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Just last month, for example, on the eve of trial, prosecutors suffered a major setback when the judge, Lewis A. Kaplan of Federal District Court, barred them from using an important witness against Mr. Ghailani because the government had learned about the man through Mr. Ghailani’s interrogation while he was in C.I.A. custody, where his lawyers say he was tortured.
The witness, Hussein Abebe, would have testified that he had sold Mr. Ghailani the large quantities of TNT used to blow up the embassy in Dar es Salaam, prosecutors told the judge, calling him “a giant witness for the government.”
The government also chose not to introduce statements Mr. Ghailani made when he was interrogated while in C.I.A. custody and at Guantánamo, although prosecutors said the statements amounted “to a confession” of his role in the embassy plot. Defense lawyers argued that the statements had been coerced and were inadmissible.
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via Acquittal on All but One Charge for Ghailani, Ex-Detainee – NYTimes.com.
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No Surprise: Obama Uses Racist Rhetoric to Rally Black Politicians/Voters “Back Home”
WASHINGTON — President Obama implored black voters on Saturday to restoke the passion they felt for his groundbreaking campaign two years ago and turn out in force this fall to repel Republicans who are ready to “turn back the clock.”
In a fiery speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, Obama warned that Republicans hoping to seize control of Congress want “to do what’s right politically, instead of what’s right — period.”
“I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods, to go back to your workplaces, to go to the churches, and go to the barbershops and go to the beauty shops. And tell them we’ve got more work to do,” Obama said to cheers from a black-tie audience at the Washington Convention Center. “Tell them we can’t wait to organize. Tell them that the time for action is now.”
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via FOXNews.com – Obama: Black Lawmakers Must Rally Voters Back Home.
Blacks and Whites Continue to Differ Sharply on Obama
President Obama’s job approval rating averaged 88% among blacks and 38% among whites in July, a 50-percentage-point difference that has been consistent in recent months but is much larger than in the initial months of the Obama presidency. Obama’s job approval ratings among blacks, whites, and Hispanics in July are all at their lowest levels to date, although the overwhelming majority of blacks still approve.
Obama Widespread Fraud Against Hilary Clinton
Democrats with widespread and proven fraud by Obama campaign against Hilary Clinton in the Democrat primary in 2008. It seems Obama actually shouldn’t have even gotten out of the primary, let alone getting to the general election for president. This needs to be exposed.
See the extended trailer here…
Morally Bankrupt Obama Missing Historic Boy Scout Jamboree for Fundraisers, View Taping
President Obama will make history as the first sitting president on a daytime talk show when he visits with the ladies of “The View.” But he’ll be missing out on another historic occasion — the Boy Scouts’ Jamboree marking the group’s 100th anniversary, right in the president’s backyard.
FOXNews.com – Obama Missing Historic Boy Scout Jamboree for Fundraisers, View Taping.
Honestly though, as an Eagle Scout myself, I’m glad someone so anti-American isn’t going to pollute such a great occasion.
More JournOList Nonsense…
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Now the diaper is coming off entirely. Perhaps stretching the diaper metaphor too far, what’s inside JournoList may stink, but it’s no surprise that it does. JournoList e-mails obtained by the Daily Caller reveal what anybody with two neurons to rub together already knew: Professional liberals don’t like Republicans and do like Democrats. They can be awfully smug and condescending in their sense of intellectual and moral superiority. They tend to ascribe evil motives to their political opponents–sometimes even when they know it’s unfair. One obscure blogger insisted that liberals should arbitrarily demonize a conservative journalist as a racist to scare conservatives away from covering stories that might hurt Obama.
Oh, and–surprise!–it turns out that the “O” in JournoList stands for “Obama.”
In 2008, participants shared talking points about how to shape coverage to help Obama. They tried to paint any negative coverage of Obama’s racist and hateful pastor, Jeremiah Wright, as out of bounds. Journalists at such “objective” news organizations as Newsweek, Bloomberg, Time, and The Economist joined conversations with open partisans about the best way to criticize Sarah Palin.
Like an Amish community raising a barn, members of the progressive community got together to hammer out talking points. Amidst a discussion of Palin, Chris Hayes, a writer for The Nation, wrote: “Keep the ideas coming! Have to go on TV to talk about this in a few min and need all the help I can get.” Time’s Joe Klein admitted to his fellow JournoListers that he’d collected the listserv’s bric-a-brac and fashioned it into a brickbat aimed at Palin.
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Read the whole article here… Articles & Commentary.
Obama Changes Tune on Paying for Unemployment Benefits Extension – Political Hotsheet – CBS News
In two speeches over the last week, Mr. Obama argued that in the past, presidents and Congresses of both parties have treated unemployment insurance for what it is: an emergency expenditure.
“Suddenly, Republican leaders want to change that,” he said.
He portrayed Republicans as hypocrites for demanding that jobless benefits be paid for but not applying the same standard to their call for an extension of Bush Administration tax cuts that will expire this year.
“So after years of championing policies that turned a record surplus into a massive deficit, including a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, they’ve finally decided to make their stand on the backs of the unemployed,” the president said last Saturday in his radio/internet address.
But Republicans were quick to remind Mr. Obama what he said after signing a previous extension of unemployment benefits on November 6th of last year.
“Now, it’s important to note that the bill I signed will not add to our deficit. It is fully paid for, and so it is fiscally responsible,” he said.
So eight months ago, he said paying for the benefits was the right thing to do, but now he sees no need to do so.
Asked about the contradiction, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said he needed to examine what Mr. Obama said last November and would get back to this reporter. He didn’t.
Obama Changes Tune on Paying for Unemployment Benefits Extension – Political Hotsheet – CBS News.
With Obama’s Help, Planned Parenthood Eugenics Extended to Kenya
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The federal probe also found that the Kenyan constitution was not actually written by Kenyans, but by “U.S.-funded NGOs, working in concert with Planned Parenthood,” Smith said.
According to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s website, Planned Parenthood supports the Kenyan groups that wrote the abortion clause – the Kenyan Federation of Women Lawyers and its parent organization the Kenyan Reproductive Health and Rights Alliance.
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GOP Lawmaker Blasts White House for $23M Spent on Kenya Constitution Vote « Conservative Watch News.
GOP senators: Obama failing in oil clean-up – POLITICO Live – POLITICO.com
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) told “Fox News Sunday” that President Barack Obama is focusing too much on concealing the BP oil spill, rather than the clean-up.
“I’m afraid he’s decided to deal with this issue, at least politically, by not coming back here at all and trying to move it off the front page rather than dealing with the situation forcefully,” Vitter said.
Asked if he believes the president is trying to sweep the environmental catastrophe under the rug, the senator responded that he did believe that was Obama’s “political motivation.”
Vitter pointed out that Obama hasn’t visited Louisiana since June 4 – ignoring the president’s recent statement that he’d go back down to the Gulf Coast in the “next several weeks.”
GOP senators: Obama failing in oil clean-up – POLITICO Live – POLITICO.com.