Freedom Matters

At the risk of starting a rumor that Mr. Obama is a Muslim (we know Mr. Obama is a Christian) I want to ask a direct question.

What would it matter if Mr. Obama were a Muslim running for the presidency of the United States? Would that be a bad thing? If anyone thinks it would be will you tell me why?

When I watched you talk the other night, I didn't see any American Flag lapel pin. I was wondering why we haven't heard anything about that?
You all made it a big deal when Barack didn't wear one. It seems there is a double standard here.

(paraphasing an article in the Fri. 9/5/09 metro section of the Cleveland Plain Dealer by Regina Brett)

Regina Brett choice is Barack Obama, but she was disappointed by his choice of VP.

So what kind of mother is Sarah Palin? The kind people all over America can relate to.
A mom who joined the PTA to make the public schools better
A mom who is sending her own son off to war.
A mom who chose to have a baby others would have rejected as imperfet.
A mom who asked if we knew the difference between a hocky mom and a pit bull, then pointed to her face and said "Lipstick"
A mom who married a fisherman/oil field worker who never finshed college and looks clumbsy in a suit
A mom raising a flawed family, the kind we all have.

Women can relate to her I know I can. It doesn't mean I'll vote for her but I'm excited that she's one of our choices.
Like it or not, Palin proves there's more than one kind of feminist. That you don't have to be pro-choice to fit under that umbrella. That women can break ground for other women and still believe life starts at concerption and is always a gift.
Those who criticize Palin for putting country first and family second should consider this: Men do it all the time, only when they do it we call them heros.
Wednesday night she took her place in history. She took her place with her family, a beautiful baby boy in her arms, a pregnant daughter at her side.
When it was over, one commentator called her a torpedo amied at Obama. She is more than that She's a rocket, aimed at that last glass ceiling in America.

I wrote a post and this is the type of replies I've gotten.

Sit on it and rotate Howard! Do you own the jet in your online image or just renting?

Here is a great place for you to find the answers you seek about Mr. Obama being a oooooooooh terrorist. I almost want to ask you if you cross the street if a Black man or a Muslim is walking towards you but I know you would never do that

The same kind of flight schools that trained 9/11 terrorists so they could fly planes into the WTC?

Now, I'm sure as in the past, I will be accused of playing the victim or running and hiding but I will let these replies (at least the ones I've received so far) speak for themselves.

The sad conclusion I have reached is that Republicans in general operate out of the reptilian part of their brain: All the dark primitive instincts of fear, power, and xenophobia.

Republicans, stop calling Obama elitist

Because the real reason you don't like him is that he's smarter than you.

By Bill Maher

Sept. 5, 2008 | New Rule: Republicans need to stop saying Barack Obama is an elitist, or looks down on rural people, and just admit you don't like him because of something he can't help, something that's a result of the way he was born. Admit it, you're not voting for him because he's smarter than you.

In her acceptance speech, Gov. Sarah Palin accused Obama of using his run for the White House as a "journey of personal discovery" -- this from the lady who just spent 10 minutes of her speech introducing her family -- Track, Trig, Bristol, Piper -- for a minute there I thought she was calling in an airstrike.

Karl Rove described Obama as "the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini, and making snide comments about everyone who passes by." Unlike George Bush, who's the guy at the country club who makes snide comments, and then passes out. Now this characterization, of course, was something Mr. Rove just completely pulled out of his bulbous, gelatinous ass, but remember this is America, a land where people believe anything they hear. One of McCain's ads casts Obama as "the one," implying he thinks he's the Messiah. Good, maybe he can raise McCain from the dead.

It doesn't matter to Karl Rove that his country club characterization is fictitious, it's the role that Obama must play if the party of plutocrats is going to win over the little guy. Over and over at this convention we heard about the new put-upon victim in our society, the person in America, like Sarah Palin, who's constantly mocked because they're from a ... small town! Governor Yup Yup's got 'em all riled up about being disrespected.

Barack Obama can't help it if he's a magna cum laude Harvard grad and you're a Wal-Mart shopper who resurfaces driveways with your brother-in-law. Americans are so narcissistic that our candidates have to be just like us. That's why George Bush is president. And that's where the McCain camp gets its campaign strategy: Paint Obama as cocky and arrogant and wait for America to vote him off, like the black guy in every reality show. A black president? Half of Pennsylvania isn't ready for black quarterbacks. Forget Obama, they think Will Smith needs to be taken down a peg.

And finally: As for "country first," you know who's putting country first? I am, by supporting Obama, because a victory this fall for the McCain-Mooseburger ticket would make my job in the next four years very, very easy.

At the RNC a group of people were surrounded on three sides by police and forced into a parking lot and arrested. Quite a few of those arrested were reporters covering both the protests and the convention and clearly wearing their press credentials.

If members of the press are not allowed to do their jobs how can we get the news about what is taking place in our country? What has happened to our freedom of the press?

Before the scheduled protests a raid was made, by the police, on a house where suspected protesters were. This raid, by our peace keepers, was done without a warrant.

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Now that we've heard from McCains VP pick, there seems to be some tough questions raised from some in this group like what was so important that made a woman in labor not go to a hospital for a checkup. Or why did she go back to work one day after her daughter was born and three days after her sons birth? Now that I've read these questions, which I think are extremely sexist, I'm convinced that she shouldn't be president, but she's not running for President, Obama is. Here's some questions I have about Obama that have still not been answered.

How could he be friends with Billy Ayers, an admitted bomber and terrorist, and the Chairman of the Board of CAC for 5 years, and tell us his friendship was only casual?

How could he sit in a church for 20 years while hate and Anti Americanism was being taught? Check the contract he signed with his church with regard to Black Liberation Theology.

How about his admitted drug use of cocaine?

Check out these links which have other questions asked of him and what he answered

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This is the man that would be President? Better we should ask him if he was in the delivery room when Michelle gave birth and how much time he took offf from work.

I can think of nothing as offensive to me as trying to ban books in a public library.

Unless it's #4 on the list, slashing funding for teen pregnancy.

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I found this on the front page of Eons where it had been posted by cloudyblue. She mentioned that it was sent to her via e-mail. It is something I intend to share with my daughter, my daughters-in-law and every other woman I can get it to.

THIS IS MOVING. HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET.....IF ....WE EVER KNEW......

WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they
lived only 90 years ago.

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