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Buy Obama Waffles Mix - Stereotypes are Free

Submitted by Chip Berlet on September 13, 2008 - 1:58pm

Boxes of Obama Waffles were available for sale at $10 each at the Values Voter Summit until Saturday afternoon when conference organizers shut down the booth.

Obama Waffles

Advertising at the Obama Waffles booth

Advertising at the booth

Another advertising panel at the Obama Waffles booth

Advertising panel 3

The Obama Waffles booth around noon on Saturday

The Waffle Booth

photo: cberlet/publiceye.org

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Scenes from the Values Voters Summit

Submitted by Chip Berlet on September 13, 2008 - 1:36pm

Some snaps from the conference floor

Audience

Youth Contingent

Heritage Youth Choir

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Bennett Slams Obama as Lacking Moral Clarity about America

Submitted by Chip Berlet on September 13, 2008 - 8:41am

Former secretary of Education William “Bill” Bennett said that Barack Obama had too many criticisms of the United States, and noted that after the September 11 attacks, Barack Obama had written in a local newspaper in Chicago that as a country we needed to begin raising the hopes…of embittered children across the world and within our own shores.

Bennett then asked, was that “truly the time to start looking down at out shoes?” Was looking in the mirror where we needed to look first?

Bennett mentioned that at the convention in Denver, Obama had said that we all put our country first, but, said Bennett “some emphatically do not.”

Bennett then named Pastor Jeremiah Wright and former radical activist Bill Ayers, both friends of Obama, as examples of people who do not put America first.

Bennett then addressed himself to Obama, saying “Sen. Obama, we do not all put our country first."

Bennett said that Obama was too ambivalent about the US to become its leader; whereas McCain had “moral clarity about America…if you do not have that…" do not apply for the job as President.

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One Liners

Submitted by Chip Berlet on September 12, 2008 - 3:02pm

Kate O’Beirne:
Selection of Sarah Palin sounded the death knell of modern American feminism.

Kate Obeirne

Ramesh Ponnuru:
Liberal media elites don’t know they’re biased because fish don’t know they’re wet.

Ramesh Ponnuru

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Phyllis Schlafly Touts Republican Platform

Submitted by Chip Berlet on September 12, 2008 - 2:52pm

Phyllis Schlafly outlined the Republican Platform to the thousands of attendees, who applauded her claim that this was the most conservative pro-life and platform ever.

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Lou Dobbs Opens Values Voters Summit

Submitted by Chip Berlet on September 12, 2008 - 8:54am

Newscaster Lou Dobbs, known for his fiery anti-immigrant stance, primarily presented a calm and placid speech to the 2008 Values Voters Summit in Washington, DC this morning. Avoiding immigration, Dobbs targeted "orthodoxy" in the "liberal media," stating that the exclusion of the views of people of faith in the media was "outright censorship." Dobbs also was critical of Hollywood stars who were attacking Repulican VP candidate Sarah Palin.

Lou Dobbs