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		<title>By: Zhombre</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/10/09/to-a-hammer-everything-is-a-nail-or-lets-talk-racism/comment-page-1/#comment-31124</link>
		<dc:creator>Zhombre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And just to make you feel extra special better, Brian, here&#039;s some adorable pictures of the Messiah with babies.  Suffer the little children to come unto Him:

http://litbrit.blogspot.com/2008/10/babies-for-barack.html#links</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And just to make you feel extra special better, Brian, here&#8217;s some adorable pictures of the Messiah with babies.  Suffer the little children to come unto Him:</p>
<p><a href="http://litbrit.blogspot.com/2008/10/babies-for-barack.html#links" rel="nofollow">http://litbrit.blogspot.com/2008/10/babies-for-barack.html#links</a></p>
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		<title>By: BrianE</title>
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		<dc:creator>BrianE</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m OK now!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m OK now!</p>
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		<title>By: Mike Devx</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/10/09/to-a-hammer-everything-is-a-nail-or-lets-talk-racism/comment-page-1/#comment-31111</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike Devx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BrianE,
Of course it&#039;s racist!  I mean, just look at what you wrote!

&lt;i&gt;At a time in history, like never before, when this country needs to unite to solve new and looming challenges, Barack Obama stands to one side, sharing the ideals of a gnarled domestic terrorist who has traded the bombs he threw in the 1970’s, with ideas even more dangerous to America by undermining&lt;/i&gt;

Typical conservative evil.  Your words are twisted, indeed, I believe you are both conservative and psychologically twisted, but then, I repeat myself. 

BrianE, allow me to take what you wrote and fix it up a bit.  Just a few words, here and there.

&lt;i&gt;At a time in history, like never before, when this country needs to unite to solve new and looming challenges, Barack Obama stands before you, halo shining, arms opened toward you with palms open, welcoming, welcoming.  His eyes aglow, the warmest, most empathetic eyes you have ever seen, is it not clear that all your troubles are over?  Though an adult, do not your eyes brim with tears?

&quot;Mommy!  Daddy!&quot; you cry out helplessly! &quot;Now I&#039;m safe!  And warm and secure. Forever!&quot;  Run to Mommy-Daddy-Obama.  Feel the warmth.  See?  Snuggle.  Now you&#039;re safe. And warm. And secure.&lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BrianE,<br />
Of course it&#8217;s racist!  I mean, just look at what you wrote!</p>
<p><i>At a time in history, like never before, when this country needs to unite to solve new and looming challenges, Barack Obama stands to one side, sharing the ideals of a gnarled domestic terrorist who has traded the bombs he threw in the 1970’s, with ideas even more dangerous to America by undermining</i></p>
<p>Typical conservative evil.  Your words are twisted, indeed, I believe you are both conservative and psychologically twisted, but then, I repeat myself. </p>
<p>BrianE, allow me to take what you wrote and fix it up a bit.  Just a few words, here and there.</p>
<p><i>At a time in history, like never before, when this country needs to unite to solve new and looming challenges, Barack Obama stands before you, halo shining, arms opened toward you with palms open, welcoming, welcoming.  His eyes aglow, the warmest, most empathetic eyes you have ever seen, is it not clear that all your troubles are over?  Though an adult, do not your eyes brim with tears?</p>
<p>&#8220;Mommy!  Daddy!&#8221; you cry out helplessly! &#8220;Now I&#8217;m safe!  And warm and secure. Forever!&#8221;  Run to Mommy-Daddy-Obama.  Feel the warmth.  See?  Snuggle.  Now you&#8217;re safe. And warm. And secure.</i></p>
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		<title>By: BrianE</title>
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		<dc:creator>BrianE</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is this racist?
At a time in history, like never before, when this country needs to unite to solve new and looming challenges, Barack Obama stands to one side, sharing the ideals of a gnarled domestic terrorist who has traded the bombs he threw in the 1970’s, with ideas even more dangerous to America by undermining our children’s education. Rather than seeking to improve our children’s schools, seeking progress through increased knowledge, radical educator Bill Ayers seeks to destroy America by replacing the concept of education as a means of preparing children for responsible adulthood, with one of turning children into young radicals seeking not jobs, but social justice.
Barack Obama has endorsed Bill Ayer’s books, helped Bill Ayers funnel tens of millions of dollars to corrupt Chicago organizations that failed their neighborhood schools, and even allowed the former Cuban supported terrorist to sponsor Barack Obama’s initial foray into politics.
What does Barack Obama owe Bill Ayers? What sympathies does Barack Obama share with these radical education concepts of dividing class and race? How will we know if Barack Obama really supports uniting the racial divide in this country when, given a choice, Barack Obama consistently sided with those whose hatred of America, like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers, is evident in their ideas that by being white in America, you are racist. Are we supposed to believe Barack Obama when he says that for 20 years, none of this really mattered to him?
Look at the record of John McCain, firmly in the middle of American life. It is John McCain that has shown for decades a reliable record of bringing Americans together.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is this racist?<br />
At a time in history, like never before, when this country needs to unite to solve new and looming challenges, Barack Obama stands to one side, sharing the ideals of a gnarled domestic terrorist who has traded the bombs he threw in the 1970’s, with ideas even more dangerous to America by undermining our children’s education. Rather than seeking to improve our children’s schools, seeking progress through increased knowledge, radical educator Bill Ayers seeks to destroy America by replacing the concept of education as a means of preparing children for responsible adulthood, with one of turning children into young radicals seeking not jobs, but social justice.<br />
Barack Obama has endorsed Bill Ayer’s books, helped Bill Ayers funnel tens of millions of dollars to corrupt Chicago organizations that failed their neighborhood schools, and even allowed the former Cuban supported terrorist to sponsor Barack Obama’s initial foray into politics.<br />
What does Barack Obama owe Bill Ayers? What sympathies does Barack Obama share with these radical education concepts of dividing class and race? How will we know if Barack Obama really supports uniting the racial divide in this country when, given a choice, Barack Obama consistently sided with those whose hatred of America, like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers, is evident in their ideas that by being white in America, you are racist. Are we supposed to believe Barack Obama when he says that for 20 years, none of this really mattered to him?<br />
Look at the record of John McCain, firmly in the middle of American life. It is John McCain that has shown for decades a reliable record of bringing Americans together.</p>
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		<title>By: McLaren</title>
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		<dc:creator>McLaren</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve had countless professors like that intolerant woman who stormed out of the room.   You can finish their sentences for them.  They hate that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve had countless professors like that intolerant woman who stormed out of the room.   You can finish their sentences for them.  They hate that.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike Devx</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike Devx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just ran across a supporting story in AmericanThinker.com.  Basically there&#039;s no such thing as truth in our universities anymore, just slant and bias.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/why_obamas_communist_connectio.html

I excerpted the part I found fascinating, below.

If Obama wins, we will have plenty of opportunity and examples to expose all this.  Four years of proving our case to the American people.  Even in defeat, there would be great hope!  Sometimes Americans need the concrete to be staring them right in the face.

I&#039;m not being pessimistic in looking at an Obama victory, just wondering.  I still think this election is a nail-biter, right on the edge.
~mike

Excerpt from the link:

Of all the lectures that I do around the country, none seem to rivet the audience as much as my discourse on the horrors of communism. In these lectures, which are usually connected to my books on Ronald Reagan, I do a 10-15 minute backgrounder on the crimes of communists-from their militant attacks on private property, on members of all religious faiths, and on basic civil liberties, to their total death toll of over 100 million bloodied, emaciated corpses in the 20th century. 

As I do these presentations, the young people, especially on college campuses, are locked in, amazed at what they are hearing. I think they are especially struck that I always ground every fact and figure in reliable research and authorities -- books published by Harvard University Press and Yale University Press, quotes from the likes of Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel and Alexander Yakovlev, anti-Soviet appraisals from certain Cold War Democrats like Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy and even early liberals like Woodrow Wilson. I rarely use right-wing sources because I don&#039;t want the professors of these students to be able to later shoot a single hole in my presentation -- a potential tactic to undermine the overall thesis.

And speaking of those professors, that gets to my point here: As the young people in my audience are fully engaged, hands in the air with question after question -- obviously hearing all of these things for the first time in their lives, from K-12 to college, as they are eager to inform me after my talk -- the professors often stare at me with contempt. In one case, a British professor, who could not step sighing, squirming, and rolling her eyes as I quoted the most heinous assessments of religion by Marx and Lenin, got up and stormed out of the room.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just ran across a supporting story in AmericanThinker.com.  Basically there&#8217;s no such thing as truth in our universities anymore, just slant and bias.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/why_obamas_communist_connectio.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/why_obamas_communist_connectio.html</a></p>
<p>I excerpted the part I found fascinating, below.</p>
<p>If Obama wins, we will have plenty of opportunity and examples to expose all this.  Four years of proving our case to the American people.  Even in defeat, there would be great hope!  Sometimes Americans need the concrete to be staring them right in the face.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not being pessimistic in looking at an Obama victory, just wondering.  I still think this election is a nail-biter, right on the edge.<br />
~mike</p>
<p>Excerpt from the link:</p>
<p>Of all the lectures that I do around the country, none seem to rivet the audience as much as my discourse on the horrors of communism. In these lectures, which are usually connected to my books on Ronald Reagan, I do a 10-15 minute backgrounder on the crimes of communists-from their militant attacks on private property, on members of all religious faiths, and on basic civil liberties, to their total death toll of over 100 million bloodied, emaciated corpses in the 20th century. </p>
<p>As I do these presentations, the young people, especially on college campuses, are locked in, amazed at what they are hearing. I think they are especially struck that I always ground every fact and figure in reliable research and authorities &#8212; books published by Harvard University Press and Yale University Press, quotes from the likes of Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel and Alexander Yakovlev, anti-Soviet appraisals from certain Cold War Democrats like Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy and even early liberals like Woodrow Wilson. I rarely use right-wing sources because I don&#8217;t want the professors of these students to be able to later shoot a single hole in my presentation &#8212; a potential tactic to undermine the overall thesis.</p>
<p>And speaking of those professors, that gets to my point here: As the young people in my audience are fully engaged, hands in the air with question after question &#8212; obviously hearing all of these things for the first time in their lives, from K-12 to college, as they are eager to inform me after my talk &#8212; the professors often stare at me with contempt. In one case, a British professor, who could not step sighing, squirming, and rolling her eyes as I quoted the most heinous assessments of religion by Marx and Lenin, got up and stormed out of the room.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike Devx</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike Devx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oldflyer (#14),
&lt;i&gt;I keep hearing from certain quarters that the American people don’t really care about Ayers any longer. I don’t really believe that&lt;/i&gt;

I agree, Oldflyer.  People in general knew about the street clashes in the 60s and the bombings.  But if I were to ask my parents about the Weathermen/Weather Underground or the SDS, they&#039;d give me blank stares.

There are a LARGE number of traditional Democrats who still recoil at the deliberate violence of the progressive movement of the late 60&#039;s.  (What started out as Peace and Love in the early and mid 60&#039;s degenerated quickly when the radical activists seized control of the movement.)

Isn&#039;t Obama the first movement liberal to come from directly from academia since Woodrow Wilson?   We may have been focusing on the wrong item in the Obama history: It&#039;s not that he was a community organizer, it&#039;s that he was a University professor (of sorts).  The University systems are filled with the idealogues from the 60&#039;s, including Ayers and Doern.

What we&#039;re getting with Obama may simply be the restoration of power of the 60&#039;
s intellectual liberals, as their chance to &quot;reform the system from within&quot; finally reaches full fruition.  Tying this all into the Weathermen and their bombings could have a real effect in relatively conservative Democrat areas in Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc.  Especially if McCain succeeds in tying it all in to Obama&#039;s intellectual, ivory-tower snobbery concerning the rubes&#039; clinging to their guns and their religion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oldflyer (#14),<br />
<i>I keep hearing from certain quarters that the American people don’t really care about Ayers any longer. I don’t really believe that</i></p>
<p>I agree, Oldflyer.  People in general knew about the street clashes in the 60s and the bombings.  But if I were to ask my parents about the Weathermen/Weather Underground or the SDS, they&#8217;d give me blank stares.</p>
<p>There are a LARGE number of traditional Democrats who still recoil at the deliberate violence of the progressive movement of the late 60&#8242;s.  (What started out as Peace and Love in the early and mid 60&#8242;s degenerated quickly when the radical activists seized control of the movement.)</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t Obama the first movement liberal to come from directly from academia since Woodrow Wilson?   We may have been focusing on the wrong item in the Obama history: It&#8217;s not that he was a community organizer, it&#8217;s that he was a University professor (of sorts).  The University systems are filled with the idealogues from the 60&#8242;s, including Ayers and Doern.</p>
<p>What we&#8217;re getting with Obama may simply be the restoration of power of the 60&#8242;<br />
s intellectual liberals, as their chance to &#8220;reform the system from within&#8221; finally reaches full fruition.  Tying this all into the Weathermen and their bombings could have a real effect in relatively conservative Democrat areas in Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc.  Especially if McCain succeeds in tying it all in to Obama&#8217;s intellectual, ivory-tower snobbery concerning the rubes&#8217; clinging to their guns and their religion.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellie2</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ellie2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In &lt;strong&gt;Dreams From My Father&lt;/strong&gt; Barry describes how he would handle his mother when she asked him if he was doing drugs (which of course he was):  I&#039;d smile and shrug and say &quot;I&#039;d never do anything that stupid.&quot; and she seemed satisfied.  

He goes on to say &quot;It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: (White) People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn&#039;t seem angry all the time.&quot; -- Barack Obama

And it seems to me he is still using the same strategy to answer questions about his background. I would say &quot;just a little shuck and jive&quot; but that, of course, would be racist, dotcha know.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In <strong>Dreams From My Father</strong> Barry describes how he would handle his mother when she asked him if he was doing drugs (which of course he was):  I&#8217;d smile and shrug and say &#8220;I&#8217;d never do anything that stupid.&#8221; and she seemed satisfied.  </p>
<p>He goes on to say &#8220;It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: (White) People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved &#8212; such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn&#8217;t seem angry all the time.&#8221; &#8212; Barack Obama</p>
<p>And it seems to me he is still using the same strategy to answer questions about his background. I would say &#8220;just a little shuck and jive&#8221; but that, of course, would be racist, dotcha know.</p>
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		<title>By: Zhombre</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zhombre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He is muslim too.  His father was muslim.  And his Indonesian stepfather.  As I understand muslim religion, it is very patriarchal.  You are what your father is, and there is no exception.  Very likely Obama studied Koran in an Indonesian madrassa, as a child.  However, I have no doubt, that when Senator Obama professes his Christianity, that is sincere.  I&#039;m sure Reverend Wright brought him to Jesus.  But for Senator Obama to deny his Muslim background, because it won&#039;t play well with voters, is simply another example of evasion and deception.  We are on the verge of electing a man President, an articulate man with a cool demeanor, who conceals or misrepresents or denies much of his past life and many of his past associations.  That is troubling, oldflyer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He is muslim too.  His father was muslim.  And his Indonesian stepfather.  As I understand muslim religion, it is very patriarchal.  You are what your father is, and there is no exception.  Very likely Obama studied Koran in an Indonesian madrassa, as a child.  However, I have no doubt, that when Senator Obama professes his Christianity, that is sincere.  I&#8217;m sure Reverend Wright brought him to Jesus.  But for Senator Obama to deny his Muslim background, because it won&#8217;t play well with voters, is simply another example of evasion and deception.  We are on the verge of electing a man President, an articulate man with a cool demeanor, who conceals or misrepresents or denies much of his past life and many of his past associations.  That is troubling, oldflyer.</p>
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		<title>By: Ymarsakar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ymarsakar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Since helen is against the death penalty, all but certain if you ask me, she would naturally have been against executing Timothy McVeigh.

I mention this because it is another mark against the people who claim to be fighting racism. For they will not support the execution of white terrorists and they support the defense of people like AYers, while at the same time talking about how we need to elect Barack because we have an Original Sin because Americans are white and advantaged.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since helen is against the death penalty, all but certain if you ask me, she would naturally have been against executing Timothy McVeigh.</p>
<p>I mention this because it is another mark against the people who claim to be fighting racism. For they will not support the execution of white terrorists and they support the defense of people like AYers, while at the same time talking about how we need to elect Barack because we have an Original Sin because Americans are white and advantaged.</p>
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