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Barack Obama on Fox News
Murdoch-owned Fox News has been savagely attacking Barack Obama and Obama has been refusing to appear on the network - but he cracked and sat down for an interview with Fox News Sunday.

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Fox News Is Wrong on Obama
21 apr  |  Murdoch's Fox News has been carpet bombing Barack Obama with negative stories, distortions and smears - benefiting the Republicans' preferred adversary, Hillary Clinton. But responsible media wouldn't follow Fox's lead, would they? . . read more
Fox News Attacks Obama & Edwards
20 dec  |  Conservative Murdoch owned Fox News is using bully boy tactics again. This time, they are trying to get Democrat candidates for U.S. President, Senator Obama and Senator Edwards, to buckle to their threats and accusations. . . read more
Fox News Gets Owned
23 apr  |  Murdoch owned Fox News is busy trying to tear down Barack Obama and won't stop talking about his controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright. Fox made the mistake of talking to another pastor about the issue and got completely pwned. . . read more
Obama on Rural and Working Class America
13 apr  |  Hillary Clinton and John McCain have latched onto one sentence in a Barack Obama interview which suggests rural, working class Americans are "bitter" and turning to guns, religion and antipathy. Back in 2004 Obama expanded on what he means. . . read more
Obama on Hardball College Tour
4 apr  |  Barack Obama answers questions from students of West Chester University in Pennsylvania on MSNBC's Hardball show with Chris Matthews. . . read more
Fox News Attacks Obama
8 jan  |  Barack Obama has refused to be interviewed by right-wing Fox News all year and the pressure is getting to the network. Loudmouth host Bill O'Reilly got physical with an Obama staffer in an attempt to get close to the popular Senator. . . read more
Of Whiners and Poor Losers - From Dave Lindorff
5 jun  |  It’s kind of bizarre reading about supposed “feminists” who are reportedly claiming they’ll vote for McCain rather than Obama, now that “their” candidate, Hillary Clinton, is out of the running for the presidential nomination. First of all, John McCain is clearly the candidate of the anti-abortion crowd... McCain is also the guy who, after his wife suffered a serious car crash and became disabled, dumped her for a younger, richer woman. A feminist’s dream, this guy...

The truth is, in the 54 primaries, Obama won a majority of female voters — a point rarely made in media reports on this contest. The same can be said of those “white, hard working white” voters who supposedly went for Hillary Clinton in states like West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. In fact, numerically speaking, Obama won more of those white, working class voters than did either John Kerry or Al Gore before him...

The Hillary Clinton campaign has all along been about entitlement. She began her race for the White House acting as though it was a coronation — something she deserved after enduring eight years in the White House as second fiddle to husband Bill. Now, having been defeated, she’s acting like she deserves second fiddle. But the truth is, Clinton, by her shabby appeals to racist voters, by her resort to red-baiting of her opponent, and finally by her refusal to denounce and apologize for her shameless and calculating backing for the invasion of Iraq, has rendered herself unfit for a spot on the Democratic ticket.

Obama can do much better than that. Yes he can. [More] . . read more

The Amazing Atheist - Obama's Crazy Pastor
16 mar  |  The Amazing Atheist is a prolific and popular YouTube video blogger who responds to the barrage of criticism being heaped on Obama and his pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, by right-wing white guys in the media. . . read more
Hillary to Obama - The Winner Takes It All
6 apr  |  I've played all my cards, and that's what you've done too. Nothing more to say, no more ace to play. The winner takes it all. The loser standing small... Hillary Clinton concedes defeat to Barack Obama with some help from ABBA. . . read more
Holy Obama - From Patrick Irelan
5 jul  |  According to AP, Obama told the good folk of Zanesville, Ohio, that the recent primary elections had somehow created the misapprehension that he was “on the left” but that he’s really quite religious. The clear implication of this statement is that “the left” is incompatible with religion. For example, Fernando Lugo, the leftist Catholic priest who was recently elected President of Paraguay, obviously isn’t religious at all. He says he wants to use the office of the president to help the poor. That makes him a leftist. So he can’t really be religious...

In any event, now we know what Obama was talking about when he preached his daily sermon on “hope” and “change.” You thought he was talking about peace in Iraq, health care for everyone, and other leftist nonsense. In reality, Brother Obama hopes to change all of you into evangelicals. He and George Bush are old pals. God told George to invade Iraq. What will God tell Brother Obama?...

I wonder if Brother Obama has forgotten a theological issue that led Protestants and Catholics to slaughter each other with astonishing efficiency during Europe’s religious wars, which occurred a relatively short time ago. Are we saved by our faith or by our faith and works? The opposing answers to that question provided a convenient excuse for carnage. The underlying motives for the carnage were, of course, what they always are — wealth and power. Today, a new Thirty Years’ War, or maybe longer, seems well underway in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Brother Obama, we’ve had enough presidential theology. Feed the hungry. End the war. [More] . . read more

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