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Obama Announces for President, Boosts Broadband
Arlen writes "As many as 17,000 people (according to police estimates) watched Senator Barack Obama officially announce his candidacy for President in Springfield, Illinois today. He mentioned several things that will interest readers of Slashdot. The Senator said he wanted to free America from 'the tyranny of oil' and went on to promote alternative energy sources such as ethanol — a popular stance in the Midwest where he announced, because of all the corn farmers. He also talked about using science and technology to help those with chronic diseases, which is likely to have been an allusion to his staunch support for stem cell research. Perhaps most of interest to readers here is the following statement halfway through Obama's speech: 'Let's invest in scientific research, and let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America. We can do that.' Like nearly everything in his speech, this was met with robust applause from the crowd. You can watch a video of the entire speech at Obama's website."
Obama's running on a feel-good platform. He's big on "hope" (whatever that means). Methinks he knows his issue positions aren't what most people are looking for so he's running on good feelings and wishes.
You know what they say about wishing in one hand and shitting in the other...
More at Znet [zmag.org]
I find it doubtful that you will find a viable candidate that leans far enough to the left to garner the support of the crypto-communists over at Znet.
He's either going to get shot or he'll conveniently lose. You can't have a black guy called Obama as president, think of the stereotypes which don't apply.
Jonathanjk.com
Politics is the art of compromise, dumbass....
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You went from a mostly harmless slightly loud giant with too much money to an antogonistic bully who doesn't have the sense not to spend himself into massive debt. I don't think you've been paying much attention.
By increasing spending on social programs like prescription Medicare and schooling?
As for the bullying, we removed the Taliban and finished the Gulf War that Bush and Clinton had not finished.
Do you think we should wait for Canada to keep the terrorists at bay? With what? Snowballs?
The opposite of progress is congress
There is a problem with your scenario. You ask how many men would actually vote for a woman, and how many whites would vote for a black...The problem is narrow-minded people that think this way are all Repulicans, so they won't vote for any of them anyway. And I'm saying this as a Republican myself..pretty sad...
I haven't been this excited since Al Gore was running as Vice pres after writing "The Earth in Balance". How'd that work out in the end? He did vote for the Kyoto protocol didn't he? Clean air act? I'm sorry, what?!??
Look, I want to be as excited as anybody that there is one political candidate talking actual sense (broadband, in particular, I really don't see the point of ethanol, methanol, or any other of the "methadone" alternatives to our oil addiction. We have solar and laptop batteries right? Remember the EV-1!?!?), but what are the chances that anyone in either major political party is actually going to do ANYTHING not totally in line with the corporate greed and corruption that rules our nation today?
Call me when we actually have elections again, or call me when you're handing out guns.
rhY
I hold very few opinions. I hold information based on observation and fact. If you wish to disagree, please use facts.
If they had siphoned that money into clean energy and away from oil dependence, one could easily argue that it removes many of the reasons that the US went into Iraq in the first place.
But not the most important one, protecting Israel.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Some of us don't give a damn about "global image"! We want a president that has a set of balls and will protect OUR national interests. I DON'T want a spineless liberal that will pander to the rest of the world only to be backstabbed later in life (AKA Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton).
If you want to help America, we accept your support; otherwise, get the hell out of the way. We've got some scum to scrape off this planet (N. Korea, Iranian leadership, Al-Qaeda...etc). Obviously, *some* of you Europeans are too GUTLESS to hear the calling of humanity that is required. If these Europeans don't support self sacrifice, at lease they should be supporting self preservation. The fact they don't support either intellectually blows my mind away!
Life is not for the lazy.
"free America from the tyranny of oil" - when he supports a military attack on Iran? And don't tell me he doesn't, either. He babbles on about Iran's "nuclear threat" - just like Hillary does - when there is absolutely NO evidence that Iran has or will have ANY nuclear weapons program whatsoever. Even assuming (and it might well be a correct assumption) that various factions in Iran WANT nuclear weapons, they HAVE NO PROGRAM. Not a scrap of evidence other than some documents which Iran has not accounted for from the A Q Khan network years ago has been uncovered that there is ANY such thing as an Iranian nuclear weapons program.
It has been ESTABLISHED that the Iranian NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH program is years, if not DECADES, away from being able to enrich sufficient quantities of uranium to the 90-95% level required for ONE nuclear weapon. Said weapon will have NO delivery system whatsoever outside of truck, container ship or camel, let alone be a threat to the estimated 100-400 nuclear weapons (including those on second-strike capable cruise missiles on submarines) that Israel possesses, let alone Europe, Russia or (gimme a break!) the United States.
Five minutes after the first US bomb drops on Iran, you will be paying $5/gallon for gas at the pump.
In a year, you'll be paying $10-20/gallon.
The oil companies have set this up for exactly that reason.
Do any of you morons remember that the Bush crime family is an OIL crime family?
Obama is a JOKE - a slick-talking Black "preacher" (okay, not officially, but he represents himself the same as one), just like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and a host of others. He will last five minutes in an election campaign, before the entire country decides he's just another smooth-talking hustler. Give me Lou Gossett instead - I KNOW he can talk the talk.
Hillary Clinton is a corrupt politician owned and operated by AIPAC and the Israeli Lobby who will immediately involve the US in a war with Iran - assuming Bush hasn't done so by then, which is a virtual certainty.
Personally, even as an anarchist, I think we need to start a political party that will run Vladimir Putin for President, with British MP George Galloway for Vice President. At least we'd have two politicians who are both smart and don't mind telling the truth (when it serves their purposes, at least)instead of being morons and lying ALL the time like ours do.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!