I personally believe that obama defeating clinton shows that being a wormy chameleon trying to be in bed with all sides, peddling politics as usual as experience… did not fool the american people.

• How would a Barak Obama presidency differ from a Hillary Clinton presidency?
• Do you guys think that if Obama was white he would get less attention and maybe lose to Hillary Clinton?
• If you had to choose between Hillary Clinton or Barrack Obama who would you vote for?
• Does Obama have the constitutional authority to name Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State?

• Who do you think is the best looking candidate for president: Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton?
• Does President Barack Obama appear weak kneed after not pointing out Mexican President Calderon’s hypocrisy?
• What has president Barack Obama done so far that has been considered a good thing?
• Would it be a bad thing to wear Obama gear the day after the election if he wins?

• If it had never been revealed to the public that Obama’s cabinet nominees were tax cheats, what do you think?
• How many tax cheats do you think Hussein Obama will have on his cabinet?
• Why when Hussein Obama wants to raise our taxes and redistribute the wealth, are his nominees all tax cheats?
• What is a good positive slogan to put on a T-shirt using Obama’s middle name Hussein?

• What has President Barack Obama done since he was sworn in?
• What has President Barack H. Obama done so far that is positive for this country?
• How Good Will President Barack Obama Lead The Country?
• Do you think President Barack Obama is a good president?

• How would Obama defeating Hillary Clinton be a good thing for truth, and character?
• When Clinton or her supporters say that Obama is nothing more than a good speaker, is it pure jealousy?
• Do you think the tax cheats in Hussein Obama’s Cabinet convinced Congress higher taxes were a good thing?
• Why do Obama supporters rip up Clinton associates, when it only helps the GOP?

but it seems like among young people (recent high school grads that are new voters and college students) supporting barack obama is almost a fashion statement. It sort of reminds me of student body president elections in high school where people tried to follow and represent whoever was the “cool/popular” candidate. I see girls especially (and as stereotypical as this sounds, don’t look like the type of girls who would normally give two craps about politics or even know who is currently president) walking around campus wearing fashionable (probably even designer, haha) “Barack the vote” t-shirts or even shirts with a rasta farian barack obama head in the middle.
i’m sorry, but i really can’t imagine 4 years ago that these same type of girls be walking around campus, proudly repping the face of say, Al Gore on their T shirts. and a lot of these girls are repping obama with a little heart by his name in their facebook and myspace profiles as well, lol.

i actually saw one of these sorority girls embarassed in class the other day when a guy sitting by her asked her what she liked about obama and her response was, “well… he’s like all about change.” and he proceeded to ask her “what kind of change do you think he’ll bring? What ideas of his do you like the best” and she looked like a deer caught in headlights and turned bright red and said, “i don’t really have a favorite… i just like the whole change thingy”

so, not to my QUESTION…
does anyone else notice this? I am all about young people going to the polls and voting and having a voice… but to me it seems worse to have young people voting based on what everyone else is doing or what is the “cool” or the “trendy” person to vote for than have them not vote.
oh, and i don’t want to offend any obama supporters that actually DO know what they like about him and actually ARE educated.

• What has president Barack Obama done so far that has been considered a good thing?
• Would it be better if Barack Obama just resigned, for that matter could Nancy Pelosi also resign too please?
• I just finished Reading “The Audacity of Hope” by Barack Obama. What other books would you recommend?
• don’t you just HATE Barack Obama ?

Obama faces growing credibility crisis
By Edward Luce in Washington

Published: July 13 2010 18:51 | Last updated: July 13 2010 18:51

Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama’s chief spokesman, got into hot water this week for daring to speak the truth – that the Democrats could lose control of the House of Representatives in November. But it could be even worse than that.

Contrary to pretty much every projection until now, Democratic control of the Senate is also starting to coming into question. While Mr Obama’s approval ratings have continued to fall, and now hover at dangerously close to 40 per cent according an ABC-Washington Post poll published on Tuesday, the fate of his former colleagues in the Senate looks even worse.

Add to that the continuing woes of Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic majority leader, in Nevada, where the Republican party’s recent nomination of Sharron Angle, a far-right and highly eccentric Tea Party supporter, appear to have had no positive effect on Mr Reid’s prospects, and the Grand Old party has a good shot at taking control of both houses of Congress. Worse for Mr Obama, political scientists say that at this stage in the calendar, there is almost nothing he can do about it.

“If you ask me where the silver lining is for President Obama, I have to say I cannot see one,” says Bill Galston, a former Clinton official, who has been predicting for months the Democrats could lose the House. “Just as BP’s failure to cap the well has been so damaging, Obama’s failure to cap unemployment will be his undoing. There is nothing he can do to affect the jobless rate before November.”

The direction of the data could hardly be worse. According to Democracy Corps, a group headed by Stanley Greenberg, a liberal pollster who is a close friend of Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s chief of staff, a majority of US citizens see Mr Obama as “too liberal”.

Astonishingly, 55 per cent of citizens think Mr Obama is a “socialist” against only 39 per cent who do not share that diagnosis. The same poll shows 48 per cent support for Republicans against just 42 per cent for Democrats. The numbers are eerily similar to 2006, except that it was George W. Bush’s Republicans who were on the receiving end four years ago.

–READ HERE—

“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” says Rob Shapiro, another former Clinton official and a supporter of Mr Obama. “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”

—[SO HOW COULD THIS "EVENT" SAVE HIM?]

In private, informal advisors to Mr Obama are almost as negative. According to one, the US public’s loss of confidence in Mr Obama’s leadership is a factor above and beyond their dissatisfaction over the state of the real economy, which continues to slow as last year’s $787bn stimulus starts to run dry. The adviser, who asked to remain anonymous, said the public did not know what Mr Obama really believed. Examples include his lukewarm support last year for a public option in the healthcare bill and his equally lukewarm support today for a Senate bill that would extend unemployment insurance and aid state governments to keep teachers in their jobs.

In both cases, Mr Obama has offered only token, negotiable, support. “I never thought I would say this, but even I’m unsure what President Obama really believes,” says the adviser. “Instead of outsourcing decisions to Congress, he should spell out his bottom line. That is what leaders are for.”

Next week, Mr Obama is likely to sign a historic Wall Street re-regulation bill into law. Earlier this year he did the same for healthcare. But polls show the public either does not care, or even opposes these otherwise big reforms. “The longer this goes on, the more it looks like Obama wasted his first year on healthcare,” said the outside adviser. “It’s still the economy, stupid.”
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That is actually from the Financial times, and the article is putting a good spin on Obama – they are PRO-Obama.

It is not a diatribe, it is an article from a mainstream publication.
He was a top ADVISOR, excuse me.
Let me put it this way, the guy that said this was Clinton’s Carl Rove.
rz1971 – People rallied around George Bush after 9/11 (that was also the reason he was re-elected). People rallied around Clinton after OKC bombing.

• How would Obama defeating Hillary Clinton be a good thing for truth, and character?
• Why do Obama supporters rip up Clinton associates, when it only helps the GOP?
• When Obama said no nuclear retaliation against non nuclear countries was that a signal to terrorist to attack?
• Why do most Americans believe Barrak Obama is only black? Is it the Media here?

• How do you feel about Obama’s new health care plan?
• How do the dentists, doctors, and pharmacists feel about Obama’s new health care plan?
• Why does everyone hate Obama’s health care plan?
• What Does Everyone Think About Obama’s Health Care Reform?

Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor,
spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become
the country’s second highest ranking executive (and according to the actuarial tables, a 30% chance of succeeding the president during your first term).

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.

If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your un-wed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America ‘s.

If you’re husband is nicknamed ‘First Dude’, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

What if?

Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?…..think
about it. Would the country’s collective point of view be different? Could
racism be the culprit?

Ponder the following:

What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a
three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?

What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?

What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe
disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while
he was still married?

What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to
painkillers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable
organization?

What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were
five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major
political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late
1980s and early 1990s.)

What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

What if Obama couldn’t read from a teleprompter?

What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included
discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?

What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many
occasions, a serious anger management problem?

What if Michelle Obama’s family had made their money from beer distribution?

What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?

You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do
you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are? This
is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive
qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when
there is a color difference.

Educational Background:

Barack Obama:

Columbia University – B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.

Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna *** Laude

Joseph Biden:

University of Delaware – B.A. in
My question is — how can Republicans actually be serious about voting McCain/Palin? I know this isn’t going to change their minds, obviously, I wasn’t born yesterday. Just wanted to make a point like they try to do 24/7 on here. This is NOT a rant, this is a question, so please don’t report it. I don’t report YOUR lame posts.
Accidentally cut off after Joe Biden’s education

Joseph Biden:

University of Delaware – B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.

Syracuse University College of Law – Juri s Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:

United States Naval Academy – Class rank: 894 of 899

Sarah Palin:

Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester

North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study

University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism

Matanuska-Susitna Colle ge – 1 semester

University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism

Education isn’t everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the
land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.

• Have you read this? Obama camp gets caught cheating at caucuses, they should strip him of those delegates.?
• Why are White Americans giving Barack Obama such a hard time? A man can’t take his shirt off at the beach?
• Liars take up a lot of time dissapoint many people?
• Does the Passing of the Obamacare Bill actually amount to what may be a suicide pact for the Democrats?

Watch for yourself, he is on tape having promised 7 times for open door negotiations aired on CSPAN, so far, we have closed door negotiations. So much for “transparency”.

• Are there closed door talks going on between Clinton & Obama where the VP slot is being discussed?
• How would Obama defeating Hillary Clinton be a good thing for truth, and character?
• Hillary Clinton and Obama are doing what about illegal aliens?
• When will Barak Obama challenge Hillary Clinton with her inability to reform our healthcare system?

• Will Fox News fire Sean Hannity after Obama wins the election?
• How would Obama defeating Hillary Clinton be a good thing for truth, and character?
• how would you wear the Obama T-shirt?
• anyone have latest poll data on how Obama or Clinton would stand against McCain in general election?

More earmarks, less oversight, more scandal, corrupt picks for members of his Admin (the treasure secretary is a tax cheat), more signing statements, same time line for withdrawl as Bush etc.

He is doing all the same things but worse, how do they like him?
“I disagree. Every politician usually has earmarks, they almost can’t be avoided”

He got elected by compaigning that eh would “have an administration of intense oversight, earmark reform, close the war on terror, no signing statements, etc. He hasn’t delivered.
“one president thought gitmo was a good idea. the other realizes it is the worst hipocrosy (sp??) this country has done since slavery.”

All he is doing is moving gitmo prisoners to a new gitmo detention facility somewhere else,a nd some he is releasing into the US. So he is doing what they did at Abu Gahrib and just moving them to a new facility with less heat on it, or he is letting them free. either way, bad idea.

Plus Gitmo isnt even close to the biggest problem in this country.

• Why Does It Seem Like More People Dislike Or Even Hate, Obama More Than Bush?
• When will the liberals impeach Obama for continuing the Bush policies they hated the most?
• Doesn’t the name Barack Obama sound more like he would be the leader of Iraq or Iran than America?
• Do calls to impeach Obama before he has even started make more sense than impeaching Bush for his fake intel?

• where can i find a translation of President Barack Obama’s inauguration speech into Spanish to read online?
• what is barack obama´s inauguration speech about?
• What are the values of the American Dream in Obama’s Inauguration Speech?
• What time does Barack Obama’s speech start tonight?

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/obama_cheating_scandal_vera_baker_video_/celebrity/68589

Please don’t discount the National Enquirer. It was the first to break the Monica Lewenski story and the John Edwards affair story.
And it’s a load of crap, because??? Is it a load of crap just like John Edwards and Slick Wiile was a load of crap?
Politicians drag their families out during campaigns to show what great family guys and gals they are.

If they aren’t really great family people then it’s a lie. I don’t know about you but I think a public official who lies is scum.

Besides don’t you feel any empathy for Michelle and the girls.

I do.

• When did you first hear about the Obama birth certificate thing?
• How would Obama defeating Hillary Clinton be a good thing for truth, and character?
• What objective information should I know about Obama and Clinton that will help me choose between the two?
• According to an anonymous staffer of the Obama campaign, Barack doesn’t know the difference between?

• Where can I find information on who to support in the 2008 presidential election?
• what news channel do you watch to get your information on the presidential election?
• Where do you go to find political information past just the Presidential election?
• I need information about the second presidential election?

• What do you think about the Obama birth certificate thing?
• When did you first hear about the Obama birth certificate thing?
• Do you thing the “real certificate of birth” of Obama is a forgery like Karl Rove says it is?
• Do any conservatives hope the Obama birth certificate rumors turn out to be all untrue?

• Obama birth certificate real or fake?
• Are the conservatives still harping about the Obama Birth certificate thing?
• What do you think about the Obama birth certificate thing?
• A new Obama birth certificate scan has been found. Is this the real one?

• Is this another lie coming from the Barry Obama white house?
• Why did Jeremiah Wright go to such great lengths hiding that he hates whites and America from Barack Obama?
• Why do some people think Barack Obama’s wife hates this country? Coming from where she did, would you?
• Time, November 9, 2009-Why Main Street Hates Wall Street. Trick or Treat Unusual Time Cover Art. Also, in this issue: Exclusive Excerpt from Barack Obama Insider, David Plouffe’s book on How Obama Won.

No long posts are necessary- I am merely trying to track the phenomenon; so don’t try to convince anyone of anything.
I need to know when you first heard of it. I need to hear your stories, I have my own.

• Are the conservatives still harping about the Obama Birth certificate thing?
• What do you think about the Obama birth certificate thing?
• Do you thing the “real certificate of birth” of Obama is a forgery like Karl Rove says it is?
• Any news about the Obama birth certificate controversy?

• I read that Obama’s birth certificate may be fake, and that he may have NOT been born in the US. Is it true?
• Democrats — agreed? Take the time to actually read this whole thing .. ?
• Did FOX News Cover Barack Obama’s Inauguration Speech? If so, was it the whole thing?
• Are the conservatives still harping about the Obama Birth certificate thing?

• Is Michelle Obama spreading ugly rumors to the NYT about John McCain?
• How come John McCain supporters more willing to talk about Obama than McCain?
• Who do you think is going to win the election tomorrow (Senator Barack Obama or Senator John McCain) and why?
• What are the similarities that Barak Obama and John McCain Share?

      Stop the Cap & Trade vote – NOW in the U.S. Senate. CALL YOUR SENATOR NOW.

                                  Cap and Trade Sold under False Pretenses

Obama’s health care is just misdirection — the administration doesn’t want you to focus on what’s really happening. While everyone is focused on the propaganda charges with ABC — they won’t notice that Cap & Trade has been jammed down our throats. Now, with Governor Sanford’s debacle, you can bet the White House is cheering on yet another distraction taking eyes away from Cap & Trade.

The 1,500-page cap-and-trade climate legislation, also known as Waxman-Markey, passed by a narrow margin late in the day on June 26. Members of Congress added 300 of those pages early in the morning on the day of the vote. It is safe to assume that hardly any of the 435 Members of Congress read the bill in its entirety, meaning one of the costliest bills in American history was rushed through so politicians could enjoy their 4th of July recess.
Cap and trade is nothing more than a massive energy tax, which is why its chief alternative is a carbon tax, and it has been sold under the following false pretenses:
* It will not cost anything;
* It will increase jobs;
* It will increase green investment; and
* It will save the environment.

A Lot More Than a Stamp a Day

A commonly quoted cost estimate of Waxman-Markey comes from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which claims that cap and trade will cost the equivalent of a postage stamp per day–$175 per household in 2020.[1]
But CBO admittedly ignores economic costs such as the decrease in gross domestic product (GDP) as a result of the bill[2] and the fact that consumers and business will change their behavior as a result of higher energy prices. This is a serious oversight that has significant economic consequences.
In The Heritage Foundation’s economic analysis of the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation, the GDP loss in 2020 was $161 billion (in 2009 dollars).[3] For a family of four, that translates into $1,870–more than 10 times the size of the $175 CBO claim.Furthermore, the Heritage analysis found that for all years, the average GDP loss was $393 billion, or more than double the 2020 loss. In 2035 (the last year analyzed by Heritage), the inflation-adjusted GDP loss works out to $6,790 per family of four.
Energy-intensive industries will also suffer significant losses. For instance, farming is very energy-intensive, with fuel, chemical, electricity, and fertilizer costs; since cap and trade drives up the cost of energy prices, farmers’ losses will undoubtedly outweigh any money they collect from offsets (the money businesses would pay farmers to reduce carbon emissions by either not farming or using more efficient technologies). The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis found that farm income (or the amount left over after paying all expenses) is expected to drop $8 billion in 2012, $25 billion in 2024, and over $50 billion in 2035. These are decreases of 28 percent, 60 percent, and 94 percent, respectively. The average net income lost over the 2010-2035 timeline is $23 billion–a 57 percent decrease from the baseline.

It Is a Jobs-Destroying Bill

President Obama and Democratic House leaders claimed that Waxman-Markey is a jobs bill. With the lavish subsidies for green investment placed in the bill, surely companies will hire workers to build solar panels and windmills; however, the number of “green” jobs will pale in comparison to the number of jobs lost due to higher energy prices and slower economic growth.
The goal of cap and trade is to drive up the costs of energy in order for people to use less of it. Because just about every business uses energy to produce goods and must pay their own electricity bills, the cost of production for businesses increases, and consumer demand falls for two reasons:
1. Price hikes on goods reduce demand, and
2. People have less disposable income due to higher energy prices.
Overall, production cuts and reduced consumer spending destroy jobs and slow economic growth, which further increases unemployment.
The Heritage analysis found that over the 2012-2035 timeline, job losses average over 1.1 million. By 2035, a projected 2.5 million jobs are lost below the baseline–without a cap-and-trade bill.[4] Some jobs will be lost completely, while others will move to different countries where the cost of production is cheaper. Again, these losses are on top of “green jobs” created as a result of the bill.

Less Renewable Energy

The final House bill contained many renewable energy investments in an effort to attract votes. The Waxman-Markey proposal even requires that more electricity come from so-called renewable sources, chiefly wind energy but also others like biomass and solar. Ironically, according to an analysis of the bill by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Waxman-Markey would actually result in less renewable energy produced than without the bill because of the overall decline in electricity use.[5]
Green projects do not pay for themselves; it is the taxpayers who fund the research and development of renewable energy and the cost of the subsidies that are required to make renewables competitive. Yet renewable energy still only provides a small fraction of America’s energy needs, and it is more expensive per kilowatt hour than traditional, reliable sources of energy. Consumers lose doubly, paying more as taxpayers and as ratepayers.

It Will Not Save the Planet

The alleged benefit from cap and trade is that the regulations will reduce carbon dioxide emissions enough to slow warming and reduce global temperatures.
According to climatologist Chip Knappenberger, Waxman-Markey would moderate temperatures by only hundredths of a degree in 2050 and no more than two-tenths of a degree at the end of the century.[6] Even EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson concurred, recently saying, “I believe the central parts of the [EPA] chart are that U.S. action alone will not impact world CO2 levels.”[7]
A multilateral approach would not fare much better. In the case of international cooperation, India, China, and the rest of the developing world would have to revert to their 2000 levels of CO2 emissions by 2050. On a per-capita basis, China would backtrack to about one-tenth of what the U.S. emitted in 2000. India and most of the developing world would have to drop to even lower levels. This scenario, in addition to being highly unlikely, would de-develop the developing world.

Moving Forward

Now that the bill has passed the U.S. House of Representatives, it will likely move to the U.S. Senate this fall. It is important to remember that everything policymakers have promised this bill will do will in fact do the opposite. Cap and trade will drive up energy costs for years to come, resulting in economic pain and higher unemployment. All of these points will be equally important, if not more so, in the Senate debate.

Stop the Cap & Trade vote- NOW in the U.S. Senate CALL 1-212-224-3121 or http://www.usa.gov/ Email, Fax , Call State Local Phone Number SEE Gov. Website For Info.
                                STOP THE SENATE VOTE NOW!

• How do I report questions and answers which spread lies about Barack Obama?
• Are the conservatives still harping about the Obama Birth certificate thing?
• What do you think about the Obama birth certificate thing?
• Every news media has stopped reporting news about John Edwards, is this good news for Obama

• Why do people think Barrack Obama represents the black community?
• Why do people choose to ignore sexism but lives to talk race in relation to Obama?
• Does barack Obama hate the American people?
• What is/Is there an Obama plan for giving college money to people who do community service?