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Hallelujah!!

Good news, All Ye Faithful! The Obama Camp has designed religious paraphernalia on which you can spend your hard-earned dollars! Now you can show your adoration for your faith and for Obama all at the same time! Oh, wait – was that redundant?? At God-O-Meter, the new items available were revealed. Oh, yes.

Up first, we have this lovely button:

For the family that prays for Obama, stays together, or something like that. Well, if what the NY Post had about Obama potentially violating the Logan Act* by attempting to delay troop withdrawal from Iraq to suit HIS political purposes is true, risking lives as a result, he’s gonna need a lot of those prayers. See, it’s illegal – some might even say TREASONOUS – for a civilian to work against a presidential administration in a foreign country. Oopsy daisy!!

Then there is this nice little bumper sticker for all you Catholics out there! You can put this right next to the sticker for your parochial school!

Oh, great! Now I know what to get my good friend, Divine Democrat! Ahem.

And finally, last but not least, there is this:

All hail, the Obama Faithful!! Oh, wait – am I misreading that? Nope, I don’t think I am. That may not be exactly what they WANTED to convey, at least consciously, but that’s about what they seem to expect from their followers – complete and utter devotion. Praise Obama – he has come to liberate us from our pesky morals, our integrity, our sense of decency and fair play! That must be the “Change” Obama promised to bring us!! Hallelujah!!

And just in case you think I am making this up, here is the letter from the Obama Camp:

Dear friends,
Great news! We now have faith merchandise available for you to show your support for Barack Obama as a person of faith.

Check out the Believers for Barack, Pro-Family Pro-Obama, and Catholics for Obama buttons, bumper stickers and signs….

Believers for Barack rally signs and bumper stickers, along with all Pro-Family Pro-Obama merchandise, are appropriate for people of all faith backgrounds. We’ll soon be rolling out merchandise for other religious groups and denominations, but I wanted to get this out to you without delay.

Take good care,

Paul Monteiro
Deputy Director of Religous (sic) Affairs
Obama for America

Oh, YAY! And God-O-Meter said there will be more to come, like “Clergy for Change.” Oh, I cannot WAIT to get one of those! Actually, yes, yes I can. Many of you will like THIS one: “Pro-Israel Pro-Obama.” I wonder how HAMAS and The Nation of Islam will feel about that one…I guess Obama can ask his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, about that.

Now some of you heathens out there might be just a bit sceptical about Obama’s reaching out to the religious among us. Some of you might just be bitterly clinging to his comments about religious folk bitterly clinging to their guns and religion. Oh, ye of little faith!! He cares about you, he really does. Didn’t you see the BUTTON?? Or the STICKER?? C’mon! Don’t play hard to get! Obama loves you, this I know! For his minions have bludgeoned me with that claim for weeks now! I mean – because he shows us in so many ways: FISA, public campaign funds, off-shore drilling, NAFTA, gun control…Oh, I could go on and on with all the ways Obama’s Words have touched our lives. Praise the One who can stop the waters rising, and slow their very movement! Now the Faithful may proudly display the object of their veneration right on their cars and their lapels! Will wonders never cease?!

But wait! There is one more left to see. This courtesy of my talented partner who wanted to make sure we were all represented. Here it is:

Step right up! Order yours today!!

* Text of the Logan Act: Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

  • Sindy McCain

    Why Does John McCain Hate America So Much?
    by Paul Slansky

    The contempt John McCain has shown for the people of this country by plucking the wildly unqualified Sarah Palin to sit a cancer-prone heartbeat from the presidency leaves only one conclusion. John McCain hates America.

    Eight presidents — or nineteen percent of them —have died in office. This comes out to roughly one in five, and we’ve had eight in a row who survived, so we’re overdue. Add to that the actuarial tables and the early deaths of McCain’s father and grandfather (he’s already outlived them both) and it’s clear that President Palin is far from a remote possibility.

    And yet, the true significance and consequences of this grim prospect seem to be off limits for public dialogue. Our not-just-useless-but-actually-complicit mainstream media would rather spend a day repeating the mantra “lipstick on a pig” than urging the public to really contemplate what it would mean if this vindictive, intolerant woman — with her five-colleges-in-six-years education — were to become the most powerful human on the planet. It’s like it’s unfair to mention the inconvenient truth that Sarah Palin is an authoritarian religious zealot totally unsuited for the position John McCain has recklessly named her to — a truth so obvious that anyone with eyes and ears who’s not blinded or deafened by ideology can see and hear it.

    But forget about the media. It’s up to our representatives to protect us from this harsh fate. Let’s not kid ourselves — there isn’t one respected member of Congress, in either party, who doesn’t know how grotesque this situation is. But, because of the nation’s bitter partisan divide, it’s the Republicans who have to speak up.

    Hey, Thad Cochran. You said, “The thought of [McCain] being president sends a cold chill down my spine.” Does the thought of Palin being president warm you up any? Hey, Liddy Dole. What does Bob say about this? Hey, John Warner and Pete Domenici. You’re leaving office, what have you got to lose by speaking out? Hey, Dick Lugar. Hey, Arlen Specter and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Hey, Chuck Grassley and Mitch McConnell and Olympia Snowe. Hey, Lamar Alexander and Kit Bond and Robert Bennett and Orrin Hatch. Hey, Richard Shelby and Judd Gregg and George Voinovich and Pat Roberts and Susan Collins. Hey, Chuck Hagel!

    Hey, all of you. Don’t just whisper amongst yourselves how insane this is. Share it with the class. Your silence can only be interpreted as support for this lunacy. Most of you can’t stand the guy anyway. Say something! Yes, a Republican revolt would cost McCain the election, but after this insulting move, doesn’t he deserve to lose? Hasn’t he disqualified himself from the presidency with his mavericky first decision?

    The country has just endured the worst leadership in modern history, and no lessons have been learned. Despite what we have witnessed over the past eight years, tens of millions of people are willing to instantly repeat the same mistake and elect another sadistic ignoramus to national office because she’s able to hide these qualities behind the deceptive dazzle of charisma. This cannot be allowed to happen.

    That John McCain is a shameless panderer who’ll do anything to get elected president has become increasingly obvious over the eight years he’s spent reversing every principled position he’d ever taken. That John McCain has renounced every shred of honor that ever attached to him is clear to anyone who bears witness to the parade of scummy lies he calls his advertising campaign — a campaign that no less a bottom feeder than Karl Rove said has gone “one step too far” by “attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent truth test.” That John McCain has cravenly sold his soul for a prize that he doesn’t even seem to want for any reason other than just to have it is undeniable to anyone who looks into his now-dead eyes. He’s a walking corpse.

    John McCain likes to wrap himself in the flag and call himself a patriot, but foisting this dangerously inappropriate successor-in-waiting on the nation puts him at the opposite end of that spectrum. By disregarding the kind of risk his country will be at if this know-nothing reactionary ascends to the presidency, he reveals himself not as a patriot, but rather as a traitor. If John McCain dies in office, he should be posthumously tried for treason.

    With this fuck-you to America, John McCain has proven himself to be — and I never thought I’d be able to say this about anyone — as despicable as George W. Bush.

  • Bingo

    Comment From Gretawire

    Comment by fox business Network
    September 16th, 2008 at 10:32 am
    Obama attacking the media that disagrees with them.

    WGN-AM again target of Obama campaign
    Posted September 15, 2008 9:42 PM

    by John McCormick and Steven Schmadeke, updated

    Chicago radio station WGN-AM is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author.

    It is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an “Obama Action Wire” alert to supporters of the Illinois Democrat.

    Monday night’s target was David Freddoso, who the campaign said was scheduled to be on the station from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Chicago time.

    http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09/wgnam_again_target_of_obama_ca.html
    …………………….

  • SJ

    I really think this is sacrilegious the way people keep trying to make Obama out as the second coming or a great messiah for all mankind. It is sickening to say the least, this is not a campaign its like some kind of cult following, the new messiah.

    People are really sick when they try and do this for political gain, to god the glory and no one else, when Obama falls he will fall hard, its just not right to try and compare your self to Christ, and he sees this is being done and does nothing to stop it, disgusting.

  • HARP

    One Question? How is it possible to type with your head up your ass?

  • Bingo

    I’ve never seen anyone who is as PRO EVERYTHING!! He stands for NOTHING!!

  • beebop

    Not just that, cut and paste and hang out at a website where we all know that this is just so much crap that we all ride right by it with their head up their butt. This loser belongs over at the ABC website where they feature “browbeaters for barry.”

  • Rev. Wright, can you fix my garlic nose?

    I don’t get it, isn’t one of the slams against Sarah Palin that her faith is important to her?

    It’s only good to be a Christian if you’re an Obot Christian? Hey, maybe it’s a new denomination!

    The Obotic Church of Christ in Chicago.

  • beebop

    God, my English teacher would die. HEAD UP THEIR BUTT is obviously intended for Sindy and his/er ilk … my very, very bad.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/7355449@N04/2859476173/ Linda

    Even Barry’s promoters should have a bitter taste in their mouth after the realization of what they’ve been drinking.

    He confirms he says anything to get support and sells their vote for his own benefit. AND, he conducts the most dispicable acts as a justification of means for his end prize. Regardless of the loss or destruction he causes.

    If I were Obama supporter, I’d be spitting right now…..Or, in the case of Ace Ventura, after the plunger didn’t work and then a shower, a MOUTHFUL OF GUM to get rid of the taste as you set to correcct their own course of action.

  • SJ

    They forgot the Pro-Choice sticker, pro-family, pro-obama but they sure left that line out wonder why??

  • over & OUT!

    at least it’s just his (possible) successor, not the loser Top-o-Ticket like Obama! now that a true fuck-you!

  • beebop

    How much of the Barbara Streisand money is going to fellow Democrats?

  • Nobama

    Here is a proposed new email campaign:

    “When a hurricane threatened New Orleans, John McCain and the Republicans cancelled a day of their convention, and directed their supporters to help pay for relief to the threatened city. When a financial hurrican threatens Wall Street and Main Street, what does Obama do? Direct his celebrity supports to help pay . . . HIM.”
    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13471.html

    Did he really need to pay for the Invesco Field speech when he is so concerned about taking care of American families? Did he really need to spend millions to go on a World Tour only to come home and cry about our economic woes? How about showing some leadership instead of self-adulation?

    I thought he was funded by small donors? Read about his fundraising efforts:
    Big Money Special Interests Fuel Obama’s Campaign
    Topics: democracy | politics | Election 2008
    Source: New York Times, August 6, 2008
    The New York Times notes that, “in an effort to cast himself as independent of the influence of money on politics, Senator Barack Obama often highlights the campaign contributions of $200 or less that have amounted to fully half of the $340 million he has collected so far. But records show that one-third of his record-breaking haul has come from donations of $1,000 or more: a total of $112 million, more than Senator John McCain, Mr. Obama’s Republican rival, or Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, his opponent in the Democratic primaries, raised in contributions of that size. Behind those larger donations is a phalanx of more than 500 Obama ‘bundlers,’ fund-raisers who have each collected contributions totaling $50,000 or more. Many of the bundlers come from industries with critical interests in Washington. … Given his decision not to accept public financing, Mr. Obama is counting on his bundlers to help him raise $300 million for his general-election campaign and another $180 million for the Democratic National Committee. An analysis of campaign finance records shows that about two-thirds of his bundlers are concentrated in four major industries: law, securities and investments, real estate and entertainment.”
    You can also read these:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/14/AR2007041401491.html
    http://www.prwatch.org/node/7632

    And his alternate methods to get paid?:
    http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YTNhYzRkNGNiZTc2MTMwNDk1MWY2NTYzODA5NTY0MDM=
    http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NWE2MGY3Y2NiZDRmMWJiNjE4NjcwNmViMWM2MWIxY2U=

  • Judy L. NC

    Step right up! Order yours today!!

    I’ll take a couple of those Barfing signs. LOL

  • Rev. Wright, can you fix my garlic nose?

    They could have had Hillary as Prez now they’re whining that Sarah’s going to be POTUS if McCain croaks out.

    You OBOTS cooked up this lovely stew you are in, now…EAT IT!!!!!!!!

    LOL

  • Karl Rove

    Gotta love that Huffington Post. What would we do without it?!

  • Andy

    Sindy McCain:

    A link and a couple of paragraphs would have sufficed. There is a rule on NQ not to quote entire articles.
    (Hint: no one will read your comment as is).

  • Jackarooty

    I guess you got paid yesterday by the Jesus for Obama campaign.

    Sorry, but the Hitler Youth movement won’t come out in November.

    Here’s one for you:
    Jonah Goldberg
    September 16, 2008
    » Discuss Article After running a brilliant and historic primary battle to defeat Hillary Clinton, the Obama campaign is now in disarray. Why?

    Perhaps it’s because Barack Obama has never run a competitive race against a Republican. After all, Obama won his U.S. Senate seat in Illinois by running against Alan Keyes, a fire-and-brimstone, right-wing black carpetbagger from Maryland (or perhaps Mars) who had no real ties to Illinois.

    Now, facing John McCain’s blistering ads, Obama seems unable to fight fire with fire. The Democratic rank and file are furious (while simultaneously denouncing McCain’s negativity).

    Obama, they may be realizing, doesn’t know how to close the deal.

    Nonetheless, the Obama campaign has vowed, once again, to take the gloves off and go after McCain hard, linking him to President Bush and highlighting the fact that the Arizona senator is out of touch.

    One flaw with this supposed course correction is that it isn’t one. McCain-Bush-Economy has been Obama’s message for months now. Indeed, ABC News’ Jake Tapper wrote on his blog that this is actually the fourth time Team Obama has pledged to engage in a bracing round of fisticuffs.

    To prove his newfound determination to go bare knuckle against McCain, Obama unveiled a new TV ad, to air in key states.

    It begins with the date “1982,” a picture of a disco ball and footage of McCain in clunky glasses from his first year in Washington. “Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn’t,” explains the announcer. “He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an e-mail, still doesn’t understand the economy and favors $200 billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class.” All the while it shows ancient computers and a cordless phone that looks like a World War II-era walkie-talkie.

    The tax-cuts and economy barbs are familiar boilerplate. What’s new is the charge of computer illiteracy and the blatant attempt to attack McCain as too old for the job — and that speaks volumes.

    First, the ad is dishonest. McCain has been one of the Senate’s leading authorities on telecom and the Internet.

    In 2000, Forbes magazine called him the “Senate’s savviest technologist.” That same year, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg gushed that McCain was the most “cybersavvy” of all the presidential candidates that year, a crop that included none other than Al Gore. Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Weisberg explained, “forced him to learn about the Internet early on, and young Web entrepreneurs such as Jerry Yang and Jeff Bezos fascinate him.”

    Weisberg, an Obama booster, now disingenuously mocks McCain as “flummoxed by that newfangled doodad, the personal computer.”

    One reason McCain is not versed in the mechanical details of sending e-mail and typing on a keyboard is that the North Vietnamese broke his fingers and shattered both of his arms. As Forbes, Slate and the Boston Globe reported in 2000, McCain’s injuries make using a keyboard painfully laborious. He mostly relies on his wife and staff to show him e-mails and websites, though he says he’s getting up to speed.

    “It’s extraordinary,” Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer said, “that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn’t know how to send an e-mail.” For the record, President Clinton sent exactly two e-mails while in office, according to the archives in his presidential library.

    Besides, by this logic, Obama is even less qualified to be commander in chief because, unlike McCain, Obama has never fired a gun, flown a plane or led men during wartime.

    And if the Obama campaign did not intend to mock a disabled veteran, what does it say about his supposedly “cybersavvy” campaign that they don’t know how to conduct a five-minute Google search to find out these things?

    But the most revealing aspect of the ad is who it speaks to. According to Gallup, Obama has a 20- to 30-point advantage over McCain among 18- to 29-year-olds. Indeed, his base (not counting African American voters) is upscale college kids and new-economy young voters. These are the voters most likely to think being able to send an e-mail is, like, totally crucial.

    The only other constituency — other than the press — that will be jazzed by such an attack are the Web-symbiotes of the left-wing netroots, another demographic Obama has locked up.

    Older Americans, working-class Americans, veterans and other voters Obama desperately needs probably won’t care and might even take offense at Obama’s condescension.

    There are two explanations for the ad. One is that Obama released it to reassure his base that he’s serious about attacking McCain, not to win over swing voters. That, or the campaign actually thinks it’s an effective ad.

    Either way, the lesson is the same: Obama doesn’t know how to get outside his echo chamber. He talks about being bipartisan to hard-core liberals who like the words, but he hates actual deviation from the liberal line. He talks about new ideas, but he merely repackages old ones.

    He is a candidate who has never had to sell himself to voters who weren’t already sold. And it shows.

    jgoldberg@latimescolumnists.com

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/7355449@N04/2859476173/ Linda
  • vinnie

    HHHaaaaaa haaaaaaa, that Pro Family Pro Obama button just made me laugh. It’s missing a 3rd line tho’: Anti-America, (W)right??

  • Jackarooty

    Oops. Sorry!
    I didn’t know about the rule but it’s an article worthy of a reading.

  • Jackarooty

    The article below by Jonah Goldberg!

  • Capt Howdy

    religion. consider this:
    here is what Palin said in her infamous
    prayer:

    “Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right.
    Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s will.”

    here is what Obambi said in his that was conveniently intercepted and published just when he needed cred with the faithful:

    “Lord – Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will.”

    now, tell me what is the difference except his is, as usual, all about me me me?

  • http://www.stillstacy.com Stacy The Republican

    Those are frickin hilarious. Whodathunk the Obama camp could be comedians as well.

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    LOL – good one!

    And that is exactly right – the Obama supporters have been HAMMERING Palin on her faith and what that means for her being in the White House. They act like she is some crazy whack job instead of being one of MILLIONS who believe like she dows. And they conveniently forget Obama’s faith tradition, which IS outside the mainstream. The irony, the irony…

    So, yes – you can be a Christian (or anything else) as long as you remember to vote for The ONE!

  • http://www.stillstacy.com Stacy The Republican

    I know I didn’t read it ;)

  • Jackarooty

    I menat the article worth reading is the one I posted by Jonah Goldberg!

  • Jackarooty

    I menat the article worth reading is the one I posted by Jonah Goldberg!

  • Above My Pay Grade

    Let’s assume, just for argument sake, that Sara Palin is grossly unqualified to be President. Let us further assume that John McCain choosing her shows the war hero’s “hatred for America” and is an act of “treason” (Richard Cohen made this charge today).

    If choosing Sarah Palin as VP show “hatred for America” and is an “act of treaon”, how much more is the DNC, every super-delegate who voted for Obama, every elected offical who supported him and every columinst who is trying to get him elected guilty of “hatred of America” and “treason”?

    Obama, at best, has more or less equivalent experience as Palin. He has represented larger constituencies, as a legislator, but has no executive experience at all. You can hide in a legislative body, but a Governor and even a small town mayor, has got to make tough decisions, there is no “present” button to push in the Governor’s office.

    Either Obama and Palin are both well qualified to be POTUS, marignally qualified, or unqualified.

    Assuming for a moment, they are both unqualified, at least Palin would have time to become more qualified. VP lends itself very well to “on the job training”, as long as the President does not drop dead in the first few months of his term.

    If Obama is elected, (and we assume he and Palin are both unqualified) we will be guaranteed an unqualified President on Day 1.

    Also, besides having at least equal experience to Obama, Governor Palin has demonstrated much more of the mental and emotional makeup needed to be President.

    Obama, hesitates, waffles, stammter and stutters, and almost always votes with his party, except when he goes to the LEFT of the Democratic mainstream to oppose basic human rights for babies.

    Palin is strong, decisive and has gone against her party numerous times at considerable political risk, and has always come out on top.

    Sarah Palin is a natural leader of men (and women). Barack Obama is a natural college professor.

  • nobamaever09

    How dare, You call McCain an”AMERICA HATER”,

  • Arabella Trefoil

    I grew up in a Catholic household. Catholics do not like “one stop shopping” when it comes to buying bumperstickers and buttons. My relatives would find it offensive to be “lumped” into the same category as protestants, or even Christians. It’s hard to explain, but take it from me, the Obama campaign has just shown it has no understanding of Catholics.

  • nobamaever09

    How dare You call McCain”America Hater”. or simply I missunderstand You.
    Obama and Michele, incl. Mr Wright.they are AMERICA HATERS”, but not McCain. I am not His supporter, but this is sick sick sick!!!

  • Capt Howdy

    I like this one:

    USA: Between Barack and a Hard Place.

  • Jackarooty

    At this point in time I really want someone in the Oval Office that knows his way around the dance floor.

  • Rev. Wright, can you fix my garlic nose?

    If Obama is elected, (and we assume he and Palin are both unqualified) we will be guaranteed an unqualified President on Day 1

    Whose strings are be pulled by God only knows who.

  • lark

    Waxler on MSNBC: “Sen Obama favors a national catastrophic insurance that favors Floridians. Sen McCain opposes it.”

    Unreal.

  • http://me414.wordpress.com/ The Divine Democrat

    Reverend Amy- LOL! Yeah…just what I need, a”Catholics for Obama” bumper sticker. I think I could find a way to add this to the sticker, “…..NOT!”

    I think I’ll just get a bumper sticker that says, “Garlic nosed Italian AGAINST Obama” or “Typical White Woman Against Obama”. Or better yet…”Real Catholics don’t vote for Obama”.

    Great post, kiddo!

  • wodiej

    omg….LMAO…they are getting more desperate by the day! hahahaheeheehee, believers in communism maybe.

  • lark

    In Barack’s religion, the first commandment is: Thow shall lie everytime. Thow shall never apologize for insulting others.

  • blogforce one

    It is just another scam to dupe obamidiots out of their money. a friend of mine who gave to obama (a former Hillary supporter )after she was chased out and told to “sit down and shut up” is being inudated with requests for cash from the obama crew. they are hurting for cash as they are burning thru it quicker than they can collect it! vendors to The obama campaign beware! u will not get paid when it’s over and he goes back to chicago with his tail between his legs!

  • tom

    Guess which profession is gonna make a tonne of money come November? Psychiatrists. Daily Kos has their own tracking poll that always shows Obama to be winning. The Kossacks are gonna have a meltdown in November. They’ll never accept that their messiah, Obama has lost. So the psychiatrists are gonna really rake in the cash. :-)

  • Rev. Wright, can you fix my garlic nose?

    OMG this is a little OT but funny:

    start typing “obama” (no intial cap) in the Google search field, and look at what the next entry down the list is:

    “oblivion”

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    Oh, I think they are laughing AT us, the Obama people – they probably still cannot believe they have gotten over to this degree that the most unqualified candidate ever is now the Dem. presidential nominee!! Hahahaha!! What a good one THAT is!! These buttons are a natural next step – and no doubt designed to combat the support Palin is getting. I guess they didn’t notice, she didn’t need any stinking “Protestants for Palin” or whatever (though “Pagans for Palin” would be pretty cool dontcha think?) to pull people in..

  • Diana L. C.

    Funny!

  • nobamaever09

    Obama is better then Palin, You must be kidding. A mass of people like :ED SHULTZ from Radio Progressive, ans a big supporter of Move ON, went to Alaska with dozens of Obama fallowers, like spies, and were digging against Palin, how dirty ED Shultz is, and His mafia.
    They trash Palin, thet lied, and now attacking Her record. Telling, how many Alaskans hate Palin. WOW, Mr.Shultz, You are the most ignorant and dengerous from all those scavengers, and that is why more and more people are turning against Obama, because people like YOU. You and Your people are pushed US away and away.
    You look at Obamas record, ande there is nothing to be proud about, and we still dont know all about HIM, but we know enough about Paline, She is a Governor of most important State in USA, and this is enough!!!!

  • John House

    Can I put one of my NO stickers on top of those new Bible beating signs?

  • Rev. Wright, can you fix my garlic nose?

    $28,000 a pop, baby -

    Let ‘em eat cake!

    The A List is saving all the arugula for their own snooty selves.

  • Zelda Crunch

    OK now it’s official. This country is now officially sick. A pest. Round the bend. If Americans really want to shame themselves in the theatre of the world they surely seem ambitious enough about it. Watching the comments on some of these related articles is even worse. There’s a disease in the United States and it’s reaching its terminal velocity. Sorry for the mixed metaphors but if civilisation as we know it survives (and I’m doubtful) then historians saner than this crew will have lots of time to laugh at the past and find the correct words. Right now the people of the US are being proclaimed the Fools of the Universe™.

    BTW I think it’s time for John to change tack. It was obvious he’d need a woman to run with him; now it’s obvious he has to take the lead. I expect we can see him begin to do this in the next few days.

  • JML

    You are aware, right, that McCain’s mom is in her 90s and still kicking? McCain is probably genetically pre-disposed to live another 20 years.

    And anyway, what about Biden as a veep pick? Obama chose a guy who seems like he’s drunk half the time. Should Obama get elected (doubt it!), and something tragic happen, he’ll have left a guy who slurs his words in charge of the red button.

    Even Obamabots know that Obama should’ve tapped Hillary Clinton for veep in order to win the election. I personally believe that the backlash against Sarah Palin has a lot to do with that.

  • roseeriter

    Where’s the FREE COCAINE button?

    A vote for Obama is another vote for an addict in the white house!

    And we know how bad that was for 8 years. Do we want another one??

    Obama=Bush3

  • Trent

    I don’t get the rage? Sarah Palin is a real person who has a real family and is the chief executive of the State of Alaska! Barry O is an affirmative action wonk from Harvard Law School who went to a church for 20 years that preached a “black power”, “destroy the white devils” message. If Barry O gets in he will be the President! He will be the most powerful person in the world! You idiots swinging at Sarah Palin are going to strike out big time! Sarah Palin we can identify with! Obama is an America hater!

  • Rev. Wright, can you fix my garlic nose?

    YES.

    If we go down to an Obot HQ, can we get as many buttons and paraphernalia for free?

  • wodiej

    OT..I just signed up to help at the polls on election day. the woman I spoke to said a voter told her she got a call from an Obama supporter. When she told them she wasn’t voting for Barack, the caller got rude and nasty. I said oh, that is normal. She said it is? I said oh my gosh, you have no idea!

  • Margaret

    Barfing for Barack! I love it. Where can I order one?! LOL

  • katmandu

    Nice article on the lack of experience by VPs Coolidge, T. Roosevelt, and Truman. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122152769721840385.html

    Recall that TR and HST did some fine foreign policy work.

    History is often a set of inconvenient facts.

  • Zelda Crunch

    Hey I got some GOOD buttons!

    ** Bolsheviks for Barack **
    ** Communists for Change **
    ** Homophobes for Hope **
    ** Democrats for Demagoguery **
    ** Charlatans for Change **
    ** Bill Ayers for Secretary of State **
    ** Madeleine Dohrn for Secretary of Education **
    ** Jeremiah Wright for Hatred Based Initiatives **
    ** David Axelrod and David Plouffe for Batman and Robin **
    ** Barack Obama for SATAN **

  • vinnie

    The headline gave away that it was a troll trying to earn his $7/hour…maybe less if SINdy is a female.

  • nobamaever09

    what about Obamas faith, listen good, what Sarah truly said about, war,sacrifice Our Young and what She truly meens in Her comments. It is not what Obama isand His croonies are tellin US. Anather thing, is Obama disrespect to disables,. WHY… He is using in His adds, luck of Computer knowlage by McCain, but it will hunt Him. McCain is hendicap man, and kust pay attention about Obamas adds. He is ugly and disrespectful, just like His wife Michelle, who dont have time to give respect to 9/11 victims. What a spit on those who die there!!! and She wants to be a first lady???. Obama claim , that He cut tieds with Mr.Wright, well there is a news!!! MICHELLE WENT TO SOME CELLEBRATION, AND SHE PRIZE MENTOR WRIGHT THERE, SO OBAMAS DIDNT CUT ANT TIDES WITH THIS MAN , THEY ARE PRIZING HIM…

  • http://www.stillstacy.com Stacy The Republican

    Pagans for Palin. Heh, that’s funny. One of my atheist friends who was an Obama supporter has decided to instead support the McCain/Palin ticket. He’s a smart guy and sees what BO really is. He would get a kick out of Pagans for Palin.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/7355449@N04/2859476173/ Linda

    hey, BB isn’t totally stupid. He knows with his spending habits, 55 million dollars in one month, he’s got as bad a problem as a Gambler in Las Vegas.

    Cash-poor Obama says no to Reid
    By JOHN BRESNAHAN | 9/16/08 4:41 AM EST

    Harry Reid and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Charles Schumer had hoped at one point to get as much as $10 million from the Obama campaign.

    Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a personal appeal to Barack Obama: Help me grow the Democrats’ Senate majority by sharing some of the $77 million you’ve got in the bank.

    Obama’s campaign said no.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13485.html

    Me, me, me, me , me me, that’s all that matters. I’m the ONE, ME, and ME alone!-Obama

    Excuse me, maybe we can chock this up to blinded by self importance and can file this with his breech on the Logan Act and making secret deals for what others have gone to jail for, but he also took control of the DNC and they usuallly DO GIVE SOME MONEY to the Senatorial AND Congressional races.

    BB, cough it up bud. You are supposed to help the Party….you know, what you are counting on from everyone else to help YOUR losing A88. It may be a bitter pill for you, but if you want to play party games, you have to pay the piper too!

  • Zelda Crunch

    Yeah how can these people be so distanced from it all? How can they not know? Are there that many caves to live in for people in the US?

  • chad3337

    No, don’t change the debate. The far graver danger is that the DNC has chosen to attempt to put Obama in the Presidency. I’ll take Palin as understudy over Obama in the White House any day of the week.

  • tom

    hey, dont insult satan. even satan has some convictions, unlike barky. :-)

  • http://www.stillstacy.com Stacy The Republican

    Waxler . . . pfft.

  • Amazonia

    To “Sindy McCain” on 2008-09-16 at 9:59:50.Re: John McCain/Sarah Palin.

    Senator John McCain has a pretty sharp ninety three year old mother, which increases his chances at longevity.
    Several Presidents may have died in office in the past, at least two by assassin’s bullets that I know, but the others mainly due to diseases or illnesses which can be easily detected or treated nowadays.
    As you and many of us know, Obama has not released his medical records for scrutiny, only a”letter” from his doctor. If he is so darn healthy or had no concerning health background, what is he reluctant to release his medical records?, drug use way into adulthood?,
    life style conductive to higher risk
    for viral diseases? Who knows?

    If I had to pick leaders to take my
    family, my children, through perilous terrain, I would certainly pick the BRAVE SOLDIER McCain and HUNTER MOM Sarah Palin to take us to our destination.
    I would feel safe and I know we would have food to eat. Sarah would know what to do to keep us fed. She is not afraid.
    And I know John McCain and Sarah Palin will do the same good for America.
    Sarah Palin IS the real thing. She IS
    AUTHENTIC. She IS GENUINE.She doesn’t have to make up stories about her life.

    By the way, where are Obama’s Senate records, and his thesis, and his (non-existent) Harvard Law Review opinion articles?

    Obama=Flashy packaging of an empty box.

  • beebop

    If there is a proposal to start a national catastrophe insurance that favors ONE STATE over ANOTHER, he better OPPOSE it. As an Ohioian, I certainly do.

  • Diana L. C.

    Methinks you/he doth protest too much!

    So Sin–dy, do you think it is o.k. to steal caucuses and buy superdelegates as long as you pander to the mindless bots who adore you American Idol style, all while you pretend to follow their ideals? (Try to concentrate and get over your infatuation–study his “flip-flops” on all your precious issues all while doing anything to get elected.)

    I don’t know. I think I’ll stick to American principles of democracy. It’s terrible when the Republicans rig a general election. It’s twice as bad when my own party rigs a primary and then hopes to rig the general election with his “community organizing” * (ACORN) group of thugs!!

    This time I choose to be a one-issue voter. NO Sexism! Nobama!

  • http://www.stillstacy.com Stacy The Republican

    Yea, you see that big ‘ol Hollyweird fundraiser being put together for him? Someone needs to come up with the number of people all of those raised funds could have helped the impoverished. McCain’s fundraising in dramatically lower than BOs.

  • beebop

    I am working for McCain starting with a couple of hours Friday morning. I am psyched. NO0bama. No to zeromama. Just say NO … Here in Ohio all of those calls are important. Every.single.one.

  • wodiej

    well said-I second that!!

  • Arabella Trefoil

    Next Obama will be doing an info-mercial touting his new “deal a meal” cards.

    Call now!

  • katmandu

    http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/2008/09/good-move-by-ob.html

    Brilliant post by Ben Tribbett, who runs Northern Virginia’s premier blog. Ben is a Democrat, but does not pull his punches. The comments are pretty funny.

    This is what Ben said:

    Good Move By Obama Campaign

    I don’t give enough credit to the Barack Obama campaign, but check this out. Very smart move to send Obama’s #1 weapon into the swing states at every rally he attends. I’m impressed.

    The “this” is this link:

    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/15/obamas-teleprompter-hits-the-trail/

  • Arabella Trefoil

    Call collect!

  • richasis

    where’s “God Damn America” and “US KKK of A” in her prayer?

  • Capt Howdy

    how about

    Dont blame me,
    I voted for Hillary.

  • jwrjr

    I, too, could be tempted to buy one.

  • StrawberrybitesBarky

    I’m sorry Rev. Amy, maybe I’m a little slow on the uptake but are those stickers for real? OK. Perhaps more coffee is in order but how are all the latte liberals going to take those? You know, the only morons left supporting him? They have been bashing us for supporting Palin’s right to her Christian beliefs and now Barky is sucking up to the religious right? Um, yeah that will make everything all better and pull those religious prolifers right back into Barky’s camp. Does this guy do ANYTHING that is not in reactionary mode? It’s like he’s constantly cleaning up after himself. Remenber that weird dog thingy in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland with both a head and a tail like brooms? That’s Barky.

  • Jason

    Pro Family is code for ANTI GAY
    So obama is anti gay now??

  • vinnie

    EXACTLY. I asked my friends that if Palin’s religious views are considered Scarrrrrrrrry, then Barky’s Black Theology ideology is perfectly okay?? crickets…

  • beebop

    They closed the comments down. Can’t allow too much critique. Jesus Christ died on the cross. Zeroman can’t take a couple of sharp words. Quelle domage.

  • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

    A vote for Obama is another vote for an addict in the white house!

    Rose, THAT POINT should be MADE OFTEN!!!

    I don’t know any X coke heads

    If you were ever a coke head you still ARE a coke head!!!

    I know people who have tried it and steered clear of it realizing it’s power to steal your life away! (myself being one)

    I know people who have never tried it

    But, I don’t know ANY that were heads (meaning they did it frequently) that are not still heads or dead or in jail!

    If Barry admitted to using it often ??? he’s still hooked! No doubt in my mind.

  • nobamaever09

    AS CATHOLIC, AND NOT JUST , i TAKE THIS VERY PERSONALLY AND i AM AGAINST USING BY oBAMA A SUCH UGLY WAY TO GET CATHOLICS FOR HIM. WHO HE THINKS HE IS. HE THING THAT HE IS THE GOD, TO TELL ME WHAT CATHOLICS SHOULD TO TO PROVE HIM , THAT WE ARE WITH HIM. THIS IS DIGRASE TO ALL CATHOLICS AND CHRISTIANS. ANY ONE FROM US WHO START SUOPPORTING OBAMA AGENDAS, ARE JUST LIKE HIM, AND NOT TRUE CATHOLICS. YOU CAN NOT CHANGE YOUR FAITH FOR A SUCH SCUM, WHO IS USING RELIGION FOR HIS OWN GOODS. HE DON GIVE DAMN ABOUT CHRISTIANS, CATHOLICS, BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE, THAT HE IS MUSLIM, AND THAT IS WHY.MUSLEMSRADICALS) ARE KILLING CATHOLICS, BURNING THEIR CHURCHES, ANS THEY WANT OUR SUPPORT. NO WAY. HE DOES THE SAME TO JEWS, HOW THEY CAN SUPPORT HIM, KNOWING , HOW MUCH HE HATES THEM, MAYBE THOSE VERY RICH LOVES HIM, BUT NOT THOSE REAL CHRISTIANS-CATHOLICS AS WE ARE ,AND REAL JEWS!!!

  • Kal

    Hey, let’s not insult college profs here!

  • Jackarooty

    i just want to see Keith Olbermann’s head explode on camera when Tom Brokaw announces that McCain is #44 POTUS elect.
    Oh yeah, I want to see Chris Matthews’ tingly leg fall off and roll on the floor ’cause I’ll be there too ROTFLMAO!

  • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

    see Schultz to ME is the EPITOME of white trash

    when I think WHITE TRASH

    I see his face

    always have

  • nobamaever09

    hE WILL GO BECK TO CHICAGO, WITH HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN PRIVATE ACCOUTS!!!

  • vinnie

    LOL.

  • just me

    It’s more than likley John McCain will out live u Sindy McCain

    Does that send a chill down your spine?

  • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

    NOW we really realize just WHY Barry could NOT pick HILLARY

    People LIKE ED SCHULTZ AND MARKOS!!!

    Bambi is Afraid of the WHITE TRASH AMERICA HATERS of his OWN PARTY! lmao!

  • vinnie

    I rallied some ex Hillary supporters and we’re going to be doing phone banks for Mac & Palin in Colorado. Who woulda thunk it?

  • John House

    LOL I wish. I can barely get by with groceries this week, much less offer free guerilla packs. I am one of those poor, disabled “uneducated” (as in, I never finished college) Americans that Obiden doesn’t give a crap about.

  • nobamaever09

    WE STILL DONT KNOW WHO hE IS. OBAMA IS NOW TRYING TO STOP TROPP WITHDRAW FROM IRAQ, AND I HEAR, THAT THIS IS ILLEGAL. HE ACTS, LIKE HE IS PRESIDENT OF USA, AND HE IS NOT. WHAT A SCREW UP THIS MAN IS. ALL HES PROMISES FROM PRIMARIES DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE, THINK ABOUT HE IS ALLREADY BUSH BODY!!!

  • katmandu

    Ben Smith has a very serious snark at his column today on the attacks against Freddoso:

    So the upshot of the attack on Freddoso is to undermine their outrage at the Corsi book, and to give broadcasters better reason to dismiss the next Action Wire outpouring.

    (It remains to be seen whether there’s a Meta Action Wire on tap to attack me for smearing the Action Wire.)

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Attacking_Freddoso.html?showall

  • smiles

    I’d like one with “Muslims for Barack” — wonder if they thought of that one? I could wear the button “Muslims for Barack” and right next to it “Pro-Israel Pro-Barack”.

  • helen

    Two things come to mind for me.

    The devil can quote scripture.

    Good christians live it and do not have to tell you how good they are. They show by example.
    When someone starts telling me what a GOOD christian they are I want to put on a flak jacket and hold my wallet.

    COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

  • nobamaever09

    JUST DO IT, AND yOU WILL SEE A LOT MORE STICKIERS LIKE THAT!!!

  • Rev. Wright, can you fix my garlic nose?

    John – did you design these?

    If so I will purchase some.

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    ROTFL – good one, Capt. Howdy!

    And Stacy, glad your friend “saw the light!” :-) ANd he’s welcome to the “Pagans for Palin” – sounds like a cottage industry is born!!

  • Jess Terr

    er. SATAN FOR nOBAMA

  • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

    I have many Wicca friends who would also love it!

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    Hey, Divine!

    Thanks, DD! I swear, as soon as I saw that “Catholics for Obama” bumper sticker, I just cracked up thinking of your reaction to it!

    I like your ideas, too – I swear, I think we can start raising some major money to make SURE Obama doesn’t get into the WH with these ideas! :-D

  • Capt Howdy

    Pagans for Palin

    sign me up!

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/7355449@N04/2859476173/ Linda

    Has been. That’s how he rallied the large AA base in SC. AA’s are typically not fond of gays and he played to that when he launched his 3 day Religious tour with anti Gay basher himself Donnie McClurkin. His gay supporters asked he cancel, but he asked they understand and went on with it.

    He also refused to allow any photos be taken with him and Mayor Gavin Newsome, even after Barky asked Gavin to hold TWO fundraisers for him.

    Barry has not changed and only worsened in his narcissism.

  • Mr Mike

    An Obama presidency means good bye to choice.

  • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

    I bet KEITH will be heading up the committee to prove voter fraud against his PRECIOUS!

    Can’t you SEE him every night for MONTHS ranting about the voter fraud and injustice at how the republicans stole the election yet again thanks to the stupidity of the country bumpkins in red state Amercia

    (although it will be hard in NOV as I predict there will be very few blue states left)

    he will truly become the outsider and should resign, rent a warehouse apt in the middle of downtown leafeaterville and become their mayor (or dog catcher)

    hehe

  • DirOfTheObv

    So is Rosanne Barr gonna rant on Obama and lecture the ole “church and state” brilliance she came to Bill Mauhr with?

    Or, is Matt Damon now going to come out and tell us JUST HOW Barack Obama answered that whole dinosaur thing, for him? Surely Matt VETTED Obama with that same question since he is a “christian” isn’t he? And he WOULD have those nuclear codes….

  • StrawberrybitesBarky

    Mocking people of faith liiiiiike Palin? Wow. You republicans are masters of deception aren’t you? Get us to argue your points for you.

  • C.S.

    It is not Constitutional for any candidate to promote religion because we have separation of Church and State. If he is charging for these religious icons connecting his name with a religion, he is in violation of the Constitution.

    Where are those defenders of our freedoms when you need them? They took an oath to protect and defend our Constitution against ruthless power mad Machiavellians who try to undermine the foundation of our democracy?
    Yet, the barricade of Congress has left the gate unguarded again. If they can’t be counted on to protect and enforce our Constitution, then they are irrelevant to democracy. And the way to change that is outlined in our Declaration of Independence – and political parties are not a part of our Constitution.

  • Capt Howdy

    you know what pisses me off?
    I LOVE arugula. and I will never be able to eat it again without thinking of the ONE.

  • Sassy

    Send me two!
    Wright vs Wrong!
    and
    Racist 100k Run!

  • candymarl

    No one knows where Obama stands on any issue, at any moment, on any day.

    This late in the race he shouldn’t still be trying to define himself.

    Obama is a real “No Where Man”.

  • fooj

    The Bush Administration is oddly silent re: Obama’s behavior in Iraq. Hmmmmm…

  • tom

    grow up, Francis. nobody mocks people of faith. Your candidate is pandering to the christians. Why doesn’t he issue Muslims for Obama or Jews for Obama faith merchandise. Can you open your eyes and see? Or are you just blinded?

  • Shiloh

    How about:

    Obama: Change You Will Submit To

    Wright-wingers for Obama

    Obama: Putting on Ayers

    Obama: The Mansourian Candidate

  • calli

    I guess God is being used now!! Will he soon be under the bus as well.

  • Capt Howdy

    here is the silver lining. people of faith have his number. the Obamans think they are stupid, like the rest of us, but they are not. this stuff will only alienate a lot more people than it converts.

  • Shiloh

    The Bush admin will not enter the campaign. His Iraq blunder will be addressed by the 527s in due time.

  • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

    hey, you can row in my boat!

    I heard McCain admit that heart disease (one of my disabilities) as well as diabetes should be characterized as illnesses or diseases that NO ONE will insure thus keeping their benefits sound.

    That made me feel MUCH more secure about voting for him. It all comes down to our individual needs in the end. Barry is NOT at all interested in my needs. McCain seems to be willing to address them and find solutions.

    He’s also strong enough to not let Sarah (even though I do like her a lot) chance his more moderate stances on most other things.

    I want a MODERATE president
    not a spending FREAK warmonger like GEORGE

  • Shiloh

    Just as with the scare of riots.

  • just me

    they deserve the backlash from John McCain choosing Sarah Palin..

    It’s a feel good feeling when the boot is on the other foot right trolls?

    Did any of the Obama team listen?? They did not need us, wanted to do it their way.

    Good let them do it their way….. give em enough rope and they will hang themselves…

    That’s is what happening when you’re doing on job training you make mistakes need to grow and listen sometimes from folks with experience?

    Oh they listened : LOL

    See ya on the 4th November~~

    McCain/Palin 08

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    Hey, Strawberry -

    Yes, they ARE for real! Can you believe it? And yes, all of those people like GLoria Steinem and Eve Ensler who have been attacking Gov. Palin for being religious are supporting the guy who is putting these out. I am not kidding that he is coming out with the other ones, too. You know, the “Clergy for CHange” and “Pro Israel Pro Obama.” Can you BELIEVE this guy?

    So, yeah – you might need more coffee, but you read this correctly!

    Jason – GREAT POINT. And really, I think Obama has ALWAYS been Anti-Gay! That is exactly why it made me so angry when the Human Rights Campaign endorsed HIM in stead of Clinton, even though the HRC sang her praises and talked abt how far ahead she had thought in terms of gay rights.

  • tom

    gonna happen as soon as Obama loses the GE. He’ll blame God. then God will be under the bus too!!!

  • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

    typos sorry

    change not chance

    and I do not have diabetes but that was one he mentioned

  • notodisenfranchisement

    wonder if this is the same troll as sfhillary? – those who tend to use the same names in their handles as people they’re bashing.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/7355449@N04/2859476173/ Linda

    Obama supporters are turning in to real saps.

    Using them as his free workers to act like his thugs for his hustle.

    No wonder they are all getting very angry and hateful. They are realizing what dups they became. My hubby sees it from the one Obama promoter/apologist at work. He send emails when my hubby responds to something with an “F U”…no lie and because my hubby calls me his fact finder, he threatened my hubby that he should not allow me to send him any emails again (I did it one time on a supposed question he had, obviously not) that he will not be kind to me in his reply.

    THEY ARE FEELING LIKE HIS BITCH.

  • candymarl

    You meaN like those Obama supporting sites like The Daily Orange and Democratic Uberfollowers? The kindness just drips from their posts and comments.

    We’re not mocking people’s faith. Obama was the one who mocked folks for “clinging to their guns and bibles”, remember?

    We’re mocking Obama. Unless you believe Obama is faith. But that would be blasphemy.

  • mcpalin hill

    noobamaever09 — wonder how all these trash merchants are going to feel when it comes out that Obama is not even an American. Who would be commiting treason now–Mr. Cohen huh?

  • Rob in Chicago

    Sindy:

    It’s time for you to just get over it!

  • StrawberrybitesBarky

    What part of “The average American thinks you’re an elitest snob” does his handlers not get? Either he’s surrounded himself with the dumbest people on Earth or he’s trying to lose this thing.

  • lark

    I am watching McCain speak about the economic crisis in Wall Street at length. Consider that he used the word ‘derivatives’ already twice. A word that Obama doesn’t know. But tomorrow you will hear Obama talk about it. McCain speaking about pensions, retirements, etc. He is explaining exactly the problem, speaking at length, explaining the issues to the people. Speaking about the agencies that regulate Wall Street.

    Yesterday McCain had a suit on for his address.
    Today, Obama has a suit.

    Tomorrow, Obama will copy all the points McCain spoke off today.

  • wodiej

    cripes, we didn’t miss your nonsensical rants Francis. get lost will ya? Your 15 minutes are up. You’re not wanted. Your conversation is irrelevant. You’re adding nothing here. We just laugh at you. Get it?

  • tom

    We dont mock people of faith. But I see that Obama is trying to pander to the christians. Why doesn’t he issue Muslims for Obama or Jews for Obama faith merchandise? Francis, open your eyes and see your candidate. He is empty. has no convictions at all. Its scary to imagine him as president.

  • SportPolitics

    So let me get this straight – as Obama is preaching on USA soil troop withdrawal, and screaming I hate Bush he’s killing troops, he’s talking to Iraqi leaders over in Iraq and trying to DELAY TROOP WITHDRAWAL for a domestic political advantage back home…
    LOL
    TRAITOR for politics ! LIAR !
    SKUM !
    LOWLIFE !
    TREASONOUS !
    I hate him !

  • wodiej

    right…McCain is again addressing the economic turmoil going on especially w stock market dropping 500+ points trying to calm people. Obama will say something tomorrow once he gets McCain’s talking points down so he can repeat them.

  • Capt Howdy

    riots
    pfft
    how much damage can the really to throwing Birkenstocks and half finished Lattes?

  • Diana L. C.

    Blogfore one–Tell her to do what I have been doing. Though I have tried for months to get the Obama campaign to take me off their mailing/call lists, they don’t get that done. So now, every time I get a call, I tell them that I, as a “white trash” older white woman, am too busy ironing shirts and cooking dinner to get a credit card out for them. Then, I tell them that later I’ll be back in the tub where I belong, so they shouldn’t try to call again. If I get a mailing, I send it back with a big P.U.M.A. writtin accros the note with another note saying, “You pay the postage.” I also include a cutout of a lipstick ad. It gives me some sense of satisfaction to think of the poor bot who will open the mail and have an apoplectic fit.

  • Capt Howdy

    what if God was one of us
    Just a slob like one of us
    just a stranger under the bus
    Trying to make his way home

  • SportPolitics

    I forgot :
    TWO FACED !
    Probably sabotaged our war plans / victory too for the same reason !
    I’m telling you, the SKUM coating CANNOT be washed off.
    Biden really blew it when he said “clean”.
    I don’t know how many more “reports of filthy traitors” I can take.
    I certainly hope one of the Enlisted DECKS HIM with a solid tooth knocking out punch square to the purple lipped kisser.
    My anger is unending in this matter. It is absolutely unconscienable.
    ” If it’s true ”
    We already know Barry says one thing in front of this America group and another in front of the next.
    Not like I don’t believe it 100%, I’ve SEEN the equivalent.
    SKUM TRAITOR.

  • http://deadenders.wordpress.com scott in jupiter

    I believe Sindy had forgotten Michelle O’Angry saying that barky can get shot pumping gas at the gas station during a tv interview.

    The left is pretty confident that McCain will not live 4 more years while his mother will out live us all.

  • SportPolitics

    ” WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.

    According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

    “He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,” Zebari said in an interview. ”
    ____________________________________________

    When do the executions start again ? Oh, three years in PRISON, sorry I got carried away there, and went beyond the constraints of the LOGAN ACT.
    We got any other laws we can use ?
    Oh that’s right, we have laws Barry doesn’t have to follow.

  • Diana L. C.

    But, you are also nattering negatively about McCain/Pail.

    At least in your minds, we are “white trash,” while you are clearly the “effete elite.”

    Hmm–much as I despised Agnew, he seemed to know how some Dems would turn out in the long run.

  • LookingForwardTo2012

    RRRA, you wrote, yet again, a wonderful, informative and entertaining article.

    I would really like to see what type of campaign button or bumper sticker Paul Monteiro developed for:

    Bird Flippers for Obama
    Thugs for Obama
    BloggerBoyz with Potty Mouths for Obama
    Brush the Dirt Off your Shoulders Members for Obama
    (or was it dandruff?)

    Perhaps these do not fall under the purview of the Deputy Director of Religious Affairs.
    Who might the Deputy Director of Despicable Acts be?

  • just me

    dont worry about a bumper sticker go the whole hog and get a

    Alaska License Plate

    Alaska Alaska
    50 O-MAMMA
    ^^-^^^^^—-^^^^^—- {mountains}lol
    Whwere the Air is Cold & the Govoner is Hot~~

    and trustworthy~~

    I have a graphic but do not know how to add it~~ FUN!

  • Rob in Chicago

    Above my pay grade:

    Well, Obama did vote for the FISA bill and for Cheney’s energy bill, so he has gone against the position of the majority of his party on occasion. However, these were not votes that he should be proud of or that reflect positively on his fitness for office.

  • just me

    plus my typos suck!

  • Jaycephus

    Very logical, and well-said. Thanks.

  • just me

    and moveon

  • mcpalin hill

    amazonia — You got that right. McCain and Palin have our backs.

  • katmandu

    Obama — what a Democrat — a real party man:

    POLITICO

    Cash-poor Obama says no to Reid
    By: John Bresnahan
    September 16, 2008 06:26 AM EST

    Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a personal appeal to Barack Obama: Help me grow the Democrats’ Senate majority by sharing some of the $77 million you’ve got in the bank.

    Obama’s campaign said no.

    Although Democratic insiders say a better deal could still come, the Obama campaign so far has agreed only to let Senate Democrats use Obama’s name — as well as those of his wife and running mate — in mail and online fundraising pitches. The campaign has planned no joint fundraising events with House or Senate Democrats, and insiders say none is likely to be held before Election Day.

    http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=689E2A96-18FE-70B2-A8E218878E1F295B

    Somebody spends money like it’s water …

  • Capt Howdy

    amen

  • Julia

    “tens of millions of people are willing to instantly repeat the same mistake and elect another sadistic ignoramus to national office because he’s able to hide these qualities behind the deceptive dazzle of charisma”

    hey! Are you talking about Bobama?? :D

  • wry

    Wexler “favors” Floridians so much he doesn’t even live there.

  • Hank

    What happened to the money that BO was raising on his website for Hurricane Gustav, how much was raised andnwho did he donate it to? I don’t recall hearing the outcome of his kindness…

  • wry

    your friend is a real masochist, isn’t she? She can send me money and I’ll promise to never contact her again. :)

  • Diana L. C.

    Hey, I have an old No Blame T-shirt with the words “I didn’t vote for him.” on the back that I wore in regard to “W.” I can now wear it to Democratic Party meetings.

  • mcpalin hill

    francis — we are all Americans we do not need to be divided into sects. But then Obama IS the great divider. If you love Obama so much tell him to take a time out. We are sick of the sight of him.

    Fact–Dems don’t win even when they are unified. They don’t win even when the country agrees with their stands on the issues. With the party so divided and with women leaving Obama in such great numbers — McCain will win in a landslide. The only question is how many Dems does he take with him?

  • mcpalin hill

    DirOfTheObv every 40 years the Dems nominate a Liberal who destroys the party. Obama is this year’s McGovern and if you check out 1972 you will find the same kind of bitter pills who supported McGovern supporting Obama. Unlike the Right Wing who undermines the Republican Party — liberals will settle for nothing less than scorched earth.

  • Rob in Chicago

    Lark:

    If this were a national catastrophic insurance program, I might be able to support that. I like the idea of being financially compensated in the event of a national catastrophy, such as Obama being elected as president.

  • mcpalin hill

    shiloh — terrific

  • Diana L. C.

    No,,,he’s sucking up to the “mainstream” Christians who attend churches that have no real resemblance to the churches from which they are descended. Try to Unitarians, who basically believe in anything they want to believ. I attended a book comment by Lakoff in downtown Denver at a Presbyterian church, not knowing that I would be swept up in a sea of bots. It was total cognitive disconnect for me since I have studied the theology of John Knox and the man who inspired him, John Calvin–they of the concept of predestination. Nothing in that church’s policy of “we’re all doing community service” here reflects Calvin’s/Knox’s “faith alone” concept of salvation.

    I’ve attended those churches and have always left because they seem to be nothing now but places to go to “meet the right people for business purposes.”

  • politicsIsdirty

    Were you talking about McCAin or Obama?

  • Perry Logan

    Not to mention Brazil nuts. :(

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_fPi-24Iw

  • Felix Rodriguez

    OT It’s interesting you mention that, Rev. Amy. Her daughters are called Piper and Willow. Know what I mean?

  • politicsIsdirty

    Suddenly he is pro-family? Wow, he is really learning from Sarah Palin.

    Copy cat!

  • athy

    Sindy-
    Do you support Sen Obama?
    If so…why. Please try to be as specific as I am in my reasons why I DON NOT support Sen Obama. Thanks and have a nice day.
    Here are just highlights from my list of reasons why I am not voting for Sen Obama…

    http://www.barackbook.com/

    Obama facebook

    We dont want ANY of these people getting anywhere near Washington DC, our Constitution, or our Bill of Rights.
    These are all close associates of Sen Obama.
    Sen Obama owes many people many favors…what are they expecting as repayment?
    ****************
    Sen Obama’s ‘Fluffed Up’ Legislative Record

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/26/politics/main3876941.shtml

    CBS News 2/26/08 Does Obama’s Record Back His Rhetoric? CBSNews.com Reports: Democratic Frontrunner Promises To Bring Unity, But Work In Senate Limited Mostly To “Midrange Issues” “Some insight into Barrack”s domestic & int”l oppositions How difficult was it to write & pass some of the legislation he is getting credit for- what REAL value did bill have for citizens?
    ***********************
    Sen Obama’s ACTUAL Legislative Accomplishments

    http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/The_Obama_Craze_Count_Me_Out_5413.html

    Beyondchron.org, The Obama Craze: Count Me out ” by Matt Gonzalez 2/27/08

    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080211/fraser
    ***************************
    Why Does Sen Obama Continue to LIE about his relationship with Ayers? What is he hiding?

    http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/10/lies-money-and-barack/#more-4698

    Lies, Money, and Barack
    By Matthew Weaver 9/10/08
    *******************************
    Sen Obama tried to slow down return home of US troops in Iraq ? McCain camps response.

    http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/15/a-traitor-in-our-midst/#more-4827
    **********************************
    Has Joe Biden’s son turned Delaware into a police state? Look what they did to Larry Sinclair.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1IS_WHBjQA
    Take a look at what happens to some activists in Sen Obama’s present-day Chicago:

    http://windycitizen.com/link/politics/2008/09/parks-activist-jailed-for-speaking-20-seconds-too-long-during-city-council-ses

    This article gives good insight into how ‘goverment’ operates in the Senator Barack Obama’s home state, and home city.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/2958590/Gordon-Brown-seeks-Barack-Obama-aides-to-help-beat-David-Cameron.html

    Foreign officials seeking Obama’s help in defeating political candidates?

  • just me

    he probably already has his funds in an account in the Cayman Islands.

    They seem to have taken over from a Swiss Bank account

  • mcpalin hill

    tom — Obama and his anti-semitic cohorts like Farrahkan and Wright couldn’t even fake a button like that.

  • Melisa

    As a representative of typical-white-women (and prudish grandmas) everywhere, I must object to this statement. “How can you type when your head is implanted somewhere between your sigmoid colon and anus?” would be far more polite, yet still convey your heartfelt sentiments (and mine).
    Be polite!

  • SportPolitics

    Sindy please get your own blog set up if you want to copy and paste entire articles of screed from some other writer, ok ?
    It sure looks like you way exceeded fair use of this blog with near zero effort on your part, and a DECENT PERSON would copy a paragraph and paste the link.
    Of course you’re not a decent person. Now I know.
    A person who isn’t lazy would type up their own words, in between a clip and a reference link.
    DECENT people, like the ones posting the topic leads.
    sindy=SKUM.

  • athy

    Sindy-do you support Sen Obama? If so, why?

    Here are just highlights from my list of reasons why I am not voting for Sen Obama…

    http://www.barackbook.com/

    Obama facebook
    We dont want ANY of these people getting anywhere near Washington DC, our Constitution, or our Bill of Rights.
    These are all close associates of Sen Obama.
    Sen Obama owes many people many favors…what are they expecting as repayment?
    ****************
    ***********
    Sen Obama’s ACTUAL Legislative Accomplishments

    http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/The_Obama_Craze_Count_Me_Out_5413.html

    Beyondchron.org, The Obama Craze: Count Me out ” by Matt Gonzalez 2/27/08

    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080211/fraser
    ***************************
    Why Does Sen Obama Continue to LIE about his relationship with Ayers? What is he hiding?

    http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/10/lies-money-and-barack/#more-4698
    Lies, Money, and Barack
    By Matthew Weaver 9/10/08
    *******************************
    Sen Obama tried to slow down return home of US troops in Iraq ? McCain camps response.

    http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/15/a-traitor-in-our-midst/#more-4827
    **********************************
    Has Joe Biden’s son turned Delaware into a police state? Look what they did to Larry Sinclair.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1IS_WHBjQA

  • wry

    I don’t know any Muslims where I live who are FOR Barack Obama. Arabs, perhaps or middle eastern people like Iranians, but the Muslims where I live are of European descent, and they are strong Clinton supporters.
    Also interestingly enough, many of them have no beef with Israel. They see their struggle with the Serbs as similar.

  • athy

    Sindy…do you support Obama/Biden?

    If so…why?

    Here are some reasons why I am not voting for Sen Obama…

    Here are just highlights from my list of reasons why I am not voting for Sen Obama…

    http://www.barackbook.com/

    Obama facebook

    We dont want ANY of these people getting anywhere near Washington DC, our Constitution, or our Bill of Rights.
    These are all close associates of Sen Obama.
    Sen Obama owes many people many favors…what are they expecting as repayment?
    **********************
    Sen Obama’s ACTUAL Legislative Accomplishments

    http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/The_Obama_Craze_Count_Me_Out_5413.html

    Beyondchron.org, The Obama Craze: Count Me out ” by Matt Gonzalez 2/27/08

    *******************************
    Sen Obama tried to slow down return home of US troops in Iraq ? McCain camps response.

    http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/15/a-traitor-in-our-midst/#more-4827
    **********************************

  • Melisa

    oops, this was intended to be a follow up of the “head up your ass” comment. I relatively new to blogging…and understand McCain’s computer struggles…
    But, I hope I have acquired a fraction of the wisdom he has from his years….

  • mcpalin hill

    I checked the crawl on MSNBC just to see what McCain said about the economy and the stock market — NOTHING came up. However, what did appear was that Obama made a speech in front of thousands in Colorado regarding the economy which he called bleak. Who needs this miserable guy in the White House?

    No mention about McCain. And the propaganda drum beat goes on.

  • SportPolitics

    They’re probably quiet because Barry tossed 20 years of his life after he’s up there. 20 years and all those church goers he just sacks ‘em after swearing he could noe more do it than…
    I think that is unprecedented and disqualifies him from being valid for office right there.
    20 years of church going Sundays, and he admits by tossing it all under the bus he is not worthy to be president for the last 20 years.
    They’re silent because it’s so egrteegious and unprecedented, it has NO EQUIVALENT in modern politics.
    It is an absolute 1st that someone has to throw away 20 years of their intimate life while on the nomination campaign.
    I can’t believe this has even happened in the USA, it’s soo corrupt, foul dirty, and unfair.
    He went back on his word 100%, and threw away 20 years of his life, to “stay in the race”.
    There is no emptier suit, no bigger traitor, no bigger lying than that.
    I’m just astounded he is still there.
    To use a Palin quote derivative:
    ” Barry found himself campaigning for President, and threw away 20 years of his life right up to the moment in that discovery.”
    He shouldn’t be there anymore.
    He had to stick with his church or step down, one or the other. Instead he swore he would be honest, faithful, true, he was right for 20 years, then shortly after he dumped on himself, his family, his church, nearly his whole adult life.
    Get this FREAK LIAR out of our faces in AMERICA! He is WORTHLESS as an American. WORTHLESS.

  • athy

    nobama,
    excellent post-excellent links.Thanks for passing this info on to us.

  • politicsIsdirty

    Hope Hannity discusses this Logan act violation of Obama. So far, it has been ignored by the MSM.

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    And the Palins DO love the great outdoors!

  • McHope

    It figures.
    McCain’s speech this morning was very good. He offered reasonable solutions and continued to demonstrate his understanding of America’s issues along with his optomistic view for the future.

    In contrast, Obama predictably went with blaming McCain and promoting gloom and doom.

    Now which one offers more of the same?

    Just as predictably, the media spins.
    Really, what do those in the media have to gain by the weakening of America?

    Btw, mcpalin hill, love your name.

  • wry

    Obama – because he’s better than you

    No Obama No Peace
    Know Obama Know Peace

    Barack will require you to work (my personal favorite)

  • wry

    The Obot response to this is that Politico is “in the tank” for McCain. Could’ve fooled me.

  • wry

    the thing is guys. We’re not sure that it’s true yet. Part of me is hoping it’s true, but part of me is praying its not. It’s like Reagan and the hostages all over again.

  • kgirl1028

    hey every body let’s write one for the dnc and

    Why Does the DNC Hate America So Much

    The contempt Howard Dean has shown for the people of this country by plucking the wildly unqualified Barak Obama to sit in the oval office during the worst times in our national history, when a six year old could see we need someone with a cool head, competency, and experience. Howard Dean hates America.

    Eight presidents — or nineteen percent of them —have died in office. This comes out to roughly one in five, and we’ve had eight in a row who survived, so we’re overdue. so to pass up the much younger and healthier hillary clinton the best choice if not for the mere fact her husband one William Jefferson Clinton, balanced our budget in the 90′s, for a traitorous neophyte, and no foreign policy experience, and bush like arrogance, and hubris, leaving the secondly only choice, the Republican can John McCain, who might be a heart beat way from death, and had the sense to pick one young, hot shot governor from candidate who has balanced Alaska’s budget, and who is a whole lot more qualified for the job, than the democratic nominee who has absolutely NO EXECUTIVE experience to speak us, unless he wants us to consider the time he did gain that experience working with an unrepentant, flag stepping on terrorist. and was too dumb not to attend a church were the pastor Damns america. And whose wife is only proud of her country when it is doing to something to benefit HER. Go fig.?

    And yet, the true significance and consequences of this grim prospect seem to be off limits for public dialogue. Our not-just-useless-but-actually-complicit mainstream media would rather not spend a day repeating the crimes that obama has committed and just the fact that he lies on a regular basis and no one can tell what he believes in. However they rather chop up a young Ms Palin interviews so that she looks as ditsy as Obama in his first national debate were he sounded like Porky Pig. e han urging the public to really contemplate what it would mean if this vindictive, intolerant woman — with her five-colleges-in-six-years education — were to become the most powerful human on the planet. It’s like it’s unfair to mention the inconvenient truth that Sarah Palin is an authoritarian religious zealot totally unsuited for the position Nancy Pelosis has recklessly named him to — a truth so obvious that anyone with eyes and ears a person who can’t function without a teleprompter, and does not have the sense not erase the picture of a pig dressed up in Palin’s not stylish frame less eyeglasses and signature necklace. But hey Nancy said he’s freshhhhhhh. Well nancy so is my week old can of pringles can it be nominated for president as well?

    But forget about the media. It’s up to our representatives to protect us from this harsh fate. Let’s not kid ourselves — there isn’t one respected member of Congress, in either party, who doesn’t know how grotesque this situation is. But, because of the nation’s bitter partisan divide, it’s the Republicans who have to speak up.

    But forget about the media. It’s up to our representatives to protect us from this harsh fate. Let’s not kid ourselves — there isn’t one respected member of Congress, in either party, who doesn’t know how grotesque this situation is. But, because of the nations bitter racial divides, no one wants to be call racist because they call out obama’s stupidity, hubris, and questionable friends/campaign donor.

    Hey,Hillary. You said, “The thought of [McCain] being president sends a cold chill down my spine.” Does the thought of Palin being president warm you up make up for the bitter realization your own part screwed you. Hey Alice palmer, don’t you want to tell people how obama screwed you royally, Hey Kwami Kilpatrick how does it feel to be endorsed by Obama and then asked not to attend his Coronation. hey Max Cleland how did it feel not to be allowed on obama’s magincal mistery tour, just because your are a lobiest. Hey Senator Joe Liberman, didn’t it really piss you are with the choosen one back into that conner, friendly conversation my booty, or how about you governer palin, how did you like it when bama’s fan club accused you of being racist, and how about how about when they placed Trig on Ebay.
    Bill how did you feel with this sick sack of crap twisted your words and labled you as racist. why dont’ you and your old friend Jesse Get together and and practice some racial unity and castrate obama. how about all the chicago politicians who reached across the isle to stop corruption and obama set quietly buy and said nothing and then endorsed more corruption.

    The country has just endured the worst leadership in modern history, and no lessons have been learned. Despite what we have witnessed over the past eight years, tens of millions of people are willing to instantly repeat the same mistake and elect another sadistic ignoramus to national office because he’s able to hide these qualities , criminal behavior, and just being a down right jerk ,behind the deceptive dazzle of charisma and the fact that he is black. This cannot be allowed to happen.

    That Barak is a shameless and arrogent panderer who’ll do anything to get elected president has become increasingly obvious over the eight years he’s spent reversing every principled position he’d ever taken. That John McCain has renounced every shred of criticality that ever attached to him is clear to anyone who bears witness to the parade of scummy lies he calls his advertising campaign — a campaign that no less a bottom feeder than Karl Rove, Dana Brazille and David axelrod said has gone “one step too far” by “ Big a Racist sexist jerk, that smears his competition instead of focusing on the issues, but then gets agree when he gets called on it. That Barack ObamaObamah’s cravenly sold his soul for a prize that he doesn’t even seem to want for any reason other than just to have it. Anyone tell is an arrogent jerk who picks at McCains old POW entries, covers up his past, uses his campaign to out sarah palin’s 17 year old daughter, and has the hubris to ask the Iraqi’s not to push for a withdrawal date until after the election. He’s a walking disaster waiting to happen

    obama like to used the race card as a shield and calls himself someone who does not play racial politic, but constantly tries to say to voters that the Republicans will try to scare them with the fact he is black, and this definitely puts him at the opposite end of that spectrum. By disregarding the kind of risk his country will be at if this know-nothing jerk off, who attended a church were the pastor praised the terrorist, just days after 911, and receives endorsements and funding from members of ho ascends to the presidency, he reveals himself not as a person too clean to engage in a post racial politics, but rather as a questionably bigot, a liar, and a cheat. If John McCain dies in office, He should be lauded as making one of the greatest friends to little girls all across the county, for given them a chance to prove that they can be anything they want to be when they grow up.

    With With this fuck-you to America, Donna Brazill, John Edwards, Nancy Pelosi, Jim Clyburn, Howard Dean, and other member of the DNC has proven itself to be — and I never thought I’d be able to say this about anyone — as despicable as George W. Bush.

  • Duras

    Well, it’s MSNBC. What would you expect?

  • Urban Hillbilly

    Hope you see this!

    WHY BAM’S FLAILING
    URBAN MACHINE RUNS AGROUND
    By MARK CUNNINGHAM
    NY Post
    9/10/2008

    ” IF it suddenly seems like the Obama campaign doesn’t have any idea what it’s doing, maybe that’s because it doesn’t.

    Barack Obama has never run a campaign against a real Republican. And his main strategist, David Axelrod, is way out of his areas of expertise.

    Axelrod specializes in urban politics. He’s run a bunch of mayoral races (usually in cities with lots of blacks), plus contests in true-blue states like Massachusetts and New York. ”

    http://www.nypost.com/seven/09102008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/why_bams_flailing_128293.htm

  • Ken in IL

    Barky needs an “Arabs for Obama” Qadaffi would have one on all the cars in Libya.

  • Bridgette

    So you say 19% of presidents have died? Well I have two pieces of information for you.

    1. People are living much longer now.
    2. Some of those died from assassinations…if anyone is going to get assassinated it would probably be Obama. There have already been threats.

  • RottenFishArePeopleToo

    Really, what do those in the media have to gain by the weakening of America?

    Employment opportunities and ad revenue as desperate Americans tune in every day in order to get the latest gloom and doom updates.

  • TeakWoodKite

    Fair use? Oborgs? HA :)

  • http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

    I’ll take a dozen of the Upchuck On Obama signs. Got any of those?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82qCwLX9piE Woman Voter

    Kurita: ‘This election was stolen’
    http://theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080915/NEWS01/80915012/-1/rss06
    …………………………….

    What does NOW have to say about another WOMAN having her election stolen with the Obama template first tested out in DC by the DNC RBC on May 31st? How many other women will they take out of the process for our so called ‘progressive’ men?

    CHANGE my foot, it is backwards we go…what are they celebrating at DalyKos…just take a look:
    Daily Kos: Sharia law legally binding in UK
    Sep 14, 2008 … “A Muslim man can take a second wife under sharia law and treat her as he wants, knowing that she has no legal rights in Britain. …
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/14/194823/824/132/ 598883 – 31k

    OK…it is clear to me who hates women…BTW women are AMERICANS TOO! Thank you but NOW SHARIA FOR ME!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82qCwLX9piE Woman Voter

    Thank you but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SHARIA FOR ME!

    KEEP THE CHANGE…give me my Liberties…

  • HC

    His “temporary house” in Maryland is near me. I understand his “permanent residence” is an old age home in Florida? And he has teenagers. And isn’t a senior. Who keeps electing these people?

  • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

    she has 3 daughters in a row

    she is one of three daughters in a row

    that’s kind of interesting

    I don’t remember whether she has the older brother, younger brother thing

    that would be bizarre

  • Hope Floats

    Is Cindy spelled with an S is Palestine?

  • HC

    His answer to gay marriage is the same as the repubs, and always was: “God says marriage is a man and a woman, but maybe various liberal states will let you legally shack up and I won’t stop them.”

    Not sure where LGBT folks get the idea that Obama is pro-gay. He is not.

  • tzada

    ACORN, FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC….OH MY AND OBAMA TOO?

    Not only Penny Pritzker Obama’s Finance Chair for the presidential campaign is involved in the current financial meltdown, but let’s introduce James “Jim” Johnson too.

    It’s Johnson’s job to vet potential vice presidential candidates for Obama
    He joined with diplomat Richard Holbrooke in founding Public Strategies, which gave political advice to business clients. Later, he did similar work with Sherman Lehman in D.C. Holbrooke and Johnson remain together now, as vice chairmen of Perseus, an international merchant bank and private equity fund management company.

    In 1990, Johnson went to work for the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and quickly became its $5 million-a-year chairman. His compensation rose to a reported $21 million by his final year, 1998. He also increased his connections — and his access to power — by establishing Fannie Mae foundations that spread around millions of dollars. Homeless shelters, colleges, hospitals all benefited from Fannie Mae Foundation money.
    .
    Which brings us to the Fannie Mae Foundation. A sweet little set up for handing out cash to a nice little outfit called ACORN among others..

    ACORN Housing Corporation-National
    Chicago, IL $100,000 approved in 2004
    General operating support of an organization that helps families of limited means to secure and protect decent housing by providing housing counseling services, building homes, and educating policy makers in Chicago, IL; Phoenix, AZ; and Brooklyn, NY
    OK so ACORN helps people who were barely qualified or totally unqualified get housing. So what would they be doing? Finding landlords who would rent to them? Well no. Landlords want to get paid. Fannie Mae had no such scruples. Ever hear of NINJA mortgages? Funny name, huh? It stand for No Income, No Job, No Assets. Just the kind of reliable folk honest lenders are looking for. People with a credit score of 0.

    Help with getting poor people mortgages was only one service ACORN provided. Another was help with elections. Late last month six people hired by ACORN were indicted for their role in filing false voter registration forms involving a 2006 drive to increase Missouri’s minimum wage.
    Here is something else interesting I’ll bet you didn’t know about ACORN:
    It seems the Obama campaign has rather close ties to ACORN.

    ACORN is a former legal client of Senator Obama’s, as the Sun-Times reported in 2006:
    In 1995, former Republican Gov. Jim Edgar refused to implement the federal “Motor Voter” law, which Republicans argued could invite fraud and which some Republicans feared could swell the ranks of Democratic voters.

    The law mandated people be allowed to register to vote in government offices such as driver’s license renewal centers. Obama sued on behalf of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The League of Women Voters and other public-interest groups joined in.

    “He and his client were the ones who filed the original case — they blazed the trail,” said Paul Mollica, who represented the League.
    Voter fraud? From a Chicago Machine politician? I’m shocked. Actually I think that.
    Chicago Machine needs to be praised. Jesus brought a few people back from the dead. Jesus himself is reported to have come back from the dead. But the Chicago Machine is special. They bring tens of thousands back from the dead. No wonder they hail Obama as The One.

    JAFFA, Israel – Did Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign attempt to hide a paid working relationship with a radical leftist organization that has admitted to major financial improprieties and has been convicted in numerous major voter fraud scandals?

    That question is being openly asked by the Republican National Committee after it was disclosed Obama’s campaign paid more than $800,000 in services to Citizen Services Inc. (CSI), a nonprofit organization that is an offshoot of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.
    That Obama. He has such an honest face.

    Here is an interesting case of Name That Party.
    Milwaukee has discovered some more voter fraud with 10 more voter registration workers are being investigated by Wisconsin authorities. Fittingly, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered the story in its paper on August 29. Unfittingly, the Journal Sentinel forgot one, tiny aspect of the story… that the voter fraud was perpetrated by Democrats. In fact, one of the organizations, ACORN, is intimately linked with Barack Obama.

    Milwaukee’s top election official said Thursday she plans to seek criminal investigations of 10 more voter registration workers, including two accused of offering gifts to sign up voters.

    Why would an honest Party like the Democrats do such a thing? I blame it on a few bad apples. Obama, that proud community organizer, has been duped. No way he could be involved in such shenanigans.
    Which politicians did Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s Political Action Committees support? 50 out 70 members of the House Financial Services Committee got money for their campaigns.

    Obama, Barack D-IL
    $105,849

    http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-congress-fannie-could-buy.html

  • something like the 9/11 Commission

    “They’ve been betrayed by a casino on Wall Street. They’ve been betrayed by corruption and distress that’s damaged their futures,” McCain argued.

    “We’re going to fix it. We’re going to be sure that every American who has a deposit in the bank, their deposit is insured.”

    Maybe we could pattern such a plan after the FDIC, John. The program was established in 1933 following the wave of bank failures during the early days of the Great Depression. It’s been in place ever since.

    “There has been tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street. People are frightened by these events,” McCain told supporters in the key battleground state of Florida.

    “Our economy I think, still, the fundamentals of our economy are strong, but these are very, very difficult times,” Senator McCain said.

    The fundamentals? You mean like the strength of the dollar, the annual federal budget, the national debt, the “balance” of trade, personal debt levels, the unemployment rate, the stability of the markets, and the confidence Americans have that they’ll be able to pay their bills and keep their homes?

    Nope. That’s not what John means:

    “My opponents may disagree, but those fundamentals, the American worker and their innovation, their entrepreneurship, the small business, those are the fundamentals of America and I think they’re strong,” McCain said.

    OK… I guess what you’re saying is that those things are just fine and don’t need fixing. Which brings us back to those other things, which have all gone to hell in a handbag during the last eight years of republican policy and administration. Maybe we should think about reforming some of that?

    By the way, the FDIC was part of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which included a number of other protections that McCain’s economic advisor Republican Phil Gramm dumped with his Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act. One of the things Phil dumped was the 1933 provision that separated banking services from investment services. That’s what allowed investment banks such as Lehman Brothers to help set up our unfolding financial disaster on Wall Street. We can give Phil some credit for that, as well as Enron and the subprime mortgage crisis.

  • Urban Hillbilly

    Is that the same guy, Wexler, who didn’t know what the concept of fair reflection means? Yet, professes to be a champion of voting.

    If so, what a dope.

  • Urban Hillbilly

    After Obama won his Senate seat, he stopped by anti-gay ranter Rev. Meeks home for a prayer. Is that correct?

  • Urban Hillbilly

    LOL!

  • Urban Hillbilly

    LMAO! …still laughing as I type this…

  • http://www.deathofthedemocraticparty.com xax

    He didn’t give a damn about them until they starting leaving him IN DROVES!!!!

    BUMP THAT!!

  • something like the 9/11 Commission

    Oh yeah, I nearly forgot. I’ll just let John speak for himself:

    An angry Sen. John McCain indicated today that as president he would launch a 9/11-commission style investigation into what he called “the old-boy network and Washington corruption” that created the current Wall Street crisis and has endangered peoples’ savings and retirement funds.

    “We’re going to need a ’9/11 Commission’ to find out what happened and what needs to be fixed,” he said. “I warned two years ago that this situation was deteriorating and unacceptable. And the old-boy network and the corruption in Washington is directly involved, and one of the causes of this financial crisis that we’re in today. And I know how to fix it, and I know how to get things done.”

    We need a “9/11 Commission” to tell us that government expenditures mustn’t exceed revenues? That people who want to save money shouldn’t be put at risk by investment banks that want to gamble with it? That corporate executives shouldn’t be allowed to get multi-million dollar severance packages when they’ve left their companies bankrupt, their small shareholders wiped out, and have the taxpayers standing between their messes and systemic damage?

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/5050/story?id=5812268&page=1

  • tzada

    I saw he was in a rodeo stadium…..giving a speech.. in front of his teleprompter. If it was the same rally as the picture they had on Drudge it didn’t look so huge.

    Then again NBC last night said McCain yesterday gave a town hall meeting here in Florida. Town hall meeting is kinda not so much what it really was. My daughter was there, I watched the live feed. She said all the seats were filled. (There were 6500 reserved seats.) There was standing room only of about another 2,000. The live feed was 3,000. Not bad for something that started out as a pancake breakfast and evolved into this.

    There is excitement here in Florida for McCain and Palin and a smoldering anger against the DNC and it’s loathsome insistence of Barack Obama.

    Sign me “Another Democrat for McCain”, he has my trust and well Sarah she is me.

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    Yes. Obama did stop by Meeks’ church, Salem Baptist, after he won. Here’s a link – it has a bonus quote y none other than Fr. Fleger!

    http://www.suntimes.com/news/falsani/726619,obamafalsani040504.article

  • tzada

    Not only Penny Pritzker Obama’s Finance Chair for the presidential campaign is involved in the sub prime mess but let’s introduce James “Jim” Johnson.

    It’s Johnson’s job to vet potential vice presidential candidates for Obama
    He joined with diplomat Richard Holbrooke in founding Public Strategies, which gave political advice to business clients. Later, he did similar work with Sherman Lehman in D.C. Holbrooke and Johnson remain together now, as vice chairmen of Perseus, an international merchant bank and private equity fund management company.

    In 1990, Johnson went to work for the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and quickly became its $5 million-a-year chairman. His compensation rose to a reported $21 million by his final year, 1998. He also increased his connections — and his access to power — by establishing Fannie Mae foundations that spread around millions of dollars. Homeless shelters, colleges, hospitals all benefited from Fannie Mae Foundation money.
    Which politicians did Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s Political Action Committees support? 50 out 70 members of the House Financial Services Committee got money for their campaigns.

    Obama, Barack D-IL
    $105,849
    We have a well known Chicago name Penny Pritzker. It starts with a bank failure. She is Obama’s Finance Chair for the presidential campaign.

    1,406 people lost much of their life savings when Superior Bank of Chicago went belly up in 2001 with over $1 billion in insured and uninsured deposits. This collapse came amid harsh criticism of how Superior’s owners promoted sub-prime home mortgages. As part of a settlement, the owners paid $100 million and agreed to pay another $335 million over 15 years at no interest.

    The uninsured depositors were dealt another blow recently when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court decision to put any recovered money toward the debt that the bank owners owe the federal government before the depositors get anything.

    But this seven-year-old bank failure has relevance in another way today, since the chair of Superior’s board for five years was Penny Pritzker, a member of one of America’s richest families and the current Finance Chair for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, the same candidate who has lashed out against predatory lending.
    Yeah, that Obama. A man who stands up for the little guy. After his friends have kicked them down.
    Though Superior Bank collapsed years before the current sub-prime turmoil that is rocking the world’s financial markets – and pushing those millions of homeowners toward foreclosure – some banking experts say the Pritzkers and Superior hold a special place in the history of the sub-prime fiasco.

    “The [sub-prime] financial engineering that created the Wall Street meltdown was developed by the Pritzkers and Ernst and Young, working with Merrill Lynch to sell bonds securitized by sub-prime mortgages,” Timothy J. Anderson, a whistleblower on financial and bank fraud, told me in an interview.

    “The sub-prime mortgages,” Anderson said, “were provided to Merrill Lynch, by a nation-wide Pritzker origination system, using Superior as the cash cow, with many millions in FDIC insured deposits. Superior’s owners were to sub-prime lending, what Michael Milken was to junk bonds.”

    In other words, if you traced today’s sub-prime crisis back to its origins, you would come upon the role of the Pritzkers and Superior Bank of Chicago.
    Well, isn’t that special. Kind of reminds you of O’s special friend Tony Rezko who worked the low income housing scam in Chicago. Small potatoes that Tony. He only destroyed millions in housing value. Pritzker was involved with trillions. But you know the Democrats really have a heart for the poor. As long as they can rob them blind.

    Ever here of Bear Stearns?

    http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-congress-fannie-could-buy.html

    Uppity Woman also wrote a well researched article on Penny dearest.
    http://noquarterusa.net/blog/category/penny-pritzker/

    .

  • Felix Rodriguez

    Hmmm, if they have another daughter and call her “Tara”, “Paige” or “Prue” we will know for sure.

  • Felix Rodriguez

    Hmmm, if she has another daughter and names her “Tara”, “Phoebe”, “Paige” or “Prue” we will know for sure.

  • tzada

    Oh go read Uppity Woman’s fine article. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Go back and grab another assignment you have ballsed this one up.

    http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/barack-obamas-finance-chairwoman-and-the-seized-superior-bank/

  • Jean

    Scary. The Obama-Nation is such a cult!!!

  • Ginger

    This is laughable considering his religious background and church of record……
    If I buy one do I get a copy of the newest CD…God Damn America, land that we loathe……

  • don tufts

    go ask rezkos tennants if they are supporting barfky,or better yet did you get this opinion from ayers or wright.

  • Tom

    Sure Ok-So it’s ok for Obama doing this.McCain is telling the truth here. On Obama sex education-Obama lied and so did Biden.My God you want your children learning this at the age 6 k-12 grade.Older students it’s ok,But K-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-GRADE WHAT A LOSER.You need to look pass MSNBC-CNN ABC AND OBAMA’S WEBSITE THEY ARE NOT HIS POLICIES..They are those of others.You need to wake up and you know what.If someone said hey it’s not on fore out side and you smell smoke are you going to say ok,Or are you going to to go check.Well look beyound msnbc-cnn and obama’s website,it’s your childrens or if you have any but as well as yourself that Obama is lying to.WAake up.She how theyu went on for nothing in getting one out of the race.I watched it all.I went and saw it all.On all sides of the fence man. do yourself something just don’t listen to check it all out.Obama has lied on it all. PLEASE WAKE UP

    http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=3&GA=93&DocTypeId=SB&DocNum=99&GAID=3&LegID=734&SpecSess=&Session

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    1 AN ACT concerning education.

    2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
    3 represented in the General Assembly:

    4 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
    5 Sections 27-9.1 and 27-9.2 as follows:

    6 (105 ILCS 5/27-9.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-9.1)
    7 Sec. 27-9.1. Sex Education.
    8 (a) No pupil shall be required to take or participate in
    9 any class or course in comprehensive sex education if the
    10 pupil’s his parent or guardian submits written objection
    11 thereto, and refusal to take or participate in such course or
    12 program shall not be reason for suspension or expulsion of
    13 such pupil. Each class or course in comprehensive sex
    14 education offered in any of grades K 6 through 12 shall
    15 include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted
    16 infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread
    17 of HIV AIDS. Nothing in this Section prohibits instruction in
    18 sanitation, hygiene or traditional courses in biology.
    19 (b) All public elementary, junior high, and senior high
    20 school classes that teach sex education and discuss sexual
    21 activity or behavior intercourse shall emphasize that
    22 abstinence is an effective method of preventing unintended is
    23 the expected norm in that abstinence from sexual intercourse
    24 is the only protection that is 100% effective against
    25 unwanted teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases,
    26 and HIV acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) when
    27 transmitted sexually.
    28 (c) In this subsection (c):
    29 “Factual information” includes without limitation
    30 medical, psychiatric, psychological, empirical, and
    31 statistical statements.

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    1 “Medically accurate” means verified or supported by
    2 research conducted in compliance with scientific methods,
    3 published in peer-review journals, where appropriate, and
    4 recognized as accurate and objective by professional
    5 organizations and agencies with expertise in the relevant
    6 field.
    7 All sex education courses that discuss sexual activity or
    8 behavior intercourse shall satisfy the following criteria:
    9 (1) Factual information presented in course
    10 material and instruction shall be medically accurate and
    11 objective.
    12 (2) All (1) course material and instruction shall
    13 be age and developmentally appropriate.
    14 (3) Course material and instruction shall include a
    15 discussion of sexual abstinence as a method to prevent
    16 unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections,
    17 including HIV.
    18 (4) Course material and instruction shall present
    19 the latest medically factual information regarding both
    20 the possible side effects and health benefits of all
    21 forms of contraception, including the success and failure
    22 rates for the prevention of pregnancy and sexually
    23 transmitted infections, including HIV.
    24 (5) Course material and instruction shall include a
    25 discussion of the possible consequences of unintended
    26 pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including
    27 HIV.
    28 (2) Course material and instruction shall teach
    29 honor and respect for monogamous heterosexual marriage.
    30 (3) Course material and instruction shall stress
    31 that pupils should abstain from sexual intercourse until
    32 they are ready for marriage.
    33 (4) Course material and instruction shall include a
    34 discussion of the possible emotional and psychological

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    1 consequences of preadolescent and adolescent sexual
    2 intercourse outside of marriage and the consequences of
    3 unwanted adolescent pregnancy.
    4 (6) (5) Course material and instruction shall
    5 stress that sexually transmitted infections diseases are
    6 serious possible hazards of sexual activity or behavior
    7 intercourse. Pupils shall be provided with statistics
    8 based on the latest medical information citing the
    9 failure and success rates of all contraceptive methods
    10 condoms in preventing unintended pregnancies and HIV AIDS
    11 and other sexually transmitted infections diseases.
    12 (7) (6) Course material and instruction shall
    13 advise pupils of the laws pertaining to their financial
    14 responsibility to children born in and out of wedlock.
    15 (8) (7) Course material and instruction shall
    16 advise pupils that it is unlawful for males or females of
    17 any age to engage in sexual conduct or have sexual
    18 relations with a minor as specified in of the
    19 circumstances under which it is unlawful for males to
    20 have sexual relations with females under the age of 18 to
    21 whom they are not married pursuant to Article 12 of the
    22 Criminal Code of 1961, as now or hereafter amended.
    23 (9) Course material and instruction shall discuss
    24 and provide for the development of positive communication
    25 skills to maintain healthy relationships and avoid
    26 unwanted sexual activity.
    27 (10) Course material and instruction shall
    28 emphasize that the pupil has the power to control
    29 personal behavior. Pupils shall be encouraged to base
    30 their actions on reasoning, self-discipline, sense of
    31 responsibility, self-control, and ethical considerations,
    32 such as respect for oneself and others.
    33 (11) (8) Course material and instruction shall
    34 teach pupils to not make unwanted physical and verbal

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    1 sexual advances and how to say no to unwanted sexual
    2 advances and shall include information about verbal,
    3 physical, and visual sexual harassment, including without
    4 limitation nonconsensual sexual advances, nonconsensual
    5 physical sexual contact, and rape by an acquaintance. The
    6 course material and instruction shall contain methods of
    7 preventing sexual assault by an acquaintance, including
    8 exercising good judgment and avoiding behavior that
    9 impairs one’s judgment. The course material and
    10 instruction shall emphasize personal accountability and
    11 respect for others and Pupils shall be taught that it is
    12 wrong to take advantage of or to exploit another person.
    13 The material and instruction shall also encourage youth
    14 to resist negative peer pressure. The course material and
    15 instruction shall inform pupils of the potential legal
    16 consequences of sexual assault by an acquaintance.
    17 Specifically, pupils shall be advised that it is unlawful
    18 to touch an intimate part of another person as specified
    19 in the Criminal Code of 1961.
    20 (12) Course material and instruction shall teach
    21 male pupils about male accountability for sexual violence
    22 and shall teach female students about reducing
    23 vulnerability for sexual violence.
    24 (13) Course material and instruction shall teach
    25 pupils about counseling, medical, and legal resources
    26 available to survivors of sexual abuse and sexual
    27 assault, including resources for escaping violent
    28 relationships.
    29 (14) Course material and instruction shall teach
    30 pupils that it is wrong to take advantage of or to
    31 exploit another person.
    32 (15) Course material and instruction shall be free
    33 of racial, ethnic, gender, religious, or sexual
    34 orientation biases.

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    1 (d) An opportunity shall be afforded to parents or
    2 guardians to examine the instructional materials to be used
    3 in such class or course.
    4 (Source: P.A. 86-941.)

    5 (105 ILCS 5/27-9.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-9.2)
    6 Sec. 27-9.2. Family Life.
    7 (a) If any school district provides courses of
    8 instruction designed to promote wholesome and comprehensive
    9 understanding of the emotional, psychological, physiological,
    10 hygienic and social responsibility aspects of family life,
    11 then such courses of instruction shall include the teaching
    12 of prevention of unintended pregnancy and all options related
    13 to unintended pregnancy, as the alternatives to abortion,
    14 appropriate to the various grade levels; and whenever such
    15 courses of instruction are provided in any of grades K 6
    16 through 12, then such courses also shall include age
    17 appropriate instruction on the prevention of sexually
    18 transmitted infections, including the prevention,
    19 transmission and spread of HIV AIDS. However, no pupil shall
    20 be required to take or participate in any family life class
    21 or course on HIV AIDS instruction if his parent or guardian
    22 submits written objection thereto, and refusal to take or
    23 participate in such course or program shall not be reason for
    24 suspension or expulsion of such pupil.
    25 (b) In this subsection (b):
    26 “Factual information” includes without limitation
    27 medical, psychiatric, psychological, empirical, and
    28 statistical statements.
    29 “Medically accurate” means verified or supported by
    30 research conducted in compliance with scientific methods,
    31 published in peer-review journals, where appropriate, and
    32 recognized as accurate and objective by professional
    33 organizations and agencies with expertise in the relevant

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    1 field.
    2 All family life courses of instruction shall satisfy the
    3 following criteria:
    4 (1) Factual information presented in course
    5 material and instruction shall be medically accurate and
    6 objective.
    7 (2) All course material and instruction in classes
    8 that teach sex education and discuss sexual activity or
    9 behavior shall be age and developmentally appropriate.
    10 (3) Course material and instruction shall include a
    11 discussion of sexual abstinence as a method to prevent
    12 unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections,
    13 including HIV.
    14 (4) Course material and instruction shall present
    15 the latest medically factual information regarding both
    16 the possible side effects and health benefits of all
    17 forms of contraception, including the success and failure
    18 rates for the prevention of pregnancy and sexually
    19 transmitted infections, including HIV.
    20 (5) Course material and instruction shall stress
    21 that sexually transmitted infections are serious possible
    22 hazards of sexual activity or behavior. Pupils shall be
    23 provided with statistics based on the latest medical
    24 information citing the failure and success rates of all
    25 contraceptive methods in preventing unintended pregnancy
    26 and HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
    27 (6) Course material and instruction shall advise
    28 pupils that it is unlawful for males or females of any
    29 age to engage in sexual conduct or have sexual relations
    30 with a minor as specified in Article 12 of the Criminal
    31 Code of 1961.
    32 (7) Course material and instruction shall discuss
    33 and provide for the development of positive communication
    34 skills to maintain healthy relationships and avoid

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    1 unwanted sexual activity.
    2 (8) Course material and instruction shall emphasize
    3 that the pupil has the power to control personal
    4 behavior. Pupils shall be encouraged to base their
    5 actions on reasoning, self-discipline, sense of
    6 responsibility, self-control, and ethical considerations,
    7 such as respect for oneself and others.
    8 (9) Course material and instruction shall teach
    9 pupils to not make unwanted physical and verbal sexual
    10 advances and how to say no to unwanted sexual advances
    11 and shall include information about verbal, physical, and
    12 visual sexual harassment, including without limitation
    13 nonconsensual sexual advances, nonconsensual physical
    14 sexual contact, and rape by an acquaintance. The course
    15 material and instruction shall contain methods of
    16 preventing sexual assault by an acquaintance, including
    17 exercising good judgment and avoiding behavior that
    18 impairs one’s judgment. The course material and
    19 instruction shall emphasize personal accountability and
    20 respect for others and shall also encourage youth to
    21 resist negative peer pressure. The course material and
    22 instruction shall inform pupils of the potential legal
    23 consequences of sexual assault by an acquaintance.
    24 Specifically, pupils shall be advised that it is unlawful
    25 to touch an intimate part of another person, as specified
    26 in the Criminal Code of 1961.
    27 (10) Course material and instruction shall teach
    28 male pupils about male accountability for sexual violence
    29 and shall teach female students about reducing
    30 vulnerability for sexual violence.
    31 (11) Course material and instruction shall teach
    32 pupils about counseling, medical, and legal resources
    33 available to survivors of sexual abuse and sexual
    34 assault, including resources for escaping violent

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    1 relationships.
    2 (12) Course material and instruction in classes
    3 that discuss sexual activity or behavior shall teach
    4 pupils that it is wrong to take advantage of or to
    5 exploit another person.
    6 (13) Course material and instruction shall be free
    7 of racial, ethnic, gender, religious, and sexual
    8 orientation biases.
    9 (c) The State Superintendent of Education shall prepare
    10 and make available to local school districts courses of
    11 instruction designed to satisfy the requirements of this
    12 Section.
    13 The State Superintendent of Education shall develop a
    14 procedure for evaluating and measuring the effectiveness of
    15 the family life courses of instruction in each local school
    16 district, including the setting of reasonable goals for
    17 reduced sexual activity, sexually transmitted diseases and
    18 premarital pregnancy. The goals shall be set by the beginning
    19 of the 1991-92 school year. The State Superintendent shall
    20 distribute a copy of the procedure to each local school
    21 district. Each local school district may develop additional
    22 procedures or methods for measuring the effectiveness of the
    23 family life courses of instruction within the district.
    24 Before the beginning of the 1993-94 school year, the State
    25 Superintendent shall collect and evaluate all relevant data
    26 to determine whether the goals are being achieved.
    27 (Source: P.A. 86-941.)

    28 Section 10. The Critical Health Problems and
    29 Comprehensive Health Education Act is amended by changing
    30 Sections 2 and 3 as follows:

    31 (105 ILCS 110/2) (from Ch. 122, par. 862)
    32 Sec. 2. Definitions. In this Act, the following terms

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    1 shall have the following meanings respectively prescribed for
    2 them, except as the context otherwise requires:
    3 (a) “Comprehensive Health Education Program”: a
    4 systematic and extensive educational program designed to
    5 provide a variety of learning experiences based upon
    6 scientific knowledge of the human organism as it functions
    7 within its environment which will favorably influence the
    8 knowledge, attitudes, values and practices of Illinois school
    9 youth; and which will aid them in making wise personal
    10 decisions in matters of health.
    11 “Factual information” includes without limitation
    12 medical, psychiatric, psychological, empirical, and
    13 statistical statements.
    14 “Medically accurate” means verified or supported by
    15 research conducted in compliance with scientific methods,
    16 published in peer-review journals, where appropriate, and
    17 recognized as accurate and objective by professional
    18 organizations and agencies with expertise in the relevant
    19 field.
    20 (Source: P.A. 77-1405.)

    21 (105 ILCS 110/3) (from Ch. 122, par. 863)
    22 Sec. 3. Comprehensive Health Education Program.
    23 (a) The program established under this Act shall
    24 include, but not be limited to, the following major
    25 educational areas as a basis for curricula in all elementary
    26 and secondary schools in this State: human ecology and
    27 health, human growth and development, the emotional,
    28 psychological, physiological, hygienic and social
    29 responsibilities of family life, including sexual abstinence
    30 and prevention of unintended pregnancy until marriage,
    31 prevention and control of disease, including age appropriate
    32 instruction in grades K 6 through 12 on the prevention of
    33 sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention,

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    1 transmission and spread of HIV AIDS, public and environmental
    2 health, consumer health, safety education and disaster
    3 survival, mental health and illness, personal health habits,
    4 alcohol, drug use, and abuse including the medical and legal
    5 ramifications of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use, abuse during
    6 pregnancy, sexual abstinence until marriage, tobacco,
    7 nutrition, and dental health.
    8 (b) All comprehensive health education programs
    9 established under this Act shall satisfy the following
    10 criteria:
    11 (1) Factual information presented in course
    12 material and instruction shall be medically accurate and
    13 objective.
    14 (2) All course material and instruction in classes
    15 that teach sex education and discuss sexual activity or
    16 behavior shall be age and developmentally appropriate.
    17 (3) Course material and instruction shall include a
    18 discussion of sexual abstinence as a method to prevent
    19 unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections,
    20 including HIV.
    21 (4) Course material and instruction shall present
    22 the latest medically factual information regarding both
    23 the possible side effects and health benefits of all
    24 forms of contraception, including the success and failure
    25 rates for the prevention of pregnancy and sexually
    26 transmitted infections, including HIV.
    27 (5) Course material and instruction shall stress
    28 that sexually transmitted infections are serious possible
    29 hazards of sexual activity or behavior. Pupils shall be
    30 provided with statistics based on the latest medical
    31 information citing the failure and success rates of all
    32 methods of contraception in preventing HIV and other
    33 sexually transmitted infections.
    34 (6) Course material and instruction shall advise

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    1 pupils that it is unlawful for males or females of any
    2 age to engage in sexual conduct or have sexual relations
    3 with a minor as specified in Article 12 of the Criminal
    4 Code of 1961.
    5 (7) Course material and discussion shall discuss
    6 and provide for the development of positive communication
    7 skills to maintain healthy relationships and avoid
    8 unwanted sexual activity.
    9 (8) Course material and instruction shall emphasize
    10 that the pupil has the power to control personal
    11 behavior. Pupils shall be encouraged to base their
    12 actions on reasoning, self-discipline, sense of
    13 responsibility, self-control, and ethical considerations,
    14 such as respect for oneself and others.
    15 (9) Course material and instruction shall teach
    16 pupils to not make unwanted physical and verbal sexual
    17 advances and how to say no to unwanted sexual advances
    18 and shall include information about verbal, physical, and
    19 visual sexual harassment, including without limitation
    20 nonconsensual sexual advances, nonconsensual physical
    21 sexual contact, and rape by an acquaintance. The course
    22 material and instruction shall contain methods of
    23 preventing sexual assault by an acquaintance, including
    24 exercising good judgment and avoiding behavior that
    25 impairs one’s judgment. The course material and
    26 instruction shall emphasize personal accountability and
    27 respect for others and shall also encourage youth to
    28 resist negative peer pressure. The course material and
    29 instruction shall inform pupils of the potential legal
    30 consequences of sexual assault by an acquaintance.
    31 Specifically, pupils shall be advised that it is unlawful
    32 to touch an intimate part of another person as specified
    33 in the Criminal Code of 1961.
    34 (10) Course material and instruction shall teach

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    1 male pupils about male accountability for sexual violence
    2 and shall teach female students about reducing
    3 vulnerability for sexual violence.
    4 (11) Course material and instruction shall teach
    5 pupils about counseling, medical, and legal resources
    6 available to survivors of sexual abuse and sexual
    7 assault, including resources for escaping violent
    8 relationships.
    9 (12) Course material and instruction in classes
    10 that discuss sexual activity or behavior shall teach
    11 pupils that it is wrong to take advantage of or to
    12 exploit another person.
    13 (13) Course material and instruction shall be free
    14 of racial, ethnic, gender, religious, or sexual
    15 orientation biases.
    16 (c) Notwithstanding the above educational areas, the
    17 following areas may also be included as a basis for curricula
    18 in all elementary and secondary schools in this State: basic
    19 first aid (including, but not limited to, cardiopulmonary
    20 resuscitation and the Heimlich maneuver), early prevention
    21 and detection of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and
    22 the prevention of child abuse, neglect, and suicide. The
    23 school board of each public elementary and secondary school
    24 in the State shall encourage all teachers and other school
    25 personnel to acquire, develop, and maintain the knowledge and
    26 skills necessary to properly administer life-saving
    27 techniques, including without limitation the Heimlich
    28 maneuver and rescue breathing. The training shall be in
    29 accordance with standards of the American Red Cross, the
    30 American Heart Association, or another nationally recognized
    31 certifying organization. A school board may use the services
    32 of non-governmental entities whose personnel have expertise
    33 in life-saving techniques to instruct teachers and other
    34 school personnel in these techniques. Each school board is

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    1 encouraged to have in its employ, or on its volunteer staff,
    2 at least one person who is certified, by the American Red
    3 Cross or by another qualified certifying agency, as qualified
    4 to administer first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
    5 In addition, each school board is authorized to allocate
    6 appropriate portions of its institute or inservice days to
    7 conduct training programs for teachers and other school
    8 personnel who have expressed an interest in becoming
    9 qualified to administer emergency first aid or
    10 cardiopulmonary resuscitation. School boards are urged to
    11 encourage their teachers and other school personnel who coach
    12 school athletic programs and other extracurricular school
    13 activities to acquire, develop, and maintain the knowledge
    14 and skills necessary to properly administer first aid and
    15 cardiopulmonary resuscitation in accordance with standards
    16 and requirements established by the American Red Cross or
    17 another qualified certifying agency.
    18 (d) No pupil shall be required to take or participate in
    19 any class or course on HIV AIDS or family life instruction if
    20 his parent or guardian submits written objection thereto, and
    21 refusal to take or participate in the course or program shall
    22 not be reason for suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
    23 (e) Curricula developed under programs established in
    24 accordance with this Act in the major educational area of
    25 alcohol and drug use and abuse shall include classroom
    26 instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction, which
    27 shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal
    28 effects and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall
    29 be integrated into existing curricula; and the State Board of
    30 Education shall develop and make available to all elementary
    31 and secondary schools in this State instructional materials
    32 and guidelines which will assist the schools in incorporating
    33 the instruction into their existing curricula. In addition,
    34 school districts may offer, as part of existing curricula

    -14- LRB093 05269 NHT 05359 b
    1 during the school day or as part of an after school program,
    2 support services and instruction for pupils or pupils whose
    3 parent, parents, or guardians are chemically dependent.
    4 (Source: P.A. 92-23, eff. 7-1-01.)

    5 Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
    6 Section 8.27 as follows:

    7 (30 ILCS 805/8.27 new)
    8 Sec. 8.27. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6
    9 and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
    10 for the implementation of any mandate created by this
    11 amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.

    12 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
    13 becoming law.

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  • Tom

    McCain /Palin o8

  • Tuppence 411

    You two must not have heard the latest. MEchelle has a cousin once removed who is a Rabbi. The story is being hauled out for the media, including quotes from Wexlar ( Waxler? the a$$hole from Fla who doesn’t live in Fla); who claims Jews in Southern Florida will now be more comfortable in voting for Oblahblah because he has a rabbi in the family. OMG it’s like a hillarious comedy, except it’s our country going down the toilet.

  • IndayHill

    Same here.
    Because I love my country, I will vote for Senator mcCain/ Gov. Sarah Palin come Nov. 4, 2008.
    I trust them 100%.
    What did Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. give to this country but TROUBLE !!
    The once peaceful,harmoniously loving citizens are now divided due to BHO’s revived racism attacks to people who are not favoring him.
    BHO is full of egoistic air ready to burst !

    If you love America, elect McCain/Pailin ’08 !

  • Carol

    “Despite what we have witnessed over the past eight years, tens of millions of people are willing to instantly repeat the same mistake and elect another sadistic ignoramus to national office because she’s able to hide these qualities behind the deceptive dazzle of charisma. This cannot be allowed to happen”.

    Did you accidentally type an “s” in front of he? your statement quoted above sounds like you are referring to “The Messiah”, “The One.”

  • http://www.kerago.com Jacob

    military discipline…

    Intriguing idea, but I don’t know if I believe you one hundred percent….

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