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Dobson: 189; Pew on tolerance of people of faith: 8

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:31:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: James Dobson's attack on Barack Obama was all over the news yesterday. A new Pew Survey “documenting the diversity and tolerance of people of faith and the growing consensus around issues like poverty and the environment” was mentioned only 8 times.

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

According to research done by Faith In Public Life, James Dobson’s attack on Barack Obama was mentioned a total of 189 times on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News yesterday. By comparison, a new Pew Survey “documenting the diversity and tolerance of people of faith and the growing consensus around issues like poverty and the environment” was mentioned only 8 times.

Tags: media, religion

Jon Stewart nails MSM for peddling "Baracknophobia"

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:07:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Even sillier than the myths you've already heard!

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Jon Stewart Mocks Media For Peddling Insane Obama Rumors

On Monday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart mocked the media's willingness to peddle insane rumors about Barack Obama — and their tendency to blame the rumor-mongering on internet sites. Calling it "Baracknophobia," Stewart showed clips of anchor and pundits from all three cable networks repeating baseless rumors (Muslim, plagiarist, sexist, etc.) about Barack Obama (and his wife Michelle).

The highlight of the clip comes about 2:25 in, when Stewart says, "Oh, this is interesting. SomeguyI'veneverheardof.com is reporting presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama has lady parts. Obviously scurrilous and unfounded, we'll examine it tonight in our special, 'Barack Obama's Vagina: The October Surprise In His Pants.'"

Tags: obama, humor

State of Hawaii confirms Obama birth certificate

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:45:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From Politifact.com: Hawaii Department of Health confirms it is exactly as Obama campaign represented it.

Clip Source: www.politifact.com

SUMMARY: For months we've been asking for a birth certificate to sort out rumors about Barack Obama's real name. Confirmed by the state of Hawaii, here it is.

See it for yourself here.

Shortly after we posted this document on June 12, 2008, some PolitiFact readers questioned its authenticity.

To verify we did indeed have the correct document, we contacted the Hawaii Department of Health, which maintains such records.

"It's a valid Hawaii state birth certificate," spokesman Janice Okubo said June 13, 2008, after we e-mailed her our copy.

Tags: obama, birth certificate

What's McCain tax cut worth to McCain? $373,000

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:40:39 GMT

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Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

John and Cindy McCain would reap $373,429 if McCain’s tax proposal were enacted.»

	John and Cindy McCain	Barack and Michelle Obama
Savings Under McCain Tax Plan	$373,429	$49,329
Savings Under Obama Tax Plan	$5,641	$6,124

Check out The Wonk Room for the full details, including how the McCain and Obama households fared under the Bush tax cuts.

Tags: politics, taxes

Obama bounces: now 51-36 over McCain

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:15:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: more trusted in every category; far ahead of where Kerry or Gore were at this point in campaign

Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

Barack’s Bounce

The latest NEWSWEEK Poll shows the Democrat with a 15-point lead over McCain.

A new NEWSWEEK Poll shows that he has a substantial double-digit lead, 51 percent to 36 percent, over McCain among registered voters nationwide.

In the previous NEWSWEEK Poll, completed in late May

Obama managed no better than a 46 percent tie with McCain

55 percent of all voters call themselves Democrats or say they lean toward the party while just 36 percent call themselves Republicans or lean that way

Obama is running much stronger at this point in the race than his two most recent Democratic predecessors, Sen. John Kerry and Vice President Al Gore

Kerry led Bush by only 6 points

Gore was in a dead heat with Bush

Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

Women voters in the new poll prefer him over McCain by 21 points

Democratic leaners who supported Clinton during the primaries now favor Obama over McCain by 69 percent to 18 percent

Registered independents

backing him by a 48 percent to 36 percent

economy and jobs

54 percent to 29 percent

Tags: elections, politics, obama, mccain

Texas GOP convention vendor highlights Obama's race

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:32:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wonder why they'd do that?

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

In other campaign news, the Texas Republican Party is coming under criticism for allowing the sale of racist pins at last week’s convention. One vendor was selling a pin that read “If Obama is President…will we still call it the White House?”

Tags: race, racism, politics

Sen. Obama, please don't be McCain on Iran!

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:55:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Face the absence of evidence of nuclear weapons, and call out McCain on following the WMD-scare George Bush followed with Iraq.

Clip Source: www.lonestaricon.com

Iran stopped researching nuclear weapons in 2003.

The U.S. intelligence community knows this.

The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency knows this.

The international community knows this.

If Iran researched nuclear weapons in secret until March 2004 as documents allege, the IAEA will investigate the matter with due diligence.

And if Iran is caught red-handed, she will comply with the IAEA processes accordingly.

In the meantime, as the Democratic nominee for U.S. president, Obama must change his tune from that of his Republican adversary Sen. John McCain on this issue.

Obama must say that McCain is lying about Iran just like the Bush administration lied about Iraq.

Neither Republican has any proof either Middle Eastern country has nuclear weapons.

Iran is smarter than to launch a nuclear strike on Israel anyway because the Jewish state would retaliate with her own secret nuclear arsenal.

Tags: obama, mccain

Obama fills sandbags; McCain fills moneybags

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:34:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Reminds me of Katrina, when Bush and McCain ate birthday cake beside Air Force One in Arizona while the Gulf Coast drowned.

Clip Source: www.dailykos.com

Disaster struck the midwest last week as flood waters shattered previous records, drowning crops and putting tens of thousands of people out of their homes. The full effects of the flood will be felt nationwide as gas prices could increase another 15% and food prices could increase another 25 - 30%. No doubt, this would be a serious issue for an aspiring presidential candidate. Obama answered the call this weekend, touring the hard hit areas, rolling up his sleeves to fill sandbags, and taking action with local leaders.

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Obama's camp also began putting out an urgent, nationwide plea to help flood victims -- making it the front page headline on his website:

And how did John McCain react? He was busy rolling up his sleeves -- filling up moneybags at a California "finance event."

What was featured on John McCain's website over the weekend?

Tags: obama, mccain, katrina, floods

Gore: Obama more experienced than Kennedy, Jefferson, Madison

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:56:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Regarding experience, after citing Kennedy (2 yrs younger), he continues: “To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution..."

Clip Source: cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com

Gore endorses Obama, warns ‘elections matter’

urging Americans to reject what he called the Bush administration’s legacy of “incompetence, negligence and failure

Gore took direct aim at criticism by some that the 46-year-old freshman senator from Illinois lacks the experience necessary for the job by citing similar criticisms of John F. Kennedy, who was two years younger than Obama is now when he took the oath of office in 1961.

“To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution and Christopher Columbus from even discovering America,” said Gore, who lost to George W. Bush in the bitterly fought 2000 contest.

Tags: obama, politics, gore

Middle class taxes: Obama plan cuts three times more than McCain

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:00:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Non-partisan Tax Policy Center: Families making between $37,595 and $66,354 of annual income with Obama would get an average tax cut of $1,042 per family while McCain’s tax cut for this group would be $319. But the rich guys, now, that's another matter.

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

According to a non-partisan analysis of the presidential candidates’ tax plans, Barack Obama “offers three times the break for middle class families” than proposals of John McCain, who “would steer the bulk of the benefits to the wealthiest families”:

Families making between $37,595 and $66,354 of annual income with Obama would get an average tax cut of $1,042 per family while McCain’s tax cut for this group would be $319

The Wonk Room has more on the study by the Tax Policy Center.

UPDATE: In 2001, McCain said of the Bush tax cuts: “I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief.” McCain is now proposing tax cuts that are more regressive than the Bush tax cuts.

Tags: taxes, politics

White Supremacists Cheer Obama

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:12:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Convinced that all will see the inferiority of non-white people if Obama is elected. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Maybe Affirmative Action boosted him to the top of his Harvard Law class. Maybe it suppressed unfortunate McCain to the bottom of his US Naval Academy class.

Clip Source: www.splcenter.org

President Obama? Many White Supremacists are Celebrating

With the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate clinched, large sections of the white supremacist movement are adopting a surprising attitude: Electing America’s first black president would be a very good thing.

It’s not that the assortment of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, anti-Semites and others who make up this country’s radical right have suddenly discovered that a man should be judged based on the content of his character, not his skin. On the contrary. A growing number of white supremacists, and even some of those who pass for intellectual leaders of their movement, think that a black man in the Oval Office would shock white America, possibly drive millions to their cause, and perhaps even set off a race war that, they hope, would ultimately end in Aryan victory.

“He will make things so bad for white people that

they will finally realize how stupid they were for admiring these jigaboos

Tags: obama, race, racism

Fox apologizes 3rd time; No "whitey" video exists

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:24:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Oops, we did it again.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Fox forced to apologise to Obama for third time in two weeks

Rupert Murdoch's Fox News television station has been forced to apologise to Barack Obama for the third time in a fortnight after screening a racially tinged caption referring to his wife Michelle as his "baby mama".

Bill Shine, senior vice president of programming at Fox, said

a producer "exercised poor judgment"

The term is slang for a woman who has a baby with a man who is neither her partner nor boyfriend

Obama established a website

debunking a persistent rumour that there is a video showing her speaking from the pulpit of the Trinity church in Chicago in which she allegedly refers to whites as "whitey". He said she had never spoken at Trinity or used such a phrase.

just over a week after

Obama, in a show of affection, lightly touched his fist against Michelle's and the anchorwoman referred to it as a "terrorist fist jab".

Previously, a Fox contributor Liz Trotta had to apologise after making a joke about Obama being assassinated.

Tags: obama, elections

Secret Bush-Iraq security agreement faltering

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:29:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Iraqi lawmakers say the Bush administration is demanding concessions that are unacceptable, among them: dozens of semi-permanent bases from which U.S. forces can launch missions with no prior consent from Iraq's government; complete immunity for U.S. troops and security contractors; control of Iraq's air space; and no guarantees the United States will defend Iraq against a foreign attack."

Clip Source: www.mcclatchydc.com

U.S. security talks with Iraq in trouble in Baghdad and D.C.

A proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that would set the conditions for a defense alliance and long-term U.S. troop presence appears increasingly in trouble, facing growing resistance from the Iraqi government, bipartisan opposition in Congress and strong questioning from Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

The U.S. is apparently scaling back some of its demands, including backing off one that particularly incenses Iraqis, blanket immunity for private security contractors.

On Capitol Hill, top Democrats and Republicans complain that Bush is rushing the negotiations to try to tie his successor's hands.

Some Iraqi parliamentarians are now saying that Iraq has a third option besides extending the U.N. mandate or agreeing to the proposed Status of Forces Agreement: telling the Americans to go home.

"It seems from the draft

that the Americans have something else in their mind

Tags: iraq, war

92% of max Bush contributors not giving now; Iraq concern

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:51:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "I always considered myself a Republican, primarily because of a belief in smaller government. And if you want a smaller government, you don’t want wars — especially wars that can be avoided."

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Citing Iraq opposition, former Bush donors are reluctant to donate to McCain.»

A CQ analysis shows that only about 8 percent of the 62,800 donors who gave the maximum contribution of $2,000 to Bush in 2004 had given to McCain as of April 30. Moreover, at least 46 of Bush’s 2004 donors have contributed significantly to both Obama and Clinton but are not listed as McCain donors. One, a lifelong Republican who donated $2,000 to Bush in 2004, said that he will not donate to McCain because of the senator’s fervent support of the Iraq war:

I always considered myself a Republican, primarily because of a belief in smaller government. And if you want a smaller government, you don’t want wars — especially wars that can be avoided.

Tags: bush, republicans, politics

McCain supports Obama on Wright [37 sec]

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:32:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Remarkable, gracious words; Bravo, McCain!

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

John McCain Supports Barack Obama on Reverend Wright Issue

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Tags: mccain, obama, wright