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• • 05 Apr 08
  • 10:15 pm

  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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• • 06 Apr 08
  • 2:04 pm

  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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• • 06 Apr 08
  • 2:12 pm

  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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• • 06 Apr 08
  • 8:20 pm

  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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• • 06 Apr 08
  • 8:35 pm

  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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