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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."
His staunch support of gun control and redistributive economics.
fiberoptic or copper? vote obama, cause hillary hates violent fun, plus who wants bill clinton to be the pressidents bitch? theres something wrong there.
You say that like you think science and facts matter to someone that spent four years in a Muslim seminary. Hussein Obama has said publicly that he believes in the Wahhabbi doctrine that denies the rights of non-Muslims. That doesn't sound like someone who uses logic and science. He's just saying what people want to hear.
ALL politicians make pie in the sky promises. NONE of them ever make good on them.
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They talk whatever BS their handlers tell them to, to appeal to as many warm bodies as possible.
Also, WTF is politics doing on
If I want propaganda I'll watch Fox or CNN.
I am quite certain that
Let's keep propaganda and politics out of
In the end Obama votes extremely right-wing. He is not a liberal, but a reactionary or a neo-conservative. Imperialist or fascist might be appropriate labels if you don't mind giving Goodwin's law a pass.
While assuring us that he supports the troops in Iraq, he's made it quite clear he won't bring them home, and instead has pressured the White House to come up with a plan on the matter of their own. How Obama, or anyone, can possibly believe that the Bushites could come up with a worthwhile strategy for Iraq is beyond me.
On Iran Obama also serves the status-quo with the kind of hawkish zeal we are used to seeing in most Republicans. He's admitted he may favor surgical missile strikes on Iran and Pakistan if that's what it takes to fight the war on terror. And Obama even boasts that Bush hasn't taken a hard enough line on the foreign menaces.
How about Israel? Obama even embraced Israel's brutal bombings of Lebanon last summer -- the type of complicity we're sure to see continue if he's successful in his political evolution. Beyond that, Obama voted in favor of the Pentagon budget last year, with its beefy handouts to Halliburton and the rest tax and waste crooks. (Counterpunch)
------ Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.
Monkey, I'd like you to meet "the Midwest" and "the South". Midwest and South, Monkey.
Its Kdawson's incessant knee-jerk lefty trolling. He's becomingthe lft version of Rush Limbaugh for Slashdot - his articales are almost always biased, and almost always left. All he does is stir up the rabble on the left and reationaries on the right.
He's the worst editor here since Katz.
What blackmail info does he have on Malda?
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Obama is cardboard, a media fluff creation that you have fallen for. You are supossed to feel "excited" about this phony "hope" buisness (the same Clinton lines). It's all empty - feelings lie and you bit.
He is a nigger and not just that but a muslim nigger. You think its bad under a chirstian dumb ass gets in there just wait this fuck rolls into office. Point is simple, niggers can't be in charge of anything. Look at places where niggers have taken over. Just about any American city that has a nigger staff running the place. Detroit, Birmingham, just to name a few. Hell, look at africa. Name one workiing politial system in that hell hole run by niggers? Then there is haiti. Nigger run, and looks like it. The UN, 10 years of nigger rule look at it now.
Then he is a muslim. Muslims are trying to take over the world and people are prepaired to hand this sand nigger keys to the most powerful military in the world. Yes, muslims are trying to take over, they want to impose islamic law on everyone. If you think they are not then you are a fool. islam is not a religion of peace, it is a religion of oppression.
Doesn't matter who is running against him, as long as they are not muslim or a nigger that is who to vote for.
This is how open he is:
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Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
The Ivy league is horribly overrated. Seriously.
They *are* better than most state universities, but not by the margins most people seem to think they are. And they're also demeaned by "daddy bought a building" syndrome.
Fuck, I could take classes from Harvard right now if I wanted to(and I have, from the extension school, I'd still get a diploma from Harvard if I went for one). No big deal.
Live in the area of the Ivy league and the mystique quickly, quickly wears off.
The key to the enjoyment of pop music is to replace any instance of "love" with "C.H.U.D."
Because the Bush regency is not completely stupid. Sure, they stole the election; sure, Bush has been essentially ruling by fiat, or "executive order". But he spun things in such a way that the VAST majority of the citizens agreed with what he was doing; therefore, there was no real will to resist.
Now, when the class of citizens who are capable of resisting (gun owners, usually conservative, often republican) are actually starting to notice that things weren't quite what they seemed to be, the power structure has changed by way of the 2006 democratic congress takeover; Bush is still attempting to rule by Fiat, but the media is starting to be critical, as is the congress; the people who would revolt see this, that the government is apparently sorting itself out (or is in the process of doing so) so there is no real apparent reason to hoist the Jolly Roger.
At least, that is the way I see it.
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.