Sudan, Pakistan, Burma, and China, all stepping stones to the final reckoning with Moscow. The main possibility of an attack on Iran in the present situation comes from disgruntled Israeli factions like the one around Netanyahu who are aghast that they are being demoted from their previous role as the hub of US strategy to the status of just another expendable pawn in Brzezinski's lunatic plan for confrontation with Beijing and Moscow. The Israelis are horrified by Obama, just as everyone in the world should be. The winning faction of the US-UK establishment does not want the attack on Iran, and the Israelis would be foolhardy to try it on their own. The threats today from former IDF chief and Israeli Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz about an Israeli solo attack on Iran because of the failure of economic sanctions to stop nuclear development are indicative of deep discontent, but the guess here is that they are a bluff. We will soon find out: if the Israelis do not strike Iran in the next few weeks, they will have lost their chance as the Trilaterals continue to consolidate their power.

They say HAARP was used to cause China Earthquake.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=QkLTzesBxGE
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi1nLmlicxU&feature=related


HAARP: http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=ecLwVgvvTvU&feature=related -->carefully watch the end of this video.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=S3wQU2OTSWA&feature=related another one again.



What the Fuck should we do now??? I dont get this shit man.
 

QueEx

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Re: Obama might be worse than Mccain, Bush and the rest of the NEOCONS!!!!!

ghost305 said:
What the Fuck should we do now??? I dont get this shit man.
(1) Stop with the panic attack.

(2) Why are you panicing about articles written in January and February ???

(3) Did you actually read what you posted ???
- If you didn't why panic over something you haven't read;

- If you have read it all, please explain what it says.​
QueEx
 

ghost305

Potential Star
Registered
Re: Obama might be worse than Mccain, Bush and the rest of the NEOCONS!!!!!

(1) Stop with the panic attack.

(2) Why are you panicing about articles written in January and February ???

(3) Did you actually read what you posted ???
- If you didn't why panic over something you haven't read;

- If you have read it all, please explain what it says.​
QueEx

u want me to simplify? It says that Obama is actually more ruthless than Bush/Cheney and the Neocons. The fact that Zbigniew is behind does not help neither. If you are familiar with Zbigniew, you will know that he's the one who actually created this whole Al-queda bull sht. If you google him, you'll find a picture of him and Osama bin Laden holding an AK47. And he has ancestry that dates back to Poland royalty. Do you know that Poland is potentially a trigger to a Nuclear war with Russia? We have signed a deal with Poland to put a "defense missile system", Russia has said that if the US put the missiles in Poland, they will take military action against POland. and guess who supports this defense system? Barrack Obama, as does McCain. Remember Cuba- Russia crisis??? it's ironic ain't it?

there's more but i'm tired of writing.
 

Zero

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Re: Obama might be worse than Mccain, Bush and the rest of the NEOCONS!!!!!

u want me to simplify? It says that Obama is actually more ruthless than Bush/Cheney and the Neocons. The fact that Zbigniew is behind does not help neither. If you are familiar with Zbigniew, you will know that he's the one who actually created this whole Al-queda bull sht. If you google him, you'll find a picture of him and Osama bin Laden holding an AK47. And he has ancestry that dates back to Poland royalty. Do you know that Poland is potentially a trigger to a Nuclear war with Russia? We have signed a deal with Poland to put a "defense missile system", Russia has said that if the US put the missiles in Poland, they will take military action against POland. and guess who supports this defense system? Barrack Obama, as does McCain. Remember Cuba- Russia crisis??? it's ironic ain't it?

there's more but i'm tired of writing.

:smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh:
 
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BlackWolf

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BGOL Investor
Blue for Obama

OBAMA BLUE DAY!!!September 30, 2008 Its time to REPRESENT!!!!! This election season has remained too close for comfort and to close to call! We have 100,000s of unregistered and millions who remain on the fence! Its time for us to come together, voice our unity, and make a difference! Tuesday September 30, 20008 everyone is asked to do two things 1) WEAR BLUE 2) REGISTER TWO VOTERS! (If you can't register two voters talk to two people who may be on the fence/ or a McCain supporter and sway them to become a Obama Supporter). LETS MAKE OBAMA BLUE DAY a DAY OF ACTION!!!! BARACK THE VOTE!!!!!! PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYBODY WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING!!!
 

mc2

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Re: Blue for Obama

OBAMA BLUE DAY!!!September 30, 2008 Its time to REPRESENT!!!!! This election season has remained too close for comfort and to close to call! We have 100,000s of unregistered and millions who remain on the fence! Its time for us to come together, voice our unity, and make a difference! Tuesday September 30, 20008 everyone is asked to do two things 1) WEAR BLUE 2) REGISTER TWO VOTERS! (If you can't register two voters talk to two people who may be on the fence/ or a McCain supporter and sway them to become a Obama Supporter). LETS MAKE OBAMA BLUE DAY a DAY OF ACTION!!!! BARACK THE VOTE!!!!!! PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYBODY WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING!!!


I've got my blue one today :dance:
 

VegasGuy

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Re: Blue for Obama

OBAMA BLUE DAY!!!September 30, 2008 Its time to REPRESENT!!!!! This election season has remained too close for comfort and to close to call! We have 100,000s of unregistered and millions who remain on the fence! Its time for us to come together, voice our unity, and make a difference! Tuesday September 30, 20008 everyone is asked to do two things 1) WEAR BLUE 2) REGISTER TWO VOTERS! (If you can't register two voters talk to two people who may be on the fence/ or a McCain supporter and sway them to become a Obama Supporter). LETS MAKE OBAMA BLUE DAY a DAY OF ACTION!!!! BARACK THE VOTE!!!!!! PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYBODY WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING!!!

Wear it if you want to. I don't think it's something sanctioned by the Obama campaign. But I'm sure they won't mind. Just don't donate any money to anyone representing this Obama Blue Day thing.

-VG
 

J Storm

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BGOL Investor
Re: How the Obama"hope" poster became a cultural phenom

Already know. Done by Graffiti legend "OBEY"
 

Makkonnen

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BGOL Investor
Re: How the Obama"hope" poster became a cultural phenom

http://www.thegiant.org/

invest in some of his work - believe me that shit does not go down in value

obeygiant.com is his site

the artist was already hot before Obama came around
 

Makkonnen

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BGOL Investor
Obama's Political Career Started At A Rabbi's House

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/astral66/2008/10/yesterday-my-obama-rabbi-wolf.php

Yesterday: My Obama Rabbi Wolf story. Today: Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times Obama Rabbi Wolf Story

October 15, 2008, 11:54AM

Yesterday I put forward the words of Rabbi Wolf of Chicago, "We held the first coffee for Obama," and asked why no one was challenging the McCain/GOP's attack line about Obama launching his political careeer in the living room of Bill Ayers:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/astral66/2008/10/obamas-political-career-was-la.php

Today Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times has a piece up called
McCain misleading public in role Ayers played in Obama political career



I quoted Rabbi Wolf in my piece:

That was one of several such neighborhood events as Mr. Obama prepared to run, said A. J. Wolf, the 84-year-old emeritus rabbi of KAM Isaiah Israel Synagogue, across the street from Mr. Obama's current house.

"If you ask my wife, we had the first coffee for Barack," Rabbi Wolf said.

Lynn Sweet writes:

"I was certainly (hosting) one of the first," said Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, rabbi emeritus at Chicago's KAM Isaiah Israel--located across the street from the Obama home.
Coincidence? No one has looked into this issue of the coffees that were hosted at the beginning of Obama's political career, which is why I posted my query into it here at TPM and cross-posted at Daily Kos yesterday. I also emailed my post to some of the major news organizations, mainly in the hopes that someone would take a look and do the real work to flesh out this story, and to counter the McCain smear-machines false statements.

Maybe Lynn Sweet arrived at the same place I did yesterday, after hearing the Ayers living room smear one too many times. Or maybe someone did see my post here, and thought it was worth looking into a bit more. Maybe the work we do here day after day, posting our thoughts and concerns, really can effect some kind of change?

I hope so. Either way, thanks to Lynn Sweet for her in-depth piece on this topic today, it goes a lot furthur than mine did, as she called and emailed many of the parties involved. Make sure you check it out.

excerpt:
I was certainly (hosting) one of the first," said Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, rabbi emeritus at Chicago's KAM Isaiah Israel--located across the street from the Obama home.

"There were several every week," he recalled on Tuesday night when we spoke. "I remember what I said to him: 'Someday you are going to be vice president of the United States.' He laughed and said, 'Why not president?'''

~snip~
"As a starter, I know that Barack went to Alice Palmer," Martha Ackerman told me. "...Then the question was, 'how do you go about doing this in the Hyde Park way," she said, a reference to the personal touch needed in the Hyde Park- Kenwood neighborhoods, at the time immune to the dictates of the remnants of the Chicago machine and Mayor Daley's City Hall.

"...the way to launch the campaign was to have coffee, and not one coffee, as in 'this is the start of everything.' Barack went around to a number of people and requested that they hold coffees for him."

But the Ackerman's did not want to host an event for Obama without meeting him first. So he came over to their house and spent more than an hour with the couple.

When Obama left, "I said to Sam, 'this guy could be the first African American president of the United States."

Martha Ackerman, said "I know there were a number of coffees. It wasn't just one or two."



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He could have blown up John McCain with that if he wanted to last night. Obama is outclassing all these guys - out politicking the politicians- served all the dems including the Clintons and now the GOP. You wanted Black Power - there it is.
 

QueEx

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'Mystery' man lends support to Obama

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He's a trusted confidant and one of only a few
non-relatives to consistently get time with
Obama. But who is Michael Signator? Photo: AP


P O L I T I C O
By KENNETH P. VOGEL
October 19, 2008


CHICAGO — He's the star of bulletins chronicling Barack Obama's movements, one of only a few nonrelatives to consistently get time with the Democratic candidate for president and a trusted confidant who has shared some of the most pivotal moments of Obama's career with him.

Yet journalists who have followed Obama's campaign for the better part of two years don't know what he looks like, staffers who have logged countless hours traveling with Team Obama didn't even know he works for the campaign and there's never been a story in a major media outlet about him.

He is Michael Signator, an aide and buddy of the man who — according to polls — stands a better-than-50-50 shot of becoming the next president of the United States of America.

Technically, Signator's job is to provide "supplemental security support" for Obama's presidential campaign and also to coordinate the Obama family's personal and campaign schedules, according to Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.

A police officer in a suburban Chicago town, Signator met Obama while volunteering for his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign, which eventually hired him as Obama's driver.

For security reasons , Obama's presidential campaign refuses to reveal the details of Signator's role, but LaBolt said it brings Signator into frequent, close contact with the Obamas.

"Barack and Michelle Obama regularly confer with Mike, as do senior campaign officials. Sen. Obama has met with Signator both at the Obamas' home and at Mike's," LaBolt said in a statement.

Though Signator owns a home in suburban DuPage County — about an hour west of the Obamas' Chicago home — he also rents an apartment on the 16th floor of a high-rise called Regents Park, located just a few blocks from Obama's house in the leafy Kenwood neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.

When Obama is at home, he works out regularly in the well-appointed gym on the ground floor of the building. But according to "protective pool reports" distributed among journalists following the campaign, Obama may also occasionally stop by the building just to hang out with "Sig," as some campaign staffers call him.

On a Sunday morning in late June, for instance, a pool report explained that Obama "went for a workout at his friend's Mike Signator's building. He wore his black White Sox cap; a gray T-shirt and black workout pants. He only stayed about 15 minutes. Press staff was unsure whether he worked out or just hung with his friend."

Pool reports have characterized Signator as, among other things, a "friend," a "longtime aide" and a "former bodyman."

Bodymen are like traveling administrative assistants who cater to a politician's every need, from 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry's peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to Obama's MET-Rx chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars, which are kept on hand by his current bodyman, Reggie Love, a former football and basketball player at Duke University.

Though the job can sometimes be less than glamorous, young up-and-comers leap at the chance to do it because bodymen, by definition, are the aides physically closest to — and trusted by — politicians, and that can lead to bonds akin to child-parent relationships with their bosses.

Signator, though, is 50 years old — three years older than Obama — and displays few of the trappings of a rising Beltway insider, with public records indicating he's spent most of his adult life in and around Chicago.

Reached by telephone, he declined to comment on his relationship with Obama and his family, and asked how Politico obtained his telephone number. He directed inquiries to the Obama campaign press office and explained, "I can't do any type of interview at all. I apologize. I'm sorry, and please just disregard this phone number, because I can't take any calls."

The campaign press staff — which at first denied that Signator worked for the campaign, then discouraged Politico from writing about him — declined to set up an interview.

That leaves public records and the protective pool reports — written by journalists tapped from the traveling press contingent to follow Obama during all non-campaign-related activities and report back to their colleagues on the typically mundane details — to piece together a picture of Signator and his place in Obama World.

According to Federal Election Commission records, Obama's campaign through the end of August had paid Signator $47,600. The payments, which began in March 2007 at $2,900 a month, dwindled to less than $800 a month in May of this year — a full year after the Secret Service began protecting Obama.

Obama's 2004 U.S. Senate campaign paid nearly $50,000 to Signator, who had a cameo in Obama's 2006 book, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream."

According to the book, Signator was the first person Obama informed after being invited to deliver the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, a speech that launched him into the national spotlight and began the rapid ascent that could land him in the White House.

Obama writes that "the process by which I was selected as the keynote speaker remains something of a mystery to me." Though he had gotten word that Kerry wanted him to speak, Obama recalls he didn't know what type of billing he'd get.

Then, one afternoon, as Signator was driving him from Springfield, the state capital where Obama was a state senator, to Chicago, where he had an evening campaign event, Obama got a call from Kerry's campaign manager, who asked him to keynote the convention.

After he hung up, Obama turned to Signator and said "I guess this is pretty big," according to "Audacity." It reports that Signator nodded and said, "You could say that."

Signator remained a part of Obama's orbit after he cruised to victory in 2004 and entered the Senate.

Though he never technically worked for Obama's Senate office, Signator accompanied the freshman U.S. senator on a tour of a controversial nuclear power plant in northeastern Illinois one week after Obama took office.

After the tour, Obama "attended political events for the rest of the day," LaBolt explained. "Mike was present at the tour so that when it ended, he could drive and accompany the senator to those events."

There may be a reason other than security that the campaign doesn't want Signator talking to the press.

During Obama's 2004 Senate race, in the weeks after Obama's convention speech had marked him as a rising star, Signator accompanied Obama to an African-American parade in Chicago. According to an Obama biography by Chicago Tribune veteran David Mendell, the crowd chanted "O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!" and gave the young candidate such a passionate reception that Signator, identified by Mendell as Obama's "driver and bodyguard," joked that he "thought Barack was going to rise up over the people and start saying, 'My children, my children, I have come to free you.'"

The comment — among the only quotes of Signator on record — has become fodder for conservatives mocking Obama as a wannabe messianic figure.

Whatever the two men's current relationship, the Illinois senator has spent so much time at the Regents Park that many of the residents have their own Obama stories, according to Min Kim.

"I've run into him by the elevator," the 21-year-old University of Chicago student boasted last Sunday morning as he waited for a ride outside the building, near Secret Service agents and local cops standing sentry while Obama was inside.

Kim admitted, though, that he froze up and didn't say anything to the would-be president.

Sometimes, according to pool reports, Obama has dropped by multiple times in a single day, particularly while he was weighing his choice of a running mate. That led some in his traveling press corps to speculate that Obama may have been meeting with prospective vice presidential nominees at Sig's place, and it prompted The Washington Post to crack that Signator was "not, as far as we know, on the short list."



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QueEx

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Obama: 'Defining Moment'

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Obama Ad: 'Defining Moment'


Obama has released a 2-minute TV ad that changes the question
Democrats have been asking this election year. "At this defining
moment in our history,"
Obama says in the ad, "the question is
not, 'are you better off than you were four years ago?' We all
know the answer to that. The real question is will our
country be better off four years from now?"


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DuhDuhMan

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Re: Obama: 'Defining Moment'

Big ups O!

Thats how you lay out your plan w/o tipping your hand so the RNC cant bite your style.
 

QueEx

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Obama's "Closing Argument"

I just heard it (or at least one of them) on CNN. I thought he did a hellava job (but excuse my bias). I will post it the transcript and the video, if someone doesn't before I get to it.

Thanking whomever that might me in advance,

QueEx
 
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