The Dalai Lama wants autonomy for Tibet. Imagine if Obama's spiritual advisor/mentor was the Dalai Lama. Critics would think that probably Barack wants autonomy not only for Tibet but also for Black America! As Barack says, there would always be one distraction after another year after year. And when we follow these distractions, nothing will change, because we would be discussing the distractions ad nauseum. Healthcare will remain undone, energy solutions would be pushed to another generation, the national debt will be passed on.... nothing will change. Not this time. This time we will bypass the tangential, and get to the …
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Poptown :- Obama has not been given a free ride by the press. Have you read the Chicago Tribune. That paper and other Illinois papers have investigated Obama to death and have found nothing incriminating or untoward. The Chicago articles were done during his run for the Illinois State Senate, the US Senate and the US presidency. The NY times has also come up short in their investigations, stating that at the end of one "investigative" piece the only thing they could find was that Obama probably exaggerrated his drug use in his book because they could find no one to …
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To Poptown (I didn't mean to gloss over the Pastor Wright issue. just ran out of space. Below is my comment): Now re Obama's pastor and his sermons. Obama said he was not in the church when those particular sermons that were played over Fox News were preached. Even Bill Krystol was forced to admit that he had been proven wrong when he stated that Obama was actually in the church when one of those sermons was preached: it was proven that Obama was in Miami at the time. ( Obama did admit in his "Perfect union" speech that he was …
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Poptown, You seem to be set in your beliefs/opposition to Obama. I think you would remain there if you do not open your mind to possibilities. Obama = possibilities. Note also that how Barack has conducted his campaign is antithetical to the snippets played about Rev Wright's sermons. Now I've already answered your media issue and your BLT/MLK issue. Now re qualifications for presidency - and you say no one of the candidates is qualified to be president, especially Barack. This question was posed to Barack by potential supporters BEFORE Iowa. Barack's response to them was that he would show them …
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Natalie, I agree that Gingrich issued a scathing critique of some points in Obama's speech and about the left in general. But in the process he went beyond just explaining the conundrums of race and poverty in America as Obama did, but he went on to offer real bold solutions and challenged Obama, the left, the right, and the general public to come back to the table to discuss the solutions. This is the next step. A third step would be finding a set of solutions suitable to both the right and the left, and the independents; and the final step …
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Whattheheck, I just read your response and have come up with some ideas that are think are entirely original, as far as I can tell. I agree with your basic economic theory of competitive advantage, which is that companies move their production to developing economies because those countries have a competitive advantage over US companies: they have lower wages and lower cost of production. I do not see the US competing with these economies because there is increasing upward pressure on our wages (eg democrats have increased the minimum wage) and our health care costs are continually rising. These two costs …
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To Whattheheck, Continuing on the Creativity index This is what I think Obama is alluding to when he says that there is no problem we cannot solve if we put our minds to it. Take energy independence. There are many ideas out there - many already tested -, in the American arena and produced by Americans, that relate to energy independence. But until we can focus our creative juices on solving this problem, it won't get solved. there would just be a bunch of scattered ideas out there. Obama's idea of building a sort of Change Majority would allow us to …
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Baraka, Poptown, Whattheheck, Listen, this discourse is getting heated and angry. It is obvious that Poptown and Whattheheck have made up their minds against Obama because of the statements of Rev Wright. Plus Poptown feels that Obama is simply too green to be president of the US. But as obama said we can disagree without being disagreeable. Now that it is clear that we have disagreed on the Obama/Rev Wright issue, let's move to solutions to the country's problems because that's what it all boils down to in the end. I think the starting point may be seen in the speech …
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Natalie, The woman who made the "racial" remark was RETAINED by Obama and his campaign, after they investigated the incident and found that she meant no harm. Herewith: " Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, the Carpentersville woman who was accused of racism for comparing two African-American children climbing a tree to monkeys, was told today she would be allowed to keep her position as an Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention. After it initially appeared as though Ramirez-Sliwinski, also a village trustee, would "voluntarily" step aside, it seems that the campaign actually, you know, examined the facts and cooler heads prevailed. Obama spokesman …
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