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October 28, 2008 10:06 PM

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A Veteran,

Yes it does, If you have people living up to that kind of code in their personal lives, YES, they will be living in harmony with all people.

Thank you for sharing that with us.
I had never heard of or seen anything like that before.

Thank You,
and once again,
any group of people who try to live their lives under that banner,
will live in harmony with all people.
and they will be and will help make it a better world for all.

I would rather have a young black man trying to live up to those kind of standards, and trying to be a productive person in the world.
rather than seeing him live up to the code of the gangs and knocking people like you and me in the head, for a few bucks.

Posted by: cheer up, smile, nertz! | Oct 29, 2008 8:42:41 AM

These are the values of Obama's church:
Commitment to God. “The God of our weary years” will give us the strength to give up prayerful passivism and become Black Christian Activists, soldiers for Black freedom and the dignity of all humankind.


Commitment to the Black Community. The highest level of achievement for any Black person must be a contribution of strength and continuity of the Black Community.

Commitment to the Black Family. The Black family circle must generate strength, stability and love, despite the uncertainty of externals, because these characteristics are required if the developing person is to withstand warping by our racist competitive society.

Those Blacks who are blessed with membership in a strong family unit must reach out and expand that blessing to the less fortunate.


Dedication to the Pursuit of Education. We must forswear anti-intellectualism. Continued survival demands that each Black person be developed to the utmost of his/her mental potential despite the inadequacies of the formal education process. “Real education” fosters understanding of ourselves as well as every aspect of our environment. Also, it develops within us the ability to fashion concepts and tools for better utilization of our resources, and more effective solutions to our problems. Since the majority of Blacks have been denied such learning, Black Education must include elements that produce high school graduates with marketable skills, a trade or qualifications for apprenticeships, or proper preparation for college.

Basic education for all Blacks should include Mathematics, Science, Logic, General Semantics, Participative Politics, Economics and Finance, and the Care and Nurture of Black minds.


Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence. To the extent that we individually reach for, even strain for excellence, we increase, geometrically, the value and resourcefulness of the Black Community. We must recognize the relativity of one’s best; this year’s best can be bettered next year. Such is the language of growth and development. We must seek to excel in every endeavor.
Adherence to the Black Work Ethic. “It is becoming harder to find qualified people to work in Chicago.” Whether this is true or not, it represents one of the many reasons given by businesses and industries for deserting the Chicago area. We must realize that a location with good facilities, adequate transportation and a reputation for producing skilled workers will attract industry. We are in competition with other cities, states and nations for jobs. High productivity must be a goal of the Black workforce.

Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect. To accomplish anything worthwhile requires self-discipline. We must be a community of self-disciplined persons if we are to actualize and utilize our own human resources, instead of perpetually submitting to exploitation by others. Self-discipline, coupled with a respect for self, will enable each of us to be an instrument of Black Progress and a model for Black Youth.

Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness.” Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control.

Those so identified are separated from the rest of the people by:


Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another.
Placing them in concentration camps, and/or structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.
Seducing them into a socioeconomic class system which, while training them to earn more dollars, hypnotizes them into believing they are better than others and teaches them to think in terms of “we” and “they” instead of “us.”
So, while it is permissible to chase “middleclassness” with all our might, we must avoid the third separation method – the psychological entrapment of Black “middleclassness.” If we avoid this snare, we will also diminish our “voluntary” contributions to methods A and B. And more importantly, Black people no longer will be deprived of their birthright: the leadership, resourcefulness and example of their own talented persons.


Pledge to Make the Fruits of All Developing and Acquired Skills Available to the Black Community.


Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions.


Pledge Allegiance to All Black Leadership Who Espouse and Embrace the Black Value System.


Personal Commitment to Embracement of the Black Value System. To measure the worth and validity of all activity in terms of positive contributions to the general welfare of the Black Community and the Advancement of Black People towards freedom.

Now substitute every word that says "black" with "white" and ask yourself if we would be racist or what would Jesse Jackson or Al say?
This does speak of harmony with our fellow Americans of all race.

Posted by: A Veteran | Oct 29, 2008 8:27:11 AM

This fundraising advantage comes directly as a result of Obama's abandonment of his pledge to enter into the public financing system, a system creating to squelch the influence of money in presidential politics.
And while Obama's campaign can rightly claim an unprecedented number of donors, and myriad small donations, it has also refused to abide by principles of full disclosure -- it does not provide the public with the names of any donors who have given less than $200, for instance.
And amidst legitimate inquiries about some of that money coming (illegally) from non -U.S. citizens, and some of that money being given -- in aggregate -- in excess of individual contribution limits, one wonders why it is that the Obama campaign feels this refusal to inform the public where all its money is coming from in any way squares with Obama's claim to be a reformer.
Just as it's tough to envision a world where it's the Obamas who have an unmarried pregnant teenage daughter and conservative pundits are celebrating that fact and demanding that the girl be given privacy, it's tough to imagine a scenario where the media allows McCain to tiptoe away from his campaign finance pledge, untrammeled, and then drown his opponent in cash, the donors for much of which are undisclosed.

Posted by: A Veteran | Oct 29, 2008 8:02:03 AM

Household Income, 2006 Total People Percent
Less than $49,999 57,218,480 51%
$50,000 to $74,999 21,221,889 19%
$75,000 to $99,999 13,214,551 12%
$100,000 to $199,999 16,145,482 14%
$200,000 or more 3,817,000 3%

Posted by: A Veteran | Oct 29, 2008 8:00:06 AM

chuck

if your talking about the gallup daily tracking poll Obama's still way ahead unless your watching fox or reading drudge with there stupid "traditional" tracking poll which hadnt been used all campaign until mccain was losing!

The tradition poll is worth nothing!

But thanks for helping to get Obama supporters to the polls

Hate and fear wont win..NOT THIS TIME.


Obama 08!

YES WE CAN

Posted by: Mike NC | Oct 29, 2008 7:09:47 AM

Why do McCain/Palin supporters have nothing positive to say about their own candidates or their positions? Instead, they seem happiest when they're passing along demented, paranoid, conspiratorial fantasies about their opponents.

Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | Oct 29, 2008 6:57:29 AM

Hey Mike the election is next week so you can show all the stats you want only ones that count are on Nov 4th! Sorry to rain on your little party, but polls are closing real fast and as the week goes on and the MSM finally starts vetting your guy it will be over for him!

Posted by: chuck | Oct 29, 2008 6:38:19 AM

If the election was held today:

Obama 375 McCain 163

You only need 270 to win!

Obama 08

Change come from the bottom up!

Use your vote people!

Posted by: Mike NC | Oct 29, 2008 5:49:09 AM

I can just see it now.
All of the API people coming from norway, to canada, to pick up their
canadian lawyer- all carrying their big black briefcases (full of tapes)
they will travel in unmarked cars
doing everything they can to keep from being ambushed by the obama people or the in the tank for obama media.
trying to make their way to the fox news network to air the tapes.
the plans were working just fine
until one of the associates realized
he had forgotten his disguise

He said whispering to another associate
"I don't think i can go on, i left my groucho marks nose and glasses in the airport"

Posted by: cheer up, smile, nertz! | Oct 29, 2008 5:36:22 AM

The best thing John Mccain' followers could do now, is try to get mccain to focus on what he will do for the country.

and maybe he will convience some undecided to come his way.
becaues all of the stuff that he, and his followers are focusing on right now.
a person can pick up and read in the
National Enquirer.

Posted by: cheer up, smile, nertz! | Oct 29, 2008 5:28:30 AM

REpublicons are against all College level professors and anybody who disagrees with their views. They only believe in freedom of speech for those that will regurgitate their talking points. The REpublicons party are more into the unhinged element of society now, no thinkers wanted.

Posted by: Truth Matters | Oct 29, 2008 5:20:34 AM

If the mccain campaign had even once wanted to be on the up and up , and just plainly tell the american people what he was planning to do differently from bush. he might have had it a little better. Mccain should have been a real mavrick and not voted with bush ninety percent of the time.
and even now, his campaign is trying to blame everyone and everything for their failings, it is not the media' fault mccain campaign is not going well.
it is mccain fault.
mccain', rep, are all blaming each other,
and now blaming the media.
come nov. fourth, they will be able to blame the voters

Posted by: cheer up, smile, nertz! | Oct 29, 2008 5:14:18 AM

hero,
if there is a little joe the plumber out there not being taken care of by big joe, there is nothing wrong here.
no matter what you find out in Helen Jones Kelly record.
if joe the plumber owes child support he should pay it.
if he owes traffic violations he should pay them.
if he is really thinking about running for congress, he will be glad now that he got his record and affairs in order.

Posted by: cheer up, smile, nertz! | Oct 29, 2008 5:04:59 AM

MSM goes after anyone who goes to court to enquire about "THE ONE’s birth records:

There are only 3 formal qualifications required of a presidential candidate.


One of them is to be a natural-born citizen. To check on this qualification, a birth certificate might come in handy. It’s not much to ask for, you would think.


But Barry Dunham-Davis-Soetero-Obama has sent top-flight lawyers to seven courthouses to argue that granting access to such records would be a violation of his right to privacy.

Obviously he has something to hide, especially since he claims to have already made such records available in electronic format. Or perhaps he’s just waiting for the right moment to announce that he is not of woman born.

Rather than investigate what he could be hiding, the brave men and women of the press have targeted anyone who dares to question the High and Might Barry.

When reading the following keep in mind: What difference does it make what David M. Neal does for a living?

Even murderers, terrorists and child-molesters in the US have the right to sue the president — even non-citizens do — so why shouldn’t a citizen who sells what are apparently legal products be able to seek redress in the courts regarding a presidential candidate’s qualifications?

I bet if Obama’s crack dealer was trying to have Bush impeached, the press wouldn’t even mention his job.

This is just another example of the kind of attacks faced by “Joe the Plumber” [He's divorced!] and Barbara West [Her husband's a Republican!] and Andy Martin and Philip Berg [MSM also searched their psychiatric reports !] and anyone else who dares to question "THE ONE":


++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Neal v. Obama Hearing Thursday In Lawsuit Questioning Obama’s Citizenship

Tom Beyerlein & Tim Tresslar, Dayton Daily News, 2008.10.28
*********************************
TURTLECREEK TWP — The man who filed a lawsuit in Warren County last week questioning whether Barack Obama is a “natural-born” U.S. citizen owns a company that sells products to help users of illegal drugs pass employers’ drug screenings.

David M. Neal, 55, filed the lawsuit Friday, Oct. 24, against Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, national Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern and U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein, who chairs the Senate’s rules committee.

The lawsuit is based on a long-standing Internet rumor that Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate is a forgery and he was actually born in his father’s native country, Kenya. Neal argues that the defendants should require documentation of Obama’s minimum qualifications to be president, as spelled out in the Constitution.

In a phone interview Monday, Oct. 27, Neal called Obama’s 1961 Hawaii birth certificate “a bogus, forged document.” He said his lawsuit is part of an effort by a grassroots group that is legally challenging Obama’s eligibility in courts in numerous states.

“To avert likely civil unrest and a constitutional crisis which would certainly accrue after the election through laborious legal challenges and impeachment process, this complaint seeks to resolve such complaints prior to the election,” Neal’s lawsuit reads. The same language appears in a lawsuit filed by a man in Washington state this month.

Another similar lawsuit, filed by a Philadelphia attorney in August, was dismissed by a federal judge this month.

Several fact-checking organizations say the Hawaii certificate appears to be legitimate, but Neal said the organizations, as well as the media, are biased and preventing the true story from being told.

Obama’s Ohio campaign staff declined to comment on the lawsuit, but an Obama Web site posted the Hawaii certificate and said the rumors are “smears” that are “about manipulating people into thinking Barack is not an American citizen.”

A spokesman for the Ohio Democratic Party declined to comment, and Brunner’s office hasn’t seen the lawsuit, a spokesman said.

There is a hearing on the lawsuit set for Thursday, Oct. 30.

In the lawsuit, Neal lists his address as 6117 Hendrickson Road. That’s the address of his company, ACS Herbal Tea Co., which sells products that “cleanse blood, urine, saliva or hair within an hour,” according to the company’s Web site. ACS products include Urine Luck Solution, Magnum Synthetic Urine, Ultra Saliva Detox Kit and, “for heavy users,” the Eight Day Complete Detox.

“There is no reason anyone should lose his or her job, or not be hired for a position due to a failed drug test,” the Web site proclaims. “We will show you how. Whether it’s marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines or opiates, you can rest assured that we can help you pass all drug tests!”

Neal said he has owned the company since the 1990s.

Posted by: Hero | Oct 29, 2008 4:57:26 AM

I wished Obama would cut loose the horses and tell the world all that the republican majority has done to cause the economic disaster. Deregulation of Oil, Wall Street, the banking industry and big business... will cost trillions of dollars to arrest and repair. The damage they have done will take over a decade to fix and that is only if we have the best honest people fixing it....

Let the dogs out Barack and tell us what they did to rob us blind!!!

My dollar is only worth a fifty cents to a quarter at the grocery store. My dollar was only a quarter at the gas pumps until recently when the Bush's told the Saudis that republicans would be wiped out of Congress and the gig would be up if they didn't drop the bottom out of gas prices....

It's just this simple.... If your not worth four time what you were eight years ago and making at least four times as much annually you have gotten poorer...under republican leadership....

Republicans are willing to say anything in their campaigns because they have done nothing to brag about. Plus they have everything to fear if their track record is examined by voters before Nov. 4th....

Clean republicans out of politics and save the American Dream!!!

Posted by: Ed C. | Oct 29, 2008 2:46:49 AM

Did you hear about how Obama wants to sue people for investigating voter registration fraud.

Now this about how the LA TIMES refuse to release a NEW WORTHY video of Obama praising the PLO and calling Israel terrorists

Posted by: tabby | Oct 29, 2008 2:29:40 AM

LA TIMES and Obama PLO GATE.

Posted by: ben hur | Oct 29, 2008 2:27:00 AM

Why do you Republican's have so much hate in your hearts?

Posted by: democratic | Oct 29, 2008 2:26:06 AM

Their is going to be a real shat storm after the election on Obama's fundraising

more than half his donations came from like anonymous internet donations

Posted by: scabby | Oct 29, 2008 2:20:30 AM

This last racist post is not mine.

Obama will overcome.

Posted by: democratic | Oct 29, 2008 2:19:30 AM

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