Barack Obama addresses young crowd at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
GREEN BAY, Wis.Indian Country was conspicuously absent from Barack Obama's speech at a campaign stop here, much to the consternation of many Native Americans who attended the rally.
Obama appeared at the Kress Events Center at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus Friday and spoke to more than 4,500 attendees eager to see and hear the Democratic candidate for president. The campaign appearance took place ahead of the Wisconsin primary election Tuesday.
The Illinois senator touched on issues such as the war in Iraq, which he promised to end by 2009 if he's elected president; he promised to resurrect the declining health care and educational systems; he addressed environmental and energy concerns.
But he did not mention Native Americans.
Said Rick Hill, former chairman of the Oneida tribe: "His theme of change, which is a big thing with his candidacy, seems to be resonating with a lot of people who have issues with health care, education, the war in Iraq and the economy, and I think he offers some viable solutions to these issues, but I didn't hear as much as I would have liked about Native issues."
Within 60 miles of where Obama spoke, three reservations are located: the Oneida, Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee. More than 50,000 Native people live in Wisconsin; they represent almost 1 percent of the state's population of 5.5 million people, according to U.S. Census estimates.
Kenneth Fish, a Menominee tribal legislative representative, was one of three Native American leaders invited to the Obama rally for a brief personal meeting and photo opportunity with the candidate before his entrance into the auditorium. Fish said he has not committed to supporting a specific candidate until he learns more about Obama's and Hillary Rodham Clinton's platforms regarding Native issues.
"Until that time when we as Indian people would personally have the time to talk with him and his representatives and hear his specific policies on Native issues, it's hard at this point to support any one candidate," Fish said. "We as Native Americans have always been underdogs in terms of status quo politicians whether it's on a state or federal level, but this individual seems to have a feeling for the common folks. But until we know his specific policies, it's hard to tell which candidate to support."
One issue that concerns some Native American voters about Obama is his stance on Indian gaming. Hill, of the Oneida tribe, expressed worry about Obama's views on the issue.
"It remains to be seen whether he's the best candidate for Indian Country," Hill said. "I don't think he's a strong supporter of Indian gaming, but I think he could be educated to the fact that it supports tribal governments and infrastructure.
"I think he'll appoint responsible people to deal with this issue and come up with a fair and equitable policy that addresses a lot of issues in Indian Country," Hill said.
Other tribal leaders in the area said they agree with Hill.
Lisa Waukau, chairman of the Menominee Nation, also held Obama's position on gaming as a reason to be circumspect at this point in the campaign. She said she believes Obama does not consider Indian gaming as a viable resource for Native communities.
"He doesn't see gaming as an economic engine for Indian people," Waukau said. "Although he is saying all the right things that tribal people want to hear, we've heard all the promises before only to see them broken, so I'll believe it when I see it."
After Obama's visit, some Native American students said that they were now leaning toward voting for him but that he hadn't completely swayed them.
Menominee student Alecia Waupoose, a 20-year old First Nations and social change and development major, said she still had research to do regarding the policies of Obama and Clinton, especially about Native issues.
"I still want to see what Hillary has to offer," Waupoose said. "I'm leaning more towards Obama, though, because it took me 20 minutes to find something on Native issues with Hillary. I typed in ‘Obama and Native issues' and the first five items were really good hits. He was even on powwows.com."
Anton Williams, Oneida, is a 29-year-old sophomore majoring in environmental policy and planning who attended the rally with a loose loyalty to Obama.
"If it's him or Hillary, it's OK," Williams said. "I think they both have an understanding that things need to change."
Critics have deemed the Illinois senator as being too young, inexperienced and vague when it comes to his actual policies. But Obama still touted his message of hope and change at the UWGB rally.
In response to his critics' claims of being too young and inexperienced, Obama quoted the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"I am running because of what Dr. King called the ‘fierce urgency of now,' " Obama said. "Because I believe there is such a thing as being too late, and that hour is almost upon us."
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Long before the white man
Long before the white man set foot on American soil, the American Indians, or rather the Native Americans, had been living in America. When the Europeans came here, there were probably about 10 million Indians populating America north of presentday Mexico. And they had been living in America for quite some time. It is believed that the first Native Americans arrived during the last ice age, approximately 20,000-30,000 years ago through a land bridge across the Bering Sound, from northeastern Siberia into Alaska. The oldest documented Indian cultures in North America are Sandia, Clovis and Folsom Although it is believed that the Indians originated in Asia, few if any of them came from India. The name Indian was first applied to them by Christopher Columbus, who believed mistakenly that the mainland and islands of America were part of the Indies, in Asia.So, when the Europeans started to arrive in the 16th and 17th century they were met by Native Americans, and enthusiastically so. The Natives regarded their white complexioned visitors as something of a marvel, not only for their outlandish dress and beards and winged ships but even more for their wonderful technology steel knives and swords, fire belching arquebus and cannon, mirrors, hawkbells and earrings, copper and brass kettles, and so on.
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Election is nw over...
Election Day is behind us, and America has a new leader. The U.S. has chosen “change” by electing Barack Obama. There is no doubt that change is in store for the United States. Whether the United States changes for the better or for the worse is yet to be seen. It’s obvious that Americans believe Obama will bring a positive change to our country. Obama has promised the U.S. a lot of things like lower taxes for the middle class, putting a timeline on the war in Iraq, and trimming the federal budget “line by line.” What many Americans don’t realize is that Obama has also supported the elimination of the payday loan industry. Obama thinks doing away with the payday loan industry will protect low-income, and often minority, families from being victimized by predatory lenders. However, getting rid of the payday loans is a violation of our financial freedom. Maybe Obama will give America what it needs, but taking away our financial freedom isn’t a great start to creating positive change. Click to read more on Payday Loans
Obama could not speak on one race's issues in a campagn
For all of my fellow Native Americans who are looking and seeking hope from every possbilt corner of this country I say that Obama is our only hope for survival on this land. He has not spoken about African American issues either, nor European American issues, or Asian American issues or Latin Americans. His campaign is based on change and hope for ALL Americans no matter what race or gender. That is a hella of lot more that what McCain was offering any of us people of color.
Hold your chin up Obama will make it better.
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With just less than one week until the election, controversies surrounding both the Democrat and Republican camps continue to emerge. The most recent media storm has focused on the $150,000 that the Republican National Committee spent on new clothes for Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. Even though the story has generated a mountain of negative publicity and anti-Republican attacks, I refuse to let it sway my opinion. One has to consider that both Palin and Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama have spent thousands on clothing, and it shouldn’t change the direction in which the vote is cast. I mean, we live in a society based on image and possessions; if a candidate didn’t spend money on her wardrobe I can only imagine the criticism she would receive then. If one candidate donned designer outfits and the other dressed in frumpy clothes, Americans would have much less respect for the latter candidate. Plus, look at the amount of attention Sarah Palin is receiving from her wardrobe! It doesn't seem like such a bad political move because in the end, publicity is publicity. When it comes down to it, Americans should base their votes on the qualifications of the candidates, not the clothes they choose to wear. We should vote for the candidate that will protect our personal financial freedoms and the continued rights to no fax payday loans.
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Obama and the Payday Loan Issue
The payday loan industry has been the key target for corrupt politicians, from all sides, seeking an increase in voter support at the expense of what’s best for the general public. Governors of several states including, Georgia, North Carolina, and Oregon completely drove payday loan businesses out of their states. The negative effects of driving out payday loan companies from these states, appears to have not been the best idea for its’ citizens. For instance, in Georgia, the bankruptcy filings, bounced checks and foreclosures all grew overwhelmingly after the cash advance option was taken away from them. In spite of this downbeat information, following the closure of payday loans in these states, several other governors continue to try and follow suit. Leading national politicians, such as presidential hopeful Barack Obama, are now making it their mission to eliminate the industry completely once and for all. Should such efforts be judged successful, the possibility is very real for increased unemployment rates, more debt, more foreclosures and an even more crippled economy.
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Payday Loan Advocate for Two Words Obama Didn't Say
Some politicians, such as Barack Obama, are looking to outlaw the payday loan industry. A large part of this intention was stirred by the flawed idea that payday lenders fall under the same moral values as illegal loan sharks. Being misinformed can accumulate some severe consequences. Although this statement is true, they take no notice of the genuine fact that the main source of these consequences is based on a course of action on inaccurate information. Sadly, a number of politicians have successfully passed legislation in their states, city and towns which controls, or even takes away your ability to get a payday loan. Now is the time to take action and educate your friend and family to protect your rights to financial independence.
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Obama
Im just one of the millions of spectators in this US presidential showdown and whether we admit it or not, Obama seems to be a mile ahead of mccain in terms of popularity, in terms of noise (publicity), in terms slogan (change)... i do hope the american electorate do make a good choice this time. heck, any choice other than bush would certainly be a better one.
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Obama
I personally like obama very much , he is a good leader.
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Run from McCain
Obama is the only alternative in my opinion that embraces all people. The republicans have never helped our people. For the first time in years of oppression we have a chance to run from the republicans who would not recognize our inherent rights. Look at all the trash spread about Obama. What do you think they would say about our ceremonies and culture? Look at all the low blows about his former pastor. Many of our people are active in fighting for our rights, are they radicals? Or perhaps intelligent people who know when our culture is being attacked and are willing to take a stand. I don't believe it is wrong to empower your people to overcome oppressors. Racism is alive and well in America and anyone who questions the dominant race is deemed less, including ourselves. It is time for everyone not just the super wealthy.
I don't think that Obama has
I don't think that Obama has said anything wrong in this case. He is absolutely right in every statement he says.
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I was also there. He's
I was also there. He's speech was ok except from the fact that you mentioned earlier. Generally speaking, I think it was pretty ok and anyway better than other speeches I have ever listened to.
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obama is he the end
he admires hilter, hes going to put martial law in effect, the goverment is making the us economy fail soon we will be without money and if that happens more than likley its going to be the end times.......... please raed revalations in the bible and please do not recieve the mark of the beast i beg everyone not to get that mark in jesus name i pry amen
Is he, or is it us?
No the whole reason we are losing our culture, is because we are listening to the White people and we are doing what they do. Maybe if more Native Americans had more pride in there culture, then we would be people that people talk about everyday. Reading the bible and praying came from white people, we are our own kind but for some reason people like you think that we should worship god. We need to spend more time on our selfs for awhile and start to get us reconized. I may still be young but i learn my stuff.
Obama
I am Cherokee, born in Oklahoma but living in IL for most of my adult life.
Would you vote for a socialist? Obama belongs to the New Party a socialist party with a mix of communists and militants as members.
His friends are radicals - Bill Ayers who bombed government facilities and now Ayers is a respectable professor because his father was connected. Other friends, Rashid Khalidi, Ali Abunimah and others.
His church affiliation for the past 20 years, built on black liberation, and Marxist socialism.
When Obama wanted a house he couldn't afford, he went to a fraudster for help - and when the man, Tony Rezko was convicted this past May, he said, "That's not the Tony Rezko, I knew." Strange because all politicians knew Tony Rezko as "The Fixer."
Chicago is as corrupt as a city can be - the politicians are all connected and networked.
While our people are starving, Obama's friends like Emil Jones who helped him become a state senator are getting earmarks from the government. "Some people call it pork," Jones says, "I call it steak."
Obama's campaign manager, David Axelrod, used a fake group to get electric rate hikes for IL - now we pay twice as much and the utility still wants more money !! Maybe he'll teach Obama how to defraud more people - maybe even YOU.
Are you sure this is the man you want as President????
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Why did Waives royalty
Why did Waives royalty appealed to offshore services? For their drilling? Wouldn't this have a bad impact on the environment?
Two Words Obama Didn't Say: Native Americans
CAMI4Hillary 33 Rush whatever your name is LEAVE MY PEOPLE ALONE!,
We need to vote for the Candidate that supports our people the most!
Discern with your own heart.
Do not allow others to sway your from what your HEART TELLS YAW!
McCain and the republicans right now are OUR biggest enemies, look at the Uranium mining and how it is killing Native people with cancer in Arizona if he cared he would SToP IT, but what is going on is only for $$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Do NOT let the TAIBOU WASICITU Sway you from your own heart and mind! They call it OPERATION CHAOS..................
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Obama,Clinton,MaCain
I'm surprised at the ignorance/naivete of the posters here.President Barack(HUSSEIN)Obama,Hillary(BILL)Clinton,John(POW)MaCain are all the same Virus.As long as you ignorant people keep electing the same sub-humans to congress & senate_then the same crap will continue year after year ad-nauseam.They're the ones with the power, and they mostly help themselves,families & friends. My BROTHERS AND SISTERS ((( WAKE UP ))) DEMO-RATS and REPUG-LICANS are the same power hungry beast. If you think these Viruses will help you_You've been totaly indoctrinated into a Virus cultured psychosis. ROME 2 will fall!! Talk to your Elders and let them teach you the old(best) ways to live_but maybe it's to late, because the invading white Virus has poisoned & polluted the water,food & air for that almighty $1.00 I pray for the GREAT SPIRIT to wipe out this plague that has infected our land for the last 500+ years. End of rant! MJFitch United Houma Nations
Wherever you go, there you are!
Obama, Clinton, MaCain by Michael Fitch response
Read your history, it doesn't matter who or what party is voted in - the agenda is ALWAYS the same..... And I do agree we need to start listening to our Elders and going back to the traditional ways of our culture, life. But we as NATIONS never have been able to get together and stop our own petty fighting and see that changes happen. Our Great Spirit/Creator can only do so much - it's up to the rest of us to do the rest! We have too many wounded warriors it seems - it is the year of the woman - so women, young and old - let's get something done!!! And our youth please stop the gangbangin and get away from the drugs and alcohol - stand up with your people and let's fight for our treaty rights. Okay, nuff said.
White Eagle Woman (Crane Clan)
WOW! I agree 100% with what
WOW! I agree 100% with what you said, We need to keep going with what we came with. I may only be 15 yrs. old but i have been through a lot. We need to be noticed and we need to be talked about.
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Wow
What a dreadful, pitful person you sound to be. Native people haven't lived this long by have your defeatist attitude. It's all about never giving up. Sure whenever you deal with non-natives it's a gamble however, if you never try you NEVER triumph.
Cheer up, no matter what you're here till you're called.
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I'm a dreadful,pitiful person?
Such kind words from a stranger.
Do you know me?
How many treaties have i broken with you?
My attitude isn't a defeatist attitude, it's stating the damn facts.
Your pacifism is exactly what these power hungry viruses count on.
Keep you head in the sand, that's the triumph you've earned.
Obama? Or What did the others Say?
My initial reaction to Obama was that he used his half breed heritage to get ahead, and that he was a shiny object, much like the joke about women loving shiny objects.
However, recently watching Hillary utilize the race card, the media beating on this man for his mother being white, and all the racists cartoons, (on the net) all over about him, led me to a different view.
At first I liked McCain, but his economic plan and war wishes are disturbing. While Native people see the Spirit in ceremony, what did McCain see while being tortured? It probably was not Creator.
Hillary, I do not like critical control freaks, and loathe those who would be so competitive that they would use the Wright race card, and have full support of predominantly Euroamerican female man haters. If you are like me, a HIGH PROFILE Native APPLIED ARCHAEOLOGIST who works for the PEOPLE, you must understand, our worst competition other then some of our own who fight with slander, are white females.
One of the biggest losses we as Native People have experienced through the failed Indian Reorganization Act governments, brought us hierarchy and economic inequity, via stratification.
What a joke SELF DETERMINATION is, a good idea, however there is NO watchdog. Many Tribes, mine for example in Nevada and many others i have observed are ALL out for them self and their family's. It does not matter if few have the credentials of the mainstream, or the traditional background (NOT PAN INDIAN FAKE SPIRITUALITY BUT YOUR TRIBES OWN). Make reservations into slum areas, filled with gangsters who have no chance otherwise, HUD project slums, Directors so unqualified the only things they know how to do is put their grant in. Otherwise, no scientific studies, no attempts at doting their jobs responsibly, total abuse and malfeasance.
The other thing Directors, Tribal Governments and so forth do is to slander the qualified, take advantage of traditional people who help their people, and then to claim they are radical and traditional. I do not know about you, but i have seen one to many fake Native Shaman(ess).
WE ARE OUR OWN WORST ENEMY.
It ws better when the BIA and IHS Managed many of the programs. It could have been better, that is why some complained in the past. However, what I see now is criminal.
Well, here is some data on Governor Richardson, who had/has the most extensive Native policy and support out of all of them. A Brown Man, a Chicano (Mexicans are Southern Uto-Aztecan Mexica = People of the Sun, agave, photo synthesis people or basically Earth People). RICHARDSON supports Obama, I will VOTE for the CANDIDATE who has RICHARDSON as a running mate.
Or I will not VOTE, why? MORE OF THE SAME FAKE SELF DETERMINATION, COYOTE WATCHING THE CHICKENS. (lol)
I support Obama because of the possibility of Governor Richardson being his Vice Presidential candidate.
Richardson if you go to his Presidential web page has the most extensive Native American Policy initiatives and he does come from a Chicano (Mexican Mother), back ground! He just does not brag about his heritage!
Go to this link and research, Governor Richardson is the MAN!
http://www.richardsonforpresident.com/communities/native_americans/pressreleases?id=0001
Welcome to Native Americans for Richardson
I stand with Native Americans to fight for what is important to all Americans: providing quality healthcare; insuring equal opportunity to education; caring for our elders; creating jobs and building basic infrastructure; and planning for future generations.
I believe in honoring American Indian, Alaskan Natives and Native Hawaiians communities by strengthening tribal governments and supporting the self-sufficiency of Native communities, including Native urban populations. I don’t just talk about these ideas. I’ve done it in Congress, at the Department of Energy and as Governor of New Mexico. As President, I will work to restore the trust between our government and our country’s Native peoples. My administration will focus on policies that promote the continued strength, integrity, and resiliency of Native Americans.
The relationship between the federal government and tribes has increasingly come under assault. President Bush’s Administration has created an environment that undermines Tribal America’s forward progress. The attack on tribal sovereignty must stop.
Governor Richardson discusses his positions on Native American issues at the Prez on the Rez event.
National Native American Advisory Council for Bill Richardson
Hon. Joe Garcia (Ohkay Owingeh) New Mexico
Native Advisors Co-Chair and President of NCAI
Mr. Ron Andrade (La Jolla) California
Director, Los Angeles Indian Commission
Ms. Shenan Atcitty (Navajo) Washington, D.C.
Attorney, Holland & Knight
Hon. Irene Auginaush (White Earth) Minnesota
Councilwoman, White Earth Tribal Council
Hon. Don Barlow (Ottawa) Washington
Representative, Washington State Legislature
Hon. J. Robert Benavides (Isleta Pueblo) New Mexico
Governor, Pueblo of Isleta
Hon. Lora Ann Chaisson (United Houma Nation) Louisiana
United Houma Nation Tribal Council
Hon. J. Michael Chavarria (Santa Clara) New Mexico
Governor, Pueblo of Santa Clara
Hon. Conroy Chino (Acoma Pueblo) New Mexico
Former NM Secretary of Labor
Hon. Norman Cooeyate (Zuni Pueblo) New Mexico
Governor, Pueblo of Zuni
Ms. Helen Doherty (Cherokee) California
Chair, Native American Caucus, California Democratic Party
Mr. Andrew Ebona (Tlingit) Alaska
Tribal Council Member of the Douglas Village - Tlingit Tribe
Hon. Elizabeth Furse, Oregon
Former U.S. Representative
Hon. Raymond Gachupin (Jemez) New Mexico
Governor, Pueblo of Jemez
Mr. Kevin Gover (Pawnee) Arizona
Former Assistant Secretary of the Dept. of Interior
Ms. LaDonna Harris (Comanche) New Mexico
President, Americans for Indian Opportunity
Hon. Jason Johnson (Acoma Pueblo) New Mexico
Governor, Pueblo of Acoma
Mr. Tadd Johnson (Mille Lacs Ojibwe) Minnesota
Former Chair, National Indian Gaming Commission
Ms. Onawa Lacy (Navajo) New Mexico
Former Miss New Mexico USA
Hon. Kevin Leecy (Bois Forte) Minnesota
Chair, Bois Forte and Vice Chair, National Indian Gaming Assoc.
Mr. Harold Lockwood (Laguna Pueblo)
Sgt. at Arms, National American Indian Veterans
Ms. Elizabeth Lohah Homer (Osage) Washington, D.C.
Partner, Homer Law
Hon. Alvin Moyle (Fallon Paiute-Shoshone) Nevada
Chairman, Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe
Hon. Stuart Paisano (Sandia Pueblo) New Mexico
Former Governor, Pueblo of Sandia
Hon. Ivan Posey (Eastern Shoshone) Wyoming
Chairman, Eastern Shoshone Tribe
Hon. George Rivera (Pojoaque Pueblo) New Mexico
Governor, Pueblo of Pojoaque
Mr. Sonny Skyhawk (Rosebud Lakota Nation) California
Chairman, American Indians in Film & Television
Mr. Ron Solimon (Laguna Pueblo) New Mexico
Director, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Col.(US Army, Ret) Joey Strickland (Choctaw-Cherokee) Louisiana
Deputy Secretary, LA Dept of Veterans Affairs
Hon. Hugh Stevens (Te-moak of Western Shoshone) Nevada
Former Chair, Temoak Tribe of Western Shoshone
Mr. Wes Studi (Cherokee) New Mexico
Actor
Hon. Gilbert Suazo (Taos Pueblo) New Mexico
Governor, Pueblo of Taos
Hon. Eddie Tullis (Poarch Creek Band) Alabama
Republican Indians for Richardson
Hon. Dennis Vigil (Nambe Pueblo) New Mexico
Governor, Pueblo of Nambe
Hon. Gil Vigil (Tesuque Pueblo) New Mexico
Former Governor, Pueblo of Tesuque
Hon. Brian Wallace (Washoe Tribe) Nevada
Former Chairman, Washoe Tribe
Hon Alvin Warren (Santa Clara Pueblo) New Mexico
Lt. Governor, Pueblo of Santa Clara
Hon. Judy Winchester (Pokagon Band Potawatomi) Michigan
Secretary, Pokagon Band
Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico
The Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico
The Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico
The Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico
The Pueblo de San Ildefonso, New Mexico
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The best the Dems could produce?
If we get excited that Barack Obama is the only candidate to mention Native Americans in other speeches we have hit a low point in our expectations. I could care less which of the two - HIllary or Obama - gets the nomination. They are SO similar that the small points of difference don't really matter. While I'm inclined to support Hillary's universal health care plan more than Obama's, because IHS sucks so much, that is really my only selling point.
But let's not applaud Obama for supposedly being the ONLY candidate to address Natives. All of them really should be and no one deserves brownie points for doing the bare minimum of acknowledging a race that is entitled to acknowledgment as are all other races.
Obama for Natives
I really would like to say that since Europeans set foot here our cultures and people have been decimated. Many of us have lost or are losing our culture or Identity. As Native Americans we must realize that we do not politically strong. Sorry to say. Obama is a real person and he more than any other candidate can relate to what we have gone through as an oppressed people. He knows what it is to live in diverse worlds when many of us have not even learn to live in only one world. Nearly 500 years and we are still struggling. We have accepted the Casinos, the Stereotypes, and The goverment telling us how much indian we should be or what percentage we are, losing our languages and many other maladies that afflict our people. So now everyone wants to complain about Obama? He did not ask to be born part white....he has accepted the fact that he is African American an and has a African American wife. His sister is part Asian. I think it would be poetic justice if this man should win. A nation that has so long oppressed people and nowadays the economy is so bad that folks cannot hardly survive. I truly respect and honor this man for comming as far as he did and making history along the way. So we should align ourselves with him. How many more scandal and perversions from most of the white canidiates can this nation take. Don't be so picky brother.
Like Father Like Son --
Obama’s efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Cheney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Cheney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.
The American military pounds Iraq with Artillary, bombs, and the like, destroying large sections of cities, and infra-structures, then Halliburton comes in to rebuild. Halliburton and Halliburton associated companies have raked in ten’s of billions.
Obama is just like the BIG HALIBURTAN. Haliburton has contracted to build detention centers in the U.S. similiar to the one in Quantanammo Bay, Cuba. Halliburton does nothing to earn the Two Dollars for each meal an American Serviceman in Iraq eats.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
Halliburton was scheduled to take control of the Dubai Ports in The United Arab Emiirate. The deal was canceled when Bush was unable to affect the transfer of the American Ports.
Now we see what some might suspect as similiar financial escapading from the Democrats.
Two years ago, Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity gave a $50 million contract to a start-up security company - Companion- owned by now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO) Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley, to train Iraqi power-plant guards in the United States. An Iraqi leadership change left the deal in limbo. Now the company, Companion Security, is working to revive its contract.
Involved along with Antoin “Tony” Rezco, long time friend and neighbor of Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and former cop Daniel T. Frawley, is Aiham Alsammarae. Alsammarae was accused of financial corruption by Iraqi authorities and jailed in Iraq last year before escaping and returning here.
LIKE FATHER LIKE SON --
Recently, Obama's campaign staff have been vetted by the IRS to disclose his connection to the criminal money generating underworld. Besides, his connections to the REZCO MAFIA types, his up-coming Tax Fraud charges — Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and disclose Obama's MUSLIM Farrakhan mob connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness." That man is Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church are trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Obama should stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke "GLORK" Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He is MAD!!! --
OBAM YOU'RE NO JFK --
"GLORK" Obama looks like Alfred E. Newman: "Tales Calculated To Drive You." He is a MUSLIM "Glork" He's MAD!!! Alfred E. Neuman is the fictional mascot of Mad. The face had drifted through American pictography for decades before being claimed by Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman after he spotted it on the bulletin board in the office of Ballantine Books editor Bernard Shir-Cliff, later a contributor to various magazines created by Kurtzman.
Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek.
Michelle Obama should be ashamed.
"GLORK" Michelle Obama should be ashamed of her separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Beneath that Darth-Vader-Mace-Windu-Jedi-Me ssiah Helmet Hairdo of Michelle Obama lurks a Wildabeast. If Michelle Obama new what her husband -- the Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama did in Harlem, she would wash her wide-open, Hus-suey loving MUSILM mouth out, with twenty-four (24) mule-team double-cross X-boX-BorraX. The Lexis-Nexis-Albatross-Abacus-Complex of Barack and Michelle's relationship with MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and black demagoguery of Obama's Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; is about as much of a Hoax as Oxfam volunteers believe in HIV-- AIDS Witch Doctors in Africa they feed.
"God damn America" - Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama.
"God bless America" - Pope Benedict XVI and Hillary Clinton --
Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast -- failed the Illinois Bar Exam. If Barack Obama had married Shaniqua instead of the leftist-separatist-racist-beast-'ist Michelle, his jackanapes' excitedly-fixed-elitism, Nemet-Oure-Saxas-Our-Father-Our-King-- black rage, and "GLORK" black demagoguery of Obama's Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; would be taken a lot more expeditiously. Its expected that Obam will manage his explosive MUSLIM JIHADI -- FATIMA EXTREMISM obsession bitter. He is a MUSLIM "Glork" It’s time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He's MAD!!!
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
THE SPEECH --
The Apologia has arrived and once again the self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama, promises to heal the wounds of the world. The speech is the rude awakening of mass messianism of his campaign. Apologetically, Obama the MUSLIM double-cross X-boX-BorraX has an astonishingly empty two-prawn echelon explanation of his misjudgment.
In the first prawn: with regard to his connection to separatist-racist Rev. Wright; Obama summons voodoo and juju to express slavery as beginning and ending with the Rev. Wright.
In the second prawn: Obama's speech takes credit for Ashley's dream. A dream of unity Martin Luther King, Jr. borrowed from Ashley for his historic "I Have A Dream" speech. In Obama's speech, the connective bond Ashley, the elderly black man and Obama's grandmother share; represents Obama's self-indicting rise to the Harvard Yard. For Obama, the grand flag of language is the semi-fore of words, bestowed upon our nation by the messiah-alumni from Harvard. Obama's Swoon-Song Apologia to the nation represents a failed hymn -- a hymn that fails to heal the nation, repair the world, or make this time different than all the rest. Obama's speech is a brilliant failure.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
MUSLIM LIES --
The ILLIGITIAMTE MUSLIM MESSIA has blundered yet again!!! The self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama, lied about the politics of his campaign. The danger involved with this self-aggrandizing, -a-hoop, Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama is that -- "Like Father Like Son" Obama is constantly wanting to impress America with "...his incapacity for sound judgment." In 2005, Sen. Obama voted for the Dick Cheney energy bill, which Cheney wrote in secret with the oil industry. Hillary Clinton opposed Cheney's energy bill, has a plan to eliminate oil industry tax breaks, and would require oil companies to contribute to a $50 billion strategic energy fund to jump-start research and investment in clean energy technologies. On top of the horrible crime Obama executed in Harlem, the fact is, we have to hear it from Karl Rove about Obama's latest Campaign Crisis.
"GLORK" Top Ten Obama Lies:
1. Obam said his parents met at the Selma march -- Reality: He was born 4 years before that.
2. Obam said he was a constitutional law professor -- Reality: . . . Obama Made This False Claim In His 2004 Senate Race. “Several direct-mail pieces issued for Obama's primary [Senate] campaign said he was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He is not. He is a senior lecturer (now on leave) at the school..
3. Obam said he spoke fluent Indonesian as a child -- Reality: . . . Obama has claimed on numerous occasions to have become fluent in Indonesian in six months. Yet another Phi Beta Krakatau lie from Obama. Those who knew him disputed that during recent interviews. Israel la Pareira Darmawan, Obama's 1st-grade teacher, said she attempted to help him learn the Indonesian language by going over pronunciation and vowel sounds. Truth-be-told: Obama's Indonesian teachers say Kaku-Pooh.
4. Obam said he was involved in community asbestos and housing project for the poor -- Reality: . . . Didn't happen. This was the basis for Barack and Michelle's claim, that he was a community activist on the South and East Side of Chicago. Usher United Arab Emirates (UAE) A+ lie both he and his twenty-four (24) mule-team, Hus-suey loving wife Michelle Obama have been claiming in the campaign -- Reality: The Chicago Newspaper's Obelus -- Kiss-A-Cuss:...NO-MAMA.
5. Obam said in his book that he received his racial awakening at age nine reading a Life/Ebony Magazine story about a black man who was scarred trying to dye his skin white -- Reality: . . . Didn't happen. Both Magazines (Life and Ebony), and the Rev. Wright and Farrakhan MUSLIM Trumpet Newsmagazine say, just didn't happen.
6. Obam’s Campaign Didn’t Have The “Technical Capacity” To Produce The “1984” Ad:
Obama: “But it's not something that we had anything to do with or were aware of and that frankly, given what it looks like, we don't have the technical capacity to create something like that.” (CNN’s “Larry King Live,” 3/24/07) -- Reality:...The Creator Admitted All It Took Was A “Sunday Afternoon” On His Mac. Phillip de Vellis: “I made the ad on a Sunday afternoon in my apartment using my personal equipment (a Mac and some software), uploaded it to YouTube, and sent links around to blogs.”
7. Obam’s Campaign Claimed His High School Friend Tried To Extort Money From Them:
“According To The Obama Campaign, [Obama’s Punahou Classmate Keith] Kakugawa Explicitly Raised The Possibility That He Could Make Up False Stories About Obama, Implying He Would Do So If The Campaign Did Not Give Him Money.” (Maurice Possley, Kirsten Scharnberg and Ray Gibson, -- Reality: “...An Old Friend's Troublesome Return,” Chicago Tribune, 3/25/07).
8. Obam voted to bring low-cost foreign labor into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina -- Reality: . . . This was a slap in the face against the African-Americans who were displaced in that city. Obama also voted to place Michael Chertoff, the man responsible for the Katrina catastrophe, in charge of Homeland Security. Obama voted for Senate-Bills that gave Blackwater the funding they needed to shoot the folks of New Orleans who were only trying to save their own lives. Inextricably, the towel head voted to allow Michael Chertoff to waive all applicable laws, including murder, torture, kidnaping, and he suppoted water-boarding.
9. Obam voted more than five times for USA-PATRIOT ACT renewal -- Reality: . . . This is a Senate-Bill patently offensive to most Americans. City after city has passed resolutions condemning USA-PATRIOT ACT. Passively or reflexively, Obama chose to side with tyranny over freedom and Bush over the folks on this issue. The Real ID Act, which would allow Michael Chertoff to declare martial law and imprison Americans, was supported by ex-patriot Obama, as noted above.
10. Obam is not a MAD MAN. Sen. Obama has not exaggerated the disconnection with . . ."The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth" --Ex. xxxiv. 6; or extolled his venomous-vexatious-Vesuvius MUSLIM madrassahs'-faux-pas on us. Sen. Obama Is not involved along with Antoin “Tony” Rezco, long time friend and neighbor, now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO); or Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley. Sen. Obama is not involved with- nor has Sen. Obama exhibited any nuclear security, bribery, money payoffs, or cronyism in the state of Illinois; or criminal activities related to the BIG HALIBURTAN and V.P. Cheney's Halliburton bribery case; or any political misjudgment in his escalating Campaign Crisis. Sen. Obama does not take money from people who hire lobbyists, partners of lobbyists, spouses of lobbyists, former lobbyists or state lobbyists. "GLORK" Sen. Obama Is not involved with any Hoax or Oxfam volunteers and HIV-- AIDS Witch Doctors in Africa they feed. Sen. Obama is not associated with Exiled "God damn America" SOULJAH JIHAD -- Rev. Jeremiah Wright, MUSLIM EXTREMIST Malcolm X KillA -- Louis Farrakhan and black-rage demagoguery; or Obama's Mea Culpa-Apologia; or Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; Sen. Obama has not exulted the virtue of being an aggrieved black man. Sen. Obama does not accept political contributions from terrorists. Sen. Obama has not expressed the troublesome sub-text of the October Surprise: "X-Files" -- The 1980 election scandal exposed... the extraneous-demon-us-venomous anger driven association between Obama and aging [VX] Vietnam-era Weather Underground Radical Terrorist William Ayers. Sen. Obama has not expressed the troublesome sub-text of the November Surprise: "X-X-Files" -- The 2008 election scandal exposed... the extraneous-demon-us-venomous anger driven association between Obama and 501-(C)-Shaddy-Sharpton-Semilunar-Crescent of Allah Islam and Solar-Solecism-Sista-Soljah-Souljah-Jihad -- AXIS OF EVIL Rev. Sharpton, Rev. Wright and MUSLIM EXTREMIST Malcolm X KillA -- Louis Farrakhan, and Malcolm X Mosque No. 7 - JIHADI -- FATIMA EXTREMIST underground-money connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Sen. Obama is not a separatist-racist. Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast is not a liberal-leftist-sexist-racist. Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast -- did not fail the Illinois Bar Exam. Sen. Obama is not a self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box. "GLORK" Obama executed no crime in Harlem. Obama is Not America's Poison -- Reality:...He's Radio-Active.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
SOULJAH JIHAD -- OBAMA CAMPAIGN CRISIS
The Republicans' disengagement (media bias), if not disillusionment, with the economic campaign issues is borne out by the fact that many more Republicans are able to explain, extinguish, and excoriate the name Barrack Obama with the term (JIHAD), than can name Bush/Dick Cheney and McCain -- as the Big Oil -- BIG HALLIBURTAN politicians expanding GOP IRAQ WAR ideology, and Republican White House Party Elders' GI Bill of Rights for the 21st century IRAQ WAR ECONOMY. Even among Tupac Shakur, Bob Marley, Muhammad Ali, Ben Holt, Cotton-Club to Lenox Club- a.k.a. "The Breakfast Club," Staples Singers In Ghana 1971: "When Will We Get Paid," Paul Robeson or Jay-Z . . . excerpts from the infamous Malcolm X speech “The Ballot or the Bullet” Obama and conservative Republicans: Clinton is much more visible than GOP presumptive candidate John McCain towards affecting positively the important economic issues facing America's middle class economy.
When asked who they would vote for in the general election for president of the United States, the natural pendulum swing in America is approximately 79% of Republicans named Hillary Clinton as their choice. Reasons for Obama's Campaign Crisis "GLORK" Campaign Crisis include:
Sen. Obama accepted more money from oil company executives last month than any other candidate, while he ran an ad saying he didn't take money from oil companies. Context of ad extends that oil money taken by IL Sen. Barrack Obama from BIG HALIBURTAN spells bad MO-Jo for Obama Campaign Crisis and RX U.S. stock x-change -- VX U.S. economy. Sen. Obama's giveaways to the oil industry are not limited to tax breaks. They also include provisions like royalty relief that are worth billions. And many of the tax "increases" are simply extensions of existing taxes that do not impose any additional burden on oil companies. Exactly half of giveaways were not tax provisions. For instance, the oil companies received billions in royalty waivers. Obama voted for Big Oil -- BIG HALLIBURTAN Dick Cheney's 2005 energy bill containing "billions in dollars in giveaways to the oil companies." For example:
Sections 344-345
Waives royalty payments for drilling for some natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Section 346
Waives royalty payments for drilling in offshore Alaska.
Sections 353-4
Waives royalty payments for gas hydrate extraction on the Outer Continental Shelf and public land in Alaska.
Section 383
Allows oil companies drilling in federal land off the coast of a particular state to pay the state 44 cents of every dollar it would have paid to the federal government for the privilege of drilling on federal land.
"Sen. Barack Obama continued accepting donations from oil company executives and employees last month even as he aired ads in which he stated he took no oil company money, his campaign finance reports show. Obama has taken at least $263,000 from oil company executives, family members and employees since entering the presidential race last year, including $46,000 last month. At least $140,000 has come in chunks of between $1,000 and $2,300, the maximum permitted under federal law." [LA Times, 4/24/08]
"Obama has more holes in him than Swiss-Cheese." [CNN’s “Politics.com,” 4/01/08]
Obama's presidential campaign has received $2,812,336 from firms that employ registered federal lobbyists. [fec.gov]
Obama has taken $405,747 from the Pharmaceutical industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has received $1,185,937 from the Commercial Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has received over six million dollars from the Securities & Investment industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has taken $608,822 from the Insurance industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has taken $168,584 from the Mortgage Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
"GLORK" SOULJAH JIHAD -- CAMPAIGN CRISIS
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3369102968312745410&q=Fitna&total=1413&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5
WASHINGTON — Obama’s support among Democrats nationally has softened.
"GLORK" Sen. Barack Obama’s support among Democrats nationally has softened over the last month, particularly among men and upper-income voters, as voters have taken a slightly less positive view of him than they did after his burst of victories in February, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
The survey suggests that Mr. Obama's proximity to Chicago, Democrat of Illinois, may have been at something of a peak in February, propelled by a string of primary and caucus victories over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and that perceptions of him are dramatically trending downward.
Mr. Obama’s favorability rating among Democratic primary voters has dropped seventeen percentage points, to 42 percent, since the last Times/CBS News survey, in late February. While that figure is steadily declining, this dramatic decline came in a month during which he endured withering attacks from Mrs. Clinton, and responded to reports that his exiled former pastor had made politically inflammatory statements from his church’s pulpit in Chicago, and swirling questions about the criminal money generating underworld of 501-(C)-Shaddy-Sharpton-Semilunar-Crescent of Allah Islam Mosque No. 7; and what Barack Obama did in Harlem -- from which he cannot extricate himself.
The events of the last month appear to have fundamentally altered the race for the party’s nomination and provided Mrs. Clinton’s campaign extensive evidence of a collapse in Mr. Obama’s standing or an overwhelming preference voiced for Mrs. Clinton by Democratic and Republican voters in polls: -- perplexing developments in Obama's ongoing Campaign Crisis, that could be used to persuade uncommitted super-delegates to sign on with Hillary Clinton.
Twenty-six percent of the general electorate voters who heard of the Apologia speech that Mr. Obama the self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama gave to try to deal with the controversy over Obama's separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah, said it made them dislike him. And 74 percent of Democrats and Republicans said Mr. Obama's Campaign Crisis "GLORK" Campaign Crisis "God damn America" - Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama. "God bless America" - Pope Benedict XVI and Hillary Clinton... stems from the fact that he shows continued misjudgment for even the most challenging problems. Next, the overall opinion of people in the news this year; Mr. Obama lacks the decisive capability to lead, willingness to listen, conviction and courage. Mr. Obama is no Alexander Manly when it comes to sexist-racist issues, and he uses false charges and exaggerated hate-the Saxon-race claims to play politics with national security.
For a United States Senator, Barack Obama has been doing a lot of explaining about the company he has kept for the last 17 years or so. A politician can not chose the family he has. However; he can chose the pastor he keeps. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has influenced Mr. Obama's liberal-elitist-separatist-racist views on a variety of subjects. This may be what happened to Obama over the years, as his MUSLIM radicalism and demonize the White-Saxon-race, may expel the same Rev. Wright belief; that America and its US allies brought on 9/11. In a sincere re-examination of his world-view, Obama's Mea Culpa-Apologia says this guy is like an uncle to him. But shouldn’t his long term relationship with this despicable character call into question at the very least Obama’s judgment? From Waxahache, TX.-- to Axis-of-Evil, Mr. Obama lied about the politics of his campaign, and knew about ex-pastor Rev. Wright's MUSLIM Militant Farrakhan Malcolm X Mosque No. 7 - JIHADI -- FATIMA EXTREMIST mob connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
Colfax: Sen. Obama on Lobbyists --
"When it comes to lobbyists, Senator Obama’s words might sound nice but voters need to make sure they read the fine print. Despite trying to give the impression that he has no relationship with lobbyists or special interests, the reality is that Senator Obama takes money from people who hire lobbyists, partners of lobbyists, spouses of lobbyists, former lobbyists and state lobbyists.” –Statement from Clinton Deputy Communications Director, Phil Singer
Sen. Obama Has Ties to Lobbyists in His Presidential Bid.
Public Citizen: 10 of Sen. Obama's bundlers have been federal lobbyists. The Public Citizen report listed the following ten bundlers for Sen. Obama who have registered as federal lobbyists: Frank Clark, Commonwealth Edison; Scott Harris, Harris Wiltshire and Grannis; Allan J. Katz, Akerman Senterfitt; Robert S. Litt, Arnold & Porter; Thomas J. Perrelli, Jenner and Block; Thomas A. Reed, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP; Paul N. Roth, Schulte Roth & Zabel; Miriam Sapiro, Summit Strategies; Alan Solomont, Solomont Bailis Ventures; and Tom E. Wheeler, Core Capital Partners. [Public Citizen, 1/29/08]
Sen. Obama takes money from employees of firms that lobby and has lobbyists as advisers. "But those who lobby for a living say it's not that simple, and even Obama's stance shows some flexibility. He won't take money from federal lobbyists but accepts money from employees of firms and corporations that lobby, and he uses lobbyists and other government relations professionals as advisers... Obama has also used major fundraisers who are registered lobbyists on the state level. And he uses registered federal lobbyists such as Broderick Johnson, who lobbies for AT&T and Shell Oil, among others, as a campaign adviser. Because Johnson isn't giving money to Obama, his name won't show up in Federal Election Commission records." [Chicago Tribune, 2/10/08]
Bloomberg: Five of [Obama’s] ten biggest sources of funds are groups of employees at law firms that lobby in Washington. "While Obama doesn't accept money from registered federal lobbyists, five of his 10 biggest sources of funds are groups of employees at law firms that lobby in Washington…Among Obama's top donors were employees of the Chicago-based law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, who gave $105,750 in the first quarter. The firm was paid $4.5 million last year" for lobbying the federal government. [Bloomberg, 6/7/07]
Obama's presidential campaign has received $2,812,336 from firms that employ registered federal lobbyists. [fec.gov]
Obama has taken $405,747 from the Pharmaceutical industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has received $1,185,937 from the Commercial Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has received over six million dollars from the Securities & Investment industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has taken $608,822 from the Insurance industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has taken $168,584 from the Mortgage Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama voted for the Big Oil -- BIG HALLIBURTAN Dick Cheney's 2005 Energy Bill, Hillary opposed. [H.R. 6, Vote #213, 07/29/05]
Prior to His Presidential Campaign, Sen. Obama took Money from Lobbyists and PACs
1996-2004: $296,000 of the $461,000 Sen. Obama raised as a state senator came from PACs, corporate contributions or unions. "But behind Obama's campaign rhetoric about taking on special interests lies a more complicated truth. A Globe review of Obama's campaign finance records shows that he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and PACs as a state legislator in Illinois, a US senator, and a presidential aspirant. In Obama's eight years in the Illinois Senate, from 1996 to 2004, almost two-thirds of the money he raised for his campaigns -- $296,000 of $461,000 -- came from PACs, corporate contributions, or unions, according to Illinois Board of Elections records. He tapped financial services firms, real estate developers, healthcare providers, oil companies, and many other corporate interests, the records show." [Boston Globe, 8/9/07]
In his 2004 U.S. Senate race, Sen. Obama raised $128,000 from lobbyists and $1.3 million from PACs. "Obama's US Senate campaign committee, starting with his successful run in 2004, has collected $128,000 from lobbyists and $1.3 million from PACs, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit organization that tracks money in politics. His $1.3 million from PACs represents 8 percent of what he has raised overall." [Boston Globe, 8/9/07]
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
RE: Ingorant injun
I have read your comment and you should be slapped in the mouth for saying such ugly things. If you have all the answer why don't you get your All talk rez ass up there and run for prez???? You could never match Mr. Obama in his education.
Obama Can See a little Thru Our eyes
Some of these comments here are correct, some are blind to the white race who still want to control brown skinned people. Hillary Clinton has been raised completely different to understand what it is like to be poor, have to be on commodities, go on medicaid, etc...She looks at situations as they are a joke, laughs when she doesn't know how to answer, or caught in a lie, and is too sarcastic to actually make serious decisions for our nation. Our nation. Obama wasn't raised with a silver spoon in his mouth, and c an speak through experience when it come to reservations, Hillary would probably be disgusted to enter parts of some reservations, much less help. As far as one of the comments below about Rev. Wright, how many people actually live, breathe, follow, and walk the way of their minister or pastor? I had a black minister marry me, Indian ministers, white ministers that may have many other ideas of our country and their own personal issues they have been through with the help of the Lord, but that is the only reason I go to listen, is because he can break the Bible down to me that I understand and grow to be being a stronger Christian. If I get what I want out of the sermon for my faith, that is good, that is what I was there for each Sunday, not to agree with his personal opinions. On the reservations, I heard many Indians say the same thing what Rev. Wright said about 9/11, my view it that this was wrong, but that is my opinion because innocent people were killed. One thing I can relate to is this, don't we as Indians have many white jokes, they may not be harmful, but regardless, we have them, and this is the same as with African Americans. Many people of color use the white man usually as the butt of a joke. Look at "Carlton" from The Fresh Prince of Belair, look at Chris Rock's jokes in his stand ups, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, etc...or even at powwows when "8-ball" was the MC would joke on the whites dancing without rhythm...We have all used laughter to get through many issues that the whites have placed on us. Basically, we all have our views on the white race, Indians do, African Americans do, Hispanics do, Mexicans do, etc..and most of the time, it is because the white race tries to put down the brown skinned people while we make it up another step on the ladder. Hillary declined to speak to some tribal leaders in the past, just because it is election time, she is willing, but not in the past. I see Obama helping those in need and he was the first to speak on creating a position for a Tribal Member in the White House to correspond with the US Tribes as a whole. All in all, we all know a Indian "Rev. Wright" in our family who may be an Uncle or Pops....
Hillary and Indian Country
From her website: "Hillary Clinton’s Native American Agenda: Provide Vital Services and Support Tribal Sovereignty" (http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=4076). Also, Hillary was the only presidential candidate to address tribal leaders at the National Congress of American Indians annual conference in November 2007. That says a lot. I really believe she supports Indian people more than any of the other candidates and has the understanding to help realize solutions.
Obama and Hillary on Native Americans
Obama is the only candidate who has repeatedly referred to Native Americans in his campaign speeches. Hillary has not even mentioned us once. If she ever takes the time to mention us, she would probably say that she came to our reservations and dodged sniper fire. Her lies have caught up with her and she still has to audacity to keep running for president? What kind of a president would she be if she is caught lying before she ever reaches the White House? She would be like Bill who lied and lied until he was blue in the face and would not tell the truth about that blue dress until he could lie no more...when every lie had been told and only the power of truth withstood the test of time.
That is the Clinton promise: the lies, and nothing but the lies until the truth comes out on its own and they have told every lie to cover it up and they have now run out of lies. Hillary had the gaul to go on Jay Leno and joke about her lie because she had nothing left to do to cover it up so she tried to laugh it off. No one is laughing with her because the presidency is not a joke.
Obama is the opposite of Hillary. This campaign is about the power of opposites: black against white, man against woman, rich against poor, truth against lies, the little person against the military-industrial-government complex. May all the prayers of all Native Americans unite in supporting Obama and in praying for his protection. Obama for the black people, the white people, the red people and the yellow people.
i am native american from
i am native american from northern california i am bothered by why most government still dont acknowledge us like we should be we have fought agianst and with the government and still we are not recognized.our budgets are very little that we get BUT they continue to get smaller,we dont have federally recognized day for our founding fathers but still celebrate the others what was our land is now yours(whites& governments)we have very little land but not much when i say we i mean ALL individual tribes and we most individuals dont have no land i can say i have no land nor my children .us native americans live in poverty and or low income we as human beings are nearly extinct.sure we have casinos as natives we still try to take care of eachother the larger casinos give to the smaller ones that have nothing.all i hear about the government talk about is money casinos.we till this day are looked over and looked down on even by the government and still they keep taking what little left we have.there is hardly any room for our children to play along with having our traditions to be carried on.our sacred lands are for the public to look at and the government to make money off of and not only the tourist but us to and maybe once a year they will let us in with no fee we are still fighting,we all still want to be heard as we have for generations we all"native americans" want to know what you can do to change this what can be provided for our generations to come. {i do not know who i am voting for i lean toward obama can we trust hillary?having obama could be something new.hillary knows how to husle she knows the ropes i dont know i want to hear more about native americans so i do no who to vote for maybe i wont vote?who to trust?who to believe?i want to hear from them what can they do for us natives we are still being ignored i wish they could do a whole day of talking to native americans answer our questions TRUTHFULLY and not this beating around the bush....
Obama is NOT FOR US!!!!
What presidential canidate is for Native Americans?! In truth, probably none of them!!!! Barack Obama wants to win the presidency, just like Hillary Clinton and John McCain. I think as Native Americans, we want to see someone as president that is not white, because, possibly, we feel that they would be more sympathetic to our struggles as a People. Please take the time to look up on the internet Obama's preacher and the church that he has belonged to for the last 20 years (Rev. Jeremiah Wright)How can anyone vote for a man, or woman, whom would sit in a church and listen to a reverend say "God damn the United States!" By the church he belongs to, Obama has evidently made a pledge to Africa. - Obama is half white and half black. Obama is not a Red man. Being of mixed black and white ancestry, he would understand some of our struggles of racism, but not many, he is NOT NATIVE AMERICAN. Obviously from the church he belongs to he has sided his allegiance in with radical, extremist racist views against anyone that is not black. Whether we like it or not, we live in a country today that is Red, Black, White, Yellow, and Brown (and many shades in between). We need a president that is for ALL PEOPLE, including Native Americans. Health care, or lack thereof, has been a long standing issue among the People. Possibly, Hillary Clinton might help us, as well as many other people, on this issue. As Red People, most of our ancestors believed that women were equal with men, they did not view gender as a handicap, as most black and white cultures do, and especially have in the past. Possibly it is time to elect a woman president of this country, OUR COUNTRY, our ancestor's homeland, if we want a change. But, if you really want a canidate that cares about Native Americans, then it is time for Native Americans to step up as canidates in the next presidential election. Right now, I am for Hillary, but I am not going to be "jaded" by any of them. We might possibly benefit from the health care and education reforms that she proposes for everyone - but, none of them really care about the People.
I'm not sure any more
I listened to Obama's speech and became confused. He stated that slavery was the original sin of this nation. Being of native origin, I was hurt by that statement. I believe the killing of thousands of our people and then gathering the remainder up like cattle and refusing to treat them as equals while stealing their land 'was the original sin of this country.' I like Obama but now I'm starting to think his priorities are with blacks and everyone else takes second. I thought he was supposed to be a uniter....
Obama For President
Barack Obama is willing to work in concert with American Indian peoples. As far as his views on gaming. Well, I share his views. Those who promote gaming on American Indian lands have fallen into the traps set by "white-eyes". Being Cherokee by blood I'm supporting Barack Obama because we need positive change. He is the only candidate who talks of the changes necessary to help our brothers and sisters in the American Indian Community.
T.Ninham
Im a teenager(girl)and i soon look forward to voting in the 2012 elections. I am personally disapointed in our canindates this year. I watch and follow whats going on. In my opinion im glad i cant vote this year. I go a White school and in classes i here racial slurs and "well she's a WOMAN". I want a change in president because Bush has been in there too long. But if a democrat were to be president this year and the next four i kinda think we'll be at the same standstill we are at now.
Native Americans
First, Barack Obama is the ONLY Presidential Candidates who has made mention of Native Americans. No one else has, not Mrs. Clinton, not McCain, not Huckabee, and not the other guy, Mr.Paul. ONLY Barack Obama has named us. He did in his victory speech in South Carolina, again when Ted Kennedy endorsed him he named "Native Americans", and then again in his speech in Wisconsin.
Also, check his website and see the You Tube videos where he directly engages on Native American issues.
On one of the reservations here in ND, he was the only candidate who cared enough to send his people and literature. Then we voted 2-1, 3-1, and even 4-1 for him. On the other hand, Mrs. Clinton's supporters are still waiting for her campaign to send them anything. That's about how much she cares for Indian Country. Don't be fooled folks.
Barack Obama is hearing Native Americans who are raising their concerns and he is committing to change. For those of you who don't think he supports Indian Gaming - check his platform document - indeed he does, in the form of support for Tribal Soveriegnty.
His Presidency will shift the kind of relationship Native Americans have with the US Government.
Rock! Obama.
Obama's Positions
Here is a link to Obama's position on sovereignty; there are links to his positions on other Indian issues on this page.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/firstamssovereignty
Obama Native Policy
The fact of the matter is that Barack Obama has consistently included Native Americans both as his advisors and in his speeches. For months, during his stump speech, he has included mention of Native Americans. He has spoken eloquently about changing the relationship with indian country, making it a true government-to-government relationship. In addition, his policies for building stronger tribal communities (they are under First Americans on his website) will not only bring about the kind of fundamental change we need in Indian Country, they are very specific. For example, he supports a legislative fix to the jurisdictional gap that permits non-Indians to commit crimes in Indian Country with inpunity. Ge fully supports Indian gaming, contrary to your story quoting people who are simply misinformed. Simply put, Barack Obama has brought Indian Country in as no candidate has done before. And as President, we will be at the table in an unprecedented way. That is what matters.
I would encourage you to read these words by Obama
http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2593&Itemid=1
Dine' (Navajo) support of Obama?
I am Dine', living on Dinetah (Navajo Nation). I have not read any newspaper's endorsement of any candidate. I believe the Navajo president endorsed somebody but no one listens to lameducks.
I like Obama too, much more than his rival, but he does need to take a stand and have the balls to say what the Aussie PM told the aborigines. Change is long overdue.
Native americans
It is not correct to assume his heart is not on native americans. I heard he references to native americans at many occasions. If you did not hear about it, it is his unfortunate error. He has been endorsed by a native american news paper in Navaho country. He campaigned heavily in NM and AZ. He is well versed in native american issues. Here's a link to his website on point:
http://tribes.barackobama.com/page/content/firstamshome
He probably needs to look at native communities across the country as he moves forward.
Georgee of AZ
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