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  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/18/2008 9:53:41 PM

    Everyone of voting age should read these two books written by Obama, 'Dreams of My Father' and 'Audacity of Hope'. Don't buy them, get them from the library before they are removed from the shelves.

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."

    And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!

    From 'Audacity of Hope', "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

    • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/20/2008 6:24:36 PM

      I read the book. It reads like Mein Kampf. It is all there. His preoccupation with race. Rage. Projection as a psychological defense mechanism. Enemies. Racists heroes.

      • Posted By: www.bookmama.biz @ 10/22/2008 2:35:48 PM

        I find the desire to villify Obama through his struggle with race issues incredibly pathetic and creepy. I am not black, but if was just 30 or so years ago that black people were legally mandated to drink from seperate fountains. Would you not have just a little bit of rage in trying to process all of that as a child/adoelescent?

      • Posted By: Nins @ 10/20/2008 6:37:30 PM

        Um. Jose, you just described yourself.

    • Posted By: Nins @ 10/20/2008 6:35:57 PM

      Jim, as usual you are trying to twist a fact to make it mean something different.

      Your quotes from Obama's books are more or less accurate, but they are taken completely out of context. In Dreams from my Father, Obama writes at length about how he went through an adolescent period of rebellion and identity crisis. He spent some time identifying with his black heritage and feeling how victimized blacks have been. If you read the whole book, you will see how he realized that it was immature for him to stay stuck in these feelings. He realized that he needed to do something constructive, rather than complain about other people being destructive. And he needed to see both sides of the story, both black and white, since he is both black and white. Actually, Jim, you could take a lesson from that and learn how to be more objective.

      You quote from Audacity of Hope is taken from a speech Obama gave after 9/11. He said that if the US government starts rounding up Muslims without cause and without giving them due process of law, that he would stand up for the Muslims rather than just watch our government put them in prison camps like we did to the Japanese Americans in WWII. In fact, the Bush administration created it's own internment camp and called it Guantanamo Bay. While there are certainly many guilty terrorists held in Guantanamo, there are also many innocent American citizens who have been held illegally for years without even being charged with any crime. They have been tortured by our government. Some of them have died.

      Recently the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration in the matter of Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court Justices were NOT on the side of the terrorists. They were on the side of the Geneva Convention, that says you can not torture POWs, and on the side of US laws that state you can not imprison a person without charging them with a crime and bringing them to trial. I'm sure that like most Americans, the Justices who voted against the illegal, immoral doings at Guantanamo did not feel sympathy for the terrorists. They felt sympathy for the laws of AMERICA, the land of the FREE, where even rat finks get a fair trial.

      One of the things that makes America GREAT is Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press. Your blog implies that if McCain wins the Presidency, Obama's books will be banned from public libraries. Heaven helps us! If this is true, it would be one heck of a reason to vote against McCain. Come to think of it, Sarah Palin tried to ban books from the Wasilla Public Library, and fired the Head Librarian when she refused to comply. Maybe it is true.

      God save us from small minded people like you, Jim Johnson.

    • Posted By: jarcher1 @ 10/19/2008 8:24:06 PM

      Same old game RepubliCONs have been playing for months, rip something out of context and whoop, shout and holler that they have located the smoking gun that proves Obama is a, take your pick: Muslim, socialist, black supremacist , communist, elitist or what have you. Do you really expect anyone but the RepubliCON base is dumb enough to believe that if he really was one of those things, a guy that graduated in the top 10% of his class at Harvard Law would be stupid enough to write it down in his public memoirs prior to seeking an elective office? I can understand why the RepubliCON base believes this, like a lot of would be confidence men, they sincerely believe nobody has more horsepower between the ears than they do. In this they are sincerely wrong.

  • Posted By: adthompson2001 @ 10/22/2008 10:19:23 AM

    Ms. Quindlen's comment wondering how a black man raised by white women could end up so secure makes me wonder if she has any insight into human nature at all. Before Obama, perhaps the most visible black man raised by a white woman was NY Yankee captain Derek Jeter, the very epitome of cool and "conspicuously secure".

    • Posted By: www.bookmama.biz @ 10/22/2008 2:30:28 PM

      Wow, comparing Derek Jeter, a professional athlete, to a man running for president seems really absurd.

  • Posted By: adthompson2001 @ 10/22/2008 10:20:44 AM

    Ms. Quindlen's comment wondering how a black man raised by white women could end up so secure makes me wonder if she has any insight into human nature at all. Before Obama, perhaps the most visible black man raised by a white woman was NY Yankee captain Derek Jeter, the very epitome of cool and "conspicuously secure".

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 10/22/2008 9:25:24 AM

    RoboHate.

    The McCain/Palin campaign is now combining our analog (or digital, cell) telephones with computers, and has produced RoboHate calls against his opponent, to enliven hatred wherever possible.

    Hate is not good for the country. And McCain/Palin uses hatred too often. However, McCain/Palin stumbles grossly on unity.


    This country needs unity in difficult times. Yes We Can. Obama/Biden is right for this country right now.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/21/2008 10:42:21 PM

    See: http://www.newsweek.com/id/164972
    Stating that Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act wasn't what caused the meltdown, and noting that "economists on both sides of the political spectrum have suggested that the act has probably made the crisis less severe than it might otherwise have been."

  • Posted By: Saami @ 10/21/2008 4:03:26 PM

    Maybe Barach Obama knows his mother and grandparents loved him and believed in him. He keeps trying to tell us that. All the more reason that it is sad that his grandmother is so ill. I hope she lives to see him elected President. What a wonderful gift back to her!

  • Posted By: LiberalinCT @ 10/21/2008 12:32:08 PM

    As always, Anna Quindlen is spot on. Given what we've seen of Obama, I must admit he is a fascinating study in human nature, completely imperturbable, and downright inscrutable. Quindlen rhetorically wonders why this is so, as his past provides no explanation for his utter self-possession. I disagree: I think his past is precisely what fosters his calm. He was a wanderer as a child, intellectually curious and deeply reflective in his thinking. It seems he spent the better part of his youth searching for an identity that eluded him (and perhaps still does?). Does this searching past give him a greater measure of equanimity? Ironically, I think it does. I believe he continues to intellectualize the experiences in his life, while also seeking pragmatic solutions to those ideas he believes to be reconcilable. Barack Obama is a great thinker, an inspiring orator and a new vision for our country. I believe an Obama presidency will surprise all of us, even his most ardent skeptics.

    • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/21/2008 3:04:43 PM

      There is nothing new under the sun. He is not outside of history. He does not transcend it.

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/20/2008 6:14:59 PM

    Ms. Quindlen wants to know how Mr. Obama became so "conspicuously secure" despite a very difficult childhood. I will tell her. Dear Ms. Quindlen if you read his autobiography: Dreams from My Father, you will learn that he healed himself by projecting his anger at (guess who?), and organizing a grandiose self. He is incapable of self doubt. And he needs enemies. Sound familiar? Yep, him. We will all see this played out during his four years as President.

    • Posted By: Nins @ 10/20/2008 6:47:37 PM

      Jose, I read Dreams from my Father and I didn't find that it was filled with anger, or the writing of a racist man who needs to make enemies to shore up the position of his ego. Obama's book was about how he moved through life, what he saw as a child, his adolescent rebellion, the identity crisis of being half white and half black, the struggles of early poverty, and the challenges of being an intelligent person in a sometimes confusing world. It seems to me that he came through it all with great courage, and not by hating other people or letting himself off the hook. He is honest about where he went wrong in life, and shows how he got himself out of negative thinking. He came to an essentially Christian solution to his problems: to love and respect other people and to be of service to his community. The book was honest and it was beautiful.

      Really, Jose, considering the racist and anti-Semitic remarks you have made in this forum, and considering how you made up names of Obama spokespersons and then attributed false and disgusting quotes to them, I really do think that if you read Obama's book and found it full of anger and hate, that this anger and hate is simply a reflection of you inner state.

      I'm sorry to offend you, but someone has to tell you the truth.

      Your one-sided ranting is really getting old. At least include some verifiable facts to go along with your opinions. You support McCain. That's great. Could you write even one blog about why you think McCain would make a good President?

      • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/20/2008 9:07:22 PM

        Dear Nins. It seems that we have come to very different conclusions after reading the book. I hope that you are right, but fear that I am right. If you are right, I will be very glad. Glad for me. Glad for my children. If I am right, will you admit it?

        • Posted By: Right is RIGHT!!! @ 10/21/2008 1:16:21 PM

          Your not right. Your postings have been moronic, borderline childish, and sounds like your a Sim news announcer from Sim City. You think your amusing, your not. You are a putz and if you don't understand that word, shmuck would also apply. When has anyone commented that your postings are funny or amusing? Didn't think so. When you post with integrity, logic, and have conventional wisdom applied, you would not get the type of reaction that I am displaying, or Nins, or anyone else who has read your commentary

          • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/21/2008 3:00:00 PM

            I welcome your feedback. I guess we will have to agree to disagree.

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/21/2008 11:13:07 AM

    After 9/11, the US government started rounding up Muslims without cause and without due process of law, like we did to the Japanese Americans in WWII. The Bush administration called it's main internment camp Guantanamo Bay. While there are certainly many guilty terrorists held in Guantanamo, there are also many innocent American citizens who have been held illegally for years without even being charged with any crime. They have been tortured by our government. Some of them have died.

    Recently the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration in the matter of Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court Justices were NOT on the side of the terrorists. They were on the side of the Geneva Convention, that says you can not torture POWs, and on the side of US laws that state you can not imprison a person without charging them with a crime and bringing them to trial. I'm sure that like most Americans, the Justices who voted against the illegal, immoral doings at Guantanamo didn't feel sympathy for the terrorists. They felt sympathy for the laws of AMERICA, the land of the FREE, where even rat finks get a fair trial.

    Meanwhile, back in Iraq, the Bush administration is busy trying to build a smokescreen to hide the CRIMES they have committed. Those pesky weapons of mass destruction. Just think, the National Debt went up over 6 trillion dollars under Bush. More than 2 trillion of it went directly into the pockets of Halliburton, a corporation owned by the Cheney family. Halliburton is now a DUBAI corporation and therefore is not subject to US taxes. All that money they took out of the US Treasury is going into the coffers of a MUSLIM country.

    Did you hear about how the US government is being charged millions for Halliburton deliveries of sand into Iraq from Kuwait? Sand. Like there is a shortage of sand in Iraq? Another contractor shipped sand from Idaho to Iraq at our expense. Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses these and other excesses of our current government's out of control spending in Iraq.

    Your grandchildren will be working like slaves to pay off this debt, so that the Bushes and Cheneys can live the high life in Dubai.

    Yeah, they're patriots, Bush&Co. They wear flag pins. And hide the money they stole from America in Dubai.

    And they want me to believe that Obama is a socialist. Right.

    In case you think McCain is any different than Bush, watch this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

  • Posted By: Sahran @ 10/21/2008 9:25:30 AM

    These racist comments about arabs will not help the image of the U.S around the world. It's no wonder that most Iraqis want americans OUT no matter what the consequences are and what arab country will want an alliance with a U.S that make racism against arabs a presidential race issue.

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  • Posted By: SanDiegoProud @ 10/21/2008 2:04:56 AM

    Ms. Quindlan you're right. In order to win, John McCain sold his soul to the devil, and comes Nov. 4th, he'll have the devil to pay.

  • Posted By: SanDiegoProud @ 10/21/2008 2:03:20 AM

    You're right, Ms. Quindlan. In order to win John McCain sold his soul to the devil and comes Nov. 4th, he'll have the devil to pay.

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/21/2008 1:36:54 AM

    After 9/11, the US government started rounding up Muslims without cause and without due process of law, and put them in prison camps like we did to the Japanese Americans in WWII. The Bush administration called it's main internment camp Guantanamo Bay. While there are certainly many guilty terrorists held in Guantanamo, there are also many innocent American citizens who have been held illegally for years without even being charged with any crime. They have been tortured by our government. Some of them have died.

    Recently the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration in the matter of Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court Justices were NOT on the side of the terrorists. They were on the side of the Geneva Convention, that says you can not torture POWs, and on the side of US laws that state you can not imprison a person without charging them with a crime and bringing them to trial. I'm sure that like most Americans, the Justices who voted against the illegal, immoral doings at Guantanamo didn't feel sympathy for the terrorists. They felt sympathy for the laws of AMERICA, the land of the FREE, where even rat finks get a fair trial.

    Meanwhile, back in Iraq, the Bush administration is busy trying to build a smokescreen to hide the CRIMES they have committed. Those pesky weapons of mass destruction. Just think, the National Debt went up over 6 trillion dollars under Bush. More than 2 trillion of it went directly into the pockets of Halliburton, a corporation owned by the Cheney family. Halliburton is now a DUBAI corporation and therefore is not subject to US taxes. All that money they took out of the US Treasury is going into the coffers of a MUSLIM country.

    Did you hear about how the US government is being charged millions for Halliburton deliveries of sand into Iraq from Kuwait? Sand. Like there is a shortage of sand in Iraq? Another contractor shipped sand from Idaho to Iraq at our expense. Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses these and other excesses of our current government's out of control spending in Iraq.

    Your grandchildren will be working like slaves to pay off this debt, so that the Bushes and Cheneys can live the high life in Dubai.

    Yeah, they're patriots, Bush&Co. They wear flag pins. And hide the money they stole from America in Dubai.

    And they want me to believe that Obama is a socialist. Right.

    In case you think McCain is any different than Bush, watch this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/21/2008 12:23:49 AM

    This is so true about how the election is already bought and paid for:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/what-is-it-that-barack-obama-knows-that-the-rest-of-us-don%E2%80%99t/#comment-1929

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/21/2008 12:11:06 AM

    This is so true about how the election is already bought and paid for:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/what-is-it-that-barack-obama-knows-that-the-rest-of-us-don%E2%80%99t/#comment-1929

  • Posted By: Ankhorite @ 10/20/2008 2:32:03 PM

    Ronald Reagan deteriorated in office to the point that his staff -- who were running the country by that time -- were giving him cue cards saying "Hi, I'm Ronald Reagan" before guests came in. He couldn't remember his own name. McCain, heaven help us, can't remember the difference between Sunni and Shiite. He is too old for this job. The odds of hm living four years are poor; he is already older than his father or grandfather lived to be. The odds of him living SANE the next four years are lower than that. President Palin, anyone?

    • Posted By: busby @ 10/20/2008 9:58:14 PM

      Are you a doctor or just stupid?

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/20/2008 9:20:42 PM

    Who "Joe the plumber" may be is not the issue, though it's easy to see why the Dems want it to be. That's because the real issue is what Obama's comments to him revealed about Obama. In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" we find out that Obama really is as radical as his early political acquaintances, Davis, Ayers, Wright, etc., and that he is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Obama's tax and spending plans alone would be bad enough, but add Reid and Pelosi to the mix, with the three of them controlling both houses of Congress and the executive branch without any effective restraint, and you have something that should causes concern even among moderate Democrats.
    See Wall Street Journal: A Liberal Supermajority:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html

    And whether McCain won or lost the third debate is also not relevant. He succeeded in the first half hour to plant the seeds of a Reagan style wipeout. Reputable historians and economists overwhelmingly agree that the taxation imposed by Hoover and FDR, and the "stimulus" spending and public works programs of FDR, actually deepened and prolonged the Great Depression. It was the production demands of WWII that got the economy going again. And when the war was over, the economy promptly went into recession.

    See e.g. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/03/opinion/main4499465.shtml
    And
    http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx

    Point is, Obama's programs are to tax, and it does not really matter who he taxes, those taxes are going to be passed through the economy. He has to tax, because it is they only way he can pay for his massive social engineering experiments. Any first year economics student knows that taxation is a tool used to contract an economy experiencing inflation, because it reduces demand by reducing the amount of money individuals and businesses have to spend. It is contractionary, which is exactly what you do not want to do when the problem is that the economy is contracting already into recession. Like Hoover and FDR, Obama's plans will only make it worse for longer.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/20/2008 9:20:32 PM



    Look and listen for yourself. Hear Obama in his own words discusses his links to both ACORN and the mortgage meltdown, and praises bundling and securitizing mortgages by banks as a means to float loans to the poor. Never mind the link commentators point of view, just listen to what Obama says in his own words. A picture is worth a thousand words. Maybe more in the case of the last half of the second link.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related

    See also:
    http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?threadid=808692&boardsparam=Page%3d2

    This is a link to C-SPAN video clips of the Congressional hearings at roughly the time McCains attempt at S.190. to fix Fannie and Freddie. See for yourself who said what.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
    See also
    http://www.newsweek.com/id/164732 from this web site. (oops!) stating that Freddie Mac was spending tax payer money to target Republicans in 2005 who were trying to regulate Fannie and Freddies fraud. Democrats were not targeted, as the were all on board to not regulate Fannie and Freddie. Hear that, Republicans were trying to regulate, and Democrats were trying to stop it/

    The link below contains a purported list of the top 25 in Congress who got contributions from the folks at Fannie and Freddie. Obama is listed third, after Dodd and Kerry, even though Obama is just a junior Senator. Obama is followed next by Clinton. Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi are on the list as well.

    http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16&artnum=1&issue=20080918

    And the link below describes how some Democrats in Congress tried to use the original version of the bailout bill to divert money eventually recovered to groups like ACORN, a group Obama has a long association with. See:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122247015469280723.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/20/2008 8:53:46 PM

    Obama, the excuses are wearing thin. what excuse do you have for this one?:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/obama-praised-searing-and-timely-book-by-ayers/

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