Reviving Camelot?

Obama's appeal transcends race and party. His Iowa victory suggests that it may be possible to reclaim the national unity America has lost.

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  • Posted By: joanna38 @ 01/05/2008 7:01:43 PM

    President Obama. How does that sound to you? To me it is too much like bin-Laden. Too bad Barack.

    • Posted By: YuWang @ 01/06/2008 2:58:21 AM

      I can't agree with you more! US simply will become a laughing stock to the rest of the world when we elect a President Hussein Obama! Seriously, maybe people in US don't care, but it WILL become a joke to everyone else in the world! We've removed a President Hussein from Ireq, and now we have a President Hussein as our own commander-in-chief! What a great irony! By selecting Obama, US will show the world truely we have no racism here anymore, but will also show we're stupid!

      • Posted By: Sometimey @ 02/11/2008 11:38:34 AM

        YuWang, if we elect Hussein Obama, it will signal a readines to vote for YuWang . . .

    • Posted By: sagon1 @ 01/06/2008 12:16:58 AM

      You are gonna pick our next leader by name( this is how shallow our country has come) We deserve another Bush in the White House ! I'm tellin Ya! We need more pain before we wake up, especially with comments like that. " What a shame"

    • Posted By: dw1220 @ 01/05/2008 10:09:09 PM

      We championed the cause of the Taliban in Afganistan when the Russians were there beating them up.......and good ole Saddam was our buddy whom we supplied weapons to for years to balance out Iraq........and now we are at odds with both of them and Osama BinLaden too.......funny how the CIA under the Bushes and their friends have given us the same people as friends and bitter enemies both.......and we say the rest of the world is confused? So what if Barak Obama is a funny sounding name to some Americans and sounds like Osama........Ulysses Grant sounds like a strange Greek who heard the sirens sweetly singing to him.........Millard Fillmore sounds a bit odd...........Rutherford B. Hayes sounds like a guy born with a silver spoon who never would think of giving a loan to a poor man.........Abraham Lincoln sounds like a Jewish banker from NY who drives a big black car.........Chester Arthur could be Arthur Chester instead.........what's in a name........I suppose we wouldn't vote for Puddin Tame..........but Marilyn Monroe was still Norma Jean Baker..........and one of George Bush Sr/Jr best friends is white with the name Negroponte (?)........maybe Obama Barak should change his name to Richard Springfield since he came from the Senate in Springfield, Illinois and Richard sounds like a good name.........like Richard Nixon........oh, I forgot........Rick Springfield might already have that name already...........what's in a name, anyway...........

  • Posted By: iron_mike @ 01/09/2008 8:30:43 PM

    He speaks the logic of JFK . . . I hope for him - Mike, Peace Corps 1962- 64 Africa (an ASK NOT American there are a few of us alive, who beleive)

  • Posted By: bharvey @ 01/08/2008 11:31:58 PM

    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/8/185438/7845/186/433066

    RON PAUL'S RACIST NEWSLETTERS REVEALED. and he ADMITS IT!


    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/8/185438/7845/186/433066

    RON PAUL'S RACIST NEWSLETTERS REVEALED. and he ADMITS IT!


    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/8/185438/7845/186/433066

    RON PAUL'S RACIST NEWSLETTERS REVEALED. and he ADMITS IT!

  • Posted By: bharvey @ 01/08/2008 11:31:16 PM

    You have to really wonder why the "phony" label stuck to Romney. He has had a recent record of resume inflation, sometimes outright lied, then backtracked, and continues to do so, about the most trivial things and about his record. And you have to wonder why Hillary Clinton brings to mind "facist" which has been tied to her since her days in the white house. As her husband was being elected she had private detectives after all the women that were associated with Bill to keep them quiet during the election. During the Monica Lewinsky Scandal she had the white house phones tapped. In her own interviews with the public in the recent town hall meetings, it was revealed that she had a massive list of types of people to get her to ask questions taht she had prepared answers to. I love Bill Clinton. But Hillary has been running her campaign since the 90s, and a really dishonest one at that.

  • Posted By: wpjson @ 01/08/2008 1:58:20 PM

    Our least experienced president was Abraham Lincoln. He has served only one term in the House of Representatives. And that several years before he was elected president.

    Our most experienced were Herbert Hoover and James Buchanan. Buchanan has been Secretary of State, Senator, Representative, Ambassador to England and advisor to 4 presidents: Jackson, Van Buren, Polk and Pierce. Hoover???s experience with getting relief to the European people after World War I and as Commerce Secretary should have made him the perfect choice to lead this nation during the Great Depression.

    These two, with all of their valuable experience, left the United States with the two biggest crisis in our history, the Civil War and the Great Depression. It took less experienced leaders to lead the United States out of these holes. Experience has value, but pales beside the need for leadership.

  • Posted By: jindy60 @ 01/06/2008 4:49:19 PM

    Camelot???? With Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi???

    Gimme a break

    • Posted By: cyberella @ 01/08/2008 12:29:08 AM

      ted


      I would advise anyone considering this man for the presidency to study the information contained here http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to_president_for_Obama_.html carefully.


      As you read the article, pay special attention to:

      "Obama???s stepfather was a practicing Muslim". ???It was to Lolo (stepfather) that I turned to for guidance and instruction, Obama recalled.???

      ???In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school,??? he wrote in his first memoir, ???Dreams from my Father.???

      ???He comes from a father who was a Muslim,??? said civil rights author Juan Williams of National Public Radio. ???I mean, I think that given we???re at war with Muslim extremists, that presents a problem.???



      ???The person who made me proudest of all,??? Obama wrote, ???was Roy. He converted to Islam.."



      Although the overwhelming majority of Americans describe themselves as Christians, Obama does not believe that any one religion should define the United States.

      ???We are no longer just a Christian nation,??? he argues in ???Audacity,??? which was published last year. ???We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.???



      He is also protective of civil rights for Muslims in the U.S. ???I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.???



      Although Obama was raised by his mother, he identified more closely with the race of his father, who left the family when Obama was 2.???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,??? he wrote.



      ???There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,??? he wrote. ???It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.???



      He added: ???To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.???



      After his sophomore year, Obama transferred to Columbia University. Later, looking back on his years in New York City, he recalled: ???I had grown accustomed, everywhere, to suspicions between the races.???

      ???The emotion between the races could never be pure,??? he laments in ???Dreams.??? ???Even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.???

      How can the American public even consider this man for presidency of the United states?

      http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm

  • Posted By: cyberella @ 01/08/2008 12:21:59 AM

    From Dreams of My Father, " I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASISVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE".

  • Posted By: worriedinmn @ 01/07/2008 8:46:17 AM

    Obama terrifies me. I love how he talks, but why am I the only one who seems worried about what will happen when he is confronted with the Republican microscope that will soon be shining lights on places he would rather not have people see. Rolling the dice is exactly true. I sincerely hope he comes clean about anything in his past now, before its too late. They (the republicans) will uncover anything and everything and use it to smear him. How will he hold up? We don't know, but I've seen him flustered a few times over minor things and it does not give me confidence. We all know how vicious that republican machine can be, and though I'm not a huge Hilary fan, at least we know she can stand up to it and as she said, no one has been more vetted already. I can see Obama hoping things he's done...drug use, etc...just doesn't come to light, but it all will, we know that. They could use any and all weaknesses (maybe he did innocent research into his muslim heritage they will twist to make it appear he was conspiring with terrorists, for example). whatever they find they will use, and this scares me as it will lead to another idiot republican in the white house. I have much more confidence going with HIlary Clinton as this is not a personality contest. Lets use our heads people. I feel like Casandra, warning of doom with no one listining. I don't want to say "I told you so". So, to Obama...please come clean on everything now, take the teeth out of their bite before it kills this chance the democratic party has at finally getting this country back on the right track.

  • Posted By: freespirit08 @ 01/07/2008 6:29:17 AM

    A neutral comment from a foreigner observer ( outside of the US)

    Looking at history and specifically US one, every 8 year or so, some candidate comeup and present himself as an agent of change, sometime in messianiqc term. It worked sometiem in the past, and we ended up in cymism and broken promises and sometiem disaster for teh US and the world at large.

    US political system is fundamentically flawed at its hearts by BIG MONEY! For America toget back its soul, it need a RADICAL REVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMATION, NOT JUST SO CALLED CHANGE AND HOPE
    Let dont mention ist health care system and other things, just to start with its own political selectioon
    process. It run more than a 18 months, with at end, bilions of dollars spend.

    One simple transformation would be having just one day nation wilde primary contest to select the 2 or 3 candidates for president. One day and it is done , it is fair and simple. Other countries has it already , France, Germany to say a few

    Then you guys can spare several biillions of hundred of millions of dollars enough to fund basc heahcare of all for the next 4 year!

    Sound simple, Who has suggest the idee, no one !! even not the so proclaimed Change agent and its followers, why drag on for several month and waste somuch money ?? well just do it.
    The truth is US politics is wired with Money, that is, and the world with it!! materialistic world that will lead us to downfall , if no revolution comes up!

    What change is going on this time ? talk and blaabla ,they ALL want power, that is ..No real heart and innovative ideas !

    You want change? go after the latest fashion and nice talker

    You want transformation ?

    - be a leader youself instead of followers
    - help people around you
    - look at your own attitude very day as a citizen of the world, what can you do not what can you get more
    - do something practical to help someone
    -stop watching Holywood video.
    - stop driving car as much a spossible, use publictrabsport
    - eat whole food and boycott process food and support fair trade
    - held your elected official accountable
    - Travel the world and see in your own yes, make friends , dont need much money :)

    voila some ideas :))


    Freespirit

  • Posted By: freespirit08 @ 01/07/2008 6:28:56 AM

    A neutral comment from a foreigner observer ( outside of the US)

    Looking at history and specifically US one, every 8 year or so, some candidate comeup and present himself as an agent of change, sometime in messianiqc term. It worked sometiem in the past, and we ended up in cymism and broken promises and sometiem disaster for teh US and the world at large.

    US political system is fundamentically flawed at its hearts by BIG MONEY! For America toget back its soul, it need a RADICAL REVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMATION, NOT JUST SO CALLED CHANGE AND HOPE
    Let dont mention ist health care system and other things, just to start with its own political selectioon
    process. It run more than a 18 months, with at end, bilions of dollars spend.

    One simple transformation would be having just one day nation wilde primary contest to select the 2 or 3 candidates for president. One day and it is done , it is fair and simple. Other countries has it already , France, Germany to say a few

    Then you guys can spare several biillions of hundred of millions of dollars enough to fund basc heahcare of all for the next 4 year!

    Sound simple, Who has suggest the idee, no one !! even not the so proclaimed Change agent and its followers, why drag on for several month and waste somuch money ?? well just do it.
    The truth is US politics is wired with Money, that is, and the world with it!! materialistic world that will lead us to downfall , if no revolution comes up!

    What change is going on this time ? talk and blaabla ,they ALL want power, that is ..No real heart and innovative ideas !

    You want change? go after the latest fashion and nice talker

    You want transformation ?

    - be a leader youself instead of followers
    - help people around you
    - look at your own attitude very day as a citizen of the world, what can you do not what can you get more
    - do something practical to help someone
    -stop watching Holywood video.
    - stop driving car as much a spossible, use publictrabsport
    - eat whole food and boycott process food and support fair trade
    - held your elected official accountable
    - Travel the world and see in your own yes, make friends , dont need much money :)

    voila some ideas :))


    Freespirit

  • Posted By: freespirit08 @ 01/07/2008 6:28:08 AM

    A neutral comment from a foreigner observer ( outside of the US)

    Looking at history and specifically US one, every 8 year or so, some candidate comeup and present himself as an agent of change, sometime in messianiqc term. It worked sometiem in the past, and we ended up in cymism and broken promises and sometiem disaster for teh US and the world at large.

    US political system is fundamentically flawed at its hearts by BIG MONEY! For America toget back its soul, it need a RADICAL REVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMATION, NOT JUST SO CALLED CHANGE AND HOPE
    Let dont mention ist health care system and other things, just to start with its own political selectioon
    process. It run more than a 18 months, with at end, bilions of dollars spend.

    One simple transformation would be having just one day nation wilde primary contest to select the 2 or 3 candidates for president. One day and it is done , it is fair and simple. Other countries has it already , France, Germany to say a few

    Then you guys can spare several biillions of hundred of millions of dollars enough to fund basc heahcare of all for the next 4 year!

    Sound simple, Who has suggest the idee, no one !! even not the so proclaimed Change agent and its followers, why drag on for several month and waste somuch money ?? well just do it.
    The truth is US politics is wired with Money, that is, and the world with it!! materialistic world that will lead us to downfall , if no revolution comes up!

    What change is going on this time ? talk and blaabla ,they ALL want power, that is ..No real heart and innovative ideas !

    You want change? go after the latest fashion and nice talker

    You want transformation ?

    - be a leader youself instead of followers
    - help people around you
    - look at your own attitude very day as a citizen of the world, what can you do not what can you get more
    - do something practical to help someone
    -stop watching Holywood video.
    - stop driving car as much a spossible, use publictrabsport
    - eat whole food and boycott process food and support fair trade
    - held your elected official accountable
    - Travel the world and see in your own yes, make friends , dont need much money :)

    voila some ideas :))


    Freespirit

  • Posted By: Ellen W.Cohn @ 01/06/2008 11:18:17 PM

    Dear Ms. Ciift,

    First, big fan... Second, Barak Obama is NOT from Kansas. His mother and maternal grand parants are from there. Barak Obama was born and raised in Hawaii, but for the time he lived with his mother and step father in Indonesia. I heard you declare this on MacLaughlin Group. Small gaff, but thought you'd like to know? Sincerely Ellen Cohn

  • Posted By: K8daGr8 @ 01/06/2008 4:05:14 PM

    If I was old enough, I'd vote for Obama.

  • Posted By: kgt49 @ 01/06/2008 2:42:44 PM

    I'm with you Woody Rufus Leeks...a WPA/race to the moon campaign to rebuild America's infrastructure, develop in alternative energy sources to eliminate our dependence upon foreign oil, and eliminate the privilege and destructiveness of current tax breaks and corporate greed are getting my attention and my vote...I am an Edwards supporter, but for whoever wins the Democratic nomination...

  • Posted By: kgt49 @ 01/06/2008 2:36:43 PM

    He's not John Kennedy...and Camelot is not a real place...We should strive to improve the country and by whatever measure the world in light of reality and not through clouded conjecture or romanticized speculation about the reinvented memory of an idyllic, but non-existent past...Is the suggestion that we 'change' back to a vision of the past that never really existed?...I still remember where I was the moment I heard about the assassination of JFK...I, like most others grieved immeasurably. I believe to this day that that moment in November of 1963 in culmination with those further unconscionable days in 1968 when his brother and MLK Jr suffered the same fate were a turning point that future generations will look back upon as the beginning of the fall of the America into a second tier power; a pivotal and cataclysmic five years. I do not believe that by fantasizing about those lost dreams and aspirations through some charismatic vision of 'hope' will either bring back 'Camelot' or otherwise alter the reality of the foibles of that time. We need to look forward with a sense of vision and determination not to repeat the past (those who don't know their history are destined to repeat it), but to improve upon the present with all candor and an unimpaired, unvarnished understanding of current events.

  • Posted By: kgt49 @ 01/06/2008 2:31:37 PM

    He's not John Kennedy...and Camelot is not a real place...We should strive to improve the country and by whatever measure the world in light of reality and not through clouded conjecture or romanticised speculation about the reinvented memory of an idyllic, but non-existant past...Is the suggestion that we 'change' back to a vision of the past that never really existed?...I still remember where I was the moment I heard about the assisination of JFK...I, like most others grieved immeasurably. I believe to this day that that moment in November of 1963 in culmination with those further unconscionable days in 1968 when his brother and MLK Jr suffered the same fate were a turning point that future generatiions will look back upon as the beginning of the fall of the America into a second tier power; a pivotal and cataclysmic five years. I do not believe that by fantasizing about those lost dreams and aspirations through some charasmatic vision of 'hope' will either bring back 'Camelot' or otherwise alter the reality of the foibles of that time. We need to look forward with a sense of vision and determination not to repeat the past (those who don't know their history are destined to repeat it), but to improve upon the present with all candor and an unimpaired , unvarnished understanding of current events.

  • Posted By: smittydog @ 01/06/2008 2:06:02 PM

    i'm a red stater and i'm starting to warm up to obama. i've never considered voting democrat, but i'm giving obama a second look. washington is broken and maybe some new blood and new ideas and new a approach to problems that face our country is exactly what is needed. experience ever heard of OJT?
    i want someone who can put politics aside and do what's right for the country. ie: fix our social security, reduce taxes, create jobs, build a fence, address immigration, enforce our immigration laws, make healthcare affordable. i think the any other dem will go down in flames against who ever the gop elect.
    the dem's have no substance, other than the change card which only obama can play. he's got my attention.

  • Posted By: Woody Rufus Leeks @ 01/06/2008 1:11:43 PM

    I supported McCain in his first bid for the presidency but have had some reservations so I???m looking intently at Obama. The one fundamental question that I have is this: Define change and what does it mean to the average American. Does it mean National Healthcare, a solvent Social Security and Medicare system? An effective public education system? Does it mean the reversal of the systematic dismantling of our industries, national security and subsequent well being? A plan for developing new energy sources such as the one initiated in the 60???s for a race to the moon? A fundamental change in how the American Elitists and corporations are allowed to line their pockets by whatever means necessary at the expense of the rest of us? These are my concerns and an acceptable answer to those questions gets my vote???

  • Posted By: Woody Rufus Leeks @ 01/06/2008 1:10:44 PM

    I supported McCain in his first bid for the presidency but have had some reservations so I???m looking intently at Obama. The one fundamental question that I have is this: Define change and what does it mean to the average American. Does it mean National Healthcare, a solvent Social Security and Medicare system? Does it mean the reversal of the systematic dismantling of our industries and subsequent well being and national security? A plan for developing new energy sources such as the one initiated in the 60???s for a race to the moon? A fundamental change in how the American Elitists and corporations are allowed to line their pockets by whatever means necessary at the expense of the rest of us? An acceptable answer to those questions gets my vote???

  • Posted By: ghostu @ 01/06/2008 12:39:39 PM

    dont you proofread your copy and have fact checkers? as someone who lived through it, the cuban missle crisis was in october, 1962. you have to do a better job guys

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