A Dawg's eye view

My liberal friend, you just placed yourself in with all thoise you called out with your less than eloquent post, don't you think?

I am against Obama and Hillary for their abject liberalness and neo-socialism. Obama has no experience, no foreign policy ideas at all (except to sit down with known terrorists); and Hillary wants to mandate national healthcare (with money we don't have already). Moreover, we're in Iraq for a while and I don't see any of the candidates poulling us out anytime soon, as rightly they should not.

Other then that, welcome to the blogs!

Scottie my friend although I respect your opinion I do not agree that my post was "less then eloquent" as you put it. Is liberalness a word? I think you meant liberalism. Obama has as much experience as Clinton, and far more then Bush had when he took office. I don't see anything wrong with sitting down with our enemies, its a far cry better then just bombing the crap out of them and starting a war that can be avoided with diplomacy, we have had enough of that already. As for Hillary and her healthcare ideas, well I'm not voting for her even if she gets the nomination. And if you think that we are either justified in our invasion of Iraq or staying there indefinately then I feel sorry for you.

There does seem to be a real resentment against anyone that dares to give a politician half a chance to even attempt to try to make a difference. It's almost like there is this sentiment that things are just screwed and you better not even try to tell me otherwise. How dare anyone claim that things could get better! Either start talking about doom and gloom and the end of the world or keep it to yourself! We dont need no stinking politicians! they are all bad and will always be all bad. How dare you suggest otherwise! These are not people, these are evil machines and they will destroy us all. We are doomed. Oh the pain... the pain of it all! The humanity! Oh!!! We're all doooooomed!


heh

Silly aint it.
-Cy

Lec, so you're voting for Mike Modano? lol

DDawg, I did mean liberalness - it is a word.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/liberalness

There are certain people I believe that do not warrant speaking to, including those folks in Iran in power, as well as a few others. That legitmizes their status.

I like Obama's personality, his excellent oratory skills and his willingness to not resort to mud-slinging (thus far).

I do not like his lack of experience. The change he advocates doesn't jibe with my wallet either, therefore he won't get my vote.

Cy, there is plenty of reason to listen to the vloices of doom and gloom while striving to change things. A lot of the voices are correct. The voice I listen to comes from the Bible. Unfortunately, my voice drowns His out much too often.

The only things BO cares to change is the name on the mailbox ans the record book (just like the other two.) None of the three "media chosen" candidates will do anything positive for this country.

OK Scotty if you say liberalness is a word (I actually looked it up as well, but didn't get the same results)- doesn't really matter anyway. The main point I was making Cy has echoed in his last post. Take all the BS out of most of what is posted in opposition to Obama and your not left with much to complain about.

The fact is a big part of white America (in the South anyway) are afraid that if a black man (he is actually mixed) gets into office then their ignorant behavior is going to become less and less tolerable to the masses. They are just too lazy and/or stupid to learn that we are all equal, we all deserve the same rights, and we are all equally responsible for what happens in our communities.

Most of what Obama seeks to change involves "we the people" making those changes ourselves and being involved in the changes. When speaking about making college more affordable to lower middle class and poor families he said (not verbatim) "turn off your t.v.'s, put away the video games and help your children do their homework...and if they need assistance going to college they will volunteer in their community helping the homeless or elderly."

Sounds like someone who isn't giving in to making empty campaign promises, and has a real outlook on what we need to do collectively to move forward as a nation.

I am curious, what changes are you referring to that would hit your wallet?

Er, 'Afghanistan" ...darn keyboard...

I was hoping you would reconsider, Scotty. Backed into a corner in which your choices seem to become narrow distinctions, a clear (albeit of uncertain foundation in some respects) path manifests.

Politics 201, also referred to as "clear-as-mud"...

First, let me say that we will likely never get a really good candidate for President any more and probably not congress either. Look at Collin Powell; he resigned his position in the Bush administration because he no longer wanted to subject his family to political abuses. He has as much said that for that very reason he will not run for President. I can tell you this though, I would vote for that man no matter what his party affiliation was. But the power hungry political elite don’t want candidates that they can’t control or influence and General Powell obviously has a mind of his own.

I think the dilemma that many people face is that there are things about Obama that make them nervous or uneasy. In the case of Hillary and John McCain it is fairly clear where they are coming from. John McCain would give us more of the same and Hillary is just on a power trip.

Obama is a really good orator and he has inspired many to get involved in the process but I have to say that there are many things about him that make me question his commitment to the change he claims he will bring. Barak claims not to be a Muslim and I have read conflicting reports about whether or not the school he attended in Jakarta was a Wahabi school. I really wish he had been more in the spotlight when the terrorists struck on 9/11 because I want to hear him condemn the terrorist acts. The fact that Farrakhan is willing to endorse him should make everyone nervous and I would expect that Obama will try to public distance himself from Farrakhan but privately remain close to retain his support.

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On the other hand Michelle Obama is on the board of Treehouse Foods and their CEO made a little over $26 million last year. This seems to be more than just a little hypocritical given the fact that Wal-Mart had $348 Billion in revenue last year and Treehouse foods had $370 million. What about the fact that Michelle Obama was given $300 per year to work in publicity for a non-profit hospital right after her husband was elected to office.

Last let’s talk about the Iraq issue. Barak made the comment that he was going to pull all of our troops out of Iraq but that we would go back and target Al-Qaeda forces if they entered Iraq. When it was pointed out by Senator McCain that Al-Qaeda was already in Iraq Barak’s response was that they wouldn’t be there if it were not for George Bush and John McCain. This totally skirts the fact that he had no clue that Al-Qaeda was in Iraq. And, this gets to the heart of why I don’t like Obama.

All his speeches after very eloquent and seem to be designed around a very emotional appeal. He is reaching out to younger voters and disenfranchised groups that this approach is more likely to resonate with. I think that if anyone does any research they are going to find that Obama is no different than any other candidate except that he is from the left wing school of thought which says, “I am with the government and I am here to help!” Never have any other words been more frightening.