Obama's Big Cross Kentucky Flier

On SNL, McCain said he's very,
very, very old.

He's also very, very, very
infirm to run for POTUS - a
job that would require him
to know whether he is coming
or going.

I think there is a different reaction on both fronts from the media. The media went overboard with 6 to 8 weeks of Rev. Wright. He was scary to a lot of the media and to alot of America because most haven't spent time in black churches and have never heard most of black preachers critique America on.

I think the media's decision to go overboard mixed with its lack of wall to wall coverage over the RW evangelical movement's pulpit message put them in a 'fair and balanced quandry.'

I think that tv coverage has shown the flier with the cross but the media knows it has a 'fair and balanced' deficit on religion.

What can the media do when at least 8% to 20% think Obama is a Muslim AND goes to Rev. Wright's church?

Very hard to believe that Huckabee and
his people didn't know that bookshelf in the background looked like a cross.

Obama is a Christiand and has attended churches around the country. The ministers like the fact that he usually stays the entire service instead of just for 5 minutes before running to the next church. Because the false rumors and emails persist that he is a muslim, the flier is wise and appropiate.

As for faith. It took a lot of faith to believe that a skinny guy named Barack Obama could become President of the United States.

The candidate aligned with Christ
has already won the nomination.

The losing Antichrist female
candidate is engaged in all
manner of deceit and trickery.
Her shenanigans and skullduggery
will lead her to naught.

hey.....

Hillary is still in the race.... and needs our support!

Just because the Obamaniacs call her down and out doesn't make it so.

Their perceptivity is skewed and colorblinded....
(If he can sound sexist, I can sound racist.... though colorblind and perceptivity colorblind can't occur without perceptivity)

They spread lies about this race being OVER. Well, It's NOT!!!

And this guy is glad!

(snipped from Kentuckian 051808):

"MY FELLOW AMERICANS......Barack Obama has finally crossed the line!!!!!!!!! Obama has gone too far!!! He has insulted every Vietnam Vet in West Virginia and Kentucky. Obama has no right to finally stick on his flag pin now, stage all those flags behind him and attempts to align himself or address the Vietnam War. WV. and KY. are largely vets, patriots, Bluegrass people, and we revere God, Country, and the American Flag and take this subject very seriously. I am sickened to see Obama act like he knows what it means to be a Vietnam Vet. Obama has no idea what patriotism means. No matter what the other states say that voted for Obama, KY. and WV. say it DOES matter who Obama aligns himself with and in bed with. WV. and KY. are going to say it LOUD AND CLEAR with our vote is for Hillary. Obama can bypass us with his trash talk. I for one am appalled and sicken by the God, Country, Jesus, and the Flag hating states and superdelegates that voted for Obama; they are betrayers of this great country. "

As you can see,not everyone is for B O!

My vote will be for Hillary Clinton
because she has the strength and the brain and the chutzpa to bring our country out of these terrible economic times into a future of universal health care, job growth, and solutions on the devastating mortgage problems confronting too many of our home owners.

GIVE EM HELL, HILLARY!!!

Countallthevotes, I am confused. You wrote: "...as the months passed, I felt the idea of becoming an organizer slipping away from me. The company promoted me to the position of financial writer. I had my own office, my own secretary;..." But in the very next paragraph you wrote: "If Barack was promoted, his new job responsibilities were more of the same - rewriting other people’s copy. As far as I know, he always had a small office, and the idea that he had a secretary is laughable. Only the company president had a secretary."

You say that you had your own secretary...but only the company president had a secretary?

Jenny,

If you followed the link I provided you would find many of Obama's co-workers attesting to the fact that his account of the "finanacial institution" and his responsibilities were pure fiction. And there were so many co-workers asserting that.

Obama will not use the word "cabinet" to describe his staff. Instead, he will call them his "DISCIPLES." Great stuff!

Jenny said: "Another Clintonian crawls out of the woodwork to smear.

Bet, I could do the same thing with Bosnia Hillary's book."

I'M SURE. But Obama is supposed to be soooooo different, when he's just the same ole, same ole....

Countalthevotes:

Another Clintonian crawls out of the woodwork to smear.

Bet, I could do the same thing with Bosnia Hillary's book.

Josh,

HOw do you know what "Barack" thinks?? Obama supporters talk as if they have a personal connection with him. He has created a myth; you have fallen in love with that myth. I do hope it works out for you.

Josh -- stop deluding yourself. Obama never sat down and said: Well, I do not really need black, liberal faithful Democrats to vote for me. They are a throw-away crowd. LOL. If you believe that, you believe that Karl Rove is a closet Democrat. The "likes of you"? LOL. that hurt. LOL..boo hooo...

jgaw and tony and anyone interested in truth and accuracy,

I assume some of you have read Obama's book in which he recounts his time in high finance in NYC, post-Columbia. Well, it seems some of his co-workers read his book and sharply disagree with his account. Take a look and see what I mean. Obama writes fiction, pure and simple and embellishes his resume. Other than writing these two books, I do not see real achievements that would qualify him for POTUS.

Barack Obama Embellishes His Resume
Don’t get me wrong - I’m a big fan of Barack Obama, the Illinois freshman senator and hot young Democratic Party star. But after reading his autobiography, I have to say that Barack engages in some serious exaggeration when he describes a job that he held in the mid-1980s.I know because I sat down the hall from him, in the same department, and worked closely with his boss. I can’t say I was particularly close to Barack - he was reserved and distant towards all of his co-workers - but I was probably as close to him as anyone. I certainly know what he did there, and it bears only a loose resemblance to what he wrote in his book.

Here’s Barack’s account:

Eventually a consulting house to multinational corporations agreed to hire me as a research assistant. Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office and sat at my computer terminal, checking the Reuters machine that blinked bright emerald messages from across the globe. As far as I could tell I was the only black man in the company, a source of shame for me but a source of considerable pride for the company’s secretarial pool.

First, it wasn’t a consulting house; it was a small company that published newsletters on international business. Like most newsletter publishers, it was a bit of a sweatshop. I’m sure we all wished that we were high-priced consultants to multinational corporations. But we also enjoyed coming in at ten, wearing jeans to work, flirting with our co-workers, partying when we stayed late, and bonding over the low salaries and heavy workload.

Barack worked on one of the company’s reference publications. Each month customers got a new set of pages on business conditions in a particular country, punched to fit into a three-ring binder. Barack’s job was to get copy from the country correspondents and edit it so that it fit into a standard outline. There was probably some research involved as well, since correspondents usually don’t send exactly what you ask for, and you can’t always decipher their copy. But essentially the job was copyediting.

It’s also not true that Barack was the only black man in the company. He was the only black professional man. Fred was an African-American who worked in the mailroom with his son. My boss and I used to join them on Friday afternoons to drink beer behind the stacks of office supplies. That’s not the kind of thing that Barack would do. Like I said, he was somewhat aloof.

…as the months passed, I felt the idea of becoming an organizer slipping away from me. The company promoted me to the position of financial writer. I had my own office, my own secretary; money in the bank. Sometimes, coming out of an interview with Japanese financiers or German bond traders, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors—see myself in a suit and tie, a briefcase in my hand—and for a split second I would imagine myself as a captain of industry, barking out orders, closing the deal, before I remembered who it was that I had told myself I wanted to be and felt pangs of guilt for my lack of resolve.

If Barack was promoted, his new job responsibilities were more of the same - rewriting other people’s copy. As far as I know, he always had a small office, and the idea that he had a secretary is laughable. Only the company president had a secretary. Barack never left the office, never wore a tie, and had neither reason nor opportunity to interview Japanese financiers or German bond traders.

Then one day, as I sat down at my computer to write an article on interest-rate swaps, something unexpected happened. Auma called. I had never met this half sister; we had written only intermittently. …[several pages on his suffering half-sister] …a few months after Auma called, I turned in my resignation at the consulting firm and began looking in earnest for an organizing job.

What Barack means here is that he got copy from a correspondent who didn’t understand interest rate swaps, and he was trying to make sense out of it.

All of Barack’s embellishment serves a larger narrative purpose: to retell the story of the Christ’s temptation. The young, idealistic, would-be community organizer gets a nice suit, joins a consulting house, starts hanging out with investment bankers, and barely escapes moving into the big mansion with the white folks. Luckily, an angel calls, awakens his conscience, and helps him choose instead to fight for the people.

Like I said, I’m a fan. His famous keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention moved me to tears. The Democrats - not to mention America - need a mixed-race spokesperson who can connect to both urban blacks and rural whites, who has the credibility to challenge the status quo on issues ranging from misogynistic rap to unfair school funding.

And yet I’m disappointed. Barack’s story may be true, but many of the facts are not. His larger narrative purpose requires him to embellish his role. I don’t buy it. Just as I can’t be inspired by Steve Jobs now that I know how dishonest he is, I can’t listen uncritically to Barack Obama now that I know he’s willing to bend the facts to his purpose.

Once, when I applied for a marketing job at a big accounting firm, my then-supervisor called HR to say that I had exaggerated something on my resume. I didn’t agree, but I also didn’t get the job. But when Barack Obama invents facts in a book ranked No. 8 on the NY Times nonfiction list, it not only fails to be noticed but it helps elevate him into the national political pantheon.

For the comments see this link. Many other co-workers weigh in:

http://www.analyzethis.net/blog/2005/07/09/barack-obama-embellishes-his-resume/

Jgaw/Tony - whoever...

Obama was never going to get support from the likes of you. He knew that well before Iowa and will make it to the White House inspite of you.

and herb,
we have not seen your name around here before.
who are you?
better still i would like to know exactly who obama is and what is he going to do

josh,
here is some more jibber jabber for you,
sen.clinton supporters are voters too.
and will not vote for the "flim-flam
man obama.
who is pulling the 'Woolie-bully'
over your eyes.

obama has not won the primary fair and square-he had help from msm and dnc.
he will not be POTUS
if by some fluke-he does-we will all suffer for it.

Sarah - if I'm sexist, then don't vote for me in November. See -- that's how it works! The party/candidate is sexist. I don't vote for the part/candidate. Ta da.

For your information Tony, I'm a 61 year old who has raised 4 foster children - all college educated.

Hill can hang in there all right; her campaign is as dead as a dodo.

wow tony,
i just read your essay, it is great and so true. please send to obama and the dnc. and sent to all major news outlets.
cnn and msnbc nbc they probably will not do anything about it but they will not be able to say they did not know.

Going to the CHURCH of Rev WRIGHT does not make Obama a CHRISTIAN.