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Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

I do not know enough about Obama to really make a comprehensive political judgement. I just know that his father was born a Kenyan moderate who studied in Hawaii and married a woman from Kansas and Barak Obama was a product of this union. He sounds very articulate and moderate. He seems to be consistent in his position, someone who works hard and is a good-getter.

He seems frank about matters. Many people have done drugs. We are not perfect. I frankly don't really care that much if Bill Clinton smoked marijuana or Bush took coke or Obama did as much as
I care about their honesty, their ability to articulate their views in a way that is not divisive, and they are not proud of the bad things they did, but they also realize we are all human beings. He seems to be very different than so many African American politicians. The fact that he is
part African is interesting. Maybe he will be a positive African American political symbol just as Colin Powell has been to many including myself. I
I still have a lot of respect for Colin Powell. We need politicians who are candid and balanced. I also think McCain is of good character, but he disappointed me in certain areas.

He is a refreshing face....

stevemcgarrett · Joined: 24 Mar 2006

Adventurer:

Well put, and isn't it more than coincidence that Powell has Jamaican black roots while Obama has Kenyan.

Many clueless liberal American black leaders like to push the notion that they're the same as their African brethren. Every African student I've met finds that amazingly presumptuous and arrogant. What white American, whose immigrant forefathers came from Germany, let's say, would claim to be German? It's part of that Afrocentric mumbo-jumbo in the schools now.

At Texas Southern University in Houston many African students disassociate themseleves from the local blacks, finding them uncouth and often unmotivated to learn. This is of course also making dangerous generalizations, but I think Obama's genuine African roots could work in his favor if he doesn't allow himself to be swayed by the likes of Sharpton and other ambulance chasers.

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

Gamecock · Joined: 26 Nov 2003

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

Gamecock · Joined: 26 Nov 2003

Umm, he continued in the same vein in his speeches throughout 2003 up until the election in 2004...

You can be petty about semantics or admit you were WRONG in your initial claim that Obama just followed his party and jumped on the anti-war bandwagon when the war was unpopular in 2005. That's the point. I think there's no further point in debating this issue.

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

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MissSeoul · Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere in America

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

Whatever you say Otis.

thepeel · Joined: 08 Aug 2004

Who cares. Americans love their coke.

It is time to ignore the Fox News crew and their meaningless moralizing.

shifter2009 · Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Location: wisconsin

Poor Obama, I don't think people will vote for him just based on his name. Like other people have said, its a shame but probably true. What the Democrats need to do is go themselves a southern boy canidate. They are winners for the party, last democrat president we had who wasn't a southern got shot in the south. I could be wrong, but I believe in going with what works.