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Friday, May 30, 2008
8:34:00 AM EDT
"More of that where that comes from."
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8:34:00 AM EDT
The Untrustworthyness of Barack Obama
"More of that where that comes from."
Or, just when you thought it was safe to go back to Trinity Church, out comes another Reverend Wright!
Only this time it's a priest and the words are so hateful, (generally against whites, but specifically against Hillary Clinton) it makes one cringe to be Catholic (as I am) and extremely angry and alarmed to hear these ugly, false words from Obama long-time friend, Pastor Michael Pfleger.
The vitriol, hate, lies, accusations and egregious attacks against Hillary Clinton have gone far enough.
Barack Obama, despite all the false and patronizing "praises" for Hillary Clinton cannot separate himself from his past and present associations or the vicious tactics and diatribes from his supporters.
Actions speak far louder than words and lofty speeches.
Barack Obama has not ethically grown or progressed from the days he employed lawyers and cheap, back stabbing tactics to get Alice Palmer kicked off the ballot (a 5-year-incumbent state Senator and respected public servant) in his 1996 successful Illinois state senate run.
Alice Palmer never ran for public office again and today is a supporter of Hillary Clinton.
Barack Obama is the same untrustworthy, arrogant, phony, dishonest and ethically challenged individual now as he was 12 years ago. He sings false praises while simultaneously stabbing others in the back.
This is a man who, if elected, would make George W. Bush look like our finest and most honorable President ever by comparison.
The words of Barack Obama are not to be believed. He is guilty of the very thing he accuses Hillary Clinton of: "Doing and saying anything to become President."
We, the American voters (whether we be man, woman, black, brown, white, rich or poor) must see to it that Barack Obama never becomes Commander and Chief of this country.
I pray that Hillary finds a way to stay in this race, despite the moral cowardice, betrayals anddenials of many in her party. -- PCA
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The world isn’t going to hell. It’s pointless to get too emotionally invested in candidates -- though we U.S. voters have done so for 200+ years -- since
(a) politics is a competitive sport + business, and all candidates are tough, clever, hardball-playing professionals. They don't take this stuff to heart (as we would define it); and while we get bent out of shape, they’re coolly working on Plans B through Z, planning their comfortable futures.
(b) we project our anxieties onto candidates, especially in long or heated campaigns. (Heck, Jefferson’s adversaries said he was a godless, immoral, licentious anarchist; a fan of France’s then-recent, scary revolution; and would vaporize the U.S. government and plunge us into mob rule.)
(c) politics is about power-seeking. Candidates _assume_ that allies and paid staff will defect in a crunch. The staff are professionals with reps/careers to manage, and the allies must guard their groups or constituents. (Anyway, the candidate would throw _them_ under the bus if necessary.) It’s not Best Friends Forever; it’s a business, and each election cycle is a reunion of side-switchers and ex-candidates.
5/31/08 4:49 AM
(1) Hillary/Obama’s platforms are 99.9% alike. -- so Hillary differentiated herself via her personal story and appeals to gender/class/identity subsets. (It’s weird seeing her blue-collar outreach, since, excepting her Iraq vote, she’s been ‘way out on the Left for four decades.)
(2) Campaign reporters and legit media have long viewed Hillary as post-gender -- a tough-as-nails professional politician, not a “female something.” So the sexism talk has been a bit odd. Same goes for average women identifying with her, because she is _not_ an easily identifiable-with person.
(3) By tacit agreement, Democrats don’t raise negatives re: Bill’s presidency or subsequent Hillary-Bill irregularities: It would reflect badly on the party, since Bill and Hillary have been party VIPs.
So Obama’s past has been spotlighted, while negatives re: Hillary mostly focus on current events (unless she specifically raises a past issue).
This gives the impression that Obama is Mr. Baggage, while Hillary is 100% vetted. Unfortunately, that's not so. As GOPers have noted: In a general election, the GOP’s Hillary-ammo would hit us like a ton of bricks.
And some diehard Dems and Hillary fans have been rattled by her distressing post-‘90s financial/lobby/religious links. But this got bare mention, though McCain was probed re: an old lobbying issue, and he and Obama have gotten “clergy flak.” (We tend to look where we're directed. On their own, voters didn't seem to care much re: Bush’s noxious clergy allies, his Christian Nation mindset, or his diversion of tax dollars to favored religious sects.)
So with any candidate: I always dig through the spin, and look at info/sources from all sides. No info release is "accidental"; and none of the candidates is a victim or evildoer. They're all just masochistic professionals, trolling for votes.