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| 1995 | In his memoir, Obama writes of one of the watershed 
moments of his racial awareness — time and again in remarkable detail. 
It is a story about a Life magazine article that influenced him. The 
report was about a black man who tried to bleach his skin white. When 
Obama was told no such article could be found in Life, he says “it might
 have been Ebony.He is 9 years old, living in 
Indonesia, where he and his mother moved with her new husband, Lolo 
Soetoro, a few years earlier. One day while visiting his mother, who was
 working at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Obama passed time by looking 
through several issues of Life magazine. He came across an article that 
he later would    describe as feeling like an “ambush attack.”The
 article included photos of a black man who had destroyed his skin with 
powerful chemical lighteners that promised to make him white. Instead, 
the chemicals had peeled off much of his skin, leaving him sad and 
scarred, Obama recalled.“I imagine other black 
children, then and now, undergoing similar moments of revelation,” Obama
 wrote of the magazine photos in “Dreams.”Yet      no such photo
 exists, according to historians at the magazine. No such photos, no 
such article. When asked about the discrepancy, Obama said in a recent 
interview, “It might have been an Ebony or it might have been … who 
knows what it was?” (At the request of the Tribune, archivists at Ebony 
searched their catalogue of past articles, none of which matched what 
Obama recalled.)In fact, it is surprising, based 
on interviews with more than two dozen people who knew Obama during his 
nearly four years in Indonesia, that it would take a photograph in a 
magazine to make him conscious of the fact that some people might treat 
him differently in part because of the color of his skin. | 
| 2003 | Barack Obama in 2003,      talking
 to the AFL/CIO:“I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal 
healthcare coverage. That’s what I’d like to see.”In January, 2008, 
Obama claimed in a nationally televised debate:”I never said that we 
should try to go ahead and get single-payer.” | 
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2004 | 
In Obama’s famous DNC 
Convention speech, Obama says, “My father was a foreign student, born 
and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went 
to school in a tin-roof shack. His father — my grandfather — was a cook,
 a domestic servant to the British.”Kezia, Obama Sr.’s first wife tells a story that puts Obama’s account to    lie. 
 
 Kezia said:      In 1955 Obama
 Sr. was 18 and working in an office in Nairobi, when he took Kezia from
 her family at the age of 16. Her father was furious.  “He did not like 
Obama.  My father and brothers came to    Nairobi to bring me back.  
They said I had to go back to school.  “When I wouldn’t, they said they 
would never speak to me again.  “Barack was also worried about what his 
father would think because I was so young, but he gave us his approval. 
Obama’s father (often described as poor) sent my mother and father 14 cows for my dowry.    
 
   Just how can a cook, a domestic servant to the British, provide a dowry    of 14 cattle for Senior’s first wife?  Also, Obama’s father    had been working in a Nairobi office since the age 16, not herding    goats.As an aside, can you imagine if a 
Republican was running for president and it came out that his father had
 bought his first wife for 14 cows???!!!Just wow!! | 
| 2004 | Responding to questions about his intent to serve out the six year    senate term, Obama says, in   this video,    (link removed),    that he will not run for the presidency in four years.Notice:
 The video has disappeared. Using WayBackMachine, I found two links — 
both played empty videos — a lot of stuff is being scrubbed from the 
web.Here is what he said in the video:“I
 think I’ve been very clear. Ah-ah-mumble-mumble, there’s a presidential
 election in four years. I’m not running for president in four years.”Here
 is a backup story — during a meeting with reporters at his Illinois 
campaign headquarters after his election to the U.S. Senate,    he ridiculed
 as “a silly question” whether he would run for president or vice 
president before his term ends in 2011. “I’ve never worked in 
Washington,” he said. “I can unequivocally say I will not be running for
 national office in four years, and my entire focus is making sure that 
I’m the best possible senator on behalf of the people of Illinois.” | 
| 2004 | On July 28th, the day after his speech at the Democratic convention catapulted him into the national spotlight, Barack Obama    told
 a group of reporters in Boston that the United States had an “absolute 
obligation” to remain in Iraq long enough to make it a success.”The 
failure of the Iraqi state would be a disaster,” he said at a lunch 
sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, according to an audiotape of
 the session. “It would dishonor the 900-plus men and women who have 
already died. . . . It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made 
to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a 
national security perspective.”In late winter, 2008, on the campaign 
trail, Obama says he wants to bring the troops home yesterday — you 
decide — was he lying then or is he lying now? | 
| 2006 | On the January 22nd edition of “Meet the Press,” Tim Russert and    Obama had the      following exchange:Russert:
 “When we talked back in November of ‘04 after your election, I said, 
‘There’s been enormous speculation about your political future. Will you
 serve your six-year term as United States senator from 
Illinois?’”Obama: “I will serve out my full six-year term. You know, 
Tim, if you get asked enough, sooner or later you get weary and you 
start looking for new ways of saying things. But my thinking has not 
changed.”Russert: “So you will not run for president or vice president 
in 2008?”Obama: “I will not.” | 
| 2007 | As another example, consider Obama’s      stirring tale
 for the Selma audience about how he had been conceived by his parents, 
Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, because they had been inspired by the 
fervor following the “Bloody Sunday” voting rights demonstration that 
was commemorated March 4. “There was something stirring across the 
country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama,” he said, “because 
some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together 
and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on 
Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama”Obama
 was born in 1961, and the Selma march occurred four years later, in 
1965. The New York Times reported that when the senator was asked about 
the discrepancy later that day, he clarified: “I meant the whole civil 
rights movement.” | 
| 2007 | Obama went on to tell his audience that the Kennedys — Jack and 
Bobby — decided to do an airlift. They would bring some young Africans 
over so that they could be educated and learn all about America. His 
grandfather heard that call and sent his son, Barack Obama, Sr., to 
America.The problem with that    scenario
 is that, having been born in August 1961, the future senator was not 
conceived until sometime in November 1960. So, if his African 
grandfather heard words that “sent a shout across oceans,” inspiring him
 to send his goat-herder son to America, it was not Democrat Jack 
Kennedy he heard, or his brother Bobby, it was Republican President 
Dwight D. Eisenhower.Actually,  Senior was   awarded
 an American sponsored scholarship in economics to the University of 
Hawaii at Manoa. He was selected by a former Kenyan cabinet minister, 
the late  Tom Mboya, who was earmarked as    the successor to  Jomo Kenyatta,   Kenya’s first prime minister.The presumption was that Senior would return to Africa    and use his “Western-honed skills in a new Kenya.” | 
| 2007 | On January 24, the Obama campaign released a statement, saying, “To 
be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a 
Muslim, and is a committed    Christian who attends the United      Church of Christ in Chicago.On March 14th, in a      statement
 to The Times, the Obama campaign offered this statement to correct 
their previous statement, that appears to be a bold-faced lie:”Obama has
 never been a practicing Muslim. The statement added that as a 
child, Obama had spent time in the neighborhood’s Islamic center.”And, 
the original statement began, “To be clear …”So, in three months, 
Barrack’s campaign has gone from describing the U.S. presidential 
hopeful as never having been a Muslim and never having been raised as a 
Muslim to now never having been a practicing Muslim.What’s with the 
semantics?  Statements from Obama’s campaign appear    to have evolved, 
to say the least. | 
| 2007 | On March 25th, the Chicago Tribune reports that an extensive search found no basis for an episode Obama      recounts
 about a picture he ran across in Life magazine of a “black man who had 
tried to peel off his skin” in a failed effort to use chemicals to 
lighten it. Obama writes that “seeing that article was violent for me, 
an ambush attack.”The Tribune continued: “Yet no 
such Life issue exists, according to historians at the magazine. No such
 photos, no such article. When asked about the discrepancy, Obama said 
in a recent interview, “It might have been an Ebony or it might have 
been … who knows what it was?”At the request of 
the Tribune, archivists at Ebony searched their catalogue of past 
articles, none of which matched what Obama recalled.” | 
| 2007 | On March 27th, Obama, tells the crowd at fundraiser ,
 “I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current 
president I actually respect the Constitution.”For
 the record, Obama is a “Senior Lecturer (on leave of absence)” at the 
University of Chicago Law School. He has taught Constitutional Law III: 
Equal Protection and Substantive Due Process, Current Issues in Racism 
& the Law, and Voting Rights & the Democratic Process. | 
| 2007 | On May 8th, Obama, caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech    Tuesday, drastically      overstated
 the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died.”In case you 
missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people
 died — an entire town destroyed,” the Democratic presidential candidate
 said in a speech to 500 people packed into a sweltering Richmond art 
studio for a fundraiser.The death toll was 12. | 
| 2007 | On May 10th, Obama   botched
 his facts in a speech criticizing the U.S. auto industry for “investing
 in bigger and faster cars while foreign competitors invested in more 
fuel-efficient technology.”Obama stated that “while our fuel standards 
haven’t moved from 27.5 miles per gallon in two decades, both China and 
Japan have surpassed us, with Japanese cars now getting an average of 45
 miles to the gallon.” But Toyota, which should know, has responded, “No
 carmaker gets 45 mpg; ours is closer to 30 mpg.”Well, we’re glad to see
 Obama’s shifting the blame from the consumer to the automakers. That 
must explain why the Illinois Senator and Presidential candidate owns a 
HEMI-powered    V8 Chrysler 300C.Obviously it’s Chrysler’s fault Obama    bought a big 5.7-liter engine from them — he just didn’t have a choice. | 
| 2007 | During his 12 years in politics, Sen. Barack   Obama   has received    nearly three times more campaign cash from indicted businessman,
 Tony Rezko and his associates, than he has publicly acknowledged, the 
Chicago Sun-Times has found.Seven months ago, Obama told the Sun-Times 
his “best estimate” was that Rezko raised “between $50,000 and $60,000″ 
during Obama’s political career.However, Obama has collected at least 
$168,308 from Rezko and his circle. Additionally, Obama also has taken 
in an unknown amount of money from people who attended fund-raising 
events hosted by Rezko since the mid-1990s.   Everything you ever wanted to know about Obama and Rezko. | 
| 2007 | Responding to criticism of his disrespect of the flag of the United 
States during the National Anthem, Obama defended himself by saying “My 
grandfather taught me how to say the Pledge of Allegiance when I was 2.”
 He didn’t even remember what he was doing on      September 17th,
 when Obama, Hillary and Bill Richardson attended the Steak Fry of Sen. 
Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) in Indianola, IA.How can he possibly remember what 
happened when he was two years old? | 
| 2007 | On    October 6th,
 Obama accused his fellow American citizens of the indiscriminate murder
 of Iraqi civilians, saying, “And these private (Blackwater USA) 
contractors, they go out and they’re spraying bullets and hitting 
civilians and that makes it more dangerous for our troops.”Obama lies 
with the same ease as the Clintons and proves that he will say anything 
to win the nomination and election. | 
| 2007 | Last fall during a nationally televised presidential debate, Obama 
hesitantly raised his hand and joined with most of his Democratic rivals
 to declare that he opposed decriminalizing marijuana. (first    video).But
 as a candidate for the U.S. Senate four years ago, Mr. Obama told 
Illinois college students that he supported eliminating criminal 
penalties for marijuana use or possession, according to a videotape of a
 little noticed debate that was obtained by The Washington Times.”I 
think we need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws,” Mr. 
Obama told an audience during a debate at Northwestern University in 
2004. “But I’m not somebody who believes in legalization of marijuana.” (second    video).Asked about the two different answers, Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign      said
 he in fact has “always” supported decriminalizing marijuana as he 
answered in 2004, meaning the candidate mistakenly raised his hand 
during the presidential debate last fall. | 
| 2007 | On the 1st of December,      Obama said,   “I’m not running because I’m trying to fulfill some long-held plan.”Oh, really?Iis
 Darmawan, 63, Obama’s teacher in 1970, remembers him as an 
exceptionally tall and curly haired child who quickly picked up the 
local language and had sharp math skills. “He wrote an essay titled, ‘I  Want To Become President,’” the teacher said.In 1971,   Obama’s sister   Maya, has also    said, “There was always a joke between my mom and Barack that he    would be the first black president.”In 1991, David B. Wilkins , the Kirkland and Ellis professor of law,    said
 he advised Obama to become a Supreme Court Clerk. “Obama recognized the
 honor in pursuing that post,” Wilkins said, but quickly added that he 
wasn’t interested.“He said that he 
wanted to write a book about his life and his father, go back to 
Chicago, get back into the community, and run for office there. He knew 
exactly what he wanted and went about getting it done,” Wilkins said.In 1992, Obama’s brother-in-law, Craig Robinson pulled him aside and   asked
 about his plans. “He said, ‘I think I’d like to teach at some point in 
time, and maybe run for public office,’” recalls Robinson, who assumed 
Senator Obama meant he’d like to run for city alderman. “He said no — at
 some point he’d like to run for the U.S. Senate. And then he said, 
‘Possibly even run for President at some point.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, 
but don’t say that to my Aunt Gracie.’ I was protecting him from saying 
something that might embarrass him.”In 
1993, Obama began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, 
where he declined to pursue a tenure-track post, hoping to save time for
 politics.The one thread, that 
remains consistent, throughout Obama’s life, is his teacher’s, mentor’s 
and friend’s recollection of Obama’s single-minded pursuit of high 
political office. | 
| 2007 | On    December 22nd,
 in a small-town café in    Pleasantville, Omaha, Obama was asked a    
question that typically only circulates on the Internet. As he sat down 
to have a slice of pie with a small group of potential voters and an 
elderly woman asked him about being Muslim. “I’ve always been a 
Christian,” the Illinois Democrat responded. “I    have never practiced 
[Islam].”Note: The newspaper editors had to add the word, “Islam.”In
 his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama mentions studying the
 Quran. He was enrolled in two Jakarta schools as a Muslim. His teacher 
Tine Hahiyary said that she remembered that he had studied “mengaji” 
(recitation of the Quran).” Classmate Rony Amiris described Obama as 
being a very devout Muslim, saying, “Barry was previously quite 
religious in Islam.” Another classmate, Emirsyah Satar,    now the CEO of Garuda Indonesia, was   quoted as  saying, “He (Obama) was often in the prayer room wearing a ’sarong.’”     (See Obama’s Education.)Yet, on his official campaign website, Obama has posted      this statement,
 “Barack has never been a Muslim or practiced any    other faith besides
 Christianity.”Obama’s grandfather was a Muslim. Obama’s father was a 
Muslim. Obama’s stepfather was a Muslim. His African relatives are 
Muslims. What was he for the 27 years before his alleged conversion if 
he wasn’t a Muslim? If Obama has always been a Christian, why was he 
enrolled in two    Jakarta schools as a Muslim, and why did he study the
 Quran?And note his Clintonesque defense, “I have never practiced.”This 
is Obama’s biggest problem — his dissimulation.Saying, “I’ve always been
 a Christian,” is a bold-faced lie. | 
| 2008 | On      January 22nd,
 the Hillary Clinton Campaign releases a video that proves that Obama 
lied about his position on “single-payer healthcare.”The video compares 
statements Obama made during the January 21st Democratic debate with 
those he made to an AFL-CIO conference in June 2003 while campaigning 
for the Senate. Contradicting what Obama said at the debate, the old 
footage shows the senator saying, “I happen to be a proponent of 
single-payer universal healthcare coverage. That’s what I’d like to 
see.”At the debate, Obama stated: “I never said that we should try to go
 ahead and get single-payer (healthcare).”Single-payer healthcare is an 
euphemism for socialized medicine. | 
| 2008 | February — As Sen. McCain has      pointed out,
 Obama promised to use public funding in the general election if the 
Republican candidate would do so also. Well, McCain has agreed to it, 
but now Obama wants to back out of the deal. After all, when he made the
 promise, he didn’t have a chance of raising more than the public’s $85 
million stipend. But now that he can raise $300 million, well, what’s a 
little untruth between the waited-for one and his people? Yes, he can. | 
| 2008 | On February 29th, the Obama campaign      told
 Canadian Television (CTV) that no message was passed to the Canadian 
government suggesting that Obama does not mean what he says about opting
 out of NAFTA if it is not renegotiated.However, the Obama camp did not 
respond to repeated questions from CTV on reports that a conversation on
 this matter was held between Obama’s senior economic adviser, Austan 
Goolsbee, and the Canadian Consulate General in Chicago.Earlier 
Thursday, the Obama campaign insisted that no conversations have taken 
place with any of its senior ranks and representatives of the Canadian 
government on the NAFTA issue. On Thursday night, CTV spoke with 
Goolsbee, but he refused to say whether he had such a conversation with 
the Canadian government office in Chicago. He also said he has been told
 to direct any questions to the campaign headquarters.CTV didn’t stop 
there. They announced that their sources, at the highest levels of the 
Canadian government,” reconfirmed the story to CTV and one of their 
primary sources provided a timeline of the discussion to CTV. | 
| 2008 | On March 2nd, Obama told   another whopper
 while criticizing Hillary Clinton.Obama said that Sen. Jay Rockefeller,
 a fellow Democrat from neighboring West Virginia, had read the 
intelligence estimate as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee 
and after a brief pause said the then-chairman had voted against the war
 resolution.However, Rockefeller was not the chair at the time and voted
 in favor of the war authorization. Sen. Bob Graham of Florida was the 
intelligence committee chair in 2002 and voted against the resolution. 
Obama did not mention Graham’s name in the passage.His exact words are, 
“She didn’t read the National Intelligence Estimates. Jay Rockefeller 
read it. But she didn’t read it. I don’t know what all that experience 
got her because I have enough experience to know that if you have a 
National Intelligence Estimate and the chairman of the national, um, 
Senate Intelligence Committee says you should read this, this is why I’m
 voting against the war, that you should probably read it. I don’t know 
how much experience you need for that.” | 
| 2008 | March 7th — Obama’s courage: Contrary to a recent hyperbolic campaign    ad, it wasn’t “courageous”
 to give his 2002 anti-war speech, primarily because he delivered it at 
an anti-Iraq war rally.At the last debate, America’s former co-president
 claimed that it was easy to give that speech, and it wasn’t a gamble 
for him because he wasn’t in the US Senate and therefore wasn’t in a 
position of responsibility. Obama’s impassioned reply was, “I was in the
 midst of a U.S. Senate campaign. It was a high-stakes campaign.”Wrong. 
In reality, Obama did not announce his intentions to run for the US 
Senate until January 2003. | 
| 2008 | March 7th — Obama say he doesn’t      take money
 from DC lobbyists and special interest PACS. This is the type of 
double-talk “politics of the past” rhetoric Obama rails against.While 
his claim is technically true, what he does do is take money from state 
lobbyists and other big money contributors who have substantial lobbyist
 machines in DC, like law firms and corporations.In April 2007, the LA 
Times quoted the Campaign Finance Institute’s Stephen Weissman as 
pointing out that the distinction Obama makes on lobbyist money is 
meaningless: “He gets an asterisk that says he is trying to be 
different. … But overall, the same wealthy interests are funding his 
campaign as are funding other candidates, whether or not they are 
lobbyists.”The Capital Eye reported that “[a]ccording to the Center for 
Responsive Politics, 14 of Obama’s top 20 contributors employed 
lobbyists this year, spending a total of $16.2 million to influence the 
federal government in the first six months of 2007.”Obama’s no stranger 
to being influenced by    those campaign donations, either. | 
| 2008 | March 14th —   In one of the biggest lies he ever told — 
Obama says he “vehemently condemns” the words of his pastor and mentor, 
Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, an official member of Obama’s campaign, as a    member of Obama’s African American Religious Leadership Committee. What an absolute pile of crap!Obama says he’s never witnessed or heard these statement before. 
 
Double click arrow on tool bar to view. (01:30)Another load of crap!       Obama has!  Later, in a cover-his-ass speech, Obama even admits    he heard “the REv’s” despicable words.Obama and his wife Michelle have been listening to this man for 20 years.Obama is a bold-faced liar to now claim he    had no idea the “the Rev” was such an anti-American, racist,     hate-monger!Why hasn’t Obama denounced “the Rev” at any time in the past 20 years?The answer, of course, is because Obama wasn’t running for national    office before — that’s one reason.Another?Obama and Wright are of the same mind — now and then!
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| 2008 | March 14th — OK, OK!  Maybe he didn’t hear those words.  But    what about Reverend White’s words that appear in Obama’s      very own book,
 “Dreams of My Father.”"It is this world, a world where cruise ships 
throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see 
in a year, where white    folks’ greed runs a world in need,
 apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere… That’s the 
world! On which hope sits!”Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpsville and 
Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in 
the State House.  That was 13 years ago, in 1995. | 
| 2008 | March 14th — Barack may not have heard Wright’s rants, but did he read    them?In the Trinity United Church of Christ   Bulletin,
 January 21, 2007, on pages 9 and 10, “The Pastor’s Page,” are these 
words:”We have lost over 3,000 boys and girls in an illegal and unjust 
war, and the media is on a feeding frenzy about Barack Obama’s church. 
Where is the outrage about the 3,000 dead American military personnel 
and the 600,000 dead Iraqi civilians who are dead for no reason other 
than greed and ego? What’s goin’ on?”"I use his words today on the third
 Sunday of a New Year to keep before you the painful truth of who we are
 and where it is we are in this racist United States of America! What’s 
goin’ on?”"The reality, however, is that the entire war in Iraq and the 
larger “war on terror” have been based on lies, half-truths and 
distortions to serve the agenda of the United States imperialism. Where 
is the public outcry? Where is the outrage? What’s goin’ on?”He may 
never have heard Wright actually say the U. S. was racist or some 
aspiring empire. But he never read it in his bulletin? Ever? | 
| 2008 | On Friday, the 14th, presidential candidate Barack Obama repudiated 
what he called “inflammatory and appalling remarks” made by his Chicago 
pastor.Obama said he had not been present during the sermons in 
question.Obama    told MSNBC,
 “Had I heard them in church I would have expressed that concern 
directly to Rev. Wright.”Please note, he says that he would have 
expressed concern, not repudiate, the wordsYet, in   this video, “the Rev”    places Obama in the congregation, by saying, “There is a man here,
    who can take this country in a new direction” and he points at 
him.In the next clip, during Wright’s 2007 Christmas services, Wright 
rails, “Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country
 and a process that is controlled by rich white men, Hillary can never 
know that, Hillary ain’t ever been called a nigger!”While Wright rails, 
“Bill did us like he did Monica Lewinsky,” Wright’s successor, Otis Moss
 III, jumps into the picture frame, attempting to high-five “the 
Rev.”Barack was      in Chicago
 for Christmas 2007 and Wright is addressing him from the    pulpit.  
Will Barack say me didn’t attend Christmas services?When Obama said, 
“Had I heard them in church …” Obama lied.     He listened to Wright’s 
sermons for 20 years.These two men, Obama and Wright, are two peas in 
the same pod.And before I get feedback from the loony libs, remember, it
 was Obama, himself, that wrote these words in “‘Dreams of My Father,” —
 “I found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity
 against my mother’s race.”And, please notice the congregation in that 
video. They are going nuts during Wright’s preaching. All of them 
believe this “evil white man” crap and eat it up.  The whole bunch of 
them are the worst kinds of hateful racists — and remember, Wright’s 
congregation is composed of successful, educated African-Americans. | 
| 2008 | And on the same day, he admits to      another whopper!Obama
 now says Rezko played a bigger fundraising role.Indicted Chicago 
businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko was a more significant fundraiser for 
presidential candidate Barack Obama’s earlier political campaigns than 
Obama has previously admitted. Rezko raised as much as $250,000 for the 
first three offices Obama sought, the senator told the Tribune on 
Friday.Obama also said for the first time that his private real estate 
transactions with Rezko involved repeated lapses of judgment. The 
mistake, Obama said, was not simply that Rezko was under grand jury 
investigation at the time of their 2005 and 2006 dealings. “The mistake 
was he had been a contributor and somebody involved in politics,” he 
said.And this from a guy who is running for office based upon his 
judgment. | 
| 2008 | March 15th — Will Obama deny he was      in attendance
 at the controversial Chicago church when the pastor referred to “white 
arrogance” and “the United States of White America” on July 22, 2007, 
accompanied by his Secret Service detail.Wright laced into America’s 
establishment, blaming the “white arrogance” of America’s Caucasian 
majority for the woes of the world, especially the oppression suffered 
by blacks. To underscore the point he refers to the country as the 
“United States of White America.” Many in the congregation, including Obama,      nodded in apparent agreement as these statements were made. |