Palin Warns Democrats Would Have ‘Unchecked Power’

UpdateAmerica:
Hawaii governor says nation wouldn’t be safe under Obama (says Obama “touts” he is from Hawaii)
Lingle, though, repeatedly framed the presidential election in terms of the physical safety of Americans and painted Obama as a mysterious figure who is uncomfortable with leadership.
She said voting for Obama would put the safety of the country’s children in the “hands of someone we hardly know.” (She also added that despite Obama’s touting he is from Hawaii, she has never met him and he has “never called me on the phone.”)
Ultimately the country judges the president by how he deals with the unexpected, Lingle said, and Obama “is not a person who will make the tough calls.”

Stop Using your daughter Ms Pitbull with Lipstick. At least, Show some respect for family, we know you don’t have any.

Love it!
Dem for McCain/Palin – Obama scares me!

“Unchecked power” was what got us into Iraq. It’s not good for either party to be able to do whatever they want in Washington.

TheBible: Well you have managed to insult every other religion in the world.I don’t want “your” religion telling me how to live my life. Your kind are no better than the Islamic Terrorists who killed in the name of “God”.This is America after all and it’s your “kind” that brings nothing but derision and hate….how Christ like is that? Your “kind” that are tearing this country apart in the name of Jesus.Read your bible than spew hate against another man…..go to he11.

We quickly learned that Sarah is a born-again, Spirit-filled Christian, attends church, and has been a ministry worker.
Jim
Posted by: TheBible | Oct 25, 2008 7:35:49 PM
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MY A S S
Spirit filled born again Christians don’t have the lack of morality and the lack of ethics that Sarah Palin has.

“Palin Warns Democrats Would Have ‘Unchecked Power’”
is that like what Bush and the republicans have enjoyed?

Unchecked power in Washington scares me. I don’t trust Pelosi or Harry Reid.

unchecked power. That means no filibuster by old men trying to keep change from happening.
CHANGE is GOOD. THE GOP IS A FAILURE.

Palin has this backwards. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld made decisions about the wars and Guatmino bay without following the constitution. The govrnment has been unregulated for the last 8 years with lack of knowledge, or planning. Again Palin doesn’t have her facts correct. Giver her shovel, she is digging herself in way deep.

What? Make decisions for us? What about women making decisions on reproductive choices?
Does not compute, sorry.

She’s telling people that Obama will turn the US into a “Nanny State,” which I assume is the opposite of what her party is pushing, which is a continuation of the “Predator State,” of obscenely rich crooks taking our money for more jets and mansions with the blessing and connivance of our own government.
I look forward to Governor Palin running against President Barrack Obama in 2012.

You people really are a bunch of morons, all of you. You really believe that all Democrats are good and all Republicans are evil. Let me clue you in. In this day and age if someone chooses to be a politician for their career. They are either a controlling bastard or an idealist, and idealists don’t get far in politics. Every Republican and Democrat has a private agenda, a reason for being there. Trust me the Democrats are just as evil as the Republicans only in different ways. The only way to keep them in check is for them to have different goals. When one political party is in control and they have a common goal watch out we’re all up the creek, and I mean everyone.

$150,000, and they didn’t even buy her a jacket?

This is going to be a heated election. Both canidates have campaigned hard. More of the voters are involved than before. Americans need to pull together, regardless of who gets in, for the good of America.
I am for Obama, but if McCain gets in I want our country to turn around and get back on the road to prosperity again. It’s going to take a lot of work to get back on track for all of us.

Gee Sarah, you mean like the Republicans had for 6 years under Bush? Oh, you probably never read about that..

How about unchecked stupidity if Palin ever becomes President? Would you like to have another go Governor at how wasteful fruit fly research is when we should be spending more money for children with special needs such as autism? And this is one of her areas of “expertise”?

Oh yes she did. The sneaky little dig about “Uncle Barney Frank” did not go unnoticed. What a shameless rabble rouser she is, stirring hatred and dividing state against state, class against class while hiding behind $22,000 worth of makeup. So middle class there, Sarah. Oh yeah, she’s one of us alright.

Well said, E. That is why our national founders want all the checks and balances in place to keep the selfish politicians to act responsibly. Look what Republicans did when they have control of everything. Do you guys really want repeat of that?

Because Iowa isn’t in McCain’s reach, clearly the McCain race for the White House is over because he and Palin have shifted to trying to shore up faltering Republican Congressional races.

How can Obama give a speech in Columbia, South Carolina ending it with FU you Nate and no one says anything about it? Check it out.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obama_modifies_yes_we_can_message

– I don’t think you want that change. –
Good thing it won’t then, huh Janna?

Be advised – if you support Palin, fine, but you are instantly disqualified from questioning the IQ of others…

For the comment of “overprotective mother?” who obviously has forgotten this is the United States of America and that this countries religon was based on Christianity and the Bible.The religon you call “your” religon in your post, happens to be what this country was based on. Your religon, whatever that may be, is the religon that is misplaced for this country. Believe and practice whatever religon you want, but do it without trying to change OUR Christian religon.

“Unchecked power” was what got us into Iraq. It’s not good for either party to be able to do whatever they want in Washington.
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Yeah, Collin Powell was part of that “unchecked power” team. He just endorsed “Big 0″ to be next our Commander in Chief!
Yeap, Barack Obama, the HYPOCRITE, who ran his campaign against Hillary Clinton based on the fact that he did not vote for the war – that Obama – is now grateful for Powell’s endorsement!
Oh! I know…Powell’s famous speech at the UN (Feb. 2003) telling the world that Iraq had in fact weapons of mass destruction was “just words”…”just another pretty speech”, like his “pretty Obama endorsement speech” to Tom Brokaw.
Hypocricy at its glory.

No, I don’t want that change. And I am sure you don’t want it eather.

– No, I don’t want that change. And I am sure you don’t want it eather. –
Nope.. I’m voting for Obama for a better America!

The republicans had control of every thing until eighteen months ago, they never showed any concern for the common man.remember the hurricane that hit New Orleans. They LIED TO US started a war with people who did not bother us while bearly glancing at the people who did,
why have they not hunted down the real people who attacked us? We have been sold to China to line their friends pockets, Everyone in the world hates us. dont let me start about the economy which they swore was strong (LIES AGAIN) until two months ago. They say Obama has no experience and we should let them and their experience fix the problem they created. They had eight long years. people who listen to the republicans, are sheep who can’t think for themselves. IT is so so sad to see

No wonder Sarah Palin receives such sensational fanfare from her supporters. The only other place they’ve seen such class displayed in public is on Jerry Springer!

Jr posted:
I rather live in “Socialism”…
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I lived in socialism for 36 years. I would rather live with the McCain-Palin ticket for the rest of my life.
You sould move to Venezuela, Bolivia, N.Korea, or Cuba, and have fun.
Also you use the “idiot” world to often. Get a mirror.
Posted by: STS
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Marxist Obama can take his “community organizing experience” and along with his comrades – “Ayers & Co.” go to Russia… to organize some Siberian Gulags and “spread the wealth around”!
Obama: Putin and Medvedev love you, man!

Jerry, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”, First Amendment, check it out. The government of the United States has no official religion

You know, I remain very angry that Bin Laden is still out there, mocking us.
How can ‘patriots’ think that New York and D.C. are not the real America when they were the sites of the attacks?
How can others co-opt the anger of the attack and not respect the targets?
Did you see Colin Powell’s endorsement of Obama?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27265369/
He gave very sound reasons for the endorsement and for rejecting McCain.

Regarding:Barack, Sarah, and the Bible
Jim Bramlett
Sep 1 2008 07:54PM
Very interesting observation! And more reason to vote for McCain.

Here’s one for Natasha the Moose Hunter:
Sarah Palins Advice For Women Beginning In Politics:
“If you work hard and keep your nose clean, you too can have a rich, powerful man come and whisk you off to Washington.”
http://www.theonion.com/content/whitehousewar/sarahpalin

Dem for McCain/Palin – Obama scares me!
He is poised to SCARE the hell out of all the Americans!!

The Bush regime created so many messes because the Republicans ruled and never involved anyone else in the process.
Posted by: George
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The Last Two Years
By Randall Hoven
October 19, 2008
The Obama/Biden ticket’s entire campaign theme is based on “the last eight years.” Maybe we should really look at “the last two years,” or the time period when both the House and the Senate were run by Democrats.
In December 2006, after six years of Bush and the last month before the Democrats took over both houses of the national legislature, a snapshot of our economy looked like this.
Unemployment stood at 4.4%.
Real GDP growth over the previous four years (under a Republican President, House and Senate) averaged 3% per year.
A gallon of regular gasoline cost $2.30.
The S&P 500 stock index stood at 1418, or 84% above its post-911 low and more than 7% higher than when Bush took office.
Every year of Bush’s Presidency, real (inflation-adjusted) disposable income per person went up. By the end of 2006, the average person was making 9% more in real terms than before Bush became President .
If you recall, that 2006 election was considered a referendum on Iraq. The people wanted change, so they threw out the Republicans and replaced them with Democrats. Welcome Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
Here is how they handled Iraq once in office: Harry Reid told us that the Iraq war was “lost” and the surge was not “accomplishing anything.” Senator Obama introduced legislation that would have prevented the surge and would have taken all US troops out of Iraq by March 2008 (that would be seven months ago, as you read this) .
Were they right?
Barack Obama now admits that “the surge succeeded.” So much for that change. And as the surge succeeded, Congress’s approval ratings plummeted. The latest CBS/New York Times poll has it at 12%, well less than half of the already low level it stood at when the Republican Congress was being tossed out in 2006.
The Democratic Congress did a great job, if what you’re looking for in a Congress is continual investigation of Republicans. Did the White House out CIA agent Valerie Plame? No, it was the anti-White House Richard Armitage at State, but Congress investigated anyway. Did Alberto Gonzalez, with White House urging, fire nine prosecutors for political reasons? Probably not, and it wouldn’t be a crime anyway, but Congress investigated, and is still investigating. Did the CIA, under orders from the White House, “torture” prisoners? No evidence of that yet, but Congress is on the case.
What Congress would not investigate was anything about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In fact, they fought against such investigations and cast aspersions against anyone who would even doubt the soundness of those institutions. Here is what Barney Frank said:
These two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.
You can also see on this video (follow link) how Democrats treated the regulators trying to reign in Fannie and Freddie.
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http://vodpod.com/watch/1038839-dems-refuse-to-reform-freddie-fannie-in-2004-video
But now we know what happened. Fannie and Freddie were run corruptly and ineptly and went bankrupt. Their $1.5 trillion portfolios had to be rescued by the government this year. Franklin Raines, the Clinton-appointed CEO of Fannie Mae who was vigorously defended by Congressional Democrats, was sued by government regulators for cooking the books to the tune of $10 billion to increase his own bonuses to the tune of tens of millions. He settled his suit for an estimated $25 million.
On the other hand, here is what the New York Times had to say in 2003 .
The Bush administration is rightly pushing for the Treasury Department to regulate the two giants, along with the network of federal home loan banks. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae provide financing to lenders by creating a secondary market for mortgages. All told, these two institutions’ debt portfolio exceeds more than $1.5 trillion. Their current regulator is ill equipped to keep tabs on Freddie’s and Fannie’s sophisticated hedging strategies and the other financial moves they use to manage their huge investments.
And here is what John McCain said on the Senate floor:
For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac… I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
So on the big things, the surge in Iraq and the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that led to our recent financial mess, the Democrats were wrong. Dead wrong. One hundred eighty degrees out wrong.
On the other hand, who supported the surge? George W. Bush and John McCain.
Who tried to strengthen the oversight and regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? George W. Bush and John McCain.
In the case of the surge, Bush and McCain got their way. The result? Apparent victory in Iraq, a country that is now a democracy, at peace with its neighbors, no longer a WMD threat, no longer a terrorist sanctuary, and no longer filling hundreds of mass graves with hundreds of thousands of its own citizens.
In the case of Fannie and Freddie, Bush and McCain did not get their way – Barney Frank did. The result? The failure of Fannie and Freddie, law suits against their executives and the spark that sent banks failing and stocks falling across the globe to the point of threatening a Great Depression.
Let’s vote for change. Let’s undo what we did in 2006
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/the_last_two_years.html

By Stanley Kurtz
It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. And guess what? Bill Ayers is still palling around with the same bitterly anti-American Afrocentric ideologues that he and Obama were promoting a decade ago. All this is revealed by a bit of digging, combined with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in the late 1990s.
John McCain, take note. Obama’s tie to Wright is no longer a purely personal question (if it ever was one) about one man’s choice of his pastor. The fact that Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Wright’s anti-Americanism means that this is now a matter of public policy, and therefore an entirely legitimate issue in this campaign.
African Village
In the winter of 1996, the Coalition for Improved Education in [Chicago’s] South Shore (CIESS) announced that it had received a $200,000 grant from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. That made CIESS an “external partner,” i.e. a community organization linked to a network of schools within the Chicago public system. This network, named the “South Shore African Village Collaborative” was thoroughly “Afrocentric” in orientation. CIESS’s job was to use a combination of teacher-training, curriculum advice, and community involvement to improve academic performance in the schools it worked with. CIESS would continue to receive large Annenberg grants throughout the 1990s.
The South Shore African Village Collaborative (SSAVC) was very much a part of the Afrocentric “rites of passage movement,” a fringe education crusade of the 1990s. SSAVC schools featured “African-Centered” curricula built around “rites of passage” ceremonies inspired by the puberty rites found in many African societies. In and of themselves, these ceremonies were harmless. Yet the philosophy that accompanied them was not. On the contrary, it was a carbon-copy of Jeremiah Wright’s worldview.
Rites of Passage
To learn what the rites of passage movement was all about, we can turn to a sympathetic 1992 study published in the Journal of Negro Education by Nsenga Warfield-Coppock. In that article, Warfield-Coppock bemoans the fact that public education in the United States is shaped by “capitalism, competitiveness, racism, sexism and oppression.” According to Warfield-Coppock, these American values “have confused African American people and oriented them toward American definitions of achievement and success and away from traditional African values.” American socialization has “proven to be dysfuntional and genocidal to the African American community,” Warfield-Coppock tells us. The answer is the adolescent rites of passage movement, designed “to provide African American youth with the cultural information and values they would need to counter the potentially detrimental effects of a Eurocentrically oriented society.”
The adolescent rites of passage movement that flowered in the 1990s grew out of the “cultural nationalist” or “Pan-African” thinking popular in radical black circles of the 1960s and 1970s. The attempt to create a virtually separate and intensely anti-American black social world began to take hold in the mid-1980s in small private schools, which carefully guarded the contents of their controversial curricula. Gradually, through external partners like CIESS, the movement spread to a few public schools. Supporters view these programs as “a social and cultural ‘inoculation’ process that facilitates healthy, African-centered development among African American youth and protects them against the ravages of a racist, sexist, capitalist, and oppressive society.”
We know that SSAVC was part of this movement, not only because their Annenberg proposals were filled with Afrocentric themes and references to “rites of passage,” but also because SSAVC’s faculty set up its African-centered curriculum in consultation with some of the most prominent leaders of the “rites of passage movement.” For example, a CIESS teacher conference sponsored a presentation on African-centered curricula by Jacob Carruthers, a particularly controversial Afrocentrist.
Jacob Carruthers
Like other leaders of the rites of passage movement, Carruthers teaches that the true birthplace of world civilization was ancient “Kemet” (Egypt), from which Kemetic philosophy supposedly spread to Africa as a whole. Carruthers and his colleagues believe that the values of Kemetic civilization are far superior to the isolating and oppressive, ancient Greek-based values of European and American civilization. Although academic Egyptologists and anthropologists strongly reject these historical claims, Carruthers dismisses critics as part of a white supremacist conspiracy to hide the truth of African superiority.
Carruthers’s key writings are collected in his book, Intellectual Warfare. Reading it is a wild, anti-American ride. In his book, we learn that Carruthers and his like-minded colleagues have formed an organization called the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC), which takes as its mission the need to “dismantle the European intellectual campaign to commit historicide against African peoples.” Carruthers includes “African-Americans” within a group he would define as simply “African.” When forced to describe a black person as “American,” Carruthers uses quotation marks, thus indicating that no black person can be American in any authentic sense. According to Carruthers, “The submission to Western civilization and its most outstanding offspring, American civilization, is, in reality, surrender to white supremacy.”
Carruthers’s goal is to use African-centered education to recreate a separatist universe within America, a kind of state-within-a-state. The rites of passage movement is central to the plan. Carruthers sees enemies on every part of the political spectrum, from conservatives, to liberals, to academic leftists, all of whom reject advocates of Kemetic civilization, like himself, as dangerous and academically irresponsible extremists. Carruthers sees all these groups as deluded captives of white supremacist Eurocentric culture. Therefore the only safe place for Africans living in the United States (i.e. American blacks) is outside the mental boundaries of our ineradicably racist Eurocentric civilization. As Carruthers puts it: “…some of us have chosen to reject the culture of our oppressors and recover our disrupted ancestral culture.” The rites of passage movement is a way to teach young Africans in the United States how to reject America and recover their authentic African heritage.
America as Rape
Carruthers admits that Africans living in America have already been shaped by Western culture, yet compares this Americanization process to rape: “We may not be able to get our virginity back after the rape, but we do not have to marry the rapist….” In other words, American blacks (i.e. Africans) may have been forcibly exposed to American culture, but that doesn’t mean they need to accept it. The better option, says Carruthers, is to separate out and relearn the wisdom of Africa’s original Kemetic culture, embodied in the teachings of the ancient wise man, Ptahhotep (an historical figure traditionally identified as the author of a Fifth Dynasty wisdom book). Anything less than re-Africanization threatens the mental, and even physical, genocide of Africans living in an ineradicably white supremacist United States.
Carruthers is a defender of Leonard Jeffries, professor in the department of black studies at City College in Harlem, infamous for his black supremacist and anti-Semitic views. Jeffries sees whites as oppressive and violent “ice people,” in contrast to peaceful and mutually supportive black “sun people.” The divergence says Jeffries, is attributable to differing levels of melanin in the skin. Jeffries also blames Jews for financing the slave trade. Carruthers defends Jeffries and excoriates the prestigious black academics Carruthers views as traitorous for denouncing their African brother, Jeffries. Carruthers’s vision of the superior and peaceful Kemetic philosophy of Ptahhotep triumphing over Greco-Euro-American-white culture obviously parallels Jeffries’ opposition between ice people and sun people.
More of Carruthers’s education philosophy can be found in his newsletter, The Kemetic Voice. In 1997, for example, at the same time Carruthers was advising SSAVC on how to set up an African-centered curriculum, he praised the decision of New Orleans’ School Board to remove the name of George Washington from an elementary school. Apparently, some officials in New Orleans had decided that nobody who held slaves should have a school named after him. Carruthers touted the name-change as proof that his African-centered perspective was finally having an effect on public policy. At the demise of George Washington School, Carruthers crowed: “These events remind us of how vast the gulf is that separates the Defenders of Western Civilization from the Champions of African Civilization.”
According to Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, Carruthers’s training session on African-centered curricula for SSAVC teachers was a huge hit: “As a consciousness raising session, it received rave reviews, and has prepared the way for the curriculum readiness survey….” These teacher-training workshops were directly funded by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Another sure sign of the ideological cast of SSAVC’s curriculum can be found in Annenberg documents noting that SSAVC students are taught the wisdom of Ptahhotep. Carruthers’s concerns about “menticide” and “genocide” at the hand of America’s white supremacist system seem to be echoed in an SSAVC document that says: “Our children need to understand the historical context of our struggles for liberation from those forces that seek to destroy us.”
When Jeremiah Wright turned toward African-centered thinking in the late 1980s and early 1990s (the period when, attracted by Wright’s African themes, Barack Obama first became a church member), many prominent thinkers from Carruthers’s Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations were invited to speak at Trinity United Church of Christ, Carruthers himself included. We hear echoes of Carruthers’s work in Wright’s distinction between “right brained” Africans and “left brained” Europeans, in Wright’s fears of U.S. government-sponsored genocide against American blacks, and in Wright’s embittered attacks on America’s indelibly white-supremacist history. In Wright’s Trumpet Newsmagazine, as in Carruthers’s own writings, blacks are often referred to as “Africans living in the diaspora” rather than as Americans.
Asa Hilliard
Chicago Annenberg Challenge records also indicate that SSAVC educators invited Asa Hilliard, a pioneer of African-centered curricula and a close colleague of Carruthers, to offer a keynote address at yet another Annenberg-funded teacher training session. Hilliard’s ties to Wright run still deeper than Carruthers’s. A close Wright mentor and friend, Hilliard died in 2007 while on a trip to Kemet (Egypt) with Wright and members of Wright’s congregation. Hillard was scheduled to deliver several lectures to the congregants, and to speak at a meeting of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization, which he co-founded with Carruthers and other “African-centered” scholars. On that last trip, Hilliard accepted an appointment to the board of Wright’s new elementary school, Kwame Nkrumah Academy. Speaking of the need for such a school, Wright had earlier said, “We need to educate our children to the reality of white supremacy.” (For more on Wright’s Afrocentric school, see “Jeremiah Wright’s ‘Trumpet.’”)
Wright delivered the eulogy at Hilliard’s memorial service, with prominent members of ASCAC in the audience. To commemorate Hilliard, a special, two-cover double issue of Wright’s Trumpet Newsmagazine was published, with a picture of Hilliard on one side, and a picture of Louis Farrakhan on the other (in celebration of a 2007 award Farrakhan received from Wright). In short, the ties between Wright and Hilliard could hardly have been closer. Clearly, then, Wright’s own educational philosophy was mirrored at the Annenberg-funded SSAVC, which sought out Hilliard’s and Carruthers’s counsel to construct its curriculum.
Perhaps inadvertently, Wright’s eulogy for Hilliard actually established the fringe nature of his favorite African-centered scholars. In his tribute, Wright stressed how intensely “white Egyptologists recoiled at the very notion of everything Asa taught.” As Wright himself made plain, it seems virtually impossible to find respectable scholars of any political stripe who approve of the extremist anti-American version of Afrocentrism promoted by Hilliard and Carruthers.
Ayers’s Pals
An important exception to the rule is Bill Ayers himself, who not only worked with Obama to fund groups like this at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, but who is still “palling around” with the same folks. Discretely waiting until after the election, Bill Ayers and his wife, and fellow former terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn plan to release a book in 2009 entitled Race Course Against White Supremacy. The book will be published by Third World Press, a press set up by Carruthers and other members of the ASCAC. Representatives of that press were prominently present for Wright’s eulogy at Asa Hilliard’s memorial service. Less than a decade ago, therefore, when it came to education issues, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright were pretty much on the same page.
Obama’s Knowledge
Given the precedent of his earlier responses on Ayers and Wright, Obama might be inclined to deny personal knowledge of the educational philosophy he was so generously funding. Such a denial would not be convincing. For one thing, we have evidence that in 1995, the same year Obama assumed control of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, he publicly rejected “the unrealistic politics of integrationist assimilation,” a stance that clearly resonates with both Wright and Carruthers. (See “No Liberation.”)
And as noted, Wright had invited Carruthers, Hilliard, and like-minded thinkers to address his Trinity congregants. Wright likes to tick off his connections to these prominent Afrocentrists in sermons, and Obama would surely have heard of them. Reading over SSAVC’s Annenberg proposals, Obama could hardly be ignorant of what they were about. And if by some chance Obama overlooked Hilliard’s or Carruthers’s names, SSAVC’s proposals are filled with references to “rites of passage” and “Ptahhotep,” dead giveaways for the anti-American and separatist ideological concoction favored by SSAVC.
We know that Obama did read the proposals. Annenberg documents show him commenting on proposal quality. And especially after 1995, when concerns over self-dealing and conflicts of interest forced the Ayers-headed “Collaborative” to distance itself from monetary issues, all funding decisions fell to Obama and the board. Significantly, there was dissent within the board. One business leader and experienced grant-smith characterized the quality of most Annenberg proposals as “awful.” (See “The Chicago Annenberg Challenge: The First Three Years,” p. 19.) Yet Obama and his very small and divided board kept the money flowing to ideologically extremist groups like the South Shore African Village Collaborative, instead of organizations focused on traditional educational achievement.
As if the content of SSAVC documents wasn’t warning enough, their proposals consistently misspelled “rites of passage” as “rights of passage,” hardly an encouraging sign from a group meant to improve children’s reading skills. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge’s own evaluators acknowledged that Annenberg-aided schools showed no improvement in achievement scores. Evaluators attributed that failure, in part, to the fact that many of Annenberg’s “external partners” had little educational expertise. A group that puts its efforts into Kwanzaa celebrations and half-baked history certainly fits that bill, and goes a long way toward explaining how Ayers and Obama managed to waste upwards of $150 million without improving student achievement.
However he may seek to deny it, all evidence points to the fact that, from his position as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama knowingly and persistently funded an educational project that shared the extremist and anti-American philosophy of Jeremiah Wright. The Wright affair was no fluke. It’s time for McCain to say so.

“It is the choice between a politician who puts his faith in government, and a leader, John McCain, who puts his faith in you,” Palin said.
Mrs. Palin, in the United States, the people are the government. And we the people are about to speak.

Democrats and unchecked power is not what Bush has had, the congress that is controlled by DEMOCRATS has been in control for the past 2 years. Hence all the problems the economy is in right now, you can thank Pelosi and Reid and Barney Frank, and go back to Clinton for the subprime mortgages given to those who never qualified to pay them back!
Although the Bush administration has been on a spending spree, with Obama planning to spend spend spend, change is not what Obama is offering.

Barack Obama is not ready to be president

LEHRER: .. when should the United States deploy its armed forces abroad, and what criteria should be used? Are you comfortable with the decision-making that would – that a Bush-Cheney- Powell triumvirate would make?
McCAIN: Yes. I’m extremely comfortable and basically it’s when American interests and values are threatened. And sometimes when our values are threatened, over time our interests can be threatened. I can’t make an argument to you that Kosovo posed an immediate threat to our national interest. But I can argue that it offended our values to a degree that if allowed to go unchecked, then unrestrained, once Milosevic started to do his ethnic cleansing, then sooner or later our interest would be threaten because that same kind of scenario would transpire in other places in Europe.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/july-dec00/mccain_8-1.html
I’m John McCain, and I think I approve this message.

Gov.Palin is awesome indeed. I just came back home from her rally here in Ft. Wayne.20 thousand people packed the place to meet her and listening to her.
Sarah you are a real inspiration to many women and men, to me, my daughters and all the people that got to see a true leader tonight.
We’ll vote for you.

Sarah is a big drag on the McCain ticket. I’m not too scared.

Isn’t it amazing, the Republicians were in control of congress for 6 of the last 8 yrs, yet Democrats are being blamed for this financial meltdown.

“Isn’t it amazing, the Republicians were in control of congress for 6 of the last 8 yrs, yet Democrats are being blamed for this financial meltdown.”
WELL DURING THE PRIMARIES, YOU WERE BLAMING THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION. MAKE UP YOUR MIND YOU HYPOCRITICAL OBOTS

Well Dodd and Barney “drag” Frank have always supported Fannie and Freddie. Dodd got two sweet deals from Countrywide and one of the Freddie executives was romanticaly involved with Frank for 2 years, the same years Frank was saying Freddie and Fannie were great!
Frank is such sl*t, real conflict of interest. LOL
Imagine then with total control.

She is so dirty she wants to brek loose but the champaign won’t let her.She is a lair a crook uses her power and office to get what she wants /.Like the new gas lines she curber the bids…Got whom she wanted if that is not dirty use of office what to hey is????This woman is a time bomb just waiting to go off……………

It is amazing to me that I hear so many people say every year, “We just need someone like us in Washington. I would love to just have an average person there that could really identify with me!” Then, we get an opportunity and all we do is whine, complain and butcher the one we get! What a bunch of Israelites we are in this country. We actually deserve Obama, but I’m still praying God’s grace will never allow that to happen. Sarah Palin is the closest to being the everyday citizen that we’ve had come along in a very long time (that made it this far!) She is who we have asked for. Now, go out and show your support with a vote for McCain/Palin so we can actually have someone at the Whitehouse that really understands our issues and can truly represent YOU!

Well some people seem to think you cant trust Obama. I wonder who these people are. There is no guarantee of who you are reading on these blogs. They might just be concerned citizens, or they might be muslims, or russians, or anyone who would want to subvert the U.S. by making McCain win. They might want McCain to win so that Caribou Barbie would be one step away from POTUS and make us weak to an attack. However, we all know who Andy Griffith is, and Ron Howard, these are two guys weve know to be genuine Americans, and true patriots. Andy doesnt support communism, in fact he stood against it all those years! I doubt very much that Andy Griffith would have a muslim agenda, nor would Ron Howard seek to put America in a weak position. So dont listen to what these unknown enemies of America say negative about him, instead listen to those you know, and can trust and Andy and Ron have spoken out and they support Barack Obama for POTUS, because they want us to be strong like weve always been. So vote Obama and make Andy proud! Obama/Biden, as American as apple pie!

Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid: guess which 3 are socialist? You gonna vote for Obama??? Socialism is closing in and communist is not far behind.

LOL…John McCain and Sarah Palin remind me of what Harry Truman once said about Richard Nixon…”He’s the only man in the history of this country to run for high office talking out both sides of his mouth…and lying out of both damn sides…”

If indeed our Framers had aimed to found a Christian republic, it would seem highly unlikely that they would have forgotten to leave out their Christian intentions in the Supreme law of the land. In fact, nowhere in the Constitution do we have a single mention of Christianity, God, Jesus, or any Supreme Being. There occurs only two references to religion and they both use exclusionary wording. The 1st Amendment’s says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. . .” and in Article VI, Section 3, “. . . no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”
Thomas Jefferson interpreted the 1st Amendment in his famous letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in January 1, 1802:
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between church and State.”
Some Religious activists try to extricate the concept of separation between church and State by claiming that those words do not occur in the Constitution. Indeed they do not, but neither does it exactly say “freedom of religion,” yet the First Amendment implies both.

WITLESS FROM WASILLA strikes again. My hope is that in 10 days she goes back to Alaska and takes her American Taliban supporters with her.
Quite seriously, if McCain is elected he should “watch his back”. Clearly, “Witless” thinks this is all about her!

Janet- If you would rather live in a socialist country, then by all means, move. If we become a socialist nation, we will NEVER be the nation we once were. If McCain/Palin win, at the most you will have to live through 8 years. If Obama/Biden win, you will be living with socialism FOREVER. And THAT is not worth it to me and anyone else who believes in the Constitution of this country.

–>> To All Of You – Who Love (Diva/Caribo-Barbi/Pay Me Big Bucks Sarah) It’s Because You Have NOT Personally Checked Out –>
(The Real Sarah and Todd Palin Scandals also –> Please Check Out (The Ultimate Sarah Palin Is UNFIT To Be The V.P. List. Plus –> (Wasilla is The Crystal Meth Capital Of Alaska) Plus –> (That Special Needs Baby-Trig Is NOTTTT Sarah P.’s Baby -It’s Her Grand Son) – (Bristol P. is the Real mother + She is Pg W/her 2nd baby!)–>Plus,Hockey Gate-and SO MANY – MANY – MORE MAJOR SCANDALS All Put Out By The People In Her Home Town Wasilla & Rest Of Alaska!
Ck OUT>>(Defenders Of Wildlife Action Fund – Endorsed Obama/Biden – 9/12th/08)

Quote:”America’s standing in the world is at an all time low. The country is in financial ruin, lost jobs, our 401k is vanishing righ before our eyes. Millions in home foreclosure. The country is in a recession. Republicans are good at sreadding hate and fear to the American public.”
HA HA HA HA HA HA
OMG…Anybody else see the irony in that?…the Libs are spreading gloom and doom and accusing the Republicans of fear mongering! Actually, judging by the grammar that guy probably isn’t even an American.
The Republicans are looking to a brighter future for our entire country, not just for the ‘poor’ that the Liberal Dems and various political hacks on the Fringe have kept that way for decades-Prosperity does the Left no good whatsoever…only the false promise of getting it from the rich.

This is what “unchecked power” really looks like:
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/confess/

“Let’s vote for change. Let’s undo what we did in 2006″
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/the_last_two_years.html

O.M.G. I HONESTLY DIDN’T KNOW ALOT ABOUT THE PALINS, TIL AFTER I CK’ED OUT THE DIFFERENT WEBSITES,”HOCKEYGATE” AND “WASILLA… THE CRYSTAL METH CAPITAL OF ALASKA” I ALSO DIDN’T KNOW,ABOUT (ALL) THE SARAH AND TODD PALIN SCANDALS,UNTIL I PERSONALLY C’KED OUT THE DIFFERENT WEBSITES – “THE ULTIMATE SARAH PALIN IS UNFIT TO BE THE V.P. LIST”…I MEAN MAN,SERIOUSLY,I HAD NO IDEA,UNTIL JUST NOW…
(MAN THAT SARAH P. BROAD IS CRAZY A** CORRUPT AND YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE HOW MANY MILLIONS OF $$$$$$$$$ SHE HAS TAKEN FROM THE POOR PEOPLE OF ALASKA!!!
ALSO SHE AND TODD,WERE/ARE MEMBERS OF THE A.I.P.(ALASKA INDEPENDENT PARTY) –THAT’S WHY SHE IS SO BUSY LYING ABOUT OBAMA & SOOOOO H*LL BENT TO GET McCAIN INTO THE WHITE HOUSE-(SHE REALLY WANTS TO BE MADAM PRESIDENT SOOOOO BAD ESP.IF McCAIN KICKS THE BUCKET! IN FACT SHE MAKES MONICA LEWINSKY-LOOK LIKE A GIRL SCOUT!… HEY (NO KIDDING) LOOK UP THE SCANDALS OF THE PALINS- WEBSITE!!!
I ALMOST VOTED FOR HER – THANK GOD,FOR ALL THE WEBSITES.(I AM NOW – FOR SURE VOTING FOR OBAMA /BIDEN- AMERICA’S ONLY REAL HOPE!! WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER 4-8 YRS OF BUSHISM’S – NOR THE CORRUPT C.E.O.’s OF WALL STREET – ALSO LET’S GET OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST- A.S.A.P.- BUT,SAFELY!! REMEMBER COLIN POWELL + THE DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE,AND THE CLINTONS ALSO ENDORSED HIM, AS WELL THE AVERAGE PEOPLE ON MAIN STREET– OF YOU DO NOT LIKE OBAMA,GO LIVE IN SOME OTHER COUNTRY– BECAUSE ONLY THE SMART PEOPLE HERE IN THE U.S.A. WILL BE VOTING FOR OBAMA/BIDEN!! (AFTER THE LAST 8 YEARS–NO MORE BUSH OR STUPID -> MENTAL MIGETS WHO THINK LIKE BUSH – KIND OF PEOPLE! (REMEMBER; McCAIN THOUGHT LIKE AND VOTED LIKE BUSH 90% OF THE TIME – McCAIN HIMSELF SAID SO!!)

We have had this for the last 8 years I wonder were Sara has been. With Mr. Bush it was his way or no way and if you didn’t think his way you were a terrorist. At Least now we will have someone working for USA not Iraq and OIl

Yea Yea look what happened when the repubs had control of the whole ball got us in a freaking war that’s what and in debt so bad your 9 greats grand children will be paying it off wake up America I sure don’t want my health care benefits cut and since I am 66 and on medicare it will be under Mc bush. I had a heart attack and my medication ain’t cheap. With 4 more years of republicans this country may as well bend over and kiss its backside good bye

Don’t be ignorant about the ACORN garbage being sold to you. They’ve been demonized and you numb-minded drones eat it up. A relatively few deadbeats hired off the street by ACORN to register voters turned in bad records. Those records will be tossed at the polls.
That’s it, dittoheads, that’s the whole awful story. ACORN is not the devil. They do good work for poor people. Like Christians are supposed to do? When did you help the poor last? If you’re a Christian and you’re not helping the poor, you’re ignoring the words of Christ. You have no right to cast stones at an organization that does help the poor, even if they make mistakes.
Actually, your boy McCain collected seven million dollars in illegal campaign donations–broke the law, for real. Is McCain the devil? You silly-minded sheep are so easily led. That’s why our nation is in such a mess. Use your brains or stay home on Nov. 4. You’re doing more harm than good following blind ideology and voting based on innuendo and manipulation by people who want to use you. And they do use you, as often as they can. If you want to look in that direction, you’re more likely to find the devilish behavior you dread so much. It’s your own side, your “leaders,” conning you for their selfish ends. Wake up. When they tell you (again) that it’s good to give all the tax breaks to wealthy people like themselves and leave you basically nothing, or to continue deregulating (McCain is STILL pushing deregulation!), how can you possibly continue to believe them? Do you buy “Rolexes” from guys off the corner, too?
I hope and pray that our new president, Barack Obama can bring a little unity, and sanity, to this messed-up politics we’ve got going. We’ll see–he certainly can’t do it alone. One thing’s for sure: he didn’t support GWB 90% of the time for the past eight years. I pray that those who call themselves “loyal Americans” will support the man elected by the people. That’s democracy, the American Way. If you don’t at least give him the benefit of the doubt, you’re being disloyal to your country.
Dump the hate, stop making rumors the basis of your politics. Ignorance is not an attractive quality.

So What? From where we are now, we can only go up!! And who would know better about abuse of power than Sarah?

Final bill on the Barackopolis: $5.3 million.
Under those circumstances, the extra $5.3 million for the vanity platform at Invesco seems like a strange and very frivolous spending choice. Obama could have given the same (uninspiring) speech at the Pepsi Center and saved millions of dollars. This isn’t the same as buying a wardrobe for a candidate who lacked one; Democrats had already spent almost $15 million on the Pepsi Center. Obama had a perfectly good stage on which to accept his nomination and demanded another for his own ego.
Joe

But the subprime crisis Washington is dealing with is the result of three decades of the federal government pressuring banks — via the regulatory demands of the Democrats’ 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, which was expanded by Bill Clinton — to make tens of billions of dollars in bad loans to poor people with lousy credit ratings.
It was Democrats’ regulatory and litigious assaults upon the mortgage market in pursuit of “social justice” that left our economy in its precarious position of today; indeed as an attorney, Obama himself in 1994 represented a client suing Citibank, accusing it of systematically denying mortgages to blacks.
But if the taxpayer rescue of Wall Street and Uncle Sam’s taking over the banking system scares you, the broader socialism planned by the Democratic presidential nominee should leave you petrified.
Joe

Who woulda thunk that a simple, well-meaning concept like trying to help people have homes would have turned into such a disaster?
Hey, I got it! How about lowering taxes so that people will (especially those that control most of the capital) invest and bank their money, expand businesses, and hire people to help them get even richer?
Oh, wait,,,that’s called ‘Trickle down’ and doesn’t work.
How dumb of me…I keep forgetting that it’s been Socialism (and Islam) all along that’s made this country great and wealthy. Thank you Karl and Friedrich…we owe you a cold one.

“Unchecked power”??! What about the the period from 2003 to 2007 where President Bush was in office and Republicans held both houses of congress?
I believe we went to war in 2003. How’s that for dangerous?

Raise taxes on wealthy. OK.
Raise taxes on corporations. OK.
Middle class tax cuts. OK.
Give people free money. WHAT???
Let’s not turn the IRS into another social program. We already have those.

I didn’t hear the GOP complaining when they had control of all three branches of government for SIX years that led us into the mess we’re in now.
Now, Palin and team are all up in arms that Obama might (and most likely will) win Nov 4th and the Democrats will pick up several seats in Congress.
Talk about hypocrosy at its best.

kevin…I believe that’s the point…No checks and balances is dangerous no matter what side is in control..Did we not learn our lesson from the period you mentioned..BTW the dems took the House and Senate in November of 2006….

Does Palin me like the Rethugs had?What a hypocrite.Please take all racist with you if Obama wins.

What a sleazy scum bag with lipstick
Posted by: mary | Oct 25, 2008 7:34:04 PM
No she isn’t. What part of her life makes you write this? Is it the fact that she didn’t abort her son? Or is the fact that you would abort him? She has been a breath of fresh air, and you are hot air…

I for one do not want more of the same.Sarah is more of the same self proclaimed religious right, and McCain has fell lock step with that same old posturing that ONLY the republican party is capable of protecting this country.This country fell for that mess in ’04.

Wow! Isn’t this exciting times, the democrats will have total control to put this country back on the right track without the meddling republicans screwing things up. Finally we will be able to get congress to work again. The country will move to the middle, and what ever party that replaces the republicans will have to be one that wants to improve the country, and not one with schemes and gimmicks that only benefits the rich.
One republican Senator has been convicted for corruption, and I can see more republicans going down for the same. Just wait for Palin to get back to Alaska. They will be running her through the ringer as well.

Unchecked power? You mean, like, to stop giving all our tax cuts to rich people, or to stop allowing corporations to ship jobs overseas and get REWARDED for it? Or to install Supreme Court judges who don’t think sex discrimination should be ignored if a woman complains “too late”? Or to finally get a renewable-energy program in place that provides new jobs and gets us off oil?
Sounds like a great use of unchecked power to me. Let’s give that a try, shall we?

Great website:
http://hiphoprepublican.blogspot.com/