louis farrakhan

Jake Tapper notes the notables at Barack Obama’s hometown voting location:

Among the other voters who have shown up to vote at Shoesmith Elementary School this morning, where Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will vote: Louis Farrakhan and William Ayers.

Last night, I got the kindest e-mail from a friend whose politics lean on the other end of the spectrum from mine.

This is one of those unbelievable things that emanate from New Age-y places like San Francisco from time to time. It's completely off-the-charts wacko, but fun to read and wonder what drugs influenced the author...

Barack Obama isn't really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway...

Yes that’s Obama’s face, alongside Louis Farrakhan, the racist Reverend Wright, and Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam. No Martin Luther King jr, by the way.
Yes folks, this is the guy the Democrats think is going to win the Heartland in November.
Thank you Democrats.

Its just one, but the day after Pastorgate II, it appears that Obama hasn't been hurt nationally...just yet.

At his National Press Club spectacle yesterday, Reverend Jeremiah Wright expressed the view that Barack Obama is a phony. Among other outrages, Rev. Wright said that Obama criticized the Pastor's controversial views merely because Barack Obama wants to get elected.

Bill Hobbs, the bombastic state GOP flack whose denunciations of Barack Obama have gotten him into trouble with his own party’s leaders, says he’s not heard any new complaints for his latest li

Smijer thinks that if Barack Obama must denounce Louis Farrakhan’s support then so to should John McCain denounce the support of his controversial clerical boosters. However, he also wonders whether either one should be filling quite as much space in the newshole as they are:

Apparently, TNGOP Chair Robin Smith has had enough of the maelstrom of prejudice that she and Communication Director Bill Hobbs generated this week, causing our state to be seen internationally in an unattractive light. She tells the Tennessean:

So far here’s what ‘they’ have on Obama:

1) doesn’t always wear a flag lapel

2) middle name same as the late Iraqi tryant

3) once wore Somali garb on a visit to Kenya - could be mistaken for Muslim garb

4) field staff member in Texas had a poster of ‘Che’ on his wall

5) didn’t put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem

6) supported by Louis Farrakhan

7) first name rhymes with a very