50 things you should know about Barack Obama »
Posted By MyWayOnNow 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News1. Barack Obama's father was a black Kenyan and his mother was a white Kansas native. The two met while attending the University of Hawaii.
2. Mr. Obama grew up in Hawaii and lived in Indonesia for a few years. From age 10 on, he lived with his maternal grandparents in a Honolulu apartment.
3. He admits that as a teenager, he used drugs such as marijuana and cocaine to cope with questions of racial identity.
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blurry123898 months, 3 weeks ago
AMERICANS WE NEED TO VOTE WITH OUR HEADS AND THINK WHICH CANDIDATE WILL PUT US IN A DEEPER RECESSION OR DEPRESSION. THE CHOICE IS SO CLEAR ONE HAS EXPERIENCE THE OTHER NEEDS ON THE JOB TRAINING.
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Candida8 months, 3 weeks ago
blurry12389,
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Yes, Americans should use their heads when deciding for whom they will vote, but could somebody enlighten me why anybody should care about the things that are on the list? How does it affect the US that Obama's daughters want a dog, for example, or that his wife is almost 6' tall in heels? The list sounds more like the answers for the next edition of Trivial Pursuit than things voters need to consider. -
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ETproductions8 months, 3 weeks ago
So your solution to putting the country back on track is to vote for McSame, who said out of his own lips that he supported more than 90% of Bush's policies. You're planning to do the same thing for 4 more years certain that this time you will get a different result. Albert Einstein defined insanity as, "Ddoing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
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Aotearoa8 months, 3 weeks ago
thanks for the info. blurry, It just got me thinking that one is so friendly with lobbyists and one is anti lobbyist...I think the majority of American voters know who will bring real change to washington and who will keep on giving lobbyists and big corporations tax cuts and a free ride. What do you think?
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krp01518 months, 3 weeks ago
These are the items that i need to know about before I could vote for Obama.
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1. Occidental College records -- Not released
2. Columbia College records -- Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper -- "not available"
4. Harvard College records -- Not released
5. Selective Service Registration -- Not released
6. Medical records -- Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule -- "not available"
8. Law practice client list -- Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate -- Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth -- Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published -- None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None
13. Your Record of baptism-- Not released or "not available"
14. Your Illinois State Senate records--"not available"-
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jordan118 months, 3 weeks ago
Barack Obama received a Juris Doctorate (Magna *** Laude) from Harvard University in 1991. That's the extent you need to know. Magna *** Laude means "with high honor". I appreciate that Obama doesn't want strangers pouring over his personal records. And he certainly doesn't need YOU pouring over the details of his birth certificate. You ask too much. Don't vote for him. Most will, & you'll just have to live with that.
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lbrtyordeath8 months, 3 weeks ago
The man is a major party nominee for the President of the United States. All of his paperwork is in order, or he would not be allowed on the ballot. Just because LAWS dictate that YOUR puny insignificant @$$ doesn't need to see his medical records or his client list or his Selective Service registration card, doesn't mean they're being withheld.
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You are SERIOUSLY pathetic. I suspect all of these right wing nut comments will only get more and more desperate and pathetic as Election day looms closer.
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hefaa18 months, 3 weeks ago
3 things you should know about the Dallas Morning News"
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1. They endorsed John McCain for President.
2. They are in the minority of major Daily Newspapers that actually endorsed McCain. Roughly 75% of our nations major Daily Newspapers endorsed Barack Obama for President.
3. Editors of the Dallas News are too stupid to realize that Obama will win the election.-
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StevieGee8 months, 3 weeks ago
I read the list. It seems pretty accurate. Pretty much as I remember it.
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lbrtyordeath8 months, 3 weeks ago
This is only better for Obama, then. The list, in my opinion, was very straight-down-the-middle, nonpartisan, and free of all these BULLSH!T accusations by the GOP and other rabid right-wing groups.
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Don't agree with their choice for President, but good reporting, Dallas Morning News.
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Spadecaller8 months, 3 weeks ago
"All I need to know..." with that attitude you could do a lot worse ... like voting for Bob Barr, who may be running as a Libertarian, but does not subscribe to many of its tenants.
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Barr has never embraced the Libertarian platform. He is just a disenfranchised Republican and opportunist who realized that running on the Republican ticket at this time is political suicide. These are the sentiments of many Libertarians who resented his convenient conversion.
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hefaa18 months, 3 weeks ago
Right, I want a non-bias, detail source for each statement/question listed. Take your time, you can turn it in after the election.
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Goppy8 months, 3 weeks ago
Here's something else I know about Barack Obama ... he's not an adulterer .... like John McCain.
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Om8 months, 3 weeks ago
I have just two questions for Palin/McCain: Are you serious about leading the most powerful nation on earth? Why does your campaign inspire so much hatred and ignorance?
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chuck-the-canuck8 months, 3 weeks ago
"Why does your campaign inspire so much hatred and ignorance?"
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Because, they are pandering to the republican base, by speaking to them in terms that they can understand. -
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amervtrn8 months, 3 weeks ago
As I have said before it is a two way street. Racism knows no one color. There are White racist,Black racist,Brown racist, ECT. To some it is a hatred, to some it is distrust, and to others it is a tool of deceit. The last thing the USA needs at this time is an Amateur. There is no time for on the job training. More Socialist debt is definitely not what we need. Research what and who you vote for, check your resources, do not buy into the hype, think and reason for yourself. Being what one "guppy" called an old f*rt, I have already survived this type situation(Carteryears), and really shiver at the thought of having to go through it again. Therefore the inexperience definitely concerns me. The Socialist leaning is a big red flag. His record shows nothing to recommend him. Pretty words and rhetoric may soothe the soul but do nothing to solve problems.
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LumFan8 months, 3 weeks ago
This article by itself was nothing more than trivia thrown together and placed in a newspaper. A number of comments there and here tell me that there is a bit more educating that needs to be done.
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The records that kpr0151 is demanding are either available online, have been seen (thus having been released), or are confidential and would violate certain statutes if ever released in the manner that he (or she) want. I seem to remember that Obama released his medical records; all one page of them (at least John Stewart made light of it on his show).
By the way, when is John McCain going to release his birth certificate, his school records, or his medical records. And I mean that reporters need full access to them, and be able to take recording devices with them when they examine the records.-
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Skeptic8 months, 3 weeks ago
Much has been made of John McCain's placement in his class at Annapolis so either his school records have been or are availble.
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Another argument against McCain is fear that his cancer may severely disable or even kill him thus paving the way for Sarah Palin to become president. I don't know how many pages McCain's medical report contains, but one page for a 48-year old man?
Now look at how thoroughly the press has investigated "Joe-the-Plumber" just for asking a question that the liberal press has been afraid to ask..
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automan9098 months, 3 weeks ago
Obama's health care plan and his tax plan will cripple the economy and job situation in this country like nothing you have ever imagined.
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Employers forced to give health care will trim down their workforce, cut wages, and raise the cost to consumers to pay for it, and they will maintain their profits at our expense.
The same goes for their tax hike.
Wake up America. Socialism never worked anywhere else and it won't work here either.-
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Om8 months, 3 weeks ago
Socialism is working pretty well for your friends in corporate America who have redoubled their efforts to rip off the American taxpayer for the last 8 years. That's right America, wake up and send these GOP charlatans packing.
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Eagle_Eye8 months, 3 weeks ago
"Obama's health care plan and his tax plan will cripple the economy and job situation in this country like nothing you have ever imagined."
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ROFLMAO!!!!!!! Are you serious???? We have all ready been crippled the last 8 years by the Republicans and you want more of the McSame????
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Sabretooth8 months, 3 weeks ago
It's working ok in Canada, where is the proof to back your statements? Sorry, i forgot you guys make your facts up.
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Mdiar8 months, 3 weeks ago
Sorry, but that's not socialism. That progressive ideology, which is as American as apple pie. In fact, John McCain's model of conservatism was actually a progressive.
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Candida8 months, 3 weeks ago
automan909: "Obama's health care plan and his tax plan will cripple the economy...Socialism never worked anywhere else and it won't work here either."
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I don't know what you consider socialism, but universal health care works quite well in Canada and most European countries. Their economies are similar to that of the US, and they've had universal health care for decades. It also costs less than US health care. -
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amervtrn8 months, 3 weeks ago
You really should dial into their news channel and listen to them. That not the stories on their news.They are having serious problems.
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JoseMadre8 months, 3 weeks ago
We need someone who will follow the Constitution and its limits upon the Federal government. That excludes Obama and McCain.
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Alohalani8 months, 3 weeks ago
We "All" need to come together as "One Family" (AMERICAN CITIZENS) and have a "CHANGE IN OUR COUNTRY" we need someone like "BARACK OBAMA" who can do the "JOB" as "PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES". I "VOTED" for "OBAMA", and if anyone needs to see "ALL IMPORTANT PAPER'S" of "OBAMA" before "VOTING FOR HIM"....QUOTE! "IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" "STOP BEING LIKE SARAH PALIN, THE WITCH, THE BARRACUDA & PITBULL!!
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amervtrn8 months, 3 weeks ago
As I said I have seen and heard enough. Keep America Free.
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BWM020628 months, 3 weeks ago
Lets all open our eyes to what is happening to our country , we are daily loosing our freedoms through back door legislation. Soon the only true place of freedom will be between our ears! So far we have the Patriot Act, I shudder to think of what the next president will enact. STOP believing the PROPAGANDA the popular vote does not matter -- the president is elected by the electoral college in January and the electors are FREE to choose whoever they want. We as a nation need to look at the big picture - ALL the candidates are GLOBALIST working diligently to unify the world under one dictatorial government where we will have NO FREEDOM -- America the country we were raised to love is DYING!! SPEAK UP NOW!! or there will be no America to speak of. I fear that my very young children will grow up in a country where they will be put in PRISON for not agreeing with the establishment. We are sadly headed full steam into a future similar to that Germany in the early 1930s --
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