Why Barack Obama Lied Tonight in South Carolina

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Why Barack Obama Lied Tonight in South Carolina by Shipjack on the Daily Kos

Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III Endorses Hillary for President

"Over the course of the past year, I have given careful consideration to the varied perspectives and agendas of the 2008 Presidential Candidates. I have observed, evaluated, and compared each of their strengths in the context of the current state of our nation and what will be required in the next 4 years to help us repair, restore and rebuild.

I, too, join countless Americans in a collective desire for change, and I do so with a vital recognition that change and experience are not mutually exclusive. The rhetoric of change in which we are presently engaged must also be accompanied by the experience and ability necessary to successfully and resourcefully accomplish it. Experience is not synonymous with status quo nor should it be vilified for the sake of campaign soundbites. With experience, comes the value of lessons learned. With experience, comes proficiency and understanding. With the right experience, comes change. Thus, I have not based my decision on the idea that I must embrace one over the other. I have instead based my decision on the candidate whom I believe will effectively use both - change and experience - to lead our nation to a place of domestic and international prosperity.

After thoughtful deliberation, I am decidedly confident that Senator Hillary Clinton is the candidate best suited to be the Democratic Presidential Nominee and the next President of the United States. I have personally had a positive working relationship with Senator Clinton for a number of years. In her current position as United States Senator from New York, she has also been very supportive of Abyssinian Baptist Church's development work in Harlem. Thus, I have seen first-hand the wisdom, insight and concern she brings in her approach to community development, educational and developmental opportunities for youth, and economic revitalization, as well as tirelessly advocating for families, promoting health care reform, and fighting the global HIV/AIDS crisis.

I believe that we can benefit greatly from the value of Senator Clinton's 30-plus years of service to our country that have uniquely positioned her to be a formidable leader on issues including homeland and national security, human rights, and restoration of our national image before an international audience. Her willingness to examine the issues and listen to the questions and concerns of everyday Americans is encouraging. Her proven ability to effectively work across both party and geographic boundaries towards solutions to our country's problems and needs substantially distinguishes her from other candidates.

I go on record as endorsing Senator Clinton for the 2008 Presidential Election. As a nation, we cannot afford four more years of uninspired and uninspiring leadership. In our quest for change, it's time that we returned to the fundamentals - experience, ability, respect, character. It's time for Senator Hillary Clinton."

~ Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III.

Supporting Hillary Clinton for President: Our Faith is Our Strength

"For many of us the golden rule calls on us to act."
~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

Dear Anonymous and the Barack Obama Fan Club,
You are for Barack Obama and I am for Hillary Clinton.

I have no apologies or regrets for supporting Hillary Clinton for President and as you can see, we are winning.

The great living legend of African American poetry, Ma Maya Angelou, consummate music genius Quincy Jones the "Dude", Earvin "Magic" Johnson, rapper 50 cent, the majority of the certified African American ministers supporting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for President are right there in God's own country and if they believe that she has it more than Senator Barack Hussein Obama, then I am in the right direction in my total support for her.


"What I [saw] in her was clearly a very good searching and clear mind.
She was already a little brain child, a budding intellectual, I would say. So her interest in my ministry and my version of the gospel and the Christian faith was to some extent intellectual. She would come up after one of our sessions and talk to me about a fine point about something I had said."
~ Rev. Don Jones on Senator Hillary Clinton and he took her to meet Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1962.

On Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton said:
"Well, I'm going to stay focused on where I am right now. I'm an admirer of his; I campaigned for him; I raised money for him... I am a very big admirer of his, and I think the sky is the limit for him -- in the future. [Laughs.]"
~ From Nigerian Times International

NEWSWEEK: COVER: 'The Party's Over'

20 Jan 2008 17:52 Africa/Lagos

NEWSWEEK: COVER: 'The Party's Over'

"In early 2008, by nearly every measure, the Republican Party is in trouble," says Former Bush Advisor, Michael Gerson.

Newsweek on: The Future of The GOP in Bush's Shadow and an Exclusive Excerpt of Jacob Weisberg's 'The Bush Tragedy.'

Michelle Obama: 'The Closer' for African-American Votes and Concern for Her Family's Safety.

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ --

"President Bush has left the GOP in a precarious state. But the party's candidates can learn much from his failures," Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas writes in the opening essay of the January 28 issue of Newsweek. "It is too late to reinvent the party's core beliefs," Thomas writes. "But the GOP candidates can embark on a more humble mission: to show, in effect, some humility. By examining Bush's hubris, his almost willful disregard for annoying counterarguments, the Republican candidates can demonstrate a greater level of critical open-mindedness and self-awareness -- they can show that they are not deluded by wishful thinking and Manichaean narratives." Newsweek reports that a dispirited Republican Party struggles to find its post-Bush path.


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Michael Gerson, the former senior advisor and speechwriter to President Bush, writes in the January 28 issue "The Party's Over" (on newsstands Monday, January 21) that, "In early 2008, by nearly every measure, the Republican Party is in trouble." He says that, "Republicans in the House and Senate have been exiled from leadership and are retiring in large numbers. Fund-raising -- the most tangible measure of enthusiasm -- is weak. In the first three quarters of 2007, Democratic presidential candidates out-raised their Republican counterparts by $77 million. One adviser to a major Republican campaign recently complained to me that a significant number of wealthy donors on their fund-raising list were giving to...Barack Obama."


Gerson continues, "The party became closely identified with President Bush -- and President Bush became closely identified with Iraqi violence and chaos. The slow response to rising sectarian conflict in 2005 and 2006 left an impression of stubbornness in a losing cause," he writes. "Now the frustrations of the last two or three years -- the resentments of every group that has felt ignored, marginalized, helpless, slighted or unfairly blamed -- are being taken out on the Republican presidential candidates. As each one of them steps forward from the crowd, he is greeted by ideological sniping."


Also part of the cover package, Newsweek excerpts Slate editor in chief Jacob Weisberg's new book 'The Bush Tragedy.' In which he explores all the factors that contributed to President George W. Bush's downfall from his family to his circle of political advisors. "Bush thought his father lacked a grand doctrine," Weisberg writes. "His greatest failures have come from trying to craft one."


And as part of its ongoing election 2008 coverage, Newsweek's National Correspondent Allison Samuels sat down with presidential candidate Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, known within the Obama camp as 'The Closer.' Samuels reports that as the race for the Democratic nomination turns to South Carolina and other Southern states, Campaign Obama is counting on Michelle to become the point person and close the deal with African-American voters.


Samuels reports that as the wife of the first African-American to stand a good chance of becoming president, Michelle Obama is understandably nervous about her husband's safety -- especially since last May, when the campaign began receiving threatening letters and he was assigned Secret Service agents. Michelle says she gets lots of questions from African-Americans -- especially older ones who remember the assassinations of King and Malcolm X -- concerned about the safety of her husband, herself and their two girls, Malia, 9, and Sasha, 6. "I tell people something bad could happen, and I think about that. How could you not?" she tells Newsweek. "But something great could happen as well."


As an African-American, David Mack, a representative in the South Carolina State Legislature who is a Clinton supporter acknowledges that "there's an element of racial pride associated with what he's doing." And as a result, "a lot of blacks are still torn. That's why there's still such a large block of undecided black voters."


Samuels reports that wooing those undecided is a significant part of Michelle's job, especially in South Carolina, where some 10 percent of voters have told pollsters they haven't yet picked a candidate. "She has family there and roots there," says the Obama campaign aide. Michelle believes that "the most important message we can send out is to show that we are a solid family with love and respect for one another. So many times you don't see that in the African-American community." By talking openly about such issues, Michelle Obama may well help that solid family move to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Samuels writes.


Also part of Newsweek's January 28 issue:

-- Senior Political Correspondent Howard Fineman writes that presidential
candidates blew through Las Vegas "like conventioneers" in search of
the big score in the Nevada caucuses. But as "one of America's fastest-
growing metro areas, Las Vegas is now also the leader in mortgage
foreclosures..." he writes. Yet, the question remains "who has the
right cards to deal with it?"

-- Newsweek's political team reports that for the 2008 presidential
candidates, getting elected may be the easy part -- a sluggish economy,
an ailing health-care system, an immigration mess, the environment and
foreign policy -- the next president's got issues. In a series of short
pieces, they lay out the challenges the next president will face.

-- Contributing Editor Ellis Cose writes that "the angry tone of the
campaigns reflected not just the tightening of the race, but also
something considerably more emotional: the feeling of many supporters
of both candidates [Clinton and Obama] that this campaign is about
making history and that the other candidate stands in the way." Cose,
however, adds that few people he has spoken to thought race or gender
would be the determining factor.


(Read entire cover package at www.Newsweek.com)

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96527 - Evan Thomas 'In the Shadow of Bush'

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96377 - Michael Gerson 'Why My Party Lost Its Way'


http://www.newsweek.com/id/96372 - Book Excerpt by Jacob Weisberg


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The January 28 issue of NEWSWEEK (on newsstands January 21), "The Party's Over" examines the GOP's future in the shadow of Bush. Michael Gerson on how the GOP has unraveled, an excerpt from Jacob Weisberg's "The Bush Tragedy," and a series of essays laying out the challenges the next President will face. Plus: Michelle Obama on her role in the campaign and her husband's safety; the annual Oscar roundtable; Moqtada al-Sadr's makeover; a letter to the rich; finding meaning in each mouthful; and tips on how to lead a happy life. (PRNewsFoto/NEWSWEEK) NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES 01/20/2008

Beyond Nevada: Beware of Barack Obama

Beyond Nevada: Beware of Barack Obama
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“¿Cómo-Se-Llama?” or “What’s-His-Name?,”

~ Dolores Huerta, farm-worker heroine whilst talking to reporters why the Latinos supported Hillary Clinton to win the Nevada Caucuses Saturday, January 19, 2007.

Hillary Clinton won and she was quite humble about it.

Barack Obama is a bad loser.

I doubt whether he is truly a Democrat or just trying to take the Democrats for a ride to fulfill his ego-centric African American Dream to become the first black president of the United States.

He lies that he is a "Uniter", but was privy to a Memo to blackmail the Clintons as "racist" in South Carolina and has divided the Democratic Party into blacks for Obama and blacks against the Clintons.

I am a black African and I read the malicious Memo, signed by the Obama camp in South Carolina. They even lied that Bill Clinton was disrespecting Nelson Mandela of South Africa. I was involved in the mobilization of the African National Congress (ANC) during the anti-Apartheid struggle, and if anyone is disrespecting Nelson Mandela or black leaders, I would be able to tell.

Hillary Clinton has been committed to the Civil Rights Movement since she met the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1962, and she supported African American activists during her days at the Yale Law School. No wonder Quincy Jones, and the others are all supporting her and not Barack Obama who has done little or nothing for the African Americans in America.

Barack Obama is now desperate to win the South Carolina primary and he is now name-dropping Ronald Reagan to pander to the White voters to support him, so that he can add their votes to his African American votes to beat Hillary Clinton.

He deliberately dropped his bona fide middle name of Hussein, because he is afraid that the Islamic name will make most American Evangelicals, Jews and anti-Islamic American voters turn against him.

He has even failed to stop his Kenyan uncle, Raila Odinga, from causing more violence in Kenya after Odinga lost the presidential election. Obama is a supporter of Odinga and I have the photograph taken in Kenya to prove it. Odinga kept his own family in a safe house, but told millions of Kenyans to go on the streets to protest and over 1, 000 have been killed so far. Why is Raila Odinga not going out to lead the protest march?

What is Barack Obama doing to stop the bloody mayhem in his fatherland, Kenya?

If he has no clue on how to stop post election violence in Kenya, then how can he stop the war in Iraq or win the global war on terror?

Lest you forget, the Islamic terrorists are active in Kenya and Barack Obama's family in Kenya are Muslims. In fact, they still call Barack Obama a Muslim. Anyone with a Muslim family can expose the US to grave dangers. His Muslim uncle and aunt and other Muslim relatives could be used as suicide bombers to attack American targets in Kenya and even to attack the US.

Lest we forget, Barack Obama caused a riot in Pakistan, where they burnt his effigy with the US Flag.

Millions of American Muslims will be against Barack Obama for dropping his Muslim middle name.

Christ Matthews and the American news media have not asked Barack Obama, the important questions on the critical issues I have raised here and on the Huffington Post.

Barack Obama says he has been opposed to the war in Iraq.

How? By mere word of mouth? But he has voted in support of the prosecution of the war in Iraq and he has been collecting money from donors and sponsors who are supporting the war in Iraq.

How can I say I hate armed robbery, but I am collecting blood money from armed robbers to finance my presidential campaign? Is this not complicity and hypocrisy?

He spent over $1 million on his campaign in Nevada and lured the largest unions away from John Edwards who is the real catalyst for Change and the real "uniter" who has refused to collect money from Washington Lobbyists. Obama spent more money than Hillary Clinton, but he still lost after his agents ran negative radio adverts of lies against Hillary Clinton.

For how long will Barack Obama continue to use his political spin to deceive the ignorant and gullible American voters?

Posted by Orikinla Osinachi January 20, 2008. 8:48 AM FROM MARCAMBINDER ON THE ATLANTIC ONLINE