Common Folk Using Common Sense

From the Chicago Sun-Times:

Not everyone behaved themselves when celebrating U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s historic win Tuesday night.
Some fired gunshots, a felon accused cops of arresting him “because a black man won for president” and a teenager standing with throngs of passionate revelers used the opportunity to slap a police officer, Cook County prosecutors said.
“White bitches. [...]

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The Boards Of Directors on which Barack Obama’s sat gave more than $1 million to racially charged organizations, a study of tax returns shows.

In 2001, when Obama was a part-time director of The Woods Fund of Chicago, it gave $75,000 to ACORN, the voter registration group now under investigation for voter fraud in 12 [...]

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In 1985, freshly graduated from Columbia University and working for a New York business consultant, Barack Obama decided to become a community organizer.
But Obama’s brand of “community organizing” relied on a community of homeless people and ex-cons organizing for the purpose of registering dead people to vote, shaking down corporations and using the race card [...]

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From Investor’s Business Daily:

Obama in a statement yesterday blamed the shocking new round of subprime-related bankruptcies on the free-market system, and specifically the “trickle-down” economics of the Bush administration, which he tried to gig opponent John McCain for wanting to extend.
But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could [...]

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From Slate.com:

What with the Bush legacy of reckless war and economic mismanagement, 2008 is a year that favors the generic Democratic candidate over the generic Republican one. Yet Barack Obama, with every natural and structural advantage in the presidential race, is running only neck-and-neck against John McCain, a sub-par Republican nominee with a list of [...]

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From MSNBC:
White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042, according to new government projections. That’s eight years sooner than previous estimates, made in 2004.
The nation has been growing more diverse for decades, but the process has sped up through immigration and higher birth rates among minority residents, especially Hispanics.
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From the Washington Times:

Sen. Barack Obama is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. So why is he “black”?
He is, to be accurate, biracial, equally black and white. Mr. Obama could choose to identify himself in a way similar to golfer Tiger Woods, who describes himself as “Cablinasian” [...]

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Savior-of-the-universe Barack Obama gave a speech where he made an attempt to explain the resentment in small-town Pennsylvania that won’t be appreciated by some of the people whose votes Obama’s seeking. Oops.

“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant [...]

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