Barack Obama's War on Black America

Yes, believe it or not, that's actually the title of this article written by Andrew Walden for Pajamas Media.

"Polls show most African-American voters will be casting their ballots for Barack Obama on November 4. The first opportunity to elect a black person as president is tempting. But black Americans will be paying a price, and Obama’s record gives a clear indication of what that price will be. Obama and his cronies have a long record of profiting from funds intended to aid black people. The intended beneficiaries have nothing to show for it other than Obama’s political ascent.

"The Boston Globe on June 27 exposed the thousands of so-called affordable housing units built cheaply in Chicago by developers backed by Illinois and federal tax subsidies championed by Barack Obama. Sewage flows through many units; others are burned out with roofs caving in. Due to neglect by owners tied to the Obama campaign, many have been slated for demolition.

"Dual U.S.-Syrian citizen Tony Rezko — an early-money fundraiser who bundled as much as $200,000 for Obama’s campaigns — rehabbed hundreds of “affordable” housing units in and around Obama’s State Senate district and then refused to manage them. Rezko is now facing sentencing on several federal felony counts of soliciting bribes, fraud, and money laundering. His units now face demolition."

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New York Post and WSJ: The Truth About Obama's Tax Plan

New York Post: "OBAMA TELLS THE TAX TRUTH"

"An unscripted moment with an Ohio plumber produced a startling confession from Barack Obama Sunday: The Democrat's 'middle-class tax cut' is in fact a scheme to 'spread the wealth around.' Obama dropped the mask long enough to tell the truth to Toledo plumber Joe Wurzelbacher - who had asked the Democratic nominee why he wanted to jack up his taxes just for 'fulfilling the American dream.' 'I'm getting ready to buy a company that makes $250,000 to $280,000 a year,'
Wurzelbacher had told Obama. 'Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?' 'It's not that I want to punish your success,' Obama replied. 'I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success, too . . . When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.' At last! The truth is out!"

Click here to read the New York Post article

New York Post: "Lessons from the Plumber"

Who was the winner in last night's Presidential debate? Joe Wurzelbacher, a/k/a "Joe the Plumber," that's who.

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Wall Street Journal: "Obama's 95% Illusion"

Obama's 'tax cut' for 95% of Americans? Depends on what the meaning of 'tax cut' is.

Click here to read the WSJ article

Questions about Obama's Citizenship

From an article by Thomas Lifson, editor and publisher of American Thinker, a conservative Web site:

"A lifelong Democrat who has held political office and been a Pennsylvania state committeeman, Philip Berg, has brought suit over the real questions raised by the absence of a valid Obama birth certificate. His narrative of the various questions Obama has refused to answer is devastating. Graphics and sound are well-deployed to avoid tedium as data is conveyed in a way that allows viewers to absorb it. ... he contrasts Obama's behavior when challenged (use perfectly valid legal technicalities to delay) with John McCain's full disclosure of all documentary evidence under a similar challenge (remember the flap over his birth in the Panama Canal Zone? -- who raised those questions, anyway?) ...

"The only way Obama can satisfactorily respond is to release his supposed Hawaiian birth certificate. If he has it, why hasn't he released it? If he does release it, game over. So why drag this out on technical grounds? It doesn't make sense."

Although Obama has vehemently dismissed the citizenship flap on his Web site, he has yet to provide the court with documentation proving his U.S. citizenship.

Could this video, which interviews Berg and presents the arguments of his Federal lawsuit, be the 2008 Presidential race's "October surprise"?

I for one find it extremely interesting that Berg is a lifelong Democrat, yet has quite vociferously taken the DNC to task for not properly vetting its candidate.

Viking

Well, we’re now dog owners!

It may come as a shocker to some of you, especially those of you who know I’ve had only one pet for the past 14 years – a bitchy, psychotic old cat named Wee Wee – but the truth is I’ve always liked dogs, and even though I’ve been severely bitten in the face by one, I didn’t allow that incident to foster a fear of them, as there are no bad dogs, only bad owners. In fact, I would’ve adopted one long before now if the Wee weren’t so possessive of me, but I didn’t want to deal with the hell I knew he’d give me if I brought another cat or dog in the house, not to mention the hell he’d give the poor kitty or pooch. (On two occasions, I attempted to adopt other cats – a kitten named Audrey and a grown female Calico named Lindy – but the Wee bullied them both so viciously I had to place them with other people. It took him an entire year to get to the point where he tolerated my husband and could hang out in the same room with him calmly and quietly without yowling or hissing, even though he’ll never exactly consider Josh as his buddy.)

So, all these years I’ve been content to play “auntie” to all my girlfriends’ dogs without adopting one myself. Until a few days ago, when a friend of a friend who works with Animal Action Rescue here in the Atlanta area was circulating an e-mail to see if anyone was available to give a 12-year-old mutt named Red a loving home. Some family’d had him for 9 years and abandoned him at their vet clinic when they moved to another city – dropped him off, ostensibly to give him his annual shots, and never picked him up. Indeed, they never even bothered to call the clinic to say “Oh, by the way, we aren’t picking him up” until after they’d moved to their new destination. Curious, I took a look at his photo, and something in his eyes and his sweet, hopeful old punim just made me melt. I decided I wanted to adopt him -- tough for the Wee, he’d just have to learn to deal.

Red ended up going to another couple, but the very next day, the rescue volunteer sent me info on another dog, a blind yellow Lab named Viking. Viking had been abandoned at Cobb County Animal Control by his owner, and since they keep animals for only 7 days before euthanizing them and nobody wants special-needs animals, he didn’t have much of a chance of being adopted before his time ran out. So Josh and I talked about it, and the next day we brought him home. Viking is remarkably well-trained and so gentle, friendly, sweet and good around humans and other dogs (he understands all the basic commands and doesn’t even flinch when he gets a shot) that we can’t understand how anyone could have given him up like that. I suppose it’s because he went blind, but according to my vet, dogs who are blind can lead a perfectly normal, happy life with just a little more understanding, patience, and training, and there are only a few VERY minor accommodations you need to make when caring for a blind dog.) His one issue is that he suffers from serious separation anxiety whenever we go out somewhere, which is totally understandable because he’s terrified of being abandoned again, and he’s blind (duh). We are confident that this will resolve with time, training and patience.

As for the Wee, well, he was horribly upset the first couple of weeks, which was expected. He flat-out tried to attack Viking twice, but we stopped it both times with a squirt of water right in Wee’s kisser and he hasn’t tried again. He just wasn’t getting it that Viking was blind and not a threat to him. But I think he’s finally starting to trust that Viking isn’t going to hurt him. Now he hangs out in the same room with him without freaking out or hissing at him unless Viking inadvertently stumbles into his space, which is inevitable from time to time, but I’m always at the ready to squirt the Wee with water the second he starts hissing and/or stick him on a table or shelf at a higher level so he can feel more secure and observe where Viking is and what’s going on in different parts of the room. And Viking, for his part, backs off immediately as soon as he hears him hiss. So far, things are working well. Stay tuned …