What If Obama Loses?

The country will be better off if Obama loses. We need a leader with foresight...not hindsight. Obama is better at hindsight and being a Monday morning quarterback. He can't make a decision until he stands on the sideline for awhile to watch how the issue is playing in the polls. After a decision has been made or it is clear what the decision will be, Obama jumps in and tries to take credit for backing or rejecting it. Barack Obama should have shown respect for this country by at least serving one full term as a U.S. senator before running for president. He is completely lacking in the necessary experience in foreign policy, economic matters, etc., etc. Barack Obama is all talk without a record to back it up. Senator Joe Biden said he wasn't ready to be president and the Clinton's know he isn't ready to be president. They are all proping him up for the sake of the democrat party. Senator Hillary Clinton is doing more to get him elected than he is doing for himself. I bet you he wouldn't do the same for her if the situation were reversed. Programs Obama has promised he will provide and his tax policies will hurt America further and drag us down more. I am a democrat who will vote for McCain/Palin in November. I pray to God Obama loses in November for the sake of America's future. Would've voted for Hillary Clinton but Obama is way too far left for my vote plus I think he puts his political career ahead of country. NOBAMA

My stomach turns when i think about how our presidential election has come down to color and not topic. we are one nation and i want to hear about the issues not about what color they are. I understand there is still racism today but i dont think we should be wasting our time arguing about the color of the next president or the age and start talking aqbout the issues only.

look, i'm a Dem. & i'm not for this bailout.. Washington Mutual fell because ppl started pulling their money out of the bank... i guess MSM didnt want to cover that because it would have caused a panic.. Bottom line i dont like this bailout & i dont think its fair. i got a fixed loan on my home & i'm a new buyer/owner ..on Liberal & Conservative talk radio economist say this bailout is a bad idea. plus we dont have the money anyway( we would have to print it which will cause infalition ).MSM is trying to sale this bailout because maybe they have stocks that they are losing.... I DO NOT SUPPORT THIS BILL !!!! if i'm misunderstanding some points on this somebody PLEASE explain to me.... $700BILLION & plus because the total amont is unsure.. S.S. is already questionable for my age group & all my parents taught me is to save & dont live over your means. i'm pissed that this is even happening & i dont understand fully the economic problem ( i only understand mine)...

if a blogger has some clarity on why i should support this ( w/ out making me feel stupid on not understanding please do)....

We are not of different race but of the same we both bleed red when cut God made one race the human race. It's that he is a creative arties and uses a malatuide of colors not just black and white. The problem is not the color but of what happened so long ago and we can not make the future better because we cant let the past go something we can not change but if we let the past go we can change the future for or kids and grandkids. This is not a way to live. Someone I thank would make a great President is Colin Powell

We are not of different race but of the same we both bleed red when cut God made one race the human race. It's that he is a creative arties and uses a malatuide of colors not just black and white. The problem is not the color but of what happened so long ago and we can not make the future better because we cant let the past go something we can not change but if we let the past go we can change the future for or kids and grandkids. This is not a way to live. Someone I thank would make a great President is Colin Powell

Those keys (as mentioned in the article ) were never theirs to turnover. All qualified Americans have a right to those keys, and even some who were far from qualified opened the doors of the White House with those keys.
I'm not afraid that Obama will lose this race because I know that at least three fourths of Americans don't wear dunce caps. Any intelligent American wants a better America than what we now have.

So many of these comments are so ill informed, embrace willful ignorance and just down right racist. To say that ALL blacks OR MOST blacks when most have probably not even had an in depth conversation with a black person but go by what they see on the news or TV, well it is so disgusting. I have never understood this racist crap in American and as a black usa citizen who has traveled the world my further mistrust of equality for all in Americans is sadly strengthens if these comments are any indication.. After all I can travel the world and be treated better by my world citizens than I will (per all these comments) my fellow Americans. There are angry white and black people in this country who continue to distrust each other, however, the continuation of stereo typing and lack of WANTING to understand a fellow citizen will only hinder the USA's growth as a nation. Maybe that is what you want, however, I would like to believe that someday, color will no longer be such a divisive issue. Unfortunately, since so many have misconceptions of each other, I don't see that happening soon. So disheartening that after so many years Americans are still quite good at hating each other!

Ms. Samuels,
Excuse my French, but that is bull$hit. Black Americans are more energized than ever., especially after the debate. Don't believe the hype!

Watch the slight of hand people. Please do not even respond to the misdirection of the media.

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Media and The Presidential Race 2008 In attempting to dissect U.S media reporting methodologies, which have been surreptitiously subjected to the overly simplistic assessment of leaning either "left" and "right" journalistically, I submit that there are significant indications of race and gender bias as a matter of course, and most profoundly discernible when potentially seismic change to the racial status quo emerges. The Obama Presidential bid, and reportage associated therewith, clearly falls into this category. In line with the above assertions, I recommend to Newsweek readership an excellent dissertation by Dr. Sonja Stokes-Gildon, produced to complete Wayne State University Doctoral program requirements: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Gildon_Dissertation.pdf What I've attempted to do here is change or modify commonly held assumptions and beliefs to be more reflective of the current and historical realities, without which there can be no real progress in resolving age-old racial/ethnic/cultural conflict among humans who are indeed, of one race...

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By the 1920 census, the number was 9.9%, rose to 10.5% by 1960, and 11.1 by 1970. And there, in utter defiance of accepted census counting techniques and the most basic presumptions, even absolutes, as applied to humanity's overwhelming desire to perpetuate itself, it sat... Moreover, in what can be considered the ultimate insult to a segment of the population on whose backs this nation was inarguably built, a self fulfilling prophecy (based on appalling deviations from established, again, demographic data gathering process along with historically indisputable indications of willful undercount and count of non-Blacks here illegally) designed to neuter observable sociological advances in education, professional position avails, overall entry into the economic mainstream, and above all, respect and dignity, was "confirmed" by the 2000 Cenus: Hispanics were deemed as the new "largest minority". The foregoing thus begs the question: "What is the actual population representation of Black Americans?" Answer: According to industry colleagues within the marketing and advertising sector, along with observations by one of the country's 70 woman labor historians, that number is closer to 33% (the significant new European migration begun in earnest as a result of the Irish Potato Famine --1845-1850 -- and falling off with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 notwithstanding) which would more accurately assign status to Blacks as the second largest majority. We need not dwell on the profound implications of this assertion --if found to be true -- in a variety of areas; inclusive of the election process. 5. The assumption that purity of race exists within this country or anywhere else on the planet as would be necessary to lend credence to the notion of racial/ethnic superiority and justification for the great cultural divide between Black and White Americans. I leave it up to fellow Newsweek readers to test these assumptions using available historical demographic, psychographic and social analytics data.

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The assumptions that we wish to challenge here range from relatively benign to significant: 1. The assumption that the AP Style Book is correct to recommend the use of a lower case "b" and "w" when using black and white to identify race. Logic dictates that used thusly, the words become pro-nouns and should therefore be capitalized. (I welcome discussion here) 2. The assumption that it is appropriate to continue the use of language designed to trivialize, marginalize and render this side of insignificant the experience and existence of American Blacks as expressed by the terms "minority", "Black leaders" and "Black community" 3. The assumption that Blacks are monolithic in their thinking --as this article overwhelmingly implies -- and will only consider "color of skin" as opposed to "content of character" when making decisions at this level of import and impact 4. The assumption that Blacks represent a mere 12.3% of the populace as concluded by the 2000 census, despite protests from within the United States Census Bureau itself relative to questionable population count methodologies deployed or not deployed, including the elimination of statistical sampling. This number (12.3%) is in abject denial of readily available census data going back to the first Jefferson directed count of 1790, which indicated a Black population representation of 19.3%, and flies in the face of accepted demographic data gathering practice, not the least of which is the maxim stating that every 90 years, barring pestilence, war or natural disaster, a given segment of the population will quadruple. It is of profound interest that the 1870 census indicated zero population growth for Blacks just 5 years after the end of the Civil War, and the presumed end of breeding slaves to enhance profit (students of history will find the exchange between President Lincoln and the Director of the Census in the midst of the war intriguing, if not shocking, as the President sought to end the conflict by paying off the slave owners; among other strategies). http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/03322287%20no121-130ch08.pdf (page 126 re: 1870 census

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Colleagues: The question du jour, if not of the century, is why this article was necessary to begin with? In the aftermath of an extraordinary and world acknowledged win on the podium by Senator Obama against Senator McCain, I see these type articles as pandering to racist inclinations on both sides of the cultural divide. As a former Newsweek correspondent having a thorough understanding of its internal mechanisms relative to content development, I must admit I knew it was coming. Moreover, it has nothing to do with being "A search for the version of the story closest to the truth" in a Woodward-esque sense, and everything to do with maintaining the societal status quo. Assuming this post passes the "appropriateness" litmus test applied to varying degrees within this medium, I'd like to inject elements of "visioning" processes as developed by the RAND Corporation within the historical time-frame and context that saw the passage of the National Security Act of 1947. Designed to help the Department of Defense "think the unthinkable" (i.e., the "Nuclear Winter" aftermath of an atomic weaponry exchange as postulated by Dr. Carl Sagan, et al.) and to test assumptions that could lead to an entirely different outcome other than those one might expect, visioning is more than useful in potentially bringing about a change, even radical change, within the human psyche.

Obama and the Democrat party are gay for gay marriage.


VOTING FOR A DEMOCRAT IS GAY


DON'T BE GAY