Barack Channels Jesse, Invokes Race In Campaign

CNN.com:

Sen. Barack Obama responded Friday to recent race card attacks by Sen. John McCain, saying it's a "typical pattern" for the Arizona senator's campaign.

"I was in Union, Missouri, which is 98 percent white -- a rural, conservative [city]. And what I said was what I think everybody knows, which is that I don't look like I came out of central casting when it comes to presidential candidates," he said in an interview with Florida's St. Petersburg Times newspaper and Bay News 9.

"There was nobody there who thought at all that I was trying to inject race in this," he said. "What this has become, I think, is a typical pattern from the McCain campaign, whether it's Paris Hilton or Britney or this phony allegation that I wouldn't visit troops. They seem to be focused on a negative campaign. What I think our campaign wants to do is focus on the issues that matter to American families."

At three stops in the battleground state of Missouri on Tuesday, Obama told audiences that his opponent is trying to make voters "scared" of him because he doesn't look like past presidents -- an apparent reference to being black -- and has a "funny name."

With his clever "Celeb" ad, John McCain had every reason to criticize and make fun of the liberal press' fawning coverage of Barack Obama that's literally put him on the celebutante level of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. To anyone that's not a liberal, it's easy to see that in covering this presidential campaign, the Obamaniacs in the media have allowed their personal feelings (over 70% of the mediots vote Democratic) to get in the way of fair and balanced reporting. That's why the idea by Obama partisans that the Hilton?Spears ad has negative or racial undertones is absurd. As a matter of fact McCain has made it clear from day one that he will have nothing to do with racial smears, esp. those coming from idiot Republicans factions on the far Right. It was Barack who brought race into the campaign with his quip about "he doesn't look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills", this line coming from a man who likens himself to be the post-racial candidate. Instead, Barack Obama continues to be a hypocrite.

Sharpe James: Corrupt Democrat of the Week

Age: 72

Birthplace: Jacksonville, Florida

Claim To Fame: 5-time mayor of Newark, New Jersey

Why He's the Corrupt Democrat of the Week: for being sentenced to 27 months in prison this past Tuesday after having been convicted of five counts of fraud by a federal jury back in April. The jury found that James abused a program to revitalize Newark's South Ward, selling city-owned property to his former mistress for approximately $46,000, which she then flipped for a profit of over $600,000. Indeed, James, who ruled Newark for decades, is now the symbol of a city long plagued by Democratic corruption.

Obama Supporter Ludacris Says John McCain Is Better Off Paralyzed

The Obama campaign is trying to back away from the ignorant lyrics contained on a new track by Ludacris called "Politics: Obama is Here", in which the rapper calls Hillary Clinton a "bitch" and says John McCain is "better off paralyzed in a wheelchair". Ludacris also takes swipes at President Bush and Jesse Jackson.

Said Obama spokesman Bill Burton: "As Barack Obama has said many, many times in the past, rap lyrics today too often perpetuate misogyny, materialism, and degrading images that he doesn’t want his daughters or any children exposed to. This song is not only outrageously offensive to Senator Clinton, Reverend Jackson, Senator McCain, and President Bush, it is offensive to all of us who are trying to raise our children with the values we hold dear. While Ludacris is a talented individual he should be ashamed of these lyrics."

The song suggests the coming of Barack will "paint the White House black and I'm sure that's got 'em terrified..." Well, we've already gotten an idea of the kind of folks in the radical, Black Left Obama likes to hang out with. Indeed, the idea of a Barack presidency just gets scarier and scarier by the minute.

You can listen to the song HERE.

John McCain's "Celeb" Ad Makes Its Point

I'm feeling this. The McCain camp isn't whining about the press, they're skewering them for their fawning coverage of yet another personality whose mostly talk, but little substance.

Sexual Predators For "Change" Support Barack Obama

via The Smoking Gun:

JULY 25--Memo to Barack Obama supporters everywhere: If you plan on soliciting some sexual favors from a prostitute, perhaps you should leave your t-shirt promoting the Democrat's presidential campaign at home. For the second time in recent weeks, a Chicago man has been nabbed on a misdemeanor rap for soliciting sex from an undercover officer while promoting the hometown pol's White House bid. Sherman Cleveland, 40, was arrested last week and had his car impounded after he allegedly offered a female police officer money if she'd perform a sex act upon him, according to Officer Laura Kubiak, a Chicago Police Department spokesperson. As seen in the mug shot below, Cleveland was wearing a shirt with the words "Obama For Change" and a caricature of the presumptive Democratic nominee. Previously, a Chicago man with a "Barack" t-shirt was arrested on a similar solicitation charge.

John McCain Ignorantly Supports Ban On Affirmative Action

Boston Globe:

John McCain said yesterday that he supports a proposed ballot initiative in his home state that would prohibit affirmative action policies in state and local governments. A decade ago, he called a similar effort "divisive."

Over the years, McCain has consistently voiced his opposition to hiring quotas based on race. He has supported affirmative action in limited cases. For example, he voted to maintain a program that encourages the awarding of 10 percent of spending on highway construction to women and minorities.

Appearing on ABC's "This Week," the Republican presidential candidate said he supports the effort to get a referendum on the ballot in Arizona that would end affirmative action.

This is where John McCain and I strongly disagree. As long as racism exists and there is discrimination in the workplace as well as within the walls of education, affirmative action remains a necessary to overcome class and racial ignorance. Statistics on the lack of diversity in corporate America and the news media especially back up the fact that minorities and women are not being given the same opportunities as their while, male counterparts. What's also needed is for politicians, in particular, to educate themselves about the difference between AA and quotas as many on the far Right, who fervently oppose AA, have exploited the issue by blurring the lines of its intent. Quotas, that is, forcing employers to hire folks strictly based on their race, is flat-out wrong. AA is about fairness and opportunity, not forced diversity that'll create resentment amongst candidates, much less place unqualified folks in positions they have no right being in.

In Major League Baseball, Commissioner Bud Selig instituted a policy not too long ago that mandates that baseball owners interview at least one minority when hiring managers, general managers and other executive posts, it's not a perfect solution, but it's a step in the right direction for a sport that has far more diversity on the playing field than within the walls of the higher-ups. Perhaps, instead of pandering to the Limbaugh Right, McCain should contact Selig to get an idea as to what AA is really about. Granted McCain isn't going to win the black vote no matter what he does, but considering his past history in voting against creating a holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. (which McCain later admitted was dumb on his part), there's no need to re-antagonizing a base that holds affirmative action dear, and rightfully so.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 7/28/08

Barack Wants A VP Who'll Say When He's Wrong

2nd Victim Dies In Tennessee Unitarian Church Shooting

The Ten Commandments For Classy Girls

Supporter Of Bill Clinton's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Gets Policy Abused By House

Sex Selective Abortions Happening On Wide Scale In United States

Obama's Trip: No Bounce, No Flags, No Wounded Soldiers

The Left's Answer To Rush Limbaugh: Black Talk Radio

House Approves Sweeping Effort To Help Housing

Iran Hangs 29 Drug Traffickers, Murderers, Rapists

Climate Cops?!?

Did John McCain Flip-Flop On Affirmative Action?

Bush Should Strip Sanctuary Cities Of Federal Funds

Penn & Teller: Global Warming Is Bullshit!

The renowned comedians speak to liberal hysteria and their sheer stupidity.

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