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Posted By RedRiverJ 1 year ago in Political NewsIt 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.
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RedRiverJ1 year ago
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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.
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hyperbola1 year ago
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The problem with your argument is that Jeremiah Wright is much more a patriotic American than Palin and her goofy preachers. One only has to look at what Ronald Reagan's Asst. Secy. of Defense has to say about Wright to see how degenerate the GOP has become.
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Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a True Patriot
By LAWRENCE KORB and IAN MOSS
In 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F. Kennedy's challenge to, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," gave up his student deferment, left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines. In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman. (They provide medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy personnel.)
The man did so well in corpsman school that he was the valedictorian and became a cardiopulmonary technician. Not surprisingly, he was assigned to the Navy's premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval Hospital, as a member of the commander in chief's medical team, and helped care for President Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery. For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the White House awarded him three letters of commendation. What is even more remarkable is that this man entered the Marines and Navy not many years after the two branches began to become integrated.
While this young man was serving six years on active duty, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was born the same year as the Marine/sailor, received five deferments, four for being an undergraduate and graduate student and one for being a prospective father. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both five years younger than the African-American youth, used their student deferments to stay in college until 1968. Both then avoided going on active duty through family connections.
Who is the real patriot? The young man who interrupted his studies to serve his country for six years or our three political leaders who beat the system? Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice something or those who merely talk about their love of the country?....
.... How many of Wright's detractors, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly to name but a few, volunteered for service, and did so under the often tumultuous circumstances of a newly integrated armed forces and a society in the midst of a civil rights struggle? Not many. While words do count, so do actions. Let us not forget that, for whatever Rev. Wright may have said over the last 30 years, he has demonstrated his patriotism.
(Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss are, respectively, Navy and Marine Corps veterans. Korb served as assistant secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration.)
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vor1 year ago
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah....etc.
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Don't you pathetic people have anything better to do than smear this excrement all over the Internet. The more that is splattered the less and less believable it all becomes....not that any of it ever had merit in the first place...support your candidate by doing something other than smearing the opposition...how about stating why you support John McCain and not why you hate his opponent...or is there nothing for you to truly support? And we wonder why America is in such trouble?... -
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somecommonsense1 year ago
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Wow...great article...real hard hitting news...Afrocentrists...hmmmm...sounds different and scary...maybe you should kill them all...I wonder how many points this will put Obama up by next week. Hey red River...do You know who else was on that board??? I bet not...Do you know who Annenberg is Perhaps not.
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The negative smears are not working...try to find something with teeth to it, or better yet, maybe start posting articles that portray John McCain in a positive light...hmmmm...that's an idea...actually try to discuss why I should vote for your guy... -
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ETproductions1 year ago
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RedriverJ, are you even aware that the Annenberg FOundation was established by arch conservative Walter H. Annenberg? No, obviously not. Facts are so clearly liberally biased that your sort avoids them. Besides, acquiring real facts requires reading, when it's so much easier to just listen to Rush.
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mesodude1 year ago
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Jan. 13, 2008, 9:39 p.m., RedRiverJ?warns us about John McCain's
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"Abysmal record on immigration."
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?D... ?http://grades.betterimmigration.com/testgrades.... ?
--Thanks for the warning,Red--at least we both agree in general that John McCain is extremely dangerous for our country and would suck in every conceivable way as President. Keep on reporting the facts about this unbelievably unstable man, John McCain.
xoxoxo Meso ;-P
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RedRiverJ1 year ago
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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.”)
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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. -
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hyperbola1 year ago
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Actually it is good to see patriotic Americans like Jeremiah Wright openly criticizing the "christian fundamentalist" killer philosophy in America.
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In Defense of Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Dr. Wright fits into America's civil religion paradigm about as well as a black Jesus would.
I heard that great humanitarian Karl Rove criticizing Dr. Jeremiah Wright's sermon in which he talks about a black and poor Jesus being crucified by the Roman ruling class. He expressed outrage that Dr. Wright would say this. At that point it clarified for me why so many people had rushed to call Dr. Wright's words hateful and racist. The reverend had attacked all of America's sacred cows, including its civil religion, in which the idea of a black Jesus just doesn't fit....
...One of the primary tenets of American civil religion is that the people who came from Europe were the new Israelites or, to be clear, the "Chosen People." These immigrants, like the Israelites of old, had made their "exodus" from Europe and were chosen to take over the "Promised Land." And like the Hebrews of the Old Testament, God had granted them the right to take over this land, by any means necessary. Some know it better as "Manifest Destiny," and according to its tenets and, of course, consistent with the Hebrew scriptures, they were compelled to take over the land of Canaan. Already inhabited, no problem, we are the chosen people, and the Indians, well, "not so much." What followed was the annihilation and dispossession of the Native Americans....
This is why the U.S. government's history of conquest and exploitation can be so easily explained away and there is so little national angst. It was blessed, sanctioned by the Almighty, a part of our destiny. Those others just got in our way and, besides, left to their own devices they would have done far worse. The Native Americans would have killed one another off anyway, and the Africans we kidnapped, would have knocked one another off eventually -- after all, look at them now. So we did them a favor by civilizing them. This kind of racist discourse is still considered acceptable in some circles....-
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hyperbola1 year ago
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...Other significant features of the pantheon of civil religion are the philosophical tenets (sacred cows) that keep its adherents from peeping behind the throne. When Dr. Wright criticized the role of "rich white folks" or the ruling rich for making many of our lives and folks in the rest of the world miserable he challenged the long-held myth that "you can get rich if you work hard enough."
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Poor white folks and working-class white folks wanted badly to identify with the people who bear their skin color but who are really wealthy and run this country. They badly want to believe that they too can be rich and take their place in the front of the line and be exploiter rather than exploited, boss rather than bossed. Unfortunately, the Horatio Alger tale was a cruel exaggeration, and while a few actually rise above their class status, the rest are stuck. And while working-class whites may look like their richer cousins, the truth is, they are "their color but not their kind."...
...Ultimately what has some folks so up in arms is not that Dr. Wright was angry and seemingly hostile as many would have us believe but, rather, the implications of what he said. What Dr. Wright did more than anything was to challenge all the accepted illusions that allow citizens of all colors, sex and ethnicity to wrap themselves in a fake patriotism buttressed by a made-up religion, which prevents them from looking critically at their country and its policies.
http://www.alternet.org/story/81651/?page=entire
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RedRiverJ1 year ago
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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.
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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.-
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Endoscopy1 year ago
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Here is more of Stanley Kurtz writings about the subject.
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http://www.eppc.org/scholars/scholarID.81,type.1/p...
What Obama did extremely far left wing. He followed the ideas that Wright, Ayres, etc. promoted and help funnel money he was entrusted with to those organizations. He was part and parcel of ACORN. -
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hyperbola1 year ago
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One should keep in mind that this article is from the israel-first, zioncon rag National Review. These folks don't give a crraapp about America as long as we keep paying for zionist crimes against humanity. McCain has made himself their tool in his senility. The real question is how long they can continue to dupe Americans with their campaigns of hatred aimed at keeping us divided, dumb, poor and docile.
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Turning the Tables on the Israel-Firsters
by Michael Scheuer (Michael Scheuer is a 22-year veteran of the CIA )
... The idea that there are U.S. citizens who have equal loyalties to the United States and Israel is passé. American Israel-firsters have long since dropped any pretense of loyalty to the United States and its genuine national interests. They have moved brazenly into the Israel first, last, and always camp. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Norman Podhoretz, Victor Davis Hanson, the Rev. Franklin Graham, Alan Dershowitz, Rudy Giuliani, Douglas Feith, the Rev. Rod Parsley, Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey, Bill Kristol, the Rev. John Hagee, and the thousands of wealthy supporters of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) appear to care about the United States only so far as Washington is willing to provide immense, unending funding and the lives of young U.S. service personnel to protect Israel. These individuals and their all-for-Israel journals – Commentary, National Review, the Weekly Standard, and the Wall Street Journal – amount to nothing less than a fifth column intent on involving 300 million Americans in other peoples' religious wars, making them pay and bleed to protect a nation in which the United States has no genuine national security interest at stake....
....The Israel-firsters started the Iraq war and now have the United States locked into an occupation of that country that may not end in any of our lifetimes. Unless Americans ignore the likes of Hanson, Podhoretz, Lieberman, Woolsey, and Wolfowitz, the cost in blood and treasure will ultimately bankrupt America. ...
.... The reality and power of this anti-American, pro-Israel triangle – Israel-first politicians, civil servants, and pundits; AIPAC's corrupting influence; and the warmongering of major evangelical Protestant preachers – is so obvious and palpable that the only way its members can blur reality is to deny the triangle's existence and identify their critics as anti-Semites. Well, the time has come to simply ignore these folks' knee-jerk hurling of that epithet. Indeed, the slur ought to understood for what it is: a sure sign that the Israel-firsters know that their fifth column would be destroyed in a minute if their fellow Americans come to recognize that their sons and daughters are dying in Iraq and soon elsewhere to protect an Israeli state whose existence is just as important to U.S. interests as the creation of a Palestinian state – that is, of no importance whatsoever.....
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somecommonsense1 year ago
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Yes redriver...risky and scary and black and communist and socialist and a really really bad man! Lol..you guys are all kooks...do you lunatics that post all these ridiculous articles about Ayers and Acorn play bingo together on Saturdays?
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stephen-johnson1 year ago
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Unforunately, the media isn't doing its job in exposing Obama's far leftist roots and ideas. They are too busy covering for him lest another Republican gets elected. Once elected, the media reasons, Obama will govern from a centralist position, just like Clinton did. Fat chance. Obama is far to the left of Clinton, who became a pragmatist after the 1994 election.
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Sadly, the US might need shock therapy in the form of an Obama administration to see how bad liberal ideas are. With Democratic control of both Houses of Congress, Obama, Reid and Pelosi won't have to pretend to be moderates. Look for offshore drilling bans to be reinstated, more green regulations placed on businesses and people, gun laws strengthened and a rash of liberal activist judges appointed to the courts. -
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hamy1 year ago
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Will she wink at us and talk about shooting Mooses from a helicopter? God I hope so. I hope that she talks about killing Americans outside the womb and saving the ones inside. I mean, how can we get people to continue to die for their country if we are aborting them right?
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dandt16121 year ago
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My whole entire family is worried about Obama making it to the white house. None of us trust him and all nine of our closest friends feel the same way.
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I feel like America is on the Titanic and Obama the iceberg is dead ahead and no one is paying attention.-
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willottica1 year ago
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And everyone I speak to is worried about McCain and Palin making it to the whitehouse.
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The former has a demonstrated history of hot-headedness in a crisis. What crises would he take from bad to worse by jumping to conclusions and bomb-bomb-bombing the first country it comes into his head to blame?
The latter has a demonstrated history of abuse of power. She fires those who don't think as she does or refuse to demonstrate unwavering loyalty. She preaches far-right ideals as appropriate to be taught in schools, and has NO experience whatsoever in government which includes potentially-hostile international relations.
If you are scared of Obama, you're frightened because of the associations and innuendos of associations presented to you by people who want you to be scared.
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4thchance1 year ago
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Well put dandt1612.
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I agree, seems everyone is blind to Obama's lies and BS. The problem is not us, the problem is our media covering for Obama and hiding all this from the mainstream. People are not hearing about the REAL Obama. They are being lead down a trail of Obama BS by the media. McCain needs to step up and put Obama on the hotseat tomorrow night. That way, mainstream will hear about all this Obama BS and will then want to know the DETAILS to all of Obama's terrorists connections, Obama's connections to Acorn and voter fraud and Acorns intimidation of bankers to lend money to people who clearly could never pay it back. I beleive if all this were to be investigated truthfully and thoroughly, it may end up to be proven as a Democrat Conspiracy to ruin our economy. Something is truly out of order here, that's for sure. -
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dandt161223 hours, 21 minutes ago
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My whole entire family is worried about Obama making it to the white house. None of us trust him and all nine of our closest friends feel the same way.
I feel like America is on the Titanic and Obama the iceberg is dead ahead and no one is paying attention.
To me it is the shrub who is the "Titanic" and Obama is more like the "Lusitania" but instead of being torpedoed by a U-boat it is Reps who are doing it.
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Wolfie20071 year ago
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FTA
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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. -
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Wolfie20071 year ago
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FTA
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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. -
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fsev411 year ago
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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements...
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Mr Wolf, maybe you should read some facts and stop listening to whatever source you get your information from. Annenberg wasn't near as radical as you would claim. If it came even close it fooled one heck of a lot of people. Also Ayers and OBama didn't have near the power that you attribute to them.
But then I don't expect you to believe the truth anyway.
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4thchance1 year ago
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All this Obama and wrong doing stuff is insane. Good God, there's something new coming out about Obama and his wrong doings just about every day. If all this were to come out on McCain as it is on Obama, then McCain would have been forced out of the race along time ago. But, seems Obama is being made bullet proof by the media and by his supporters. It's the most incredible thing I have ever witnessed. Seems Obama can not do anything wrong enough, all his wrong doings are simply tossed aside and or swept under the rug. Seems he can do no wrong in the eyes of the media and his supporters.
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Like I say, the demoCrites could run HITLER for president and somehow they could still win, win it by hook or by CROOK! It's incredible what's going on in our country right now. By rights Obama should have been forced out of the race months ago....What's currently going on is very dangerous for ALL OF US as a free nation! You better look out for what you ask for....-
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hyperbola1 year ago
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Actually McCain and Palin have gone so whacko that honest, sane Republicans have told them to cool it.
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Republican leaders break ranks with McCain
Senior members of the Republican party are in open mutiny against John McCain's presidential campaign, after a disastrous period which has seen Barack Obama solidify his lead in the opinion polls.
...From inside and outside his inner circle, Mr McCain is being told to settle on a coherent economic message and to tone down attacks on his rival which have sometimes whipped up a mob-like atmosphere at Republican rallies.
Two former rivals for the party nomination, Mitt Romney and Tommy Thompson, went on the record over the weekend about the disarray in the Republican camp. And a string of other senior party figures said Mr McCain's erratic performance risks taking the party down to heavy losses not just in the presidential race but also in contests for Congressional seats....
Some Republicans seeking election to Congress have begun distancing themselves from Mr McCain. In Nebraska, a Republican representative, Lee Terry, ran a newspaper ad featuring support from a woman who called herself an "Obama-Terry voter". ....
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/13/republic...
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Mutainia1 year ago
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Afrocentrism is believing all main characters in the Bible were black, including God, because God, or Jesus (take your pick) has hair white like WOOL, NOT white like snow...WOOL. It's also taught that Egyptian pharohs were black. There seems to be some truth in that, because, although the art-work shows them as tan or mostly brown in color with straight hair, Egyptian mummies, when, unrapped, are very dark in color. The mummy of Ramses, interestingly enough, had long, straight red hair AND, was very dark in color.
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_-m-_1 year ago
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Um. What?
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Really, that's not even close. I suggest you try looking in a dictionary instead of rambling on about competing religious anthropomorphisms that are equally inadequate.
Most people seem to try to create/portray their god(s) in their own image. But, since their gods don't have physical instantiations, it's all moot anyway, except as a socio-political symbol.
In smaller words, that means that silly people seem to get their panties in a bunch over what they imagine their gods look like, because they think they (their gods) should look like them (those people), all while ignoring the detail that their gods don't have bodies, so they wouldn't really look like anything, or anyone. But, people want to make social and political investments in claiming their god looks like them (in reverse, that they look like their gods), so they can then argue that they are a 'chosen' group, who is somehow superior, and should therefore have more social and political power than everybody else not part of their select group...
The same inclination is probably intertwined somehow with someone's seeming preoccupation with the Pharaohs. A little history lesson is probably in order there. 'The Pharaohs' weren't a single, uniform group, ruling over a single, uniform culture. There were 32 identified dynasties, most having multiple pharaohs before being replaced by a successor dynasty, covering a period of 3100 years (from roughly 3100 BCE to 30 BC.) That's a lot of different peoples, from many different areas of Egypt, and the last few dynasties were Greek, following Alexander's conquest of Egypt. So, there would have been dark-haired, dark-skinned pharaohs, light-skinned, lighter-haired pharaohs, and a considerably varied range in between the two extremes. All in all, it doesn't mean anything in a modern context except as people attempt to create some arbitrary symbolism for it to support their own socio-political aspirations (hope, pride, power, et cetera).
Getting back to the dictionary:
Afrocentric |,afrõ'sentrik|
adjective
regarding African or black culture as preeminent.
DERIVATIVES
Afrocentrism |-trizεm| noun
Afrocentrist |-trist| noun
As opposed to Eurocentric:
Eurocentric |,yεrõ'sentrik; ,yoõrõ-|
adjective
focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world; implicitly regarding European culture as preeminent.
DERIVATIVES
Eurocentricity |-,sen'trisitê| |'juroû'sεn'trIsεdi| |'juroû'sεn?trIsεdi| noun
Eurocentrism |-'sen,trizεm| |''jεroû'sεn'trIzεm| |''juroû'sεn'trIzεm| noun
If you want a more in depth discussion of both, you can start with Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrocentrism
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FairNBalanced1 year ago
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I have serious misgivings toward anyone that votes for Obama. He is going to promote a huge depression in the US, and for those that don't believe that, need to take basic economics 101. But, unlike many of my conservative friends, I do not think that Obama can win. There are still too many smart conservatives out their to let this happen.
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McCain/Palin-
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GLee1 year ago
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These liberals seem to think that Obama is under attack from the right. What is actually going on is Obama's character is under the microscope and it is showing all kinds of 'bacteria' that has grown throughout his 'career'. Dirty stuff that is dangerous to the American public. Is this an attack? Heck no, but it is a testament to his poor judgement and the level of his character, which isn't Presidential material.
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Ask yourself one question....... If Obama was trying to gain a security clearance to join the FBI, CIA, etc. Do you actually think he would be able to gain this clearance to enter into thier employment? I can tell you as a matter of fact that he would be turned away because of his past associations and activities. Why in the world would someone vote for a person that couldn't even gain mid level security clearances? INCREDIBLE!!-
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_-m-_1 year ago
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Good question. Let's try it the other way around and apply it to a real example. Why would anyone ever have voted for the shrub?
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The shrub would never have made it past round one of the selection process for any of the agencies you've referenced, due to his extensive past use of cocaine, and his drunk driving conviction(s), since, for purposes of those clearances, it doesn't matter that the records were sealed, after the fact.
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kobzikov1 year ago
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Conservatives are abandoning McCain's clean-smelling smear campaign in droves and you guys think that the bogus connections that you concoct based on twisting of the facts and misrepresentation of reality will be the deciding factor for the independent voters?
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By all means, go ahead. I too hope that McCain brings up Ayers and Annenberg Foundation in tomorrow's debate. I'm somewhat curious how Walter Annenberg's widow who still supports McCain will react to it. Maybe McCain can help her change her mind about endorsing him.
But please keep making your character attacks instead of discussing the issues. It makes it really clear what McCain and his supporters mean when they say "Country First". I'd like to find out how many more Republicans and independents you and McCain-Palin tag team can drive from voting Republican. -
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Hansford1 year ago
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No person who yells "G.. D... America!!!", with such enthusiasm and so vigorously dancing around with such fervor, is a Patriot. NO. Whether he served in the military, or not, he is NOT a Patriot. And many of the things Wright said in that so-called church, were nothing more than hate-mongering. All this crap about taking things "out of context", is just that: CRAP. It sure as heck was not Christianity he was yelling.
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prater56001 year ago
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Just wondering:
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Are you people posting all this stuff about Obama because you really think it will turn undecided or swing voters to McCain? Or is it because you like to preach to the choir?
I just don't get it. All indicators are that McCain's negative attacks are hurting his campaign. Why won't he discuss the current issues?
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k9kssr1 year ago
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Gee this is a funny rating system. When I rate Hyperbola negative, it gives her rants a HIGHER rating! On some that I rate positive, points are taken away. What's up with that?
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ACORN is at it again I bet, subverting on votes on blogs!!!!-
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It's simple, really, even though it does appear to be counter-intuitive. The new system doesn't always appear to increment the way you'd expect because it's returning realtime information, based upon everyone's responses, not just your own.
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It's like how a (free and fair) election works. Everyone gets to vote (but only once), and it's the aggregate of the responses that determine the results.
If when you vote you see the numbers go the other direction, it means that others are voting at the same time you are, and that more folks disagree with you than agree with you.
Democracy in action. ;)
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