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George Hussein Onyango Obama

UK’s Telegraph reports that Barack Obama’s brother is living in Poverty…

From the article:

Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate’s half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender.

“No-one knows who I am,” he told the magazine, before claiming: “I live here on less than a dollar a month.”

and

He told the magazine: “I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist.”

Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation.

“If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed,” he said.

and

For ten years George Obama lived rough. However he now hopes to try to sort his life out by starting a course at a local technical college.

He has only met his famous older brother twice - once when he was just five and the last time in 2006 when Senator Obama was on a tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi.

The Illinois senator mentions his brother in his autobiography, describing him in just one passing paragraph as a “beautiful boy with a rounded head”.

Of their second meeting, George Obama said: “It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger.”

and

“Huruma is a tough place, last January during the elections there was rioting and six people were hacked to death. The police don’t even arrest you they just shoot you.

“I have seen two of my friends killed. I have scars from defending myself with my fists. I am good with my fists.”

Commentary:
It’s incredibly amazing and hypocritical of some in the media that went after Mitt Romney’s Grandfather’s polygamy when we have a presumptive nominee of a major party who’s father was a polygamist and has multitudes of children living in poverty in Africa. Why isn’t Barack taking care of his own destitute family members???

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Obama and Troops in Iraq

I just think that this picture is so wrong. Why are the troops “lined up” to see this man? He’s not President of the United States, he’s a simple junior Senator from Illinois. Grrr.

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This is, by far, the absolute most shocking video about Barack Hussein Obama I have seen yet. I wish I could have embedded the video here for your convenience, but there was no way to do that for this one (that I could figure out, at least). So click on the link below for a real reality check. [Editors Note From Ann Marie: I was able to get the full embed code that was shown below that Amanda could not find]. Prepare for the worst; you may want to sit down for this. . .

After you’re done watching the clip and you’ve come to your senses (yes, that’s it. . . inhale, exhale–now pick your jaw up off the floor), forward this link to everyone you know–particularly any liberals or moderates who support, or who are even thinking about supporting this man. Too much is at stake. It’s our job to get this information to our fellow Americans since the mainstream media certainly will not. Expose their “teflon candidate?” Their “messiah?”  It’ll just never happen. It’s all up to us now to stop the radical Barack Obama from taking over our great country. We fight on!

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Brief article over at HOT AIR touts Mitt Romney for the vice presidential slot.
The article talks about the strength that Romney would bring to the ticket because of his mastery of business and economics. If Mitt is not picked for VP, I think this is what needs to happen.

The McCain campaign needs to send a message to conservatives, IMHO, in two areas of vital importance, or they will not be pleased with the results they get at at the ballot box in November.

1. We need an iron-clad promise to secure our borders and to enforce the existing laws on immigration.

2. We need a comprehensive economic policy that includes making the Bush tax cuts permanent, killing the death tax, balancing the budget and moving to reform the bloated entitlement spending that threatens to bankrupt this country.

Failing to accomplish this, the feckless leadership we have been getting from the Republican Party at the national level, will usher in eight bleak years of Democratic rule.

I know I am repeating myself, but I will say it again. Unless grassroots Republicans rise up and retake this party in order to guide it back toward the conservative principles that made the Party and the country great, we are going to lose this election. If there isn’t two cents worth of difference between the Democrat’s platform and the Republican’s platform, who cares which party wins? Obviously the career politicians do, but I am talking about the voters who have to pay for all of this.

We are not getting our money’s worth!

~~John Cronin~~

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/01/pew-mccain-gaining-at-the-center/

The economy will present a critical test for McCain. He has worked on building economic chops, and his campaign has notable assistance in this area from Steve Forbes and even Mitt Romney. Obama’s stumble on capital-gains tax increases could help narrow this gap, but thus far the McCain campaign hasn’t offered any focus on that gaffe from the April 16th debate.
McCain could use a well-recognized hand on economics as a running mate. I’ve suggested that Romney could fill that role, although Allahpundit has been less enthusiastic. Romney did a great job with fundraising in 2007 and could help fill a critical gap there as well. Now that Jeremiah Wright has managed to splatter himself all over Obama, not too many people would worry about Mormons in the general election. Mormons aren’t known for asking that God damn America or promulgating weird conspiracy theories about HIV and government-sponsored genocides. Wright’s demagoguery has taken the Mormon issue off the table, if Obama wins the nomination.

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It seems that every generation has a politician that young voters fall in love with. In the 1930’s and 40’s, it was Franklin Roosevelt. In the 1950’s it was Dwight Eisenhower. In the 1960’s it was John Kennedy. The 1970’s was the era of our withdrawal from Vietnam and the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon and so there was no politician to fall in love with in that decade. The 1980’s saw Ronald Reagan put together one of the broadest and most successful political coalitions this country has ever seen and people still remember Reagan fondly. To this day every Republican politician must pay his respects to Reagan’s legacy. The 1990’s, for the Democrats, saw a segment of the voting population fall in love with Bill Clinton, although he never went north of 50% in his two presidential elections. It seems that over half the country was immune to his charms. The first two national elections of the 21st century were very controversial and neither Bush nor Gore nor Kerry are the kind of politician that voters fall in love with.

Now comes the election year of 2008 and a new and inexperienced generation of voters have fallen in love with Obama. The old saying holds that “Love is blind” and it will be fascinating to see if Obama’s 20 year association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, a past member of the Weather Underground and self confessed bomber who says that he only regrets that he “didn’t do more” during his days as a violent radical, will at some point splash some cold water into the faces of his supporters and cause them to come to their senses.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/
Obama_Problem_is_older_voters.html

By: Ben Smith POLITICO.COM

Carrie Budoff Brown reports that Obama was asked about the exit polls at an avail (his second this week) in New Albany, IN.

“I have to say if you look at and I know my staff has talked about this: If you look at the numbers, in fact, our problem has less to do with white working class voters. In fact, the problem is that, to the extent there is a problem, is that the older voters are very loyal to Senator Clinton,” he said.

“And I think, you know, part of that is they’ve got a track record of voting for not just Senator Clinton but also her husband. And, you know, we want to make sure that they know that on issues that are of importance to them, like prescription drugs or pension and retirement security that I’ve got a strong track record on those issues and very specific plans to make sure they’re getting the kinds of help that they need. And, you know, if we do that effectively, which we have tried to do in all the states, then I think that we will end up doing very well here in Indiana.”
He was also asked about the criticism that he can’t close the deal.

“The way we are going to close the deal is by winning. And right now we are winning,” he said.
Also, a bit of bravado in response to suggestions that he’s not tough enough:

“I know that people like to talk tough and use a lot of rhetoric about fighting. I have always believed that if you are tough, you don’t have to talk about it,” he said.

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This is the link to the transcript of the Obama Clinton debate. I was trying to find the question about Obama’s 91 million dollars in earmarks. I’ve looked pretty hard, did they remove that question from the transcript?

http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=10292802

If the link doesn’t bring you right to the whole debate, click on “printer friendly”, and that should display the whole text.

I think it is pretty stark, how Obama has used 91 million in pork, compared to John McCain who (he says) has never used an earmark.

That is a big difference.

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Reasons to agree

The below arguments were taken from Hot Air

1. Obama said; “I heard from a Army captain, who was the head of a rifle platoon, supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24, because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition; they didn’t have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.”
2. Well, captains command companies, not rifle platoons. A rifle platoon is normally commanded by a 2nd lieutenant, sometimes (if short handed) by a senior sergeant. So for starters, Obama betrays a woeful ignorance of military organization and the chain of command. Then he remarks that the platoon was under-strength because 15 of its men had been “sent to Iraq.” Sorry, the Army doesn’t work that way. Platoons are organic units, consisting of three rifle squads, a heavy weapons squad, and a headquarters section. You can’t break it up. It is the smallest building block in the infantry that can conduct fire-and-movement tactics…
3. The idea that our guys were scrounging weapons and ammo because they were short is ludicrous. How much ammo you carry is done on a “per man” basis in the infantry–each solder carries a “basic load,” which is backed up by reserve supplies at company, battalion, and above. It is possible to run out of ammunition, temporarily, in the midst of an intense firefight…
4. To the best of my knowledge, no U.S. forces in either Afghanistan or Iraq ever ran out of ammunition for more than a few hours at most. When you consider that we were operating in Afghanistan at the tenuous end of a 8,000 mile supply line, that’s pretty impressive.

Links that agree that Obama lied:

1. http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/02/21/obama-on-afghanistan/#comment-18860
2. http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/02/post_14.asp
3. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/255463.php
4. http://charliefoxtrotblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-meet-milblogs.html

Remember what a big deal the main stream media made out of the following Romney statement?

“…These American values, this great moral heritage, is shared and lived in my religion as it is in yours. I was taught in my home to honor God and love my neighbor. I saw my father march with Martin Luther King. I saw my parents provide compassionate care to others, in personal ways to people nearby, and in just as consequential ways in leading national volunteer movements. I am moved by the Lord’s words: ‘For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me…’

What chance do you think the MSM will push the Obama story as much as they pushed Romney’s?

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Obama quotes JFK that we should never negotiate out of fear, but that we should never fear to negotiate. He then says that he would have one on one meetings with the president of Iran. Like a lot of things Barak says, this is very idealist and naïve.

It is not fear that keeps us from negotiating with the president of Iran, but honor. The president of Iran kills intellectuals, tortures political opponents, crushes anyone who writes something in a newspaper or blog that is seen as criticizing him.  You don’t sit down for a photo-opportunity and coffee with THE GUY who supports Hezbollah, funds insurgents in Iraq, denies the old holocaust, but promises a brand new holocaust.  

It is honor for the dead that he has killed and wants to kill that keeps us from speaking to the president of Iran. It is respect for the political prisoners that have been silenced that keeps us from having a photo-op with the president of Iran. It is respect for a free press that keeps us from having coffee with the president of Iran. It is HOPE for a future that is not dominated by religious extremest, that keeps us from meeting with the president of Iran. It is not fear.

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Ron Kessler over at Newsmax explains how the MSM was in cahoots with McCain and now they are beginning to turn on him. Read it all, but here are some key paragraphs:

Reporters who cover McCain have long been aware of his sometimes explosive outbursts, but until now, that’s been a secret they have kept to themselves.

In this column, I first discussed McCain’s temper in July 2006. Yet it was not until the week of Super Tuesday, when it became clear that McCain would be the Republican nominee that The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Associated Press, and finally The New York Times suddenly burst forth with stories on McCain’s temper and off-color remarks.

The Times’ story said that in talking with reporters, McCain has referred to Brooke Buchanan, his own spokeswoman, as “Pat Buchanan’s illegitimate daughter.” He also has described her as “bipolar,” “a drunk,” “someone with a lot of boyfriends,” and “just out of Betty Ford,” a reference to the rehab clinic.

Until now, the media have ignored McCain’s temper and controversial remarks largely because he gives the press access and is a liberal on some key issues. A Dec. 13, 1999 profile of McCain in Time magazine actually admitted that reporters sometimes cover for him by not reporting controversial things he tells them on the record “because they don’t want to see him flame out and burn up a great story.”

In contrast, when he was in the race, the media never failed to beat up on Mitt Romney over his religion and his much-exaggerated flip-flops. After Romney won in Michigan, the AP’s Ron Fournier wrote: “The former Massachusetts governor pandered to voters, distorted his opponents’ record, and continued to show why he’s the most malleable — and least credible — major presidential candidate.”

As for McCain, “The man who spoke hard truths to Michigan lost,” Fournier said. “Of all the reasons John McCain deserved a better result Tuesday night, his gamble on the economy stands out.”

When the Romney camp last month released a “Top 10” list of McCain’s outbursts, no media outlet ran them. Now that Romney is out of the race and McCain is the Republican standard bearer, the media are perfectly happy to go after him to boost Barack Obama’s chances. As a TV network reporter told me, the mainstream media love Obama, and reporters are accused by their editors of bias if they propose critical stories about him.

It’s going to be ugly…though now that Obama is the frontrunner, it looks like he and Michelle might have their own case of “insert foot in mouth disease” to deal with as well.

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Reasons to agree

1. Obama has said; “We have not explored any kind of dialogue with either Iran or North Korea, and I think that has been a mistake. As a consequence, we have almost no leverage over them.” (Meet the Press with Tim Russert, October 22, 2006) Again, they say Obama is smart. How exactly is talking to them going to give us more leverage, besides being able to threaten them with not talking to them anymore?
2. You should have to meat some simple standards to be considered a legitimate government worthy of diplomatic relations. Some of these qualifications would include not calling for the destruction of Israel, denying the holocaust, funding extremist, and providing weapons that are being used against us in Iraq, teaching that Jews and Christians are pigs and dogs in your schools, denying the holocaust, and 100 other things too many to include on this list. So, no Barak, we should not re-establish relations with Iran no matter how open minded it makes you feel. There is such thing as evil, and your unwillingness to acknowledge this, and to respond correctly keeps you from being qualified as president.

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Reasons to agree:

1. Obama said; he “will not support any bill that does not provide an earned path to citizenship for the undocumented population.”
2. Obama does not believe that twelve million illegal immigrants can be sent back. He said “It’s not going to happen. We’re not going to go round them up … We should give them a pathway to citizenship.” Obama at Joliet town hall. Everyone says Obama is smart, but how can he say such simple things? No one said you have to round them up. No one rounded them up, and forced them into this country. There are these things called, planes, trains and automobiles Barak. If we don’t let people have jobs who decided not to follow the lawful way of coming into this country, they can go back the same way they came in. It may sound mean, but we have to be grown ups. We can not be idealist. Sure, if you want more people to come into the country, that is not the issue. We just need to do it legally. If you want to argue open borders, that is fine, but at least be honest about what you are saying.  

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Reasons to agree:
1. Obama wrote that he used alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine during his teenage years to “push questions of who I was out of my mind”. Oh brother. That is worse than anything you would hear on Opera. He is trying too hard for the tear-jerker. People don’t use cocaine to push questions of who they are out of their mind, they use cocaine to have a good time, and be cool. Obama plays the victim worse than Hillary. Every kid has identity crisses. It is putting an incredibly cynical spin on his cocaine use to try and pass it off as doing it because he was depressed because of his identity (For the record Bush also used Drugs and alcohal. But thats not the point. This is just one of many more examples to come where Obama sees himself as the hero in a very melodramatic childish way).

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Reasons to agree
1. Obama ran for the senate, in Illinois, after his main rival dropped out of the race because of a sex scandal. So Obama won his place in the senate without being tested.
2. Obama has never been responsible for balancing a budget.
3. Obama is one of the youngest senators.
4. Obama would be tied for the 2nd youngest person to be elected president.
5. Obama has never accomplished anything outside of the classroom.
6. Obama has never had a job in the marketplace.
7. Obama has never run an organization.
8. Obama has never been the boss.
9. Obama has never hired someone.
10. Obama has never had to fire someone.
11. Obama has never set goals for a team, and been responsible for meeting them.
12. Obama has never conducted an exit interview.
13. A professor at Vanderbilt University showed that the majority of those who said they were concerned about Romney’s flip-flopping were really concerned about Romney’s Mormonism. It might be the same with Barak. People who say they are concerned about Obama’s inexperience, might really be showing that they won’t vote for a black man. But if you take this kind of logic to the extreme, you could never criticize a minority, or you are proving that you are a bigot. The fact is Romney changed his position on abortion. Maybe this should be a big deal; maybe it shouldn’t be a big deal. Yes it was exagerated, and people used it to justify other more embarrassing reasons for not voting for him, but the fact of the matter is that Obama is inexperienced.
14. Based on feedback from a reader, I would like to add this; Not everyone has “lived overseas”, seems to have a good family, and did well in law school should run for president. In a country of 301 million people we should be able to find people to run for president who have accomplished something outside of college.

Reasons to disagree
1. Obama has lived overseas. This is a good experience. Mitt Romney lived overseas.
2. Obama did very well at Harvard law school. This is very difficult. It shows that you are smart, can buckle down, and study an issue out. Romney did very well at Harvard law school, and this reflects well on both of them.
3. Obama seems to be a good husband and father, like Romney. This takes good negotiation skills, and means that he is somewhat balanced. Obama certainly has a better relationship with his spouse than Hillary does.
4. Like Romney, Obama does not follow stereotypes that have been set for him. People always ask if Obama is black enough. People like Jan Mickelson, always asked Romney if he was Mormon-enough. Like his father, Romney kept alcohol in his house for visitors, and people said he was a bad Mormon, because he once agreed not to change abortion laws in Massachusetts. Standing up to stereotypes is a good experience.

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Focus Group: Romney Can Beat Obama

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A3WYbTK9vzg

FOX: Romney Vs. Obama

http://youtube.com/watch?v=asqV0PDxfEg

Gov. Romney: Thank Goodness Barack Obama Wasn’t President

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TblFK4BaH5k

Gov. Romney On Obama & [Afghanistan]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gobMAnQVEh0

Governor Romney: Clinton & Obama “Undependable” On Iraq War

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-GCmW4PchQ4

Romney vs. Obama On Hardball

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Xgl5NyI3s4

Gov. Romney On Obama And Sex Ed

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wFKF6wpHzRM

Gov. Romney: Obama’s Comments About Our Troops “Outrageous”

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WoV7omYTb_w

Gov. Romney On Sen. Obama: Jane Fonda To Doctor Strangelove

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z80ss1F6FV8

Gov. Romney: Bringing Change To Washington

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tq5SfL5mfPs

Governor Romney Remarks In Colorado (7/18/07)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_JQAR6e9LwI

Governor Romney: No Sit Down With Dictators

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lw2Ua2ROaGk

Gov. Romney: I’ve Lived Change

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QG1fIVgsCwg

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