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1. By LVWranglersHockeyRocks

   1/17/08 at 3:40 p.m.

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   I hope that Rory Reid just accepts the outcome of the lawsuit.

   It's embarrassing enough that the Clinton machine fought to stop the caucus set-up simply because HRC wasn't endorsed.

   They're trying to shove her down our throats.

   Sorry Hill and Bill, but it doesn't work that way.

2. By Girly_Girl

   1/17/08 at 4:08 p.m.

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   From The Sunday Times
   January 13, 2008
   DIRT BEGINS TO FLY AT OBAMA
   War opens with hints about backers
   Obama was not brought up to follow any religion, although his African grandfather and Indonesian stepfather were Muslim. He became a Christian as a community organiser in Chicago and in the late 1980s joined the Trinity United Church of Christ, an African-American mega-church with an 8,000-strong congregation.
   The same southern voter, who did not wish to be named, then threw another piece of Obama’s biography into the frame. “I looked at his church’s website. It said it was ‘unashamedly black’. They don’t want any whites there. I wouldn’t feel real comfortable if I tried to worship there.”
   The unorthodox pastor of Trinity church is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who is refusing all interviews. He married Barack and Michelle Obama and baptised their two daughters. He is already attracting attention on right-wing websites for describing the September 11 attacks as a “wake-up call” to America for ignoring the concerns of “people of colour”, and for claiming that Americans “believe in white supremacy and black inferiority . . . more than we believe in God”.
   Wright said the Palestinians are the most oppressed people on earth and likens Israelis to Nazi occupiers.
   Wright travelled to meet Muammar Gadaffi, the Libyan leader, in the 1980s with Louis Farrakhan, the black supremacist leader of the Nation of Islam, and subscribes to the “Black Values System”, which preaches self-reliance but claims “middle-classness” is ensnaring blacks.
   “When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli to visit Colonel Gadaffi with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell,” Wright once said.

   The other potential threat to Obama comes from the indictment of one of his leading donors, Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a Syrian-born property developer in Chicago, who is accused of extortion.

   Rezko has been indicted by Patrick Fitzgerald - the prosecutor who brought down the White House official Lewis “Scooter” Libby and the press magnate Conrad Black - for seeking millions of dollars in kickbacks from companies bidding for state business in Illinois. He is due to appear in court on February 24.

   On the day the Obamas bought a new home in Chicago for $1.6m in 2005, Rezko’s wife purchased an adjoining piece of land, giving the senator’s family more privacy and a larger expanse of green than they had paid for. Obama later paid $104,000 for a strip of the land, even though it was known that Rezko was under investigation

3. By Girly_Girl

   1/17/08 at 4:09 p.m.

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4. By LVWranglersHockeyRocks

   1/17/08 at 4:10 p.m.

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   Girly Girl,

   You are spamming that same article all over this website.

   Tell us --- what on earth does that article have to do with Harry or Rory Reid?

   Get a grip. You are embarrassing yourself and causing a headache I'm sure for the Sun mods.

5. By danman5515

   1/17/08 at 4:33 p.m.

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   I encourage everyone to research Dr. Ron Paul at www.ronpaul2008.com or at his wikipedia bio. I actually switched parties to vote for this guy.