Mind you, these “protestors” are pro-Russia and anti-Georgia. They want Georgia to be subsumed by the Soviet Union Russia.
People stand while wearing gas masks as a man holds a portrait of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama in the background during an opposition rally in Tbilisi November 7, 2008. More than 10,000 Georgian opposition supporters rallied on Friday against President Mikheil Saakashvili, piling pressure on his government after its crushing military defeat by Russia.
Meanwhile, Obama refuses to comment on supporting the missile defense system in Poland and Russia is ramping up for war.
President-elect Obama has spoken to the president of Poland about relations between the two countries but didn't make a commitment on the multibillion-dollar missile defense program undertaken by the Bush administration, an Obama aide said Saturday.
Poland as part of a shield against possible missile attacks from Iran.
A missile shield set up so close to its borders has been a sore point with Russia and has served as another dent in its battered relationship with the U.S.
On Wednesday, the day after Obama's election, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev threatened to move short range nuclear missiles to Russia's borders with NATO allies even as the U.S. offered new proposals on nuclear arms reductions as well as missile defense. Allowing Russian observers at planned missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic were among them, U.S. officials said.
Sure Russia. Just wait until America shock and awes you with hope and change.
Now I consider myself pretty much in the loop, and I haven't heard anything about any "Obama affair" smear. I question the agenda behind this article. Seems like a planted write-up designed to cast Obama as the persecuted victim.
Barack Obama is the target of a shadowy smear campaign designed to derail his bid for the US Presidency by falsely claiming he had a close friendship with an attractive African-American female employee.
The whispers focus on a young woman who in 2004 was hired to work on his team for his bid to become a senator.
The woman was purportedly sidelined from her duties after Senator Obama’s wife, Michelle, became convinced that he had developed a personal friendship with her.
The allegations were initially circulated in August, just two weeks before the convention at which Obama finally beat his opponent for the Democratic Party nomination, Hillary Clinton.
The woman, now 33, vigorously denies the vicious and unsubstantiated gossip.
And some Washington insiders suggested that she was the victim of an 11th-hour attempt to smear Obama by die-hard Hillary supporters.
But now the rumours have resurfaced, suggesting that they may be coming from elements in the Republican Party.
‘They said she was removed from her position and the political scene because Michelle got wind of the fact that she had a close friendship with her husband,’ the source said. ‘She disappeared, then she reappeared in the Caribbean.’
The Mail on Sunday located the woman in the Caribbean, where she now works. She denied that Mrs Obama had raised any objections to her job on the 2004 campaign.
‘No,’ she said. ‘Nothing happened. I just left ... at the end of the campaign.’
"Shadowy smear campaign"? The only thing "shadowy" is this limey's attempt to create sympathy for Obama and cast Republicans as the victim.
Obama's "spiritual mentor" sinks further into the abyss. This story by the New York Post:
He almost wrecked Barack Obama's presidential dreams, and now firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker's marriage - and her job, The Post has learned.
Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had a steamy sexual affair with the controversial, racially divisive man of the cloth while she was an executive assistant at a church headed by a popular Wright protégé.
When word of the unholy alliance got out, Payne's husband dumped her, and she was canned from the plum job at Friendship-West Baptist Church, she told The Post.
"I was involved with Rev. Wright, and that's why I lost my job and why my husband divorced me," Payne said.
She refused to reveal when the adulterous affair started or how she met Wright.
But fellow churchgoers at Friendship-West "found out about the affair in the spring," Payne said.
At the time, she was secretary to the Rev. Frederick Haynes III, a longtime Wright disciple.
In April, Payne organized a series of Texas public appearances by Wright, 67. Weeks before, Obama had disavowed his preacher of 20 years after Wright's anti-government rants came to light.
"Liz was by Rev. Wright's side day and night during those days," a church source said.
"It's all true," said Payne, adding that she has filed a wrongful-dismissal claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to get her job back.
In an ironic twist, Wright last night spoke at an East Orange, NJ, church revival on the subject of "unexpected problems."
"There's no such thing as a problem-free relationship," he told a packed Elmwood United Presbyterian Church. "In life, you'll have unexpected problems."
He punctuated his 45-minute sermon with evocative 1960s hits, including the Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go," Frankie Beverley's "Joy and Pain," and the Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg." He's set to speak there again tonight.
Payne's husband, Fred Payne, 64, said he learned of the affair in late February, when he discovered e-mails between his wife and Wright.
"There must have been about 80 of them, back and forth," he said. "Wright said things like he was going to leave his wife for Elizabeth."
Wright has been married to his second wife, Ramah, for more than 20 years.
The preacher reportedly wooed Ramah away from her first husband in the 1980s, when the couple came to marriage counseling at Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
After discovering he had been cuckolded, Fred Payne, who had married Elizabeth in October 2006, headed straight for divorce court.
"I was downright mad about this bull- - - -," said Fred, who said he is "in the oil and gas business," belongs to a hunting club and makes his own bullets in his garage.
"People wouldn't be happy to know that my wife was sleeping with a black man."
He added, "Rev. Haynes doesn't like the interracial thing, either. This was quite an issue for him."
Elizabeth Payne said she has been banished by Haynes and the flock at Friendship-West.
"I'm not a member of the congregation anymore; I'm not even allowed on the premises," she said.
Wright became an embarrassment for Obama after videos of the preacher's old sermons emerged.
In them, Wright blamed the United States for the 9/11 attacks and boomed, "God damn America!"
Of course, she could just be a nut job. But this sorta fits the template no?
We've reported before about the relationship between racist Catholic Priest and supreme wigger Father Michael Pfleger:
Obama says he reads the Bible, though not as regularly as he'd like, now that he's on the campaign trail. But he does find time to pray.
"It's not formal, me getting on my knees," he says. "I think I have an ongoing conversation with God.... I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why I am doing it.
"The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass."
Friends and advisers, such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the Auburn- Gresham community on the South Side, who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help him keep that compass set, he says.
And we've certainly offered many examples of the raging racist priest. Well, he's at it again. This from yesterday:
A wildly cheering crowd at St. Sabina Catholic church recently welcomed back Father Michael Pfleger. The activist Catholic priest, who was suspended over remarks made about the presidential run of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, returned to the pulpit of his south side parish after a near two-week suspension.
“I will not let my faults or imperfections cause me to run and hide, nor allow them to cause me to play it safe or become silent,” Father Pfleger told a spirited standing room only audience. The sanctuary was so packed some congregants had to sit in the lobby. Applause was constant during the 10 a.m. mass that ended at noon.
He thanked the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and other leaders for words of encouragement and assured parishioners he remained “committed to the gospel of justice.”
Yet another example of keeping it real gone wrong.
According to sources, Trita Parsi who worked for the corrupt Congressman Bob Ney, and is protected by the likes of Brzezinski is said to be advising Obama on Iran!
I heard this news yesterday from anonymous sources close to Iran Press News...
Here's a story we reported exactly a month ago about Obama receiving counseling phone calls from rabid racist Father Michael Pfleger.
In the aftermath of having a public spat with his mentor, Jeremiah Wright, Barak Obama it seems has turned to yet another hatemongering religious man for counsel.
CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports Obama felt betrayed and Wright felt sand-bagged. Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church said he has been speaking to both men as the events of the past 24 hours unfolded.
He counseled Obama Tuesday morning, and while CBS 2 talked to him Tuesday evening, Rev. Wright called his cell phone.
"I don't think he had any intention to hurt Barack. He loves Barack," Pfleger said. "I think the pain and the moment took over."
Who is Father Michael Pfleger? Here he is...
And in case you missed it, here's what we reported yesterday...
Just a reminder...Obama is still a proud member of this church...
Said Obama about the NEW pastor Moss and his congregation of racists...
"Well, you know, the new pastor – the young pastor, Rev. Otis Moss, is a wonderful young pastor. And as I said, I still very much value the Trinity community,"
In September 2002 Pfleger led a rally at the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago condemning the Israeli army's recent destruction of Yasser Arafat's compound in the city of Ramallah.
In January 2003 Pfleger invited singer Harry Belafonte to be a guest speaker at a Sunday Mass at Saint Sabina. During his talk, Belafonte blamed America for the events of 9/11: "We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it -- look at 9/11. [That] wasn't just bin Laden. Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy." Belafonte also used the occasion to criticize President George W. Bush for allegedly threatening every "woman's right to abortion." (It should be noted that the Chicago Archdiocese has had a longstanding policy explicitly forbidding the use of Church property, under any circumstances, by pro-abortion advocates. Moreover, the Church's canon law requires that only Catholic clergy be permitted to preach during Catholic Mass. Pfleger's invitation to Belafonte violated both of these restrictions.)
Other pro-choice (vis a vis abortion) advocates whom Pfleger (who describes himself as "pro-life") has invited to be guest speakers at his church include Barack Obama, Louis Farrakhan, and Al Sharpton.
In February 2003 the Marxist professor Cornel West appeared, at Pfleger's invitation, as a guest speaker at Saint Sabina.
On another occasion, Pfleger invited Kareem Irfan, former Chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, to speak at Saint Sabina on the fourth anniversary of 9/11. A member of the Islamic Society of North America, Irfan has characterized Islamic beheadings of non-Muslims not as acts of evil, but rather as manifestations of "a primordial sense of retaliation and revenge."
Pfleger has had a longstanding friendly relationship (since the late 1980s) with Barack Obama and has played a significant role as a spiritual advisor for the latter. Between 1995 and 2001, Pfleger contributed a total of $1,500 to Obama's various political campaigns -- including a $200 donation in April 2001, approximately three months after Obama (who was then an Illinois State Senator) had announced $225,000 in grants to St. Sabina programs.
Pfleger is also a great admirer of Louis Farrakhan: "I've known the minister [Farrakhan] both as someone who I have great respect for as a prophetic voice, as a mentor but also as a friend and as a brother," said Pfleger. "We've become very close friends over the years. Our families have been close; he's shared dinner at my house as I have at his many, many times. He has preached from our pulpit here at this church on three different occasions. We've worked together on issues not only for this community but in the city and in the nation."
Further, as late as April 2, 2008, Father Pfleger's endorsement of Obama was on Obama's official campaign website. Due to the quick thinking associates of Obama, however, the smoking gun was eliminated. But not quick enough to prevent a vigilant conservative blogger from capturing this screenshot before Obama removed the endorsement from his website:
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A quick digression...Something I just found. Perhaps you recall Obama's attempt to explain his worship under racist Reverend Jerimiah Wright by stating that he was never in church when Wright said anything racist or anti-American? In that same 2004 Chicago Sun Times article I mentioned above, Obama stated the following:
"It wasn't an epiphany," he says of that public profession of faith. "It was much more of a gradual process for me. I know there are some people who fall out. Which is wonderful. God bless them.... I think it was just a moment to certify or publicly affirm a growing faith in me."
These days, he says, he attends the 11 a.m. Sunday service at Trinity in the Brainerd neighborhood every week-- or at least as many weeks as he is able. His pastor, Wright, has become a close confidant.
I reckon his crazy old uncle just waited for the Sundays Obama slept in to get his hate on? But anyway, back on point. In that same Chicago Sun Times article, Pfleger's relationship with Obama was explained:
Obama says he reads the Bible, though not as regularly as he'd like, now that he's on the campaign trail. But he does find time to pray.
"It's not formal, me getting on my knees," he says. "I think I have an ongoing conversation with God.... I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why I am doing it.
"The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass."
Friends and advisers, such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the Auburn- Gresham community on the South Side, who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help him keep that compass set, he says.
Pfleger as his moral compass setter? His and Obama's words, not mine. I can just hear Obama's spin on this already. He'll just say he had his ears closed when Pfleger was advising him. Or his fingers crossed. And his supporters will be cool with that?
UPDATE: Something else I just found....It was just 3 weeks ago that Michelle Obama was touting Obama's "moral compass":
Michelle Obama, making an early campaign foray for her husband in the state with the nation’s first presidential primary, praised her husband Monday for having a “moral compass” and contended that quality counts more than the “experience” on which many of his Democratic rivals are basing their campaigns.
Well...Now we know what "moral compass she was referring to...
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