Part II, Facts about Obama

Obama and Racists, Anti-Semites, and Catholic-haters

Obama either does not understand or does not care that his association with, and even promotion or endorsement of, racists, anti-Semites, and Catholic-haters enables and empowers their bigotry.

(1) Obama and the New Black Panther Party.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gGrXCt hosted at Obama’s official campaign Web site (as of March 12 2008, and it has been there for quite a while) proclaims that the New Black Panther Party supports Barack Obama. Noting that this page has acquired 396 points (presumably from activities with Obama ‘08 or ratings from other participants), it is difficult to believe that Obama’s staff is not aware of this page. The Anti-Defamation League (http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/Black_Panther.asp?xpicked=3&item=Black_Panther) describes the New Black Panther Party as follows:

Founder: Aaron Michaels
Leader: Malik Zulu Shabazz
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
Founded: 1990
Ideology: A mix of black nationalism, Pan-Africanism and racist and anti-Semitic bigotry Influences: Original Black Panthers, Black Panther Militia, Nation of Islam[Khallid Abdul] Muhammad’s rise through the group’s hierarchy was abruptly halted in November 1993, after he delivered a notoriously anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, homophobic and racist speech at New Jersey’s Kean College. In his remarks, Muhammad referred to Jews as “bloodsuckers,” called for genocide against whites, vulgarly ridiculed Pope John Paul II and demeaned homosexuals. The speech attracted significant media attention, and Muhammad was condemned by a wide range of religious and political leaders - including the U.S. Congress, which issued a condemnation in 1994 that decried the speech as “outrageous hatemongering of the most vicious and vile kind.” Farrakhan responded to the controversy by removing Muhammad from the group’s leadership, although the NOI leader noted that he faulted only the form, not “the truth,” of Muhammad’s remarks.

(2) Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Ronald Reagan (R-CA) and Lou Barletta (D-PA) were all offered endorsements by hate organizations (Independence Party, Ku Klux Klan). None of them even had to be asked to reject these endorsements without hesitation, qualification, or equivocation. Barack Obama, in contrast, refused to use the word “reject” in connection with support from Louis Farrakhan, the racist and anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam, until Tim Russert and Hillary Clinton cornered him during the February 26, 2008 Democratic debate. Only when they asked him three times to “reject” Farrakhan’s support did Obama, with obvious reluctance, do so. Farrakhan is on record as calling the Pope the Antichrist while saying that white people are “potential humans” who “haven’t evolved yet.”

(3) Al Sharpton and the National Action Network. This is a verbatim quote from Obama’s
appearance at the National Action Network in April 2007, where he posed arm in arm with Sharpton (http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net/html/press_releases.html): “Reverend Sharpton is a voice for the voiceless, and a voice for the dispossessed. What National Action Network has done is so important to change America, and it must be changed from the bottom up.” Sharpton’s long record of inciting hatred of white people and especially Jews includes the Tawana Brawley scandal (1988), Crown Heights riots (1991), and Freddy’s Fashion Mart incident (1995) in which one of Sharpton’s deranged followers burned a Jewish-owned store with the loss of seven innocent lives. This is what the National Action Network, while under Sharpton’s leadership and supervision, did at Freddy’s.

“The street leader of the boycott, Morris Powell, was the head of Sharpton’s “Buy Black” Committee. Repeatedly referring to the Jewish proprietors of Freddy’s as “crackers,” Powell and his fellow protesters menacingly told passersby, “Keep [going] right on past Freddy’s, he’s one of the greedy Jew bastards killing our [black] people. Don’t give the Jew a dime.”” (”The Nine Lives of Al Sharpton” By John Perazzo http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=CB9E239A-DF92-4214-BE61-C935E5553C4A)

“…in 1995 eight people died in a murderous rampage inspired by Mr. Sharpton. … Picketers from Mr. Sharpton’s National Action Network, sometimes joined by “the Rev.” himself, marched daily outside the store, screaming about “bloodsucking Jews” and “Jew bastards” and threatening to burn the building down. After weeks of increasingly violent rhetoric, one of the protesters, Roland Smith, took Mr. Sharpton’s words about ousting the “white interloper” to heart.” (”Democrats Embrace ‘Impresario of Hatred’” by Fred Siegel, http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004192?)

(4) MoveOn.org and its now disgraced Action Forum. Barack Obama has solicited and received the support of MoveOn.org, which published not only a vicious insult to General David Petraeus but also a derogatory photomanipulation of Pope Benedict waving a gavel in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. This “Catholics are taking over America” picture was entirely consistent with the anti-Catholic, as well as anti-Semitic and anti-Evangelical, hate speech that MoveOn.org welcomed on its now disgraced Action Forum. Contrary to MoveOn’s assertions that the Action Forum was an “open forum” for whose content MoveOn was not responsible, MoveOn’s moderators were exercising complete editorial control by deleting material they found disagreeable. The hate speech against Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals, and others was allowed to stand, along with conspiracy theories that blamed the U.S. Government, Jews, and others for 9/11.

Here are a few examples of Action Forum content that garnered overwhelming approval from the other participants:

* “Removing all Israeli obsessed Jews from congress would stop a lot of killing.”* “[Condoleeza] Rice and [Colin] Powell ARE ‘house slaves.’”* “Call for the arrest and immediate incarceration of the Catholic Pedophiles of America.”* “The victim class will expand until you too can be jailed for ridiculously minor offenses while the Catholics are raping your children.”* “Not to get nasty but jews have a long history of subverting governments for their own enrichment and glory to the detriment of whole societies.”* “Israel is guilty of war crimes in their cowardely attack on Lebanon and the whining, arrogant Jew [Tom Lantos] wants Lebanon to demonstrate responsibility!”

If there is any remaining doubt as to whether MoveOn’s moderators knew about the hate speech that pervaded the Action Forum, the Action Forum FAQ page (http://www.actionforum.com/general/faq.html#1, still online as of March 1 2008) should eliminate it.

“How can I make sure someone at MoveOn reads my post? All comments are read at least twice. While there is no single criteria, comments that suggest a possible MoveOn action and are not duplicative are likely to be immediately passed on, or included in a summary to the whole MoveOn team. Ratings, while important, are not definitive and some comments with few or low ratings are included in the summaries. Important issues are sometimes followed up with a survey to a sampling of the membership.”

(5) Jeremiah Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ. Barack Obama is a member of a church with a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa” whose pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said “white America” got a “wake up call” on 9/11. Wright also accompanied Louis Farrakhan on a visit to Moammar Khadafy, and the church recently honored Farrakhan with a Trumpet Award.

Now let’s take a look at Jeremiah Wright’s own “War in Iraq IQ Test” (http://www.cfba.info/iq/index.html as of March 12 2008)

41. Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992? A: Over 6542. Q: How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between 1972 and 1990? A: 30+43. Q: How much does the U.S. fund Israel a year? A:$5 billion
44. Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons? A: 8
45. Q: How many nuclear warheads has Iraq got? A: 0
46. Q: How many nuclear warheads has US got? A: Over 10,000
47. Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons? A: The US
48. Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have? A: Over 400
49. Q: Has Israel ever allowed UN weapon inspections? A: No
50. Q: What percentage of the Palestinian territories are controlled by Israeli settlements? A: 42%
51. Q: Is Israel illegally occupying Palestinian land? A: Yes52. Q: Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.? A: ????

The Trinity United Church of Christ is also “A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA” (http://www.tucc.org/about.htm), and its parent, the United Church of Christ, has ties to the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center. Per the Anti-Defamation League at http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ChJew_31/4848_31.htm,
New York, NY, January 10, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is troubled by the United Church of Christ’s continuing partnership with the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, a radicalized Palestinian Christian group whose leaders have openly questioned Israel’s right to exist.

Sabeel speaks for itself at http://www.sabeel.org/old/news/newslt19/sabeel.htm (link valid as of March 13 2008)

It was on May 15 , 1948 that the state of Israel was established, and the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) is remembered.

That is, according to Sabeel, the establishment of Israel itself (as opposed to the “occupation” that Jeremiah Wright condemns) was a “catastrophe.” Obama’s close ties to Jeremiah Wright and second-hand ties to Sabeel speak more eloquently than any words about the real depth of his support for America’s ally and fellow democracy in the Middle East.

ABC News (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4443788&page=1) quotes Wright from sermons given in 2003 and on September 16 2001 (five days after 9/11):
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people.We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.

http://husaria.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/anti-obama-viral-email-project/

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