Obama stands firm on 'small-town' words

Bitter City Slicker wrote:

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A key component of being a great diplomat is being able to admit when you are wrong. Obama has yet to demonstrate such quality. If we can all get beyond the pettiness and focus on the issues. We would see that Hillary Clinton has done the homework and laid out the best strategies.

If a key component of being a great diplomat is "being able to admit when you are wrong", then it's safe to say that Hillary Clinton doesn't fit the job.

Observer wrote:

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If a key component of being a great diplomat is "being able to admit when you are wrong", then it's safe to say that Hillary Clinton doesn't fit the job.

She is not the one professing to be "Above It All" and has indeed apologized when necessary and is not afraid to admit when she is wrong

mitchell20 wrote:

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Your imagined "payback mentality" is much simpler than you make it: black people are skeptical of the offerings of white people. A pretty smart decision, too, taking the past 2000 years into account.

Offerings? that is THE problem sice LBJ unlocked their cages in '65.
they shouldn't have been led to believe that there is a free ride in the first place. America is not a plantation where everything is provided for.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/904015...

In the debate, Obama called the acts Ayers committed 40 years ago ‘detestable,’... and any attempt to connect him with those events is outrageous,” LaBolt said.“While Obama, Mayor Daley, and others in Chicago’s academic and civic communities have known Bill Ayers in recent years ... President Clinton pardoned a member of the Weathermen who participated in a heist that left two police officers and a security guard dead, and commuted the sentence of another, and we have yet to hear where Senator Clinton stands on President Clinton's actions.”

anytownusa wrote:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/e lections/904015,CST-NWS-ayers1 9.article
In the debate, Obama called the acts Ayers committed 40 years ago ‘detestable,’... and any attempt to connect him with those events is outrageous,” LaBolt said.“While Obama, Mayor Daley, and others in Chicago’s academic and civic communities have known Bill Ayers in recent years ... President Clinton pardoned a member of the Weathermen who participated in a heist that left two police officers and a security guard dead, and commuted the sentence of another, and we have yet to hear where Senator Clinton stands on President Clinton's actions.”

President Clinton pardoned two women accomplices who served jail terms, not the mastermind of the organization that Obama was hanging out with even though he found his acts to be "detestable"

Why don't you ask yourself why you are really supporting Obama and what you really know about him. Perhaps he is just filling a void in your life and you have jumped on the CHANGE bandwagon.

It is not wise to only believe the things we choose to hear. There are many children who fall by the wayside because their parents don't want to listen to the truth. They keep saying not my child, not my child, not my child until faced with a harsh reality.

The Obamanots follow suit. It is okay to support him, but to turn a deaf ear to his short comings is detrimental to his success and will expand the magnitude of his failures.

Why must you defend him by talking about another.
Can you not find substance with in his character to validate your reasoning?

HAMMER wrote:

<quoted text> the only thing white about him is his thin nose.
and it has a strange color like his lips.

I was referring to his genotype, not his phenotype.

HAMMER wrote:

<quoted text>Offerings? that is THE problem sice LBJ unlocked their cages in '65.
they shouldn't have been led to believe that there is a free ride in the first place. America is not a plantation where everything is provided for.

You call living in substandard housing in inner cities with mediocre funding for education and a forlorn mentality about success a "free ride"? You sicken me. How many hatefully racist epithets have you been called? Please share.