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Houston Chronicle - Houston backers shell out for Obama

Barack Obama collected more than $1.5 million in campaign funding Thursday night in two Houston neighborhoods built by oil and natural gas profits while telling his audiences that America needs to liberate itself from those fuels.

Picture this: Standing on a platform just above the water level of a lighted indoor pool at a Memorial home, Obama said the nation needs to develop wind and solar energy and other alternative sources. He spoke to about 55 paying guests at candlelit, round dinner tables under skylights in the 18,000-square-foot home of John Thrash, chief of a natural gas infrastructure company, and wife Becca Cason Thrash. County appraisal district records list the home’s market value at about $5.5 million.

A very telling interview of Barack Obama talking about his faith.

It’s very telling how Obama thinks some view heaven as believing in “the harps and clouds and wings”.

Believing sin and the act of sinning is as Obama describes “Being out of alignment with my values” is more than a little disturbing and boarding on the belief system of a sociopath.

A must read is Cathleen Falsani’s 2004 interview of Barack Obama:

The Dude Abides

GG:
What do you believe?

OBAMA:
I am a Christian.
So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith.
On the other hand, I was born in Hawaii where obviously there are a lot of Eastern influences.
I lived in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, between the ages of six and 10.
My father was from Kenya, and although he was probably most accurately labeled an agnostic, his father was Muslim.
And I’d say, probably, intellectually I’ve drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith.

GG:
Who’s Jesus to you?

(He laughs nervously)

OBAMA:
Right.
Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.

GG:
Do you believe in heaven?

OBAMA:
Do I believe in the harps and clouds and wings?

GG:
A place spiritually you go to after you die?

OBAMA:
What I believe in is that if I live my life as well as I can, that I will be rewarded. I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.

When I tuck in my daughters at night and I feel like I’ve been a good father to them, and I see in them that I am transferring values that I got from my mother and that they’re kind people and that they’re honest people, and they’re curious people, that’s a little piece of heaven.

GG:
Do you believe in sin?

OBAMA:
Yes.

GG:
What is sin?

OBAMA:
Being out of alignment with my values.

GG:
What happens if you have sin in your life?

OBAMA:
I think it’s the same thing as the question about heaven. In the same way that if I’m true to myself and my faith that that is its own reward, when I’m not true to it, it’s its own punishment.

I would think that if anyone claiming to be a Christian was asked “who was Jesus” would answer that Jesus Christ was the Son of God…No?

Better Blogs Blogging:

Obama’s Faith Far From Conventional | Redstate

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On Hannity & Colmes tonight Bill Richardson said John Edwards endorsing Barack Obama is beneficial because it attracts the “White Working Class Voters” to Barack Obama.

I wonder if Richardson’s “racist” comment will get as much attention as Hillary Clinton expressing the very same sentiment about herself.

Here is just a sample of what the Obama loving main stream media had to say about a similar comment made by Hillary Clinton:

Clinton’s Racial Arson: Reactions

Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.

James Zogby: Hillary Clinton Should Address Race, Now - The Huffington Post

I say it is past time because, in recent weeks, we have seen troubling signs of a racial divide within the Democratic coalition, some of which has been fueled, whether intentionally or not, by the Clinton campaign and its surrogates.

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It’s about time the media started to look into Barack Obama’s past and his connections to “unsavory” individuals like Tony Rezo and William Ayres.

How much will Obama’s past haunt him? - Yahoo! News

The most damaging to date has been Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

Obama used the controversy to make a major speech on healing racial divides, denouncing Wright’s more controversial statements but refusing to disown the influential church leader.

Obama has also escaped much damage from his long-time friendship with political fundraiser Tony Rezko, who is currently on trial for bribery and influence peddling.

While Obama is not accused of any wrongdoing and has subsequently donated all the money raised by Rezko to charity, he is under fire for entering a land deal with the real estate developer.

Other controversial figures are more loosely linked, but still potentially damaging, such as 1960’s radical Bill Ayers who has said he does not think his group, the Weather Underground which bombed government buildings, did enough to stop the Vietnam War.

And it looks like Barack Obama’s official campaign blogger, Sam Graham, may have a hankering for some good ole’ fashion communism.

Can you judge a man by the friends he keeps?

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