Positive Obama thread

I would make the trip if it didn't interfere with seeing my son as he returns home from Iraq.  He is due home anywhere between Jan 10 and Feb 15

LuAnn, I'm so happy to hear your son will be coming home soon!  I've been thinking about him, and you.  Please let him know he's in my thoughts. 

Ladysuz, where in Maryland are you?  I used to live in Silver Spring.  No family there anymore, but I still know folks in that area.

My house is a house divided.  I am Obama and husband is for McCain.  He is a member of the NRA, Palin's husband came to speak at my husband's gun club.  My understanding was Todd said 3 sentences then left.  Next thing I knew there was a McCain/Palin sign in my front yard.  I hit the roof.  Told husband that until I have an Obama sign he will have to take down the McCain sign.  He laughed at me as he took it down.    I love this thread.  

Good morning Obama supporters..........it's your Conservative Republican sister that I am sure you guys wish I would just stay on my own thread but I must jump in here about my perspective on the whole Wright, Ayers stuff...........and I am not bashing Obama believe me.......I think McCain and most of talk radio and Shawn Hannity are completely off base..........Obama came from Hawaii and then to Columbia right.......he didn't know about the south side of Chicago and those politics........and the old radical 60's people that make up that scene...........I believe that it was Michelle that introduce him to the liberal politics there in Chicago........wasn't it her that brought him into Trinity?..........that was her childhood church was it not?..............I do not believe for one second that Obama believes like the Rev. Wright nor do I believe that he thinks what Ayers did was the right thing to do I personally just think that because he didn't believe in what they were about it just didn't concern him.........he was driven to get into the state senate and in a way needed those people.......whether any one likes it or not it was people like Wright that had a huge amount of influence with people in the south side of Chicago.........of course I may be wrong but I think because Obama didn't really believe in their own radicalizm he just went about his business of being a community organizer trying to improve the public school system that he never really considered Wright and Ayers to be liabilities.............of course this is just my opinion and I think McCain is making a mistake about even talking about it............there are other things I think that most Americans are concerned about and it is not Wright or Ayers...........Shokk

Amy, I think Palin is Machevellian in her ambition, but Bush-like in her intellect.  She really dominated that interview with Williams.  I wonder if McCain picked her because he thought, as a younger woman, she would stay happily in his shadow.  If so, boy was he wrong! 

Amy...I have to comment on your post about the side kick and her religious talk.  I have alot of issues with that too!  Isn't there suppose to be a seperation between church and state??  Otherwise those churches better start paying off some tax dollars!!  And who is she to say what god, if any, I or you, or the rest of us believe in?  I can tell you for fact I do not believe in a god that is as hypocrital as she portrays hers to be.  Isn't she in Troopergate today?  The mixing of church and state should not be on any level.  Keep your religion to your self and other like minded.  But don't force the rest of us to go along with beliefes we don't have.  That was the Roman era..this is 2008.  Change is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!  :-)

OBAMA '08......it's almost here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

Little-G, it was Eliz. Dole who was running that ad in NC.  I guess she would know a losing presidential campaign when she sees one.   Personally I think the Dems will benefit from having strong, intelligent conservatives in Congress.  Any party needs checks and balance. 

Anne, I agree that Palin's ambitions should not be underestimated.  The question is, will her timing be off?  Right now, the country has little desire for her divisive, anti-intellectual style of politics.  That part of the GOP, the "base," has been marginalized by events and by Bush's incompetence.  Maybe in 4 years enough people will have forgotten about this decade and will embrace the religious right again.  Or maybe Palin will reinvent herself sufficiently to have a broader appeal.  Stranger things have happened!   

Yeah, I just read that fake robbery story.  You know what struck me the most about it, as far as being an extension of the whole McCain campaign ethos goes . . . how badly she executed the hoax.  I mean, it didn't even occur to her that someone attacking her from above wouldn't carve an initial on her cheek backwards!  Or that the ATM records would be easy to search.  She obviously took some time planning it; she just didn't do a very smart job of it.  That's the McCain campaign all over.  Deceptive, race-baiting and bumbling.

A little clarification about Palin and the clothes thing. 

The money for her clothes came from the RNC, not the McCain campaign. Two different organizations, two different sets of rules for each funding organization.  The rules from the RNC state the organization can give the money to whoever for whatever they choose.  Different set of rules for the McCain campaign.  If Palin does decide to donate those clothes, she opens herself to all kinds of tax liabilities.  She'd be smart to just shut up about it, say thanks RNC for the great wardrobe for my family and move on. 

That IS funny stuff!!!!!!!!!!!  What the hell??????????  Even she has given up on the thought!!  Right on! 

OBAMA '08...it's almost here!!!!!!!!!

Boy you all had some great conversations today.  But my mind is too tired tonight.  Just glad to be home and that the week-end is here. I miss seeing Obama at rallies.  I know he is visiting his grandmother - but I haven't seen much on televsion about Obama or Biden. 

The picture of Palin with that scarf is just too funny.

Nicki

Thought I'd come to friendly like-minded territory and share a sad, but true story from my own neighborhood.

Some background that many of you know, but for those who don't know - my parents live with me in the northern part of the Dallas area.  My 74 yr-old dad takes care of the house, my mom takes care of him (and me, and the fur babies) and I travel extensively for my job. 

Anyway, this is big time Republican territory - tons of McCain-Palin signs around the neighborhood.  I ordered an Obama-Biden yard sign and got it last week ($8 from Obama's website).  When I came home from the airport last night, I asked my dad if he had the guts to put it in the yard.  He said, 'no' in no uncertain terms.

Then, he shared this sad tale.  Earlier this week, he was outside talking to the other neighborhood guys, and the subject of Colin Powell's endorsement came up.  That's when "Jim", another retiree, said, "I don't care what he thinks - he's just another N-----r!"

My father just turned around and walked away.  But he seriously fears for our safety, not so much his, but mine and my mother's, from such a$$holes who live within 50 yards of us and no doubt have guns.  We don't live in the hills of Western Pennsylvania, or in a trailer park in Alabama - this is growing part of Dallas, with a major University just a few miles away.  But outright racism is alive and well and blatant.

But today when I came home from a workshop, I was not surprised to see the sign was in the yard.  I knew my Dad would put it out for at least an afternoon.  Of course, one of the other neighbors, "Scott", came over and, in good fun, said he had reported us to the Homeowner's association.  He also praised my dad for walking away from "Jim" the other day.  "Scott" said he was offended, but kept his mouth shut and continued to converse with "Jim".

So, after a few awkward laughs, we indeed brought the sign back into the house.

And, by the way, these people all go to church every Sunday (churches in Dallas rival the size of some college campuses - I kid you not) and are self proclaimed "good christian people".