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Let Obama's shining light lead the way for us all
Chicago Sun Times ^ | November 3, 2004 | Mary Mitchell

Posted on 11/03/2004 11:19:39 AM PST by Thebaddog

I have been gently reminded that a politician will break your heart. And Lord knows, I've had my heart broken more times than I care to remember. So, many of us are hoping. No, we are praying that Sen. Barack Obama will prove to be a new breed of politician.

We've had our fill of charlatans. They steal your heart with their charisma only to betray you with their chicanery.

As only the third African American to go to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction, we know Obama will go to Washington carrying a heavy burden. He will not just be the Illinois senator representing a diverse population, he will be the only man in the Senate that African Americans can look to as one of their own.

Born to a woman from Kansas and a man from Kenya, Obama never ran from his black ancestry. We loved him for that.

He and his wife, Michelle, and their two children, represent an image seen too seldom in the national spotlight -- an intact, loving, black family.

As one of my single sisters put it, it wasn't Obama's electrifying speech at the Democratic National Convention that moved her.

It was the image of the coffee complexioned, smartly dressed Michelle Obama on the platform, at his side waving at the crowd.

Brown sugar sister

Black women needed that moment. That this Harvard-educated biracial man, who was raised in a white family, chose a brown sugar sister to marry gave black women all over this country a boost.

The Obamas are now the African-American First Family.

(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: brownsugar; illinois; keyes; obama
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To: malakhi

With all due respect, I didn't ask you. The question was meant for the other freeper and it was more rhetorical than anything else. If you are going to relish someone's ass getting kicked then perhaps thinking about one's own life and accomplishments and committment to moral values and beliegs is wise.


41 posted on 11/03/2004 11:59:26 AM PST by cyborg
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To: cyborg
So tell us what have you done in life to come to any equivalent to what Alan Keyes has done? Hateful commentary is so unappealing.

I work at a good paying job, I have a family and we own our own home. I'm not a millionaire but I'm not a parasitic leech on society either.

And I'm not being hateful of Keyes. Keyes, however, put greed ahead of his famous "principles" by allowing a corrupt Illinois Republican party to use him to run for a Senate seat because they knew he'll attract out-of-state dollars. Keyes shouldn't have took the bait, and besides, he's not politician material, IMO. He's better off as a conservative commentator or an appointee.

42 posted on 11/03/2004 12:03:37 PM PST by 12 Gauge Mossberg (I Approved This Posting - Paid For By Mossberg, Inc.)
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To: cyborg
With all due respect, I didn't ask you.

Well, I'm asking you. What are Keyes's tangible accomplishments? I really don't understand the level of hero worship of Keyes among some Freepers. What has he done to deserve it? Pretty words are cheap.

43 posted on 11/03/2004 12:03:37 PM PST by malakhi (Paleoconservative = Neoliberal)
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To: Thebaddog
It was the image of the coffee complexioned, smartly dressed Michelle Obama on the platform, at his side waving at the crowd.

I don't care if she is married to a DemocRAT. Michelle Obama is a hottie! She certainly got my attention last night. I look forward to seeing more of her. I'll just turn down the sound on the telly.

44 posted on 11/03/2004 12:06:22 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Four......More......Years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: malakhi

Ok I do not mean to argue with a fellow freeper. I truly do not know that he is a muslim. He might be and he might not be. I do believe he is a socialist. So thats enough right there for me to not trust a word he says. I also bet that many muslims are lieing about their faith in order to gain positions of power in America.

So the possibility does exist that he might be a muslim. Many blacks have converted to the muslim faith and they have been doing it for a long time. Most of those muslims are not the radical type. I do question on whos side they are on when it comes right down to it. I for one will chose my faith over my country if it came down to that.


45 posted on 11/03/2004 12:09:27 PM PST by winodog (We need to water the liberty tree)
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To: malakhi

Visit his website. He was also an ambassador. I wasn't worshipping ANYONE. Please don't put words in my mouth. Hero worship for those who do it is about as bad as HATE. Something I saw spewed against Keyes constantly from day one. So you don't like him. FINE.


46 posted on 11/03/2004 12:13:03 PM PST by cyborg
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To: Thebaddog
This author is barking mad. Stark raving nutz. Gone fishing. Bats in her belfry.

Is she a regular columnist, or some random nutjob they pulled off the street?

47 posted on 11/03/2004 12:14:01 PM PST by ArrogantBustard
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To: 12 Gauge Mossberg

Fair enough. I'm just a bit annoyed that republicans don't support more conservatives. Maybe not Keyes, but even in my own state, Chuck Schumer got in easy thanks to spineless republicans!


48 posted on 11/03/2004 12:14:07 PM PST by cyborg
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To: pajama pundit

After last night, it's going to be Obama/Clinton. And it might be a tough ticket to beat.


49 posted on 11/03/2004 12:20:49 PM PST by Thebaddog (Dawgs can smell a winner. W!)
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To: 12 Gauge Mossberg

I read somewhere that the Keyes vote total is the indicator for the rock ribbed Republican vote in Illinois. I voted for him just to be counted. It can only get better from here, if Judy Judy Judy gets launched.


50 posted on 11/03/2004 12:23:41 PM PST by Thebaddog (Dawgs can smell a winner. W!)
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To: 12 Gauge Mossberg
Because your party's a fricking joke.

I'm right here in the belly of the fricking beast, so tell me something I don't already know. We had a good conservative Senator here, but he wouldn't kiss the backsides of the rotten party leadership. We had solid conservatives running in the primary but we went with the pretty boy with skeletons in his closet. Any hope we had of even being competitive was lost at that point, even if it wasn't lost before that when the media (and the public at large) lost their minds about Barack Obama. And as inadequate as Keyes' candidacy may have been, it was the only thing standing in between Obama and the Senate. It was the only choice we had. Slam Keyes all you want -- on the issues that should matter to conservatives, he would have been on the right side.

Even though your Feingold has some national prominence, I seriously doubt that, even with his years in the national eye, he is a star of the same magnitude as Obama. A year ago, he was an obscure Illinois state senator. He had a stroke of luck with the implosion of Blair Hull's scandal ridden campaign. Before a vote had been cast, Obama was touted as a future vice president or president. Even National Review today called him a star. So here I am, stuck with a suave and handsome hard-left media creation to be my Senator probably for the rest of my life, unless he goes on to bigger or better things. If he does, consider him my gift to America.

If there is an upside to Keyes "getting his ass kicked" it is that we may have an opportunity to rebuild the Republican party from the ground up. We have some very attractive (conservative) possibilities for statewide office in '06. Now if we can only sweep out the phonies and has-beens that pass themselves off as party leadership.

51 posted on 11/03/2004 12:35:16 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (Hurl the invective!)
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To: Thebaddog

Umm, can anyone of these lefty idiots stop slobbering on this guy's shoes long enough to tell me one thing he's done?


52 posted on 11/03/2004 12:37:25 PM PST by HenryLeeII ("How do you ask a goose to be the last goose to die for a shameless political stunt?" -Tony in Ohio)
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To: cyborg
He was also an ambassador.

He was appointed American ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, not ambassador to the UN, let alone a real country. In other words, a low-to-mid-level political appointee. Color me unimpressed.

I wasn't worshipping ANYONE. Please don't put words in my mouth.

I said "among some Freepers". If the shoe doesn't fit, then don't put it on.

Hey, I just thought of something! He's really good at fundraising.

53 posted on 11/03/2004 12:39:04 PM PST by malakhi (Paleoconservative = Neoliberal)
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To: ArrogantBustard
Is she a regular columnist, or some random nutjob they pulled off the street?

There's a distinction? ;o)

54 posted on 11/03/2004 12:39:31 PM PST by malakhi (Paleoconservative = Neoliberal)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
We have some very attractive (conservative) possibilities for statewide office in '06.

That's good news!

55 posted on 11/03/2004 12:41:02 PM PST by malakhi (Paleoconservative = Neoliberal)
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To: malakhi
"We have some very attractive (conservative) possibilities for statewide office in '06.

That's good news!"

And that's why we in Illinois need to celebrate the Bush victory and the fine performance of Republicans across the country, get a few good nights' sleep, and get to work.

56 posted on 11/03/2004 12:46:40 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (Hurl the invective!)
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To: cyborg
Fair enough. I'm just a bit annoyed that republicans don't support more conservatives

Look, I do support conservatives. But there are times, in certain races in certain states like IL, where Republicans have to stop preaching one-note songs about abortion and gay marriage. They're already going to get votes from the conservatives in that state, so why try to preach to the other huge, liberal/moderate who'll be turned off by it? I'm not suggesting Keyes should have ran as a RINO, but he could have focused on meat-and-potato issues.

57 posted on 11/03/2004 12:47:02 PM PST by No-Compromise Conservative
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To: Thebaddog
Our socialist rag, the Charleston Gazette, had an editorial this morning by Cynthia Tucker, praising Obama.

Since their hateful anti-Bush screed the past four years failed to influence anyone, they are now working on the next presidential election. Don't they want to see how the guy performs before they nominate him for president?
58 posted on 11/03/2004 12:51:50 PM PST by k omalley (Caro Enim Mea, Vere est Cibus, et Sanguis Meus, Vere est Potus)
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To: winodog

BTTT


59 posted on 11/03/2004 12:53:52 PM PST by Unicorn (Two many wimps around The democrats would rather win the WH then win the war-Tom Delay)
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To: k omalley
Don't they want to see how the guy performs before they nominate him for president?

They never bothered to be critical of Kerry's record, so I don't know why we'd expect them to critically examine any 2008 Democrat candidates.

60 posted on 11/03/2004 12:55:51 PM PST by malakhi (Paleoconservative = Neoliberal)
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