By Dschabner

Oct 28, 2008 10:06pm

An Obama Blanket in Norfolk

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Photo by ABC News’ Sunlen Miller.

– jpt

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LA Times still refusing to turn over video tape of Barrack Obama and PLO Terrorist at a party together.
From The Obama Memoirs: I chose to be with Marxist professors

Posted by: The truth hurts | October 28, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

Good to see that Virginians are finally leaving the confederacy.

Posted by: clifton | October 28, 2008, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm

More stupid republicans here… chanting “Marxist” “Communist” “Socialist”.
Just because McCain said so, it must be true! To stupid republicans, that is.
Let’s add these to the other words that drive McCain down in the polls:
Ayers
Rezko
Wright
Muslim
Acorn
And now the latest additions driving McCain down in the polls… (drum roll…)
Socialist
Marxist
Communist
What will McCain do next?
Make up some more words that will drive him down in the polls!
More of the Same!
McSame!
HA HA HA HA HAH HAH HAH HAHHHAHAAAAA!

Posted by: clifton | October 28, 2008, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm

McCain funded that same marxist professors work.

Posted by: scott | October 28, 2008, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm

Hey, that’s a pretty cool blanket. Where can I get one?

Posted by: shockolit | October 28, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm

If many of you had any idea of what you were talking about you would be talking about Lenin and not Marx. Never mind it is to late for you . Just way until next year when we can all start talking again about fail promises and if I known that I would have never voted for him statements. Again we have shown the world what a hateful nation we really are at this time with all of our name calling, mud slinging and lies.

Posted by: William | October 28, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

That blanket must have taken a long time to make.
I think the support for Obama will prove to be a fad. It reminds me of when I was young, everybody at school started pegging (pinch rolling) their jeans. They didn’t know why they were doing it; they just thought it was the cool thing to do.
This is a cult-like movement… actually a bit scary… especially when the media is feeding the whole thing.
It’s come down to where a slick marketing-type motivational speaker person can win despite virtually no resume. It’s all based on his promises (tax cuts for 95%, etc.) without any accomplishments to back them up.
Should I start applying for jobs I’m not remotely qualified for, but promise the interviewers that I will solve all of their organizations problems?

Posted by: SP | October 28, 2008, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm

Lose with grace republicans, lose with grace and stop being jealous of Obama. Yes, that’s right I said JEALOUS! Unlike McCain he has run a brilliant, disciplined campaign and the results speak for themselves. He’s not taking a single vote for granted–he campaigned in the cold rain today unlike McCain and Palin who canceled their outdoor event because they didn’t want to get wet!

Posted by: RC | October 28, 2008, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm

I think I would refuse to sleep with a blanket with Mr. Obama’s picture on it, even when it’s sub-zero temperature, even if I was at gunpoint.

Posted by: young_voter | October 28, 2008, 10:48 pm 10:48 pm

The likes of the Drudge Report and Fox News would actually love to see Obama win – it is good for their business.

Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | October 28, 2008, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm

BIDEN’S FUZZY TAX MATH
Comments: 27Read Comments Leave a Comment By CARL CAMPANILE in Hershey, Pa., and BRENDAN SCOTT in NY
Last updated: 9:05 pm
October 28, 2008
Posted: 9:02 pm
October 28, 2008
Gaffe-prone Joe Biden put his foot in his mouth again today, mistakenly excluding millions of Americans from his running mate’s tax-cut proposal.
The Delaware senator’s latest blunder came while discussing Republican tax policies during a television interview in his home town of Scranton, Pa.
“What we’re saying is, that $87 billion tax break doesn’t need to go to people making an average of $1.4 million,” Biden said.
“It should go to middle-class people, people who make $150,000 a year.”
Actually, Barack Obama has promised to cut taxes on households earning less than $200,000 a year while raising taxes on those who make more than $250,000 annually.
John McCain quickly cashed in on the slip.
During a rally in Hershey, Pa., McCain told supporters the gaffe revealed the Democrats’ true tax-and-spend intentions.
“It’s interesting how their definition of ‘rich’ has a way of creeping down,” McCain said.
“Senator Obama has made a lot of promises. First, he said people making less than $250,000 would benefit from his plan.
“Then, this weekend, he announced in an ad that if you’re a family making less than $200,000 you’ll benefit – but today right here in Pennsylvania, Senator Biden said tax relief should only go to ‘middle-class people’ – people making under $150,000 a year.
“At this rate, it won’t be long before Senator Obama is right back to his vote that Americans making just $42,000 a year should get a tax increase.
“We can’t let that happen,” McCain added.
The Republican nominee has pounded Obama on taxes recently as economic woes have come to dominate the political debate.
Biden’s tax faux pas provided a new distraction for Obama as he tried to focus on broad, uplifting themes, like “change” and “hope,” in the last week of swing-state stumping.
Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor issued a statement that corrected the vice-presidential candidate without explicitly saying so.
“No family making less than $250,000 will see their tax increases one cent,” Vietor said. “And if your family makes less than $200,000 – as 95 percent of workers and their families do – you’ll get a tax cut.”
Vietor went on to call McCain’s attack on Biden “desperate.”
“Maybe the McCain campaign keeps lying about Obama’s tax plan because with seven days left in this election, voters are rejecting McCain’s plan to give billions more in tax giveaways to big corporations and the wealthiest Americans,” he said.
Also during the stop in Hershey, McCain took a moment to shrug off reports of discord between his campaign staff and his running mate, Sarah Palin.
“By the way, when two mavericks join up, we don’t agree on everything,” McCain said. “But that’s a lot fun! It’s wonderful to fool the pundits

Posted by: dave | October 28, 2008, 10:58 pm 10:58 pm

Wow, the blanket is great. Who made it?

Posted by: Julie | October 28, 2008, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm

National polls are narrowing but battleground state polls are widening for Obama. There is no reason for the media to bring attention to national polls because they don’t matter all that much.

Posted by: Kathy | October 28, 2008, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm

The person who allegedly shot President Kennedy was also a Marxist/Leninist.

Posted by: Lee | October 28, 2008, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm

White middle aged female Democrat here. I really think the blanket is a great likeness and good artwork. But we cannot turn our backs on the competition. They do not lose close races. We are the ones who need to be afraid, afraid for our country.

Posted by: shockolit | October 28, 2008, 11:29 pm 11:29 pm

Wow!!!
Where is McCain’s blanket?

Posted by: Joseph | October 28, 2008, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm

“the truth hurts”
Well…the Times may NEVER turn over video… But chew on this… (DO YOU LIVE IN A GLASS HOUSE?)….
During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.
A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi’s Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi’s group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of “sociopolitical attitudes.”

Posted by: karronna | October 28, 2008, 11:48 pm 11:48 pm

LOL Can you McCain supporters ever use McCain’s policies to argue against Obama? I mean come on…who do you really think is listening to the trip about Maexist and terror and screaming about giving money away? LOL 95% of the people in this country get a tax break from Obama…ALL expert agree on that yet I come in here and can find no educated debate…just slander and screaming lies that have no basis in fact. It hasn’t worked for McCains campaign, which is why he is behind, yet you guys keep on with the same thing.
Remind me of the old say “Do you know what insanity is? Saying the same thing over and over htinking that sooner or later people will believe you”.
Low infomation voters…never can argue from a stong point.

Posted by: Grissom | October 28, 2008, 11:52 pm 11:52 pm

Obama cut off future interviews to a local news network after its anchor dared to ask legitimate but pressing questions
Obama boycott move is a direct threat to what little is left of America’s free press
_______________________________________________
So when the McCain campaign cut off CNN because of Campbell Brown’s line of questioning with Tucker Bounds is what.?.?
ooooooo a direct threat to “America’s free press”?

Posted by: Get Real | October 29, 2008, 12:49 am 12:49 am

Sandi – I’ll raise your farce ‘Hamas backed Obama” for this:
Al Qaeda wants McCain as discovered on a password protected monitored site by our Gov.
Yet the endorsement of Mr. McCain by a Qaeda-affiliated Web site isn’t a surprise to security specialists. Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism director, and Joseph Nye, the former chairman of the National Intelligence Council, have both suggested that Al Qaeda prefers Mr. McCain and might even try to use terror attacks in the coming days to tip the election to him.
“From their perspective, a continuation of Bush policies is best for recruiting,” said Professor Nye, adding that Mr. McCain is far more likely to continue those policies.
(NY Times -Kristoff)

Posted by: Get Real | October 29, 2008, 1:01 am 1:01 am

Also Sandi…..See karronna’s post at 11:48 PM

Posted by: Get Real | October 29, 2008, 1:03 am 1:03 am

I just switched my Vote to McCain after i heard that the LA Times refuses to release a news worthy video showing Obama praising PLO Terrorist just after they BOMBED and Killed US Marines stationed in Beruit. AYERS was also present at this meeting
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AWESOME! Voting for a President on a rumor – not reality or even issues!

Posted by: Get Real | October 29, 2008, 1:05 am 1:05 am

I challenge a McCain supporter to argue for McCain without using the words “WHO IS THE REAL BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA?”, “Muslim”, “Not born in USA”, “Socialist” or “Communism”.

Posted by: Grey Matter | October 29, 2008, 1:05 am 1:05 am

Oh, I forgot, and “terrorist” too. Show me what’s good about McCain’s policies, other then he’s the lesser of two evils (that’s essentially what you’re doing when you say, “We can’t trust Obama”.)

Posted by: Grey Matter | October 29, 2008, 1:07 am 1:07 am

Grey Matter – be prepared for a L o n g night… ;)

Posted by: Get Real | October 29, 2008, 1:08 am 1:08 am

Get Real,
Some of the reasons here I see people giving are so absolutely ridiculous I am wondering what has become of our education system.
For goodness’s sakes, “He’s the Anti-Christ”, “He’s a Muslim Terrorist” is just stupid.
And I hear the Joe the Plumber going about how he’s afraid America’s becoming a socialist country and throws around phrases like Marxism he doesn’t even understand (but pretends to). Newsflash, European countries have some pretty socialist left-leaning govts, but few of them look like they’re about to embrace Communism, even then.
And I’m more worried about becoming a third world country then a socialist one at the rate we’re going.

Posted by: Grey Matter | October 29, 2008, 1:12 am 1:12 am

i was there tonight with my son…we stood up for 5 hours to see him…very very cold but worth every minute….va is not quite blue….we are tight here…there r alot of racists and close minded conservativesbut we have to fight for every vote! it aint over…

Posted by: aileen | October 29, 2008, 1:27 am 1:27 am

Confirmed by three sources! Everyone, Fox News has a recording from 1964 of John McCain confessing to running over a man while driving drunk. He confesses to the police who are questioning him and he is heard admitting to it. He also beligerently tells the police he doesn’t care because his dad is an admiral and he’ll get him off the hook. The recording was confirmed as being John McCain’s voice through FoxNews experts. But FoxNews is now hiding the tapes and refuses to release them! This man is running for president and America deserves to know what happened that night in 1964! Call FoxNews and demand they release the tapes!

Posted by: TheTruth | October 29, 2008, 1:28 am 1:28 am

Hey Jake,
what’s the latest with LATimes Khalidi/Obam tapes? why is LATIMS acting as if this tape IS a bid deal? if its not why don’t they release and not a big fuss over it. They are acting as if OBAMA has something to hide. is he?

Posted by: frieda | October 29, 2008, 1:37 am 1:37 am

[In a stunning development, HuffPost's Seth Walls has uncovered that McCain himself has an extensive relationship with Khalidi, including providing his group with hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money.]
Those frothing at the mouth about Khalidi will do well to find out that McCain himself actually has ties with him and is being a big hypocrite.

Posted by: Grey Matter | October 29, 2008, 1:38 am 1:38 am

Oh my gosh,
So I am automatically Osama bin Laden just because I think we should sympathise with the Paslestinian civilians caught in the cross-fire?
I’M SORRY, but since when did expressing sympathy for fellow human beings constitute terrorism? Or are you one who thinks: Middle-Eastern/Palestinian = terrorist?

Posted by: Grey Matter | October 29, 2008, 1:40 am 1:40 am

Palestinians (sorry, typo.)

Posted by: Grey Matter | October 29, 2008, 1:41 am 1:41 am

Jake, when are you and the MSM gonna do a story about how generous and unselfish Obama really is?

Posted by: McCain/Palin = Corporations First | October 29, 2008, 1:42 am 1:42 am

Did you faithful republicans already forget that your party wouldn’t let the news media interview Palin. They were afraid that she would look foolish. Even the media couldn’t make her look as foolish as the republican party did. Thanks for doing the nasty deed for us.
Obama 08 – 16

Posted by: democratic | October 29, 2008, 1:53 am 1:53 am

This last racist post is not mine.
Obama will overcome.

Posted by: democratic | October 29, 2008, 2:19 am 2:19 am

Their is going to be a real shat storm after the election on Obama’s fundraising
more than half his donations came from like anonymous internet donations

Posted by: scabby | October 29, 2008, 2:20 am 2:20 am

Why do you Republican’s have so much hate in your hearts?

Posted by: democratic | October 29, 2008, 2:26 am 2:26 am

LA TIMES and Obama PLO GATE.

Posted by: ben hur | October 29, 2008, 2:27 am 2:27 am

Did you hear about how Obama wants to sue people for investigating voter registration fraud.
Now this about how the LA TIMES refuse to release a NEW WORTHY video of Obama praising the PLO and calling Israel terrorists

Posted by: tabby | October 29, 2008, 2:29 am 2:29 am

I wished Obama would cut loose the horses and tell the world all that the republican majority has done to cause the economic disaster. Deregulation of Oil, Wall Street, the banking industry and big business… will cost trillions of dollars to arrest and repair. The damage they have done will take over a decade to fix and that is only if we have the best honest people fixing it….
Let the dogs out Barack and tell us what they did to rob us blind!!!
My dollar is only worth a fifty cents to a quarter at the grocery store. My dollar was only a quarter at the gas pumps until recently when the Bush’s told the Saudis that republicans would be wiped out of Congress and the gig would be up if they didn’t drop the bottom out of gas prices….
It’s just this simple…. If your not worth four time what you were eight years ago and making at least four times as much annually you have gotten poorer…under republican leadership….
Republicans are willing to say anything in their campaigns because they have done nothing to brag about. Plus they have everything to fear if their track record is examined by voters before Nov. 4th….
Clean republicans out of politics and save the American Dream!!!

Posted by: Ed C. | October 29, 2008, 2:46 am 2:46 am

MSM goes after anyone who goes to court to enquire about “THE ONE’s birth records:
There are only 3 formal qualifications required of a presidential candidate.
One of them is to be a natural-born citizen. To check on this qualification, a birth certificate might come in handy. It’s not much to ask for, you would think.
But Barry Dunham-Davis-Soetero-Obama has sent top-flight lawyers to seven courthouses to argue that granting access to such records would be a violation of his right to privacy.
Obviously he has something to hide, especially since he claims to have already made such records available in electronic format. Or perhaps he’s just waiting for the right moment to announce that he is not of woman born.
Rather than investigate what he could be hiding, the brave men and women of the press have targeted anyone who dares to question the High and Might Barry.
When reading the following keep in mind: What difference does it make what David M. Neal does for a living?
Even murderers, terrorists and child-molesters in the US have the right to sue the president — even non-citizens do — so why shouldn’t a citizen who sells what are apparently legal products be able to seek redress in the courts regarding a presidential candidate’s qualifications?
I bet if Obama’s crack dealer was trying to have Bush impeached, the press wouldn’t even mention his job.
This is just another example of the kind of attacks faced by “Joe the Plumber” [He's divorced!] and Barbara West [Her husband's a Republican!] and Andy Martin and Philip Berg [MSM also searched their psychiatric reports !] and anyone else who dares to question “THE ONE”:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Neal v. Obama Hearing Thursday In Lawsuit Questioning Obama’s Citizenship
Tom Beyerlein & Tim Tresslar, Dayton Daily News, 2008.10.28
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TURTLECREEK TWP — The man who filed a lawsuit in Warren County last week questioning whether Barack Obama is a “natural-born” U.S. citizen owns a company that sells products to help users of illegal drugs pass employers’ drug screenings.
David M. Neal, 55, filed the lawsuit Friday, Oct. 24, against Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, national Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern and U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein, who chairs the Senate’s rules committee.
The lawsuit is based on a long-standing Internet rumor that Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate is a forgery and he was actually born in his father’s native country, Kenya. Neal argues that the defendants should require documentation of Obama’s minimum qualifications to be president, as spelled out in the Constitution.
In a phone interview Monday, Oct. 27, Neal called Obama’s 1961 Hawaii birth certificate “a bogus, forged document.” He said his lawsuit is part of an effort by a grassroots group that is legally challenging Obama’s eligibility in courts in numerous states.
“To avert likely civil unrest and a constitutional crisis which would certainly accrue after the election through laborious legal challenges and impeachment process, this complaint seeks to resolve such complaints prior to the election,” Neal’s lawsuit reads. The same language appears in a lawsuit filed by a man in Washington state this month.
Another similar lawsuit, filed by a Philadelphia attorney in August, was dismissed by a federal judge this month.
Several fact-checking organizations say the Hawaii certificate appears to be legitimate, but Neal said the organizations, as well as the media, are biased and preventing the true story from being told.
Obama’s Ohio campaign staff declined to comment on the lawsuit, but an Obama Web site posted the Hawaii certificate and said the rumors are “smears” that are “about manipulating people into thinking Barack is not an American citizen.”
A spokesman for the Ohio Democratic Party declined to comment, and Brunner’s office hasn’t seen the lawsuit, a spokesman said.
There is a hearing on the lawsuit set for Thursday, Oct. 30.
In the lawsuit, Neal lists his address as 6117 Hendrickson Road. That’s the address of his company, ACS Herbal Tea Co., which sells products that “cleanse blood, urine, saliva or hair within an hour,” according to the company’s Web site. ACS products include Urine Luck Solution, Magnum Synthetic Urine, Ultra Saliva Detox Kit and, “for heavy users,” the Eight Day Complete Detox.
“There is no reason anyone should lose his or her job, or not be hired for a position due to a failed drug test,” the Web site proclaims. “We will show you how. Whether it’s marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines or opiates, you can rest assured that we can help you pass all drug tests!”
Neal said he has owned the company since the 1990s.

Posted by: Hero | October 29, 2008, 4:57 am 4:57 am

hero,
if there is a little joe the plumber out there not being taken care of by big joe, there is nothing wrong here.
no matter what you find out in Helen Jones Kelly record.
if joe the plumber owes child support he should pay it.
if he owes traffic violations he should pay them.
if he is really thinking about running for congress, he will be glad now that he got his record and affairs in order.

Posted by: cheer up, smile, nertz! | October 29, 2008, 5:04 am 5:04 am

If the mccain campaign had even once wanted to be on the up and up , and just plainly tell the american people what he was planning to do differently from bush. he might have had it a little better. Mccain should have been a real mavrick and not voted with bush ninety percent of the time.
and even now, his campaign is trying to blame everyone and everything for their failings, it is not the media’ fault mccain campaign is not going well.
it is mccain fault.
mccain’, rep, are all blaming each other,
and now blaming the media.
come nov. fourth, they will be able to blame the voters

Posted by: cheer up, smile, nertz! | October 29, 2008, 5:14 am 5:14 am

REpublicons are against all College level professors and anybody who disagrees with their views. They only believe in freedom of speech for those that will regurgitate their talking points. The REpublicons party are more into the unhinged element of society now, no thinkers wanted.

Posted by: Truth Matters | October 29, 2008, 5:20 am 5:20 am

The best thing John Mccain’ followers could do now, is try to get mccain to focus on what he will do for the country.
and maybe he will convience some undecided to come his way.
becaues all of the stuff that he, and his followers are focusing on right now.
a person can pick up and read in the
National Enquirer.

Posted by: cheer up, smile, nertz! | October 29, 2008, 5:28 am 5:28 am

I can just see it now.
All of the API people coming from norway, to canada, to pick up their
canadian lawyer- all carrying their big black briefcases (full of tapes)
they will travel in unmarked cars
doing everything they can to keep from being ambushed by the obama people or the in the tank for obama media.
trying to make their way to the fox news network to air the tapes.
the plans were working just fine
until one of the associates realized
he had forgotten his disguise
He said whispering to another associate
“I don’t think i can go on, i left my groucho marks nose and glasses in the airport”

Posted by: cheer up, smile, nertz! | October 29, 2008, 5:36 am 5:36 am

If the election was held today:
Obama 375 McCain 163
You only need 270 to win!
Obama 08
Change come from the bottom up!
Use your vote people!

Posted by: Mike NC | October 29, 2008, 5:49 am 5:49 am

Hey Mike the election is next week so you can show all the stats you want only ones that count are on Nov 4th! Sorry to rain on your little party, but polls are closing real fast and as the week goes on and the MSM finally starts vetting your guy it will be over for him!

Posted by: chuck | October 29, 2008, 6:38 am 6:38 am

Why do McCain/Palin supporters have nothing positive to say about their own candidates or their positions? Instead, they seem happiest when they’re passing along demented, paranoid, conspiratorial fantasies about their opponents.

Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | October 29, 2008, 6:57 am 6:57 am

chuck
if your talking about the gallup daily tracking poll Obama’s still way ahead unless your watching fox or reading drudge with there stupid “traditional” tracking poll which hadnt been used all campaign until mccain was losing!
The tradition poll is worth nothing!
But thanks for helping to get Obama supporters to the polls
Hate and fear wont win..NOT THIS TIME.
Obama 08!
YES WE CAN

Posted by: Mike NC | October 29, 2008, 7:09 am 7:09 am

Household Income, 2006 Total People Percent
Less than $49,999 57,218,480 51%
$50,000 to $74,999 21,221,889 19%
$75,000 to $99,999 13,214,551 12%
$100,000 to $199,999 16,145,482 14%
$200,000 or more 3,817,000 3%

Posted by: A Veteran | October 29, 2008, 8:00 am 8:00 am

This fundraising advantage comes directly as a result of Obama’s abandonment of his pledge to enter into the public financing system, a system creating to squelch the influence of money in presidential politics.
And while Obama’s campaign can rightly claim an unprecedented number of donors, and myriad small donations, it has also refused to abide by principles of full disclosure — it does not provide the public with the names of any donors who have given less than $200, for instance.
And amidst legitimate inquiries about some of that money coming (illegally) from non -U.S. citizens, and some of that money being given — in aggregate — in excess of individual contribution limits, one wonders why it is that the Obama campaign feels this refusal to inform the public where all its money is coming from in any way squares with Obama’s claim to be a reformer.
Just as it’s tough to envision a world where it’s the Obamas who have an unmarried pregnant teenage daughter and conservative pundits are celebrating that fact and demanding that the girl be given privacy, it’s tough to imagine a scenario where the media allows McCain to tiptoe away from his campaign finance pledge, untrammeled, and then drown his opponent in cash, the donors for much of which are undisclosed.

Posted by: A Veteran | October 29, 2008, 8:02 am 8:02 am

These are the values of Obama’s church:
Commitment to God. “The God of our weary years” will give us the strength to give up prayerful passivism and become Black Christian Activists, soldiers for Black freedom and the dignity of all humankind.
Commitment to the Black Community. The highest level of achievement for any Black person must be a contribution of strength and continuity of the Black Community.
Commitment to the Black Family. The Black family circle must generate strength, stability and love, despite the uncertainty of externals, because these characteristics are required if the developing person is to withstand warping by our racist competitive society.
Those Blacks who are blessed with membership in a strong family unit must reach out and expand that blessing to the less fortunate.
Dedication to the Pursuit of Education. We must forswear anti-intellectualism. Continued survival demands that each Black person be developed to the utmost of his/her mental potential despite the inadequacies of the formal education process. “Real education” fosters understanding of ourselves as well as every aspect of our environment. Also, it develops within us the ability to fashion concepts and tools for better utilization of our resources, and more effective solutions to our problems. Since the majority of Blacks have been denied such learning, Black Education must include elements that produce high school graduates with marketable skills, a trade or qualifications for apprenticeships, or proper preparation for college.
Basic education for all Blacks should include Mathematics, Science, Logic, General Semantics, Participative Politics, Economics and Finance, and the Care and Nurture of Black minds.
Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence. To the extent that we individually reach for, even strain for excellence, we increase, geometrically, the value and resourcefulness of the Black Community. We must recognize the relativity of one’s best; this year’s best can be bettered next year. Such is the language of growth and development. We must seek to excel in every endeavor.
Adherence to the Black Work Ethic. “It is becoming harder to find qualified people to work in Chicago.” Whether this is true or not, it represents one of the many reasons given by businesses and industries for deserting the Chicago area. We must realize that a location with good facilities, adequate transportation and a reputation for producing skilled workers will attract industry. We are in competition with other cities, states and nations for jobs. High productivity must be a goal of the Black workforce.
Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect. To accomplish anything worthwhile requires self-discipline. We must be a community of self-disciplined persons if we are to actualize and utilize our own human resources, instead of perpetually submitting to exploitation by others. Self-discipline, coupled with a respect for self, will enable each of us to be an instrument of Black Progress and a model for Black Youth.
Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness.” Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control.
Those so identified are separated from the rest of the people by:
Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another.
Placing them in concentration camps, and/or structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.
Seducing them into a socioeconomic class system which, while training them to earn more dollars, hypnotizes them into believing they are better than others and teaches them to think in terms of “we” and “they” instead of “us.”
So, while it is permissible to chase “middleclassness” with all our might, we must avoid the third separation method – the psychological entrapment of Black “middleclassness.” If we avoid this snare, we will also diminish our “voluntary” contributions to methods A and B. And more importantly, Black people no longer will be deprived of their birthright: the leadership, resourcefulness and example of their own talented persons.
Pledge to Make the Fruits of All Developing and Acquired Skills Available to the Black Community.
Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions.
Pledge Allegiance to All Black Leadership Who Espouse and Embrace the Black Value System.
Personal Commitment to Embracement of the Black Value System. To measure the worth and validity of all activity in terms of positive contributions to the general welfare of the Black Community and the Advancement of Black People towards freedom.
Now substitute every word that says “black” with “white” and ask yourself if we would be racist or what would Jesse Jackson or Al say?
This does speak of harmony with our fellow Americans of all race.

Posted by: A Veteran | October 29, 2008, 8:27 am 8:27 am

A Veteran,
Yes it does, If you have people living up to that kind of code in their personal lives, YES, they will be living in harmony with all people.
Thank you for sharing that with us.
I had never heard of or seen anything like that before.
Thank You,
and once again,
any group of people who try to live their lives under that banner,
will live in harmony with all people.
and they will be and will help make it a better world for all.
I would rather have a young black man trying to live up to those kind of standards, and trying to be a productive person in the world.
rather than seeing him live up to the code of the gangs and knocking people like you and me in the head, for a few bucks.

Posted by: cheer up, smile, nertz! | October 29, 2008, 8:42 am 8:42 am

A veteran,
will you do some research and try and find the code or creed that pastor Hagee’ church goes by.
i would like to compare the two.
because I heard pastor hagee say they are helping the jew back to israel, only to tell them they have to become christian before they can go to heaven.
did you know that a veteran?

Posted by: cheer up, smile, nertz! | October 29, 2008, 8:45 am 8:45 am

Oh, “Truth matters,” as we say in the south, Bless your heart. I should ignore your post, but I am compelled to respond. You scrawled, “REpublicons are against all College level professors and anybody who disagrees with their views.” Now I’m sure there’s a reason for your idiosyncratic spelling of Republican, since you use it twice in this email, but for the life of me, I can’t figure it out. I must say, as a “college level professor” (as opposed to what other level professor, I wonder?) I AM a Republican and have never felt the party was against me. Now I know that many conservatives (and Republican and conservative are not synonyms) do indeed rant about lefty liberal college professors and their insidious influence, but they have a bit of a point– the vast majority of my colleagues are far more liberal than the general public and Democrats outnumber Republicans in academic by a huge percentage. It is actually the Democrat professors who are not open to listening to different perspectives, in my experience, and who try to stifle dissent from their world view.
Then you stated, “They only believe in freedom of speech for those that will regurgitate their talking points.” And this is different from Democrats how? No, actually, there is a healthy level of debate in Republican circles– too much so in the closing days of the election cycle, it sometimes seems. And it is not Republicans who have lashed out at, say, journalists who ask tough questions of their candidates. The Obama campaign cut off access for the Florida station whose anchor asked tough questions of Joe Biden. That’s simply a fact. McCain did not cut off ABC after Charlie Gibson looked down his nose at Sarah Palin in that infamous interview, although its impact on the campaign was far greater than the Florida incident. Yes, they complained about bias and editing and such, but they did not try to punish ABC or prevent Charlie Gibson from practicing his craft.
You conclude ” The REpublicons party are more into the unhinged element of society now, no thinkers wanted.” Oh, my. Needless to say, I would disagree vigorously with this assessment. The Republicans are no more “unhinged” than the Obamaniacs you find around. There is a lot of hanging off the edge on both sides, but I have seen more of it from the Democratic side myself. However, I would never attempt to paint all Democrats with as broad a brush as you paint all Republicans. I have no problem with Democrats in general– although the ideological underpinning of both parties have become blurred in recent years, I would argue, there are differences in philosophy between Democrats and Republicans. These differences are worthy of discussion and reasonable people can disagree. That does not make one side or the other intellectually bankrupt.
Let’s treat one another with respect, shall we?
Use Your Brain/Vote McCain

Posted by: moderate | October 29, 2008, 10:36 am 10:36 am

Obama will win VA! Norfolk VA, Suffolk, VA Alexandria, VA Lynchburg VA, Petersburg, VA will vote for Obama. Virginians are for lovers and we don’t deal w/ all this hate being spread around. We love peace, oceans, mountains, creeks, rivers, prosperity, calmness, and a sense of the American dream. I know my state and it’s heart~> exactly the reason why we now have a Democratic Governor and we will help Obama to the White House! The South will turn blue and we will be the gateway to this election!
Obama/ Biden 08

Posted by: VA is for Obama | October 29, 2008, 10:38 am 10:38 am

Obama will win VA! Norfolk VA, Suffolk, VA Alexandria, VA Lynchburg VA, Petersburg, VA will vote for Obama. Virginians are for lovers and we don’t deal w/ all this hate being spread around. We love peace, oceans, mountains, creeks, rivers, prosperity, calmness, and a sense of the American dream. I know my state and it’s heart~> exactly the reason why we now have a Democratic Governor and we will help Obama to the White House! The South will turn blue and we will be the gateway to this election!
Obama/ Biden 08

Posted by: VA is for Obama | October 29, 2008, 10:38 am 10:38 am

McCain did not cut off ABC after Charlie Gibson looked down his nose at Sarah Palin in that infamous interview, although its impact on the campaign was far greater than the Florida incident. Yes, they complained about bias and editing and such, but they did not try to punish ABC or prevent Charlie Gibson from practicing his craft.
** No McCain holds Sarah’s hand through interviews because she can’t handle them on her own. Sorry lady– it’s not America’s fault she’s not Vice Presidential level and the Republican party and it’s advisors (who keep themselves a mystery) that keep reminding us she’s not ready.. we’re all scared McCain will drop dead at any time and then we’re stuck with an idiot for President… think on those terms!

Posted by: VA is for Obama | October 29, 2008, 10:42 am 10:42 am

obama-mobiles, obama-tinis,obama hair cuts, obama tattoos, obama t-shirts,obama blankets, fainting women .. .
enough already. its skeevey.

Posted by: Echo21 | October 29, 2008, 10:54 am 10:54 am

Interesting. Yesterday, Mr. Tapper publishes a piece on the importance of images for the campaigns and on how published photos of Obama have been generally more flattering than those of McCain. Then today he publishes a simple photo portraying Obama in a positive light. So can we expect a balancing photo from a McCain event that is similarly patriotic, inoffensive, and positive? Are we taking bets on it?

Posted by: moderate | October 29, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am

Hello Everyone!!!
I was at the rally (22,000 people at the rally) that display the Obama blanket!!!!!
The atmosphere was AWESOME and ELECTRIFIYING to see white, african american, latino, asian, young, old, and all economic level coming together at the rally!!!!
What a BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW!!!
I HAD THE PRIVELAGE TO VOTE EARLY!!!!
OBAMA\BIDEN08!!!!!!!!
BLUE IS MY FAVORITE COLOR THAT IS WHY VIRGINIA WILL TURN BLUE!!!!!
VOTE EARLY!!!!!

Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 29, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am

“VA for Obama,” you write: “Virginians are for lovers and we don’t deal w/ all this hate being spread around. We love peace, oceans, mountains, creeks, rivers, prosperity, calmness, and a sense of the American dream.” And yet you support Obama? Sorry, the hate does not flow one way. Is it love that motivated people to trash Joe the Plumber? Is it love that motivated people to speculate about whether Sarah Palin was Trig’s biological mother or grandmother? Is it love that motivated the Democratic ticket and their surrogates to label McCain “erratic,” “out of touch,” “senile,” and to joke that he needs adult diapers? Democrats demonize McCain by calling him Bush II, the worst insult they can hurl given their Bush Derangement Syndrome. Republicans demonize Obama as a spendthrift big government liberal, a stereotype they abhor.
You love the natural beauty of your state? John McCain is a great conservationist who wants to attack global warming. He is a supporter of nuclear power, a clean, safe alternative energy.
You love peace? Obama wants to make the situation in Pakistan, already bad, even worse, rattling his saber to prove he’s commander in chief material. McCain, a true military man who hates war as only someone who has suffered through one and watched friends and comrades die before his eyes can hate it, will have a muscular foreign policy in which war is truly the last resort. Obama is a neophyte who will indeed be tested, as Biden warned, and who may well fell those tests, given his past miscues and bad policy positions.
You love the American dream? McCain will work hard every day to make sure the American dream remains possible for every American. He has empathy for immigrants, which led to his efforts at immigration reform that earned him so much enmity in his own party and which are completely misrepresented by the Obama camp in Spanish-language radio ads. McCain has an economic plan to help hard-working Americans pursuing the AMerican dream. He wants the government to buy and restructure mortgages that are in trouble, so that Americans can remain in their homes and the value of other Americans’ homes will be preserved and built up. He pledges not to raise taxes on ANYONE– rich, poor, middle-class– and to cut taxes on businesses so they will remain in AMerica rather than seek out more favorable business climates elsewhere. Obama’s plan to raise taxes on some ( and that group seems to change over time– is it the over 250,000 crowd, the 200,000 crowd- as said in the most recent ad, the 150,000 crowd– as suggested by Joe Biden) in these troubled financial times is potentially crippling to our economy. His plans to increase capital gains taxes, payroll taxes (by eliminating or dramatically raising the cut-off point for SS), etc. are equally inimicable to the small business community, of which I am a member.
I have no doubt that you love your state and your country. I also have no doubt that both would be better served by a vote for John McCain. Do I expect to persuade you? Not really. But I do want to remind you that there are great people on both sides who are equally committed to the values we share and who have different ideas of how best to demonstrate and protect them.
I am Joe College Professor

Posted by: moderate | October 29, 2008, 11:32 am 11:32 am

The “Obamacan” phenomenon is pretty amazing. Not since the Reagan Democrats have we seen this. This time it is prominent, disaffected Republicans endorsing Obama. Over 40 of them. Among them are:
Gen. Colin Powell
ten flag officers (Gen. Adm) from all branches of the military
Gov. Jim Doyle, WI
Sen. Lincoln Chaffee, RI
Sen. Richard Lugar, IN
Rep. Jim Leach, IA
Gov. Wm. Weld, MA
Gov. Arne Carlson, MN
Rep. Wayne Gilcrest, MD
Rep. Charles Matthias, MD
Conservative writer George Will

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 29, 2008, 11:40 am 11:40 am

Obama has received the endorsement of 55 newspapers across the country; McCain 14.
Two of the papers, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, have never before in their considerable histories endorsed a Democrat for president.

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 29, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

“Cheer up, Nertz”– I was interested in your attempt to discredit “A Veteran” by bringing up Rev. Hagee. You asked “will you do some research and try and find the code or creed that pastor Hagee’ church goes by. i would like to compare the two.” I have attached below the creed of his church, which is not the racist or hate-filled document you seemed to hope it would be.
But do remember also that bringing Hagee’s creed into the discussion is an attempt to deflect criticism by comparing, if not apples and oranges, at least oranges and tangerines. John McCain did not sit in the pews of the Hagee church for 20 years without comment on the content of the sermons, only to later repudiate the hateful statements he swore he never heard nor was aware of; John McCain did not get “faith of my fathers” or the titles of any of his other books from a Hagee sermon; John McCain did not speak of Hagee as his spiritual mentor and the man most responsible for bringing him to Christ; John McCain did not consider Hagee “like a member of my family,” someone “I could no more disown than I could my own white grandmother,” until it became politically necessary to do just that. There is no comparison between the close relationship Obama once shared with Rev. Wright and the relationship between John McCain and Hagee. But you know that, didn’t you?
BTW, on the Hagee Ministries website, I found this statement of beliefs. This creed seems to be the equivalent of the Black Theology creed of Rev. Wright’s church that you were seeking. It does not seem to be racist to me, or anything other than standard evangelical Protestant theology.

Posted by: moderate | October 29, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am

Hmmmm…. Nah!
This adoration of Obama is just getting too far into weirds-ville.
And, personally, I prefer the dogs playing poker, so far as this genre of art is concerned.

Posted by: topo2005 | October 29, 2008, 11:48 am 11:48 am

Moderate, the creed notwithstanding, the Rev. Hagee has made some pretty outrageous statements, widely quoted.
To my knowledge there has been no repudiation of Hagee’s comments by McCain. Nor of the Rev. Parsley who seems to suggest that we go to war with the Islamic world.

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 29, 2008, 11:48 am 11:48 am

More disturbing to me than either the Rev. Hagee or the Rev. Parsley, is McCain’s friendship with G. Gordon Liddy. This convicted felon whom the Chicago Tribune characterized as an “enemy of democracy,” has not only not been repudiated by McCain, but has been embraced by him.

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 29, 2008, 11:52 am 11:52 am

Yeah, right, I will make that call to FoxNews and demand they release the tapes as soon as you call the MSM and have them release all the things on Obama, i.e., his birth certificate, passport records and the list goes on. Sure!!!

Posted by: Molly | October 29, 2008, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm

– > love it when republicans show their ‘honor’
‘McCain mob surrounds two Cuban-American Obama supporters in Miami before police intervene to hustle the two away to safety.
“People were screaming ‘Terrorist!’ ‘Communist!’ ‘Socialist!’”, said Raul Sorando, of the two Obama supporters. “I had a guy tell me he was gonna kill me.”

Posted by: dewde | October 29, 2008, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm

Hey everybody, look at our new National Flag!

Posted by: Cliff | October 29, 2008, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm

Obama has received the endorsement of 55 newspapers across the country; McCain 14.
Two of the papers, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, have never before in their considerable histories endorsed a Democrat for president.
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Birds of a feather. Socialists

Posted by: Jeanie | October 29, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm

I really feel sorry for all you guys that are out of a job…guess what you’ll still be out of a job once Obama get’s in. Politician didn’t get you there. You don’t pray for change from a politician. You do it yourself and pray to God. Yep.. the man who is your leader..remember???

Posted by: change2pennies | November 4, 2008, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm

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