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  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 11/06/2008 2:02:52 AM

    Hirsh asks,"Will he (Obama) try to outdo his father in bridging divides that may be unbridgeable?" Yet the answer for that question is in the preceding paragraph. The question I should ask Hirsch is - define an "unbridgeable divide." For years whites justified racial discrimination because the divide between blacks and whites was "unbridgeable." The Big Bad Boogeyman of this campaign Rev. Wright, espoused the same doctrine as white separatists - and a lot of white folks, especially in the media got upset.
    All over the world, people justify all sorts of hateful atrocities because they deemed a divide as unbridgeable. By bridging "unbridgeable" divides in this country, we are providing an example for the rest of the world to follow.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 4:18:19 PM

    WELL SAID BILL COSBY !!

    'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.

    I can't even talk the way these people talk:
    Why you ain't,
    Where you is,
    What he drive,
    Where he stay,
    Where he work,
    Who you be...

    And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.

    And then I heard the father talk.

    Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads.
    You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

    In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

    People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now
    We've got these knuckleheads walking around.

    The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.

    These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.

    $500 sneakers for what?

    And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

    I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.

    Where were you when he was 2?

    Where were you when he was 12?

    Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?

    And where is the father? Or who is his father?

    People putting their clothes on backward:
    Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?

    People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?

    Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

    What part of Africa did this come from??

    We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa ...

    I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.

    I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !

    With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap .....And all of them are in jail.

    Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

    We have got to take the neighborhood back.

    People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.

    We have millionaire football players who cannot read.

    We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.

    Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.

    We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.
    We cannot blame the white people any longer.'
    Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.

    • Posted By: The Whole Dang Truth @ 11/03/2008 8:27:26 PM

      You're neither a Canadian nor much of a human being.
      You are, however, an obvious bigot and lowlife.
      So keep writing. You're doing the country a large favor by personifying the exact kind of slime the McCain/Palin ticket has attracted.

  • Posted By: tinaweha @ 11/02/2008 1:43:49 AM

    Concerned Canadian,
    I'm moving to Canada if Obama wins. I think I'll live as far away from the border as I can get. Maybe I'll go native on one of the Gulf Islands. I can't stand the politics in The States.

    • Posted By: The Whole Dang Truth @ 11/03/2008 8:22:41 PM

      "I'm moving to Canada if Obama wins. I think I'll live as far away from the border as I can get."

      And please don't let the airplane door close on your hugely ignorant, bloated, bigoted, uneducated, narrow-minded posterior on your way out. (Or on the way "oot" as you'll learn to say in Canada.) I'm pretty sure we'll all get along here just fine without your razor-sharp mind. LOL!

    • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 4:33:28 AM

      You're not the first one to say that to me...I feel sorry for my American cousins that had to put up with the most tainted and biased and grossly misguided Presidential election in US history. I feel we haven't seen the worst yet.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/02/2008 11:19:26 PM

    The Wall Street crisis was planned the night of Obama's meeting at Bill Ayres home to put Obama in The White House. Together they put a beautiful plan into place.

    This Strategy was first elucidated in the 1966 issue of 'The Nation' Magazine by a pair of radical Socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

    David Horowitz summarizes it as:

    "The strategy of forcing political change through an orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of Capitalism by overloading the Government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
    unquote

    Obama begin with ACORN by funneling millions into their organization. He then trained ACORN to stage protests in banks to force them to issue risky loans or they would be threatened to face racial charges. ACORN was trained to intimidate financial institutions into giving ???Ninja??? loans to people with NO assets, NO job and NO income, who couldn???t afford these loans.

    That caused the housing bubble two years ago it was by ACORN's actions they were able to destroy our credit system.

    As this played out, D-Barney Frank and D-Chris Dodd were able to cover up the millions of improvident loans to these bad risky house buyers. And Barney Frank and his chums successfully were able to block all of President Bush's attempts to put a rein on this problem.

    So Fannie & Freddie was forced to purchase all these failed subprime mortgages.

    Then both Frank and Dodd denied that there were any problems, and refused the Bush Admin. requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and they were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the 'minute they failed'.

    Democrats then blamed Bush saying it happened on his watch knowing it would hurt the Republican Party in the election setting it up that Barack Obama could use this to his advantage.

    Karl Marx once compared a Revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface.

    Barack Obama is that Marxist mole !

    • Posted By: The Whole Dang Truth @ 11/03/2008 8:07:47 PM

      "The Wall Street crisis was planned the night of Obama's meeting at Bill Ayres home to put Obama in The White House. Together they put a beautiful plan into place."

      How would you know? We both know that's the very same night you were abducted by aliens and/or the Trilateral Commission.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/03/2008 5:12:24 PM

    Obama said he denounced and left the radical Trinity United Church but it???s not true!!

    Obama has Trinity United pastor Rev Ottis Moss accompanying him on his campaign!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/03/2008 11:22:54 AM

    More and more disturbing stuff on Obama's past and real intentions are just starting to surface.

    As I predicted a year ago ....Obama is a big fraud and America is being duped !!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/03/2008 11:17:52 AM

    More and more disturbing stuff on Obama's past and what his real intentions are just starting to surface.

    As I predicted a year ago .....Obama is a big fraud and America is being duped !!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 10:34:23 PM

    BREAKING NEWS ALERT....

    Obama taped conversation with San Francisco Chronicle states his policies ???will bankrupt coal mining operations that produce gas emissions in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina
    which it will cause energy prices to skyrocket....." .....more info nobody knew until now about what Obama wants to do!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:26:50 PM

    Obama's Links To Radicals Starting To Surface!! www.newsmax.com/timmer

    Obama-Farrakhan Ties Are Close, Ex-Farrakhan Aide Says

    A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama???s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had ???an open line between them??? to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.

    ???Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn???t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,??? said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.
    White broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor of African-American history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
    White said Obama was ???part of the Chicago scene??? where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other???s events and support each other???s causes.
    ???Even though Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, within the black community, the political and militant nationalist community is very small. So it wouldn???t be uncommon for [Obama and Farrakhan] to show up at events together, or at least be there and communicate with each other,??? White told Newsmax.
    The Anti-Defamation League has denounced Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam as a ???hate group.???
    Farrakhan has called Jews ???bloodsuckers,??? ???satanic??? and accused them of running the slave trade. He has labeled gays as ???degenerates.??? In a 2006 speech, the ADL again condemned Farrakhan when he said: ???These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. ??? It's the wicked Jews the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's wicked Jews, false Jews that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!"

  • Posted By: Oplis @ 11/02/2008 11:59:20 AM

    If Dems do, ...McCain will lose!
    There are more Dems registered than Republicans this time, and if the undecided Democrats vote along party lines, Obama will win. This is why it is so important to get out the vote on the Dem side, we have to get this republican policy out , and get a different policy in place. Whether you believe Obama will be as affective as he says or not, McCain , will not be affective in change policy at all, he will be a Bush clone,....no?....he wants to stay in Iraq, " stay the course",..he wants to keep tax breaks for Corp.s in place including oil companies, plus add additional cuts for the oil industry, he wants to keep the tax rates for wealthy Americans, at present rate, he has no health plan, no education plan, and no solution to the economic crisis. Obama , is just the opposite, he knows that if you broaden your tax base with new jobs , in the form of green jobs, and high tech jobs, because of new training, and put the wealthy back in the tax rate they had under Clinton, and bring the troops home , saving 150 billion per year, all of this combined will improve the economy in the long run, and in the short run, a tax break for the middle class, and the troops out of Iraq.

  • Posted By: yellow tiger @ 11/02/2008 9:46:38 AM

    Obama and the Cheech and Chong Presidency: "My Mutha talka to me, she try to tell me how to live" ddd ddd
    DDD "But I don't listen to her 'cuz my head is like a sieve" ddd ddd DDD...."

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 4:36:39 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 4:35:31 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: TheVigil @ 10/29/2008 12:40:55 PM

    "And Iraq, many of his closest friends say, is McCain's Vietnam do-over, and he won't rest until he gets it right this time."

    That is goddamned TERRIFYING.

    These wars are not winnable. If we "win" in Iraq we lose all around the world due to our inability to end a war started on false pretenses. It's a corrupt war that's been waged with mercenaries and there's never been a clearly defined goal. It's a massive drain on our country and was never necessary in the first place.

    • Posted By: bosco123 @ 10/29/2008 3:20:26 PM

      SHOW ME SOME EVIDENCE THAT THIS WAR WAS LIEGAL. NO TALKING POINTS PLEASE
      SHOW ME SOME EVIDENCE WHERE MISTAKES WERE MADE IN THIS WAR NO TALKING POINTS PLEASE
      SHOW ME SOME EVIDENCE THAT THE WAR IS LOST NO TALKING POINTS PLEASE

      • Posted By: Stimpygato @ 10/29/2008 3:54:55 PM

        Have we won, or have we lost? It all depends on your benchmarks for success.

        I refrain from using either. But regardless, I think we are just about "done."

        • Posted By: tinaweha @ 11/02/2008 1:46:20 AM

          I don't care if we have won or lost. We should get out or have the Iraqi's pay for our support. I am a Libertarian and I approve this ad. PS Do not vote for Obama because he knows less about the problems of war than Mack does.

      • Posted By: olderwiser @ 10/29/2008 4:56:25 PM

        Show us some lower case letters. No talking points, please.

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 7:44:58 PM

    What is most troubling in todays political climate is the promotion of hatred as a philosophy. The emergence of an ultraconservative dogma relies increasingly on the encouragement of mass hostility aimed at one group in particular - Americans with progressive political views. Liberals are spoken of with the kind of dripping contempt and virulent hostility that used to be associated with racism and sectarian religious strife. Liberals are viewed not fellow Americans citizens concerned with the future of their country, but as ideological enemies that need to be destroyed - and eaten if possible. This view is fundamentally anti-American.

    This right-wing sect manifests a complete lack of empathy toward other Americans whom it defines as its ideological enemies. Its core beliefs are absolutely impervious to reason and are unleashing ugly and violent impulses. What makes their zeal so dangerous for our country is their willingness to do serious damage to our precious American Democracy in their quest for absolute power.

    -The Assault on Reason (2007)

    SOUND FAMILIAR? IT DOES TO ME AND I AM SICK OF IT. IF YOU ARE TOO, VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ???08

    www.republicansforobama.com

    • Posted By: tinaweha @ 11/02/2008 1:42:00 AM

      Dear Wendy, grow up and get with the real world. We can give out hugs to everyone, but it won't make the bad guys go away!

  • Posted By: tinaweha @ 11/02/2008 1:38:48 AM

    Mssr Hirsh, I have a Jewish last name just as you. Why would you want to give the most powerful job in the world to someone who has more sympathies with Muslims than Jews? Maybe it's because I am a Jew by Choice that I am so adamant that people not vote for Obama. My children have a choice to be Christian or Muslim or Aetheist or Jewish, but they will always have a "Jewish" last name. I find it apalling that any Jew would think that it is some kind of mitzvah to help the underpriveleged "blacks" by voting for Obama. Who do you think will actually help Israel stand up to Iran? Obama? Please...have some nightmares before you go to the polls.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 4:16:18 PM

    WELL SAID BILL COSBY !!
    'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.

    I can't even talk the way these people talk:

    Why you ain't,
    Where you is,
    What he drive,
    Where he stay,
    Where he work,
    Who you be...

    And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.

    And then I heard the father talk.

    Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads.
    You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

    In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

    People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now
    We've got these knuckleheads walking around.

    The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.

    These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.

    $500 sneakers for what?

    And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

    I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.

    Where were you when he was 2?

    Where were you when he was 12?

    Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?

    And where is the father? Or who is his father?

    People putting their clothes on backward:
    Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?

    People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?



    Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

    What part of Africa did this come from??

    We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa ...

    I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.

    I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !


    With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap .....And all of them are in jail.

    Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

    We have got to take the neighborhood back.

    People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.

    We have millionaire football players who cannot read.

    We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.

    Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.

    We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

    We cannot blame the white people any longer.'
    Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 1:38:32 PM

    Two central issues in the election Barack Obama is wrong and misleading:

    1) No tax increases to those earning $250,000 or less promised by Obama, then he
    lowered this figure to $200,000, then the "Gift that keeps on Giving" Joe Biden says
    the number is $150,000 and just yesterday Gov. Bill Richardson says the figure is
    $120,000 ...and now a videotape is disclosed where it shows Obama recently stated
    that in the interest of fairness with taxes is around $80,000.00!!
    Sounds like good old fashion Democratic ???reverse auction ???tax policy they implement
    after they break their campaign promise to the American people.

    2) On national security ...Obama???s own VP running mate Joe Biden ... ???mark my words,
    this guy Obama is going to be tested by a generated international crisis within 6
    months of his Presidency..I guarantee it??? Obama will meet with USA's enemies with
    no pre-conditions!
    John McCain???s surge strategy in Iraq is working and its saving the lives of young
    American men and women in uniform serving there...Obama won't admit to this day
    the surge is working and he voted to cut funding for these military forces !!

    John McCain is Commander-In-Chief material ....Obama is just a cardboard "cut-out"
    candidate of the DNC.

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/31/2008 11:03:22 PM

    How to bring down a democracy: the steps toward totalitarian rule, in the order followed by Hitler and the Nazi Party SEE IF THEY SOUND FAMILIAR.

    1. Improvise an attack (or take advantage of an attack) on the country
    2. Declare the country under attack by an enemy; real or improvised
    3. Force legislation that limits civil liberties and gathers broad powers unto government
    4. Brand dissenters and peacemakers as unpatriotic and browbeat them into submission
    5. Keep the fear factor high to make the public easier to manage
    6. Institute massive propaganda campaigns using state-controlled no-longer-free media and fear of government retribution
    7. Law enforcement and government personnel are used to spy on, control and break dissent 7. Institute the equivalent of a national homeland security department, overseen by one person with unlimited powers
    8. Confiscate all firearms from the citizenry
    9. Institute the mass murder and imprisonment of any who resist the new ideology.
    10. Launch pre-emptive strikes into other countries in an attempt to spread the new ideology

    Sound familiar? It should, its not only the direct path of Hitlers rise to power, but also parallels the events starting with and following 9/11. President Bush was very familiar with the game plan, as his Grandfather and his Grandfathers father-in-law were supporters of Hitler and Nazism, both before and after the war.

    Of course, theyve skipped a couple of the items on the list, but theyll get to them if theyre allowed to remain in power, because it will be the only way for them to retain power.

    The Reichstag Fire: the funeral pyre of German democracy parallels 9/11 and the loss of American civil liberties

    http://www.essortment.com/all/nazireichstag_rghx.htm

    THE BEST REASON TO VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA THIS ELECTION YEAR

  • Posted By: bammer @ 10/30/2008 3:17:22 PM

    WILL AMERICA PUNISH ITSELF ON NOV 4TH WHILE TRYING TO PUNISH BUSH

    Surely the Bush Administration needs to be punished in the woodshed, but I fear that the America electorate will only PUNISH ITSELF on Nov 4th by a MAJOR OVER-REACTION.

    WILL AMERICA BE SMART ON NOV 4TH OR WILL IT PUNISH ITSELF WITH NEW LEVEL OF 15 "DARWIN AWARDS"?

    1) A President and Congress that will want to dramatically raise taxes $2-4 Trillion to 2) Pay for a major new welfare state for 40% of US through 3) Extremely expensive new goverment health care programs like in Europe 4) New government education programs like in Chicago 5) Major cuts in defense spending 6) New taxes for 401(k)s, capital gains, death taxes, payroll taxes that would 7) Drive businesses to offshore 8) Reduced employment due to higher business costs 9) Surrender around the world as a military power to be more like Europe 10) Invite rough nations and leaders to test/attack America or America interests and allies around the world 11) Loss of the war on terror 12) negotiations, increased weakness, and capitulation with countries like Iran, N. Korea, and Russia 13) new social engineering laws and Supreme Court Justices for 14) Dramatically increased abortions 15) Dramatically increased gay marriages

    • Posted By: mrjungles @ 10/31/2008 8:45:31 PM

      You're right Bammer, we should just continue to not spend anything on infrastructure, health care or education, because we are afraid the world might think we are 'more like Europe' and instead continue to spend billions a MONTH in wars and defense spending, because as we can see by our present situation we are SO MUCH better off right now after8 years of doing just that. WHAT PLANET DO YOU LIVE ON? 4 more days! :)

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