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Posted By MyWayOnNow 1 year 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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blurry123891 year ago
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Candida1 year ago
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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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ETproductions1 year ago
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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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Aotearoa1 year ago
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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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krp01511 year ago
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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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Mdiar1 year ago
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Actually, the President is under no legal obligation to disclose a thing to run for President unless it is added to the United States Constitution, which clearly states the qualifications to run. To add qualifications to be President of the United States would be illegal unless done through the Constitution. The same goes for Senators. Not necessarily true of other offices in government, though.
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jordan111 year ago
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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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Mdiar1 year ago
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None, he doesn't know what he's talking about. It takes an amendment to the US Constitution to alter the requirements to be, or run for, President. Now, ballot access in certain states may insist on this, which is a different story. However, if they do then you can be certain that Obama would not be on the ballot there and McCain wouldn't be on the ballot in Texas as pay-back from the Democratic Party.
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For federal employment at something below a Constitutionally defined job he may be right. But the President, or a nominee, doesn't have those obligations.
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Mdiar1 year ago
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I'm sorry, but whatever statute or law may say is trumped by the Constitution. Here are the requirements under the United States Constitution:
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No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
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Mdiar1 year ago
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http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_th...
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For his birth announcement and a confirmed certificate, even the state of Hawaii says its valid. -
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tehranchik1 year ago
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http://fightthesmears.com/
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You'll find a copy of his birth certificate along with other items of interest.
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lbrtyordeath1 year ago
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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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Om1 year ago
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chuck-the-canuck1 year ago
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bluebirdwatcher11 year ago
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Goppy1 year ago
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Even Colin Powell has said he finds the hatred being fomented by McCain towards Obama is deplorable.
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Are you saying Colin Powell ... the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Bush Administration is not accustomed to reason?
Here's a quote for you ...
Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time. ~Bertrand Russell-
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bluebirdwatcher11 year ago
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Colin Powell does not comment on this blog. Colin Powell hears what he wants to hear from the McCain Campaign. Everyone listening to either campaign views comments made by the candidates through their own biases or experiences in life. This is common sense!
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Candida1 year ago
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bluebirdwatcher1: "Colin Powell hears what he wants to hear from the McCain Campaign."
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Why would Colin Powell, a Republican, soldier, faithful government official in a Republican Administration, and an old friend of John McCain have a Democratic bias? Is there just a slight possibility that he finds the McCain campaign negative because it is?
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Spadecaller1 year ago
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What an absurd question you ask after depicting all respondents who are "non-republican" as hateful and ignorant...
To comment on your perceptive abilities after such a bigoted comment, is certainly understandable. IF I believed that all Republicans were hateful idiots and then shared that opinion, should I expect a warm reception?
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bluebirdwatcher11 year ago
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Maybe my comment seemed bigoted (a person who holds blindly and intolerantly to a particular creed, opinion, etc.) but I can be persuaded otherwise, by some responses in the future. Maybe I should have said that I felt some that have indicated their support for Obama have been vitriolic in their response to supporters of McCain.-
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chuck-the-canuck1 year ago
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“Maybe I should have said that I felt some that have indicated their support for Obama have been vitriolic in their response to supporters of McCain.”
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And rightly so.
The McCain/Palin campaign, has highlighted everything that is wrong with the current political climate in America. Because of McCain’s inability to articulate any reasonable solutions to the current dilemmas that face America, he has resorted to the Rovian method, of attacking your opponents strengths. This has been a tried and true tactic of the republican party in previous elections. It has been successful, primarily because it is targeted at the abysmally informed, lowest common denominator, the republican base.
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amervtrn1 year ago
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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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lbrtyordeath1 year ago
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Ok. So McCain is 72 years old. Nearing the end of the average life-expectancy. He has ALSO had four bouts with cancer. The chances that he might die within the next four or eight years are VERY LARGE.
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He has chosen an INCREDIBLY inexperienced VP nominee.
And you say the last thing we need at this time is an ameteur?
I wan't necessarily THAT worried about a McCain President, but A President Palin scares the living HELL out of me.
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LumFan1 year ago
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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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Skeptic1 year ago
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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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Bacalao1 year ago
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no the " liberal press" investigated him because he was for the most part, mostly thanks tho John Sidney McCain III, the subject of the last debate. I'm sorry but if someone, an unknown, is referenced as much as J.S.M III mentioned him during a debate i would want to know at least if he was who he says he is.
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automan9091 year ago
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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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Eagle_Eye1 year ago
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"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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Candida1 year ago
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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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amervtrn1 year ago
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Right now it is tearing the hell out of the Europeans. The cost are out of hand, the service is terrible. If you don't believe it turn on the German, British, or French Television news and listen. It is a war worse than the post on this site.
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sumptuousdigs1 year ago
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Wake up America. Socialism never worked anywhere else and it won't work here either. Naughtoman, There are a few million folks in Sweden that might disagree with you on that. They don't seem to be loading up the boats and heading for our shores....Lol!
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Mdiar1 year ago
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Decided to confirm things like Sweden, for instance, with a friend of mine from the region in question.
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In general, from my (ongoing) conversation with him, it seems like the term "progressive" would be a better fit for Scandinavia. It has socialist communities and a good variety of socialist parties, but its not true socialism. Its progressive, which might very well be described as socialism lite (in the same way it can be called capitalism lite as well, just depends on how one sees it). But its far from full-blown anything, though it is among the most leftist areas of Europe. From what I've seen of political charts, this makes sense. Most of the Scandinavian countries seem to be down the center on whether left/right whereas pretty much the rest of the West is center-right.-
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Ratskii1 year ago
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Mdiar, I think the word, 'socialism,' has two major, different meanings. The one the cons like to use refers to the government owning the major means of production (which they support if the government is republican). The other is populist socialism, which basically means the government and the people have mutual responsibilities. One of the responsibilities of the government is to try and raise the standard of living for the people.
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Mdiar1 year ago
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I have to disagree. As you said, one of the responsibilities of government is to raise the standard of living for people. A variety of paths can be taken to this goal. In fact, the very idea behind free-market liberalism was to break a rigid class-structure and promote the common-good based on innovation and hard-work. Progressive ideology tends to sit in the center and occupies a broad expanse of economic territory, unlike socialism or laissez-faire capitalism, each of which occupies a fairly narrow sliver of economic terrain.
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Just because a government is actively working to promote ideas that they think can raise the standard of living for all and create a degree of economic equality does not make it any form of socialism... it just makes it a good government.
I really only bring this up because I'm sick of every single idea to enact a positive change in government is branded "socialism", which carries a negative connotation. The Republicans did it with single-payer health-care as far back as Truman and are still doing it now. Regulation isn't socialism, single-payer isn't socialism, affordable college isn't socialism and a country isn't "socialist" just because a government took control of a few companies.
Not to jump on you at all, but I consider it a myth that government which actively pursues the raising of the middle-class and a degree of economic equality is socialist. Socialism is clearly defined and what I just described above sounds alot more like Theodore Roosevelt's progressive ideology to me.
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Alohalani1 year ago
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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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BWM020621 year ago
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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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