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Presidential Debate

   I thought the debate last night was a pretty good volley between the two candidates. Both of them had some strong points and weak points.
 
   I think Sen. McCain got under Sen. Obama's skin a few times, from seeing his reactions to McCain's references to policies and directions Obama has taken in the past.
   
   Both of the candidates threw in twisted rhetoric that had some spin. I think Sen. McCain won the debate because he did not get unbalanced like Sen. Obama did a few times and having a hard time getting traction again. I think Obama has made the mistake of under estimating McCain.
 
   Senator McCain obviously has a lot more experience in politics, and is not a weak or tired candidate. I would still like to see a debate that would be centered around more of a townhall setting. I think Sen. McCain would tear Sen. Obama a new orifice in a debate of this nature. I think that is the biggest reason the Obama campaign has avoided those types of debates.
 
   Senator McCain looked a little awkward last night, this type of forum is not easy for him to command and be comfortable like Senator Obama is, in this type of debate. I also think that Sen. Obama sounded more like a debate student with very practiced responces. While still using an over abundance of rhetoric, and not supplying complete answers as thoroughly as Senator McCain.
 
   Senator Obama's answers sounded as if they were more general or rounded to me. I am really looking forward to the debate between Senator Biden, and Gov. Palin.
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Typical White People

 

I bet the media is going to ride these three words into the ground like an abused rodeo pony. Poor Obama cannot seem to get the right combination of words together without bashing granny and the typical white person. The hole he dug himself into with the help of Reverend Wright, Barrack may be better off quitting while he is ahead on this subject.

His statement in reference to the typical white person did not offend me. I understood he was trying to explain the stereotypical stigmatisms people have with one another as far as race is concerned. 

Now the cat is out of the bag screaming like a ban chi, how do you duct tape the little monster to put it back in the bag?

What do you think the onslaught would have been if Bush or Cheney had referred to somebody as a typical black person?

This is and has been a serious problem; racism is on both sides of the arena, black or white.

I know if I was running for public office, or planning my life to be a politician. I would do the best I could not to be associated with individuals like Rev. Wright that could cause damage to my political career.

I am also seeing a pattern with Obama that he has the ability to hold himself above the racist he attended church with, and apparently was ok with this for 20 years or the way he has used his grandmother. He does not blatantly say this, but he has pointed fingers and passed the blame onto everything but himself. In the same breath turn around and states he is the one that can be the great uniter, cross racial divides, and heal the nation. I do not buy this either.

Why hasn't Barrack apologized or humbled himself and admit he is wrong, and made some poor choices by following a man like Rev. Wright? I have yet to hear anything coming from Obama that relates to his accountability and responsibility. He shifts the blame to Reverend Wright, shifts the responsibility to granny, and shifts the responsibility to the nature of racism. Why doesn't he acknowledge himself in this situation? It just looks like me his is in some sort of celestial euphoria or something, claiming to have the judgment to lead America through and heal the racial problems.
I might have been born at night, but it wasn't lastnight.

All I am surer of is that Barrack Obama has aligned himself with the radical black liberation movement that pretty much supports socialism, hatred, and racism.

I am not buying into the pretty picture Obama is trying to paint.

One big important thing I have learned is that Barrack Obama is not ready to become the President of the United States. He has displayed poor judgment, has not had the ability to discredit the opposition he is confronted with. He has also demonstrated that because of his judgment and decisions which aligned himself with individuals like Rev. Wright. I do not think he is the one to tackle racial disparities either. The issues Barrack has said he opposes are not just little disagreements. I do not see how he can condone attending a church for 20 years, which preached racism, hatred for America, absurd suggestions that the government injected HIV into the people of color, and comparing it to genocide.

I do not think there is anything Barrack Obama can say or do at this point where I would even consider changing my mind about his judgment, or his ability to lead this country anywhere. He is too far left for me to consider to begin with. Just like Hillary. All I hear out the the Democratic Party is socialism. If you want socialism go to Canada, or some other country. Another thing I continually hear out of the left is hatred and discontent for America.
The champions of democracy, civil rights, and unity. Yea, right, go tell it to somebody that doesn't know any better.
 
 
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Definition of a Democrat

  Sounds like something HillBillary or Obama, or any other socialist, I mean Democrat or Progressive, Liberal, whatever they aare called this week would enjoy.

The Socialist Workers Party, or SWP, is a communist political party in the United States. It is well known on the U.S. Radical Left for having been the largest and most active promoter of Trotskyism in that country for about half of the 20th century. In the late 1980s, the SWP's supporters internationally reconstituted themselves in each country as under the name of the Communist League - renaming national sections of the USFI, or splitting from them, or being expelled. In 2003, the party sold its major headquarters building in New York City and moved to another location in Manhattan.

The SWP has continued the policies known as the "turn to industry" and a large majority of its members are industrial workers and trade union members. It places a considerable priority on participation in, and solidarity work to aid, strikes and other labor disputes. One of the SWP's main priorities is supporting Pathfinder Press, which publishes titles by SWP leaders (Cannon, Dobbs, Reed, Barnes) as well as by revolutionaries from Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky to Malcolm X and Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

The Socialist Workers Party, founded in 1938, traces its origins back to the former Communist League of America. The CLA had been founded in 1928 by members of the Communist Party USA expelled for supporting Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky against Joseph Stalin. In 1934, the Communist League of America merged with the American Workers Party led by A.J. Muste, forming the U.S Workers Party. Many members of that organization, in turn, joined the Socialist Party of America in 1936. The Socialist Party soon expelled the former Workers Party members, along with others recruited to their Trotskyist politics.

Those expelled founded the Socialist Workers Party, combining the names of the Workers Party and the Socialist Party. The new party participated in founding the Fourth International.

The SWP's best known leader was James Patrick Cannon, a former member of the Industrial Workers of the World and former head of the International Labor Defense. Another prominent leader was Max Shachtman until a split between the two men in 1940.

In the United States, the largest strike wave in U.S. history - involving over five million workers - occurred with the end of the war and the wartime pledge made by many union leaders not to strike for the duration. (This did not mean there were not many strikes during wartime - there were many wildcat strikes during this period, as well as strikes officially called by the United Mine Workers of America. There were also protests by GIs demanding rapid demobilization after the end of the war, sometimes called the going-home movement). SWP participation in this upsurge led to a brief period of rapid growth for the SWP immediately after the war.

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