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There is Born to You This Day in the City of Chicago a Savior

June 02, 2008 10:19 AM

Rt_obama_080602_blog And His name is Barack the Democrat.

General election project for Political Punch readers: Let's keep track of how many Holy images of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, make their way into print.

(And bad ones, if any. And of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., let's keep track as well -- photos of him looking heavenly or, conversely, old and feeble.)

- jpt

UPDATE: To anyone who thinks I am mocking God or religion with this post. I am not. I am mocking the images some in the media are using to portray Sen. Obama. Such as the Reuters photo above. Or this DaVincian New York Magazine image. Or this cover of Rolling Stone. No disrespect towards God or persons of faith intended at all. The jesting is not aimed at religion, God, or Sen. Obama -- but rather those pushing these Holy Images of the Illinois senator who is, after all, but a man.

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Obama is a corrupt politician from Chicago where corruption in their politicians is the highest in the country!!

Posted by: spock | Jun 2, 2008 3:30:48 PM

Hilarious, Jake!

Yahoo News photos has a series of Barack Obama photographs. One photographer seems to have become quite enamored of lining up the shot so it looks as if the upraised hand of Obama emits light (pics 30 and 32 in the series are good). One has a light beaming from his benevolent chest (pic 31)

Posted by: MayBee | Jun 2, 2008 3:29:24 PM

There is no doubt that Obama came from heaven to help save his fellow Americans from their worse enemies, themselves. lol

Hawaii IS heaven! lol

Obama is LESS Chicago and FAR MORE Hawaii!

That is why Obama seems so unique and IS that unique to the 'mainlanders': That island tranquility and island living are far more soothing to one's disposition.

Posted by: Patriot | Jun 2, 2008 3:19:56 PM

"Look, I am an ardent Obama supporter. Wake me up if the Obama campaign tries to put out/arrange such pics, and I will get troubled by it. Obama can't be held responsible for this sort of nonsense."

Nobody is accusing the Obama campaign of anything. the point is that a huge contingent of the MSM is in intent and in effect part of the Obama campaign.

Posted by: mesquito | Jun 2, 2008 3:18:18 PM

DL - Where do I start?

Gore did not back down he lost his bid to steal the election!! He asked for only recounts in highly democrat areas, he asked NOT to count the military (which Lieberman to his credit denounced that)
There was no place to go after the Supreme Court!! The time ran out!!

where do you get your 99% figure?? Read Again - One of the most decorated French geophysicists has converted from a believer in manmade catastrophic global warming to a climate skeptic. This latest defector from the global warming camp caps a year in which numerous scientific studies have bolstered the claims of climate skeptics. Scientific studies that debunk the dire predictions of human-caused global warming have continued to accumulate and many believe the new science is shattering the media-promoted scientific “consensus” on climate alarmism.

Judge in England lambastes Gores movie for inconsistencies.

How can 99% of scientists believe in manmade Global warming when more then double stated it is false, and that is excluding the ones that were threatened to lose their jobs if they spoke out against like in Washington State and Oklahoma! Why do you think they refuse to debate it, it is because it does not exist!!
Lookup Global 2000!

The rest of your comments I do not know if they are towards me! but please tell me what Pres. bush has done wrong, you all critize but give no facts -

Facts are - Lowest unemployment continuous in the last 40 years
Highest Stock market
America Homeland is more secure!!

yes did he make mistakes yes- His stance on Illegal Immigration is wrong

What happened when Dem/libs took over Congress - Gas Prices Doubles, Food Prices increased, taxes increased.

Please give only facts!!

You read the Liberal Handbook and do not think for yourself, you repeat tongue n cheek their talking points!!

President Bush is closer to a Conservative (1st term)
2nd term he became more moderate

McCain is basically an independent, he is not a republican

Hilary is a liberal

Obama is a racist Socialist!!

Facts are Facts!!

The position of the courts is NOT to make law but to interpret Law!!
Roe v Wade was a law made by the courts
same as this gay marriage in California!! and Mass.
They are non-elected officials making law and that should scare you no matter what affiliation you are, because think of this one day they will make a law you do not agree with and what then, you can not denounce it because there is precedent!!

Polar bear population has grown over 5times in the last 20 years!!

Posted by: spock | Jun 2, 2008 3:16:23 PM

Be weary of false prophets!

Posted by: mona | Jun 2, 2008 2:40:47 PM

What about the photo just before that?

Posted by: Sean Braisted | Jun 2, 2008 2:38:23 PM

okay the best posting since the primary's began

\when

"satan" chimes in on Hillary's behalf...


"Any truth to rumors of a Michelle Obama video??"

with friends like these.

and no there is no truth to some video that has Michelle Obama taking down white people in some radical enducing speech.

Just more blather and old time politics...reminds us why we need to change washington

Posted by: dl | Jun 2, 2008 2:33:46 PM

okay the best posting since the primary's began

\when

"satan" chimes in on Hillary's behalf...


"Any truth to rumors of a Michelle Obama video??"

with friends like these.

and no there is no truth to some video that has Michelle Obama taking down white people in some radical enducing speech.

Just more blather and old time politics...reminds us why we need to change washington

Posted by: dl | Jun 2, 2008 2:33:11 PM

Debra I agree with you. Even if Hillary was VP Obama would make the decisions. We can't let that happen. It's either Hillary President or McCain!!!

Posted by: carolyn | Jun 2, 2008 2:27:24 PM

Hillary has 17 million supporters +, even if 1/4 of that votes for McCain, you have about 4 million voters. Look how close other Presidential races were...down to thousands of votes. This loss will not be close....landslide McCain.

Posted by: Debra | Jun 2, 2008 2:03:08 PM

your coverage of obama is strage to say the least--people say obama does not talk about specific issues--yet all of read is rev this or reverend that--or is he to black or not enough black-is a patriotic-is he a muslim --or this weird story--i wonder why clinton and mccain get so much respect, but obama get's treated like a side show--i think this is the real bias--it is also interesting that this blog tends to watch fox a lot. i wonder what obama's opinion on farm subsidies is compared to mccain's--or what are there records on the minimum wage or abortion or death penalty--what about flip flops--i think the media has a responsibility to take the high road--even drudge has taken the high road why won't you?

Posted by: william | Jun 2, 2008 1:58:06 PM

HILLARY SUPPORTERS FOR McCAIN....MILLIONS OF US.

Debra, got any factual support for your numbers? Millions seems pretty high, and I'm trying to figure where that count comes from. Please enlighten us.

Posted by: louielouie | Jun 2, 2008 1:42:12 PM

This has been going on a long time. About a month ago I was checking out an article in the Black Star. The photo looked like it was enhanced to make Obama look like MLK. The higher you fly the harder you fall.

Posted by: Ken | Jun 2, 2008 1:40:25 PM

spock obama does not mean high taxes for the middle class...

Obama means getting the burden of wealthy taxes off the backs of the rest of the country.

Posted by: dl | Jun 2, 2008 1:35:05 PM

spock

do you remember that Gore backed down from the fight in 2000?

or do you ignore the 99% of scientists who say global warming exists...

and if you are wrong what happens? or does that not matter ...that so many in the scientific community that deal with this daily contradict you...

and for those who say history doesn't show that people vote by the person...sorry but people don't vote for a person that stands in direct opposition to the issues that effect them the most...
they don't... and McCain is promising (if you listen) exactly that inopposition to Hillary...

and yes 2-3 supreme court justices may retire in the next 4-8 years...

and a McCain win would tell congress that their opposition to overturning roe and fixing things are not as important to voters as they would have liked to believe.

and if you are banking on hillary in 2012...guess who won't have a snowballs chance of winning a senate seat never mind another presidential election if we lose now...

and yes lots of women are angry but does that mean most of them are going to vote against issues...no.

and only a 5th grader...or somebody who hadn't fully grown up would vote against all of the issues that Mccain opposes that are in lock step with Bush after we have seen how badly those policies have done for us.

as much as that feels good for the anger you all feel...the truth of the matter is people are going to vote for the country not because they were angry at not having the cnadidate they fought for.

It's a change year and luckily most realize how bad of a situation we have gotten ourselves into.

Posted by: dl | Jun 2, 2008 1:32:38 PM

Obama = HIGH TAXES!!!! except for his elitist friend that he met in San Francisco or his terrorist buddies!!

Posted by: spock | Jun 2, 2008 1:22:02 PM

Mack...the whitey tape with Michelle and Farrakhan is being held until October, I've heard. Timing will be everything before Nov. 3.

Posted by: Debra | Jun 2, 2008 1:21:28 PM

o. - Before you speak you should take a better look at your candidate, - one the only one spewing racist comments is from his group, he has no standing nor experience!

If you are voting for him because he is black, that makes you the racist not those who are not voting for him because he is racist!!

By the way even Obama called Reagan one of the best Presidents, so then Obama must be full of it!!

Posted by: spock | Jun 2, 2008 1:19:49 PM

Mack writes:
"[Obama] was re-born in Chicago."

Yeah, from the ravaged political life of his black female mentor Alice Palmer -- whom Obama betrayed with some help from Ayers-Exelon-Axelrod-Daley.
It would have been waaay better if Axelrod had just run for office himself, rather than puppeteering "post-partisan" birthday-suit candidates Patrick, Acevedo and Obama.

Posted by: Belle Starr | Jun 2, 2008 1:18:34 PM

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