Obama Impersonator Misfires At GOP Forum

A Barack Obama impersonator was ushered off the stage at a GOP forum after he mocked Republican presidential hopefuls and joked about President Barack Obama's biracial roots to a room full of conservative activists.

Reid Compares GOP to Opponents of Emancipation

By: Frederick Cosby

Congress’ heated debate over revamping the nation’s health care system got even hotter Monday when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid compared opponents of reform to conservatives who tried to block the emancipation of slaves and equal rights for women.

 

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Obama Assails Lies About Health Care Reform

By: Michael H. Cottman

President Barack Obama traveled to New Hampshire Tuesday to pitch his controversial health care reform directly to Americans, while also countering conservative activists who have turned recent Democratic forums into shouting matches and fist fights.

"For all the scare tactics out there, what is truly scary is if we do nothing," Obama told a crowd of about 1,800 in Portsmouth.

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Distract, Distort, Demagogue- Worried about their chances in November, conservatives are desperately seeking diversions.

By Sam Fulwood III

If nothing else, the sycophants genuflecting to the McCain-Palin presidential campaign are experts at creating diversions.

When things go bad, they call out the troops to fill the airwaves with misdirection. Or they heave Hail Mary passes, hoping to connect with their easy-to-anger supporters. In fact, they'll do just about anything except admit to the campaign's shortcomings. So now, they've dragged PBS anchor Gwen Ifill into the crosshairs of their phony efforts at sowing confusion and distraction.

On the eve of tonight's vice presidential debate, a bevy of right wingers mounted a smear campaign against Ifill. Michelle Malkin kicked it off with a poisoned-pen commentary in the National Review Online, claiming Ifill is unfit to moderate the debate because she's writing a book about Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama.

But this shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone. Washington-based journalists write books all the time, and Ifill's book was no secret. Random House plans to publish Ifill's book, "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama," about the time the next president is inaugurated.

"[T]here is nothing 'moderate' about where Ifill stands on Barack Obama," Malkin wrote. "She's so far in the tank for the Democratic presidential candidate, her oxygen delivery line is running out."

Then, others picked up the spear to poke at Ifill. Matt Drudge made it the lead story on his blog. Fox News trotted out its resident expert on all things black, Juan Williams, to express both admiration and admonishment for Ifill's role in the debate, noting that he thinks Ifill is a first-rate journalist but that "there's a perception problem" related to her writing about Obama.

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What is Patriotism? Obama Among Millions of Americans Exploring, Expressing Pride in the U.S.

By: Michael H. Cottman and Jackie Jones, BlackAmericaWeb.com

So just how patriotic is Barack Obama?

The Democratic presidential candidate is wearing his American flag pin a bit more these days and talks frequently about his love for the USA, but questions still persist about Obama’s commitment to the nation. His past refusal to wear the lapel flag pin along with a photo of him not putting his hand over his heart during the National Anthem led conservatives on Internet and in the media to question his patriotism.

But some black folks say they're downright tired of the anti-patriotism stigma attached to Obama.

"Enough already," Bill Murrain, an Atlanta attorney and political observer, told BlackAmericaWeb.com Wednesday. "I grew up in a place in the Americas where one could be arrested for not carrying a government issued ID book that if it did not have the correct stamp of the correct political party you could easily land in jail."

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