DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 26, 2007

Oprah Will Join Obama On The Trail

Media Mogul Will Campaign With Democratic Candidate In Iowa, N.H. And S.C.

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    With Iowa's caucus drawing near, the 2008 presidential candidates are receiving celebrity endorsements and competing more intensely for their party's nomination. Vaughn Ververs, Sr. Political Editor for CBSNews.com, weighs in.

  • Oprah Winfrey will campaign for Barack Obama in Iowa on Saturday, Dec. 8. The following day, she'll travel to Columbia, S.C. and later that day, Obama's campaign said, she'll travel to Manchester, N.H. Photo

    Oprah Winfrey will campaign for Barack Obama in Iowa on Saturday, Dec. 8. The following day, she'll travel to Columbia, S.C. and later that day, Obama's campaign said, she'll travel to Manchester, N.H.  (CBS/AP)

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(AP)  Oprah Winfrey will join Democrat Barack Obama again on the campaign trail, this time visiting the early contest states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, the candidate's campaign said Monday.

The popular talk show host and media mogul plans to visit Iowa on Saturday, Dec. 8, with stops in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. The following day, she'll travel to Columbia, S.C. Later that day, Obama's campaign said, she'll travel to Manchester, N.H.

This isn't the first time Oprah has lent her star power to the Illinois senator.

In September, she rolled out the red carpet for Obama at a gala fundraiser in California that brought in about $3 million for his campaign.

Winfrey is a well-known fan of Obama, calling him "my favorite guy" and "my choice" on CNN's "Larry King Live" last year before he announced he would seek the presidency.

In a news release announcing the events, Obama's campaign said tickets to the Iowa events will be given first to precinct captains, then campaign volunteers, then to supporters and undecided caucus-goers.

It said volunteers can be guaranteed a ticket by completing a four-hour volunteer shift or attending local caucus training before the event.

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by realpatriot1 November 26, 2007 12:08 PM PST
Must be a best candidate thing.

Is your support of Bush a white thing?
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by pared1 November 26, 2007 12:24 PM PST
Great two people to avoid on the campaign trail.
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by borismrm November 26, 2007 12:28 PM PST
Oh, here we go again. Oprah to the rescue! I am sooo tired of Oprah (Maybe, I need to go and get Harpo to teach her a lesson?)
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by sgtrds November 26, 2007 12:28 PM PST
What I don''t understand about Oprah is why is she famous? I mean I hope Obama gets the nomination, but I know I never watch her show and I don''t know a single person that does. It seems she''s famous for being famous and nothing else. She''s a not too bad actress, though a long way from being a good one and her talk show is incredibly boring, so what''s the charm?
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by erasmus6 November 26, 2007 1:00 PM PST
"It seems she''''s famous for being famous and nothing else." posted by SgtRDS

Now that is what they say about Paris Hilton and there is a BIG difference bewtween Oprah and her. If you have just watched one or two shows then I guess that is why you have formed that opinion. If you were watching her show regularly then you would know what is so good about Oprah.


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by erasmus6 November 26, 2007 1:12 PM PST
"Oprah Winfrey will join Democrat Barack Obama again on the campaign trail..."

Okay now that is PATHETIC. What?? He must be becoming DESPERATE.

As much as I love Oprah, I believe she is making a big mistake. She can VOTE for who she wants but to actually go on the campaign trail?

I have said before that I thought she was being irresponsible because people will blindly follow her. Now that she is actually going on the campaign trail with him, I have to say that my opinion of her has dropped a little. My opinion of Obama has dropped A LOT!
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by raskal_2 November 26, 2007 1:12 PM PST
Oh come on. What is this, some kind of an "O..." campaign? How about "O"MG no...
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by marcodele November 26, 2007 1:15 PM PST
I''ll bet the Chuck Norris / Huckabee tour rakes in more dough than Winfrey / Obama.
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by mbcsmith November 26, 2007 1:28 PM PST
We had Streisand in the 90''s with her lips wrapped around Billdo''s willy and now there is Oprah hoping for that chance. NO to hollywood and politics.
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by mbcsmith November 26, 2007 1:28 PM PST
We had Streisand in the 90''s with her lips wrapped around Billdo''s willy and now there is Oprah hoping for that chance. NO to hollywood and politics.
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by papabc November 26, 2007 1:34 PM PST
Oprah is a very good reason to vote against Obama.

Course a vote for Obama is 1 vote Against the B:tch Dog Hillary. I Hate Hillary but not Obama.
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by rowdytexan2 November 26, 2007 1:42 PM PST
Sorry, Oprah, if the man can''t stand up by himself and convince me he''s the right person for the job, then what makes your appearance make him more qualified?

I applaud all of his successes. He''s a good man. But all of his experience has been in organizing within a country that is already free, and in a country that already believes in helping each other. He''s not had that much opportunity to face adversity of the kind where somebody is going to romp and stomp ALL OVER YOU! He''s just not ready.

I want a person behind my back that has looked adversity straight in the face for YEARS! And has come out even stronger then ever before.

What''s going to happen when he''s faced with all these nations the US has failed in the last eight years that want to screw us to the wall? How does he stand a chance against the neocon regime? He''s never been out and played on the big ball court. He''s only had the backing of people who obviously love him.

Stay home, Oprah and keep doing what you do best, entertaining.
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by bestprophet November 26, 2007 1:52 PM PST
HOPE FOR AMERICA: PRESIDENT RON PAUL

-- No more meddling in other country''s political affairs
-- No more aggressive military actions overseas
-- No more torture prisons
-- No more pseudo-wars like the "War on Drugs"
-- No more IRS and unconstitutional income taxes
-- No more Federal Reserve (the group of private banks which owns our government)
-- No more erosion of Social Security to pay for militarization
-- No more U.N. (one world government) participation
-- No more NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO or GATT (globalist trade cartels)
-- No more North American Union (loss of U.S. sovereignty)
-- No more federal gun control laws
-- No more illegal aliens pouring-in over our country''s borders
-- No more illegal aliens allowed to roam freely in our streets
-- No more national ID cards (Real ID Act)
-- No more government invasion of your privacy
-- No more federal Laws which force you to take unwanted injections
-- No more federal Laws which are not authorized by The Constitution
-- No more federal erosion of State sovereignty
-- No more unlimited federal government

"When the people fear their government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
- William Pitt
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by newsprophet November 26, 2007 1:52 PM PST
WILL OBAMA MAKE THIS A THOUGHT CRIME?
While CBS was busy pretending all other news didn''t exist during the California wildfires, our Constitution was burning on the floors of Congress. On Oct 23, the House overwhelmingly passed HR 1955, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. This Bill is one of the most blatant attacks against our right to freedom of speech ever devised by Congress. The Bill actually defines different types of thought as "homegrown terrorism," and unlike previous anti-terror legislation, it specifically targets U.S. citizens. The Bill uses extremely vague language to define "terrorist propoganda" as any speech which promotes an agenda that the government considers an "extremist belief system." Since the bill doesn''t specifically define what an "extremist belief system" is, it will be entirely up to the interpretation of government officials. Isn''t that comforting? Considering how much the government has done to desecrate our Constitution lately, they would surely have to define this post as promoting an "extremist belief" system, since it promotes the restoration of civil liberties--something not en vogue these days. As disturbing as this Bill is, so to is the additional requirement that there be a seperate, "public version." In other words, the Bill we see is different from what Congress is seeing. Why''s that necessary? Whatever the reason, I predict this Bill will become Law soon while CBS focuses the country''s attention elsewhere
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by folkprophet November 26, 2007 1:53 PM PST
CAMPING-OUT WITH OBAMA
The John Warner Defense Authorization Act, which was supported by Clinton, Obama and McCain, permits militarized police round-ups and detention of "protesters" and other "undesirables" for detention in facilities which are already contracted for and under construction by Kellog, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton. This Law, which was sold to an emergency managed and willfully gullible public in the wake of the 9/11 attacks as a necessary measure needed by our President in order to fight his "global war on terrorism," permits the indefinite detention of American citizens who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of our President. The Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International reported recently that global engineering and technical services powerhouse, Kellog, Brown & Root announced during January 2006 that its Government and Infrastructure division had been awarded a (no bid) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract to build these detainment camps with a maximum total value of $385 million over a five year term, and that this contract called for the company to build "temporary detention and processing capabilities" to augment existing U.S. government Detention and Removal Operations and to support "the rapid development of new programs." New Programs? Could it possibly get any worse? Why would the president be so concerned about Americans protesting? Aren''t we all happy campers?
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by newsprophet November 26, 2007 1:54 PM PST
OBAMA MAKES BUSH DICTATOR
With the full support of Senators Clinton, Obama and McCain, President Bush recently signed into Law the John Warner Defense Authorization Act, which, according to Senator Leahy (VT), will actually "encourage the President to declare Martial Law." It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a Laws which limits the President''s ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act, helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic Law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush has now undone all of those prohibitions. The John Warner Defense Authorization Act, which was signed by the President in an unpublicized ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency," suspend Congress; The Constitution; and to take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of your Governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder." President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act. The two Laws compliment one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad of those who dissent and are stripped of their citizenship, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home by allowing the President to order the military onto our streets in a domestic Law enforcement role, which is already being done. Vote for Liberty. Vote for Ron Paul.
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by folkprophet November 26, 2007 1:54 PM PST
DEMOCRATS HOODWINKED BY HILLARY
Sadly, even though Clinton voted for the war in Iraq, and a host of Laws aimed at removing civil liberties; and our country''s sovereignty, Democrats are so blinded by her cult of personality that I predict they will overwhelmingly vote to put her crime family back into office. While I''ve made some progress in educating Liberals as to the phony staged consensus of the left-right paradigm, the fact remains that a majority of Democrats still see the White House as some kind of political Super Bowl, where the success of their "team" is the be all and end all - to the expense of America as a whole. The Punch and Judy show theater that was the "troop surge" debate in the Senate characterizes Hillary''s role in hoodwinking Americans perfectly. The debate is framed as not whether the U.S. should get out of the Middle-East altogether, but the relative minutia of whether to feed thousands of more troops into the meat grinder or not. A Clinton presidency will mean more war, more dead Americans, and a further desecration of the tattered shreds of what''s left of our Constitution. Clinton is the ultimate global elitist and represents the Democrats supposed base: the poor and downtrodden, about as much as Lindsay Lohan represents grace and dignity. I''m sure she informed the likes of David Rockefeller and Queen Beatrix as to her presidential aspirations during her last visit to attend the Bilderberger conference. Vote for a REAL AMERICAN. Vote for Ron Paul.
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by bestprophet November 26, 2007 1:54 PM PST
ARE WE A NATION OF LAWS?
Consider the Patriot Act. The Law is 342 pages long, or 57,000 words, making it a bit longer than Dostoevsky''s "Notes from Underground" or, if you''re partial to pigs, about twice the size of Orwell''s "Animal Farm." The Patriot Act is the reigning champion of our government''s recent un-American activities. When it was first paraded before Congress and the Senate following the 9/11 attacks, few Members, other than Congressman, Ron Paul dared to vote against it. Most in Congress simply gave it their rubber-stamp of approval, without ever reading it. Why bother? It was, after all, named the "USA Patriot Act." It must be a good thing. Right? Now in effect, the Law wrecks a generation''s worth of constitutional protections against government snooping, legalizing police-state tactics in searches and seizures, criminalizing certain forms of speech and political activity, and opening the way for the mistreatment of foreigners in government custody and wholesale expulsions and imprisonment. It is a repugnant, unnecessary Law that goes against the very principles its name wrongly implies. Yet, it remains unchecked and unbalanced by public opinion, Lawmakers or the Courts. So, yes, we''re a nation of Laws. But the Laws aren''t much to speak of when they''re designed to hoodwink the public to win its docility. Neither is public responsibility much to speak of these days when its docility is secured with nothing more than a ploy-riddled play on the word "patriot."
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by newsprophet November 26, 2007 1:55 PM PST
YOU''RE A FROG IN A POT
My fellow Americans need to open their eyes to the fact that our Republic, along with The Constitution upon which it was founded, is being flushed-down the toilet by our nations'' bought and paid for politicians and media. While the Oligarchs warn and incite fear in the sheeple about the prospect of terrorism, they at the same time leave our borders wide open, and then conduct illegal wars overseas that do nothing but incite the terrorism which their Orwellian Laws like the Patriot Act and the John Warner Defense Authorization Act pretend to protect us from. Wake up America! It''s not about protecting you from terrorism, or Global Warming, or any of that other fear-mongering garbage the sold-out, mainstream media feeds you 24/7. It''s about feeding the bankers and the military industrial complex, and facilitating the global elite''s ability to ratchet-down control over the American people, placing us into a total control grid where they can surveille, track and control everywhere we go and everything we do. It''s the groundwork for tyranny. It''s the New World Order plan of Bush, Clinton, Edwards, McCain, Giuliani, et.al., being executed quite beautifully. You''re a frog in a pot: In order to cook a frog, you don''t throw him into a pot of boiling water. If you do, he''ll resist and jump-out. What you do instead is, you turn the heat-up REAL SLOW, and by the time the water is boiling, he won''t be able to jump out anymore, because it''s too late--he''s already doomed.
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by bestprophet November 26, 2007 1:55 PM PST
TO APATHETIC AMERICANS
Voter disenfranchisement and apathy infects the heart of our Republic. Get off your couch, put your remote control down, and become active in your nation''s political process. The pathetically few people that do vote in this country, a.k.a., "the ruling class", who currently get to decide under what kind of conditions (and Laws) you and your family will live, are certainly involved. I can assure you of that. In fact, the ruling class would be much happier if you would just continue to stay home and watch TV in your pleasantly distracted and brainwashed, stupor. That way they can continue to elect their political ****** to office, and continue to maintain their grip on 100% of the political power they currently own in this country. If you voted (God Forbid), it would cancel-out their vote, and they would lose control. They can''t have that. Now can they? If you don''t vote, my friends, you''re nothing but an unwashed "Pleb" to those that do, and the ruling class should rightfully consider themselves superior to you in every way. They do, after all, have all the power, while you have none. If you''re too apathetic and powerless to do anything for yourself more time-consuming than driving down to Mickey D''s to buy a milk shake in order to sieze control of your life, and your country''s destiny, then perhaps you deserve to be ruled over like the "Pleb" that you then are. The time to act is now. The time for political revolution has come. The time for Ron Paul is NOW!
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by michaelt302 November 26, 2007 2:36 PM PST
If liking someone simply because of their color makes one a racist, then Oprah is a huge racist. Look, we all know that if you changed just one thing about Obama--changed him from black to white---and eveyrthing else about him(voice, beliefs, brain, personality, height, weight, etc) stayed the same, Oprah would not give him the time of day. Oprah seems like a nice person, but in reality she is a female toned-down version of Al Sharpton.
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by notblue November 26, 2007 2:57 PM PST
Who cares????? Who''s Oprah?????
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by denn034 November 26, 2007 3:18 PM PST
Obama''s drugs, alcohol, and goof-off comment and Oprah''s girl''s school abuse scandal belong together.
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by DocD--2008 November 26, 2007 3:21 PM PST
FALSEProphet or what ever prophet name you want to call yourself today, you do more harm for Ron Paul than you do good. I hope you realize that and get back on your medication someday..
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by mike71067 November 26, 2007 3:21 PM PST
WHAT?! A entertainment celebrity backing a liberal candidate? I''m speechless! Oh my heavens.
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by greeneyes222 November 26, 2007 3:27 PM PST
I''m guessing Oprah''s presence will prove to be a very mixed blessing for Obama. She just made him "that black candidate."
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by horse3farm November 26, 2007 3:38 PM PST
Oprah...you belong on your talk show. This is the beginning of your end. You are already starting to anger and frustrate people with your special "choice of words and questions." Me thinks you a little too big for your britches.
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by mistered9 November 26, 2007 3:43 PM PST
I hope all Opearh''s followers arn''t swaded by her poperlaralty and vote wrong just to please her.
Can you imagine haveina a President with the name Barrack Obama. It would feel like we lost in Iraq and Islam took over. Don''t let it happen folks.
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by infidel_us November 26, 2007 3:45 PM PST
She may be a media genious, but she''s as dumb as a bag of rocks when it comes to politics.
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by prairiefox1 November 26, 2007 3:59 PM PST
OKRA WINDBOTTOM BLOWING OBAMA,S HORN!
I THINK I WILL WRITE IN MY DOG AS CANADATE!
Senator Obama doesn''t HAVE a record. At least not much of one in the Senate. He is among the overall leaders in Senators who miss votes. Of the last 60 opportunities to participate in making the laws of the land, the Senator has voted only 6 times. Forget HOW he voted. His recent record shows a 10% interest in the job the people of Illinois hired him for. (Voting records available on the Senate web site or the Washongton Post.)
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by prairiefox1 November 26, 2007 4:06 PM PST
HOPE FOR AMERICA: PRESIDENT RON PAUL

-- No more meddling in other country''''s political affairs
-- No more aggressive military actions overseas
-- No more torture prisons
-- No more pseudo-wars like the "War on Drugs"
-- No more IRS and unconstitutional income taxes
-- No more Federal Reserve (the group of private banks which owns our government)
-- No more erosion of Social Security to pay for militarization
-- No more U.N. (one world government) participation
-- No more NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO or GATT (globalist trade cartels)
-- No more North American Union (loss of U.S. sovereignty)
-- No more federal gun control laws
-- No more illegal aliens pouring-in over our country''''s borders
-- No more illegal aliens allowed to roam freely in our streets
-- No more national ID cards (Real ID Act)
-- No more government invasion of your privacy
-- No more federal Laws which force you to take unwanted injections
-- No more federal Laws which are not authorized by The Constitution
-- No more federal erosion of State sovereignty
-- No more unlimited federal Government Posted by BestProphet


I IGNORE ALL THE PROMISES AND I LOOK AT THEIR RECORD!
IF IT IS GOOD THEN THEY HAVE A CHANCE OF GETTING MY VOTE!
RON PAULS ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE 0
THIS GUY IS A ROARING JOKE!
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by prairiefox1 November 26, 2007 4:15 PM PST
DO NOT LISTEN TO CAMPAIGN PROMISES! INSTEAD LOOK AT THEIR PAST PERFORMANCE AND VOTE FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE! THEN YOU WILL KNOW WHAT THEY WILL DO IN THE FUTURE!
THEY HANDICAP RACEHORSES AND WE CAN HANDICAP THE CANDIDATES !
YOU DO THIS AND ALL THE CANDIDATES WILL BE CRINGING IN THE CORNER! NONE! REPEAT NONE CAN STAND ON THEIR RECORD AND GET ELECTED!
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by erasmus6 November 26, 2007 4:54 PM PST
"So what. You are obviously a Repiglicon. The only opinion you have of Obama is that he is black, therefore you and your white trash friends wont be voting for a black man no matter what. You instead will vote with your head up your abese fatass, same as every self-centered Repiglicon that I have ever met in my life. Youd rather vote for a lying used car salesman (the character trait of every Repiglicon running for public office) then for what is best for america." posted by neoconism

You are an IDIOT.

I am not a republican, I do not live in the U.S. and I am not a racist like the vast majority of Americans.

I see you like to talk out of your a-s-s.

My opinion of Obama has nothing to do with the fact that he is black. If I didn''t like someone because they were black, why would I like Oprah?

I do not dislike Obama. I think that Obama is inexperienced and he seems a little on the immature side.

Now my opinion of YOU, white, black, or whatever, is that you are an ignorant a-s-s.

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by kansas1946 November 26, 2007 7:29 PM PST
She may be a media genious, but she''''s as dumb as a bag of rocks when it comes to politics. Posted by Infidel_Us
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LMAO. There is nothing dumb about Oprah. She is as rich as God, and she made it honestly, mostly in real estate, by buying up distressed properties that she felt would turn around, and did. Ever since she started making money in the media, she started investing it. Not spending it like many media starts. She is a genius, period. And she has a huge following of admirers, and if I were running for office, I would definately want her on my side. She is a decent, loving, and generous person, so if Barack is good enough for her, he is good enough for me.

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by starleo146 November 26, 2007 10:23 PM PST
Posted by kansas1946 at 07:29 PM : Nov 26, 2007
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I beg to differ oprah got her money because her boyfriend she never married invested it for her.
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by eastprophet November 26, 2007 11:20 PM PST
HOPE FOR AMERICA: PRESIDENT RON PAUL

-- No more meddling in other country''s political affairs
-- No more aggressive military actions overseas
-- No more torture prisons
-- No more pseudo-wars like the "War on Drugs"
-- No more IRS and unconstitutional income taxes
-- No more Federal Reserve (the group of private banks which owns our government)
-- No more erosion of Social Security to pay for militarization
-- No more U.N. (one world government) participation
-- No more NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO or GATT (globalist trade cartels)
-- No more North American Union (loss of U.S. sovereignty)
-- No more federal gun control laws
-- No more illegal aliens pouring-in over our country''s borders
-- No more illegal aliens allowed to roam freely in our streets
-- No more national ID cards (Real ID Act)
-- No more government invasion of your privacy
-- No more federal Laws which force you to take unwanted injections
-- No more federal Laws which are not authorized by The Constitution
-- No more federal erosion of State sovereignty
-- No more unlimited federal government

"Wars are poor chisels for carving-out peaceful tomorrows."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
- James Madison

"When the people fear their government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson
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by westprophet November 26, 2007 11:20 PM PST
RON PAUL WILL PRESERVE SOCIAL SECURITY
Our nation''s promise to its seniors, once considered a sacred trust, has become little more than a tool for politicians to scare retirees while robbing them of their promised benefits to pay for militarization. Today, the Social Security system is both broke and broken. Those in the system are seeing their benefits dwindle due to higher taxes, increasing inflation, and irresponsible military spending. The proposed solutions, ranging from lower benefits to higher taxes to increasing the age of eligibility, are NOT solutions; they are betrayals. Imposing any tax on Social Security benefits is unfair and illogical. In Congress, Dr. Paul introduced the Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act, which repeals ALL taxes on Social Security benefits, to eliminate political theft of our seniors'' income and raise their standard of living. Solvency is the key to keeping our promise to our seniors, and he introduced the Social Security Preservation Act (H.R. 219) to ensure that money paid into the system is ONLY used for Social Security. Also, it is fundamentally unfair to give benefits to anyone who has not paid into the system. The Social Security for Americans Only Act, which Ron Paul supported, ends the drain on Social Security caused by illegal aliens seeking the fruits of your labor. In short, if we stop our runaway military spending overseas, there will be plenty of money available to keep Social Security solvent for decades to come.
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by southprophet November 26, 2007 11:21 PM PST
RON PAUL KNOWS HOW TO STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
The talk must stop. We must secure our borders now. A nation without secure borders is no nation at all. It makes no sense to fight terrorists abroad when our own front door is left unlocked. Ron Paul has a plan: (1.) Physically secure our borders and coastlines. We must do whatever it takes to control entry into our country before we undertake complicated immigration reform proposals. (2.) Enforce Visa rules. Immigration officials must track Visa holders and deport anyone who overstays their Visa or otherwise violates U.S. Law. This is especially important when we recall that a number of 9/11 terrorists had expired Visas. (3.) No amnesty. Estimates suggest that 10 to 20 million people are in our country illegally. That''s a lot of people to reward for breaking our Laws. (4.) No welfare for illegal aliens. Americans have welcomed immigrants who seek opportunity, work hard, and play by the rules, but taxpayers should not pay for illegal immigrants who use hospitals, clinics, schools, roads, and social services. (5.) End birthright citizenship. As long as illegal immigrants know their children born here will be citizens, the incentive to enter the U.S. illegally will remain strong. (6.) Pass true immigration reform. The current system, and those proposed by ALL other candidates, is incoherent and unfair, and would allow up to 60 million more immigrants into our country.
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by northprophet November 26, 2007 11:21 PM PST
RON PAUL IS THE TAXPAYER''S BEST FRIEND
If he is elected President, Ron Paul will work to abolish the Federal Reserve System as well as the IRS, returning our country to the Gold Standard. He believes, as I do, that our current Income Tax System is unconstitutional, because it is a direct tax that is not equally apportioned as The Constitution requires. Whenever taxes are raised by the federal government, it should be done as The Constitution does require--in an indirect way, which is equally apportioned. This system would benefit all of us, creating more individual wealth, and allowing us to make more decisions for ourselves about our lives. As President, Ron Paul will also work to abolish the Federal Reserve, a group of private banks, run by unelected officials, which loans our government unbacked money which they are allowed to essentially print out of thin air, making each dollar in your pocket worth less all the time, and increasing our national debt to these banks. Worse still. Most of our debt is owned by China (25%) and Saudi Arabia who finance our runaway military spending overseas. This is a threat to our nation. We need to bring our troops home from overseas, and use the trillions we would save thereby to reduce our debt, and to re-invigorate our currency. We can use this money to ensure that Social Security and other essential programs will still be solvent in the future. Vote for Ron Paul. He''s published three books on the topic of sound economics. RonPaulLibrary.org
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by eastprophet November 26, 2007 11:21 PM PST
A FOREIGN POLICY OF FREEDOM
All of the other presidential candidates want to continue our illegal police action in Iraq indefinitely, and they do not rule out a preemptive (nuclear) first strike against Iran. Conversely, Ron Paul voted against our (undeclared) war in Iraq, which was sold to us with lies. The area is more dangerous now than when we entered it. We destroyed a regime hated by our direct enemies--the jihadists, and created thousands of new recruits for them. The war in Iraq has cost more than 3,500 American lives and almost a trillion dollars. We need a leader in the White House who will ensure this never happens again. Both Jefferson and Washington warned us about entangling ourselves in the affairs of other nations. Today, we have 750 foreign bases and troops in 130 countries. We are spread so thin that we have too few troops defending America. And now, there are new calls for a draft. We can continue to fund and fight no-win police actions around the globe, or we can refocus on securing our borders against illegal aliens who are invading us from the South. No war should ever be fought without a Declaration of War voted upon by the Congress, as required by The Constitution. Under no circumstances should the U.S. again go to war as the result of a resolution that comes from an unelected, foreign body, such as the United Nations. Too often, we give foreign aid and intervene on behalf of governments that are despised. Then, we become despised.
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by westprophet November 26, 2007 11:22 PM PST
U.S. WAR WITH IRAN?
When I consider the prospect of a War with Iran, I wonder whether or not another major power might be inclined to side with Iran and oppose us. 10% of China''s exports go to Iran and 12% of Germany''s. Also, many countries, including China, are heavily dependent on the 2,836,000 barrels of oil Iran exports everyday. Not a problem. I''m sure those folks won''t mind riding bikes until the war is over. As far as the Iranians are concerned, I''m sure they''re just dying (no pun intended) to be invaded, er, I mean "liberated" by Americans, considering the horrid 70% approval rating of Ahmadinejad and the terrible $8,700 gross domestic product per capita there (8.6% better than China). I''m sure we''ll be welcomed in the streets after we "shock and awe" their all important looking buildings to Jahannum and back. When I compare U.S. military numbers with Iran''s, what I find is truly alarming. The U.S. has 2.37 million soldiers ready for combat. Let''s compare that with little ol'' Iran, which has more soldiers available for combat than any country in the entire world. Actually, Iran has more combat-ready soldiers (11.7 million) than China and Russia combined. Talk about hell! The bottom line is that America can''t even handle Iraq. At one point, we thought we could rush in, smite some nubs with dirks and bubble on back home in time to catch the next season of American Idol, but it didn''t quite work-out that way. Did it? With Iran, reality is going to hurt a lot more.
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by southprophet November 26, 2007 11:22 PM PST
RON PAUL WILL RESTORE U.S. SOVEREIGNTY
All of the trade deals and world government organizations, which all of the presidential candidates support (except Ron Paul), such as the ICC, NAFTA, GATT, WTO, and CAFTA, are all a major threat to our nation''s sovereignty. They transfer power from our government to unelected foreign elites. The ICC wants to try our soldiers as war criminals. Both the WTO and CAFTA could force Americans to get a prescription to take herbs and vitamins. The WTO has forced Congress to change our laws to meet their needs, and not our own. If anything, the WTO makes trade relations worse by giving foreign competitors a new way to attack U.S. jobs. The NAFTA superhighway, being built by a Spanish company, is just one part of a plan to erase our borders and create the North American Union, a single nation State like the EU, out of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, with a new, unelected bureaucracy and money system. Forget about controlling immigration under the NAU scheme. There won''t be any borders anymore, or a free America. Our limited, constitutional government will be gone forever. Let''s not forget the UN either. It wants to impose a direct Carbon Tax on us. Ron Paul successfully fought this move in Congress last year, but if we are going to stop ongoing attempts of this world government body to rule over us, we need someone in the White House who knows how to say "No." We must withdraw from any organizations or treaty that infringes upon our nation''s sovereignty.
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by northprophet November 26, 2007 11:22 PM PST
RON PAUL WINS BIG IN NATIONAL POLL
The results of a nationwide telephone poll, announced by Zogby on November 19th, reveals that Americans want to vote for a candidate who protects liberty; who wants to shrink government; and who wants to immediately withdraw our troops from Iraq - positions of Congressman Ron Paul. As part of a blind-bio, spread poll, likely voters (from all parties) were provided with descriptions of four different Republican candidates and asked to choose who they would vote for based on each one''s resume and political platform. 33% of pollees chose Ron Paul, 19% chose Rudy Giuliani, 15% chose Mitt Romney and 13% chose Fred Thompson. The results clearly illustrate that the country is crying out for Ron Paul, which is why mainstream media has launched a public relations offensive to marginalize his accomplishments and suppress the Congressman''s name recognition. In a seperate question, over 49% of pollees said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who would begin an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. In fact, Ron Paul won in every demographic of this poll including, but not limited to, religious voters, NASCAR fans, military families, African-Americans, etc..
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by eastprophet November 26, 2007 11:23 PM PST
ONLY RON PAUL CAN BEAT CLINTON
Zogby''s Director of Communications Fritz Wenzel said on November 20 that Paul is the strongest of the GOP candidates to run against Clinton. "Among the larger universe of voters," which includes all parties, "yes, Paul would be a much stronger candidate than any of the other three [Romney, Giuliani, Thompson]," Wenzel said. Zogby recently announced that Paul was their winner in a nationwide blind-bio poll which included voters from all parties. "He is anti-war and the majority of Democrats are anti-war, he has some other ideas and policies and stances on issues more attractive to Democrats, particularly conservative Democrats," said Wenzel. "Even among Independents, he is far and away a more attractive candidate," he added. Paul is the only GOP candidate who is not threatening war with Iran, whereas Clinton vowed to keep that option "on the table." Paul also voted against the war in Iraq, which Clinton has supported. Because Democrats outnumber Republicans, none of the other GOP candidates can win against Clinton, because they simply won''t be able to reach across party lines and attract enough Democratic and Independent voters to beat Clinton. Only Paul can do that. "He''s right on schedule," Wenzel said. "He''s making all the right moves, going in the right direction...at a time when other candidates are not moving." Wenzel based his analysis on recent polls that show Paul could win in New Hampshire and that his support nationwide is intensifying.
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by westprophet November 26, 2007 11:23 PM PST
COULDN''T VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN? REALLY?
Everytime I hear Democrats say "I hate the Republican Party. Look at what Bush has done.," I can''t help but think about all of Bush''s Democratic enablers in the Congress like Clinton, Obama, Pelosi, et. al. who made all of his dastardly deeds possible. They handed him every bit of legislation with which he has used to make himself the dictator that he now is on a silver platter. The Democrats in Congress don''t even seem to express any interest in investigating Bush for the crimes he and Cheney have surely committed against our country even though a vast majority of Americans think they should. What cowards! In fact, Obama and Clinton even voted in favor of legislation which actually allows Bush to pre-pardon himself and his administration for crimes dating all the way back to 9/11. What''s up with that? Look. Do yourself and your country a favor. Focus on the candidate, and the ideas and positions he or she represents, and then study the candidate''s track record of performance with respect to those positions. That''s all that really matters in the end. Elections are not a contest of two teams. Ultimately, It''s the politician who will either serve your interests or betray them while in office--not their party. Finally, Democrats, I ask you this: Would you have voted for Steven Douglas (a Democrat), who was ardently pro-slavery, against Abraham Lincoln (a Republican) simply because Douglas was a Democrat? I think most of you would.
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by southprophet November 26, 2007 11:23 PM PST
RON PAUL IS THE NEW WAY
What we need is a President who will show us the way. Not the old way. Not the same way, but a NEW way. Think about this for a minute. What if we pulled all of our troops out of South Korea? They''ve been there for 50+ years. What if we quit worrying about Iran, but instead, realized that its having a nuclear weapon will not mean the end of the world? What if we pulled all of our troops out of the Middle-East, and brought them all home? What if we realistically addressed the National Debt, and paid attention to REALLY DOING SOMETHING about stopping illegal immigration? These are the ideas of Presidential candidate, Ron Paul. He''s a ten term Congressman and a physician who has delivered over 4,000 babies. He''s an intellectual who''s published four books, three of which are devoted entirely to sound economics and one to foreign policy. He was raised on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania as a pious Lutheran, but now he attends a Baptist church. Paul is given to mulling things over morally. Whenever he recollects the helicopter pilots he treated as an Air Force Flight Surgeon (Captain) during the Vietnam War, a war which he now says was "totally unnecessary and illegal," he laments, "They were gung-ho. I''ve often thought about how many of those people never came back." Candidates with the high level of personal integrity and proven track record of adherence to The Constitution, Congressman Paul has always demonstrated only come around once in a lifetime, if we''re lucky.
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by northprophet November 26, 2007 11:23 PM PST
HOPE FOR AMERICA: PRESIDENT RON PAUL

-- No more meddling in other country''s political affairs
-- No more aggressive military actions overseas
-- No more torture prisons
-- No more pseudo-wars like the "War on Drugs"
-- No more IRS and unconstitutional income taxes
-- No more Federal Reserve (the group of private banks which owns our government)
-- No more erosion of Social Security to pay for militarization
-- No more U.N. (one world government) participation
-- No more NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO or GATT (globalist trade cartels)
-- No more North American Union (loss of U.S. sovereignty)
-- No more federal gun control laws
-- No more illegal aliens pouring-in over our country''s borders
-- No more illegal aliens allowed to roam freely in our streets
-- No more national ID cards (Real ID Act)
-- No more government invasion of your privacy
-- No more federal Laws which force you to take unwanted injections
-- No more federal Laws which are not authorized by The Constitution
-- No more federal erosion of State sovereignty
-- No more unlimited federal government

"Wars are poor chisels for carving-out peaceful tomorrows."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
- James Madison

"When the people fear their government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson
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by greatdrivew November 27, 2007 8:02 AM PST
One Drop of Barack:

Not gloriously noir, like Air he be, nor see-thru bright, neither is he. But look very close, and often you%u2019ll see, measures of both, in a divided country. A President perhaps, a uniter probably, his loyalties intact, a future longing to be. Gone are the days, of %u201Cyessim sir%u201D thankfully, but one thing remains, for all to see: Can a drop of Barack actually save D.C.?
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by thgdriver November 27, 2007 11:42 AM PST
Another example of black pushing black for the sake of black.

Think about it, if all the candidates were black and one was white and a very powerful and rich White celebrity was to support only the white candidate The NAACP, The two reverends Jackson and Sharpton would be crying fawl and racism and calling for the celebrity to be fired from the network. But this is just fine with the black community.
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by thgdriver November 27, 2007 11:50 AM PST
How does this set with the rules of fair and balanced time on the networks for all candidates? Just what is Oprah''s agenda? Obviously to most, Obama does not have the experience to be President. Oprah is smart enough to know this to be so. In my opinion, in this case, she sees only color and is showing her true colors.
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