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1. #283102
   On April 9th, 2008 at 10:10 pm, BrianNY said:

   These “little snippets” from Obama’s mentors and supporters are starting to form quite a “gorgeous mosaic,” aren’t they?

2. #283104
   On April 9th, 2008 at 10:17 pm, Armigerous said:

   Well,you can take the homey out of the ghetto,but….

3. #283110
   On April 9th, 2008 at 10:30 pm, maine yankee said:

   I don’t know very much about the subject, being just a ‘typical white person’, but if it walks like a racist, talks like a racist, then it’s probably a …..

4. #283111
   On April 9th, 2008 at 10:31 pm, shooter said:

   Getting scarier by the day.
   ( don’t call any kids ‘monkeys’ either, you’ll be fined if obama finds out)

5. #283112
   On April 9th, 2008 at 10:33 pm, shooter said:

   whoops, monkey link here

6. #283116
   On April 9th, 2008 at 10:38 pm, Jim M. said:

   Obama has surrounded himself with racists, socialists, marxists, communists, domestic terrorists and accused felons, yet has an uncanny ability to mesmerize the MSM into believing the people with whom he associates in the long term do not reflect upon him personally.

   “It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved — such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time.”

   That is a quote from Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father. He has learned to play the game well. Regardless of the company he keeps, his smiling well mannered persona has indeed been an effective shield into the psyche of Barak Obama.

7. #283117
   On April 9th, 2008 at 10:41 pm, Tennessee Dave said:

   The nuts seem to be coming out of the woodwork. I guess I have been shielded in my life to not have seen all the racism that is rampant in this country. Truely, we must atone for our sins.
   //sarc off

8. #283118
   On April 9th, 2008 at 10:43 pm, WarTip said:

   I am still waiting for the Dems to criticize his strong ties to (his personal version of?) Christianity as they have with Bush.

9. #283125
   On April 9th, 2008 at 10:55 pm, Speakup said:

   He continued as to how now the salvation has come and the gates have open for African Americans to come together behind Barack Obama, because now is the time to show them.(meaning the jews).

   I could no longer be polite and sit in front of the crowd, so I walked out.
   Members of the fraternity ran after me as did my staff, I was not able to contain my tears and I cried.
   I cried for me and my family, who have tried so hard to help the African American community, because we adopted children from the same realities and wanted to give back to other children and people. We have been completely color blind, for us it was only helping those children in need. I cried for our beloved country and the division that Barack Obama has caused with his Rev. Wright opening the gates to ‘hate’ against the Jews and whites. I grew up so looking at America as the land of Freedom. I was honored to receive my citizenship accompanied by members of the Kennedy family. Now, I’m afraid for Israel because Barack sat there for 20 years listening and not standing up for what’s right, why would he standup for Israel?
   I cried for the Jewish community who are so blind that they can’t see that there’s a movement here that will destroy us.I cried because for the first time in my life I was afraid of the future.

   I cried for our world that is moving backwards and not forward. Everyday, I see children so lost, and so deserving of hope and love. I look into their eyes, knowing that it is their lives that are in our hands.
   I’m crying now, so I’m going to stop writing because it is so painful.
   I just had to share this experience with you,

   http://standwithus.com/app/iNews/view.asp?ID=350

10. #283129
    On April 9th, 2008 at 11:08 pm, almeehan said:

    I’ve prayed that God would judge this man (these men) for the hate,damage and more that they are doing to people, communities and this country. A pox on them.

11. #283135
    On April 9th, 2008 at 11:24 pm, Mookie said:

    What’s Obama’s connection to Lee?

12. #283141
    On April 9th, 2008 at 11:34 pm, allrsn said:

    If obama is christian, why did he demand he be swore into congress on a Koran?

13. #283144
    On April 9th, 2008 at 11:39 pm, d1carter said:

    An astounding number of Chicago folks seem to have hearing problems. When asked by media about the statements that these guys make, no one seems to have heard them. It’s either, I was distracted by someone else or I wasn’t in church those specific days. I didn’t hear them, I can’t comment.

14. #283146
    On April 9th, 2008 at 11:47 pm, faraway said:

    allrsn, that was not ObamaX. that was Keith Ellison.

15. #283149
    On April 9th, 2008 at 11:51 pm, faraway said:

    I am confused, what is a “black” church? It’s by it’s very name, a racist institution.

    It’s time we put an end to racism. Should we condemn black churches?

16. #283150
    On April 9th, 2008 at 11:55 pm, les said:

    allrsn #12 – Obama did not use a Koran when he was sworn in. It was Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the first Muslim member of US Congress. And he used the Koran once owned by non other than Thomas Jefferson which was published in London in 1764.

    Thats an old rumor allrsn. Get with the times and get your facts straight before spreading rumors.

17. #283153
    On April 10th, 2008 at 12:07 am, allrsn said:

    On April 9th, 2008 at 11:47 pm, faraway said:
    allrsn, that was not ObamaX. that was Keith Ellison.

    Dm I even did a fast search to check this before I posted. Guess I got a bad site, I have now furthered my search and YOU are correct. Thank you for correcting me.

    Sorry I presented false information.

18. #283155
    On April 10th, 2008 at 12:14 am, Speakup said:

    For my own curiosity I did a search and found:

    Swore on Koran? The e-mail says “when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran” – bunk yet again. Obama did not place his hand on the Koran when he was sworn into the U.S. Senate. This claim confuses Obama with the first and only Muslim member of Congress, Democratic House member Keith Ellison of Minnesota. Obama was sworn in using his own Bible, as widely reported in newspaper accounts and pictured above. That’s his wife holding the Bible with Vice President Dick Cheney swearing him in. (Under the Constitution, the vice president serves as president of the Senate.)

    Interestingly, in the same piece I also found this:

    Scurrilous smears like those contained in these two e-mails can have a damaging effect. Before the South Carolina primary in 2000, for example, phone calls were made to voters in which the callers claimed to be taking a poll, asking: “Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?” McCain had done no such thing. He and his wife had adopted their daughter Bridget, who has dark skin, as a baby from Mother Theresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh. A professor at Bob Jones University also had sent an e-mail message telling South Carolinians that McCain had “chosen to sire children without marriage,” which wasn’t true. McCain lost the 2000 primary, and the Republican nomination, to George W. Bush.

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/91424/page/6

19. #283159
    On April 10th, 2008 at 12:34 am, meatpieandtatters said:

    The distraction continues. Has anyone stopped to think about the Real ID Act that becomes effective next month? Big Brother is at the door…

20. #283188
    On April 10th, 2008 at 2:23 am, graysonret said:

    Once the convention is over (assuming Obama wins), I suspect we’ll see a lot more “trash” come out of the dumps to speak their minds and turn it all into a black/white issue. The amount of slander and muck-raking seen would make the Jackson/Adams election look like a quiet event. As long as there is money to be made and power to gain, there wil always be a divide.

21. #283212
    On April 10th, 2008 at 4:41 am, gayle said:

    Yet another setup by the government.

    Make it about race.

    Divide and conquer.

    Illegals/blacks versus the rest of us.

    This creates the perfect environment for socialism. No one trusts each other so the government steps in to make us all live together in peace.

    Makes me puke.

22. #283217
    On April 10th, 2008 at 6:12 am, bit_boy said:

    Is it safe to say that I don’t have a dog in Eric Lee’s fight either or is this too a fight we all have a dog in. Go figure.

23. #283221
    On April 10th, 2008 at 6:50 am, Kevin K. said:

    The preacher in this case, Eric Lee, can not be defended on any grounds with this incident. He insulted everyone in that audience–both honoree, sponsors, and audience. He’s lucky he didn’t live 150 years ago, as he would have been challenged to multiple duels for that evening’s work.

    I hope that his credentials for representing anything holy or good are yanked immediately.

24. #283222
    On April 10th, 2008 at 6:55 am, Kevin K. said:

    But,

    On April 10th, 2008 at 12:34 am, meatpieandtatters said:
    The distraction continues. Has anyone stopped to think about the Real ID Act that becomes effective next month? Big Brother is at the door.

    According to the Washington Times [this is quoted from today's editorial "DC police state"],
    

    …city officials are handing D.C. Police unprecedented access to a city network of 5,200 traffic, school and public-housing cameras — now to be used for anticrime and antiterrorism purposes in the D.C. Police closed-circuit surveillance system. Presently, D.C. Police operate only 92 crime cameras in addition to several homeland security cameras.

    Big Brother is already here.

25. #283224
    On April 10th, 2008 at 6:57 am, ajmontana said:

    The formula for having a “dog in this fight” is quite simple but one must have their head out of the sand to figure it out.

26. #283225
    On April 10th, 2008 at 7:06 am, zorro said:

    By the time the elections in November get here Sen. Obama will have set back race relations 30 years!

    (Eric Lee) He continued to speak about ‘ White supremecy’ vs the talents and visionaries in the core of African Americans. He demeaned being given freedom, by saying “To what?” to a country that kills women and children.

    What a miserable, angry idiot.

27. #283246
    On April 10th, 2008 at 7:42 am, terrig said:

    So are monkey bars out on the school playground now too? Seriously, I called my little boy a monkey yesterday because he was climbing all over this toy at Target. Guess I need to be careful or they’ll be calling me a racist in front of my Japanese son.

28. #283257
    On April 10th, 2008 at 7:59 am, pokenhorn said:

    I am beginning to wonder if the black community is competent to govern itself, never mind the rest of us. White America has done all it can to demonstrate its good will toward blacks, to no avail. Crippled by self-pity and resentment, the black community of today is a hopeless cause.

29. #283258
    On April 10th, 2008 at 7:59 am, WarTip said:

    On April 10th, 2008 at 4:41 am, gayle said:

    Yet another setup by the government.

    Make it about race.

    Divide and conquer.

    I have been saying that for years but was always told by the “authority” figures in schools and during my brief stint at a University by the professors that “it will never come to that” even though I saw this beginning in the early seventies in my preteen years.

    Sometimes it sucked having a historian for a Grandfather … talk about a ruined childhood … I spent mine being educated at home for everything I was lacking in school.

    Looking back though, I am honestly glad I “wasted” so much time learning facts and discovering the truth. It may have not been as fun as dating but it has certainly opened my eyes to what is going on around us today.

30. #283267
    On April 10th, 2008 at 8:10 am, gunslingerpatriot said:

    I stand by and support Israel…

    I agree that if the victocrat community was ever left to govern themselves, we would have anarchy, chaos, and cronyism. Wait—we already have that in Memphis, Detroit, and New Orleans. Since in Memphis, only a black school superintentent can understand the needs of black children (at least thats what our school board is saying)

    GSP

31. #283273
    On April 10th, 2008 at 8:25 am, Boomer said:

    On April 10th, 2008 at 8:10 am, gunslingerpatriot said:
    I stand by and support Israel…

    Our household takes a stand for Israel too. To turn ones back on God’s chosen people is to turn your back on God, which is already leading to the destruction of this country by the tolerant left persecuting Christians and Jews the Judeo-Christian values that once made this country great.
    The Obamination has really hitched his wagon to the leading racist religious icons of our country. Dopey me I always though Christianity was about loving thy neighbor and forgiveness not being concerned about your neighbor’s skin color along with not being able to forgive a wrong perpetrated over a century ago by and to people no longer alive.

32. #283274
    On April 10th, 2008 at 8:26 am, Insomniac said:

    Maybe I’m behind the news curve, but what is the connection between this Lee guy and Obama?

33. #283279
    On April 10th, 2008 at 8:40 am, TexasTiger said:

    On April 10th, 2008 at 7:42 am, terrig said:

    So are monkey bars out on the school playground now too? Seriously, I called my little boy a monkey yesterday because he was climbing all over this toy at Target. Guess I need to be careful or they’ll be calling me a racist in front of my Japanese son.

    Be careful terrig; it’s already happening. Some of the trolls here aren’t too bright. Use any simian-related term within fifty words of a reference to a non-white person and the tears and accusations will be flowing forthwith.

34. #283284
    On April 10th, 2008 at 8:58 am, gunslingerpatriot said:

    Insomniac-
    The connection is that black preachers that are expressing hate and anti-semetic views are praising BHO as a great leader AND bho isn’t condemming any of the racist rhetoric.

    The problem becomes when black victocrats are very quick to condem any perceived racism from white people and yet refuse to condem the same sort of behavior from within their own ranks.

    To be fair; white people have done alot to ensure the equal justice for all, and yet to the black victocrats, its never enough. We have been very quick to condemn the david dukes, adinnerjacket, Sen. byrd and etc–but there is no equally measured response when simuliar comments are made by jackson, sharpton, isiah thomas, dusty baker, gumbel at the winter olympics, and etc..

    Lets play a game—replace the word “black” with the word “white”, and vice versa and see which appears to be a racist comment.

    Back in the 1900’s, the klan was easily spotted in their sheets, but in the 21st century the rhetoric has stayed the same, its just that the victocrats are wearing business suits and clergy collars.

    In short-if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, its probably a duck..

    GSP

35. #283347
    On April 10th, 2008 at 10:13 am, corona said:

    Where’s the evidence that there is any connection to Obama? Look over at Hot Air – they couldn’t find any.

36. #283377
    On April 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am, emjem24 said:

    And people wonder why there are those of us who genuinely neither like nor trust Obummer. Look at who he surrounds himself with. That this black “preacher” promoted such anti-semitism in front of a woman who had done nothing but help the black community is just wrong on so many levels.

    How much do racist blacks think that Americans will put up with this crap? I’m sorry but their candidate Obummer is not that great or even that original. They complain about their “poverty,” “racism,” “enslavement,” and have gotten nothing but goodies their entire lives like Affirmative Action but still think they’re “victims” or “slaves.”

    I think the only way that many blacks will feel powerful is if a “real” black president is elected (sorry Bill Clinton). That’s the only way they can feel like they have supremacy over “whitey,” and the few dumb schmucks out there who think racism is dead (on the part of the black community) or who try to help the black community only to be portrayed as “interfering outsiders.”

37. #283378
    On April 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am, DBNinKY said:

    On April 10th, 2008 at 8:58 am, gunslingerpatriot said:

    “Insomniac-
    The connection is that black preachers that are expressing hate and anti-semetic views are praising BHO as a great leader AND bho isn’t condemming any of the racist rhetoric.”

    I agree. The controversial black ministers coming out in full support of Obama are forming a very hefty turn-out base which Obama may find himself having to appease, should he be elected President and in need of leverage support to pass his legislation.

38. #283442
    On April 10th, 2008 at 11:32 am, twons said:

    I have to agree with a few posters here – I’m wondering about any connection to Obama.

    I’m no BHO fan – far from it. But I think that he has plenty of connections to anti-American, racist, criminal, etc characters that CAN be substantiated (Wright, Ayers, Rezco). When we try to connect him with every black racist, anti-semitic preacher out there, we run the risk of watering down those connections that ARE real.

39. #283446
    On April 10th, 2008 at 11:35 am, Mookie said:

    Michelle, what is Obama’s connection to Lee? Capt. Ed said there isn’t one.

40. #283478
    On April 10th, 2008 at 12:01 pm, BrianNY said:

    #39 Mookie said:

    Michelle, what is Obama’s connection to Lee?

    He (Lee) began his speech by thanking Jesus for Obama, who is going to be the leader of the world…he (Lee)looked right at me and started talking about the African American children who are suffering because of the JEWS that have featured them as rapists and murderers.

    For Obama, this is not the same level of political embarrassment as a 23 year relationship with a hateful, racist mentor. However, Lee’s (Pres. and CEO of Southern Christian Leadership Conference of greater Los Angeles) political support for Obama further necessitates a response from Obama on three levels:

    1. Does Obama accept Rev. Lee’s support?
    2. Does Obama repudiate Rev. Lee’s apparent antisemitism?
    3. What exactly is Obama’s understanding of “Black Liberation Theology,” and why has he subscribed to it for 23 years?

    This is the same threshold that McCain and Romney were presented with when religion intersected with their quest for the Presidency. Obama should be held to no less a standard.

41. #283496
    On April 10th, 2008 at 12:13 pm, Mookie said:

    This is the same threshold that McCain and Romney were presented with when religion intersected with their quest for the Presidency. Obama should be held to no less a standard.

    I don’t recall McCain answering any questions about Tim LaHaye’s support.

42. #283621
    On April 10th, 2008 at 2:07 pm, gunslingerpatriot said:

    McCain didn’t answer to Tim LaHaye’s support-Just John Hagee’s endorsement and the left attempted to make equal with BHO’s racist pastor.

    The diffrence is that McCain didn’t have his kids baptised, was married or was a member of John Hagee’s local church.

    GSP

43. #283849
    On April 10th, 2008 at 7:14 pm, Mookie said:

    On April 10th, 2008 at 2:07 pm, gunslingerpatriot said:

    McCain didn’t answer to Tim LaHaye’s support-Just John Hagee’s endorsement and the left attempted to make equal with BHO’s racist pastor.

    The diffrence is that McCain didn’t have his kids baptised, was married or was a member of John Hagee’s local church.

    GSP

    And Obama didn’t have his kids baptized, nor was married, in Eric Lee’s church. In fact, there still hasn’t been any connection established between Obama and Lee.

44. #283960
    On April 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    They don’t get it. Racism’s a two-way street, and the engineers and crew of Obama Parkway are constructing new lanes at a rapid pace. Will the Obamaniacs get the picture before it’s too late?

    Sorry, cheese factor turned to mute…now.

45. #284006
    On April 11th, 2008 at 12:28 am, BrianNY said:

    #43 Mook said:

    And Obama didn’t have his kids baptized, nor was married, in Eric Lee’s church.

    Whoa, nobody said he did. (For the record, it was that nutjob-clown Pastor Wright who married Obama and baptized his children…it was the nutjob clown from LA, Pastor Lee, who merely thanked Jesus for Obama being the “next leader of the world” before ripping into Jews.)

    Eric Lee can be whoever he wants to be. My two cents is, when the President and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles comes to praise a prospective democrat nominee, and then proceeds to rip Jews a new one in the same breath…a word or two of repudiation from Mssr. Obama is in order…don’t you think?

    Or, Obama can register his silence on Pastor Lee’s combined words of support and antisemitism. It’s his choice.

46. #284270
    On April 11th, 2008 at 11:00 am, twons said:

    I will reiterate my opinion:

    When we try to pin Obama with every racist anti-semite preacher out there, we water down the importance of those connections that are real. Just because Lee said something in the way of endorsement of Obama doesn’t mean that the opposite is true. It’s a logic problem….

    Let’s stick with the connections that can be substantiated.

47. #284366
    On April 11th, 2008 at 12:45 pm, BrianNY said:

    #46 said:

    Let’s stick with the connections that can be substantiated.

    I want to hear about all of them. Both the characters to which Obama has donated 23 years of his soul, AND the antisemitic and racist fools who lend him their support.

    It will all benefit my impression and decision regarding the man.

48. #286767
    On April 14th, 2008 at 1:43 pm, JUDY said:

    And here’s the REAL STORY!!
    It’s not only Obama’s Rev’s [i.e., hate-filled speeches or remarks or actions] rather we should be worried about the facts here:
    Obama & terrorist ties to the well-known terrorist group out of Equador & Venezuela a.k.a. FARC
    http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=289526128774013
    or
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQdobiyuMN4 {Wright’s and Obama’s views on dismantling our military next-the right to bear arms
    or
    Wright wrote to his church to take over ENTIRE AMERICAN ECONOMIC SYSTEMS, OUR RESOURCES AND OTHERS!! AT:
    http:// http://www.tucc.org/pdf/rey-5-2006.pdf
    or
    Hating the Jewish People and Israel
    or
    dissing the Italian People
    or
    calling people “less-fortunate” “BITTER”
    or
    ties to the underground American terrorist who bombed the Pentagon and is still friends with
    or
    THE BIG ONE- WHAT BETTER WAY TO TAKE DOWN AMERICA FROM WITH-IN OBAMA’S VIEWS AND RADICAL SPEECHES MAKE ME SICK!! HE KNEW WHEN TO RUN FOR OFFICE WHAT BETTER TIME THAN TO RUN WHEN AMERICA WANTS THIS WAR OVER ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG VOTERS! [DOES DRAFT RING A BELL??] We’re finding out who the REAL OBAMA AND HIS WIFE AND TIES ARE—-He threw his white Grandmother under the bus and he will TRY and THROW the white people under the bus as well. WAKE UP AMERICA!! Remember it’s called the WHITE HOUSE and he’s going into the election with the most radical views I think anyone running for President has had in History. WATCH JOHN ADAMS!! READ HISTORY!! This has happened once before and count on it, Denver and other cities will be MARCHED ON!! THANK YOU OBAMA you did our Country well!! What a joke!!
    Michelle Obama’s remarks bring up old memories and read her Thesis and by the way look up the word “AUDACITY” in the Merriam Webster Thesaurus another word for “TEMERITY” then look up the word “TEMERITY”!!!! Obama knows what he is doing and it should be a crime. He might have the Intelligence skills but the question is DOES HE HAVE THE “PASSION” to be our next President??