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Tony Rezko - is an American political fundraiser, restaurateur, and real estate developer in Chicago, Illinois convicted on several counts of fraud and bribery in 2008. Rev Wright - Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for President, first met Wright in the late 1980's, while he was working as a community organizer in Chicago before attending Harvard Law School.^25^ Wright officiated at the wedding ceremony of Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as their children's baptism.^5^ The title of Obama's memoir, +The Audacity of Hope+, was inspired by one of Wright's sermons.^25^^5^ ACORN - filed a lawsuit in California seeking to exempt itself from the state's minimum wage of $4.25 per hour in 1995. ACORN alleged in its complaint that minimum wage laws "were unconstitutional as applied to it, because they restricted its ability to engage in political advocacy by forcing it to hire fewer workers, and that its workers, if paid the minimum wage, would be less empathetic with its low- and moderate-income constituency and would therefore be less effective advocates." The court denied ACORN's petition; the denial was sustained on appeal.^[ ^{Louis Farrakhan-}^Farrakhan said the war in Iraq, the nation's faltering economy and the increased number of natural disasters were signs of "a nation in peril." He said those problems provide the broader context for Obama's rise."So I said to the members of the press, 'Why won't you go and look into what we are saying about the threats on Obama's life?' Here the Jews don't like Farrakhan and so they call me 'Hitler'. Well that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He wasn't great for me as a Black man but he was a great German and he rose Germany up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of all of Europe and America after the First World War. Yet Hitler took Germany from the ashes and rose her up and made her the greatest fighting machine of the twentieth century, brothers and sisters, and even though Europe and America had deciphered the code that Hitler was using to speak to his chiefs of staff, they still had trouble defeating Hitler even after knowing his plans in advance. Now I'm not proud of Hitler's evil toward Jewish people, but that's a matter of record. He rose Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there is a similarity in that we are rising our people up from nothing, but don't compare me with your wicked killers."^ James Meeks: One of the top 10 leading black religious voices in the anti-gay movement". The newsletter cites him as both "a key member of Chicago's ‘Gatekeepers' network, an interracial group of evangelical ministers who strive to erase the division between church and state" and "a stalwart anti-gay activist... who... has used his House of Hope mega-church to launch petition drives for the Illinois Family Institute (IFI), a major state-level ‘family values' pressure group that lauded him last year for leading African Americans in ‘clearly understanding the threat of gay marriage.'" William Ayers-We all know about him... Raila Odinga- Obama's partisan support for Odinga was considered so transparent, that the Kenyan Government spokesman, Alfred Matua, complained of political posturing to aid Odinga's election chances: "It is very clear that the senator has been used as a puppet to perpetuate opposition politics,"Raila Odinga subsequently lost the controversial presidential election. Odinga's supporters went on a rampage-burning Kikuyu homes and businesses, ("Ethnic Cleansing in Luoland" The Economist 2/7/2008) raping Kikuyu women, and murdering everyone in their path-including at least 50 Christian Kikuyu woman & children who had sought refuge in a church. They burned them alive. ("Mob Burns Kenyans Seeking Refuge In Church" CNN 1/10/2008) Rashid Khalidi - Khalidi has ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, based on his work for Wafa in the late 1980's, and later serving as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation during the Madrid Conference of 1991.^15^^16^{Obama made one of the presentations in praise of Khalidi at a 2003 farewell dinner on the occasion of Khalidi leaving the Chicago Area.}20^ The dinner was a celebration of the Chicago area Palestinian community. Obama's remarks alluded to the numerous dinners that he had at the home of the Khalidis.^20^ ^Quadaffi - Although Gaddafi holds no public office or title, he is accorded the honorifics "Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" or "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution" in government statements and the official press.^1 Qaddafi throws his support to Obama. While not directly endorsing Obama, Qaddafi made it crystal clear that he is for "change" even to the point where the economy in the United States should "change" to be like Libya's. If you think our economy is bad, go to google and type - Libya, economy. What you will find is an economy so bad that it would be an insult to other 3rd world countries to call it 3rd world. ^Nadhmi Auchi- The Times reports that the "British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama's fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal with Tony Rezko that has returned to haunt the presidential contender."Auchi was a member of the Baath Party in Iraq before Saddam Hussein came to power.^3^ ^{He was charged in the 1950s with being an accomplice of Saddam Hussein, when the future tyrant was acquiring his taste for blood. He was investigated in the 1980's for his part in alleged bribes to the fabulously corrupt leaders of post-war Italy.} ^