"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist Professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."

Barack Obama 

I just have to ask...Does Obama have any friends that don't hate this country? Seriously. Except for Biden, who is probably the only true patriot in this bunch, his friends are dangerous and CURRENT.

Why is Barack Obama so comfortable around people who so despise America and its allies? Maybe it’s because they’re so comfortable around him.

He presents as the transcendent agent of “change.” Sounds platitudinous, but it’s really quite strategically vaporous. Sen. Obama is loath to get into the details of how we should change, and, as the media’s Chosen One, he hasn’t had to.

But he’s not, as some hopefully dismiss him, a charismatic lightweight with a gift for sparkling the same old vapid cant. Judging from the company he chooses to keep, Obama’s change would radically alter this country. He eschews detail because most Americans don’t believe we’re a racist, heartless, imperialist cesspool of exploitation. The details would be disqualifying.

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Malik Zulu Shabazz, the anti-Semitic and racist leader of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), has sought to recast himself as a serious civil rights leader in recent years by cloaking his bigotry and intolerance in religious and civil rights principles and inserting himself in high profile, racially charged issues around the country. 

Shabazz’s efforts have been supported, at times, by prominent members of the African-American community, which has provided him with a measure of status as a legitimate leader. This status is also reinforced by media accounts, which increasingly ignore his divisive record.

Shabazz’s attempts to gain acceptance and respectability are tainted, however, by his long record of racism and anti-Semitism, which he continues to embrace. That record includes promoting conspiracy theories about Jewish foreknowledge of the September 11 terrorist attacks and canards that Jews control the media and were “significantly and substantially” involved in the transatlantic slave trade.

Name: Malik Zulu Shabazz (born Paris Lewis)
Born: 1968, Los Angeles, California
Residence: Washington, DC
Organization: New Black Panther Party, Black Lawyers for Justice
Education: B.A. Howard University, J.D. Howard University School of Law (1995)
Ideology: Militant Black Nationalism, Racism, Anti-Semitism
Influences: Nation of Islam (NOI), Khallid Abdul Muhammad, Original Black Panther Party
Publication: Foreword, Synagogue of Satan (published by Truth Establishment Institute)

In order to generate a less radical public profile, Shabazz increasingly is drawing attention to his legal advocacy work by organizing and sponsoring events under the banner of Black Lawyers for Justice (BLJ), the legal advocacy group he founded in 1996.

On November 3, 2007, Shabazz organized a “National March Against Hate Crimes and Racism” under the banner of BLJ for Megan Williams, a 20-year-old African-American woman from Charleston, West Virginia, who says she was raped and tortured by a group of white Logan County residents. The event, which received national media attention, attracted a few hundred people.

Prior to the Charleston rally, Shabazz expressed a desire to focus on his career as a “serious litigator” with BLJ. “For those that have taken issue with what I have said in the past,” Shabazz said, “understand that every day is a new day. What I said yesterday you may disagree with but...everybody is evolving. I can be given a fresh look.” Shabazz also indicated, however, that he is not ready to abandon his affiliation with the most anti-Semitic and racist black militant group in the U.S. “I will always be a part of the New Black Panther Party,” Shabazz continued. “I am not going to deny my family for anybody.”

The White House has been barraged with requests to release the names of its visitors. Today they release the first 500 visits, all from the period of Jan 20-July 31. Some of the Names you can find on the list are Bill Ayers 2x, George Soros 4x, Michael Moore 8X, the head of the ACORN affiliated Union the SEIU Andrew Stern 20x,Jeremiah Wright, GE/NBC head Jeff Immelt 5x, Jesse Jackson 6x, John Edwards2x, Al Sharpton 2x, and of course television goddess Oprah Winfrey.

Strangely each party's house leader Pelosi, and Boehner were only at the WH once. The Senate leadership weren't there even once. I will be spending some time investigating the list, but in the meantime, an embeddable version of the list is below. If you have any knowledge of some of these names, please contact me and let me know:

White House Visitor Records Requests

JERUSALEM – The lawyer representing Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor at the center of a national race controversy, was a mentor of both Barack and Michelle Obama and served on the president's black advisory council.

Charles Ogletree Jr., himself a Harvard University professor, is closely linked to the Black Panthers and to radical black ideology. He is a key member of the reparations movement and once pursued the possibility of bringing a class action lawsuit to win reparations for descendants of African slaves.

"I met Barack when he arrived at Harvard Law School in fall of 1988. He was quiet and unassuming, but had an incredibly sharp mind and a thirst for knowledge," Ogletree said in an interview last year with Essence Magazine.

"Even then I saw his ability to quickly grasp the most complicated legal issues and sort them out in a clear, concise fashion," said Ogletree. Ogletree explained Obama was a regular participant in an after-class activity the Harvard professor created called the Saturday School Program – a series of workshops and meetings held Saturday mornings designed to expose minority students to issues in the study of law.  Ogletree also told Essence that he mentored Michelle Obama when she enrolled at Harvard three years before her future husband. Ogletree said he gave Michelle career advice.

"I met Michelle when she started her legal career here at Harvard in the fall of 1985, and I was able to watch her develop into a very strong and powerful student leader. She was an active member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, where she served as a student attorney for indigent clients who had civil cases and needed legal help" Ogletree related.

"I routinely gave career advice, and often personal advice, to students who would come in with questions about where they should work, how they should use their legal skills and talent, and was it possible to do well and do good," Ogletree said. "My advice to people like Barack and Michelle was that they could easily navigate the challenges of a corporate career and find a variety of ways to serve their community," he said. During Obama's senatorial career, Ogletree advised the politician on reforming the criminal-justice system as well on constitutional issues. Ogletree served on the black advisory panel of Obama's presidential campaign.

Black radical politics

Ogletree is closely linked to radical black activism. As a student in 1970 at Stanford University near San Francisco, a center of black radicalism at the time, Ogletree organizing an Afrocentric dormitory. He edited a campus Black Panther newspaper called The Real News and traveled to Africa and Cuba as part of student activist groups. Ogletree attended nearly every day of the trial of Black Power activist and communist Angela Davis. Ogletree moved on to Harvard Law School, where he continued his political activism, becoming national president of the Black Law Students Association. Ogletree gained national prominence in 1991 when he represented Anita Hill during the controversial Senate confirmation hearings at which she accused Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.

In 2000, Ogletree joined the Reparations Coordinating Committee, serving as the group's co-chair. The committee pursued a lawsuit to win reparations for descendants of African slaves. The committee was convened by the TransAfrica Forum, a partner organization of the leftist Institute for Policy Studies.

Ogletree is now representing Gates, the professor at the center of race controversy after he was handcuffed in his home by police following a burglary report. Obama mentioned the incident Wednesday in a prime-time news conference, accusing police of "acted stupidly" in dealing with Gates.

The president acknowledged he did not know all the facts in the case but used it to highlight the issue of racial profiling. “What I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped … disproportionately," Obama said. "That's just a fact." Obama again commented on the matter in an ABC News interview yesterday, stating, "I think that it doesn't make sense, with all the problems that we have out there, to arrest a guy in his own home if he's not causing a serious disturbance. What I can tell, the sergeant who was involved is an outstanding police officer, but my suspicion is that it would have been better if cooler heads prevailed."

Ogletree and Gates gave starkly different reports of the incident than police.  A report from Sgt. James Crowley said Gates was shouting so loudly it was impossible to talk on his police radio. Crowley said he handcuffed Gates on the porch after the professor shouted, "This is what happens to black men in America."  Ogletree issued a statement claiming Gates returned from a trip to China to find his front door damaged and impossible to open from the outside, even with the help of his driver, who is also black. When Gates entered through the back door, he saw a police officer on the porch, who said he was investigating a reported break-in at the home, according to Ogletree. Gates said he showed the officer his Harvard identity card and Massachusetts driver's license and asked to see the officer's identification, Ogletree's statement said. Gates continued to ask for the police officer's name and was arrested when he followed the officer out his front door, the statement said.  

Every known associate, mentor, or relative of Obama is either hiding, missing, under investigation, or in prison.

Here is our Ten Most Wanted from the Obama Gang (in no particular order).

Ten Most Wanted 

• Obama's Aunt Zeituni Onyango
  
• Obama's Pastor, Reverend Wright
  
• Obama's Shady Political Fundraiser, Tony Rezko
  
• Obama's Grandma and Sister in Hawaii
  
• Obama's Kenyan Relatives
  
• Obama's College Friends and World Travelers
  
• Obama's Original Birth Certificate
  
• Obama's Political Mentor and Friend, Bill Ayers. Plus his wife Bernadine Dohrn
  
• Obama's Wife, Michelle
  
• Obama's former employer and client Acorn (and Project Vote)
  
  
• Bonus: College transcripts, medical records, law client lists
  

Barack Obama shrugs off charges of socialism, but noted in his own memoir that he carefully chose Marxist professors as friends in college.  Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism.

But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34. Obama's affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles. "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists." Obama's interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan's Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called "the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union." After graduating from Columbia in 1983, Obama spent a year working for a consulting firm and then went to work for what he described as "a Ralph Nader offshoot" in Harlem.

"In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia," Obama wrote in "Dreams," which he published in 1995. "At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature."

Obama supporters point out that plenty of Americans flirt with radical ideologies in college, only to join the political mainstream later in life. But Obama, who made a point of noting how "carefully" he chose his friends in college, also chose to launch his political career in the Chicago living room of Ayers, a domestic terrorist who in 2002 proclaimed: "I am a Marxist." LINK

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This ad hits the target pretty close. The only thing that I disagree with is the whole flag thing. You know that is just a cheap shot at the man. It's like saying he's Muslim when he's not, and even if he was, who cares? My beef pure and simple is that he has heavy influnced by people who are known bad elements. He's the most inexperienced man ever to be nominated and the most liberal. That is my issue with the man.