#20 good question - they obviously are not doing their jobs. I stopped watching local news along time ago. What about the PD? Will we get the truth from them since they have endorsed Obama? I wonder. This is about judgement and character. I find this very dissapointing about Obama. But like most Democrats, things like this never hurt them as we recall Clinton being a rapist. I am not sure why. But this is much more serious than the media is letting on. Are these the type of people Obama will be appointing to lead our country?

Has the PD reported this story from Jim Geraghty of The Campaign Spot?

One of Obama’s Earmark Requests Was for the Hospital That Employs Michelle Obama

Dan Riehl notes, via Amanda Carpenter, that in the list of earmarks he requested, $1 million was requested for the construction of a new hospital pavilion at the University Of Chicago. The request was put in in 2006.

You know who works for the University of Chicago Hospital?

Michelle Obama. She’s vice president of community affairs.

As Byron noted, “In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office.”

Lost in the carnage from the Wright voice, which BMN is either flatly lying about, or he is as stupid as Billary, is the other BMN story you dont here alot of on the pages of the Post Disgrace. Seems BMN kind of understated how much money he got from his former “neighbor” Tony Rezko, to the tune of about an extra 100K.

Absolutely thrilled to know that stupid is alive and well in St. Louis - as evidenced by most of these posts.

This was an IBD editorial - something you won’t read in the PD. Sorry if you find our posts stupid Mary, but if the truth hurts - too bad!

Tuesday January 15, 6:48 pm ET
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Election 2008: Since we first drew attention to Barack Obama’s Afrocentric church a full 12 months ago, other media have weighed in. And additional disturbing information has come to light.
At the core of the Democratic front-runner’s faith — whether lapsed Muslim, new Christian or some mixture of the two — is African nativism, which raises political issues of its own.

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In 1991, when Obama joined the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, he pledged allegiance to something called the Black Value System, which is a code of non-Biblical ethics written by blacks, for blacks.

It encourages blacks to group together and separate from the larger American society by pooling their money, patronizing black-only businesses and backing black leaders. Such racial separatism is strangely at odds with the media’s portrayal of Obama as a uniter who reaches across races.

The code also warns blacks to avoid the white “entrapment of black middle-classness,” suggesting that settling for that kind of “competitive” success will rob blacks of their African identity and keep them “captive” to white culture.

In short, Obama’s “unashamedly black” church preaches the politics of black nationalism. And its dashiki-wearing preacher — who married Obama and his wife and now acts as his personal spiritual adviser — is militantly Afrocentric. “We are an African people,” the Rev. Jeremiah Wright reminds his flock, “and remain true to our native land, the mother continent.”

Wright once traveled to Libya with black supremacist Louis Farrakhan to meet with terrorist leader Muammar Qaddafi. Last year at a Chicago gala, Wright honored his old pal Farrakhan, who’s fond of calling whites “blue-eyed devils,” for lifetime achievement.

It comes as little surprise then that Wright would think Israel a “racist” occupier of Palestinians, while describing the 9/11 attacks as a “wake-up call” to “white America” for ignoring the concerns of “people of color.”

Wright makes the Rev. Jesse Jackson look almost moderate and patriotic. Yet this is whom Obama picked to baptize his daughters, plus to act as his “sounding board” during his presidential run.

The candidate already has heeded his church’s “nonnegotiable commitment to Africa,” spending an inordinate amount of his campaign time on the Kenyan crisis, for one. Obama has close family ties to Kenya, and even founded a school in his ancestral village — the Senator Obama School.

In the bloody conflict there, which already has claimed some 700 lives, Obama appears to have sided with opposition leader Raila Odinga, head of the same Luo tribe to which Obama’s late Muslim father belonged.

Obama’s older brother still lives there. Abongo “Roy” Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must “liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture.” He urges his younger brother to embrace his African heritage.

Beyond family politics, these ties have potential foreign policy, even national security, implications.

Odinga is a Marxist who reportedly has made a pact with a hard-line Islamic group in Kenya to establish Shariah courts throughout the country. He has also vowed to ban booze and pork and impose Muslim dress codes on women — moves favored by Obama’s brother.

With al-Qaida strengthening its beachheads in Africa — from Algeria to Sudan to Somalia — the last thing the West needs is for pro-Western Kenya to fall into the hands of Islamic extremists.

Yet Obama interrupted his New Hampshire campaigning to speak by phone with Odinga, who claims to be his cousin. He did not speak with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki.

Would Obama put African tribal or family interests ahead of U.S. interests?

It’s a valid question, and one voters deserve to have debated regardless of the racial and religious sensitivities. Thanks to a media blackout of these issues, the electorate has yet to benefit from a thorough vetting of Obama.

We have to wonder how much of the national agenda Africa would consume under an Obama administration. Of the six “world threats” Obama lists in stump speeches, at least half of them concern that chronically troubled Third World continent.

Yes, some of his African priorities are noble, such as fighting AIDS and genocide. But how much U.S. aid, resources and presidential time would he devote to them? How much is enough? If Bill Clinton was America’s “first black president,” would Barack Hussein Obama be our first president for Africa?

Then there is the issue of his Muslim past. Obama, 47, was raised by two Muslim fathers and attended Islamic classes in Indonesia.

He denies being Muslim, however, and says he “embraced Christ” while answering the altar call 20 years ago at Trinity. (Contrary to anonymous e-mail rumors circulating, Obama never took the oath of office on the Quran. He used a Bible, and Vice President Dick Cheney swore him in during his Senate ceremony.)

This merely raises another concern, beyond that of the controversial church he chose to baptize him. If Obama were ever Muslim, even as a youth, he would now be viewed as an apostate, which in radical Islam is punishable by death. As Mideast expert Daniel Pipes has noted, a President Obama could be the target of a fatwah.

Still, his Muslim heritage is not the signal issue before the electorate. It’s his Afrocentric church, which preaches black socialism and black nativism, and his family ties to an African tribe that’s fanning the flames of Marxism and militant Islam in a country once considered strongly democratic and a friend of the U.S.

“I believe in the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change,” Obama has asserted. He also says his faith has led him to question “the idolatry of the free market.”

If a President Obama’s foreign and domestic policies are anything like the Afrocentric doctrine he’s pledged to uphold, Americans will pay a hefty price, including those among the growing black middle class.

A Centrist,

Unfortunately, Mary will not read the IBD editorial, just like a lot of the delusional liberals who don’t want to be exposed to anything outside of their narrow minded dogma. It is a shame.

Why do Democrats refuse to educated themselves with facts - just like the PD editorials. I simply don’t get it. I picture them standing with their fingers in their ears and screaming “la,la,la.”

I do not find Obama offensive, but I was originally offended by something his wife said a while back. “As a black man, Barack can’t even go to the gas station without getting shot.” That was an incredibly stupid remark. I’m not even sure what she meant. As a white woman, I would probably get shot if I went to a gas station in Wellston or even a mall in Des Peres. So what does that mean. She has a troubling additude and I think she buys into Rev. Wright more than her husband did. I believe she majored in black studies in college.

Michele is a hypocrite with some serious issues and I would not care for her as our first lady.
I don’t like blanket statements about other’s race or religion. Many dems said I can’t believe you like Romney, he’s a mormon. Wow, what liberals they are. Republicans said that too and I found it offensive. However, I will admit if someone said something offensive about a certain religion that has attacked our country and wants to kill us, that’s another matter.

Centrist, I read your “Advertisement” and am surprised that you posted it. For someone that alleges “I don’t like blanket statements about other’s race or religion.” this “Advertisement seems to do just that.

Churches cater their sermons to fit the demographics of their congregation. They talk about issues that relate to their delegation. I didn’t find the pastor’s remarks to be any more controversial that Arch Bishop Burke’s comments about politicians that are not “Pro-Life”.

I didn’t agree with Burke’s comments anymore than I agree with Wright’s comments. Comments like those are both divisive and to me un-Christian. For the record I’m a non-practicing Catholic that actually attended a seminary with the dreams of becoming a priest. I found out that I wasn’t cut out to be a “man of the cloth”.

Like you I do not like it when families of politicians cash in on the success of their spouses. You do an excellent job of keeping the readers of the Post Dispatch informed on your issues regarding the democrats. The funny thing is I could cut and paste articles about the republicans that are not picked up by the Post just the same as you do about the democrats.

November 7, 2007
Bush Brother’s Firm Faces Inquiry Over Purchases
By MARILYN W. THOMPSON

Thu, Nov 13, 2003
Florida teachers fume as pension fund buys Edison for $174 million
By Gregg W. Downey, Editor, eSchool News

The Florida Retirement System is chaired by Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, who supported the purchase despite vigorous objections from teacher unions and some investment experts. The decision to buy Edison, which has used school technology as a key sales point in its efforts to take over troubled public schools, is the most controversial move by the $92 billion pension fund since 2001. That’s when the fund lost a reported $325 million buying plummeting shares of Enron stock.

Why do democrats (republicans) refuse to educated themselves with facts - just like the PD editorials. I simply don’t get it. I picture them standing with their fingers in their ears and screaming “la,la,la.”

Did anyone see that article in the Post? So does that mean that the Post is a “Right Wing Rag”? I could go on and on Centrist. Would that change your opinion of the Bush Crime family? I doubt it.

November 7, 2007
Bush Brother’s Firm Faces Inquiry Over Purchases
By MARILYN W. THOMPSON
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — The inspector general of the Department of Education has said he will examine whether federal money was inappropriately used by three states to buy educational products from a company owned by Neil Bush, the president’s brother.

John P. Higgins Jr., the inspector general, said he would review the matter after a group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, detailed at least $1 million in spending from the No Child Left Behind program by school districts in Texas, Florida and Nevada to buy products made by Mr. Bush’s company, Ignite Learning of Austin, Tex. Mr. Higgins stated his plans in a letter to the group sent last week.

Members of the group and other critics in Texas contend that school districts are buying Ignite’s signature product, the Curriculum on Wheels, because of political considerations. The product, they said, does not meet standards for financing under the No Child Left Behind Act, which allocates federal money to help students raise their achievement levels, particularly in elementary school reading.

Sorry I screwed up the post above and left out some of the body of text. I’m not quite as skilled a cut and paster as some on this blog.

I completely agree with Pam. That has been my interpretation of Obama ever since he crawled out of the woodwork!

#19

RCJ you are right, the priests were not molesting from the pulpit but even after they were exposed as pedophiles many times they were shielded from the law. To this day the Church is covering for them. That makes the church as guilty as the pedophiles themselves.

RCJ you were quick to accurately point out that the preists were not molesting from the pulpit however you neglected to comment on the wild accuations of Pat Robertson and Jerry Fallwell’s quotes after 9-11.

As I noted in #27 I’m a non-practicing Catholic. I quit attending the church when I found out that they were moving priests to advoid prosecution.

Every religion has a few nutjobs in their pulpits. Every political party has a few nutjobs in their ranks. It’s the nutjobs that make most of us feel sane about ourselves and our views. Thank God for NUTJOBS!