Inside Obama’s Dream Machine

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  • Posted By: Less1leg @ 01/06/2008 1:19:33 PM

    too all you proud African American stuff, guess what the continental African societies have little in common with you as would you believe you describe yourselves. No African tribe recognizes your existence in common bond with themselves to you. Yet you keep manifesting this common heritage that the other party doesn't want any part of.
    When are you going to as a society stop this demonstration of affiliation to something that doesn't want you.
    I'm sorry that slavery took place but it ended a long time ago. Society changed, and guess who ended it -- a Republican---. that's right!!!
    The Democrats at the time wanted to retain slavery. So who was right and who was wrong?

    • Posted By: Kaos69grl @ 01/09/2008 1:14:00 PM

      ............What does this have to do with Obama??

  • Posted By: av3who @ 01/09/2008 12:22:48 PM

    CHANGE IS HAVING RECORD VOTING TURNOUTS. CHANGE IS COMMANDING FAIRLY CIVIL CAMPAIGNING FROM AN ENTIRE PARTY (until recently). CHANGE IS HAVING YOUNG VOTERS CARING ABOUT AN ELECTION. CHANGE IS TAKING MONEY FROM INDIVIDUALS, NOT SPECIAL INTERESTS AND LOBBYISTS. CHANGE IS BEING THE ONLY CANDIDATE (besides ron paul) HAVING A CONSISTENT MESSAGE THROUGHOUT AN ENTIRE CAMPAIGN. CHANGE IS HAVING DEMOCRATS, INDEPENDENTS AND A FEW REPUBLICANS CHAMPIONING YOUR CAUSE. CHANGE IS HAVING THE ENTIRE WORLD EYEING AN AMERICAN ELECTION, EAGER, NOT WORRIED, ABOUT THE OUTCOME. CHANGE IS HAVING HOPE, NOT FEAR.

    how can people not see the change that Barack Obama has already brought to this election?

  • Posted By: mjosephadm @ 01/09/2008 12:08:10 PM

    Let's keep our eye on the ball. The complexion of this election can turn on a dime when we have a national or international incident before the summer conventions. At that time, experience will dominate.

  • Posted By: Micky Marsh @ 01/09/2008 9:59:14 AM

    Democrats we're the optimist
    Lets stay ahead of the critics
    Lets build the economy
    Join Barack Obama the Economist
    Look to the head of class
    Senator Barack obama is here at last
    Thanks to the American Lads
    Democracy spell victory in USA Land.

  • Posted By: hafees @ 01/09/2008 6:20:35 AM

    Obama can only win if America and Americans are ready for change. This man transcends race, political experience, and what ever you might think is a disadvantage on his part. I hope America can choose a president that will make the world safe by not throwing the world into war. Please America embrace the freshness of this man and launch a new America. Lots of people here in Nigeria are actually monitoring your election, we hope there would be no 'unmentioned' rigging as witnesed when Bush came in the first time. .

  • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 2:47:12 AM

    Oh one more thing, meeting and sitting down with your enemies and working things out is not a sign of defeat or weakness. look at what Reagan did with Gorbachev. in reality there will always be those who would like to destroy you but wouldn't it better if you work towards making those who do fewer. my point is to take a time out and meet face to face with the Binladen"s and otheres who want to destroy you and come to some agreement. don't always expect them to surrender so you can look good to the nation. but lay everything out as where you both stand and if after these efforts are made and they still insist on your destruction them by all means you would be in your right to defend yourselves even if it may mean taking the fight to them. i know just as they would have warmongers among them, you too would have. but please, for peace sake try the former. for your actions are felt globally in every way

  • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 2:27:26 AM

    america is sooo devided one can only think maybe your democracy is starting to work against you and this is seen by the rest of the world that has look to the US for leardership for a very long time. and the devisiveness is also telling on your foreign policies and there by creating more enemies than you need. changes would not be easy or fast but definitely necessary because the global landscape is changing and you are seen as a bully in trying to keep the landscape favorable to yourselves. it's with great urgency that your politicians start a positive change with immidiate efect that in the following years when you are again preparing to elect another president the ground work for peace and renewed prosperity would be already there instead of the situation you have now trying to decided which war to end or which one to carry on. i know wars may always be there but take an example from japan, they have been in peace time now for 60years and is the second largest economy and leaders in science and technology and many more things that the rest of the world can benifit from.....time for that change america...it would benifit you in the end.

  • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 1:48:25 AM

    It is an instinctive thing to be afraid of change, something like being scared of the dark when you're a kid. but america do need change. both in it's domestic and foreign policies. now it would be foolish to think that this change can all happen in one term of any president but it would be wise for the american people begin the change because it's necessary. america was built on change by those who came because they believed it was a place that would change their lives but somewhere between there and now, the politicians and business have blured the vision of true change and that has helped to push the country into a place that is now seen as " the great satan" as global hatered is now at it's peak. so i say to you americans put aside the things that have kept you on this devided edge for so long by those who have and are still benefiting from it come together as a nation and make that change even if the Obama guy is young. most of your ancestors were when they did so and look at what a country they built.

  • Posted By: SEMART67 @ 01/07/2008 9:19:20 PM

    Don't you all realize the Clintons and Bushs are just puppets for the Richest 1% that really run this country. You can always spot the status quo candidate by the one collecting all the pact and special interest money at the beginning of the campaign. They get all the press and tv ads and sheeple like you fall in and vote for the Inevitable "Winner" and all the government spending gets funneled right back to the people financing their campaign. Obama is not taking any special interest/lobbyist money but rather many smaller contributions from many sources. These status quo candidates have been preaching universal healthcare since before any of us where born. If you don't believe me look it up. Obama is a self made person who took public service and his education seriously. When you have been editor of the Harvard Law Review all doors are open. Rather than going for the money, he chose to serve the people. For those of you who still think Democrats vs. Republican actually means something please stay at home and keep watching Raw on TNT. You have no idea how the real world works. We need to come together as Americans of different opinions,religions, races and social classes. Stop devisive reatoric such as first women, or first black, or Muslum, or Mormon, or we need a Democrat President. It is so ignorant and only serves to keep us in quagmire. We are going to continue to be Red states vs Blue states and never get our problems solved. Its time to get behind Obama and become the "United" States again.

    • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 1:26:59 AM

      well said semart...that's america's problem right there, too much devision. no wonder why it's so easy for others to pull off things like 9:11 because the powers that be were too busy fighting each other

    • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/07/2008 9:31:19 PM

      Yes sir whatever you say sir!!! Go sell it down the river cause all of us aint buying!!!

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/09/2008 1:24:11 AM

    Vinnete Biter looser.

  • Posted By: 4truth @ 01/08/2008 1:00:18 AM

    Ignorance breeds ignorance....if you are to believe that Obama is a Muslim, you are a product of all the fear mongering this country needs to rid itself of.........wake up America.

    • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/08/2008 1:06:01 AM

      Can't we look at the enviroment a child was brought up in to form them to the man he may be today? Why should I not be able to ask those kinds of questions of a candidate, why should the formation of a young mind matter?

      • Posted By: ogrady88 @ 01/08/2008 9:01:55 AM

        You can certainly look at their past, but don't forget that when he became an adult he CHOSE a christian religion.

        • Posted By: melaniebeth76 @ 01/08/2008 1:04:27 PM

          Nothing frustrates me more than those who rush to judgement or make statements about candidates without checking information for themselves. I am a democrat and liked all three frontrunners in the beginning. I went to each of their websites as well as the Republicans to see where the candidates stood. It enrages me to see on all the news shows (I mean all of them) people continue to say that Senator Obama is not clear or has not stated his positions! On his website, he has detailed policies and/or ideas from economy, health care, supporting individuals with disabilties to foreign policy. They are well thought out and researched ideas and plans. I wish that more people would find out for themselves rather than accepting what tidbits that "haters" spew to the news. Obama is my man for sure. No other candidates are as detailed as he is on positions- Democrat or Republican.

          Also, the name Barak is found in the Bible in Judges 4 as a hero. So it turns out that his name is biblical? Go figure :)

          • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 1:07:21 AM

            Well said melainie....but don't be too bothered. those who do all the bashing are normaly the ones who go on hearsay and never get up off their behinds and do the important thing of checking before they make a stand. no wonder why it has been politics as usual all these years.

  • Posted By: Vinette @ 01/09/2008 12:58:06 AM

    You know...several of us have mistaken this 'tarainla' person for someone with sense. Her posts are incoherant ramblings! Make this mistake no more. I certainly sha'n't!!

    • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/09/2008 1:00:17 AM

      Kind of pissed you off, must be human after all.

  • Posted By: lxstw @ 01/09/2008 12:55:14 AM

    I've come back to this article and passed it on many times. So well-written. Today it resonated even more as Obama took the high road after being almost ludicrously (and falsely) smeared by a suddenly-bitter and whiney Bill Clinton. The audience wasn't too happy as Obama magnanimously--and genuinely--gave respect to ALL his opponents in his remarkable speech. We'll see whose attitude gets them further...

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/09/2008 12:17:52 AM

    Check out Iowa, voted for a strongly evangelical candidate, Huckabee, and then a questionable Christian/Muslim Obama. Who would win? HUCKABEE. Hands downs. Mc Cain vs. Hillary that is a real challenge. A challenge of experience against experience. We have had 7 years of ROOKIE work, look where we are at. In debt..... sooo in debt.

    • Posted By: hawkindependent @ 01/09/2008 12:50:39 AM

      "A questionable Christian/Muslim"? Why can you not accept that Obama's religion not a question among any reasonable, rational people? Do you for a second believe that the media would miss this story if it were true? Or are you just churning this up over and over again because you are so bigoted and brainwashed that you are hoping to scare people into voting against him?
      Answer me straight: how does Hillary's time as first lady, and as a director of Wal-Mart, qualify as desirable experience for president?

  • Posted By: Vinette @ 01/09/2008 12:00:07 AM

    You know... a woman will always know how to be a woman. All women know how to cry crocodile tears at just the right moment. I guess today, Hillary cashed in with those fake tears!

    We are not discouraged. We are putting our war-clothes on, and gearing up for South Carolina - my state!!! Bring it on Obama - we're ready to work! South Carlina is fired-up and ready to go!! Woo hoo!!

    • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/09/2008 12:20:34 AM

      Are you a woman? Should your emotions make your words be questionable and not valid too? Thern nothing you just said means anything, you are not human for being human. Maybe we need a Human head to solve a very human crisis called WAR>

      • Posted By: Vinette @ 01/09/2008 12:44:55 AM

        Respectfully, this is a country of free speech. However, your post regarding 'heads and war' is perhaps written in a code or language I haven't the key to decode. I am a woman. That's why I can see through Hill and her sensitivity tactic.

  • Posted By: bharvey @ 01/08/2008 4:16:44 PM

    JESUS. people please educate yourselves.
    it seems the clinton's talk about fairy tale politics that they claim obama is preaching greatly overshadows the policy decisions that obama has actually been developing for quite a while now.

    hillary's camp keeps saying that all obama speaks about is "change change change" and that he is inexperienced in foreign policy. go watch the debates and interviews especially with russert. he's made clear distinctions on health care, yet clinton continues to mischaracterize it as misleading. if you want to see the "judgment" he always talks about, watch this interview with charlie rose and three foreign relations experts who all have praised barack for a distinctly nuanced and broader approach to the problem of al-qaeda, pakistan and iraq:
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9096494510369193024

    and by the way, Obama has a lot of black supporters:


    • Posted By: Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/08/2008 4:20:38 PM

      Obama is purposely keeping his Black supporters "at the back of the bus" shall I say, for photo ops and I think it is disgusting!

      • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 12:42:28 AM

        semms like you've missed the bus with a comment like that!!!Enter Your Comment

      • Posted By: Vinette @ 01/09/2008 12:37:29 AM

        I have been to a rally. Those who are visible behind him as he speaks are those persons present at the rallies. I don't think you could expect to see the Black Panthers standing behind him in IOWA, hello?

      • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 12:11:18 AM

        i think you've missed the bus....with a comment like that. even though there is still the question of race and may always be, you are totally out of sinc with the message from obam's camp.

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/08/2008 1:27:09 AM

    When I see Barack speak he only talks of winning, what then, no talk of service,or health plan, You know the most under-insured population is the young minority male. I am speaking up for them Give them a chance, thier sweat builds the infrastructure of this country, not us comfy muffins sitting here typing.

    • Posted By: djwiz1 @ 01/08/2008 8:46:03 AM

      Tarainla is only listening to the sound bites on television and not doing any independent research on his/her own. You are not going to get a candidates stand on the issues be only watching the news. Do your research! Go to a rally. Google their speeches. Visit their websites. Educate yourself!

      • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 12:32:15 AM

        WELL SAID!!!

      • Posted By: Specialist_Andujar @ 01/08/2008 7:34:22 PM

        I agree! tarainla said that we had no military bases in Saudi yesterday trying to make a point, her resources/research are way off. Go to Obama's site (as well as Hillary's) for their detailed plans on the issues.....But then again, people will see what they want to see not necessarily what's there.

    • Posted By: 4truth @ 01/08/2008 1:37:38 AM

      He has talked and written extensively about everything you mention... maybe you've missed those speeches, debates, books, interviews, etc. There out there if you're interested...

  • Posted By: ObamaMama @ 01/06/2008 10:17:40 PM

    Wisdom is a gift. Senator Obama has it. Mrs.Clinton sorely lacks it. Experience has value only if it can be harnessed to benefit oneself and others. With natural ease and remaining poised and presidential, Senator Obama gained a willing ally in John Edwards during the New Hampshire debate last night. For all the touted 'experience' claimed by Mrs. Clinton, she proved herself, all right. She ISOLATES. Nasty negatives. Nasty glares. Nasty temper. A sage saying goes something like, "' No matter where you go, there you are....'" It would be wise to recall this about Mrs. Clinton. In the presence of foreign dignitaries and heads of state, my confidence would be secured with thoughtful, well-spoken, impeccable President and First Lady Obama!!!

    • Posted By: denmantblue @ 01/06/2008 11:13:39 PM

      Your impeccable haughtiness is showing. I wouldn't stray too far from that pedestal if I were you; they have a tendency to come toppling down when we least expect it. I watched that very same debate. Hillary did what any respectable person would do - she defended herself when under attack, and did it admirably. I suppose you would have rather seen her smiling under the circumstances? She has shown great wisdom and strength during her political years and will continue to do so. Michele Obama seems admirably up to the same challenge and will do as well, no doubt, if Obama is elected. You have a right to be proud of the impeccable President and First Lady Obama, we all are, but there are a lot of us that are just as proud of Hillary Clinton for many admirable reasons. We are only as wise as our intelligence allows us to be, and from life's lessons learned. Hillary Clinton is a very smart woman, and has survived life's knocks and bruises very well. I hope you learn to do the same.

      • Posted By: Vinette @ 01/09/2008 12:26:23 AM

        What knocks and bruises would those be? An interuption in her agenda to be the president, by staying married to a man who openly embarrassed her? That was not integrity - even that was a political move. Hillary will never be seen as anything other than a woman using anything or anyone to get to the top! Barbara Walters asked her, if she were not married to Bill, who would she be married to, she answered, without skipping a beat, "...to the president of the United States". That's a gold digger!! That's someone who only wants to fulfill her own personal goals. She stayed with Bill because she knew few would elect a woman to be president. But certainly, none would elect a divorced woman to be the president! This gal knows exactly what she's doing, and it has nothing to do with what this country needs - it's what SHE needs!!!

  • Posted By: edcooper @ 01/09/2008 12:21:38 AM

    I have voted Dem for the past two elections. If Hillary Clinton gets the Nomination I will vote Republican. It's Obama or bust for me. Houston supports Barack Obama. I support Barack Obama. For some reason I do not trust Hillary Clinton. Loved Bill but she is no Bill Clinton.

  • Posted By: Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/08/2008 4:05:56 PM

    Ever notice how in all of OBAMA's speeches he is surrounded by mostly white people, maybe one back and two Hispanics? Seems odd if that is in fact th majority of his supporters....

    Where are Obama's black supporters? MIA for the moment?

    • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 12:20:12 AM

      get your math right. if these two states are both about 95% white what do you expect to see. and pleasssseee. get the picture that this guy's message is not on any racial borderline...wake up man.

    • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/08/2008 4:50:16 PM

      Maya Angelou, Oprahs mentor, backs Hilary Clinton. Magic Johnson, backs Hilary. As does another major record producer community advocate,Qucy Jones. This is where Obamas would be community is, they know the real thing when they see it. Oprah back killer surgeons and false book writers. Oprah is not yet a wise one. Can we listen to the wise one of one's own community????

    • Posted By: AphiA12 @ 01/08/2008 4:44:37 PM

      Iowa and NH have very very small black and latino populations. The people in the background reflect the demographics of those 2 states....

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