What Makes Obama Run

[no name 1]

Pot - meet kettle. 3 new ones in 50 minutes yesterday not enough for you?

I think you need a new kettle, you keep losing it all over the place.

I decided that if you guys can post half a hundred of the thinnest, most insubstantially based articles you can find from the obscurist sources - that I might as well get in on the action.

Yet when one calls you on it, you deny?

Edited April 7, 2008 by illumine

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Pot - meet kettle. 3 new ones in 50 minutes yesterday not enough for you?

I think you need a new kettle, you keep losing it all over the place.

I decided that if you guys can post half a hundred of the thinnest, most insubstantially based articles you can find from the obscurist sources - that I might as well get in on the action.

Yet when one calls you on it, that's not OK?

When it was explicitly intentional - "calling me on it" is kind of pointless.

[Heracles 417]

Pot - meet kettle. 3 new ones in 50 minutes yesterday not enough for you?

I think you need a new kettle, you keep losing it all over the place.

I decided that if you guys can post half a hundred of the thinnest, most insubstantially based articles you can find from the obscurist sources - that I might as well get in on the action.

Yet when one calls you on it, you deny?

Do you actually expect more from #6..

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Not a problem! Why dont you throw up a Jeremiah Wright video up with that post? Maybe when ones head his buried so far up there, its kinda hard to see someone blowin smoke up yours. The association with Bush and big oil is obvious,right? But the association between ones pastor and your beloved, is not?

He's not really my "beloved". I just don't want any of the others to win. Not quite the same

I bet you liked to be buried in sand at the beach as a child. Brings back fond memories doesnt it

Not as fond as the one in my student days where I was so drunk I couldn't get off the couch. But then again you can relate to that on a daily basis

You clarvoyance is simply amazing. Do you hear voices? they got meds for that or are you waiting for Barrack to give you some free ones?

[GaryC 7]

Ok, I just read the story. He sounds very idealistic and a man that is truley wanting to help out his race. But is that what America needs? It sounds like this is his main agenda, helping out people of color. Thats great if your a Senator or a church leader but America needs someone that speaks for everyone. I realize that blacks have gotten the short end of the stick here in America. I am all for giving them the chance to live the same dream that white America has had. But I am worried that he will focus on his passion to the detrament of the other things a president needs to do. I don't see any experience in economics, world politics and national security. I am sure Obama is a good man, I am just worried he will be a one issue president.

[rebeccajo 14]

Pot - meet kettle. 3 new ones in 50 minutes yesterday not enough for you?

I think you need a new kettle, you keep losing it all over the place.

I decided that if you guys can post half a hundred of the thinnest, most insubstantially based articles you can find from the obscurist sources - that I might as well get in on the action.

Yet when one calls you on it, that's not OK?

When it was explicitly intentional - "calling me on it" is kind of pointless.

Watch it, Number 6. You're not allowed to have an opinion about politics, remember?

[no name 1]

Pot - meet kettle. 3 new ones in 50 minutes yesterday not enough for you?

I think you need a new kettle, you keep losing it all over the place.

I decided that if you guys can post half a hundred of the thinnest, most insubstantially based articles you can find from the obscurist sources - that I might as well get in on the action.

Yet when one calls you on it, you deny?

Do you actually expect more from #6..

Nope.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Watch it, Number 6. You're not allowed to have an opinion about politics, remember?

Oh yes - that's right. Silly me.

[rebeccajo 14]

Watch it, Number 6. You're not allowed to have an opinion about politics, remember?

Oh yes - that's right. Silly me.

I'm surprised they sell newspapers to you poor immigrants. You've been reading how long now?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Ok, I just read the story. He sounds very idealistic and a man that is truley wanting to help out his race. But is that what America needs? It sounds like this is his main agenda, helping out people of color. Thats great if your a Senator or a church leader but America needs someone that speaks for everyone. I realize that blacks have gotten the short end of the stick here in America. I am all for giving them the chance to live the same dream that white America has had. But I am worried that he will focus on his passion to the detrament of the other things a president needs to do. I don't see any experience in economics, world politics and national security. I am sure Obama is a good man, I am just worried he will be a one issue president.

Gary, this part should interest you...

Obama takes readers on a multicultural odyssey through three continents and several political philosophies. He casts a skeptical if sympathetic eye on white liberalism, black nationalism, integration, separatism, small-scale economic development, and the transient effectiveness of charismatic black political leaders like the late mayor Washington. While Obama credits all these political movements with bringing some progress to middle-class blacks, he believes that none have built enduring institutions and none have halted the unraveling of black America.

Obama is the product of a brief early-60s college romance and short-lived marriage between a black African exchange student and a white liberal Kansan who met at the University of Hawaii. His critical boyhood years--from two to ten--were spent neither in white nor black America but in the teeming streets and jungle outskirts of Djakarta. Obama's boyhood experiences in Indonesia--where his mother took him when she married another foreign exchange student--propelled him toward a worldview well beyond his mother's liberalism.

"The poverty, the corruption, the constant scramble for security . . . remained all around me and bred a relentless skepticism. My mother's confidence in needlepoint virtues depended on a faith I didn't possess. . . . In a land where fatalism remained a necessary tool for enduring hard-ship . . . she was a lonely witness for secular humanism, a soldier for New Deal, Peace Corps, position-paper liberalism."

He's obviously not a dye-in-the-liberal that you might think he is. From what I gather, his life experiences as child born from a white mother and African father who abandoned his family have had a profound impact on his views. He's as much white as he is black, accept that as far as first impressions go, people throughout his life, have only seen him as black.

[Heracles 417]

He's obviously not a dye-in-the-liberal that you might think he is. From what I gather, his life experiences as child born from a white mother and African father who abandoned his family have had a profound impact on his views. He's as much white as he is black, accept that as far as first impressions go, people throughout his life, have only seen him as black.

Interesting way you put it chief..

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Ok, I just read the story. He sounds very idealistic and a man that is truley wanting to help out his race. But is that what America needs? It sounds like this is his main agenda, helping out people of color. Thats great if your a Senator or a church leader but America needs someone that speaks for everyone. I realize that blacks have gotten the short end of the stick here in America. I am all for giving them the chance to live the same dream that white America has had. But I am worried that he will focus on his passion to the detrament of the other things a president needs to do. I don't see any experience in economics, world politics and national security. I am sure Obama is a good man, I am just worried he will be a one issue president.

Gary, this part should interest you...

Obama takes readers on a multicultural odyssey through three continents and several political philosophies. He casts a skeptical if sympathetic eye on white liberalism, black nationalism, integration, separatism, small-scale economic development, and the transient effectiveness of charismatic black political leaders like the late mayor Washington. While Obama credits all these political movements with bringing some progress to middle-class blacks, he believes that none have built enduring institutions and none have halted the unraveling of black America.

Obama is the product of a brief early-60s college romance and short-lived marriage between a black African exchange student and a white liberal Kansan who met at the University of Hawaii. His critical boyhood years--from two to ten--were spent neither in white nor black America but in the teeming streets and jungle outskirts of Djakarta. Obama's boyhood experiences in Indonesia--where his mother took him when she married another foreign exchange student--propelled him toward a worldview well beyond his mother's liberalism.

"The poverty, the corruption, the constant scramble for security . . . remained all around me and bred a relentless skepticism. My mother's confidence in needlepoint virtues depended on a faith I didn't possess. . . . In a land where fatalism remained a necessary tool for enduring hard-ship . . . she was a lonely witness for secular humanism, a soldier for New Deal, Peace Corps, position-paper liberalism."

He's obviously not a dye-in-the-liberal that you might think he is. From what I gather, his life experiences as child born from a white mother and African father who abandoned his family have had a profound impact on his views. He's as much white as he is black, accept that as far as first impressions go, people throughout his life, have only seen him as black.

Steve he threw his mother under the bus with the "she used to say bad things about blacks" remark. I just cant get over how ppl put so much in what ppl write. Seeing what you wanna see? WOW!

Edited April 7, 2008 by CarolsMarc

[one...two...tree 2,762]

He's obviously not a dye-in-the-liberal that you might think he is. From what I gather, his life experiences as child born from a white mother and African father who abandoned his family have had a profound impact on his views. He's as much white as he is black, accept that as far as first impressions go, people throughout his life, have only seen him as black.

Interesting way you put it chief..

How would you have put it?

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

He's obviously not a dye-in-the-liberal that you might think he is. From what I gather, his life experiences as child born from a white mother and African father who abandoned his family have had a profound impact on his views. He's as much white as he is black, accept that as far as first impressions go, people throughout his life, have only seen him as black.

Interesting way you put it chief..

How would you have put it?

NON answer!

[HAL 9000 96]

Ok, I just read the story. He sounds very idealistic and a man that is truley wanting to help out his race. But is that what America needs? It sounds like this is his main agenda, helping out people of color. Thats great if your a Senator or a church leader but America needs someone that speaks for everyone. I realize that blacks have gotten the short end of the stick here in America. I am all for giving them the chance to live the same dream that white America has had. But I am worried that he will focus on his passion to the detrament of the other things a president needs to do. I don't see any experience in economics, world politics and national security. I am sure Obama is a good man, I am just worried he will be a one issue president.

Thank you Gary for your insight.

Actually, the article was written back in 1995. Plus the article states pretty clearly Obama's views on being inclusive, not exclusive in making agendas for the advancement of society, citing one particular community as an example. I'd be more worried about a Republican making economics a one-issue term when they could just as easily do what GWB has done in making all issues during his presidency about him.