Two Sites You MUST Visit in 2008

Make sure you know the truth about what the candidates are saying, and what they stand for. These are non-partisan sites that will help you understand who you're voting for, no matter the party.

Bill Clinton's latest lies about Obama come to mind...man, I hold him in high regard as one of the best Presidents in the last few decades, but his attack dog role for Hillary is really making him look sleazy...

http://www.factcheck.org - Learn the truth about what all the candidates are saying.

http://www.ontheissues.org/ - Learn what the candidates stances on the issues are before you vote.

The Latest Right Wing Attack on Obama

Both I and my friends have been working to correct some of the vicious misinformation that's been floating around right-wing blogs and email forwards. The latest rounds involve charging Barack as an anti-white racist, and spreading the lie that he's a Muslim.

FactCheck.org is a service I've subscribed to for years to keep politicians and organizations on both sides of the aisle honest, and exposing them when they aren't.

The latest article from FactCheck addresses both of the latest anti-Obama misinformation campaigns:

If these two nasty e-mail messages are any indication, the 2008 presidential campaign is becoming a very dirty one.

One claims that Obama is "certainly a racist" by virtue of belonging to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, which it says "will accept only black parishoners" and espouses a commitment to Africa. Actually, a white theology professor says he's been "welcomed enthusiastically" at the church, as have other non-blacks.

Another e-mail claims that Obama "is a Muslim," attended a "Wahabi" school in Indonesia, took his Senate oath on the Koran, refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and is part of an Islamic plot to take over the U.S. Each of these statements is false.

These false appeals to bigotry and fear remind us of the infamous whispering campaign of eight years ago, when anonymous messages just before the South Carolina primary falsely accused Republican candidate John McCain of fathering an illegitimate child by a black woman.

Check out the full article for much more information, and when you hear or read people spreading false claims and lies about candidates on either side of the aisle, please step up and fight it with truth.

Barock the House

Here is Barack Obama's victory speech in Iowa.

He says in this speech that one day we'll look back at Iowa as where it all began, but if you really want to see where it all began, read his books: Dreams of my Father, and The Audacity of Hope.

Then watch his speech at the 2004 Democratic convention. (Part 1, Part 2)

Barack Obama Wins Iowa Primary

This is fantastic! I can't wait for February when I can cast my vote for him in the TN primary. The moment I saw him speak at the Democratic convention in 2004, I knew he'd be President one day.

It's happening faster than I thought (I hope anyway), but he's the right guy at the right time to heal this country and re-establish our standing in the world.

Funny story: Over the holidays at a family-in-law gathering, an in-law came up and we started talking about the candidates, and after I said I supported Barack, and have since before his run for the Senate in IL, he asked how I could reconcile the fact that Obama is a Muslim...

Wow did that take me aback. Sure, I don't think the world, or the Muslim religion for that
matter, is ready for a Muslim leader of the free world. Until the fundamental and extremist portions of Islam can join us in the 21st Century, we all know this couldn't happen. It'll be hard enough for Mitt Romney to get elected as a Mormon, and ask me how thrilled I am at the prospect of Huckabee mobilizing the evangelicals ala 2000 and 2004...

Religious and cultural aspects aside, I simply said, "Oh, that's easy: he's not. He's a Christian and has been involved in his church for years."

It was an awkward moment, but one that proves that hayseed America will believe whatever their talking heads tell them...