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Tag Archive for ‘Barack Obama’

Quotation: Ayers on the campaign

Well, what I didn’t want to comment on was the political campaign. I didn’t want to enter into that. The reason is simple: I thought that I was being used as a prop in a very dishonest narrative — and I didn’t want to be part of the narrative and I couldn’t find a way […]

Dumb campaign rumors

Now that the presidential campaign is officially over, we can look back and snicker all over again at some of the dumb campaign rumors that circulated about the presidential candidates and their running mates. Some have been officially put to rest, but others will likely continue to circulate and dupe gullible e-mail readers and forwarders for years […]

Quotation: Adherents and detractors

“Both Obama’s adoring adherents and demonizing detractors disclose a lack of discernment. The sky is neither filled with angels proclaiming peace on earth, nor is it falling. Obama is neither the political messiah, nor the political anti-Christ.” -Robert Parham, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, writing in a commentary on EthicsDaily.com. (Hat Tip: […]

Elsewhere: Obama-press war is on

Whether or not you believe Hilary Clinton, John McCain or Sarah Palin’s claim that the mainstream media was “in the tank” for Obama, a battle between the soon-to-be 44th President and the fourth estate is more or less inevitable, according to a piece in Slate.com by Jack Shafer. The press corps works to hold the president accountable […]

Elsewhere: Reaction from the right

The sane: “That victory is a hallmark moment in history for all Americans — not just for those who voted for Sen. Obama. As a nation, we will never think of ourselves the same way again. Americans rich and poor, black and white, old and young, will look to an African-American man and know him […]

Quotation: Get eight teams

“I think it is about time that we had playoffs in college football. I’m fed up with these computer rankings and this and that and the other. Get eight teams — the top eight teams right at the end. You got a playoff. Decide on a National Champion.” -Sen. Barack Obama, talking on Monday Night […]

Elsewhere: A case for each (and every) candidate

Candidates are listed in alphabetical order. Chuck Baldwin, Independent Specific issues that are a concern of mine are the national debt, the devaluation of the Dollar, foreign policy and general economic issues such as right to work laws, taxation and the government’s involvement in the economy. I’m a proponent of the free-market which is not […]

An Obama presidency

Desperation about the way the election is going appears to have firmly taken root at Focus on the Family. A fictitious letter from 2012 posted on the organization’s political action Web site takes a look at what the country could look like four years after electing a secret Muslim friend of terrorists to the highest […]