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Getting hot in New Hampshire

By Christina Bellantoni on Sept. 12, 2008 into Trail Times

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CONCORD, N.H. — Actually, it feels like last winter all over again. About this time last year I was hanging out with Bill Richardson on the seacoast here.

 

Today, with Sen. Barack Obama as the nominee, we're in a crowded gym and it's cold, raining and downright dreary outside.

 

But the partisan rhetoric inside is hot, as Obama is late and the crowd is ready for some red meat.

 

Rep. Paul Hodes lit up the crowd by pushing the Obama talking point of the day.

 

"John McCain doesn't know how to send email, but he says he's ready to lead this country in the 21st century," the freshman Democrat and early Obama endorser said. "He wants to simply change the nameplate on the door on the White House but that's not change."

 

He said McCain wants to "take away a woman's right to choose" and led the crowd in a chant of "Bush McCain, is more of the same!"

 

Even the music was on message, as some in the crowd nodded along to this lyric from "The Who's" classic: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

 

Rev. Jed Rardin, pastor of the South Congregational Church in Concord, delivered the opening prayer, asking for the election to go "beyond 30-second ads" and to be "wider than special interests."

 

"We know that as a nation we have strayed from your path. We have grown weary of being told we need to be afraid. We have grown all too willing to sacrifice truth on the altar of expediency. We have become a country where often the value of me is elevated above the worth of we. We are tired of isolation and war," he said.

 

"But we also acknowledge that if we are truly to become a nation restored to justice, we will all need to heed your voice and not only our own ... we will all need to listen to more than just those with whom we agree. If we are to become a nation bold enough to seek new resolutions to old conflicts, we will all need to explore new ways of being strong."

 

"In the weeks and the months ahead, make of us we pray, a nation whose desire is to seek to be on your side and not simply assume that you are on ours."

 

He offered blessings for the Democratic ticket, and "though they are campaigning on different platforms, bless also Senator McCain, Governor Palin and their families and those who support them."

 

He finished with: "And in November, oh God, bring us all to a place of new hope and possibility. In your holy name, we pray. Amen."

 

—Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter,
The Washington Times

 

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mrunpc

Another Radical -- Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour Sponsored Barack Obama Into Harvard Law School Lie Down With Dogs And You Are Going To Wake Up With Fleas Posted by: David Hinz Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 07:57AM 4 Comments This is excerpted from a piece at The Minority Report We have long chronicled the ties of Sen Barack Obama to radical extremists with views that preach hate against the United States. Most informed Americans are familiar with the rantings of his "former" pastor, the Rev Jeremiah Wright, who in church, screamed, "Some say God bless America...No, no no, I say God Da America!" Many Americans have become aware of Sen Obama's ties to William Ayres, former Weather Undergroud Domestic terrorist, and now respected academian, who helped construct bombs that were placed in Federal Buildings around the country, and that blew up in the Pentagon. On September 11, 2001, Ayres said, in an article in the New York Times, "We didn't do enough." But, how many Americans are aware of the man with ties to radical Islam who sponsored Sen Obama into the Harvard Law School? that man, Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour once said; The first "genocide against the black man began 300 years ago," he told an audience in Harlem at a book-signing, while a second "genocide" was on the way “to remove 15 million Black people, considered disposable, of no relevance, value or benefit to the American society.” Khalid al-Mansour spent the 1960s as a close associate and mentor to Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, the notorious founders of the Black Panther Party. Newton is best remembered for his "Burn, baby burn!" while the city of Watts was being destroyed by race riots. In the late 1980s, a former Manhattan borough president was approached by al-Mansour about sponsoring a young Barack Obama for Harvard Law School. Percy Sutton was the founder of Inner City Broadcasting and had contacts at Harvard through speaking engagements. Al-Mansour asked him to write a letter on behalf of Barack Obama asking Harvard to admit him. Al-Mansour explained that he was raising money for Obama's educational expenses at Harvard. “I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly,” Sutton told a reporter for NY1, in New York. At about the same, al-Mansour was representing billionaire interests in Saudi Arabia. At this link is a most interesting YouTube video of a Sutton interview on Inside City Hall. This is another important link in discovering WHO IS Barack Obama.
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THIS is who supports Barack Hussein Obama: www.aboutus.org/Cpusa.org "Website of the Communist Party, USA. We fight for labor unity, peace, equality, democracy and socialism. The CPUSA is part of the growing anti-war movement, fighting for peace locally and nationally. We love Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton and will do everything we can to get our comrades elected to the White House. Then we will be able to complete our takeover by shutting down talk radio and free speech via the internet." Here's the parent site: www.cpusa.org And THIS is one of their ring leaders: Matt Parker, Communist (google him) mattp@cpusa.org And THIS is where they're headquartered: 235 W 23RD ST NEW YORK, NY 10011-2302 Nice, huh? And to think that HALF of America is ready to vote for THEIR guy for President, Barack Hussein Obama! NOT ANOTHER HUSSEIN!!! McCain 2008
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