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Barack Obama will promote policies like....................................
Posted by Cards6 • 5/16/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Tags: foreign policy, politics, presidents
Perhaps Barack Obama reminds you of John Kennedy or maybe Bill Clinton or even George Bush.In your opinion who does Barack Obama emulate in terms of policy?
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If you don't know, start here: www.barackobama.com/index.php -
they remind me like something I've never seen in my lifetime. Thank God. Finally, after 30 years of devisive politics, starting with the moral majority in the late 70's, we have someone who wants us to work together. -
Barack is a visionary...somewhat like John Kennedy. He a free thinker and not easily influenced. He is a welcomed change.
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We can only hope he is not easily influnced... Some of his long time friends and people he said had an impact on his life are not really what you would call uniters... (Rev Wright, William Ayers)
If a republican had connections to people like this, would they get the same kind of free pass? -
he is a full of shit, with a great speech writer tis all .. what freakin vision does he have? the guy is superficial, no substance, well he WAS a substance abuser once,... if that qualifies?
how ya gonna give your pastor the "BOOT" after 20 years? The guy, BO is "Faulty"
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I'm not sure William Ayers and his wife are in the same category of influence as Reverand Wright. And I think to understand this issue you have to understand the radical anti-war movement of the '60's. Ayers is accepted in most political and academic circles in Chicago and as far as I've been able to find, Obama had limited contact with him.
It would really serve our country well if we did our own research on issues and relied less on political pundits. -
@ Bob: Distractions, distractions, distractions. McCain might be able to win on such things, but the issues are more fundamental. They're about ideology and policy.
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Mark,
They may just seem like distractions to Obama supporters now, but I think they may become a lot bigger issues during the general elections.
Not only his relationship with these folks, but some of his comments (the guns & religion stuff, meeting with Ahmadinejad, etc) may come back to haunt him.
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Barack will continue the policies that the American government are already following, because policy is already set out by the federal reserve and the world bank, any "change" in policy is just a "tweak" of their policy. -
a NO NO and a definate NO!~
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So you want four more years of George Bush through his surrogate McCain Give me a break!
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Hello NO!~ I want Hillary and if she doesn't make the nominamtion - I sure in Sam Hell will NOT vote for "Barrack Hossein Obama"- man, that is so Ironic just saying that freakin name-yikes!
hb~
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Barack is a butthole and I hate politics. I hate politics so much that I should be a politician.-
lmao!~
hb~
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I personally see, if he gets elected, a lost little boy in the White house, who bamboozled the American public with rhetoric. He is all talk and no action to me.-
So are you one of those Clinton supporters who isn't going to be able to get over it already?
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I do prefer Clinton over Obama....but I'd still feel the same way about him regardless of who he's running against. His opponents have nothing to do with my thoughts/beliefs on his ability to be President.
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Must everyone who questions Obama's qualifications be a disgruntled Clinton supporter? I'm not especially enamored of either of them, and I'm sure there are millions of others who feel the same way. -
@Tiffany: I'm working from my perhaps faulty memory of earlier conversations. I thought I recalled Mike preferring her, but I was too lazy to dig up the old discussions. I was making no assumptions about you whatsoever.
@Mike: Once it comes time for the general election, I should think policy positions and ideology matter more than anything else, though I realize a great many Americans don't think like that. Indeed, therein lies McCain's only chance of success. -
I didn't think it related to me, specifically--just seemed like a candidate you consider unqualified being elected was an odd thing to think people should "get over". I'm not over Bush becoming President twice...are you?
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Actually I am. I choose to live in this country, and so I accept the process, with the usual amount of grumbling.
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clear cut and concise Monkeytail there are so many that share your exact thoughts!
hb~
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I simply do not feel he is right for the job, in 2008. He needs to get more experience to become a great leader. Down the road, should he run again, I will most likely vote for him.
I do not know who he emulates.-
But what about the probable scenario that Clinton loses the nomination (I know you support her) and you are left with McCain versus Obama? Don't then McCain's policy positions become relevant? To me they're horrible, with one big exception and one smaller one: (1) he is against torture, (2) he talks about the environment, though he would move far too slowly. But social, economic, and defense policy would be the same as Bush.
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"But social, economic, and defense policy would be the same as Bush."
You need to do some more reading if you think that.
Defense, probably.
Social and economic? He's closer to Kennedy that Bush. If Clinton gets the nod, we could see an election where in many respects the Republican is more liberal than the Democrat. -
Hell's Bells ... Perhaps I'll phone Morgan Freeman and ask him to run as an Independent. I'd rather vote for him should I have the need to vote for a man.
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During his tenure in the Illinois Senate, Obama sponsored a bill that got more than 150,000 people in Illinois health insurance once it was passed.
In addition, while he was in the Illinois Senate, Obama spearheaded an effort to pass ethics reform legislation.
this legislation "banned most gifts by lobbyists, prohibited spending campaign money for legislators' personal use and required electronic filing of campaign disclosure reports."
Obama also got a bill passed in Illinois that required law enforcement to record the race of every driver stopped. The bill was seen as a means of monitoring racial profiling.
As a U.S. senator, Obama co-sponsored a bill known as the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, which was signed into law by President Bush in late 2006. The bill required the Office of Management and Budget to compile a comprehensive database of where Americans' tax dollars are allocated to, and to what causes and contractors.
In addition to this, Obama is currently the only African-American in the U.S. Senate and the only African-American to be elected president of the Harvard Law Review.
His first year as U.S. Senator, Obama held 39 town hall
meetings throughout Illinois, and in senate, sponsored
152 bills and resolutions, and cosponsored 427 more
Speaker Harry Reid designated Barack Obama as the
Senate point man on ethics. Obama is known
unquestionable ethics and integrity.
Background :
Worked for $13,000 / year helping inner city Chicago poor. after college moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.He went on to further his education Harvard Law when he realized to change things for the people the laws and the policies would have to change.
Registered 150,000 people to vote. Graduated first black
president of Harvard Law Review, passed over 600 high money
law firm offers to work for civil rights practice at fractional pay.
State senate :
Adds health insurance for 20,000 children, Welfare reform,
Earned income tax credit, increased minimum wage ($5.15 to
$6.50). Death penalty reform making interrogations be video
taped passed Senate 58-0, signed to law by governor who first
opposed Obama’s bill. Sponsored bill probing police profiling.
Obama opposed Iraq war publically, long before the invasion.
Accurately depicted it as undetermined length, undetermined
cost, undetermined objective, resulting as civil war. Same
assessment Bush Sr. & Dick Cheney both gave in early 90’s.
Federal senate :
Worked with republican senator Lugar to expand and author
program to locate & dismantle stray Russian WMD’s left over
from the cold war after the disbanding of the USSR.
Jan. 2007, major ethics/lobbying reform bill, w/ Russ Feingold
insisted tougher measures banning lobbyist gifts/ meals/ jets,
disclosure of earmark & contribution bundling to candidates or
committees; restricts retiring Congress from going into lobbying
Toured Kuwait, Jordan, Israel, Palestinian territories, he told
Palestinian Authority Abbas that US would never recognize
Hamas leaders until they renounced mission to attack Israel.
In Africa, publicly took AIDS test as example of responsibility
Obama cosponsored Secure Orderly Immigration Act by John
McCain. Passed 62-36. Makes undocumented persons who
have been here 5+ years only allowed to stay and apply for
citizenship, if pay back taxes, learn English and no criminal
record. 2 million undocumented persons who have been in the
United States for less than two years would be ordered home.
Called for increased fuel efficiency standards (3% / year
For most of his tenure both in Springfield and Washington, he was in the minority party, which in itself stymied his ability to pass legislation. But in both cases, he still managed to work in a bi-partisan way to get legislation through the process. -
all of that= Barack is still a butthole
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