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Not exactly what Senator Obama needed right now.

Obama’s minions removed the endorsement from the webpage, but lucky for us, DoublePlusUndead has a screen shot.

Obama’s Betrayal of His Grandmother

For some, the quest for power is all encompassing. Even smearing a close member of your family is fair game if it somehow relieves you of explaining some of your more shady associations.

Barack Obama’s recent speech, which was nothing more than an attempt to extinguish the fires of the Jeremiah “God damn America” Wright controversy, was a missed opportunity. Obama could have come out smelling like a rose and could have rose above the racial anger that pollutes politics.

He could have given a speech that could have solidified his nomination for President.

Linda Chavez’s Friday column at Townhall:

The speech, which attempted to quell the furor surrounding his spiritual advisor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, presented an opportunity for Obama to tackle the real issue facing blacks today, which has little to do with race. But instead, Obama fell back on the tired formulas of the past.

He began with a stunningly inappropriate example of moral equivalence: “I can no more disown [Wright] than I can my white grandmother … a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.” Never mind that Obama didn’t choose his grandmother but did choose his church and spiritual mentor. Wright’s racist paranoia and repeated, vicious, public denunciations of America — for example, that our government created AIDS in a laboratory in a genocidal plot to infect blacks — are hardly the same as the occasional prejudiced remark voiced privately.

But more fundamentally, Obama avoided dealing in any meaningful way with the single most important issue facing the black community — the breakdown of the black family. And this issue, and its consequences, explains far more about the failure of blacks to thrive today than racism or lack of social spending.

Nearly seven in 10 black babies are born to single mothers today. These children will fail in school at higher rates than those born to two parents. They are more likely to become involved in criminal activity. Their poverty rates will be higher. And they are far more likely to repeat this pattern by giving birth to or fathering a child out of wedlock themselves.

Barack Obama could talk about this problem in a personal way. While his parents were married, his African father abandoned his mother in his infancy and he was raised primarily by his white grandparents, including the grandmother whom he admits is “a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world.”

But instead of confronting the problem at the core of the black/white economic divide, he chose to repeat the litany of liberal explanations. Even while acknowledging the role of welfare policies in the erosion of black families, his main emphasis was on “[a] lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one’s family. … The lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods — parks for kids to play in, police walking the beat, regular garbage pick-up and building code enforcement — all helped create a cycle of violence, blight and neglect that continue to haunt us.”

[Obama] chose to try to explain away black racism and rehash racial grievances, both black and white. Ironically, given Sen. Obama’s problems with his own church, hundreds of black churches and faith-based organizations around the country are involved in efforts to encourage marriage, including some in Chicago. Obama could have proven himself a genuinely courageous leader had he been involved in this effort.

Obama the Myth, that media constructed sand castle now facing an ocean of truth, is finally falling apart. For all the talk of this man being a new kind of politician, he is more of the same. That American liberals are so easily persuaded by this great speaker and a very eloquent man tells you much about the infant state of politics in America. Substance no longer matters.

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The Media’s Obsession with “Recession”

Dan Gainor, director of the Business & Media Institute, discussed the media’s obsession with talk of an economic “depression” in an appearance on the Fox Business Network.

And if you don’t believe that the media is still trying to do what they did in 1992, exaggerate and exaggerate the condition of the economy, check out this outlandish story from CNN.