Rating Congress, and the candidates

Let's see, Rasmussen Reports says only 9 percent of Americans believe Congress is doing a good or excellent job, and both of the probable major party candidates for president this year right now are – in Congress!

Does it make you just want to pull your hair out?

There's actually a better way of expressing your feelings about at least one of the candidates, with the NObama 08 Magnetic Bumper Sticker," the No. 1 pick among best-sellers at Shop.WND.com for the third straight week.

You've probably followed the news already: The former Communist Party leader in Palestine has endorsed Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race in the United States, saying, "if he is elected, an agreement about the foundation of a Palestinian state [would be] reached." And a blog posting on Obama's official campaign website urged Americans to work to release an imprisoned terrorist fundraiser. And don't forget that a group of Hindus is presenting Obama's campaign with an idol of a Hindu monkey-god because they heard the candidate carries a smaller version of the idol.

The bumper sticker is more than a political slogan, providing an encompassing statement for the 2008 presidential race that makes it clear a particular voter dislikes the rants by Obama's ex-pastor , the denigration of America by the candidate's spouse, and the statements from the candidate himself that support late-term abortion, promote an unspecified "change" and express a willingness to abandon America's mission in the Middle East.

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In the report about the comments from PA Planning Minister Samir Abdullah, he said he would like to see Obama elected because he immediately would "study the Palestinian cause and will try to push it forward."

Earlier, on the MyObama community blog pages, user Ulf Erlingsson lamented what he called the "harsh" conditions of terrorist fundraiser Sami Al-Arian, and compared him to Malcom X.

Then the New York Times described a group of Obama devotees who are adopting "Hussein" has their middle names, and highlighting that in their online lives.

"The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish and Catholic, Hispanic and Asian and Italian-American, from Jaime Hussein Alvarez of Washington, D.C., to Kelly Hussein Crowley of Norman, Okla., to Sarah Beth Hussein Frumkin of Chicago," the report said.

The Hindus say they have given Obama's campaign a two-foot Hindu monkey-god idol after hearing Obama carries a miniature for good luck.

"The idol is being presented to Obama as he is reported to be a Lord Hanuman devotee and carries with him a locket of the monkey god along with other good luck charms," reported the Times of India.

This bumper sticker will allow you to "express your political position" directly and accurately.

In second place, again for a third straight week, is the magnetic bumper sticker declaring, "Drill For American Oil NOW!"

The goal? To take America clear of the dangers of relying on mostly unfriendly foreign powers for the nation's energy. The campaign succinctly demands a drilling program now of American oil reserves.

When Americans now are faced with the choice of turning over a paycheck to import enough fuel for their vehicle or putting food on the table, they obviously will wonder why the vast known energy reserves in the Dakotas, Alaska and off-shore the U.S. aren't being developed – and developed now.

It makes clear an opposition to a national policy long biased against energy development and production.

In third place is "The Marketing of Evil" by David Kupelian.

It's the book that Dr. Laura Schlessinger says, "tells the truth."

It documents how Americans now tolerate – even champion – many things that would have horrified their parents' generation, ranging from easy divorce and unrestricted abortion-on-demand to extreme body piercing and teaching homosexuality to grade-schoolers.

"Does that mean today's Americans are inherently more morally confused and depraved than previous generations? Of course not," Kupelian writes. "But they have fallen victim to some of the most stunningly brilliant and compelling marketing campaigns in modern history."

"'The Marketing of Evil' reveals how much of what Americans once almost universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift-wrapped and sold to them as though it had great value. Highly skilled marketers, playing on our deeply felt national values of fairness, generosity and tolerance, have persuaded us to embrace as enlightened and noble that which all previous generations since America’s founding regarded as grossly self-destructive – in a word, evil," he writes.

Here are the Shop.WND.com top sellers for July 7-13:

1. "NObama 08 Magnetic Bumper Sticker"
   
   
2. "Drill For American Oil NOW Magnetic Bumper Sticker"
   
   
3. "The Marketing of Evil (book)"
   By David Kupelian
   
   
4. "Nelson's Complete Book of Bible Maps and Charts (book)"
   
   
5. "King James Giant Print Reference Bible (book)"
   
   
6. "How Americans Can Buy American – Third Edition (Book)"
   
   
7. "None Of the Above Magnetic Bumper Sticker"
   
   
8. "Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls (DVD)"
   
   
9. "Defeat Osama, Obama and Chelsea's Mama Magnetic Bumper Sticker"
   
   
10. "Indoctrinate U (DVD)"
    
    

This list does not include WND's two sister publications – Whistleblower magazine and Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin – always among the best-selling products in Shop.WND.com. If you're not subscribing to these two great companions to WND, you're missing out on the best monthly magazine and the best weekly, online intelligence newsletter in the world.