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One other thing. Has anyone heard Obama ever say he was
proud of America? His wife did once. Well she said she was now,
after he started running for President. I cant recall a single time
he has ever praised the country.
Okay, let us talk about the great messiah, Barack Hussein
Obama. The man has been proven to be a liar as much as
Hillary has. He twist and turns when ask a question and
has no script to provide an answer. He hollers every time
some one ask a hard question. He is a liberal in no uncertain
terms. He has no record of reaching out to anyone of any
other persuasion. Yet he claims to be a man of change, what
change? More liberalism, more big government. I would
like all you supporters of Obama to read the following column
written by another black columnist, Ken Blackwell. I posted
another written by Dr. Thomas Sowell, another black columnist.
I post them because you cant really call them racist, since
blacks cant be considered racist, according to the Liberal
doctrine. Oh, you will call me one for pointing out that
Obama is not the great messiah as reported to be.
The Real Obama
By Ken Blackwell
Thursday, February 14, 2008
“[C]ivilizational war is real, even if political leaders and polite punditry must call it by another name.”
--Robert D. Kaplan in the December 2001 issue of the Atlantic Monthly
It’s an amazing time to be alive in America. We’re in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first frontrunning freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first.
We won’t truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won’t arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender.
Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.
The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at him.
Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He’s not. He’s the next George McGovern. And it’s time people learned the facts.
Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton.
Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost.
Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he’s not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant.
Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let’s look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this superficial “beauty.”
Start with national security, since the president’s most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists — something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.
Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on “the rich.” How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.
Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, “All praise and glory to God!” but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have “hijacked” — hijacked — Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it uncons utional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse sexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban — ban — on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francisco values, not Middle America values.
The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people don’t start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of “bringing America together” means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs.
But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and — yes — they’re talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama’s radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton.
It’s time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let’s first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war.
Mr. Blackwell is Chairman of the Coalition for a Conservative Majority and a member of the Board of Directors of the Club for Growth.
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One other thing. Has anyone heard Obama ever say he was
proud of America? His wife did once. Well she said she was now,
after he started running for President. I cant recall a single time
he has ever praised the country.
how long have you known obama?
......and this just in......81% of americans polled say the country is in the toilet. they don't want another bushbot.
Strange you say that. Do you want a Liberal that is left
of Stalin as President.
Also, funny thing. The country went into the toilet right
after the country elected a dimm-o-crapic HR and Senate.
You know that bunch that was going to change everything.
Boy they sure have.
LOL.
Why does the term liberal scare people.
Color me shocked that a guy who chairs a conservative group who dislikes Obama's politics.
you don't understand the fear that exist inside old white men from texas.
Not that that poll has anything to do with whether the majority of Americans would approve of Obama's politics.
No doubt there's a lot of problems with the country. Much of it has to do with people having trouble getting by on their paychecks, so how exactly is raising payroll and income taxes supposed to help? How is raising consumer costs supposed to help?
The bad thing is much of these problems could have been avoided. Early failures in Iraq rocked confidence in th government and lead to skyrocketing oil prices putting the pinch on us economically. Fed raising prime rates at too quick a rate contributed to the housing crunch which is seriously hurting the credit industry. Not letting the tax cuts expire has added to our debt weakening the dollar.
A lot of the problems are certainly attributable to the current administration, but that doesn't meaning accepting the complete opposite is the answer.
You should re-phrase that to say: "You don't understand
the fear I have of old white men from Texas. Because of
the truth they speak."
thats true.
so is this.
Why not just stick to his middle name and whether his wife said she's proud of her country like you just did.
It doesn't matter where he stands on issues -- he's a rock star.
His speeches are so inspirational, that Chris Mathews gets a thrill up his leg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhnyn...eature=related
I don't think any proposed payroll or tax increases are aimed at the people living paycheck to paycheck. I'm not sure what you mean by "raising consumer costs".
Skyrocketing oil prices were/are going to happen regardless of what we did/do in Iraq. I think the housing problems are due to predatory loans that people could not pay off because of stagnant wages and falling house prices. You were against tax increases, now you are for them; well at least the GOP will cast the expiring tax cuts as tax increases.
So we should vote for "keep it the same" McCain?
81% of americans say they're not very proud of their country.
i'm proud of ray for keeping the black fear alive.
This Ken Blackwell?
Honestly, I haven't looked at Obama's policies. There's no way in I'd vote for him even if I agreed on every issue because I don't like him running for President 1/3rd through his first term in the Senate.
I haven't really seen much out of Obama to give those living paycheck to paycheck more of their own money, though, only taking more from business and wealthy and forcing the poorer to rely on government programs.
Backing out of free trade agreements will raise consumer costs, almost certainly. Raising minimum wage increases consumer costs, as well. Heck, increasing the cap on payroll taxes could increase consumer costs as well (not guaranteed though). Any increase in regulation of a lot of different industries will as well.
I didn't mean to imply they were the only causes, but where significant contributers. Oil prices have increased greatly due to effects from screwing up Iraq (and the threat the ensuing chaos has created to other oil producing countries), but they would still have gone up a significant amount even without that.
Predatory loans were a large part, but the Feds jacking up the prime rates increased the interest on adjustable rate mortgages. If they had kept the rates lower, and used a slower increase period (instead of .25% a month), the rate of failed mortgages would have been slower and we would not have been hit by them all at once. It could have been more of a controled drop instead of an outright collapse.
I didn't discuss my own opinion on taxes. I listed it because it's a way they could have limited debt increases and kept the dollar stronger, just like I listed taxes earlier as taking money out of people's pockets. Unlike some people I don't always talk only about my own beliefs. I bring up information germaine to the conversation whether I agree with it or not.
I didn't say that either. I just said you shouldn't vote for an "anti-Bush" just because you don't like the direction of the country. If you agree with Obama's policies and personality, vote for him.
Personally, I'm either voting for a third party candidate this year, or not at all (if there are no good third party candidates).
Last edited by fyatuk; 04-04-2008 at 12:46 PM.
Leave it to spambake. Keeping black fear alive. Now
all of you see how just questioning a liberal, who is black,
brings on all the charges of racism.
And spambake, I am proud of America. We have the
greatest country in the world, bar none. One great little
item people like you like to overlook, look how well our
poor people live. Most own cars, TV's, have cell phones,
and many other conveniences that people of other countries could never afford. But I am sure you will find something wrong with that.
Funny thing, you are so busy wanting to make smart
remarks, but I still haven't see any of your remarks on
Obama's politics. Cat got you tongue.
what do you want me say, ray? that he's one of the 81% that agree?
I'm glad you like your car,TV,cell phone......is that it?
This country will be ed when the old white men from Texas are gone.
One day Texas will be like Cali
A couple months ago I got called a racist because I said I didn't like him running in his first term as Senator. So yeah, don't criticize the golden child.
Translation:
"Wah, the refs didn't call that shot the way I wanted them to, in order to favor my home team."
ing whiny ass ty-babies.
"Waaaaah the media doesn't all suck Rupert Murdock's ."
Get over it already. You ers don't want a neutral media, you want a media in which every story is heavily stilted to fit the conservative agenda.
If you had any guts or honesty you would admit it. You are no better than Putin in that regard.
Oh, wait, one of you already did admit it:
“Years ago, Republican party chair Rich Bond explained that conservatives' frequent denunciations of ‘liberal bias’ in the media were part of ‘a strategy’ (Washington Post, 8/20/92). Comparing journalists to referees in a sports match, Bond explained: ‘If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is “work the refs.” Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack next time.’”
I can think of few things that are more un-American than trying to squelch free speech.
This kind of moral hypocrisy in claiming to want to uphold "American values" while at the same time doing your damnest to deny others of their ability to speak their minds really turns me off to the whole notion of conservatism.
Pfft.
Why would I waste a second trying to do so, when your mind was made up about the man the second you saw the "D" behind his name?
Seriously, do you think anyone here doesn't know that?
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