Letters to the Editor
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Obama has not changed his position....
Unless, of course, you fail to see the obvious similarity between the following 2 statements -
Obama in the survey you mentioned from last year:
"If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election."
Obama to Russert in last Tuesday's debate:
"If I am the nominee, then I will sit down with John McCain and make sure that we have a system that is fair for both sides, because Tim, as you know, there are all sorts of ways of getting around these loopholes."
Sorry - but this whole thing seems like selective, lazy journalism to me - "agressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee..." and "I will sit down with John McCain..." sounds like the same thing to me - I don't see what "pledge" has been broken here.
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@ Ian Teapot More excuses for Obama
Your statement that he is surrogate for the Clintons is a load of crap. Sean Wilentz is a respected journalist and a Professor of History at Princeton University. Wilentz earned one B.A. at Columbia University in 1972, before earning another at Oxford University on a Kellett Fellowship, and his Ph.D. at Yale University. His book The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, received the Bancroft Prize in 2006 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
These seem like a lot better credentials then the "journalists" on CNN who are all in the tank for Obama. Oh, I forgot, Obama supporters don't care about credentials.
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A few words from Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank, that being permitted to speak truth, as having none above it to court or conform until. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."
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Obama and McCain
are in two very different situations. McCain is lawyered up because he has serious issues with the FEC and those creative loans he got. Obama is NOT the nominee - and even if he he does eventually get the nomination, that won't happen until the summer. He can easily raise a lot of money BEFORE (and if) he becomes the nominee.
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Military Baby Mc Cain
QUOTE: The Albany Kid,
...someone at Salon should do a piece on whether McCain (who was born in the Panama Canal Zone) meets the Constitution's "natural born citizen" requirement to be the POTUS. For more info, see
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Obama Camp is making this an issue? Let's see, war hero was even born on a military base to a legendary military naval family, whose lineage can be traced back to revolutionary times. In WWII his grandfather and father fight on to defend their country...
Then Military Base born baby grows up, and goes on to serve his country. Serves during war time, is shot down, becomes a prisoner of war for five and half years and comes back to serves his country again in public service. Oh, did I miss the part of him always being proud of his country even when a POW...
Obama needs to stick to complaining (his tactic against BIG MEAN HILLARY) so that the media can continue to protect him, because ATTACKING, yes ATTACKING an AMERICAN HERO is not going to work!
FYI The Albany Kid:U.S. military bases are considered to be American soil.
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@heathen Bias
I don't see how being both literate and published removes one from claims of being biased. But then I tend to see everyone as biased about something. Hamilton and Jefferson were certainly biased, disagreed strongly at times, and remain our Founding Fathers.
But I think that you are hearing what you want to hear about Obama's campaign pledge, rather than what he has actually said. Obama is not going to unconditionally enter into a suicide pact:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Under a draft proposal released Thursday by the Federal Election Commission, Sen. Barack Obama would be allowed to raise private funds for the 2008 presidential general election while keeping open the option of returning that money should he later decide to accept public funding
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/02/fec-may-allow-obama-to-preserve-public.html
will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.
http://www.midwestdemocracynetwork.org/templates/media/MDNPresidentialQuestionnaire.pdf
Finally, I've thought CNN had a Clinton bias, and that MSBNC now has an Obama bias. But that's my bias for you.
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McCain, not a "War Hero" at all.
McCain *was* shot down and captured, but the rest of the story is not established. We don't really know if and how he was tortured, what he did or didn't tell his captors. There are other "Hanoi Hilton" prisoners who have some very uncomplimentary things to say about McCain's "heroic resistance."
On top of that, I don't consider dropping bombs to require anything like the kind of courage a ground soldier needs.
And then there's the usually ignored point that dropping bombs on civilians isn't heroic, but evil.
Let's leave the phrase "War Hero" to those who put their lives on the line to save their comrades, or who actually do something heroic. At the most, John McCain was stubborn enough to do what any decent soldier would do, not tell the enemy our secrets.
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McCain: Hero No More
Obama is not changing the face of American Politics...The American People are, for in this great nation, it is the people who have the power...when they choose to use it.
The American People want change, renewal and the restoration of our good name and our great promise which has been sullied by the current administration, virtually every Republican, and most Democrats in Washington...The American People are awakening...an unstoppable political revolution has been born by True Patriots who believe in protecting Our Constitution from the thieves of Liberty who enacted the "Patriot Act."
John McCain...now supports torture...after being a war prisoner himself...he has sold his soul to blind self-serving ambition...he is a hero no more. His values, like advocating water boarding, are too vulgar to mention to children, and his sarcastic, snide, and false political comments about Democrats are un-Christian. Its sad to see what a monster Washington can make out of a once decent man...Americans, keep your children and our future away from his blood stained hands.
Of all the political candidates,I have only heard Obama say, "I pray to Jesus Christ," and like Christ, he is attacked by the "Religious Right" for his Light. Shame and woe to McCain and his blasphemous followers.