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• Friday, November 7, 2008 10:42 AM

  Is SALON.COM the same as BARACKOBAMA.COM?

  Some of the Obama people have criticized me sharply, and called me names, because I criticized Obama. They said that I should not be coming here to rain on their parade.

  This confuses me.

  1. Is SALON.COM synonymous with BARACKOBAMA.COM? If that is the case, then I will no longer post here. It was my impression that SALON.COM is a diverse group of people, some of whom are pro-Obama, some of whom are not.

  I would not bother to post here if it were clear that SALON.COM is the same as BARACKOBAMA.COM, and that any criticisms of Obama, no matter how valid, are strictly forbidden (and, of course, racist).

  I used to post at HuffingtonPost, but then they became an official subsidiary of OBAMA.COM, and became obscenely biased, so I stopped going there. As far as I can discern, there is no indication of intelligent life on Huffingtonpost.com, including Arianna. Apparently, her brains were eaten by cannibals.

  2. However, I continue to suspect that there are other people here who have some concerns about what or who Obama is, and who are not physically upset about viewing him critically.

  So that is why I post critical posts of Obama. That is how I personally feel. That is not because they are "talking points". I'm not involved with either party as a worker, so I don't read up on what the "talking points" are.

  But I do believe that there is a great deal in Obama's history that has not been properly vetted, and that now that he is President, it should be.

  Now that Obama is president, there is NO PART of Obama's life that is private. Sorry about that, but it comes with the job. We, the American People, have the RIGHT to know EVERYTHING about him. We have the right to know if he went to pee in the 5th grade without raising his hand. There is no privacy left for Obama. That is the nature of the presidency.

  And I am sorry, but today they were saying that Obama was going to be in a briefing to get top-secret information. But that makes me cringe. Sorry about that, but can't help cringing over that. Like, who IS this guy?

  And why is it so terribly or unreasonable to suspect that he is a moslem? His FATHER was moslem. He himself never bothered to change his moslem name of Hussein.

  It is an AMERICAN TRADITION to AMERICANIZE your family name. The Polocks did it, the Italians did it, the Jews did, even most of the Hispanics did it. Why didn't Barack Hussein Obama do it?

  OK, it's not a crime to have a Moslem name. But if you have a moslem name, like Hussein, why then do you get all bent out of shape when people think that you are a moslem? If his name was "Hymie Goldfarb", wouldn't people think that he was Jewish? Even if he SAID that he was Christian?

  And how did he not know about Ayers and Dorans past? EVERYBODY in Chicago knew about them.

  And how did he go to Wright's church twice a month for 20 years and not notice that Wright didn't like White Folks too much? That he was rather hyper-critical of the U.S. Government?

  Sorry, but now that Obama is Prez, I think that it time to really open the book on Obama's past.

  It's really the secretiveness of Obama that has been annoying. Obama will soon have his finger on the button. He will be able to destroy the planet if he gets into a bad mood, and he will be capable of bombing almost any nation on earth back into the stone age if he so chooses. We have the right to know EVERYTHING about this guy.

  And excuse me, but I'm getting really NAUSEATED with all of this Obama worship in the media. OK, so he's the first black president. That's great. But it doesn't make him a saint. His campaign was filled with so much duplicity that it would make Machiavelli blush.

  And I don't see much respect for another "firster". Joe Lieberman was the first Jewish Vice President, at least in popular votes. A lot of Jews were just as sentimental in 2000 as Jessie Jackson was on Tuesday night.

  But what do they want to do to Joe Lieberman? Throw him to the wolves because he did not want to betray Israel?

  So, Obama won. What does it mean? A few things are clear: The Bush tax cuts expire. Maybe there will be further middle class tax cuts. But what about everything else? What will be the much-touted "change" that Obama has been crowing about for 2 years?

  Will he pull out of Iraq? What happens if we pull out of Iraq and Iran pulls in the next day? What happens if Iran nukes Israel, and Israel nukes back? But everything is going to be OK because we have pulled out our troops?

  And is Obama going to spend 300 BILLION to bail out homeowners who purchased homes beyond their means? Nice of them to want me to pay for their homes. I don't like in a big house. Why should I pay somebody else's mortgage.

  Then he has to go along with the 700 billion dollar bailout, that he voted for. Otherwise we have 1929 again. Then we're going to have universal healthcare, and everyone goes to college, and we're going to bring all the jobs back to the USA, and we're going to balance the budget. Did I leave anything out?

  That's the problem with a Senator as president. They are in the business of making speeches and makeing promises. They don't have to meet payrolls and budgets, like Governors do. Like the "stupid girl" governor of Alaska.

  —Bellatrix LeStrange Read Bellatrix LeStrange's other letters
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