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HERE'S AN IDEA. LET'S BRING CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES UNDER STATE CONTROL.

SOMEONE IN THE McCAIN ORGANIZATION HAS SKILLS

BARACK OBAMA CALLED OUT THE CHICAGO THUGS -- taking a page straight out the Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals -- in an effort to silence investigative reporter Stanley Kurtz.  Listen to Milt Rosenberg's radio show with Stanley Kurtz here.

Guy Benson was in the studio:  "Stanley Kurtz's appearance on the Milt Rosenberg radio program in Chicago last night provided an unsettling look into the authoritarian tactics being employed by the Obama campaign to stifle and intimidate its critics .. As I arrived at the downtown Chicago studios a few hours before show time, the phones began ringing off the hook with irate callers demanding Kurtz be axed from the program. It didn't take long to discover that the Obama campaign--which had declined invitations to join the show for its duration to offer rebuttals to Kurtz's points--had sent an "Obama Action Wire" e-mail to its supporters, encouraging them to deluge the station with complaints."

WHEN IT CAME TO ANTI-CRIME LEGISLATION, Barack Obama often stood to the left even of the Illinois legislature:

his eight-year voting record in the Illinois Senate shows the Democrat .. took stands - particularly on anti-crime legislation - that put him to the left of his own party. Mr. Obama was the only member of the state Senate to vote against a bill to prohibit the early release of convicted criminal sexual abusers; was among only four who voted against bills to toughen criminal sentences and to increase penalties for "gangbangers" and dealers of Ecstasy; and voted "present" on a bill making it harder for abusive parents to regain custody of their children ..

WHY DID OBAMA WORK SO HARD to conceal the character of his political thinking during his time at Harvard and the U. of Chicago?  And why did Obama make sure not to publish a single scholarly article during all the years he was a law professor at the U. of Chicago?  And, just to put a highlight on it, why did Obama vote "present" over 125 times while in the Illinois legislature? 

The WSJ's Daniel Henninger calls Obama the most mysterious Democratic presidential candidate in the memory of any living voter, and he has a point:

A New York Times article on his years at Harvard Law, where he was editor of the law review, said, "In dozens of interviews, his friends said they could not remember his specific views from that era, beyond a general emphasis on diversity and social and economic justice." A similar piece on his years teaching at the University of Chicago Law School said he notably did not participate in its intellectual debates.

THE LESSON WE'RE LEARNING RIGHT NOW ABOUT BARACK OBAMA VIA THE AYERS SCANDAL:

Between trying to shout [Stanley Kurtz] down and trying to get the Justice Department to intimidate other critics, the Obama campaign is giving us a frightening glimpse of how unfit they are to wield power.

And that leaves out what we're learning about Obama's capacity for lying and deception.

More on what the Obama campaign is doing to Stanley Kurtz here.  At Just One Minute Tom Maguire fires back.

A GREAT EDITORIAL ON THE AYERS - OBAMA RELATIONSHIP FROM INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY:

The UIC records show that in the 1990s, Ayers was instrumental in starting the Annenberg Challenge, securing a $50 million grant to reform the Chicago Public Schools, part of a national initiative funded by Ambassador Walter Annenberg, who died in 2002.

Obama was given the Annenberg board chairmanship only months before his first run for office. He ran the fiscal arm that distributed grants to schools and raised matching funds. Ayers participated in a second entity known as the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, the operational arm that worked with grant recipients. They met and talked often.

When Obama first ran for office, articles in the Chicago Defender and the local Hyde Park Herald mentioned his Annenberg chairmanship among his qualifications.

During Obama's tenure as Annenberg chairman, Ayers' own education projects received substantial funding. As we've noted in our series, "The Audacity of Socialism," Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

OBAMA NOMINATED -- TOP 10 OBAMA FIRSTS:

10)  first candidate born in Hawaii to head a major party ticket.

9)  first candidate elected editor of the Harvard Law Review to head a major party ticket.

8)  first candidate with a socialist father to head a major party ticket.

7)  first candidate to admit he's had a pot and cocaine problem to head a major party ticket.

6)  first candidate from the Chicago machine to head a major party ticket
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5)  first candidate with a Muslim first and middle name to head a major party ticket.

4)  first candidate who's taught Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" to head a major party ticket.

3)  first candidate who allied himself with an America-hating terrorist to head a major party ticket.

2)  first candidate of partial African ancestry to head a major party ticket.

1)  first candidate who sought out Marxist professors in college to head a major party ticket.

The bottom line is that Obama is making history in more ways that one.  As Walter Williams has put it, Obama is no Jackie Robinson.

THE AYERS / OBAMA DOCUMENTS ESTABLISH that Obama "is a liar of the first magnitude."  OK, so we already knew that.  I still find the number and enormity of his lies astounding.  Sure politicians often lie about their sexual affairs and policy flip flops -- but about nearly every aspect of their lives?  This is something new, something we haven't seen before, and I think it's really hard for a lot of people to process.

A CLOSE AYERS / OBAMA RELATIONSHIP extending over a period of half a dozen years -- that's what the Chicago Tribune is reporting as part of their coverage of Obama's years heading the Chicago Annenberg Challenge organization:

The UIC records show that Obama and Ayers attended board meetings, retreats and at least one news conference together as the education program got under way. The two continued to attend meetings together during the 1995-2001 operation of the program, records show.

TOM MAGUIRE COVERS THE OFTEN BIZARRE press coverage of the Ayers / Obama / Annenberg story.

THE NEW YORK TIMES MANAGES TO MENTION the Ayers / Obama run Chicago Annenberg Challenge education organization without actually mentioning it by name, at the very tail end of an article on the Obama campaign's counter attack against the Ayers / Obama ads being run by the American Issues Project.  Here's the non-mention mention:

The fight [over the Ayers / Obama relationship] may move to another front this week. 

The University of Illinois at Chicago is in the process or releasing documents detailing Mr. Obama's involvement with a non-profit education project started by Mr. Ayers.

Hmmm.  What might that project be and who might have been THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD of that organization?  Shhh.  Don't tell the readers.  Until the Obama campaign is ready to discuss that name and that chairman, it seems the Times will follow the Obama lead, and it won't mention that name and its chairman either. 

Sure is a good thing they have all those editors at the Times.  We wouldn't want things like that getting out if the Obama campaign didn't want them getting out.

UPDATE:  Don't miss the magical Bill Ayers / John Kerry / Swift Boat tie in.

UPDATE II:  Tom Maguire picks up the story:

The NY Times is all meta - they are happy to bash the shadowy group besmirching their candidate but are unwilling to note the long. strong tie between Ayers and Obama by way of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.  When last we looked, Jim Rutenberg of the Times was utterly unaware of (or at least, unwilling to report) that tie; now, his final paragraph warms up their readers for revelations to follow:

The fight may move to another front this week.

The University of Illinois at Chicago is in the process or releasing documents detailing Mr. Obama's involvement with a non-profit education project started by Mr. Ayers.

It's almost like reporting!

THE ANNENBERG DOCUMENT RELEASE ESTABLISHES THAT THE AYERS-OBAMA working relationship at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was a close one.  It also establishes that Obama saw the would-be reform organization as headed exactly toward the failure it would ultimately be judged to be.  This is significant because the Chicago Annenberg Challenge shows us Obama both in a rare executive capacity as Chairman of the Board of the CAC, and in the role of a would-be reformer with a real world assignment.  Obama seems to have failed in both capacities, a judgment perhaps anticipated by Obama himself:

The minutes [of the CAC's operational arm] characterized Obama's concerns as twofold: Whether the group was raising additional money and whether money was being used ''to prop up existing organizations as opposed to creating fresh educational practices in the schools?''

''At the end of five years, will we have broken the mold? Not much seems to be bubbling up that is inspiring or substantive,'' the minutes say, paraphrasing Obama.

Obama has sought to "disappear" his involvement with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge organization, failing to even mention it on his resume or when listing his credentials for public office.  This is a disturbing way for a "reform" candidate to present himself to the pubic, as a man actively hiding his professional conduct in his most important reform effort -- and most significant position as an executive.

UPDATE:  In a newly released interview from 2004, Bill Ayers is quoted as saying that America has committed "many" terrorist atrocities on a par with the 2,819 murdered on 9/1, "even recently."

Here's a pop quiz.  Who said what?

(A)  "A lot of evil has been perpetrated in the claim that we were trying to confront evil."

(B)  "It's easy .. to point to all the evil out there in the world and say, 'But we're good people, we're good people.'  The problem there is that we fail to actually look at our history and our impact on the world."

Answer below the fold.

"BARACK OBAMASS" An excellent little Beavis & Butthead moment at the Democrat Convention.

MARRIED PEOPLE FAVOR JOHN McCAIN OVER BARACK OBAMA BY A 15 POINT MARGIN, 53% TO 38%, with married men rejecting Barack Obama by a massive 20 point margin.

Gallop has a full demographic breakdown of their tracking poll here.

JONAH GOLDBERG reminds us that "middle class Michelle" belonged for decades to a church which insisted that identifying with the middle class meant you were a racist or an Uncle Tom.  Don't guess you'll be hearing much about that during the morning "news" shows.

USA TODAY GOES WITH OBAMA CAMPAIGN TALKING POINTS in an article on the political implications of Barack Obama's long term working relationship with unrepentant anti-American radical Bill Ayers.  What the Obama campaign and the MSM repeatedly falsify is the fact that Bill Ayers and his wife were active terrorist well into the 1970s and perhaps even as late the the 1980s.  And still to this day Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn hate American capitalism, reject traditional American values, and oppose old fashioned property-based liberal democracy.  It isn't a "60s" thing.  It's a "70s", "80s" and "90s" thing.  And it's a "today" thing.  And Barack Obama knows it.  (Watch a 2007 video of Bernardine Dorhn promoting the revolution here and one of Bill Ayers still glorifying the anti-Western / anti-American "insurgency" here.)

Their agenda today is the same as it was 40 years ago, only in more recent years they've worked to "bring the revolution" via "education reform" rather than through a terror campaign -- a project Bill Ayers tapped Barack Obama to work with him on for a period in the 1990s.

The best sources on all this are Stanley Kurtz and Tom Maguire.  This one isn't going away, folks, no matter what the Democrats in the MSM might think.

A PHONE CALL TO RUSH puts a 16 year old's book on Amazon's best sellers list.  Last I look it was #4.

Speaking of Rush, a couple of months ago Limbaugh posted this on his web site:



As far as we know, Sarah Palin hasn't lied about her education, hasn't plagiarized anyone's speeches or adopted anyone's biography, hasn't been a coke user, hasn't tried to hide her close associations with terrorist bombers, American hating racists, and communist agitators, and didn't seek out radical professors in college.  She hasn't worked legal cases for a convicted slum lord, she hasn't purchased property at discount in concert with a convicted political fixer, and she hasn't spent her career working up the ladder rolling logs with the most corrupt politicians in America.  So Sarah Palin doesn't have the qualifications for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, but she still might make a fine public official.  I'm just sayin' ..

WHAT'S THIS? ANOTHER OBAMA CAMPAIGN LIE?   Tell me it's not so.

WHO'S THE BIGGER LIAR AND FRAUD?  Barack Obama or Joe Biden?  The ignorant press corp doesn't know it, but Obama is actually the bigger fraud and liar.

"WHO EVER HEARD OF A NICE PIECE OF ELEPHANT."  Stephen Green does some photojournalism at the DNC convention in Denver.

DID YOU WATCH THE DEMOCRAT CONVENTION TONIGHT?

Me neither.

DON'T PUT BILL DYER IN A ROOM ALONE with William Ayers or Barack Obama.

Tom Maguire has more on the multi-decade Ayers / Obama partnership here.

NO, LEFTIST DON'T LIKE FREE SPEECH.

MICHELLE TELLS US "BARACK OBAMA WILL REQUIRE YOU TO WORK."  And indeed, Obama has already released plans for a Federal program of mandatory "volunteer" work.  But now Obama is telling us that he will "require" us to generate 10% of the nation's energy from renewable resources.  Do the math.  Required work + required renewable energy = you can look forward to this:



Yes, that's you and your wife doing "voluntary" mandatory service to the nation producing renewable energy for a greener future and an energy independent America.  Blessed be the Messiah, Barack Obama.

Just remember you fat and comfortable Americans, "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK."  And if I read Obama's policy proposals correctly, the Federal government won't be saying it's OK either under an Obama Presidency.   So lace up your sneakers and find yourself a really soft bike seat. 

Because as Michelle Obama has explained, "Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual."

CALL THEM THE BS TWINS.

ONLY A TINY 2% OF AMERICANS CONSIDER THEMSELVES "MODERATES" while a stunning 60% percent of Americans consider themselves "conservative" or "somewhat conservative" and a trifling half of that -- 27% percent  -- consider themselves "liberal" or "somewhat liberal". 

The truth is, almost nobody in America is a "moderate".  Contrary to what you read in the MSM, it's correct to call America a divided country because we are a divided country.

The reason it sometimes seems there are a lot of "moderates" in America is because that is the label left leaning elites use for themselves to distinguish themselves from the full blown leftist within their peer groups, while at the the same time allowing these left leaning elites to conceal their actual non-majority ideological orientation from the wider public.  This is why you'll find left leaning news anchors or left leaning law professors describing themselves as "moderates" -- in contrast to those in their social circle and intellectual class they are "moderates".  In contrast to most Americans, well, they're liberals.

HOW BIG BUSINESS BUYS "CHANGE" IN WASHINGTON:   they put huge wads of cash in the hands of a Senator's son.

FOR OBAMA, IT'S ABOUT PROVING SOMETHING to his absent, larger than life, socialist father.  Newsweek does the Obama Sr. / Obama Jr. story:

"To put yourself through what is a pretty rigorous process of running for president, you've got to have learned to set up some pretty high expectations for yourself-something's got to be driving you-and in my case if you have somebody that is absent, maybe you feel like you've got something to prove when you're young, and that pattern sets itself up over time," [Obama] said. "The stories I heard about my father painted him as larger than life, which also meant that I felt I had something to live up to. You could argue that if you're too well adjusted, you don't end up running for president. So if the pattern sets in pretty early on where you're pushing your comfort level, it probably has to do with those very early influences, and that can come from either the absence or the presence of a father who ends up motivating you in some way."

And this.  Newsweek discloses yet another Barack Obama fictionalization of an episode from his life which has been contradicted by an eyewitness to what actually took place:

As Eldredge, now retired, recalls the morning [Barack Obama's father spoke to his home room], Barry could not have been more delighted. The son, Eldredge says, introduced the father to the classroom, which was filled with 54 students. Barack Obama Sr. was dressed in traditional Kenyan clothing -- Eldredge remembers it looking something like a skirt -- and spoke about the importance of education. "He was like a visiting professor," says Eldredge. "It was a special occasion." Obama Sr. spoke for about 30 minutes and then answered the fifth graders' questions. Eldredge recalls the young Barack's warm reaction to the performance: "He seemed to be real proud, right at his side, kind of holding on to his dad's arm." A touching scene of paternal interest in his son, and of the son's pride in the father -- except that Barack Obama's recollection of the moment is at odds with the retired teacher's ..

At this point one must ask, is there a single page of Obama's memoir which accurately tells the story of his life?   The repeated answer, so far, is NO.

I'M SURPRISED MORE CHRISTIANS AREN'T OFFENDED by how Obama is running himself as Jesus.

Of course, I'm not surprise that the MSM has taken up Obama's cue and run with it.

YEAH, THAT'S THE TICKET.  It's obvious why Obama picked Joe Biden -- he identified with Biden's habit of lying about who he is and what he's done.  Padding the resume?  Lying about your accomplishments?  It's not a bug of this Democrat ticket, it's a feature.

JOE BIDEN -- BARACK OBAMA ISN'T READY TO BE PRESIDENT.  And, what is more, "The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."

So Obama goes with Joe "I wish I'd said that" Biden.  The insufferable self-regard of this ticket is going to set some sort of record, even among self-obsessed politicians.  Have we ever had two candidates who so love to hear themselves talk?

The irony of this choice, of course, is that what Obama just did is pick his own version of Dick Cheney.  For some reason, Obama can't stop himself from obsessively trash talking Cheney.  Perhaps there's something about a man of actual substance and accomplishment that just rubs Obama the wrong way.  And right there is the key difference between Cheney and Biden.  Cheney has a long career of actually doing things which gives him a place in American history. While Biden is mostly just a pompous ass.

DAVID MARANISS BEGINS HIS MULTI-PART SERIES ON BARACK OBAMA.  Let's do a little Obama versus Maraniss:

OBAMA:  In Obama's memoir, his high school associates come as in ethnic boxes as either "white", "black", "Japanese", "Asian" or "Hawaiian".  Obama doesn't mention that a large number of his high school peers were of mixed races -- like himself -- as were most of his "black" friends.

Obama describes a world dominated by rich whites and prejudiced Japanese who are often uncomfortable with or bigoted towards blacks, a situation which fills Obama and his friends with deep anger and angst.

MARANISS:  he grew up as a multiracial kid, a "hapa," "half-and-half" in the local lexicon, in one of the most multiracial places in the world, with no majority group ..

The group he ran with was white, black, brown and not identified with any of the traditional social sets at the school: the rich girls from the Outrigger Canoe Club, the football players, the math guys, the drama crew, the volleyball guys. Among Obama's friends, "there were some basketball players in there, but it was kind of eclectic," recalled Mike Ramos, also a hapa, his mother Anglo and his father Filipino ..

Peterson, Smith and Obama would meet on the steps outside Cooke Hall for what, with tongue in cheek, they called the Ethnic Corner. Obama and Smith were biracial, one black and white, the other black and Indian. Both of Peterson's parents were black, but he felt uneasy because he was an academically inclined young man whom people thought "sounded white." "Barry had no personal reference for his blackness. All three of us were dealing with it in different ways," Peterson recalled. "How do we explore these things? That is one thing we talked about. We talked about time. We talked about our classes. We talked about girls. We talked specifically about whether girls would date us because we were black. We talked about social issues. . . . But our little chats were not agonizing. They were just sort of fun ..

OBAMA:  Obama always portrays his mother as a woman who went through her adolescence and came of age in the heartland of Kansas.  Seattle, Berkeley, Mercer Island are never mentioned.

MARANISS:  Who was Obama's mother? The shorthand [i.e. Obama] version of the story has a woman from Kansas marrying a man from Kenya, but while Stanley Ann Dunham was born in Wichita in the fall of 1942, it is a stretch to call her a Jayhawk. After leaving Kansas when she was a youngster [i.e. a kindergartener], she and her parents lived in Berkeley, Calif., for two years, Ponca City, Okla., for two years, and Wichita Falls, Tex., for three years before they ventured to the Seattle area [when Stanley Ann was just entering her teens].

OBAMA:  Obama portrays his mother as a student constantly teased by her peers about her name Stanley, e.g. "Stanley Steamer", "Stan the Man", etc.

MARANISS:  "Only once or twice was she teased. She had a sharp tongue, a deep wit, and she could kill. We all called her Stanley," [says a Mercer Island pal].

OBAMA:  Obama says nothing about his mother's high school education.

MARANISS:  Their curiosity was encouraged by the teachers at Mercer Island High, especially Jim Wichterman and Val Foubert, who taught advanced humanities courses open to the top 25 students. The assigned reading included not only Plato and Aristotle, Kierkegaard and Sartre, but also late-1950s critiques of societal conventions, such as "The Organization Man" by William H. Whyte, "The Lonely Crowd" by David Riesman and "The Hidden Persuaders" by Vance Packard, as well as the political theories of Hegel and Mill and Marx. "The Communist Manifesto" was also on the reading list ..

OBAMA:  Obama describes his mother as an atheist and "position paper liberal."

MARANNIS:  "Stanley was decidedly liberal. She challenged the existence of God and championed Adlai Stevenson."

OBAMA:  Obama repeatedly describes his himself as the son of a goat herder.  As a small child Barack Obama, Sr. may have herded some goats but for several years as a young man Obama, Sr. was an office clerk in the capital city of Nairobi, a fact Obama mentions in his memoir, but never talks about in his grand public orations.  It's all goats in the speeches.

MARANISS:  Obama told the journalist, Shurei Hirozawa, that he grew up on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya ..  He said he had worked as an office clerk in Nairobi for several years to save money for college and settled on the University of Hawaii ..

OBAMA:  Obama tells us that he derived his ideals and ambitions from his father, but he never tells us what those ideals and ambitions are, he merely gives us hints by saying such things at that he became a left wing agitator in Chicago in order to prove something to his father.

MARANISS: [Obama, Sr.] said he would study business administration and wanted to return to Kenya to help with its transition from tribal customs to a modern economy.

OBAMA:  Obama calls himself "Buh-rock" Obama.

MARANISS:  [Obama, Sr.'s Hawaiian friends] all pronounce the first name of their Kenyan friend "Bear-ick" -- with the accent on the first syllable. That is how he referred to himself, they said. In Hawaii at least, they never heard him call himself "Buh-rock," with the accent on the second syllable ..

Late in the summer of 1960, at the start of his second year and the beginning of her first, Obama and Stanley Ann Dunham met in a beginning Russian class. He was 25; she was not yet 18. She called him "Bear-ick," too.

OBAMA:  Obama describes a deeply race conscious and often bigoted Hawaii in his memoir.

MARANISS:  In late November, a few months into Obama's [Sr.'s] first semester, the Honolulu paper wrote another story about him, this time focusing on his positive conclusions about racial attitudes on the island. "No one seems to be conscious of color," he said. But there were stereotypes to shatter on both sides -- his of Hawaii and Hawaii's of Africa. "When I first came here, I expected to find a lot of Hawaiians all dressed in native clothing and I expected native dancing and that sort of thing, but I was surprised to find such a mixture of races," he acknowledged.

MARANISS:  During his time in Hawaii, the elder Obama seemed adept at walling off various aspects of his life. He eventually told Ann about a former marriage in Kenya but said he was divorced, which she would discover years later was a lie ..

When Mendell pressed [Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham] about Obama, she said she did not trust the stories the Kenyan told. Prodding further, the interviewer noted that Obama had "a great deal of charm" and that his father had been a medicine man. "She raised her eyebrows and nodded to herself," Mendell wrote of Madelyn. " 'He was . . .' she said with a long pause, 'strange.' She lingered on the a to emphasize 'straaaaaange.'

OBAMA:  Obama describes his parents wedding as an event shrouded in mystery.

MARANISS:  On Feb. 2, 1961, against Madelyn's hopes, and against the desires of Obama's father back in Kenya, Ann and Obama hopped a plane to Maui and got married. No guests, not even family members, were there. Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born six months later in Honolulu.OBAMA:  According to Obama, his father abandoned his wife and child for Harvard, never to be seen again.

Obama:  As Obama tells it, his father abandoned his wife and child for Harvard, leaving the two behind in Hawaii.

MARANISS:  Susan Botkin, Maxine Box and John W. Hunt all remember Ann [Obama] showing up in Seattle late that summer [the summer Obama Sr. left for Harvard] with little Barry, as her son was called.

"She was on her way from her mother's house to Boston to be with her husband," Botkin recalled. "[She said] he had transferred to grad school and she was going to join him. And I was intrigued with who she was and what she was doing  . .  I remember that afternoon, sitting in my mother's living room, drinking iced tea and eating sugar cookies. She had her baby and was talking about her husband, and what life held in store for her. She seemed so confident and self-assured and relaxed. She was leaving the next day to fly on to Boston."

But as Botkin and others later remembered it, something happened in Cambridge, and Stanley Ann returned to Seattle.

OBAMA:  Obama portrays his buddy "Ray" as a deeply angry black teenager, discriminated against by bigotted non-black teens at Obama's high school.

MARANISS:  Keith and Tony Peterson were rummaging through the discount bin at a bookstore in Boulder, Colo., one afternoon and came across a copy of "Dreams From My Father"  .. "We've got to buy this," Keith said to his brother. "Look who wrote it." Barry Obama. Their friend from Punahou School ..

They wondered why Obama focused so much on a friend he called Ray, who in fact was Keith Kukagawa. Kukagawa was black and Japanese, and the Petersons did not even think of him as black. Yet in the book, Obama used him as the voice of black anger and angst, the provocateur of hip, vulgar, get-real dialogues.

OBAMA IS USING THE FAR LEFT ORGANIZATION "ACORN" -- widely know for its corrupt and illegal voter registration activities -- as a central part of his get out the vote operation.  In fact, Obama has funneled nearly a million dollars to the corrupt organization, while covering its tracks with false information supplied to the FEC.

WARREN BUFFETT'S ECONOMIC THEORY GETS OBAMA'S ENDORSEMENT: "Just tax the heck out of people."