(Editor's Note: American Lassie (under a different ID) wrote this in response to kenosha Marges post "From The Folks That Gave You GWB and the War In Iraq, Here’s Obama!" which appeared on Friday, October 3.  We thought it was so good that, with her permission, we are highlighting her comment as a special Guest Post.)

The Legend continues, the Story unfolds.

This story began a long time ago while many of us were too complacent, living our own self satisfied lives and not paying attention to what was happening around us.

When Howard Dean ran for the presidency in 2004 he and his brother already had a plan for this country. When Howard lost due to his screaming fit, they revamped their plans a little. They decided they would begin by taking over the DNC and remake it in their own image as step 1. It was remarkably easy to do. With plenty of money behind them (from whom I’m not sure but most notably George Soros and Co.) they set out to insidiously get rid of anyone in the Democratic Party that didn’t agree with their plan for America.

Step 2 - By hook or crook get rid of the Clintons. When Hillary came into her own they demonized her unmercilously. By they, I mean Dean, Brazile, Pelosi and others in the DNC who were, and are, insanely jealous of anything Clinton. The Clintons had to be destroyed by any means possible. The fact that some of their monied friends control the corporate media made their plans that more possible.

Step 3 - Find a personable candidate to push. Preferably a minority so they could preach progress and tell the world how far America has come. It had to be a malleable person that they could control and with their owning the MSM, building this person up was an easy matter.

Step 4 - Rig the primaries, rig the news media.

Step 5 - They found their perfect candidate. A little known “community organizer” from Chicago who had a reputation for dirty dealing and climbing on the backs of his friends to further his career. He had made it to the U.S. Senate by stealing other peoples’ work and claiming it as his own.

Step 6 - They set about to build him up and glorify him as a gift from the Gods for the American people. He took to this role like a duck to water and with each speech he gave (written by others) he began to more and more believe what the besotted news people were saying about him.

Step 7 - He was selected - not elected - to be a candidate for one of the major political parties by deceitful means and brainwashing of much of the electorate. And if you were resistant to brainwashing you were told - get out of the party - we don’t need you old bitter people.

The story hasn’t ended yet, and the effects of the Kool-aid may wear off for some but if it doesn’t I fear for our country because he has said; First we’ll win these primaries, then we’ll win the general election and we will change America - and then we’ll change the world.

Folks, I’m afraid that if this egomaniac isn’t stopped the evils that have been unleashed by Howard Dean and the DNC with the aid of Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank and others of their ilk this world is in for a mess of trouble.

These ramblings are some of the things that have been sorely troubling me and if we don’t all work to put John McCain (not my first choice) in the White House we will be right back to the 1930’s, only this time it will start in America instead of Germany.

God help us all.

(come la gallina ha sottovalutato l'importanza dei caucus e dell'entusiasmo suscitato tra i giovani da parte di Obama)

Perche' Oba da "underdog" (non favorito dal pronostico) ha raccolto un maggior numero di pledged delegates (delegati eletti con voto popolare) anche senza avere tutto sommato piu' voti popolari? Vediamone alcune ragioni:

seconda parte del video: Il caso Nevada e Pennsylvania:

(ovvero come con una strategia legata al territorio ed alla distribuzione dei delegati per contea e provincia gli strateghi di Obama hanno fregato la gallina)

1) oba ha capito meglio della gallina il meccanismo dei caucus (soprattutto nel gia' citato Iowa). I suoi strateghi (di oba) se li sono studiati bene ed hanno capito che puntando sui giovani universitari ed energizzando quella base (gli speachwriter di obama sono giovani e ragionano con termini che eccitano i giovani non a caso) avrebbero vinto a mani basse i caucus come poi e' avvenuto...
perche? ma perche' per i caucus essendo il processo di scelta piuttosto lungo c'e' bisogno di gente disposta a perdere giornate intere, e chi fatica dalla mattina alla sera non ha tutto questo tempo, gli studenti universitari si!
Loro si possono gestire molto di piu' il loro tempo soprattutto se sono motivati.
Inoltre sono migliori oratori, piu' appassionati e con un livello culturale superiore rispetto alla base galliniana, il che nel lungo processo dei caucus li mette in una posizione di forte vantaggio come si e' visto.
La gallina manco ci pensava ai caucus, pensava di avere in tasca la nomination a prescindere.

2) la gallina pensava che dopo il supertuesday agli inizi di febbraio, avendo dalla sua gia' oltre 200 superdelegati, obama (e lui ne aveva si e no una cinquantina) si sarebbe ritirato (lo hanno decisamente sottovalutato). La gallina non aveva alcun piano per il dopo super tuesday, infatti si e' beccata un parziale di 11 a zero nel mese di febbraio che ha reso inevitabile la candidatura di oba, per cambiare il corso degli eventi avrebbe dovuto vincere a sorpresa in posti dove oba era dato vincente, oramai anche se vincesse in SD non se la inculerebbe piu' nessuno... l'ultima vera possibilita' era una pesante vittoria in indiana e una buona sconfitta in NC ma come sapete non e' successo.

3) la gallina ha raccolto fondi nella maniera classica nel vecchio modo di fare politica, ha sottostimato il fatto che internet ora e' molto piu' diffuso di 4 anni fa, e oba non e' dean... oba ha potuto spendere sempre 3-4 volte piu' di lei grazie alla raccolta fondi capillare e diffusissima, lui e' ancora pieno di soldi e gliene puo' arrivare una quantita' praticamente illimitata rispetto ai precedenti standard mentre la gallina affoga nei debiti...

4) la gallina ha avuto la sfortuna che alcuni argomenti hanno preso il sopravvento nei momenti a lei meno favorevoli.
Per esempio a gennaio non si parlava tanto di economia ma di iraq. Si fosse parlato piu' di economia e meno di iraq all'inizio oba non avrebbe avuto quello slancio visto che lei ha fatto l'errore di non scusarsi per aver votato ed applaudito davanti alle telecamere la guerra voluta da bush.
Il caso del reverendo e' arrivato invece in un momento in cui c'era da aspettare un paio di settimane per il voto in penn e quindi si e' avuto il tempo di assorbire la cosa (piu o meno e poi in penn non ci si aspettava una vittoria di oba)...

5) la gallina stava sulle balle ai media, diciamolo, e' odiosa e a oba hanno riservato un trattamento migliore anche per questo... lui poi era un caso mediatico faceva audience quindi lo hanno coccolato... la gallina ha notato questo, ha cercato di reagire, ma non c'era niente da farepersino in un media ostile come Fox news c'e' stato chi lo ha difeso a spada tratta.

C'e' da dire che malgrado il vantaggio in termini di delegati eletti durante le primarie senza quelli che venivano chiamati superdelegati, che erano in realta' i personaggi di rilievo del partito democratico, come i deputati, i senatori, i governatori e altri come gli ex presidenti e ex vicepresidenti (Bill Clinton, Carter, Gore, Mondale) nessuno avrebbe mai potuto raggiungere il numero magico. In totale circa 800 superdelegati non eletti durante le primarie ma aventi diritto al voto durante la convention che in una corsa testa a testa sarebbero stati inevitabilmente decisivi. Visto il potere che Bill Clinton aveva nel partito e pensando a quanti dovevano praticamente tutto a lui ci si sarebbe aspettato che quasi tutti gli 800 superdelegati avrebbero votato per Hillary Clinton. Non e' andata cosi'. Ovvero circa 250 erano sin da subito con lei ma gli altri temporeggiavano e sotto sotto preferivano Obama. Come mai?

Sul perche' nel partito democratico ad un certo punto iniziarono a fare il tifo per obama a prescindere dal voto popolare:

Con grande piacere di molti nel partito per vari motivi (tra i quali l'ingombranza e l'arroganza della famiglia Clinton nella vita del partito stesso e' solo l'ultimo). Quella e' gente pratica

i motivi sono essenzialmente 3

1) Oba sta mettendo su uffici elettorali (grazie anche ai tantissimi soldi raccolti) in tutti e 50 gli stati. Che lui vinca o no ha poca importanza, sta gettando le basi per ricostruire il partito in zone abbandonate da 50 anni. Per chi si deve fare eleggere presidente poco importano i voti di Dakota e Montana, ma per i deputati e i senatori da 50 anni abbandonati a se stessi vedere uno che ti apre 20 uffici elettorali con gente che fa campagna aggressiva voto per voto aiutandoti nel tuo intento di farti eleggere alla camera o al senato non e' roba che passa inosservata...
diciamolo a moltissimi superdelegati del partito il fatto che Oba abbia messo su questa organizzazione-50-stati fa un comodo di bestia per le loro personali carriere... se Oba viene affossato loro saranno lasciati sempre piu' soli, la gallina si interessa ed e' forte soprattutto in appalachia ma sono 5-6 stati al massimo a beneficiarne mentre con Oba lo sono un po' tutti tranne questi in effetti dove il suo sforzo non produce molto). In tutti e 50 stati oba sta facendo iscrivere al partito democratico ed alle liste elettorali gente che non aveva mai votato o che era indipendente o addirittura repubblicana, e questo inevitabilmente piace tanto al partito.

2) i soldi, elemento non secondario. Oba e' pieno di soldi grazie a centinaia di migliaia di piccole donazioni da meno di 100 dollari. La gallina e' nei debiti fino al collo ed ha pochi grossi donatori.
Il problema piu' grosso e' il limite massimo di donazione.
Eh si perche' in america mica puoi sborsare cifre grosse per un candidato, c'e' un limite massimo ed i pochi ma pesanti donatori della gallina l'hanno quasi tutti raggiunto, mentre le centiana di migliaia di piccoli donatori di Obama non sono nemmeno a un decimo del potenziale di donazione personale. Questo vuol dire non solo che la gallina e' in mezzo ai debiti, ma anche che ha il fiato corto e poche prospettive di raccogliere fondi in futuro. Oba invece ha sulla carta risorse illimitate.
E' estremamente probabile che i suoi donatori nell'arco dei prossimi mesi caccino in media altri 100-200 dollari a testa dandogli una quantita' di denaro mai vista da fare impallidire qualsiasi altra raccolta fondi e senza arrivare nemmeno lontanamente al tetto massimo...
una fonte di facile raccolta e praticamente illimitata rispetto alle altre.
In questo e' stata importante internet che rispetto a 4 anni fa quando si pensava dovesse fare stravincere Dean e' molto piu' diffusa (ogni anno raddoppia il numero di utenti con banda larga quindi quelli che 4 anni fa non erano sufficienti ora sono un oceano inarrestabile), questo non va sottovalutato.

3) la ragione piu' cinica di tutte. La gallina e' votata dai vecchi. Oba dai giovani. Quanto durano ancora sti vecchi? 10 anni?
Ok deludiamo i giovani per premiare i vecchi visto che la gallina se si votasse domani straccerebbe mccain mentre oba probabilmente perderebbe e poi fra 8 anni che fai? i vecchi sono morti, i giovani ti hanno mandato affanculo perche' gli hai tolto il loro candidato della speranza per una facile vittoria immediata e il partito e' morto e sepolto per i prossimi decenni.
Il canto del cigno della gallina...
Con Oba invece questa base elettorale di giovani te la ritrovi a votare per i democratici per i prossimi 50 anni...
un po' come quelli che oggi chiamano i "reagan democrats", un domani ci saranno per decenni gli "obama repubblicans" o gli "obama indipendents" (che non sono in numero irrilevante).
Insomma (e non ridete) in questo caso e' meglio un uovo domani che una gallina oggi!

La questione del voto popolare:

(come la gallina abbia cercato di convincere i superdelegati a ribaltare il vantaggio di Obama tra i delegati eletti).

questo articolo e' da leggere per fare chiarezza:
http://www.observer.com/2008/popular-vote-math-made-easy

la gallina non vuole contare i voti di 4 stati in cui ci sono stati i caucus (dice che i voti vanno contati tutti ma quelli non li vuole contare e sono di Washington, Iowa, Maine and Nevada che nel loro complesso hanno dato (valori stimati non certificati perche' non hanno rilasciato i numeri ufficiali)

Obama: 334,084

Clinton: 223,862

Difference: Obama +110,222

contando giustamente questi vanno contati per Obama anche gli "uncommitted" del MI, visto che quei delegati furono poi attribuiti ad Obama:

Baseline: Obama +526,193

Baseline + Florida: Obama +231,426

Baseline + Florida and Michigan (without uncommitted): Clinton +96,883

Baseline + Florida and Michigan (with uncommitted): Obama + 141,285

questo tra i commenti e' interessante:
Great analysis, but it misses one very critical piece that basically puts the popular vote out of reach for Clinton. The following is an excerpt from a comment I posted in response to basically the same analysis from Jonathan Alter of Newsweek, which can be found at http://www.newsweek.com/id/138109/

"This particular piece is obvious reporting that I've despaired hasn't been done by anyone in the wake of Kentucky and Oregon, and you get kudos for it. I would constructively point out that your analysis omits something that would further fatten Obama's popular vote lead: the Texas caucus. Why is this just as important to count as the other four omitted caucuses, despite the fact that unlike them it was coupled with a primary? Because those popular votes also elected delegates to the convention, and ultimately this is a count of all votes which did just that (unlike votes in the primaries in Washington and Nebraska, both of which Obama won). But since RCP doesn't provide a Texas caucus estimate, I decided to Google this issue to see if someone has. And Slate has:
Because a more exact number can't be known until the state convention, the best estimate according to Slate's math is that the caucus increases Obama's lead by 100,000 to 200,000 votes. Your comprehensive and fair count puts Obama up about 166,000 (which now is actually around 175,000). That means Obama's true lead, even with FL and MI, is 275,000 to 375,000 votes. So with additional votes to be netted out of MT and SD, it may be the case that even with PR, Clinton won't win the popular vote. And even if she gets enough out of PR to make that claim, it doesn't change the fact that Puerto Ricans don't pay federal income taxes and cannot elect the president."

insomma al valore in grassetto andrebbero aggiunti anche i voti del caucus texano.
Obiezione: ma in texas c'e' gente che ha votato 2 volte 1 per il caucus e 1 per le primarie che facciamo contiamo 2 volte il loro voto quando a novembre voteranno solo 1 volta?
beh ma a ognuno di quei 2 voti sottendono 2 categorie di pledged delegati eletti, se volessimo fare il ragionamento non in base ai voti utili per eleggere pledged delegati (in quel caso quindi quei voti texani andrebbero per forza contati 2 volte perche' hanno contato per eleggere delegati 2 volte, una volta col caucus e una volta con la primaria) ma in base al voto di novembre allora il voto popolare di puerto rico sarebbe da non contare affatto valendo zero a novembre... e allora direte si ma elegge delegati! E allora contiamo anche il caucus texano che ne ha eletti ben 67 contro i 55 di puertorico! Si ma i voti dei caucus texani essendo doppioni non saranno contati a novembre!
Va bene! Ma se e' per questo nemmeno i voti dei portoricani saranno contati a novembre...

anche non volendo cmq contare i caucus texani ci sarebbe una differenza allo stato attuale (contando i 4 stati dei caucus sopra citati e attribuendo giustamente gli uncommitted del MI) di Obama + 141,285.

alla fine della fiera si puo' dire che con tutti sti voti e tutto sto bordello sarebbe piu' onesto dire che
1) le regole dicono che conta il numero dei delegati stabiliti dalla distribuzione del voto secondo i regolamenti adottati stato per stato, e questa gara l'ha chiaramente vinta obama

2) ci sono stati oltre 38 milioni di voti con una differenza di voto popolare difficilmente decifrabile che potrebbe essere riassunta con 2 parole "virtuale pareggio"...
la cosa piu' onesta e' dire che obama ha vinto il numero di delegati maggiore (grazie al fatto che ha capito meglio il meccanismo dei caucus) e che ha un punto di vista del voto popolare sono finiti PRATICAMENTE PARI.
Se quelli della gallina fossero onesti direbbero questo, non che hanno vinto il voto popolare, perche' non e' vero o non e'facilmente dimostrabile se non seguendo delle logiche profondamente di parte che per il bene del partito sarebbe meglio evitare.

c'era un bellissimo video della msnbc che spiegava come la posizione della gallina fosse cambiata decine di volte durante questi mesi per stabilire chi stesse vincendo...
sempre ovviamente per perorare la sua causa personale...
dichiarazioni su quanto fosse inutile il voto in MI poi smentite, l'argomento voti elettorali/stati grossi che aveva vinto, l'argomento swing states che aveva vinto, ora il voto popolare grazie a puertorico che non ha voti elettorali...
insomma a seconda degli scenari cambiava tutto, persino il numero da raggiungere per vincere, prima diceva 2025 poi 2210 poi chissa' che si inventa...

I 2 stati ribelli delle primarie democratiche, la Florida ed il Michigan:

(cerchiamo di spiegare perche' Obama non era sulla scheda elettorale del Michigan e che cosa era successo in Florida)

Come abbiamo spiegato in video le primarie iniziano sempre in Iowa. Questi 2 stati non ci volevano stare a fare le primarie dopo e fecero casino. Dopo aver firmato nel 2007 l'accordo sulla data vennero meno alla parola data anticipando il giorno delle elezioni primarie scavalcando molti altri stati. Si comportarono come quei bulletti che fanno una fila con altre 48 persone e ad un certo punto si mettono a spingere per passare davanti. In Florida in realta' la colpa fu soprattutto del governatore repubblicano e del fatto che in Florida il partito democratico e' un partito debole. In Michigan invece fecero proprio gli stronzi. Il partito penso' di punirli togliendo ai delegati cosi' eletti il diritto di voto. Iniziarono a dire che cosi' si privava gli elettori del loro diritto, avendo essi votato si sarebbero sentiti defraudati del loro voto. Loro non avevano alcuna colpa,(e poi diciamolo gli elettori hanno sempre ragione anche quando hanno torto), poi quei 2 stati sono 2 stati in bilico per le elezioni di novembre quindi alienarsi quegli elettori non era una buona idea. Pensarono inizialmente di annullare quindi il voto dei superdelegati che provenivano da quei 2 stati (in fondo era stata colpa loro), ma una decisione simile era improbabile che fosse presa da un comitato composto per lo piu' da superdelegati di altri stati. Cane non mangia cane.

Come risolsero il problema? Fecero valere il voto di ogni delegato 0,5 anziche' 1 come quelli degli altri stati. Esattamente come avevano fatto i repubblicani (quindi gli elettori non avrebbero potuto essere risentiti verso i democratici piu' di quanto non lo fossero verso i repubblicani).

Andiamo avanti.
In MI Oba non era presente nella scheda elettorale (non era un atto dovuto ma lui l'ha fatto per rispetto delle decisioni del comitato del partito, in FLA non era possibile rimuovere il nome dalla scheda e quindi non lo ha fatto, non ha fatto cmq campagna elettorale in nessuno dei 2 stati) ma il 40% degli elettori ha votato "uncommitted" ovvero "nessuno di questi" non avendo il nome di Obama presente, non c'era manco quello di Edwards ma quest'ultimo ha appoggiato oba quindi quel 40% di delegati uncommitted (con voto di valore 1/2 come gli altri di FLA e MI) fu assegnato ad Oba. In effetti Oba ne ebbe pure qualcuno in piu' : 4 delegati furono tolti alla gallina e dati a lui, cosa che fece imbestialire la gallina ma a quel punto con 200 delegati di vantaggio quei 4 non facevano la differenza, anche se potevano risparmiarsi quello scippo in verita'. Ovvero c'era una logica dietro quella scelta ma era comunque opinabile. Il 3 giugno i giochi erano fatti e la gallina doveva arrendersi dopo una battaglia durata molti mesi.

-‘Sports Entertainment Genius’ Mr. McMann and Quadruple R lament the lack of firepower in McMann’s Corporation.

-PCW TV Champion FUBAR defeats his tag team partner SNAFU and then is attacked after the match by ‘No Frills’ Chris Escondido and the ‘American Screamer’ Howard Dean. Escondido vows to bring the PCW TV belt back to the Progressive Alliance.

-MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly have another extreme encounter with each other. Olbermann’s associates, Rachel Maddow and Hardball Chris Matthews, interfere in the match which causes CNN’s Lou Dobbs, not an Olbermann fan, to run down and take out the Countdown host with a steel-folding chair. Afterwards, Dobbs tells an unconscious Olbermann ‘he may be the worst person in the world but Olbermann was the biggest douchebag a-hole in the entire universe!’

-Starz N. Stripes w/John McCain (American Patriots) and O’Beck Bahama w/Barack Obama (Progressive Alliance) meet again. Starz wins when Libertarian Bob Barr and Independent Darth (Ralph) Nader come to the ring to protest, allowing Starz to roll up Bahama for the win. In the aftermath, McCain takes Obama out with a Singapore cane shot and all hell breaks loose afterwards.

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The crowd chants PCW…PCW.

Suave: “As you might expect, Barack Obama of the Progressive Alliance was not very happy with what happened at the end of the Starz N. Stripes/O’Beck Bahama match.”

Obama comes to the ring. He states he’s had enough of John McCain’s tactics. He doesn’t know why McCain attacked him with a Singapore cane but he declares that he and the Progressive Alliance will aggressively respond from this point forward.

Sarah Palin, carrying a hockey stick, leads John McCain out to the ring. McCain tells Obama that political wrestling is tough. McCain: “This is no walk in the park. While I was held prisoner in Hanoi did I get any sympathy because I complained about ‘rough treatment? Hell no.” McCain tells Obama that he’s just upset because his inexperience cost his guy, O’Beck Bahama, a shot at the PCW belt. McCain: “Again, you couldn’t rise to the challenge to defeat Starz N. Stripes for the PCW Title.” McCain then adds that Bahama’s had enough chances and won’t receive any more title shots.

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 McCain: “Hah. You’ve got a better chance of getting Cheech and Chong back together.”

Obama: “John. They’re back together.”

McCain: “Oh.”

MATCH #1 PCW TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP- FUBAR © w/Dr. Bill (Independent) vs. MICHAEL HUNT of Guys With Unfortunate First Names Given Their Surnames (Jobber)

Dr. Bill exhorts FUBAR on with his unique brand of positive self-help talk. Dr. Bill: “Don’t let him win! You win!” Suave: “Wow. How profound is that? No wonder he makes the big bucks.” Suave then mimics a retching sound.

Suave then notes that former Detroit Lions GM Matt Millen is in Michael Hunt’s corner tonight. Suave: “Apparently, Hunt is taking a page from FUBAR. I wonder if it’ll work?”

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 WINNER AND STILL PCW TELEVISION CHAMPION: FUBAR

Again, ‘No Frills’ Chris Escondido and the ‘American Screamer’ Howard Dean (Progressive Alliance) attack FUBAR. Swinging neckbreaker by Escondido lays out the TV champ. Again, Escondido runs down FUBAR as a ‘glorified jobber’ and ‘talent enhancement.’ Escondido demands a title shot but Dr. Bill says no. Dean and Escondido then assault Dr. Bill but then the Jobbers aka Talent Enhancement run out. Jimmy from So Cal, the Jim Rome Clone wannabe. Snott Flemmstein. Hunt and his tag team partner Richard Headd of Guys With Unfortunate First Names Given Their Surnames. And SNAFU. The jobbers chase away Escondido and Dean.

Suave then introduces another piece by Exploding Sheep Productions.

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The Beverly Hills fundraiser for Barack Obama. An outdoor courtyard. 300 people, including stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Ferrell, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Jodie Foster, seated at 30 tables resting on a cobblestone surface. Cost- $28,500 per person for the reception. $2,500 for a concert by Barbra Streisand afterwards.

Obama finishes his remarks and leaves. The dinner continues as the black-suited waiters circulated through the grounds. One water suddenly hops on the stage and whips off his suit.

Suave: “HOLY CRAP! IT’S DEWAYNE CANTRELL!”

Cantrell, main character of J.D. Elder’s novel Loose Cannons of Buckland County and Loose Cannons and Other Weapons of Mass Political Destruction, holds up a steel-folding chair and bellows to the shocked crowd: “Surprisingly, I don't see anyone from middle class America showing up here at some Tudor-style Greystone mansion in Beverly Hills with an entry fee of $28,500 to get in so you can dine on beef filet, asparagus and salad with goat cheese with a bunch of rich elitists and then be serenaded by some over the hill singer for an additional $2,800. I guess the price tag is a little high when they're trying not to lose their house to foreclosure, trying to tread water because their wages don't keep up with $4.15 per gallon of gasoline and the ever rising cost of living!”

Cantrell then wades into the tables and starts whacking people with the steel-folding chair. Chaos breaks out. Stars flee the grounds. Someone tries to collect $28,500 from Cantrell; he eats a steel-folding chair to the noggin.

Suave: “Standing up for the little guy, one steel-folding chairshot at a time!”

MATCH #2 ‘PCW Extreme Pizza Delivery Girl’ TESSA MARTIN w/Daisy Cutter-Bomb and Tequila Sheila of the 3 Amigas (Independent) vs. ‘Defense Expert’ HALLIE BURTON w/Neal Conn- making foreign policy as paramount responsibility of government, seeing the need for the U.S. acting as the world's sole superpower as indispensable to establishing and maintaining global order (American Patriots)
The winner of this match gets a shot at the PCW Women’s title held by ‘Empress of All Media’ Opal Winfree (Progressive Alliance). Tessa hits a bicycle kick right after the bell rings. Burton rebounds with a belly-to-belly suplex and then slams Tessa into the corner turnbuckle. Conn pulls Tessa out of the ring and throws her against the steel guardrail. Burton then leaps from the top rope and smashes the PCW Extreme Pizza Delivery Girl hard into the guardrail. Daisy Cutter-Bomb then blasts into Burton. She powerslams Burton on the entrance ramp. Neal Conn pulls Daisy off. Tequila Sheila then knocks Conn out with her blender. Daisy throws Burton back in the ring. Tessa grabs her oversized pizza box, with a street sign inside, and clocks Burton with it. She covers and that’s the match.

WINNER: ‘PCW Extreme Pizza Delivery Girl’ TESSA MARTIN “Next week, it’ll be ‘PCW Extreme Pizza Delivery Girl’ Tessa Martin vs. ‘Empress of All Media’ Opal Winfree for the PCW Women’s title.”

Suave:

MR. McMANN’S CORPORATION SEGMENT
Kathryn Randall Collins…aka KRC, Quadruple R, Bradley Scott Wilson Esq., and Richard Emerson Bentley III sit as Mr. McMann tries to persuade someone (blocked from view) to join his corporation. Suave wonders who it could be.

EXPLODING SHEEP PRODUCTIONS

 Barbra Streisand profusely apologizes for DeWayne Cantrell’s attack. She promises to make it up to everyone attending the star studded $28,500 per person Obama fundraiser plus the extra $2,800 to hear Streisand sing.

The band starts to play- but it’s not one of Streisand’s classics. It’s a country sound.

Suave: “HOLY CRAP! That’s not Barbra Streisand’s band! That’s…THE BLACK SWAMP PIRATES!

The guests look on in horror as the Pirates play their hit song, “American Elitist.”

I don’t want to be an American Elitist
Don’t want to be smug, self-absorbed, and conceited
Looking down your nose while sipping cappuccino
Push your political views cause you act or hit a high note

I know it’s hard to see us when you’re up so far above
I guess we’re supposed to listen, cause you’ve got a Hollywood star
Your perks and privilege gets you places we will never see.
Your power and prestige gets you people we’ll never meet.

So Barbra Streisand, you won’t defeat us
You and the rest of the American Elitists
Just like Michael Moore, hell, you’d better believe us
Stay inside your limousine behind the tinted glass
Hide behind the velvet ropes and you can kiss our ass

I don’t want to be an American Elitist
Corporate greed feeds the rich, the rest of us simply bleed yes
Golden parachutes, they protect the big gun
While no one gives a damn about the little ones

I know it’s hard to see us when you’re up so far above
And I guess you’ve got a better way since you drive a fancy car
Your perks and privileges gets you places we will never see.
Your power and prestige gets you people we’ll never meet.

So Rush Limbaugh, you won’t defeat us
You and the rest of the American Elitists
Just like, Dick Cheney, hell you’d better believe us
Stay inside your limousine behind the tinted glass
Hide out at your country clubs and you can kiss our ass

I don’t want to be an American Elitist
Big money special interests, well they get what they need yeah
One dollar equals one vote, that’s the way the game’s played
While the rest of us watch as our dreams slowly slip away

I know it’s hard to see us when you’re up so far above
And if you’ve got the cash to pay, you get all the fun
Your perks and privileges gets you places we will never see.
Your power and prestige gets you people we’ll never meet.

Hey NRA, you won’t defeat us
You and the rest of the American Elitists
Hey you, George Soros, you’d better believe us
Stay inside your limousine behind the tinted glass
Spend your cash, buy an election and you can kiss our ass

Hey Wall Street Journal, you won’t defeat us
You and the rest of the American Elitists
Like Rolling Stone, you’d better believe us.
Stay inside your limousine behind the tinted glass
Watch us from your ivory towers and you can kiss our ass

McCAIN-OBAMA INTERVIEW FOR PCW CEO

The first of three interviews with PCW Owner Bubba Jackson to determine who will become the next PCW CEO.

McCain emphasized his experience in working with members of the Progressive Alliance to make PCW a better wrestling organization. He noted Obama’s relative inexperience as the key reasons why he would be the best choice to be the next PCW CEO.

Obama parried McCain’s remarks by calling his support of PCW CEO George W’s ‘war’ against EECW…

BCEW vs. EECW 

…a grave failure of judgment. An error that caused the wrestling promotion to take its eye off the ball in improving the PCW product. Obama called McCain out of touch with modern political wrestling fans- a point that McCain disputed.

McCain: “I’ve been a wrestling fan for years and root for the underdog. I think it’s great that WCW is giving the WWF a run for their money.

Obama: “Uh, John. WCW went out of business 8 years ago and WWF is now WWE.”

McCain: “Oh…”

MATCH #3 PCW TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH- JACK SCHETT & BULL SCHETT w/Horst Schett and Hans Gruber- the German Schnauzer (Progressive Alliance) vs. A. TOM BOMB & HY DROGEN BOMB w/ Newt Tron Bomb (American Patriots)

Horst Schett takes the mic and holds up the Schnauzer. Horst: “You should all bow down to this dog. This dog is named after greatest cinematic villain of all time! Hans Gruber! GOD BLESS YOU ALAN RICKMAN!” Jack Schett then takes the mic. Jack: “IF YOU DON’T THINK THE SCHETT BROTHERS ARE THE BEST TAG TEAM IN PCW, THEN YOU DON’T KNOW JACK SCHETT!” The crowd starts chanting ‘bulls###...bulls###!” Bull: “See? Listen to them chant for me.”

Suave: “Ah, no. I don’t think that’s they’re doing.”

The bell rings A-Bomb and Jack Schett to begin. Trading chops by A-Bomb and Jack Schett. Jack clips the leg to take control. Leg lariat follows and A-Bomb powers back up. They trade chops again. Bull Schett tags in. Elbows to A-Bomb and a knee to the back. Belly to belly suplex by Bull and a cover for 2. Elbows again by Bull. He tries for the roaring elbow but misses and gets hung up in the ropes. H-Bomb gets a stun gun from the outside. Jack Schett runs over and gets into it with H-Bomb.

Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice for his aide de camp, joins Suave at the broadcast table along with two other people. Suave asks who the men are. They respond that they are McCain’s handlers and here to help Palin answer Suave’s questions. Suave first asks Palin how she’s doing. The handlers whisper into Palin’s ear and then she answers that she’s fine. Suave asks her about the PCW CEO race. McCain’s handlers again whisper in Palin’s ear. Palin responds that it’s a race between two people to lead PCW. Suave: “I know. What’s your thoughts about the race?” More input from the handlers. Palin seems confused, then responds that the Iditarod Dog Sled race is one of Alaska’s biggest events and then adds, “You can see Russia from Alaska.” Suave: “O-kay. Let’s get back to the match.”

H-Bomb trades chops and then hits a Russian leg sweep. H-Bomb off the ropes and backdrops Bull. Jack in, H-Bomb gives him a back breaker. Bull gets back up and kicks off H-Bomb's head. Cover for 2. Jack tags in and lays the boots to H-Bomb in the corner. Horst with a cheap shot on H-Bomb and pulls him to the floor. Horst tosses him to the barricade. Bull gets a cheap shot as well. Horst sics Hans Gruber on it H-Bomb. The dog leaps up and attacks H-Bomb in the balls.

Suave: “HOLY CRAP!” H-Bomb spins wildly, trying to get the dog’s jaws to let go. A-Bomb runs in and hits a running bulldog on Jack Schett. A-Bomb to the top turnbuckle and leaps on Bull Schett. Kick to the face by A-Bomb. Horst Schett then orders Hans Gruber to attack A-Bomb. The dog pulls off H-Bomb and leaps at A-Bomb. A-Bomb grabs a steel folding chair and blasts the poor animal in the face with it. Suave: “HOLY CRAP!” The dog drops.

Horst is horrified. Bull throws A-Bomb back into the ring and Jack just lays in the kicks in the corner. Forearm and elbows by Jack and a cover for 2. More chops by Jack and then he climbs up the top turnbuckle. Horst hands him a brick and Jack places it in the rear of his trunks. Suave: “He’s going for their finisher- the ‘Schett-Brick!’” Newt Tron Bomb hits the ring and pulls A-Bomb out of the way. Jack misses and lands hard on his ass in the ring.

Suave: “Jack Schett in major pain. I betcha those brick shards don’t feel real good…HERE COMES ARIANNA HUFFINGTON AND THE ANGRY LEFT-WING BLOGGERS!” Huffington directs Daily Kos, Media Matters for America, Eric Alterman, and Paul Krugman into the ring. Daily Kos tosses A-Bomb to the floor and Media Matters and Alterman start kicking away. Alterman chokes out A-Bomb and puts him on a table. Then as A-Bomb lay on the table, Daily Kos gets a running start and puts A-Bomb through the table.

H-Bomb staggers back into the ring and flops on the canvas. Senton by Jack, knee drop by Bull and a cover. One…two…Sarah Palin leaps from her chair and whacks Bull in the back with the hockey stick. Suave: “PALIN STOPS THE COUNT!…AND HERE COMES THE RIGHT-WING BRIGADE!” Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin, and Glenn Beck race down. Rights by Limbaugh, chops by Malkin and then an Enziguri takes out Jack Schett. Palin wades into the Angry Left Wing bloggers and starts swinging away. Horst revives Hans Gruber and sic the Schnauzer on the Right Wingers. Palin chases Huffington and the Angry Left Wing bloggers to the back. Hans Gruber chases the Right Wing Brigaders to the back.

Both Bull Schett and H-Bomb are out in the ring. Jack Schett is hurt and lying outside the ring. A-Bomb is unconscious in the ruins of the table. Suave: “Now what? Wait! Here comes Barack Obama.” Obama comes to the ring and rolls Bull over towards H-Bomb. Suave: “JOHN McCAIN’S RUNNING IN TO STOP HIM!” McCain reaches the ring but suddenly stops when a pair of hands from under the ring grabs his leg. Suave: “What the…IT’S JOE BIDEN!” Obama puts Bull on H-Bomb. The referee counts. 1-2-3.

WINNER AND STILL PCW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS: JACK SCHETT and BULL SCHETT (Progressive Alliance)

Suave: “What a match! The Progressive Alliance get a huge win tonight! We’ll see you next week!”

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Editor's Note: Part 1 of "The Lineup" has been added to this post to make the information it contains easily available.--See the Part 1 for the comments to the original posting.--GRL

After Part 1 of this article was published, we received several requests/suggestions for more individuals to be included in the hit parade. As with Part 1, please circulate it to friends, family, co-workers, casual acquaintances, or anyone who needs to be educated about the truth the MSM has kept buried. And per a special request from reader Song, I would like to challenge each and every one of you to ask 10 people to vote against Barack Obama on November 4^th.

The Lineup: Part 2

Alexi Giannoulis: Became Illinois State Treasurer after Barack Obama vouched for him. He has been described as a "man who has long been dogged by charges that the bank his family owns helped finance a Chicago crime figure". Giannoulis "pledged to raise $100,000 for the senator's Oval Office bid," Charles Hurt reported September 5, 2007, in the New York Post. Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times reported, "Before he promised to raise funds for Obama, Giannoulias bankrolled Michael 'Jaws' Giorango, a Chicagoan twice convicted of bookmaking and promoting prostitution.

"Giannoulias is so tainted by reputed mob links that several top Illinois Dems, including the state's speaker of the House and party chairman, refused to endorse him even after he won the Democratic nomination with Obama's help.” States Congresspedia

Jim Johnson: Former Fannie Mae Chair that was hired to vet Vice Presidential candidates for the Obama Campaign. Johnson allegedly received $7 million from Countrywide Mortgage, one of the biggest players in the sub-prime mortgage fiasco. He received below market mortgage rates form the lender that Obama railed against personally:

"This is a company that is as responsible as any firm in the country for the housing crisis we're facing today. When Countrywide Financial was sold a few months ago, its top two executives got a combined $19 million. These are the folks who are responsible for infecting the economy and helping to create a home foreclosure crisis….They get a $19 million bonus while people are at risk of losing their home. What's wrong with this picture?"

Emil Jones: President of the Illinois Senate and Obama's political mentor. When in the State Senate, all of Obama's accomplishments were in his 7th year. Jones was discovered to have handed Obama all these bills after being worked on by other legislators. Jones is credited with the statement "I'm gonna make me a U.S. Senator." When asked who that might be, Jones replied "Barack Obama".

David Axelrod: Chicago political consultant and Chief Strategist and Media Advisor to Obama, Axelrod has worked on the campaigns of John Edwards, Deval Patrick, and Eliot Spitzer. He also owns ASK Public Strategies, a firm credited with mastering the tactic of "Astroturfing" or organizing a political effort and making it look like a grassroots effort. Wikipedia describes it as follows: "Astroturfing may be undertaken by an individual pushing a personal agenda or highly organized professional groups with financial backing from large corporations, non-profits, or activist organizations. Very often the efforts are conducted by political consultants who also specialize in opposition research."

Tom Daschle: Former Democratic Senate Majority and Minority leader who was voted out of office by South Dakotans despite his presitgious position. Daschle is now a nationa Co-Chair for the Obama campaign. According to Wikipedia: "On February 13, 2006, Daschle became one of two Democrats (with Rep. Jane Harman of California) to endorse a warrantless domestic surveillance program conducted under the authority of President George W. Bush by the National Security Agency (NSA)."

Percy Sutton: This 87-year-old icon of the Civil Rights Movement recently recounted a story where he claimed he was asked to write a recommendation for Barack Obama to enter Harvard. Sutton's quote follows:

“I was introduced to him by a friend who was raising money for him and the friend’s name was Dr Khalid al Mansour from Texas. He is the principle adviser to one of the world’s richest men. He told me about Obama. He wrote to me about him and his introduction was ‘there is a young man that has applied to Harvard and I know that you have a few friends left there because you used to go up there to speak, would you please write a letter in support of him?’ That’s before Obama decided to run. And he interjected the advice that Obama had passed the requirements, had taken, and passed, the requirements necessary to get into Harvard and become President of the Law Review. That’s before he ever ran for anything. I wrote a letter in support of him to my friends at Harvard saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I surely hoped they would treat him kindly.”

Khalid al Mansour/Donald Warden: The mysterious man Percy Sutton referred to in his interview is somewhat difficult to identify (a very common name in several countries). The al Mansour that is also known as Donald Warden has ties to both the radical Black Panthers and has served on the board of a bank in Nigeria that may have connections to money raised for Barack Obama. For more detail, I recommend the following 2 articles, and bear in mind again the caveat "follow the money": (photo not readily available)

More at Texas Darlin's blog:

Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq al Mansour

Khalid al Mansour/Donald Warden: Obama Money Man in Nigeria?

The ACORN connection:

While not all directly associated with Barack Obama, these people formed the basis of his political philosophy and influenced him heavily, sometimes via theory, often via a strong organizational connection. Understanding who they are leads to a better understanding of the 2008 Presidential election.

Saul Alinsky: Writing a brief overview of Alinsky is nearly impossible; so I strongly urge you do look into the varied sides of this man further. That being said, Alinsky was a radical and community organizer (sound familiar?) who started the movement that grew into the SDS and ACORN (among other groups). Perhaps his own words explain his ideas best:

"Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one. (Courtesy Discover the Networks.org)

Alinsky served as mentor to many (including Hillary Clinton, who is said to have studied him and then continued on her political career, and Barack Obama, who still uses his techniques on a daily basis in this election), and put the fear of God into just as many (he one traveled to Oakland, CA and the local politicos were so shaken that they actually passed a resolution to ban him from the city). His talent was for organizing the poor into powerful political forces that can combat government and replace it with Socialism. Barack Obama is said to have taken Alinsky training when he began his Community Organizer career in Chicago. To understand Saul Alinsky and his followers is to gain much insight into Obama.

Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven: Columbia University radicals and creators of the so-called "Cloward-Piven strategy," which called for swamping the welfare rolls with new applicants, beyond what the system could bear. The idea was that the resulting economic collapse would lead to political turmoil and ultimately socialism. This concept was used effectively in New York City, and was cited as one of the causes of the city's financial collapse as welfare rolls jumped from 150,000 to over a million in just 10 years.

(Photo not readily available)

Wade Rathke: The founder and chief organizer of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), a group Obama has worked for and represented in lawsuits, and Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Rathke's brother Dale was reported to have embezzled over $940,000 from ACORN and it's affiliates, which Wade did not report to the full board and kept hidden for 8 years. ACORN is under investigation for voter registration fraud in 18 states, and past employees have admitted to simply making up names of supposed voters. Many consider ACORN to be a leftist extremist organization using the principles of Saul Alinsky and Cloward & Piven.

George Wiley: Mentor of Wade Rathke, founder and leader of the radical ACORN, best know for his use of the Cloward & Piven strategy. Wiley is known as the Founder of the National Welfare Reform Organization, and as a pioneer of the radical “franchise” concept, now used by ACORN and other groups, which helps local activists quickly build local outlets of national activist organizations by using church groups and other pre-existing community groups.

Carl Davidson: Former President of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn (a precursor to the Weather Underground), Davidson is credited with organizing the 2002 Anti-War rally where Obama gave his infamous speech against the Iraq war. Davidson is a self-styled "progressive for Obama" according to his blog http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/

Claire McCaskill: This Missouri Senator has supported Obama since her children shamed her into it in the beginning of 2008. McCaskill has been a vocal supporter, and her name was bandied about as a potential VP pick by Obama. She has been accused by ACORN workers in MO of using the organization to bring out new voters to support her instead of registering new voters or getting them to support a minimum wage bill as they were hired to do. The workers were all fired from ACORN after refusing to campaign for McCaskill.

Herbert and Marion Sandler: A New York lawyer and Wall Street analyst that sold Golden West Financial (GDW), one of the largest savings and loans in the nation to Wachovia Bank just before their portfolio dragged the S & L under. Wachovia failed in the recent Wall Street crisis as a result of the high number of sub-prime mortgages it acquired in its $24 billion purchase of GDW. The Sandlers personally made billions (yes, that's with a B), and went on to fund organizations like ACORN and the International Crisis Group, the staff of which is said to form the basis of the future State Department of an Obama Administration.

Peter Lewis: Chairman of Progressive Insurance who along with George Soros gave $23 million to Moveon.org, and formed a group called The Democracy Alliance, both strong ACORN supporters. In 2004 he was one of the top donors to 527 groups promoting a far left agenda. Lewis describes himself as "half screwball, half businessman" and once showed up to a City Council meeting wearing a Lone Ranger outfit.

For a look at ACORN on video, see Uppity Woman's post from 9/30/2008 "Video:Barack Obama and 'Let’s Take Over The World” Acorn .'"

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Part 1--A Who's Who of The Associates of Barack Obama

~~By Grail Guardian

For months now, we’ve been reading and hearing from the Obama campaign that it’s not experience that matters for Barack Obama (whose paper-thin resume includes being a Community Organizer, Chair of the failed Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and running for public office), but rather the excellent judgment that he displays. In light of the continued media frenzy favoring Obama and shielding him from public scrutiny, I decided that it would be timely to revisit that judgment in the form of the people Obama associates with professionally and personally (both past and present). I personally have been able to find few people that are close to the Illinois Senator that I would want anywhere near the Oval Office, but I’ll let you be the judge. I intend this article to be part of a much needed grassroots effort to educate those that only get their news from the Main Stream Media or do not follow politics closely, so feel free to link it, print it, e-mail it, or do whatever you need to do to get the word out (giving proper credit and/or links to Insight Analytical and myself is always appreciated). You can consider it an Obama 101 Picture Book Primer and a serious attempt to save this great nation.

Antoin “Tony” Rezko: Convicted Chicago developer (16 out of 24 felony counts) that helped the Obamas buy their expensive Hyde Park mansion. Investigation by a Federal prosecutor is ongoing into whether Rezko received government contracts in exchange for political contributions to Barack Obama, and whether Obama was a conspirator in the “Pay to Play” scheme. There is still the possibility that Obama will be named as a defendant, which likely depends on the outcome of the November election.

Nadhmi Auchi: This former member of Saddam Hussein's government lent money to Tony Rezko just prior to the Obama’s purchasing their Hyde Park mansion. Auchi has also donated money to Obama’s campaign.

(Photo: Auchi is on the left, shown with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, right)

Rev. Jeremiah Wright (right): Obama's radical pastor for 20 years (at Trinity United Church of Christ), whose claims that the AIDS epidemic was caused by the US government and 9/11/01 was an "inside job," caused Obama to leave the church earlier this year amid a firestorm of controversy about Wrights comments and connection with Marxism-based “Black Liberation Theology”.

Rod Blagojevich: Illinois Governor and Obama supporter under investigation for his involvement in Chicago's "Pay to Play" political corruption trials and possible connections to Tony Rezko.

Penny Pritzker: Obama Campaign Finance Chair, whose family owned Superior Bank which was the first in the nation to go under (in 2001) as part of the current Wall Street sub-prime mortgage crisis. She is rumored to be a candidate for Treasury Secretary in an Obama Administration.

Franklin Raines: Former head of the recently rescued lender Fannie Mae who walked away with some $25 million as the institution crumbled in the Sub-Prime Mortgage fraud. Once claimed to a reporter to be a personal advisor to Barack Obama.

Frank Marshall Davis: This confirmed member of the Communist Party USA has been identified as the childhood mentor Obama calls simply "Frank" in Dreams From My Father. Obama's grandfather, Stanley Dunham, introduced him to the boy as a black male role model in Honolulu. In his writings, Davis confesses that he and his wife once had sex with a 13-year-old girl named Anne.

Rashid Khalidi: A Hyde Park neighbor of Obama and the co-founder of the Arab American Action Network, which calls the establishment of Israel a "catastrophe", Khalidi is a former spokesman for the PLO, served on the Woods Foundation with Barack Obama, and has raised funds for him.

Cecil Butler: A Chicago real estate developer who profited from the privatization of low income, public housing during the 1990s (similar to Tony Rezko) in the "Pay to Play" fraud. Butler is a major supporter of Barack Obama whose low-income tenements were ultimately seized by the government for multiple building code violations.

(No photos of Butler are readily available, but this building has been identified as one of his west side projects.)

Valerie Jarrett: An Obama insider once stated of this Iranian-born real estate developer: "She's always been the other side of Barack's brain." She is considered by some to be a top candidate for Obama's Chief of Staff, and is a longtime political insider (part of Mayor Richard Daley's team responsible for hiring Michelle Robinson Obama) and stands at the center of Chicago's controversial efforts to redevelop public housing limiting the number of residents, mostly poor and black, who can live in the new communities.

Louis Farrakhan: Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam, considered by many to be a radical anti-Semite, he had also accused the US government of launching "a war against the black people of America, the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan." He provided NOI bodyguards for Obama during the 2008 Democratic Primary until Obama received Secret Service protection. Farrakhan has endorsed Obama's bid for the Presidency in February 2008 calling him the "hope of the entire world".

State Sen. Rev. James Meeks: Obama's mentor in the Illinois legislature widely believed to have taken bills developed and worked on by various Illinois State Senate members and offered them to Obama to be introduced for votes with his own name listed as author in order to pad his resume for a US Senate run in 2006.

William Ayers & Bernadette Dohrn: Unrepentant domestic terrorists with the Weather Underground, Ayers and Dohrn participated in bombings and plots to murder policemen and judges in the 1960s. Obama's political career was launched at a party in the couple's living room, and Ayers hired Obama as the Chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and served with him on the Woods Foundation. Ayers is famous for stating, "I don't regret setting bombs" and "I feel we didn't do enough", and, when asked if he would "do it all again" as saying "I don't want to discount the possibility."

Fr. Michael Pfleger: Radical pastor of the mostly African American parish of Saint Sabina in Chicago, and frequent visitor to Obama's former congregation at Trinity UCC. Obama has called Pfleger a spiritual mentor, but was forced to denounce him during the Democratic primary for making inflammatory racial statements about opponent Hillary Clinton.

(Photo: Father Pfleger left, shown with Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam)

Hatem El-Hady: The former chairman of the Toledo-based Islamic charity Kindhearts, which was shut down by the US government in 2006 for terrorist fundraising and ties to Hamas. Elhady once had a web page on the official Barack Obama campaign site, but it was removed in April 2008.

(Again, no photo of el Hady is readily available, but the image at left is a screen capture of the el Hady profile page on the official Obama site before it was removed. There are 3 friends listed on the right, the last of which is Michelle Obama. Her name was removed immediately after el Hady’s name began to appear in the Blogosphere.)

Robert Malley: Controversial former Middle East policy advisor to the Obama campaign. Malley was fired only after he acknowledged holding private meetings with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Malley argues that negotiations with the Palestinians today must include Hamas.

Zbigniew Brzezinski: High profile Obama Foreign Policy advisor criticized for his 2008 article defending the book “The Israel Lobby”, which accuses American Jews of McCarthyism. The former national security adviser has been at odds with elements of the American Jewish community since his stint in the Carter administration, and is seen by many as staunchly anti-Russian, which could exacerbate the current tensions between Russia and the democratic nation of Georgia.

Howard Dean: Current Chair of the Democratic National Committee, Dean identified Obama as one of his “Dean’s Dozen” (a group of handpicked potential Democrats to run for President) as far back as 2002. Dean himself lost a bid for the Presidency in 2004 after his infamous “I Have a Scream” speech, and has been strongly criticized for steering the 2008 Presidential primaries in Barack Obama’s favor and even illegally using his position to declare the race over before the August 2008 convention.

Joseph Biden: Obama’s Vice Presidential pick, he is also known as “Credit Card Joe” due to his deep and fruitful connections to lender MNBA (based in Biden’s home state of Delaware). Biden is also known for his mishandling of the Senate confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court. Biden accused former Thomas employee Anita Hill (who claimed Thomas had sexually harassed her) of “fantasizing” the entire incident. Activists lambasted Biden at the time for trivializing Hill’s experiences and setting back the cause of Women’s Rights.

Michelle Robinson Obama: Obama’s wife of 15 years has caused much controversy throughout the campaign by stating she was proud of America “for the first time in my life”, stating of former President Bill Clinton that she would like to “scratch his eyes out”, and calling Barack Obama “pathetic” in an appearance on ABC’s The View and referring to him as “My babies’ Daddy” when introducing him at a campaign event. Robinson is thought to have introduced Barack Obama to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers at the Sidley law firm. Her thesis at Princeton has been restricted until November 5, 2008 (the day following the Presidential election), but an excerpt reads: "My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'Blackness' than ever before," she wrote in her thesis "I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus, as if I don't really belong."

George Soros: This Hungarian-born billionaire and self described global financier and philanthropist is suspected by many of being the power and money source behind the Obama campaign. He recently bought Moveon.org, a progressive political organization that has been highly critical of anyone opposing Obama. Soros has stated "The Bush administration and the Nazi and communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines by drawing on the innovations of the advertising and marketing industries, " as well as "supporting the Israeli government in its refusal to recognize a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas, which the U.S. State Department considers a terrorist organization."

Donna Brazile: Campaign Manager for Al Gore’s 2000 run for President, she also serves on the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the DNC that infamously stripped delegates from Florida and Michigan in the 2008 primaries. Following the embarrassing 2000 defeat, Brazile became e-mail buddies with Republican strategist Karl Rove and adopted his tactics against fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2008 campaign. As a CNN analyst, Brazile has been aggressively supporting Barack Obama since the start of the year, despite calling herself an “undeclared” Super Delegate.

Nancy Pelosi: The Speaker of the US House of Representatives took no action on ending the war in Iraq or rescuing the failing US economy, but found time to get involved in the Democratic primary race by pushing for NY Senator Hillary Clinton to drop out significantly before the Democratic Convention, and to write her own book. Pelosi leads the Democratic majority of the Congress with the lowest approval rating of all time.

Foreign Leaders Who are Admirers of Obama

Raila Odinga: Obama's African cousin on his father’s side, who Barack campaigned for in the Kenyan Presidential election in 2007. Odinga is now the country’s Prime Minister in a coalition government thrown together to avert civil war, and has been accused of mass political genocide across Kenya after his failed bid for the presidency.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: In March 2008, virulently anti-American Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the Spanish El Pais newspaper that he would have no problems if the junior senator from Illinois were to be elected US President. Ahmadinejad has also denied the reality of the holocaust and stated that Israel should be destroyed, as well as denying that homosexuality exists in Iran. Currently the US and allies are trying to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Hardly the type of man you want to be comfortable with an American Presidential candidate, but not the only foreign leader to endorse an Obama Presidency (see below).

Editor's Note; Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink and major Obama bundler, was among a large contingent of peace activists who met with Ahmadinejad on Wednesday, September 24, following his appearance before the U.N. General Assembly (Code Pink press release).

Kim Jong II: The dictator of North Korea recently allowed it's mouthpiece Chosun Sinbo to announce "We will see a better relationship between the U.S. and the Korean Peninsula with Obama, who sternly criticizes Bush and who would meet the leader of Chosun without pre-conditions".

Obama repeatedly stated that he would meet leaders such as Il in debates during the Democratic primaries.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi: The de facto leader of Libya since a 1969 coup, he has called America a dictatorship and refers to the Senator as "our brother Obama". He recently stated "all the people in the Arab and Islamic World ... prayed for his success" and "a person lies and lies so that people will vote for him". Gaddafi also said returning the Palestinians to their homeland is the "change Americans want".

Fidel Castro: The ailing Cuban dictator called Obama “the most progressive candidate to the U.S. presidency” and refused to formally endorse him, as “Were I to defend him, I would do his adversaries an enormous favor".

Hugo Chavez: The Socialist President of Venezuela is a fierce critic of American and US foreign policy, but (again) Obama has stated publicly that he would meet with Chavez without preconditions, and Chavez indicated his endorsement of Obama on Sept. 11, 2008.

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I mean, really. Where to start?

How is it acceptable to feminists that Obama supporters – such as the bar’s owner who painted the portrait – seem to spend an inordinate amount of time imagining the potential vice president of the United States naked?

How is it acceptable that these same folks would never imagine, say, Hillary Clinton naked?

Is it acceptable to demean a woman seeking a powerful office because she is attractive?

Is it acceptable to make fun of an updo that is actually designed – by her Palin’s own explanation – to unsexify her so she’ll be taken seriously?

Isn’t it creepy that the artist used his daughter as the portrait’s model?

Do liberal men secretly find it perversely sexy that Palin is a hunter – thus putting an automatic rifle in her hand in the portrait?

Why is hunting such a big issue to the Palinphobes – do they want to ban hunting? Coming from what he described as a hunting state, Howard Dean used to brag that he had an "A" rating from the NRA. John Kerry went hunting during the 2004 campaign, didn't he?

Which brings us back to the original question: How does this constitute news?

I'm not sure what to do first, re-read Freud or call Susan Faludi.

And they say McCain's tactics are politics as usual!  As usual the media fails to talk about the underhanded tactics being used against McCain. 

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/09/29/does-mccain-med-records-ad-go-too-far/?icid=200100397x1210712718x1200650301

For months now, we’ve been reading and hearing from the Obama campaign that it’s not experience that matters for Barack Obama (whose paper-thin resume includes being a Community Organizer, Chair of the failed Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and running for public office), but rather the excellent judgment that he displays. In light of the continued media frenzy favoring Obama and shielding him from public scrutiny, I decided that it would be timely to revisit that judgment in the form of the people Obama associates with professionally and personally (both past and present). I personally have been able to find few people that are close to the Illinois Senator that I would want anywhere near the Oval Office, but I’ll let you be the judge. I intend this article to be part of a much needed grassroots effort to educate those that only get their news from the Main Stream Media or do not follow politics closely, so feel free to link it, print it, e-mail it, or do whatever you need to do to get the word out (giving proper credit and/or links to Insight Analytical and myself is always appreciated). You can consider it an Obama 101 Picture Book Primer and a serious attempt to save this great nation.

Antoin “Tony” Rezko: Convicted Chicago developer (16 out of 24 felony counts) that helped the Obamas buy their expensive Hyde Park mansion. Investigation by a Federal prosecutor is ongoing into whether Rezko received government contracts in exchange for political contributions to Barack Obama, and whether Obama was a conspirator in the “Pay to Play” scheme. There is still the possibility that Obama will be named as a defendant, which likely depends on the outcome of the November election.

Nadhmi Auchi: This former member of Saddam Hussein's government lent money to Tony Rezko just prior to the Obama’s purchasing their Hyde Park mansion. Auchi has also donated money to Obama’s campaign.

(Photo: Auchi is on the left, shown with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, right)

Rev. Jeremiah Wright (right): Obama's radical pastor for 20 years (at Trinity United Church of Christ), whose claims that the AIDS epidemic was caused by the US government and 9/11/01 was an "inside job," caused Obama to leave the church earlier this year amid a firestorm of controversy about Wrights comments and connection with Marxism-based “Black Liberation Theology”.

Rod Blagojevich: Illinois Governor and Obama supporter under investigation for his involvement in Chicago's "Pay to Play" political corruption trials and possible connections to Tony Rezko.

Penny Pritzker: Obama Campaign Finance Chair, whose family owned Superior Bank which was the first in the nation to go under (in 2001) as part of the current Wall Street sub-prime mortgage crisis. She is rumored to be a candidate for Treasury Secretary in an Obama Administration.

Franklin Raines: Former head of the recently rescued lender Fannie Mae who walked away with some $25 million as the institution crumbled in the Sub-Prime Mortgage fraud. Once claimed to a reporter to be a personal advisor to Barack Obama.

Frank Marshall Davis: This confirmed member of the Communist Party USA has been identified as the childhood mentor Obama calls simply "Frank" in Dreams From My Father. Obama's grandfather, Stanley Dunham, introduced him to the boy as a black male role model in Honolulu. In his writings, Davis confesses that he and his wife once had sex with a 13-year-old girl named Anne.

Rashid Khalidi: A Hyde Park neighbor of Obama and the co-founder of the Arab American Action Network, which calls the establishment of Israel a "catastrophe", Khalidi is a former spokesman for the PLO, served on the Woods Foundation with Barack Obama, and has raised funds for him.

Cecil Butler: A Chicago real estate developer who profited from the privatization of low income, public housing during the 1990s (similar to Tony Rezko) in the "Pay to Play" fraud. Butler is a major supporter of Barack Obama whose low-income tenements were ultimately seized by the government for multiple building code violations.

(No photos of Butler are readily available, but this building has been identified as one of his west side projects.)

Valerie Jarrett: An Obama insider once stated of this Iranian-born real estate developer: "She's always been the other side of Barack's brain." She is considered by some to be a top candidate for Obama's Chief of Staff, and is a longtime political insider (part of Mayor Richard Daley's team responsible for hiring Michelle Robinson Obama) and stands at the center of Chicago's controversial efforts to redevelop public housing limiting the number of residents, mostly poor and black, who can live in the new communities.

Louis Farrakhan: Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam, considered by many to be a radical anti-Semite, he had also accused the US government of launching "a war against the black people of America, the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan." He provided NOI bodyguards for Obama during the 2008 Democratic Primary until Obama received Secret Service protection. Farrakhan has endorsed Obama's bid for the Presidency in February 2008 calling him the "hope of the entire world".

State Sen. Rev. James Meeks: Obama's mentor in the Illinois legislature widely believed to have taken bills developed and worked on by various Illinois State Senate members and offered them to Obama to be introduced for votes with his own name listed as author in order to pad his resume for a US Senate run in 2006.

William Ayers & Bernadette Dohrn: Unrepentant domestic terrorists with the Weather Underground, Ayers and Dohrn participated in bombings and plots to murder policemen and judges in the 1960s. Obama's political career was launched at a party in the couple's living room, and Ayers hired Obama as the Chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and served with him on the Woods Foundation. Ayers is famous for stating, "I don't regret setting bombs" and "I feel we didn't do enough", and, when asked if he would "do it all again" as saying "I don't want to discount the possibility."

Raila Odinga: Obama's African cousin on his father’s side, who Barack campaigned for in the Kenyan Presidential election in 2007. Odinga is now the country’s Prime Minister in a coalition government thrown together to avert civil war, and has been accused of mass political genocide across Kenya after his failed bid for the presidency.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: In March 2008, virulently anti-American Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the Spanish El Pais newspaper that he would have no problems if the junior senator from Illinois were to be elected US President. Ahmadinejad has also denied the reality of the holocaust and stated that Israel should be destroyed, as well as denying that homosexuality exists in Iran. Currently the US and allies are trying to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Hardly the type of man you want to be comfortable with an American Presidential candidate, but not the only foreign leader to endorse an Obama Presidency (see below).

Editor's Note; Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink and major Obama bundler, was among a large contingent of peace activists who met with Ahmadinejad on Wednesday, September 24, following his appearance before the U.N. General Assembly (Code Pink press release).

Kim Jong Il: The dictator of North Korea recently allowed it's mouthpiece Chosun Sinbo to announce "We will see a better relationship between the U.S. and the Korean Peninsula with Obama, who sternly criticizes Bush and who would meet the leader of Chosun without pre-conditions".

Obama repeatedly stated that he would meet leaders such as Il in debates during the Democratic primaries.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi: The de facto leader of Libya since a 1969 coup, he has called America a dictatorship and refers to the Senator as "our brother Obama". He recently stated "all the people in the Arab and Islamic World ... prayed for his success" and "a person lies and lies so that people will vote for him". Gaddafi also said returning the Palestinians to their homeland is the "change Americans want".

Fidel Castro: The ailing Cuban dictator called Obama “the most progressive candidate to the U.S. presidency” and refused to formally endorse him, as “Were I to defend him, I would do his adversaries an enormous favor".

Hugo Chavez: The Socialist President of Venezuela is a fierce critic of American and US foreign policy, but (again) Obama has stated publicly that he would meet with Chavez without preconditions, and Chavez indicated his endorsement of Obama on Sept. 11, 2008.

Fr. Michael Pfleger: Radical pastor of the mostly African American parish of Saint Sabina in Chicago, and frequent visitor to Obama's former congregation at Trinity UCC. Obama has called Pfleger a spiritual mentor, but was forced to denounce him during the Democratic primary for making inflammatory racial statements about opponent Hillary Clinton.

(Photo: Father Pfleger left, shown with Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam)

Hatem El-Hady: The former chairman of the Toledo-based Islamic charity Kindhearts, which was shut down by the US government in 2006 for terrorist fundraising and ties to Hamas. Elhady once had a web page on the official Barack Obama campaign site, but it was removed in April 2008.

(Again, no photo of el Hady is readily available, but the image at left is a screen capture of the el Hady profile page on the official Obama site before it was removed. There are 3 friends listed on the right, the last of which is Michelle Obama. Her name was removed immediately after el Hady’s name began to appear in the Blogosphere.)

Robert Malley: Controversial former Middle East policy advisor to the Obama campaign. Malley was fired only after he acknowledged holding private meetings with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Malley argues that negotiations with the Palestinians today must include Hamas.

Zbigniew Brzezinski: High profile Obama Foreign Policy advisor criticized for his 2008 article defending the book “The Israel Lobby”, which accuses American Jews of McCarthyism. The former national security adviser has been at odds with elements of the American Jewish community since his stint in the Carter administration, and is seen by many as staunchly anti-Russian, which could exacerbate the current tensions between Russia and the democratic nation of Georgia.

Howard Dean: Current Chair of the Democratic National Committee, Dean identified Obama as one of his “Dean’s Dozen” (a group of handpicked potential Democrats to run for President) as far back as 2002. Dean himself lost a bid for the Presidency in 2004 after his infamous “I Have a Scream” speech, and has been strongly criticized for steering the 2008 Presidential primaries in Barack Obama’s favor and even illegally using his position to declare the race over before the August 2008 convention.

Joseph Biden: Obama’s Vice Presidential pick, he is also known as “Credit Card Joe” due to his deep and fruitful connections to lender MNBA (based in Biden’s home state of Delaware). Biden is also known for his mishandling of the Senate confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court. Biden accused former Thomas employee Anita Hill (who claimed Thomas had sexually harassed her) of “fantasizing” the entire incident. Activists lambasted Biden at the time for trivializing Hill’s experiences and setting back the cause of Women’s Rights.

Michelle Robinson Obama: Obama’s wife of 15 years has caused much controversy throughout the campaign by stating she was proud of America “for the first time in my life”, stating of former President Bill Clinton that she would like to “scratch his eyes out”, and calling Barack Obama “pathetic” in an appearance on ABC’s The View and referring to him as “My babies’ Daddy” when introducing him at a campaign event. Robinson is thought to have introduced Barack Obama to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers at the Sidley law firm. Her thesis at Princeton has been restricted until November 5, 2008 (the day following the Presidential election), but an excerpt reads: "My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'Blackness' than ever before," she wrote in her thesis "I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus, as if I don't really belong."

George Soros: This Hungarian-born billionaire and self described global financier and philanthropist is suspected by many of being the power and money source behind the Obama campaign. He recently bought Moveon.org, a progressive political organization that has been highly critical of anyone opposing Obama. Soros has stated "The Bush administration and the Nazi and communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines by drawing on the innovations of the advertising and marketing industries, " as well as "supporting the Israeli government in its refusal to recognize a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas, which the U.S. State Department considers a terrorist organization."

Donna Brazile: Campaign Manager for Al Gore’s 2000 run for President, she also serves on the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the DNC that infamously stripped delegates from Florida and Michigan in the 2008 primaries. Following the embarrassing 2000 defeat, Brazile became e-mail buddies with Republican strategist Karl Rove and adopted his tactics against fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2008 campaign. As a CNN analyst, Brazile has been aggressively supporting Barack Obama since the start of the year, despite calling herself an “undeclared” Super Delegate.

Nancy Pelosi: The Speaker of the US House of Representatives took no action on ending the war in Iraq or rescuing the failing US economy, but found time to get involved in the Democratic primary race by pushing for NY Senator Hillary Clinton to drop out significantly before the Democratic Convention, and to write her own book. Pelosi leads the Democratic majority of the Congress with the lowest approval rating of all time.

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The descriptions listed above are easily confirmed by a simple Google search. Further information can be found at www.barackobamaassociates.info/ (which also presents a useful ,clear graphic/flowchart) and almost all of the sites listed in the Blog Roll on the right side banner.

He will be in the Memorial Student Center, Ballroom A.  Doors open at 12:45 p.m. For more information call 715-231-2393

The event also has a presence on Facebook.  An event has been established titled 'HOWARD DEAN @ UW-STOUT'

In addition to his distinguished political career, Howard Dean is probably most remembered for his speech at the 2004 Iowa Democratic caucuses seen below:

MSNBC Pulls Ad That Focuses on McCain’s Bouts With Cancer

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The cable network MSNBC on Friday stopped airing a commercial by two liberal groups that makes an issue of John McCain’s past bouts with skin cancer and demands that he release his medical records to the public.

“The ad had not been thoroughly vetted prior to air, and has since been removed from our commercial rotation,” NBC spokeswoman Allison Gollust said in an e-mail. She did not elaborate.

CNN had already declined to run the ad, but MSNBC ran it several times Thursday evening and Friday morning before the network halted it.

MSNBC’s decision came a day after FOX New commentator Bill O’Reilly denounced the ad on his cable program as “perhaps the most vicious political ad of the campaign.” O’Reilly singled out Dean and Brave New PAC’s Robert Greenwald, a California film producer, for blame, and also mentioned Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of NBC parent company General Electric, and NBC CEO Jeff Zucker. “They should be ashamed, but they are anything but,” O’Reilly said.

McCain’s Democratic rival, Barack Obama, has not made his medical records public. His physician earlier this year released a one-page letter attesting to his good health.

By the way this ad is brought to you from this guy's brother:

Hat tip to Hot Air:

Dean’s just one half of the equation. The other half is Brave New PAC, which the