A Conservative Nightmare

Please! Somebody! Wake me up!!!

McCain offers $300 million for new auto battery
PHOENIX (AP) - Sen. John McCain hopes to solve the country's energy crisis with cold hard cash.
The Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting thinks the government should offer a $300 million prize to the person who can develop an automobile battery that leapfrogs existing technology.
The prize would equate to $1 for every man, woman and child in the country.
In a speech being delivered Monday at Fresno State University in California, McCain is also proposing stiffer fines for automakers who skirt existing fuel-efficiency standards and incentives to increase use of domestic and foreign ethanol.

This man is the conservative movement's dark night of the soul. He may very well be the death of the Republican Party. If called, I will not answer. If asked, I will not serve.

But you knew that already, right?

Comments

[hsgbdmama]

James, I'm very frustrated as well, and am increasingly considering not voting for Sen. McCain vs holding my nose while I pull the lever.

Have you taken a look at the Constitution and Libertarian parties? Would you be willing to talk about those? :-)

[Tamikosmom]

hsgbdmama

This Canadian is begging you to please hold your nose and vote for McCain. Four years of this guy does not equate to what four years under Barack Obama's Marxist ideology will afford.

Maybe ... just maybe .... true Conservatives ... Republicans ... have learned that apathy is not where it is at and ... will work behind the scene to assure that a "Ronald Reagan" one will rise from among the ranks ... one who will lead them into the NEXT election.

For crying out loud ... who is running McCain's campaign ... a backer of Barack Obama?

[Tamikosmom]

Are the Republicans handing the the Presidency of the United States of American over to Barack Obama on a silver platter. Is it all a conspiracy ... a preconceived plan?
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(CNN) — Charlie Black, a June 23, 2008
Black 'deeply regrets' terror comment

A senior adviser to John McCain, said Monday he "deeply regrets" his comments to Fortune Magazine suggesting a terrorist attack on the United States would benefit the Arizona senator's presidential campaign.

More:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

[Tamikosmom]

hsgbdmama

June 23, 2008
Cafferty: Will Barr take conservative votes from McCain?

Republicans have something else to worry about besides the war in Iraq, the economy and President Bush. Former Republican congressman Bob Barr is running as a Libertarian candidate for president. Some in the GOP are worried Barr's candidacy will take away conservative votes from John McCain.

They fear that the Barr factor combined with high turnout and enthusiasm among the Democratic base could spell trouble for McCain. One Republican says he doesn't think Barr would get more than 4 percent of the vote… but that might be enough in some states.

More:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/23/cafferty-will-libertarian-bob-barr-take-conservative-votes-from-mccain/

[Maddie - Saukville]

I'm voting for McCain. I admire him. I don't agree with him on a lot of things, McCain-Feingold to name but one. The bottom line is that he is the best choice available to a conservative.

The way we get nominees has to change. You want to talk about hope? If we changed this system, we might have some. Basically, whoever wins Iowa has a major advantage. The next guy (or gal now) has to win back momentum to be the 'front runner'. The front runner-that's another problem! Who cares what the states before yours say? If you've got a guy you want to vote for, they might be out of the race by the time your primary comes around. I don't really care what Iowa thinks or what New Hampshire thinks or what any other state thinks! I especially don't care what caucuses think-here's who the political hacks want us to elect?!

Why are the primaries not kept secret until every state and province has voted? Would that not be the fair way to determine the two people, one of which will ultimately be the next president?

I wish we had a viable third party also. Two parties makes it far too easy for one or the other to be nothing more than the lessor of two evils! I feel like I've been voting for the lessor evil my entire voting life! That's been the RNCs biggest platform for twenty years! Hey-we're not as bad as the Democrats! Well, that inspires the hell out of me! Frankly, I'd argue that they are worse than the Democrats! I know what I'm going to get with a Democrat. I elect a Republican though who says they're going to do one thing on election night and forgets who you are the next morning! If I get a Democrat, I can at least get a comfortable hold of my knees for what's coming-not with the RNC these days, talk about wham-bam?

Has any Republican other than the esteemed F. James Sensenbrenner (my Congressman who I am damn proud of) said "no" to a spending bill in the last twenty years? It sure doesn't seem like it. Bush hasn't seen a spending bill he hasn't liked. I thought that was what we were about? Work hard. Keep what you earn. Take care of those with true need and save for tomorrow whenever you can.

So I'm not happy that I have McCain but bottom line is, he's all that I have. I'm not going Obamican. I went Clinton in 92 and regretted almost everything up to and including 09/11/01, and Reno's wall of silence had as much to do with 9/11 as Bin Laden did. Don't tell me some whack-job half-wit goat-loving coward (come out of your cave if you aren't a coward) could pull that off against America when you have Americans working together!

The system stinks. Twenty years of the lessor evil proves it!

I think secret results might help us, I don't know how more than two viable parties couldn't help us.

I'm most sick of having this same discussion every four years. We've got to try something different.

[Maddie - Saukville]

Hey my Canadian friend Tamikosmom: We've got two rising conservatives right here in Cheese-head land.

One, I hope and believe will run for Governor in two years, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker. Doesn't help nationally, I know, but maybe we can start raising the bar for a change. Scott Walker has won election three times in one of Wisconsin's most liberal counties on a platform of not raising taxes! Imagine! Of course, he is overriden by County supervisors but this guy says he's going to do one thing on election night and then, actually, keeps doing it until the next election night-crazy?!

The other, Congressman Paul Ryan. Here is a true conservative. He's been beating a drum for years, desperately trying to rally Republican support to eliminate, or at least severely limit, pork barrel spending. He's got a good head on his shoulders otherwise and there was/is some speculation that McCain might have even considered him for VP. He's a young guy like Walker but I think they give us some real hope for the future.

[Tamikosmom]

Thank you Maddie

I have to admit that I find the American system very confusing in regards to choosing a party leader.

My hubby and I ended up ignoring the process until leaders of both parties had been determined.

I was somewhat pleased that Obama got the nomination. I figured many of Hiliary supporters would vote for McCain ... a Republican candidate so close to center ... rather than casting their ballot for Marxist.

Nevertheless ... the Republican have to regroup. Potential presidential candidates have to emerge in the next four years who support the principles of limited government and the moral values of the founding fathers ... the principles of limited government and the moral values that made America one of the greatest nations on the face of the earth.

James T. Harris ... are you listening!!!

Good Night Maddie

9:15 PM

[TheIdealVoice]

Tamikosmom I have a very strong feeling that you are not very smart. Barack Obama is not Marxist, he never was and he never will be. Take it from someone who knows Socialists. They very much dislike Obama and McCain.

[Tamikosmom]

TIV ... think about it. There is is the liberal left of center and … then there is the far-left … Socialist/Marxist Left. Barack Obama’s associations over the past twenty years implies that he embraces the latter. In other words ... IMO Obama is a Marxist disguised as a Democract … a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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1. THE COMPANY HE KEEPS - THE NEW PARTY

Obama Sought Endorsement of Marxist Third Party in 1996
May 29, 2008

Apparently, Obama actively sought and received the stamp of approval of a Marxist third party that operated briefly in Chicago between 1992 and 1998. The group was called the “New Party” and was started in 1992 by Daniel Cantor (a former staffer for Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign) and Joel Rogers (a sociology and law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

In 1996, three of the four candidates endorsed by the New Party won their electoral primaries. The three victors included Barack Obama (in the 13th State Senate District), Danny Davis (in the 7th Congressional District), and Patricia Martin, who won the race for Judge in the 7th Subcircuit Court.

All four candidates attended an April 11, 1996 New Party membership meeting to express their gratitude for the party’s support.

The New Party’s various chapters similarly helped to elect dozens of other political candidates in a host of American cities.
One of the more notable New Party members was Carl Davidson, a Chicago-based Marxist who became a political supporter of Barack Obama in the mid-1990s.

http://conservablogs.com/publiusforum/2008/05/29/obama-sought-endorsement-of-marxist-third-party-in-1996/

[Tamikosmom]

2. THE COMPANY HE KEEPS - DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA (DSA) - CHICAGO BRANCH

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Change Obama can believe in: Socialism?

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 connections. He is, in fact, an associate of a Chicago-based socialist group with ties to the Socialist International, access to millions of labor union dollars and connections to expert political consultants, including a convicted swindler.

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.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/ss_politics_02_14.asp

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DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA (DSA)

The Organization:

We are socialists because WE REJECT AN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER SUSTAINED BY PRIVATE PROFIT, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo.

We are socialists because we share a vision of a humane international social order based both on democratic planning and market mechanisms to achieve EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES, meaningful work, a healthy environment, sustainable growth, gender and racial equality, and non-oppressive relationships.

http://www.dsausa.org/about/index.html

[Maddie - Saukville]

Tamikosmom -

I couldn't say anything you said better.

As for not understanding the process, I consider myself somewhat of a political junkie and our process of getting a nominee makes my head spin. I think it discourages many of us who might be more involved in the process from wanting to have anything to do with it.

I personally long for the days before television. When a candidate ran in the good old days, it was off the end of a train or quite literally standing on a soap box. How's that for taking the money out of politics and taking your message to the people?! I'm not sure what the founding fathers would think of the current system. They'd probably have the Constitution in one hand and their lower jaws in the other trying to figure out how we got from their beautifully simplistic near perfect plan to what we have now!

[TheIdealVoice]

All wrong. The New Party was not a socialist party, it was a progressive or little d-democratic party, associated with organizing and labor unions. The most successful remnant, Progressive Dane, is certainly not full of socialists, just middle aged progressives. Also getting the support of an organization and actually being an active member who strongly embrace the platform of an organization. Che is considered a very violent figure in socialist circles, and thats why only certain elements of his life are respected, like fighting the dictatorship in the Congo after the overthrow(with American support) of the elected president.

[Tamikosmom]

3. THE COMPANY HE KEEPS: JEREMIAH WRIGHT, TUCC AND JAMES CONE.

THE VISION STATEMENT OF TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST (TUCC)

… “The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is based upon the systematized liberation theology that started in 1969 with the publication of Dr. James Cone’s book, Black Power and Black Theology.”

http://www.tucc.org/talking_points.htm

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The Marxist Roots of Black Liberation Theology
April 2, 2008

While Black Liberation Theology is not main stream in most black churches, many pastors in Wright’s generation are burdened by (James) Cone’s categories which laid the foundation for many to embrace Marxism and a distorted self-image of the perpetual “victim.”

… In FOR MY PEOPLE, Cone explains that “the Christian faith does not possess in its nature the means for analyzing the structure of capitalism. Marxism as a tool of social analysis can disclose the gap between appearance and reality, and thereby help Christians to see how things really are.”

More:
http://www.acton.org/commentary/443_marxist_roots_of_black_liberation_theology.php

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QUOTES - “BLACK POWER & BLACK THEOLOGY”

“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.” James Cone

“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.” James Cone

“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.” James Cone

“In the New Testament, Jesus is not for all, but for the oppressed, the poor and unwanted of society, and against oppressors … Either God is for black people in their fight for liberation and against the white oppressors, or he is not.” James Cone

[James T]

TIV,
What did the hand say to the face? SLAP!

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

[TheIdealVoice]

No James, because it just goes to prove my point. Sen. Obama never said any of those things, so what does that passage have to do with anything?

[Tamikosmom]

TIV ... please read my submission above in regards to the Marxist author whose writings are the foundation of TUCC ... the church and its pastor who Obama has had an association with for the past twenty years ... withdrawing his membership from less than a month ago.

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Obama Explains Why He Quit Church
June 01, 2008 4:54 AM

” … We had consulted with a number of friends and family members who are also connected to the church. And so this is not decision I come to lightly, and frankly it is one that I make with some sadness,” Obama said in prepared remarks.

Obama praised the current pastor of Trinity, Rev. Moss and said that he continues to admire the work that Rev. Jeremiah Wright did in building up the church.

He insisted that Trinity itself is not a church worth denouncing. “I’m not denouncing the church and I’m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church, because it’s not a church worthy of denouncing.”

More:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/

[Tamikosmom]

BARACK OBAMA: "MY PASTOR, COUNSELLOR, FRIEND AND GREAT LEADER"
June 5, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpzHQ_PC1uI&feature=related

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Best of Jeremiah Wright's Sermons Pt. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=617eK2XIaLk

Best of Jeremiah Wright's Sermons Pt. 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaNBzU6iryo

[Tamikosmom]

4. THE COMPANY HE KEEPS - CUBAN AMERICANS WHO EMBRACE CHE GUEVARA

Obama’s leadership teamObama Workers Sporting Che Guevara Images
Thursday, February 14, 2008

During recent interviews of Obama campaign workers on Houston’s Fox TV station, the offices of two Texas Obama campaign volunteers (including a precinct captain and head of the “Houston Obama Leadership Team”) were found prominently decorated with Che Guevara images, against the backdrop of Cuban flags.

Two days after the Fox TV airing the Obama campaign finally went on record and in a terse statement described the Houston office posters as “inappropriate.”

“The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!” raved Ernesto “Che” Guevara in 1961. “Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination. We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies’ very home, to his places of work and recreation. The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him! We must keep our hatred against them [the U.S.] alive and fan it to paroxysms!”

http://www.newsmax.com/fontova/obama_campaign/2008/02/14/72655.html

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Obama Campaign Flies Cuban/Guevara Flag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VRCeBSOOEM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCja99KpjWU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5lJrMvqahA&feature=related

[Tamikosmom]

5. THE COMPANY HE KEEPS ... WILLIAM AYERS

April 16, 2008
The Pennsylvania Democratic Debate

MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: … I want to give Senator Clinton a chance to respond, but first a follow-up on this issue, the general theme of patriotism in your relationships. A gentleman named William Ayers, he was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that. And in fact, on 9/11 he was quoted in The New York Times saying, “I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough.”

An early organizing meeting for your state senate campaign was held at his house, and your campaign has said you are friendly. Can you explain that relationship for the voters, and explain to Democrats why it won’t be a problem?

SEN. OBAMA: … This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.

SEN. CLINTON: Well, I think that is a fair general statement, but I also believe that Senator Obama served on a board with Mr. Ayers for a period of time, the Woods Foundation, which was a paid directorship position.

And if I’m not mistaken, that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11 and after his reported comments, which were deeply hurtful to people in New York, and I would hope to every American, because they were published on 9/11 and he said that he was just sorry they hadn’t done more. And what they did was set bombs and in some instances people died.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/the_pennsylvania_democratic_de.html

[Tamikosmom]

6. THE COMPANY HE KEEPS - HATEM EL-HADY

Fundraiser’s Web Page - Update: Terror Fundraiser’s Page Disappears!
Fri, Apr 25, 2008

Curiouser and curiouser.

As we noted a few days ago, Hatem El-Hady, former chairman of the Toledo-based Islamic charity Kindhearts (closed by the US government in 2006 for terrorist fundraising), has now devoted himself to raising money for the Barack Obama campaign.

He has a web page at the official Obama campaign site. On Wednesday when we posted about El-Hady, there were three “friends” listed on his page, and one of them was none other than Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle Obama.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/29729_Michelle_Obamas_Name_Removed_from_Terrorist_Fundraisers

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/article/29735_Clarification-_Michelle_Obamas_Terrorist_Fundraiser_Friend

[Tamikosmom]

7. THE COMPANY HE KEEPS - PALESTINIAN AMERICANS

Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama
By Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 10, 2008

CHICAGO -- It was a celebration of Palestinian culture -- a night of music, dancing and a dash of politics. Local Arab Americans were bidding farewell to Rashid Khalidi, an internationally known scholar, critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights, who was leaving town for a job in New York.

A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.

His many talks with the Khalidis, Obama said, had been "consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. . . . It's for that reason that I'm hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation -- a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid's dinner table," but around "this entire world."

Today, five years later, Obama is a U.S. senator from Illinois who expresses a firmly pro-Israel view of Middle East politics, pleasing many of the Jewish leaders and advocates for Israel whom he is courting in his presidential campaign. The dinner conversations he had envisioned with his Palestinian American friend have ended. He and Khalidi have seen each other only fleetingly in recent years.

And yet the warm embrace Obama gave to Khalidi, and words like those at the professor's going-away party, have left some Palestinian American leaders believing that Obama is more receptive to their viewpoint than he is willing to say.

Their belief is not drawn from Obama's speeches or campaign literature, but from comments that some say Obama made in private and from his association with the Palestinian American community in his hometown of Chicago, including his presence at events where anger at Israeli and U.S. Middle East policy was freely expressed.

At Khalidi's 2003 farewell party, for example, a young Palestinian American recited a poem accusing the Israeli government of terrorism in its treatment of Palestinians and sharply criticizing U.S. support of Israel. If Palestinians cannot secure their own land, she said, "then you will never see a day of peace."

One speaker likened "Zionist settlers on the West Bank" to Osama bin Laden, saying both had been "blinded by ideology."

Obama adopted a different tone in his comments and called for finding common ground. But his presence at such events, as he worked to build a political base in Chicago, has led some Palestinian leaders to believe that he might deal differently with the Middle East than either of his opponents for the White House.

"I am confident that Barack Obama is more sympathetic to the position of ending the occupation than either of the other candidates," said Hussein Ibish, a senior fellow for the American Task Force on Palestine, referring to the Israeli presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that began after the 1967 war. More than his rivals for the White House, Ibish said, Obama sees a "moral imperative" in resolving the conflict and is most likely to apply pressure to both sides to make concessions.

"That's my personal opinion," Ibish said, "and I think it for a very large number of circumstantial reasons, and what he's said."

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obamamideast10apr10,0,5826085.story?page=1
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Obama's willingness to befriend Palestinian Americans and to hear their views also impressed, and even excited, a community that says it does not often have the ear of the political establishment.

Among other community events, Obama in 1998 attended a speech by Edward Said, the late Columbia University professor and a leading intellectual in the Palestinian movement. According to a news account of the speech, Said called that day for a nonviolent campaign "against settlements, against Israeli apartheid."

The use of such language to describe Israel's policies has drawn vehement objection from Israel's defenders in the United States. A photo on the pro-Palestinian website the Electronic Intifada shows Obama and his wife, Michelle, engaged in conversation at the dinner table with Said, and later listening to Said's keynote address. Obama had taken an English class from Said as an undergraduate at Columbia University.

Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian rights activist in Chicago who helps run Electronic Intifada, said that he met Obama several times at Palestinian and Arab American community events. At one, a 2000 fundraiser at a private home, Obama called for the U.S. to take an "even-handed" approach toward Israel, Abunimah wrote in an article on the website last year. He did not cite Obama's specific criticisms.

Abunimah, in a Times interview and on his website, said Obama seemed sympathetic to the Palestinian cause but more circumspect as he ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004. At a dinner gathering that year, Abunimah said, Obama greeted him warmly and said privately that he needed to speak cautiously about the Middle East.

Abunimah quoted Obama as saying that he was sorry he wasn't talking more about the Palestinian cause, but that his primary campaign had constrained what he could say ...

In Chicago, one of Obama's friends was Khalidi, a highly visible figure in the Arab American community.

In the 1970s, when Khalidi taught at a university in Beirut, he often spoke to reporters on behalf of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. In the early 1990s, he advised the Palestinian delegation during peace negotiations. Khalidi now occupies a prestigious professorship of Arab studies at Columbia.

He is seen as a moderate in Palestinian circles, having decried suicide bombings against civilians as a "war crime" and criticized the conduct of Hamas and other Palestinian leaders. Still, many of Khalidi's opinions are troubling to pro-Israel activists, such as his defense of Palestinians' right to resist Israeli occupation and his critique of U.S. policy as biased toward Israel.

While teaching at the University of Chicago, Khalidi and his wife lived in the Hyde Park neighborhood near the Obamas. The families became friends and dinner companions.

In 2000, the Khalidis held a fundraiser for Obama's unsuccessful congressional bid. The next year, a social service group whose board was headed by Mona Khalidi received a $40,000 grant from a local charity, the Woods Fund of Chicago, when Obama served on the fund's board of directors.

At Khalidi's going-away party in 2003, the scholar lavished praise on Obama, telling the mostly Palestinian American crowd that the state senator deserved their help in winning a U.S. Senate seat. "You will not have a better senator under any circumstances," Khalidi said.

One Jewish leader said he viewed Obama's outreach to Palestinian activists, such as Said, in the light of his relationship to Wright.

"In the context of spending 20 years in a church where now it is clear the anti-Israel rhetoric was there, was repeated, . . . that's what makes his presence at an Arab American event with a Said a greater concern," said Abraham H. Foxman, national director for the Anti-Defamation League.

peter.wallsten@latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obamamideast10apr10,0,5826085.story?page=2

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[Tamikosmom]

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

GAZA YOUNG PEOPLE - TELEPHONE CAMPAIGN

Are terrorists ‘phone banking’ for Barack? By Steve Gill, Friday, May 16, 2008 12:53 am
Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008 12:53 am

The Hamas endorsement of Obama is even more interesting when viewed against the backdrop of the group’s aggressive promotion of violence among young Palestinians in Gaza and in the context of a recent Al-Jazeera story about how young Palestinians in Gaza have banded together to call American voters at random asking them to vote for Obama! Rockets by night, Obama phone banks by day?

“It all started at the time of the U.S. primaries,” says the pro-Obama Palestinian organizer, 23-year-old Ibrahim Abu Jayyab. “After studying Obama’s electronic campaign manifesto I thought this is a man that’s capable of change inside of America. As for potential change in the Middle East, he can also do that if he can bring peace to the area. At least this is what we hope.” The Al-Jazeera television report can be viewed at www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g.

Obama’s campaign may argue that there is no apparent link between the young Palestinian men and the Hamas terrorist organization. But would anyone other than the Obama campaign seriously believe that young Palestinian men are allowed free and easy access to operate an internet phone bank in the impoverished and violent Gaza Strip without Hamas’ knowledge and approval?

The support that Obama is receiving from avowed terrorist enemies of America should bother him. The fact that it does not bother him should bother us even more than the fact that terrorists see something in him that they really like.

http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=60255

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YOUNG PEOPLE IN GAZA - OBAMA TELEPHONE CAMPAIGN

Young people in GAZA and the Obama campaign
By Raad - Apr 1st, 2008 at 1:25 am EDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/raadghantous/gGBx2S

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