OBAMA (off mic): You talked about my ears, and I just want to put you on notice: I'm very sensitive about -- What at I told them was, I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.
DOWD (purring): We're trying to toughen you up.
Posted on 12/13/2006 3:08:37 PM PST by notebook
Barack Hussein Obama. Hmm ... First, with a name like that you can't be elected president of the United States, even if you are chock full of "charisma". Second, you know zero about foreign policy, which would be fine if you were about to run for the presidency of Burkina Faso, but is a major negative if you want to be the commander-in-chief in the U.S.A. in the age of that other Obama ... oops, sorry, I mean Osama. Third, I knew John Kennedy, Mr. Obama (okay, I didn't really), and you, sir, are no John Kennedy. Fourth, you're white and black, but really just a polished hack. And fifth, you're not even right about the Bears: because real football fans know it's the Chargers' year.
But okay, suppose "Obamamania" takes off and we're looking at President Obama in '08, a kind of alternative universe thing. Well, long before there was Obamamania, up in Canada there was Trudeaumania, back in 1968. And Canadians have been paying for it ever since.
Obama was originally born Muslim.
I do not recall of his conversion to christianity.
He's not even an Afro American but he sure plays that card well.
I'll agree with you on that, rare as it may seem.
"racial and pseudo-racial arguments are hokum", IF and ONLY IF, the person against whom one is making the argument , in this case, the "rock star" Saddam Hussein Obama has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that he understands the historical moment we are living in, what his name and lineage might mean, and just WHO he might be getting some important support from (like Muslims trying to legitimize themselves here)....this particular candidate-to-be has shown NO sign of having any such knowledge, or self-knowledge, and hence I would never support him for ANYTHING. The media falls all over itself in celebrating "the phenomenon" of Obama, which they themselves have created. I don't want a phenomenon sitting in the Oval Office. Reminds me too much of the 8 years of Bill Clinton, a "phenomenon" who Will Not Die.
"racial and pseudo-racial arguments are hokum", IF and ONLY IF, the person against whom one is making the argument , in this case, the "rock star" Saddam Hussein Obama has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that he understands the historical moment we are living in, what his name and lineage might mean, and just WHO he might be getting some important support from (like Muslims trying to legitimize themselves here)....this particular candidate-to-be has shown NO sign of having any such knowledge, or self-knowledge, and hence I would never support him for ANYTHING. The media falls all over itself in celebrating "the phenomenon" of Obama, which they themselves have created. I don't want a phenomenon sitting in the Oval Office. Reminds me too much of the 8 years of Bill Clinton, a "phenomenon" who Will Not Die.
"racial and pseudo-racial arguments are hokum", IF and ONLY IF, the person against whom one is making the argument , in this case, the "rock star" Saddam Hussein Obama has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that he understands the historical moment we are living in, what his name and lineage might mean, and just WHO he might be getting some important support from (like Muslims trying to legitimize themselves here)....this particular candidate-to-be has shown NO sign of having any such knowledge, or self-knowledge, and hence I would never support him for ANYTHING. The media falls all over itself in celebrating "the phenomenon" of Obama, which they themselves have created. I don't want a phenomenon sitting in the Oval Office. Reminds me too much of the 8 years of Bill Clinton, a "phenomenon" who Will Not Die.
"racial and pseudo-racial arguments are hokum", IF and ONLY IF, the person against whom one is making the argument , in this case, the "rock star" Saddam Hussein Obama has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that he understands the historical moment we are living in, what his name and lineage might mean, and just WHO he might be getting some important support from (like Muslims trying to legitimize themselves here)....this particular candidate-to-be has shown NO sign of having any such knowledge, or self-knowledge, and hence I would never support him for ANYTHING. The media falls all over itself in celebrating "the phenomenon" of Obama, which they themselves have created. I don't want a phenomenon sitting in the Oval Office. Reminds me too much of the 8 years of Bill Clinton, a "phenomenon" who Will Not Die.
OBAMA (off mic): You talked about my ears, and I just want to put you on notice: I'm very sensitive about -- What at I told them was, I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.
DOWD (purring): We're trying to toughen you up.
How 'bout that he's an empty suit with virtually no presidential-type experience.
Obama would not only win the Muslim vote but would also win the Jewish vote, the black vote, the Hispanic vote, the youth vote and the women's vote.
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*Four, by the time of the 2008 elections, but only two when starting a run.
With a little help from the Clintons through Rahm Emanuel.
Don't care about his middle name, could care less.
I do care that he isn't qualified to be president, and if he had the resume for it, he nevertheless represents the anti-constitutional Left. Those are my two reasons for opposing him. The first of my reasons is really just trim; the second of my reasons is the real and non-negotiable reason.
Sadly, thats not enough to keep him out of the White House. Slightly more than half the electorate knows nothing about foreign policy, and that includes the Oprah-watchers in the middle. If you can capture the attention of the attention-deficit-voters who decide elections, you will win.
Explaining why this guy shouldn't be president ought to be easy, but you have to penetrate the wall of fuzz surrounding your "moderate" voters in order to do it. Thats always a crapshoot.
I have been saying a long time that Clinton and Obama will be the ticket, and I see others are saying the same thing. I think such a ticket should be easily beatable in a world where an adult electorate pays attention to adult issues.
In the world we live in, however, I consider a Clinton Obama ticket to be formidable, especially when our side can't articulate its principles, and has to borrow a DNC microphone to do it.
He touts his Christianity as well.
One thing that made me puzzle about this guy is that he admits he fictionalized his autobiography. What purpose is an autobiography if it is fiction? Unless it's purpose is to deceive.
With women swooning over him, or so we are led to believe by the drive by media, he could easily cruise past everyone in the primaries. The older fossils (Kerry et al) don't stand a chance. If we nominate a Bob Dole type against this guy it could well be a recipe for disaster-- keeping in mind the constant comparisons in the DBM between one of youthful energy and eloquence, and some old haggard. A good number of Americans go for syle over substance.
I assume that because we are both avid members of a conservative website we have many things in common.
- Barack initially followed his Muslim father's religion, but later became a Christian.
- His first name comes from the word that means "blessed by God" in Arabic.
- Has a beer named after him in the Kenyan town where his father was born.
- Has been a friend of the abortion lobby and gun control.
- His father only visited him once since he was born.
- From 'My Spiritual Journey': "I was not raised in a religious household. My maternal grandparents, who hailed from Kansas, had been steeped in Baptist and Methodist teachings as children, but religious faith never really took root in their hearts. My mother's own experiences as a bookish, sensitive child growing up in small towns in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas only reinforced this inherited skepticism. Her memories of the Christians who populated her youth were not fond ones. Occasionally, for my benefit, she would recall the sanctimonious preachers who would dismiss three-quarters of the world's people as ignorant heathens doomed to spend the afterlife in eternal damnation--and who in the same breath would insist that the earth and the heavens had been created in seven days, all geologic and astrophysical evidence to the contrary."
al-Obama
the proof that before the Cruader Christopher Columbus came here (based, no doubt, on an Arabic map of the world), the Native People of the American southeast were Muslims.
bill, that is.
He's not a Muslim. Hell, he's not even a Christian. He's one of the many politicians that worship themselves.
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