Latest Hail Mary From John McCain Tries To Tie Sen. Barack Obama to Rashid Khalidi

Here is a passage from the Washington Post that I think has a strong relationship to this issue of the overblown association Republicans are attempting to draw between Sen. Barack Obama and Columbia University professor of Arab studies Rashid Khalidi.

Here is the Washington Post passage:

“It turns out that McCain is treading on tricky ground when he cites the Khalidi case as an example of Obama consorting with terrorist sympathizers. The Obama campaign was quick to point out that an organization co-founded by Khalidi has received large sums of grant money from the International Republican Institute, chaired by McCain since 1993. One such grant was for $448,873 in 1998 to assist the Center for Palestine Research and Studies in its work in the West Bank.”

This Washington Post article (linked to below) comes across as fair and balanced (Fox News, are you paying attention?). I would encourage people to get the facts before they start spouting off about people being associated with terrorists so we know the full extent and we present both sides of an issue. I hear people talk about Sen. Obama’s associations with terrorists, but why are the Republicans/conservatives (and even some liberals) so silent or go into excuse-making mode in regard to Sen. McCain’s associations with G. Gordon Liddy? Why do Sen. McCain and his people talk about Sen. Obama’s meager association with Khalidi, but then make every excuse in the world for their financial support of Khalidi? I encourage all people utilizing guilt-by-association politics to examine all sides of an issue or an association and to examine the issues and associations regarding all candidates. Those who do fairly look at both sides may indeed bear witness to the hypocrisy that exists in their hearts and minds.

Washington Post:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/10/john_mccains_trick_or_treat.html?hpid=topnews

More Racial Politics From Republican Group Desperately Trying Anything To Obstruct History And Progress

Talking Points Memo posted a video of a Republican/conservative man, a black man, talking about how he is not going to vote for Sen. Barack Obama just because he is black. It is another Hail Mary attempt by a party that apparently feels as if it is in serious trouble looking toward the upcoming presidential election – now just days away. People who are hardcore advocates of Republican Sen. John McCain strike out big time with this ham-handed effort to try and sway black voters (and perhaps white voters as well) from voting for Sen. Obama just because he is black. Are they willing to call that both ways or are they in favor of a double standard? How about if we put them to the test. We know there are a lot of white Americans out there who have expressed in interview after interview that they are not comfortable with voting a black man president of the United States of America. If you don’t believe me, I encourage you to look for yourself on YouTube. Now, will these advocates of Sen. McCain’s come out with a video urging people to follow those same words and not vote for a white man just because he is white and just because all of our presidents are white? The group that sponsors this ad is an organization called “Let Freedom Ring.” If this group is truly about voting for people on the Dr. Martin Luther King ideals it used as the basis of this video, then maybe they will produce the video I’ve suggested. I am going to go out on a limb and say: “I doubt it.”

Talking Points Memo:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Discredited Belief Sen. Barack Obama Is A Muslim Is One Of The Excuses Many Racists Use To Not Vote For Obama

I am going to come flat out and say it: I strongly believe that people who cling to the ridiculous and discredited notion that Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim are likely one of three things – racist, dumb or a combination of the two. Why do so many people act as if being a “Muslim” or being an “Arab” is some kind of a bad thing and why do they use “Muslim” and “Arab” as if they are slurs? The Houston Chronicle published a story with research that came to the following conclusion: A poll finds that 23 percent of Texans think that Sen. Obama is a Muslim. The results of the poll are a perfect example of what happens when people look for reasons, any reasons, to hate another individual. Haters of Sen. Obama will cling to anything possible that makes him look bad – even if it is foolish, reckless, dangerous, divisive and racist. This Obama-is-a-Muslim thing is utter foolishness by people who have been brainwashed into racist thought patterns by a steady drum of GOP messaging designed to divide the American people through fear and smear. Since 9/11, there has been growing racism toward Muslims and Arabs and it is probably not all that unlike the nastiness toward Communism during the McCarthy era and the racism against Asians during much of World War II. This Obama-is-a-Muslim garbage is amazing considering he spent so much time at a Christian church (the former church of the controversial Jeremiah Wright … a man many people try to use as a weapon against Sen. Obama). This is one of the reasons many conservatives insist on referring to Sen. Obama’s middle name. They do not do it out of respect or because they feel it is his name. They do it to put fear in the hearts of many white Americans who might harbor some uneasiness about the history that would be a big part of electing a black man as the next president of the United States.

Houston Chronicle:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6084678.html

Talking Points Memo Shows Republican Campaign To Suppress Voter Turnout

Anyone truly interested in the exposure of acts of voter intimidation and voter suppression from Republicans fighting to keep turnout down should visit this Talking Points Memo Web page. As we know, Republicans are feeling backed into a bit of a corner by the rolling tide of history as Sen. Barack Obama has a strong shot to become the first black president of the United States. Republicans, I believe, continue to be in a state of angry denial about how tough this race for the presidency has been for Sen. John McCain. Few, if any, Republicans thought they would be entangled in this kind of a fight. Now, with Election Day fast approaching, the willingness to do whatever it takes to stop Sen. Obama is relentless. The Republicans have thrown an issue-based campaign out the door and putting all their money, hopes and dreams on the prayer that there is some kind of big scandal that they can use to tear down Sen. Obama since the GOP has struggled to compete with him on issues and policies.

Talking Points Memo:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/republican_voter_suppression_a.php

Dennis Prager: Not All People Are Created Equal

You have to love Think Progress. The good people at Think Progress was all over this right-wing comment from conservative mouthpiece Dennis Prager:

Equality, which is the primary value of the left, is a European value, not an American value.Let me tell you that right now. I know this sounds offensive to half of my fellow Americans, because they have been Europeanized in their values. The French Revolution is not the American Revolution. The French Revolution said Liberty, Fraternity, Equality. The American Revolution said Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We have lost touch with what our distinctive American values are. We have distinctive American values. … We have a better value system, and this is being protected by one of the two parties: the Republican party.

As Think Progress points out, Prager might have missed the class when the Declaration of Independence was discussed.

We might refer Prager to this passage from the Declaration of Independence:

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

Hypocritical Sen. John McCain Has Nerve To Blast Sen. Barack Obama For Media Confrontations

Boy, Sen. John McCain never ceases to amaze (not always in a good way) withhis ability to criticize other people (namely Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden) for things that he already has done. This time, Sen. McCain went on Fox News for some more cream puff interviews (his free version of an infomercial, one that Sen. Obama will have to pay for, with conservative hypocrite Sean Hannity serving as the master of ceremonies). Sen. McCain professes to be shocked that Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden have had issues with conservative members of the media. Of course, once again, Sen. McCain’s failing memory lets him down. Sen. McCain has had his own share of troubles with the media.

Here are some examples cited by Think Progress:

– Last month, the McCain campaign barred New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd from flying on both the McCain and Palin press planes.

– Time Magazine’s Joe Klein revealed last week that he too had been barredfrom traveling with the McCain campaign, telling Politico’s Michael Calderone that the campaign began freezing him out after he asked McCain an uncomfortable question about foreign policy.

– During the Republican National Convention, McCain canceled an appearance on CNN’s Larry King Live after CNN’s Campbell Brown persistently asked flustered McCain flack Tucker Bounds about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s foreign policy experience and qualifications.

– When Newsweek wrote a cover story in May examining the hardball tactics conservatives might use in the general election, the McCain campaign “threatened to throw the magazine’s reporters off the campaign bus and airplane.”

So, apparently freezing out the media or having hostile exchanges with the media is OK when it’s the bid, bad liberal media picking on poor John or poor Sarah. But, when Barack or Joe are being blasted the Republicans feel like it is deserved and the questions are just tough questions. When Sen. McCain or Gov. Palin refuse to work with certain media it’s OK, but when Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden do it then it is indicative of what their administration would be like. More Republican hypocrisy. Sen. McCain’s puzzling rant came a day after the king of player haters, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, made the same head-scratching charge against Sens. Obama and Biden. 

Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/29/mccain-boycott-media/

Charles Barkley:Fox News Is “Fucked Up”

Former NBA All-Star player and current Turner broadcaster Charles Barkley had some less than kind things to say about Fox News and it’s obvious right-wing bias. Barkley, who is planning to run for governor of his home state of Alabama in 2014 had this to say about his views on cable news: “I watch CNN, they’re not fucked up like Fox,” Barkley told B&C (Broadcasting & Cable). “They are a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. I watch [Fox] a couple times when there is someone I want to see on there. But they’re corrupt.” CNN and TNT are all under the same parent company, but Barkley denies that has anything to do with his less-than-flattering comments about Fox News, a right-wing outfit fighting to undercut the candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama, who is working to become the first black president in the history of the United States. ”Hell no, I don’t. I like Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper and John King. They at least try to give both sides.” Fox News came back and tried to attack Barkley as someone who is just sticking up for CNN (one of the family) and working right now because of his gambling addiction. Nice try, Fox. Some of us, however, are not buying that attempted comeback from a network that routinely works in the interests of the Republicans. Actually, I think Barkley’s comments are less about sticking up for one of the family and more about calling out Fox News for being a conservative outfit that rarely calls it right down the middle with its stories and its commentary. Too often, Fox News has shown itself to be on a crusade to elect Sen. John McCain and to trash Sen. Barack Obama and derail his bid to make presidential and United States history.

Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/29/charles-barkley-fox-news-_n_138820.html

“Socialist” Sen. Barack Obama Had The Nerve To Want To Share Toys And Sandwiches With Others When He Was Young

Sen. Barack Obama has been called just about every name in the book by Republicans who are swinging away in desperation to try and derail the tide of United States presidential history. Sen. Obama is being called a socialist, a communist, a leftist, a liberal, a Muslim, an Arab and more by player-hatin’ Republicans who are obsessed in their efforts to retain their position in the White House. The socialist one is interesting to me since a lot of Republicans supported a form of socialism in the form of the recent Wall Street bailout (as just one of many examples I could cite). Here is a recent comment from Sen. Obama, while in North Carolina, on being referred to as a communist by those extremists from the right wing of the political spectrum: “Now, because he knows that his economic theories don’t work, he’s been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately he’s called me a socialist for wanting to roll-back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don’t know what’s next. By the end of the week he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.” In the eyes of Republicans, it’s wrong for hard-working kids who have earned their toys to share with lazy, shiftless kids who do not work as hard and do not have the finer things because they simply don’t work hard enough. Of course, the real problem to our Republicans, is that Sen. Obama has the audacity to want to do something to help those who work hard, but maybe are less fortunate.

Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/29/obama-sharpens-tone-again_n_138915.html

Joe the Plumber Now A Republican Expert On Foreign Policy

The noted foreign policy expert Joe Wurzelbacher, who many of you may know better by the name ”Joe the Plumber,” on Tuesday came out in support of an audience member at a rally for Sen. John McCain that, according to the Fox News Web site, ”a vote for Barack Obama is a vote for the death to Israel.” Joe the Plumber who has progressed from a plumber to a foreign-policy expert practically representing the campaign of Sen. John McCain, is one of the strangest rises to fame in recent political memory. Joe the Plumber, who supposedly was just an average everyday guy who got sucked into the political storm after his conversation with Sen. Barack Obama, is milking his 15 minutes of fame for all its worth. Even though he has gone well beyond his allotted 15 minutes, he continues to fill up our television screen and induce headaches with his name being invoked far too often on the campaign trail. The questioner was supposedly a “Jewish senior citizen,” according to the Fox News Web site, and was “concerned” about Sen. Obama. Well, if he spends a lot of time watching Fox News, he probably would be concerned about Sen. Obama. Here is another memorable package from Joe the Plumber who also appears to be “going rogue” in pursuit if maximizing his celebrity status, “‘I’m honestly scared for America,’ Joe said (so am I when a guy like this is quoted on policy, foreign or domestic). ‘I love America. I hope it remains a democracy, not a socialist society. … If you look at spreading the wealth, that’s honestly right out of Karl Marx’s mouth. No one can debate that. That’s not my opinion. That’s fact.’” What is a fact is that Fox News is taking its marching orders from the Republican Party as the GOP has been working hard to pimp Joe the Plumber for its own political purposes to try and attack Sen. Obama.

Fox News:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/28/joe-plumber-backs-claim-obama-bring-death-israel/

Think Progress Notes Fox News Silence On Scandal Of Sen. Ted Stevens

Think Progress also chimed in on the deafening silence of conservative Fox News on the seven-count guilty verdict of long-time Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska. That verdict came down on Monday and the hosts of the right-wing-leaning Republican shows were silent. The focus of highly conservative hosts like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity centered on trying to tear down Sen. Barack Obama in his historic bid to become the first black president of the United States. O’Reilly and Hannity are among the conservatives who appear repulsed by the concept of Sen. Obama becoming President Obama and are fighting it with everything they have to fight with these days. Here is an excerpt from the Think Progress story, ”The story got heavy airtime on MSNBC and CNN’s prime-time programs, with Campbell Brown and Rachel Maddow each devoting multiple segments to the story. Notably silent on the issue, however, were Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, neither of whom discussed the senator’s case at all during their prime-time shows last night.” Are we really surprised by the actions of conservative mouthpieces like O’Reilly and Hannity?

Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/28/fox-silent-stevens/

Fox News Ignores Sen. Ted Stevens Scandal To Continue To Pursue Its Agenda and Vendetta Against Sen. Barack Obama

Fox News (through its ministers of Republican propaganda) has an agenda to paint Sen. Barack Obama, the Democrat running for president, as too liberal, a tax-and-spender, anti-American, Marxist, communist, socialist, dangerous candidate for president of the United States. So single-minded in their focus, Fox News has chosen to relatively speaking ignore the seven-count conviction of Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens by a federal jury. Sen. Stevens was convicted of making false statements on Senate ethics forms as he attempted to hide hundreds of dollars in gifts and work on his Alaska home from an oil contractor, according to a CNN Web site article. It is amazing Fox News chooses to practically ignore this scandal (probably because Sen. Stevens is from Alaska and has strong associations with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin). This, of course, does not fit the image that Fox News has tried to portray of Gov. Palin. Plus, why would Fox News spend much time talking about a legitimate and historic Republican scandal when it can continue its crusade to nail Sen. Barack Obama with fabricated and exaggerated scandals designed to politically cripple his candidacy for president?

CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/28/stevens.verdict/index.html

Obama Spokesman Bill Burton Justifiably Calls Out Wickedly Biased Fox News For Being John McCain’s Ministers Of Propaganda

I must commend Bill Burton, fighting back against the right-wing agenda of Fox News in doing everything within its power to rehabilitate the campaign of Sen. John McCain while while gleefully playing the role of obstructionists to history they detest: the possibility of Sen. Barack Obama putting a Democrat back in the White House and giving the United States of America its first black president. Burton stood strong on his opinions of Fox News blatant bias even as Megyn Kelly, who is in the tank for the Republican party, tried defiantly to shout him down as if he was some kind of disobedient slave. Burton maintained his composure even as Kelly ventured well beyond the bounds of professionalism and decency in “journalism” or the Fox News perversion of the once proud occupation.

Here is the statement Burton published that had Kelly throwing a kindergarten-type fit:

“This is a fake news controversy drummed up by the all too common alliance of Fox News, the Drudge Report and John McCain, who apparently decided to close out his campaign with the same false, desperate attacks that have failed for months.  In this seven year old interview, Senator Obama did not say that the courts should get into the business of redistributing wealth at all. Americans know that the real choice in this election is between four more years of Bush-McCain policies that redistribute billions to billionaires and big corporations and Barack Obama’s plan to help the middle class by giving tax relief to 95% of workers and companies that create new jobs here in America.  That’s the change we need, and no amount of eleventh-hour distractions from the McCain campaign will change that,” said Obama-Biden campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

It’s great to see the Democrats and independents beginning to call Fox News channel out on its blatant pro-McCain bias. Many independent-thinking Americans and Democrats in America are repulsed by the prime-time bias that sees hour after hour of Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren trashing the Democrats and promoting Republicans. We know that Fox and Friends gets the network off to a fast start in the morning with the freshest Republican talking points. What makes Fox News subpar is the fact that even its news anchors are buying into the Republican talking points and using them as weapons against their Democratic guests.

Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-orton/obama-continues-fox-news_b_138328.html

Tavis Smiley Calls Into Question Gov. Sarah Palin’s record on Diversity

Alaska may be a large geographic state, physically, but that hardly means we could characterize it in any way, shape or form as the model for ethnic diversity. Gov. Sarah Palin does indeed have a lot to answer for in regards to her thoughts on diversity and her record on diversity in the state of Alaska. This was an issue brought up by activist Tavis Smiley, of PBS, in a recent interview he did with Wall Street Journal. Smiley’s comments are interesting because he is not as much in the tank for Sen. Obama as some people might think. There are a lot of misconceptions out there (including that all or most black people get along). Smiley has not always been a huge supporter of Sen. Obama. This is not to say that Tavis Smiley does not support the Illinois senator now … I have no doubt he does. But, his bigger point about diversity issues and how Gov. Palin might feel is important because she could become frighteningly close to becoming president of the United States. 

Here are Tavis Smiley’s comments:

“Sarah Palin has not been asked anything about diversity and inclusion. If you’re going to be a heart beat away from the presidency, it’s important when you’re from Alaska, that we understand what diversity means to you: This is the most multicultural, multiracial, multi-ethnic America ever. And no one should get to the White House in this America without us having a clear understand on where they stand with regard to those kinds of issues. … She’s been asked nothing of the sort. I just don’t get a sense that Sarah Palin understands anything about me, anything about people of color.”

The questions are fair and perhaps now that Gov. Palin has, by even Republican accounts, “gone rogue” … could the answers now be forthcoming?

Will Sarah Palin Be Challenged On Her Associations With Disgraced Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens?

The highly-conservative Fox News has been championing guilt-by-association politics (of course the network has an obvious agenda to tear down Sen. Barack Obama). Clearly, Fox is ignoring Sen. John McCain’s associations with G. Gordon Liddy, Charles Keating, Rod Parsley, John Hagee and others with backgrounds ranging from terrorist/criminal (Liddy) to bigoted and hateful comments (Parsley and Hagee). Those associations do not fit into their choreographed attack on Sen. Obama. But, Monday brought breaking news that Republican Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts of “making false statements on his financial disclosure regarding ‘$250,000 in home renovations and other gifts he received from an oil contractor.’” Sen. Stevens could be headed to the hoosegow as a result of his guilty verdicts. But, what does his conviction mean for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin? Does she have to answer for her associations with the now disgraced Sen. Stevens? Here is a blurb from a Think Progress story, “Sarah Palin has not yet released a statement on the Stevens verdict. Palin once served as director of the 527 group Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc. So far, she has also refused to call for his resignation.” Gee, I wonder if right-wing nuts Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly will give fair coverage of this on Fox News in a fashion similar to what they would do if it was Sen. Obama rather than Gov. Palin? You’re right … I don’t think so either.

Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/27/stevens-guilty/

ATF Busts Up Plot To Assassinate Sen. Barack Obama, Other Blacks

This is a scary story that is just now beginning to circulate around the nation. Apparently, there was a plot being hatched to assassinate Sen. Barack Obama, who is the first black candidate from a major party to make it this close to becoming president of the United States.

Fort Myers News-Press:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SKINHEAD_PLOT?SITE=FLMYR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Fox News Wannabe Attacks Joe Biden Sucks Up To John McCain

Daily Kos got it right when it referred to Barbara West’s interviews with Sen. Joe Biden and Sen. John McCain as an “Audition Reel For Faux News Channel.” I’ll give her credit for multitasking by finding a way not only to do her job, but also to audition for some kind of anchor position with Fox News. Watch how she attacks Sen. Biden with Republican talking points and then underhand tosses marshmallow questions at Sen. McCain.

Here is the passage from Daily Kos:

So you might have heard about Barbara West, that TV anchor from Orlando, Florida who asked Joe Biden some pretty crazy questions (such as whether Barack Obama was preaching Marxism and whether he wanted to turn the U.S. into a socialist nation), but you probably didn’t see the questions she asked John McCain, and you probably didn’t see the real doozy of a question that she asked Biden when they last interviewed, in September.

I’ve put them all together in one highlight reel destined for the desk of some EP at Faux News. I’m not going to spoil the surprise of her Biden question in this post, but if you watch until the end of this clip, you’ll get one helluva’ laugh.

Here’s a hint: it’s a question that by her own admission came from internet rumors (I’ll post a comment for those of you who can’t watch video).

Daily Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/

NBA Star Gets It About Taxes

Normally, professional athletes tend to turn and run screaming in the opposite direction from anything that might require them to take a political stand. It was refreshing to hear some interesting words from one NBA star, Tyson Chandler of the New Orleans Hornets. Chandler was speaking about the issue of taxes and, more specifically, tax breaks that help the middle class. Here is what Chandler wrote: “The way I look at it is that I can afford to pay more in taxes. But my parents, my grandparents, my cousins … with what they make, they can’t afford to cut back in their household with what they’re trying to survive with. I can afford to make cuts and still survive. They can’t take that knock.” Indeed, to whom much is given much is expected. All people work hard, but some people are blessed with a little more good fortune than others (it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’ve worked harder). There are people with advanced college degrees who go into small communities to live and to work not because they’re getting rich, but rather because something inside of them pushes them to give something back to a particular community – perhaps a place where they grew up. Added Chandler: “I think that’s what’s going on now and the reason why the middle class is struggling so much. The upper class, we can take that hit. Obviously, nobody wants to take it, but we still can. And we can afford to live nice lives.” These taxes are not going to in any way, shape or form hamper the lavish lifestyles or big salaries of the rich people who control a disproportionate share of the nation’s wealth while working-class people have to tighten their belts and make tough decisions about health care co-pays, what utility bill will go past due, what groceries can be cut back on, what clothes can be ought for children, how do we put gas in the car and so on. This tax break will not hurt multi-millionaires like right-wing commentators Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly who complain about (tax cuts for the middle class), but are living large. It will not impact the small business owners as long as they are just that – small business owners. Small business  owners are part of the backbone of the country and Sen. Barack Obama’s tax plans recognize that and do not penalize individuals who are small business owners trying to make a go of it and trying to take care of their employees. Chandler, like a lot of these NBA stars who did not necessarily come from rich financial backgrounds, understands what middle-class tax cuts can mean to working-class families who have been hit hardest during the last seven-plus years of President George W. Bush’s economy. Said Chandler: “I’ve lived in both situations. And not only that, I’m obviously the only one in my family that can say that I’m a millionaire. I’ve seen my entire family struggle. So, would I rather see my whole family struggle while I get a break, or have me not get a break while the rest of my family gets one? I’ll take my entire family getting a break.”

Chandler’s blog:
http://my.nba.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5700022375
http://www.blackvoices.com/blogs/2008/10/13/hornets-tyson-chandler-waxes-poetic-on-tax-breaks-for-middle-cl/

A Sports Twist To Sen. Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign

New Oregon State men’s basketball coach Craig Robinson, the brother in law of Sen. Barack Obama, has had an influential role in this historic presidential campaign.

ESPN:
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?categoryId=3286128&brand=null&videoId=3665113&n8pe6c=2