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If the millennials seize the (election) day, they could transform the terms of American civic engagement for decades to come.

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  • Posted By: sbscuba @ 11/04/2008 10:27:33 PM

    If Obama wins you can start learning Arabic as your second language and stop whinning about learning Spanish. Since all you Obama supports ignored all the support he was getting from the Middle East. Yes, go bury your head in the sand. If you think they are incapable of such thing look how young they start the hate lessons of all non-Muslims. updated 7:45 p.m. CT, Wed., June. 11, 2008




    McLEAN, Va. - Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday.

    Other passages in the school's textbooks state that "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people" and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed "polytheists."

    The passages were found in selected textbooks used during the 2007-08 school year by the Islamic Saudi Academy, which teaches 900 students in grades K-12 at two campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax and receives much of its funding from the Saudi government.



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  • Posted By: Therese in NV @ 11/04/2008 10:21:35 PM

    Well, we are seeing prophecy in action. Anyone who doubts this, listen to the American Muslim communities calling Barack Obama the "Messiah"; listen to Oprah Winfrey calling Barack Obama "The One"; look at the latino christian stores in San Francisco changing the pictures of "Jesus" on their lighted candles to a pictures of Jesus with Obama's face over Jesus's face.

    However, the major news media's were attempting to get world leaders opinion of this election. I think the response of the German Foreign Director, tonight, says it all:

    "America is electing a new president, but for the Germans, for Europeans, and the Middle East, America is electing the next world leader," said Alexander Rahr, director of the German Council on Foreign Relations.

    Go ahead ridicule the "Religious Right"; however, it appears there is now some basis to what they have been warning about.

    BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, OBAMA SUPPORTERS! THE NEW "CHANGE" MAY NOT BE EXACTLY WHAT YOU EXPECTED!

  • Posted By: Therese in NV @ 11/04/2008 6:52:00 PM

    To all Obama Supporters!

    I would like to remind all you Obama Supporters that have been decrying the "horrible underhanded attacks and action of Republicans," that the Alaska Judicial Courts and State Ethics Board has completely cleared Governor Sarah Palin of any and all wrongdoing regarding the "Troopergate Investigation." I would also like to remind you the three chief "Troopergate" investigators were the Democratic State Obama Campaign Chairman and the other two were Democratic Senators that worked on Obama's campaign or supported that ticket. However, what the Alaska report finally determined was this so-called investigation was a "Bi-Partisan witchhunt, that had lost all resemblence of nuetrality or due process." It was Independent court appointed investigators that reported directly to the judicial board, that determined Govenor Palin's actions didn't extend past her scope of office and the termination of the Safety commissioner was due to budgetary cutbacks and open disrespect of the Governor.

    I bring this issue up, because, regardless of you personal feelings regarding Governor Sarah Palin. Obama Supporters, the media and even the Democratic candidates, subjected this State Governor, her family and even her gender to the most underhanded, inexcusable, unethical verbal attacks, media proproganda, insulting jokes and attacks on her children. These attacks were primarily orchestrated, not because of anything legitimate (after all, she really does have more executive experience than Barack Obama); rather because she spoke from the heart and connected with the American People. Regardless of Party Affiliation, this is what a candidate is suppose to do.

    There has been much talk of "Change to Believe In". Well, with that change must come decency. None of which has been shown to Governor Palin, Senator McCain and their families. What is truly commendable is the way these Republican candidates have weathered this unjustified political storm and tempered the insults with humor, honest responses and straight, heartfelt talk to the American People. This is the type of character, I am looking for in the next President. My "hold out Hillary Supporter" vote will finally now be for McCain.

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/04/2008 12:32:59 PM

    The problem with Obama is a simple one. One association does not a radical make. But in Obama's case, the list of left-wing radical mentors and associates is seemingly endless, (Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi , etc., etc.) with a new revelation practically every day. With that trend, a picture begins to emerge, and that picture is that Obama is as steeped, not in just left-wing political thought, but in radical left-wing economic and race ideology, to the same extent that Pat Robertson was steeped in the ideology of the radical Religious Right. I would not have voted for Pat Robertson for dog catcher, and for similar reasons, I did not vote for Obama.

  • Posted By: braindrainedmccain @ 11/04/2008 7:25:54 AM



    Go and VOTE!

    Vote for the Future not for the Past!

    Oh yeah,.... all of you hate spreaders your day is done.


    • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 11/04/2008 8:27:22 AM

      Great post! The haters day is done....love it!

  • Posted By: St.Peter @ 11/03/2008 10:43:20 AM

    Disenchanted is an interesting way to describe the Anti- War segment of the boomer generation. I think the energy may just rush back in with renewed faith in an America led by Mr. Obama. He's got a huge set of expectations to fulfill, good luck and god speed. But I really wanted to comment on your Harry Potter connection. I was one of those boomer dads who placed little emphasis on TV. We gad only a tiny black and white and it was seldom on. I've written a little myself and am always researching something, sometimes reading a few books a week. So the example was there, but my three now grown children are not readers in any sense nor do they watch any network television, DVD movies being the entertainment of choice. Ahh! but my grandchildren... they read. As a writer I have always been secretly jealous of her success, mainly her bank account, but the world owes her a debt of gratitude for creating millions of children who love to read. I believe that children who love to read must be the best protectors of democracy that we can create by any other means.

    • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 11/03/2008 7:17:42 PM

      Well said. Children who love to read are also curious, and curiosity is the best antidote for complacency. A democracy with complacent citizens is in danger of being hijacked, as ours almost was by the far right, but a democracy with curious citizens is vibrant and innovative.

      We will need that, and more, in the days ahead.

      • Posted By: druid371 @ 11/04/2008 1:29:30 AM

        Yeah for the young readers. I push my grandchildren in the direction of good books and they are now starting on their journey of discovery.

  • Posted By: agnstheflow @ 11/03/2008 11:38:05 PM

    Wow! It seems I don't need to post my rantings about Obama's anti-american, afro-centric, marxist, socialist, throwing taxpayer's money around past anymore....word has finally gotten out. If he still wins this election....at least in 4 years we will only have liberal democrats to blame for everything and by then maybe everyone will have realized just how much Obama was NOT the man for the job.

    • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/03/2008 11:57:39 PM

      We already have enough of a wake up call when looking at what the Dems have done in congress for the past two years. Unfortunately, too many people are too stupid to head the warning!

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/03/2008 10:59:33 PM

    The problem with Obama is a simple one. One association does not a radical make. But in Obama's case, the list of left-wing radical mentors and associates is seemingly endless, (Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi , etc., etc.) with a new revelation practically every day. With that trend, a picture begins to emerge, and that picture is that Obama is as steeped, not in just left-wing political thought, but in radical left-wing economic and race ideology, to the same extent that Pat Robertson was steeped in the ideology of the radical Religious Right. I would not have voted for Pat Robertson for dog catcher, and for similar reasons, I will not vote for Obama.

  • Posted By: ObamaYesWeCan @ 11/03/2008 10:04:07 PM

    This moronic scumbag Samuel J. Wurzelbacher "Joe the Plumber" had his AZ driver license suspended

    http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/128323

    Wurzelbacher, who lived in Mesa in 2000 and had an Arizona driver's license, had his driver's license suspended by the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division on May 4, 2000, following a nonpayment of a court-imposed fine for civil traffic violations, according to court records.

    ...owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes, according to public records, still owes more than $700 to the Mesa court system.

    Records show he was cited for failure to stop at a red light and for failure to provide proof of insurance on Feb. 9, 2000, in a black Dodge truck at the intersection of Dobson and Baseline roads in Mesa.

    After failing to pay his original fine of $627.50 issued in March 2000, his license was suspended and the fine was handed over to a collection agency along with a 16 percent surcharge. The now-resident of Holland, Ohio, still owes $727.90 to the Mesa Municipal Court, according to court records.

    Hopefully the collection agency will break both of his legs so he'll never be able to walk nor work ever again. This typical Republican scumbag deserves it.

  • Posted By: wildechild66 @ 11/03/2008 12:02:00 PM

    More words=less meaning. You realize that no one read your last comment, right?

    • Posted By: EndOstatusquo @ 11/03/2008 7:10:16 PM

      Comment: Hey wildechild66 - do not fret too long over such ridiculous, right-winged statements as they are in essence akin to the GOP???s political policies ??? shrouded in lies and lacking in substance. By now we all know that nothing they think or speak to holds water. Besides, the MAJORITY of the US populous understands that Ignorance + Fear + Denial = Defeat. They know this. By this time tomorrow evening, none of them will be on this thread anyway. What could they possibly say? Congratulations Obama? I doubt it. One thing is irrefutable - they will most certainly witness that their rope of destruction has fully and finally unraveled.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/03/2008 5:10:52 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 4:33:23 PM

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

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

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/02/2008 11:18:24 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: Willian C DeMuth @ 11/03/2008 1:32:22 PM

      Dude, time to up your dosage, your paranoid schizophrenia is showing. Thanks for the laugh!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: 5generations @ 11/03/2008 12:51:44 PM

    I wonder how Obama's tax plan will affect the young voters who are about to pay off student loans of up to 200,000 thousand dollars. As parents we were hoping there educational debt would put them in the higher income brackets making it all worth while. Were we wrong?

  • Posted By: gobbledegook @ 11/03/2008 12:45:10 PM

    PASSPHRASE: "I'm Southern by grace of God." But remember, if that dog don't hunt, he ain't never caught a rabbit and he ain't no friend of Elvis. Even if he *is* Gomer.

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/03/2008 11:33:51 AM

    In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" Obama unintentionally revealed that he really is as radical as his early political mentors and acquaintances, Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi etc., (gee, there sure seem to be a lot of them) and that he is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Now there is absolute proof. In 2001, Obama, the "community organizer" turned legislator, said in an interview:

    "And I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and organizing activities on the ground that are able to bring about the coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that,"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

    2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview.

    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

    Indeed, some democrats are publically saying as much. See Barney Franks comments on the news, including face the nation last week, stating essentially that Democrats in Congress intend to greatly raise taxes and go on a spending spree.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k

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

    See http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23617.html

    Obama's ill-conceived programs will require him to tax, and his health care plan alone is a substantial hidden tax on all business, large an small. In reality, 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.

    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


    The democrats failed social engineering policies in the housing market are what brought us to ruin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related
    Even Bill Clinton says so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsynspIqAoE
    Obama and a supermajority of Democrats simply is not the change we need, nor is it change we can afford.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/03/2008 10:56:19 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 fraud and America will be duped.

  • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 11/03/2008 10:55:49 AM



    All of you GO VOTE! If you have not already! Give someone a ride to the polls if they don't have one! make some calls to all of your friends and make sure they go and vote. Call everybody on your cell phone and make sure they go and vote.


    Go And Vote!


  • Posted By: Ordermonger @ 11/03/2008 10:46:12 AM

    Redourn: Stop buying up the media analysis of the Florida vote. The fact of the matter is that youth vote (18-35) is up 27% compared to 2004 in the Florida early voting. What the media is reporting is the share of the electorate in Florida comparing the youth vote to all other voters. Since the electorate is up in nearly all age categories these statistics are misleading. The fact of the matter is that the youth vote *is* getting out, despite what the media is pushing.

  • Posted By: burf @ 11/02/2008 7:12:06 PM

    Wow... I see the GOP cultists are active in this thread. My hope for this election, is that the GOP lose big, so that maybe some moderates can retake the Party, from the Cult.
    As for the article, it does seem that young voters are more engaged. We'll see how it turns out on Tuesday, but if they do show up to vote, it's great for this Country.

    • Posted By: darrelcc @ 11/02/2008 7:28:23 PM

      So i have this right, everyone voting for McCain is now a "cultist". Cultist is just a new one for me, I thought we were merely racist Nazi's. You smug, elitist, know it all's who only bad mouth and blllitle 50% of our population are just incredible. Move to Cuba you loser, it's embarrasing to think that you are a citizen of the US.

      • Posted By: summer4077 @ 11/03/2008 8:54:02 AM

        You're the one who wrote off 50% of the population (Democrats) as worthless welfare recipients. And since when has being intelligent and accomplished been elitist? Would you rather have the knuckledragging idiots running this country? We've seen where 8 years of that put us...

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