Every sentence Obama utters has a noun, a verb and the word "hope" or "change."

Clinton Crusader

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Wed Feb-20-08 05:03 PM
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Every sentence Obama utters has a noun, a verb and the word "hope" or "change."

Sometimes I have to wonder whether Barack Obama is running for the presidency or trying for the 'Evangelist Of The Year' trophy. Others speculate about the unquestioning, cult-like nature of Obama's support and also the weirdness factor of the Obama campaign.

Sophisticated commentary now notes the growing creepiness of the Obama campaign: It's aversion to substantive policy discussions. The sermonizing -- "In the face of despair, we believe there can be hope." And the messianic bit -- "At this moment in the election there is something happening in America." (That would be he.) Volunteer trainees at Camp Obama are told not to talk issues with voters, but to offer personal testimony about how they "came" to Obama or just keep repeating hope, change, believe. Makes the skin crawl.

I would have to note that people who relentlessly scrutinize Hillary Clinton under a microscope and fault her if she says the sun is shining (their question -- Does she hate the night because it is dark and she is against the dark because she is a racist?) give Barack Obama (and his wife) a free pass on everything, no matter WHAT they say. If anyone posts one of Obama's direct quotes (along with the link to the quote), one is being mean and unfair to Barack, and negative. Don't DARE question! Are you a racist or something? They keep beating up Hillary over her HUSBAND'S NAFTA history. But deftly avoiding the fact that Obama voted
FOR NAFTA. http://tinyurl.com/29rovu -- http://tinyurl.com/2qn59q

When one tries to discuss Obama's past record in the Illinois state senate or his non-record in the U.S. Senate, the Obama supporters will say they LIKE the idea that he is "unencumbered" by any Washington experience. Well, I would have to say that is a first in presidential politics. Even John F. Kennedy to whom Obama is routinely compared, and said to be the reincarnation of, had a 14-year long stint in Congress before running for the presidency. True, Abraham Lincoln did not have a long recored in Washington, but PLEASE do not tell me Barack Obama is the new Abraham Lincoln -- he is not.

As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama did NOT fight to bring universal health care to the residents of Illinois, and he is NOT fighting now to bring universal health care to all Americans. While a state senator in Illinois, Barack Obama CAVED to the insurance lobbyists who loved him so much for his surrender that they gave freely to his campaign when he ran for the U.S. Senate, hoping and expecting he would do them the same favors there. And he has. He is leaving 15 million people off the rolls of those who would have health care insurance under his plan. His starting point leaves out 15 million Americans; by the time Obama would get through the necessary negotiations, the number of Americans with health care insurance would be reduced some more -- in order to please Obama's lobbyist friends (who are now serving as his campaign staff advisors). See "No Ban on Lobbyists as Advisers for Obama" at: http://tinyurl.com/3dht9k

And, there is this ...Lobbyists praised Obama for taking the insurance industry's concerns into consideration ... Obama later watered down the bill after hearing from insurers.. Obama also collected money from the insurance industry and its lobbyists for his successful US Senate campaign in 2004. http://tinyurl.com/2mze5u

While it is true that Barack Obama says he is against the Yucca Mountain Project for storing the nation's nuclear waste, it is also true that one of his most generous backers is Exelon CEO John Rowe (the second-largest contributor to Obama's presidential campaign). Exelon executives and employees have given $161,000 to Obama's presidential bid. He's received an additional $86,000 since 1998 from Exelon's political action committee, employees and predecessor, Commonwealth Edison. Obama got money from the company in his 1998 bid for the Illinois state Senate and for his failed 2000 congressional campaign. Exelon also donated to Obama's PAC and his successful 2004 U.S. Senate bid.

As of Feb. 5, 2008, Obama has collected at least $222,000 from Exelon Corporation executives and employees for his presidential campaign. Maybe that's why Obama didn't bring up Yucca Mountain during his big public rally in Las Vegas in February. http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/7509662.html

Exelon Corp. is the nation's largest NUCLEAR power operator.

Here was Obama campaigning in 2003 and 2004 -- long AFTER the Iraq war started (March 2003) -- saying he would NOT have voted to fund the war. Of course we now know he later went on to vote FOR every Iraq war funding bill Hillary did. Obama talks one way, votes the other. The Boston Globe reported on March 22, 2007: As a candidate for his Senate seat in 2003 and 2004, Obama said repeatedly that he WOULD HAVE voted AGAINST an $87 billion war budget that had been requested by President Bush.

"When I was asked, 'Would I have voted FOR the $87 billion,' I said 'NO,' " Obama said in a speech before a Democratic community group in suburban Chicago in November 2003. "I said 'no' UNEQUIVOCALLY because, at a certain point, we HAVE to say no to George Bush. If we keep on getting steamrolled, we're not going to stand a chance." Yet Obama HAS voted FOR ALL of the president's WAR FUNDING requests since coming to the Senate, and is poised to vote in favor of the latest request when it comes to the Senate floor this spring. Liberal groups
have demanded that lawmakers cut off funds for the war as a way to force its end, but Obama has joined most Democrats in the House and Senate in saying he would not take such a move. http://tinyurl.com/2cjnxb

Later that spring, May 24, 2007, BOTH Obama and Hillary voted "no" on additional Iraq war funding. http://tinyurl.com/2fmr2v

Calling the Obama campaign a "movement" is just silly. Barack Obama is running for president and is doing his best to attract supporters. There is no "movement" here. The civil rights movement was a "movement"; this is a presidential campaign and nothing more.

Obama is not the black Messiah. He is not the black Abraham Lincoln. He is not the black Thomas Jefferson. And he is not the black JFK. Obama is who he is -- a guy running for the presidency, nothing more and nothing
less.

Barack Obama cannot just say,"Change!" and the culture in Washington will change. (Obama didn't change the culture in the Illinois state legislature when he was there, did he?). Obama's talks at rallies are starting to sound reminiscent of Joe Biden's description of Rudy Giuliani's (to paraphrase): Every sentence Obama utters has a noun, a verb and the word "hope" or "change."

I get the creeps when Obama says, ""We are the ones we've been waiting for." Is he kidding? Are the Obama supporters The Chosen Ones and the rest of us are the damned, and on our way to Hell? This is beginning to sound like the Rapture talk most of us have scoffed at for years. As Obama supporter Kathleen Geier says to fellow Obama supporters, "Get a grip..."

The supporters take on the personality of the candidate. Obama supporters in here are the most insulting, immature children I've seen. They insult everyone and anyone who doesn't agree with them, curse them out, hijack threads and the like. Frankly, I think most of them are repukes/freepers who just came here to cause disruption/trouble within the party and make sure the empty suit reigns. McCain can beat this guy by not even showing up. Your behavior is pushing people away, and making people not want to vote for this guy. By extension, you are making people dislike, and even hate him. The Obamaites are like a pack of wolves screaming everyone into submission who doesn't agree with them, therefore making it appear that there are more of them than anyone else. Mob mentality. It's like the LA riots on paper.

You should all take a step back and take a look at yourselves and your hideous behavior, the way you curse at people, belittle people, laugh at people, simply because they don't agree with you and your wacked out sense of worship. Would you empty your bank accounts, quit your jobs, sell your houses?

Don't stop repeating BELIEVE, cause Tinkerbell will die is you don't.