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Obama and Acorn — Community organizers, phony voters, and your tax dollars. — At the recent Emmy Awards, historian Laura Linney averred that America's Founders had been “community organizers” — like Barack Obama. Too bad they aren't like that any more.
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Vote drives defended, despite fake names — Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote in Florida this summer, but Orange County elections officials rejected his application, which had an ACORN stamp on it. — Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote in Florida this summer.
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McCain: Last Debate Will Probably Include Ayers — Speaking on St. Louis radio, the candidate says Obama's recent comments have “probably ensured” the former Weather Underground leader will come up in Wednesday's debate. — “I was astonished to hear him say that he was surprised I didn't have the guts” to talk about Ayers last week.
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McCain: If I Bring Up Ayers At Debate, It Will Be Obama's Fault — In an interview that John McCain gave to local radio in St. Louis, McCain says that he was “astonished” to hear Barack Obama say recently that he was reluctant to bring up Ayers to Obama's face, and promises that he'll raise the subject at tomorrow's debate.

McCain: Ayers will come up in debate — John McCain said Tuesday that Barack Obama is “probably ensured” that his association with 1960s radical William Ayers will come up in Wednesday's debate. — “I was astonished to hear him say that he was surprised that I didn't have the guts” …

Palin vindicated? — Governor offers Orwellian spin — Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation. — She claims the report “vindicates” her. She said that the investigation found “no unlawful or unethical activity on my part.”
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Wright 101 — Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Rev. Wright's anti-Americanism — It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright's sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around …
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Hillary Clinton says a second White House run is unlikely — WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton puts the chances of her running for president again at near zero — slightly higher than the chances she gives for becoming Senate majority leader or a Supreme Court justice.
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Obamacorn — Election '08: Barack Obama lies about his ACORN past while agreeing to let the group shape the policies of his administration. He hopes his community organizer pals will help him make America “less mean-spirited.” — Read More: Election 2008
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Angling for a Cocktail Party Invitation — I think this situation is rather more complicated than Julian Sanchez makes out. It's true that on the whole career incentives point in the direction of ideological orthodoxy rather than trying to snag some slot as a token.
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Big Government Ahead — We're in the middle of a financial crisis, but most economists say there is a broader economic crisis still to come. The unemployment rate will shoot upward. Companies will go bankrupt. Commercial real estate values will decline. Credit card defaults will rise.
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U.S. Announces Plan to Buy Stakes in Largest Banks — Recipients Include Citi, Bank of America, Goldman; Government Pressures All to Accept Money as Part of Broadened Rescue Effort — WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush announced Tuesday morning that the U.S. government is taking stakes …
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America Will Remain the Superpower — When the tide laps at Gulliver's waistline, it usually means the Lilliputians are already 10 feet under. — Constantinople fell to the Ottomans after two centuries of retreat and decline. It took two world wars, a global depression and the onset of the Cold War to lay the British Empire low.

No One Ever Said ‘Kill Him’ About Obama — A look back at the original language used by Palin at the rally in question makes it nearly impossible for the exclamation to be misunderstood as an attack on Obama unless you happen to be a MSM member just dying to think the worst of the Right.
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Obama Widens Lead in Four Key States — Barack Obama widened his lead considerably over John McCain in four key battleground states during the past three weeks, providing further evidence that the economic crisis has greatly enhanced the Democrat's advantage with just 21 days left before Election Day.

Republicans Who Fund Bill Ayers — I think Obama's relatively weak but nonetheless real interactions with William Ayers are a legitimate campaign issue. But Obama's best response, after telling the facts of the relationship, is to point out who else supported him.

Racine schools hand out textbook with 15 page Obama love-fest... This comes from the mother of a Racine Unified School District 8th grader. She has asked to keep her name out of this but frankly I can't add much to what she has said here but I do have one question.
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Confirmed: Obama Is Campaigning on Xbox 360! — Last week we noted unconfirmed sightings of an “Obama for President” billboard in the Xbox 360 racing game Burnout Paradise. Today we're able to report that it is, in fact, an official advertisement placed by the senator's campaign team.


THE O JESSE KNOWS — JACKSON ON OBAMA'S AMERICA — EVIAN, FRANCE — PREPARE for a new America: That's the message that the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveyed to participants in the first World Policy Forum, held at this French lakeside resort last week. — He promised “fundamental changes” …
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Gallup Daily: Race Steady With Obama Leading by 9 — Registered voters prefer Obama over McCain, 51% to 42% — PRINCETON, NJ — With exactly three weeks remaining before Election Day, Barack Obama leads John McCain in the presidential preferences of registered voters by nine percentage points, 51% to 42%.