Florida riper for Obama than Ohio?

Is Florida the new Ohio, in the way Ohio four years ago was the new Florida? Back in early June, when many politicos were doubting Barack Obama's potential to win Florida, Democratic pollster Dave Beattie was a lone voice:  Obama has a better shot at winning Florida, said Beattie, than he does Ohio.

Florida has a bigger African-American population, he told us then, and as more of a growth state offers far more educated suburban voters who often don't vote. "There's a type of voter in Florida that doesn't always vote, that lives around Tampa, St. Pete, around Orlando and Palm Beach County and Jacksonville, and those are the types of voters that are very open to Obama,'' said Beattie, whose clients include Sen. Bill Nelson and Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink.

Beattie was prescient. Obama's lead in Florida today is slightly better than in Ohio.

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[Socialist Marxism Rules]

The contrast between, on the one hand, the huge amount of material about Obama’s radical associations that has been published in on-line journals and in a few brave newspapers, and on the other the refusal by big media to address it and to vilify those who do, becomes more astounding by the day. The Obamaniacs are spinning the relationship between Obama and William Ayers, former of Weather Undergound Terrorism Inc, as of no consequence because this was supposedly a chance acquaintance and because the educational project they worked on, the Annenberg Challenge, was a worthy one.

Stanley Kurtz now nails that canard by showing how, through the Annenberg Challenge, Obama and Ayers channelled funds to extremist anti-American Afrocentric ‘educational’ programmes which were a carbon-copy of the world view of Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s black racist mentor who, under pressure, Obama was forced to repudiate. These programmes promoted, amongst other radical ideas, the ‘rites of passage’ philosophy which attempted to create a ‘virtually separate and intensely anti-American black social world’ in order to ‘counter the potentially detrimental effects of a Eurocentrically oriented society.’ One such teacher taught that

‘The submission to Western civilization and its most outstanding offspring, American civilization, is, in reality, surrender to white supremacy.’

Kurtz concludes:

However he may seek to deny it, all evidence points to the fact that, from his position as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama knowingly and persistently funded an educational project that shared the extremist and anti-American philosophy of Jeremiah Wright.

No surprise there, since back in June Kurtz pointed to evidence that Obama shared the black racism of the Trinity United Church of Christ. In this article Obama was reported as rejecting ‘integrationist assimilation’ and wanting to channel black rage more effectively into political organisation. Kurtz dug out a chapter in a 1990 book called After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois in which Obama sketched out how radical black churches could be harnessed to help radicalise the black population. As Kurtz wrote:

So it would appear that Obama’s own writings solve the mystery of why he stayed at Trinity for 20 years. Obama’s long-held and decidedly audacious hope has been to spread Wright’s radical spirit by linking it to a viable, left-leaning political program, with Obama himself at the center. The revolutionizing power of a politically awakened black church is not some side issue, or merely a personal matter, but has been the signature theme of Obama’s grand political strategy.

Those few brave souls who do try to enlighten the public about all this come up against the kind of intimidation by Camp Obama charted here by Michael Barone:

Stanley Kurtz appeared on Milt Rosenberg's WGN radio program in Chicago. Mr. Kurtz had been researching Mr. Obama's relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers in Chicago Annenberg Challenge papers in the Richard J. Daley Library in Chicago - papers that were closed off to him for some days, apparently at the behest of Obama supporters. Obama fans jammed WGN's phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest e-mails. The message was clear to anyone who would follow Mr. Rosenberg's example. We will make trouble for you if you let anyone make the case against The One.

Other Obama supporters have threatened critics with criminal prosecution. In September, St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who made statements against Mr. Obama that were ‘false.’ I had been under the impression that the Alien and Sedition Acts had gone out of existence in 1801-'02. Not so, apparently, in metropolitan St. Louis. Similarly, the Obama campaign called for a criminal investigation of the American Issues Project when it ran ads highlighting Mr. Obama's ties to Mr. Ayers.

No such threats, of course, will be made against this new book whose publication is tactfully timed for next year so as not to frighten the horses -- Race Course Against White Supremacy, by none other than William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

Meanwhile, it turns out that not only did Obama do favours for convicted Chicago fraudster Tony Rezko, but as this story reports Alexi Giannoulias, who reputedly bankrolled Michael ‘Jaws’ Giorango, a Chicagoan twice convicted of bookmaking and promoting prostitution, became Illinois state treasurer last year after Obama vouched for him, and has now has pledged to raise $100,000 for Obama’s campaign.

You have to pinch yourself – a Marxisant radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshipped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And apparently it’s considered impolite to say so.

I heard Sen. Obama's staff sent his talking points to the media 12 hours before the debate.

Question: Why would the media need talking points?

GulpidyGulpidy, gulpgulpgulp… What should my opinion be today Mr Hannity… GulpidyGulpidy, gulpgulpgulp… What should my opinion be today Mr Limbaugh… GulpidyGulpidy, gulpgulpgulp… mmmm this kool aid sure is yummy Mr Rove, may I have another?… GulpidyGulpidy, gulpgulpgulp…

Follow me right over the cliff boys!... pinheaded minions...

[ACORN has nothing to hide]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e43_1224086229&p=1

4:55 please don't vote -- go spend your time in the library and try and learn all the things you've apparently been ignoring

Sign of things to come:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/15/biden-routes-campaign-cash-to-family-their-firms/

Adam you are dreaming.

[George]

Please stop pushing the stupid stanley kurtz piece. Kurtz is a right wing tool. His hit piece in the national review offers no proof of his claims and it has been widely debunked. I had to listen to this trash from Rush today as I was stuck in traffic. I turn to him occasionally to hear what the crazies are hearing. Not suprisingly Fox news is going with this too. The whole right wing echo chamber is in a panic. They cant believe most people are not racists and aren't falling for this bile. They cannot accept the fact that their ideology has proved disasterous and they have no new ideas. So they turn to smears and try to gin up racism. We don't want to listen to hatespeak for the next 4 years. Its time to turn the page.

Potentially ANY state is riper for Obama once the 650,000 new ACORN voters are eliminated from the Ohio voter registry, you know, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Dallas Cowboys, Jesus, etc.

[commonsense]

OBAMA DOES NOT NEED FLORIDA OR OHIO. He only needs 7 more electoral college points. If he takes Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado OR Nevada, IT IS OVER.