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June 3, 2008 02:55 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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AP: Obama Clinches Democratic Nomination


WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.

Campaigning on an insistent call for change, Obama outlasted former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a historic race that sparked record turnout in primary after primary, yet exposed deep racial divisions within the party.

The AP tally was based on public commitments from delegates as well as more than a dozen private commitments. It also included a minimum number of delegates Obama was guaranteed even if he lost the final two primaries in South Dakota and Montana later in the day.

The 46-year-old first term senator will face Sen. John McCain of Arizona in the fall campaign to become the 44th president.

Clinton was ready to concede that her rival had amassed the delegates needed to triumph, according to officials in her campaign. These officials said the New York senator did not intend to suspend or end her candidacy in a speech Tuesday night in New York. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they had not been authorized to divulge her plans.

Obama's triumph was fashioned on prodigious fundraising, meticulous organizing and his theme of change aimed at an electorate opposed to the Iraq war and worried about the economy _ all harnessed to his own innate gifts as a campaigner.

Clinton campaigned for months as the candidate of experience, a former first lady and second-term senator ready, she said, to take over on Day One.

But after a year on the trail, Obama won the kickoff Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3, and the 46-year-old, first-term Illinois senator became something of an overnight political phenomenon.

''We came together as Democrats, as Republicans and independents, to stand up and say we are one nation, we are one people and our time for change has come,'' he said that night in Des Moines.

A video produced by Will I. Am and built around Obama's ''Yes, we can'' rallying cry quickly went viral. It drew its one millionth hit within a few days of being posted.

© 2008 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.




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June 3, 2008 04:30 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Will (birth certificate name)Barack Hussien Muhammad Obama (aka) Barry Soetoro become "LIAR-IN-CHIEF"?....It's time for the world to read the 'shocking' unpublished documented 'truth' about the 'real" Hussien Obama....www.theobamafile.com...and email this file to everyone on your email list....Pro-Americans deserve to know what MoveOn and their staff in the media are paying to hide! 


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June 3, 2008 04:32 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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www.theobamafile.com


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June 3, 2008 10:39 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Thanks sky_king


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June 4, 2008 03:43 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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There are lies on that web site.  I don't think that we need to lie.  He's not Muslim.
June 4, 2008 06:13 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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It's official. Obama has clinched the Socialist nomination and Hillary is now living an illusion that she can still win something that's no longer there.

Soon the Liberal Drive-By media will very shortly begin their love affair with Obama. This love affair will make the JFK affair seem like nothing. Also, you all hopefully know that NBC has gone socialist where the demented Keith Olbermann taking over the channel. Things are really going to take off now.




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June 4, 2008 09:00 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Clinton Campaign Aide Reveals Obama's Terrorist Ties

For months the Clinton Campaign has hinted that they knew a deep dark secret that would make Obama unelectable but were waiting for the correct time to reveal it. Even today on Fox and Friends, Bill Novak stated that he thought Hillary would not be spending her own money if she did not in fact have some suprise that would give her the win. Well now after calling in some favors and doing some digging on my own a Clinton Campaign aide has stated that the deep secret is that Obama not only met with terrorist leaders while in Pakistan, but may have even participated in training at one of the terrorist camps.

When asked why the Clinton campaign has not revealed this bombshell yet the response was that they were still trying to figure out a way to break the story without being seen as committing political assassination or giving the win to Sen. McCain. When asked how they came about this information it was said that the information came from classified intelligence reports that former President Bill Clinton has access to and confirmed by the State Department Passport records on Obama that were "looked at" during the scandal a few months back.

Obama does not deny that he has been to Pakistan, but in fact cites that as one of the facts that makes him more qualified on foreign relations than either Sen. Clinton and Sen. McCain. He has also stated that he would back Muslims over any other group, including Americans, and he has surrounded himself with people who are either terrorists themselves or are sympathetic to Islamic radicals like Hamas. Whether there is some truth to these reports or not we should demand Obama reveal just who he met with and what he did while in Pakistan.




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June 4, 2008 11:23 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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I guess I post this here. 

Rush just played a soundbite from Clinton's speech from last night.  She is asking people to contact her through her web site, www.hillaryclinton.com, to let her know if she should resign or not.  Rush askes to be polite when contacting her, and I guess he wants Operation Chaos to continue.  Thanks.




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June 5, 2008 07:58 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Posted: March 31, 2008
8:21 pm Eastern

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In a few short months, the young and relatively unknown politician Barack Hussein Obama may very well be elevated to the presidency of the United States and command the mightiest military in world history.

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But then, somewhat diminishing the radiant glow of the Obama campaign have been wave after wave of ominous revelations about the young senator from Illinois:

Examination of his U.S. Senate voting record reveals him to be a hard leftist. A little-reported letter from the candidate to the "LGBT community" declares Obama's enthusiastic solidarity with the radical homosexual-rights agenda. His long-time spiritual mentor and pastor turns out to be a rabid, racist, America-hater who claims the U.S. invented AIDS to wipe out black people. Bloggers are even piecing together an intriguing case that Obama, a Muslim in his youth, may still be a closet Muslim.

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  • "Is Obama the messiah?" by Jerome R. Corsi, on the wave of transcendent fervor over the Democratic candidate

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  • "Obamania" by Mary Jo Anderson, on how liberal lives find "meaning"

  • "The story behind Obama's rise to power" by Jane Chastain, on the rapid and dramatic transformation from state legislator to presidential candidate, with a little help from his friends

  • "Our first Muslim president?" by Robert Spencer. Many wonder how Obama's Islamic youth would affect his leadership of U.S.

  • "Tracking Obama's shifting Iraq positions" by Ed Lasky, an in-depth look at how the candidate has repeatedly changed his war stance to win voter approval

  • "Barack abandons pro-Palestinian stance" by Jerome R. Corsi, on how Muslim critics charge Obama has undergone a Middle East make-over to make himself electable

  • "Obama pledges support for radical 'gay' agenda" by Art Moore, revealing the senator's little-known letter to the 'LGBT community' affirming he would dump the Defense of Marriage Act

  • "Using the Sermon on the Mount to defend gay rights"

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  • "Not God bless, but 'God d--- America!'" Obama's long-time minister Jeremiah Wright also blames the U.S. for 9/11 and AIDS

  • "Senator's church published Hamas terror manifesto," by Aaron Klein, in which Rev. Wright compares the charter calling for the murder of Jews to the Declaration of Independence

  • "A brief for whitey" by Patrick J. Buchanan, asking Obama: We hear the criticism toward America, but where's the appreciation?

  • "Obama mentor identified as communist." Surprise, Frank Marshall Davis, another key influence on the Chicago senator was obsessed with "American imperialism, colonialism, exploitation"

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June 5, 2008 08:13 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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That is quite an endorsement for a man who "redirects the sea and changes the weather", according to Laura Ingraham. Have any of the MSM picked this up?




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June 6, 2008 11:01 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Only the back page on the Hussien Obama connection to Rezko and Hussien's refusal to respond...We know what page it would be on if it was McCain~~~'HEADLINES'....Freedom of press~~my ass!

The 'truth' is getting out on youtube  and the www.theobamafile.com is getting hit's...big time!

Thanks,

The anti-American's at MoveOn are paying to hide the 'truth'....and it kills them that it is still free for all to see!




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June 6, 2008 11:33 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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It seems that most of the MSM is becoming a joke in itself.  Most of what they report is flawed, and the bit of truth has been out on FS or other sites for all to see much sooner anyway.  I also noticed that many of the current surveys seem to deal with this issue, wanting to know where I get my info etc.....


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June 7, 2008 02:08 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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The FAT LADY has sung (cackled).  Hundreds were injured.  Rumors of donating her BRAIN to Teddy.

Tongue outTongue out




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