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Posted by: Maritza .....
"Don't all campaigns want diversity shots. Why is that news?" ........... Because O'boy claims he is "CHANGE". ..... He is not really change now is he?

I seem to recall some of the early McCain press conferences after being chosen as the republican nominee that looked like
a casting call for Depends. One or two mentions on the cable news shows, and voila, the next time he was trotted out it looked like the Young Republicans convention had gathered around him.

How can you over look all the lies of hillary clinton. how can we trust her to run the country when hill and bill are taking money from columbia. take off your blinders people. All you hillary women its okay to wear pants and feel so powerful. She is not the right person she is a liar. Answer this the republicans want hillary because the gop have so much dirt on her dirty self her approval rating for trust is at 39% please stop the madness

How can you over look all the lies of hillary clinton. how can we trust her to run the country when hill and bill are taking money from columbia. take off your blinders people. All you hillary women its okay to wear pants and feel so powerful. She is not the right person she is a liar. Answer this the republicans want hillary because the gop have so much dirt on her dirty self her approval rating for trust is at 39% please stop the madness

The most annoying thing about this being, of course, that event coordinators aren't hand-picked by candidates. I have been to one of these things - they deal with any number of guests/clients, and they mainly worry about how well the event goes for their own purposes.

Fact in point - I went to an event that was coordinated separately from the person I went there to see (a somewhat-family musician.) Because it was a popular enough musician, my friend and I - two very "normal joe" type people - were moved further back from the stage. Even though we'd gotten in on guest passes, the event coordinators immediately replaced us with a group of gorgeous females all along the front row.

Keep in mind that this musician got me the guest passes in question. When I later joked/asked about the shuffling around, he said rather frankly that he doesn't have anything to do with it. Seating arrangements are the province of the venue or of the company organizing the event. It's all PR+event coordinators who decide "what looks best." And they will, in fact, move people around to best project what they feel the event needs. I happen to know this musician would've rather had my friend and I up in the front row, and expected at least to be able to see us from where he sat.

As the event coordinators that Hillary Clinton is currently stiffing for unpaid services can tell you, they have enough autonomy to decide how the audiences look. Consider it very irresponsible to try to pin this on the Obama campaign, instead of on the event coordinators.

It's all politics. No harm done...greg

It's all a BIG SHOW. The college crowd will never get it until it is over.

The issue here is how Obama continues to say this should not be about race yet his camp purposely moves the crowd around so that it looks like he appeals the same to everyone. Clearly if they have to do this then they are playing a racial game.

NOT A BIG DEAL!!!!!
All campaigns do this. It's all PR. Just because he is a Black democrat running for prez now there is a problem with it. But Hillary running around with staged token Blacks and Latinos standing behind her in her campaign speeches is ok. Talk about double-standards! This is why I changed my support from Clinton to Obama. White liberals are no different than Republicans. If they can't have it there way, they will have temper-tantrums and vote for McCain if Obama is elected.

What they really need is more white people to vote for him.

Maybe, if we put a lie from Obama, and a lie from Clinton together.....well...it would add up to another lie eh?

TO ALL WHITES, BLACKS, AND ANY CITIZEN OF THE USA. THIS ELECTION IS NOT ABOUT BLACK,WHITE,MALE,FEMALE,DEMOCRATES, OR REPUBLICANS. INSTEAD, THIS ABOUT WHOM WILL BE THE BEST PERSON TO TAKE THE HIGHEST SEAT OF THE NATION, AND BRING US OUT OF THIS RECESSION,WARS,HIGH GAS PRICES,AND ALL OF THE EVILS THAT ARE UPON THE USA AS OF NOW. AND SUCH PERSON SHOULD HAVE SOME PRIOR EXPERIENCE, OR HAVE BEEN CLOSLY AFFILIATED WITH ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE PAST, AROUND & ABOUT THE WHITE HOUSE. AND MUST REALIZE & FACE THE RAW FACTS THAT BARACK OBAMA SHOULD NOT HAVE EVEN BEEN IN THIS RACE. IT IS OBAMA WHOM IS CAUSING ALL PROBLEMS IN THIS RACE. NO. IT IS NOT HILLARY, NOR JOHN MCCAIN. TAKE OFF YOUR BLIND FOLDERS FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND ACCEPT & SEE THE TRUTH. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK OF ANY GOOD TRUE AMERICAN CITIZEN THAT LOVES & CARES ABOUT THE REAL FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY?? YOU MAKE THE CALL.......

I don't know why so many think that if you do not support OBAMA, you are a racist.

Did you ever think we just don't believe one word he says? He has lost credibility with all his lies.

He is as slippery as they come --- changes his message to fit each state, cries fowl like a child, pretends to be what he is not and lies on just about everything he is caught on. He and his wife are both hidden racists. As much as they try to hide it, they slip up every now and then.

Obama supporters are in for a rude awakening if he gets elected.

n 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to "political enlightenment," threw a fundraiser for his friend........

Barack Obama.

Khalidi has direct ties to Obama.

Before getting his job at Columbia University Rashid Khalidi was a Middle East professor at the University of Chicago, where he befriended none other than US presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama.

In 2000 Khalidi held a successful fundraiser for Barack.

Barack also played a role in getting funding for Khalidi’s Arab American Action Network during his tenure on the board of the Woods Fund. That is another unexplored black hole.

this is what Rashid Khalidi has to say about Palestinian terrorism against Jews:

On Palestinian violence. Khalidi glorifies anti-Israel violence as contributing to “political enlightenment”[vii] and unsurprisingly admires those who carry it out.

His loyalty to Palestinian terrorist groups run so deep that he actually dedicated his 1986 valentine to the PLO, Under Siege, to “those who gave their lives ... in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon.”[viii] The book whitewashes PLO violence against Israelis and Lebanese, as well as the Syrian occupation.

The influence of the black liberation theology of James H. Cone ( mentor of Rev. Wright and author of Black Theology and Black Power) appears in the political philosophy of Barack Obama as well as in the recent controversial statement about national pride made by Michelle Obama. Barack us the softer, social justice side of black liberation theology, Michelle is the harder anti-white-supremacy side.The media has focused on the religious beliefs of Huckabee and Romney, a much more substantive faith element has been at work in the Obama campaign, the media either hasn't noticed or if it had, hasn't commented.

This is an election for our next president, it should not be an election about race. It is so unfortunate that that is what it has become about!

If Obama waffles one more time on where he stands on things, we all are going to be dizzy. I need someone in office who is going to move things, not talk pretty about it, and keep changing his mind, or sees what the other person is going to do first!

Come on, this is our lives and our childrens lives, we have to get serious!!

NOW BACK TO THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL --- SUDDENLY --- THEY NEED "WHITE" PEOPLE!

UNTIL NOW, OBAMA HAS TRIED TO BE TOTALLY "BLACK". HE NEVER MENTIONED HIS WHITE HERITAGE UNTIL HE GOT INTO TROUBLE.

NOW THAT THE POLLS ARE DROPPING --- HE DECIDES TO PUT HIS "TYPICALLY WHITE GRANDMOTHER" IN HIS LATEST AD!

HIS WIFE'S TEAM MOVED ATTENDEES AND PUT WHITE PEOPLE IN THEIR PLACES.

WHAT A TYPICAL, HYPOCRITICAL, LYING POLITICIAN!

HE HAS RUN HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN ON “LIES”.

HILLARY ’08.

Michelle will never draw many white people because we don't want to hear her tear down our country.I'm surprised Obama lets her out of the house.
Can you imagine her as first lady?It turns my stomach to think about it.

its just so hard to believe the american people are not moving away from those racial slum talk. Its a changing world, even the climate is changing. Give the mr. obama a chance to do what he has to do to save the american people from outsiders who simply hate any words beginning with Amer***. Grow up ppl, change those ridiculous racial slurs. the man is not a racist, what does he need to do to prove that to you. he was raised with a white family. quite ridiculous for persons brinning up this rubbish

jgaw: You are right. Not all black people support Obama and his pastor's way of thinking. It is a shame that the black Hillary's supporters can not talk about their support for Hillary without being cut down by some of the black Obama's supporters in the black communities. I have been a democrat for over 46+ years but I will not vote Obama in the general election. I am sorry but I feel he is not good for all of us.

You can't tell me that all candidates don't do this or at least cautiously selecting participants who agreed with the candidate or the party to which they belong to be at these functions.

This doesn't bother me at all.

jgaw: You are right. Not all black people support Obama and his pastor's way of thinking. It is a shame that the black Hillary's supporters can not talk about their support for Hillary without being cut down by some of the black Obama's supporters in the black communities. I have been a democrat for over 46+ years but I will not Obmaa in the general election. I am sorry but I feel he is not good for all of us.

the point is if obama is the uniter his campaign claims-they would not be needing to run around asking for more of one type person or another.
and it smacks at deception;
lets pretend to the tv audience we have more white support than we really do/
Believe me the black people there supporting hillary are there because they really want to be.
and if they were smart if they live near
or in a black community-they would not want their face on tv. for fear the black obama supports might see them
obama cannot win

Everyone stages people! Hillary does it all the time. Have a black man stand on stage with her in camera range, she has a little black girl stand with her as she speak in North Calorina. Has a hispanic baby in her lap when she needs the "Brown" vote. Obama Staff was doing the same thing...Dtaging to appeal to the white hope. It is apart of working the number....But notice they only reported on Obama doing it. The only person that is not staging is McCain...because he feels he doen't need the white or Hispanic vote.

thank goodness,
It looks like some of my people of color are coming out of the obama-fog
now if we could just bring our left-leaning libs back to the middle
maybe this country will have a chance

I thought the goal was to get a dem back in the white house

obama cannot win
you may say the rep. machine is broken
watch and see how quick it will be up and running again
mcsame and crew are going to run all over obama and the lib dems
they should have checked this guy out more.
pa and all left to vote
if you want a dem back in the white house
hillary is the only choice

Roger: You are correct. I am black. If my grandparnets were White and they rasied me, I would have walked out of any Church that talk down against my grandparents becuse of the color of their skin. Let someone talk about the mother, grandma, or any one in my family.

This is ridiculous. I know for certain that Hillary depending on what she wants to have people see puts black people around her. Stop this. Yes, Obama in PA needs the white vote. The writer of this is a jerk.

What is amazing to some of us outside the united states is that in spite of some huge faux pas by obama, i.e, rev. wright and now this statement (which is as racist as you can get),credited to one of his campaign staff, americans still appear to love the guy! If obama eventually wins the u.s presidential elections, it would be because white people voted for him. that will be a shame becasue i think he is a racist. by the way i am an african.

Is it enough? Absolutely not! In fact what Obama has said and done is going totally in the wrong direction! Excuses! Rationalization! Continued allegiance! If it had been Clinton's or McCain's white pastor who preached not just 5 snippets but rather week after week, month after month, year after year that another race with in America is the enemy and America is not our friend because that race controls America do you really think what Obama has said and done to date would be enough if it were Clinton or McCain? Absolutely not! If Clinton or McCain’s pastor had written supporting Hamas and had visited terrorist states in support of those terrorist states and we found that out would what Obama has said and done be enough if it were Clinton or McCain? Absolutely not! If we heard this white pastor was a part of there campaign team and had been there spiritual adviser for 20 years and was still continuing to be there chosen spiritual adviser would we be OK with that? Absolutely not! If they were still attending that Church when 24 other churches of the same exact faith are within the same driving distance would it be acceptable with the American public? Absolutely not! If Clinton or McCain had thrown there grandmother under the bus but not the pastor, especially if that grandmother was of the race that the pastor weekly’s innuendoes called the enemy would we think that was the right thing said and done? Absolutely not! Americas answer should be a resounding absolutely not to Obama! In fact it is not even close to being enough right words, action and attitude! If it had been Clinton or McCain’s involvement with this kind of pastor and spiritual adviser the cry from the public and the media would be non stop as it absolutely should be. Obama’s handling of this issue should absolutely not be enough for any TYPICAL AMERICAN citizen of any race, creed, color, age, gender, or sexual orientation.

I am so tired of you all trying to connect Obama to racism just because of who he hangs around with. That would be like thinking David Duke, Adolph Hitler, Senator Byrd were all evil racist men because of the association they belonged to or the guys they would pal around with. Grow up.

Imagine a country with 280 million (okay 300 million if you count the illegal invaders from the south) and the best we can come up with for presidential nominees are the "3 Stooges"?

I am Africa American and I do want an Africa American for President. But, I do not want Obama. I strongly feel that Obama has been planted in our political system for a reason. A reason that we do not know and I feel is not good for African American and America. All of my family and friends have never heard of this BLACK VALUE SYSTEM or talked so negative about White people. Now, some of my friends are thinking that Obama and his pastor are telling the some new and they should include it into their thinking.

Also, I heard that William Ayers has been mentored to Obama since 1994 and William Ayers was responsible for Obama's success to the Illinois senate seat. The media outlets need to do their job. In the past, I had never look at FoxNews for my daily news. Now, I look at FoxNews for information on both candidates. If you want to find out more information about the candidates, go to FoxNews. FoxNews may talk harsh about Hillary or Obama but you will get more details about Hillary's or Obama's past. Information that you will not get from any other news media outlets.

What the do the DNC has to say about Obama ties to William Ayers? DNC money and winning the Whitehouse are not everything when it come to protecting our country. We need to connect the dots on Obama. The question is now being asked do we know enough about Obama's root. I hope the FBI is researching Obama's connection with these people. We did not connect the dots before 9/11 but we have time to research Obama's root.

My family and I are tired of walking the racist tight rope. It seems everything that is said by a white person can be interpreted as racist from the blacks but, they are seem to have immunity as a birth right. I do not want to see this country walking on pins and needles for the next 4 years because of this so, this family of 7 will not be voting for Mr. Obama.

Between the comments of the Hillary fanatics and the Obama fanatics, I'm starting to want to get out of the democratic party. Both sides remind me more of fanatical brain-washed cult members than rational supporters of a political candidate. I am going to be very angry if I have to vote for McCain!

StopAndListen

Thanks for the story. I saw it on FOX this morning. I haven't seen another news media outlet talk about it. Have you? Another Oh my GOD moment concerning Obama.

I have been saying for months that Obama will have all of America walking on egg shells. And now he is cracking the eggs right over his own supporters head. She did nothing wrong. As a kid I was called a monkey for climbing trees. That is what monkeys do. I wish I could say that Obamas actions were shocking but I saw it coming months ago.

If your not black watch your words carefully. Obama and his people are looking for any reason to call you a racist. Shame on Obama and his people for ruining this poor ladies reputation. Labeling her innocent words racists and in turn labeling her a racists is sick, wrong and a lie.

Obama should call her to say he is sorry for lying about her actions. Shame on Obama. I can't believe anyone would vote for a person like that.

Oh my GOD! I can't believe Obamas people are doing this. Obama needs to leave the race NOW. More and more is coming out about this guy that shows him for the liar he is. Nothing is what it seems with Obama. He is a fraud.

And Kevin wrote what's wrong with needing more white people? WOW!!! If Hillarys people had said we need more black people you Obama cult people would rip her head off. This is an outright racist comment. And lying to the world about who is truly backing Obama in PA. Now the world knows the truth. Thank you ABC for telling the truth about this Obama event. Please tell us more truths very few media outlets are.

I was in SC during the primary there. And Obamas people also staged there. Behind Obama at a event I went to I saw people that worked for him going through the crowd trying to find whites to go up on stage. I knew exactly what they were doing. But no one in the press reported on it. Obamas people cherry people based on their color to stage events. It is a con by a dirty Chicago politician. This outright racist lies are stomach turning. And Obama pretends like he cares about everyone. His actions prove he does not. We don't need another stage liar in the WH. Does anyone else remember Bushes people staging events so Bush looked like people agreed with his polices. It is a lie for Bush and it is a lie for his little cousin Obama.

And more and more voters are seeing you for the lying con you are. Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

A delegate from Chicago talked to her neighbour's children who were climbing in a large tree in their front yard with no parent to be seen. She called to them and asked them to quit playing in the tree like "little monkeys". The children's mother called the police on her. Obama's campaign office called her and demanded her resignation from being a democratic delegate. Why? Because the children were black and she was white. She received a ticket for disorderly conduct. (see Chicago Sun Times for complete details)
Obama, overzealous political correctness and a sign of the future. Be black or keep your mouth shut.

"Cappamore:

Please find me an unstaged politician. I would vote for him or her on that fact alone.

At least I would know what I was getting."

Really? How about Ron Paul? If ever there were an "unstaged politician," it's Dr. Paul.

Wow classic slip of the tongue, its up there with Mrs Obama's "For the first time in my adult life, i can say i am proud to be American" and Mr Obama "Typical white person" Keep it up both of you guys, the sooner you sink the better.

They need more white people, but after the racist, race-baiting campaign they've run they've alienated far too many to ever recover. Add those to the LGBTs, working-class and older people they've tossed aside along the way and the Obama campaign has shot themselves in the foot in a serious way.

"We need more black people" See who could get away with that statement. There seems to be more racism from blacks than whites these days, doesnt matter what you say, a black person can just say it was racist and your life is over. Its all just words people, we have the right to be offended. Thats part of our freedom.

Oh no Obamas people want more whites in the camera shots. Go figure...and here he and his people arent racist in any way

Well, Oprahma, we prefer the respectful term 'Caucasian' and I wouldn't vote for you if you were the only candidate. Pretty despicable playing both ends of the race card, denying any culpability in the flap with Hillary over 'race', and now openly pandering 'White votes'? So many allegedly want this guy as a Presidental candidate? God help us all.

This is so funny, it's sad. While I am certain that all the campaigns prefer to back their candidates up with a mixture of races, ages, etc., it is amusing that someone got caught saying something like this. If Hillary's campaign got caught saying something like this, I'm sure she'd be labeled as a racist by Obama's surrogates.
Ever since the media, even the more liberal cable news networks, marched all of us to war for Bush, I question everything they say. It is interesting to note, however, who they are marching us to support this year.

j, I know two woman in FL who would like their votes counted. Lets hope Hillary can pull it out in PA.

This "typical white woman" will be voting for Hillary on April 22nd as well as the other 3 typical white women in her family.

I just pray typical white woman come out in force for Hillary in PA.

If u think it is dirty now, wait until the Republican Attack Machine gets started…

***Back when EVERYONE was watching the S Carolina debate to find out if Sen. Obama was real change from the politics as usual...

Obama on his first big money supporter, Tony Rezco, "I only worked for five hours for him as a client as a junior lawyer." (NO BIG DEAL) and then later, “He helped my buy my house and saved me $300,000 and gave 250k to my campaign” and then, "he never asked me for anything."

What's up with that ??? Is he lying or naïve?

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4480868&page=1

Plus

His spiritual mentor for 20 years Pastor Wright said America is responsible for 9/11 and "god d@#$ America", wouldn’t most Americans stand up and walk out....

How can a US Senator Take that...

Obama said, "I was never there in the pews", and then later "I was there" ...

***the Republicans are going to dismantle Sen. Obama …if he wins the Nomination.

a disputed meeting earlier this year between Obama's senior economic adviser Austan Goolsbee and Canadian diplomats over NAFTA.

In that meeting, which the Obama campaign initially denied ever took place, Goolsbee reportedly told the Canadians that Obama's tough rhetoric on NAFTA was mere political posturing. After Canadian officials leaked a key memo that called into question the Obama campaign's repeated denials, the campaign acknowledged the meeting but denied Goolsbee ever said any such thing.
"Again, this story is not true. There was no one at any level of our campaign, at any point, anywhere, who said or otherwise implied Obama was backing away from his consistent position on trade.” Obama Spokesperson Burton said.

Kevin

This is not Bill clinton in 1982.

This is Obama in 2008 who constantly damns anyone saying anything about race. and calling them a racist.

It is just to show how stupid Obama is and his race card is.

The Black community is the largest group that harbors racist in thier hearts and uses racism against everyone.

To Observer 5:36 and other readers: There are pictures of Obama and michelle in attendance at that event, looking very happy to be there. Obama seems to have many Arab friends.

Gee and Obama says this election is not about race. Why don't they keep Michelle Obama locked away like she has been for weeks.

I am sure if this was a Hillary coordinator they would be asking for apologies and who knows what else from her campaign.

For the person who commented that Obama is a puppet of the DNC and an empty suit, nothing could be further from the truth.
He is a brilliant, dynamic, self-made man. I am reading the Audacity of Hope right now, and he is a great writer. He writes very honestly and eloquently. For a politician, that is particularly impressive. Hillary Clinton's books, for instance, were written by ghostwriters. The speech on race that he gave he wrote all himself.
He did not have the easiest or most conventional childhood (his father left him when he was 2, he moved around a lot, he was raised by his grandparents for some time), but he worked really hard and overcame the odds to get where he is today. His life story IS, as he says, something that could only happen in America, the land of opportunity. He was finally able to pay off his college loan recently.
In case you forget, Hillary Clinton started out with the name recognition, the massive fundraising advantage, all the democratic party's inside connections, and the media at her feet. Obama had to create his campaign from scratch, and he's succeeding despite having a funny name, being half-black, having vicious smears circulated against him, and running against the CLINTON MACHINE. Everyone wrote him off in the beginning. Hillary Clinton HAD EVERY POSSIBLE ADVANTAGE YOU COULD HAVE HAD in the beginning!
She has run a thoroughly dysfunctional and incompetent campaign, and now she is whining about everything being so unfair, when her campaign made many avoidable mistakes.
She had no plan in place to compete well in the caucus states. She had no plans after Super Tuesday. She wasted precious donor money by spending lavishly on hotels in Las Vegas, big parties, expensive catering.
Meanwhile, Obama has been frugal and shrewd in managing his campaign finances, relying on donors for office space, supplies, among other things.
Clinton has mismanaged her campaign's finances so greatly that she is not paying her staff's HEALTHCARE COVERAGE!!! How ironic, for the candidate for whom which health coverage is supposed to be of the greatest concern. Think about it, if anyone on her staff gets really sick or suffers an accident, they won't be insured.
To those of you who say that Obama is beholden to big businesses, you're wrong. 90% of the 55 million he raised in February came from an AVERAGE donation of $100. Well over 1 million people have donated to his campaign so far. Clinton has taken more lobbyist money than any other candidate, democrat or republican.
You tell me which is more American, having great masses of the American public fund your campaign, or having the wealthy elite few fund your campaign.

Zack:
ABC is a media outlet. Are their rules about you siting material from other sources that has not been approved and hence the moderator is taking down your stuff.

If the author does not give explicit permission to site his stuff you may create a legal liability for abc even if the post is not offensive. Politico is a site I have heard of . I am not very up on these sites as a whole, so I would assume the moderator is pulling your references for that reason.

Earth calling Alice,....can we get back to real issues and not talk about everybody that a candidate knows! If a politician is to be judged on that then they are ALL going to Hades with gasoline drawers on!
Lets keep our eyes on what truly matters!

Mr. Obama's placement of Cynthia K. Miller, a member of the Nation of Islam, as the Treasurer of his U.S. Senate campaign.

Cappamore:

Unfortunately you are correct.

Since the swiftboating of Kerry it has become a science and the Rep machhine are masters at it.

As I stated in another post Obama had better get used to it and get on with campaigning. Hillary also.

I like and voted for her in our primary but I do not want to hear about unfairness(I believe she has some points) still get on with it all of them.

I agree Obama has gone to politics as usual. I can't say I'm surprised. To survive whether people like it or not dirty politics works.

It is simply reality. An unfortunate one most certainly but that is politics as it stands, and it is unlikely to change.

sillyreally; I also would like to be talking about the issues, because my candidate (Clinton) is really strong on them. However, this staging topic is relevant when assoicated with the supposedly new politics and transparency of the Obama campaign.

Obama's involvement with Jennifer Mason, whom he says is also a member of the Nation of Islam. Mason is Obama's Director of Constituent Services in his U.S. Senate office and is also in charge of selecting Obama's Senate interns.

If u think it is dirty now, wait until the Republican Attack Machine gets started…

***Back when EVERYONE was watching the S Carolina debate to find out if Sen. Obama was real change from the politics as usual...

Obama on his first big money supporter, Tony Rezco, "I only worked for five hours for him as a client as a junior lawyer." (NO BIG DEAL) and then later, “He helped my buy my house and saved me $300,000 and gave 250k to my campaign” and then, "he never asked me for anything."

What's up with that ??? Is he lying or naïve?

Plus

His spiritual mentor for 20 years Pastor Wright said America is responsible for 9/11 and "god d@#$ America", wouldn’t most Americans stand up and walk out....

How can a US Senator Take that...

Obama said, "I was never there in the pews", and then later "I was there" ...

***the Republicans are going to dismantle Sen. Obama …if he wins the Nomination.

a disputed meeting earlier this year between Obama's senior economic adviser Austan Goolsbee and Canadian diplomats over NAFTA.

In that meeting, which the Obama campaign initially denied ever took place, Goolsbee reportedly told the Canadians that Obama's tough rhetoric on NAFTA was mere political posturing. After Canadian officials leaked a key memo that called into question the Obama campaign's repeated denials, the campaign acknowledged the meeting but denied Goolsbee ever said any such thing.
"Again, this story is not true. There was no one at any level of our campaign, at any point, anywhere, who said or otherwise implied Obama was backing away from his consistent position on trade.” Obama Spokesperson Burton said.

More facts that the media will not give coverage to. WHY NOT? Let these facts speak for themselves... be fair.Check this out..........Palestinian activist and Islamist Ali Abunimah, who was a close friend of Obama's, attended an Arab fundraiser at which the late Edward Said--plagiarist, fabricator, and prominent PLO/Arafat advisor--was the keynote speaker, and at which the Obamas were notably in attendance.

Yup.

The point is that Obama lovers are no longer talking about 'new politics' and hope and change.

He has been exposed as the same dirty politician as the rest. Obama lovers appease themselves that this is ok because he is ahead and its too late for him to lose.

They forget in the general election, he has to start from scratch, and will NOT benefit from a media shield, caucus's and a squeeky clean image.

He is unelectable.

Alice from NJ

I have to agree with some of what you say and say so what to the others.

His middle name is Hussein.Mine is Ann who cares. If Barak as a name didn't clue people in that his name is of foreign origin then Hussein won't really help or hurt I'd say.

His church and pastor are an issue, whether he believes it or not. This is a political campaign. What he ate for breakfast 20 years ago is an issue.

It's just how it works. To cry racism over people dredging up dirt of any type is silly. That how it works. This is hardball Obama is playing. He'd better learn to duck or hit the pitches, otherwise he's going to get hit by the ball a lot.

His friend/associate/manager etc is a criminal. Find me a politician who isn't somehow associated or friends with a present and/or past criminal. They seem to go together from what I can see.

His wife is an issue. She comes across in interviews on camera as angry and bitter. Whether that anger is or is not legitimate people do not like their candidates and wives especially in a Presidential campaign to seem bitter.

They want them to seem together and presenting a hopeful tone. Especially with war and a bad economy even more so.

Obama is a set up for McCain.
So far we know:
Obama's middle name is Hussein

Obama's father is a Muslim. Even though Obama wrote a book about his Father, he said he didn't know his father was a Muslim.

Obama's pastor is a radical racist. Enen though Obama didn't know it.

Obama's friend Anton Rezko is a criminal. Even though Obama didn't know that he was involved with crimes.

Obama's staff spoke to the Canadian government about NAFTA. Even though Obama didn't know about it.

Obama's church supports anti-Semetic, radical leader of Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan. Even though Obama didn't know it or denounced it.

Michelle Obama didn't like being an American, but she didn't mean it

Obama feels words are important "words..just words" speech. But when it comes to his pastor those words don't matter.

Obama insists he wants a clean campaign. That's why he has every staff member make remarks for him.

This guy is a real con. Wake up America. It's a set up for McCain to win the election.

There is no way that Obama can stand up to McCain. All of the above are what McCain will say about Obama.

Wake up and support Hillary!

that's like when rosa parks was told to go to the back of the bus she should have told them go to hell and left

Cappamore:

Please find me an unstaged politician. I would vote for him or her on that fact alone.

At least I would know what I was getting.

Why do we argue the same things each election rather than the real issues? Race is an issue as is gender certainly.

However the economy and the war have my immediate attention as both are truly critical.

I wish some journalist would make them get back to the real meat rather than the filling. I haven't seen that from any of the three candiadtes actually. It would be refreshing.

The underline here is any way you want to slice it is show the white faces on TV so that white folks would say all well there you see lost of smart looking people are voting for Obama is that it? Does that mean forget about the black vote it's a given or they look too poor too raggedy.Is this some kind of a staged election. Nobody is good enough for the Obama's but the Obama's with their sick mind to divide the country not in half but in peices. This is sick,sick sick ,sick, sick infectous.
Sickos.

Another thought about Obama's staging:

Has anyone else noticed that in his stump speech, he always notices the "Obamican" in the audience at exactly the right moment in exactly the same spot?

This isn't anything new. I guess no one has noticed the MASSIVE number of young people that are standing behind McCain now? Please. Give us a break. People pander and politicians especially pander. It's called politics people and the only thing that can hurt someone worst than being seen or visiting a hooker, is a bad photo-op.

Dale

Jason,
Obama did not call Bill racist, just his campaign.
Once again Obama is not responsible for anything. It happenend just before two major elections with large black population.
Look at the facts.

To Roncraw:------------ To answer your question..... Farrakhan may have said some very racist and antisemetic things. But, a lot of people in tha AA community admire him. Look at how many AA's showed up at the Million Man March (A Farrakhan event in which Bill Clinton spoke)!!! Obama like any other people who has an ounce of understanding and knowledge of the AA community knows that a lot of AA's admire Farrakhan for his work on trying to improve the race in this country. It wasn't Farrakhan's honor he was worried about, but the millions of AA voters that hold him in a positive light. But somehow, I suspect you knew this already.

380 comments... after a hearsay report in a college newspaper that has not been verified... American primary season 2008...

Chris Mathews and Keith Oberman --- always wet their lips before they talk about Obama....

Never seen such gushing from "Newsmen" on T.V.... their voices turn to rasps of partial words as they hyper-ventilate between each sounds.... OH BAH MMA.... OH BAH MMA.... OH BAH MMA.... eeek Rev. Wright--- now where did this come from..... swweeep it under the rug...... we'er scared to report that kinda of stuff.... Anderson on CNN can't talk about Rev.Wright either..... Is this the Type of White Male Votes that took Obama over the top?....... Where are all the backbones to these reporters??

Back to the Article.... my fav quote 'We're moving you, sorry. It's going to look so pretty, though.'...pretty sad.

if you want race relations to go backward elect obama
if you want more war elect mccain
if you want this country on the right track again elect hillary

From the looks of these blogs Obama is more polarizing and divisive than George Bush

Show me a major campaign that doesn't do this.