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Proof had this posted over on Sayanythingblog and I would like to take this a little further. Listen to what Barack Obama has to say.

“Somewhere along the way faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart… Faith got hijacked partly because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us.”

I would like to know how he can say this stuff with a straight face? Who is trying to divide who? Example number one(1) or how about Example number two (2). If anything the US government needs to start taking some tax exempt status away from these churches that spew political messages from the pulpit. Church should be a place of worship not political rallies and speeches

Cross posted @ Goon’s North Dakota Redneck

Check out this article, it gives a pretty good assessment of Barry O.

Obama is another false American Idol

Mr Obama is portrayed throughout as an immanently benevolent figure. Not human really, more a comforting presence, a light source. He is always eager to listen to all sides of an argument, always instilling confidence in the weak-willed, resolutely sticking to his high principles, and tirelessly spurning the low road of electoral politics. I stopped reading after a while but I’m sure by the end he was healing the sick, comforting the dying, restoring sight to the blind and setting prisoners free.

The panegyric included the now conventional wisdom in the media that Republicans have only ever won elections in the past 40 years through lies and fearmongering - smearing their opponents and spreading false fears that a vote for a Democrat would open the country to foreign invasion.

To be fair, the Newsweek credo was only the latest and perhaps most shameless phase of the pro-Obama liturgy in the media. Some cable TV channels prostrate themselves nightly before him. Most newspapers worship at the altar. They have already set up a neat narrative for the election between Senator Obama and John McCain in November - the Second Coming versus Old Grouchy, The Little Flower of Illinois up against the Scaremongering Axeman from Arizona.

There’s a special irony here. Senator McCain is the Republican who has received probably the single most favourable treatment from the media in the past 40 years. He has been a favourite because he conformed to the first law of contemporary political journalism: the only good conservative is a bad conservative. His willingness to defy his party on everything from taxes to global warming, to take on George Bush, has earned him at least an honourable mention in the martyrology of American politics of the last 40 years.

But now that he’s up against Oh! Bama! he will have to be recast in the more familiar Republican mould of villain and scaremonger-in-chief.

This media narrative is not only an outgrowth of the journalists’ natural enthusiasm for a Democrat such as Mr Obama. It is a clever ploy to pre-emptively de-legitimise any Republican critique of the Democratic nominee. It is designed to prevent Mr McCain from asking reasonable questions about Mr Obama’s strikingly vacuous political background, or raising doubts about his credentials for the presidency.

The idolatry of Mr Obama is a shame, really. The Illinois senator is indeed, an unusually talented, inspiring and charismatic figure. His very ethnicity offers an exciting departure. But he is not a saint. He is a smart and eloquent man with a personal history that is startlingly shallow set against the scale of the office he seeks to hold. It is not only legitimate, but necessary, to scrutinise his past and infer what it might tell us about his beliefs, in the absence of the normal record of achievement expected in a presidential nominee.

If the last 40 years have taught us anything they have surely taught that premature canonisation is an almost certain guarantee of subsequent deep disappointment.

Cross posted @ Goon's North Dakota Redneck

You have have to say what a moron, this guy should have known better. While I am not a fan of Teddy Kennedy and I hate his political views I would never wish any ill will on the Senior Senator from Massachusetts. I also believe that Ted should have went to jail in 1969 for drowning Mary Jo Kopechne in the Chappaquiddick incident when Ted drown his mother car into the Poucha Pond. That being said, there is a difference between satire and classless statements. There are things you say and things you do not say.

Madden removed from air by ESPN

By Bob Smizik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Mark Madden, who made his reputation with bold, outlandish attacks on famous people, has been permanently removed from the air by ESPN.

His dismissal, which came down from ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., came five days after he made a scurrilous remark about U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on his 1250 ESPN talk show, which ran from 3 to 7 p.m. weekdays.

Mark Madden, who made his reputation with bold, outlandish attacks on famous people, has been permanently removed from the air by ESPN.

His dismissal, which came down from ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., came five days after he made a scurrilous remark about U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on his 1250 ESPN talk show, which ran from 3 to 7 p.m. weekdays.

“We’ve taken Mark off the air pursuant to our contractual rights,” said Josh Krulewitz, the vice president for public relations at ESPN.

The decision comes less than a year after Madden signed a long-term contract. No decision has been made on who will fill Madden’s time slot.

At the opening of his show last Wednesday, Madden said this about Sen. Kennedy, who days earlier had been diagnosed with brain cancer:

“I’m very disappointed to hear that Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is near death because of a brain tumor. I always hoped Senator Kennedy would live long enough to be assassinated.”

At the urging of station general manager Mike Thompson, Madden apologized over the air for his remarks about two hours later.

After initially reviewing the situation on a local level, Madden was neither reprimanded nor suspended. When asked if there would be some form of punishment, Thompson said, `No. The fact is we took action right away. Frankly, it was a comment that was stupid. He admitted that. I don’t think it requires any such thing as [discipline].”

Cross Posted at Goon's North Dakota Red Neck:

I am sure we will hear how this speech was taken out of context. We will hear how the right wing is just wrong and picking on Reverend Wrong and Paster Manny.

I am sure that the Obama campaign will be in full spin mode. We will hear how Barack Obama doesn’t agree with this type of speech, and he deplores it. We will also hear how divisive and hurtful it is. Seriously folks; how is it that a man can sit in this church pew for 20 years and listen to this crap if he and his wife Michelle doesn’t believe or at least agree with some of it?

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Bring it on Obama, really he does not want to have that debate. Bush and McCain would eat the empty suit Barack Obama's lunch. How is he going to out smart McCain? McCain is a decorated military veterans and Barack is an empty suit that knows nothing about foreign policy and military tactics.

Seriously folks if political light weights like Obama want to get eat alive when they bite off more than they can chew the Republicans should get out of the way and let him have his Dukakis moment. Maybe Obama should stick to his Marxist views and ideas because when it comes to foreign policy and security he doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about.

Check out this opinion piece/article that I found in the Edmontonsun.com Remember Canada isn’t some bastion of right wing thought it is a socialist Utopia.

Barack Hussein Obama entered the marathon of presidential politics with the thinnest resume of any aspirant to the White House in modern times.

He gamely set forth to win his party’s nomination by parlaying weakness, the very lightness of his empty political suit—a first term senator with no legislative record of any merit—into strength as a post-racism candidate promising to unite a divided country.

The gamble almost worked—it might still with the Democrats—for Obama’s empty suit rode the jet stream of political discontent in a country at war. The jet stream raised him to popular heights his party rivals with longer resumes could only watch with disbelief.

Obama’s candidacy, like any gamble, was a risky venture. It was made more risky given the tightly guarded knowledge that revelations about Rev. Jeremiah Wright—Obama’s pastor of some 20 years—could well bring down the junior senator’s “audacity of hope” to be elected America’s first non-white president.

Seems as if the Reverend Wright thing isn't going to go away and is probably going to do more damage than good.

But Wright did more, as Bob Herbert of the New York Times wrote, by going to Washington “not to praise Barack Obama, but to bury him.”

The senator’s pastor derogatorily dismissed the promising post-racism candidate as a mere politician, meaning an individual who will say and do whatever is needed to get elected.

The question then is who has it right? Is it Wright who has known the aspiring politician for the past two decades, or is it Obama?

The candidate lately has been appalled that his pastor, preaching sermons laced with bigotry, is not the same person he knew and of whom he said some weeks ago in Philadelphia he “can no more disown than I can disown the black community.”

I am beginning to think that this is true. This isn't the first time that I have heard this. I think the Democrats have painted themselves into a hole and they are going to have to make some tough choices.

UNELECTABLE

In Steele’s view Obama is unelectable because he “has fellow-travelled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own mother, who was white.

Obama’s candidacy, to quote Steele again, has been “based more on manipulation of white guilt than on substance.”

The primary season has worked as it is meant to work, and for now it has brought down to earth a candidacy filled with hot air.

This woman is dumber than a box of rocks, I have said it before and I will say it again. Is this really the best leaders the democrats could choose to lead the house of representives? Harry Reid isn't much better. Seriously folks, Ttis moron; madam speaker Pelosi doesn’t even know what the price of gas is. Those beltway liberals are a piece of work aren't they?

Nancy said it was 2.56 a gallon and is triple what it was when Bush took office. So is that fuzzy math or is she really that far out of touch? The price of gas is 3.59 a gallon in Grand Forks, ND today. Great job by the democratic house and senate.

I have read on the Internet where the Hab’s fans were booing the American anthem before the games in Montreal between the Canadians and Flyers. I think this is a very classless act and makes me hate the Montreal Canadians even more, I despise that team and cheer against them when ever they play. The Boston Bruins fan’s had the correct response to the classless Hab’s fans that booed the American anthem in 2006. The Bruins fans did not stoop to the classless Hab’s fan level, instead they stood cheered through out the anthem.

Here is what Eklund the anonymous hockey blogger had to say abou the issue.

In game 1 in Montreal I didn’t really hear the booing of the American Anthem, but I did hear a lot of talking through it. In Game 2 I did...Both REALLY bothered me as an American, but even more so as a hockey fan.

I truly hope that there aren’t some idiots who take the eye for an eye mentality in Philly tonight.

But I fear there will be, so I implore those of you heading down...If you are near someone who begins to boo the anthem tonight: shut them up.
Hockey is NOT about politics. It is our escape from such things. There are real problems in this world of ours. Real issues that I have with both of our Governments. I am very active politically and express those views elsewhere. I encourage all to do the same. Make a difference with your government…

But NOT HERE.
This is just hockey. And as far as I’m concerned there are no borders in North America in Hockey. We are all Hockeyans. It is our religion and where you live, your status, or the colour of your skin has no bearing on it whatsoever. If you love hockey you are my brother or sister.

In America especially, since hockey has NEVER really been mainstream, we Hockeyans have been FORCED to stick together. We are connected by a bond stronger than politics and lobbyists. Hockey is the biggest cult sport in American history. And if you love it you are all in…

American Hockeyans take a deeper offense to the Anthem being boo’d because let’s face it..We grew up rooting for our players in Canada Cups wearing that big Maple Leaf...still my favorite jersey of all time. I sat and cheered for Bobby Clarke and other Flyers against the Russians time and time again. (read the whole blog here)

I like Eklund plea to the fans in Philly do not stoop to that level.

View more hockey related articles at Goon’s World.

The way I read this is Obama is his best when he is giving speeches and having people fainting in the background. It has become apparent that Obama does not do well when he has to stand up to tough questions and scrutiny or think well on his feet.

Of course; maybe Obama already thinks he has the nomination wrapped up and doesn’t think he needs to attend anymore debates. Hillary is right IF he becomes president his free pass from the media will be taken away from him and he will have to answer tough questions.

By Karen Leigh and Catherine Dodge

April 26 (Bloomberg)—Hillary Clinton challenged Barack Obama to debate her before primaries in Indiana and North Carolina on May 6, an encounter her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination immediately declined to take up.

``I’m offering Senator Obama the chance to debate me one- on-one, no moderators,’’ Clinton said this afternoon at a rally at a baseball stadium in South Bend, Indiana. ``Just the two of us going for 90 minutes, asking and answering questions. We’ll set whatever rules seem fair.’’

Obama campaign communications director Robert Gibbs replied by saying that the candidates have participated in 21 nationally televised debates, including four exclusively with Clinton.

``Over the next 10 days, we believe it’s important to talk directly to the voters of Indiana and North Carolina,’’ Gibbs said in a statement.

After the candidates’ last debate, held April 17 in Philadelphia, Obama hinted he might be finished debating Clinton, dismissing the forums as little more than a chance for her to ``twist the knife.’’ Clinton, who trails Obama in total delegates, won the Pennsylvania primary this week, giving her campaign much-needed momentum.

Referring to the April 17 debate in Philadelphia, Clinton said, ``Senator Obama’s supporters complained a little bit about the tough questions.’’

``The tough questions in a debate are nothing compared to the tough questions you get asked when you’re president,’’ New York Senator Clinton, 60, said.

Obama, 46, has said the Philadelphia debate ``set a new record’’ because ``it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people.’’
(Read the whole article right here)

I can’t remember who game me this picture but it is funny. Maybe this is why Bill stuck with her so long.

Ahhhh, good old Bill Moyer and he is playing right into this. Poor Reverend Wright he was just miss understood. The Left is in spin mode trying to make this look as if the comments were taken out of context and they aren't what they mean. I mean Seriously folks, what are we to make of comments like this? We are not stupid. You don't hear Hillary Clinton or John McCain making statements like this. It is what it is. This stuff isn't going to go away. There is hours and hours of this stuff out there...

Or Comments like this… Not god bless American but God Damn America. There is no excuse for this stuff and it has no place in a church.

Here is the latest anti Obama ad from the North Carolina Republican Party it opposes Bev Perdue and Richard Moore for Governor. According to Fox news John McCain asked that it be taken down because it is too harsh.

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Check out Rob’s letter to the editor in today’s Grand Forks Herald.

MINOT — I had to chuckle when I read former Democratic candidate (and former aide to Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.) Kristin Hedger’s column in favor of earmarks — aka government pork — in the Saturday Herald (“Congressional earmarks serve a vital national purpose,” Page A4).

I’m not surprised that Hedger loves government pork given that her family’s business, Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing, got a big, juicy earmark courtesy of her old boss. To quote from an August press release from Dorgan’s office: “U.S. Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad … have secured more than $8 million to help KMM develop new technologies for the military.”

It’s easy to be in favor of pork spending when you’re more on the getting end than on the giving end. Chalk it up to the enticing allure of other people’s money.

On a serious note, however, I’d point out that Dorgan’s direction of public money to his political supporters is exactly the sort of political backscratching that gives earmark appropriations a bad name.

Rob Port

Port is the owner of Say Anything blog, http://www.sayanythingblog.com.

This is my liberal moron of the week. Nick Coleman is a fricken moron. This is what happens when you let liberals run unchecked, especially at a big city newspaper. The thing that really makes no sense to me is liberals fail to undertand that gun free zones are nothing more than a danger area. That is why these deranged idoits pray on areas like Virginia Tech (gun free zone) because they know there will be no one there with a conealed weapon.

The die-in (it was called a lie-in, actually) was organized by Protect Minnesota, an umbrella group representing five gun-control organizations pushing for tighter rules on sales and universal background checks on buyers. Thirty-two people wore black T-shirts that said, "Minnesotans Against Being Shot" as well as ribbons of maroon and orange (Virginia Tech's colors) made by families of the victims. One by one, to the solemn beat of a drum, they went down on the Capitol steps and remained motionless, as if asleep.

It was like the state Senate, but without the pompous speeches.

OK, it was one of those media events that is easy to mock and, indeed, it was mocked by a few underemployed members of the gun-rights lobby who couldn't resist the temptation to spoil a somber moment by holding up frat boy signs to the effect that a teacher or student packing heat could have stopped the carnage, which is the kind of thing I wonder about when a cop gets shot.

Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people. And sometimes people with guns kill other people with guns. It's as complicated as our feelings, and nobody's come up with a convincing response to slaughters such as Virginia Tech, especially proposals to let college kids carry guns on campus. Rep. Tony Cornish, a Republican from Good Thunder, introduced one such obscenely timed proposal Wednesday. Are you kidding, Cornish? Have you ever been to a kegger at Mankato or St. Cloud or the U of M and thought, "Cool! I hope these dudes have guns!"

Here is a poll that was conducted on the subject: Should guns be allowed on college campuses? (look at the results)

Yes 402 35.4 %
Only if the gun owner is well screened and highly trained 274 24.1 %
No 457 40.3 %
Total Votes 1133

It would appear that Obama thinks he has the nomination locked up already. Seriously, I really have enjoyed the petty knife fight between Obama and Hillary. It's getting to be pretty entertaining, but comeon Obama must know that you can't use a projectile weapon to hunt ducks, it is against the law. Any moron knows you hunt ducks with a shotgun. I would like to see the picture of Hillary in a duck blind.

I think I can see the strategy, just let Obama keep talking and he will step on it soon enough.