John Patrick “Jack” Murtha, Jr. U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
A Democrat, Murtha has served in the United States House of Representatives since 1974, representing Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district. The district includes a large swath of southwestern Pennsylvania, stretching from Johnstown (the largest city in the district and Murtha’s hometown) to the eastern and southern suburbs of Pittsburgh.[1] Murtha is best known for his calls for a withdrawal of American forces in Iraq.

Murtha sued over remarks
BY MIKE FAHER
The Tribune-Democrat
In May 2006, six months after 24 people were killed in a small Iraqi town, U.S. Rep. John Murtha made a startling accusation.

American soldiers, he contended, had killed innocent civilians “in cold blood.”

Now, less than six weeks before the longtime Johnstown Democrat is up for re-election, a Marine involved in the now-infamous Haditha incident is suing Murtha for slander.

http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_270000717.html

According to the article I read this is what happened.
(They are mixing and lying about things.)

There was a visiting minister from Kenya at Sarah’s church. He prayed with and for Sarah, that God would guide her life.

During the ministers sermon he told of a “witch” in Kenya that his church had prayed for and finally she had moved away. There had been several fatal accidents in the area of where she lived. Witch craft may still be practiced in Kenya.

What that video has done is created a lie. Similar tactics used in the Charles Gibson interview of Sarah.
Change things when and where they can be used for distortion. This is CHANGE we cannot believe in.

Much ado about a middle name

Amir Taheri is an Iranian author based in Europe.

Is pronouncing a man’s middle name tantamount to insulting him? In the case of Senator Barack Obama, the favourite to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency of the United States, the answer appears to be yes.
Senator Hillary Clinton, Obama’s last remaining rival within the party, has already apologised because her aides used “the unmentionable middle name”, ostensibly without her consent.
Last week, it was the turn of Senator John McCain, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee and Obama’s possible rival in the final contest, to apologise because the host of a meeting he attended was rash enough to pronounce the seven-letter word.
The word in question is Hussain, Obama’s middle name that was also the name of his Kenyan Muslim father.
What is astonishing is that Senator Obama has accepted the apologies as if the use of his father’s name was, indeed, an insult.
What is the rationale behind this strange behaviour?
It is simple. Hussain is an Arabic word supposed to have a negative resonance with many Americans, reminding them of Saddam Hussain, the late Iraqi dictator who has entered American folklore as arch-villain. The fact that, in Arabic, Hussain means “most benign” or “very beautiful” is not enough to persuade Obama and his PR gurus to treat it more kindly.
However, Obama’s problem does not end with censoring his middle name. His first name, Barack, is also Arabic, from the stem barakah meaning “blessing”. His surname Obama, from Swahili*, the Arabic-based lingua franca of East Africa, refers to members of the Luo tribe who converted to Islam.
In other words, Barack Hussain Obama Jr’s name is a perfectly ordinary identification for someone with an ethnic East African Muslim background.
What is troubling about Obama’s approach to the mini-storm stirred by his political enemies over his name, is what may look like an attempt at obfuscation. He has behaved as if he did have a family secret, and as if the name Hussain was something to be ashamed of.
Obama’s efforts to distance himself from Islam, is in contrast with his innovative approach to US relations with its Islamist challengers.
President George W. Bush has chosen the “iron fist” option by invading Afghanistan and Iraq, building quarantine around Iran, keeping the Baathist regime in Syria in check, and helping a dozen Muslim states fight Al Qaida or its variants on their soil. Both Senators McCain and Clinton offer variations on the same theme, albeit with caveats designed to satisfy their respective constituencies.
By contrast, Obama is offering a policy of dialogue and accommodation. He has opposed the listing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, and proposed a grand bargain with the regime in Damascus. Obama is even prepared to ignore two United Nations’ Security Council resolutions that require Iran to stop its uranium enrichment programme as a precondition for talks at the highest level.
Key demands
In an important symbolic move designed to signal an end of the special relationship between Israel and the United States,, Obama has become the first major American presidential candidate in more than 30 years not to commit himself to transferring the US embassy to the Jewish state from Tel Aviv to Occupied Jerusalem.
Last but not least, Obama has promised to withdraw from Iraq within the first year of his presidency, thus meeting one of the key demands of radical Muslim forces, whether Sunni or Shiite.
The message is clear: Obama wants a new relationship with radical forces in the Islamic world while distancing the US from its traditional allies in the region. In other words, he proposes to reverse policies that have taken shape over more than six decades under 12 successive American presidents. It is this revolutionary idea that deserves to be closely examined, studied and debated, not the origin and meaning of Obama’s middle name.

http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/uselections/more_stories/10194808.html

*My Notes

Arab traders began to settle among the Africans of the coast, resulting in the emergence of a people and culture known as Swahili. There started the East Coast slave trade.

Arabs and Persians moved to the East African coast. It is an undeniable truth that Arab and Persian cultures had the greatest influence on the Swahili culture and the Swahili language.

Radical Islam uses stealth to gradually eroded countries rights. We should be careful of the slippery slope called political correctness.

That said I will respect your wishes and not use that name, while in my heart I respectfully disagree.

The Line in from Drudge says
Treasury Secretary down on one knee before Polosi.

Picture just shows her fac.

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080925/i/r3338871921.jpg?x=400&y=266&q=85&sig=ivYxQa8eifOHiiOgFTS5kg–

*It would require .07% of our gross national product on top
of what we are now paying. “In addition to seeking to
eradicate poverty, that *(U. N.) declaration.

It commits nation to banning small arms and light weapons,
and ratifying a series of treaties including the
International Criminal Court Treaty
Kyoto Protocol *(global warming treaty)
Convention of Biological Diversity
Convention on the Elimination of All forms of
Discrimination Against Women
Convention of the Rights of the Child.”

These UN protocols make U.S. law on issues ranging from the
2nd amendment to energy usage and parental rights all
subservient to United Nation whims. It is estimated that the
only way to raise the necessary funds to pay for this would
be a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
Perhaps that taxes from 35 cents to 1.00 per gallon, would
be added to gasoline and fuel oil. Who knows what would
happen to the coal industry.

THIS BILL HAS PASSED THE SENATE COMMITTEE AND IS WAITING> FOR FULL VOTE ONCE HE BECOMES OUR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
PLEASE READ THE GLOBAL POVERTY ACT.

Chad Groening – OneNewsNow – 2/19/2008 4:00:00 AM
Cliff Kincaid, the leader of the watchdog group America’s Survival, is urging the U.S. Senate to reject a bill introduced by Barak Obama that Kincaid says would subordinate U.S. foreign policy to the United Nations.

The measure is known as “The Global Poverty Act of 2007″ (S. 2433). It would require the president of the United States to “develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.” The bill, introduced in the Senate on December 7, 2007, is sponsored by Democratic presidential frontrunner Senator Barack Obama.

Sen. Barack Obama, perhaps giving America a preview of priorities he would pursue if elected president, is rejoicing over the Senate committee passage of a plan that could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars in an attempt to reduce poverty in other nations.

Many Americans were alerted to the legislation by a report from Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media. He published a critique asserting that while the Global Poverty Act sounds nice, the adoption could “result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States” and would make levels “of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.”
He said the legislation, if approved, dedicates 0.7 percent of the U.S. gross national
product to foreign aid, which over 13 years he said would amount to $845 billion “over and above what the U.S. already spends.”

I do not like Obama at all, but when a person posts a comment and mentions the name middle, it does make me feel that the writer is against him for his ethnicity rather than for the fact that his character and experience make him an extremely poor and dangerous choice for the highest political position in the nation.