The following is an important Republican compilation of Obama’s missteps regarding the issues of energy independence and tax policy, all of which are very relevant during this election season and are taken from diverse media outlets. (I organized this collection from a combination of GOP and independent sources).

“Obama’s transformation, if you go by his campaign so far, would mean higher income taxes, higher Social Security taxes, higher investment taxes, higher corporate taxes, massive new domestic spending, and a healthcare plan that perhaps could be the next step to a full-scale, single-payer system. Is that what most Americans want, someone who will fulfill a Democratic policy wish list?” (James Pethokoukis, “Barack Hussein Reagan? Ronald Wilson Obama?” U.S. News & World Report’s “Capital Commerce” Blog, www.usnews.com, 2/12/08)

Bellow you will find a clever video that deals with exactly this weakness in Obama’s economic plan. Notice how they point out the fact that Obama’s plan is a rehash of Jimmy Carters’:

Then we have the related issue of energy policy, which Barack Obama seems to imply is somehow his “strong suit” (although he seems to think that ALL issues are his strong suit, since he never speaks about them in any substantive way!). Let’s see some interesting examples:

“To Hear Sen. Barack Obama Tell It, His Speech To The Detroit Economic Club Last May Pitching Tougher Fuel-Economy Standards Was A Daniel-In-The-Lion’s-Den Moment, One That He Has Replayed For Crowds From Oregon To North Carolina.” (Justin Hyde, “Obama Talks Tough On Auto Industry,” Detroit Free Press, 5/14/08)

Obama’s Retelling Of His Story “Has A Few Flourishes;” Most Notably, He Received Applause Despite Repeating To Crowds That “Nobody Clapped.” The Illinois senator’s retelling of his story has a few flourishes. While Obama has repeatedly said ‘nobody clapped’ and that his message was met with silence, the record from that speech from the Detroit Economic Club tells a different story. Obama won at least mild applause several times from the crowd of 2,000.” (Justin Hyde, “Obama Talks Tough On Auto Industry,” Detroit Free Press, 5/14/08)

Then we have an amazingly long list of Obama’s “flip flops” on a variety of energy policy issues:

OBAMA IS SHIFTING ON JOHN MCCAIN’S RECORD ON CLIMATE CHANGE

On The Campaign Trail, Obama Attacked McCain, Saying It Was “Breathtaking” For Him To Address Climate Change:

Obama: “It is truly breathtaking for John McCain to talk about combating climate change while voting against virtually every recent effort to actually invest in clean energy.” (Ben Smith, “Obama On McCain Speech: ‘Breathtaking,’ Not In A Good Way,” Politico’s “Ben Smith” Blog, www.politico.com, 5/12/08)

But In 2005, Obama Praised McCain’s Leadership On Climate Change:

Obama: “So what can we do to protect our planet? The first step is to adopt the McCain-Lieberman amendment. This bipartisan approach is not only good environmental policy, it’s good economic policy.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Congressional Record, 6/22/05, p. S7008)

OBAMA IS SHIFTING ON HIS OWN ENERGY RECORD

On The Campaign Trail, Obama Criticizes Current Energy Policy By Blaming Vice President Dick Cheney:

Obama: “We’ve been talking about energy independence since the ’70s, since many of us were kids. Yet year after year, the only thing that’s changed, we actually import more oil than we did in the ’70s. Exxon Mobil made $11 billion for two consecutive quarters, and everybody here is paying $3.70, $3.80 at pump. Why is that? Well, part of it is Bush put Cheney in charge of energy policy. Mr. Cheney met with the renewable energy groups once, the environmental groups once. He met with the oil and gas companies 40 times. That’s part of the reason.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At Campaign Event, Durham, NC, 5/5/08)

But Obama Voted For The 2005 Energy Bill That Democrats Criticized For Giving Tax Breaks To Those Same Companies:

Obama Voted For The 2005 Energy Bill. (H.R. 6, CQ Vote #213: Adopted 74-26: R 49-6; D 25-19; I 0-1, 7/29/05, Obama Voted Yea; H.R. 6, CQ Vote #158: Passed 85-12: R 49-5; D 35-7; I 1-0, 6/28/05, Obama Voted Yea)

• NOTE: McCain Voted Against The 2005 Energy Bill. (H.R. 6, CQ Vote #213: Adopted 74-26: R 49-6; D 25-19; I 0-1, 7/29/05, McCain Voted Nay; H.R. 6, CQ Vote #158: Passed 85-12: R 49-5; D 35-7; I 1-0, 6/28/05, McCain Voted Nay)

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI): “The Congressional Budget Office, CBO, estimates that implementing the bill will cost $5.1 billion in 2006 and $35.9 billion over the 2006-2010 period. I am concerned that this estimate does not include the at least $10.1 billion in unpaid-for tax breaks. The $10.1 billion includes $5.7 billion in production tax credits and $4.4 billion in various subsidies to the oil, gas, and nuclear industries.” (Sen. Russ Feingold, Congressional Record, 6/28/05, p. S7453)

• Sen. Feingold: “The oil, gas, coal, hydroelectric and nuclear industries are mature industries that do not need to be propped up by the taxpayers.” (Sen. Russ Feingold, Congressional Record, 6/28/05, p. S7453)

• Sen. Feingold: “In sum, the American people deserve a more fiscally responsible energy policy than that is reflected in this bill, and I cannot vote in favor of it. This measure will need to be improved in conference to get my vote.” (Sen. Russ Feingold, Congressional Record, 6/28/05, p. S7453)

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI): “However, I am disappointed that the bill provides nearly $6 billion in tax breaks for oil, gas, and coal, and in addition, provides tax credits for nuclear energy. These tax breaks are provided despite the fact that President Bush has repeatedly stated that we do not need tax breaks for the oil and gas industry given the high prices Americans are experiencing.” (Sen. Jack Reed, Congressional Record, 6/28/05, p. S7471)

OBAMA IS SHIFTING ON HIS SUPPORT FOR A GAS TAX HOLIDAY

Obama Has Claimed That The Gas Tax Holiday He Voted For In The Illinois State Senate Didn’t Make A Difference In People’s Lives:

Obama: “Part of the reason why I know this is because when I was in the state legislature, there was a bill like this that came up and I voted for it. And six months later, we decided not to renew it because it wasn’t making any difference in people’s lives, it wasn’t helping.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At Campaign Event, Hickory, NC, 4/29/08)

But The Gas Tax Holiday Obama Voted For Did Help:

Gas Prices Suddenly Dropped Between 8 And 10 Cents A Gallon Overnight When The Tax Suspension Went Into Effect. “When the tax suspension went into effect July 1, the change in price was obvious, as prices suddenly dropped between 8 and 10 cents a gallon overnight.” (Karen Mellen and Ray Long, “As Gasoline Prices Drop, Tax Debate Continues,” Chicago Tribune, 7/20/00)

During Floor Debate, Then-State Sen. Vince Demuzio (D-Carlinville) Spoke About How The Temporary Gas Tax Relief Helped Illinois Truckers. Sen. Demuzio: “[I]llinois’ reputation as a high-tax state penalized Illinois’ intrastate truckers who could not travel to the surrounding states to purchase lower-taxed fuel. The unfair advantage forced Illinois truckers to compete against out-of-state operations that could afford to charge lower rates. The sales tax repeal has resulted in a more level playing field for our State’s trucking industry.” (Sen. Vince Demuzio, State Of Illinois 91st General Assembly Regular Session Senate Transcript, 11/15/00, www.ilga.gov, pp. 46-47)

AAA Attributed Part Of The Decline In Gas Prices To Illinois’ Temporary Suspension Of Its Gas Tax. “The price of gasoline in Illinois dropped 40 cents since its peak this summer, according to the latest survey Wednesday, a record decrease for one month. … The AAA credited both states [Illinois and Indiana] for temporarily suspending their five percent sales tax on gasoline, and on an increased supply of cleaner-burning reformulated gas.” (Robert McCoppin, “State Gas Prices Set Record One-Month Decline,” Chicago Daily Herald, 7/19/00)

• AAA Chicago Motor Club’s Steve Nolan: “The Temporary Repeal Of The State Gas Tax Has Helped [With Gas Price Drop]…” (Robert Manor, “Illinois Finds Dramatic Relief At Gas Pump,” Chicago Tribune, 8/17/00)

The Decline In Gas Prices Was “Aided By The Suspension July 1 [2000] Of The State’s 5 Percent Sales Tax On Gasoline.” “State legislators had called for the hearings as pump prices soared well above $2 a gallon. The recent decline–aided by the suspension July 1 of the state’s 5 percent sales tax on gasoline–took some of the political expediency out of the hearings.” (Courtney Challos, “Legislators Now Irked Over Falling Gas Prices,” Chicago Tribune, 7/13/00)

And Obama Actually Suggested Extending The Gas Tax Holiday:

Obama Actually Suggested Extending The Gas Tax Holiday During Debate. Obama: “My suggestion would be that, if we want to, we should extend the suspension of this tax until we have further data.” (Sen. Barack Obama, State Of Illinois 91st General Assembly Regular Session Senate Transcript, 11/15/00, www.ilga.gov, pp. 51)

OBAMA IS SHIFTING ON ETHANOL

Obama Recently Suggested He Was Open To Changing Ethanol Policy:

Obama: “There’s no doubt that biofuels may be contributing to it [food supply problems]. And what I’ve said is, my top priority is making sure that people are able to get enough to eat. And if it turns out that we’ve got to make changes in our ethanol policy to help people get something to eat, then that’s got to be the step we take.” (NBC’s “Meet The Press,” 5/5/08)

But Obama Has Been An Ardent Supporter Of Ethanol Subsidies And Mandates:

In June 2007, Obama Voted To Pass The Senate Version Of The 2007 Energy Bill, Which Mandated The Use Of 36 Billion Gallons Of Ethanol By 2022. (H.R. 6, CQ Vote #226: Passed 65-27: R 20-23; D 43-4; I 2-0, 6/21/07, Obama Voted Yea)

Obama Voted Multiple Times To Require The Use Of Billions Of Gallons Of Ethanol In The 2005 Energy Bill. (H.R. 6, CQ Vote #138: Motion Agreed To 69-28: R 39-14; D 30-14; I 0-0, 6/15/05, Obama Voted Yea; H.R. 6, CQ Vote #139: Adopted 70-26: R 38-14; D 32-12; I 0-0, 6/15/05, Obama Voted Yea; H.R. 6, CQ Vote #213: Adopted 74-26: R 49-6; D 25-19; I 0-1, 7/29/05, Obama Voted Yea)

Obama Said The 2005 Energy Bill Took “Significant Steps In The Right Direction On Energy Policy” By Realizing “The Promise Of Ethanol As A Fuel Alternative.” Obama: “I also want to indicate the degree to which this bill takes significant steps in the right direction on energy policy. It helps us realize the promise of ethanol as a fuel alternative by requiring 7.5 billion gallons to be mixed with gasoline over the next few years. It provides a tax credit for the construction of E85 stations all over America–E85, a blend of ethanol and gasoline that can drastically increase fuel efficiency standards for our cars.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Congressional Record, 7/29/05, p. S9338)

Obama Even Issued A Press Release To Tout How The 2005 Energy Bill Would Benefit Illinois Because It Would Double Ethanol Use. “[S]enator Barack Obama Friday voted in favor of the comprehensive energy bill, saying it will help Illinois and start America down the path to energy independence by doubling ethanol use, greatly increasing the availability of E85 ethanol pumps, and investing in combination plug-in hybrid and flexible-fuel vehicles, as well as clean-coal technology. However, he warned that bolder action is required if lawmakers are really serious about dealing with the high energy costs that are plaguing American consumers.” (Sen. Barack Obama, “Obama Says Energy Bill Helps Illinois By Doubling Ethanol Use, Investing In Clean Coal,” Press Release, 7/29/05)

Obama Touted How The Ethanol Mandate Would Benefit Illinois Because It “Will Be Grown In The Corn Fields Of Illinois.” “This bill, while far from a solution, is a first step toward decreasing America’s dependence on foreign oil … It requires that 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol be mixed with gasoline by 2012. That’s 7.5 billion gallons of fuel that will be grown in the corn fields of Illinois, and not imported from the deserts of the Middle East.” (Sen. Barack Obama, “Obama Says Energy Bill Helps Illinois By Doubling Ethanol Use, Investing In Clean Coal,” Press Release, 7/29/05)

To finalize, I will include John McCain’s most recent advertisement, which directly deals with climate change. Notice how he points the finger at BOTH extremes (i.e. Neo Conservatives and the new “Neo Liberals”–Obama et al):

Please take time to think about how this electoral season has conjured new political distributions, forcing many traditional Liberals (and even some Conservatives) to rethink their old loyalties and affiliations. Consider how the Democratic Party has sacrificed itself on the altar of radical Left-Politics, catering to the nebulous forces that have pushed Barack Hussein Obama above the Democratic candidate with the most popular votes (Hillary Clinton). All of this because to them she is a Conservative “in hiding” (in other words, she is an apparent CENTRIST/MODERATE). All the while, the Republican Party sees itself being led by what many of them have labeled a Liberal candidate: John McCain (i.e. an apparent CENTRIST/MODERATE).

Will Clinton supporters abandon the Democratic Party, and together with John McCain’s brand of Republicans, take over the GOP, turning it into a center/progressive/conservative coalition? The issue is interesting to ponder, while the reality of it seems closer by the hour.

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. During this election season, this same road has led directly to Barack Hussein Obama, and it has been throughly lacking of any ‘positive’ intentions. Once again, we have found another Democratic leader falling back in line with the ultimate symbol of defeat and humiliation (Obama), only for the ulterior purpose of increasing their Party’s future prospects among African Americans and youth voters.

Now, to this long list of shameful converts, you must add John Edwards. A loser in his own right, he has already experienced personal and National political defeats for the past decade, and is now once more demonstrating his ability to gravitate towards loss and shame, extending his dubious record with Obama at his side (and at the helm!).

To an Independent voter, John Edwards always seemed like a fair candidate, considering the mainstream alternatives that were creeping out of both parties at the beginning of this electoral season. He had a successful background as a plaintiff attorney, and seemed to be flirting with a populist message that would have been somewhat attractive, had he been poised in a general election scenario. His policies were similar to Hillary Clintons’, which seemed somewhat reasonable, although not necessarily the best thing in the world for any independent strict ‘constitutionalist’, who highly disprove of giving more responsibility and power to a central government that has shown itself to be highly inefficient and corrupt (with both parties at the helm). Nonetheless, his policies seemed to have been specifically tailored for the same White working class voters that Obama has almost completely lost (and will probably no longer recover no matter Edward’s efforts). All of this rang very true until the world saw this supposed “working class hero” in action (video bellow):

Now, this may seem superficial and/or plain silly to some people, but I believe that the clip above tells you a lot about a candidate, specially about one who prides himself to hold the sensibilities of the working class to heart. Is spending 700 dollars on a haircut a ‘fiscally’ sound thing to do? Is ‘hair’ a bigger priority than your self-respect? Are aesthetics above political principle?

At the time, these questions were just lingering in the air, without concrete examples of his superficiality (aside from the ‘pretty’ spectacle above). This remained true until yesterday’s endorsement of Mr. Obama.

We must not forget that Barack Hussein Obama LITERALLY stole Edwards 2004 Announcement speech (almost) in it’s entirety, without in any way encouraging the wrath of John Edwards or his (then alive) campaign. Does this reflect any integrity and/or back bone? Here is an excerpt of said plagiarisms:

We should also remember how in the Nevada Democratic Debate, Edwards pointed out that Obama had passed all other candidates in his acceptance of financial support by drug companies and pharmaceuticals, a factor which Edwards claimed was directly causing harm to fellow Americans and thus an issue close to his heart. In said debate Edwards mockingly asked Obama; “do you think they expect something in return”? I guess we now know at least what EDWARDS wanted in return for his submission; political relevancy. Among the many issue which Edwards also declared to be important, and which stood in direct conflict with Obama, his (Obama’s) dysfunctional plan on withdrawing troops from Iraq, and a Health Care proposal that was NOT in any way universal.

But now, suddenly, we are to understand that all of these issues have evaporated and taken a back seat to ‘following the Party line’ with whomever is labeled a “Democrat” in the November ticket! Do any of these politicians have an understanding of dignity and/or honor? Are they so easily swayed by dogma and economic/political/collective self interest, that they completely willing to abandon their own principles and supporters?

At least, this whole shameful event will push voters to realize that the Founding Fathers were correct when they stated that the ONLY correct way of voting (and acting) within a Democracy was by staying OUTSIDE of political parties, and thus judging the character, integrity, honesty and values of the individual candidate running for office, irrespective of his SUPPOSED political affiliation? We all know that this task is difficult enough!

Do voters forget that candidates have to join a party to be able to run for office? These decisions are usually made out of necessity or simple convenience, thus you get a “Democratic” Lieberman and a “Republican” McCain.

At the end of the day, the core preoccupation about our floundering Democracy lies in the issue of consistency and integrity. John Edwards knows that Obama is the ‘offspring’ of Chicago’s corrupt political machine, but he still supports him. John Edwards understands that Obama has personally funded, via his directorship in the Woodsfund, terrorist sympathizers (Khalidi and others) who claim that SUICIDE BOMBING is a legitimate method of resistance fighting (even if used against school children). John Edwards also knows that Obama is completely unprepared to become Commander in Chief, something to which he had continuously alluded to in multiple interviews, nevertheless, we now have him riding this faux pony all the way to the White House (it’s gate!).

With Barack Obama’s upcoming “surprise” leak, in which he will eventually declare Claire McCaskill as his November running mate (this is a well sourced rumor), this political season has become a spectacle of self interest and rabid pandering. Somehow, Obama’s campaign is expecting that Southern Whites and women are going to flock to the most divisive candidate in modern history, just because they intend to place a White female (ROOKIE) from Missouri as his “second” on a National ticket.

If our citizens have any self respect and/or dignity, and they are not easily swayed by cheap political maneuvering, this election will be the one to demonstrate it, by serving up the biggest Democratic defeat in history.

If this Nation deserves a second chance and a straight route to save it’s collective soul, this will be the enduring election that will wrestle it’s HONOR out from the historic jaws of extinction.

©2008 J. Cifre, J.D., of SAVAGEPOLITICS.com. All Rights Reserved.

Barack Obama was not only dramatically defeated last night in West Virginia, but the margins humiliate his now famous claims of National electability. Clinton’s victory by 41 percentile points (winning 67% to Obama’s 26%) is quite historic, specially when you consider that she was outspent by Obama, 2 to 1. Hillary Clinton also won within most demographics, including ALL income, religious, and educational brackets.

Up until now, the holistic analysis that we have been presenting (in SavagePolitics.com) about this election (from it’s very inception) is proving to be completely accurate: Obama has increasingly lost support among White voters, specially among it’s working class (he already lost the Latino demographic as well). This began to happen from early on, but the turning point was the State of Florida, were you could already see the divisions starting to emerge in the exit polling. As many of us know, White voters tend to express an unrealistically larger support for Obama when asked by the pollsters, but have always proven to go in a different direction within the privacy of the voting booth. Yesterday, these participants seemed to be a lot less ’shy’ about their preference.

The exit polling shows a highly dramatic ‘psychological’ shift in the attitude towards Barack Obama (albeit negative for him). First of all, Clinton got 67% of the White votes, while Obama only received 26% (this is an increase from Ohio and North Carolina). When asked if the candidate’s RACE was important, 22% said IT WAS, while 77% said it wasn’t. Of course, the mere fact that there was such a big percentage of voters that actually admitted this to the pollster allows you to understand how the racial dynamic is starting to get ventilated (compare how 80% of African Americans claim through the exit polls that race is not a factor in their voting, even though they still go for Obama in a 90% plus margin!).

Another interesting factor with the exit polling is found when you discover that more than 50% of Democratic voters in W. Virginia think that Barack Obama shares Rev. Wright’s political and moral views. Also, the majority of Clinton voters (91%) said they would ONLY be satisfied if she won the nomination, while 35% of them claim they will vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee (24% say they will not vote and only a minority of them said they would vote for Obama).

As I have continuously stated via this forum, most of these same voters still tend to describe Clinton as ‘dishonest and negative’ by more than a 50% margin, though they still voted overwhelmingly for her, something that has happened in most States. The reason for this is quite easy to grasp; Hillary Clinton is NOT Barack Obama. As we all know, the Mainstream Media has dedicated entire programs to completely destroy the reputation and character of Hillary Clinton, so it should have been expected that they would eventually come to the conclusion that she is in fact “bad news”. But what’s ironic about all of this is the fact that the Media has not been able to convince them that Obama is “good news”, even though they spend the exact same amount of time lifting up Obama as a saint. In other words, they would rather vote for a dishonest and negative (and White) female candidate, than for Barack Hussein Obama.

These exit polling results, and the factors that they imply, clearly spell out what will be Obama’s (and the Democratic Party’s) downfall. As time goes by, and as these White voters realize that their Black counterparts are breaking for Obama in 90% plus margin, they will slowly but surely begin to gravitate towards the White candidate by bigger percentages themselves, leaving the Democratic party in utter defeat and with a lot of questions to answer their constituents.

Of course, Barack Obama’s faults are COMPLETELY independent of his ethnicity, but they have been slowly lumped together with it by the Mainstream Media’s collective attack on anyone who doesn’t go with their candidate (Obama) as a racist and ignorant fool, thus creating the impression that Obama’s faults are not based on his lack of character but on his racial makeup. Basically, this tactic of accusing every opponent as a “racist”, which is now being used by both the Press and some of his African American supporters, is completely counter-productive and is allowing a hefty amount of buried racial animosities to suddenly come up to the surface and turn this whole election into a very nasty game of tribal affinity.

But have we forgotten about the season’s blatant sexism?

This factor has been quite stark during this election season, and it has manifested itself throughout the Mainstream Press and beyond. Obama’s campaign initially made the case that Americans would much rather vote for an African American than a woman (I guess W. Virginia shuts that theory up!), then they had Michelle Obama mocking Hillary as someone who ‘couldn’t even keep her own house in order, let alone the White House’ and all the sexist implications that said comment has (CLICK HERE TO WATCH). Even yesterday’s comments by Bill Richardson on CNN (while analyzing the W. Virginia election) were quite nasty, when he said that Hillary “could be helpful as a secretary of state or some other cabinet position”, as if a strong woman like Hillary should simply ’shut up and take it’ as a second-hand adviser to an inexperienced and corrupt MAN like Obama.

David Axelrod, Obama’s chief campaign director and manager, and many Media pundits and anchors, have continuously said that they know women will come around to Obama and the Democratic Party in November because he is a very ‘young’ and ‘good looking’ candidate, while McCain is simply an old and ‘un-sexy’ one. Are women actually LISTENING to these buffoons! Even if they were correct and women were superficial fools who vote for “youthful looks” and not substance, which I don’t believe out of personal experience, the mere fact that these men get away with presuming as such on National television is amazing to me.

At the end of the day, West Virginia is thus a reminder to all fair minded “political junkies” that Barack Obama’s nomination will spell the doom of the Democratic Party for generations to come. Slowly but surely, most of those who had felt a strong affinity towards said party will abandon it to it’s radical masters and will thus participate in their defeat. Not only have they shut down the chances of their own victory in November, they have allowed the Mainstream Media to dictate the terms in which they will lose.

Sadly, this election is going to be about diminishing the importance of the White working class (the majority population in this country) and about bringing women towards their nominee with some ‘nicely worn jeans’ (CLICK HERE FOR A DISTURBING EXAMPLE–these people are our “objective” Press Core?).

Interestingly, it has been exactly these same reviled voters who have given Hillary the majority of the popular votes throughout this race, which explains why the Democratic elite will overturn their wishes anyhow, all in favor of their Trojan Horse of a candidate.

Hopefully, the majority of women and White working class voters in this Nation will realize that the Democratic Party DOES NOT have their interests at heart, and they will therefore slowly gravitate towards leaving said collectivity to the more dignified category of INDEPENDENT (or any other).

As a matter of fact, there is a movement already starting to build up, in which a large number of Democrats are planning a switch their affiliation/registration within their local jurisdictions from “Democrat” to “Independent” throughout the week of June: 1st through the 8th. If you were wondering how to make the Democratic leadership listen, this is your chance to make a dramatic point.

©2008 J. Cifre, J.D., of SAVAGEPOLITICS.com. All Rights Reserved.

Since Barack Hussein Obama started to run for President, there has been an increasing undertone of racial animosity, slowly rising throughout the United States and beyond. Unlike popular belief, this has not been entirely based on a historical tradition of “White racism” in this country, but on the general competitiveness that most ethnic groups feel towards each other regarding the search for power and influence. This election is no different, but Obama’s campaign is starting to bring up the worse kind of American racism; true ethnic bitterness.

It seems most pundits have forgotten the original reasoning for a Barack Obama presidency; transcending race. Although this always sounded like silly wishful thinking on the part of these political “analysts”, the concept appeared to be based on the fact that most voters didn’t know Obama too well, nor thought in realistic terms of the possibility of having him so close to the White House (I include in this equation many early voters during this season). The majority of Democratic voters simply did not know about his corrupt Chicago past (Rezko), nor of his support of terrorists organizations (Muslim Brotherhood and Mr. Khalidi), nor of his Muslim upbringing (Soetoro et al), nor were they expecting to find out that his pastor of 20 years was himself a rabid racialist with a particular dislike of White people. Now, after all of this information is out (and what is still coming), the whole premise of an Obama candidacy somehow “transcending race” has been clearly discarded, and we are thus left with an inexperienced BLACK candidate, whose only possibility of winning the White House would be to ignore the White Working Class demographic (the majority of Americans) and simply betting on his 92% support from his “own community” and a few college students, to somehow multiply themselves in enough numbers to hand him a victory. Of course, this same type of dismissive politics (played by many surrogates in the likes of Donna Brazile and David Axelrod) creates bitterness amongst those exact groups who they need to attract in any amount to be able to win the Presidency, since multiplying their other constituencies is a practical impossibility, unless they engage in voter fraud (a strong possibility during this election).

Because of the situations mentioned above, it is clear to ANY reasonable political analysts that Obama WILL NOT win the Presidency of the United States. But ‘inconvenience’ is the LEAST of the disturbances engendered by his campaign. The lasting legacy of all of this will be the racial division that was nurtured around his candidacy. Many African Americans will once more open their old wounds regarding slavery (and other injustices), while some European Americans will begin to view minorities as underdeveloped ‘nuisances’. This dynamic is obviously quite disturbing and it’s continuity will extend far beyond November. The fact is that most American Whites will not forget that Black Americans decided to abandon ‘principle and logic’ by moving ‘en masse’ towards Obama, only BECAUSE of his race. Most White Americans will also not forget how every time any of them spoke critically of Barack Obama they were shouted down as ‘racists’ and ‘bigots’. Most Americans (of all races) will not forget how the term ‘racist’ itself COMPLETELY lost it’s meaning during this election, sadly lumping together the Liberal WHITE housewife with the Racialist WHITE skinhead and the recently arrived WHITE Argentinian, only because they all refused to vote for Obama, and they happened to be White. By the same token, many BLACK Americans will also never forget how they were thrown into a small category of ‘Black dissenters’ who are now getting besmirched by both White people (for assuming that they are one of those AA “Obamanites”), and/or being called “sellouts” by their own community.

As an example of what is currently happening in this Country, I provide the following excerpts from a recent Washington Post article that deals with the racial hostility that many of Obama’s campaign staffers have been facing on a daily basis while promoting their candidate. As the article states, Obama himself is quite isolated from this experiences, and only his well-wishing but naive lackeys are left to do his ‘dirty work’. It is obvious that most of these incidents are quite reprehensible, and they are only the effect of an uglier trend caused by the disturbing racial double standard that Barack Hussein Obama (and his campaign) has promoted throughout this process.

What is truly amazing about these stories is that these Obama supporters seem somewhat disconcerted by the racism they have encountered, something that the Democratic National Committee has always understood but has decided to nonetheless ignore. And this is ONLY a internal conflict within the most Liberal party in our Nation!

What is clear from the excerpts bellow is that this election season will get very ugly, and only the sycophantic Mainstream Media (and the DNC) are responsible for this entire mess. Why do most of Obama’s surrogates still claim that race is not an issue during this election season (and that it will not affect Obama in November), or that Clinton’s contention about these realities are somehow “wrong” and “bigoted”, when their own campaign staffers could fill a book with these nasty stories? I guess it took a small writer within the Mainstream Press (Kevin Merida) to ask the “worker bees” within the Obama camp about what is really going on in the field. For doing his job, he will probably be called a ‘racist’:

–“Danielle Ross was alone in an empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue Converses, stories from the trail on her mind. It was the day before Indiana’s primary, and she had just been chased by dogs while canvassing in a Kokomo suburb. But that was not the worst thing to occur since she postponed her sophomore year at Middle Tennessee State University, in part to hopscotch America stumping for Barack Obama.

Here’s the worst: In Muncie, a factory town in the east-central part of Indiana, Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for Obama at malls, on street corners and in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and they ran into “a horrible response,” as Ross put it, a level of anti-black sentiment that none of them had anticipated.

“The first person I encountered was like, ‘I’ll never vote for a black person,’ ” recalled Ross, who is white and just turned 20. ‘People just weren’t receptive.

For all the hope and excitement Obama’s candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed — and unreported — this election season. Doors have been slammed in their faces. They’ve been called racially derogatory names (including the white volunteers). And they’ve endured malicious rants and ugly stereotyping from people who can’t fathom that the senator from Illinois could become the first African American president.

The contrast between the large, adoring crowds Obama draws at public events and the gritty street-level work to win votes is stark. The candidate is largely insulated from the mean-spiritedness that some of his foot soldiers deal with away from the media spotlight.

Victoria Switzer, a retired social studies teacher, was on phone-bank duty one night during the Pennsylvania primary campaign. One night was all she could take: “It wasn’t pretty.” She made 60 calls to prospective voters in Susquehanna County, her home county, which is 98 percent white. The responses were dispiriting. One caller, Switzer remembers, said he couldn’t possibly vote for Obama and concluded: “Hang that darky from a tree!”

Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy, the daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, said she, too, came across “a lot of racism” when campaigning for Obama in Pennsylvania. One Pittsburgh union organizer told her he would not vote for Obama because he is black, and a white voter, she said, offered this frank reason for not backing Obama: “White people look out for white people, and black people look out for black people.”

–“On Election Day in Kokomo, a group of black high school students were holding up Obama signs along U.S. 31, a major thoroughfare. As drivers cruised by, a number of them rolled down their windows and yelled out a common racial slur for African Americans, according to Obama campaign staffers.

Frederick Murrell, a black Kokomo High School senior, was not there but heard what happened. He was more disappointed than surprised. During his own canvassing for Obama, Murrell said, he had “a lot of doors slammed” in his face. But taunting teenagers on a busy commercial strip in broad daylight? “I was very shocked at first,” Murrell said. “Then again, I wasn’t, because we have a lot of racism here.”

The bigotry has gone beyond words. In Vincennes, the Obama campaign office was vandalized at 2 a.m. on the eve of the primary, according to police. A large plate-glass window was smashed, an American flag stolen. Other windows were spray-painted with references to Obama’s controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and other political messages: “Hamas votes BHO” and “We don’t cling to guns or religion. Goddamn Wright.”

–“Karen Seifert, a volunteer from New York, was outside of the largest polling location in Lachawanna County, Pa., on primary day when she was pressed by a Clinton volunteer to explain her backing of Obama. “I trust him,” Seifert replied. According to Seifert, the woman pointed to Obama’s face on Seifert’s T-shirt and said: “He’s a half-breed and he’s a Muslim. How can you trust that?”

–“Pollsters have found it difficult to accurately measure racial attitudes, as some voters are unwilling to acknowledge the role that race plays in their thinking. But some are not. Susan Dzimian, a Clinton supporter who owns residential properties, said outside a polling location in Kokomo that race was a factor in how she viewed Obama. “I think if it was somebody other than him, I’d accept it,” she said of a black candidate. “If Colin Powell had run, I would be willing to accept him.”

–“At the Bradford Run Apartments, she found Robert Cox, a retiree who spent 30 years working for an electronics manufacturer making computer chips. He was in his suspenders, grilling shish kebab, which he had never eaten. “Something new,” Cox said, recommended by his son who was visiting from Colorado.

Ewing was selling him hard on Obama. “There are more than two families that can run the United States of America,” she said, “and their names aren’t Bush and Clinton.”

“Yeah, I know, I know,” Cox said, remaining noncommittal.

He opened the grill and peeked at the kebabs. “It’s not his race, because I got real good friends and all that,” Cox continued. “If anything would keep him from getting elected, it would be his name. It might turn off some older people.”

Like him?

“No, older than me,” said Cox, 66.

Ewing kept talking, until finally Cox said, “Probably Obama,” when asked directly how he would vote.

As she walked away, Ewing said: ‘I think we got him.’

But truthfully, she wasn’t feeling so sure.“

This season’s discussion will not be about whether racism is “right” or “wrong”, since this should be quite easy to determine, but about REALITY. It is simply naive to believe that a few Liberals will be able to change World History in a single sweep, all with the single candidacy of an unknown political candidate who so happens to be a minority. This simple reality will hand them their defeat in November, and in the process will drive a bigger racial wedge into this Nation, all of it to make these individuals feel ‘good about themselves’ and their efforts to give the Presidency to ANY non-White candidate that the Democratic Party threw their way.

©2008 J. Cifre, J.D., of SAVAGEPOLITICS.com. All Rights Reserved.

by Shallow Hal
SavagePolitics.com Contributor

I’m going to tell you a secret.

I’ve always, deep down inside, wanted to be an actor. Slather me in make-up and a period piece costume and I would find the accent to match the garb. I could limp like an old, broken man on his cane; I could stalk the darkened halls of the manor, curtains billowing as the windows fling open, a terrible fiend intent on malfeasance. I could crawl across the battlefield, face in the mud, desperately trying to save my own pathetic life, even at the cost of my fellow soldiers’ lives. I would make quite an actor, of that I am certain.

So in keeping with this lifelong, secret wish, I pride myself in two things. One, I can detect the origin of an accent with just a few syllables, and two, I can recognize a bad actor like you would a snake in your salad. And it’s not just bad scripts, bad lighting, bad directors, bad co-stars. No, No, No. BAD ACTORS. And I think I have stumbled on one yet again. I think you may have heard of him:

Barry Soetoro?
BO?
Obambi?
Oblow- well let’s not go that far.
All are understudies of the same, not so very ‘good’ actor. Barack H. Obama.

I have been following our Dreamer’s story for quite sometime now. I’ve watched him butcher Chicago’s Southside, combining his special touch of obvious confusion, with his total lack of political skill. The Southside of Chicago, despite our Star of the Neighborhood, still looks like a shot-out Bosnia today, and never doubt for a minute, kind audience, that these bullets are real.

But never one to let a bad review stop him in his tracks, Barry/BO/Obambi/Owhatever marches on. Oh yes! After a stellar performance on the Southside, of which his wife has become only recently proud, we have our understudy floundering around again, this time one notch higher on the ladder but 2 bulbs shy of a chandelier. And Michelle Obama is not pleased. And who could be surprised by that, really? Seeing as ‘Mich’ has been a tad critical of all of OUR Work, not just her flickering bulb of a hubby, whose light, while failing, just keeps coughing sparks. Oh no, no, no. We are all in this together my fellow Americans, my bitter, working class troglodytes. And OBoy’s next act is sure to be a doozie, from the rumors I’ve been hearing.

It seems it’s Messiah time now.

We have been floating around in the Lost Sea of Me. It seems we have been cynically swimming in circles, splashing around our own little pond, never caring if our neighbors are drowning in theirs. We are just downright mean in case you haven’t heard. But there is a Secret ‘Santa Claus’ on the way to our town, and if we haven’t been too naughty, he might bring it upon himself to be nice. Of course, naughty includes never reminding Santa that he left his Home Pole in a very bad state indeed. That’ll get you a lump of coal my friends. Of course, if you live on the Southside of Chicago, it will at least provide you some heating for the winter - if you ration very carefully.

So enter Santa, or Messiah, or just plain ole Barry, and up the political ladder he climbs! Fellow legislators, realizing that they can’t speak like our plagiarizing and memorizing actor, take it upon themselves to sacrifice their monologues in order to boost Barry to the Big House. After 8 years of writing every line he ever spoke, doing all the paperwork, and really working the crowds (yes, we cave dwellers can now add BLIND to our conditions), our Half-Chandelier is ready for the Bright Lights of D.C.

Like a ‘good’ bad actor, Barry promptly asks directions on how to send home a Care Package. Craftily rubbing his little hands together, he dashes off some Pork Pies back home with his new found (albeit confusing) influence. He pats himself on the back, shows up to The Show, but rarely gets his lines off before the curtain falls. What? He doesn’t seem to mystify or stupefy his new audience here like he did back home! And the nerve of them, not to tell him there’d be 99 others just like him, but with twice little gray cells and 10 times the experience.

The gall of it all!

But, not one to let his utter incompetence and bewilderment put a dent in his fender, our Special Case forges on. And one day, at the behest of MO, whose motives are suspect but not unexpected, our Champion decides it’s time to stand on top of the mountain. Who cares if he has only been climbing and sliding backward down the way he came for a couple of years? Who cares if his habit for never completing the scene is repeating itself again? He is special - he just knows it. And now the world needs to know it too. So enter: The Campaign.

MO makes sure BO is surrounded by a Director that knows his way around a crooked street. And you have to be a pretty crooked street-walker to figure your way around the Presidential Boulevard of Dreams. So they combine their talents, these Three stooges, and plot the drama of a lifetime. They work and they travel and they make sure BO’s teleprompter never needs a recharge. They slip him notes, tape one-liners to the tops of his shoes, and basically tell him to move his mouth on queue, while someone offstage throws their voice. And the Troglodytes just LOVE IT, so unlike those stilted, Shakespearean types he practices with back East; no, they aren’t easily impressed at all. But who needs them, those hateful judges and jurors? As long as he can impress those poor patrons stuck in the balcony, who needs judgment when your audience is so jaded?

So our Champion, our Secret Santa, is out there and his Sleigh is running wild. He has tossed color up into the air and made sure it stuck to every one of his opponents like a bad food label on a mad cow hamburger. He himself never mentions the fact he is a Kaleidoscope of Colors, with black being but the smallest of specks; but who needs details when you can have dreams instead?

So onward and upward, Barry rides forth. He battles phantasms of his own creation and has recollections of battles that were never fought, at least not by him. He hates getting his hands too dirty if you asked me, but I digress. So, Barry posits policies that are so bilious and impossible that another moon landing in the next decade seems a lot more likely. And what an idea! That was dreamt up by someone great once before, perhaps he should try his hand at it as well. After all, he loves nothing better than to impersonate great people. It is in this capacity as an impostor that he seems to excel at most. You must be proud by now, Mich? I thought you would be.

But details are dastardly things and they only get in the way. They ruin The Party. But we shouldn’t count our Hero out. He votes against his own economic package, to a miserable, resounding defeat, 97-0, along with his shrewd and unimpressed D.C. Troop. And you and I never bat an eye.

This thespian seems to know his way around a ballot by now, thanks to Rosetta Stone adding a new language - Competent Legalese. Maybe Alice Palmer should look into a copy. But who’s to say?

Moving on, Barry jets back from his cohort/self-inflicted defeat on policies, and starts talking Hope & Change. And yet again, the Mass Media and the Troglodytes just eat it up like ice cream. We forget that our Hero hadn’t a clue in Chicago, nor nary a clue in D.C.; but why spoil The Party? He is a Uniter with a unique capacity to promise us a New Day. We want Hope and we want Change and Santa is going to bring it down our chimneys. Oh Rush, Rush, St. Nick, get on with it. We wait like patient toddlers, listening for the sounds of change downstairs. And we eat it up! State after State after State, gluttonous on our mind erasing binge, ignoring Wright and wrong, and the Ayers of his ways. They just keep spoon-feeding us the chocolate syrup and we keep licking it up. Shall we never get full? I have my doubts, Montresor, I have my doubts.

So this brings me, at long last, to our Hero’s latest episode. After the 60 state debacle - who knew we had so many new places to go and people to meet? - we have another geographically challenged moment. The Great Lakes Of Oregon.

Barry O, or Obambi, depending on how compassionate you are towards our failing but persistent Flop ‘Strikes Again’. His ‘Empire’ of assistants has certainly let the ball drop this time. And out into the mainstream media has stumbled another bungled line, “tsk, tsk”.

It seems Barry and his Director Axelrod (and Co-Director MO) had an ingenious plan. They would tell the depressed, working class (’Bitterites’) of the Great Lakes region, not unlike you and me, how they were going to send in The Clown and spruce up the Circus. They were going to build the Big Tent, and all of us, even the detestable grumpy ones, would be invited to the show. We were free to buy all the tickets we wanted and pay for those that couldn’t afford the show themselves. They certainly caught our attention, I have to give them that much. But then the Villain reared his ugly head: Inexperience arrived uninvited, stage Left. And the monologue he delivered just wasn’t “jiving” with the crowd. Aw shucks! According to Inexperience, when the Circus left town for its next whistle stop, our Carnies of Talent forgot to change the name on the Marquee. Had they just left Oshkosh, or was it Ohio? Who knew? So out went the information, but as luck would have it for however short a time, the message sounded nice. At first.

We are going to revolutionize your lives. We are going to drag you out of that pathetic coma you have been in, and put you into a new, more stylish coma instead. We are going to rejuvenate your harbors and re-spark your creative genius. We are going to lift you out of your trashy class and help you pretend, like so many others, that your are better than that, despite being the same old, bitter YOU. We are going to finally bring prosperity down the St. Lawrence Seaway and straight to your Great Lakes!! How do you like that, OREGON?

Stunned. Silence. No applause? This was the Passion of The Christ! This was Promise! This was puffed up, billowy plumes of Prosperity, and not a head nodded? Not one person fainted? Teleprompter off, Barry stood aghast. If he hadn’t been shown the proof on MapQuest, he’d have doubted he hadn’t made some wrong turn on the road West, and wound up back in that hateful, competitive stage called D.C., or worse still, HOME. You mean these people aren’t impressed with ‘Progress you can Xerox’? The nerve.

What he couldn’t figure out was how this was happening. Were these Latte Liberals, all the way out here, just as ungrateful and mean as Michelle had said they were back East?

Needless to say, the Great Lakes of Oregon was not impressed a bit. In fact, their disillusionment could grow into revolt. ‘Progress you can Xerox’ seems like a form of progress Oregonians might not like with their Latte. Or maybe so. Who’s to say… CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ORIGINAL COPY OF BARACKOBAMA.COM’S ‘GREAT LAKES’

So as I read the lines and I hear the news, I smile with an all knowing smile. Our Understudy has finally reached his Peak Performance. All the talents he’s shown for being led around by a collar and a bell seem to have coalesced into this very moment, but then this. And why now? Just when he is about to announce his self-appointed Academy Award for Best Actor, it seems the paparazzi sideshow has caught up with our Beta Male, at last. We just have to see if the Oregonian audience walks out during intermission.

I wait here patiently, with the rest of you sorry cave-dwelling types, and I wonder. Are we waking up yet, or are we still swooning in that moldering theater? Are we snoring at the Opera, or throwing our cabbages and tomatoes with a deliberateness that only Mae West could be proud of? I for one have my cabbages and tomatoes at the ready. Oh yes, and at the END of The Party, I’ll make sure to have a pen and paper as well. I will be waiting by the Red Carpet, with baited breath. The Grand Finale is always the best part of the show, wouldn’t you agree?

When my I-Told-You-So’s walk by, in their Audacity of Nope, I am going to ask them for their autographs. I love history, and I want to add their names to my collection, for Posterity’s sake of course. And as they walk off into the Sunset and early retirement, I will speak a quote by some unknown genius, to give them courage and put their minds at ease:

‘The saddest words of life or pen are those sad words ‘What might have been’.

Goodnight, my Party of Pretenders.

And good luck.

DELUSION SOURCE

©2008 ShallowHal, of SAVAGEPOLITICS.com. All Rights Reserved.

**ALSO READ SHALLOW HAL’S “Truth Vs. Barack Obama”!**

The video above is exactly what is in store for us if Obama becomes President; a glorified but unfunny ‘Def Comedy Jam’ section that runs for 4 years without end. To be clear, if Obama represented an uncensored session of the Chappelle Show, then matters would be a lot better, but as we know, Obama doesn’t have neither Dave’s talent nor good intentions.

McCain Vows To Replace Secret Service With His Own Bare Fists

The video above explores just how tough John McCain is when it comes to National AND personal security.

Just to round off the weekend with a good dose of ‘religious controversy’, I include the video above in today’s humor. Even though most people find Rev. Manning to be highly offensive and hateful, we must admit that said clip is very funny, specially if looked from a comedic lens. During this tense election season, we should sometimes take things a bit lightly. Hearing Manning call Obama a ‘long legged pimp’ is obviously comical, no matter our views on the issue, or our personal instinct to automatically defend the integrity of all pimps around the world, who have been so hatefully insulted by being compared to Mr. Barack.

Also make sure you check out our NEW ART SECTION by clicking on the link provided on the right sidebar of this site under “IMPORTANT PAGES”. We will update daily and you can also submit your own by emailing them to savagepolitics@gmail.com!

Please enjoy yourselves and have a great (and humorous!) Mother’s Day!

Dr. James Manning, a well known and often radical African American preacher from Harlem (New York), discusses the Black Church and Barack Obama in the videos above and bellow.

Ever since the Media has force-fed the idea that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is representative of a widespread “Black church experience” to which many Americans were simply “not in tune with”, I have found it relevant to post videos from this particular preacher, since he always provides many eloquent (and often comical) reasons to NEVER support Barack Obama and his Liberal lackeys. To some, this preacher may simply be the “flip side” of Rev. Wright. To others, he is one of the few “main line” Black preachers who “tells it how it is” and has been throughly asking his community to take the concepts of ’self reliance’ and ‘personal responsibility’ to heart.

Bellow, please find a small taste of what is coming Obama’s way in the general election. Even Democrats must admit that if you want to see a functional ad against Barack Hussein Obama, you must leave it to the Republican National Committee and their friends for a job well done. Enjoy the preview!

by Lin Farley,
SavagePolitics.com Contributor

Maybe I am not a Democrat, after all. Because, let’s face it, the Democratic Party doesn’t want me– so why should I continue to want them?

I think a lotta women are asking themselves this question along about now.

I mean where in the Democratic National Committee Leadership is there a woman at all. We got Donna Brazile, who hates gays, is more responsive to her race than her sex and backs Obama because she cannot resist the movie in her head called: Triumph of the Race.

And then there is Howard Dean who hates the Clinton’s and is a progressive Democrat who went down in flames electorally; but what the hell–he is Obama’s guy on the Inside.

And then there is WHO? C’mon, all you astute electioneer armchair handicappers; Where is the woman who is in power in leadership in the Democratic National Committee? WHO?

SILENCE!!!

Ok. So we have introduced the idea that just maybe the party of our fathers and their sons has abandoned me and women by the boatload for a good long time. So isn’t supporting this party a sucker play for us?

For women that it is. Because now Mcgovern, Mondale, Kennedy, Kerry, and Hart [Carter too] are working that ole liberal loser thang all over again.

And it ain’t gonna fly any better this time than it has in the past.

I don’t need to be a guy, and I don’t need to possess a college degree to understand that this is a loser strategy. But that’s the problem, isn’t it? The GUYS and their female hangers-on like BoringBoringBoring McCaskill can’t see what is as plain as the nose on your face to every Democrat without a college degree from here to Charleston, West Virginia with stops in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, New York, and California.

We Lose if we go this way. Because the women ain’t coming back. And neither are the White working class.

The seniors will leave as well. And the Latinos.

Finally, anyone who thinks Barack Obama is going to carry the Jewish vote is smoking too much of the hopium. They will not support Obama who wants to negotiate with Hamas and Iran.

So how many times will the liberals insist on running this play? The one that goes, ‘Blacks and Upper Income voters will carry the day’. Because the other party knows that election gambit by heart and they ‘whup ass’ every damn time we go that way.

If we reject the Clinton coalition of voters this year we are committing suicide as a political party.

But Donna Brazile don’t care; she just told me to go f**ck myself, ‘Barack don’t need my kind’.

And I think Obama’s people think me and my kind don’t matter `cause people hate Bush so bad, ain’t nobody gonna vote Repuggie’?

“NO, NO, NO”– to quote a famous preacher. It’s a sucker play; don’t fall for it.

But jeee