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RE: List of Obama's Accomplishments In The Senate"
That's the patented Chris Matthews blindside attack. You could tell by the Senator's reaction he'd prepared to be asked something completely different. And they call NBC the leader of 'the liberal media.'
RE: List of Obama's Accomplishments In The Senate"
*_OBAMA'S 'NOT EXACTLY'S'_
> 1.) _Selma Got Me Born_ - NOT EXACTLY, your
parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 -
Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was
in 1965. (Google <http://www.google.com/> ' Obama Selma ' for his full
March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its
various untruths.)
> 2.) _Father Was A Goat Herder_ - NOT EXACTLY,
he was a privileged, well educated youth, who
went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
> 3.)_ Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter_ - NOT
EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt
and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
> 4.) _My Family Has Strong Ties To African
Freedom_ - NOT EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga
has created mass violence in attempting to
; overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya
. It is the first widespread violence in
decades. The current government is pro-American
but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish
Muslim Sharia law. Your half-brother, Abongo
Obama, is Odinga's follower. You interrupted
your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to
Odinga on the phone.
Obama's cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president
and tried to get Sharia muslim law in place
there When Od inga lost the elections, his
followers have burned Christians' homes and then
burned men, women and children alive in a
Christian church where they took shelter.. Obama
SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process
here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see
what you get. No o ne wants to know the truth.
> 5.) _My Grandmother Has Always Been A
Christian_ - NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily
Salat prayers at 5am according to her own
interviews. Not to mention, Christianity
wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives
to 1 man.
> 6.) _My Name is African Swahili_ - NOT
EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from
which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that
language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. If
elected, he would be the first Arab-American
President, not the first black President. Barack
Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's
side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African *****
from his father's side. While Barac k Hussein
Obama's father was from Kenya , his father's
family was mainly Arabs.. Barack Hussein Obama's
father was only 12..5% African ***** and 87.5%
Arab (his father's birth certificate even states
he's Arab, not African *****). From....and for
more....go to.....
> 7.) _I Never Practiced Islam_ - NOT EXACTLY,
yo u practiced it daily at school, where you were
registered as a Muslim and kept tha t faith for
31 years, until your wife made you change, so
you could run for office.
> 8.) _My School In Indonesia was Christian _-
NOT EXACTLY, you were registered as Muslim there
and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making
faces (check your own book).
February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York
&nbs p; Times a year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the
opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer,
reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a
remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated
(it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr.
Obama described the call to prayer as 'one of
the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.' This
is just one example of what Pamela is talking
about when she says 'Obama's narrative is being
altered, enhanced and manipulated to whitewash
troubling facts.'
> 9.) _I Was Fluent In Indonesian_ - NOT
EXACTLY, not one teacher says you could speak
the language.
> 10.) _Because I Lived In Indonesia , I Have
More Foreign Experience_ - NOT EXACTLY, you were
there from the ages of 6 to 10, and could n't
even speak the language. What did you learn, how
to study the Koran and watch cartoons.
> 11.) _I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs_ - NOT
EXACTLY, except for Africa (surprise) and the
Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never
been anywhere else on the planet and thus have
NO experience with our closest allies.
> 12.) _I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic
Confusion_ - NOT EXACTLY, you were quite content
in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of
Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify -
your classmates said you were just fine.
> 13.) _An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For
Office_ - NOT EXACTLY, Ebony has yet to find the
article you mention in your book. It doesn't,
and never did, exist.
> 14.) _A Life Magazine Article Changed My
outlook on Life _- NOT EXACTLY, Life has yet to
find the article you mention in your book. It
doesn't, and never did, exist.
> 15.) _I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08_
- NOT EXACTLY, here you are, despite saying,
live on TV,
> that you woul d not have enough experience by
then, and you are all about having experience first.
> 16.) _Voting 'Present' is Common In Illinois
Senate_ - NOT EXACTLY, they are common for YOU,
but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
> 17.) _Oops, I Misvoted_ - NOT EXACTLY, only
when caught by church groups and Democrats, did
you beg to change your misvote.
> 18.) _I Was A Professor Of Law_ - NOT EXACTLY,
you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
> 19.) _I Was A Constitutional Lawyer_ - NOT
EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
> 20.) _Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics
Bill_ - NOT EXACTLY, you didn't write it,
introduce it, change it, or create it.
> 21.) _The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass_ - NOT
EXACTLY, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
& gt; 22.) _I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill _- NOT
EXACTLY, your bill was rejected by your own
party for its pandering and lack of all
regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear
donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
> 23.) _I Have Released My State Records_ - NOT
EXACTLY, as of March, 2008, state bills you&nb sp;
sponsored or voted for have yet to be released,
exposing all the special interests pork hidden
within.
> 24.) _I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens
Mess_ - NOT EXACTLY, you were part of a large
group of people who remedied Altgeld Garden s .
You failed to mention anyone else but yourself,
in your books.*
*
> 25.) _My Economics Bill Will Help America_ -
NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic policies were
just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0,
and even YOU voted against your own bill.*
*
> 26.) _I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois_ -
NOT EXACTLY, even your own supporters claim to
have not seen BOLD action on your part.
> 27.)_ I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year_
- NOT EXACTLY, they were not YOUR bills, but
rather handed to you, after their creation by a
fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid
for higher office.
> 28.) _No One on my campaign contacted Canada
about NAFTA_ - NOT EXACTLY, the Candian
Government issued the names and a memo of the
conversation your campaign had with them.
> 29.) _I Am Tough On Terrorism_ - NOT EXACTLY,
you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism
and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the
destruction of Israel .
> 30.) _I Want All Votes To Count _- NOT
EXACTLY, you said let the delegates decide.
> 31.) _I Want Americans To Decide_ - NOT
EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that limit the
vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote,
and only operate during small windows of time.
> 32.)_ I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate
_- NOT EXACTLY, you passed 26, most of which you
didn't write yourself.
> 33.) _I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics_ -
NOT EXACTLY, you used tactics to eliminate Alice
Palmer from running against you.
> 34.) _I Don't Take PAC Money_ - NOT EXACTLY,
you take loads of it.
> 35.) _I don't Have Lobbysists_ - NOT EXACTLY,
you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
> 36.) _My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The
1984 Ad _- NOT EXACTLY, your own campaign worker
made the ad on his Apple <http://www.apple.com/> in one afternoon.
> 37.) _I Have Always Been Against Iraq _- NOT
EXACTLY, you weren't in office to vote against
it AND you have voted to fund it every single time.
> 38.) _I Have Always Supported Universal Health
Care_ - NOT EXACTLY, your plan leaves us all to
pay for the 15,000,000 who don't have to buy it
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"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory." --American author and humorist Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Departing from the usual riff of campaign TV and web ads and counter ads, here's a list of nine campaign mistakes, in my humble perspective, made by Barack Obama (feel free to add yours!):
#9) Being an unacknowledged gaffe machine. The Obacons simply look like age bigots when the they point out the gaffes of John McCain (100 years, knowledge on economics, etc.) when their own messiah has misspoke on a regular occasion (noting the 57 U.S. states he's visited, saying America was no longer great, saying 10,000 people died in KS tornadoes (it was actually 12 total), claiming in Selma, AL that their civil rights struggle is what brought his parents together (he was off by 5 years) and saying small nations - like Iran - with small defense budges can't harm America). In the world of 24/7 politics, people make gaffes. A new style of politics would be to hold your opponent to the same standard you'd like to be held.
#8) Running in the Democrat primaries as George McGovern[/b] minus the experience (pull out of Iraq asap, surge won't work, chit-chat with Iran and Cuba, no domestic oil drilling, etc.) and then running as Mike Huckabee in the General Election (faith-based programs, heartland values, against affirmative action, pro-FISA, pro-Bush pre-emption doctrine, pro-Bush energy policy). America hasn't been asleep. We saw both sides of Obama and how he's left himself very little residual trust or authenticity. He presents himself as nothing yet also everything. Again, not being afloat public opinion would be a nice trend and a departure from the old politics.
#7) Rejecting public financing. Simply put, Obama lied. He further damaged the brand he attempted to build as a practitioner of some sort of new politics when he attempted to justify his lying on the need to practice old politics. Dumb meet stupid.
#6) Having no resume. Obama has no accomplishments. No narrative of note to share with American voters. He was a law professor and legal editor without a single article or essay of note published. He was a community organizer, with no demonstrable contribution. Obama was a state senator with no signature legislation. He has been briefly a U.S. Senator (less than 300 work days), also with little to show for it. The only accomplishment of significance is authoring a book on his favorite topic - himself. As a bestseller, it only shows that Obama doesn't make mistakes when maximizing profits off his public service.
#5) Going negative first. Democrats like to repeat the talking-point that GOPers are more aggressive political campaigners than they are. Not true. But there is little doubt Republicans know how to fight hard for their ideas. Yet Democrats have always been nasty, negative and dirty in their political tricks. Obama adds another footnote to the point that Democrats campaign negative by launching the first attack ad against McCain.
#4) Dividing America. Obama has engaged in one of the - if not the most, in modern era - divisive presidential campaigns. His appeal to envy and avarice in an old school political class-warfare ploy would make even Upton Sinclair blush (profit bashing, taxing the 'wealthy,' etc.). Obama has appealed to the base nature of people, not the best within us. Employing the old politics, Obama is betting his political future on the worst in America's not hope in our better selves.
#3) Snubbing a national dialog. Obama rejected McCain's offer for a series of a national town hall Lincoln-Douglas style forums and exchanges. Instead, Obama opts for the old political tradition of simply three tightly scripted debates (one of them masquerades as a town hall). America is better served by a honest and full exchange. Either Obama is not up for it - lacking confidence in his own ideas or lack of them - or he's made some political calculation that what is best for America isn't great for him personally.
#2) Letting the election be about himself. This is an election about Obama, good or bad. People tell pollsters they want a Democrat President. But they don't know if they want Barack Obama. One of the biggest mistakes he's made is not making the campaign about something bigger than himself, like an idea. Instead it is simply a personality choice versus McCain's resume. Who would you hire?
#1) Counting on race. Obama's victory depends upon a racist sentiment. Meaning, Obama's campaign is expecting and building a base of voters who will vote nearly 10:1 for him simply because he is black. Manipulating the African-American vote is nothing new for Democrat politician but this is certainly the largest exploitation of it. Certainly this is not the mainstream media's view and they'd gauge this observation as impolitic. Yet is no less true and unfortunately, no less damaging to the fabric of our nation.
Obama's campaign has made plenty of strategic mistakes. But their opponents have generally made more. Tactically they have been more flawless. But their strategic faults have put them into the current funk.
The good news for Obamacons is there is plenty of time. The convention will give him a bounce. He'll be masterful in presentation during the three little Presidential debates. And he can always rely upon the mainstream media to cover-up most of his missteps. But like most important elections, we'll have a photo finish.
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Ronald Reagan: 'Everybody that is for abortion has already been born'
"I never said I was worth it. I only said I wouldn't do it for less " William F. Buckley Jr.
RE: List of Obama's Accomplishments In The Senate"
Lots of opinion. Some, but not much, fact.
One accomplishment to Obama's credit. At least he waited until AFTER Bush spoke on the Georgia crisis before he made his statement. He didn't say anything to negate what Bush said, and he didn't act like he WAS the President already. Obama managed to remember that he's just a candidate for the job and that candidates shut the hell up in a crisis and let the current Commander in Chief do his job without their interference.
McCain? He didn't manage to acomplish any of those things. He didn't show me much of anything to instill confidence in his judgement that day.
RE: List of Obama's Accomplishments In The Senate"
Obama will get us killed. Period end of the story!
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"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory." --American author and humorist Mark Twain (1835-1910)
RE: List of Obama's Accomplishments In The Senate"
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and he didn't act like he WAS the President already
Obama DEMANDED that Russia with draw!! Who is he to DEMAND anything from Russia!! Probably gave Putan a good laugh!! Obama wants to give Georgia 1 billion to rebuild, but yet thinks we shouldn't spend a dime to help Iraq!! Here's an idea, since Russia did the damage in Georgia, why not let Russia spendthe money to rebuildGeorgia.
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List of Obama's Accomplishments In The Senate"
