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Obama calls on his Internet campaign army to march again
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WASHINGTON
President-elect Barack Obama’s 3 million campaign volunteers got re-enlistment notices this week.
Campaign manager David Plouffe, in a mass e-mail sent Wednesday to former workers, asked how much time they can spare for four missions integral to Obama’s effort to transform his victory into a broader political movement.
The volunteers’ options are, Plouffe wrote:
* Campaign for progressive state and local candidates
* Undertake grassroots local efforts to advance Obama’s agenda
* Train others in Obama’s organizing techniques
* Focus on local political issues.

“Obama’s building a political machine,” said Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution, a center-left Washington research group.

“These people have just opened up a new world for politics,” added Hess, the author of “What Do We Do Now?: A Workbook for the President-Elect.”

Pre-Internet presidents, he said, lacked the ability to communicate in real time with masses of their volunteers. In addition, the social networks such as MySpace and Facebook that link Obama’s army together didn’t exist.
The net effect was that pre-Obama political machines grew out of local politics and remained rooted there. Statewide or presidential candidates relied largely on local leaders’ support.
Not so Obama, who, at least for now, has the allegiance of thousands of volunteers in most if not all congressional districts.
“Your hard work built this movement,” Plouffe wrote them. “Now it’s up to you to decide how we move forward.”
His four-page questionnaire also asks respondents to name their top-priority issues out of 27 listed. The options included environment and global warming, civil rights and voting rights, war in Iraq, jobs and trade, or divisive politics and partisanship.
Plouffe also invited volunteers to identify their proudest campaign accomplishment and, separately, to name a fellow volunteer or field organizer who inspired them.
In the hallmark of a campaign that ran on small donations, volunteers are once again invited to make a financial contribution. This time it’s to the Obama-Biden transition effort.

Wild Thing’s comment……….
This calling a campaign a movement all comes from Obama and I see the word “movement” continues on. This scares the hell out of me, it is chilling.
Never have I heard a politician refer to his primary, campaign or his getting elected as a movement. Not in the United States of America anyway. Sure we have heard it used in third world counties but NOT HERE!
Obama is mobilizing his brain dead, America haters. He has plans that are huge for our country and not good ones. IMO Obama wants to keep these people revved up and hard at work for him for several reasons.
Here are some of the reasons I can think of:
1. the backlash he has received from his own campaign for picking Hillary Clinton. And his followers too, have been getting upset and reacting on their blogs about the other picks Obama has made as well, They feel he has gone more with the traditional democrats and Hillary was for some of them a big mistake. I have not been there but I got an email from someone that checks out DU ( democrat underground) and KOS and they have been getting restless and ticked off about these choices.
2. the Birth Certificate still unresolved and a slight chance it will not go well for him he needs to have his HO-bama army in place to fight back even in the streets if necessary.
These people are brainwashed, even if presented with facts they will not believe the truth.
One thing the left has all over those of us on the right is they never stop, they never quit or rest or take a break. Bush has been President for 8 years and not one day has gone by that democrats have not been slandering, attacking and putting him down. I watch the political talk shows on TV every night and weekends and this attacking of Bush and Republican is consistent and no let up.
Here is an example of just the other day…. On Fox News Watch they were talking about Obama and the democrat woman, I forget her name she said.. ” well it will be nice to have a President that can read and write.” SHEESH , that is what I mean!! There was no call for that at all. She USED the moment and seized it to slander Bush with a total LIE. And some brain dead idiot sitting at home nodded in agreement and then he/ she felt oh so smart on how they just knew Bush was stupid. ( when Bush is not stupid, he is not a conservative, but he sure as heck is not stupid).
Then we have the Republicans that come on these shows and they refer to the democrats as ” My Friend”, ” he is a friend of mine but I disagree with Sen. so and so ” or, ” We have been friends for years but on this I have to disagree with Congressmen dip shit…”. The weakness of those on our side is pathetic. This kissing up before disagreeing has got to stop for one thing. Grow a pair and fight back or just make an announcement that you have decided to hand over our country to the left while you stand by and watch. OR move out of the way and let those of us tell the left off, let us tell them what we think of them in no uncertain terms, we know the cost of what made our country great even if the Republican. leaders do not!!!!!!!!
And in to this between ACORN, Project Vote, Joe the Plumber investigations of critics, lies and slander galore about Gov. Sarah Palin, campaign finance fraud, voter intimidation, out-of-staters bussed in, vote finding in trunks of cars, and voter intention procedures, friendly Democratic judges, corrupt local officials, biased bureaucrats, flash mobs, a compliant MSM, the Fairness Doctrine, US attorneys, and the Attorney General how exactly could anyone win an election against this? These people do not play by the rules.
Now, on the positive side! LOL Yep you knew I would not just stop on a negative, no way. Not with the glass half full! This is the never give up side here at Theodore’s World, it is how I feel. See writing a rant can and does take that Obama chill right off! Yes sir it does!
Instead of chilling it is challenging. Obama did not win by a landslide, nope. And the ones with the brains are on our side certainly NOT on his. At least if looking at the majority of those who voted for this POS.
And for everyone of Obama supporters that got the email about this, there is an opponent who is not going to join in. So there count of 3 million is not accurate. A lot of us signed up for both Hillary and Obama’s websites just to be able to get their stupid emails during the campaign. LOL And you know what ??? They are still coming in from both Hillary and Obama.
Obama has a lot of people with their hand out. Remember the woman who believed Obama was going to pay her mortgage and said Obama was going to fill her gas tank? LMAO Hello……yabba, dabba ….do!
We have time and it will take time. What sickens me is how we have such weak Republicans in office. I used to think John Boehner was good, and he can be but it seems only every 500 years haha. sheesh. He is more of a rino then a conservative which imo means he is a waste of time.
Thinking in terms only of who I would want in our Foxhole and the life of America depends on it. Hand picked conservatives for sure, kind of like how the men were hand picked for ” Dirty Dozen” only ours are not nuts. LOL
Mick Pence is awesome …so far…. and there are a few others. Sad I have to use the word few but we have to be tuff as nails on who is worth an effort to cheer on. The GOP has become Dem lite so this fighting back when we begin will have to be done by we the people.
Rush Limbaugh said on his show, “that the strategy will take some time to develop, but he’ll begin naming names in the process, i.e. targets.”.
I am not afraid of the terrorists, maybe that is weird but they just don’t scare me they just tick me off. After all, legally we can shoot a terrorist, we can’t shoot a democrat.
The Democrats are what scare me, they are destroying our country and doing it in a way that it might be impossible to fix. I pray that is not true, but it seems like it from what I have seen. So strategy when it happens will have to be well thought out and you know what? Love is a passion just like hate. And we all have LOVE for our country on our side. The democrats only have hate and ugliness. They feed on lies and we feed on truth. Lies are like Chinese food they have to keep coming up with their lies or the masses lose interest and they are hungry for more. Example are the stupid gossip papers at the grocery store.
This is war with the enemy within and it has to be won by conservatives and I believe it will be.

Nihad Awad, Executive Director of CAIR, was served a summons at the CAIR 14th Annual Banquet – onstage – by Dave Gaubatz. The dinner is ongoing and viewers here will be able to see the Youtube video which was edited and uploaded to Youtube immediately after the dessert course.
The keynote speaker is America’s first Muslim member of Congress, Rep. Keith Ellison.

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Surprise! CAIR officials slapped with subpoenas
Terror-linked Muslim lobby’s dinner turns into public relations nightmare
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WASHINGTON – When the Council on American-Islamic Relations held its 14th Annual Banquet at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel tonight, it was planning to raise funds and honor some of its supporters, but instead several top officials of the Muslim lobby group were served with subpoenas for various civil and criminal offenses.
The dramatic surprise, caught on video, was a result of the research work of the Mapping Sharia Project, headed by Dave Gaubatz. He personally served CAIR Director Nihad Awad at the banquet tonight while North Carolina state Sen. Larry Shaw, D-N.C., a CAIR national board member, was addressing the festivities.
Four CAIR clients have filed a federal civil complaint alleging criminal fraud and racketeering against CAIR, a self-described public interest civil rights law firm. The lawsuit also names CAIR’s national leadership as individual defendants.
The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that Morris Days, the “resident attorney” and “manager for civil rights” at the now defunct CAIR MD/VA chapter in Herndon, Va., was in fact not an attorney and that he failed to provide legal services for clients who came to CAIR for assistance and who had paid for CAIR legal services.
While attorney David Yerushalmi represents the four plaintiffs in this particular lawsuit, two of whom are African-American Muslims, the complaint alleges that, according to CAIR internal documents, there were hundreds of victims of fraud scheme by CAIR and Days.
According to the complaint, CAIR failed to conduct a background check on Days prior to hiring him and when the group discovered the fraud, it set about a cover-up.
The suit charges CAIR officials purposefully concealed the truth about Days from their clients, law enforcement, the Virginia and D.C. state bar associations and the media. When CAIR got irate calls from clients about Days’ failure to provide competent legal services, CAIR is charged with fraudulently deceiving clients about Days’ relationship to CAIR, concealing the fact that CAIR had fired him for criminal fraud.
“The evidence has long suggested that CAIR is a criminal organization set up by the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas to further its aims of stealth Jihad in the U.S.,

” Yerushalmi said referring to the fact that CAIR has been named by the federal government as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror financing trial. “But our investigation and this complaint makes clear that CAIR’s criminal activities know no bounds.”

Yerushalmi alleges CAIR has engaged in a massive cover-up of a criminal fraud in which hundreds of CAIR clients have been victimized.
“The fact that CAIR has victimized Muslims and non-Muslims alike demonstrates that CAIR is only looking out for CAIR and its ongoing effort to bilk donors out of millions of dollars of charitable donations thinking they are supporting a legitimate organization,” he said.
It is a very long article and you can read the complete article at wnd…..JUST CLICK HERE.

Wild Thing’s comment………
I LOVE it, finally! CAIR is on the side of terrorists, it’s a front group for terrorist jihadis, and this is such great news what has just happened.
No surprise to see where MUSLIM Rep. Keith Ellison was there as the keynopte speaker. He is NO friend of our country.

5 on the outs in Cabinet shuffle
Politico
The new administration still has some major posts to fill, including heads for the departments of Defense, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Labor and Energy, not to mention the Environmental Protection Agency. But a number of the biggest prizes seem to have already been won, and a handful of serious contenders already been passed over in the speed-dating game that is the Obama transition.
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John Kerry Massachusetts senator and former Democratic presidential nominee was a passionate, articulate and early supporter of Obama, a fixture on both conference calls and the Sunday talk show circuit. Kerry’s people say he never had any expectations of being named secretary of State but other Democrats say he made no secret of his Foggy Bottom aspirations.

“He’s crushed,” said one Senate aide. Kerry would have been a fine pick, sources say, but Obama apparently had his eye on Hillary Clinton since the early fall.”

He does get an impressive consolation prize: the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee vacated by Joe Biden.

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Wild Thing’s comment……….
LOL Kerry, is that the guy that said he was in Vietnam? Now Kerry knows how his medals felt, when he tossed them over the fence. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
He is crushed??? Oh noooooooo Does this mean he has to be given another purple heart?
Yo Kerry, H0-bama is elected now and really your services aren’t needed anymore. See you all in 4 years. Looks like Obama made a whole bunch of promises to everyone who now are finding out they’ve been had.

Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon
NY Times….for complete article
Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors.
The figures detailing Iran’s progress were contained in a routine update on Wednesday from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been conducting inspections of the country’s main nuclear plant at Natanz. The report concluded that as of early this month, Iran had made 630 kilograms, or about 1,390 pounds, of low-enriched uranium.
Several experts said that was enough for a bomb, but they cautioned that the milestone was mostly symbolic, because Iran would have to take additional steps. Not only would it have to breach its international agreements and kick out the inspectors, but it would also have to further purify the fuel and put it into a warhead design — a technical advance that Western experts are unsure Iran has yet achieved.

“They clearly have enough material for a bomb,” said Richard L. Garwin, a top nuclear physicist who helped invent the hydrogen bomb and has advised Washington for decades. “They know how to do the enrichment. Whether they know how to design a bomb, well, that’s another matter.”

Wild Thing’s comment…..
No problem, Barack will hold an unconditional meeting with them and they’ll hand it over. It’s easy! I know ‘cause “the One” told me so.

Produce the Dog Gone Birth Certificate
Rev.James David Manning tells people to support Alan Keyes and others who are demanding to see if Barack Hussein Obama is eligible to be President. Message was preached on Saturday, 15 November 2008.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Remember this guy? I posted one of his videos another time during the Primary, he is hilarious but he also makes his point as he speaks.

Musician Kid Rock new music video for the National Guard entitled “Warrior,” which is being played in movie theaters all around the country. The video features an appearance by race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., singing by Kid Rock and images of the National Guard.

Kid Rock said the question is not why he does it, “but how can you not?”

He said that every second with the troops is overwhelming. “They give their best every day, … and we absolutely must give them our best,” he said.

“Being with the troops puts life in perspective, the rocker said, adding that he is proud of what the servicemembers do and wants to pay them back for their sacrifices. “The whole experience has been incredible,” he said. “I’ll do it to the day I die, so long as I am needed.”

Lyrics to Warrior:
WARRIOR
YEAHHHHHH
So Dont Tell Me Who’s Wrong And Right When Liberty Starts Slipping Away
And If You Aint Gonna Fight Get Out Of The Way
Cuz Freedom Is So Free When You Breathe Red White And Blue I’m Givin’ All Of Myself Cuz Thats What I Do
And They Call Me Warrior
They Call Me Loyalty
They Call Me Ready To Provide Relief And Help I Wherever You Need Me To Be
I’m an American Warrior
Citizen Soldier
I’m an American Warrior
Citizen Soldier
Ahhhhh Yeahhhhh
Citizen Soldier
I’d Never Leave Another Behind I Will Never Accept Defeat I’m A Soldier In War Civilian In Peace Cuz Freedom Is So Free When You Breathe Red White And Blue I’m Givin’ All Of Myself How Bout You
And They Call Me Warrior
They Call Me Loyalty
And They Call Me Ready To Deploy, Engage And Destroy, Wherever You Need Me To Be
I’m An American Warrior Citizen Soldier
I’m An American Warrior Citizen Soldier
Warrior Citizen Soldier
Warrior Citizen Soldier
Ohhhhhhh Yeahhhhhh

Wild Thing’s comment……..
This is great and I love how much Kid Rock supports our troops. He has been to see them several times.

… Thank you John for sending this to me.

The ambassador of Kenya says that obama was born in Kenya and that his birth place has become a national shrine.
You can also to the original recording ……………..Listen to the recording here
The quote is around 12:35, so if you don’t have time to listen to the whole thing, you can jump ahead.

“We recently called the Kenyan Embassy and learned some pretty interesting things about our President elect, Barack Obama . THIS CALL IS 100% REAL!”

The transcript reads:
Radio Jockey: President elect Obama’s birth place over in Kenya — is that going to be a national spot where he was born
Ambassador: its already an attraction. his paternal grandmother is still alive
Radio Jockey: his birth place…they’ll put up a marker there
Ambassdor: its already well known.

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A few articles coming in about Obama’s birth certificate:
Obama’s Birth Certificate Challenger Keeps Going
Forbes.com for completel article
You’ve got to hand it to Philip J. Berg: he doesn’t give up easily. You might recall that Philadelphia attorney Berg tried, and failed, to halt the presidential election of Barack Obama on the grounds that he is not a native-born citizen. Game over, right? Wrong.
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Berg responds that nowhere does the press release say this original certificate is actually American. Instead, he says, the certificate in Hawaii’s vaults is from Kenya.

Hawaii’s answer to this will surely fuel more fires. “Unfortunately the way state laws are written we are not allowed to confirm vital information and vital records,” said Janice Okubo, a spokeswoman for Hawaii’s department of health. “I cannot confirm individual information because that is against the law.”

Wild Thing’s comment………
Kenyan Ambassador to DC, plainly admits Obama was born in Kenya and that the location of his birth is “already an attraction” and that a monument may be built there by the government.
And it is good to see Forbes picking up on this now too.
I have heard on various radio shows that Obama has spent at least $200,000 then I also heard it was $800,000 in legal fees to avoid producing the birth certificate. So not sure which amount is correct. Maybe it was the first amount which I heard a few months ago and the lastest amount is what it has grown to in trying to fend off the lawsuits.
Friday night on FOX, Geraldine Ferraro said on Fox that “hopefully” Obama will be officially president in a short period of time. Odd wording.
Why is it so important for him to lie to the world? What exactly is his agenda? Is all this pre-planned to further rip this country in half with him gaining 50 to 80 million followers from multiple countries and come out as a dominate Muslim dictator? Far fetched? Maybe and maybe not, one thing for sure we have him in other lies he has told, and on this one it has to do with our Constitution and it is extremely important to know.
If the Constitution of the US is not worth defending , then nothing is. If we wish to preserve the republic, than we had best let the chips fall, and then sort them out as to who would be President etc.
All this drama has come about because this lying crypto-marxist thug from the most corrupt environs of leftist Chicago sewer politics has ascended to POTUS-elect status with the willing aquiescence of the MSM. The MSM was hell-bent on concealing this usurper’s background because they wanted him to be elected.
I expect no less then Obama to follow the rules, to obey what our Constitution has set up for rules of running for President.
The arrogance and effrontery of this lying bastard is breathtaking. The founders knew that they were not natural born citizens, so they had to include language in Art II Sec 1 that exempted THEM. Does this fraud think that he is better than Washington, Madison, Adams, and Jefferson in that sense? Apparently he does, and with the acquiesence of enough people, he will suceed in usurping and corrupting the Executive Branch of government. This situation presents the very real posssibility of impelling this great nation beyond a constitutional crisis toward a civil war.
Something to consider as well, the implications of a man who would undertake these devious machinations to knowingly assume an office that he has no constitutional claim to, and than to see this same counterfeit president elect take an oath to defend that constitution. I believe that such a man would be willing to impose ANY sort or despotism or tyranny upon us to retain power.
And one more thing to share with you. I called a Constitutional lawyer on Friday and asked about this. I took some notes and will put them here.
The Founders of this nation, who wrote it’s constitution and led the revolution, were also dual citizens. They acknowledged that they were inelegible to run for president because of that BRITISH citizenship, and lack of natural born status. So they created the clause 5 of Article II, sec I that grandfathered them in. But note the portion that says, it applies to CITIZENS (formerly British and not natural born) “at the time of the adoption of this constitution”. That means that no one alive can claim this exemption.
From the moment of his birth, Hussein had an actionable claim of citizenship against the British government passed onto him thru his father as a kenyan citizen. Consider this from Obama’s own website:

“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”

He has admitted to the dual citizenship status that the founders had.
The Framers wanted to make themselves eligible to be President, but they didn’t want future generations to be Governed by a Commander In Chief who had split loyalty to another Country. The Framers were comfortable making an exception for themselves. They did, after all, create the Constitution. But they were not comfortable with the possibility of future generations of Presidents being born under the jurisdiction of Foreign Powers, especially Great Britain and its monarchy, who the Framers and Colonists fought so hard in the American Revolution to be free of.
Due to the circumstances of his birh, Hussein is FOREVER ineligible without a constitutional amendment.
The fact that he never acted upon his Brit citizenship and let it expire is irrelevant.

There are some things that will be frightening to have her in charge of, and there are some perks in the duties that she will take full advantage of.
DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
FACT SHEET
Bureau of Public Affairs
Washington, DC
January 22, 2001
Under the Constitution, the President of the United States determines U.S. foreign policy. The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the President’s chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President’s foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service of the United States.
Created in 1789 by the Congress as the successor to the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of State is the senior executive Department of the U.S. Government. The Secretary of State’s duties relating to foreign affairs have not changed significantly since then, but they have become far more complex as international commitments multiplied. These duties—the activities and responsibilities of the State Department—include the following:
* Serves as the President’s principal adviser on U.S. foreign policy;
* Conducts negotiations relating to U.S. foreign affairs;
* Grants and issues passports to American citizens and exequaturs to foreign consuls in the United States;
* Advises the President on the appointment of U.S. ambassadors, ministers, consuls, and other diplomatic representatives;
* Advises the President regarding the acceptance, recall, and dismissal of the representatives of foreign governments;
* Personally participates in or directs U.S. representatives to international conferences, organizations, and agencies;
* Negotiates, interprets, and terminates treaties and agreements;
* Ensures the protection of the U.S. Government to American citizens, property, and interests in foreign countries;
* Supervises the administration of U.S. immigration laws abroad;
* Provides information to American citizens regarding the political, economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian conditions in foreign countries;
* Informs the Congress and American citizens on the conduct of U.S. foreign relations;
* Promotes beneficial economic intercourse between the United States and other countries;
* Administers the Department of State;
* Supervises the Foreign Service of the United States.
In addition, the Secretary of State retains domestic responsibilities that Congress entrusted to the State Department in 1789. These include the custody of the Great Seal of the United States, the preparation of certain presidential proclamations, the publication of treaties and international acts as well as the official record of the foreign relations of the United States, and the custody of certain original treaties and international agreements. The Secretary also serves as the channel of communication between the Federal Government and the States on the extradition of fugitives to or from foreign countries.

Wild Thing’s comment………
I had never actually read what all the duties are, besides the obvious ones. I thought I would share it with all of you as well.

This photo was taken when Obama had to show up to listen to General Petraeus on his report about how the war was going. I find it disgusting beyond belief, how little respect he shows to General Petraeus . I will never forget this pos look of his, never! — Wild Thing

LI school renamed for Barack Obama
Newsday
At a meeting Thursday night, the five-member Hempstead school board voted unanimously to rename one of its schools Barack Obama Elementary School, said Superintendent Joseph Laria.
The change was effective immediately, although the district does not have a new sign yet. The school, formerly called Ludlum Elementary School, is on William Street in Hempstead.
School staff and students, who participated in mock presidential and vice presidential debates before the Nov. 4 election, initiated the request to rename the school, Laria said.
The move could herald a name wave — schools, streets, parks, people — following Obama’s historic rise to the presidency.
The five-member board passed the resolution unanimously:

“Whereas … the students did a wonderful job of carrying out their tasks and demonstrating their patriotism at an early age …now be it resolved that the (board members) proudly rename the Ludlum Elementary School as the Barack Obama Elementary School.”

The new name will appear on a sign in front of the building and on stationery, “hopefully before Christmas,” at a cost of several thousand dollars to the district, Laria said.

The change will be formalized at a ceremony sometime in December. School officials are hoping Gov. David Paterson can attend. The state’s first black governor graduated from Hempstead High School.
The prime minister of the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda has said he’s taking measures to have Boggy Peak renamed Mount Obama. In Portland, Ore., students want to rename Clark K-8 At Binnsmead school. Elsewhere on Long Island, the Clear Stream Avenue School in Valley Stream will consider a renaming resolution in December. And parents already have been naming newborns Barack.
In Opa-locka, Florida, the city council is considering naming a street after Obama, as well, the Miami Herald reports.

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing an idiot. waaaa can’t we send him back to his relatives??!!
This is really getting out of control. I posted about the Metro cards yesterday, he had his own stupid seal during the election trying to Play a President on TV as they say in the movies, and his plane on his trip Obama tour with no flag only his ugly seal on it.
I mean good grief couldn’t they wait until he actually had ACHIEVED something?
Will they fly a flag with 57 stars?

….Thank you Les for the article.

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A special thank you to all our military for your many sacrifices you have made and continue to make. You are all in our thoughts and prayers every day.
This is just a small tribute and thank you to all of you as we look at some of the past images of Operation Iraqi Freedom and celebrate Victory In Iraq Day because of YOU! The following images are all things I have saved along the say over the years of Operation Iraqi Freedom. You can also note the dates on many of the write ups as well. — Wild Thing and all of Team Theodore

Sending in the REAL Inspectors

Baghdad or Bust

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Remember Baghdad Bob? LMAO

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The troops who drove full speed straight to the heart of the matter in one of the most amazing combat movements in history. Rock of the Marne. 3rd ID

3rd Infantry Division advance into southern Iraq
On March 19, 2003, President Bush announced orders to begin the operation to free the Iraqi people from the tyrannical ruler, Saddam Hussein. The next day elements of the 3rd ID (Mechanized) moved to the Iraqi border. By April 3, the 3rd Infantry Division entered Saddam International Airport and by the next day it was renamed the Baghdad International Airport. On April 5, the 3rd ID stunned the world with television images of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles storming the streets of Baghdad in a probing action known as the first of two “Thunder Runs.” The second Thunder Run moved the 2nd Brigade Combat Team into the government center of Baghdad. A decision to stay inside the city created a need for fuel and supplies. Division logistic personnel mounted an effort to resupply the 2nd BCT in the hostile streets of Baghdad as they held the foothold on the banks of the Tigris River, reminiscent of the Division’s historic stand at the Marne River during World War I. As the 3rd ID expanded and tightened control of Baghdad and the 1st Marine Expeditionary Unit choked off Iraqi resistance on the east side of the city, Iraqi resistance crumbled. The division returned to Ft. Stewart in August 2003 and by 2004 was selected as the first division in the Army to be organized under the new modular system. In January 2005, the division returned to Iraq and led U.S. and coalition forces in Baghdad. The 1st and 3rd Brigades of the division supported the 42nd Division in Northern Iraq. The hard work created conditions for a secure Iraqi election and transfer of power to the first democratically elected national government in Iraq. The Division served with its coalition partners during Operation Iraqi Freedom III for a year before returning to Georgia in January 2006.

F-15E Strike Eagle carrying some serious ordinance

March21, 2003
A U.S. marine standing on his military vehicule drives past a portrait of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in Safwan, southern Iraq, Friday, March 21, 2003. Allied troops were advancing through the deserts of southern Iraq Friday after launching the war’s ground assault, meeting resistance from Iraqi forces in some areas and soldiers surrendering in others.

Marine heroes crossing the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

A Marine of the U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Fox Company ‘Raiders’ removes a portrait of Iraqi’s President Saddam Hussein at the entrance to Iraq’s main port of Umm Qasr on March 21, 2003. US and British ground forces launched assaults into Iraq in a bid to topple Saddam Hussein.

A Marine of the U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Fox Company ‘Raiders’ replaces the Iraqi flag at the entrance to Iraq’s main port of Umm Qasr on March 21, 2003 with the Stars and Stripes and the flag of the Marine Corps. U.S. Marines briefly raised the Stars and Stripes flag over the new port area of Umm Qasr on Friday after facing tougher than expected resistance in and around the southern Iraq port. Some time later, Marines returned and removed the Stars and Stripes. No reason was given for the decision, but Washington has consistently stressed that invading U.S. forces want toliberate Iraq, not occupy it.

Heroes101stAirborneDivision

A U.S. B-52 bomber named Iron Butterfly taxis to the runway before take-off from Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford in Gloucestershire, March 21, 2003. The bombers took off from western England

To Baghdad

Polish special forces and U.S. Navy Seals pose for pictures under a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the port of Umm-Qasr in southern Iraq after arriving to hand over to U.S. control some captured Iraqis on March 23, 2003. Some U.S. soldiers are missing in the fighting in Iraq and possibly being held as prisoners, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan

In Karbala, mail call, with a hero on break enjoying perfumed personal mail

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This has awesome photography of our troops fighting the terrorists!
It is called ” Bombs Over Baghdad! “

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United States Marines CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopters land at a forward area refueling point in southern Iraq to fill up their tanks before continuing missions Friday, March 28, 2003. After several days of suspended dust and sandstorms which halted most helicopter missions, clear skies on Friday allowed the aircrafts to return to the skies. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Marine in sand storm

Marines sleeping in mud

1stLt Alison, Capts Heather and Waynetta, and Senior Airman Lyndi