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lum-chate1 year, 7 months ago
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lum-chate1 year, 7 months ago
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He's a senator now but he got his start in politics by earning the seal of approval from community activist like Ayers & Reverend Wright and soon climbed the political ladder by gaining the trust ogf the Cook County Crooks who throughout Illinois history have stolen more elections than they actually won.
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Lurch1 year, 7 months ago
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obama could have taken the easy route and gotten any federal clerkship he wanted. He did graduate top of his class at Harvard Law, he`s a minority, and is internationally experienced. He could have had a job at any law firm in the nation in fact.
So, if all he was interested in was politics, do you really truly honestly believe he would give all that up to become a lowly community activist in a poor neighborhood in Chicago? Come on man, use your own head.
Its not like he dumped his wife and the mother of his three children for the money, political connections, and easy street or anything.
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mesodude1 year, 7 months ago
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"Look at Chicago! Do you want the rest of the Country to be like that. Obama District is FULL OF MURDERS AND SLUMS!"
--That sounds eerily similar to the transformation the Bush administration has brought to Iraq over the past five years. ;-(
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Beau78901 year, 7 months ago
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lum:
You are an idiot. Obama doesn't control the police or the housing authority in his district. He's a senator, and he used to be a state senator.
America is full of murders and slums. How do you propose dealing with it? How does McCain or anyone else propose to deal with it?
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memestryker1 year, 7 months ago
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lum-chate,
The problem is that legislators focus on abridging rights--that's what they do all day. Since only law-abiding citizens obey laws, the laws are not that useful for catching criminals, who ignore them and are resourceful enough to work around them. But legislators just pass more and more laws to cover every little needling hole they think they may have left open, until more and more law-abiding citizens are in jail and the criminals continue to run loose.
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memestryker1 year, 7 months ago
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lum-cate, give the man a break. We don't know how to solve poverty and crime, and we keep trying things that don't work. Social programs don't do it, corporatist programs don't do it, putting more people in prison doesn't do it, prohibiting more goods and services doesn't do it.
The real problem is both the repubs and dems think criminalizing more things so more ordinary citizens will go to jail will actually make a difference. It won't. They may jail them using different abridgements of rights, but it really doesn't matter much.
Right now we are suffering much like Mexico, where gangsters and cartels have backfilled behind laws with black markets. We need to figure out how to improve parent quality and mainstream the disenfranchised. Criminalizing behaviors and building more prisons doesn't do it.
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