There are so many other things they could be focusing on with Obama and I don’t understand why they are not - I guess they are leaving that up to the Republicans once the Democratic nomination is made.

I am way more bothered by his Church’s mission statement - which he has been a member of for a long time. Here is the website. http://www.tucc.org/about.htm Do your research-this has been confirmed to be his church. Just imagine if a white politician belonged to a church that said these same things, except just replace the word black with the word white - I would be the first one picketing in front of the white house if they had someone like that running for President today. And I would absolutely think he is a dangerous White Supremeist - So how am I supposed to feel when Obama’s church says those things??

Or Obama’s OWN WORDS of his Spiritual Journey and his Mother’s influence and teachings. Here is a piece of that article found on page 4 of the article:

(4 of 11)
“For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness. This isn’t to say that she provided me with no religious instruction. In her mind, a working knowledge of the world’s great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology. On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.” You can find the full article here:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1546579-1,00.html There are other issues he talks about here too like abortion etc.

I don’t know, there are several things in this article that I have to say I agree with, they make sense and are enlightening and intelligent. But at the same time, I feel we as a society are losing our religion and morals quickly and it is evident when you look at the behavior and attitudes of our society.

We DO need something to stand for and believe in again - but I’m just not so sure if a President that our young Hip Hop and American Idol generation are so readily jumping on board with, many not knowing hardly anything about him, is the answer.

So I don’t know, his church coupled with some of his background and his seemingly conscious actions of not showing respect for the National Anthem (and TRUST me, he knows better-I think this was a deliberate statement, just like the flag pin thing), his wife’s comments about her pride in America and her Harvard thesis about her relationship with whites, his church’s affiliation with Farrakhan who just came out and endorsed him (although I am sure this was against Obama’s wishes because he knows that WON’T help him). These things are way more important than him doing what all other politicians do by wearing the traditional garb or by a phrase he uses that a friend of his said first or his name!

His idea of wanting to sit down with terrorists and talk to them - he is a good speaker, but somehow I don’t think he will be able to talk the Extreme Islamic’s out of thinking that we are the infidels. They don’t think we are the infidels just because of our foreign policies - they do not like our WESTERN ways of life because THEY ARE COMPLETELY DRIVEN BY THEIR EXTREME ISLAMIC RELIGION AND BELIEFS - that is their law, their constitution and what they are very willing to die for. I don’t think you can “change their mind” on that.

Anyway - we will see. I am looking forward to the debate tonight. I am still undecided on who I will vote for. I want to get excited about Obama-I really do, I want to feel comfortable backing him and I want a fresh new change in Washington too - but some of the above things really bother me. Everyone keeps trying to make those concerns racist and I disagree - if Colin Powell were running - there would be NO QUESTION about him and his background!! His background speaks for itself.

http://www.geeskaafrika.com/ethiopia_31aug06.htm

Your reading comprehension skills appear to rival your talent for wordplay. I said that the people who type in all caps and hurl admonitions about “wake up, america”, (usually followed by several exclamation points) are too stupid to respire and vote.

Also people who use the word “muslin” and “mooseslims”, etc.

I’m expanding that observation to include anyone who uses or believes in the word or concept of “antichrist”, believes that the Obama campaign is a terrorist sleeper cell, that there is a hidden significance to his name being one letter off from “Osama’ or that his middle name is Hussein, or that Bill and Hillary Clinton had numerous people killed.

At any rate, thanks for keeping the Cletus (the slack-jawed yokel) factor high on here. The only thing lacking at this point is someone’s rambling diatribe about how it’s all tied to the Freemasons or Bohemian Grove or Skull and Bones, etc.

It’s all here, the panoply of right (and some left) wing weirdness, including the incorrect assertion that this country was founded on Christian principles (along with the suggestion that there be some sort of religious test to hold the office of president…hello? Article VI, Section 3. anyone remember that? ), and that the constitution erected a wall of separation between church and state.

Finally, I have money that says you have no faint clue who Thomas Paine was.

Wonderful stuff. You can’t buy entertainment like this, but it’s free on the internet.

People who oppose BHO are “Too stupid to respire”? How stupid is that comment?

Past people who have gained power through hypnosis eventually cause trouble, for others or for themselves. I agree with others who say, America beware. Barack Hussein Obama’s charisma has suspicious origins.

Here’s the trouble with Obama’s hypnotic technique. Some, such as Hitler and Osama, use their charms to get people to do bad things. Others whip people up for good ends, but still that hysteria can lead to assassinations. Politicians need to be real–and OBAMA ISN’T REAL. Even Michelle Obama said, don’t turn Barack into a deity, because deities are eventually knocked down. (That’s what happened to MLK, Malcolm X, and others.) We do not know Obama yet, and I’m afraid that it will not be pretty when we find out…

No one worships Hillary–but those who support her know that she can get the job done. This is not a beauty pageant. It’s not reality tv. It actually is reality, and it’s the future generations who we are gambling with if we vote without using our minds. A vote for Hillary is a vote for your own well-being, and that of your children, and children’s children.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7265115.stm

I’m not an Obama supporter, but I do care about the sources of my information.

The same thing goes for anyone who uses the word “Antichrist” or “Muslin” or “Moooooslim”.

The first few pages were funny as hell, then it just got pathetic.

If people like you are the legacy of the Founders, they would be sorry to know that they truly pissed away their lives. For the American ideal to end up in the clumsy hands and empty heads as yours is criminal and should induce sorrow in any thinking person who truly loves this country.

http://www.geeskaafrika.com/ethiopia_31aug06.htm

A canidate or politician who dons foreign garb as a good will gesture DOES raise eye brows…… IF that American public figure is of a foreign background, aliegns with foreign countries, as claiming to be African 1st and American 2nd and with faith based ties to a religious group, that has sects that want AMERICANS DEAD.

Some Americans are TRUE Americans by CLAIMING to be Americans.

Others, _______(fill in the blank with a foreign country) - Americans….
pledge their American allegience ………. SECONDLY.

I want a REAL Amercian for our PRESIDENT.

Some of you ignorant people could save yourself a lot of emotional trauma if you could learn to just check your facts, quit believing everything that a chain email from your Great Aunt Fanny passes along as fact, and stop being too lazy to USE your brain for something besides grey matter to fill your cranium. ( psst…they even have websites for political fact-checking now; that is, if you’re not too stupid or lazy to seek them out).

This country is in big trouble. And NOT just from the politicians. Ignorance and dependence on the government will be this country’s undoing, NOT Hillary, Barack or John. The complete ignorance in some of these posts is as infuriating as it is unbelievable.

http://www.youcanrant.com/play.php?vid=297