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Beeyee
Joined: 29 May 2007
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The world wants RON PAUL:
Ron Paul: 59,533
Barak Obama: 18,434
Dennis Kucinich: 8,890
Hillary Clinton: 5,539
Mike Gravel: 2,310
Don't tar all Republicans with the same brush 
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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John Edwards. Unlikely however, so Obama. Clinton will simply put the previous regime back in. I want a real fresh start and new direction.
Besides, we don't want a woman president, for goodness sake! Discussion of knitting patterns in the White House?? 
Really though, at this base ideological level, a black president - and its implications for racial prejudice - takes precedence over gender prejudice.
Ideally though, neither the black guy nor the white woman, but the white, southern guy because Edwards has better ideas that take precedence over skin color and genitalia.
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How can any self-respecting Western woman vote for man with a Muslim background?!?!
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Might be an idea to see evidence first before theorizing rather than the reverse.
In Chapter 6 of the book, titled "Faith," Obama writes that he "was not raised in a religious household." He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known." He describes his Kenyan father as "raised a Muslim," but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his Indonesian stepfather as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful." The chapter details how Obama, in his twenties, while working with local churches as a community organizer, came to understand "the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change." Obama writes: "It was because of these newfound understandings�that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved�that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized."
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