The Intolerance of the Tolerant

Chicago eighth grader gives politics a chance.

Chicago Tribune: Catherine Vogt, 14, conducted an experiment in political tolerance at her Oak Park middle school and learned some valuable lessons. (Tribune photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo / November 12, 2008)

Catherine Vogt, a 14-year-old Chicago student, tested the reaction of fellow classmates by wearing "McCain Girl" and "Obama Girl" shirts to school. She recorded her results as an extra-credit project for history class. Here she shares them with Chicago Tribune reporter John Kass.

So just before the election, Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then bravely wore a unique T-shirt to school and recorded the comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore the simple yet quite subversive words drawn with a red marker: "McCain Girl."

"I was just really curious how they'd react to something that different, because a lot of people at my school wore Obama shirts and they are big Obama supporters ..."

"People were upset. But they started saying things, calling me very stupid, telling me my shirt was stupid and I shouldn't be wearing it," Catherine said. ... "One person told me to go die. It was a lot of dying. A lot of comments about how I should be killed," Catherine said, of the tolerance in Oak Park.
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"In one class, I had one teacher say she will not judge me for my choice, but that she was surprised that I supported McCain," Catherine said.
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The next day, in part 2 of The Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment, she wore another T-shirt, this one with "Obama Girl" written in blue. And an amazing thing happened.

Catherine wasn't very stupid anymore. She grew brains.

The new majority: conformists committed to non-conformity — in the name of fitting in.

Introspect: Faces for McCain

A look at the varying faces supporting John McCain—in their own words.

The 2008 election year has seen voters split and split again along lines of ideology and cause, race and religion, hopes and dreams—and change. Ultimately we're all Americans expressing our voice as only Americans can.

Below are the voices of just a few of those who support Senator John McCain for president. What they share in common is that they're Americans first, they refuse to be separated along lines of gender, race or religion and most importantly, they know that John McCain can deliver the change that is needed for all Americans.

There are those of us who see through the frenzied media machine that is Barack Obama. We choose to look beyond his carefully crafted words, because we cannot take him at his word; beyond dramatic posters, because we do not buy into media hype; beyond skin color, origin or ethnicity, because we don't choose our leaders based on appearance. We want a president who is strong, capable and most importantly ready to fight to ensure that we, as Americans, all have the opportunity to live in a country of amazing freedoms, democracy and opportunity.

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Joe the Plumber Sums It Up

Barack Obama tells Joe he wants to spread the wealth.

When Obama went strolling through Joe Wurzelbacher's neighborhood to talk to the good people of Ohio, Wurzelbacher decided to confront him about his tax plans. Joe got the usual song and dance but not without a revealing comment from Obama, who was left feeling a little too exposed.



Family Security Matters.org also published an exclusive interview with Joe Wurzelbacher to get more details about his conversation with Barack Obama:

"... As soon as he said it, he contradicted himself. He doesn’t want to 'punish' me, but – when you use the word 'but,' you pretty much negate everything you just said prior to that. So he does want to punish me, he does want to punish me for working harder ..."

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MCCAIN / PALIN 2008

Sources:
- Make your own Joe video
- Exclusive: Obama – ‘Spread the Wealth Around’ Reveals Socialist Plan for America

What's In Your Left Hand, Mr. Obama?

Now You See It. Now You Don't.

There have been a few articles these last couple of days addressing Sen. Obama's uncanny ability to dazzle the audience with not one but, well, a lot of magic tricks. Look at this hand--over here--while I hide my past with the other. Look at this hand--over here--and voila, no taxes for any of you. "How is that possible you ask? I'm not sure, I'm reading the teleprompter, but quick--look over here." One article takes a lighthearted look at his bait and switch tactics and imaginary plans for the country. The other notes a serious issue: Obama is lying on the "Fight the Smears" section of his own website.

The Cleveland Leader has uncovered Obama's ACORN trail. Documents which were once publicly available on ACORN's site have now been removed. But don't worry, folks, the good old WWW has been squirreling away these juicy nuggets for prosperity, and our friendly investigative reporters got their hands on Obama's, well, ACORN nuggets. What they found was that while Obama tells visitors of his website's "Fight the Smears" section that he "was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity*," hidden articles--once publicly accessible--indicate otherwise.

Caption from photo (above): ACORN members meet with Illinois Senate candidate Barack Obama. Photo as printed in 2004 "Social Policy" article.

The Cleveland Leader says: "Is that really a FACT, or just another lie? Let's take a look at a quote from a 2004 article - Case Study: Chicago- The Barack Obama Campaign - written by Toni Foulkes, a Chicago ACORN Leader, which was published in the journal Social Policy. Did we mention that Social Policy recently pulled this particular article from their website, while leaving links to all other articles up?"

"Obama took the case, known as ACORN vs. Edgar (the name of the Republican governor at the time) and we won. Obama then went on to run a voter registration project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about 5,000 of them).

Since then, we have invited Obama to our leadership training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he ever ran for office. Thus it was natural for many of us to be active volunteers in his first campaign for STate Senate and then his failed bid for U.S. Congress in 1996. By the time he ran for U.S. Senate, we were old friends."

Cleveland Leader goes on to note a March 2008 reference to the Obama-ACORN tie in the LA Times: "'At the time, Talbot worked at the social action group ACORN and initially considered Obama a competitor. But she became so impressed with his work that she invited him to help train her staff.' (LA Times, March 2, 2008)"

You read that right: Obama and ACORN and Project VOTE--they had a clear and definite tie. A tie which was documented in a case study written by an ACORN leader. Sorry to ruin the magic trick, ladies and gentlemen. If you're so inclined, do your own searching of the Way Back Machine at http://www.archive.org/index.php.

Mr. Obama has instructed us to check the facts on his website. But this is nothing more than another trick meant to amuse the masses. If you enjoyed the show, drop a dime or two in the bucket and thank Mr. Obama for the entertainment. But, America, it's time to grow up.

But wait, there's more! The Cleveland Leader published a follow-up to its first article after receiving information that the Obama Fact page had changed after "Barack Obama's Involement with ACORN Unearthed, Missing Article Recovered" article was published. The Obama site's new language is just another indication that his truth changes over time, read here. But how do you know when you can finally stop digging for it?

Read my previous post: What Does a Community Organizer Do?

Sources:
*NOTE: The Obama camp changed the wording on this fact after The Cleveland Leader's original screenshot. The Cleveland posted a follow up story calling Obama out on this ever-changing rhetoric, which remains vague and overt.
The Cleveland Leader: Barack Obama's Involvement with ACORN Unearthed, Missing Article Recovered
The Cleveland Leader: Obama Campaign Involved in More Cover-Ups in ACORN Scandal
American Thinker: Obama Campaign Now Publishing Lies on His Ties to ACORN
Gateway Pundit, Sweetness & Light and Riehl Word View
WSJ: Obama's Magic. Presto, change-o!
ACORN Case Study -- FULL PDF (courtesy CapitalResearch.org)

Senator Obama Kogelo School, Kenya

Barack Obama's Promises: Just Words?

A small school in Kenya bears his name, but his efforts there are a distant memory. In 2006, Barack Obama committed to helping this struggling school located in the small village, Nyang’oma-Kogelo, where his father was born. Principal Yuanita Obiero owns the land where the Senator Obama Kogelo School stands, and she banked her hopes for its future on Senator Obama's words. Two years later, she is still hanging on those words.

Principal Obiero, 48, told the Evening Post in an interview in Kenya: "Senator Obama has not honoured the promises he gave me when we met in 2006 and in his earlier letter to the school. He has not given us even one shilling. But we still have hope. ... When the US Ambassador William Bellamy came to visit the school for the official renaming ceremony in February 2006, we gave him two copies of the proposal, one for the Embassy and one to give to Senator Obama. But we have not heard anything from either of them since."

Enter Kenyan-American blogger , Juliette Ochieng, or as she's better known, Baldilocks. She's committed to picking up where Obama's promises left off and has set up a non-profit to raise money for the school. Find out more here: http://www.luoamerican.com/baldilocks/2008/07/obama-kogelo-sc.html.

Too often throughout this presidential campaign accusations of racism have been applied from all angles. It's hard to tell where the truth lies anymore, but I am convinced that Barack Obama is not the right leader for this country.

If you're getting this story from me, let's praise this woman for standing up for something what she believes in. She knows where Barack Obama is coming from--and she's not voting for him.


Sources:
Baldilocks
Michelle Malkin: Save the neglected Obama school in Kenya
Obama Receives Hero's Welcome ... Kenya
http://www.obamaschool.org/about.html

What Does A Community Organizer Do?

Shape the presidency, of course.

This was the million-dollar question throughout the early part of the campaign: What does a community organizer do? Obama never really explained that clearly, and he denies that he worked for ACORN (although that "fact" changes by the minute--see my post here).

Just Another Blogger Stumping for McCain

About this blogger
I started this post with a lot to say, but there's just too much--should've started this blog a lot eariler. I'm not a right-wing, rabid Republican--although that seems to be the standard response from the left. I'm not proud to admit it, but I voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, as my head was filled with the propaganda spewed by my high school teachers--and union workers, one of which was in my household. Imagine my surprise to find my choice of president that year would result in making Monica Lewinsky a household name. Around the time of that election, I also learned a thing or two about unions and "scabs" and the scary world of forcing people to assimilate for the good of the masses. Bad workers cannot be fired. Good workers cannot move ahead. New workers cannot be hired. It's deadlock, and it's part of what's crippled the automotive companies. Socialism at work--making equality of inequality and inadequacy.

Suffice it to say that as I entered adulthood, my political views were in their infancy. Having skipped over that whole history thing in high school--or rather, having just barely picked up on the liberal view points but not really agreeing with them--I was a blank slate. And ready to vote? Bill Clinton was the choice--maybe the voice--of young people. He was on MTV after all. During my early 20s, I read Atlas Shrugged, I dealt with a tragic family death and had a child. I developed a new perspective on what it meant to be an American--an individual. As Thomas Sowell says, I grew up.

Who You Calling A Racist? "Say It Ain't So, Joe" or "Whatcha You Talkin' Bout Willis"? I like them both.
If you don't like Obama, you're automatically a racist -- it's the automatic response from liberals. Does devaluing such a powerful word really help those who oppose racism?

Liberals tout Obama's education but discount his obvious ignorance in choosing his associates. It creates an interesting paradox. His followers and suppoters have turned a blind eye to any of these connections. They have no answers and can't bare to believe -- this is not a good thing.

For the little I knew about this league of Obama fans on sites like Digg, more importantly, I knew less about the Black empowerment movement that has been occurring in America all of my life. In recently researching Obama's ties to hate-filled groups, I'm truly astonished at this simmering revolution. Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton -- all have ties to Obama. The groups promote racism, hatred of Whites, of Jews. They promote the idea that white people -- White America -- are their oppressors, the enemy, the single wall between them and power, freedom, wealth. I've traced that legacy back through some other famous names: Malcolm X, Black Panthers and even MLK -- but MLK was considered a sell out to the white man. Louis Farrakhan encouraged a hit on Malcolm X, which ultimately led to his murder. In battling their oppression, they battled anyone who didn't completely agree with them, and their intentions are to fight ... to kill ... to conquer. It's been a wake-up call.

Without the influence of Obama's connections I might never have known that leagues of my fellow Americans -- Black Americans and other groups -- have been indoctrinated with ideas that I am oppressing them and they should rise up against me and even kill me (Farrakhan says in the name of Allah). Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews, Whites, America, lesbians, Hollywood. He has called Whites “blue-eyed devils” and the “anti-Christ.” He has described Jews as “bloodsuckers” who control the government, the media and some black organizations. (Newsmax.com, "Obama's Minister Honored Farrakhan," January 14, 2008)

The Obama liberals don't want to address any of these issues -- and, to them, racism only exists in the form of Republicans, those who question Barack Obama. They have no problem calling me a racist on a daily basis. But where are the answers?

Fact-finding and sources:
I will do my best to research all information presented as thoroughly as possible. Although I am biased, I'll try to stick to the facts--but you may also get my opinion. I will give you sources as links and/or as footnotes where applicable and available. This is not a guarantee but merely a statement. If I get something wrong, I will correct it. Contact me if you find factual error with what I'm presenting.