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Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination
An anonymous reader was one of many who noted that Barack Obama has claimed the Democratic nomination having secured enough delegates and super-delegates to claim victory. Of course, technically this assumes that the supers all vote as they say they will and they are free to change their minds. So no doubt we'll continue to hear debate on this subject until either the convention or Hillary steps down.
To be honest, Bush has been an embarrassment to the USA. Barrack can only do better (if he gets elected). The fact that there are numerous youtube videos that rip it out of a countrys president should be enough to make people want to vote him out.
- a guy who doesn't know how many states there are in the union.
- a guy who's been involved in numerous shady deals and bribery schemes during his tenure as an IL state senator and then again in the US Senate... including disenfranchising hundreds of people just to be sure that when the time came for elections, his was the only name on the ballot (kinda reminds you of how "elections" in communist nations like China and Russia and Cuba work really).
- a guy who has had to kick more than a dozen high-ranking people off his campaign when it turned up they were raving anti-semites associated with terrorist groups and fundraising efforts.
- a guy whose economic policies make Karl Marx look tame.
- a guy who insists his father (who was in the US for barely 2 years, and knocked up Obama's mom while having a wife and kids back in Kenya) was buried in a coffin with the US flag on it... in KENYA.
- a guy who marinated in a racist church for 20 years, steeping in "mother continent Africa", the "Black Value System" (which looks a lot like KKK literature with black/white reversed), and "God Damn America."
- a guy who can't decide if his "God Damn America" pastor is (a) as close to him as his grandmother, "like an uncle", "a member of the family", or (b) only "tangentially associated" with him.
- a guy who browbeats Americans who are working to make ends meet about making more charitable contributions, while less than 1% of his extremely sizable (even before the bribery) income goes anywhere but his own pocket.
- a guy who made his fortune on racist, trumped-up, falsified "civil rights" lawsuits
- a guy who does a damn lousy job as senator, with a record of missing more than 30% of votes and then only voting "present" a sizable time more.
- a guy who considers a baby the result of teenage sex to be a "punishment" that needs to be rectified with an abortion... it's too bad for us that his 19-year-old mom, knocked up by a married liar, didn't take that advice!
- a guy so cold-hearted that if a baby happens to survive an abortion attempt, he's perfectly okay with just dumping it into a trash bin and letting the child die anyways.
"I have a dream... where [people] will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."(MLK Jr) - by ANY measure, Barack Hussein Obama's character has been shown.
I don't care the color of his skin. I care that he's a corrupt scumbag. And on that measure, if you can honestly say knowing all this that you'd still vote for him, then you are probably one too.
what's the price of gas over there? And you must live in an alternate reality where Democrats understand that the laws of supply and demand regulate gas prices and allow for increased production in addition to increased efficiency to bring the cost of oil down.
In the real world that I live in, I've heard Republicans screaming for increased domestic production and Democrats screaming, "NO!"
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So does Rightism. I'd rather my money went to the homeless alcoholic living under a railway bridge than the CEO of some megacorporation who has just wangled himself a massive tax break. You mean that you didn't get a tax break? Why not take that money and give it the poor drunk under the bridge and let me do what I want with mine? And unless you can give me an example of the government taking your money and giving it directly to a CEO of a megacorp, you are lying.
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Um..WRONG.
McCain is the MOST anti-torture candidate. THE MOST. PERIOD. He was extremely outspoken on the topic in the Senate, it's one of his areas of contention and strife between him and the current president. He has the moral high ground on this. He's literally been there, done that on the receiving end.
Wait, you mean like Israeli Prime Minister "Ehud Barack"? OMFG, Obama isn't secretly Muslim; he's secretly Jewish! He's going to rebuild the Temple and bring about the End Times! (spread the word. it isn't true but it will garner the dumb-as-a-bag-of-rocks-but-just-can't-wait-for-armageddon voters).
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
Most likely because he wouldn't be allowed to grow hemp or keep slaves...
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Most welfare recepiants are on it for less then 2 years, but most of the welfare money goes to long-term recipiants.
Lets pick some numbers and times that in the middle of the ranges you gave:
20% of people are on welfare for 6 months
15% on for 9 months
19% for 1.5 years
27% for 3.5 years
20% for 5 years
Now if you took a specific point in time you would have:
4.1% of people who when they are done will have been on welfare for 6 months
4.6% of people for 9 months
11.7% of people for 1.5 years
38.7% of people for 3.5 years
40.9% of people for 5 years
If you look at the whole range and assume a minimum time on welfare of 6 months you always end up with 70+% of the money going to long term (2+ years) recipiants.
That sure sounds like a problem to me.
And yes, many people don't think of Obama as black, because he isn't. He is half white and half black - and a whole to neither. So all you "Obama hates all white people" folks out there, do you honestly believe he hates his mother and half of himself??
I dont think he hates his grandmother or mother. but could he think that black people are "owed" or deserve more attention and programs? Most (all?) black speakers in the past haven't really been for equality, but more for give us at the cost to you. So its only fair people are skeptical about Obamas intentions.
This could very well be a man who isn't for equality but political revolution. To some of you that sounds attractive. To me that scares the hell out of me. I'm afraid one day we will no longer be encouraged to be individuals and destroy our human spirit instead we will be encouraged to do what is best for the hive. After all I'm only one man, why should I be happy when society suffers? How very evil of me to want to be happy. We've seen that when social programs roll in so do the leeches from other countries to take advantage of it. That result would be that the U.S. no longer is a haven for hard working foreigners who are educated that come here to work and compete. It would inturn be a haven for the lazy foreigners who come here to drink beer.
Many of you see Socialism as a utopia, to others of us nothing sounds more terrible than looking alike, thinking alike and living alike cause that system is best for the hive.
Instead of modding me down how about replying and making me and others like me understand.
-- "of course thats just my opinion, I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
The real purpose is control, not managing the U.S. government for its citizens. For example, search digg.com and reddit.com for the term "martial law"...the president and vice-president and their families and friends and associates have a history of investment in oil and weapons. The purpose of invading Iraq was to get control of the oil supply...the reason for the U.S. government's plan to invade Iran is to further restrict the supply of oil.
It's a pity you went from relatively cogent analysis to stark raving conspiracy nuttiness.
Also, his name is "Barack" Obama
Actually, his name is Barack Hussein Obama. But if you say that, you're some kind of racist. Then again, he went by "Barry" while in college.
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>>> They need to purge all the religious zealots, war mongers, and lobbyist puppets
Then who will be left?
The truth is an offense, but not a sin.------R. N. Marley
It's patronizing and condescending because he's saying that if only things were better off for these people, they'd be going blue in droves. God forbid that these people are proud Americans who have values and traditions that they hold near and dear, it's that their values and traditions are a crutch to deal with the fact that the world is too hard for them. Imagine if he had said religion, guns, and cultural pride are the opiate of the masses and you get an idea of what people in the red states hear in his quote. And it's dishonest because that same anti-trade sentiment he is talking about is something that he embraces.
My fellow Americans, let's restore the death penalty for child rapists. Let's do it . . . for the children.
"I was in error about opening my fucking mouth on the subject in the first place"
FYP. I do like how you blame the people who caught you spewing garbage, when are you running for office?
Except MORE disposable income (as a result of the tax cuts you ignorantly denounce) leads to MORE SPENDING and subsequently MORE TAXES, AND TAX REVENUE. You are not only wrong, you're so fundamentally wrong about such a basic concept that it's clear you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
Well, "your view" puts you at odds with virtually every economist in existence.
YOU'RE NOT A FUCKING COUNTRY. If your previous statement wasn't enough to call your intelligence into question, this statement was.
1) I don't believe you.
2) Others from Europe (and specfically the UK) have said the opposite.
Um, they were anti war rallies guy, it had fuck all to do with what was known or unknown, they were against the war PERIOD. Why is that so hard for you to understand, and why do you think I'm going to let you pretend otherwise?
God, fuck off. You're just flailing because you know you're full of shit now.
I'm just going to lay this right out, YOU ARE A LIAR.
Nothing you can say will change that.