Barack Obama Wants You

July 31, 2008

IBD - Barack Obama calls it "Universal Voluntary Public Service." We call it a plan for national involuntary servitude. Kennedy asked us what we could do for our country. Obama has ways to make us volunteer.

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Sex Ed for Kindergarteners ‘Right Thing to Do,’ Says Obama

July 31, 2008

By Jake Tapper 

ABC NEWS - Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do."

"I remember Alan Keyes . . . I remember him using this in his campaign against me," Obama said in reference to the conservative firebrand who ran against him for the U.S. Senate in 2004. Sex education for kindergarteners had become an issue in his race against Keyes because of Obama’s work on the issue as chairman of the health committee in the Illinois state Senate.

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Barack Obama is afraid of himself

July 31, 2008

MICHELLE MALKIN - UPDATE: Obama now says he wasn’t race-baiting with his dollar bill comments. Horse-hockey!
How moronic is Barack Obama’s latest, bogus whine about Republicans emphasizing his funny name and how “different” he looks from other American presidents to gin up fear?

Well, look who’s afraid of himself. This comes not from the GOP. Not from conservative talk radio. Not from John McCain, who has been too busy calling members of his own party racist for challenging the Obamessiah.

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Obama smeared McCain

July 31, 2008

By Ed Morrissey 

HOT AIR - Yesterday, Barack Obama strongly implied that John McCain’s criticisms had a racist motivation as Allahpundit noted. He told an audience that McCain wants to make people afraid of him, and apparently not just because he has no experience in military or foreign affairs and no executive experience at all, and not just because he wants to impose ruinous tax hikes on investors and add hundreds of billions of dollars to a federal budget already a half-trillion in the red next year. No, Obama says, it’s all about his name and his skin color:

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Where did Barack Obama’s mojo go?

July 31, 2008

By Andrew Malcolm

LA TIMES - Something's going on. Or some things.

A new CNN/Opinion Research poll out Wednesday shows that despite nine solid days of blanket media coverage from overseas with Barack Obama cheered by adoring throngs of Germans and parlez-vousing with the French, making a three-point shot in the Middle East and standing outside No. 10 Downing Street, the freshman Illinois Democratic presidential nominee to be Senator Barack Obama of Illinois stayed static in the polls despite his well-covered long foreign tripsenator is stuck right where he was in the polls before he left.

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GOP’s celeb-Obama message gains traction

July 31, 2008

By Carrie Budoff Brown

POLITICO - Barack Obama’s critics laid down the foundations of the strategy months ago: The Republican National Committee started the “Audacity Watch” back in April, and Karl Rove later fueled the attack by describing the first-term Illinois senator as “coolly arrogant.”

It wasn’t until the last week, however, that the narrative of Obama as a president-in-waiting – and perhaps getting impatient in that waiting - began reverberating beyond the e-mail inboxes of Washington operatives and journalists.

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Lobbyists Give to Obama Campaign

July 30, 2008

By Anna Palmer

ROLL CALL - Lobbyists might be persona non grata on the presidential campaign trail, but that hasn’t put them off of donating to the presumptive Democratic nominee, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).

Obama has pledged to forgo contributions from federally registered lobbyists. Yet, more than 40 have donated nearly $15,000 to his presidential campaign this year, according to records recently filed with the Senate and House.

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Tell Newsweek That Obama Is No Reagan

July 30, 2008

By L. BRENT BOZELL

IBD EDITORIALS - Newsweek's love for Barack Obama knows no bounds. After Obama's speech in Berlin, Newsweek published a headline that suggests an editor who's spent six days drunk on a merry-go-round: "Obama's Reagan Moment."

That deserves the Lloyd Bentsen retort: "I knew Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was a friend of mine. Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan."

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Obama’s Surge Purge

July 30, 2008

By Kathy Shaidle

FRONGPAGE MAGAZINE - Barack Obama styles himself the candidate of “change” and “hope”. So when his website “changed” to erase his well-known opposition to the Iraq War surge, maybe the Senator “hoped” no one would notice.

In this day and age, that’s a foolish, not to mention cynical, conceit, especially coming from the young, self-proclaimed “progressive” Democrat. And it backfired. Even the Los Angeles Times picked up the small but telling story after it first broke in the blogosphere.

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Obama’s Symbolic Importance: Barack Beleives The Hype

July 30, 2008

By Jonathan Weisman

WASHINGTON POST - Perhaps he's beginning to believe the hype.

In his closed door meeting with House Democrats this evening, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama delivered a real zinger. According to a witness, he was waxing lyrical about last week's trip to Europe, when he concluded, "this is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for."

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Self-Elected President Barack Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour

July 30, 2008

By Dana Milbank

WASHINGTON POST - Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee.

Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday. He ordered up a teleconference with the (current president's) Treasury secretary, granted an audience to the Pakistani prime minister and had his staff arrange for the chairman of the Federal Reserve to give him a briefing. Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.

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