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New CBS News Poll Shows Obama Overseas Trip, McCain Ads Failed To Alter Still-Fluid Race
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- Obama8years,
What''s wrong with that answer?
What do you suppose is different about McCain''s answer. They both think they have a better agenda for improving the country and they both have big egos.
Our job is to not worry about the ego(let God and the job itself knock that down to size). Our job is to determine who actually is right about being able to move the country forward. All the rest is irrelevant(like Paris & Brittany). - Reply to this comment
- realpatriot.....you really are a real patriot! ":-)
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- Udon''tknowitall,
I''m sure of the context and meaning of what he said and I knw at the time I was pissed that it was being twisted.
I agree with you on Wright. Although I think some of his remarks were taken out of context to make them worse than they were, I don''t feel that way about the G.D. America rant.
For starters, I don''t think much of any Preacher who mixes politics and the Pulpit. I was highly offended by Wright''s comments, not so much for the implied racism as the misrepresentation of the scriptures and American involvement with Japan, but I won''t go any further with that.
Obama is an ambitious politician who chose the Church with the biggest Congregation in the area where he was seeking votes. Most politician do that but most don''t base their own beliefs and agenda on what their Preacher thinks and I don''t see any corroberating evidence that Obama does.
It''s one of several bum raps he''s had to deal with. Not entirely a bum rap, but much overdone. - Reply to this comment
- sheesh i remember hearing this type of crock when I was a child being forced to attend my parents'''' nice christian church. who cares what ethnicity Jesus was? it doesn''''t matter, when it comes to his message, if you buy it. you suggest that the black community is anti-semitic and this is ridiculous. there are many many churches, with pastors of ALL races, who preach this kind of thing. it''''s not pro-extremist islam, and it''''s not a threat to you. it''''s been around alot longer than you, and using soundbites to draw extreme conclusions is very uninformed and media-backed. be smarter than that.
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You obviously do not know much about Obama Rev Wright Church. You are the one that has your head in the Sand. - Reply to this comment
- Udontknowitall......I don''t know it all either...LOL
I haven''t read the aff action bill but as I understand it, the private sector is not required to adhere to any affirmative action guidelines, only government employees.
Personally I have never worked for a company that even considered affirmative action in their hiring practices. For example the company I work for is a large international firm with thousands of employees and only a handful are black, there are no hispanics and maybe two or three asians. If you have an accent, you won''t get hired here. If you are not white, you must have a college degree. It''s a good job and a good company but they could improve on how they consider minorities for employment. I don''t know if it is overt racism or simply human nature. We hire those we are most comfortable with. - Reply to this comment
- Think Obama before you speak....THINK,,,,THINK!!!!!
It''s the question every presidential candidate must be prepared to answer, but when it was posed to Barack Obama by a 7-year-old yesterday, the Democratic senator seemed at a loss for words.
Appearing before a packed high school gym in Elkhart, Ind., the young girl asked Obama why he is running for the White House.
"America is, is no longer, uh, what it could be, what it, it once was," Obama said haltingly. "And I say to myself, I don''t want that future for my children." - Reply to this comment
- I''m out. Back later.
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- Posted by realpatriot1 at 03:53 PM : Aug 07, 2008
Yes. It would be hard to make that work. So much of it depends on the integrity of the people in charge. And, simply put, they lie. - Reply to this comment
- concorde5
It was wrong for all of these things to happen as you described them. If you have seen it happen this way, then you are right. But if you read what the affimative action bill really means, am I not correct? - Reply to this comment
- realpatriot....excellent point!
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- Udon''tknowitall,
Affirmative action is a perfect example of how Obama is not Wright. Obama has acknoledged that we live in a different world than when affirmative action was needed to level the playing field. He used the example of his daughters, who he said have had it pretty good. Obama believes in economic affirmative action that would give some preference to poor whites over affluent minorities. I couldn''t tell you how he thinks that could work, but he clearly has a different outlook and sentiment than Wright. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by leftyintexas at 03:50 PM : Aug 07, 2008
How''s things going down in Travis county? - Reply to this comment
- Posted by Obama8years at 03:44 PM : Aug 07, 2008
I agree with this post. Yet, there are Obama supporters that expect all of this should be swept under the rug. Why? - Reply to this comment
- I agree, this little sissy Obama and the libs, can''''t even take it now, imagine when we open up with both barrels, they''''ll be crying....this is nothing yet
Posted by Minuteman-5 at 02:20 PM : Aug 07, 2008
You are right. It is nothing. Never was anything. Never will be anything. To quote your leader Dumbya: ''Bring it on!'' - Reply to this comment
- Udontknowitall.......I have to disagree with your assessment. First of all Affirmative action is very limited in its scope. It only affects government contracts and government employees. I work for a large investment banking firm and they require all blacks to have a College Degree to even get a second look. Whites are routinely hired in with only a high school diploma. And I have seen this widely through the job market.
During College I worked for a credit union. A Black woman came in for a car loan. She had excellent credit, she had paid off previous loans and never been late, and on her job as a teacher for 19 years.
She was turned down for the loan. The manager of the credit said "She just didn''t look right". A white woman came in the next week with a bankruptcy and an arm''s lenght of bad credit. She was approved!
And I could go on and on with examples of how minorities are still discriminated against. So don''t assume that we are all equal with the same advantages. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by realpatriot1 at 03:39 PM : Aug 07, 2008
Are you sure? I seem to remember the words "typical white woman" actually being spoken by him. Even if what you are saying is true, there is a reason why people wonder whether or not Obama and Wright are racist. What I mean to say is, it is not completely contrived by some right-wing, republican conspiracy to discredit Obama. Where there''s smoke, there''s fire. - Reply to this comment
- Obama associations are too radical for my taste.
Sabeel has been actively working in cooperation with Chicago%u2019s Trinity UCC among certain other politically active churches in America to promote anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic beliefs that can erode American Christian support for Israel and hasten Israel%u2019s destruction. And Pastor Jeremiah Wright, pandering to his majority black congregation, has been teaching his own replacement theology, only this time its called %u201Cblack replacement theology.%u201D Jesus was not a Jew, says Wright, but a %u201Cblack man.%u201D Trinity UCC%u2019s relationship with the anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam (funded by anti-Israel Libya) fits in nicely with this formula also. The Christian religious icon is no longer a Jew, but a black man and to accept this interpretation is the way to salvation for the black man. This not only deconstructs American church views of the legitimacy of Israel, but has a nice foothold with the likes of the Nation of Islam in the US black community. - Reply to this comment
- To YOUDONTKNOWITALL, Apparently you certainly do not to be truthful Gore did win the election, but Jeb and his cronies disenfranchised thousands of Floridians which gave GW that state and thus the election. Seems like the BUSH boys are adept at subverting the process whenever they deem it necessary.
Posted by paper3572000 at 03:27 PM : Aug 07, 2008
Re-read the post, Sparky. I said I couldn''t remember how the polls were and asked if anyone else could. I didn''t state a position either way. Pull the cork out and let some hot air escape, will ya? - Reply to this comment
- Secondly, Wright said Obama was having a difficult time because he is not rich, priveledged, or white. That statement is not racist, it''''s factual.
posted by concorde5
I''m not so sure that statement is not racist. I''m not so sure that statement is factual. Have you ever heard of "a back-handed compliment"? That''s not the best analogy, I know, but by even bringing up the fact that Wright believes that white people have it so much better than black people kind of insinuates where his beliefs are. He is basically saying, "Obama is not a priveledged white man." Implying that he thinks all white people are unfairly priveledged. That is not true. It was true at one time, but not now. Affirmative action taken too far has taken care of that. I realize it is not PC to have a view like this, but that doesn''t negate the fact that if 2 people of equal intelligence, qualifications, and stature were to apply for the same job and one was white and the other was a black, under the affirmative action law, it would not be legal to hire the white person. - Reply to this comment
- Aldon...all i''''m saying is your hatred of Wright seems lopsided. You have trouble saying exactly what Wright said or did to offend you but you have extreme hatred of him.
It'''' just seems a little odd to me is all...
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Posted by concorde5 at 03:33 PM : Aug 07, 2008
Read my post again; I don''t hate the man, now get over it! - Reply to this comment
