| Updated: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:53:20 -0500 |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008
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“He played the race card and he played it from the bottom of the deck,” Rick Davis, a John McCain campaign aide charged, “it's divisive negative and wrong.” This criticism of Obama comes from a group that has been running campaign ads and making statements doing exactly wha...
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Saturday, 09 August 2008
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“What are you doing about the problems in the Black Community?” Two young black men held a banner up with those words inscribed in big bold letters at a recent Obama rally, obviously pre...
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Monday, 28 July 2008
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The USA Today opinion page headline read; Our View On Iraq: Why Can't Obama Admit The Obvious? The Surge worked. Obama was right about war, wrong about surge; McCain vice versa.
In an opinion...
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Thursday, 24 July 2008
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“He won't admit that the surge worked” is the refrain we hear repeatedly from Obama's detractors and a point even being conceded by some of Obama's supporters. Barack's explanation ...
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Sunday, 13 July 2008
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“He didn't place his hand over his heart as the "Pledge of Allegiance was recited.” The photograph clearly shows Obama standing on stage hands by his sides with two other people on...
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Sunday, 06 July 2008
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Obama, known to have an affinity for basketball, should be aware that he is in what amounts to a five man knock down contest against seven players on the other squad. The referees/mainstream news...
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008
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“Can anyone stop this fool before he gets us all killed?” Having a vice president with no political ambition to succeed the president may not be such a good idea after all, particula...
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In the recent Q polls the one group that McCain is leading Obama in other than suburban white women is white men. This presidential election h...
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“The truth is, in national security terms, he is largely untested and untried,” a quote attributed to General Wesley Clark who wa...
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What has Michelle Obama wrought? The “fist bump” seen around the nation and the world on the night Obama secured the democratic nom...
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Here we go folks, the Obama rumors are flying around the Internet and from time to time some surface on to the agenda of cable news shows particul...
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“Another Pastor Problem” is how this was billed by Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” and that was the title ...
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The general election comes down to this: is the United States at a point where there are more die-hard, hard working white folks that would o...
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YouTube combined with Google and the Internet are slowly but for sure setting the nation and the world free from the domination and biased r...
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May 16, 2008
"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they ha...
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May 5, 2008
Timing is everything. Governor Richardson said “I wish he would have done it sooner.” Willie Brown former Mayor of Sa...
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April 26, 2008
Obama-mania has reached a point in this primary period where a form of over-dose is kicking in with some of his supporters. Acc...
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Let's face it Hillary Clinton can't win in the general election. All she can do is lose and or cause Obama to lose. If she manages to win the nomina...
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April 15, 2008
“Bitter” - the word has been elevated to pariah status apparently comparable to the “N” word, with whic...
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The Cone of Silence
While it may be much ado about nothing, the responses offered by both the McCain camp and the Reverend Rick Warren regarding the issue of whether McCain had heard or received the questions in advance leaves some of us with a few nagging questions of our own. Contrary to Rick Warren’s initial assurance, McCain was not in a cone of silence. In his appearance on Larry King the following evening Warren stated that he found out later that McCain had arrived in the “green room” later than he realized. McCain was reportedly in his in his motorcade on his way to the location when Obama began his interview. Warren said the secret service was with McCain the whole time implying that they would have informed him if McCain had listened to the Obama interview on a radio or if McCain’...
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Milking the Obama News Appeal
Milking the Obama news appeal.
If there is no Obama news they will create some. Obama is taking time away from the campaign trail visiting his home in Hawaii in what is being described as a vacation. CNN posed the question should Barack Obama be seen on vacation playing golf while there is turmoil in the world? Bill Schneider special political correspondent was called in to offer his assessment on whether Obama should be on vacation. Obama can’t win. Remember this is the same guy accused of acting too presidential. Never mind that we see the real president at the Olympics watching a basketball game with no question being raised regarding his time out. This is a media generated issue or more specifically a CNN creation. Got to have a daily Obama fix if we have to create it ourselves.
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National Treasure being overlooked
My Gosh! We may be overlooking a lot of Presidential material languishing in our prisons? If getting shot and being thrown in prison makes you commander in chief material, there are a whole lot of gang-bangers out there that should be running for president. General Wesley Clark made a simple common sense statement in response to a question posed by Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, last Sunday. Bob Schieffer: “I have to say, Barack Obama has not had any of those experiences either, nor has he ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down. I mean”-General Wesley Clark: “Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be President.” Bob Schieffer: “Really?!”
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From Bush to Obama
Hundreds of Bush supporters who donated at least $200 to his 2004 campaign have now donated to Obama’s presidential campaign according to a McClatchy computer analysis. Among the donors are Julie Nixon Eisenhower, granddaughter of the late Republican president Dwight Eisenhower. Also reported on the list was Connie Ballmer, wife of Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer; Ritchie Scaife, the estranged wife of Mr. Conservative Richard Mellon Scaife. Here are some other interesting names from the other side that have not ruled out supporting Obama. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Fox News owner, Rupert Murdoch, even the President’s daughter Jenna Bush allowed that she has not made up her mind and appear open to voting for Obama. When is Chelsea going to announce?
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Tucker off base
“Any day that the subject is Iraq is not a good day for Obama and is a good day for McCain,” so says Tucker Carlson, the recently demoted political commentator on MSNBC. The idea that the invasion of Iraq and foreign policy are subjects that are strong points for McCain flies against the fact that the main reason for Obama’s attraction to a number of Americans was his foreign policy judgment and early position against the war. Sixty-seven percent of the country thinks the war was a bad idea that cannot be a plus for McCain who is viewed as a major promoter of the war. To quote Obama regarding the subject of the war, “that’s a debate I welcome and I will win.”
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