Obama’s grandmother dies at 86 November 4, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama hugs his grandmother Madelyn Payne Dunham during his 1979 high school graduation in Hawaii.

On the eve of the election, Barack Obama announced the death of his grandmother, who helped raise him and who he praised as the cornerstone of his family.

The Democratic presidential candidate announced the news in a joint statement with his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng. He said his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, 86, had died peacefully at home in Honolulu after a battle with cancer.

Obama learned of her death while campaigning in Jacksonville, Fla. He planned to go ahead with campaign appearances. Late last month, Obama took a break from campaigning and flew to Hawaii to be with his grandmother, whom he called Toot, a variation of “tutu,” Hawaiian for “grandmother.”

The Obama Nation November 2, 2008

 The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality is a controversial bestselling book by Jerome Corsi intended by its author to oppose Barack Obama’s candidacy for President of the United States.^[1] The book alleges Obama’s “extreme leftism”, “extensive connections with Islam and radical politics”, “naïve…foreign policy”, past drug use and connections to corrupt backers, among other things.^[2] The book has been criticized for containing factual errors,^{[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} as being racially charged,^[10][11][8] and as being a political “attack book” containing smears, falsehoods, and innuendo.^{[12][13][14][15]} FactCheck described the book as “a mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods.”^[16]

Content See also: Early life and career of Barack Obama

Corsi said his purpose in writing the book was to “defeat” Obama in the 2008 United States presidential election.^[1] In the book, he recounts Barack Obama’s upbringing and early political career in Chicago and argues that Obama is an “extreme leftis[t]” who should not be elected president. The book claims to document “Obama’s extensive connections with Islam and radical politics”, his “religious affiliation with … black-liberation theology”, and his associations with controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright, fundraiser Tony Rezko,^[9] and radical activists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, formerly of the Weather Underground.^[2] The book also argues that Obama supports “far-left domestic policy” and “naïve … foreign policy predicated on the reduction of the military”, and that he is therefore unsuitable to be the President of the United States.^[2]

The Case Against Barack Obama November 2, 2008

The Case Against Barack Obama : Author David Freddoso

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The Case Against Barack Obama, by author David Freddoso, is a bestselling book examining the life and opinions of United States presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama. Freddoso is a political reporter for the website of the conservative magazine National Review. The subtitle of the book, published by Regnery Publishing, is “The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate”.

Freddoso said in an August 2008 interview that the book as an attempt to address what he sees as two wrong ways of considering Obama as a presidential candidate. The author wanted to counter those, including those in the news media, who look on Obama uncritically, and to do so in a way different from those who “are smearing him on the Internet for supposedly being a secret Muslim or supposedly not saluting the flag”.^[1] The book harshly criticizes Obama over policy matters, according to Ben Smith, a writer at The Politico. For the most part, the book is drawn from previously published sources, although Freddoso does do some original reporting.^[2]

20 Second Interview: A Few Words with Barack Obama November 1, 2008

Q: How did writing a book that you knew would be read so closely by so many compare to writing your first book, when few people knew who you were?
A: In many ways, Dreams from My Father was harder to write. At that point, I wasn’t even sure that I could write a book. And writing the first book really was a process of self-discovery, since it touched on my family and my childhood in a much more intimate way. On the other hand, writing The Audacity of Hope paralleled the work that I do every day–trying to give shape to all the issues that we face as a country, and providing my own personal stamp on them.

Q: What is your writing process like? You have such a busy schedule, how did you find time to write?
A: I’m a night owl, so I usually wrote at night after my Senate day was over, and after my family was asleep–from 9:30 p.m. or so until 1 a.m. I would work off an outline–certain themes or stories that I wanted to tell–and get them down in longhand on a yellow pad. Then I’d edit while typing in what I’d written.

Great Book! November 1, 2008

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The Essential Barack Obama: The Grammy Award-Winning Recordings [ABRIDGED

By	NinaE “Music Lover” (Jefferson County, Colorado USA)

Great audiobook! I really enjoyed it. Great motivator and a wonderful speaker. Very inspirational. There’s nothing negative in his writings. Only inspiration and hope. Hope for all people. I’m very selective when it comes to what I feed my brain and my children. There’s no negative and/or hate messages in his writings. I don’t know what else to say. Just read and judge for yourself. I’m not a tabloid or front page reader. You might say I’m from the show me state. I had to do the research to find out the truth. I respect, but I can’t agree with the review I just read. That’s why I got the books and did the research. Man is imperfect….it’s God I worship. I’m first and far most a member of the Democratic Party. That’s where my focus is. This is a very important time in our lives and no matter who gets to run in November on the Democratic ticket, I will support them. Out with the present damaged government and let’s work together towards a new one that’s cares about it’s people. Be careful, if you’re a Democrat, not to make statements that may damage the party due to the “favorite game”.

Barack Obama Halloween Mask October 31, 2008

Hillary vs. Obama Only Time Will Tell! October 31, 2008

The main dominant figures in today’s elections that will define the following president in America history are Hillary Clinton from New-York and Barack Obama from Illinois .

According to the latest results of votes Clinton won in 3 states: New-Hampshire, Nevada and Michigan , but Obama in Iowa and in the South Carolina . This election campaign looks like more battle than a race between these 2 candidates.

With aggressive attitude to his wife’s rival the former president of the US Bill Clinton aggravates political atmosphere more and more. Behaving this way, he also blackens Hillary’s reputation in the eyes of voters. People become irritated because of his coarse interfering in Hillary’s election campaign.

For example, while talking with Edward Kennedy on the phone, Bill Clinton even raised his voice trying to dictate that Edward should be in neutral attitude to Obama.

The 10 Worst Barack Obama, John McCain, and Sarah Palin Halloween Costumes October 31, 2008

We scoured the Internet to find this year’s hottest Halloween costumes and predictably political costumes featuring versions of Barack Obama, John McCain, and Sarah Palin are everywhere. However, not everywhere Barack Obama costume represents change we can believe in, not every John McCain costume looks Penguin enough, and not every Sarah Palin costume is worthy of the VPILF. So we decided to compile this list of the 10 Worst Barack Obama, John McCain, and Sarah Palin Halloween Costumes (with a special bonus list at the end of the four best Halloween costumes!). Oh, and in case you’re wondering – nobody wants to be Joe Biden. Enjoy the list…

The 10 Worst Barack Obama, John McCain, and Sarah Palin Halloween Costumes

Amazon.com Files Obama Mask As A Terrorist Costume October 31, 2008

I had heard from a friend that searching on Amazon.com for “terrorist costume” would yield but one costume — a Barack Obama mask.

Figuring it was a joke, I had to try it for myself. After entering “terrorist costume” in to the “Apparel & Accessories” search box at Amazon, however, the search results were less than funny. Sure enough, there was but one result, a Barack Obama mask Buy Now!

Can Halloween Masks Predict Next President? October 30, 2008

Costume Company Says It’s Been Picking Victors

BOSTON — It may sound spooky, but a national Halloween costume retailer says it can predict the outcome of the presidential election based on the number of candidate masks it sells.

 Spirit Halloween said it has picked the winner in the past three presidential elections days before the general election results were in, WCVB-TV in Boston reported.

 The Spirit Halloween Presidential Index measures sales of the masks, and in 2004, sales were 65 percent to 35 percent for George W. Bush over John Kerry.