Thanks to NPR, I'm now a well-informed citizen of the USA, and I'm confident that my military and Pakistan's military are completely cricket, and I'm thankful that honest liberals like Juan Williams have explained to me how Barack Obama is an empty suit.

I like it when you let your own thoughts and words stand out on occasion. More, sir!

Cheers,

Mr Obama's beliefs are his own. But are these the things we want our Presidents to sort-of excuse? Imagine if you will any other scenario where the President had an odd acquaintance, a mentor even and that person advocated revolution, literally, grab an M-16 and kill people revolution. Or racial separation, or burkhas, or any number of other things that go against what we generally conceive of as the American experience. It's wonderful that we live somewhere where people are permitted to espouse those ideas if we like. But that's not the same thing as seeking out the wildest most extremist views and embracing them because you believe that's the way to be inclusive.

Once I read a particular sentence in that speech, I knew that none of the rest of it mattered.

Once I read, "I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible," I knew that Barak Obama suffers from the same American exceptionalism, exclusion and tunnel-vision that has cut the country off at its knees for decades now.

What he thinks about race doesn't matter to me anymore now that I know that his rhetoric about re-engaging with the rest of the world is hollow. No, only in America - not Canada, Australia, Great Britain, France, Germany - could a multi-racial family come to be, from which a dark-skinned member could achieve success.

Only in America.

(PS Mr. Obama, please have one of your staff fact-check Michaelle Jean, just for starters. Oh, and she went to Canada as a refugee from one of the poorest countries on earth.)

I turned it off when he said that the reason we attacked Iraq is because of Islamo-fascism.

My regrets. At least some people won't die of an 'early age'....

I said that after reading my own X-ray-bone scan, yesterday.

I gotta go now to get a technician, more skilled than me.

He shot some nuke'a'head dye into me and pricked me.

boo huh.

sigh. Peace.

Immortality.

Obama's "riveting, provocative, insightful, thoughtful and courageous" speech underscores the whole problem with the Illinois Senator and his supporters - and it's not those ridiculous explanations of his close and personal relations with the political pariah Tony Rezko (Barack is, after all, just another Chicago pol, which will become horrifyingly apparent when we all stop swooning).

Race. America hasn't dealt with it, is still conflicted about it, still (although less loudly) practices its despicable politics. All of liberal white America blithely assumed that every American was as progressive as they felt themselves to be("It's like we have a black friend" - Bill Maher) and did not take into account the banality of the American psyche and the general populace's Barney Lunchbucket brand of looking at the racial divide. We're not ready for a black president - not by a long shot. It's a shame we're not, but there it is. And when you put up a black candidate whose inexperience and questionable background can be used as polite excuses for switching parties (think about those "Reagan Democrats") then you've created a landslide for a party that has no business with another four years in the White House. John Paul Stevens deserved better.

I don't believe you. If you visit the pope, ask him to say a Hail Mary?

A Our Father? You are a Walking dead?

-- GoodCelery!

So? I never believe you. You are hiding your crimes?

I knew answering you was a waste of time. You want to justify the empire; I reject it. The popes had people of my belief killed for a thousand years, I doubt I'll be seeing the present pope.

Thirty-four thousand doctors have left Iraq. Two-thousand doctors and nurses have been killed. No health care system...

Electricity? Water? Fuel? "Living conditions are dire." Red Cross.

Cheney visits Baghad and praises war efforts; Bombs kill....

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Wa/Po by Joshua Partlow and Peter Baker. Yea. Yup. Nice GOP?

bucky1

My regrets. At least some people won't die of an 'early age'....

I said that after reading my own X-ray-bone scan, yesterday.

I gotta go now to get a technician, more skilled than me.

He shot some nuke'a'head dye into me and pricked me.

boo huh.

sigh. Peace.

Immortality.

-- GoodCelery!

This is exactly the opposite of the last post you sent my way.

I give up. I'll say peace to you and good luck. But I do not understand you.

b1

Every time I read or hear some pundit's concern about the risk Obama is taking in speaking frankly about race, or expecting great things from the American people, or treating voters like adults, I cheer and long for more.

The more Obama risks, the more he will achieve.

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk."

---- Herodotus

All of liberal white America blithely assumed that every American was as progressive as they felt themselves to be("It's like we have a black friend" - Bill Maher)

-- Factoidus

Millionaire TV show host, Bill Maher, represents "All of liberal white America" in your world? A rather "blithe" assumption, dontcha think?

Mr Obama's beliefs are his own. But are these the things we want our Presidents to sort-of excuse? Imagine if you will any other scenario where the President had an odd acquaintance, a mentor even and that person advocated revolution, literally, grab an M-16 and kill people revolution. Or racial separation, or burkhas, or any number of other things that go against what we generally conceive of as the American experience.

I must have been napping. When did Jeremiah Wright morph into Comrade Cinque?

Cheers,