I really don't understand the point of Obama texting his supporters his VP decision because the MSM is going post it as breaking news AS SOON AS it is confirmed by the campaign so what's the point of texting?.
I really don't understand the point of Obama texting his supporters his VP decision because the MSM is going post it as breaking news AS SOON AS it is confirmed by the campaign so what's the point of texting?.
Obama's comment shows that the rift between him and Bill Clinton isn't mended. I'm not surprised, and I doubt Obama is serious when he says he's considering HRC as his running mate. He's only doing that to appease the Hillary supporters he needs to bring back to the party.
Won't work in my case. I won't vote for a candidate who admits using cocaine for years.
Yeah, vote for the guys who bombed women and children instead. Good choice.
Saddam Hussein? You want us to vote for him? He routinely killed his own people. Are you writing him in?
He didn't admit that. That's the smear from the lessers. He said he tried it. Not as bad a being a lifer drug and alcohol abuser like GW. Bush did alcohol and cocaine for a long, long time and has started to drink again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_substance_abuse_controversy
Not as bad as most presidents substance abuse issues. And not as bad as having severe anger issues. Add that to the fact that Mr. Obama is healthy and new, and we have a winner.
"Years" is the word Obama used in his book, I'm only repeating what he has said about himself.
And I don't think he has quit. He is clearly addicted to nicotine and can't stop smoking, he has tried many times. And all this exercise he does, it's the same thing he did when he transfered to Columbia and was trying to straighten himself out.
Drug addicts are thin for a reason.
In other words, someone who can tell him what to do next. Very similar to the current Bush administration, Obama would just be another puppet, like his cousin George W Bush. His VP will be the one in the "undisclosed location".
Jill,
There is no way that an intelligent person can make that assumption form what Obama said.
It is far easier to intrpret it as saying that Obama does not want someone who will always agree with him pro-forma (a "yes man/woman".) That Obama wants someone who will voice his/her own opinions and bring his/her own expertise to the table. In reality that is the sort of thing that will make an Obama administration (or any administration that subscribes to the idea that a VP can be a valuable part of the team) a better one.
Obama stated that in an interview as a matter of fact it was one of the articles on Newsweek's board a while ago. He does not want a yes person, but someone who can tell him when he is wrong!
Ms. Jill seems to be 100 percent assumption and 0 percent fact.
John Weaver, McCain's former top aide who left the campaign, described the ad (and McCain) as "childish." And, when you think about it, isn't McCain a celebrity, too?
"John's been a celebrity ever since he was shot down," Weaver said.
Those are facts.
First he knows Castro.
Then he's a celebrity, and now he doesn't want to help families. Mr. Mccain is really hurting himself.
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/2008_08_11__Obama_may_have_the_last_hurrah/srvc=home&position=recent
Here's the important link: http://www.electoral-vote.com/
bla bla bla McCain loses in November, and the Republicans cry all over their guns and money until 2020, when enough time has passed that people forget what a total catastrophe George W Bush's administration was. How predictable.
Barack Obama is 1000 times the man that George W Bush, Dick Cheney, or John McCain will ever be. At least he's not a murderous psychopath.
No, Obama's a Chicago trained pay to play politician who wants to create the biggest deficit this country has ever seen through new entitlement programs like free college.
Pandering to the young, it's what Obama is all about.
Sorry, the biggest deficit has already been set by Bush. I guess if we're gonna have a gatrillion dollar deficit, I'd rather it be spent on free college for kids than killing people.
I'd rather see Obama pandering to young people than McCain pandering to Satan.
I'd rather it be spent on our infrastructure and retiring our debt.
Obama blaming the Boomers will lose this election for the democrats.
OK, so we're in agreement on the money issue.
I think you're confused, there is not even a shadow of a chance of Obama losing this election. Watch and see.
A baby killer is not going to win against a war hero.
McCain's job in Vietnam was to bomb babies. And women. And children.
Oh, I forgot, once you're out of the womb, it's OK for the Republicans to kill you. Never mind.
that wasn't McCain's job. Your lack of respect for what our servicemen and women do is appalling.
McCain was tasked to drop bombs on military targets. It was because he was dropping bombs on military targets that he was shot down and captured and kept as a POW.
Civilians don't shoot planes down.
Right. McCain's job was to bomb military targets which were, in many cases, right next to or actually in civilian areas, causing much carnage to innocents. There weren't any (well a couple) smart bombs in Vietnam.
I was in the service pal, and I respect our servicemen, but there's nothing honorable about bombing civilians, whether on a mission or not. That goes for all those B-52 pilots as well. If you're going to kill someone, I think you should look them in the eye and do it, not push a button a couple of thousand feet in the air.
Why not? It happened in 2004.
WASHINGTON ??? Republican presidential candidate John McCain drew a sharp rebuke Monday from conservatives after he signaled an openness to a higher payroll tax for Social Security, contrary to previous vows not to raise taxes of any kind.
I guess McCain flip-flopped on raising taxes. McCain, doesn't flip-flop, he just lies.
So you think it would be fiscally responsible to do what Obama proposes, cut taxes and spend more money on new entitlement programs like free college when we already have the biggest deficit ever?
How far into depression do you want this economy to go?
I guess you should of thought about the economy 8 years ago, Ace.
I didn't vote for Bush, did you?
No, why, do I sound stupid? lol
If this article was just posted yesterday (7/27) then why do some of these posts go back to May?
Anyway, this goes to show that Obama's approach to new governance is the most effective in the last 40 years. Change we can belive in.
What the heck are you talking about? Obama hasn't got an accomplishment he can point to. He only wants people around him saying different things so he can shift and be vague and try to please everyone all the time while pursuing his own agenda. Rev. Wright had it right: Obama will say and do whatever he thinks he needs to say and do to get elected and stay in power. He isn't in it for anyone but himself.
Two latest polls showed Obama slipping by 2-3 points since the world tour. Listen....how much brain does it take to figured out that jetting around the world with publicists and press to have your pics taken with world leader is not foreign policy experience. Its called......jetting around the world with publicists and press to have your pics taken with world leaders!
I can only figured 2 reasons for the ridiculous superficial world tour move....1) Obama saw how Paris HIlton got fame via nothing but having the audacity of having audacity and decided to based his campaign strategy on the paris hilton strategy 2) Obama not too smart and too inexperienced to realized it.
Yikes, both posibilities are bad....so the country is pretty Screw_d if we vote this wanna be casanova into the whitehouse this november. Watch, question, analyze, think and think again folks. The stakes are higher then you know.
Yet again you have posted a character assasination piece that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Ad hominem attacks are for those whose positions are indefensible.
Of course it has something to do with the topic at hand. Obama is looking for someone who can deliver at least one of the states he claimed he could win away from the republicans. But he's losing the women, he's losing the hispanics (especially in Florida), he's losing older Americans who are seeing through all of his promises to the young and his Blame the Boomers campaign strategy.
It's obvious that Obama can't win with only the elitist left wing and African American vote. Cowen was simply addressing why the choice of a VP has to be a big show, a superficial pandering to one group or another, perhaps the Catholics? Apparently he's given up on the women and old folks.
Do we really trust John McCain? The same man who when his wife was in an accident and became deformed, he cheated on her with now Cindy McCain. He turned his back on his wife and kids. The same man that called Cindy McCain a cu**. Picked Carly Fiorina who said "jobs in America are not Americans God-Given right." A man who picked an economic adviser who said that Americans are nothing but a bunch of whiners. I don't know how people like sharenews and cowen123456 can support McCain. I think they are the women who are still crying because Hillary did not win and don't care what happens to our great nation. Bush has already ruined this country and made enemies with our allies. We really want McCain to continue the Bush policy? He just got another mole taken off of his face again. We need a healthy President. McCain is not the man we should be voting for. The same man who did not even want to vote for equal pay for women. The PUMA group don't care about women needs because they just want to sit in a corner and cry instead of dealing with the hand they have now and making sure that McCain do not become the next President.
You think a man who admits he used cocaine for years and still smokes like a stove pipe and is addicted to nicotine is healthy? Have you looked at him recently? Drug users are thin for a reason.
Drug users are thin for a reason? Then explain Limbaugh.
By the way, George W Bush used cocaine too, genius. AND he was a slobbering drunk who got busted for a DUI. I guess that puts Obama ahead on the moral-o-meter, huh?
I didn't vote for Bush either, did you?
Standing by among the chirping crickets in MSMLand awaiting Edwards admittance to ''being wrong''for being stupid enough to try to parlay a tryst with his mistress in of all places,the most paparazzi-staked out hotel on planet Earth,the Beverly Hills Hilton.[while his wife undergoes cancer treatment]. Heres Your Sign John.[what a maroon. It did not occur to Edwards that this hotel is a favorite among the jetset class when these are recovering from plastic surgery,as the hotel has an amazing array of services for the invalid or recovering patient,hence the swarming of the photog-sharks,with the unsuspecting Edwards,dropping like manna from heaven right into their laps]. More on this [and MSM hypocrisy],over at the liberal SLATE.
Many of us who live in the USA feel much the same about the fate of those been perished,we know nothing have been done to salvage their pride and dinity.It has been over six years since that small band of terrorists attacked the World Trade Centers, and our country has never been the same since.
Our land of freedom and good will has become a land of suspicion and fear. It seems like the terrorists won.They planted the seed of fear in the hearts of our people.Our people allowed that seed to blossom into paranoia, then chose weak leaders willing to sacrifice our sacred freedoms in the name of security.
Immediately after the 911 attack, people began to attach US flags on their cars. They pasted small signs on their window and auto bumpers with sayings like, "united we stand", "we shall never forget" and "God bless America".By the way all these stickers are made in China. We call this "bumper sticker patriotism". These same people cowered at home, afraid to fly in any airplane, terrified of another attack.
They became suspicious of all strangers including creating many bad experience obstacles that violates their decency at our airports.We scares the foreigner Businessman and Tourists to come our freedom land insists like they looks like a bunch of criminal .Our economy becoming worst day by day since.
The foreigners and the World have the bad impressions that America seems under Military Rules.Who should we blame but we ourselves,we all keeps talking miltary,military and military 24 hrs a day .We have nothing to say but bomb,bomb,bomb even at our Presidential Election.
We allowed ourselves becoming far apart with Rest of the world.
Opportunistic politicians promised to restore our security by enacting precautionary laws and regulations.
Slowly, they robbed us of our essential freedoms with FISA etc, all in the name of protection.
Anyone who spoke against them was labeled a coward, a traitor or a fool.
I do not despair. Democracy has a resiliency that allows it to heal itself given enough time. The people of the USA are already beginning to awaken. They realize that our leaders have eroded our basic freedoms in the name of security, and they do not like it.Our last election was a beacon of hope but yet we be decived.
Many of the conservative exploiters of fear that we intends removed from office.
Slowly, our politicians are beginning scares about our awakening to restore our cherished freedoms.
We are not a people who believe in aggression, in torture or in the violation of human rights.The foundation of our government is based on "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
We were once the beacon of hope for oppressed people in other lands and we want to gain that title back. Most of us can see that we erred in allowing our freedom to be sacrificed so cheaply.
I think we will fight to restore it.Our courage is slowly returning.
Barry..Barry..Barry..It's not change if everyone has to remind you what "CHANGE" means....LOL!!
"Change " is symbolic
you keep reminding us Democrats what that means to you.......
Symbolic???? So your voting for someone promising "symbolic" change?? I hope your fellow Obama supporters don't read this....LOL!!
Symbolic in so many arears........
yes !! symbolic & that "Change" is symbolic in the fact that he is new too many, & the first black person to get this far & the fact that his campaign has reached us younger voters & the fact that he is Bi-racial ...
Obama is awsome in many ways & is the strongest candidate ( the whole package)....
Obama is not the strongest candidate, which is why he is not WAY ahead of McCain in a year when the democrats should win by a landslide. They are in a virtual tie, and Obama isn't even leading his own home state. Now THAT is telling.
Well he is your canidate....I think most of his supporters are counting on more than symbolic change, but I'm with you....I have always thought this change was entirely symbolic.
That's how change begins, with a symbolic meaning. I think, lol!
Rock, how is your 'canidate' doing? Still in the running? I rarely hear about John McCain.
lol That's what you call backtracking, even some of the Obama supporters are starting to doubt.... go team!!!
. . . or Back paddling to get out of deep water.
In reality, this news flash will be old in a few days.
his change is Symbolic,
however, he is the best for this country to suceed ....
Symbol means differ. things to differ folks .. i think that he is the best to represent this nation in many ways....
GM Sharenews. I responded to your Bush questions below. I have a question for you too. If you are so concerned /curious over why I voted for Bush in 2004, assuming your concern is over the Iraq war, why then are you a Hillary Clinton supporter when you knew full well, that not only did she cast a "Yay" vote, she did so without reading the documents she signed or so she says. If I was in the Senate and about to cast the most important vote of my lifetime regarding launching an attack against a country, I would at least fully read the document and ask questions.
It wasn't authorizing an attack, it was authorizing the use of force if diplomacy failed. Go read the act Pia.
Wow! Good point!!!
IS is POSSIBLE for any human being,Obama, to be directly or indirectly associated with so many people with questionable dealings? WOW, this dude takes the cake..he's no judge of character..Ayers, Wright, Farrakhan, Michelle,Rezko, and the list goes on and on and on....He is not the person with whom Americans can or will find able to meet with world leaders..he can't pick one associate with an honorable past..GO FIGURE
Of course it's possible. Many of us, (excluding you I suppose), have friends, family members, and business partners with shady characters. However this should not always reflect on our own character.
Yes, but most of us don't participate in pay to play politics ourselves the way Obama has.
It's enough for me that he admits to using cocaine for years. I won't vote for Obama.
PS As for world leaders, many are corrupt anyway.
Ohh, so let's install another corrupt leader to replace the last! Not very smart! Again, McCain is NOT PERFECT, but IMHO he's the most honest, patriotic and loyal of the two!
Peace Pia! Still respect your views/positions. May the best team win!
Hello CC! Thank you for being kind to me. I like and respect you too. ((((hugs))))
Ooooh, your hugs are soooo warm. Thanks! Go get 'em tiger!
Oh what a load of HogWASH! You staunch Republicans are always coming up with crap. Mr. Bush Jr. is about the most abominable leader we've ever had, and has shady connections in the opium, drug trade in Afghanistan and Latin America (via his father) and makes profits on the war crimes he and Cheney and the rest of his Administration are guilty of instigating. Nobody in the world is more hated as a leader. Bush should be tried for war crimes for the torture of prinsoners in Guantanamo - there is nobody else truly accountable but him and his Administration. Foul murderers of innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq, and guilty of allowing 9/11 to happen on his watch, Bush Jr. is the only US President who was not only EGGED at his inauguration in 2000, but he is also the least adept diplomatically, the least respected leader in the world (apart from perhaps Robert Mugabe at present)... and is the man with the most DEATH on his watch.
I think anybody after him is a SAINT - Obama's connections are so tenuous as to be frivolous. Get off your high horse. You must think the GOP is perfect - that's the biggest laugh since Laurel & Hardy.
I just don't get it! If "W" & Co. have committed such heinous crimes, THEN WHY DON'T DEM-KATS go after them for IMPEACHMENT?!!! Typical DemKats, no b*lls (courage)!
Look, this won't convince the baiters, the haters and those generally frothing at the mouth but..
As one of those million and a half small donors..
I'm GLAD he's not taking public financing. When he started out no one thought he was going to win..really, not even him.
No one had any idea that we, the American public, were going to get behind him to this extent, no not even him.
No one anywhere predicted that Americans would reach into their own pockets to help him NOT take PAC and Washington Lobbyist Money and still make a credible run for president. And shatter EVERY fund raising record in the process.
To say that many Americans are "personally invested" in this campaign is not a piece of rhetoric, we are literally.
But guess what, liberals have indeed learned a thing or two both about and from the Republican Hate Machine. This year we are pragmatic, practical, and GOING TO WIN.
We don't care if the smears fly..period. We are now so used to the Republican Hate Machine, that we just won't believe ANYTHING Republicans say, they are the boys who cried wolf one too many times. Obama will not lose votes between now and the election based on idiocy..you watch.
We don't care if he Outspends McCain a million to one, we will finance it.
We wouldn't care if his wife really was an angry black woman who's not too proud of her country right now. Many of us are angry..bitter..and not too damn proud of this country right now either. This does not mean that we do not LOVE our country, it means you can love someone and still know that they're acting like an idiot.
(And for anyone who thinks everything is going so damn dandy here in the good ole U.S. of A. maybe you should march your happy butt down and sign up for military duty. I hear it offers exciting travel opportunities.)
America is sick of a Republican party that has betrayed it's own values and all of the rest of us, a party that is OK with torture, with suspending habeus corpus, with politically motivated firings in the judicial branch, with no-bid contracts to the vice presidents company, with $4 gallon gas, that could have been prevented, or at least begun to be dealt with at some point over the last eight years, with TWO WARS while they are trying to start a third, with endless lies that led us into a tragically unecessary war and killed and injured almost 50,000 American solidiers, with running up a trade deficit so huge, and a deficit so big that they are unimaginable, and de-regulating the entire lending industry to create a "housing bubble" that made the economy look like it was doing fine..until it fell apart.
So Hurray Obama..Keep that advantage, defeat John McCain..hell defeat EVERY REPUBLICAN IN CONGRESS..Depose EVERY Republican Governor. Period. We have seen the face of the terorists amongst us, and they are holding the sensible, old fashioned values part of the Republican party and middle America hostage to FEAR..Neo-cons SUCK.
no one knows what he really stands for not even him!
Here's a quote from Obama that says it all: "The nature of politics is that you want to have everybody like you and project the best possible traits onto you," he says. "Oftentimes, that???s by being as vague as possible, or appealing to the lowest common denominators."
Bravo, Thevail! Tell it like it is.
Guess who is hiding tonight? Good old Holy Roller. He's got his tail between his legs and is laying low.
Holy Roller, your "hero" Larry Sinclair was arrested today on outstanding warrants for theft and forgery. His disbarred lawyer Mr. Sibley showed up wearing a kilt (that's right, a skirt).
What I want to know is this: since you and the religious right hate gays so much, why will you get in bed with them when it suits your twisted purpose?
I hope you are sobbing yourself to sleep, now that your latest stink bomb has been shown to smell even more than the offal you were serving.
Everything that Holy Roller says is false.
RE: What I want to know is this: since you and the religious right hate gays so much, why will you get in bed with them when it suits your twisted purpose?
Just for the record, I'm a religious "Middle". It's not that we hate gays, we just believe in GOOD OLD FASHION TRADITIONAL VALUES. And I'm not ashamed, nor intimidated by lefty's (aka Progressives) like you that try to paint all us traditionalist as out-of-touchy-feely bigots. Just say no to Tila Tequila! Our kids future depends on it!
Independents 4 John McGame '08!!!
Then i guess shipping American ppl jobs over seas is GOOD OLD TRADIONAL VALUES you speak of?
No, capitolism is "traditional values" - and the world has become a global marketplace. Yes, it is less expensive (theoretically) to outsource computerized customer service telephone operations, but the auto plants in Alabama have shown that traditional manufacturing jobs can still be created in the US, and with the dollar declining, the US may eventually become the low cost labor center of the world, especially if we adopt Obama's plan to increase entitlement programs without a fiscally responsible way of addressing our growing deficit.
You can thank NAFTA, CAFTA and all the other FTA's for sending jobs overseas. Big Corp's not in the game to lose money, nor make little bits of money, they want big $$$. How do they do it? They setup shop in another country where they can exploit cheap labor and favorable tax codes. Until America brings back reasonable tariffs on imports, the problem will continue. Very simple! But!! Guess what that does? It raises the prices for consumers on all imports. There goes those $39 dollar DVD players! Gee, damn if you do, damn if you don't! Who has got a real solution? I know I don't!
Jill from Florida, you seem to be very politically and econ savvy, do you have a suggestion?
I have a solution a world minimum wage. If you don't pay your workers above a certain level we invade your country and tickle your leader until you do. ok maybe I need to work on the enforcement of my solution but I think its a socialist Idea we can all build on. By the way I am opposed to the minimum wage in the USA but hey what the hell no ones ever going to read this post anyway.
Dear Concerned, I was talking about Holy Roller, who is a self-proclaimed right wing religious fanatic.
Actually, Concerned, even though you and I support different candidates, when you take the time to discuss you views I almost always agree with you.
I think that TilaTequila represents all that is worst about women. Not that I blame her for being gay (or is she straight, or bisexual, whatever). What is repugnant about her is her desire to sell herself body and soul, and to do so in the public forum, playing fast and loose with other people's feeling and treating her "lovers" like victims. Yuck. Not a good role model for kids. I hope most children can see what is wrong with her. All you can do is tell you children what you believe and hope for the best.
I have neither say either way whether what this guys is saying until proven as facts, but here is the inteview that took place at the national press event that Larry Sinclair spoke at yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6w4Dl8QcY0 (VIDEO)
I did find it coincidental that Larry Sinclair was handcuffed right after his talk. Most likely it was a nebulous arrest in which he will be let go in days to come. If not, Id be surprised.
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HolyRoller - you know I'm voting for HRC. You need to stop the offensive Larry Sinclair and muslim cr*p. It's just so off the mark. And, it makes you sound like you're from the fringe.
Yes, but when did Obama last use cocaine? He admits he used it for years in his own book.
That's because he IS from the fringe.
Some of you who read my posts about investment banks driving up the price of oil through commodities futures trading did not believe me that this was a real issue, despite the fact that the Senate is investigating it. Well, it really is an issue and an important one, so important that the Department of Justice is going to investigate.
Senator Obama announced a plan to crack down on excessive energy speculation and fully close the loophole in the CFTC regulations that I referred to in my blog. This loophole is also called the "Enron Loophole" because it was created by McCain campaign co-chair Phil Gramm at the behest of Enron lobbyists, and exempts most trading on energy commodities from regulation. As a result, the CFTC is unable to oversee the oil futures market or investigate cases where excessive speculation is driving up oil prices. Just last month, John Hofmesiter, President of Shell Oil Company, says that the proper, uninflated production price of a barrel of crude oil is no more than $65.
http://www.financialpost.com/reports/oil-watch/story.html?id=532747
Clarence Cazalot, CEO of Marathon Oil, stated in November of 2007 that "$100 oil just isn't justified by the physical demand on the market - it is speculation on the futures market that is driving this."
http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/12/markets/oil_hundred/index.htm?postversion=2007111216
Larry Chom, Chief Economist of Platt's, states in a recent Businessweek article that speculation is adding at least $50 to the price of every barrel of oil. You can read this article in the May 13, 2008 edition of Businessweek, but it is no longer available on their website unless you are a member.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/may2008/
To see what Senator Obama is doing to correct this serious problem and lower the price of gas and oil, go to his website:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5Rzb
Now THAT is my kind of President! Sees the problem, and moves to fix it, while Bush and McCain are sitting on their hands.
Check the earmarks Obama has requested for his Excelon booster before you try to throw mud at McCain.
We have to start doing something now because it makes no sense to wait until oil is at $200 a barrel to start drilling offshore. Yes there is will be a delay, but there will be a delay from whenever we start anything. Doing nothing is not an answer, but that is what Obama's plan really promotes, doing nothing while his financial boosters get millions to do research.
You want to fix the energy crisis? That is primarily an issue for the states that regulate the power companies and set their rates.
Does your state have net metering? Does it offer tax credits or rebates for home owners who install solar powered water heaters, the one solar technology which is available now that is cost effective? Does your state promote co-firing of fossil fuels with renewable resources like wood? Why not?
Obama can't force states to make these changes. Nor can he do it by executive order. It takes Congressional action, and Obama hasn't shown any leadership on these issues in Congress.
to all obama supporters answer this what and how will he change the way the u.s is being run please be specific !!!
Try going to www.barackobama.com if you really need information on this. Look for his Blueprint on Change. It has been out there for quite a while.
In general, some things I like:
Remove us from the Iraq war, and place the focus of war back on the defense of our own country. When we consider going to war it will not be because of business opportunities such as Haliburton and ExxonMobile. Use diplomacy to solve problems rather than the shoot first and ask later mentality that got us into Iraq.
Change our focus from prolonging the oil economy to transition to alternative forms of energy. Put a significant amount of money into programs to move us off of an oil based economy, and onto clean renewable energy produced in our own country.
Provide assistance to the auto industry to shift to fuel efficient and alternative energy type vehicles; including pluggable hybrids..
Work on reforming the mortgage/credit system, so that people can better understand when they are getting a bad deal, or setting themselves up to fail.
Reverse the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, and replace them with a more fair tax cut.
Fix NAFTA to include language that addresses environmental and labor protections, so that it no longer just sends jobs overseas.
(I didn't put a lot of detail in here. Obviously there is not enough room for a lot of detail, but you can find this on Obama's site.)
And so why hasn't he taken a leadership position on these issues in Congress? I don't see where he has actually done anything but put his name on and take credit for other peoples' work.
guess Barack is shaken by all the bloggers and websites floating the Net because he has formed a "dream team" to help fight us! Senator Obama has formed a team to battle his negative image on the Internet. Why would he be concerned about articles that he claims are lies and misconceptions? Do you think that maybe a good percentage of those articles may speak the truth?
Is it coincidence that Obama graduated from Harvard, a school with one of the largest Muslim organizations (HIS - Harvard Islamic Society) located on campus since 1955.
Is it coincidence that Barack was repulsed by a very successful Republican President Ronald Reagan and is enamored by one of our worst Presidents in history Jimmy Carter?
Is it coincidence that Larry Sinclair is getting death threats after stating he had a drug encounter and two gay sex encounters with Obama about 8 years ago?
Is it coincidence that Obama had absolutely NO PROBLEM with his church or pastor until the year that he ran for President and then he amazingly saw the light?
Is it coincidence that Barack received donations from, visited the home of and is friends with Pentagon and Police Headquarters Bomber William Ayres? Is that Liberal enough for you?
Is it coincidence that 16 times convicted felon Tony Rezko donated thousands to Obama's campaign in Illinois, basically buying him the election, than receiving millions in Illinois contracts for himself and associates?
Is it coincidental that Obama has all these questionable ties and with little to no political experience has received over $264 Million in campaign contributions?
Is it going to be coincidence when Democratic opponents John Edwards receives an Attorney General's position and Hillary Clinton will get a Supreme Court nomination for their quick change in support FOR Barack Hussein Obama should he be victorious in November?
Who is controlling this puppet. We may find out soon enough. I guess this article and others will put us on the Internet dream team's radar. Bring it on Obama Sheeple, you can't handle the truth!
Dear WillNotVote,
Considering that the GOP and Karl Rove are making up lies and deceptions about Obama every day, and considering the fact that people like you are willing to spread this manure on the Internet for Rove & Company, I think that it is normal for Obama to have a website that disputes these rumors.
Harvard's Islamic Society was founded in 1955, considerably before radical Islam began inflicting terror on the Western world. In case you didn't know it, Harvard is one of the greatest universities in the world, and students from many different countries go there to study. The HIS is a prayer group, not a political organization or a terrorist group. The first words on their website are "Peace be upon you." Harvard also has a Catholic society, a Buddhist society, and I will bet even an atheist society. This matters because?
Obama praises Reagan to the skies in his book Audacity of Hope, even though he also gives a fair critique of what Reagan did not do well. Ditto for Carter. And the WORST President in history is Dubya Bush, a far bigger stinker than Carter.
Larry Sinclair is a convicted felon who has spent most of the last 26 years in jail. Considering that he has been found guilty of theft, forgery, perjury and extortion, I would say that NOTHING this man says is credible. End of story.
How do you know how Obama felt about his Reverend? Rev. Wright, like most people, is made up of good and bad qualities. He has ample good qualities, despite how he was presented in perjorative sound bytes.
Ayers is NOT friends with Obama. They were both members of the same charity board, with about 30 other people. And Ayers was NEVER convicted of anything illegal. He showed an idiot's bad judgement, as did McCain during the Keating 5 scandal. (Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.) Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's campaign. Big deal.
All of the money donated by Rezko was given to charity by Obama. Even though those funds were raised legally, Obama decided he did not want that money in his campaign.
The reason Obama has received so much money in contributions is that Americans WANT CHANGE in Washington, so they have been donating to the candidate who they see as the agent of change. McCain is more Bush war, more Bush depressed economy, more Bush failed foreign policy, more $10 a gallon gasoline.
I doubt that Edwards would become Attorney General. He doesn't have the relevant experience, nor the tough as nails dispostion. And I think it would be WONDERFUL if Obama appointed Clinton as a Supreme Court Justice. What a great idea! Thanks for that.
Hey ninny...Welcome Back...I have missed you. Seems you haven't lost your abilities. #1 LIAR on the blog. Good to have you back.
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Really HR? Nins is fairly truthful and accurate in posts. I can't say the same for you, and fact checks on most of your posts show this.
Sinclair has not spent 26 years in jail. Nins lies.
Obama and Ayers were neighbors and friends. That doesn't mean they were close, but it is a lie to say they were not friends. Ayers even hosted a fundraiser for Obama, which raised a lot more than $200, and that $200 doesn't include the cost of catering that fundraiser.
Audacity of Hope was written as a political propaganda piece in an effort to attract cross-over republicans because Obama knew he would never defeat HRC without them. He actually invited them to select the democratic nominee with his "Democrat for a day" campaign strategy. So now we have a weak candidate who is barely holding his own against McCain in a year when the democrats should be leading by overwhelming margins. Obama isn't even leading in the polls in his own state.
He shall reap what he has sown, division and discord. It's what he did to the democratic party. We can't afford to have a president who does the same thing to our country.
Edwards should be home taking care of his wife. Her time is short and he chose to spend his vying for our attention what kind of a man is that?
They are a very close couple, and they choose together what he will do.
Edwards just got OUTED. Don't you keep up. Got caught by paparazzi at 2:30 a.m. with mistress and love child. He locked himself in bathroom and got security to rescue him. GOOGLE John Edwards Caught. Being reported worldwide. He is DONE. Guess Hussein has to go back to the drawing board.
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Hey don't forget to quote your sources:
"The National Enquirer"
(I don't know how much truth there is to it yet. Still waiting for a reliable coroboration, other than the same magazine that has various Hollywood celebs having martian babies and what not.)
Very good post. These questions and many others, are what the BarackStar is going to face on a daily basis. New Rasmussen poll shows McCain with a 20% lead among Vets. This is before his dismissing the wounded. Those numbers will soar. New ads on MTV start tomorrow. Both Ways Barack. They are great, and ya gotta love the title. How appropriate. You can watch now at www.bothwaysbarack.com
But, great post.
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Well I'm a vet, interestingly I served on the USS John S McCain DL3 in '62 '63 named for McCains grandfather, but that aside, I will vote for Obama This country is going to hell in a hand basket and McCain will only continue pushing us to the edge and probably over it.
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