Sen. Barak Obama considering a run for President ..

[Wilber]

Buffoon does come to mind.

Among other things.

[jdobbin]

The clip says nothing about "some other right wingers" calling Obama a Halfrican American so Rush is not the only one who can make stuff up. First time I have ever heard him called a comedian though. Somehow that word just doesn't come to mind when I think of old Rush.

Sorry, I just checked again and you're right, it is just Rush who is mentioned.

[blackascoal]

The SECRETS of Obama's family UNLOCKED.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2569704,00.html

excerpt ...

WHEN Barack Obama, America’s newest presidential hopeful, was hit by allegations that he had attended a radical Islamic madrasah school as a boy in Indonesia, the claims spread like a virus through the media and internet.

It was a lie — the school was barely more religious than British church schools — but it was also a sign that Obama’s chances of winning the presidency depend to an unusual degree on his life story and character.

The race is on to define the gifted but little-known senator for Illinois and The Sunday Times can reveal that his heritage is far more diverse and astonishing than anything American voters have heard so far.

Obama, 45, has two half- sisters, one living in Britain, and five surviving half-brothers, the eldest of whom converted to Islam, and whose stories span the globe.

Nobody was more surprised to hear that Obama had reportedly been educated in a madrasah than Julia Suryakusuma, a close friend of his mother until her death from ovarian cancer in 1995.

Suryakusuma, 53, one of Indonesia’s most outspoken feminist writers, has fearlessly taken on extremist Muslim clerics in print. Last week she described Ann Dunham, Obama’s mother, “as a liberal and a humanist”, who learnt to speak fluent Indonesian and adored the culture.

Obama’s multi-hued heritage has put a distance between him and the African-American community, which has been reluctant to claim him as a “brother”.

America’s white community, in contrast, has embraced Obama as a hopeful affirmation that the fabled melting pot can transcend race. With his middle name Hussein (like Saddam) and surname Obama (like Osama), he is a rare and exotic figure in American politics.

“I believe the American electorate is ready to support leaders who embody the American dream despite their differences. In doing so, we affirm ourselves as a tolerant people,” said William Galston, a senior fellow in public policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

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I don't sense this rejection of Obama within the black community that I keep hearing about at all.

[Canadian Blue]

Rush Limbaugh is an idiot, I listened to him for a little bit when I was down in the States and he's completely crazy as batshit.

[Black Dog]

Appropos of an earlier discussion on the Congressional Iarq resolution, I found this article to be quite interesting:

The new Democratic-led Congress is on a collision course with the White House over how far lawmakers can or should go to stop the war in Iraq, a dispute that could test the bounds of the Constitution.

...

But many legal scholars and congressional Republicans say such legislation is not within Congress' power. The president has control of military forces, they say.

"Once Congress raises an army, it's his to command," said Robert Turner, a law professor at the University of Virginia who plans to testify Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

But whether a president needs congressional approval to wage war is up for debate among many scholars. In recent decades, presidents have routinely bypassed Congress when deploying troops to fight. Not since World War II has Congress issued an official declaration of war, despite lengthy wars fought in Vietnam and Korea.

"People think Congress has to say OK to everything," said John Yoo, a former Justice Department official who helped Bush write the 2002 resolution authorizing the Iraq invasion. But if that were true "that means every war we've fought since World War II is illegal."

Yoo, now a law professor at the University of California in Berkeley, said Bush's request that Congress pass a resolution authorizing force in Iraq was purely a political one. The resolution passed by a 296-133 vote in the GOP-run House and 77-23 in the Democratic-led Senate, but was not considered a declaration of war.

According to Yoo, the resolution was seen solely as a way of bringing Democrats onboard.

[jdobbin]

Most of late last week and into this weekend, the news media has taken aim at Obama.

They are saying that as a smoker, he will be brought down in his pursuit of the Presidency.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...tional/America/

[blackascoal]

Most of late last week and into this weekend, the news media has taken aim at Obama.

They are saying that as a smoker, he will be brought down in his pursuit of the Presidency.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...tional/America/

Keep in mind that George Bush is the president.

If an ex-drunk, ex-cocaine using-average-student-wartime-deserter-death-sentence-loving-failed-businessman can get elected president, I'm sure a few cigarettes and whatever else they can throw at him won't stop him.

Hillary is getting boos .. he's getting standing ovations .. even at the same events.

[jdobbin]

Keep in mind that George Bush is the president.

If an ex-drunk, ex-cocaine using-average-student-wartime-deserter-death-sentence-loving-failed-businessman can get elected president, I'm sure a few cigarettes and whatever else they can throw at him won't stop him.

Hillary is getting boos .. he's getting standing ovations .. even at the same events.

I think that anyone in the U.S. who repents gets a chance. We'll probably see Obama have to quit if it becomes an issue.