A Question of Barack Obama's Character
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A Question of Barack Obama's Character
| Fri, 10-10-2008 - 9:41am |
I know most all of the 0bama supporters on here have already drank the kool-aid, but come on, doesn't this give any of you pause when pulling the lever for him?

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You forgot a few:
Presidential staff and advisors
* Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor
* Greg Craig, former Assistant to the President and Director of Policy Planning, State Department
* William M. Daley, former Secretary of Commerce
* Bob Gee, former United States Assistant Secretary of Energy under Bill Clinton
* Eric Holder, former Deputy Attorney General
* Douglas Kmiec, legal counsel to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and co-chairman of Romney's Committee for the Courts and the Constitution
* Noel Koch, former Special Assistant to President Nixon; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
* Lawrence Korb, former Assistant Secretary of Defense
* Anthony Lake, former National Security Advisor under Bill Clinton
* Robert Litt, former Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General; US Attorney
* Jan Lodal, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense
* Angela E. Oh, former member, of the President's Initiative on Race
* Federico Peña, former Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Energy under Bill Clinton
* Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton
* Susan E. Rice, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
* David Scheffer, former Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
* Sarah Sewell, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
* Gayle Smith, former Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council
* Ted Sorensen, President John F. Kennedy's top advisor and speechwriter
* Tara Sonenshine, former Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council
* David Wilhelm, President Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign chairman
Military
* John Adams, Brigadier General US Army (Ret), Former Deputy US Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee
* Clifford Alexander, Jr., former Secretary of the Army
* Susan Ahn Cuddy, first female gunner officer in the U.S. Navy and daughter of Korean Independence fighter Ahn Chang-ho
* Wesley Clark, former General, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, 2004 presidential candidate
* Tom Daniels, Texas Air National Guard
* Richard Danzig, former Secretary of the Navy
* Larry Gillespie, Brigadier General (Ret), Assistant Deputy Commanding General, (ARNG) Army Material Command
* Scott Gration Major General (USAF-Ret), former Director of Strategy, Policy, and Assessments of the United States European Command in Germany
* Donald Joseph Guter, former Judge Advocate General of the Navy, current Dean, Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh
* Richard D. Hearney, former Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
* John Hutson, former Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy
* Jeh Johnson, former General Counsel of the U.S. Air Force
* Lester Lyles, former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
* David 'Dave' McGinnis, Brigadier General (Ret), former Chief of Staff of the National Guard Association of the U.S.
* Merrill A. McPeak, four star General (Ret), former Secretary of the United States Air Force during Operation Desert Storm,
* John B. Nathman (Ret), former Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and Vice Chief of Naval Operations
* F. Whitten Peters, former Secretary of the Air Force
* Hugh Robinson, Major General (Ret), Commander of the Southwestern Division
* James Smith, Brigadier General (USAF-Ret), former Commander, Joint Warfighting Center, U.S. Joint Forces Command, Joint Training Analysis and Simulation Center
* Robert 'Willie' Williamson Rear Admiral (USN-Ret), served as military Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition and Director, Office of Program Appraisal.
* Ralph Wooten Major General (Ret), former Commanding General of the Army’s Chemical Arsenal, currently the Executive Vice President of Management Systems, Inc.
National political figures
* Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary of State
* Joe Andrew, former Democratic National Committee Chairman 1999-2001
* Jeffrey Bader, former U.S. Ambassador to Namibia and Fmr. Assistant US Trade Representative for Asia
* Henri Barkey, former member of U.S. Department of State Policy Planning and Professor of Lehigh University
* David Birenbaum, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. for Management and Reform
* Esther Brimmer, former member of U.S. Department of State Policy Planning
* Art Brown, former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and Chief of CIA's East Asian Operations Division
* Mark Brzezinski, former Director of European Affairs of National Security Council
* James Burns, former Chief Judge of the state Intermediate Court of Appeals
* Joseph Cirincione, Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress
* Bonnie Cohen, former Undersecretary of State for Management
* Ivo H. Daalder, former Director, European Affairs, National Security Council
* Alice Dear, former U.S. Executive Director of African Development Bank
* William H. Donaldson, former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, appointed by George W. Bush
* Michael Froman, Chief of Staff and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Treasury and National Security Council Staff Member
* Tony Gambino, former Mission Director, USAID, Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Tobi Gati, former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasian Affairs, National Security Council
* Robert S. Gelbard, former Presidential Envoy for the Balkans; Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement; Ambassador to Indonesia; and Ambassador to Bolivia
* John J. Gibbons, former federal appeals court judge
* Matthew Goodman, former Director for Asian Affairs, National Security Council
* Philip Gordon, former Director, European Affairs, National Security Council
* Scott Gould, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Management
* Scott Gration, former Director for Strategy, Policy and Planning, U.S. European Command
* Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón, former United States Ambassador to Chile
* John Holum, former Director of ACDA and Undersecretary State for Arms Control and International Security
* Vicki Huddleston, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Mali and Madagascar, Chief of Mission to Cuba and Ethiopia
* Paul Igasaki, fmr. Vice Chair and Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
* Paul G. Kirk, Jr., former Democratic National Committee Chairman 1985-1988
* Arthur Levitt, former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, appointed by Bill Clinton
* David Lipton, former Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs
* Frank Loy, former Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs
* Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee Chairman 2001-2005
* Donald McHenry, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
* Norman Mineta, former U.S. Rep. (D-CA), mayor of San Jose, United States Secretary of Transportation and United States Secretary of Commerce
* Newton N. Minow, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
* Alfred H. Moses, former United States Ambassador to Romania
* Nick Rey, former United States Ambassador to Poland
* David Ruder, former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, appointed by Ronald Reagan
* Witney Schneidman, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
* Dan Shapiro, former Director, National Security Council
* Mona Sutphen, former Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor
* Jim Vermillion, former Mission Director, USAID, Nicaragua
* Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
* Patricia Wald, former Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
See also: Newspaper endorsements in the United States presidential primaries, 2008 and Newspaper endorsements in the United States presidential election, 2008
These newspapers have endorsed Barack Obama's general election run:
* The New Yorker magazine in New York City, New York
* The Record newspaper in Stockton, California
* The Seattle Times newspaper in Seattle, Washington
* St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper in St. Louis, MO
Writers
* Paul Auster
* Rekha Basu, columnist for Des Moines Register
* Judy Blume, popular children's and young adult writer, author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., Superfudge, and others.
* Christopher Buckley, conservative writer and satirist, son of William F. Buckley
* Michael Chabon
* Daniel Clowes, graphic novelist
* Diablo Cody, Academy Award-winning screenwriter for Juno
* Dave Eggers
* Barbara Ehrenreich
* Jonathan Safran Foer
* Christopher Golden
* Daniel Handler, better known under the pen name Lemony Snicket
* Jeffrey Hart, conservative columnist, former long-time editor at National Review
* Bob Herbert, columnist for The New York Times
* John Hodgman, author of "The Areas of My Expertise" as well as an upcoming book along the same vein, though perhaps best known for his contribution to The Daily Show and role as a an anthropomorphised PC in the Get A Mac advertising campaign for Apple Inc.
* Khaled Hosseini, Novelist and physician
* Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
* Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times writer
* Miranda July, Author of "No One Belongs Here More Than You" and director of "Me And You And Everyone We Know"
* Brian Katulis, Author and Middle East expert
* Garrison Keillor, Grammy Award-winning author and radio personality
* Stephen King
* Norman Mailer
* John McWhorter, Author of "Losing the Race"
* Maxine Hong Kingston
* Jeff Mariotte, novelist who also wrote the Barack Obama one-shot comic book for IDW Publishing
* David Mixner, writer and civil rights activist
* Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize recipient
* Randall Munroe, author of xkcd
* Ann Patchett
* Katha Pollitt
* Philip Roth
* Ayelet Waldman
* Alice Walker
* Chris Ware, graphic novelist
* Roger Wilkins, civil rights leader and journalist
* Tobias Wolff
* Sherman Yellen, playwright
Foreign Writers
* Mark Millar, comic book writer, known for his works Wanted and The Ultimates.
* J. K. Rowling, Author of the Harry Potter series
* Eva Schloss, Author and Holocaust survivor, stepsister of Anne Frank
* Andrew Sullivan, political commentator
Academics
Economists
* Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute labor economist
* J. Bradford DeLong, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; macroeconomist
* Ray Fair, Professor at Yale School of Management; macroeconomist
* Jason Furman
* Daniel McFadden, 2000 Nobel laureate
* Laurence H. Meyer, Federal Reserve Governor 1996-2002
* Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel laureate
* Robert Solow, 1987 Nobel laureate
* Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel laureate
Scientists
* Peter Agre, Nobel Prize-winning scientist (Chemistry 2003)
* Don Lamb, University of Chicago astrophysicist and former NASA scientist
* Sharon Long, former dean of Stanford University's School of Humanities & Science
* Gilbert Omenn, Professor of internal medicine, human genetics and public health at the University of Michigan
* Peter Norvig (Director of Research, Google)
* Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize-winning scientist (Medicine 1989)
* Alexei Abrikosov (Nobel Laureate Physics 2003)
* Roger Guillemin (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1977)
* John L. Hall (Nobel Laureate Physics 2005)
* Sidney Altman(Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1989)
* Leland H. Hartwell (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2001)
* Philip W. Anderson (Nobel Laureate Physics 1977)
* Dudley Herschbach (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1986)
* Richard Axel (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2004)
* Roald Hoffmann (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1981)
* David Baltimore (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1975)
* H. Robert Horvitz (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2002)
* Baruj Benacerraf (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1980)
* Louis Ignarro (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1998)
* Paul Berg (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1980)
* Eric R. Kandel (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2000)
* J. Michael Bishop (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1989)
* Walter Kohn (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1998)
* Nicolaas Bloembergen (Nobel Laureate Physics 1981)
* Roger Kornberg (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2006)
* Michael S. Brown (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1985)
* Leon M. Lederman (Nobel Laureate Physics 1988)
* Linda B. Buck (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2004)
* Craig C. Mello (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2006)
* Mario R. Capecchi (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2007)
* Marshall Nirenberg (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1968)
* Stanley Cohen (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1986)
* Douglas D. Osheroff (Nobel Laureate Physics 1996)
* Leon Cooper (Nobel Laureate Physics 1972)
* Stanley B. Prusiner (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1997)
* James W. Cronin (Nobel Laureate Physics 1980)
* Norman F. Ramsey (Nobel Laureate Physics 1989)
* Robert F. Curl (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1996)
* Robert Richardson (Nobel Laureate Physics 1996)
* Johann Deisenhofer (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1988)
* Burton Richter (Nobel Laureate Physics 1976)
* John B. Fenn (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2002)
* Sherwood Rowland (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1995)
* Edmond H. Fischer (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1992)
* Oliver Smithies (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2007)
* Val Fitch (Nobel Laureate Physics 1980)
* Richard Schrock (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2005)
* Jerome I. Friedman (Nobel Laureate Physics 1990)
* Joseph H. Taylor Jr. (Nobel Laureate Physics 1993)
* Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel Laureate Physics 2002)
* E. Donnall Thomas (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1990)
* Walter Gilbert (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1980)
* Charles H. Townes (Nobel Laureate Physics 1964)
* Alfred G. Gilman (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1994)
* Daniel C. Tsui (Nobel Laureate Physics 1998)
* Donald A. Glaser (Nobel Laureate Physics 1960)
* Sheldon Glashow (Nobel Laureate Physics 1979)
* James D. Watson(Nobel Laureate Medicine1962)
* Joseph Goldstein(Nobel Laureate Medicine 1985)
* Eric Wieschaus(Nobel Laureate Medicine 1995)
* Paul Greengard(Nobel Laureate Medicine 2000)
* Frank Wilczek(Nobel Laureate Physics 2004)
* David Gross(Nobel Laureate Physics 2004)
* Robert W. Wilson(Nobel Laureate Physics 1978)
* Robert H. Grubbs (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2005)
* Martin Chalfie (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2008)
Other academics
* Stephen B. Burbank, UPenn Law Professor
* Ellen P. Chapnick, Dean for Social Justice Initiatives at Columbia Law School
* Ronald Dworkin, NYU Professor of Law and Political Philosophy
* Michael Eric Dyson, Professor at Georgetown University
* John Hope Franklin, Past president of the American Historical Association, Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University, chairman of President Bill Clinton's Initiative on Race in 1999, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995.
* David D. Friedman, professor of law at Santa Clara University and the son of economists Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
* Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University
* William R. Harvey, President, Hampton University
* Scott Kurashige, associate professor of American Culture, History, and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan
* Lawrence Lessig, Professor at Stanford Law School
* Grande Lum, Lecturer on negotiation at University of California, Berkeley Law School
* Manning Marable, Professor of Public Affairs, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University
* Michael McFaul, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University
* Michael Nacht, Dean of Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley
* Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago Professor of Law and Ethics
* Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
* Frances Fox Piven, Professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center at the City University of New York
* Samantha Power, Professor at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize-winner
* Anita Ramasastry, Professor of law at the University of Washington School of Law
* Riordan Roett, Professor of Western Hemisphere Studies and the Latin American Studies Program of Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
* Barnett Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow of Center on International Cooperation at the New York University
* Laurence Tribe, Professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School
* Edward Tufte, Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Yale University
* David Victor, Professor at Stanford Law School
* Celeste Wallender, Professor at Georgetown University
* Barbara Weinstein, President of the American Historical Association
* Joseph B. White, President, University of Illinois
* Cornel West, Professor of Religion at Princeton University
Businesspeople
* Marc Andreessen, software engineer, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder of Netscape
* Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of blog TechCrunch
* Warren Buffett, investor and richest man in the world
* Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerry's
* Ari Emanuel, talent agent
* David Geffen, media executive, producer and philanthropist
* Nicholas A. B. Gray, owner of Gray's Papaya hot dog restaurant in New York City
* Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, President, and CEO of Stonyfield Farm
* Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook
* Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television
* Jeffrey Katzenberg, film producer and CEO of DreamWorks Animation
* Billy King, former general manager and team president of NBA team Philadelphia 76ers
* Alex Rigopulos, CEO of Harmonix Music Systems, company notable for creating Rock Band and Guitar Hero
* Ned Lamont, founder of Lamont Digital Systems and former Senate candidate
* Edward Lewis, Chairman of Essence magazine and Latina magazine
* Brink Lindsey, Vice President of Research for the Cato Institute and editor of Cato Unbound
* William Louis-Dreyfus, billionaire New York financier
* Hugh McColl, former CEO, Bank of America
* Rose McKinney-James, businesswoman and consultant
* Ken Mok, President of 10 x 10 Entertainment
* Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of Rupert Murdoch and Chairman and CEO of Shine Limited
* Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo
* Dan Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL
* Hilary Rosen, on-air political and business analyst
* Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman and CEO
* Alan Solomont, Massachusetts philanthropist and fund-raiser
* George Soros, businessman and philanthropist
* Leigh Steinberg, sports agent
* John W. Thompson, CEO of Symantec
* Billy Vassiliadis, CEO of R&R Partners
* David Voelker, owner and manager of Voelker Investments
* Craig Newmark, founder of website Craigslist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_endorsements
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(((Was 0bama 8 years old when he was in Ayers living room kicking off his political career?
I think Obama explained his relationship with Ayers very well.
What exactly do you want Obama to "explain"?
The Million Man March was a huge event and I am sure plenty of people who are not necessarily great fans of Farrakhan went to check it out. It was also in 1995.
As far as Hagee, McCain did reject the endorsement, but only when it got too expensive politically not to:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/mccain-proud-of-endorse_b_89227.html (check out the video)
http://www.catholics-united.org/?q=node/136
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