I am a fan of Obama, however, this video is a very good piece of political satire.

This cartoon in today’s herald says it all really:

From: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/news-cartoons/news/article.cfm?c_id=500814&objectid=10602506

Obama may be  a good president but getting a peace prize for leading a country that is still fighting two wars just seems a little daft.

From the wonders of YouTube

Okay a week or so ago I blogged about Jon Stewart and The Daily Show taking the mickey out of WND.com and a variety of other nutcases.

However the issue will just not go away so here is another news article that shows the reality of the situation.

WND.com and a number of other sites have been making a big thing out of Obama’s birth certifcate, now they get the Jon Stewart treatment.

From kiwiblog.co.nz

Can we be allies again?

April 6th, 2009 at 5:35 am

The Herald reports:

President Barack Obama last night launched a drive to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Sounds good. Let me known when you have Iran, North Korea, India, Pakistan, Israel and France to agree.

But in the meantime, if the policy of the Unied States is now to seek to eliminate nuclear weapons, then it makes no sense to continue with sanctions against New Zealand for having banned ships with nuclear weapons.

So will President Obama upgrade New Zealand from friend status back to ally, and end the stupid ban on troops exercising together?

From: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4392846.ece

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”

In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.

And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth – for the first time – to bring the light unto all the world.

He travelled fleet of foot and light of camel, with a small retinue that consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the Media. He ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the

Taleban had harboured the viper of al-Qaeda in their bosom, raining terror on all the world.

And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued the forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows and the threat of terror was no more.

From there he went forth to Mesopotamia where he was received by the great ruler al-Maliki, and al-Maliki spake unto him and blessed his Sixteen Month Troop Withdrawal Plan even as the imperial warrior Petraeus tried to destroy it.

And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred. Even though the Great Surge of Armour that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a waste of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the Child’s very presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the light.

And the Persians, who saw all this and were greatly fearful, longed to speak with the Child and saw that the Child was the bringer of peace. At the mention of his name they quickly laid aside their intrigues and beat their uranium swords into civil nuclear energy ploughshares.

From there the Child went up to the city of Jerusalem, and entered through the gate seated on an ass. The crowds of network anchors who had followed him from afar cheered “Hosanna” and waved great palm fronds and strewed them at his feet.

In Jerusalem and in surrounding Palestine, the Child spake to the Hebrews and the Arabs, as the Scripture had foretold. And in an instant, the lion lay down with the lamb, and the Israelites and Ishmaelites ended their long enmity and lived for ever after in peace.

As word spread throughout the land about the Child’s wondrous works, peoples from all over flocked to hear him; Hittites and Abbasids; Obamacons and McCainiacs; Cameroonians and Blairites.

And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child’s journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.

The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was the anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one generations had been waiting for.

And there were other wonderful signs. In the city of the Street at the Wall, spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and rates on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the almond tree, and the people who had lived in foreclosure were able to borrow again.

Black gold gushed from the ground at prices well below $140 per barrel. In hospitals across the land the sick were cured even though they were uninsured. And all because the Child had pronounced it.

And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears witness to the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for he saw it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.

Then the Child ventured forth from Israel and Palestine and stepped onto the shores of the Old Continent. In the land of Queen Angela of Merkel, vast multitudes gathered to hear his voice, and he preached to them at length.

But when he had finished speaking his disciples told him the crowd was hungry, for they had had nothing to eat all the hours they had waited for him.

And so the Child told his disciples to fetch some food but all they had was five loaves and a couple of frankfurters. So he took the bread and the frankfurters and blessed them and told his disciples to feed the multitudes. And when all had eaten their fill, the scraps filled twelve baskets.

Thence he travelled west to Mount Sarkozy. Even the beauteous Princess Carla of the tribe of the Bruni was struck by awe and she was great in love with the Child, but he was tempted not.

On the Seventh Day he walked across the Channel of the Angles to the ancient land of the hooligans. There he was welcomed with open arms by the once great prophet Blair and his successor, Gordon the Leper, and his successor, David the Golden One.

And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: “Yes, We Can.”

Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe. No doubt, there will be differences in the future. But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden. In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more – not less. Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.

That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another.

The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand.

The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand.

The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand.

These now are the walls we must tear down.

Yet again Obama has managed to draw out a huge crowd. Over 200,000 this time – in Berlin. I believe that we are at a major crossroad in our recent history. We can choose, we can choose to continue down the same old path we have been on for the past few years. Or we can actually (well in the U.S. anyway) choose to make a change and elect a leader of the free world who practices what he preaces.

For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle – as we did in the OJ trial – or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina – or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright’s sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she’s playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.

We can do that.

But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we’ll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change.

That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, “Not this time.” This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can’t learn; that those kids who don’t look like us are somebody else’s problem. The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy. Not this time.

If you get the chance make sure you watch the videos of both speeches. A true politican at work.

Note: I am a Barack Obama supporter and believe that he represents a new era in America and awakening and a liberalising of the States.

Since it was mentioned to me a few weeks ago after church I have been following the net hysteria which is the Obama Anti-Christ Roadshow.

If you do a search for Obama Antichrist you will get hundreds of pages of conspiracy about Barack Obama being the Anti-Christ. In my opinion it is all a lot of nonsense from people out their trying to disrupt democracy instead of encouraging it. You should be campaigning for a candidate and for or against and issue NOT directly against a person.

If you have not already seen some of the pages a good place to start would be here: http://www.barackobamaantichrist.blogspot.com/

This morning I came across a video on YouTube about Obama being the Anti-Christ. Watch it below. My comments on the video are below as well.

Mabus? I’m sure if I put other words together I will randomly create other words as well. For instance I can prove that Grandma is the Anti-Christ and that she is using her cookie business to promote global domination. e.g. Grandma Business = grandMABUSiness see the MABUS by running the two words together? Do you think I am nuts and silly? Well running Obama and Bush together is nuts as well. Two other points that I note about this is that if Obama is going to succeed Bush then shouldn’t the words be run together the other way around so it becomes bushobama. Wow I can see HOB in there I guess that means 5 possible things a) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings b) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous c) A hard steel edge tool used to cut gears d) A shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm e) [Brit] The top of a cooker with hotplates or burners. I love the last one. Yes Obama and Bush together are a hotplate! My second point is this. The Anti-Christ is a christian notion from the Bible. Nostradamus was never a christian so how come we are using non-christian “prophecies” to try and relate them to christian ones?

2012. The world is going to end in 2012 because a calendar ends in 2012? That is the same logic of the Y2K bug. Because we invented this measure of time somehow the world has to obey it. Well the world didn’t end because of the Y2K issue. And it will not end because some Calendar ends.

Pro-abortion. The anti-christ would be Pro-abortion. Do we know this of is the maker of this video assuming? Give me facts, give me truths not assumptions or opinions.

World leader? If Obama does not become the next President someone else will. They will be a world leader. What makes Obama so special from the rest. Nothing!

Peace? I sure hope whoever the next President of the US is wants peace. If not we are all doomed anyway.

Most powerful man on earth? Again regardless of who is elected they will be the most powerful. So how is Obama any different from the rest?

Satan, and Violence? Again opinion, crazy opinion. Where is the evidence? Where are the facts? Where is the true? Whatever happened to innocence until proven guilty? But why do we even need to go that far there is not even a shread of possible factual evidence to even bring these scare mongering claims. I guess some people still use the logic of the Salem Witch Trials. Have we gone nowhere in the last 300+ years?

Not putting your hand on your heart? Gosh if that makes you the anti-christ then you better burn me at the stake now.

The ending. I find the ending of this video the funnest thing of all. I am sure that my bible says that you should bless your enemy and pray for them NOT against them.

I am a firm believer in freedom of speech but hate speech, and untruefull speech is extremely bad because it spreads mistruths and does not allow people to make an informed and honest decision.