Vintage Biden Detours to Delaware to Thank Home-State Backers, Bash Palin & Defend Obama

– “Barack Obama and I want to attack America’s problems,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee said. “It appears that all Sarah Palin and John McCain want to do is attack us. We want to attack problems. They want to attack us. –
Isn’t that the truth, and is it no wonder! And as McCain said back in 2000:
MCCAIN: “I just have to rely on the good judgment of the voters not to buy into these negative attack ads. Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.”
[The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 2/21/2000]
You can only repeat ‘Maverick’ so many times until people start asking what exactly that has to do with anything.

McCain is toast! Go Joe, Go Barack!!! They are the great hope for this country. McCain is going backwards, and they are moving forward. Obama/Biden 08!!

Jo,
The election is still some 3 weeks and Barrack Hussein Obama has not yet been elected President.
Get a life and a grip.

Look folks, this is a guy who is the American dream, raised by a white grandmom and grandpop from Kansas, a grandfather who fought in Patton’s Army, a grandmother who was the equivalent of Rosie the Riveter, building aircraft, a single mother.”
I have to agree with you Gregh. I think Biden is racist. Since that word is being thrown around so much. Well, I am probably racist for posting this. I guess maybe if radical liberalism is a race, I am guilty. Go McCain/Palin. Don’t believe the heavily weighted polls in most cases.

Greg h, I have relatives who are quite proud of their back-woods Tennessee racism.. doesn’t change the fact that they are still my relatives, nor dos it imply that I share their feelings.
Your point was… what exactly?

William,
I really have to wonder why Barack Obama hasn’t talked about many of the statements made about him. That makes me believe that they are true. Him not speaking to, or flatly denying his shady associations and dealings in his past are making him look so guilty. Everybody knows that he’s had SOME things to do with Acorn, Bill Ayers, etc, but he is just flat out denying and that doesn’t look good at all and looks like lies. Just one person’s opinion.

William,
In other words, I think I am agreeing with you. Why not say SOMETHING??? Sorry I wasn’t clear there.

Concerned American,
I am not saying that McCain hasn’t rubbed shoulders with Acorn before. I am just making the point that Obama seems very entrenched in Acorn business and it looks suspicious to say that he hasn’t done anything with them in the past.

Let’s see, what did Biden say about McCain in the primaries? Oh yeah, he said he was qualified to be President. What did he say about Obama? That he wasn’t. Joe Biden.Liar extraordinaire.

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By Andrew Quinn
Mon Oct 13, 3:58 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrat Barack Obama has a 4-point lead over his Republican rival John McCain in the U.S. presidential race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby tracking poll released on Monday.
Obama leads McCain by 48 percent to 44 percent among likely voters, down 2 percentage points from the lead he enjoyed on Sunday. The poll has a margin of error of 2.9 points

Manolete
I’M WITH YOU……
I AGREE WITH YOUR POST….
BEST CHOICE IS:
McCAIN/PALIN ’08

Did he drop off a bag of cash?

“Obama leads McCain by 48 percent to 44 percent among likely voters, down 2 percentage points from the lead he enjoyed on Sunday. The poll has a margin of error of 2.9 points”
You’re only supposed to post polls that show the greatest advantage for obama. You’ll need to go back to the ACORN indoctrination camp for re-education.

Don’t worry JJ, the last attempt of a failed debate is turning from the subject of the debate (issues) and resorting to ad hominem attacks. We are seeing the last desperate attempts from a dying campaign grasping at anything to keep from drowning. Ain’t America great!
And I still can’t believe so many people still support Palin.. that is indeed an insult to the intelligence of Americans, yet people are still willing to just bend over and take it. Sad.

You lamebrained republicans are so stupid and gullible. Just let the right wing start up some lie about Senator Obama and some other person no one knows and you people are all over it like flies on do-do. It is amazing the liars and spinners who will stop at nothing to smear and wound. I am sick and tired of the lies, the filth, and the way republicans eat it up with relish. It like they have never heard a republican liar that they did not believe every lying word they say, because they want to believe the lies.

I wonder who he plagiarized that speech from?

– The Democrats caused this economic choas by signing sub-prime mortgage loan legislation –
Wrong. Deregulation of the banking industry allowing them to package and sell mortgages as investments is the root, and that was a bi-partisan effort:
The bill that ultimately repealed the [Glass Steagall] Act was introduced in the Senate by Phil Gramm (R-TX) and in the House of Representatives by James Leach (R-IA) in 1999. The bills were passed by a 54-44 vote along party lines with Republican support in the Senate and by a 343-86 vote in the House of Representatives. Nov 4, 1999: After passing both the Senate and House the bill was moved to a conference committee to work out the differences between the Senate and House versions. The final bipartisan bill resolving the differences was passed in the Senate 90-8-1 and in the House: 362-57-15. Without forcing a veto vote, this bipartisan, VETO PROOF legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-190

– Senator Obama stated today he was going to create JOBS –
His health plan, creating an insurance company that competes against the others, will allow more uninsured americans to obtain health insurance (47% as compared to 7% under McCains plan at peak). This will inject more patients into the system, boosting revenue for health care providers, allowing job creation and have a ripple effect to supporting industries. Also, his tax cuts to businesses providing health insurance to employees will inject an estimated $140 billion a year, further creating jobs and stimulating the economy. In contrast, McCain simply wants to deregulate, tax employers for health care to employees in order to shift to private coverage, and give a fixed tax break across the board regardless of income. Like his tax plan, his health plan favors the wealthy and would result in more americans losing health insurance.
http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/pm126

Howard Stern Exposes Why So Many People Support Obama
http://tinyurl.com/53jx82

Concerned American,
You are doing a great job getting the facts out, but the people that are still buying into the McCain/Palin lies are not interested in truth or reason. I mean the Ayers thing is so stupid. Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was active. McCain’s involvement in the U.S. Council for World Freedom is worst than guilt by association and the McCain/Palin “followers” don’t seem to care about that. The double standard is amazing to me.

PALIN’S FREE HOUSE ALA TED STEVENS!!!
Have you heard about this Developing Story on PALIN’S house being built FOR FREE by the same contractors, etc. that Ted Stevens house was built by?
Apparently the village voice newspaper did some digging into this and found some unusual facts…
Like at the same time the 15 million dollar hocky rink in Wassilla was being built, Palin’s house got built!
“When the Palins began building a new family home off Lake Lucille in 2002—at the same time that Palin was running for lieutenant governor and in her final months as mayor—Spenard supplied the materials, according to Antoine Bricks, who works in its Wasilla office. Spenard actually filed a notice “of its right to assert a lien” on the deed for the Palin property after contracting for labor and materials for the site. Spenard’s name has popped up in the trial of Senator Stevens—it worked on the house that is at the center of the VECO scandal as well.”
In addition apparently Todd Palin claimed on FOX Noise that he built the house “himself” with some buddies…
“Todd Palin told Fox News that he built the two-story, 3,450-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath, wood house himself, with the help of contractors he described as “buddies.” As mayor, Sarah Palin blocked an effort to require the filing of building permits in the wide-open city, and there is no public record of who the “buddies” were. The house was built very near the complex, on a site whose city purchase led to years of unsuccessful litigation and, now, $1.3 million in additional costs, with a law firm that’s also donated to Palin collecting costly fees from the city.”
The ONLY PROBLEM is that while the house was being built, Todd was out campaigning with his wife all over the state….
“Ewing was one of the few sports-complex contractors, aside from Spenard, willing to address the question of whether he worked on the house as well, but he had little to say: “I doubt that it occurred, but if it did indirectly, how would I know anyhow?” The odd timing of Palin’s house construction—it was completed two months before she left City Hall and while she and Todd Palin were campaigning statewide for the first time—raises questions, especially considering its synergy with the complex.”
Is there NO END to this woman’s lies and corruption?
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-08/news/the-book-of-sarah/5

Who is Sarah Palin:
Palins mother (Sally Sheigam) was of Lithuanian Jewish heritage and so were both of her mothers parents (Louise Sheigam and Shmuel Sheigam). Her father Chuck Heath can also be considered of Jewish blood because his mother, Beatrice Coleman, was of Jewish decent. Further information on Governor Palin’s ancestors can easily be found in the vital records in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives in Vilnius. http://www.archyvai.lt/ The Archives holds birth, marriage, divorce, and death records for the Lithuanian Jewish community from 1851 until 1915 when the Jews were required to leave the country because of World War I. They are in 18th Century Cyrillic script and Yiddish Many of these records include the mother’s maiden name and town of registration.
I understand her mother, Sally, was raised as a Jew. Her father Chuck became an evangelical Christian however and Sarah has been raised in that tradition.
The fact the Sarah is Jewish by birth is no big deal, in fact I think it is fascinating. However, this is where it get scary – she has covered up the fact that she has Jewish heritage and in fact one of the rumors she started about her rival in her run for Mayor was that her competition (Mr. Stein) was Jewish, which was not true.
Sarah also has strong ties with the A.I.P. in Alaska. Joe Vogler started this party. Joe hated America and raged constantly regarding his hatred. He wanted Alaska to be an independent country and to secede from the USA. He stated his hate for the USA was as cold as the glaciers and that he refused to be buried under the American flag. He had close ties with Iran (I am not kidding!) Please Google Joe Vogler and Iran if you doubt this. Vogler was actually killed when a deal to purchase plastic explosives went bad!
The current big guys in the A.I.P. are Chryson and Stoll. They helped to get Palin elected as Mayor and as Gov. They enjoy a close relationship with the family. Todd belonged to the A.I.P. for 7 years, until 2007 and Sarah spoke at and attended their functions. It was Chyson and Stoll who helped Sarah spread the rumors regarding Stein. Both of these men have strong ties to white militia organizations.
So here we have a woman, ashamed of and hiding her Jewish heritage and attempting to smear and persecute someone else for being Jewish. Seems I remember another person who was ashamed of his Jewish background…whipped up crowds into Aryan frenzies, told half truths and played on peoples irrational fears…incited violent mob mentalities ….do we really want to go there again….

Biden speaks from the heart with great eloquence. He will be a great vice president. And there is arguably no one in Congress more knowledgeable on the great issues of the day. He’s right, let McCain and Palin attack Obama. Obama and Biden want to attack America’s problems. I like that, alot.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1849399-2,00.html
umm Ok kids next we will put the president of Iran in the corner….Kim Jong Ill you dont get to be in the christmas play….
I think some of you republicans showing up at McCain rallies should really screen your audience lists. Those were some real nut jobs this past week….Like the Dementia lady that said she read Obama was an Arab HAHAHAHAHA yep and if you dig a hole far enough you can get to china, I think I read that somewhere….so must be true…..Obama and Biden 08…..

McCain/Palin ticket winner will keep Americans high moral values and traditions in place. Anything goes for the Obama people: lies, corruption, terrorists, criminals, religeous radical and far right political radicals. The democrats caused our economic meltdown by wanting people into housing they could not afford and us tax payers are forced to bail out the financial institutions.
Senator Obama has nothing going except his big mouth and lots of bogus promises.

Yes Mary, keep repeating that mantra over and over again to yourself if that is what you need to calm your paranoid mind.

– -Do you recall that Obama had to get the Rezkos to fork over $625,000 for an empty lot so Obama could have his mansion for $300,000 less than value. Why did the Rezko do it???? –
Mary, mary, mary.. here are the 8 things you need to know about Rezko:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/757340,CST-NWS-watchdog24.article
and just for good measures:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/19/obamas-rezko-connection/
You really are not a McCain supporter are you.. just an anti-Obama troll.

Why do you call him a socialist?
That just shows your ignorance in the candidates platforms.

hahahaha yes blame the democrats for the Iraq War blank check for the trillions we are wasting in Iraq. Last I look it was Bush that did that. Also lets stop pointing fingers at the government for all the problems. Anyone bought Christmas gifts in the past on credit and found the next few months being a little short in the family budget? YES you know you have. Try actually paying cash for something and saving rather than blaming your over paid mortgage problems on the government!!!! It’s time for Americans to start accepting their responsibility for not being able to pay their own bills….

–Concerned American–Those articles you mentioned are old news. Rezko has been talking to the feds for weeks now hoping to get a lighter sentence. Seems he knows a lot about Chicago/Illinois political and business related corruption. He was in it for years and was named “the Fixer”. Maybe, just maybe he is telling the truth about Obama. Understand, he has another trial to go through too.
Also, the past actions and associations speaks volumns about a person, more so than his current political rhetric or platform.

Yes Mary, and even GOP officals say that Obama has not been implicated in anything, even though they have been pressuring him.
As for past associations, your blinders are showing. McCain has far more ‘questionable’ actions than Obama.
Hint: US Council for World Freedom is just the tip of the iceburg.
When you care to discuss issues, I’ll be here. In the meantime, I will just continue correcting your ‘facts’ :)

The Republicans are starting to look and sound very desperate.

– Wall Street Journal called Joe Biden a PNONY LIAR: –
Oh, good.. thought you were going to say he was found guilty of violating ethics laws and abuse of power..

MAGGIE: If true, how many of the college kids will change their minds on voting for their Messiah, Obama!!!!!
I have a niece whom wil be starting college next year. I think it’s time the 18 year old females know of Obama’s military idea for the woman.
Scary!!!!

Why yes maggie.. and not only that, under Obama, you will be required to practice Islam, work in welfare kitchens, scrub toilets in federal prisons, and assist police in drug raids for 1 week out of each year!
I guess it’s about time for the nut jobs to start crawling out from under their rocks.. sad.

the dems always RAISE YOUR TAXES to support there pockets…umm opps …what they call programs!

I really wonder how many college students whom are voting for Obama know of his selective service plans for all woman 18 years and over? I typed in selective service women Obama and it did take me to several sites
showing that yes, this is true. He mentioned it during a CNN interview.

“Say it ain’t so, Joe”…where did the wrinkles on your forehead go??????

“Up yours, Obama, you cannot have my niece for your military army. Go crawl under some rat’s hole and leave our Democratic Country alone.

concerned….look it up,
you blind bafoon, your just another innocent sheep that is being led to slaughter for you cannot see, you and others are being led by the
obama MARXIST SOCIALIST group,
where they have the blind pulled down in front of many eyes.the obama klan are majority leftist puppets.
do your best to vote this so called american into office,
then when he… CHANGES…
your life,liberties and your freedoms.
you wont find one person that voted for obama!
i will be posting Obama’s full TAX strategy this afternoon.

o i c now …concerned is a PLANT, placed on this board by the
obama faction of socialist reformists, notice how he changed personal taxes to the national debt….
gotta watch them obama socialist…
there tricky liars !

Did Biden stop in at Home Depot again? People there have never seen him before. As for discussing politics with people at his favorite diner, perhaps his Alzheimer’s kicking in since it closed well over a decade ago. The Secret Service should tell him before he makes another gaffe. Imagine, he was GOP and if he misspelled potato his political life would be over. This guy thinks he’s Christ and can perform miracles making the wheelchair bound lame to get up and walk. Yet the media paints over this buffoon.

ok concerned…here it comes…straight off your LINK…and by the way…do ya know the difference in a LAW and a PROPOSAL TO THE LAW?

Both John McCain and Barack Obama have proposed tax plans that would substantially increase the national debt over the next ten years, according to a newly updated analysis by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. Compared to current law,
TPC estimates
THE OBAMA PLAN WOULD CUT TAXES BY $2.9 trillion from 2009-2018.
McCain would reduce taxes by nearly $4.2 trillion.
thats from your link….O helen !

– THE OBAMA PLAN WOULD CUT TAXES BY $2.9 trillion from 2009-2018.
McCain would reduce taxes by nearly $4.2 trillion. –
Yup.. Meaning McCain would raise the federal deficit by $4.2 trillion over 10 years, Obama $2.9 over the same period.
McCain would have to cut a lot more government spending just to catch up to Obama without cutting anything..

concerned …let me ask you this…
JUST EXACTLY WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO BE STUPID ! your truly an IDIOT !
it dont say anything about the fed deficit…YOU DO !
…if they had meant fed deficit they would have posted/written federal deficit…..you LaMONT[ thats red sanford for ya BIG DUMMY}
ITS SAYS TAXES…

– t dont say anything about the fed deficit…YOU DO ! –
Excuse me, national debt.. from the report: Both John McCain and Barack Obama have proposed tax plans that would substantially increase the national debt over the next ten years, according to a newly updated analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
And then cite by how much, which are the numbers given. Apparently you don’t realize that you can’t cut taxes without cutting spending.. just like the current bozo in office it seems.
http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
Obama at least raises some revenue with modest increases for the wealthy.. however not as much as was under Clinton. McCains plan is a net $1.3 trillion over 10 year deficit compared to Obama.

There were many, many naysayers when Clinton proposed similar tax increases on the top 2 percent. It will cause a recession, depression, it’s redistribution of wealth, yahta, yahta, yahta. Well they were wrong and he was right. Obama is proposing similar tax policies along with agressive job creation. There will always be critics, but the truth of the matter is current tax, spending, and overall fiscal policy is not working and 80 percent of the country wants to change direction. What better way than to put the emphasis on jobs and the middle class. A rising tide floats all boats.

Tom. Tescher,
Redistribution of wealyh is not what clinton proposed by any stretch

Radicalran, I just cut and pasted verbatim what the report said, and will do it again right here:
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have proposed tax plans that would substantially increase the national debt over the next ten years, according to a newly updated analysis by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. Compared to current law, TPC estimates the Obama plan would cut taxes by $2.9 trillion from 2009-2018. McCain would reduce taxes by nearly $4.2 trillion. Obama would give larger tax cuts to low- and moderate-income households and pay some of the cost by raising taxes on high-income taxpayers. In contrast, McCain would cut taxes across the board and give the biggest cuts to the highest-income households.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?ID=411750
I’m not sure your reading comprehension is that great.. maybe you are just reading it the way you would like to see it, but that is your problem to take care of, not mine.

reddog wrote “Which does not account for increased revenue because of lower taxes.Thats where it is misleading”
what is misleading is thinking that large cuts for the wealthy increase revenue. that movie failed at the box office, every time it has been played. as the wall street journal recently wrote
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Many of these very same critics made many of these same overheated predictions in previous elections. They said President Clinton’s 1993 deficit-reduction plan would wreck the economy. Eight years and 23 million new jobs later, the economy proved them wrong. Now they are making the same claims about Sen. Obama’s tax plan,
…
The McCain plan would lead to deficits the likes of which we have never seen in this country. It would take money from the middle class and from future generations so that the wealthy can live better today.
***
even former federal reserve chairman paul volcker is supporting obama and his tax plan.
no thanks. trickle down does not work, and never has. and yet, they keep trying as if they will get different results. my friends and family have a name for someone who keeps doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, and it isnt flattering.
obama/biden in 2008

Mr. Gaffe, LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Concerned – Here’s some paste for your roll Mr. Tax Policy pusher!
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Wright 101
Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Rev. Wright’s anti-Americanism
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.
— Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
—————————————- Do you understand Mr. Tax Policy pusher what the point is here. Americans Tax dollars from high taxes, will go to fund this sort of education. This is not equality for all American students, but political and race impowerment for only radicals. Pushing radicalization is not proper with tax dollar, but only hypocrisy and racism!

I was at the speech last night and I have to say that Joe Biden did an outstanding job voicing the concerns of America and telling us all how Senator Obama planned to fix the problems we face today. He was passionate and funny, proving to those of us who know him that he’s still Good Ole Joey B from Wilmington. He reinvigorated the Delaware Democratic Party last night and I hope he’s done the same for anyone within the broadcast radius.
I think everyone needs to stop being blinded by political affiliations and listen tot he issues and think long and hard about who is REALLY going to help us. To be perfectly honest, I was not a Barack Obama supporter from the beginning. But I started listening to him and I was convinced: he can help our country to return to it’s higher status – he may not be able to do it right away, but I believe Obama/Biden is the right ticket to help restore our country, our economy, our America.

Why would McCain call Obama a “decent family man”? Because it’s true? Why doesn’t McCain bring up ties to Ayers in debates? Because it’s not true? Maybe it’s time to listen to your candidate. The kind of BS on these boards by McCain supporters is not even supported by your candidate.

Surprise! Illegal ACORN registrations do, in fact, lead to illegal ACORN ballots! From the NY Post:
Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and CAST A BOGUS BALLOT with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that nearly 4,000 registration applications supplied by the left-leaning activist group were suspect.
The vote of Darnell Nash, one of four people subpoenaed in a Cuyahoga County probe of ACORN’s voter-registration activities, was canceled and his case was turned over to local prosecutors and law enforcement, Board of Elections officials said yesterday.
Nash had registered to vote repeatedly from an address that belonged to a legitimately registered voter, officials said during a hearing at which the subpoenaed voters were to testify.
Board officials had contacted Nash this summer, questioned his address and told him to stop repeat registering.
But still, he breezed into Ohio election offices – the state allows early voting for president – reregistered with a fake address and cast a paper ballot, officials said.
“He came in on 9/30 and Mr. Nash again registered to vote at [someone else's] address, and he cast a ballot,” said board official Jane Platten.
Nash did not turn up for the hearing.
Expect to hear about a lot more of these, especially in Ohio, where the Obama campaign is trying to steal the state with great help from same day registrations.

Pennsylvania has a November suprise for snotty Obama. He will not humiliate the good people of PA and take this state for granted. No, no, no… Mr. Obama.
PA is a RED STATE now.