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<?xml-stylesheet href="/style/rss/rss_feed.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="/style/rss/rss_feed.css" type="text/css" media="screen" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Clipmarks | merrie's OBAMA collection</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/clipcast/OBAMA/</link><feedUrl>http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/clipcast/OBAMA/</feedUrl><ttl>15</ttl><description>Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!</description><language>en-us</language><item><title>GLEN BECK Loan the Money or be called Racist</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/89BAE34B-B3F5-4054-9B76-5A1B5069B601/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/chestnut501/"&gt;chestnut501&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  A Familiar Theme? Isn't this called Blackmail? &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tb69odI_RY" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tb69odI_RY"&gt;www.youtube.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Video]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tb69odI_RY</clipSource><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:43:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Here's The List Of Rules... [and still growing]</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5564B5F3-DF23-4F23-8FBC-CA305474DE1F/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  It started out we just couldn't talk about his ears.&lt;br/&gt;Now we can't say anything about him. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051608/content/01125112.guest.html" title="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051608/content/01125112.guest.html"&gt;www.rushlimbaugh.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/71043FDC-AAD9-41DD-9A4E-B608660FCA1F.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt; With Obama we started out, we couldn't talk about his big ears 'cause that made him nervous.  We've gone from that to this:  Not only can we not mention his ears...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;We can't talk about his mother.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;We can't talk about his father. &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;IMG border="0" align="right" src="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051608/content/01125112.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg" /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;We can't talk about his grandmother unless he does, brings her up as a "typical white person." &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;We can't talk about his wife, can't talk about his preacher, can't talk about his terrorist friends, can't talk about his voting record, can't talk about his religion.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;We can't talk about appeasement. &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;We can't talk about color; we can't talk about lack of color.  &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;We can't talk about race.  We can't talk about bombers and mobsters who are his friends.  We can't talk about schooling.  We can't talk about his name, "Hussein."  &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;We can't talk about his lack of experience.  Can't talk about his income.  Can't talk about his flag pin.  &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;This started out we can't call him a liberal.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag"&gt;obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051608/content/01125112.guest.html</clipSource><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 07:11:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama Owns Appeasement</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5581313A-9BC6-42F6-99D8-29DA0F738B7D/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Update: Newt Gingrich calls this a study in guilt:&lt;br/&gt;Instead, he got volcanically defensive, which suggests that even Obama sees the parallels between his everything’s-on-the-table approach and the Chamberlain diplomacy which resulted in dismantling Czechoslovakia.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;And if Obama considers discussion of foreign policy “divisive”, then he should hide himself right back to Academia. Guess what, Senator? Presidential elections focus on foreign-policy principles, and if you can’t defend yours, then you have no business running for office. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/16/rookie-mistakes-again-obama-owns-appeasement/" title="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/16/rookie-mistakes-again-obama-owns-appeasement/"&gt;hotair.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;George Bush seems to have really rattled Barack Obama and the Democratic Party with his speech yesterday in the Israeli Knesset.  Rather than ignoring Bush’s argument against appeasement, or adopting it, Barack Obama has declared that Bush intended his denunciation of appeasement as an attack on his campaign, even though Bush never even mentioned the nationality of modern appeasers in his speech.  Obama &lt;A href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_on_el_pr/obama_bush"&gt;lashed out&lt;/A&gt; in a speech today, calling Bush’s rhetoric “appalling”:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt; Bush wasn’t referring to American politicians in this passage, but instead politicians in Europe and elsewhere who have either an animus towards Israel or appreciation for dhimmitude.  Nothing — and I mean &lt;EM&gt;nothing&lt;/EM&gt; — in this speech points to any candidate or the Democratic Party, &lt;STRONG&gt;unless they identify themselves as the reference&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Obama could have taken the smart route and embraced it to explain how he understands the lessons of appeasement, which is why his talks with Iran would not result in it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Video]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bush/" rel="tag"&gt;bush&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/israeli+knesset/" rel="tag"&gt;israeli knesset&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag"&gt;obama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/democratic+party/" rel="tag"&gt;democratic party&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/16/rookie-mistakes-again-obama-owns-appeasement/</clipSource><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 10:27:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Barack Obama’s Priority: Global Poverty Act $845Billion Carbon Tax</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/D0E7D099-FBD7-433B-AA0B-CC4F60C22FFE/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  If that wasn’t enough to enlighten most of us to Barack Obama’s real agenda, let’s take a look at another part of the United Nations Millennium declaration,this time in reference to &lt;b&gt;gun control.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It seems to me, his first priority is not the people of America, what we need is &lt;i&gt;a President of the United States, one who will stand for the rights of our citizens&lt;/i&gt;, even if it is against the global interests of the United Nations. &lt;br/&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://myviewmytake.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/barack-obamas-african-priority-global-poverty-act/" title="http://myviewmytake.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/barack-obamas-african-priority-global-poverty-act/"&gt;myviewmytake.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt; I am all for fighting poverty, but what I have found suggests they are willing to go beyond fighting poverty.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Senator Barack Obama is the main sponsor of &lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-2433"&gt;Senate Bill S.2433,&lt;/A&gt; commonly called the Global Poverty Act.  Sounds good, doesn’t it.  Like I said, I am all for fighting poverty and I am sure most everyone else is, as well.  What I am not for is putting the interests of the United States in second place in the fight on poverty.  Let’s look at some of the provisions of this bill.  The following statements come from &lt;A target="_blank" href="http://obama.senate.gov/press/071211-obama_hagel_can/"&gt;Barack Obama’s Senate website.&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;B&gt;The Global Poverty Act:&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;On the surface, this all sounds good.  However, when you look at what the bill actually requires the United States to do to meet these requirements, it starts to smell like there is something rotten in Denmark&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;If you read the United Nations Millennium Declaration, you will find what they really want the United States to do.  Again, from the Accuracy In Media article:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/global+poverty+act/" rel="tag"&gt;global poverty act&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/s.2433/" rel="tag"&gt;s.2433&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag"&gt;obama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/%24845+billion+global+tax/" rel="tag"&gt;$845 billion global tax&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/united+nations/" rel="tag"&gt;united nations&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/kyoto/" rel="tag"&gt;kyoto&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/gun+control/" rel="tag"&gt;gun control&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://myviewmytake.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/barack-obamas-african-priority-global-poverty-act/</clipSource><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 01:26:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The New “Hip-Hop Pastor”, Same Old Message</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5204B90E-741B-4D58-8786-8D19B475D92A/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  But a videotape of a sermon he delivered at Wright’s church shows this “wonderful young pastor” referring to “ghetto prophets” and “thug theology,” calling the late rapper Tupac Shakur a “prophet,” and reciting at length lyrics to Shakur’s song “Thugz Mansion.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;In an interview last month with National Public Radio, Moss refused to distance himself from claims by Wright that the U.S. government was involved in distributing illegal drugs to minorities.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;In his Easter sermon, Moss said Wright was “lynched” by the international media, and compared Wright to Jesus. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Replacement_Obama_Pastor_/2008/05/07/94285.html" title="http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Replacement_Obama_Pastor_/2008/05/07/94285.html"&gt;www.newsmax.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;TABLE width="240" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right" id="article_image" class="article_image_spacer"&gt;
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                        New Trinity pastor Otis Moss has called Biblical patriarch Abraham a “pimp” and made other statements many would consider offensive. 


                        
                        
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					&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;			Barack Obama has finally distanced himself from Rev. Jeremiah Wright after a 20-year relationship, but the pastor who is replacing Wright at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ is likely to be just as controversial&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;New Trinity pastor Otis Moss has called Biblical patriarch Abraham a “pimp” and made other statements many would consider offensive.
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&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;After Obama called Wright’s comments “divisive and destructive,” a questioner noted that Rev. Moss has defended Wright and asked if Obama would continue attending the church.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;“Well, the new pastor, the young pastor, Reverend Otis Moss, is a wonderful young pastor,” Obama responded. “And as I said, I still very much value the Trinity community.”
&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Moss, the 37-year-old “hip-hop pastor,” as he’s called by congregants, will become head of Trinity in June, after serving as an assistant pastor there for two years.
&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/trinity+united+church+of+christ/" rel="tag"&gt;trinity united church of christ&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/rev+otis+moss+iii/" rel="tag"&gt;rev otis moss iii&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/%e2%80%9chip-hop+pastor%22/" rel="tag"&gt;“hip-hop pastor"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Replacement_Obama_Pastor_/2008/05/07/94285.html</clipSource><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:46:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mortal-Light's Favourite Photos</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/18E2121B-AB8B-4AC4-ACD7-04209EFD2FAC/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/carrerinyes/"&gt;carrerinyes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Could be mine too! &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://mortal-light.stumbleupon.com/" title="http://mortal-light.stumbleupon.com/"&gt;mortal-light.stumbleupon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DT&gt;&lt;SPAN class="right mgnLeft textNoEm textSuccess"&gt;Last login: 3 hours ago&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class="textLg"&gt;Mortal-Light&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DT&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/carrerinyes/512/2649F271-D7B1-435F-9D28-4902C8D3110C.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DT class="nomargin"&gt;
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										&lt;/DT&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/carrerinyes/512/53D05605-BB17-4E8F-8270-32FB83183359.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/carrerinyes/512/85DE6A5A-C824-46AE-9194-CD9B1C02DE5F.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/carrerinyes/512/19D0EBE7-1360-4B9D-BE2E-F8B694A21FC3.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/carrerinyes/512/FFFFECEF-0F81-4478-BAFD-303C958EBE0D.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/carrerinyes/512/F2D6815A-EEEC-4A6B-A9B4-BF182BA14644.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://mortal-light.stumbleupon.com/</clipSource><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:57:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Illusion That Is Barack Obama</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/EEBF3245-40F3-4EA3-A6B9-CF26EBD9DE8B/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  For all his Camelot-like rhetoric, Obama is a product, in significant measure, of the political culture that Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass described as "The Chicago Way"&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;At no point did Obama, the would-be saviour of US politics, challenge this corruption, except for face-saving gestures as a legislator.&lt;br/&gt;Emil Jones, the machine-made president of the Senate, allowed him to sponsor a minor ethics bill. In return, Obama made sure to send plenty of pork to Jones's district. When asked about pork-barrel spending, Jones famously replied: "Some call it pork; I call it steak." Obama repaid the generosity. When he had a chance to back clean Democratic candidates for president of the Cook County board of supervisors and Illinois governor, he stayed with the allies of the Outfit.&lt;br/&gt;In the Illinois Senate, he made a specialty of voting present. &lt;br/&gt;Obama is such a down-the-line partisan that,  in the past two years he has voted with the Democrats more often than did the party's majority lea &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23643866-5013948,00.html" title="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23643866-5013948,00.html"&gt;www.theaustralian.news.com.au&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;He engages in doubletalk when, on free trade and Iraq, he tells the yokels one thing and the policy people another. He overstates when he presents his minimal accomplishments in the Illinois Senate as proof of his stature. He engages in systematic deception when he says he doesn't take money from lobbyists. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;All of this is unappealing, but also unexceptional&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;And because his deeds are so few, the disparity is all the more salient&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;He wants to be the conscience of the country without necessarily having one himself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;But Chicago, until recently a city of Lithuanians, blacks and Poles governed by Irishmen on the patronage model of the Italian Christian Democrats, is the city of political and cultural tribalism. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Blacks adapted to the tribalism and the corrupt patronage politics that accompanied it. Historically, one of the ironies of Chicago politics is that the clean-government candidates have been the most racist, while those most open to black aspirations have been the most corrupt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag"&gt;obama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/votine+record/" rel="tag"&gt;votine record&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/chicago/" rel="tag"&gt;chicago&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/corruption/" rel="tag"&gt;corruption&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/avery/" rel="tag"&gt;avery&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/wright/" rel="tag"&gt;wright&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/rezko/" rel="tag"&gt;rezko&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23643866-5013948,00.html</clipSource><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 09:55:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama Campaign Introduces Customized Lapel Pins</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/651012DC-6E5E-4FC3-BFED-3B64EB27C4E7/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Update:  It's just been announced that two superdelegates from the Virgin Islands have pledged support for Obama, giving him his first-ever superdelegate lead over Clinton.  Interesting timing, no? &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You scratch my back, I grant you statehood.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Handcrafted by Flip at 07:49 PM | Permalink |  &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2008/05/obama-campaign.html" title="http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2008/05/obama-campaign.html"&gt;www.suitablyflip.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/F843EE0E-92C9-422F-B15C-655BC5A3A773.jpg" alt="Pin_3" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;In celebration of his having &lt;A href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/barack-obama-wa.html"&gt;traveled to an impressive 57 states&lt;/A&gt; in his bid for the Presidency (and to finally put to rest the notion that he abhors patriotic accessories), Barack Obama's campaign has introduced a custom line of American flag lapel pins.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Video]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Get yours today and show your support for the least senile candidate in the race!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Let's all give a warm, manifestly destined welcome to what I assume are our 7 newest states:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;51.  Puerto Rico&lt;BR /&gt;52.  Guam&lt;BR /&gt;53.  Northern Mariana&lt;BR /&gt;54.  American Samoa&lt;BR /&gt;55.  St. Croix&lt;BR /&gt;56.  St. Thomas&lt;BR /&gt;57.  St. John&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;I guess we should've seen this coming when Obama was reported to be &lt;A href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/25/obama-hits-st-thomas-meets-with-governor-unofficially/"&gt;meeting unofficially with the Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands&lt;/A&gt; when he took his family on "vacation" to St. Thomas.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;(HT: &lt;A href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/09/obama-i-want-to-be-president-of-all-57-states/"&gt;Hot Air&lt;/A&gt;)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/lapel+pins/" rel="tag"&gt;lapel pins&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama+campaign/" rel="tag"&gt;obama campaign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2008/05/obama-campaign.html</clipSource><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 09:11:13 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>