My View of "It": Barack Obama

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Apr 29, 2008

Obama strongly denounces former pastor

While I wasn't going to climb aboard this particular bandwagon it seems like people are not going to leave it alone so here it is:

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Clinton leads McCain by 9 points

Clinton now leads John McCain by 9 points in a head-to-head presidential matchup, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll that bolsters her argument that she is more electable than Democratic rival Barack Obama. Obama and Republican McCain are running about even.

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Apr 25, 2008

Consider This

For the last seven years we have bitched and moaned about Bush's aggressive foreign policy, his secrecy, his partisanship, and his expansive claims on executive power.

Wouldn't things remain pretty much the same with Clinton in Office?
The problems with Clinton is that she's likely to be as bad or worse than Bush on all of those issues.

Obama on the other hand is appealing. I think that Obama’s talk creates a very idealistic picture, but that there is more going on with him that he isn't telling us.

Remember when Bush talked about being a “uniter, not a divider?” He presented himself as someone who could reach across the isle to work with Democrats. He said he was “a different kind of Republican.”

Well, we know how that all turned out.

It might piss you off to hear me say that Obama at times reminds me a lot of Bush. I wonder if despite his rhetoric about change and hope if he is able to bring the healing he is talking about.

Both Candidates are well qualified that's a given. We need to start thinking like Republicans.

Who is electable. Who can win?
We need to think in terms of who can beat McCain.

That sums it up nicely don't you think?

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Apr 24, 2008

McCain's Shrewd Move

Found on: Copious Dissent - Your Daily Dose of Liberty

Apparently Chris Mathews called it racist and John McCain is demanding the NCRNC stop airing it.

“We asked them not to run it,” McCain told reporters traveling with him in Kentucky. “I’m sending them an e-mail as we speak asking them to take it down.

“I don’t know why they do it. Obviously, I don’t control them, but I’m making it very clear, as I have a couple of times in the past, that there’s no place for that kind of campaigning, and the American people don’t want it,” McCain said.

McCain said the ad was described to him: “I didn’t see it, and I hope that I don’t see it.”

Slick way to get some free campaign advertising eh?

How say you?

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Jan 28, 2008

Kennedy Will Endorse Obama In Blow to Clinton

The Kennedy endorsement was much sought after by the Democrats but Kennedy has chosen to endorse Obama because Bill and Hillary just pissed him off by their campaign tactics particularly comments by the couple and their surrogates in South Carolina that seemed to carry racial overtones. Kennedy expressed his frustrations directly to the former president, but to no avail.
Yes, the former president is still a "rock star" in Democratic circles however he is doing the presidential prospects of his wife a good deal more harm than good.
I suppose it’s now safe to say that the days of sailing together on Nantucket Sound during the Clintons’ Martha’s Vineyard vacations are over.

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Jan 22, 2008

Is the Media's Shining Star Burning Out?

A news reporter asked Barack Obama the following question: “Are you allowing President Clinton to get in your head?”
Apparently this was enough to set Obama off as he retorted:
"I am trying to make sure that his statements by him are answered. Don't you think that's important?" Obama shot back, while walking away.
When the reporter yelled a follow up question suggesting that Obama had not answered the question, Obama fired back angrily, "Don't try cheap stunts like that."
Obama then walked away and shook hands with the mass of voters that surrounded him.
Apparently "Rock Star" Obama is getting a bit testy.....

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Jan 21, 2008

Bill Clinton told to stop attacking

Former President Bill Clinton has accused Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., of violating a candidates' pledge — and now Clinton himself finds himself under attack. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.

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Jan 20, 2008

Obama's Dubious Praise for Reagan

Barack Obama raised some eyebrows when he cited Ronald Reagan as an example of a political leader who "changed the trajectory of America." Though Obama now says he wasn't endorsing Reagan's policies -- only recognizing Reagan's historic importance -- the comment begs the question of what change Reagan actually wrought.

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Regan was very secretive with his dealings with Iran and Iraq .
Not to mention his toleration of drug traffickers who operated under the cover of his favorite covert operations.
Reagan helped with mass slaughters in Central America, including acts of genocide in Guatemala, but none in his Administration faced any meaningful accountability for their actions.
You consider this to be Political Leadership Obama?

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Jan 22, 2007

Can Indy Media Stop the Corporate Media’s Hillary Bandwagon?

January 22nd, 2007
Published on Monday, January 22, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
Can Indy Media Stop the Corporate Media’s Hillary Bandwagon?
by Jeff Cohen
Prominent pundits seem ecstatic over Hillary Clinton’s entry into the presidential race just days after Barack Obama’s media-created candidacy became official. Media talking heads are having so much fun lately they don’t seem to notice that our political system is failing to address ever-worsening problems: social, environmental, fiscal and imperial.
Indeed, our country’s political decline in recent decades has been abetted by the decline in mainstream media. The same media outlets that were complicit in the disastrous Iraq war are bent on turning politics into an insular celebrity club in which only they get to anoint frontrunners.
If the torch of leadership passes from Bush I to Clinton I to Bush II to Clinton II, it will be a loss for our country – but a victory for a corrupt Beltway press corps that abhors fresh ideas, especially those that challenge its power and privilege. It was a frightened national press corps that vilified the netroots supporters of Democratic outsider Ned Lamont in defense of pro-war warhorse Joe Lieberman.
As for how these presidential aspirants would govern, I’m counting on independent media. The public needs to hear Kucinich’s step-by-step plan to end the war in Iraq. And Edwards needs to be asked: after the first 50,000 troops are withdrawn, what’s the next step?
As for Clinton and Obama, the vaguer their rhetoric, the more they seem to dazzle the establishment media (not unlike Chance the Gardner in “Being There”). It will be up to independent media to decipher their actual positions, and the political/financial interests of their funders and advisers.
LOL! Let the games begin! This should prove to be an entertaining Campaign/Election

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