This article just goes to show that two people looking at the same indivhe has been asked over and over again to present an original copy of his undisputed birth certificate and has not doidual can see two different pictures. Barack Obama is an accident waing to happen. He doesn't have the will power to quit smoking. I hope that he doesn't think that he can smoke inside the White House! The fact that ne so as of election day , tells me that he without a doubt is hiding something.There are so many unanswered questions surrounding this man that I could never consider voting for him at this time. No matter who wins this election, Barack Obama is in need of a serious probe ! In the words of Barack Obama, All "59" states need to look at this man with a fine tooth comb!
THE LAST WORD
Anna Quindlen
Obama the Unruffled
Americans look for the character trait that the times require. There's no question: this moment cries out for stability.
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When the term "character issue" first became the political lexicon's most persistent cliché, it seemed to mainly denote the seven deadly sins of presidential wannabes: drink, drugs, gambling, adultery, perjury, payola and an unsuitable spouse. But as elections have come and gone and imperfect people have done good things, even if they once smoked marijuana or danced with a lobbyist's lampshade on their heads, the issue has become more nuanced. Perhaps all along, without quite knowing it, voters sought a person who embodied in his character what was most needed in the country.
Franklin Roosevelt projected strength at a time when the nation required strength. John Kennedy epitomized vigor at a moment when America needed a second wind. Bill Clinton, for all his shortcomings, was a man who truly felt the pain of a country that was awash in therapy-speak and self-help books.
This effect explains how Barack Obama has captured the attention and the approval of even those who, a year ago, would have been skeptical or hostile. The guy is steady. His campaign has now made the word its mantra, and, boy, has he earned the right. There has rarely been a moment when the United States needed an unflappable leader more, and there has rarely been a candidate who has so steadfastly refused to rattle.
For nearly two years the man has played his own methodical game, ignoring the cries of pundits or party regulars. During those times when it looked as though he were faltering or fading, most conspicuously after the Republican convention, when Sarah Palin seemed like a bright idea instead of a "Saturday Night Live" skit, the Greek chorus rose: Strike out! Fight back! Be tough! Be rough! Obama proceeded apace.
Instead it was John McCain who steered in response to the potholes, and so drove into the ditch. What happened to the much-vaunted straight shooter? He found himself the headliner at what seemed to be reunions of the John Birch Society, forced to correct those who shouted that his opponent, child of Kansas, reared in Hawaii, living in Illinois, was an Arab or a terrorist. And at a moment when Wall Street seemed built on quicksand, Senator McCain was as unpredictable as the Dow, ricocheting from one set of talking points to another, abruptly dropping them when they got no traction.
The most useless line the McCain campaign tried was the existential question "Who is the real Barack Obama?" Despite attempts by the right wing to create a piñata Obama, improbable parts ambition, danger and socialism, the answer is clear: for whatever reason, he's a smart and temperate person who is really comfortable in his own skin. It's weird that this should be so, given his past. A teenage mother, an absent father, a peripatetic childhood, a black man raised by a white family, a blueprint for insecurity and anger. As a parent I would love to understand how instead he became someone conspicuously secure.
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