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[...] Michelle Obama Takes on Hill & Bill [...]

By: CynthiaS

CynthiaS — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:45:06 +0000

I will never forget the shock of hearing the Lewinski story on the day the news broke, nor the stun of hearing Hillary Clinton defending her husband and denying the plausibility of it, which she initially did. Having naively believed her to be the beleaguered and forgiving wife of a man whose emotional development had been seriously arrested, I suddenly realized she was rather a liar for whom marriage was just a business partnership. Nothing they have done since has dissuaded me from this view. Perhaps the only thing that could restore in me the smallest modicum of respect for them would be their departure from public life to go away and take care of their problems. Their admirers are deceived. Wake up, Democrats. Vote Obama.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:10:21 +0000

Obama’s team did NOT pull the race card after Hillary’s Martin Luther King comment. She said it, and some African American leaders were offended. I know it might be hard for people like Steve to tell black folk apart, but I defy anyone to show Barack Obama calling Hillary or anyone a racist.

By: baley

baley — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:53:18 +0000

Ely, thanks for your thorough analyses. I dont understand why some people do not understand the strategy clintons been using. They intentionally trigger racial motive so that the people would be emotionally divided in such a way to secure a majority white vote. It is unluikely at this stage they use such a 20th century to just win the Whitehouse. Do Americans so blind to think that Clinton who spent nearly 10years in the senate with out any negating foreign (homeland) policy to the Bush adminstration would bring any change!

By: Unbias6547

Unbias6547 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:34:02 +0000

It is funny how everyone is getting into the politics of mudslinging. I find it amusing to see how desparation has brought the true character of the nominees. To be REAL, politics is a dirty game of lies and misconseption. All of them have something dirty and have alterior motives that differ from ours but we as a people have to decide on the best of evils and pick what we can live with. There is no one, even Jesus, that can please everyone.

To get the facts right Obama did not bash Clinton but only said what every other democratic nominee, and most everybody, said about Hillary. She is a political powerhouse with all the virtues and vices thus functions no different than what we had seen in washington for the last 12years. At first Clinton was so confident the she will win so she did not response to it but after losing in Iowa she got desparate and showed what she really like. What Obama and Edwards brought to the table was something new and that is why they beat her there. They touch on what American wants. They are in touch with the American people but Hillary is not. Hillary may have experience but what she brings to the table is what the average American is tried of. I know I am. In fact, her change in tactics has expose her true colors, SHE WILL DO ANYTHING GET BACK INO THE WHITE HOUSE regadless of who she destroys to get there. I personally find that very scary! I actually back her before but now I have to watch more closely. Please remember that they are all human and capable of failing us all again but we can not continue to do the same thing and expect different result. Lets give hope and change a chance. Moreover may the best “person” win!

By: stephen

stephen — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:57:50 +0000

i think the Clintons should have shame atleast,this is all about the aiowa win for Obama,now that they see poeple are responding to Obama they decide to get dirty;i just lost the respect i once had for Bill.if Hillary can’t run her own show,how do you expect her to be in chabge in the white house;GO OBAMA,you far too smart for them….we need you…

By: Jon Cox

Jon Cox — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:29:02 +0000

Gee the Clintons mud sling. I think the Dems. need to wake up the Clintons are hiding in bushes and picking through the trash. Hillary is fond of mentioning Obama inexperence ok then explain why you and a former president are have such difficulty dipatching him. The answer is hiliary is un-electable.

By: Ely Dorsey

Ely Dorsey — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:15:33 +0000

It appears to me that we seem to be missing a key point about what the Clintons have done: race-baiting. It does not matter that they have had some sort of positive relationship with African Americans in the past, it matters that they have stooped to casting Obama as a race candidate. With this done, the hidden obverse is that Clinton is also a race candidate for White folk. The message is “vote for me because he’s Black and I’m White.” It is an appeal to what is darkest in the American soul. I was a Clinton supporter until this. I thought that she had some good things to bring to the White House and that the country would be in good hands. I saw her husband as a respectable counselor and aide. But now with this race ugliness that the Clintons have exploited, I have changed my mind. I will be voting for Obama. I like his wife and family. He has been remarkably restrained in his retorts to the Clinton negative campaign. Yes, he has hit back. But I can see it in his face that he does not enjoy it nor approve of it. Hillary on the other hand seems to relish it. Her husband clearly is enjoying it. I cannot vote for a team that enjoys race-baiting. I simply cannot do that.

By: Thom Knight

Thom Knight — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:01:20 +0000

I absolutely agree with Steve. The position of the United States of America is to be filled with the most competent candidate based on merits. If we use “race” when it is convenient, and start adopting double standards based on race, it becomes extremely difficult for this country to move past that issue.

We all have equal rights in this country. If we all treasure and promote that belief and practice it consistently, there is no need to bring “race” into any issue to gain advantage or win points.

Compete fairly. Don’t use race to win emotional votes. Don’t present yourself as a victim when there has been no crime. Don’t accuse others of committing a crime that you are also equally guilty of.

By: Marie Devine

Marie Devine — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:32:40 +0000

Life is Easier Than We Are Making It

I’ve been hoping some candidate would embrace real change, one that would really solve world problems and prevent future ones. So far, the Democrats and Republican have ignored real change. What they are offering is only a change in leadership.

The goal is not employment; it is retirement in a garden paradise. That solves world problems of global warming fears, pollution, wars,
famine, poverty, boder disputes, diseases, equality, true social security and true freedom.

If we started today to turn toward making a garden paradise of edible landscaping and useful pets for fresh unpolluted foods for healthy
bodies, it would be a very short time when all our dreams would come true.

The goal is a garden of Eden, remember? God really does have solutions to problems we created by ignoring His wisdom. See Leviticus 26 to know the past, the present and the future according to the world of God.

Marie Devine