Bob Austin addresses the crowd at the Election Commission meeting held April 22.

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Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.
Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983, then worked for a year at the Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group a non-partiotism political group.
After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago’s far South Side. During his three years as the DCP’s director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants’ rights organization in Altgeld Gardens. Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.
Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. At the end of his first year, he was selected, based on his grades and a writing competition, as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. In February 1990, in his second year, he was elected president of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the Law Review’s staff of 80 editors.
Obama’s election as the first black president of the Law Review was widely reported and followed by several long, detailed profiles. During his summers, he returned to Chicago where he worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990. He graduated with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991.
The publicity from his election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a publishing contract and advance for a book about race relations. In an effort to recruit him to their faculty, the University of Chicago Law School provided Obama with a fellowship and an office to work on his book.
He originally planned to finish the book in one year, but it took much longer as the book evolved into a personal memoir. In order to work without interruptions, Obama and his wife, Michelle, traveled to Bali where he wrote for several months. The manuscript was finally published in mid-1995 as Dreams from My Father.
Obama directed Illinois’s Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers and which achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African-Americans in the state, and led to Crain’s Chicago Business naming Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.
Beginning in 1992, Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, being first classified as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and then as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004.
He also, in 1993, joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004, with his law license becoming inactive in 2002.
Obama was a founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife, Michelle, became the founding executive director of Public Allies Chicago in early 1993. He served from 1993 to 2002 on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund Obama’s DCP, and served from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation. Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995–2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995–1999. He also served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center.
He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote.

Who else running has these brains and ambition?

And he can add "President of the United States" next January.

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The Obama campaign has shattered all fund-raising records, raking in $458 million so far, with about half the bounty coming from donors who contribute $200 or less.

Aides say that’s an illustration of a truly democratic campaign. To critics, though, it can be an invitation for fraud and illegal foreign cash because donors giving individual sums of $200 or less don’t have to be publicly reported.

Consider the cases of Obama donors "Doodad Pro" of Nunda, N.Y., who gave $17,130, and "Good Will" of Austin, Texas, who gave more than $11,000—both in excess of the $2,300-per-person federal limit. In two recent letters to the Obama campaign, Federal Election Commission auditors flagged those (and other) donors and informed the campaign that the sums had to be returned. Neither name had ever been publicly reported because both individuals made online donations in $10 and $25 increments.

"Good Will" listed his employer as "Loving" and his occupation as "You," while supplying as his address 1015 Norwood Park Boulevard, which is shared by the Austin nonprofit Goodwill Industries. Suzanha Burmeister, marketing director for Goodwill, said the group had "no clue" who the donor was. She added, however, that the group had received five puzzling thank-you letters from the Obama campaign this year, prompting it to send the campaign an e-mail in September pointing out the apparent fraudulent use of its name.

"Dooda

A few of his wealthy supporters (like George Soros) have set up repeating electronic deposits for his account,. They stay under the limits so they don’t get reported.

Not hard to figure out – unless you work for the FBI!

Palin’s $150,000 shopping spree hardly stacks up against Obama’s $185 million in illegal donations!

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I am reading Bob Barr is leading a lawsuit charging that Obama and McCain missed the deadline to be on the Texas ballot. Texas law states that candidates must submit the paperwork no later than 5 p.m. on the 70th day before the election is to be held. The fact is that neither Obama or McCain were nominated before that date.
Won’t they have to violate Texas law to get their names on the ballot? I guess since they don’t follow the U.S. constitution we can’t really expect them to adhere to the Texas constitution, right? If everyone follows Texas law, then Barr should be the only one on the Texas ballot….McCain/Obama can’t even be write-ins. What do you think?

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/09/bob-barr-busts-ballot.html
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/17/barr-tries-to-kick-mccain-obama-off-texas-ballot/#comment-705743
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/ballot-pruning-in-texas/#comment-108688
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2008/09/18/barr_government_should_let_ike.html

I doubt it. Of course, it wouldn’t be a big deal for Obama, it would be a disaster for McCain. It would cost him the election.

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Barack Obama, against all odds and all things remaining equal as they seemed to have been all this while, emerged victorious, and will today, at exactly 6pm Nigerian time and 12 noon American time, be sworn-in as the 44th president of the United States. A no mean achievement, no doubt.

However, the issues that have rather kept the mind agitated since his emergence from that historic election remains this. Exactly what, was it that made it possible for him to have succeeded where other equally great and charismatic leaders of coloured origin scarcely made a dent? How did he develop that uncommon confidence in his own ability against a very “experienced” opponent? Why was his intelligence and personality so electrifying, to the extent as to cause majority of the voting public in America to cast their lots and that of the greatest nation on earth with him, as attested to by the votes?

The answer to all of the above questions can be summed up in just two words, made up of twenty five alphabets- transformational parenting. He, unlike most of his contemporaries in public life, got a kind of training that enabled the psychological balancing of his personality.

So, rather than the defeatist approach to life of most African-Americans which sees them always locating the reasons for their failures to excel in life outside of self, he confronted the challenges of life with the winner attitude, believing that any loss thereof would not be because, he is of lesser intelligence nor of the unlikely skin colouration required for such, but be due to the probabilities that is always attached to any worthy enterprise, after all probable contingencies has been planned for.

Mentally, man is proved to be composed of many complexes, each striving to gain complete dominance over the others and consequently, him. The only fact to be feared here is that, should any of the complexes gain complete and permanent control over us, we become everything but complete and wanted humans.

But this is not in any way suggesting that we would be better off without them; no! In fact, it is most supremely desirable in man. For without it, he would be as empty as computer hardware- just potentially useful. These complexes, which are constantly in a kind of “survival of the fittest” relationship with one another becomes destructive only where any one of them is unconsciously allowed to on a permanent basis, dominate the other and us. However, there is always one by whose outward manifestation our personality, is perceived, so, we are described as, stubborn, gentle, bad, good etc by the manifestation of this complex depending on what it represents.

To understand the importance of complexes, we just x-ray the fear complex. At its balanced level, it serves to help us preserve our lives by taking only calculated risk but at its extreme, it paralyzes us and stops us from doing anything and becoming nothing.

In Obama’s case, different circumstances and environment where he found himself helped to bring out the best of the complexes in him as the dominant one. This accounts for why, the media did not get tired of describing him as charismatic and charming unlike his main rival who tried so late in life to alter his dominant traits with the unintended application of the wrong defence mechanism-displacement.

The best time to alter complexes-both those inherited from our parents and those we picked up by accident of the environment we found ourselves- to bring out the best of our personality is in the mornings of our lives and not in the afternoon nor evenings! Old habit they say die-hard and besides, you cannot hope to teach an old man new manners with ease. Once filled with information from both our parents and the environment, the soul or mind cannot be, easily altered. The mind filters information as it receives it and pass on only those that corresponds with our aspirations.

So, the duties of parents and intending ones today, is to research about complexes and how to help the young to become the best he/she can become. can you do that? yes you can! Don’t know how to go about it or Time? Well, just ask me! I will be glad to help you to help somebody become a leader, today!

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By Edward Sanford Martin

Within my, earthly temple, there is a crowd;

There is one of us that is humble, one that is proud;

There is one that is broken-hearted for his sins,

There is one that unrepentant, sits and grins,

There is one that loves his neighbour as himself,

And one that cares for naught but fame and pelf,

From such corroding, should I be free,

If I could once, determine which is me.

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East of Austin playing downtown Elgin, TX Halloween 2009. Blaze Foley’s “Election Day”

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Olara Otunnu (Harvard Law, 1978) relating the remark of Kenyan historian Ali Mazrui on the oddity that a member of Kenya’s Luo tribe (Barack Obama, a Kenyan citizen and Luo tribe member from birth) may become president of the United States before a Luo tribe member becomes president of Kenya. "Town Hall Forum: An Examination of Race, Age, Gender & Religion in the 2008 Election," Harvard Law School Reunions, Oct. 25, 2008, 9:15 a.m, (Austin Hall, 1st Floor, West), at 60:17 mark.
When George Washington requested the extra special requirement of "natural born citizen" his intent was to avoid such directly inherited conflicts as to loyalty. By birth Obama is a Kenyan. That is the ONLY fact we do know, all agree on.

His birth in Hawaii does not matter. The fact that he inherited a natural law foreign citizenship from his father means that Obama is ineligible for the office of President. Obama is not a legitimate President, or Commander in Chief.

Any comment about a black person, if not in praise – is always racist as far as liberals are concerned.