Barack Obama was born in the Summer of 1961 in Honolulu. That same summer, hundreds of "freedom riders" were beaten and bloodied in the South while demonstrating for desegregation of travel and dining facilities.
The "freedom riders" were non-violent; the opposition was not. Old white men do not give up or share power willingly. Never have, never will.
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In 1963 when Barack Obama was two years old, Martain Luther King addressed a crowd of 1,000,000 demonstraters on the mall in Washington, DC. Hundreds were beaten and arrested that day.
Again, old white men do not give up or share power willingly. Never have, never will.
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Mr. Obama has led a privileged life. He went to preps schools, and never set foot in the continental United States until he was 17 in 1979.
He missed the entire antiwar movement, the entire civil right movement, and Watergate. He missed the women's rights movement. How can he understand what people sacrificed in these movements.
He missed the vote to authorize the moron Bush to go to war in Iraq.
What can he know about the lives of ordinary people? He has never known any ordinary people.
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Would a freshman African American Senator with Presidential aspirations have really voted against authorizing Bush's war?
When the vote was called, 70% of the American people wanted to go to war, two out of three Americans thought Saddam planned 9/11. If we had found one tanker full of chemicals, or one barrel of anthrax or small pox, no one who had voted against the war would have ever been reelected.
I believe he would have voted to authorize the war just like Hilary did. It is really easy to show up after the fact and talk about what you would have done. The fact is that at every opportunity since being sworn in 2005, he has voted the same as Mrs. Clinton.
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Mr. Obama first held elected office in January of 1997.
He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, and reelected in 1998. One year into his second term, he announced he was running for congress; he was soundly defeated by Bobby Rush. He was reelected to the Illinois Senate in 2002. One year into his term, he announced he was running for the U.S Senate. He might not have won but for two fortunate events: Bill Clinton, who he now disses at every turn, tapped him to deliver the Keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention; and his opponent was forced to withdraw when his ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan, accused him of sexually abusing their daughter.
So, adding it all up, and deducting the time he was campaigning for higher office, Mr Obama has a total of four years experience in the Illinois Senate, and one and one half years of experience in the U.S. Senate.
That is less experience than George W. Bush had.
How can Obama know what he will be able to do? How can we know? He has no record to go by.
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In the last speech I saw, Mr. Obama promised to give teachers a pay raise. He also promised to move away from reliance on standardized testing for students.
That is dandy and all, but none of that is in the job description of the President. Those are State and District functions.
I then realized that like everyone else, Mr. Obama will say whatever he needs to say to get elected.
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Finally, when the entire national news media is giving Mr. Obama a figurative "reach around," and slamming Mrs. Clinton at every opportunity, something doesn't smell right.
I guess it shouldn't surprise anyone that the old white men of the national media are more threatened by a brilliant, experienced woman, than by a woefully inexperienced "sorta black" man. But the vitriol spewed forth by the women of the national media, like Andrea Mitchell, Merideth Viera, Maureen Dowd, and the rest of the "face lift queens" has amazed me. Maybe there is something to this self loathing feminine thing after all. I can't think of any other explanation. Not one man or woman has ever given me a reason for opposing Mrs. Clinton. And NO, "She's so divisive." is not a reason.
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