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NARAL Screws Over Women
Kate Michelman came out for Obama a long time ago. NARAL is following her lead. Michelman's endorsement, published in the Huffington Post, is, frankly, embarrassing. She sees Obama as a messiah figure.
I know this will sting, but this is typical of Obama supporters (followers, really): it's about how Obama makes them feel not whether he's right on the ideas or whether he can be elected.
When Obama's handlers were test marketing their product, they knew right away they had a shot at the prize when they recorded the emotional way liberal Democrats responded to the glittering generalities the Obama campaign were pitching (they even test marketed and devised a logo fit for armbands and banners).
Clinton has all the right ideas for Democrats, but she doesn't make them feel good. Hard-nosed, practical people often lose out to the vacuous and charismatic (charisma is a manufactured essence).
To be blunt about it, the Obama candidacy is a personality cult. Those who will put McCain in the White House (likely with a mandate) are impervious to the manufactured magic of Barrack Obama.
The bottom line is that we need a smart and experienced politician with the best ideas, not an "extraordinary leader" who makes us feel good.
One would think that there are enough scary analogs in history of politicians supposedly worthy of unquestioning devotion, the most recent example of which is George Bush.
I guess I should be happy Obama won't win, but that means McCain will, and a McCain presidency will be a disaster for working people, minorities, and women. I can't be happy about that.
- First of all, I'd like to thank you for welcoming my pal, chatnoir to Mindsay. He is really interested in conversing with people about their political and world views. He says that he is more interested in the discourse than the actual posting of blogs, but being the
pushypersuasive person that I am, I keep trying to get him to realize that posting encourages discourse.
- Today is the day of the family meeting where my parents will officially announce they are getting divorced. *rolls eyes* . Have you ever wished you could just skip over certain aspects of your life? Geez us! My sister is planning on dodging the meeting. True to form, she will use the old avoidance technique. That strategy never worked for me because I was alway expected to do and put up with everything. It's the burden of the oldest female child isn't it?
- Ah yes, the good ol plant a diversion / divide and conquer strategy. Why do the Democrats always fall for this shit? John McCain is sure to win because A) We're so busy worrying about the words of someone NOT running for president. and B) Hillary Clinton supporters would rather vote for McCain out of spite than to vote for Obama if he gets the nomination and vice versa.
Pick up a copy of Sun Tzu's The Art of War Dummycrats! Duh! Get your heads out of your asses and wake the fuck up! However, I may be asking for too much. It's like watching a kid build a tower of blocks. No matter how many times you tell them they can't stack them that high, they keep doing it so you just sit and wait for the damn thing to collapse. If the Democrats lose the presidency this time, they only have themselves to blame.
- Poor Paula Abdul! Lawd have mercy! I think she may have an addiction to prescription drugs. If you noticed her performance on the video, "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow", she's hardly moving. It is a far cry from her "Straight Up" and "Forever Your Girl" days. I know she had some back problems, but how bad were they?
Important article (it's a little long but worth your time in getting the facts). Think of it as of knowledge & wisdom being released.
It is an amazing time to be alive in America. We are 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 front running freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first.
We will not truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We will not 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 is not. He is the next George McGovern. And it is 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 is 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 theUnitedStates of America. But let us 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 unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual 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 Francis co 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 do not 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 are 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 is time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let us first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war. Ken Blackwell - Columnist for the New York Sun
According to The Book of Revelations the anti-Christ is:
The anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything.
Is it OBAMA?? (I personally don't think so but wanted to point it out anyways, since Obama carries that profile.)
I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to repost this as many times as you can! Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet do it! If you think I am crazy. I am sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the "unknown" candidate.
So Barack Obama has finally chucked Rev. Jeremiah Wright completely under the bus and backed over him
for good measure. That is all well and good even if it is a smidge too late. I was advocating totally shafting The Rev immediately after the initial brouhaha in March but I understood the motivation behind Obama taking a softer approach. It was obvious that Obama didn't want to test the strength of his support among black folks by denouncing his pastor who just so happened to be spouting some ideas that a good number of black people agree with. The gamble he was taking by going soft was that he could possibly lose ground among white voters and Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania eventually showed us that was indeed the case.
So now with Obama being on shaky ground with a siazable portion of white Dem voters he is making a move that he hopes will help him win that group over.
This does lead me to believe that he doubts that black voters will care that he is completely renouncing Wright and his views and that he has their votes locked up from now until the end of this race. I would caution him against being too confident thouhg. When the Wright controversy first started a lot of black people looked at The Rev's comments as being full of ideas that they share and to see Obama do a complete 180 on Wright and his preachings could cause some black voters to turn away from Obama.
There are a few things that Obama said today that kinda irks me though. First was his statement that, "The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I had come to know over 20 years." Sorry but how can you be as close to a guy as Obama was to Wright and not know what type of person he is? Calls into question that whole judgment thing as far as I'm concerned.
Secondly I am curious to know what the hell Wright said or did that was so wild yesterday that has caused Obama to take this step? When the tapes came out Obama went on and on about how Wright's comments were taken out of context yet all of a sudden something was said by Wright that broke the camel's back so to speak? I'm not buying it.
I think what really happened is that Wright's repeated comments about Obama's reaction to the controversial video tapes being just the actions of a run of the mill politician royally pissed off the Obama camp. That assessment from Obama's "uncle" flies in the face of his whole campaign message at a time when things aren't going nearly as well as Obama hoped they would be going just two short months ago.
Truth hurts sometimes I guess.
I am curious as to what happens to Grandma Obama now, though.
Baracky.
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