A friend of mine sent me this in an email, my response to him is at the very end:
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Don't overlook the very last comment.....
In Obama's own words .
Below are a few lines from Obama's books . his words: Pay close attention to the last comment!!
From Dreams From My Father (Published 1995): 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
From Dreams From My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.'
From Dreams From My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From Dreams From My Father: ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From Dreams From My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'
From Audacity of Hope (Published 2006): 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
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My response:
Ah yes, snippets taken out of context are so much fun. If I felt like it I am sure I could make Senator McCain sound just like a war mongering lunatic. Actually I could do that WITHOUT cherry picking single sentences from his writings, because he IS a war mongering loony!
As to the last sentence above, I too will stand by Muslims or any other group should "the political winds shift in an ugly direction" which obviously means, should they be persecuted for their religion or race and not their actions.
I'm right on the edge of voting for Obama. I will certainly never vote for Mad Mac. The Libertarians have nominated a Republican who is not a real libertarian on any issue I find important so they are out as well. Here is his stand on drugs, note the total evasion of the question of legalizing all drugs as libertarians have always maintained was the right thing to do in order for liberty to be preserved.
So, I'll either vote for Obama or just burn my ballot, I don't know which yet.
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Don't overlook the very last comment.....
In Obama's own words .
Below are a few lines from Obama's books . his words: Pay close attention to the last comment!!
From Dreams From My Father (Published 1995): 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
From Dreams From My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.'
From Dreams From My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From Dreams From My Father: ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From Dreams From My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'
From Audacity of Hope (Published 2006): 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
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My response:
Ah yes, snippets taken out of context are so much fun. If I felt like it I am sure I could make Senator McCain sound just like a war mongering lunatic. Actually I could do that WITHOUT cherry picking single sentences from his writings, because he IS a war mongering loony!
As to the last sentence above, I too will stand by Muslims or any other group should "the political winds shift in an ugly direction" which obviously means, should they be persecuted for their religion or race and not their actions.
I'm right on the edge of voting for Obama. I will certainly never vote for Mad Mac. The Libertarians have nominated a Republican who is not a real libertarian on any issue I find important so they are out as well. Here is his stand on drugs, note the total evasion of the question of legalizing all drugs as libertarians have always maintained was the right thing to do in order for liberty to be preserved.
So, I'll either vote for Obama or just burn my ballot, I don't know which yet.
If all that were wrong with Obama was that he was Muslim (and I don't buy all the Muslim crap).
ReplyDeleteThe Muslim crap is just smoke from a Clinton campaign that couldn't differentiate her any other way from Obama on the issues.
Obama isn't going to be good for the economy. He wants to double the capital gains tax, forgetting that when that was brought down, the economic activity actually caused revenues to the government to increase.
He's with McCain on cap-and-spend, a legislative boondoggle that lines the pockets of companies that have yet to achieve anything marketable as well as increase dramatically the size of government.
He won't do anything to increase the supply of oil, in order to bring prices down and help poor people who pay a higher percentage of their income to fuel.
He wants a windfall profits tax that punishes achievement and lets bureaucrats decide what is "fair" profits and what isn't.
He wants to reduce our nuclear stockpiles without using them as a bargaining chip to deal for other nations to reduce theirs.
He's also in favor of significantly more government meddling of health care, an industry where costs skyrocket because of government meddling today.
And that's off the top of my head at 6:30am.
I'm with you in thinking I really need a None of the Above box come December. I'm tempted to write in Leonidas. ;)
If Obama isn't a Marxist, he is definitely a socialist. McCain is pretty socialist too with his cap-and-trade and amnesty schemes. By conceding the socialist ground, McCain is saying some socialism is OK, which tells people that the socialism of Obama is OK.
Sure, Obama sucks pretty bad. But Mad Mac frightens me seriously. As I have said before, Obama is liable to destroy the United States of America while Mad Mac is liable to leave the whole world a smoldering ruin. Just my gut feeling on the two.
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