Obama Confronts Racial Division in US

The laughing liberal wrote:

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You're avoiding reality again on this issue.
Obama was the chairman.
He could change the wording if he so desired. He did not.
He could have pulled out any "riders" he didn't want. He did not.
He simply voted against it several times and refused to bring it up for another vote when he controlled the committee.
After Obama left, this bill providing medical attention for an innocent baby surviving an abortion passed.

It's too bad that you can't give as much attention to the 4,000+ military that have died and the 30,000 injured in Bush's illegal war. McCain voted against increasing veterans benefits. It's OK if they fight for this county, just don't ask the country (including anti-abortionists) to support them when they come home and need extraordinatry medical attention. For shame.

Observant fan wrote:

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check out this button sold at the Texas Republican Convention last month...
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/gop-conve...

Two thoughts on that.

First private vendors are not connected to John McCain.

And second, Obama's buddy Ludacris has written a Rap song with the same message:

http://www.huliq.com/65376/ludacris-obama-son...

"Said I handled his biz and I'm one of his favorite rappers
Well give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer
Better yet put him in office, make me your vice president
Hillary hated on you, so that bitch is irrelevant"

"You can't stop what's bout to happen, we bout to make history
The first black president is destined and it's meant to be
The threats ain't fazing us, the nooses or the jokes
So get off your ass, black people, it's time to get out and vote!"

"Paint the White House black and I'm sure that's got 'em terrified
McCain don't belong in any chair unless he's paralyzed
Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped
Ball up all of his speeches and I throw 'em like candy wrap
'cause what you talking I hear nothing even relevant
and you the worst of all 43 presidents"

Mac-7 wrote:

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Two thoughts on that.
First private vendors are not connected to John McCain.
And second, Obama's buddy Ludacris has written a Rap song with the same message:
http://www.huliq.com/65376/ludacris-obama-son...
"Said I handled his biz and I'm one of his favorite rappers
Well give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer
Better yet put him in office, make me your vice president
Hillary hated on you, so that **** is irrelevant"
"You can't stop what's bout to happen, we bout to make history
The first black president is destined and it's meant to be
The threats ain't fazing us, the nooses or the jokes
So get off your ****, black people, it's time to get out and vote!"
"Paint the White House black and I'm sure that's got 'em terrified
McCain don't belong in any chair unless he's paralyzed
Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped
Ball up all of his speeches and I throw 'em like candy wrap
'cause what you talking I hear nothing even relevant
and you the worst of all 43 presidents"

it's one thing for an independent artist to come up with a rap than for a racial slogan be used at a REPUBLICAN CONVENTION...

besides, I didn't say no dems has used race as an issue, but you said no reps had...

Observant fan wrote:

<quoted text>it's one thing for an independent artist to come up with a rap than for a racial slogan be used at a REPUBLICAN CONVENTION...
besides, I didn't say no dems has used race as an issue, but you said no reps had...

He is a private vendor and not connected to McCain in any way.

Besides, Obama keeps reminding us that he's black so the race card has already been played by him.

Observant fan wrote:

<quoted text>pelosi and her gang didn't put us in this position... and besides, offshore drilling will hel us whe, in 10 years? even the white house experts said that!

All the more reason to start immediately. Pelosi doesn't give a crap about the working-class. And I heard some oil exec say there is a lot of infrastructure in place already and we could starting getting oil in 1 1/2 years. Why wait?

concerned for the future wrote:

<quoted text>It's too bad that you can't give as much attention to the 4,000+ military that have died and the 30,000 injured in Bush's illegal war. McCain voted against increasing veterans benefits. It's OK if they fight for this county, just don't ask the country (including anti-abortionists) to support them when they come home and need extraordinatry medical attention. For shame.

Don't believe everything Moveon.org tells you.

There was no dissent for the 2004 amendment, and the 2006 amendment passed unanimously. In 2005, the alternative spending increase passed with a healthy 96-to-4 bipartisan stamp of approval. Also, it's worth mentioning that the president does not express an opinion on every amendment offered in the Senate. So it is not accurate to say McCain "took Bush's side" on these votes.

The union group also cites a fourth vote, a March 2007 vote by McCain against a war spending supplemental that passed the Senate but was vetoed by the president. The bill did include $1.77 billion in additional funding for veterans' health care benefits. However, McCain voted for an alternative version of the supplemental that was quickly introduced, passed and signed into law. And it actually included slightly more money for veterans' health benefits,$1.79 billion.

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/afl-c...

concerned for the future wrote:

<quoted text>So did mine, it's a fact of life, just like a myriad of other disease. I'm sorry for your loss. I wasn't insulting people with Alzheimer's.I don't think we have to avoid the truth about it however, and I know the sign, McCain's in early stages.

Then he better have a good VP.

Observant fan wrote:

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check out this button sold at the Texas Republican Convention last month...
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/gop-conve...

If Paris is elected,it will be the Pink House. Remember when Ray Nagin said New Orleans was a chocolate city? Did that bother you?

Anyway, Obama is half-white, so it would be the Half-White House.

Hltler was a great charsmatic speaker as well who sounded good but said nothing. SOunds kind of like the socialist rhetoric we hear from Ayatollah Obama!

Clayton Bigbsy wrote:

Hltler was a great charsmatic speaker as well who sounded good but said nothing. SOunds kind of like the socialist rhetoric we hear from Ayatollah Obama!

The Ayatollah Obama?

That's great.

It plays into his status as a lefty religious figure/secular savior of the world, and his Muslim middle name that isn't.

Do you mind if I borrow it?

Mac-7 wrote:

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The Ayatollah Obama?
That's great.
It plays into his status as a lefty religious figure/secular savior of the world, and his Muslim middle name that isn't.
Do you mind if I borrow it?

Absolutely feel free to use it prolifically! It fits for sure. LOL

rollin wrote:

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I guess you would rather stick with the rethug elite like.
Karl Rove
Scooter Libby
Ken Delay
Duke Cunningham
Jack Abramhoff
Thomas Noe
James Tobin
Brent Wilkies.
Clean your own house before you comment on the untidiness of others.

I don't like them, either. Didn't like Bush from the start; never voted for him.

concerned for the future wrote:

<quoted text>It's too bad that you can't give as much attention to the 4,000+ military that have died and the 30,000 injured in Bush's illegal war. McCain voted against increasing veterans benefits. It's OK if they fight for this county, just don't ask the country (including anti-abortionists) to support them when they come home and need extraordinatry medical attention. For shame.

Illegal war?
Didn't Congress authorize it?...YES

4000 dead + 35K injured = Awful terrible but they fought for their country and had a choice to volunteer.

The babies subjected to Abortion and exterminated had no such choice.

In fact, over 800,000 babies are killed every year in this country by Abortion.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/mar/0703...

Total abortions from 1973 to 1998 = 38,010,378.

http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/ABORAMT.HTML

America needs to wake up before it's too late - the large corporations have taken over the politics of America. The evidence is plain to see.

Our middle-class factory workers have been eliminated as large corporations use slave labor in third world countries to produce and import shoddy products and sub-standard food.

They keep us dependent upon oil, they've made us a consumer-service nation. Our mighty factories are stilled, our people without jobs, banks close, housing foreclosures abound.

When will America wake up and realize it is the pawns of these Corporations, of Exxon, of Walmart, of corporate America that have placed us in this position? Bush and McCain top the list of these corporate pawns.

For those of you that listen to Fox News, you will never know the truth. All you will hear are the likes of Shannity and Billo the Clown tell you the cure is for more of the same by electing John McCain.

How much longer will America watch Fox News and nod in agreement as our country keeps sliding down the tubes?

Why don't each of you so mesmerized by Fox News make yourself a promise to watch Keith Olberman just twice each week to fuel your thought process with a different perspective?

Do it just for laughs. A steady dose of nightly right wing Fox News propaganda can make even the sharpest mind believe what isn't true after awhile. Fox News is the voice of the Republican Right.

Wake up America, we are being snookered! We are exchanging American's future for the benefit of a few dozen large corporations...and McCain has made a career of flying around in their corporate jets.

And by the way - it was good to see Colmes bring out the fact that McCain pulled the same thing on his former wife when she was paralyzed in an auto accident that Hannity rightly condemns Edwards for doing -

McCain and Edwards both cheated on and left their wive's in their hour of need. Both lay in hospital beds as their husbands cheated on them and chose other women.

This is a qualification to lead America????