Hillary's Done, Endorses Obama

We knew she would officially drop out soon, but the endorsement is surprising. She's really trying to kiss up to grab that V.P. spot. There's a whole lot of Clinton supporters that refuse to back Obama so adding her to his campaign won't help much.

Hillary Rodham Clinton ended her historic campaign for the presidency on Saturday and told supporters to unite behind rival Barack Obama, closing out a race that was as grueling as it was groundbreaking.

The former first lady, who as recently as Tuesday declared herself the strongest candidate, gave Obama an unqualified endorsement and pivoted from her role as determined foe to absolute ally.

"The way to continue our fight now to accomplish the goals for which we stand is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama, the next president of the United States," she said in a speech before cheering supporters packed into the ornate National Building Museum, not far from the White House she longed to govern from.

"Today as I suspend my campaign, I congratulate him on the victory he has won and the extraordinary race he has run. I endorse him and throw my full support behind him and I ask of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me," the New York senator said in her 28-minute address.

How The Media Would Report Normandy Today

I posted this last year and thought since we are on the anniversary of D-Day, I would repost the video.

America Is An Obamanation!

This is hilarious.

 

h/t: Jawa

Obama Fundraiser Tony Renzko Convicted On 16 Of 24 Charges

It doesn't matter that he was convicted of  scamming people, this will be spun as another case of whitey keeping the black man down. However; it seems like more investigation will be done in regards to Renzko's business deals with Obama and their charity contributions.

U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald told reporters the verdict represented "an antidote to the poison of corruption" that testimony alleged included the fixing of state boards that controlled a $40 billion pension fund and made major decisions about hospital construction.

The nine-week trial included explosive testimony about all-night drug-fueled parties involving the government's star witness and allegations that Blagojevich personally discussed a state job for a donor.

Political corruption in Illinois has been deemed so extensive that the FBI has sent an extra official corruption squad into the state. Federal officials say the investigation is far from over.

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Rezko's conviction also intensifies the spotlight on his relationship with Obama. Rezko has known Obama since he entered politics, raised money for his Illinois campaigns and was involved in a 2005 real estate deal with him. Obama has donated $150,000 in Rezko-related contributions to charity.

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is accused of no wrongdoing and his name was barely mentioned at trial, but Republicans are unlikely to let voters forget about his ties to Rezko as the presidential race heats up.

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Rezko, a Chicago real estate developer and fast-food entrepreneur, was convicted of six counts of mail fraud, six counts of wire fraud, two counts of aiding and abetting bribery and two counts of money laundering.

Obama Uses Police Memorial As Porta-Potty

Quite a gang of geniuses Obama has working for him. They tell the company to drop the Porta-potties on top of a Portland police memorial for fallen officers.

 

Police officers in Portland, Oregon, are still waiting for an apology from Barack Obama after campaign staffers of his recent rally in Portland, Oregon, setup porta potties directly on top of the Portland Police Memorial, which honors the agency’s 25 fallen police officers.

The Obama rally drew a crowd of over 75,000 people.

Officer Thomas Brennan, who was working overtime at the rally, took a picture of the offending toilets, with the American flag still at half mast because of Police Officers Memorial Day, directly behind them. The local law enforcement memorial service had been held at the site only five days earlier.

The campaigns excuse for putting the toilets there, "the toilets were placed on the memorial for safety reasons to accommodate wheelchair access".

 

h/t: Jawa Report

Who Is Barack Hussein Obama? Part I

I'm a bit disgruntled today over my fellow Americans lack of good judgement. It takes something like this to get me all riled up to do more research.

I found an interesting video portrait of Obama today. [Dial-up users beware, it's 13+ min. long]

 

 

A particular part of the video that caught my attention was the discussion of Black Liberation Theology. Obama's Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, brought up the topic of Black Liberation Theology during an interview with Sean Hannity on Hannity & Colmes. I have never heard of this theology before, so I decided to take a look.

Black Liberation Theology can be summed up in a few words. Racist, Victimology, & Marxist.

Black Liberation Theology actually encourages a victim mentality among blacks. John McWhorters' book Losing the Race, will be helpful here. Victimology, says McWhorter, is the adoption of victimhood as the core of one's identity -- for example, like one who suffers through living in "a country and who lived in a culture controlled by rich white people." It is a subconscious, culturally inherited affirmation that life for blacks in America has been in the past and will be in the future a life of being victimized by the oppression of whites. In today's terms, it is the conviction that, 40 years after the Civil Rights Act, conditions for blacks have not substantially changed. As Wright intimates, for example, scores of black men regularly get passed over by cab drivers.

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One of the pillars of Obama's home church, Trinity United Church of Christ, is "economic parity." On the website, Trinity claims that God is not pleased with "America's economic mal-distribution." Among all of controversial comments by Jeremiah Wright, the idea of massive wealth redistribution is the most alarming. The code language "economic parity" and references to "mal-distribution" is nothing more than channeling the twisted economic views of Karl Marx. Black Liberation theologians have explicitly stated a preference for Marxism as an ethical framework for the black church because Marxist thought is predicated on a system of oppressor class (whites) versus victim class (blacks).

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Perhaps it is the Marxism imbedded in Obama's attendance at Trinity Church that should raise red flags. "Economic parity" and "distribution" language implies things like government-coerced wealth redistribution, perpetual minimum wage increases, government subsidized health care for all, and the like. One of the priorities listed on Obama's campaign website reads, "Obama will protect tax cuts for poor and middle class families, but he will reverse most of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers."

Black Liberation Theology, originally intended to help the black community, may have actually hurt many blacks by promoting racial tension, victimology, and Marxism which ultimately leads to more oppression. As the failed "War on Poverty" has exposed, the best way to keep the blacks perpetually enslaved to government as "daddy" is to preach victimology, Marxism, and to seduce blacks into thinking that upward mobility is someone else's responsibility in a free society.

I found the Marxism equation in the theology particularly interested since an Obama campaign office in Houston proudly displayed a Che Guevara flag. 

B. Hussein Obama Gets The Nomination, Hillary Open To VP Slot, *UPDATE*-Hillary Ends Campaign

Well whoopdie-freakin'-do. There's a whole lot more stupid people in America than I thought. I would really like to know the answer to one question. "Who is Barack Hussein Obama"? Does anybody really know? You hear a lot of blabber from him, but little about who he is. With Hillary Clinton, you know what you're getting. She doesn't hide it. But Obama has given no insight to himself. What we have learned is; that he attends a church that hates white people and America, his wife is ashamed to be a citizen of America, and he hasn't a clue about world history and governments. Yet, people continue to vote for him.

If someone held a gun to my head and told me I had to vote for a Democrat, the choice would be easy, Hillary Clinton. I believe she has a more realistic view of the world and that it's not all hugs and kisses. That is, of course, if I had not decided to beg the person to go ahead and shoot me.

I do have one suggestion for Hillary, if you can afford it, stay in the race. With all the questions surrounding Obama, you never know when the wheels will fall of the campaign bus. I'm still awaiting the video of Michelle Obama chastising "whitey".

As for me, I don't care about any of the three candidates. I'm still writing-in or not voting for president.

 

***UPDATE 11:00PM 06/04/08***

Hillary ends her campaign. She has released her delegates, but she is no longer campaigning.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is ending her historic bid to become the first female president and will back rival Barack Obama on Saturday, capping a 17-month quest that began with the words "I'm in it to win it" with a more humble plea for party unity.

Hours after Barack Obama sealed the nomination, Democrats coalesced around his candidacy, sending a strong signal to Clinton that it was time to bow out. The former first lady told House Democrats during a private conference call Wednesday that she will express support for Obama's candidacy and congratulate him for gathering the necessary delegates to be the party's nominee.

Florida & Michigan Dem Delegates Get Half-Votes At Convention

Even though it doesn't matter me, I think its wrong. They should either have kept it the way it was (no delegates), or had a re-vote. If it would've been the Republican party and the same issue came up with our worthless candidate McCain and a real conservative like Duncan Hunter, I would be screaming.

Democratic Party leaders agreed Saturday to seat Michigan and Florida delegates with half-votes at this summer's convention with a compromise that left Barack Obama on the verge of the nomination but riled Hillary Rodham Clinton backers who threatened to fight to the August convention.