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Another Obama Tape Surfaces
Jeremiah Wright introduces candidate 18 days after Hampton University speech.
(Page 2 of 5)
A story told to Klein in a taped interview by Jeremiah Wright himself.
The subject is the Obama-Wright relationship, and the days leading up to Obama’s announcement of his presidential candidacy on February 10, 2007. The announcement was scheduled to be made in Springfield, Illinois. The political purpose: to associate Illinois Senator Obama with Springfield’s most famous adopted son — Abraham Lincoln. The ceremony’s invocation was scheduled to be delivered by Reverend Wright in his capacity as Obama’s pastor.
It was here that the first tremors in what would be the political earthquake of the Obama-Wright relationship appeared. According to Klein (and others), a February Rolling Stone magazine article on Obama had just appeared. The piece included what Klein calls a “devastating profile” of Wright, depicting Obama’s pastor as a far-left radical.
Obama’s campaign was, not for the last time but apparently the first time, suddenly alarmed by Jeremiah Wright.
The immediate campaign objective was to make certain that Wright, now nervously seen as a loose cannon for his radical, hot-tempered political sermons, was removed from the public stage of Obama’s announcement ceremony. Where Wright was scheduled to give the invocation.
Klein has Wright recounting a tense, behind the scenes effort by Obama aide David Axelrod to force Wright out, replacing him with Trinity’s newly arrived younger pastor the Reverend Otis Moss. Axelrod got his way. Wright was present for the announcement, but only to give a backstage private prayer for Obama and his family and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin. It was Moss who gave the quite public invocation in front of the cameras and microphones.
For the moment, Wright was effectively separated in a public, televised fashion from Obama — and silenced. But not for long.
On February 28, 2007, Sean Hannity interviewed columnist Erik Rush on Hannity & Colmes. Rush had noticed on the Senator’s bio that Obama was a member of Trinity UCC and looked into the church. Rush — who is black — was stunned at what he found. He wound up describing the vision of Wright’s church by saying it “more resembles a cult than a church. Only this one has as one of its most prominent members a serious contender for the White House.” What he found, Rush said, was scary.
The next night Hannity obtained the first television interview with Wright. The interview was instantly controversial — in retrospect for those who had never heard of Wright, inevitably so. Out tumbled the story of a black preacher who was decidedly not Martin Luther King, Jr. — a man devoted instead to “black liberation theology,” a doctrine described, in the words of American Thinker writer Kyle-Anne Shiver, as “Marxism dressed up to look like Christianity.”
In retrospect, the Hannity appearance was beginning to illustrate exactly why David Axelrod, the aide Obama described to Wright as Obama’s “mother hen,” was determined to make sure that Wright never shared a stage with Obama in public, much less was in front of a live microphone and cameras with Obama anywhere in the vicinity.
Yet there was a problem. Wright still had value to Obama.
Four months later Obama appears at the gathering of black ministers at Hampton University, captured in the Daily Caller video, which was aired this week on Hannity. These were black ministers, Wright’s colleagues. Obama had to say something about his pastor, thus the “special shout out.”
Lost in the furor of the last few days over what Obama said at Hampton that day is what Wright did not say and do. Lost is the realization that while Obama had a “special shout out” to Wright — in which Obama also describes Wright as “my pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country” — Wright himself is not anywhere near a microphone, much less Obama himself. He is unseen, off-camera, stuck in the un-panned audience, not even close to Obama on camera.
In other words, Axelrod’s concern from February — letting the unpredictable Wright share both microphone and stage time with Obama — had arisen yet again. It was resolved in whatever fashion by having Wright in the audience, unseen by the camera, and most importantly neither near the microphone or Obama himself.
Eighteen days later, at the UCC General Synod, the problem of Wright’s high profile in another influential organization that Obama needed politically would frustratingly arise again. While the UCC is dwarfed in size by some other faiths, as a large national gathering of a prominent Mainline Protestant church filled with liberal activists, the UCC General Synod was a political gold mine for the still mostly unknown Obama.
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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Darin| 10.5.12 @ 6:38AM
None of this is a surprise as most of it was known in 2008. Those of us paying attention and doing what the media wouldn't (e.g., actually vetting the canidates) knew about this. The more you know about Obama, the more you realize he really isn't a "nice guy" and just over his head as President. Obama is not a nice person, and it's even worse since he's not qualified to serve as President. And the country is paying the price.
TLP| 10.5.12 @ 7:19AM
They still won't reply to this.
What's another Video of this White Hating/Jew Hating/America Hating Magic Negro's White Hating/Jew Hating/America Hating pile a Puke best buddy?
Another N-word that HATES everything White, everything that's Jewish, and everything about this Country.
That's right I said it! I said it cause it's TRUE.
Wright. Farrakhan. The Black Panthers. Skip Gates. Cornell West. Every single POS in the Black Caucus. Al Sharpton. Van Jones.
Every single Black Democrat in the Congress.
This isn't News.
He B*tchslaps Israel every chance he gets.
But, he sure likes those Sand Monkeys.
He can't get out of his own way, Apologizing to'em. Apologizing FOR'em. Celebrating every one of their Satanic Rituals - Ramadan, Ramada Inn Day, and Bring your Daughter to work and Stone Her to Death Day.
They're the Reiligion of Peace. And if you don't believe them? They'll Blow your Fckng House Up!
I'm sick of this guy. I'm sick of his Sasquatch looking Bow-legged Horse, of a Wife. I'm sick that he sends HIS KIDS to Sidwell Friends, and D.C.'s Poor Black Children to Failing Schools that resemble Fort Apache, more than they do, a place for Learning.
And, I'm most sickened by the Fact that these same Black Folk, who PLEADED with him, with Tears in their eyes, to let their kids keep their Private School Vouchers. Will Vote for him, again.
Jack in Wi| 10.5.12 @ 7:57AM
There are so many issues of substance to attack Obama on. Why do we keep wasting our time on this kind of stuff? Hit him hard with his rotten record of failure in office and leave the Reverend Wright and the gang back buried where they belong.
Minuteman78| 10.5.12 @ 9:27AM
It's not a waste of time. This is not trivial. This is further exposing the true character of this fraud. Character matters as much as actions and deeds. Maybe more so. The American public is being grossly lied to and deserves better. (I would concede that Mr. Lord might reach more people if he could be a little less long-winded as the average American's attention span isn't 5 pages, but that's my only criticism here.)
Alej| 10.5.12 @ 10:51AM
Character counts.
Show me a man's friends, and I will tell you what he's made of.
Oldefarte| 10.5.12 @ 2:17PM
Okay how about Axelrod, Garrett,
Resco, Ayers, Doern, Wright, Emmanuel, etc????????????
TLP| 10.5.12 @ 5:25PM
"Men shall know you, by the Company you keep."
JESUS CHRIST.
soljerblue| 10.5.12 @ 11:39PM
Or, as my g-mom used to say: lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas.
Controse| 10.5.12 @ 12:40PM
Can't stomach the truth can you Jack in Wi. "This kind of stuff" is Obama's, or whoever he is, foundation. It speaks glaringly to his character and the character of those keeping him on their shoulders. Besides there is no shortage of white space or ink. If your not interested don't read or comment. Any questions?
SUBVET| 10.5.12 @ 9:47AM
Tim..........I wonder if his "Down Low Marriage" will surface before november.
Pelleas| 10.5.12 @ 10:50AM
So says that piece of SHIT , TLP-- who believes that Hitler was God's appointed messenger to teach the Jewish people a lesson
..and then he has the fukkin nerve to talk about others "anti-semitism"!
TLP| 10.5.12 @ 3:55PM
Shouldn't you be getting Tested?
Pelleas| 10.5.12 @ 6:45PM
TLP
My tests are--and always have been-- 100% perfect and clean.
Your test. on the other hand, for anti-semitism/racism/misogynistic attitudes/ and just pure bottom of the scum-bucket creepiness - have also reached 100% capacity..while your mensch-keit and decency quota is less than ZERO
NEVER FORGET-- YOU have said that Hitler was God's chosen messenger to murder the Jews , in order to punish them--
TLP| 10.6.12 @ 8:36AM
Don't just keep spouting your Drivel
Read Jeremiah, and then PROVE that hy Hypothesis is Wrong.
PROVE IT!
Or, go away.
C Smith | 10.5.12 @ 10:16AM
The other "Tape":
On February 24, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, before a black audience, formally “anointed” the “Messiah”:
"You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking."
But who is Louis Farrakhan, the “messenger” heralding America’s “Messiah”? And what latent symbiosis exists between him and person who may become our next president? His words may reveal the answer:
http://popularapostasy.blogspo.....32_19.html
Joellen| 10.5.12 @ 7:10AM
Things that make you go hmm. I wonder if it is Wright himself who is leaking these tapes. A man hath no fury........ By the way, Rush has been saying for years, the liberal will never let you know their true agenda.
Tim, contest today?
Von Mises Jr| 10.5.12 @ 8:35AM
Hey look, Caliban is back from his AIDS test. He probably needs to be tested again after sleeping with sh!tgr!n under the bridge the last two nights.
TLP| 10.5.12 @ 9:19AM
If you wanna get to the Contest?
You need to Stay On The Bus.
Clever Girl.
TLP| 10.5.12 @ 9:20AM
You too, ya Millionaire.
Stay on the Bus.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.5.12 @ 8:02AM
Somewhere, in the background when the featured photo of Jeremiah Wright was taken, would it be wrong to assume that "Walk Like an Egyptian" by the Bangles was playing?
SUBVET| 10.5.12 @ 9:53AM
Al Jr.........................after wednesday's show the the theme song will be by BB King....."the thrill is gone".
TLP| 10.5.12 @ 3:56PM
Where's that Mailing Address?
Purp| 10.5.12 @ 8:09AM
When will you people learn? Racism turns people off and anything about Rev Wright embodies the attempt to scare whites into voting against the President.
It didn't work in 2008 when we didn't know him well, and it won't work now when we do.
Nevertheless, even though the Joker debated the President the other night, we aren't voting for the smirky, permanent smile, staring Joker for President. Romney will lose, I trust his mouth will do him in again.
What you forget is that the world of communications is VERY different than in 1980. The slightest gaffe from RomBot will cancel any glory he feels after the debate. 27 lies he told.
But I realize y'all here would vote for a spider instead of the President. But that's not true for most Americans.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.5.12 @ 8:47AM
"But I realize y'all here would vote for a spider "
I had thought that you were absent yesterday because you were receiving treatment following the disappointing performance of your Dear Leader. I see now through your use of "y'all" that you were attending the Barack Obama/ Joe Biden/ Hillary Clinton/ Al Gore School of "Negro Dialect". Word.
c. j. acworth| 10.5.12 @ 8:56AM
Actually Al, Purp is right. I would vote for a spider instead of Obama. If the spider were a true conservative, I'd have voted for it over Romney in the primaries!
TLP| 10.5.12 @ 9:21AM
You and c.j. should Stay on the Bus, if you wanna play.
Minuteman78| 10.5.12 @ 9:34AM
The "Joker"? I thought you meant Obama. After all, he was the one with the condescending smirk on his face as Mitt was tearing him a new one over his failed policies. Obama's the Joker - the one that "just wants to watch the world burn." Starting with the Middle East. How do people as stupid as you earn a living? Government Union employee?
Purp| 10.5.12 @ 10:04AM
Funny man - I earn a living with a business and a 2% income job ... what about you honey?
You are the stupid one, voting for people that couldn't care less about you OR the country. It's your choice to go down with the Republican Ship.
Gr0w1er601| 10.5.12 @ 2:15PM
Don't go away mad,... just go away.
Oldefarte| 10.5.12 @ 2:37PM
Thats 1 and 1/2% more than you are worth!!!!
Stan Redmond| 10.5.12 @ 4:06PM
If the shambles the economy is in, the fires in the middle east and Africa, inflation, cronyism, doubled gasoline prices, dictitorial usurpation of the constitution, etc. is how the teleprompter messiah shows he cares, I cry uncle. We've had enough.
Riff Raff| 10.5.12 @ 9:43AM
Oh my goodness. Here we go again. Purp uses the word "racism" and we are all to cower away in shame. Ludicrous, as is Purp himself. What a pathetic little loser.
Purp| 10.5.12 @ 10:05AM
Romney will LOSE... 1 night of not himself will not change anything.
Nick| 10.5.12 @ 10:23AM
During the past couple of weeks, Burp has REPEATEDLY blamed the late Ambassador Stevens for his own death, the death of 3 other Americans, and the attack on the Libyan consulate. He STUPIDLY believes that an ambassador has more power than the president.
Burp will say ANYTHING to help the Appeaser-in-Chief cover-up his incompetence.
__________________
Purp| 9.19.12 @ 8:06PM
"Who is in charge of the Embassy in a country? Who decides what is or isn't done in the Embassy?
"It is the Ambassador. He loved Libya, he miscalculated and tragically is dead.
"But, why would a President bother appointing an Ambassador if you're not going to listen to his advice. [...]
"Sadly, we can't ask the Ambassador himself - but that was his job."
__________________
Purp| 9.19.12 @ 10:49PM
"Say it all you want ... Ambassador is the boss. If he wanted more security, he'd have had it. It sure isn't the President's fault. [...] Twist all you want. He was the boss, and he is now dead."
__________________
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp.
Purp| 10.5.12 @ 10:39AM
Sorry Sunshine - 7.8% .... you can't complain for years that it's over 8% and now that you don't like the number, you just say "shove it" ....
YOU focused on the numbers, you wanted to ride them to election, now go down with number that is going to bury RomBot once and for all!
Nick| 10.5.12 @ 10:58AM
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
Stan Redmond| 10.5.12 @ 4:10PM
Lowest labor participation rate since 1981. Lowest participation rate for men since 1948.
Bang up job. Shift a few numbers around ignore college graduates, and the newly entitled (God I hate that word) illegal immigrant work visas, take out more people in the workforce and tuh-duh. A rabbit comes out of the hat.
Trinacria| 10.5.12 @ 6:45PM
Ah, yes; the soft racism of lowered expectations.
C'mon, Purp, what you hail as an accomplishment took 43 months to achieve - 43 months and an additional $6 trillion in debt just to crawl back to the abysmal state the job market was in when the affirmative action president took over. And the fact of the matter is that the reductions have been driven largely by historical reductions in the labor market participation rate. When you drive the economy so far into the ground that folks lose hope and simply stop looking for work, that's hardly success. To laud it as such is the equivalent of grading on the curve and lowering the bar - which is just about the most pernicious form of racism that exists.
Riff Raff| 10.5.12 @ 11:17AM
Whether Purp thinks Romney will "lose" or not is of no importance. Intelligent people refrain from making rash predictions, but unintelligent people think their wild predictions will influence others to follow along. This is self-delusion, Purp's #1 personal malady. The incontestable fact that remains is that his hero President Bozo is incompetent and unintelligent. His performance not just Wednesday evening, but throughout his entire adult life, prove this conclusively. When on teleprompter, Bozo reads other people's words and acts the part of "leader." Absent his crutch he is revealed to be, not to put too fine a point on it, a dumb-ass.
I do not predict that Romney will defeat this cretinous idiot in the White House come November. I merely hope that he will and I will vote accordingly.
Anthony| 10.5.12 @ 11:43AM
"One night of not himself". Tell us Purp, you claim to actually have a job and a business, yet all the times you post here, you spout Obozoisms right from Axelrod's mouth, and juvenile ones at that.
Do you have an origional thought in that pea brain of yours? And if indeed that wasn't the real Romney, it sure as hell was the real Obozo; an empty suit laid bare without a teleprompter and an origional thought in his Columbia/ Harvard educated head.
Only the true trolls are still believing in the Invisible Man. You and vtwin, except vtwin can't get any gas for his tricycycle in California.
Oh tooooo bad.
Trinacria| 10.5.12 @ 7:09PM
"One night of not himself".
What Purp surely knows in his heart is that what we witnessed Wednesday night was one night of Obama EXACTLY as himself. One night without the security of a teleprompter with vacuous platitudes scrolling before him; one night without the preselected audiences full of adoring mopes who cheer and swoon and shout affirmations and amens with all the fervor of a congregation that has been filled with the spirit; one night without the cloak of infallibility that protects him from being challenged; one night without the unfounded presumption of competence and skill. Most importantly, it was the one night that haunts the dreams of all who advance not by merit, but by affirmative action, for they all know that the day will come when they will be forced to actually perform the job for which they are utterly unqualified. And they know that on that day the world will know the truth and see them as they truly are.
That day came on Wednesday night for Barack Hussein Obama. And now the world knows EXACTLY who he is.
Controse| 10.5.12 @ 12:50PM
Back in the sixties it was all the rage to get a mantra to chant over and over again so as to raise ones celestial consciousness (what ever that was.) Purp keep chanting that mantra "Romney will LOSE." Chant it over and over. It will keep you from thinking which it is evident you find disagreeable.
Butch| 10.5.12 @ 2:11PM
That WAS himself Wednesday night. No teleprompter, no crowd of sign-waving, cheering college airheads, just him and his intellect, otherwise unarmed. He got destroyed.
Riff Raff| 10.5.12 @ 5:37PM
In 1981, the San Francisco 49ers beat the Dallas Cowboys in their regular season game, 45-14. The Cowboys claimed afterward that "the REAL Dallas Cowboys didn't show up." President Bozo's sycophants seem to be singing that same tune about Wednesday evening. (The 49ers beat the Cowboys again in the NFC Championship Game.) They need to face facts: Their "hero" is a boob.
Oldefarte| 10.5.12 @ 2:35PM
http://youtu.be/OmJati2W7uA
Pelleas| 10.6.12 @ 12:46AM
RiffRaff
That you DON'T cower in shame for the obvious racist comments that appear on this site , by the minute, concerning The President and his Family ,
is CRYSTAL CLEAR EVIDENCE--even to a blind man-- of how hate-filled and truly RACIST YOU ALL ARE.
Anyone is entitled not to like-- or to even HATE a political figure--even the President- BUT, to besmirch him and his wife and children with the most disgusting/nauseating/ odious filthy words is UNFORGIVABLE
Only a LOSER would feel the in necessary to don the robes and hood of The Klan, as EVERY ONE OF YOU HERE DOES, EVERY DAY
SHAME ON YOU ALL
Riff Raff| 10.6.12 @ 2:05AM
Pelleas, every single word of your post is a lie, including "and" and "the." Your accusation of racism is a lie. Your reference to the Klan is a lie. You should cower in shame over your brazen lies, but one must wonder if you are in fact a psychopath and truly believe your own lies.
Pelleas| 10.6.12 @ 6:45AM
My accusation of the blatant daily racism on this site is so obvious, it isn't funny.
How many times is Michelle Obama referred to/ portrayed as/" a fat-assed gorilla" by various PIGS on this site,,?( just one example of hundreds , here)
A racist rarely admits, in public , as to his / her disgusting attitudes--- it is left to saner voces to call you cowards out for the utter FILTH that you really are....
Riff Raff| 10.6.12 @ 10:48AM
Your accusation is obvious all right. (You don't write very clearly, do you?) Your accusation is also a lie, and you are a liar. While there may be a few souls on these pages who engage in such rhetoric, the vast majority do not. I do not, yet your accusational paint brush covers me specifically. You are not a "saner voice" and it is questionable that you are sane at all. Your posts are rife with false accusations. Where is your outrage over the brazenly racist remarks of Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton? The racist here is you. The hypocrite here is you. The filth spewed here like vomit is yours.
Oldefarte| 10.6.12 @ 1:07PM
If she'd attempt to be more concerned with the taxpayers' dime instead of her [and her momma's] wanton desires to travel to Paris, Italy, NYC, Hawaii etc since it's free, it would help her [or anyone in a similar position] image. If whe would exit Hawaii from AF2 wearing a dress instead of a tank top and shorts, it would help her image as FLOTUS. Cut the excrement with the racism BS!!!!!
Nick| 10.5.12 @ 10:30AM
****BREAKING NEWS****
ACTUAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS STILL 12%!!!!!
ONLY 114K JOBS ADDED!!!!
23 MILLION AMERICANS STILL UNEMPLOYED!!!!
LABOR DEPT. COOKS THE BOOKS TO HELP REGIME!!!!!
And, the Appeaser-in-Chief still had his backside handed to him at Wednesday's debate. Liberals spent yesterday trying to find it for him!!!
Purp| 10.5.12 @ 10:41AM
Hahahaha .... 7.8% is the official number ... when you have to explain - YOU"RE LOSING!
Hahahahaha.... Mitt the Twit is out there touting the bad economy - can you say "John McCain" ? Hahaha.... eat that chocolate cake, yum, yum.
Oldefarte| 10.5.12 @ 2:35PM
http://youtu.be/OmJati2W7uA
woodsman1st| 10.7.12 @ 11:48AM
Do you always laugh over nothing; do you always begin a sentence with a laugh, or laugh in the middle of some inane comment?
You liberals sure do act like you have mental problems.
And still they allow you to vote. Something has to be done about that. We can start with a test on High School Poly Sci; if you cant pass that you shouldn't be allowed to vote; most liberals shouldn't be allowed to drive a car let alone vote!
Von Mises Jr| 10.5.12 @ 10:51AM
It gets curiouser and curiouser, Nick.
Four-hundred thousand disappear from the work force and four-hundred phantom new jobs appear from a survey. It is like magic. Shazam.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G.....yment-drop
Nick| 10.5.12 @ 10:57AM
Thanks for the link, Von Misses Jr.
I'd already heard about Jack Welch's tweet.
I'll trust Mr. Welch over the crooked O'Bama regime any day of the week!
Von Mises Jr| 10.5.12 @ 1:27PM
Now it is becoming clear. The real BLS Jobs Report had 114K added. You need more than that to stay even with some 3 million in immigration.
They used the Household Survey that is a limited sample that is then used to project the figure they want. Apparently they applied the correction they created in this household phone poll to then adjust the real BLS numbers that were from employers. Neat trick, but way too obvious.
TLP| 10.5.12 @ 3:57PM
Nick.
Stay on The Bus!
Von Mises Jr| 10.5.12 @ 10:51AM
It gets curiouser and curiouser, Nick.
Four-hundred thousand disappear from the work force and four-hundred phantom new jobs appear from a survey. It is like magic. Shazam.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G.....yment-drop
cowgirl| 10.5.12 @ 11:19AM
Actually the real unemployment numbers are th U6 numbers published by Obama's Department of Labor. It is at 14% .
To those unbelieving COOL-Aid Drinking Obama worshippers - here is the link. See and you will believe:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Nick| 10.5.12 @ 10:54AM
****BREAKING NEWS****
ACTUAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS STILL 12%!!!!!
ONLY 114K JOBS ADDED!!!!
23 MILLION AMERICANS STILL UNEMPLOYED!!!!
LABOR DEPT. COOKS THE BOOKS TO HELP REGIME!!!!!
And, the Appeaser-in-Chief still had his backside handed to him at Wednesday's debate. Liberals spent yesterday trying to find it for him!!!
Jeff| 10.5.12 @ 12:59PM
Purp....
When will WE learn that racism turns people off??? Let's see....first you were on board with slavery, then segregation, then lynching, then the Klan, then racial quotas, now its illegal immigration.....and WE have a problem with racism???? My.
Oldefarte| 10.5.12 @ 2:19PM
Don't include me and others in your asinine "we" statements, okay AH? WE ain't voting for your community orgainzing, domestic terrorizing black nationalist street hustler, okay? Take your "we" and stick it where the sun don't shine!!!!!!!
spike59| 10.8.12 @ 6:04AM
the main difference between 2008 and 2012 is, as you say, we DO know him well; that is enough to send him off the defeat and disgrace
Purp| 10.5.12 @ 9:17AM
*** BREAKING NEWS ****
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DROPS to 7.8%!!!! Economy added 800,000 JOBS ... highest in 30 years!!!!
Mittens go back to your car elevator and give yourself the SHAFT! Hahahahaha....
TLP| 10.5.12 @ 9:22AM
Apparently, he failed his test.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.5.12 @ 9:31AM
Unless the positive result was his goal, in which case he succeeded in getting infected.
Purp| 10.5.12 @ 10:06AM
Whatsamatta Timmy - not the news you wanted? You wanted America to keep struggling, in misery, back to Dickensian England?
Oldefarte| 10.5.12 @ 2:33PM
Dickhead, the news that many of us wanted was not the results that we got 11/4/08 due to the BS propagandized by the MSM in trojun-horsing ya boy's candidacy subversively. As his friend/mentor preached though, his come-uppins [ie chickens] will come home to roost on 11/6/12 so be prepared!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TLP| 10.5.12 @ 4:01PM
It's not true.
Look at Today's Stock Market.
These guys aren't dummies.
Everything went DOWN.
ALL OF THEM.
If these numbers were Legit?
The Dow would have GONE THROUGH THE ROOF.
But it didn't.
Did it?
We had More Jobs in August, and The Unemployment Rate went UP.
PLEASE EXPLAIN.
Oldefarte| 10.5.12 @ 4:49PM
Listen solely to former GE CEO Jack Welsh who claims that this administration must be COOKING TH EMPLOYMENT BOOKS/NUMBERS!!!!!!!!!!
Von Mises Jr| 10.6.12 @ 8:02AM
BREAKING NEWS: CORRECTION – MINISTRY OF INFORMATION
GDP GROWTH RATE IS 7.8% AND UNEMPLOYEMENT DROPPED FROM 1.7% TO 1.3% THIS WEEK.
OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, Hmm, Hmm, Hmm
Cobalt| 10.6.12 @ 11:19AM
Maybe, Obama just made a counting mistake with his abacus.
DRed| 10.5.12 @ 7:58PM
The Dow gained 35 points today, idiot.
Oldefarte| 10.6.12 @ 1:13PM
"35 points" is nothing;this economy has been inside of the financial toilet for the last four years; the only reason why the domestic markets increase is due to Bernanke's inflationary QEIII which is noting more that falatiating the POTUS in trying to prevent the economy from thoroughly collapsing!!!!!!!
TLP| 10.6.12 @ 5:25PM
35 whole points?
If the numbers were TRUE?
It should have been 350 Points, AT LEAST.
Idiot.
TLP| 10.6.12 @ 5:28PM
And, it didn't go up that Whopping 35 Points, until the very end of the day.
Give it up, Dumb@ss.
I'd say that you were Embarrassing yourself.
But, that's impossible.
Oldefarte| 10.6.12 @ 1:09PM
We are already back to Mexico and heading for Cuba [what we wouldn't do for "Dickensian England"]!!!!!!!!!
Minuteman78| 10.5.12 @ 9:30AM
1/2009: 17.7 Million involuntarily out of work.
9/2012: 19.4 Million involuntarily out of work.
So you can take your phony doctored percentage and shove it. Everyone in America knows more people are out of work now than 4 years ago.
Riff Raff| 10.5.12 @ 9:45AM
If the OBozo administration is true to form, we will see another "correction" after the election, and unemployment will still be above 8%. Purp is a dim bulb indeed.
delahaya| 10.5.12 @ 9:48AM
Do you remember when Bush Sr. was running? We were all "one paycheck away from the streets"? The economy was much better then than it is now but there was a really bad GDP report just before the election (which was still better than current). Only after the election did the bureaucrats revise it upward - by over a point! Just amazing chicanery. Oh, anyone notice how the whole "homeless" issue just disappears when a Democrat is in office? We have the worst economy in generations, surely the homeless are still around, right?
Purp| 10.5.12 @ 10:08AM
It's because Bush inherited a good economy from Reagan and destroyed it.
Obama inherited a disastrous economy and has improved and nearly recovered all jobs for America.
RomBot can't compete with good news... he's done. He can wipe the permanent smile off his face now. Was that painted on?
Riff Raff| 10.5.12 @ 10:55AM
The notion that OBozo has "improved" the economy is pure fantasy. Repeating it endlessly does not change that.
Oldefarte| 10.6.12 @ 1:18PM
BS! Lying BS! Un-Stimulus was a gift to the unions; Welfarecare was a gift to the welfare indigents; Keystone's destruction was a gift to OPEC; Immigration ignorance was a gift to Muslim terrorists and to Democrats [same thing]. This economy is half or less than what it should be. Businesses are not hiring/expanding due to the tax and regulation threats. Quit telling BS!!!!!!!!!!
TLP| 10.6.12 @ 5:33PM
And, Reagan inherited a Worse Economy than Your Boy did, and turned it into - How did you put it? - "A Good Economy".
Double Didget EVERYTHING.
Unemployment.
Interest Rates.
Inflation.
And, after 4 Years, he had this Economy ROARING, without adding $6,000,000,000,000 to the National Debt.
Stan Redmond| 10.5.12 @ 4:19PM
We have expanding shanty town where I live. I never ever ever thought I would see shanty towns and tent cities here. We had maybe one or two drifters panhandling at a parking lot once in a while while the evyil Bush was president but now they're everywhere. This use to be an aviation town. Many factories and the related support shops all shut down when customers cancelled orders when "you can't just jet off to Vegas," and the demonization of "corporate jet owners."
People like Purp are just blind. There is always an excuse or someone else to blame or some other boogeyman. And when that all fails it's RACISM.
Purp| 10.5.12 @ 10:11AM
Sorry Sunshine - 7.8% .... you can't complain for years that it's over 8% and now that you don't like the number, you just say "shove it" ....
YOU focused on the numbers, you wanted to ride them to election, now go down with number that is going to bury RomBot once and for all!
Oldefarte| 10.6.12 @ 1:19PM
It's not 7-8%, but 20%!!!!!
Alej| 10.5.12 @ 11:04AM
310 million estimated US population. Say 40% of working age = 124 Million.
124 million - 19.4 million = 104.6 million with jobs.
16 % unemployed, probably worse than in Scrooge's day.
Ponder that, obama's butt-boy.
Von Mises Jr| 10.5.12 @ 10:16AM
Private sector jobs (+104K) and government jobs (+10K) equals 114K Caliban. Extremely weak and should have pushed U3 up, not down.
The alleged 873K is supposedly part-time jobs added and is a mythical trick to get the real 11% U3 rate to look like it is under 8%. They magically found in a survey that previously uncounted people had gotten jobs that they did not count.
So we have gone from not counting 2.5M people who are out of work but not counted for various reasons, to finding almost 900K jobs we didn’t know about. You are either a propagandist, the dumbest MF I ever heard, or both.
The alleged people returning to work are supposed to be part-time perhaps like your troll job or hamburger flipper.
Purp| 10.5.12 @ 10:44AM
U3, U6, blah, blah, blah ... the economy is improving, stronger than thought and you can't put a damper on America's bright future.
The professionals as the BLS aren't playing politics - if so, they could have done that for a long time, Chuckles.
Sorry Sunshine - 7.8% .... you can't complain for years that it's over 8% and now that you don't like the number, you just say "shove it" ....
YOU focused on the numbers, you wanted to ride them to election, now go down with the number that is going to bury the RomBot once and for all!
I'll be so glad to get this election over with so I never have to look at the Joker with his plastic smile and lyin' eyes ever again! And he take VoucherBoy down with him.
The Adults will be re-elected and you're head will explode.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.5.12 @ 10:53AM
Purp, describing yourself and those whom you support as adults, in light of your antics and positions, is like Lee Harvey Oswald calling himself a Kennedy supporter because he registered as a Democrat.
John II| 10.5.12 @ 1:21PM
Or, to get back on topic and cut to the chase all at once, it's more like the political huckster Jeremiah Wright calling himself a man of God.
And now back to "Brats" (1930), among the very best of Laurel and Hardy's two-reelers, in which Stan anticipates Purp & Co. with an insightful anti-adage: "You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead."
junkyard infidel| 10.5.12 @ 1:50PM
the perp-a-traitor swallows the propaganda, koolaid, and various other male bodily fluids, purges, then swallows it again ! ain't he the most smartest troll, evah !
TLP| 10.6.12 @ 5:35PM
He "Swallows" a lot of things.
Oldefarte| 10.5.12 @ 2:30PM
The actual rate is 20% and among your favored class of illegals and minorities is more like 45%!!!!
Stan Redmond| 10.5.12 @ 4:21PM
If you read the questions they actually ask "Did you perform unpaid work for a family member"
That is actually counted as being employed. Unfrickin believable.
Oldefarte| 10.5.12 @ 2:28PM
No DA, the actual/true unemployment rate is closer to 20%, and your "highest" is not doubt that in 30 DAYS, not "years"; so get your GD facts straight and go collet your paycheck for blogging here of $37.50. Don't try abnd sell your snake oil Chicago BS here since no one is buying same. The economy is in the excrement that is contained within the toilet of this country, and same is why the Federal Reserve has ramped up its QEIII of buying federal paper in order to attempt """"""stupidly""""" to accompolish for ya boy what his lack of fiscal policies have failed to do for this economy; and they're all going down in November......the POTUS, Fed Chairman, DOJ Chief Crook, Corrupt Interior Secretary, Lying HHS Director, etc!!!!!!!!!
Al Adab| 10.5.12 @ 9:34AM
None of this is a great surprise. These street corner agitators are always around and further their own ambition on the backs of those they pretend to want to help. Whether he actually believes any of this or only in his own grandeur is beside the point. We knew it was a rattlesnake when we picked it up.
delahaya| 10.5.12 @ 9:45AM
Obama's narcissism and messiah complex bit him. The bubble he's been in where no one contradicts him or challenges him left him uprepared for the debates. He is actually not that smart, on top of being leftist, and without his teleprompter is lost. Add this tape, Univisions' Fast and Furious exposes, and some donor expose about to hit and he has a lot on his mediocre mind - and none of it has to do with this country - its all about him as usual.
Who Knows?| 10.5.12 @ 11:00AM
What’s new, pussycat?
“And all of these street wars of religion against religion, dull idea against dull idea, are nothing but the muscle of stupidity, sheeplike ego clashes (socking macho hornheads as if competing for a rut), the separate junk piles of the past all hurled at one another for the angry sake of power, whizzing between minds that are mucked in self, hardened by fear, defined by the resident passions of birth, and utterly oblivious to the Truth and the Wide Wise significance of our bleeding worried lives.”
“Nirvanasara” by Da Free John, 1982, page 150
Yes, and don’t think this cutting sentence only applies to religion---as the political “street wars” approach a climax in a month, with opened eyes and mind, one can only marvel at the carnage unconsciousness lawfully brings.
It is stunning how hide-and-seek, played by chronological adults, finds new ways to play itself out. See, hear and speak no evil!
There is NO ONE who can handle the Truth!
So, when it comes to the CW truth about Wright-Obama, why be surprised that most people aren’t willing to spend time and attention on this animating aspect of the president’s history?
Write off Wright, that’s the Right Stuff!
Think of this whole deal as fodder for future humans to read about. How could the Germans have been so gullible as to be conned by Hitler?
Oldefarte| 10.5.12 @ 1:58PM
Additionally still another tape has now surfaced of the POTUS and his infamous friend/mentor/former pastor and fellow taxpayer-abuser:
http://youtu.be/OmJati2W7uA
Alex Feltham | 10.5.12 @ 2:59PM
Now we've seen the Wiz of Oz there's no going back.
Here's how the media bias set it up, at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/
capatolistmom| 10.5.12 @ 4:02PM
I always enjoy Mr. Lord's articles!!!
I guess my big question is regardless if Obama is cooking the employment numbers now for election purposes - why is NO ONE looking into the looming effects of sequesteration on the employment picture??? Particularly the defense contractors. Lockhead Marting got a little press this week saying they would cave to the Obama administration and not send out 130,000 layoff notices (mandaditated by law) until after the election. Boeing, Raytheon and others had said the same thing because of the backroom pressure being placed on these public companies by the administration. There are anywhere from 500,000 to 1,000,000 pink slips set to be mailed. They are in Virginia, Ohio, Colorado and other states not so boarder ground in nature. What will these numbers do to the unemployment picture, the housing market, small business in these factories and business areas. they can kick this can down the road a bit - but Obama hates the defense industry, does ANYONE really think he is not going to let these jobs go by the waistside when he does not have an election to worry about??? Romney stated that he supports a strong defense. Has ANYONE heard this from Obama??? There should be articles EVERYDAY regarding these looming terminations. Think before you vote - Obama has distroyed the Coal industry, he is distroying the Oil industry, he is heading now to the defense industry!!!
WhiteBikerTrash| 10.5.12 @ 4:38PM
For Purp:
Do you hate being lied to? Even if the lie is something you really want to hear?
Our Government just reported that Unemployment has dropped to 7.8% I really want to hear that! The report states that payroll has increased 114,000 jobs but that 873,000 people have gone back to work? Do you see the problem yet? 7.66 people went back to work for every job that opened up?
Okay, Okay, Okay I found an answer three quarters of a million people lost their temporary jobs last month but are not yet counted as unemployed those jobs and the 114,000 new jobs were filled by the 872,000 people who found work.
If you take the hard numbers without the lies U-6 is at 18.7% and U-3 is at 12.9% But Weeeeeee!!!!! We have 7.8% unemployment!!!!!! Weeeeeee!!!!!!!! wait until after the election, If Romney wins they will claim the huge jump up is Romney's fault (Unless George W. Bush can be blamed)
PeterHal| 10.6.12 @ 4:06PM
The article is a bit disappointing. During the first two pages I got the impression that Jeffrey Lord had news to bring on that videotape at the UCC Synod. Than alas nothing came and the story fell flat on its face.
woodsman1st| 10.7.12 @ 11:22AM
The true story of our president (lower case intentional) is turning out to be as devious and cunning as the Manchurian Candidate.
We, the Voters of America still do not know who our president is; all we are seeing is what is intended we should see, the frosting on the cake; however, little by little the frosting is wearing thin and the real Obama is beginning to show beneath the frosting; and what little we can see thus far looks to be ugly and dangerous for America. Obama is a story of deceit, lies, and cunning; all of it designed to hide the real Obama; the terrible threat to America that is the real Obama.
We need more people to come forth and tell America about the Obama that he has spent millions to hide from Americans; the Obama that is a threat to America's very existance.