438 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography‘cause what you talking I hear nothing even relevant
and you the worst of all 43 presidents
Get out and vote or the end will be near
The world is ready for change because Obama is here!
‘cause Obama is here
The world is ready for change because Obama is here!
Obama’s campaign attempted to distance itself from Obama’s friend Ludacris by issuing a statement,
while Barky himself said nothing. Experienced observers were watching for a statement beginning, “This is
not the Ludacris I knew.”
(http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/07/obama_ludacris_bff.html)
(^180) http://www.progressive.org/?q=mag_reed0508&disqus_reply=488404#comment-488404
(^181) http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/2008/02/the-bailout-ban.html
(^182) The wall of silence in the national media was all the more grotesque since the Chicago media had not been
able to ignore the three deaths: ‘CHICAGO (CBS) ― Activists fear gay African-Americans are being targeted
for murder. Two openly gay men were killed recently on the South Side, as CBS 2’s Mike Parker reports.
African-American gay and lesbian groups are talking about the murders of two openly gay Black men in the
past month. On November 17, 24-year-old Larry Bland was shot to death in his Englewood home. Bland, a
security guard at Northwestern Hospital was shot more than once after struggling with a man who had entered
the house through an unlocked basement door. Then on December 23, 47-year-old Donald Young, the choir
director at Trinity United Church of Christ, was shot multiple times in his South Side apartment. His
roommate found his body. “We’re calling on the police department to let the community know what’s going
on,” said Marc Loveless of the Coalition for Justice and Respect. “Are we under attack? Is this a serial
killer?” Chicago Police Department Acting Sept. Dana Starks said, “I understand the concerns of any group,
any community when it comes to homicide. As of right now, I cannot say whether there is a connection.” The
media services director of the church where Donald Young taught and led the choir, said, “Young did live an
openly gay lifestyle; that was his choice.” But she went on to call the Loveless statement, “self-serving.” She
also said the police are doing everything they can. The brother of victim Larry Bland says if the murder was a
hate crime, he would not be surprised. “Englewood? Come on. That’s why a lot of gay guys won’t come out,
because they fear for something like this to happen,” said Bland’s brother, Lynn. Starks says that “at this
time” there is no evidence the murders were hate crimes. But he told CBS 2, the investigations are still
underway.(Mike Parker, “African-American Gay Community Scared Over Deaths,” CBS2 Chicago, Dec 27,
2007)
(^183) “Margins of Error: Obama’s Shrinking Map,“
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/08/obama%e2%80%99s-flawed-race-strategy-why-the-black-vote-
won%e2%80%99t-be-enough/
(^184) http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/25/partial-transcript-ralph-naders-comments/
(^185) http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/21/barack-obama-gaffe-machine/
(^186) http://www.theamericanmind.com/2008/05/24/too-much-sunshine-or-was-that-sunrise/
(^187) http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=65449
(^188) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072302903.html
(^189) http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/18/magazines/fortune/easton_obama.fortune/index.htm?
postversion=2008061810
(^190) Clinton needed to say something like this: “I represent a clear majority of the Democratic Party primary
voters. This majority must rule, and will rule, despite what a discredited gaggle of unelected and
unaccountable party bosses and machine hacks may decree. The infamy and moral insanity of today’s
meeting of the Rules Committee shows that the Democratic National Committee has been seized by an
illegitimate insurgent group intent on carrying out a coup d’état. The Democratic National Committee has