Come on Obama! Tell everyone what your strategy is on getting out of Iraq. While you are at it, tell us where you got your military expertise experience. The only experience that I know you have as far as terrorism goes, is your close friendship and working relationship with William Ayers and his girlfriend, and your close friendship with, and your political support from Khalida.
Obama supporters, a good candidate changes their position based on experience and present conditions and not on a whelm or for political expediency. Experience takes many weeks, months and years and must be thoroughly analyzed before you decide to change your mind on important issues. Changing your mind in just a few hours or a few days is called flip flopping and that is an appropriate name for it. We need a president that examines history and past practices very carefully before he changes his mind and changes policy for this country. We don't need someone that flows with the tide and looks at polls to make decisions. Yes, we need someone that listens to the people, but in some cases, based on information that can't be made public, the president must use his/her good judgement.
Obama is controlled and told what to say and where he stands on a particular issue by his election staff. These people determine what the public wants to hear or where the other candidate stands on an issue, and then tells Obama what to say to the voters. Obama reads directly from a teleprompter most of the time and says exactly what his staff has come up with. He sounds like a great politician, but in fact he is just a robot with a lot of shrewd politicians behind him who have created a new political figure. Don't get caught up in their rhetoric and make an important decision that you will REGRET for the rest of your life.
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Jackson deserves praise and admiration for his pioneering role as a presidential candidate. He was a force to be reckoned with in 1984 and 1988. But his stridency, sense of endless victimhood and sometimes way-too-color-conscious thinking can make him seem to be an unpalatable political antique.
The moment he heard that Fox was going to broadcast the overhead remarks, Jackson preemptively apologized "for any harm or hurt that this hot-mike conversation may have caused." He called Obama to say so. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois, fired back. "Reverend Jackson is my dad, and I'll always love him," the younger Jackson said—and went on to "reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric."
Obama himself issued only a mild statement, noting that he had grown up without a father and that he of course accepted Jackson's apology.
In fact, Obama had another answer to Jackson even before the reverend spoke. In a family interview on "Access Hollywood," Obama's two daughters appeared on camera. Even in their brief (and probably only) interview, it was easy to see that Obama and his wife, Michelle, were rearing smart, well-behaved and radiant kids.
That was Obama's point about parenting—and probably enough said.
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