‘I Had to Learn to Fight’

He was born in the canal zone which was at the time technically American soil. I think white equals more American to alot of people. It sounds stupid when you say it outloud (or write it). I call it ethnocentrism more than racism. It's a fear of outsiders (you know out siders who were born American). This factor is why the polled say "they don't know enough about him" . The reality is that they could have a detailed timeline including every minute of his life and know the exact policies he would put forth and he would still seem foriegn to them. It's really sad that we haven't as a whole grown out of this.

First, McCain signed up for a Vietnam tour of duty involving dropping Napalm on innocent third world children. Basically, he committed to frying their skin off while they were alive. Then, he deserted his crippled first wife, who had helped get him out off a P.O.W. camp, for a younger, richer woman. Next, he participated in and covered up the criminal fraud of the savings and loan scandal. Finally, he cheated on his wife with a female lobbyist. And you say Obama needs the shrink!!!!!!!

How can Mvcain run for president since he was born in Panama?The last time i checked the president is subpost to be born in thr USA?Or did someone change that rule? And what gets me Mcain he uses him being in Vietnam in the Hanoi Hilton .So were alot of other men there too.We still have alot of MIAS still over there.We need a man like Obama in the White House .Some one new and fresh .And i raised 4 children ,by myself with help from my mom .And my children all did good.None ever got in trouble with the law.I have heard more kids who were raised by both parents get in more trouble.I think its all how you raise them and take time to be a parent.And be there for your kids.Not give into them and give them PCs ,cell phones and video games.They cant take the place of a parent. TY

You are right lw/w&w. It is really great to have a candidate to be so considerate as to explain how his arrival at this point, on the verge of becoming the president of the United States of America, started with his parents. He obviously is aware of how much influence the elderly have on our lives. You are right, his record does speak for him.

In all my years (I am over 50 years of age), I have never seen a candidate go on so about his mother and his father. Sounds like Obama has some deep psychological issues. He is the one running for President, not his poor single mom or absent father. We all are the culmination of what ever it was that was dealt us in growing up. Most of us do not make excuses for ourselves by pulling out our parents and trying to explain ourselves through them. At least not in our public lives. As grown ups, we take responsiblities for ourselves.
If you have worked to establish yourself, your record speaks for you.

Oh, by the way Getzel. Is it true that McCain was born in PANAMA? There are many questions as to whether
McCain is qualified to be president.

Where is Mr. Obama's James Carville as a top strategist? If not him, then someone as tenacious and capable as he. The current milquetoasts are degrading Barack Obama's campaign and with it our American way of life.

Do not lose logic to reach the people. Use the emotions that drive people to action. This is what the swiftboaters have done. Senator Obama's team knew these lies were coming and yet they have given only delayed and watered down responses.

The best defense is a solid and potent offense. Get on with it.

ALL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND FORMER PRESIDENTS WE'RE MEMBER S OF (CFR) ...

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

FOUNDED BY DAVID ROCKEFELLER

DAVID ROCKEFELLER IS AN UNAPOLOGETIC, UNASHAMED SOCIALIST AND BIG TIME CAPITALIST.

SO YOU (SOCIALIST FEAR MONGERS) SHOULD STOP WITH THE FEAR MONGERING AND SOLELY,TRYING TO TAG & LABEL OBAMA AS A "SOCIALIST"

BECAUSE JOHN MCCAIN, RONALD W. REAGAN, BOTH GEORGE H.W. BUSH & SON GEORGE W. BUSH JR. BILL AN HILLARY CLINTON ARE ALSO (CFR MEMBERS) AS WELL AS OTHER KOWN PRESIDENT.


ITS A (MONOPOLY) ITS CALLED BEING SMART, BY CONTROLING BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES, WHATEVER THE POLITICAL PERSAUSION, YOUR AGENDA IS FOLLOWED AND ADHERED TO.

DAVID ROCKEFELLER IS (SOCIALIST-CAPITALIST-ELITIST-INTELLECTUALIST)

SO ARE ALL CFR MEMBERS AND YOU LIVE IN A SOCIALIST-CAPITALIST WORLD...ANYWAY

MOST OF THE WORLD IS SOCIALIST (W, EUROPE ) ARE SOCIALIST-CAPITALIST. THEY ARE NOT COMPLAINING, AT ALL, ARE THEY ?

NOTE: JOHM MCCAIN IS A CFR MEMBER AND HIS SOON TO BE RNNIN MATE "MORMON" MITT ROMNEY AN ALSO BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN...

YOUR PRES. AND VICE PRES. WILL BE CFR MEMBERS, NO MATTER WHAT...NO MATTER WHAT !!

NOW GO AHEAD AND CALL "SEMI-SENILE" JOHN MCCAIN & "MORMON" MITT ROMNEY (SOCIALIST)...

YOU LOW LIFES !!!!

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8 TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST, MICAHEL PHELPS HAD AN ABSENT FATHER TOO, MICHAEL WAS BULLIED, PICKED AT AND DIAGNOSED WITH (ADHD) ...

DID IT DESTROY HIM OR MAKE HIM A BETTER HUMAN BEING ?

IT MADE HIM A BETTER HUMAN BEING..FACT

BILL CLINTON ALSO HAD AN ABSENT FATHER...

WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO, WITH THE PRICE OF TEA IN CHINA.

CINDY LOU MCCAIN: HAS TWO OLDER SISTERS, ONE FROM AN OUT OF WEDLOCK RELATIONSHIP AND ONE FROM A PRIOR MARRIAGE (DIVORCED)

YET THE "PORCELIN BEER PRINCESS" CLAIMED SHE WAS AN "ONLY CHLD" !!!

HOG WASH !!!

tHERES MORE WHITE CHILDREN, FATHERLESS THAN WHAT IS BEING SHOWN, MORE WHITE CHILDREN ADOPTIONS, ABANDONMENT AND WHITE MALES TEND TO DIVORCE MULTIPLE TIMES AN LEAVE BEHIND CHILDREN FROM THOSE BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS.

MORE HAS TO BE DONE TO EXPOSE THESE FACTS.

SOME PEOPLE HAVE THEIR FATHERS PRESENT AND THEY MGHT AS WELL BE ...ABSENT.

STRENGTH OF WILL,CHARECTER AND MIND WILL PREVAIL.

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Wonder why they didn't ask him about being adopted by his step-father and his Indonesian citizenship.

Obama camp downplays Clinton backers at convention
MyWay by Darlene Superville Aug 25, 2008

DENVER (AP) - Barack Obama's campaign dismissed concerns about the impact of die-hard supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton on the choreographed show of unity Democrats were opening Monday at their nominating convention.

Opening night at the Pepsi Center, the main venue for the four-day Democratic National Convention, aimed to tell the Illinois senator's personal story to the millions of voters nationwide who will begin tuning in to the presidential campaign. Obama's wife, Michelle, was the evening's keynote speaker.

An emotional highlight was expected to come with a video tribute to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. The liberal stalwart was diagnosed in May with a malignant brain tumor and has had surgery and a six-week course of chemotherapy and radiation.

Behind the scenes, however, polls showing significant Clinton support still being denied to Obama and pro-Clinton demonstrations at offsite venues were creating a different kind of anticipation. Clinton has backed Obama and was scheduled to speak Tuesday night.

"There are a lot of delegates here who had passionate choices in an extended primary season," Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs told "Today" on NBC. "We feel confidant that if we can demonstrate a record of change, a record of vision ... a team of Barack Obama and Joe Biden can convince Democrats, Republicans and independents to support a ticket of change in November."

Republican candidate John McCain tried to widen any schism remaining between primary-season rivals with a TV ad featuring a Clinton supporter who now backs McCain over Obama.

"She had the experience and judgment to be president," says Debra Bartoshevich, identified by the McCain campaign as a former Clinton delegate. Of McCain, she says: "I respect his maverick and independent streak, and now he's the one with the experience and judgment. A lot of Democrats will vote McCain. It's OK, really!"

Poll for White House Tied
by Paul Steinhauser CNN Deputy Political Director

DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- It's a dead heat in the race for the White House.
The first national poll conducted after Barack Obama publicly named Joe Biden as his running mate suggests that the battle for the presidency between the Illinois senator and John McCain is all tied up.

In a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Sunday night, 47 percent of those questioned are backing Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominees, with an equal amount supporting his Republican opponent, McCain.

"This looks like a step backward for Obama, who had a 51 to 44 percent advantage last month," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Even last week, just before his choice of Joe Biden as his running mate became known, most polls tended to show Obama with a single-digit advantage over McCain."

So what's the difference now?

It may be supporters of Hillary Clinton, who still would prefer the New York senator and former first lady as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.

Sixty-six percent of Clinton supporters -- registered Democrats who want Clinton as the nominee -- are now backing Obama. That's down from 75 percent in the end of June. Twenty-seven percent of them now say they'll support McCain, up from 16 percent in late June.

"The number of Clinton Democrats who say they would vote for McCain has gone up 11 points since June, enough to account for most, although not all, of the support McCain has gained in that time," Holland said

In choosing the competent, but unloved, Biden, Obumer, who is NOT a citizen of the USA, admits that he was in way over his head. Biden was not waiting by the phone like some school girl and you can be sure that Biden got a large portfolio of responsibility and Obumerwill do PR. Those that put up Obumer hoisted Biden on the ticket; if the lackey: Obumer did not go along: it would have been Hillary when the delegates were finished voting and counted.

The Draft is scheduled to return in 2009. HOPE you do not mind CHANGING into a military uniform.

Obama traveled to Indonesia and Pakistan using his Indonesian passport in1981 when Obama was 20 years old. Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya at a Maternity Hospital, to his father, a Kenyan Citizen and his mother, a U.S. Citizen. WHERE IS THE AMERICAN PRESS? Obumer is not constitutionally eligible to be President!

Intelligence analyst: Getzel

Pennsylvania former state deputy Attorney General lawsuit documents:
http://www.obamacrimes.com/attachments/001_ObamaMemSupportTRO082108.pdf

"a myth" says it all.

It is very unfortunate that many Americans take Barack Obama's dignified social and civil behavior as his 'weakness'.

Remember, he is a LEO and, therefore, he can never be weak.

Barack Obama is a genuine LEADER and one doesn't attain this stature by being weak.

Its a shame so many comments come from those intellectually bankrupt right wing lunatic fringe people whos capacity for ignorance and hate is only surpassed by their willingness to strike out at all things marginally different from their own contaminated thoughts. Its a nice article, thanks for presenting it. Oh, by the way, not everyone in this world has a name like " Smith" or " jones" or " David"...some places have their own names, cultures, languages, laws. faults, religions...ummm yeah..thats what this world is made up of...multi cultures.....so, lets stop Playing the name game in attempts to align Obama with some distorted view of the world as only seen by those with little or no vision and the inability to process what they do see.

Interesting article....but for the life of me..I can't ffigure out what exactly is wrong with the people commenting with things like" Obama Ben Laden"...or incorperating Bidens name into the mix in a lame attempt to make it all sound threatening. The lunatic fringe seems to have many rips and tears where stupidity seeps through . Like water, the ignorance and fear driven by hate so often results in seeking its lowest level. Congratulations to those finally reaching their proper low nitche.