Hindus love Obama ... Hanuman - leader of the Monkey Army againt the demon King Ravana :doh: <table style="padding-left: 10px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="846" width="503"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="100%"> The Times of India -Breaking news, views. reviews, cricket from across India <arttitle> Obama to get Hanuman idol</arttitle> 24 Jun 2008, 1819 hrs IST,PTI</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="205"> <tbody><tr> <td id="bellyad" style="padding-left: 3px;"> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- google_ad_section_start --> NEW DELHI: With Democrat senator Barack Obama busy in the run-up to the US presidential polls, a group of well-wishers in the capital have decided to send him a symbol of his lucky charm, Lord Hanuman, to help him emerge victorious. Obama's representative Carolyn Sauvage-Mar on Tuesday received a gold-plated two-feet-high idol which she will pass it on to the Obama after it is sanctified. The idol is being presented to Obama as he is reported to be a Lord Hanuman devotee and carries with him a locket of the monkey god along with other good luck charms. An hour-long prayer meeting to sanctify the idol was earlier organised at Sankat Mochan Dham and by Congress leader Brijmohan Bhama, Balmiki Samaj and the temple's priests. "Obama has deep faith in Lord Hanuman and that is why we are presenting an idol of Hanuman to him," said Bhama. Accepting the souvenir, Sauvage-Mar, who is chairperson of Democrats Abroad-India, said, "Obama has extended his thanks for the support." However, questions on Obama's religious beliefs elicited just a smile from Sauvage-Mar, apparently to avoid controversy back home where the Democrat senator is pitted against the Republican Party's John McCain in the Presidential polls. The idol will be kept at the temple for 11 more days and then sent to US. "We will perform the prayers for 11 days and then hand the idol to Carolyn who will send it to Obama," said the temple priest. </td></tr></tbody></table> Personally I find it a bit offensive. :stir: Let's see if the ACLU, ADL or NAACP jumps all over this shit and asks Obama to reject the good luck Monkey Idol. :warning: BTW ... some Christian Obama must be ... carrying around Monkey Idol lucky charms ... Maybe he thinks Jesus was a monkey ... :notallthere:
Yeah and I heard he was sworn in on the Quran as well and is a devout muslim. You believe all of this shit?
It's news Sly ... your man Obama is a baby killin fraud. How long you gonna toss Jesus aside for your new false savior ? ray: ---------------- National <!-- prneml ctrl begins --> <!-- prneml ctrl ends --> 11-day prayer for Obama’s success Staff Reporter <table bgcolor="#d0f0ff" border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td> Congress leader invokes blessings of Hanuman </td></tr></tbody></table> <hr color="lightblue" noshade="noshade"> 15 kg, 21-inch brass idol will reach Obama by August 24 <hr color="lightblue" noshade="noshade"> NEW DELHI: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama can now expect help from an unexpected quarter — Lord Hanuman. All-India Congress Committee member Brij Mohan Bhama has organised a 11-day religious ceremony at Karol Bagh here for his success in the U.S. elections. The idea of sending an idol of Hanuman dawned on him after friends in the United States mentioned a “prominent American politician who carried a miniature Hanuman idol in his pocket for luck,” Mr. Bhama said speaking on the first day of the ceremony on Tuesday. “After hearing that, I decided to gift Mr. Obama a larger, gold-plated version along with the wishes of thousands of his supporters in this country,” said the leader struggling to lift the 15 kg, 21-inch brass idol. The first-day ceremony, pranapratishta, or infusion of divine life into an idol, was performed by a dozen priests reciting mantras in tandem. It was attended by Democrats Abroad India chairperson Carolyn Sauvage, who spent over an hour at the venue. The idol was later kept in the sanctum sanctorum of the Sankat Mochan Dham, where it will be kept for 10 more days. Mr. Bhama said several temples in New Delhi had already expressed an interest in keeping the idol for worship on their premises before it begins its journey across the Atlantic. Along with the idol, a copy of Hanuman Chalisa, a compilation of hymns in praise of the Lord, would be sent. “We will ensure that Mr. Obama receives the idol by August 24, a day before the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado,” said Mr. Bhama. ::
Not a thing ... I do have something against dishonest people though. I also found their choice a little disturbing with so many different gods and idols to choose from ... why THAT one? :warning: :stir:
Yesterday Obama had a fund Raiser here in LA, and Sugar Ray Leonard was there. He said That he has only been nervous meeting two people in his life. Muhammad Ali, Neslon Mandela, and now the third person was Barak Obama. I damn near fell over my chair laughing. This is the same barak Obama that on the campaign trail send back and forth emails to Scarlett Johanson. :cheer:
He's the Antichrist I tell ya! :: On a serious note ... What the hell makes this flim flam man so popular .... its mass insanity :notallthere: The guy's a dirt bag , but christians , muslims, hindus , athiests ... all jumping on board the Obamanation express. He won't unite the world .... he'll ignite it. :bangh:
I'd love to know if Obama actually carries around a luck charm of the Warrior Monkey God ... If he does he's like the everyman ... All things to all people. Now he can be an Irish fucking Leprechaun looking for his lucky charms.
:: No I don't like phony baloney assholes Looked up Obama's stance on BAIPA yet Sly ? Still kickin your Jesus to the curb ? Obama would have been OK aborting that illegitimate bastard baby Jesus! :stir: ::
It already passed unanimously dumbshit. BAIPA sailed through the U.S. Senate by unanimous vote. Even Sens. Clinton, Kennedy and Kerry agreed a mother's right to "choose" stopped at her baby's delivery. The bill also passed overwhelmingly in the House. NARAL went neutral on it. Abortion enthusiasts publicly agreed that fighting BAIPA would appear extreme. President Bush signed BAIPA into law in 2002. Your boy The Obamanation is a baby killer. (not fetus , not deformed, not rape victims) <table id="table1" border="0" cellpadding="3" width="48%"><tbody><tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> PITTSBURGH (August 5, 2002) -- President Bush signs the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act as sponsors Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) (left) and Congressman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) look on. White House photo by Paul Morse.</td></tr></tbody></table>
The Mexicans like him more: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0fd-MVU4vtU&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0fd-MVU4vtU&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
I am beginning to see the light and appreciate what PetreTG has been saying all along. This Obama dude is the most dangerous person to have as America's president and therefore, world's most powerful guy. Imagine what Preisdent Obama would do our civilisation? Unthinkable. How can we stop this impending doom, people?
I'm curious Payton ... you come in a thread every once in a while and make a cryptic little comment ... Explain what is plainly obvious. You're responding to Sly's comment ... which was a very lame attempt to play the race card. Because that's all he's got now. And playing the race card with me is absolutely ridiculous. There's no one here who's family is as racially mixed and harmonious as mine ... for generations. My family tree is a mixture of races and nationalities on both sides. See ... unlike Obama the fraud ... I'd never throw my Hawaiian/German/Irish mother under the bus to get ahead. He'd stand on his mother's head face down in the mud to climb up the ladder. The guy surrounds himself with crooks. He's been caught lying more times than anyone I can recall running for president. He doesn't have a single good policy to stand on. He has no clue what to do economically and any plan he's put forth trashes the country. His foreign policy consists of being a Muslim that never was. His record of voting is one of the worst in history with more absent , present and no votes than I can remember. He did absolutely nothing in Illinois. He caters to any group that can get him ahead ... the latest being AIPAC. His Mentor was a fraud of a christian and a racist that he associated with for 20 years. He claims to be Christian but has no problem with killing babies that can be born ... by a process of dismemberment if necessary. But he's going to change the world? As hard as it is to believe ... I think he will be a change for the country. From BAD to WORSE. What is amazing, but "plainly obvious" to me, is how weak minded and easily fooled his supporters are. Only a fool with no other argument left , because Obama really is not able to be defended on the issues (Which is what SHOULD count) claims that my dislike for Obama has ANYTHING to do with the color of his skin. And for the record ... my skin is darker than his too. :kick: Oh and Sly ... you're a dumbshit for making that statement. And you know it. You made it because you know deep down I'm right. And you also know you cannot defend Obama on BAIPA .... so instead you are turning a blind eye to it.
No ... but growing up in the 60' and 70's it made me everything from black to mexican to arab to Don Ho. Good times those were. My Knuckles are still sore.
Gobs of ink have been spilled over Barack Obama's "present" votes on choice issues during his time in the Illinois State Senate. Yes, Obama voted "present" instead of "no" on seven bills that would have limited women's reproductive rights. And yes, Planned Parenthood of Illinois has defended Obama, saying he was acting out a rehearsed strategy for preserving pro-choice seats in the legislature. But while the Democratic campaigns and women's organizations quibbled over which 100 percent pro-choice Senator, Obama or Hillary Clinton, would be the better president for reproductive health, many choice advocates missed what was percolating under the radar: The beginnings of a conservative smear campaign against Obama's very real history of support for reproductive freedom. The anti-choice anti-Obama strategy is based on Obama's clear "no" votes on the "Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act," or BAIPA. Leading anti-choice blogger Jill Stanek, who testified in the Illinois state Senate on behalf of the bill, has played a key role in disseminating this anti-Obama argument in the right-wing blogosphere. Taking the bait, former presidential candidate Sen. Sam Brownback, in a fundraising email to supporters of his political action committee last month, excoriated Obama for opposing BAIPA. And in a Feb. 26 editorial, the National Catholic Register fumed, "Obama wouldn't even protect children born alive by mistake during abortion attempts." But BAIPA isn't really about protecting infants; it is anti-abortion rights legislation crafted by the hard right. BAIPA targets the abortion procedure known as dilation and extraction, which anti-choicers have so successfully re-branded as "partial birth abortion." Dilation and extraction accounts for less than one-fifth of one percent of all American abortions, and is used most often to end wanted pregnancies in which expectant parents learn their baby will not be viable outside of the womb. During the operation, the fetus' skull is collapsed inside of the woman, after which labor is induced and she delivers the fetus. It is a wrenching process, but one that allows a woman or couple to grieve and bring closure to a pregnancy by holding the intact fetus. It also decreases scarring, bleeding, and pain inside of a woman's uterus and vagina. The antis want to redefine these fetuses as "born alive" and require that doctors provide "resuscitation." As a state senator, Obama saw BAIPA for what it was: an ideologically-motivated ploy to vilify women and doctors who choose abortion. On the state Senate floor on April 4, 2002, he explained, "This issue ultimately is about abortion and not live births. Because if there are children being born alive, I, at least, have confidence that a doctor who is in that room is going to make sure that they're looked after." Of course, the idea that otherwise viable babies are regularly "born alive" during abortions is an invention of the anti-choice movement. Ninety percent of abortions are performed within the first 16 weeks of pregnancy through a procedure called aspiration, in which a surgical vacuum is used to empty out a woman's uterus. The second most common abortion procedure is dilation and evacuation, which takes place in rare cases after 16 weeks of pregnancy, often when a woman's health or life is at risk. Under that procedure, the aspiration process is sometimes preceded by an injection into the abdomen that ensures fetal demise. So the only abortion procedure that could ever result in an intact fetus outside the uterus is the extremely rare dilation and extraction. The fact that just a few doctors perform just a handful of these procedures in the United States annually hasn't stopped the anti-choice movement from creating an entire lexicon, imagery, and legislative strategy around the symbol of these aborted fetuses. The vocabulary has trickled up into national politics. On the campaign trail, both Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee spoke about aborted fetuses "crying" in pain as doctors cast them aside into a heap. Suffice to say, such scenes are absent from the annals of medical literature. Dilation and extraction is such a rare operation that most hospitals won't perform one in a year, let alone conduct more than one in a day. Such rhetoric is not only divorced from reality, but deeply disrespectful to the many caring medical professionals who perform abortions because they are committed to serving women. It is to Barack Obama's credit that, as an Illinois state senator, he voted against BAIPA twice, and then, as chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee in 2003, prevented it from advancing to the floor. It would be naive to believe that a few "present" votes will make social conservatives forget Obama's pro-choice advocacy on this issue. Indeed, they plan to peel moderate and Republican support away from Obama by painting him as a heartless politician who closed his ears to the cries of "abortion survivors." Let it serve as a reminder that supporters of reproductive rights have bigger fish to fry than one another.
Nice opinion piece from that pro choice , Obama supporter Dana Goldstein. I assume you forgot to quote the source. And I get accused of simply copying and pasting. EDIT/ADD: I knew it from the first sentence ... though you neglected to post the title and author ... because I read it about a month ago. It's horse shit spin on the issue.
By the criteria of all other american presidents technically the attributes you mention would make obama fit right in as president.