Barack Obama

This is a stunning revelation of Barack Obama’s whereabouts during these trying times in the world. The Russia, Georgia, South Osettia conflict means nothing compared to this.

Obama’s real world view stymies even the most vile critics.

A Must see video!

t/b:  Hot Air,   Michelle Malkin

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John Kerry attacked the GOP along with the McCain Campaign for the ‘character assassination of Barack Obama.’  Kerry claims he is talking from experience, apparently relating  to the  Swiftboat allegations , which were never proven untrue.

Bad analogy, John.

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The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU),  a union that endorses Barack Obama in his 2008 Presidential candidacy, has negotiated with Tyson Foods  recognize a Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr instead of the traditional  American Labor Day holiday.

Employees are not happy with this stunt.

Workers at Tyson Foods’ poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day, but will instead take the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall.

From The Shelbyville Times:

A recent press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stated that a new contract at the Shelbyville facility “implements a new holiday to accommodate the … Muslim workers at the plant.”

The RWDSU stated that “the five-year contract creates an additional paid holiday, Iidal Fitil, a Muslim holiday that occurs toward the end of Ramadan.”

Eid al-Fitr falls on Oct. 1 this year.

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From The UFCW website (6/10/08):

UFCW President Joe Hansen spoke with the RWDSU Executive Board at a meeting in Washington, D.C., this morning, discussing the importance of electing Sen. Barack Obama in the presidential election, the upcoming UFCW convention in Montreal, and the issue of immigration reform.

At the meeting, the RWDSU Executive Board endorsed Obama for U.S. president, and also heard from guest speakers Congressman Steve Israel (D – NY) and Congressman Anthony D. Weiner (D – NY).

Tyson should not have sacrificed a traditional American holiday for this Muslim recognized Ramadan holiday.

t/b:  Michelle Malkin,  Stop The ACLU
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An extraordinary synopsis of Barack’s Flip Flops on Iraq. Watch the whole thing and learn about Obama’s ever changing positions.

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Glow Fading?
McCain’s ahead if Newsweek calls it a draw. Newsweeks’ polls always lean heavily toward the Democrats.

A month after emerging victorious from the bruising Democratic nominating contest, some of Barack Obama’s glow may be fading. In the latest NEWSWEEK Poll, the Illinois senator leads Republican nominee John McCain by just 3 percentage points, 44 percent to 41 percent. The statistical dead heat is a marked change from last month’s NEWSWEEK Poll, where Obama led McCain by 15 points, 51 percent to 36 percent.

The liberal MSM can’t hide Obama’s decline in the polls. Arrogance won’t help Obama.

Meanwhile the Rasmussen Daily tracking Poll for July 13th finds the race dead even at 46%.

For the second straight day, the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows that the race for the White House is tied. Sunday’s numbers show Barack Obama and John McCain each attracting 43% of the vote. When “leaners” are included, the two candidates are tied at 46%. For most of the past month-and-a-half, Obama has led McCain by approximately five percentage points. It will take a few more days to determine whether this recent tightening of the race reflects real change or is merely statistical noise. (see recent daily results). Tracking Polls are released at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time each day

t/b: Hot Air

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The Obama campaign is covering and refusing to produce an actual birth certificate proving Barack’s United States citizenship. The more the campaign backpedals on disclosure the more suspicious many become. The question is does Barack Obama have something to hide?

From The Israeli Insider:

Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fake Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same Daily Kos blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears.

The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider’s revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the diligent detective work of independent investigative journalists (led by JimJ and Texas Darling) and imaging professionals such as Polarik in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate The Daily Kos, a “progressive” blog site, and the Obama campaign’s “Fight the Smears” website, in misleading the public with official-looking but manipulated document images of doubtful provenance. Moreover, the blog and the campaign have been negligent in allowing the promotion of obviously forged and fake official documents together with the purported image of Obama’s birth certificate.

The Kossacks are implicated in this and presented phony Hawaiian birth certificate for Obama.

The blog entry, posted by the site founder Kos (Markos Moulitsas), is presented as a response to a request by Jim Geraghty of the National Review Online, who had, three days before, called for the Obama campaign to release the candidate’s birth certificate:

Having done some Obama-rumor debunking that got praise from Daily Kos (a sign of the apocalypse, no doubt), perhaps the Obama campaign could return the favor and help debunk a bunch of others with a simple step: Could they release a copy of his birth certificate?
Reporters have asked for it and been denied, and the state of Hawaii does not make such records public [...]

So Kos aka Moulitsas goes out and gets one. One impressed commenter on the site asks Kos where he got it. He answers:
“I asked the campaign. This ‘journamalism [sic] thing actually works sometimes.”

But why would a presidential campaign that has its own “Fight the Smears” website rely on a radical left-wing blog like Daily Kos to post its official documents, especially one as sensitive and controversial as a birth certificate? A few days later the Obama site would post a very low resolution, barely legible image — it still is there on the site, with no reference to the one first posted at the Daily Kos.

Yet the service of Daily Kos to the Obama campaign raises some questions: Who in the campaign would be authorized to release a personal document of Barack Obama’s birth certificate? Was it a paper document that they sent to Kos to scan, or did the Obama campaign scan the original and send it to Kos? If so, why not just post it on the Fight the Smears site? Or is there another possible source for the document? There is no documentation of the provenance of this image, from whom and why it was transmitted to Daily Kos, and in which format. None, that is, except for the say-so of Markos Moulitsas, who said he simply asked the Obama campaign for it.

The perceived unreliability of the image has provoked petitions and widespread demands for Obama to submit for objective inspection the paper versions of the “birth certificate” he claimed in his book Dreams from My Father was in his possession, as well as the paper version of the Certificate of Live Birth for which the image on the Daily Kos and the Obama “Fight the Smears” website was supposedly generated.

Without a valid birth certificate, the primary record of US birth, Obama cannot prove that he fulfills the “natural born citizen” requirement of the Constitution, throwing into doubt his eligibility to run for President and throwing the race into turmoil. His presumed Kenyan-born father was foreign-born, and his mother was too young at the time of birth to confer natural born status by virtue of her American citizenship. Thus his citizenship comes down to proving he was born in the USA, and his campaign has staked its credibility on the authenticity of the Daily Kos-derived birth certificate image. (These aspects of the case are covered extensively in the previous article in this series.)

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…the Obama campaign, three weeks later, continues to run a derivative of the Daily Kos posts, and insists on its authenticity while refusing to submit any paper proof of birth for official or independent inspection, as if proof of Constitutional fitness to serve is of no consequence.

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Thank God for bloggers. Obama won’t escape this unless he produces the physical certificate he claims to have.

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The “Comeback Kid” has transformed to the Fade-away Fool.

Bill Clinton has lost his luster with the MSM and Liberals. The “First Black President” is experiencing a scathing tell-all article written by Dee Dee Myers’ husband Todd Purdum. Dee Dee was Bill Clinton’s first Press Secretary when Bill could do no wrong.

Now the Liberal Media has a new “fair haired boy” with Barack Obama. The Clintons will be thrown off to the side of the road with no fear of retribution. Bill and Hillary have lost their power in the Democrat Party with her waning candidacy for President.

From the Purdum ‘Vanity Fair’ article:

Bubba Trouble

Old friends and longtime aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton’s post–White House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive) business associations to the media blowups that have bruised his wife’s campaign, to the private-jetting around with a skirt-chasing, scandal-tinged posse. Some point to Clinton’s medical traumas; others blame sheer selfishness, and the absence of anyone who can say “no.” Exploring Clintonworld, the author asks if the former president will be consumed by his own worst self.
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Clinton’s Secrets:

This winter, as Clinton moved with seeming abandon to stain his wife’s presidential campaign in the name of saving it, as disclosures about his dubious associates piled up, as his refusal to disclose the names of donors to his presidential library and foundation and his and his wife’s reluctance to release their income-tax returns created crippling and completely avoidable distractions for Hillary Clinton’s own long-suffering ambition, I found myself asking again and again, What’s the matter with him?

As I sought to answer that question for myself, in conversations with dozens of current and onetime Clinton aides, many of whom I have known all these years (Clinton himself declined to be interviewed), I realized just how much about the former president is not known, and not knowable, at the moment, mostly because of his unapologetic stonewalling. Virtually no one, except Ron Burkle, knows just what Clinton put into Burkle’s investment business, or just what he has done since to earn millions of dollars, with the prospect of reaping millions more. Most of the names of the donors who have contributed some $500 million to Clinton’s library and foundation over the past decade are not known, either. Virtually no one, except his doctors and family, knows the precise state of Clinton’s health. Virtually no one really knows what strategic role he has played in his wife’s campaign.

Two Bimbos: Monica Lewinsky and Eleanor Mondale

…in the run-up to the 1996 re-election campaign, when Clinton took one of his many fund-raising trips to California, I teasingly asked his press secretary, Mike McCurry, whether the president intended to go jogging with Eleanor Mondale, the daughter of the former vice president—as he had on a previous trip—after he was spotted with her (and Barbra Streisand) in the wee hours of the morning. The next day, as we boarded the plane at Andrews Air Force Base en route to Los Angeles, McCurry, whose effectiveness as Clinton’s spokesman was aided by the fact that he never fell in love with him, sidled up to me and told me that he had passed my question on to the president, and that Clinton had responded, in vivid terms he knew I could not print, that I should not confuse exercise with extracurricular activity.

Only much later would the world learn that no less an informed observer than Monica Lewinsky, whose judgment, in hindsight, has often seemed sounder than the president’s, had taken note of Mondale’s presence at his side. According to Andrew Morton’s authorized account Monica’s Story, Lewinsky flew into a swivet when she was once stopped at the White House gate on her way to a hoped-for meeting to deliver Christmas gifts to the president. While waiting, she learned that Mondale was with him in the White House.

“Do you think I would be stupid enough to go running with someone I was foolin’ with?,” Clinton later asked Lewinsky. Without missing a beat, she replied, “Do you want me to answer that?”

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Purdum claims that about 18 months ago, a former Clinton aide planned an intervention with the former president because he was hearing so many complaints about strange and inappropiate behavior. The aide believed “Clinton was apparently seeing a lot of women on the road.”

The aide was rebuffed by close Clinton advisors and never got to speak with him directly. The attempted intervention was not well received by either Clinton.

Purdum’s article covers eight web pages and describes Bubba truthfully … finally.

Purdum’s description of Slick’s mounting peccadillos as described by Clinton aides and “close associates” has the Clinton camp in a frenzy decrying the “inaccuracies’ of the Vanity Fair Article.
Finally after 8 plus years of scandals and lies the chickens are coming home to roost. Albeit too late…

t/b: Hot Air

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Bill Clinton Happens. Found on the Clinton Library website. Simply amazing what the press willlet slip by and just made a joke of Slicks indiscretions.

Press Briefing by Dee Dee Myers

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release June 23, 1993

PRESS BRIEFING BY DEE DEE MYERS

The Briefing Room

1:21 P.M. EDT

MS. MYERS: Class, there’s going to be detention if you don’t come to order. I have no news.

Q Thank you. (Laughter.)

Q That hasn’t stopped up before. (Laughter.)

Q There are 84 Democrats in the House who were — who want the First Lady to consider a single-payer health care system. What is the White House reaction to that?

~ snip ~

MS. MYERS: Again, we haven’t made a final decision on it.

Q What’s the deal with the red screen?

MS. MYERS: So that the — ABC and other networks would not be shooting into the Oval Office.

Q Don’t look behind the the curtain.

MS. MYERS: Don’t look, don’t –

Q Is this red screen thought to be a temporary measure until some other device can be found, or is this something that was actually selected by someone here as the thing you want to have out there?

MS. MYERS: No, no. I don’t know where it came from. It was something that existed previously in the White House and was used exclusively for this one — as the press pool was setting up in the Rose Garden and the President was in his office, just to keep people from shooting into the windows.

Q That’s going to happen again. Are you going to use this thing again?

MS. MYERS: I don’t think we have any long-term plans for it –

Q Dee Dee, how are the reviews on how it looked?

MS. MYERS: I’ll have to ask you guys that. You’re the experts on it. I mean, I didn’t shoot it. It was very –

Q It looked awful.

Q It looks like it came from a bordello. (Laughter.)Q How would you know?

Q Oooh.

MS. MYERS: He was just talking on the phone. And I think that the advance people –

Q Was he fully dressed?

MS. MYERS: Pardon me?

Q Was he fully dressed?

MS. MYERS: He was fully dressed. He was fully –

Q Well, then why would he not want to be photographed talking on the telephone?

MS. MYERS: I think it is perfectly understandable that he wants to have some privacy to sit and make a phone call. It was no big deal. And then he was talking briefly with a few aides before he stepped out. And somebody put the screen up just to keep cameras from shooting it.

Q Did he request this?

MS. MYERS: No, I don’t believe he did. I think it was done to facilitate his privacy, but not at his request.

Q Is there any decision yet when the President will get Aspin’s report on the gays in the military issue?

~ snip ~

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Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

Happy April Fools Day!

Chelsea Clinton’s standard reply for questions about her father’s behavior in office. None of your business!. It is the public’s business. Her father’s behavior in office is very much America’s business. Too bad Chelsea your a big girl now.

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A high speed Chase in two counties and four jurisdictions with nine police cars. Never steal a donut truck the cops will catch you no matter what it takes:

It sounds like a scene out of “Wayne’s World” or “Tommy Boy,” but police chased a doughnut delivery truck across Benton and Tama counties Thursday at speeds of up to 100 mph after the vehicle was reported stolen in Rock Island, Ill.Sure enough, the nine police officers from four jurisdictions caught up with the doughnuts in the parking lot of a Hardee’s restaurant in Toledo. There they arrested Frank Arthur Alvarado, 46, of Moline, Ill. Police said the truck had been stolen from Trinity Medical Hospital-West in Rock Island, where Alvarado was a patient.

They would have chased it even if it wasn’t stolen.

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