Barack is no socialist. He does care about struggling families though. I am voting for Barack Obama as much for who he is than anything else--and his recent decision to suspend campaigning to visit his grandmother speaks volumes.
There is a little voice you hear when you are about to make the wrong choice. When you plan that trip to the islands instead of hosting the family Thanksgiving feast; when you schedule a business meeting over your child’s basketball tournament; when you choose the golf outing over taking your uncle to the eye doctor: the voice says, “Do you really want to do that?” Some of us ignore that voice. Others live by it. It is different for everyone, but for me, it is the voice of my mother, who died six years ago. A strong woman with the character it takes to raise six children, her mantra was “Family first!” When Barack Obama’s grandmother’s illness conflicted with his final critical days of campaigning, Obama put family first. In a nation that rewards family values talk with political success, the pundits were aghast. What is he thinking? He can’t take time off to see his GRANDMOTHER! Just over a week left-- he needs every minute on the trail! Surely his grandmother will understand. But if you follow Barack Obama’s life story, and his policy prescriptions, his decision is no surprise. It was his grandmother, as much as his mother, who raised Barack Obama. When he returned to the United States at age ten to attend a Catholic school on scholarship, he lived with his grandparents. A World War II generation woman, Kansan Madelyn Dunham was a real life Rosie the Riveter. She was the primary breadwinner in a family that understood sacrifice for the sake of the next generation. Senator Obama says, “She’s the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life.” She also may be the one who drove home most dramatically to a young Barack Obama the stresses and strains on a family struggling to better itself. For too long, the voice of conscience, the one that cautions us to put family first, has been ignored by millions of Americans because it would mean losing family income. Senator Obama gets that. He has championed new standards to help families, such as paid sick days, making family leave available to millions more people, and providing funds to states to make that leave affordable. These are compassionate positions, but also ones that suggest an understanding of how the American family is the core strength of American culture and of our economy. In these economic hard times, families are stretched more than ever. As people struggle with foreclosure, job loss, and dwindling opportunities, families step in to help. Family members move in with each other, try to find each other jobs, foot the bill for each other, share care-giving responsibilities – they even raise each other’s children. As my mother used to say, “That’s what family is for.” So when Barack Obama suspended campaigning because his fragile and ill grandmother broke her hip, it was a defining moment. He listens to his inner voice. This fact tells me more about how he will lead than all the policy prescriptions on the Obama website. Like many Americans who come from strong families of good character, he makes the right judgment. Barack Obama’s family values are reflected in the voice he listens to, the actions he takes, and not just words he speaks.
This is a quote from Karl Marx "From him according to his ability, To him according to his need". Doesn't that sound a lot like Obama? He's not putting struggling families first, he's putting his own socialist agenda first. His economic policy is going to put us into a depression.
For those of you who wonder why I brought up Elian Gonzalez, here's why. If you remember, Elian was brought to our country by his mother from Cuba. His mother died trying to get him here. She wanted him to be free of Castro's dictatorship. Our president at that time, Bill Clinton, ordered that he be removed from his family's home and sent back to Cuba. I still remember the pictures of our soldiers going into that house with guns pointing at that little boy and the guy that was trying to protect him. Can you imagine what was going through that little boy's mind when that happened? I bawled my eyes out when Bill Clinton and the democrats decided to do that, which is why I will never vote for a democrat. They're all the same. Our country should've fought for that little boy, but instead we didn't. No, Barack Obama is not going to put family first. There's a lawsuit that was filed against Barack Obama in Hawaii. Don't you read the headlines?
Here's something about his lies. On MSNBC, he stated that he wasn't there for those comments and had he heard Reverend Wright making those comments he would've confronted him. Then he had a press conference denouncing Reverend Wright saying that he did hear what he said and he confronted him about it. Then he goes on to say "I can no more disown the black community than I can my own grandmother." He also talks about how important Reverend Wright is in his life.
He lied about his relationship with Bill Ayers. He says that Bill Ayers is just a guy that lives on his street. Then he says he worked on a board with him. He changes his story all the time, I lost track of everything he said.
Tony Rezko is a Syrian immigrant.
The lawyer he hired to take care of his lawsuits also works for CAIR, Joseph Sandler, whom has ties to terrorists.
Were the last eight years of re-distribution of wealth lost on you? The people at the top benefited, the people at the bottom had many more join them. Wages for workers were stagnant while CEO's made multimillion dollar bonuses and salaries. And what was public policy while all this happened? Reward the wealthy! They got the lion's share of tax cuts! I also find it humorous that the republicans are now calling Barack Obama a socialist when the Bush Administration has just socialized banking! Yes, Obama is going to change tax policy--and any change in tax policy by definition redistributes money. Just THIS time, instead of continuing huge tax breaks for the wealthy hoping somehow that will trickle down to the little people, he is giving tax cuts to the 95% of Americans who have worked hard these last years and not shared in the prosperity. Our middle class is our strength and the policies of the last 8 years have squandered a surplus, heaped debt on our grandchildren and made the American dream beyond the reach of many. Enough is enough.
Oh, those mean nasty democrats, they just can't wait to separate small children from their loving families.
But you so conveniently forget that Elian had a father, his CLOSEST relative, his PARENT, waiting for him back in Cuba, demanding his rights to return the boy.
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Thank you for your opinion, but I don't really see this being a productive dialogue.
Barack is no socialist. He does care about struggling families though. I am voting for Barack Obama as much for who he is than anything else--and his recent decision to suspend campaigning to visit his grandmother speaks volumes.
There is a little voice you hear when you are about to make the wrong choice. When you plan that trip to the islands instead of hosting the family Thanksgiving feast; when you schedule a business meeting over your child’s basketball tournament; when you choose the golf outing over taking your uncle to the eye doctor: the voice says, “Do you really want to do that?”
Some of us ignore that voice. Others live by it. It is different for everyone, but for me, it is the voice of my mother, who died six years ago. A strong woman with the character it takes to raise six children, her mantra was “Family first!”
When Barack Obama’s grandmother’s illness conflicted with his final critical days of campaigning, Obama put family first. In a nation that rewards family values talk with political success, the pundits were aghast. What is he thinking? He can’t take time off to see his GRANDMOTHER! Just over a week left-- he needs every minute on the trail! Surely his grandmother will understand.
But if you follow Barack Obama’s life story, and his policy prescriptions, his decision is no surprise.
It was his grandmother, as much as his mother, who raised Barack Obama. When he returned to the United States at age ten to attend a Catholic school on scholarship, he lived with his grandparents. A World War II generation woman, Kansan Madelyn Dunham was a real life Rosie the Riveter. She was the primary breadwinner in a family that understood sacrifice for the sake of the next generation. Senator Obama says, “She’s the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life.”
She also may be the one who drove home most dramatically to a young Barack Obama the stresses and strains on a family struggling to better itself.
For too long, the voice of conscience, the one that cautions us to put family first, has been ignored by millions of Americans because it would mean losing family income. Senator Obama gets that. He has championed new standards to help families, such as paid sick days, making family leave available to millions more people, and providing funds to states to make that leave affordable.
These are compassionate positions, but also ones that suggest an understanding of how the American family is the core strength of American culture and of our economy. In these economic hard times, families are stretched more than ever. As people struggle with foreclosure, job loss, and dwindling opportunities, families step in to help. Family members move in with each other, try to find each other jobs, foot the bill for each other, share care-giving responsibilities – they even raise each other’s children. As my mother used to say, “That’s what family is for.”
So when Barack Obama suspended campaigning because his fragile and ill grandmother broke her hip, it was a defining moment. He listens to his inner voice. This fact tells me more about how he will lead than all the policy prescriptions on the Obama website. Like many Americans who come from strong families of good character, he makes the right judgment. Barack Obama’s family values are reflected in the voice he listens to, the actions he takes, and not just words he speaks.
This is a quote from Karl Marx "From him according to his ability, To him according to his need". Doesn't that sound a lot like Obama? He's not putting struggling families first, he's putting his own socialist agenda first. His economic policy is going to put us into a depression.
For those of you who wonder why I brought up Elian Gonzalez, here's why. If you remember, Elian was brought to our country by his mother from Cuba. His mother died trying to get him here. She wanted him to be free of Castro's dictatorship. Our president at that time, Bill Clinton, ordered that he be removed from his family's home and sent back to Cuba. I still remember the pictures of our soldiers going into that house with guns pointing at that little boy and the guy that was trying to protect him. Can you imagine what was going through that little boy's mind when that happened? I bawled my eyes out when Bill Clinton and the democrats decided to do that, which is why I will never vote for a democrat. They're all the same. Our country should've fought for that little boy, but instead we didn't. No, Barack Obama is not going to put family first. There's a lawsuit that was filed against Barack Obama in Hawaii. Don't you read the headlines?
Here's something about his lies. On MSNBC, he stated that he wasn't there for those comments and had he heard Reverend Wright making those comments he would've confronted him. Then he had a press conference denouncing Reverend Wright saying that he did hear what he said and he confronted him about it. Then he goes on to say "I can no more disown the black community than I can my own grandmother." He also talks about how important Reverend Wright is in his life.
He lied about his relationship with Bill Ayers. He says that Bill Ayers is just a guy that lives on his street. Then he says he worked on a board with him. He changes his story all the time, I lost track of everything he said.
Tony Rezko is a Syrian immigrant.
The lawyer he hired to take care of his lawsuits also works for CAIR, Joseph Sandler, whom has ties to terrorists.
Here's the difference...I don't think he is lying.
I remember the entire Elian Gonzalez thing very clearly.
So, you agree that people on welfare, who don't pay any taxes at all, get the biggest tax cut of all?
Oh, those mean nasty democrats, they just can't wait to separate small children from their loving families.
But you so conveniently forget that Elian had a father, his CLOSEST relative, his PARENT, waiting for him back in Cuba, demanding his rights to return the boy.
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