metzlerd(Mr. check your facts but provide none himself): Obama has released everything? The Republicans will slaughter O-Bambi with what he hasn't. The Clintons came to the White House not even owning a home, talk about integrity. Obama instead got a below market house through that fraudulent slumlord Rezko wha has a career oppressing Blacks in Illinois. They further got from Rezko a suspicious adjoining lot that was initially part of the parcel but somehow left out initially and sold to Obama again below market? The Rove/Nixon Academy of Dirty Tricks will slaughter Obama and render him more nationally unelectable than he already is. Yes, his winning all those Red States that haven't gone Democrat since 1964 is absolutely meaningless. e is the second coming of George McGovern!
And shame on you, as a Democrat, for using Karl Rove and Ken Starr accusations like Whitewater. Starr spent years and $60MM digging up something, anything, and came up with a big fat zero for your information. As you say,"check your facts" and don't make yourself look more of an Obama ignoramus than you already have. Am sick and tired of Obama hypocrites! And in the end, as a fact, Starr was reduced from a respected judge to a Republican hack sex investigator. He ultimately found his niche.
Democrats, watch what tKarl Rove and the Republicans do to with the smelly O-bambi/Rezko real estate deal.
The eternal Democrat
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For instance, archconservative Sen. Tom Coburn routinely puts a "hold" on dozens of bills (yes, a single senator can obstruct the whole process). He put one on a bill cosponsored by Obama and GOP Sen. Richard Lugar to clean up dangerous conventional weapons scattered across the former Soviet Union. According to Lugar's office, it was only Obama's unlikely friendship with Coburn that persuaded the Oklahoman to lift his hold and allow the bill to become law. The two senators from opposite sides of the spectrum go out to dinner (along with their wives) and clown around in the cloakroom, with Obama teasing Coburn that he can muss his hair, but Coburn can't muss back. Deploying this kind of charm might seem trivial, but it's an important reason FDR and Reagan got so much through.
Another Obama advantage is that he's showing signs of a quality ascribed to Roosevelt—"longheadedness." Behind their enigmatic smiles, longheaded politicians look farther downfield than most. In Obama's case, that means that the onetime community organizer is likely to apply to congressional votes the same meticulous planning he's using to win caucus states. To that end, he has already prioritized his presidency, with ending the war, reforming health care and beginning the transition to a prosperous "green economy" as the big three changes he wants to be judged on.
All the planning in the world is worthless if a president can't inspire and excite the American people. In researching a book on FDR, I learned that on March 4, 1933, a woman brought along four handkerchiefs to an Inaugural reception, one for each of her children, so that after shaking hands with the new president she could wipe her hand on each hankie and thereby preserve traces of her hero's sweat for each child. That sounds like some of the delirium I've seen at Obama events. If it continues, he could bring a lot more change than the cynics think.
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