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June 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
None of the speakers dared mention Mr Obama, who does not even appear in Mr
Barber’s campaign material. Asked at a televised debate last month by his
Tea Party-backed Republican opponent, Jesse Kelly, how he would vote in
November’s presidential election, Mr Barber paused for four agonising
seconds.
“My vote is my vote, Mr Kelly, as yours is too,” he said eventually.
He was later forced to clarify in an interview that he would, indeed, be
voting Obama.
Mr Barber, a small and softly-spoken man born in Wakefield, West Yorks, just
after the Second World War, insisted voters did not mention the president on
the doorstep.
“It just doesn’t come up,” he told the Daily Telegraph. “What
comes up is what’s going on in their lives – the middle class feels squeezed”.
Yet supporters acknowledge that Mr Obama looms large. “He’s too
politically dangerous to talk about,” said Ronald Cohen, a 77-year-old
retired pharmacist. “And Ron disagrees with him on several things”.
The district – 9,000 bone-dry square miles of small cities and mountainous
desert – is more moderate than most parts of Arizona, which has only voted
Democrat for president once in 64 years.
Yet Mr Obama’s healthcare overhaul, environmental policies, and plans to raise
taxes for top earners, all appear to rankle. A PPP poll of Arizona last
month put Mr Obama seven percentage points behind Mitt Romney, his
Republican opponent, and found the president’s approval rating in the state
was just 41 per cent.
There were signs yesterday that Mr Barber was pulling ahead after weeks of
deadlock with Mr Kelly, 30, who came close to defeating Ms Giffords after a
bitterly-fought campaign in 2010.
Given the injuries endured by Ms Giffords and Mr Barber – which came after Mr
Kelly held “Get On Target For Victory” events, where supporters
were invited to shoot M16 rifles with him – this has come as a surprise to
some.
“It is dismaying that people might forget the role the Kelly campaign
played in creating that horrific atmosphere in 2010,” said Tom
Zoellner, the author of A Safeway In Arizona. “It became acceptable to
talk of Gabrielle Giffords as a socialist and a traitor”.
Others, however, are unmoved. “I don’t think the divide ever really went
away,” said Brinton Milward, director of the University of Arizona’s
School of Government and Public Policy.
Mr Barber, who has a deep dimple in his left cheek where he was shot, and
until recently walked with a cane, said he had been “energised” by
the campaign and was feeling “better than I’ve ever felt”.
He said the country was “sick of the demonising” and needed to “find
a middle ground.” For the people around Ms Giffords, this means
defeating the rival still running against her and the Obama policies she
backed. “This is about closure,” said her husband Mark Kelly, the
retired astronaut, on Saturday night.
However the Democrat, who moved to Tucson at 14 after his Northern Irish mother
married an American serviceman, appeared exhausted at the prospect of
endless warfare with the Republican Right. “I think people are sick of that
demonising,” he said.
“The only way to solve the problems that we have in this country is not by having
ideological extremes and continuing to throw rocks at each other. We’ve got
to find a middle ground.”
For Team Giffords, this means defeating the rival still running against her and
the Obama policies she backed. “This is about closure,” her husband Mark
Kelly told supporters on Saturday night. For much of Arizona, however, the
battle with the president rages on.
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