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Beyond the Lies About Obama

The blogosphere and the unthinking e-mail proliferators have dispersed a lot of lies about Obama. Some of the e-mails are close to being racist, showing Obama with many of his black relatives in Africa in relatively primitive dress. Some of

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Fairness Doctrine Anyone?

from the Washington Post online Obama’s Edge in the Coverage RaceBy Deborah HowellSunday, August 17, 2008;Page B06 “Democrat Barack Obama has had about a 3 to 1 advantage over Republican John McCain in Post Page 1 stories since Obama became

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Republicans for Obama?

In Today’s American Thinker Ed Lansky shows some insight on the Republicans who support Obama- almost all of them have shown an anti-Israel bias. August 12, 2008Obama’s GOP roster share anti-Israel viewsEd Lasky Excerpts The New York Sun earlier this

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The Job Creation Myth

by Henry Oliner While eating dinner I see an Obama ad that by pushing alternative energy programs he will create – ready for this- 5 million jobs. It is a common myth perpetuated by candidates, often from both parties, that

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Desperate Populism

Dropping in the polls on the energy issue Obama succumbs to desperate populism. Let’s just give all the poor people a thousand dollars, and let’s make the rich oil companies pay for it. The last time this was tried was

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Big Government in Berlin

In The Berlin That Obama Didn’t See in the WJS Online, Bret Stephens describes the Berlin that Obama should have noticed. A brief summary: Berlin is bankrupt as a result of profligate spending, poor fiscal management and a “government can

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Obama’s Disastrous Energy Plan

Obama sort of reverses himself on energy and now Ok’s offshore drilling and at the same time expalins why it will not do any good. It seems as if he can easily be pushed around. Obama advocates a special tax

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A World Together – A World Apart

After reading several very good criticisms of Obama’s speeches in Europe, especially Germany, from generally intelligent writers from the right, particularly Jeff Jacoby and Victor Davis Hanson I would like to summarize the view from some of the conservative critics.

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Why Perpetuate Lies When the Truth Will Work Just Fine

I keep getting some preposterous e-mails about Obama. I recently got one that was a supposed article by Maureen Dowd about Obama getting millions of dollars through the internet from Saudi sources. Dowd never wrote the article, but the e-mail

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Being Right by Being Wrong

7/22/08 I was up early and watched an interview with Obama after his tour of Iraq. Obama was asked if he regretted his opposition to the surge since it apparently has worked quite well. He stood by his original vote,

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Tough, Smart and Principled……. Not!

from the Weekly Standardby Joe Lieberman Senator Obama this morning said that he wants a foreign policy that is “tough, smart, and principled.” This afternoon, I ask: was it tough when Senator Obama voted to order U.S. forces to retreat

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Ready for Public Life

And Obama is offended by a satire on the cover of the New Yorker? Is he ready for public life? credit American Thinker article by Rick Moran

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Obama’s Class Warfare

From the July 8th WSJ Political Diary – Has Obama Learned Anything from Tax History? New data from the IRS will be out in a few weeks on who pays how much in taxes. My contacts at the Treasury Department

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Are Promises Enough?

If Obama is elected I predict he will have the lowest Jewish voter response since Jimmy Carter’s second run. In sheer numbers the Jewish vote pales in comparison to the Evangelical Christians. If Obama wins, the Jewish and the Evangelicals

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Unnecessary Lies About Obama

I get a lot of e-mails about Obama and his wife that are very suspect, and upon minimal checking on Snopes fact checker are either blatantly not true, or at least taken enough out of context to totally distort their

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What About the Advisors?

While experience is being tossed about in this campaign like a midget at a drunken frat party (apologies to Dennis Miller), we should at least be able to judge a candidate by the people ‘selected’ as advisors. We now get

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Obama and Oliner on Energy Policy

Obama wanted to levy an excess profits tax on oil companies. Our last experience with this was with Jimmy Carter and it was a disaster. He then proposed to crack down on speculators who are driving up the market. For

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Obama’s Promises

OBAMA VS. OSAMAPROMISES AREN’T PLANS, BARACKby Ralph Peters in the New York Post read the entire article here excerpts This week, Obama claimed, again, that he’d promptly capture Osama bin Laden. OK, tell me how: Specifically, which concrete measures would

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A Fragile Lead

In the Gallup and Rasmussen surveys Obama is ahead by 4 points on a national scale. This is a small lead with four months to go and the conventions and vp choices still in the future. This is a small

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Obama’s Faustian Bargain

from Victor Davis Hanson June 11, 2008Gone, but Not ForgottenBarack Obama and Rev. Wright. Excerpt: So here we have the Obama paradox: The more he poses, and is praised, as the post-racial healer, the more 25 years of his career

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