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Here's "conservative" Michael Savage associating Hillary Clinton with Mao Zedong:

On the April 23 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage said of an April 2007 speech by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), "I know Mao Zedong would have been proud of you."

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FOX News' Bill O'Reilly suggests a "lynching party" may be appropriate for Michelle Obama

Bill O'Reilly responding to a caller on his nationally syndicated radio show on February 19, 2008:

"I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels."

Lynching party? Is that the sort of language Rupert Murdock tolerates? We're talking about the black wife of a black United States senator and the words "lynching party" just happened to pop up? What a coincidence.

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Ann Coulter on FOX's Hannity & Colmes show:

On February 14, 2008, Ann Coulter twice referred to Sen. Barack Obama as "B. Hussein Obama." She went on to say, "Get ready for President Hussein."

Ann Coulter is a regular on FOX News. She has repeatedly referred to Barack Obama as "B. Hussein Obama" and repeatedly associated him with Osama bin Laden. She says she only does this because "it's funny."

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Ann Coulter on FOX News' Your World show:

On February 13, 2008, Ann Coulter referred to Sen. Barack Obama as "B. Hussein Obama" five times in three minutes.

Host Neil Cavuto finally asked: "So, why do you keep saying the 'B. Hussein Obama'?"

Coulter: "Well, that's his name." She added: "It's shocking that ... he's probably going to be our next president, President Hussein."

P.S. -- Note that she repeated this same crap the next day on Hannity & Colmes. This is what FOX pays her to do. They know exactly what she's going to say, which is why they keep putting her on all their shows and paying her the big bucks.

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"Halfrican"

On the February 10, 2008 edition of Red Eye, FOX News host Julie Banderas referred to Sen. Barack Obama as a "Halfrican."

FOX News has incorrectly claimed that Barack Obama was "raised a Muslim" and that he "attended a madrassa for four years as a young boy." Both claims are false. Barack's father left when he was two years old. His father was a non-practicing Muslim. According to Barack, his father was an agnostic. His step-father, the man his mother married when Barack was six years old, was a non-practicing Muslim. Barack's mother was a Christian and his maternal grandparents, who raised him from the age of ten, were Christians.

Barack lived in Indonesia from the age of six until the age of ten, when he moved to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. He attended a private school in Indonesia for two years before switching to a Catholic school for two years. Neither school was a madrassa.

FOX has even attacked Obama for being a smoker, saying that Americans won't vote for a smoker. Obama gave up smoking before he began his campaign for the presidency. He hasn't smoked in more than a year.

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Un-American

Guests and hosts on FOX News programs have repeatedly referred to Sen. Barack Obama as "Barack Hussein Obama" and a few have called him "un-American." Guests and talking heads on FOX have repeatedly emphasized Sen. Obama's middle name.

Let's see, when Sen. John Kerry was running back in 2004, did FOX refer to him as "John Forbes Kerry?" No, they didn't. For one thing, most of the Forbes family are Republicans.

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FOX and Friends Saturday

The FOX host was discussing the lame Mike Huckabee campaign with two comedians, one liberal and one conservative. At the very end of the piece, the liberal comedian, Lee Camp, got off this zinger:

"What is FOX News... it's just a parade of propaganda, isn't it? It's just a festival of ignorance."



P.S. -- I linked the video clip above. Check it out. It's hilarious. Ah, the joys of live teevee.

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CNN Questions Barack Obama's Patriotism



That was the online poll that was posted on CNN.com all day today. It has finally been taken down.

CNN wonders if Barack Obama shows the proper patriotism for someone who wants to be president of the United States. What's the next question? Do you think Barack Obama is a little too uppity?

Anyone who doubts that the corporate media are pond scum is blind.

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Clinton Campaign Sinks to New Lows

The Clinton Campaign emailed this photo of Barack Obama to Drudge this morning, without the accompanying caption, which appears on the original African News Service website. The photo is now on the FOX News website and virtually every right-wing blog with comments such as, "Let's see him explain his way out of this."



U.S. Senator Barack Obama, right, is dressed as a Somali Elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan, left, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. The area is at the epicenter of a severe drought that has hit the Horn of Africa region, after erratic and insufficient rains during the April-June season.



P.S. -- Here's the statement just out from Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams, responding to the Obama campaign's ciriticism of Hillary over a Drudge story saying that Clinton staffers had "circulated" a photo of Obama in Somali garb and a turban:

Enough.

If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely.

This is nothing more than an obvious and transparent attempt to distract from the serious issues confronting our country today and to attempt to create the very divisions they claim to decry.

We will not be distracted.

Notice that they do not deny sending out a photo of Obama looking like he's about to enter a Taliban training camp. Hillary Clinton will NOT be the Democratic nominee but she will not come out of this with her reputation intact.

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"You don't think this dress makes me look too fat, do you?"



Bush and Putin and some Asian dude wearing the Vietnamese silk Ao Dai, a traditional tunic worn by both women and men.

It is a worldwide custom that visiting dignitaries allow themselves to be dressed in the local garb for photo ops.

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CNN/Opinion Research Poll

Texas Democratic Primary
Monday, Feb. 25: Obama 50%, Clinton 46%
Monday, Feb. 18: Clinton 50%, Obama 48%

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CBS News/NYT national poll:

Feb 25: Obama 54%, Clinton 38%
Feb 3: Clinton 41%, Obama 41%
Jan 13: Clinton 42%, Obama 27%

P.S. -- I won't say "I told you so," but I did.

Fearless prediction: Hillary Clinton will drop out of the race on March 5th and endorse Barack Obama.

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Clinton Campaign's Decision to "Go Negative" Has Backfired

Mark Penn's decision a few days ago to go negative and throw everything but the kitchen sink at Barack Obama has backfired badly. The Rovian dirty trick of sending that photo of Barack Obama looking like he's about to be inducted into the Taliban to Drudge has blown up in their faces. One of the best things about Obama is that every time her campaign throws a hand grenade at him, he picks it up and throws it back and it explodes in their camp.

It will be interesting to see if Hillary goes ahead with her planned attack on Obama in tonight's televised debate. She began following Penn's new campaign strategy a few days ago with her silly "Shame on you, Barack Obama" comment and her ridiculous comparison of Barack Obama with George W. Bush.

Hillary says we shouldn't elect Obama because we know what happened the last time we elected someone with so little foreign policy experience. She could have compared Obama with another lawyer from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln served eight years in the Illinois state legislature and only two years in the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected President of the United States. And Lincoln had very little formal education. He taught himself law. Barack Obama served eight years in the Illinois state legislature and will have served four years in the U.S. Senate by the time he is inaugurated in January 2009. And he was president of the Harvard Law Review.

I wonder why Hillary didn't compare Barack to her own husband? Bill Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General at 31 and governor at 33. His only experience prior to being elected President of the U.S. was as the governor of a small Southern state. Not much foreign policy experience there. We could even go back to Theodore Roosevelt, who became President six months into his term as Vice President upon the assassination of William McKinley. He had no foreign policy experience either.

Too bad Hillary's not attacking Obama as being too young for the job. He's older than Bubba was when he was elected president. And he's older than JFK was, too.

MSNBC is hosting tonight's debate in Ohio, with NBC's Brian Williams and Tim Russert moderating. I can't stand Tim Russert. It will interesting to see what they let Hillary get away with tonight. Her plan is to attack Obama as unqualified to be president. No doubt the McCain campaign will be taping every minute of it.

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FOX News Invents the News

FOX News bimbo, Martha MacCallum, reported that "one of Barack Obama's big fans" attacked a Secret Service agent last Friday with a container of egg salad. She then went on to interview a black Democratic congressman about "protesters" while her fair and balanced "news" organization ran a clip of black civil rights protesters being hosed down by the cops in Alabama in the early 1960's.

What the heck was that all about?

You'll never believe it but this is what happened. A woman named Tracy Firsching, who is a Texas State Capitol employee in Austin, went out to pick up her egg salad for lunch. When she tried to return to her office, she was told that she would not be allowed in because access to her office was now blocked due to a speech Sen. Obama was expected to deliver shortly. This woman became irate and told the Secret Service Agent that he would have to arrest her because she was going to her office. The Secret Service agent grabbed her by the arm to stop her and she hit him in the face with her egg salad. She was arrested and taken away in handcuffs, as you can plainly see in the video clip.

What does that have to do with Senator Obama? Absolutely nothing. The woman was not attending his rally, she was trying to get back to her office. FOX News has used this incident to talk about unruly "Obama fans" and compared that somehow to black civil rights protesters in the 1960's. This woman, by the way, is white. She was clearly an upset office worker infuriated that she was not being allowed back into her office.

FOX ignored the police report that said that the woman was a state office worker returning to her office. They decided to make her "a big Obama fan" so that they could show their video clip of unruly black protesters from the 1960's. All of that just because some white office worker in Texas freaked out because she wasn't allowed to return to her office. Does anyone really believe FOX News is an actual news organization? There is no way that FOX News will air a correction to this outrageous fabrication.

You can view the video clip here. It's an amazing piece of work on the part of Faux News. Amazing! I like the touch of throwing in the unruly civil rights protesters being hosed by the cops. That's a big turn-on for your typical FOX News viewer.

Here's the way that story was reported by the local CBS affiliate:

(February 26, 2008)—A woman who threw food at a secret service agent prior to a Barack Obama rally Friday is now facing assault charges.

According to arrest affidavits, the drama unfolded as Tracy Firsching, 47, was returning to the State Capitol where she worked.

Firsching went around the barricades that had been put in place for the Barack Obama rally Friday night.

As one of the secret service agents tried to stop her, Firsching cursed at the agent and threw a bowl of egg salad in his face.

Firsching was immediately arrested and escorted in handcuffs away by numerous agents.

Firsching is now facing charges of Assault On A Peace Officer.

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Hillary Campaign Now Has Official Mexican Campaign Theme Song

Just in time for the Texas Democratic Primary next Tuesday, the Clinton Campaign has released their official Hispanic Campaign Theme Song. No, it doesn't start out "NAFTA, Si."

Hillary Clinton
(por ella voto yo)
(Escrito por Walter Suhr)
Mis Amigos, les habla Johnny Canales le quiero dedicar esta cancion a nuestra amiga, Hillary Clinton... you got it! Take it away! Eso!
Hillary, Hillary Clinton
Necesitamos un cambio tenemos que mejorar
Y hay sólo una candidata que sí lo puede lograr
Ella tiene la experiencia su esposo ya gobernó
Y con lo que hicieron juntos nuestra gente mejoró.
Hillary, Hillary Clinton (por ella voto yo)
Hillary, Hillary Clinton (por ella voto yo)
Una Presidenta fuerte, puede terminar la guerra
Y darle seguro medica a la gente de esta tierra
Leyes migratorias justas y la economía mejor
No me lo pienso dos veces, por Hillary voto yo.
Hillary, Hillary Clinton (por ella voto yo)
Hillary, Hillary Clinton (por ella voto yo)
Por Clinton voto yo.

P.S. -- She can use this again if she ever leaves the Senate and moves to San Antonio or El Paso. She could run for mayor with it.

P.P.S. -- I like Barack's "Si, Se Puede" better. It fits easily on a sign.

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Si Se Puede

Early voting in the Texas Democratic Primary is setting all sorts of records. Turnout is running 200-800% higher than four years ago. That's good news for Obama. I think it means that he's getting new voters AND he's getting crossover votes from some Republicans. The higher the turnout, the better it is for Obama. I don't believe the polls that show the race as very close. I think Obama will win Texas by at least five points. I'm still not sure about Ohio yet.

I think Obama will win a much larger share of the Hispanic vote in Texas than most people expect. He'll win the under 29 Hispanics and come close to Hillary in the other Hispanic age groups. She may still win the total Hispanic vote but it won't be by double digits. Of course she still has a lock on white women over 80.

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Ninong,

I have been out on the Republicans for Obama web site quite a bit.

http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/324

The ‘nasty-grams” have been coming from Clinton supporters, not Republicans.

Because in Texas, Independents and Republicans can vote for Obama, they are being urged to do so by this site.

http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/358#comment-2498

The Clinton supporters believe that this is some sort of “deep dark Republican plot” to win the general election by “gaming” the system; that somehow Obama will be an “easy kill” by McCain in the general election.

The primary is generating more discussion than people have seen here in a long time. We will/are seeing huge turnouts, both for the early voting and the vote on March 4th.

I hope Obama does do well with the Hispanic vote. Texas is now a “minority majority” state so Obama needs as many Hispanic votes as he can get.

Regards,

Scott

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Scott,

I have seen one Clinton supporter who has posted the same identical comment on several different blogs telling everyone that Obama is the candidate the McCain camp really wants to see as the Democratic nominee. The wording, including all the misspellings, is identical on every blog. At least we know that it wasn't actually written by the campaign unless they're deliberately using misspelled words to throw people off.

The polls are not very reliable because the sample size is much too small in most polls to be able to break down age groups and racial groups, etc. You would need a sample of several thousand to be able to do that in any meaningful way. Based on exit polls from recent primaries, it appears that Barack is winning Hispanics in the under 29 age group in increasing percentages. Hillary is still expected to win the overall Hispanic vote but not by nearly as much as she did in the earlier primaries. I would venture to predict that she will get no more than 60% (at most) of the Hispanic vote in Texas. Barack will get at least 80% of the black vote in Texas. I also predict that the turnout for the Democratic primary in Texas will be huge but the increase in black voters will be greater than the increase in Hispanic voters.

The early voting in Texas has been absolutely amazing. Early voting in El Paso and Brownsville and other border areas that should go heavily for Hillary is running 200-300% ahead of 2004 but early voting in your neck of the woods is running 800-900% ahead of 2004. Early voting in Houston, which should favor Obama, is higher than in El Paso. I don't remember seeing figures for Austin but Austin should go heavily for Obama. I'm basing that on the fact that the San Francisco Bay Area went for Obama even though the state of California went for Hillary. Austin is trying to become the Texas version of Berkeley. Whenever anyone from out of state would tell me that San Franciscans were too liberal, I would ask them if they'd ever been to Berkeley or Santa Cruz.

Here's an interesting complication in the Texas Democratic primary: They allocate some of their votes to their caucus. Believe it or not, a Democrat would be able to vote twice in Texas -- once in the primary and a second time in the caucus. And in the primary, Republicans and independents are allowed to vote for Democrats. The procedure used to allocate delegates is so complicated it could take a couple of days to figure out which candidate came out ahead on the delegate count. It might be possible for a candidate to win the popular vote total by maybe 2% and still not get the most delegates, and delegates are what counts.

In any event, Hillary has no chance whatsoever of winning by a landslide in both Texas and Ohio. She might win by a landslide in Rhode Island but that's about it. I think the very best she can hope for in Texas is to win by about 3 percentage points and in Ohio she might be able to win by 6 points. That's about the best case scenario that I can see right now. I don't expect that, but it wouldn't shock me. I expect Obama to win Texas but it might be close. I expect Hillary to win Ohio by a slim margin but I think Obama still has a chance to win in Ohio.

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Polls, we got polls, get your latest polls here...

National Democratic
Feb. 28, Gallup
Obama 48%, Clinton 43%

National Democratic
Feb. 28, Pew Research
Obama 49%, Clinton 40%

Texas Democratic
Feb. 28, Rasmussen
Obama 48%, Clinton 44%

National Democratic
Feb. 27, LAT/Bloomberg
Obama 48%, Clinton 42%

[MarkS]

I'm bettin' on an Obama/Hillary ticket.