Two days from now, the U.S. will elect a new President. Will it be President Obama or President McCain? Either way, history will happen. The U.S. will either have the first African American President or first female V.P. What is your take?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
McCain by a nose.
The only way McCain can win is if he steals the election.
Iran Endorses Obama
By Mark Impomeni
Oct 23rd 2008 8:00PM
Fresh off Iran’s setting of preconditions for meeting with the United States, the speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Ari Larijani, said today that the Islamic Republic would prefer it if Sen. Barack Obama was elected President of the United States.
“We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational, even though we know American policy will not change that much.”
Sen. Obama has said that he would sit down for face-to face meetings with the leaders of Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Syria, and Cuba, “without preconditions.” Iran has a different idea, and yesterday the Vice President for Media Affairs said that the United States must first remove all of its troops from the Middle East and drop all support for Israel if it wants to meet with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Barack Obama’s tax plan will dash the dreams of Americans and their children. Barack Obama is for bigger government and he’s going to raise your taxes.
Right, McCain will steal it with ACORN. You’re a funny dude. Has Barack denounce ACORN yet? I thought so.
Obama will be the first African American president who will end his career like JFK.
Islamic fundamentalists need a president like BUSH or MC CAIN to feed their cause.
A liberal president seeking negotiations instead of dropping bombs is not so good for their recruiting…
The brothers hope for Liberals to be in charge so that they can build mosques in USA and force Sharia law on Fakir bastards.
Islam will rule the world!
Allah Akbar!
The US will become a left wing radical Socialist country under Obama!
If Obama Wins, One Thing is Certain —
For Your Investments…
Dear Fellow American,
If Barack Obama wins this election, one thing is certain… he will preside over the largest expansion of the government’s role in the economy since the 1930s.
This “New New Deal,” as some Democrats are already calling it, may well have the same result as the original one: to turn a sharp, painful recession into a long Depression.
Will that set the stage for a GOP president in 2012 — the way ’70s stagflation under Jimmy Carter set the stage for Ronald Reagan? I doubt it. More likely, Obama will be able to parlay the hard economic times into a second term.
How? The same way FDR did… by blaming everything that happens on his watch on his predecessors. The worse things get, the more the Obamacrats will blame it on “eight years of Republican deregulation, tax cuts and greed,” calling for even more government intervention as the solution.
And the media, of course, will back them up.
Sincerely,
Dick Morris
I’m not American…
But I vote for Obama and hope he’ll win
Vote early and vote often please! Go Obama!
One day before the 2004 election === polls Kerry 45% and Bush 40% ==== It has nothing to do with skin color — the drive by media…………wants liberal presidents…………
Repeat?? I PRAY!!!!!
I like to keep the money I earn and the benefits of lower cost coal energy!
Obama-Farrakhan Ties Are Close, Ex-Farrakhan Aide Says
Saturday, November 1, 2008 2:59 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.
“Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn’t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,” said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.
White broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor of African-American history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
White said Obama was “part of the Chicago scene” where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other’s events and support each other’s causes.
“Even though Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, within the black community, the political and militant nationalist community is very small. So it wouldn’t be uncommon for [Obama and Farrakhan] to show up at events together, or at least be there and communicate with each other,” White told Newsmax.
The Anti-Defamation League has denounced Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam as a “hate group.”
Farrakhan has called Jews “bloodsuckers,” “satanic” and accused them of running the slave trade. He has labeled gays as “degenerates.” In a 2006 speech, the ADL again condemned Farrakhan when he said: “These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. … It’s the wicked Jews the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It’s wicked Jews, false Jews that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!”
Obama was careful to “denounce” Farrakhan’s comments – but not the man — during the Democratic primary season earlier this year, but only after Hillary Clinton called him out for benefiting from Farrakhan’s support.
Farrakhan endorsed Obama in a videotaped speech to his followers at Mosque Miryam in Chicago in February. “You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth,” Farrakhan said.
He told the crowd that Obama was the new “messiah.” See Video: Farrakhan Endorses Obama, Calls Him Messiah.
Once the news media and the Clinton campaign got hold of those comments from Farrakhan, demands mounted from all sides that Obama “renounce” Farrakhan.
But as he has done repeatedly throughout this campaign, Obama was careful to parse his words.
“You know, I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic comments,” he said during one appearance on “Meet the Press.” “I think that they are unacceptable and reprehensible.”
Obama hastened to point out that Farrakhan had been praising him as “an African-American who seems to be bringing the country together. I obviously can’t censor him, but it is not support that I sought. And we’re not doing anything, I assure you, formally or informally with Minister Farrakhan.”
But Obama, once again, was less than candid.
In 1995, according to a profile of Obama that appeared in the Chicago Reader newspaper, Obama “took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October’s Million Man March in Washington, D.C.”
At the time, Obama was running for the Illinois Senate from Chicago’s South Side, a seat he won after getting surrogates to challenge the signatures on nominating petitions for his chief rival, the incumbent Alice Palmer.
The march, which fell far short of attracting the million men it advertised, was organized by Farrakhan and by Obama’s then-pastor, the anti-white black nationalist Wright.
Obama spoke at length with the Chicago Reader upon his return from the Million Man March. “What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society,” he said.
“These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ’em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress,” Obama said.
“Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn’t care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing.”
“Black nationalism” is a current of thought and political action in the African-American community that has been championed by the likes of Farrakhan, Wright, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers and Khalid al-Mansour. Obama discussed his attraction to black nationalism at length in his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father.”
Obama further parsed his words in a Feb. 25, 2008, presentation to a Jewish community meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, where he insisted that Wright “does not have a close relationship with Louis Farrakhan.”
And yet, just months earlier, Wright’s Trumpet magazine gave Farrakhan its Lifetime Achievement Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award, saying that Farrakhan “truly epitomized greatness.”
That award was the fruit of a long and deep relationship between the two men, White told Newsmax. In 1984, Wright accompanied Farrakhan on his much-criticized trip to meet Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, at a time when Gadhafi was considered an enemy of the United States.
Wright also accompanied Farrakhan and Jackson to Syria in 1986, where they successfully negotiated with Syrian strongman for the release of downed American pilot Robert O. Goodman.
Obama’s Speaking Style
In addition to the ideological affinity Obama expressed for the black nationalist movement, White believes that Obama owes much of his success as a public orator to speaking techniques that Farrakhan developed over the years, and exploited for years to great success.
“If you listen to the rhetoric and you take away Obama’s political jargon, you hear a religious tenor to it that is very much Nation of Islam-like. I don’t know if anyone has ever touched on it, but Obama’s speaking style is very Malcolm-like, very Farrakhan-like,” White said.
Any American who has listened to early radio or television interviews of Obama can hear how dramatically Obama’s speaking style has changed since he became a United States senator.
In clips dating from 2001 and even early 2004, Obama speaks haltingly and in long, rambling sentences packed with legalese and dense pseudo-academic rhetoric. But not today.
“As a former minister of the Nation of Islam, I know how they speak,” White told Newsmax. “I don’t know who was training Obama. But that style is not a ministerial style like in the Christian church. It’s a Nation of Islam style.”
White began in the late 1970s as a foot soldier in the Fruit of Islam, the military branch of Farrakhan’s Black Muslim group, then rose to become a minister of the Nation of Islam and a top deputy to Farrakhan himself.
Known initially as Brother Vibert L.X., and later as Minister V.L. Muhammad, he parted ways with Farrakhan not long after the Million Man March, after nearly 25 years within the organization.
White’s 2002 book “Inside the Nation of Islam” prompted death threats by Farrakhan loyalists, so he left Illinois and moved to Florida to teach at the University of Central Florida.
He told Newsmax that Obama’s remarkable speaking style, even his manner of standing at a podium to appear larger than life, is directly copied from Farrakhan.
“If the Nation of Islam can’t do anything else, it can train people how to speak. And nobody can outspeak a Muslim minister,” he said.
Earlier this year, a pro-Clinton blog run by former CIA officer Larry Johnson unearthed a 2004 photograph showing Michelle Obama and Farrakahn’s wife, Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, at an event hosted by Jackson’s Citizenship Education Foundation.
Newsmax queried Obama’s U.S. Senate office, his Chicago office and his campaign press office about his ties to Farrakhan, but did not receive a reply.
Ever since he appeared before the annual policy conference of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee in June, Obama has attempted to convince the Jewish community that he is pro-Israel.
But his longstanding ties to Farrakhan, Wright and Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi, among others, have disturbed many Jewish community leaders.
Sen. John McCain publicly chastised The Los Angeles Times on Thursday for not releasing a videotape the newspaper said it possessed of a 2003 dinner for Khalidi, where Obama reportedly accused Israel of carrying out a “genocide” against the Palestinians.
Republicans are scary, have been since Nixon. It is all too likely they’ll steal this one, unless we – that includes all you deluded souls who’ll likely vote Republican despite how destructive of all our interests their foolish policies have been – give Obama a landslide.
It is also disturbing to see so much of the hateful attack propaganda repeated in public forums.
It’s amazing how many republicans there are in chess circles. Perhaps all the time spent studying chess keeps them from learning history or economics.
McCain is going to get squashed, and the toxic legacy of Reagan finally will be ended.
Obama makes more sense…vote for McCain if you are rich and want to keep the war in Iraq going…vote for McCain if you the Bush administration to keep it horrible influence…vote for McCain if you think that by fighting in Iraq…we’ll get to Bin Laden. Vote for Obama if you want the war to end and stop the U.S. from losing losing lives and $10 billion each month!
These are tough times, so whoever wins will have a big challenge to get us out of this mess. My belief is that Obama is the one we need. Not not only is he super smart, but he is demonstrating the ability to attract capable people, listen to them and develop sensible ideas. McCain seems to have spent most of his time during the campaign trying to figure out how to tear down and beat Obama, instead of seeking to understand in depth the problems of our country. His ideas are variations of things that we know don’t work, and the people that he has “attracted” all seem to be at war with each other.
I think Obama will win. Unless pollsters have it seriously wrong, he should win with about a 7 point cushion.
The saddest part of this election for me so far has been some of the people I’ve talked to – or rather listened to – when I was working the phones to get out the vote.
If anyone thinks racism is gone, cured, sequestered, or silenced, try signing up to make calls on behalf of Barack Obama’s campaign. Place a call, introduce yourself, then sit back and listen. Most are Obama supporters, and they are all positive, upbeat, and excited about putting this country back on the right track.
Some are not supporters. Some callers are polite about it, but I’ve also heard some of the most vile language I’ve ever heard. Worse than in the civil rights struggles of the 60s (and I was there, too).
The lies about Obama – many of which have already found their way on this thread – are just signs of frustration from those supporting a losing candidate. But the level of acrimony attacking his character is unlike anything I’ve ever heard against presidential candidates before.
Mr. Obama Not Eligible To Be President!
Is Obama Citizenship a Fraud? Is he a “Natural Born Citizen”?
A prominent Pennsylvania Democrat, Phillip J. Berg, filed a case in Federal Court on August 21st, demanding that Barack Obama produce evidence that he is a natural born citizen of the United States. Only a natural born citizen of the United States can serve as President. Sen. Obama could have put the matter to rest by producing a valid birth certificate. Instead, he and his lawyers fought tooth and nail to block access to Obama’s birth records.
Here is a video of Philip J. Berg talking about his case:
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Since that video was recorded, the Federal Judge assigned to hear Mr. Berg’s case, Judge R. Barclay Surrick, a Bill Clinton appointee, ruled that an ordinary citizen of the United States does not have the right to file a case in Federal Court to challenge the credentials of a candidate for President of the United States!
Why would a Federal Judge go to such lengths to protect Obama?
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Berg has now filed a request for an immediate injunction from the U.S. Supreme Court, to review his case before the election is allowed to take place.
Today’s headline on WorldNetDaily is: “Constitutional Crisis Feared over Obama’s Qualifications”
Evidence exists to substantiate the claim that Barack Obama is not a “natural born citizen” as required by the U.S. Constitution. His own paternal grandmother claims that she and two of Obama’s half brothers were present at his birth in what is now Kenya, in 1961.
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Courts in Hawaii, a state controlled by liberal Democrats, have denied the public access to Obama’s birth records by finding that the American people do not have “a tangible interest” in Obama’s birth records. In addition, Barack Obama and his lawyers have stopped the release of his records at Columbia University, Occidental College, and Harvard Law School, all of which should include his birth information.
People hide the truth because it will hurt them. A candidate for President has an obligation to the American people to produce valid proof he or she is a natural born American citizen. This is what the American people want. Instead, we get nothing but stonewalling from Senator Obama and millions of Americans believe he is hiding the truth.
Senator Obama, we demand you produce a valid birth certificate that proves your birth in Hawaii. As a would-be President of the United States, you should provide a certified copy to every journalist who asks about it and to the Courts and plaintiffs in all the lawsuits seeking it. You must make the original available for inspection by any expert or news agency. Come clean and end the speculaton!
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Why is the media silent on this issue?
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Reading these comments make me throw away any ideas I had about chess being an intellectual pastime. So many chess players are republican retards it’s very disturbing.
stop global scamming
Evil wins
Sarah goes back to Alaska
God Bless the USA
Interesting that the GOP comments here discuss Obama, his policies, his ideas, his history, while the DEM comments here tend to be nasty, ad hominem attacks on those who made GOP-leaning comments. Yes, Obama is likely to win, and I fear what will come is:
1. a crackdown on dissent (efforts to shut down talk radio, destroy people who ask hard questions [like Joe the Plumber and the new anchor in Orlando that interviewed Joe Biden], and savaging of political opponents (like Sarah Palin);
2. Huge increases in economy-busting taxes and gov’t spending;
3. Bankrupting of many companies by excessive new regulation combined with sky-high tax rates (e.g., Obama said he’d make it impossible to open a new coal-fired plant);
4. Unemployment jumping to double digits as companies go belly up and the “spread the wealth” disincentive to work is felt by the middle class;
5. any criticism of Obama will be cast as “racist”, and the thought police will tear apart dissenters like wolves.
6. Hugo Chavez, Castros, Ahmedinijad, Putin, etc. will have a field day knowing that they have a friend (or at least a patsy) in the White House.
I’m not a Republican because I’m rich. I’m a Republican because I didn’t want to sit around on my butt waiting for the government to rescue me. That attitude is how I got rich.
Obama has “the ability to attract capable people”?! You mean like Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Rashid Khalidi, Jeremiah Wright, Father Pfleger, ACORN, Gamaliel, Annenberg Project, etc.? Frightening that these folks may soon get their advocate in the Oval Office.
If Obama wins it will be because enough people “felt” instead of “thought,” indulged their bigotries, and somehow concluded the presidency is the kind of job that doesn’t require experience.
OBAMA HAS THE SUPPORT OF LOUIS FARAKHAN,IRAN,VENEZUELA,CUBA,AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA.
WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU.BEWARE!!!!!
Anybody who doesn’t vote for obama is a racist
1. What’s wrong with socialism, it works fine in Europe.
2. McCain was born in Panama.
3. Obama was friends with a guy who bombed civilians. McCain personally bombed civilians and sat in a Vietnam jail for it.
4. Obama is young and rational, McCain is old and angry.
5. 99% of KKK members would vote for McCain.
1. What’s wrong with socialism, it works fine in Europe.
2. McCain was born in Panama.
3. Obama was friends with a guy who bombed civilians. McCain personally bombed civilians and sat in a Vietnam jail for it.
4. Obama is young and rational, McCain is old and angry.
5. 99% of KKK members would vote for McCain
Six stupid comments in a row is not the record, please continue lol!
Please read my post Why I am Voting for McCain.
And for all of you foreign GM’s, IM’s, WGM’s, and WIM’s who have come to the United States, let me ask you, “Why did you come to America, which has no chess culture to compare to Europe and Russia?”
Then think on this: 0bama wants to make the United States into the country you left.
Anonymous and 12:04, you are a bald-faced liar.
The Republicans cannot say anything about Obama’s policies. They can only repeat disproven smears about his character and background.
As many people on here have noted,
the political commentary on chess sites absolutely disproves the notion that chess is an intellectual endeavor.
I find it baffling that people consider Obama’s tax plan to be “socialist.” The tax plan he propses reduces the income tax rate for anyone making under $250K per year, and increases the tax of those making more than $250K per year to the same level that would result if one were to simply allow the Bush tax cuts to expire… as they are scheduled to do anyway in 2010 barring any extension . How on earth is this “Socialist?” Indeed, how is progressive taxation “Socialist?”
McCain himself is on record defending, in 2000, the idea that “When you reach a certain level of comfort, there’s nothing wrong with paying somewhat more’.” So was McCain then a Socialist?
The marginal top income tax rates in 1959, under Eisenhower, were an apalling 91%! Was the USA a “Socialist” country in 1959?
This meme is very strange to me. It’s simple name calling at beast.
Barack Obama’s tax plan will dash the dreams of Americans and their children. Barack Obama is for bigger government and he’s going to raise your taxes.
I suppose then that presiding over the largest increase in the federal debt in history (as George W. Bush has) will not, similarly, dash the dreams of America’s children. It is they who will be paying the bills. Consider that, under the last 2 years of the Clinton presidency, the debt was being paid down.
I will vote for Sarah Palin…
Anonymous 12:07,
I’m a Democrat because I think for myself, instead of letting silly slogans guide my political decisions.
History shows two things conclusively:there is more job growth and more economic growth under Democratic administrations.
Any intelligent person who can look more than 2 years in the future will reject the Republican model of infinite debt expansion and vote for someone who is at least not crazy on economics issues.
Tell us another joke.