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<title><![CDATA[RE:ITS YOUR FAULT]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's good to see I'm not the only one that feels like this. It's true, I don't feel bad if you lost your $300,000 house because your ARM went through the roof. It's your fault. You're the one that didn't do your homework. If you don't like where things are then get off your ass and get another job or a better job. Don't cry about it and say it's the government's job to fix it. ]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-11-18T09:00:19-05:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[RE:ITS YOUR FAULT]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-18T09:00:19-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[Cosi- what a joke! (West Toledo)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I cannot believe all these people voted to have the government take over COSI. If Cosi was so wonderful why did it fail? How come it took 3 times to pass this thing? Cosi or no Cosi I don't think it really makes a differance to Toledo. ]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-11-14T22:10:29-05:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Cosi- what a joke! (West Toledo)]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-14T22:10:29-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[RE:Obama a set back for the African American Community]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This was nearly the dumbest commentary I've heard yet.  Most people didn't vote for Obama because he is black, they voted for him in spite of this silly "difference".  These same people did not vote for McCain, because, in his own words, "I supported President Bush 90% of the time."  We're sick of a president who lies to the American public, invades countries at will pretending they are a threat to our security, and doesn't care what the American reputation is in the eyes of other countries.  He lied to the American people and thumbed his nose at the United Nations, and went ahead and invaded Iraq. He doesn't care if our children have health care and can afford to go to college.  <br>
<br>
McCain is old, sick, and will probably not live long enough to finish one term.  Then we would have that nut case from Alaska as our president.  ]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-11-14T08:57:35-05:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[RE:Obama a set back for the African American Community]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-14T08:57:35-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[RE: RE: More Heartache for McCain]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yes I voted for obama, he was the better candidate, mccain would have made this country worse, but that is not the point
<br><br>
and yes if it was michelle cheating on obama, I would have posted it too, so stop trying to make it out like i am a blind obama supporter
<br><br>
but with out asking i can tell you voted for mccain and probably believed the lies spread about obama
<br><br>
<a href="http://twofacemccain.com/"  rel="nofollow">http://twofacemccain.com/</a>]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-11-13T09:36:51-05:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[RE: RE: More Heartache for McCain]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-13T09:36:51-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[RE: More Heartache for John McCain.....]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Let me guess....you voted for Obama. :o( Would you have posted this, if the news was "Michelle cheats on Barack?" <br>
Puuulllleeeeze...people. He won, can't you just be happy with that???]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-11-12T13:56:20-05:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[RE: More Heartache for John McCain.....]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-12T13:56:20-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[More Heartache for John McCain]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reports are Cindy McCain is cheating on John<br>
<br>
<a href="http://twofacemccain.com/"  rel="nofollow">http://twofacemccain.com/</a>]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-11-12T11:05:39-05:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[More Heartache for John McCain]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-12T11:05:39-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[ITS YOUR FAULT]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IM GOING TO SAY WHAT EVERY POLITICAL LEADER OR COWARD RUNNING FOR OFFICE IS WILLING TO SAY.  THE STATE OF OUR NATION AND OUR MORE IMOPORTANTLY OUR ECONOMY IS YOUR FAULT AMERICA! ITS NOT GEORGE BUSH, OBAMA, THE REPUBLICANS, THE DEMOCRATS, OR ANYBODY ELSES FAULT! ITS YOURS! WE MOURN THOSE WHO ARE LOSING THEIR JOBS AND THEIR HOMES AND THEIR CARS, ETC., AND YET WE HAVE MADE COMPANIES LIKE TOYOTA, HONDA, AND OTHER FORIEGN COMPANIES WHO MAKE 90% OF THEIRN GOODS IN ASIA, MEXICO, AND CANADA THE BIGGEST SELLERS IN OUR NATION!  THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE FORD LAYING OFF 10,000 WORKERS TAKE A GOOD LOOK IN THE MIRROR OR AT LEAST YOUR DRIVEWAY. LOOK IN YOUR DRESSOR, YOUR CABINET, LOOK AT EVERYTHING YOU OWN.  WHERE WAS IT MADE?  HOME FORECLOSURES?  IS THAT THE GOV'S FAULT?  THE BANKS FAULT?  NO, ITS THE FRICKEN IDIOTIC, GREEDY, SELFISH CONSUMER WHO MADE $50,000.00PER YR. AND BOUGHT A $200,000.00 HOUSE WITH NO MONEY DOWN ON AN INTREST ONLY LOAN OR A LOAN WITH AN INTREST RATE THAT THEY KNEW WAS GOING TO DOUBLE THEIR PAYMENT IN 2 YRS.!  QUIT YOUR CRYING AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!  IF ITS NOT MADE HERE DONT BUY IT! IF YOU CANT AFFORD IT, NO MATTER HOW MUCH YA WANT IT, DONT BUY IT!]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-11-10T13:15:20-05:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[ITS YOUR FAULT]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-10T13:15:20-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama a set back for the African American Community.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[obamas victory was not an accomplishment for the african community, it showed how desperate they were to elect an african american to the most important office in the world no matter what the cost.  the absolute stupidity to elect a man with no experience, a history of racism, and dangerous radical views of our nation.  his links to racist garbage such as jeremiah wright and other radical leaders were blindly overlooked by everyone.  you will notice that african american leaders such as jessie jackson, jeremiah wright, and al sharpton were absolutly nowhere to be found during the general election. why is that?  because if obama would have publicly embraced them he would have lost.  if he would have been himself and been the man he was in his memoirs he would have lost.  the african american community is hurt because they supported and embraced a man who every good thing in obamas life came from the white side in his life. his mother, grandparents, and the rest of the white family that raised him.  sadly his african american father and the rest of his african american family abandoned him sadly like so many others children in the african american comunity.  we talk about how racism is such an important part of our society. your right. it is. but as this election has shown its not the white commnity that has the race issue. its the african american community that has the race issue.  instead of electing a man the african american community chose to elect a black man. this tells it all - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyvqhdllXgU."  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyvqhdllXgU.</a>  I voted for mccain not because he is white, i could care less what color he is. i would have much rather had colin powell.  he has the experience, the knowledge, and the true bi-partisinship that our country needs.  i hope obama becomes the greatest president in history. i hope he makes our country the best its ever been. i hope god protects him and his family and blesses them with great success.  but when if he fails to fullfill the un-accomplishable promises he made during his campaign, i hope we as americans, all americans, have the courage to say enough is enough and stop electing these leaders who just say what we want to hear. stop electing (or not electing)our leaders based on the color of his skin. lets take our country back from the corruot polititians and remember they work for us!]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-11-10T12:59:31-05:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Obama a set back for the African American Community.]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-10T12:59:31-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: Shocked by the Bible -]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[World Net Daily is an extreme right wing crazy newsgroup. Nothing they say is true. 
<br>
David Ben Ariel is an extreme anti-semetic nutjob. 
<br>
And the Bible is a 2000 page sleeping pill. 
<br>
You need to peddle your trash elsewhere. 
<br>

<br>
Idiot. ]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-11-10T05:54:02-05:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Re: Shocked by the Bible -]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-10T05:54:02-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[Shocked by the Bible]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<h3><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2008/09/wnd-failed-to-read-beyond-babylon.html"  rel="nofollow">WND failed to read Beyond Babylon</a>        </h3>                          <div>WorldNetDaily reports:
</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=73215"  rel="nofollow">Are all these Christian beliefs actually missing from Bible?</a>

</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=2453"  rel="nofollow"><em>"Shocked by  the Bible"</em></a><em> is jam-packed with fantastic facts no one has dared to  publish for general audiences.
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</em></div> <div> </div> <div style="font-family: verdana;">Apparently WND and Joe Kovacs failed to read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1413750575?tag=beyondbabyl01-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1413750575&amp;adid=1V285Z1EYRBH2XNJPVYC&amp;" target="_blank"  rel="nofollow">Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall</a>. Regardless, it's great  to see others help spread the Word! Kudos to Kovacs!


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</div> <div style="font-family: verdana;"> </div> <div style="font-family: verdana;"> </div> <div style="font-family: verdana;"><p> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1413750575?tag=beyondbabyl01-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1413750575&amp;adid=0DCAJCAPV768JGJWV1QZ&amp;" target="_blank"  rel="nofollow">Beyond Babylon</a> fulfills the need to proclaim the gospel of the <a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/gospel/born-again-kingdom-god.htm"  rel="nofollow">Kingdom of God</a> while emphasizing a warning to the world; it includes the truth about our Hebrew roots and biblical responsibilities; about God's <a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/cog/remember-sabbath.htm"  rel="nofollow">Sabbath</a> and Holy Days versus Satan's Sunday and pagan holidays; about Israel's demise and Europe's rise -- these are foundational truths. </p> <p><i>Beyond Babylon</i> builds upon that sure foundation by pointing out that it's the <a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/europe/sorcerer-pope-bewitch-europe-mislead-masses.htm"  rel="nofollow">sorcerer-pope</a>, the <a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/jerusalem/jews-beast-false-prophet-romes-destruction.htm"  rel="nofollow">false prophet</a>, who presents Europe's imminent leader as the Savior of "Christian Western Civilization;" he'll perform miracles in his presence urging Europe to remodel themselves after the "Holy Roman Empire" (Rev. 13:14). Together they'll create a counterfeit Kingdom of God.</p> <p><i>Beyond Babylon</i> also explains -- FOR THE FIRST TIME -- why there are <a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/jerusalem/two-witnesses-testify-jerusalem-europe.htm"  rel="nofollow">two witnesses</a>, what their mission and purpose is, why they're stationed in Jerusalem and how they <i>fulfill</i> the Elijah role.</p><p>
</p></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/"  rel="nofollow">www.DavidBenAriel.org</a></div>]]></description>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Shocked by the Bible]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[RE:Obama will fail]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As if you'd post your name.  You know what would happen; you're just being an ass.  You'll never see me in person anyway.  Don't pretend it matters.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[RE:Obama will fail]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, anonymous people...I don't see your name in this post anywhere!  If you are so sure, post again and put your name where you mouth is!<br>
<br>
...or are you afraid to sign your silly predictions of doom?<br>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[RE:Obama will fail]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama will fail]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just remember that there were people who called it.]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-11-05T09:47:29-05:00</dc:date>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-05T09:47:29-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[I am an American!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Presidential candidate, Chuck Baldwin, describes the choice America has this November: "the battle today is not between conservatives and liberals or Republicans and Democrats. It is a battle between Americans and globalists. And, Ladies and Gentlemen, <a href="http://baldwinchuck.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-am-american.html"  rel="nofollow">I Am An American!</a> "<br>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[I am an American!]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-04T22:01:19-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[Ignore network news: OHIO POLLS CLOSE AT 7:30 NOT BEFORE (OH)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ABC Disney News broadcast the disinformation<br>
that Ohio polls and those of 4 other states close at 6 ... they close<br>
at 7:30<br>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Ignore network news: OHIO POLLS CLOSE AT 7:30 NOT BEFORE (OH)]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[God cause Toledo to fight back against Republican tricks (OH)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Be patient... take a thermos and reading material to the polls<br>
and perhaps a folding chair<br>
<br>
We now have a Dem Secy of State who won't allow (as Bush Taft Blackwell did)<br>
Toledo precincts to be shut down for no number 2 pencils<br>
<br>
God give Obama victory and protection. Protect our nation from martial<br>
law. End all the wars. God give us a Senate with Democrats numbering in the 60's<br>
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<dc:date>2008-11-04T16:38:55-05:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[God cause Toledo to fight back against Republican tricks (OH)]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Trouble at the polls? 1-866-OUR-VOTE. Report it! (USA)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Are you having trouble voting? <br>
See others having problems?<br>
CALL 1-866-687-8683    <br>
   1-866-OUR-VOTE<br>
Don't let them steal your vote!<br>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama (autism)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I am a mom to my son who has autism & we live in IL. I contacted Obama about
<br>
my son's treatment (chelation, which is part of BIO MED). He feels it is dangerous & is not in favor of it.
<br>

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<a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/airplane.asp"  rel="nofollow">http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/airplane.asp</a> 
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<a href="http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/pol/902982863.html"  rel="nofollow">http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/pol/902982863.html</a> 
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<a href="http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12956.htm"  rel="nofollow">http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12956.htm</a> 
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3kvW0cGZvQ&amp;feature=related"  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3kvW0cGZvQ&feature=related</a> 
<br>

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<title><![CDATA[ OBAMA'S BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY - DANGER FOR WHITES]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<h1>Obama pastor's theology: Destroy 'the white enemy'</h1>
<b>'If God is not for us and against whites ... we had better kill him'</b>

<br><br>
Barack Obama's suddenly radioactive pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has defended himself against charges of anti-Americanism and racism by referring to his foundational philosophy, the "black liberation theology" of scholars such as James Cone, who regard Jesus Christ as a "black messiah" and blacks as "the chosen people" who will only accept a god who assists their aim of destroying the "white enemy."
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"If God is not for us and against white people," writes Cone, "then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill gods who do not belong to the black community."
<br><br>
Wright has not talked to media since video segments of his sermons over the past decade surfaced last week &#8211; including one in 2003 in which he encouraged blacks to damn America in God's name. But in a 2007 interview replayed on the Fox News Channel's "Hannity and Colmes" show Friday, he repeatedly fended off Sean Hannity's questions with an appeal to authority, asking if the host had read any of the books of Cone, professor at New York's Union Theological Seminary, or Dwight Hopkins, professor at the University of Chicago's Divinity School, notes the Asia Times columnist who writes under the pseudonym Spengler."
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Obama, who has spoken of his pastor of more than 20 years as his mentor and moral compass, "wants to talk about what Wright is, rather than what he says," notes Spengler, by referring him as a "respected biblical scholar, and as someone who taught or lectured at seminaries across the country, from Union Theological Seminary to the University of Chicago."

But Spengler says "that way lies apolitical quicksand."

<br><br>


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Cone, he points out, was the most prominent theologian in the "black liberation" school in the 1960s, teaching that Jesus Christ himself is black.
<br><br>
The theologian explains:
Christ is black therefore not because of some cultural or psychological need of black people, but because and only because Christ really enters into our world where the poor were despised and the black are, disclosing that he is with them enduring humiliation and pain and transforming oppressed slaves into liberating servants. 
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Rather than viewing God as a sovereign being who does as he wills according to his purposes, Cone insists God must do what we want him to do, or we must reject him.
<br><br>
What the black community wants, Cone says, is for God to assist in its goal of destroying "the white enemy."
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill gods who do not belong to the black community 
<br><br>
... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
<br><br>
'I reject outright'
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As WND reported yesterday, Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago has removed from the "About Us" page of its website a section outlining its radical belief system for blacks.
<br><br>
Obama issued a statement Friday referring to the taped statements from sermons, saying he strongly condemned and denounced "some inflammatory and appalling remarks [Wright] made about our country, our politics, and my political opponents."
<br><br>
Wright has stepped down from his formal role in Obama's campaign, as a member of his African American Religious Leadership Committee.
<br>
<br>

<h2>It is incomprehensible that Obama, an anti-White, anti-American, Pro-Islamic, Racist can fool Americans into voting for him.</h2>


<b>Pay close attention to Obama's own words, from Obama's own book: </b>
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<i><b>From Dreams of My Father :</i></b> I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race. 
<br><br>
<i><b>From Dreams of My Father:</i></b> I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was 
ingratiating myself to whites. 
<br><br>
<i><b>From Dreams of My Father:</i></b> There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white. 
<br><br>
<i><b>From Dreams of My Father:</i></b> It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out 
and name names. 
<br><br>
<i><b>From Dreams of My Father:</i></b> I never emulate white men and brown men 
whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the 
black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought 
in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm X, DuBois and Mandela. 


<br><br>
<i><b>From Dreams of My Father :</i></b> I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race. 
<br><br>
<i><b>From Dreams of My Father:</i></b> I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was 
ingratiating myself to whites. 
<br><br>
<i><b>From Dreams of My Father:</i></b> There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white. 
<br><br>
<i><b>From Dreams of My Father:</i></b> It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out 
and name names. 
<br><br>
<i><b>From Dreams of My Father:</i></b> I never emulate white men and brown men 
whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the 
black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought 
in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm X, DuBois and Mandela. 
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<title><![CDATA[Don't Let Lower Gas Prices Fool You]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We still have limited energy supply and tooooo much of it is coming from people who don't like us!
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<br>
www.SoDrillAlready.com]]></description>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Don't Let Lower Gas Prices Fool You]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-04T11:23:00-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[The Truth will make the difference!]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: This needs to be investigated!!!!!!!! (ODJFS shame on YOU)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[You need to be investigated for sanity. I doubt they will find any. How dare you post such lying garbage here? And Ken Oinker Blackwell needs to shut his fat and bloated lying Uncle Tom lips and thank The Good Lord he isn't sucking cock in prison for sabotaging two national elections in Ohio. He was part of the most corrupt administration(Republican, of course) this state has ever seen and you hinge your vote on his moronic spew. His career is deservedly over but he should do time. <br>
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That website of yours is idiotic and you're an idiot for even going there. Pull your head out of your ass and grow a brain you lying fake Democrat/nutjob Republican troll. <br>
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OBAMA '08]]></description>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Re: This needs to be investigated!!!!!!!! (ODJFS shame on YOU)]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-11-04T02:41:21-05:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: Attn All Employees: PLEASE VOTE FOR MCCAIN (Obama wants your money]]></title>
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<br>
Notice to All Employees <br>
<br>
As of November 5, 2008, when President McCain is officially elected into office, our company will instill(or more correctly,install) a few new policies which are in keeping with his new, inspiring issues of change and fairness: <br>
<br>
1. All salespeople will work without any breaks. No lunch, no trips to the bathroom. Shit yourself and keep working. <br>
<br>
2. All non-management employees will no longer receive sick days, personal days or maternity leave. No vacation or bereavement days either. There will be no overtime pay--you will work overtime whenever asked, be paid the same hourly wage and fired if you complain. We can always hire illegals. Our Republican administration will support us. <br>
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3. Women employees will be paid half the wage of male employees. Sorry, we no longer employ Democrats, gays, blacks, smokers, drinkers, recreational drug users, Mormons, atheists, fat people, people who have ever looked at internet porn or anyone over 55.  Expect monthly urine and lie detector tests at our discretion.  Failure to comply results in termination. <br>
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4. All top management will now be referred to as “Master.” We will make anywhere from 10 times to 400 times your wage. <br>
<br>
5. The company elite will give eloquent speeches to all employees every week, encouraging its workers to continue to work hard “for the good of all.” Of course, we don't give a shit about you. When we say "all", we mean "us." You just need to make us more profit every month. <br>
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6. The employees will be thrilled with these new policies because it's “good to spread the wealth.” Keep the rich elite happy with huge profits and the wealth will eventually trickle down to you. If we can outlaw the minimum wage, all corporate taxes and all environmental laws, we might open another company in your town. We need to screw you harder so we can have bigger homes on better golf courses. <br>
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7. The company will no longer offer healthcare to the average employees. It is just too expensive to take care of you. You can be easily replaced. <br>
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8. Since the new administration has repealed safety laws, you're going to be exposed to some dangerous situations at work. If you get injured at work, don't expect Workman's Comp. We aren't required to pay into it and can just insure ourselves by hiring a group of lawyers who will ruin you if you ever try to recoup your losses. <br>
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9. When we unjustly fire you, don't bother applying for unemployment benefits. Our team of lawyers will fight you and you'll never get it. <br>
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10. Any and all attempts to organize other employees or unionize will be met with immediate termination. <br>
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If for any reason you are not happy with the new policies, you may want to rethink your vote on November 4th. ]]></description>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Re: Attn All Employees: PLEASE VOTE FOR MCCAIN (Obama wants your money]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Attn All Employees: PLEASE VOTE FOR MCCAIN (Obama wants your money!)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Notice to All Employees<br>
<br>
As of November 5, 2008, when President Obama is officially elected into office, our company will instill a few new policies which are in keeping with his new, inspiring issues of change and fairness:<br>
<br>
1. All salespeople will be pooling their sales commissions into a common pool that will be divided equally between all of you.  This will serve to give those of you who are underachieving a “fair shake.”  <br>
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2. All hourly employees will be pooling their wages, including overtime, into a common pool, dividing it equally amongst yourselves.  This will help those who are “too busy for overtime” to reap the rewards from those who have more spare time and can work extra hours.<br>
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3. All top management will now be referred to as “the government.”  We will not participate in this “pooling” experience because the law doesn't apply to us.<br>
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4. The “government” will give eloquent speeches to all employees every week, encouraging its workers to continue to work hard “for the good of all.”<br>
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5. The employees will be thrilled with these new policies because it's “good to spread the wealth..”  Those of you who have underachieved will finally get an opportunity; those of you who have worked hard and had success will feel more “patriotic.”<br>
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6. The last few people who were hired should clean out their desks.  Don't feel bad though, because President Obama will give you free healthcare, free handouts, free oil for heating your home, free food stamps, and he'll let you stay in your home for as long as you want even if you can't pay your mortgage.  If you appeal directly to our democratic congress, you might even get a free flat screen TV and a coupon for free haircuts (shouldn't all Americans be entitled to nice looking hair?) !!!<br>
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If for any reason you are not happy with the new policies, you may want to rethink your vote on  November 4th.<br>
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<description><![CDATA[FACT 1: Ohio will defeat McCain! - McSAME (like Bush) is ONLY for Joe the MIILIONAIRE (SOCIALISM for the RICH!) <br>
  - FACT 2: Obama and Biden (son in US Army) are the candidates with the VISION for America's economic security and CLEAN COAL energy jobs and independence... <a href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/newenergy"  rel="nofollow">http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/newenergy</a> <br>
  - FACT 3: YOUR LIFE and the LIVES of your CHILDREN and GRANDCHILDREN will be  BETTER UNDER OBAMA & BIDEN.<br>
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 GOD BLESS AMERICA! <br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGIqGaWZOo0"  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGIqGaWZOo0</a> <br>
  - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuhpO9xG2MY"  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuhpO9xG2MY</a> <br>
 - <a href="http://OurTroops.newsladder.net/submissions/comments/lWYTzP2x"  rel="nofollow">http://OurTroops.newsladder.net/submissions/comments/lWYTzP2x</a> <br>
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- <a href="http://www.VietnamVeteransAGAINSTjohnMcCain.com/"  rel="nofollow">http://www.VietnamVeteransAGAINSTjohnMcCain.com/</a> <br>
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- <a href="http://BlueCollarRepublican.com/blog/?p=32"  rel="nofollow">http://BlueCollarRepublican.com/blog/?p=32</a> <br>
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- <a href="http://RepublicansForOBAMA.org"  rel="nofollow">http://RepublicansForOBAMA.org</a> <br>
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- <a href="http://VETSforOBAMA.org/2008/10/25/have-some-friends-that-still-need-convincing/"  rel="nofollow">http://VETSforOBAMA.org/2008/10/25/have-some-friends-that-still-need-convincing/</a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ohio will defeat Obama!]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[This needs to be investigated!!!!!!!! (ODJFS shame on YOU)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Look what has been reported about "Joe the Plumber" from the OHIO Department of Jobs and Family Services! Gov. Strickland & Helen Jones, ODJFS Director needs to have this fully investigated and any workers that did this needs to be FIRED!!!!!!!!! No questions asked. Just fire them! There is a contract we sign that says we cannot look into information that we are not otherwise, authorized to do...Mr. Joe Plumber, if Your reading this, please call on an investigation and have them fired, or suspended, there is also I believe a $1000.00 fine for each occurance that an employee does this, maybe they can reward you with the this money??? This is an abuse of power! I am a Democrat but am voting MCCain/PALIN !!!! <br>
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This  can be done to you if you let them get away with it!<br>
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<a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=305222"  rel="nofollow">http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=305222</a> <br>
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<title><![CDATA[FROM FLORIDA PASS IT ON]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WE HAVE 2 DAYS LEFT...PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE OHIO SITES....I NEED YOUR HELP......THIS IS ALL AROUND AMERICA....PEOPLE NEED TO GET OUT IN THE STREETS......THEY CALL ME THE "CAPGUY"......GO TO S.W.FLORIDA/ FORT MYERS CRAIGS LIST.......YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU WILL READ......OBAMA IS EXPOSED FOR WHO HE IS......RACE, RELIGION AND CLASS WARFARE.....THINGS THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN FOR 20 YEARS.....OBAMA HAS USED RACE AND RELIGION AND CLASS WARFARE TO TURN AMERICA INSIDE OUT.....HE CLAIMS TO BE A UNITER.....BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT HE HAS DIVIDED THIS COUNTRY MOR THAN ANY FIGURE IN HISTORY.....PEOPLE IN S.W.FLORIDA ARE IN THE STREETS WITH HOME MADE SIGNS THAT SAY......SAVE OUR COUNTRY....NO-BAMA......GET THE WORD OUT SPEAK TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.....GO THROUGH YOUR CELL PHONE CALL EVERYONE THAT YOU KNOW......IT IS OUR TURN TO GIVE BACK TO A MAN THAT GAVE SO MUCH TO HIS COUNTRY........LETS GIVE BACK TO JOHN MCCAIN...TELL OTHERS TO DO THE SAME.......IF YOU LOVE THIS COUNTRY.....TAKE THE DAY OFF MONDAY AND GET INTO THE STREETS....DON'T LET THE MEDIA FOOL YOU ......WE WILL WIN THIS WITH YOUR HELP.......PUT SIGNS IN YOUR CAR......MAKE THEM YOURSELF.....TELL A FRIEND.....IT IS OUR TURN TO HELP JOHN MCCAIN.....PLEASE SEND THIS AROUND]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama bankrupt coal industry]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Let the truth be known<br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdi4onAQBWQ"  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdi4onAQBWQ</a><br>
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Know the truth....<a href="http://www.myspace.com/obamaexposed"  rel="nofollow">http://www.myspace.com/obamaexposed</a>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ask yourself, is obama better off today than he was four or eight ago ? you damn right he is and he won't give it up either. not to help his aunt or his half brother. he is no better that any politician, just getting rich off of his cronies. wise up asshole and vote republician]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Reply to: see below 
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Date: 1969-12-31, 7:33PM EST
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<a href="http://www.twovoters.com/?vid=1"  rel="nofollow">http://www.twovoters.com/?vid=1</a> 
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We've had eight years of Republican rule in the White House, six of which included the Congress. Are you better off because of it? Most likely not, if you are like most ordinary Ohioans. 
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You might be able to answer yes, only if you made over $250,000 a year and have a $million or more in financial assets. Even then, the country as a whole is hardly better off. There are fewer good jobs, we have a horrible national debt, and we have mortgaged our children's future. Republican policies under Bush/Cheney included tax cuts for the top one percent and gave companies incentives to ship the best jobs overseas to grow corporate profit at the expense of ordinary working folks here in Ohio. McCain supported these right wing Republican trickle down policies 95% of the time. Remember GOP represesnts the Grand Oil Party!!! 
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Obama's tax policies are designed to give relief to the middle class with incomes under $250,000 a year. Why would anyone vote against the interests of themselves and their family? 
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There is a great professionally pdocued spot video at: <a href="http://www.twovoters.com/?vid=1"  rel="nofollow">http://www.twovoters.com/?vid=1</a> 
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Download it and send to friends, family, and colleagues to get them to answer the question whether they are better off before they go to the polls! 
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Go to: <a href="http://www.twovoters.com/?vid=1"  rel="nofollow">http://www.twovoters.com/?vid=1</a>   
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<title><![CDATA[Seriously?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ohio, we deserve better than this.  America deserves better than this:<br>
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<title><![CDATA[re Obama is going down ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[History as our nation's First Black President!<br>
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Our nation is going to prosper once again!!<br>
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Our state is going to vote for every Democrat we can get our hands on so that they have the votes to make things happen.<br>
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Shame on those in the GOP that stood in their way just for political reasons and NOT for the good of us, Americans!<br>
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I'm voting for Obama and I know others will too!<br>
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He IS the UNITER that we have been longing for for 8 LONG years!]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Let's look at more Social Agenda Items:<br>
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Bank and Brokerage Firms Bailouts<br>
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Default Mortgage Bailouts<br>
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Regressive Tax Tables<br>
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Police/Fire Departments<br>
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Roads/Highways/Bridges<br>
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Clean Water<br>
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US Mail<br>
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Libraries<br>
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etc..<br>
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Come on folks... Do you really think that Obama doesn't have our nations best interest at heart? <br>
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I KNOW HE DOES!<br>
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I'm voting FOR Obama!<br>
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<description><![CDATA[999 Africans for every single American walking around!<br>
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6 land masses the size of the continental United States can be fit into the continent of Africa;  .. EVERY PERSON IN AFRICA (950 million people) WANTS TO MOVE TO THE UNITED STATES;  if Obama gets elected.. they're going to hop on any flight or ship to get to the U.S.  .. there's going to be a major flood of Africans coming into the U.S. that will create the biggest disaster that America has ever seen!  HOW MUCH IMPACT??  Try and imagine 999 Africans for every single American walking around!<br>
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Save America.. VOTE MCCAIN IN 2008!!<br>
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<description><![CDATA[please view and share...<br>
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<description><![CDATA[<h1><a href="http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_eastafrica.html"  rel="nofollow">Barack Obama Seeks Marxist Redistribution of Wealth</a></h1>
  
<h3>The socialist connections of Obama has certainly not been featured in the Washington Post columns of Harold Meyerson, who happens not only to be a member but a vice-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America(DSA).</h3> 
By Cliff Kincaid  
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Campaign workers for Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama are under fire for displaying a flag featuring communist hero Che Guevara. But Obama has his own controversial socialist connections. He is, in fact, an associate of a Chicago-based Marxist group with access to millions of labor union dollars and connections to expert political consultants, including a convicted swindler.   

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Obama's socialist backing goes back at least to 1996, when he received the endorsement of the Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for an Illinois state senate seat.  Later, the Chicago DSA newsletter reported that Obama, as a state senator, showed up to eulogize Saul Mendelson, one of the "champions" of "Chicago's democratic left" and a long-time socialist activist. Obama's stint as a "community organizer" in Chicago has gotten some attention, but his relationship with the DSA socialists, who groomed and backed him, has been generally ignored.     

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Steve Bartin, who has been following Obama's career and involvement with the Chicago socialists, has uncovered a fascinating video showing Obama campaigning for openly socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Interestingly, Sanders, who won his seat in 2006, called Obama "one of the great leaders of the United States Senate," even though Obama had only been in the body for about two years. In 2007, the National Journal said that Obama had established himself as "the most liberal Senator." More liberal than Sanders? That is quite a feat. Does this make Obama a socialist, too?  

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DSA describes itself as the largest socialist organization in the United States and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. The Socialist International (SI) has what is called "consultative status" with the United Nations. In other words, it works hand-in-glove with the world body.  

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The international connection is important and significant because an Obama bill, "The Global Poverty Act," has just been rushed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with the assistance of Democratic Senator Joe Biden, the chairman, and Republican Senator Richard Lugar. The legislation (S.2433) commits the U.S. to spending hundreds of billions of dollars more in foreign aid on the rest of the world, in order to comply with the "Millennium Goals" established by the United Nations. Conservative members of the committee were largely caught off-guard by the move to pass the Obama bill but are putting a  "hold" on it, in order to try to prevent the legislation, which also quickly passed the House, from being quickly brought up for a full Senate vote. But observers think that Senate Democrats may try to pass it quickly anyway, in order to give Obama a precious legislative "victory" that he could run on.     

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Another group associated with the SI is the Party of European Socialists (PES), which heard from Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, back in 2006. Dean's speech is posted on the official Democratic Party website, although the European socialist parties are referred to as "progressive." Democrats, Dean said, want to be "good citizens of the world community." He spoke at a session on "Global Challenges for Progressive Politics."  

<br><br>Following up, in April 2007, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen reported that European socialists held a meeting "in the Democrats HQ in Washington," met with officials of the party and Democratic members of Congress, and agreed that "PES activist groups" in various U.S. cities would start working together. The photos of the trip show Rasmussen meeting with such figures as Senator Ben Cardin, Senator Bernie Sanders, officials of the Brookings Institution, Howard Dean, and AFL-CIO President John W. Sweeney, a member of the DSA. The Brookings Institution is headed by former Clinton State Department official Strobe Talbott, a proponent of world government who was recently identified in the book Comrade J as having been a pawn of the Russian intelligence service.  

<br><br>It is not surprising that the Chicago Democrat, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, has endorsed Obama. Schakowsky, who endorsed Howard Dean for president in 2004, was honored in 2000 at a dinner sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the DSA. Her husband, Robert Creamer, emerged from federal prison in November 2006 after serving five months for financial crimes. He pleaded guilty to ripping off financial institutions while running a non-profit group.  Before he was convicted but under indictment, Creamer was hired by the Soros-funded Open Society Policy Center to sabotage John Bolton's nomination as Ambassador to the U.N.  

<br><br>After his release from prison, Creamer released a book, Listen to Your Mother: Stand up Straight: How Progressives Can Win, described by one blogger as the book that was "penned in the pen." A blurb for the book declares, "Some people think that in order to win, Democrats need to move to the political center by adopting conservative values and splitting the difference between progressive and conservative positions. History shows they are wrong. To win the next election and to win in the long term, we need to redefine the political center." 

<br><br>In addition to writing the book, Creamer is back in business, running his firm, Strategic Consulting Group, and advertising himself as "a consultant to the campaigns to end the war in Iraq, pass universal health care, change America's budget priorities and enact comprehensive immigration reform." His clients have included the AFL-CIO and MoveOn.org. In fact, his client list is a virtual who's who of the Democratic Party, organized labor, and Democratic Party constituency groups.  

<br><br>Creamer's list of testimonials comes from such figures as Democratic Senators Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Harold Meyerson, MoveOn.org founder Wes Boyd, and David Axelrod, a "Democratic political consultant."  

<br><br>Axelrod, of course, is much more than just a "Democratic political consultant." He helped State Senator Barack Obama win his U.S. Senate seat in 2004 and currently serves as strategist and media advisor to Obama's presidential campaign.
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<dc:date>2008-11-01T00:56:03-04:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[OBAMA'S SOCIALIST AGENDA]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama is going down (on Tuesday)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[He is counting on the youth and black votes and they historically don't turn out in large numbers.<br>
<br>
The polls are close and the trend is positive for John McCain and Sarah Palin and Republicans WILL turn out.<br>
<br>
Obama may be choosing new furniture for the Oval Office but it's going to be stuck in storage because John and Sarah are moving in!]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-11-01T00:35:11-04:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Obama is going down (on Tuesday)]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH??? What do you think our government does now?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If it were'nt so scary, I would have to laugh every time I hear one of the fear mongers running around yelling "REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH! Redistribution of wealth!" <br>
What do people think our government does now? The Congress votes on what to do with our tax money. Every year some part of the tax laws change...mostly to the benefit of the wealthy. Now Senator Obama makes the suggestion that maybe we should make another change...only this time make it a greater benefit fot the middle class...the working people of this country. What a concept! Why is that so scary?          BOO!          John McCain is trying to scare you! Why do you think so many Republicans are now endorsing Barack Obama/  It's because they know that, at this time, this is what our country needs! God bless Colin Powell for his COURAGE to go against his party to do what's right.  God bless Governor Bill Weld! And God bless all the others like Regan's chief of staff, the Governor of Mass., the Governor of Minnesota, etc, etc, etc.]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-31T23:41:15-04:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH??? What do you think our government does now?]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[the Latest on Obama]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[today Obamas aide Richardson stated that the new <br>
'SHARE YOUR WEALTH' Tax number in now 120K a year !<br>
people, it was 250K 2 weeks ago !<br>
<br>
Vote for John McCain!<br>
<br>
WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, <br>
ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE <br>
<br>
]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-31T20:10:19-04:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[the Latest on Obama]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-10-31T20:10:19-04:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[Joe the Plumber was a weak setup that didn't work. hahaha]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Joe the plumber was weak. The idea behind it. That man will probably never own his company. I believe he misrepresented himself.]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-31T11:52:31-04:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Joe the Plumber was a weak setup that didn't work. hahaha]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[RE: Racists spreading stupid rumors (to Obama supporters)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dear Obama supporters,<br>
<br>
Soon the GOP will be airing a new attack ad on the subject of Rev Wright .. the ad is made to have an IMMENSLY HEAVY NEGATIVE portrayal of Obama as a racist who hates America .. it is important that we understand the truth and thoroughly ignore this ad to the best of our abilities and keep our focus on the issues we face in the future.<br>
<br>
www.barackobama.com/issues<br>
<br>
------------------------------<br>
If Obama was a white man, none of this would matter. Look at some of the idiots who have run for office before, and no one made up dumb, ignorant lies. People don't want to admit they are racist, because even they know that it is a view held only by uneducated ignorant people. So they try to criminalize him, so they have what they think is a legitimate reason to not vote for him. This way, they can hide their stupidity, and no one will know that they are morons.<br>
<br>
At this point, McCain and his supporters are so desperate that they will try anything. They are already losing, so they have nothing to lose by using idiotic rumors.]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-31T11:48:42-04:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[RE: Racists spreading stupid rumors (to Obama supporters)]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-10-31T11:48:42-04:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[RE: PET LOVERS KNOW THIS !!!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin shoots animals.  Endangered Alaskan wildlife are ruthlessly hunt down from helicopter with machine gun rifles like we do in the military with<br>
war opposition.<br>
<br>
A Vote for Obama means you care about animals!!!!!<br>
<br>
----------------------------------<br>
Have you ever heard that a dog 'knows' when an earthquake is about to hit?<br>
<br>
Have you ever heard that a dog can 'sense' when a tornado is stirring up, even 20 miles away?<br>
<br>
Do you remember hearing that before the December tsunami struck Southeast Asia, dogs started running frantically away from the seashore, at breakneck speed?<br>
<br>
Do you know that dogs can detect cancer and other serious illnesses and danger of fire? ]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-31T11:34:09-04:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[RE: PET LOVERS KNOW THIS !!!]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-10-31T11:34:09-04:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[RE: News media in bed with Obama?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Um .. what???  You sound ridiculous .. do you listen to yourself?<br>
<br>
Ever hear of FOX news?  They've been in the GOP's pocket for a while now .. funny how you Neo-Cons never complain about them.<br>
<br>
Obama certainly isn't killing babies .. what nonsense!  Stick to the issue sand tell me why McCain is better??<br>
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=297778"  rel="nofollow">http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=297778</a><br>
<br>
The only thing that Obama did in Illinois is to make sure aborted babies if not killed in the aborton were stuck in aa closet to die! What wouls be said if it was a puppy?]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-31T11:09:36-04:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[RE: News media in bed with Obama?]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-10-31T11:09:36-04:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[The Media sold the Kool aid and the sheep March (NY)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stanley Kubick, the late director, was fasinated by the ability for the media to brain wash a civilization. At first when the notion was first introduced it seemed quite horrifying. In these times we assume that knowing the evil we control it. On the other hand the new age has built a complacency and comfort level with this adversary. In growing up with such ideas, rhetoric, and movies such as the matrix, we are sometimes under the conclusion that we control it, and it does not control us. This is like messing around with drugs. It is hard for the user to truly admit the problem unless something terrible happens. 
<br>

<br>
It was quite a trick the Geffen corp, Hollywood, and internal Liberal Powers, Played on the Moderate Democrats. They stole away the one good candidate the Democrats had in Hillary. 
<br>
Now they assume most democrats, whom have nothing in common with this liberal agenda, will simply fall in line behing a No Name No Experience candidate. 
<br>

<br>
For the others they think may not easily fall in line they use Scare tactics such as, Painting the Independent minded McCain as a Bush, or there will be no end to wars. When in fact it has been very successful. 
<br>
As far as economics it has been Dodd, Pelosi, Obama, and other democrats agenda to get Mortgages and loans to people whom cannot pay them over the years. This hurts the institutions and the people. 
<br>
While we have a Noble Experienced Warrior in McCain, They paint a person who has worked hard fighting with government as the problem, While they try to promote a NO NAME, Non Achiever, Represents Nothing Obama as a man that will get it done... WHAT DONE?
<br>
The media has swept under the rug WRIGHT REZKO AReS FARAHKAN for Obama. And it is not for Obama even that they do this but for Democrats in the back Pockety of Insurance companies and Hollywood. 
<br>

<br>

<br>
I appeal to the Independent minded voter along with Moderate Hillary supporters and call to move toward McCain
<br>

<br>
Jimmy Flows
<br>
American Citizen ]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-30T20:45:02-04:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[The Media sold the Kool aid and the sheep March (NY)]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-10-30T20:45:02-04:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[The Founding Fathers on redistribution of wealth]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[“A wise and frugal government… shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”<br>
<br>
— Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801<br>
<br>
May God bless Chuck Baldwin to repeat those words in his inaugural address.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/"  rel="nofollow">David Ben-Ariel</a> on the post "<a href="http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/10/founding-fathers-on-redistribution-of.html?ext-ref=comm-sub-email"  rel="nofollow">The Founding Fathers on redistribution of wealth</a>"<br>
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<dc:date>2008-10-30T18:40:16-04:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[The Founding Fathers on redistribution of wealth]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-10-30T18:40:16-04:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[PET LOVERS KNOW THIS !!!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard that a dog 'knows' when an earthquake is about to hit?
<br><br>
Have you ever heard that a dog can 'sense' when a tornado is stirring up, even 20 miles away?
<br><br>
Do you remember hearing that before the December tsunami struck Southeast Asia, dogs started running frantically away from the seashore, at breakneck speed?
<br><br>
Do you know that dogs can detect cancer and other serious illnesses and danger of fire?
<br><br>
Somehow they always know when they can 'go for a ride' before you even ask and how do those dogs and cats get home from hundreds of miles away?
<br><br>
I'm a firm believer that animals - and especially dogs - have keen insights into the Truth.
<br><br>
And you can't tell me that dogs can't sense a potentially terrible disaster well in advance.
<br><br>
Simply said, a dog just KNOWS when something isn't right .. . when impending doom is upon us . . they'll always try to warn us....!! <br><br>]]></description>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[PET LOVERS KNOW THIS !!!]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-10-30T11:55:55-04:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[A Glimpse of Character &amp; Definition of Irony]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Facts can be stubborn things:
<br>

<br>
Obama's Auntie Zeituni (as he calls her in his autobiography) lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston. 
<br>

<br>
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5042571.ece 
<br>

<br>
Maybe Sen. Obama should share some of his own $$ & give it his half-brother George Hussein Onyango Obama living on $1/month in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.
<br>

<br>
(www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html) 

Obama's response, "No comment".  Check it out yourselves]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-30T11:25:43-04:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[A Glimpse of Character &amp; Definition of Irony]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-10-30T11:25:43-04:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[Republicans]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Republicans lie, cheat, and steal for whatever they want. For proof just read what you write.  Full of lies and scare tactics.  Also look at Palin, using tax payers money of Alaska for her Damn kids to travel.  She should use her own damn money.  Oh, I forgot. Republicans lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want.]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-30T10:39:18-04:00</dc:date>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-10-30T10:39:18-04:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES is Sarah Palin qualified to be a heartbeat away (You mean Obama don't you)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Obama is a Leftist and a Marxist. I know all of his comrades want higher taxes for the middle class to pay for the lazy asses on welfare.<br>
I don't need Obama sharing my little bit of wealth. Why isn't he sharing his wealth with his half brother in Africa or is it only the Government can do that.<br>
He only gave 4% to charity while  Chaney gave 75%.<br>
]]></description>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES is Sarah Palin qualified to be a heartbeat away (You mean Obama don't you)]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-10-30T10:22:03-04:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[News media in bed with Obama? (And Who didn't know that)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=297778"  rel="nofollow">http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=297778</a><br>
<br>
The only thing that Obama did in Illinois is to make sure aborted babies if not killed in the aborton were stuck in aa closet to die! What wouls be said if it was a puppy?]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-30T10:13:28-04:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[News media in bed with Obama? (And Who didn't know that)]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-10-30T10:13:28-04:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[Rashid Khalidi ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is the same person that John McCain said in Tampa is part of a long line of unsavory miscreants/anti-Israeli terrorists/unamerican radicals that Obama hangs with? <br>
<br>
Well it turns out that during the 1990s, while John McCain served as chairman of the International Republican Institute, the group distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including a $448,873 grant in 1998 to his Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. <br>
<br>
And, since 1993, when McCain joined IRI as chairman, the group funded several studies run by Khalidi's group in the Palestinian territories, including more than 30 public opinion polls. Khalidi helped found the center, "an independent academic research and policy analysis institution." <br>
<br>
So not only did McCain work with Khalidi, he gave him money..<br>
<br>
How is John Sydney McCain III going to spin this??<br>
]]></description>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Rashid Khalidi ]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Sam Joeseph Whazzahburger? (Whoring for the Great Whore)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Babylon the Great is fallen! <br>
"Joe" the "plumber" is one of many (not-so)great lies of the modern Republican party, a party that has fallen from grace for bearing false witness too many times.<br>
Rather than believing lies, the flock is letting perfect love cast out fear this election year.  We are avoiding all appearances of evil, and rebuking the corrupt GOP for bankrupting us on so many levels.<br>
We are a nation of many faiths, and freedom of religion is central to our values system.  To demonize a faith such as Islam is to condemn all faiths.  We respect our neighbors faiths even if our Lord is no respecter of persons.<br>
We are wise as serpents, and gentle as doves-and we are tired of our faith being misrepresented by a morally bankrupt party.<br>
We want to be good stewards of the home God created for us, not rushing to exploit every unsustainable resource and increase the use of dangerous or polluting sources of energy.<br>
The Lord will come when He is good and ready, not because we have failed to show good stewardship when the opportunity presented itself.<br>
The GOP is fallen, is fallen.]]></description>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Sam Joeseph Whazzahburger? (Whoring for the Great Whore)]]></dc:title>
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<description><![CDATA[Only a moron believes the hatred you are preaching.  You are obviously a racist, as you don't even know, or care in what context these statements were made. <br>
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You say Obama is pro-islamic.  I guess that means you hate Muslims too.  Only people who feel inferior fear everyone who is not like them.  I know a lot of Muslims, they are good people.  How many do you know?  Any?<br>
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No one is listening to your silly ranting!  Our country has moved past this, and if you want to stick in the past where everyone feared everyone else, so be it.  I am proud that our country has reached a place where we can elect a president based on his abilities, not his color or religious beliefs.<br>
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Don't count on anyone with any intelligence to go along with you.  You may get a group of red-neck idiots to agree, but they aren't who will decide this election because, thankfully, they are a minority.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[<h2>Barack Hussein Obama: loyal member of an anti-White, anti-American, 
and pro-Islamic church for over 20 years</h2>

<strong>1. anti-White:</strong> Obama's Pastor and Spiritual Advisor, Reverend Jeremy Wright, in a sermon delivered at 
Howard University, stated, "(America) believes in white supremacy and black inferiority and believes it more than
it believes in God." Mr. Wright thundered on, blaming America for "starting the AIDS virus to kill off Black people, 
training professional killers, importing drugs and creating a racist society that would never elect a black candidate 
president. Barack Obama's longtime minister, friend and adviser continued, "We've got more black men in prison 
than there are in college", "Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country 
is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no
 black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body." "America is still the 
No. 1 killer in the world. . . We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was 
there. 
<br><br>
<strong>2. anti-American:</strong> Obama's Pastor and Spiritual Advisor of 20 years, Reverend Jeremy Wright, in his sermons, 
urged congregants to sing "God Damn America" instead of "God Bless America"... In other sermons he blamed 
American foreign policy for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.  On his recent trip, Obama &#8220;made time to go to the gym, but canceled a visit with wounded troops. 
Seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras.&#8221;
<br><br>
When Michelle Obama said earlier this year that her husband's campaign was the first time in her adult life
that she felt proud of America, many African-American's pointed out that her comment was rooted in race.
The outrage in mid-March was over Mrs. Obama's comments to a group of college students that they should 
make an effort to take advantage of their diverse community rather than holding on to their 
"own stereotypes and misconceptions." She said that sometimes "you feel justified in your own ignorance. That's America."

<br><br>
Combined with Obama's refusal to say the U.S. Pledge of Allegience, 
wear a U.S. Flag lapel pin, visit wounded U.S. Troops, and spouse Michelle's lack of Pride in America,
Obama's lack of Patriotism is very troubling. 


<br><br>
<strong>3. pro-Islamic:</strong> Last December, in its official magazine, Trumpet, Obama's church of 20 years gave its highest award 
to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan for lifetime achievement. Also, in his first major public address since a 
cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the 
"hope of the entire world" that the U.S. will change for the better.  Jim Zogby, founder and president of the Arab 
American Institute, said many Arab Americans are drawn to Obama because of his cultural background.
"It is clear he wants to have a broader relationship with the Muslim world," Zogby said. "He has a biography that 
connects him to the Muslim world."
<br><br>
Why Obama looks vulnerable

By Gideon Rachman

Published: August 25 2008 17:36 | Last updated: August 25 2008 22:30

Bromley illustration

The Democratic party will whip up some euphoria in Denver this week. But a dark cloud of anxiety hovers over the party convention.

A horrible truth is beginning to dawn on the Democrats. Barack Obama is not the &#8220;once in a generation&#8221; political genius they thought they had discovered. On the contrary, he is a weak candidate for the presidency.

With a feeble economy, an unpopular war and the Republicans in disarray, the Democrats should win the presidential election in a canter. But Mr Obama, the Democratic nominee, is neck and neck with John McCain, his Republican rival. For sure, Mr Obama has some real assets &#8211; intelligence, grace, good looks, star quality. But history suggests that he is a very risky candidate.

Since 1968, the Democrats have won just three out of 10 presidential races. Their two successful candidates &#8211; Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton &#8211; were both white, centrist governors from the southern US. Whenever the Democrats nominated a liberal from outside the South &#8211; George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, John Kerry &#8211; they lost.

Mr Obama is a northerner. He is a liberal. He is a former college professor. And he is black. A bold choice, under the circumstances.

Mr Obama&#8217;s unusual personal history &#8211; the son of a black Kenyan and a white American, brought up partly in Indonesia &#8211; allowed him to write a fascinating, introspective autobiography, Dreams from My Father. But his life story may seem a little exotic to most American voters. Mr McCain&#8217;s early life could easily be made into a Hollywood movie.Mr Obama&#8217;s youth is more of an off-Broadway play.

Mr McCain can tell tales of heroism as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Mr Obama was a student at elite universities on a voyage of self-discovery. He writes: &#8220;To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists ... We discussed neo-colonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism and patriarchy.&#8221; Even allowing for the self-mocking tone, this is not exactly mainstream America.

It is clear that Mr Obama lacks experience. But that, in itself, need not be a bar to the White House. The same was true of other Democrats who won the presidency &#8211; John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton.

Race, however, is a bigger problem. So far, the fact that Mr Obama is an African-American may actually have helped him. As Shelby Steele, an academic, writes: &#8220;When you can credibly run for the presidency only two years out of the Illinois state legislature ... then something in the society is drawing you forward.&#8221;

But Democratic primaries &#8211; with a high proportion of black and white liberal voters &#8211; are one thing. A general election is quite another matter. And notoriously, even in the Democratic contest, Mr Obama struggled to pick up the votes of the white working class in key states such as Pennsylvania. A recent New York Times poll hinted at just how high a barrier Mr Obama may have to hurdle. Whilst only 5 per cent of American voters said they would not vote for a black candidate, 27 per cent said they thought the US was not yet ready for a black president.

Mr Obama has campaigned as a candidate who happens to be black, rather than as a black candidate. In doing so, he has offered white voters the reassurance that he is not one of those African-Americans who talks endlessly about race and tries to make them feel bad. On the contrary, voting for Mr Obama can make you feel good about yourself and about race relations in America.

So there was a certain, cynical brilliance in the McCain campaign&#8217;s accusation that it is Mr Obama who is &#8220;playing the race card&#8221;. This challenged the idea that Mr Obama is a &#8220;post-racial&#8221; candidate &#8211; and it played to white resentments about what some regard as special treatment for black people. The New York Times poll showed that 26 per cent of American whites believe they have been the victim of discrimination.

The special sensitivity of the racial issue places the Obama campaign in a dilemma when it comes to responding to attacks. It is conventional wisdom among Democrats that previous candidates &#8211; in particular, Mr Dukakis and Mr Kerry &#8211; lost because they were too slow to respond to negative campaigning by the Republicans.

But if the Obama campaign suspects the Republicans of appealing to racism, they will have to think twice about levelling the accusation. Any such charge will be leapt upon by a controversy-hungry media &#8211; placing race at the centre of the election campaign. And that can only help the McCain campaign.

Of course, Mr McCain has his own vulnerabilities. He is about to turn 72 &#8211; and some opinion polls suggest that voters are even more reluctant to vote for a pensioner than they are to vote for a black person. His inability to remember how many houses he owns suggests that he is either extraordinarily rich or slightly senile &#8211; neither idea is helpful to his cause.

The structural factors that the Democrats think favour them this year certainly exist. Americans are in a morose mood about the economy and the country in general. The unpopularity of President George W. Bush will act as a drag on Republicans. Mr Obama has raised an awful lot of money, run a skilful campaign that beat the formidable Clinton machine and has an army of highly enthusiastic supporters.

But he is still a very vulnerable candidate. Can he lose? Yes he can.
<br><br>
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<title><![CDATA[RE:WAKEUP AMERICA!! Obama Bombshell Redist of Wealth Audio Uncovered]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Get real, that could be anyone on that tape.  What proof do you even have that it is even Obama? 
<br>

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None!
<br>

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Face it, you just are worried to death that a black man will be president.  It's the old "they're taking over the country" idiocy.
<br>

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That's what this is all about.  Those stupid u-tubes are just the same old stuff that McCain has been airing on TV.  No one with half a brain believes any of it.]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-28T16:41:27-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[wakeup USA!! osama oBAMa facts!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<br>
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Here are the FACTS! <br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbyocX-9_mo"  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbyocX-9_mo</a> <br>
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The subprime mess was brought about by the Federal Community Reinvestment Act www.ffiec.gov/cra/default.htm <br>
which required banks to make bad loans. The act was sponsored by the <br>
Congressional Black Caucus www.thecongressionalblackcaucus.com/ and financed by the Democrat controlled Freddie Mac www.freddiemac.com/ and Fannie Mae www.fanniemae.com/ quasi government organizations.<br>
<br>
YouTube - Explosive Video, Fannie Mae CEO calling Obama and <br>
the Dems the "Family" and "Conscience" of Fannie Mae<br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-kD0QdRJk"  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-kD0QdRJk</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7fi8STNlxM"  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7fi8STNlxM</a> <br>
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Obama spent 20 years attending Reverend Wrights Church.  You need to know who osama oBAMa is!<br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-kD0QdRJk"  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-kD0QdRJk</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7fi8STNlxM"  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7fi8STNlxM</a> <br>
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<description><![CDATA[Please pass this to everyone!!!!!!!  SCARY!!!<br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck"  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck</a><br>
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<title><![CDATA[Racists spreading stupid rumors (Toledo)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If Obama was a white man, none of this would matter.  Look at some of the idiots who have run for office before, and no one made up dumb, ignorant lies.  People don't want to admit they are racist, because even they know that it is a view held only by uneducated ignorant people.  So they try to criminalize him, so they have what they think is a legitimate reason to not vote for him.  This way, they can hide their stupidity, and no one will know that they are morons.<br>
<br>
At this point, McCain and his supporters are so desperate that they will try anything.  They are already losing, so they have nothing to lose by using idiotic rumors.]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-28T15:01:57-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Misinformed!!!! (Toledo)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I am really shocked at the number of misinformed people that are in the Toledo area.  I thought Toledo was a well-educated city, but ignorant people will believe anything.  Obama is not, or has never been a Muslim.  <br>
<br>
You would think people would get their facts straight before they start spouting off.  I guess when you can remain anonymous, it doesn't matter what kind of stupidity you spread.<br>
<br>
McCain and his supporters are really desperate, so they have nothing to lose by starting this stupidity.  They know they are going to lose without some kind of major upset, so they'll try anything at this point. <br>
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<dc:date>2008-10-28T13:44:42-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Whats with all the fabricated BS??]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<br>
Please visit www.therealmccain.com<br>
<br>
Being Informed Is A Good Thing<br>
<br>
Citizens For An Informed Society]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-28T02:20:22-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama Would Like To 'Redistribute' You - Read On (get real)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sorry but you're nuts if you vote for Obama. Yeah he's popular and sounds great, but his policies are wrong right down the line. AND NOW THIS.<br>
<br>
This guy is going to 'redistribute' your ass, make no mistake. Obama is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He can't wait to get in there with a Democrat House and Senate to screw the people who work hard. Listen to this interview (an excerpted transcript below). He wants to take money from the earners in this country, and give it to the non-earners, specifically, African-Americans. Are we really going to let this guy win?<br>
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Get out and vote for McCain.<br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck"  rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck</a><br>
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"I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. We still suffer from that."<br>
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Come folks, get real. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama born in Kenya?  Toledo TV station covered story]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Obama born in Kenya?  Toledo TV station covered story<br>
<br>
A Toledo TV station covered a lawsuit that has been filed in multiple states that alleges that Obama is not a natural born citizen and illegible to be President - even ineligible to be a senator.  The lawsuit alleges that Obama was born in Kenya and in fact is a citizen of Indonesia!  See the coverage here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.obamacrimes.com/index.php/component/content/article/1-main/32-fox-toledo-news-airs-berg-v-obama-story"  rel="nofollow">http://www.obamacrimes.com/index.php/component/content/article/1-main/32-fox-toledo-news-airs-berg-v-obama-story</a><br>
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I'm not a McCain supporter even but I don't understand why the major news stations are avoiding the issue.  Do you know the truth?  I would like this issue vetted out for good.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ECONOMIC BOOM WITH MCCAIN,,,DEPRESSION WITH OBAMA (VOTE FOR MCCAIN)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IF OBAMA GETS IN THERE WILL BE A RUN ON THE BANKS,A CRASH AND A DEPRESSION ,,IF MCCAIN GETS IN THERE WILL BE AN ECONOMIC BOOM....PLAIN AND SIMPLE,,VOTE FOR JOHN MCCAIN...THANK YOU , THANK YOU VERY MUCH]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Will Barack Hussein Obama pardon Osama Bin Laden?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Certainly, as his koranic teachings instruct! 
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Will he give nuclear weapons to Iran so they can negotiate with us as equals? "Share the wealth", and the weapons. 
<br><br>
Will he invite Fidel Castro, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez to a party at the White House? Certainly, and we'll get to pay for it 
<br><br>
Consider your vote carefully! There are consequences! 
<br><br>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I am turning blue.... (holding my breath..)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[just wishing Ron Paul would have been the GOP nominee...  He makes sense.  McCain, not so much...  I don't think he really understands the economy.  Oh, well...  at least Barak Obama will bring some sanity back to the Oval office-Bush blew it big time!]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-26T14:16:28-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: Obama (toledo)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[You sound so ignorant i am very surprised that you:<br>
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1) not only knew how to find CL, but<br>
 2) actually know how to use it. Amazing.<br>
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A smart voter and patriot of this country would know :<br>
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1) Obama is NOT a muslim..but if he were....SO WHAT!<br>
2) Muslim's  have their own religion and GOD, just like Christians do. They be different and that is OK.<br>
3) To be an American one does not HAVE to be a Christian. They are two separate things.<br>
4) All good reasons to keep religion out of politics and politics out of religion, why do you think America has lasted this long? <br>
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But you want to ruin the good of America by promoting your hate. And where is this hatred and ignorance going to lead the country?  How is this hate going got make every person a better person where they can lead their country towards the better?  In your wisdom...NO WHERE...and that is where YOU are going with your mentality and ignorance...NO WHERE!]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-26T05:07:37-04:00</dc:date>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-10-26T05:07:37-04:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[A Conservative Assault On The Workforce (Why aren't you in a union, Joe?)]]></title>
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Half of all workers would join a union if they could. But as the director of the Center for American Progress's American Worker Project, David Madland, writes, "Existing laws make joining a union a Herculean task that few are able to undertake." Indeed, just 8 percent of workers in private industry are union members today, down from just over 30 percent after World War II. The decline in union membership paralleled with a decline in real wages, retirement benefits, and quality of health care. To ensure that workers who wish to organize are able to do so, the House passed the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) in March 2007 with bipartisan support. In the Senate, however, a group of 48 conservatives successfully blocked the measure with a filibuster threat three months later. As the next Congress approaches, conservatives have renewed their campaign against the EFCA. Across the nation, right-wing pundits and politicians are using hyperbolic language to mischaracterize the legislation and paint the EFCA's supporters as anti-worker and anti-business. <br>
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AN ASSAULT ON THE WORK FORCE: In Feburary 2007, Vice President Cheney, characterized the EFCA as an "attempt to short-circuit the rights of workers." Since then, conservative rhetoric has grown more shrill. On MSNBC yesterday, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said, "I can't think of a more insidious bill in my time in the United States Senate." He falsely claimed that the EFCA would "do away with secret ballot elections in union elections." The anti-worker Employee Freedom Action Committee is running ads claiming, "Union bosses have new scheme that makes it easier for them to harass and intimidate workers into paying costly union dues." The right-wing Labor Relations Institute, Inc. is selling "EFCA Toolkits" that explain how to "inoculate every employee and every new hire against unionization." Both Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) characterized the EFCA as "un-American," while Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) said that under the EFCA, "unions would be able to browbeat workers" into organizing. Conservative outlets like the Weekly Standard and the National Review are painting the EFCA's supporters as anti-business, claiming that unionization lowers productivity and suggesting the EFCA would hinder employers' ability to compete in the marketplace. Steven J. Law, general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, explained conservatives' fears, saying, "In 2007, it was almost an artificial exercise that no one figured would pass. ... Now all of a sudden there is a realization that there may be a president in the White House who would sign it." <br>
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THE TRUTH ABOUT EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE: Despite conservatives' claims to the contrary, the EFCA preserves the secret ballot election process established by the National Labor Relations Board. The law simply guarantees that workers also have the option to form a union through a "card-check" system in which a union would be recognized if a majority of workers signed a petition testifying to their desire to organize. Under current law, workers can only form a union via the card-check system if their employer agrees to allow it. Otherwise, the employer can insist on a union secret ballot election. Unfortunately, as Madland notes, "Employers legally can force workers to attend anti-union meetings, including 'one-on-one conversations' with supervisors" and "workers often are pressured by employers to reveal their private preferences for the union." "This takes the 'secret' out of the 'secret ballot,'" Madland writes. Even more disturbing is that in "25 percent of organizing campaigns, private-sector employers illegally fire workers because they want to form a union" and "even after workers successfully form a union, in one-third of the instances, employers do not negotiate a contract." The EFCA would strengthen penalties for such labor law violations and prevent employers from delaying first-contract negotiations. While conservatives suggest that the EFCA card-check system is "anti-business," "in a recent survey of employers who had used majority sign-up agreements, a majority reported that the agreements resulted in improved relations with the union, enabling management to achieve other bargaining or business goals." <br>
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THE UNION DIFFERENCE: The importance of unions to the American worker cannot be understated. Union workers earn 30 percent higher wages than nonunion workers. For women and people of color, union membership improves wages even more. As union membership has declined, so too have real wages. Meanwhile, top business executives earned "344 times the salary of the average American worker in 2007." As Madland explained in the Washington Post, income inequality "is now at the level it was in the 1920s, when unionization rates were also below 10 percent." Furthermore, when health care costs continue to rise, "workers in unions...are 63 percent more likely to have employer-provided health insurance" than nonunion workers. Union workers' health insurance coverage is "far more comprehensive than that of nonunion workers" and "[u]nion workers pay 18 percent less in health care deductibles and a smaller share of costs for family coverage." Finally, when union workers retire, they are more likely to have "a guaranteed, defined benefit pension." 72 percent of union workers have such retirement benefits, "compared to only 15% of nonunion workers." "Throughout our history, when unions are strong, wages go up, health care coverage improves and pensions are strengthened," notes Change to Win.<br>
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<dc:date>2008-10-24T17:33:06-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Redistributing To The Rich (What were you saying about taxes, Joe?)]]></title>
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Seizing on comments Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) made to "Joe the Plumber," Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) campaign has argued that Obama's economic policies would redistribute the wealth of hard working Americans and provide "just another government giveaway to others." "The redistribution of wealth is the last thing America needs right now. The goal is not to redistribute wealth, but to create it," McCain said during an event in Manchester, NH. But as the Tax Policy Center points out, "today's tax code is riddled with examples of government 'taking' money from one taxpayer and giving it to another." "[F]or decades, government has used the tax code for much more than raising money. These days, redistributing tax revenues are the principal way government encourages people to do what it wants and discourages them from doing what it doesn't," TPC wrote. In fact, during the last eight years, President Bush's regressive economic policies  have effectively redistributed the nation's wealth to the richest Americans. According to a recent report released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), "the United States has the highest inequality and poverty in the OECD after Mexico and Turkey, and the gap has increased rapidly since 2000." Unfortunately, McCain's proposed economic policies would give even more wealth to the richest Americans, exacerbate the nation's income inequality, and further erode opportunities for social mobility. <br>
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BUSH REDISTRIBUTED TO THE WEALTHY: An analysis by the Center for American Progress Action Fund shows that President Bush's economic policies have "redistributed wealth to the richest Americans and left the majority with stagnating wages and declining household incomes." Looking at the effects of the first three Bush tax cuts, the Congressional Budget Office concluded that "the percentage by which the effective tax rate was cut for high-income families was nearly twice the rate cut for those in the middle of the income spectrum." Meanwhile, the administration's failure to raise the minimum wage coupled with its poor enforcement of federal wage and hour laws, trade agreements, and union rights further undermined the economic security of middle and lower-income Americans. Data prepared by the IRS from tax returns filed during the post-9/11 recovery (2002 to 2006) reveals that household income grew by $863 billion during the period. "The 15,000 families at the top of the income scale saw their annual incomes go from about $15 million a year to nearly $30 million," accounting for more than 25 percent of all of the growth in income for the entire country. The remaining 1.7 million families in the top 1 percent of households accounted for nearly another 50 percent. But while the "top 10 percent of families accounted for 95.3 percent of the nation's income growth between 2002 and 2006," the average real income for families in the bottom 90 percent of households increased by about $300 to a little less than $30,700."<br>
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MCCAIN WOULD DOUBLE DOWN: McCain claims that "in this country, we believe in spreading opportunity." But his Bush-like economic policies would only further America's income inequality. In fact, by extending Bush's tax cuts to the wealthy and proposing $175 billion in tax breaks to America's largest corporations, McCain's regressive economic agenda would redistribute wealth to the richest Americans during a period of stagnating wages and growing economic anxiety. The bottom 60 percent of taxpayers would see only 12 percent of the benefit from McCain's plan to extend Bush's tax cuts, while over 100 million middle class households would receive nothing from McCain's proposal. Moreover, even though corporate profits increased by an estimated 66 percent between 2000 and 2006, McCain's plan to slash the corporate tax rate to 25 percent from 35 percent would give even more benefits to America's richest corporations. According to a Center for American Progress Action Fund analysis of McCain's plan, the 200 largest companies stand to gain $45 billion a year from McCain's proposal. Highly profitable industries like energy companies and merchandising and retailing companies would receive billions from additional tax breaks.<br>
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MOBILITY THREATENED: America's income concentration is at its highest level since 1928. According to the OECD report, "the richest 10 percent earn an average of US$93,000 -- the highest level in the OECD. The poorest 10 percent earn an average of US$5,800 -- about 20 percent lower than the OECD average." But income inequality is cause for even more concern than the simple numbers suggest, since it also has an effect on mobility. In fact, just "7 percent of children born to parents in the bottom wealth quintile make it to the top quintile in adulthood," and "36 percent of children born to parents in the bottom wealth quintile remain in the bottom as adults." As OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria has pointed out, "greater income inequality stifles upward mobility between generations, making it harder for talented and hard-working people to get the rewards they deserve." <br>
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<title><![CDATA[Record Turnout Expect Again]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you can.. vote now.. the state is expecting longer lines than in Nov 2006..]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[learn how you can vote more then once for Obama]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Obama rules!!!!!<br>
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www.barackobama.com]]></description>
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