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The year is 1907, one hundred one years ago!

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.' Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Obama Embraces New Caustic Pastor

Thursday, May 8, 2008 9:39 AM

By: Ronald Kessler Article Font Size

Can you imagine the president of the United States attending a church where the pastor says everyone has a bit of “thug” in him and praises a rapper with a criminal record as a prophet?

How about a pastor who calls the biblical patriarch Abraham a “pimp” and says Noah and Moses were thugs, Jesus has a “soft spot for thugs,” and everyone has some “thug proclivities.”

If Barack Obama is elected president, that is exactly what will happen. Now that the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. is retiring from Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama has said he will continue to attend the church.

Explaining his decision, Sen. Obama said that the “new pastor, the young pastor, Reverend Otis Moss, is a wonderful young pastor.” He said he also still values the Trinity community.

Known as the "hip-hop pastor," Otis Moss III has served as assistant pastor of the church for two years. Moss officially takes over in June.

While Moss has not expressed hatred of America and of whites, as Wright did, in a sermon on YouTube, Moss derides middle-class America for not accepting the “prophetic brilliance” of thugs.

Referring to these thugs, Moss says sardonically, “There are times when our prejudice keeps us from hearing ghetto prophets, who preach a brand of thug theology which keeps us from hearing the truth from their lips because of their course language and ragged subject-verb agreement.”

To applause, Moss approvingly cites Tupac Shakur, a “gangsta” rap star with a long arrest record. Before being fatally shot in a drive-by attack in Las Vegas in 1996, Shakur faced a 120-day sentence for probation violations stemming from offenses including assault and battery and a 1994 sexual abuse conviction in New York. Shakur served 11 months in prison for his involvement in the sexual attack on a 21-year-old woman in a New York hotel room. Judge Daniel P. Fitzgerald of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan described it as “an act of brutal violence against a helpless woman.”

Shakur had also been convicted in Los Angeles of assault and battery on a music video producer and for carrying a loaded, concealed weapon.

Most Americans look to places of worship for inspiration and moral and spiritual guidance. Moss’ message is the opposite. Claiming Shakur’s message speaks to our “current condition,” Moss blurs the distinction between right and wrong: He says those who don’t get that a rapper like Shakur is a prophet and biblical figures are thugs are confined by “bourgeois paradigms.”

Instead of condemning those who break the law, Moss says to exuberant applause, “Our society creates thugs. Children are not born thugs. Thugs are made and not born.” He adds, “This is good news for somebody who has a proclivity for 'ghettoistic' conduct.”

Indeed, it is good news for those who do not want to be held accountable for their own conduct. In making that statement, Moss endorses the message of many black leaders who encourage blacks to see themselves as helpless victims of a bigoted society. As outlined in the Newsmax article “Rev. Wright Furthers Black Victimhood,” the victim mentality limits blacks’ aspirations and torpedoes their chances at success.

What is most disturbing about Obama’s continuing attendance at Trinity is the fact that he is exposing his children to its negative message. Instead of uplifting members of his congregation and calling on them to adhere to the best values, Moss denigrates American society and looks to guidance from thugs.

A president is commander in chief and chief executive officer of the government. But he is also a moral leader. When President Clinton was caught having sex with Monica Lewinsky, parents all over the country were embarrassed and disgusted that they had to explain to their pre-teens the meaning of the sexual terms their kids read in newspaper articles describing Clinton’s activities with the 22–year-old White House intern.

What kind of moral leadership can be exercised by a man who sends his kids to listen to sermons denouncing America and whites and now calling Moses a thug and praising a convicted rapper as a prophet? What kind of example is set by a man who does not denounce the destructive message sent by this church to blacks and whites alike?

Tragically for segments of black society, in belonging to Trinity and contributing $26,270 to it last year, Obama is helping to spread the crippling message among blacks that they are victims.

Apologists for Obama will say where he attends church and what he exposes his children to have nothing to do with being president. They are mistaken. It has everything to do with being president.

Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com.

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I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

'Dear Heavenly Father,

Hold our troops in your loving hands.

Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need

I have, Especially in the last 15 or 20 years, been called a list of things, running the gammit from radical, anti- establishment, to liberal bleeding heart. I confess that at this point in time i have no idea what end of the political spectrum i would land! And try as i have , no clear cut pattern emerges. Perhaps, as bethany has said, im just reactionary, and just react to my human emotions without giving them much thought, or perhaps as benil, who,s comment,s seem to imply that i am not in touch with the reality of the world around us today, Im unrealistic! Or even ellenmoriah, Who insults my intelligence, maybe im just ignorant! So that would mean, at least in their eyes, that im an uninformed, kneejerk reactionary ignorant person! And last but not least, lets throw in racist and bigot for good measure. I have thought about all of this, even my bitter and angry comment i made last night on the subject of superdelagates, of which i sincerely regret having posted! Because it simply tends to bear out the half truth,s of their opinions. I was in one of my reactionary moment,s after having read that Superdelagate YBarra has offered to sell his vote for 20 million. I have concluded that at the end of the day, when all is said and done, it makes no difference whatsoever what people like me feel and think. And there are a lot more of me,s out there than them,s. So my question is, should it not matter? Or should we just continue to take a backseat to all that is going on around us, and let the politicians and intellectuals and philosophers make the rules and enforce the laws that we all have to live by? People such as i are in the mojority, so why cant we make a difference? When i say people such as i, let me define what that means. Just your average, everyday, working, not college educated, neighborhood people who keep the Country turning on its not to well oiled wheels. The masses who are just along for the ride, and pay their taxes and keep their mouth,s shut. Grass Roots, NOT! That title is reserved for a class or group of people who take a stand on something that the powers to be approve of, or it is to their advantage. And then, overnight they are important, because they are helping a certain politician or certain group accomplish their goal. The real problem i see with this Country and its people, is that everyone is so busy trying to be politically correct and trying not to offend this or that group, until the basic principles of our founding fathers have fallen by the wayside. That each new group or nationality that pops up, we have to change our principles and laws to accomodate them, WHY? if they think America is such a great place to relocate to, then it must be alright the way it is. They should adjust their culture to fit in with our,s, not the other way around. Because we, as True American,s, who were born and raised here, and have been true to our Country, no longer have a definable culture of our own. We are called the melting pot of society, well i dont want to be in a melting pot! I want my own culture and i want the right to speak up for my culture and defend my culture, with out being labeled racist or bigot. But im afraid those days are long gone, and i dont think we will ever get it back. I dont personally want all the religious organizations of the world to come together, as Obama has proposed or promised to do, with his ability to reach across the aisle as he calls it. Why wouldnt i want that, you might ask, because i know that therein lies our destruction, And anyone who believes in Jesus and what the Holy Bible says will know this as fact. When all the nations come together and promote a one world government, with a one world religion, Then what happens to the ones who dont go along with it? The Bible tells you the answers to this question. That no man might buy, sell, or trade cept he that has the mark of the beast. Now i will be labeled religious fanatic, just another label in a long list of labels. But anyone, christian or not, can research these facts for themselves and choose to believe jesus, or not to believe him, everyone has a choice, at least in that matter. When i see the signs of what is prophesied in revelations happening right in front of my eyes, then i have to and do believe. Obama is at the very least a false phophet. And i believe he will lead us to unheard of, except in the Bible, trials and tribulations. I cant stop it, But i can and will speak out against it, as long as i can. Because i believe there is coming a day, and not too far off, that we will not have even the illusion of freedom that we have today. And look how far we have come towards that very end in such a short span of time. They no longer need a warrant to search your home or your car or anything else they want to do. If you were to try to take your family and build a compound and just get away from it all, you couldnt, that has been proven, look at waco. Most people like the intellectuals dont have a clue as to what is really going on, it is hidden from the naked eye under the guise of national security. As Americans we dont have any real rights and freedoms anymore, just the illusion of such. There are powers working behind the scenes that are bent on destroying America and what she stands for, or what she used to stand for. And they are doing it hidden in plain sight, But people just refuse to see it. Obama offers hope, Obama offers change, Obama offers Peace and unity. Well read your Bible, The Anti- Christ is going to offer all of these same things. And multitudes of people are going to follow him and worship him, even calling him the Messiah. Now im not saying Obama is the anti-Christ, but he could be a fore runner. Because i know with every instinct in my heart, body and soul that Obama is not what he portrays himself to be.next time he is walking along smiling at the people, pay attention to his expression after he has turned away from the people, if you get that chance, i have only about 2 times now, and it speaks volumes as to his true character. You can fool all the people sometimes, and some of the people all times, but not all the people all the time.

                 "They,r standing on the corner

                      they can't speak English.

                          I can't even talk

                     the way these people talk:
                           Why you ain't,
                            Where you is,
                           What he drive,
                           Where he stay,
                           Where he work,
                           Who you be...!



                     And I blamed the kid until

                      I heard the mother talk.

                  And then I heard the father talk.

           Everybody knows it's important to speak English

          except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor

          with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

             In fact you will never get any kind of job

               making a decent living. People marched

             and were hit in the face with rocks to get

                an education, and now we've got these

                    knuckleheads walking around.

                  The lower economic people are not

                 holding up their end in this deal.

                   These people are not parenting.

                           They are buying

             things for kids. $500 sneakers for what ? ?

                      And they won't spend $200

                       for Hooked on Phonics.

               I am talking about these people who cry

         when their son is standing there in an orange suit.

                  Where were you when he was  2 ? ?

                  Where were you when he was 12 ? ?

                Where were you when he was 18 and how

            come you didn't know that he had a pistol ? ?

                     And where is the father ? ?

                        Or who is his father ?

              People putting their clothes on backward:
             Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?

                 People with their hats on backward,

                    pants down around the crack,

                   isn't that a sign of something ?

                    Or are you waiting for Jesus

                       to pull his pants up ?

              Isn't it a sign of something when she has

              her dress all the way up and got all type

            of needles [piercing] going through her body?


               What part of Africa did this come from??

                        We are not Africans.

                   Those people are not Africans;

                they don't know a thing about Africa..

                With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and

                    Mohammed and all of that crap,

                    and all of them are in jail.

                 Brown or black versus the Board of

         Education is no longer the white person's problem.
             We have got to take the neighborhood back.



                     People used to be ashamed.

                  Today a woman has eight children

                 with eight different 'husbands' --

                or men or whatever you call them now.

                    We have millionaire football

                       players who cannot read.



              We have million-dollar basketball players

                  who can't write two paragraphs .

             We, as black folks have to do a better job.

                  Someone working at Wal-Mart with

                   seven kids, you are hurting us.
                    We have to start holding each

                     other to a higher standard.



                         We cannot blame the

                      white people any longer."



              Dr. William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:25:54 -0700 From: "Human Events" Add Mobile Alert
To: charliesbabi_58@yahoo.com Subject: Senate May Move Obama-U.N. Global Tax Scheme

The United States Senate may vote any day on the stealth imposition of what could amount to an $845 BILLION United Nations style global tax on American citizens?

It's called the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), and it is being sponsored by none other than Senator Barack Obama.

According to some conservative sources, this disastrous legislation could eventually force U.S. taxpayers to fork over as much as 0.7 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product -- or $845,000,000,000.00 -- on welfare to third-world countries.

Here's what Phyllis Schlafly, conservative activist and founder of Eagle Forum, recently wrote:

"Obama's costly, dangerous and altogether bad bill (S. 2433), which could come up in the Senate any day, is called the Global Poverty Act. It would commit U.S. taxpayers to spend 0.7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts..." [Emphasis Mine]

Time is of the essence because Senator Joe Biden, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee just issued a report on the Global Poverty Act and it was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar on Thursday the 24th.

That means that time is of the essence as this potentially massive surrender of your hard-earned tax dollars to the third world may be close to a vote.

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Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush and each Member of the Republican Leadership of the United States Senate.

Let them know in no uncertain terms that you are watching and you will not tolerate massive United Nations style giveaways that are passed in the dark of night -- or in broad daylight for that matter. Tell them that putting us on the road to give billions to petty tyrants and dictators is NOT a solution to poverty.

This bill can come up for a vote at any time. Demand that our conservative legislators do whatever it takes -- a filibuster if necessary -- to stop this bill dead in its tracks.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 3:07 PM

By: Ronald Kessler Article Font Size

If Barack Obama’s relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright speaks volumes about the presidential candidate’s values and judgment, it also spotlights the widespread black culture of victimhood that encourages failure.

Since I began writing Newsmax stories in early January about Wright’s so-called Black Value System, his award for lifetime achievement to Louis Farrakhan, and his claim that America created the AIDS virus to kill off blacks, I have received hundreds of e-mails from African American readers who insist a white person cannot understand what it means to be black and live with the legacy of slavery.

In particular, blacks accused me of being racist or ignorant when I wrote that Obama was engaging in mythology when he claimed that Wright’s anger is understandable because he grew up in “humiliation and doubt and fear.”

In contrast to the portrait Obama painted, my story reported that both Wright’s parents had good jobs and that Wright and his family lived in a middle class section of Philadelphia. Wright was privileged to attend Central High School, which was 90 percent white and accepted only the most academically gifted students from throughout the city.

I am well aware of the discrimination that existed then. In 1964, as an editor of my college paper, I wrote articles that exposed discrimination against blacks in rental housing in Worcester, Mass., leading to investigations and a crackdown by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

In 1984, I wrote Washington Post stories revealing that Lena Ferguson had been denied membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) because she was black. The stories led not only to her admission to the DAR but to her appointment as chairman and founder of the D.C. DAR Scholarship Committee.

I am also aware of discrimination against practically every other minority, including Jews, 6 million of whom were killed by Adolf Hitler much more recently than blacks were slaves.

Finally, having interviewed Condoleezza Rice about her childhood, I am aware of the fact that, unlike Wright, she faced real segregation growing up in Birmingham, Ala. There, she attended segregated schools, sat at the back of buses, and had to drink from water fountains reserved for blacks. Yet her response was that she had to be “twice as good” as whites, and today she is secretary of state.

Whether Wright ever encountered prejudice is open to debate, but given his background, he clearly did not face the kind of conditions that might create the anger Obama described in his speech on race. What sets Wright and his many apologists apart from others who may have faced discrimination is that they have chosen to define their lives by the sins of the past.

That mindset is behind the black culture of victimhood that both Bill Cosby and Fox News contributor Juan Williams have denounced in their books. It is a culture that encourages blacks to think of themselves as still living in segregation, limiting their aspirations and creating a self-fulfilling expectation of failure.

It is a culture that defines good grades as something sissies get and success as the province of whites. It is a culture that leads blacks to grow up with a chip on their shoulders, contributing to an incarceration rate that is almost three times higher than that of the rest of the population.

As part of its Black Value System, Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ specifically endorses that attitude. The Black Value System, which I wrote about in the Jan. 7 Newsmax article “Barack Obama’s Racist Church,” includes the disavowal of the pursuit of “middle-classness.” That is defined as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,” just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.”

As Williams has told me, the black culture of victimhood cripples blacks by saying to them, “You can’t help yourself; you can’t help your family; and therefore all you can do is wait for the government to do something for you.”

The culture of failure says that “you are acting white if you're a good student, that says that going to jail is just a right of passage, or that crime is acceptable in the black community,” Williams says. “You celebrate drug dealers and gangs, and you say, ‘That’s authentically black’ when you see criminal behavior. How self-defeating! What a negative image to take on to yourself, but even worse, to put on your children.”

Because they have not grown up in that culture, black immigrants from Africa and the Carribean are far more successful than blacks who were born in America, Williams says.

The notion of victimization is promoted by what Williams calls phony leaders who create support for themselves by blaming whites for the problems of blacks, ignoring the fact that in most organizations today, blacks are often promoted ahead of whites. Those same leaders have been appearing on our television screens of late, making excuses for Wright and using double-talk to explain away his racism and hatred of America.

The cynicism of these black leaders is underscored by the fact that, while denouncing “middle-classness” for members of his own congregation and their children, Wright is moving into a $1.6 million home in a nearly all-white suburb of Chicago. Paid for by the church, the home has a four-car garage and is four to five times the size of a typical suburban home.

That speaks to the hypocrisy of black leaders who have built their careers on encouraging black victimhood, ensuring that large segments of the black population remain downtrodden. The difference between those leaders and Condi Rice is that she chose not to become bitter over the past.

Aside from helping to expose Obama’s true character, if any good can come of the Rev. Wright controversy, it will be that blacks will come to understand that they have been sold a bill of goods by leaders who cynically encourage them to see themselves as victims.

Rather than making excuses for Wright, segments of the black population need to reject those leaders, embrace positive role models like Cosby and Williams, and work to demolish the imaginary chains that tragically still bind them to the Imaginary chains that still bind them to the past.

By: Ronald Kessler Article Font Size

In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Barack Obama again fabricated the background of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to try to excuse his longtime pastor’s denunciations of America and of whites.

Referring to racial discrimination, violence, and segregation, Obama said Wright “went through experiences that I never went through.”

In his speech on race in Philadelphia, Obama made similar claims. He described a “lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one’s family . . .”

Obama said this was “the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up . . . For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years.”

But as detailed in an April 13 Newsman article, “Obama’s Rev. Wright Mythology,” Obama’s characterization of his mentor’s upbringing is untrue.

Wright grew up in a racially mixed, middle-class section of Philadelphia called Germantown, which consisted of homes on broad tree-lined streets. Both his parents had good jobs: His father was a pastor; his mother was vice principal of Philadelphia High School for Girls.

Wright was privileged to attend the elite Central High School, which admits only the most highly-qualified applicants from all over the city. When Wright attended Central High, the student body was 90 percent white, according to students who attended at around the same time.

Wright’s classmates clearly respected him. The 211th class yearbook described him as the “epitome of what Central endeavors to imbue in its students.”

In contrast to Wright, Bill Cosby, who also attended Central High, has denounced the black culture of victimhood that Wright has promoted in his sermons, a culture that Cosby says sets up blacks for failure.

Since the Newsmax story on Wright’s background ran, only Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly has picked up on the fact that Obama’s characterization of his preacher’s upbringing is fiction.

Meanwhile, the coverage resurgence of Wright over the weekend spotlights the fact that, by suppressing any mention of Wright until mid-March, the media in effect selected Obama as the Democrats’ nominee.

Wright appeared in a Bill Moyers interview on Friday, gave a talk to the NAACP in Detroit on Sunday, and spoke to the National Press Club this morning. As a result, clips of Wright denouncing America and claiming the country introduced the AIDS virus to kill off blacks have been blanketing the airwaves.

Moreover, at the NAACP, Wright in effect ratified the black culture of failure by saying African-Americans’ brains are different than those of whites: If they speak differently from whites, they are not wrong — just different, he said, implying that they should not be corrected.

If the Obama-loving media had picked up on stories that Newsmax started running in January before the primaries began about Obama and his relationship with his pastor, Hillary Clinton undoubtedly would be ahead today in delegates and votes.

After the media finally ran the stories, Obama’s double-digit lead over Clinton in national polls vanished. At the same time, John McCain shot up in the polls.

As Ken Blackwell, a black columnist, recently wrote, the media have covered Obama “as if he were in a beauty pageant.” In doing so, they have done a disservice to Democrats by not telling the truth about Obama and his pastor until most of the primaries were over.

By not reporting how Obama is using bogus claims about Wright’s upbringing to excuse his “God damn America” tirades, the media are continuing the coverup.