Free Speech, the Obama Campaign, and the Washington Post

Describing his grandfather in Dreams (p17), Obama writes: "In his only skirmish into organized religion, he would enroll the family in the local Unitarian Universalist congregation...."

"skirmish"? Joining a church congregation is a battle? What does this say about Obama's own view of organized religion that he would describe it in those terms? Maybe that being a member of TUCC was just a strategic act? Or maybe that when writing Dreams he had a thesaurus nearby and, looking for a word other than "encounter" picked a word from the list without looking it up in the dictionary.
I would have suggested "foray" until I looked it up and saw that it meant a quick raid for the purpose of taking plunder.
Perhaps more Americans should read his book. He reveals more about himself than he realizes, little of it good.

Obama, the MSM and the left seek to utterly shelter Obama from any scrutiny. They don't care one whisp about this nation. Power, only power and enacting socialism. Spread the misery.
The MSM parrots, like Chris Mathews are nothing more then mean little men who, if you think about it, have never produced anything. Obama has done what? Has he produced anything? Run a business? Taken risk? Managed a company? Hired employees? Served as a Commander? What exactly, SOMEONE?, qualifies this man to lead this nation? They call Bush a idiot? He managed Texas? He had some record governing. Even the dolt Carter had been a Governor but Obama? He is nothing more than another useless career politician. The Messiah is just another empty suit manufactured by the media.

Consider the source. They must protect their precious little messiah at all costs, even to the truth. Like I said Barry Hussein's Campaign song should be "Cult of Personality" by In Living Color. Come to think of it "welcome to the Machine" by Pink Floyd fits, too.

"To that end, Mosk implies I was wrong to state in 2007 that Obama was 'Raised in Muslim lands and educated in Muslim schools.'"

Obama was not educated in Muslim schools.

Yes, that's a smear.

Mr. Walden - a very interesting and informative article. I hope you are able to draw broad attention with it.

It's critically important that the American public get as much information about both candidates as is possible in order that they might make an informed choice. Unfortunately, your experience with one WaPo writer is magnified a thousand-fold with all the commentators, reporters and editorialists in the MSM who have a strong pro-Obama bias which prevents them from just doing the job of presenting facts for "plain folk" to use to make up their own minds. The whole process speaks to an elitist belief held by the MSM that "plain folk" are in some way incapable of choosing properly, and thus need to be guided by those of superior intellect and understanding.

Obama's mother's original Social Security Number Application

www.webofdeception.co

Lance Donovan writes:
"'To that end, Mosk implies I was wrong to state in 2007 that Obama was 'Raised in Muslim lands and educated in Muslim schools.'

"Obama was not educated in Muslim schools.

"Yes, that's a smear."

WRONG.

Obama's Senate website says:

"Obama lived in Indonesia as a child, from 1967 to 1971, with his mother and stepfather and has acknowledged attending a Muslim school, but an aide said it was not a madrassa."

http://obama.senate.gov/press/070123-debunked_insigh/

Mr Donovan has demonstrated how the Obama campaign effort against "smears" is already making some people reject simple facts.

We cannot mention the Messiah's middle name, we cannot point out His laughable ignorance of geography (57 states?), we cannot point out the fact that the vast majority of blacks who voted in the Democrat primaries voted for Him, we cannot talk about His inexperience and poor judgement, we cannot talk about His racist preacher of 20 years, we cannot mention His association with a still-bloodthirsty Bill Ayers, we cannot talk about His embittered not-clinging-to-G*d-and-guns wife who routinely gives campaign speeches, we cannot point out His flip-flops on public campaign financing, gun control, FISA, the Iraq War, etc. - the list of Forbidden Topics is growing daily.

Daily the Messiah growing more and more like Robert Mugabe - and He is not even in power yet.

¨...polls show the number of voters who mistakenly believe Obama is a Muslim rose..."

Is this like an American Beauty?

'According to one 2007 poll, as many as 62% of Americans believe it was very likely or somewhat likely the federal government allowed 9-11 to happen.'

The Clinton Admin did. By reducing the USAF and buying too few jets, it has left the US with too few planes to protect the entire American territory. On 9/11, while many wings were doing operations, the USAF had only 14 jets to protect the entire American territory, from Hawaii to Georgia, from Alaska to Florida. FY2001 defense spending was at the lowest level since 1948 - 2.9% of GDP. America cannot be defended cheaply. The USAF must be given enough cash to order 1000 additional fighterplanes NOW.

In 2000, then-USAF Chief of Staff Mike Ryan asked for an extra $25 bn per year. He didn't receive even one extra cent.

Clinton was offered OBL's head on a plate 3 times by Sudan. He refused these 3 offers. Clinton could've acted against OBL as early as 1993, anyway. He did not. The blood of the 3000 Americans who died on 9/11 is on his hands. May he rot in hell forever.

This one military veteran is disappointed to see his religion (Unitarian Universalism) being used as an insult on a conservative blog site.

My religion promotes self-worth, justice, democracy, and concern for others as part of our core values.

I'm surprised to see that these core values that are shared by most Americans would be twisted into a political negative to attack a political candidate.

I do find it interesting that every person who receives an unsubstantiated email that says something negative about a candidate and then forwards it along to others without fact-checking first may be violating the Ten Commandments ("bearing false witness against one's neighbor").

Free speech notwithstanding -- it's unethical to lie about another person.

Pray tell, where does the Bible go on at length about "self-worth" and "democracy"?

I am not quite sure how Andrew Walden is using Unitarian*Universalism as an "insult" in his article. He asks, "Why would Obama want to hide his grandparents' Unitarian connection?" and then goes on to suggest that Obama's alleged "hiding" of his grandfather's connection to the pre-UUA Unitarian church in the late 1950s might be because the East Shore Unitarian Church in Bellevue, WA was called "The Little Red Church on the Hill" because of its left-leaning politics and the fact that one of its leaders testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee about his membership in the Communist Party. Is this an insult or simply a statement of fact? As recently as last year The Oregonian called the Unitarian*Universalist Association "The Church of the Far Left" in a report about the 2007 UUA GA that was held in Portland, Oregon. It was talking about the whole U*U "religious community" not just one single U*U "church". Unitarian*Universalists quite happily refer to U*Uism as "the religious arm of the Democratic Party" so how is it an "insult" for anyone to point out that at least some U*Us lean somewhat farther to the left than the Democratic Party?

I do not know a lot about the Unitarian Church in the 1950's but, judging from what I have seen, it seems reasonable to believe that a good number of Unitarians were socialists and that some were either card-carrying members of the Communist Party or Communist sympathizers to some degree. Even today there is evidence that suggests that a certain number of Unitarian*Universalists lean far enough to the left to be pretty much indistinguishable from your run-of-the-mill Marxist-Leninist. It seems to me that if Barack Obama does have "personal and family ties to members of the Communist Party", and that some of these "ties" are linked to his mother's and grandfather's past membership in the East Shore Unitarian Church in Bellevue, Washington, aka "The Little Red Church on the Hill", that this is not so much an "insult" as a matter of provable (or refutable. . .) fact. In fact I expect that a certain number of Unitarian*Universalists would not perceive this as an "insult" at all but rather something to take pride in. Even Mr. Walker seems to believe that standing up to McCarthyism is something to be proud of rather than hide.

Mr. Waldon - great article - just the facts - Obama dosen't like facts because they lead to the truth.

Steve Caldwell,
Have you written the Obama campaign. He was the one who brought it up. Is no one allowed to follow up on his words? Another topic banned from discussion even though the words come from Obama himself?

Welcome to the wonderful world of Political Correctness (what THEY say is correct). This is nothing new, just the same old thing taken to extremes. Look at the Globull Alarming "concensus", the "stolen" 2000 election, the already mentioned "illegal" war, gun control, anything with racial overtones when spoken by someone not black, calling terrorists what they are, etc. So the next "logical" step is to eliminate any negative discussion of the liberal's and the MSM's chosen one.

We all must do everything we can to ensure that McCain is elected in November!

Obama can try to stop the truth from spreading and so can the main stream media and the DNC, but the right wingers HAVE A DUTY to expose this fraud for who he is. I have left the DNC for forcing such a hateful, racist, and dangerous man down our throats. I pray that there are alot of other people who do the same.

I totally can't wait to read the article about his Communist ties. All of the articles here have been thought provoking and reasoned.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Political Correctness (what THEY say is correct). This is nothing new, just the same old thing taken to extremes. Look at the Globull Alarming "concensus", the "stolen" 2000 election, the already mentioned "illegal" war, gun control, anything with racial overtones when spoken by someone not black, calling terrorists what they are, etc. So the next "logical" step is to eliminate any negative discussion of the liberal's and the MSM's chosen one.