The Gamaliel Foundation is the community organizing group that helped sponsor Barack Obama's initial work in Chicago.
Now, thanks to Naked Emperor News and Breitbart TV, we have video of community organizers led by the “Gamaliel Foundation” praying to The One as they lobby for “social justice” and health care for all.
Michelle Malkin has more.
I, myself, prefer John Ziegler's version "Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected".
In this case, the Leftist media and Leftist entertainment industry are simply trying to restore The President's image in lieu of his plummeting poll numbers.
The monsters are awakening. 2010 is coming very soon! Stay vigilant, my friends! We can take back Congress in 2010!
"Yes we can!"
Really?
E! Online reports:
Ashley Tisdale is not only a patriotic American, she sure knows how to show a man a good time. During a non-U.S. TV appearance, along with what appear to be Spanish-speaking Muppets, the High School Musical vixen proved she's all growed-up, treating a Barack Obama impersonator to a personal lap dance.
As the host points out, it's a good thing she did this for Obama—and not Bill Clinton.
A German frozen food company hopes to raise sales with a new product: Obama fingers. The tender, fried chicken bits come with a tasty curry sauce. The company says it was unaware of the possible racist overtones of the product.
Selling products has, of course, become a bit more difficult than usual these days. No wonder then that companies everywhere are turning to optimistic marketing messages in an effort to counteract the steady drum beat of negativity coming from front page headlines around the globe.
"We noticed that American products and the American way of eating are trendy at the moment," Judith Witting, sales manager for Sprehe, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Americans are more relaxed. Not like us stiff Germans, like (Chancellor Angela) Merkel."
The idea, she claimed, was to get in on the Obama-mania which is continuing to grip Germany. The word "fingers" in the name refers to the fact that it is a finger food. "It's like hotdogs," Witting said. "No one would ever think they are actually from dogs."
For Americans in Germany, though, there is a risk that the product might be seen as racially insensitive. Fried chicken has long been associated with African-Americans in the US -- naming strips of fried chicken after the first black president could cause some furrowing of brows.
Witting told SPIEGEL ONLINE the connection never even occurred to her. "It was supposed to be a homage to the American lifestyle and the new US president," she said.
Whatchya gonna do, when ObamaMania runs wild on you!
"I think, as a friend told me once, that -- listening to Barack Obama give a speech is like sex. The worse there ever was, was excellent."
--Republican strategist and CNN contributor Alex Castellanos said to John King on Sunday's "State of the Union".
The above quote is at 1:46 mark of the video
It's a sad, sad state of the media when even a Republican is slobbering and getting "tingly" Chris Matthews-esque feelings towards The One!
(Read more at News Busters)
The Media and The Voters, Do In Fact, Want To Have Sex With Obama... Now You Know How Obama Got Elected; Women Fantasize About Obama
Shamelessly, and for no apparent reason, I've been obsessed with Pepsi's obsession with Obamamania.
Well, the grand irony is Pepsi's shameless exploitation of Dear Leader is not reciprocated the White House staff. They have a penchant for Coca-Cola products!
Time reports:
In an apparent homage to the new President, PepsiCo has plastered the sides of buses and bus stops in the nation's capital with slogans like "Yes You Can," "Optimismmmm" and "Hope." In each poster, the letter O is inscribed with the redesigned Pepsi logo, a red, white and blue sphere that echoes the rising-sun image used by the Obama campaign.
It is not hard to interpret the message. Since 1984, Pepsi has been marketing itself as the hip, happening beverage of youth — "The choice of a new generation," as its longtime slogan went. And Barack Obama, one of the youngest men to serve as President, is nothing if not hip, especially among young consumers who supported him by wide margins. Pepsi says the campaign is not a political endorsement. "We're not interested in following political tailwinds," says Nicole Bradley, a Pepsi spokeswoman. "But we are interested in cultural change."
My reporting at the White House suggests the answer is a resounding no. Several senior Administration officials are committed cola drinkers, and without fail they spend their days sipping from a can of Diet Coke, a product of Pepsi's chief competitor, Coca-Cola. On Monday, as members of Congress and key lobbyists filed into a briefing room for the final event of a daylong fiscal summit, they were greeted with an ice chest full of complimentary Diet Coke, not Diet Pepsi. (Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus was one of many to grab a can.) Hours earlier, at a breakout session with members of Congress in the Indian Treaty Room, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag handled not one, but two cans of Diet Coke during the nearly two-hour session. Larry Summers, Obama's top economic adviser, rarely walks anywhere in the White House complex without a can of Diet Coke in his hand. He is well known for interrupting conversations to take another swig.
But these examples do not even constitute the most damning evidence against Pepsi. Late last year, Obama's nascent Administration worked out of transition offices in a downtown government building, which was serviced by only Pepsi-brand vending machines, according to three people who worked in the building. Two Administration officials have told me that a group of Obama aides, frustrated by having to run the security gauntlet to go to the corner store, stocked a refrigerator with Diet Coke in open rebellion against the available options. The pattern has continued at the White House. In his West Wing office, as in his previous office at Harvard University, Summers has a refrigerator stocked with cans of the decidedly non-Pepsi beverage.
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Wow! It's not just the Radical Left Wing Nut Obamamaniacs in America we have to worry about! Seriously? An Angel Halo On Obama's Head? On a Parade Float? When will the idol worship cease!?
A carnival float depicting a flying U.S. President Obama with Europe being dragged along is seen during the traditional carnival parade in Duesseldorf, Germany, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. Rose-Monday-Parades in the carnival strongholds of Duesseldorf, Mainz and Cologne are watched by hundreds of thousands of revelers and mark the highlights of Germany's carnival season.
Can't say I'm all that surprised by this! We don't call him Obama Messiah for nothing!
Obamamaniacs Celebrate Your Hero!
(Feb. 21) - Whom do you admire enough to call a hero?
That was the simple question posed to a cross-section of Americans by The Harris Poll in mid-January. When it was first done in 2001, Jesus was named more than any other person. This year, President Barack Obama topped the list.
Each respondent's answer was spontaneous -- no list of people to choose from was given to those surveyed.
From Right Wing News:
Lite fare for your evening entertainment. Marketing Shift finds out something interesting about the new Pepsi marketing style (besides the gawdawful Obambi style logo)
During your last trip to the grocery store, you may have noticed a few changes in the soft drink aisle. If you're a fan of Pepsi, Mug Root Beer, Sierra Mistor Mountain Dew, you probably already know what I'm talking about.
Pepsi Bottling Group has officially applied the "smaller is better" philosophy to its packaging. The 12-pack we've all become accustomed to has been temporarily phased-out and replaced by an 8-pack in 20% of America's stores, including the state of Florida, my home state.
Pepsi claims higher prices for energy and food combined to raise expenses by 11%/ They're betting the 8-pack will appear as a better value to consumers. Who does Pepsi think they're fooling?
The 8-pack might be easier to carry around, but that's where the "value" ends for me. I'm used to paying about $3.50 to $4.50 for a 12-pack, $10 for three 12-packs during specials. I just paid $3.50 for the new 8-pack at Publix, which shows that Pepsi is out of touch with the average shopper.
Hmm, so, like the Messiah Pepsi is trying to cash in on, they are, well, since this will be cross-posted at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU, as well as my site, Pirate's Cove, I'll avoid using words and phrases like screwing us, hosing us, boning us.....ah, um, well, too late. Why am I starting to think this will be like Obama's plans, less for more?
Check out Marketing Shift's follow up post, too.
Let the indoctrination begin! Is it time to break out the black armbands yet?
In a new book, kids gush their love for President Obama. The "Dear Mr. President" project was a joint effort between the National Education Association and kidthing.com.
As Jammie Wearing Fool opines: "Sure sounds like these young skulls full of mush had some help with their letters."
Some highlights of the wishes of Obama's Youth below, but first listen to the Obamamaniacs in training in this video.
End war, forever. Make the planet greener. Please help my dad find work. Make it rain candy!
Thousands of kids detailed their hopes and expectations for President Barack Obama in letters and drawings as part of a worldwide project, with 150 chosen for a free e-book being released on Presidents Day.
"I hope that we will have no war ever again. I mean why are we fighting why can't we all be friends."
"I would appreciate it if you would try to make this a greener planet and try to bring home the troops and end the war," the fifth-grader wrote. "I am very luckey because I am not part of a military family, but it saddens me to hear about all the people who die in Iraque and know that somewhere In the world people are greiving over a lost family member."
"Dear Mr. Obama," the Pasadena, Calif., first-grader began, "Please Make it rain candy!"
The letters were written in January amid Obama-mania at inauguration time as schools scrambled to bus kids to special viewing events and come up with computer screens and TVs for them to watch in classrooms and auditoriums.
Kids ages 5-12 were eligible to participate. Submissions flooded kidthing, including some from other nations.
"My dad's out of work, fix the company, please get more jobs,' Hitchcock said.
"There were Latino kids saying, `Please change the immigration laws so my dad can come back from Mexico.' This is a profound snapshot of a social narrative of young kids during an important moment in history. It really kind of stunned us what came in through the front door."
"I hope Mr. Barack Obama will one day create a holiday for children from around the world" she wrote.
"I feel very proud because I know he'll be able to make a change in the country and we'll be a lot more happier," Destiny said. "I think he should make people feel more welcome, people who don't really get along with other people."
Aaron's wish is a little more specific. If Obama makes candy drop from the sky, he's hoping for his favorite: candy canes! And if the president showed up at his school, he'd have these requests:
"Make fires and earthquakes not exist. Make no tornadoes or any of those things that break things."
An 11-year-old boy from Ohio drew himself in tears at the side of a relative. His dream, he wrote, is that a "cure for cancer will be found" with Obama in the White House, "Because it took my aunt to a better place on father's day."
Another child drew Obama as the "new sunrise of America." One made Earth and labeled it "Obamaland," and still another created the president's face as half dark and half light skin tones with the words: "United We Are One."
Sasha's drawing is an all-green globe. Her enthusiasm for Obama and his ability to get the job done speaks volumes: "I just think he's really, really awesome."
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I don't know who is going to be more disappointed -- these innocent kids or the parents who are brainwashing them?
Anyone tell these kids that they will be the ones paying off the CRAPulus Generational Theft Act?
These quotes are scary! And here I feared I was being a little to freakishly conspiracy theorist-esque lately about Obama and Totalitarianism.
Maybe we're not being critical enough!
Respectfully, from Gateway Pundit:
We now know 2 things for certain:
1.) Henrietta Hughes has a long history of financial problems. Her story even made the news back in 2004 before the current recession. She has been playing the system for years.
2.) Unlike "Joe the Plumber" the mainstream media was not going to look into Henrietta's past.Henrietta was the face they needed to push their massive redistribution of wealth plan.That's all they were interested in.
From Michelle Malkin's latest on Henrietta Hughes:
Before making a nationwide media splash with her savior President Barack Obama at the Ft. Myers revival rally, Henrietta Hughes had garnered public attention before. In 2004, she was living with her unemployed son in Rochester, NY. Good-hearted private citizens offered them help then, too, to supplement the government checks.
Dan Riehl reports that she is now being touted as "the face of the economic crisis" on a liberal website.
It appears as though Henrietta Hughes is not registered to vote in either Florida or New York - not sure about son Corey. Their names appear to come up listed as "owner(s)" on three distinct public housing units going back as far as 1983 - one in Georgia and two in Florida.
As to reports she was living with "friends" in New York, that appears to be the home of her parents. I have no idea why Henrietta Hughes may be homeless today. Unfortunate events happen to us all. My only point is, her troubles and need for public assistance seem to precede the current economic crisis and likely go back years.
It's unclear what the status of any of these properties is today. One now seems to be owned by a builder. However, there is more via the Freepers. Some of the info seems to suggest at least one property is still in Corey's name with taxes paid to date but may be vacant.
Information below originally posted at WOD. It looks like Henrietta and her son are grifters.This is a very strange story.
It's too bad we don't have a media who will look into this.
Macsmind reported that according to records, she owns a house.
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No, really? I'm shocked!
Was Homeless Black Lady At Obama Press Conference In Florida For Real? We Think It Was Staged
Again, no words. The video speaks for itself.
From Melissa Clouthier:
Today, President Barack Obama promised to save Julio, the four-year McDonalds veteran going to school to become the next Chris Matthews. Julio’s leg didn’t tingle…his whole body tingled and it showed.
Julio is a college student. He hasn’t moved up at McDonalds and he goes to college. Not a vote of confidence in our educational system. McDonalds, however, seems to understand Julio’s potential.
Was this staged? We post, you decide.
My gut is telling me that this is just pure crap. Watch the middle-aged white lady behind Henrietta mouth the words "I Love You Barack".
Guess she is one of the women who have Sexual POTUS Syndrome.
Read all about it on the blogroll:
Will Henrietta Hughes Get the Joe the Plumber Treatment?
Update: Henrietta Hughes gets a house
America As Bread Line: Pathetic Display at Obama Town Hall in Florida
"I live in a van, down by the river"
Hope and change you can not use your hands in.
Ok, this is just getting ridiculous now. Soccer popular in the US? This must be Armageddon.
From Goal.com:
Sunil Gulati announced the USA's intentions to bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup today. In the conference call that followed, he talked about how the election of President Barack Obama would impact the bid and its likeliness to succeed. He suggested that the difference on how America is perceived internationally is palpable. “I don’t think there’s any doubt for any of us that what happened over the last several months and what happened two weeks ago in Washington, D.C., has dramatically changed the view of the United States and its leadership around the world,” said the U.S. Soccer President. “For those of us who travel the world quite a bit, that is noticeable, that is audible and it’s visible.”
According to him, the positive energy from Obama can only improve the chances of America landing sporting events.
"But I am quite sure that given everything that President Obama has said, everything he stands for, everything he’s talked about in terms of reaching out to the world, that trying to bring the global game to the United States and opening our borders up for a festival of 32 countries and hundreds of thousands of people from all corners of the world would be viewed in a very positive way.”
Gulati sees Obama as the sort of national personality that can single-handedly make a difference in the outcome of the USA's bid.
Open our borders for hundreds of thousands of people from all corners of the world?!?! Hmmm.... isn't soccer popular in places like Tora Bora, Yemen, Indonesia and Iran?
"If you took a map of America where Obama is strongest and laid it over a map of where soccer has its biggest appeal, you'd see an incredible overlap," he told me. "The blue states on both coasts are very soccer-friendly as well as huge areas of support for Obama, where as the center of the country is full of people who are the enemies of soccer and Obama -- white, 50-and-over guys who listen to talk radio and only care about football or basketball."
This cannot be good.
Secretary of the Census will now report to Rahmbo "Dead Fish" Emanuel instead of Commerce Secretary designee Judd Gregg, a Republican.
Think about it. The Census is used, among other things, for redistricting of congressional districts.
Remember, the Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) Spending bill includes $1 Billion dollars "to minimize undercounting of minorites" in the 2010 Census.
Now why do you suppose Liberals would have to make sure they know where every single minority lives? Because they actually care about that? Or because they want to make sure groups like ACORN get them to vote for Obama in 2012?
In another disgusting display of the Obama-mania media, the NY Times had this warning/reminder in Wednesday's editorial page.
The census is used to allocate federal aid to states and draw electoral districts. Given all that, one would think that the White House would be paying more attention. It isn’t. A director of the census, who must be confirmed by the Senate, has yet to be named.
In his confirmation hearing, Mr. Gregg must explain what he would do to get the 2010 census back on track. Before that, Mr. Obama must choose a competent director and pledge his administration’s full support to spend whatever is necessary to salvage the count.
Stimulus you can walk on... stimulus you can water... stimulus you can invite $2 million of your closest Obama-maniacs to trample on while you take your botched oath of office.
The Hits Just Keep On Coming!
Another small victory, but something...
A transgender beauty pageant in San Francisco that advertised available HIV testing.
Funded an event called “Men for Hire” put on by the Stop AIDS Project in San Francisco at which homosexual men learned “seven guidelines for safe and friendly relations with escorts.” The speaker, Joseph Itiel, encouraged attendees to hire male prostitutes as a “safe-sex” practice.Funded an event, also put on by the Stop AIDS Project, called “Got Love? – Flirt/Date/Score” that taught participants how “to flirt with greater finesse.”
Funded events called “Booty Call” and “Great Sex” put on by an organization that received $698,000 in government funds.
Gave $1.6 million to an organization that hired a homosexual porn star to appear at an event in a towel and cowboy boots to promote “safe-sex.”
Excerpts from Dick Morris's column. He truly nails it folks! This is exactly what we have been talking about for months! Get on board the ConservativeXpress! In implementing his agenda, Obama will emulate the example of Franklin D. Roosevelt (not the liberal mythology of the New Deal, but the actuality of what it accomplished). These are all good programs, but they normally would be stretched out for years. Freed of any constraint on the deficit -- indeed empowered by a mandate to raise it as high as possible -- Obama will do them all rather quickly. So Obama's name will be mud by 2012 and probably by 2010, as well. And the Republican Party will make big gains and regain much of its lost power. But it will be too late to reverse the socialism of much of the economy, the demographic change in the electorate, the rationing of health care by the government, the surge of unionization and the crippling of talk radio.
Obama's record will be similar, although less wise and more destructive. He will begin by passing every program for which liberals have lusted for decades, from alternative energy sources to school renovations to infrastructure repairs to technology enhancements.
Obama will follow the opposite of the Reagan strategy. Reagan cut taxes and increased the deficit so that liberals could not increase spending. Obama will raise spending and increase the deficit so that conservatives cannot cut taxes. And when the economy is restored, he will raise taxes with impunity since the only people who would have to pay them would be rich Republicans.
In the name of stabilizing the banking system, Obama will nationalize it. Using TARP funds to write generous checks to needy financial institutions, his administration will demand preferred stock in exchange. Preferred stock gets dividends before common stockholders do. With the massive debt these companies will owe to the government, they will only be able to afford dividends for preferred stockholders -- the government, not private investors. So who will buy common stock? And the government will demand that its bills be paid before any profits that might materialize are reinvested in the financial institution. So how will the value of the stocks ever grow? Devoid of private investors, these institutions will fall ever more under government control.
And Obama will move to change permanently the partisan balance in America. He will move quickly to legalize all those who have been in America for five years, albeit illegally, and to smooth their paths to citizenship and voting.
And he will enact the check-off card system for determining labor union representation, repealing the secret ballot in union elections.
Finally, he will use the expansive powers of the Federal Communications Commission to impose "local" control and ownership of radio stations and to impose the "fairness doctrine" on talk radio. The effect will be to drive talk radio to the Internet, fundamentally change its economics and retard its growth for years hence.
But none of these changes will cure the depression. It will end when the private sector works through the high debt levels that triggered the collapse in the first place. And then, the large stimulus package deficits will likely lead to rapid inflation, probably necessitating a second recession to cure it.
Do not let this happen, America! Write your Senator andCongressmen! Write
President Obama! His socialist agend will not work, yet his efforts will cost us
trillions of dollars in debt to our kids and grandkids!
Wake up! It is a horrible plan! Wake up from the Obamamania haze and see
what is truly going on!
From Michelle Malkin:
The CBO analysis showed that "less than half of the $30 billion in highway construction funds detailed by House Democrats would be released into the economy over the next four years" and "less than $4 billion in highway construction money would reach the economy by September 2010," according to the Associated Press. And those are generous time estimates given the reality of molasses-slow bidding and contracting processes -- bogged down by the usual weight of political wrangling, racial bean-counting and assorted union grievance-mongering.
Just $26 billion out of the $274 billion set aside in the package would reach the economy by the end of the year, the CBO found. That's a mere 7 percent. Moreover, the AP summed up: "Just one in seven dollars of a huge $18.5 billion investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy programs would be spent within a year and a half."
A report by the Congressional Budget Office found that only about $136 billion of the $355 billion that House leaders want to allocate to infrastructure and other so-called discretionary programs would be spent by Oct. 1, 2010.
Who's House? Abe's House!
The above video shows a truly "kick ass" performance of Stevie Wonder's hit "Higher Ground" featuring Usher, Shakira and The Dancing Obamas.
From Fox News:
President-elect Barack Obama said it could take several years for the economy to turn around, news obscured Sunday by an inaugural concert that saw crowds stretched along both sides of the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
The "We Are One" concert marked the start of inaugural celebrations for Obama.
"I won't pretend that meeting any one of these challenges will be easy. It will take more than a month or a year, and it will likely take many. Along the way there will be setbacks and false starts and days that test our fundamental resolve as a nation," he said.
Performers including U2, Beyonce, Garth Brooks, John Mellencamp and Herbie Hancock were on the bill. Brooks said it was well past time that all the different musicians from multiple genres should appear. Organizers said virtually everyone asked to participate agreed to come to Washington for the show.
Bruce Springsteen sang "The Rising" to open the concert with the help of the choir, taking a song best known as a call to action following the 2001 terror attacks and using it to usher in a new era in American politics. The crowd, expected to reach a half-million, gathered in temperatures above the freezing mark. It was a welcome relief from the frigid weather that had gripped the nation's capital.
Earlier in the day on Sunday, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty said the size of the crowd at the concert would be the city's first dry run of security and also a good indicator of the audience to arrive on Tuesday for the inauguration.
Actor Denzel Washington, noting the Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson memorials, set the tone at the concert by proclaiming that "on this day, we are inspired by the man we have elected to be the 44th president of the United States."
"We come here knowing that we are all in this together," Washington said. "We are one!"
Another speaker was actor Tom Hanks, who as Forrest Gump famously gave a speech at the monument steps and jumped into the reflecting pool. This time, he appeared in a dark suit and read a somber tribute to Abraham Lincoln.
Jamie Foxx brought many in the crowd -- and the Obamas -- to their feet by repeatedly urging those from Chicago to make some noise: "Chi-town, stand up!" he demanded.
Foxx then launched into a quick impersonation of the president-elect.
Hilarity ensued and there was much rejoicing!
Bono gets political, as usual, but U2 still rocks!
USAToday estimated the Obamapalooza crowd at 400,000. The paper also added that Queen Latifah and Tiger Woods read dramatic readings.
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An anonymous and completely unreliable source added that mosh pits may have broken out when Vice President-Elect Biden was announced and saw lots of "crowd surfing freaks, clearly suffering Bush Derangement Syndrome".
The source could not comment on other Obamapalooza festivities, such as The Blago Pay-To-Pay Circus Freakshow or The Zany Antics of Karl The Markist Clown.
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In all seriousness, congratulations to Barack Obama. We applaud the Celebration and all the singers and actors who gathered to warm the hearts of Obama supporters in Washington and around the globe. It really was a great show!
Inside Charm City and Michelle Malkin bring the latest Obamanation to life... from The Obama Express!
Photo source: Baltimore Sun
US Flag Code: “The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.”
Why should we be surprised, this is the man who proclaimed Saturday morning in Philadelphia, "What is required is a new declaration of independence..."
The Baltimore irony is not lost here, as "Star-Spangled Banner" author Francis Scott Key may roll over in his grave...
Surprisingly, this isn't the first time in recent days Obama's likeness has been linked to disrespect and anti-Americanism....
