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  • Posted By: mycle39 @ 11/08/2008 11:12:04 PM

    yeah......the colored people came out in droves. They didn't know any better and voted for Obama. The colored people havn't voted in years and all of a sudden a colored person runs for president and they are suddenly interested in voting. Figures

    • Posted By: MysticCobra @ 11/09/2008 1:08:31 AM

      Yes, some people voted for Obama because he is black (acutally bi-racial) and there are also some people that didnt vote for Obama because he is black. Either way you look at it, it is racism and when voting, especially for the President of the USA, race should play no role in decision making. One should vote based soley on a candidates views and plans to improve our great nation. If you voted soley based on the color of the candidate's skin, then you are a racist.

    • Posted By: boxtop10 @ 11/09/2008 12:43:18 AM

      Isn't this the truth...they got out of the food pantries and got in line to vote....think about it...dah!

  • Posted By: joanie65 @ 11/09/2008 12:56:33 AM

    Have you read the Harvard Study concerning spelling and comprehension? Apparently only a couple of letters in the word the to be correct for the reader to get the gist. So lets not be knit-picky. Spelling and tying aren't everyone's skill.

  • Posted By: Andreaw @ 11/09/2008 12:23:55 AM

    I think it is stupid that Obama belives in abortion. Killing an innocent child is terrible; why not just give him/her up for adoption? I think that taxing the rich more is ridiculous because honestly if you are hard working, and you busted your butt for the career you have, you should be able to buy whatever you want whenever you want. Lazy people who dont have/want a job shouldnt get money for doing nothing all day every day. Im only 13, but I think that what Im saying is right.

    • Posted By: joanie65 @ 11/09/2008 12:49:21 AM

      Hold onto your thoughts, you sound like you have a good grasp on things. Many adults feel the same way. We don't mind helping someone who truely needs a hand for awhile, but not those who choose to be mooches for a lifestyle.

  • Posted By: joanie65 @ 11/09/2008 12:45:47 AM

    I am hoping that having Obama as President motivates many people to stop using race or circumstance as an excuse. It should remove all doubt. "YES we can!" has responsibility attached to it---- and Yes everyone should---- quit making and using those old excuses and get yourself to work.

  • Posted By: Luv4America @ 11/08/2008 7:48:43 PM

    The voting is now over. We have a new President. Now what? Time will tell as it has in the past of all other precidencies on whether Obama will be written down as a successful leader or not. We will see. I certainly hope for our incredible country that he will be successful. He certainly will need a lot of help and experience from others. He won't be able to do it alone.
    I did not vote for President Obama. He did not present to me the experience needed to guide our precious country in this time of EXTREME need. Security for our great nation needs to be of the utmost concern!! Most defintely, the economy is a huge issue, but IFf the security of our nation is not strong, we won't need to worry about our economy! I hope and pray that he surrounds himself with people such as "John McCain" who have tremendous character and knowledge of how dangerous of a world we live in and that we make DAMN SURE that we keep this in the forefront.. We have been so fortunate to not have more 911 activity here on our own soil. The key word is FORTUNATE!! We need to work on keeping it that way for our children and their children!!

    Just a quick question, maybe someone can answer this for me? How much DNA does it take to make you African American. If you have a WHITE mother and a BLACK father, doesn't that make you BI-RACIAL? Just curious, maybe if you have just one minut drop of "African American" blood it makes you Full blooded African American?? Just curious? To me President Obama is Bi-Racial. He is not full blooded African American, so why do we keep saying he is AFRICAN AMERICAN? Are we wo DESPERATE as a nation that we can't call it like it is. I don't get it.

    God bless President Obama - I sincerely mean it. He has every "Special Interest" group wanting this and that from him, different races expecting different things from him........he isn't going to be able to be the SAVOUR to all of the people. People voting on strictly the emotional side this time, I believe are going to be disappointed. He is a President, just like all other Presidents before him. He will hopefully do his best, and be able to help this country get back on it's feet, or he will fall short, either way, I believe he has much of this country believing that he will CHANGE EVERYTHING for them. I wish him well, and interestingly enough even though I didn't vote for him, in about 2 - 3 years, I'll probobly be one of the ones defending him - the American People are very fical, they build you up till your almost "GOD LIKE" and then just as easily knock you down.

    God Bless the United States of America and all my best wishes to President Obama. I will stand behind him, but will watch very closely!! ,.

    • Posted By: swashington @ 11/09/2008 12:38:36 AM

      I agree with you Luv,in regards to your remark about Obamas DNA he IS bi-racial!!! HE EVEN SAYS SO HIMSELF!!! He has made it very clear his WHITE mother and his WHITE grandmother (who just passed) were paramount in his life in making him who he is today!! it is disrespectful to him and BOTH of
      his parents to call him one race or the other!! can you imagine if white people called him white because hes half white? He is BI-RACIAL!!!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: apex1989 @ 11/08/2008 9:16:54 PM

      I must say I was rather impressed, Luv4America, with the fact that although you did not vote for Obama, for the sake of the country you hope he does well.

      THAT is the way it is supposed to be in America. Fight hard to win, be a gracious loser if you don't; McCain's concession speech being a good example. Unfortunately, I would venture to guess that there are some die-hard, (probably social conservatives) who would rather see him fail just to prove they were "right", even if being right ultimately meant more hardship for them. So cheers to you!

      If you don't mind however, I would like to rebut your opinion regarding national security vs. the economy. History shows that the most important thing for national security IS the economy. We are now close to $11,000,000,000,000.00 in debt. Much of the money we borrowed was used, for example, to fund purchases of military equipment that we do not need and that have absolutely zero use in fighting terrorism. Considering the fact that we are now the only super power on earth (China and Russia are not even close to being on a par with us) why do we need, for example, 100 new fighter jets a cost of $387,000,000.00/ea.? However, we DO owe China trillions of dollars, which makes it hard to negotiate trade agreements, etc. when we will need to continue borrowing from them. We have put ourselves over a barrel and that is definitely NOT a secure place to be.

      I think it is important to identify exactly what it means to have national security, in the context of external threats. What are the external threats and how serious are they really? North Korea couldn't fight it's way out of a wet paper bag. Iran is posturing more than anything. Ahmadinejad is barely holding onto power, while the country is facing debilitating inflation. Iran has one of the youngest demographics in the world and while they are very patriotic, they also are very, VERY Westernized. I have Iranian friends who are disturbed by the foreign policy of the last 8 years because all it has done is alienate a country that now would like to be friends and that offered it's help immediately after 9/11. But of course, we don't hear about that... Finally, fighting terrorism is best done through changing hearts and minds, as history has proved again and again that you cannot win an asymmetrical war by conventional means. Think how much good just one fighter plane could have done were it in the form of medicine, food, and other means of making people like our country. $387,000.000.00 buys a lot of friends... It doesn't matter if on a gut level it feels like you're helping the enemy, it works, and that is ultimately the goal.

      Anyway, sorry for the lecture. I just think it's important for people to have a better understanding of what works and what doesn't, when it comes to national security and I believe that Obama has a better grasp on this entire concept than any of the old Republican Guard. At least let's hope!

  • Posted By: ObamaSupportedOfAmerica @ 11/08/2008 8:28:59 AM

    Apparently "boxtop10" needs to get a life and stop focussing all of it on small things like Obama not being all the way black, he's still a man of color whether or not he is fully colored which is something that the white house has never housed before in the past 43 electorial terms, so to burst that little bubble you call life, cares about someone who takes their time out of the day to try to bring people down by telling people something that they probably all ready knew, so i say again get a life......and to comment on the Obama situation i believe that he will be a great president and a great person to handle the issues of the United States, but as we know, all of the things that the "Bush era" did to the country it's going to take more than one electorial term to fix all of those problems, but im sure Obama will do his best and give it a hell of a try.

    • Posted By: boxtop10 @ 11/09/2008 12:36:43 AM

      I do have a life and even if you are Black i forgive you...you need to get a life....bla...bla....bla.!!!

  • Posted By: Andreaw @ 11/09/2008 12:25:42 AM

    wow really hawkdriver001 no one cares about rgpizza2008's english

  • Posted By: swashington @ 11/09/2008 12:16:46 AM

    I would once again urge all americans to remember Obama is not our first african american president,he is our first Bi-racial president..His mother is white and his father is black.It is offensive to his parents and to Obama himself not to acknowldge all sides of his ethnicity.

  • Posted By: hawkdriver001 @ 11/08/2008 11:45:38 PM

    dear rgpizza2008....working on your masters degree??? Your use of the english language is terrible. Is it "your" or "you're" or "now" or "know."

  • Posted By: rgpizza2008 @ 11/08/2008 11:14:16 PM

    who say that McCain's strongest argument that he is a natural-born citizen is that he was born abroad to two U.S. citizens. The fact that he was born on a U.S. military base or in the Panama Canal Zone is of secondary importance, they say. Not everyone born on a U.S. military base or in the Canal Zone (during the period when it was under U.S. jurisdiction) has the right to U.S. citizenship.

    Here is a more technical explanation for the different categories of U.S. citizenship:

    1. Jus Soli. "Right of the land." Anybody born in the U.S. is a natural born citizen, with a clear right to be president.

    2. Lex Soli. "Law of the land." People who acquire their citizenship through naturalization, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger. Experts agrees that these citizens are not "natural-born," and do not have the right to be president.

    2. Jus Sanguinis. "Right of blood." Anybody born outside the U.S. to U.S. citizens has right to U.S. citizenship. My retired State Department informants believe that these children are also "natural born" and have the right to become president. So do Tribe and Olsen. But other constitutional lawyers, like Professor Duggin, say the issue is not clear cut. The constitution is ambiguous and the point has never been argued before the Supreme Court.

    Normally, parents of children in the Jus Sanguinis category file a Form 240 Report of Birth to the local U.S. Consulate to establish the right to citizenship. For what it's worth, it does not seem that McCain's parents filed such a form. Looking through State Department records at the National Archives, I found numerous Forms 240 filed for children born in the Canal Zone in 1936, but no such form for Senator McCain. (The fact that his parents did not file the form does not mean that he is not a citizen, just that it could be a little more difficult to prove.)

  • Posted By: rgpizza2008 @ 11/08/2008 11:04:52 PM

    And some of the people bashing Obama need to get their facts straight, Oh yeah you did such thourgh research that your positive he's a terriost yet you weren't able to research accurate poll results. The election was won 52% to 46 % not 48. 2 percent voted for neither. The final rsults were Obama 52% McCain 46% for popular vote. Obama won by 6% which you do reliaze is almost 10 million votes.

    Also Popular vote is all well and good and he did win popular vote by around 10 million votes anyway but the election is run by electoral vote so theortically Obama did crush him.

  • Posted By: rgpizza2008 @ 11/08/2008 10:49:08 PM

    Comment: To all you crazy people telling other people to research Obamas background, claiming that Obama is not a U.S. citizen and that he gave some phony birth certificate ........ You people have obviously not done any research on John McCain. John McCain was not born in the united states, he was born in Panama. The Senate had to vote on wether or not his citizenship was in fact acceptable. The record of where in Panama he was actually born is missing, their are certain places in Panama where is he was in fact born he would not have acyual citizenship in the united states. So why had the record of where in Panama John McCain was born turned up missing? If you are going to even question Obamas citizenship and not question McCains when it actually had to pass through the senate wether or not he was eligible to run for predency your biased and insane. McCain was also linked to several people who were arrested for the watergate scandel. Anyone who questons Obama and not McCain as well is clearly bias and is only looking to find information that backs up there opinions and are not actually intrested in facts So do some research on McCain Obama haters.
    Below is a paragraph from Fact Check however this information is also avaliable on numerous websites and in the senate archives .
    There is no record
    McCain's birth in the bound birth registers of the Panama Canal Zone Health Department, which are available for public inspection at the National Archives in College Park, Md. Here is a sample page from the August 1936 birth register.
    While some people will no doubt seize on the missing birth record as evidence that McCain was not born in the Canal Zone, my own view is that it is probably a bureaucratic snafu. The combination of the birth announcement in the Panamanian American plus the McCain birth certificate plus the memories of his 96-year-old mother persuades me that the senator was indeed born inside the Canal Zone.

    But that does not entirely end the constitutional debate. The question remains: how did McCain acquire his U.S. citizenship, by birth or by naturalization. Even though the 10-mile wide Canal Zone was effectively under American sovereignty between 1904 and 1979, when it was handed back to the Panamanians, it was not "in" the United States. Here is what a State Department manual on U.S. citizenship has to say about children born on U.S. military installations:

    Despite widespread popular belief, U.S. military installations abroad and U.S. diplomatic or consular facilities are not part of the United States within the meaning of the 14th Amendment. A child born on the premises of such a facility is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and does not acquire U.S. citizenship by reason of birth

    The link is posted below
    http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/05/citizen_mccain.html

  • Posted By: shibiin18@hotmail.com @ 11/08/2008 10:44:17 PM

    how eva obama is one of the peaple in the world can be doing good leader shipe right now.when you see his administration.

  • Posted By: lpuccio0219 @ 11/08/2008 4:33:11 AM

    It's not just in Illinois. I am in Jax, Fl and have been without a job since April of this year. Unfortunately, I was in the Mortgage business and it's not getting any better. Even though Obama was not my first choice, God will prevail and he will help Obama lead us into a state of great reform. We just have to believe and be on his side as that is what God would will us to do. As long as we pray, God will be with Obama and will help tha American people. I trully believe that we are in for womething better.

    • Posted By: LeslieSF @ 11/08/2008 6:25:41 AM

      Thank you for being open-minded to Obama. I've never been so joyful at the election of anyone and believe God already had a hand in him getting this far. I pray for God to give Obama wisdom and keep him safe. He has a mess to fix - to be sure - but I've never been so confident in a politician's abilities.

      He inspires and gives hope. Americans can go far on inspiration and hope! (I'm white, by the way. And this election has made me so proud of my country.) As my American friend in London said, "I no longer have to pretend to be Canadian." The world is watching and has elevated its opinion of us tremendously in one day.

      • Posted By: masonk05 @ 11/08/2008 10:11:19 PM

        AGREE WITH YOU CHANGE TAKES TIME AS SO DOES U FINDING A NEW JOB YOU HAVE TO BUILD YOURSELF UP AGAIN AS I HAVE TOO HARD BUT WITH THE LORDS HELP WE CAN DO IT JUST ALOT MORE WORK POSITIVE THINKING OR FAILURE SETS IN BELIVE IN YOURSELF AS HE BELIVES IN US

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/06/2008 4:01:51 PM

    Fineman,the ultimate arch- partisan,can be somewhat forgiven for his frequent chairwarming on the Huey Long-style Olbermanns COUNTDOWN.

    He will not be forgiven if he does not hew to his mandate that the press is to be an analytical,impartial creature. To date,all of you,Fineman and NEWSWEAK included,have been an abject disgrace in this department,failing in many ways even more than the GOP.
    Like them however,redemption is always just around the next corner. Fineman among others[good job in cutting back on the hair dye by the way as I noticed on,of all places,[insert sarcasm here:],COUNTDOWN last night].
    The press will have a two fold job of holding the results of Democrat leftleading government upon the nations citizens to the fire,exposing inter-administration strife [a given with all of these Clintonistas running around], corruption in Washington [to date,NEWSWEAK has not run a single report on the investigations of Democrats Charles Rangel or Chris Dodd on corruption charges,yet both are committee chairmen in their respective houses ] and those successes and failures in the new administrations foreign and domestic policy fronts. You have been blinded by the light of a Messiah for too long Howard. Put the RAY-BANS on and do your damned job.

    • Posted By: ThePrairiePrankster @ 11/06/2008 5:11:33 PM

      Lee, who died and made you God?

      Sorry, Lee, but opinion pieces are just that, opinions. You may agree or you might not. That's the point of opinion pieces to provoke conversation and thought.

      You make some very good points about Rangel and Dodd and the insufficient press coverage of their situations. I agree with what you say about that, but the personal venom you spout undermines your presentation. Have a good day and I hope you feel better soon.

      • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/06/2008 6:44:14 PM

        The venom directed at the media is well deserved. Both of the non-partisan PEW Center for People and the Press and the Center for Journalistic Excellence observed the massive,lop-sided biases exhibited by the Fourth Estate in this election Thus it did not take a ''God''to observe this,but eight out of ten Americans.[PEW.Oct.22,2008].

        • Posted By: ArmyVet @ 11/08/2008 6:34:56 AM

          Don't forget that members of the media are also citizens and have concerns about their Country, as we all do. They are often privy to information that we do not hear and they cannot reveal . They are under certain restrictions when they cover these politicians if they wish to continue having access to them. Sometimes the only thing they can do is try to prevent the news in such a way that people view ir as biased...and sometimes they, like us, simply overwhemly prefer one candidate over the other and feel they are better qualified to lead their Country. They are human...I think they did a good job, all in all.

          • Posted By: rgpizza2008 @ 11/08/2008 10:09:27 PM

            To all you crazy people telling other people to research Obamas background, claiming that Obama is not a U.S. citizen and that he gave some phony birth certificate ........ You people have obviously not done any research on John McCain. John McCain was not born in the united states, he was born in Panama. The Senate had to vote on wether or not his citizenship was in fact acceptable. The record of where in Panama he was actually born is missing, their are certain places in Panama where is he was in fact born he would not have acyual citizenship in the united states. So why had the record of where in Panama John McCain was born turned up missing? If you are going to even question Obamas citizenship and not question McCains when it actually had to pass through the senate wether or not he was eligible to run for predency your biased and insane. McCain was also linked to several people who were arrested for the watergate scandel. Anyone who questons Obama and not McCain as well is clearly bias and is only looking to find information that backs up there opinions and are not actually intrested in facts So do some research on McCain Obama haters.
            Below is a paragraph from Fact Check however this information is also avaliable on numerous websites and in the senate archives .
            There is no record
            McCain's birth in the bound birth registers of the Panama Canal Zone Health Department, which are available for public inspection at the National Archives in College Park, Md. Here is a sample page from the August 1936 birth register.
            While some people will no doubt seize on the missing birth record as evidence that McCain was not born in the Canal Zone, my own view is that it is probably a bureaucratic snafu. The combination of the birth announcement in the Panamanian American plus the McCain birth certificate plus the memories of his 96-year-old mother persuades me that the senator was indeed born inside the Canal Zone.

            But that does not entirely end the constitutional debate. The question remains: how did McCain acquire his U.S. citizenship, by birth or by naturalization. Even though the 10-mile wide Canal Zone was effectively under American sovereignty between 1904 and 1979, when it was handed back to the Panamanians, it was not "in" the United States. Here is what a State Department manual on U.S. citizenship has to say about children born on U.S. military installations:

            Despite widespread popular belief, U.S. military installations abroad and U.S. diplomatic or consular facilities are not part of the United States within the meaning of the 14th Amendment. A child born on the premises of such a facility is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and does not acquire U.S. citizenship by reason of birth

            The link is posted below
            http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/05/citizen_mccain.html

  • Posted By: masonk05 @ 11/08/2008 10:01:59 PM

    big deal about marijuana issue never saw in the paper someone killed someone from smoking too much pot druck driving oh yeah the man worked hard and deserves the position good luck first election i had any interest in in 50 yrs wish him the best give credit where credit is desearved race not an issue put the best man on the job

  • Posted By: Protacal @ 11/08/2008 3:45:34 PM

    The problem is Barack Obama doesn't seem trustworthy. He associates with terrorist and relgious radicalsl from the middle-east, he presented a phony birth certificate when he was asked for his birth information, and he studied in Indonesia as a child. Why is that last statement important? Indonesia does not allow dual-citizenship. Therefore, even if Barack Obama was born in the U.S., he had to have forfeited his citizenship in America in order to be schooled in an Indonesian school. You may or may not have heard about this already, but I urge you to do some research on everything that Barack Obama has been saying/avoiding. He doesn't answer questions directly, and always seems to find the answer that is able to please people without actually answering the question. Whenever there was a vote being taken (while he was a senator), if Obama did not like the subject, he would just not show up. I hope he knows he can't do that as President. Obama is also saying that he wants to "Spread the wealth." Where do you think that money will come from? Not out of thin air I assure you. It will actually come out of the middle-class' pockets while he sits comfortably losing nothing. Barack Obama wants change for the United States of America: he just doesn't want to have to change himself. An writer said that "If Obama really wanted change to help save/make money for the U.S., he would work without pay." Of course we know Obama has enough money and investments to do this, but it's highly unlikely that he wants to pay money himself when all of us middle-class people are paying it/will be paying it instead. Obama said he wants to cut taxes: when has a democrat ever wanted to cut taxes? When has a democrat actually done it? I don't trust Obama. He's sneaky and underhanded. Quite honestly he has little experience when it came down to him vs. McCain.

    NO, I am not racist. The first person that says "Oh you're just racist," is usually the only person thinking about race." What I'm interested in is the politics, nothing more, but certainly nothing less...

    Like I said, do some research on Obama's friends/relationships with radicals in the middle-east and see what you come up with. It probably wouldn't be too smart of you to just make a bad comment about my comment just because I've done my research. Other than that, God Bless America.

    • Posted By: Bob in Ohio AKA VietVet4Obama @ 11/08/2008 9:53:53 PM

      You should have said do some "GOOD" research ... and I would URGE you to do the same. You can find anything doing just research ... EVEN outright LIES!

    • Posted By: dor-republican @ 11/08/2008 5:05:48 PM

      protacol thanks for being the only sensible one all afternoon

  • Posted By: Jesus is God! @ 11/08/2008 4:16:58 PM

    Now that Mr. Obama is elected he need's to be in touch with us as citizen's. If he doesn't put his hand on The Holy Bible when he is sworn in he doesn't deserve to be President. He also need's to keep the Bush tax cut's my family and I have a hard enough time making it.

    • Posted By: Bob in Ohio AKA VietVet4Obama @ 11/08/2008 9:51:09 PM

      He has alway been sworn in on a Holy Bible and will be again on Jan. watch and listen carefully! If you don't make over $250,000 you are safe and you have NO IDEA what the Bush tax cuts were!

  • Posted By: El Conde' De Cannabis @ 11/08/2008 5:42:00 PM

    If it is true that president-elect Obama experimented with illegal controlled substances in his younger days of life, then I hope he understands that had he been caught, he would not be here today. How many lives have been ruined and how many peoples talents and contributions to the whole are lost due to these draconian laws called "The War on Drugs" our longest (five decades), most costly (when all is tallied in the trillions) with the highest victim rate (millions annually) not to mention the main source of funding for violent cartels and mafias. End the War on Drugs and stop the violence. Wake up the war on drugs is cultural genocide and is dividing our house against itself. To declare war on your own is constitutionally known as "Treason"

    • Posted By: Bob in Ohio AKA VietVet4Obama @ 11/08/2008 9:46:36 PM

      And don't forget tha George W was also in the same boat! But take heart that 9 of 10 states just passed a legal medical marijuana issue!

    • Posted By: njs411 @ 11/08/2008 6:32:40 PM

      Just like many of us who are now old and more experienced in making wiser choices for not only ourselves but others, during our younger years in life alot of those that sit in the White House, Congress etc. on down to the little civilians in the world such as you and I we all have some dirt in our lives from illegal drus, to alcohol , porn, extra marrital affairs abusive relationships and all but some wher we grew up, and were blessed to make a change by the grace of God, you can tell when an individual is secretlt saying I don't approve, because they will find anything negative to scar or oppose another, especially something dealing with chilhood, or even early adulthood. If Obama did drus in the past what does that have to do with now, I sure he never thought he would be President either. truth be told we are all responsible for setting the sme examples we look for in our U.S. Leadfers, they are human and have past just like the rest of us. some things are meant to stay on an elementary level because real life has real leaders that deal with real life issues and problems If Obama did do drugs its obvious he is not now and he can evenmore so relate to the ones using them now even those that are in high positions.

  • Posted By: A Greek Sparta's @ 11/08/2008 6:41:20 PM

    -BY WAYS DECEIPT YOU ARE ALWAYS DO-
    ...Jewish People, not only in the US, but all over the world are in consistant urge to find the problems outside of them... NO YOURS PROBLEMS ARE YOURS & ARE INSIDE YOU

    • Posted By: Bob in Ohio AKA VietVet4Obama @ 11/08/2008 9:42:02 PM

      As are yours, my friend!

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