Comments for DAILY TEXAN BLOGS http://dailytexanblogs.com Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:22:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 Comment on Take that Wikipedia by Chelsey Delaney http://dailytexanblogs.com/2008/03/03/take-that-wikipedia/#comment-113 Chelsey Delaney Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:20:08 +0000 http://dailytexanblog.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-113 You're very welcome--I think it's a fabulous idea. -Chelsey You’re very welcome–I think it’s a fabulous idea.

-Chelsey

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Comment on Take that Wikipedia by Ethan Herdrick http://dailytexanblogs.com/2008/03/03/take-that-wikipedia/#comment-112 Ethan Herdrick Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:36 +0000 http://dailytexanblog.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-112 Hey Chelsey - thanks for the link. Glad that you like the site. Keep in touch if you have more thoughts you'd like to pass on about the Biographicon. Hey Chelsey - thanks for the link. Glad that you like the site. Keep in touch if you have more thoughts you’d like to pass on about the Biographicon.

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Comment on Facebook identities and reality by steaksinthemail http://dailytexanblogs.com/2008/02/26/facebook-identities-and-reality/#comment-93 steaksinthemail Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:52:40 +0000 http://dailytexanblog.wordpress.com/?p=156#comment-93 My favorite thing about that article is that it calls him a "Facebook poser." Ouch. My favorite thing about that article is that it calls him a “Facebook poser.” Ouch.

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Comment on SXSW preview: Every band and your mother by Lisa99problemz http://dailytexanblogs.com/2008/02/08/sxsw-preview-every-band-and-your-mother/#comment-92 Lisa99problemz Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:30:57 +0000 http://dailytexanblogs.com/2008/02/08/sxsw-preview-every-band-and-your-mother/#comment-92 Stealing Love Jones (South Africa) Song "Kicks" in SA went to No.1 Video for A little easier my fav. is pretty cool too... (Their singer Miss Jones is sooo rad) "Combine the power of the Foo Fighters with the pop vibes of Britney Spears" They are playing HERE To TEXAS @ Bar Of Soap In Dallas! I’m so going, meet me and say Hi! Lisa 99 problemz MYSPACE: http:/ / www.myspace.com/lovejonesband Stealing Love Jones (South Africa) Song “Kicks” in SA went to No.1
Video for A little easier my fav. is pretty cool too… (Their singer Miss Jones is sooo rad)
“Combine the power of the Foo Fighters with the pop vibes of Britney Spears”
They are playing HERE To TEXAS @ Bar Of Soap In Dallas! I’m so going, meet me and say Hi!
Lisa 99 problemz

MYSPACE:
http:/ / http://www.myspace.com/lovejonesband

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Comment on Post-debate reflections by Susan Bowers http://dailytexanblogs.com/2008/02/22/post-debate-reflections/#comment-54 Susan Bowers Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:57:52 +0000 http://dailytexanblog.wordpress.com/?p=148#comment-54 THANK YOU UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN... THANK YOU FOR SEEING THE TRUTH AND ENDORSING HILLARY CLINTON!!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU...... LET'S GO PEOPLE!!!!!! CONTACT EVERYONE YOU KNOW IN THESE NEXT STATES TO GET THE TRUTH OUT - HILLARY IS THE ONE. THE TIME IS NOW!!!!! GO TEXAS GO OHIO GO RHODE ISLAND GO VERMONT GO HILLARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO AUSTIN! THANK YOU UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN…
THANK YOU FOR SEEING THE TRUTH AND ENDORSING HILLARY CLINTON!!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU……

LET’S GO PEOPLE!!!!!! CONTACT EVERYONE YOU KNOW IN THESE NEXT STATES TO GET THE TRUTH OUT - HILLARY IS THE ONE.
THE TIME IS NOW!!!!!
GO TEXAS
GO OHIO
GO RHODE ISLAND
GO VERMONT

GO HILLARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO AUSTIN!

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Comment on Post-debate reflections by Trenton http://dailytexanblogs.com/2008/02/22/post-debate-reflections/#comment-53 Trenton Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:33:41 +0000 http://dailytexanblog.wordpress.com/?p=148#comment-53 On SUNDAY?? OH No She Didn't.?? SHAME ON YOU HOLLARY !!! For Todays (SUNDAY) Sacrelege, blasphemy, and Atheism.. Mocking the Christian belief in Salvation. Poking fun and Sarcasm at Believing that Heaven can Open up the sky to those who believe. Laughing at the notion that there are Celestial Angelic Choirs in the Heavens, Hurling sarcasm at those who would believe they can hear. Laughing at Hope.. Laughing at GOD..!!! Hillary..Can you say Moses? Did he not part the Red Sea and free his people from the Pharoh? Who are you Hillary Rodham to tell us all not to believe that all things are possible through our Lord Our God? It is dillusional to Hope The Lord God would ever extend his ever redeeming, ever forgiving ever everlasting Love to Our Nation? To America and her United States Citizens?? Its dillusional On SUNDAY to think this could be possible ?? 2/24/08 One thing is certain..It won't be possible under your leadership. You are a non-believer. I suppose that deceased Dallas Police Officers family should abandon any HOPE for his Salvation. His life was lost performing a difficult and demanding job too. There aint NO GOD coming for him either. Right Hillary?? May God have mercy on your immortal soul Hillary Rodham. SHAME ON YOU HILLARY RODHAM The Lord works in mysterious ways.... And today God exposed your true dark soul to the world. And In so doing, the Nation and the World will be better served. On SUNDAY??
OH No She Didn’t.??

SHAME ON YOU HOLLARY !!!
For Todays (SUNDAY) Sacrelege, blasphemy, and Atheism..
Mocking the Christian belief in Salvation.
Poking fun and Sarcasm at Believing that Heaven can Open up the sky to those who believe. Laughing at the notion that there are Celestial Angelic Choirs in the Heavens, Hurling sarcasm at those who would believe they can hear. Laughing at Hope.. Laughing at GOD..!!!
Hillary..Can you say Moses?
Did he not part the Red Sea and free his people from the Pharoh?
Who are you Hillary Rodham to tell us all not to believe that all things are possible through our Lord Our God?
It is dillusional to Hope The Lord God would ever extend his ever redeeming, ever forgiving ever everlasting Love to Our Nation? To America and her United States Citizens??
Its dillusional On SUNDAY to think this could be possible ?? 2/24/08
One thing is certain..It won’t be possible under your leadership. You are a non-believer.
I suppose that deceased Dallas Police Officers family should abandon any HOPE for his Salvation. His life was lost performing a difficult and demanding job too. There aint NO GOD coming for him either. Right Hillary??
May God have mercy on your immortal soul Hillary Rodham.
SHAME ON YOU HILLARY RODHAM
The Lord works in mysterious ways….
And today God exposed your true dark soul to the world. And In so doing, the Nation and the World will be better served.

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Comment on Post-debate reflections by Terry Silva http://dailytexanblogs.com/2008/02/22/post-debate-reflections/#comment-49 Terry Silva Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:18:04 +0000 http://dailytexanblog.wordpress.com/?p=148#comment-49 Thank you, University of Texas. Thank you for endorsing Hillary Clinton. You have proven to be smarter and wiser than you counterparts. I can tell you that., those of us who are not under the influence of Obama, are really scared for the future of our Country if Obama becomes our candidate. Please do everything in your power to deliver the message of Hillary. Talk to your parents, family and friends. Make TV appearances and talk to your local radio stations. You can get the message out there. If Hillary does not win by a good margin in Texas, the consequences will be devastating. Send emails to CNN, MSNBC and FOX to let them know how biased and lopsided their news coveage is against Hillary. She has fought all her life for our rights, especially those who are poor and do not have a voice. Together you are a power house and can make it happen! Terry Thank you, University of Texas. Thank you for endorsing Hillary Clinton. You have proven to be smarter and wiser than you counterparts. I can tell you that., those of us who are not under the influence of Obama, are really scared for the future of our Country if Obama becomes our candidate. Please do everything in your power to deliver the message of Hillary. Talk to your parents, family and friends. Make TV appearances and talk to your local radio stations. You can get the message out there. If Hillary does not win by a good margin in Texas, the consequences will be devastating. Send emails to CNN, MSNBC and FOX to let them know how biased and lopsided their news coveage is against Hillary. She has fought all her life for our rights, especially those who are poor and do not have a voice. Together you are a power house and can make it happen!

Terry

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Comment on Post-debate reflections by David http://dailytexanblogs.com/2008/02/22/post-debate-reflections/#comment-48 David Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:19:26 +0000 http://dailytexanblog.wordpress.com/?p=148#comment-48 Yes, the debate really rolls into ONE conclusion that HILLARY IS A WELL SPOKEN, SEASONED, SAVY, KNOWLEDGEABLE, AFFECTIONATE, PASSIONATE, A REAL FIGHTER , WITH SUBSTANCE, SMART, INTELLIGENT, AND MOST OF ALLL SHE IS THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT AND WHO WUOLD DIE FOR US , WHO LIVES TO HER CALL, BEING A PUIBLIC SERVANT BY HEART! Congratulations AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKS AND I APPLAUD YOU OF YOUR SINCERE INTENTIONS ENDORSING SENATOR CLINTON. SPEAKING OD THE DEBATE, THAT HAND SHAKE AND HER LAST WORDS REALLY STRUCK ME OF HOW GENUINE THIS WOMAN IS..THAT MADE ME HURTENED BY THE MEDIA, PUNDITS, NETWORKS, NEWSPAPERS HOW THEY TREAT THIS LADY WHO IS WELL RESPECTED BY MANY AND CONTRIBUTED A LOT IN OUR COUNTRY AND ELSEWHERE. IN THAT HAND SHAKE, WITH ALL THE ATTACKS HER RIVAL IS DISTRIBUTING VIA EMAIL AND FYERS ONLY CONFIRMED THAT HER RIVAL, OBAMA IS MERELY RIDING ON TO THE BUZZ OF HIS CAMPIGN AND BEHIND THIS SMAILE, RHETORIC AND HAND SHAKE , IF YOU LOOK DEEPER, THAT'S REAL OBAMA! I AM A PROUD AMERICAN..AND THIS IS NOT TRUE FOR B. OBAMA AND HIS WIFE MICHELLE...I THOUGHT THEY RE OPEN FOR TRANSPARENCY, BUT WHERE IS IT ..THE CONTROVERSIAL "THESIS" ENTITLED RACIAL DIVISIVENESS" IS ONLY OPEN FOR PUBLIC(WHAT'S THIS?) COME NOV 2008 (WAKE ME UP!), AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF OBAMA WITH THE WEATHERMEN GROUP.TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO YOU, TO ALL YOUR READERS, TO ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE AND STUDENTS OF YOUR UNIVERSITY, BELOW ARE THE ARTICLES FROM POLITICO.COM WORTH DIGGING ABOUT OBAMA/S!..THEIR PATRIOTISM,HOW THEY PAY WITH POLITICS AND A LOT MORE! ONE CAN ONLY GET THE TRUTH BY SKINNING HIS SKIN/WORDS/ACTIONS! IT'S NOT TOO LATE YET! YES, I AM SENATOR CLINTON'S SUPPORTER AND PLEASE MAKE A DIFFERENCE...LET YOUR VOICES HEARD BY SUPPORTING HER..BEING ACTIVE IN HER CAMPAIGNS!..SHE NEEDS YOU...YOUR VOTE IS CRUCIAL...SENATOR CLINTON IS A FIGHTER, WILL JOURNEY WITH YOU/US..WILL WORK FOR/WITH US...SHE WILL BE A PUBLIC SERVANT FOR LIFE TO US BECAUSE SHE LOVES US, SHE LOVES AMERICA..SHE ID COMMITTED AND DETERMINED TO GIVE US A QUALITY OF LIFE WE DESERVE..SHE IS A FIGTHER..WITH GOLDEN HEART! YOUR NEWSPAPER, STUDENT BODY WILL BE A GREAT CHANNEL TO ALL OTHER UNIVERSITIES, STUDENTS TO BE AWAKENED OF THE TRUTH BEHIND OBAMA...ANOTHER THOUGHT WORTH CONSIDERING, OBAMA CLAIMED HE HAS THE MONEY, THE BUZZ MEANS PAYING MONEY TO THE BUZZERS THAT'S WHY HE PROTECTS HIS INTENET DONORS AND IN MY WILD WONDERMENT, ONE PERSON ABLE TO CARRY MANY TIMES IN HUGE DONATIINS,,,WHO WILL TRACE IT, RIGHT! HE HAS HAVING A GREAT RIDE WITH THE YOUNG PEOPLE BUT PUTTING HIM IN THE NOMINATION AND WHITE HOUSE IS THE MOST SCARY DECISION ONE WILL MAKE BECAUE HE ONLY WANTS THE VOTES NOTHING MORE ...AMERICA WILL BE WORST ! ARTICLES: Obama once visited '60s radicals By: Ben Smith Feb 22, 2008 01:09 AM EST Former radical activist Bernardine Dohrn and her companion William Ayers leave court in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1981. Dohrn received a $1,500 fine and three years probation for her role in the 'Days of Rage' disturbance in Chicago in 1969. In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement. Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from a man in the Hyde Park left to one closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president. “I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.” Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said. Obama’s connections to Ayers and Dorhn have been noted in some fleeting news coverage in the past. But the visit by Obama to their home — part of a campaign courtship — reflects more extensive interaction than has been previously reported. Neither Ayers nor the Obama campaign would describe the relationship between the two men. Dr. Young described Obama and Ayers as “friends,” but there’s no evidence their relationship is more than the casual friendship of two men who occupy overlapping Chicago political circles and who served together on the board of a Chicago foundation. Dem tension hinges on plagiarism charges McCain turns tables on Times Clinton holds back in high-stakes debate But Obama’s relationship with Ayers is an especially vivid milepost on his rise, in record time, from a local official who unabashedly reflected a very liberal district to the leader of national movement based largely on the claim that he can transcend ideological divides. In one sense, Obama’s journey toward the cultural and political center is not unusual among national politicians. But its velocity is. Politicians of an earlier generation had their own relationships with figures now far to their left. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for instance, interned at a radical San Francisco law firm while in law school. On the other side of the political spectrum, many in the generation before hers shifted dramatically on civil rights. John McCain voted against creating a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and later called that a mistake. The relationship with Ayers gives context to his recent past in Hyde Park politics. It’s milieu in which a former violent radical was a stalwart of the local scene, not especially controversial. It’s also a scene whose liberal ideological features — while taken for granted by the Chicago press corps that knows Obama best — provides a jarring contrast with Obama’s current, anti-ideological stance. This contrast between past and present — not least the Ayers connection — is virtually certain to be a subject Republican operatives will warm to if Obama is the Democratic nominee. The tension between the present and recent Chicago past is also evident in some of his positions on major national issues. Many national politicians, including Clinton, have moved toward the center over time. But Obama’s transitions are still quite fresh. A questionnaire from his 1996 campaign indicated more blanket opposition to the death penalty, and support of abortion rights, than he currently espouses. He spoke in support of single-payer health care as recently as 2003. Like many of the most extreme figures from the 1960s Ayers and Dohrn are ambiguous figures in American life. They disappeared in 1970, after a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance. Both have written and spoken at length about their pasts, and today he is an advocate for progressive education and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; she’s an associate professor of law at Northwestern University. But — unlike some other fringe figures of the era — they’re also flatly unrepentant about the bombings they committed in the name of ending the war, defending them on the grounds that they killed no one, except, accidentally, their own members. Dohrn, however, was jailed for less than a year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating other Weather Underground members’ robbery of a Brinks truck, in which a guard and two New York State Troopers were killed. “I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times in 2001. And their rehabilitation in establishment circles, even in Hyde Park, has its limits. Though he is a respected figure in liberal educational circles, Ayers wrote recently about how in 2006 he was informed he was persona non grata at a progressive educators’ conference in the summer of 2006. “We cannot risk a simplistic and dubious association between progressive education and the violent aspects of your past,” he quoted the conference organizers, whom he described as friends, as writing to him. But the couple has been embraced, by and large, in the liberal circles dominating Hyde Park politics. “Bill Ayers is one of my heroes in life,” said Sam Ackerman, a longtime local activist. “I knew Tony Rezko, and he ain’t no Rezko.” But others in Hyde Park, whose intellectual and political life revolves around the University of Chicago, view the couple with ambivalence. “I feel very uncomfortable with their past, but neither of them is thought of as horrible types now — so far as most of us know, they are legitimate members of the community,” said Cass Sunstein, a University of Chicago law professor who has known Obama since the early 1990s and supports his campaign. “Not only is Obama the opposite pole from radicals like Ayers and Dohrn at least as one point were, he’s not a conventional left liberal by any means,” he said. Others are less inclined to even consider forgiveness. “Ayers was a terrorist. Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist. Ayers has never offered one word of apology — he glories in it, thinks it’s terrific. And that to me is not what I would call acceptable or mainstream behavior,” said Dan Polsby, a former law professor at Northwestern who is now dean of George Mason University Law School. “If Obama takes a different view on that — well, OK, that’s data about Obama.” On Thursday, Ayers spoke at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he refused to answer questions from Politico about his relationship with Obama. Dohrn did not respond to a message left at her office. Obama’s campaign dismisses the notion that his relationship with Ayers should be seen through the lens of the latter’s violent past, or his present lack of regret for the bombings. “Sen. Obama strongly condemns the violent actions of the Weathermen group, as he does all acts of violence,” said Obama’s press secretary, Bill Burton. “But he was an 8-year-old child when Ayers and the Weathermen were active, and any attempt to connect Obama with events of almost 40 years ago is ridiculous.” He described Ayers as “a professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago and a former aide to Mayor Richard J. Daley,” referring to printed reports that he had “advised” Daley on school reform. As Bloomberg News reported recently, Obama and Ayers have crossed paths repeatedly in the last decade. In 1997, Obama cited Ayers’ critique of the juvenile justice system in a Chicago Tribune article on what prominent Chicagoans were reading. He and Ayers served together on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago for three years starting in 1999. In 2001, Ayers also gave $200 to Obama’s state Senate reelection campaign. Many details of the 1995 meeting are shrouded by time and by Obama’s and Ayers’ refusals to discuss it. The exact date is not known, but it was in the second half of 1995, before Palmer’s decision — late in her losing congressional primary against Jesse Jackson Jr. — to jump back into the special election for her state Senate seat. (Her decision produced a rift between her and Obama, who was able to get her thrown off the ballot on technical grounds.) “That’s too long ago — that’s ancient history,” Palmer said, when asked of the meeting. Dr. Young and another guest, Maria Warren, described it similarly: as an introduction to Hyde Park liberals of the handpicked successor to Palmer, a well-regarded figure on the left. “When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,” Warren wrote on her blog in 2005. “They were launching him — introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread.” Contacted by e-mail, Warren declined to describe the meeting further and later blogged of her concern that Republicans would use accounts of the event for “left-baiting.” Young described the gathering as a matter of “due diligence” for Palmer to introduce her chosen successor to constituents. “Many of us knew him already,” he said. They, like others in his old Chicago world, now consider him a bit too “conservative” for their liking, as Warren wrote recently. Ackerman, the Hyde Park activist, complained of his votes for continued funding for the Iraq war. “A lot of people were very angry when he voted to fund the war,” he said. “But any candidate running for president is going to strive for broader appeal and move more to the center — I don’t believe that Barack has departed from his basic principles.” Dr. Young said, however, that he isn’t supporting either of the leading presidential candidates because he is a single-issue voter, and the issue is single-payer health care. He said he was disappointed that Obama is “equivocating” on his support for single-payer health care, after saying in the past that he supported it. But he said Obama’s style — “cautious, deliberate, defensive” — was also familiar from the senator’s Hyde Park days. “In fairness, there’s no double dealing,” he said. “It’s part of his stated strategy: He wants to get maximum unity.” Stringer Andrew Lipkowitz contributed to this story. Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide By: Jeffrey Ressner Feb 22, 2008 04:20 PM EST Updated: February 23, 2008 09:51 AM EST Michelle Obama's senior year thesis at Princeton University, obtained from the campaign by Politico, shows a document written by a young woman grappling with a society in which a black Princeton alumnus might only be allowed to remain "on the periphery." Read the full thesis here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. "My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before," the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction. "I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second." The thesis, titled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" and written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, in 1985, has been the subject of much conjecture on the blogosphere and elsewhere in recent weeks, as it has been "temporarily withdrawn" from Princeton's library until after this year's presidential election in November. Some of the material has been written about previously, however, including a story last year in the Newark Star Ledger. Obama writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to her "further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant." During a presidential contest in which the term "transparency" has been frequently bandied about, candidates have buried a number of potentially revealing documents and papers. In Hillary Rodham Clinton's case, there's been a clamoring for tax records, White House memos and other material the candidate's team has chosen to keep from release. The 96-page Princeton thesis, restricted from release by the school's Mudd Library, has also been the subject of recent scrutiny. Earlier this week, commentator Jonah Goldberg remarked on National Review Online, "A reader in the know informs me that Michelle Obama's thesis ... is unavailable until Nov. 5, 2008, at the Princeton library. I wonder why." "Why a restricted thesis?" asked blogger-pastor Louis Lapides on his site Thinking Outside the Blog. "Is the concern based on what's in the thesis? Will Michelle Obama appear to be too black for white America or not black enough for black America?" Attempts to retrieve the document through Princeton proved unsuccessful, with school librarians having been pestered so much for access to the thesis that they have resorted to reading from a script when callers inquire about it. Media officers at the prestigious university were similarly unhelpful, claiming it is "not unusual" for a thesis to be restricted and refusing to discuss "the academic work of alumni." The Obama campaign, however, quickly responded to a request for the thesis by Politico. The thesis offers several fascinating insights into the mind of Michelle Obama, who has been a passionate advocate of her husband's presidential aspirations and who has made several controvesial statements, including this week's remark, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country." That comment has fueled debate on countless blogs, radio talk shows and cable news for days on end, causing her to explain the statement in greater detail The 1985 thesis provides a trove of Michelle Obama's thoughts as a young woman, with many of the paper's statements describing the student's world as seen through a race-based prism. "In defining the concept of identification or the ability to identify with the black community," the Princeton student wrote, "I based my definition on the premise that there is a distinctive black culture very different from white culture." Other thesis statements specifically pointed to what was seen by the future Mrs. Obama as racially insensitive practices in a university system populated with mostly Caucasian educators and students: "Predominately white universities like Princeton are socially and academically designed to cater to the needs of the white students comprising the bulk of their enrollments." To illustrate the latter statement, she pointed out that Princeton (at the time) had only five black tenured professors on its faculty, and its "Afro-American studies" program "is one of the smallest and most understaffed departments in the university." In addition, she said only one major university-recognized group on campus was "designed specifically for the intellectual and social interests of blacks and other third world students." (Her findings also stressed that Princeton was "infamous for being racially the most conservative of the Ivy League universities.") Perhaps one of the most germane subjects approached in the thesis is a section in which she conveyed views about political relations between black and white communities. She quotes the work of sociologists James Conyers and Walter Wallace, who discussed "integration of black official(s) into various aspects of politics" and notes "problems which face these black officials who must persuade the white community that they are above issues of race and that they are representing all people and not just black people," as opposed to creating "two separate social structures." To research her thesis, the future Mrs. Obama sent an 18-question survey to a sampling of 400 black Princeton graduates, requesting the respondents define the amount of time and "comfort" level spent interacting with blacks and whites before they attended the school, as well as during and after their University years. Other questions dealt with their individual religious beliefs, living arrangements, careers, role models, economic status, and thoughts about lower class blacks. In addition, those surveyed were asked to choose whether they were more in line with a "separationist and/or pluralist" viewpoint or an "integrationist and/or assimilationist" ideology. Just under 90 alums responded to the questionnaires (for a response rate of approximately 22 percent) and the conclusions were not what she expected. "I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility." Yes, the debate really rolls into ONE conclusion that HILLARY IS A WELL SPOKEN, SEASONED, SAVY, KNOWLEDGEABLE, AFFECTIONATE, PASSIONATE, A REAL FIGHTER , WITH SUBSTANCE, SMART, INTELLIGENT, AND MOST OF ALLL SHE IS THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT AND WHO WUOLD DIE FOR US , WHO LIVES TO HER CALL, BEING A PUIBLIC SERVANT BY HEART!

Congratulations AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKS AND I APPLAUD YOU OF YOUR SINCERE INTENTIONS ENDORSING SENATOR CLINTON.

SPEAKING OD THE DEBATE, THAT HAND SHAKE AND HER LAST WORDS REALLY STRUCK ME OF HOW GENUINE THIS WOMAN IS..THAT MADE ME HURTENED BY THE MEDIA, PUNDITS, NETWORKS, NEWSPAPERS HOW THEY TREAT THIS LADY WHO IS WELL RESPECTED BY MANY AND CONTRIBUTED A LOT IN OUR COUNTRY AND ELSEWHERE.
IN THAT HAND SHAKE, WITH ALL THE ATTACKS HER RIVAL IS DISTRIBUTING VIA EMAIL AND FYERS ONLY CONFIRMED THAT HER RIVAL, OBAMA IS MERELY RIDING ON TO THE BUZZ OF HIS CAMPIGN AND BEHIND THIS SMAILE, RHETORIC AND HAND SHAKE , IF YOU LOOK DEEPER, THAT’S REAL OBAMA!

I AM A PROUD AMERICAN..AND THIS IS NOT TRUE FOR B. OBAMA AND HIS WIFE MICHELLE…I THOUGHT THEY RE OPEN FOR TRANSPARENCY, BUT WHERE IS IT ..THE CONTROVERSIAL “THESIS” ENTITLED RACIAL DIVISIVENESS” IS ONLY OPEN FOR PUBLIC(WHAT’S THIS?) COME NOV 2008 (WAKE ME UP!), AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF OBAMA WITH THE WEATHERMEN GROUP.TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO YOU, TO ALL YOUR READERS, TO ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE AND STUDENTS OF YOUR UNIVERSITY,

BELOW ARE THE ARTICLES FROM POLITICO.COM WORTH DIGGING ABOUT OBAMA/S!..THEIR PATRIOTISM,HOW THEY PAY WITH POLITICS AND A LOT MORE!

ONE CAN ONLY GET THE TRUTH BY SKINNING HIS SKIN/WORDS/ACTIONS!
IT’S NOT TOO LATE YET!

YES, I AM SENATOR CLINTON’S SUPPORTER AND PLEASE MAKE A DIFFERENCE…LET YOUR VOICES HEARD BY SUPPORTING HER..BEING ACTIVE IN HER CAMPAIGNS!..SHE NEEDS YOU…YOUR VOTE IS CRUCIAL…SENATOR CLINTON IS A FIGHTER, WILL JOURNEY WITH YOU/US..WILL WORK FOR/WITH US…SHE WILL BE A PUBLIC SERVANT FOR LIFE TO US BECAUSE SHE LOVES US, SHE LOVES AMERICA..SHE ID COMMITTED AND DETERMINED TO GIVE US A QUALITY OF LIFE WE DESERVE..SHE IS A FIGTHER..WITH GOLDEN HEART!

YOUR NEWSPAPER, STUDENT BODY WILL BE A GREAT CHANNEL TO ALL OTHER UNIVERSITIES, STUDENTS TO BE AWAKENED OF THE TRUTH BEHIND OBAMA…ANOTHER THOUGHT WORTH CONSIDERING, OBAMA CLAIMED HE HAS THE MONEY, THE BUZZ MEANS PAYING MONEY TO THE BUZZERS THAT’S WHY HE PROTECTS HIS INTENET DONORS AND IN MY WILD WONDERMENT, ONE PERSON ABLE TO CARRY MANY TIMES IN HUGE DONATIINS,,,WHO WILL TRACE IT, RIGHT!
HE HAS HAVING A GREAT RIDE WITH THE YOUNG PEOPLE BUT PUTTING HIM IN THE NOMINATION AND WHITE HOUSE IS THE MOST SCARY DECISION ONE WILL MAKE BECAUE HE ONLY WANTS THE VOTES NOTHING MORE …AMERICA WILL BE WORST !

ARTICLES:
Obama once visited ’60s radicals
By: Ben Smith
Feb 22, 2008 01:09 AM EST

Former radical activist Bernardine Dohrn and her companion William Ayers leave court in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1981. Dohrn received a $1,500 fine and three years probation for her role in the ‘Days of Rage’ disturbance in Chicago in 1969.
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.

Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from a man in the Hyde Park left to one closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president.

“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”

Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.

Obama’s connections to Ayers and Dorhn have been noted in some fleeting news coverage in the past. But the visit by Obama to their home — part of a campaign courtship — reflects more extensive interaction than has been previously reported.
Neither Ayers nor the Obama campaign would describe the relationship between the two men. Dr. Young described Obama and Ayers as “friends,” but there’s no evidence their relationship is more than the casual friendship of two men who occupy overlapping Chicago political circles and who served together on the board of a Chicago foundation.

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But Obama’s relationship with Ayers is an especially vivid milepost on his rise, in record time, from a local official who unabashedly reflected a very liberal district to the leader of national movement based largely on the claim that he can transcend ideological divides.

In one sense, Obama’s journey toward the cultural and political center is not unusual among national politicians. But its velocity is.

Politicians of an earlier generation had their own relationships with figures now far to their left. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for instance, interned at a radical San Francisco law firm while in law school.

On the other side of the political spectrum, many in the generation before hers shifted dramatically on civil rights. John McCain voted against creating a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and later called that a mistake.

The relationship with Ayers gives context to his recent past in Hyde Park politics. It’s milieu in which a former violent radical was a stalwart of the local scene, not especially controversial.

It’s also a scene whose liberal ideological features — while taken for granted by the Chicago press corps that knows Obama best — provides a jarring contrast with Obama’s current, anti-ideological stance. This contrast between past and present — not least the Ayers connection — is virtually certain to be a subject Republican operatives will warm to if Obama is the Democratic nominee.

The tension between the present and recent Chicago past is also evident in some of his positions on major national issues. Many national politicians, including Clinton, have moved toward the center over time. But Obama’s transitions are still quite fresh.

A questionnaire from his 1996 campaign indicated more blanket opposition to the death penalty, and support of abortion rights, than he currently espouses. He spoke in support of single-payer health care as recently as 2003.

Like many of the most extreme figures from the 1960s Ayers and Dohrn are ambiguous figures in American life.

They disappeared in 1970, after a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.

Both have written and spoken at length about their pasts, and today he is an advocate for progressive education and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; she’s an associate professor of law at Northwestern University.

But — unlike some other fringe figures of the era — they’re also flatly unrepentant about the bombings they committed in the name of ending the war, defending them on the grounds that they killed no one, except, accidentally, their own members.

Dohrn, however, was jailed for less than a year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating other Weather Underground members’ robbery of a Brinks truck, in which a guard and two New York State Troopers were killed.

“I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times in 2001.

And their rehabilitation in establishment circles, even in Hyde Park, has its limits.

Though he is a respected figure in liberal educational circles, Ayers wrote recently about how in 2006 he was informed he was persona non grata at a progressive educators’ conference in the summer of 2006.
“We cannot risk a simplistic and dubious association between progressive education and the violent aspects of your past,” he quoted the conference organizers, whom he described as friends, as writing to him.

But the couple has been embraced, by and large, in the liberal circles dominating Hyde Park politics.

“Bill Ayers is one of my heroes in life,” said Sam Ackerman, a longtime local activist. “I knew Tony Rezko, and he ain’t no Rezko.”

But others in Hyde Park, whose intellectual and political life revolves around the University of Chicago, view the couple with ambivalence.
“I feel very uncomfortable with their past, but neither of them is thought of as horrible types now — so far as most of us know, they are legitimate members of the community,” said Cass Sunstein, a University of Chicago law professor who has known Obama since the early 1990s and supports his campaign.

“Not only is Obama the opposite pole from radicals like Ayers and Dohrn at least as one point were, he’s not a conventional left liberal by any means,” he said.

Others are less inclined to even consider forgiveness.

“Ayers was a terrorist. Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist. Ayers has never offered one word of apology — he glories in it, thinks it’s terrific. And that to me is not what I would call acceptable or mainstream behavior,” said Dan Polsby, a former law professor at Northwestern who is now dean of George Mason University Law School. “If Obama takes a different view on that — well, OK, that’s data about Obama.”

On Thursday, Ayers spoke at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he refused to answer questions from Politico about his relationship with Obama.

Dohrn did not respond to a message left at her office.

Obama’s campaign dismisses the notion that his relationship with Ayers should be seen through the lens of the latter’s violent past, or his present lack of regret for the bombings.

“Sen. Obama strongly condemns the violent actions of the Weathermen group, as he does all acts of violence,” said Obama’s press secretary, Bill Burton. “But he was an 8-year-old child when Ayers and the Weathermen were active, and any attempt to connect Obama with events of almost 40 years ago is ridiculous.”

He described Ayers as “a professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago and a former aide to Mayor Richard J. Daley,” referring to printed reports that he had “advised” Daley on school reform.

As Bloomberg News reported recently, Obama and Ayers have crossed paths repeatedly in the last decade. In 1997, Obama cited Ayers’ critique of the juvenile justice system in a Chicago Tribune article on what prominent Chicagoans were reading. He and Ayers served together on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago for three years starting in 1999. In 2001, Ayers also gave $200 to Obama’s state Senate reelection campaign.

Many details of the 1995 meeting are shrouded by time and by Obama’s and Ayers’ refusals to discuss it.

The exact date is not known, but it was in the second half of 1995, before Palmer’s decision — late in her losing congressional primary against Jesse Jackson Jr. — to jump back into the special election for her state Senate seat. (Her decision produced a rift between her and Obama, who was able to get her thrown off the ballot on technical grounds.)

“That’s too long ago — that’s ancient history,” Palmer said, when asked of the meeting.

Dr. Young and another guest, Maria Warren, described it similarly: as an introduction to Hyde Park liberals of the handpicked successor to Palmer, a well-regarded figure on the left.

“When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,” Warren wrote on her blog in 2005. “They were launching him — introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread.”

Contacted by e-mail, Warren declined to describe the meeting further and later blogged of her concern that Republicans would use accounts of the event for “left-baiting.”

Young described the gathering as a matter of “due diligence” for Palmer to introduce her chosen successor to constituents. “Many of us knew him already,” he said.

They, like others in his old Chicago world, now consider him a bit too “conservative” for their liking, as Warren wrote recently.

Ackerman, the Hyde Park activist, complained of his votes for continued funding for the Iraq war.

“A lot of people were very angry when he voted to fund the war,” he said. “But any candidate running for president is going to strive for broader appeal and move more to the center — I don’t believe that Barack has departed from his basic principles.”

Dr. Young said, however, that he isn’t supporting either of the leading presidential candidates because he is a single-issue voter, and the issue is single-payer health care.

He said he was disappointed that Obama is “equivocating” on his support for single-payer health care, after saying in the past that he supported it. But he said Obama’s style — “cautious, deliberate, defensive” — was also familiar from the senator’s Hyde Park days.

“In fairness, there’s no double dealing,” he said. “It’s part of his stated strategy: He wants to get maximum unity.”

Stringer Andrew Lipkowitz contributed to this story.

Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide
By: Jeffrey Ressner
Feb 22, 2008 04:20 PM EST
Updated: February 23, 2008 09:51 AM EST
Michelle Obama’s senior year thesis at Princeton University, obtained from the campaign by Politico, shows a document written by a young woman grappling with a society in which a black Princeton alumnus might only be allowed to remain “on the periphery.” Read the full thesis here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

“My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before,” the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction. “I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.”

The thesis, titled “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community” and written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, in 1985, has been the subject of much conjecture on the blogosphere and elsewhere in recent weeks, as it has been “temporarily withdrawn” from Princeton’s library until after this year’s presidential election in November. Some of the material has been written about previously, however, including a story last year in the Newark Star Ledger.

Obama writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to her “further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.”

During a presidential contest in which the term “transparency” has been frequently bandied about, candidates have buried a number of potentially revealing documents and papers. In Hillary Rodham Clinton’s case, there’s been a clamoring for tax records, White House memos and other material the candidate’s team has chosen to keep from release. The 96-page Princeton thesis, restricted from release by the school’s Mudd Library, has also been the subject of recent scrutiny.

Earlier this week, commentator Jonah Goldberg remarked on National Review Online, “A reader in the know informs me that Michelle Obama’s thesis … is unavailable until Nov. 5, 2008, at the Princeton library. I wonder why.”

“Why a restricted thesis?” asked blogger-pastor Louis Lapides on his site Thinking Outside the Blog. “Is the concern based on what’s in the thesis? Will Michelle Obama appear to be too black for white America or not black enough for black America?”

Attempts to retrieve the document through Princeton proved unsuccessful, with school librarians having been pestered so much for access to the thesis that they have resorted to reading from a script when callers inquire about it. Media officers at the prestigious university were similarly unhelpful, claiming it is “not unusual” for a thesis to be restricted and refusing to discuss “the academic work of alumni.”

The Obama campaign, however, quickly responded to a request for the thesis by Politico. The thesis offers several fascinating insights into the mind of Michelle Obama, who has been a passionate advocate of her husband’s presidential aspirations and who has made several controvesial statements, including this week’s remark, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.” That comment has fueled debate on countless blogs, radio talk shows and cable news for days on end, causing her to explain the statement in greater detail The 1985 thesis provides a trove of Michelle Obama’s thoughts as a young woman, with many of the paper’s statements describing the student’s world as seen through a race-based prism.

“In defining the concept of identification or the ability to identify with the black community,” the Princeton student wrote, “I based my definition on the premise that there is a distinctive black culture very different from white culture.” Other thesis statements specifically pointed to what was seen by the future Mrs. Obama as racially insensitive practices in a university system populated with mostly Caucasian educators and students: “Predominately white universities like Princeton are socially and academically designed to cater to the needs of the white students comprising the bulk of their enrollments.”

To illustrate the latter statement, she pointed out that Princeton (at the time) had only five black tenured professors on its faculty, and its “Afro-American studies” program “is one of the smallest and most understaffed departments in the university.” In addition, she said only one major university-recognized group on campus was “designed specifically for the intellectual and social interests of blacks and other third world students.” (Her findings also stressed that Princeton was “infamous for being racially the most conservative of the Ivy League universities.”)

Perhaps one of the most germane subjects approached in the thesis is a section in which she conveyed views about political relations between black and white communities. She quotes the work of sociologists James Conyers and Walter Wallace, who discussed “integration of black official(s) into various aspects of politics” and notes “problems which face these black officials who must persuade the white community that they are above issues of race and that they are representing all people and not just black people,” as opposed to creating “two separate social structures.”

To research her thesis, the future Mrs. Obama sent an 18-question survey to a sampling of 400 black Princeton graduates, requesting the respondents define the amount of time and “comfort” level spent interacting with blacks and whites before they attended the school, as well as during and after their University years. Other questions dealt with their individual religious beliefs, living arrangements, careers, role models, economic status, and thoughts about lower class blacks. In addition, those surveyed were asked to choose whether they were more in line with a “separationist and/or pluralist” viewpoint or an “integrationist and/or assimilationist” ideology.

Just under 90 alums responded to the questionnaires (for a response rate of approximately 22 percent) and the conclusions were not what she expected. “I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility.”

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Comment on Post-debate reflections by jennifer http://dailytexanblogs.com/2008/02/22/post-debate-reflections/#comment-47 jennifer Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:13:55 +0000 http://dailytexanblog.wordpress.com/?p=148#comment-47 Obama Propaganda Barack Obama is using the same tactics that Hiltler used. 1) Bitterness against the current events of the past 7 years 2) Change propaganda 3) Programmed, promising every supporter something 4) Attacks opponents, twisting the race factor to make the others look like they used it. 5) Personal qualities, his self belief that leads people to believe in what he says 6) Support by elite class in business, media and government. The current democratic society propaganda is more sophisticated and more elaborate due to it’s invisibility and not easily identifiable. It does not need a coordinator because it is self sustaining system. The reality of the media is that it is not accessible to everyone. It is controlled by government and the principal corporations. Why, because they have the money, authority, and power. Hegemonic ideology tries to legitimate the current society by its institutions and model of life. It is easier to change the minds of people when they think they have made the decision themselves. Quoting Gramsci, mass media does not define a new reality but rather allow those in power of society to represent themselves. The media reflects the power of the elites. The mass media has been compared to the influence that the role of the Church had in the Middle Ages. The media picks and chooses what they want the masses to see, leaving out that they don’t want known. The mass media sets the viewpoint by emphasizing the importance of or lack of importance of issues. This sets the agenda of what people talk about. Herman and Chomsky have said before raw news becomes news it must pass through a series of five filters; 1. Size, concentrated ownership, owner wealth, profit orientation of dominate mass media firms; 2. Primary source of income for mass media is advertising; 3. Reliance of government, business, experts funded and approved by them to give mass media the approved information; 5. Anti-communism as a national religion and control mechanism. The power of the U.S. propaganda system lies in its ability to mobilize an elite consensus, to give the appearance of democratic consent, and to create enough confusion, misunderstanding, and apathy in the general population to allow elite programs to go forward (Herman, 1996). An independent mind must seek to separate itself from official doctrine, and from the criticism advanced by its alleged opponents; not just from the assertion of propaganda system, but from its tacit presuppositions as well, expressed by critic and defender. (Chomsky, 1982) The aim of a new propaganda is to convince people to love their “slavery”, confusing it with freedom (Huxley, 1958). In this context it is difficult to open the eyes of people, because they have learned to love this way of life. Obama Propaganda

Barack Obama is using the same tactics that Hiltler used.
1) Bitterness against the current events of the past 7 years
2) Change propaganda
3) Programmed, promising every supporter something
4) Attacks opponents, twisting the race factor to make the others look like they used it.
5) Personal qualities, his self belief that leads people to believe in what he says
6) Support by elite class in business, media and government.
The current democratic society propaganda is more sophisticated and more elaborate due to it’s invisibility and not easily identifiable. It does not need a coordinator because it is self sustaining system. The reality of the media is that it is not accessible to everyone. It is controlled by government and the principal corporations. Why, because they have the money, authority, and power. Hegemonic ideology tries to legitimate the current society by its institutions and model of life. It is easier to change the minds of people when they think they have made the decision themselves. Quoting Gramsci, mass media does not define a new reality but rather allow those in power of society to represent themselves. The media reflects the power of the elites.
The mass media has been compared to the influence that the role of the Church had in the Middle Ages. The media picks and chooses what they want the masses to see, leaving out that they don’t want known. The mass media sets the viewpoint by emphasizing the importance of or lack of importance of issues. This sets the agenda of what people talk about.
Herman and Chomsky have said before raw news becomes news it must pass through a series of five filters; 1. Size, concentrated ownership, owner wealth, profit orientation of dominate mass media firms; 2. Primary source of income for mass media is advertising; 3. Reliance of government, business, experts funded and approved by them to give mass media the approved information; 5. Anti-communism as a national religion and control mechanism.
The power of the U.S. propaganda system lies in its ability to mobilize an elite consensus, to give the appearance of democratic consent, and to create enough confusion, misunderstanding, and apathy in the general population to allow elite programs to go forward (Herman, 1996).
An independent mind must seek to separate itself from official doctrine, and from the criticism advanced by its alleged opponents; not just from the assertion of propaganda system, but from its tacit presuppositions as well, expressed by critic and defender. (Chomsky, 1982)
The aim of a new propaganda is to convince people to love their “slavery”, confusing it with freedom (Huxley, 1958). In this context it is difficult to open the eyes of people, because they have learned to love this way of life.

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Comment on Post-debate reflections by jennifer http://dailytexanblogs.com/2008/02/22/post-debate-reflections/#comment-46 jennifer Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:07:59 +0000 http://dailytexanblog.wordpress.com/?p=148#comment-46 The cult like following of Barack Obama isn't new. Just like in Germany, Hitler was there to rile up the masses with powerful speeches. If you compair what Obama is saying to that of Hilter's speeches it's alarming. Just Like Jim Jones had the power over seemingly educated people they drank the kool aid. We are so desperate for a change that the preaching marxist style speeches of Obama has excited many. For those who have college degrees, I'm confussed. Did you not learn about marxism? Look at his body language. Look how,like Pres.Bush, he has a swager and smerk about him. Ego and arrogance gets us no where. Obama's cousin in Kenya lost his bid at becoming President. Now there is killings going on because he was the leader of the opposition party who didn't win. Barack when over to Kenya to support his cousin and it made the current government very upset but what he had said. People of Africa and Indonesia believe that Barack (Barry) changed his faith from Islam (muslim) to Christian to run for the presidency and that once you are muslim you are always muslim. This goes to the Church Obama belongs to. The rev. (Obama's mentor) believe's Louis Farrikhan is a great man. I know that the educated know who Louis Farrikhan is and what a crazy person he is. The media bias has been so onesided I've had to resort to the internet to get news that has any integrity. MSNBC and CNN will not post my comments because my comments are anti-Obama. Beware of what you wish for you just may get it. What is it that you are getting? Obama you say is not like the other candidates. You are right. He is worse, because he is giving false hope of change when he is giving nothing but the same old stolen rhetoric from the 60's and dirty political tricks from his machine. We have a short memory so his rhetoric is working great. It's a good thing some of us haven't fallen for it. I don't need a preacher I need a President. Again it looks like the Democratic Party is going to shoot itself again and pick the candidate who is going to loose. At least I can say that I didn't support Barack Obama. When something seems too good to be true it usually is. The cult like following of Barack Obama isn’t new. Just like in Germany, Hitler was there to rile up the masses with powerful speeches. If you compair what Obama is saying to that of Hilter’s speeches it’s alarming. Just Like Jim Jones had the power over seemingly educated people they drank the kool aid.

We are so desperate for a change that the preaching marxist style speeches of Obama has excited many. For those who have college degrees, I’m confussed. Did you not learn about marxism? Look at his body language. Look how,like Pres.Bush, he has a swager and smerk about him. Ego and arrogance gets us no where.

Obama’s cousin in Kenya lost his bid at becoming President. Now there is killings going on because he was the leader of the opposition party who didn’t win. Barack when over to Kenya to support his cousin and it made the current government very upset but what he had said.

People of Africa and Indonesia believe that Barack (Barry) changed his faith from Islam (muslim) to Christian to run for the presidency and that once you are muslim you are always muslim. This goes to the Church Obama belongs to. The rev. (Obama’s mentor) believe’s Louis Farrikhan is a great man. I know that the educated know who Louis Farrikhan is and what a crazy person he is.

The media bias has been so onesided I’ve had to resort to the internet to get news that has any integrity. MSNBC and CNN will not post my comments because my comments are anti-Obama.

Beware of what you wish for you just may get it. What is it that you are getting? Obama you say is not like the other candidates. You are right. He is worse, because he is giving false hope of change when he is giving nothing but the same old stolen rhetoric from the 60’s and dirty political tricks from his machine. We have a short memory so his rhetoric is working great. It’s a good thing some of us haven’t fallen for it. I don’t need a preacher I need a President.

Again it looks like the Democratic Party is going to shoot itself again and pick the candidate who is going to loose. At least I can say that I didn’t support Barack Obama. When something seems too good to be true it usually is.

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