Barack Hussein Obama

[cindy0721]

Originally Posted by Janet

I know!!! When I saw the different interviews and now reading the link you posted....I like him. Then this morning I got that email and just wasn't sure what to think. Right at this moment, I like him more than I fear him.

lol.... I really like him, hubby and I are both Republicans but I would vote for him before Hillary ... really.... weird huh, since I am a woman...

[Emmsmom]

Neither of them will get my vote! If I had to choose I just wouldn't vote! I hope we have an awesome Republican running!

[Marilyn]

Janet, don't feel bad starting this thread here. I haven't checked YT to see what happened there. I think the active posters here, while we may not always agree, will at least respect each other's opinions.

I for one am an independent. Before Bush invaded Iraq, I considered myself a Republican although I did not always vote for the Republican candidate. Now, I will always endeavor to be informed and vote for the candidate that I feel will do the best in the position.

Any debate that gets us questioning and learning and seeking the facts prior to an election is a good debate.

Hillary will not get my vote. I just don't agree with her politics, and don't trust her.

Obama has promise, though lacks experience, which honestly may not be a bad thing. I just hope one of the parties comes up with a good honest sincere candidate who does not have a hidden personal agenda and has some common sense.

[Lissa]

Thanks for posting the Snoops link Rebecca!! I couldn't have explained it better than they did.

I love Obama, I personally think he would make a great President, he's what the country needs.

If you wanna read any of his stuff he actually has two books, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father. The Audacity of Hope actually came out not to long ago and what I've read of it so far is really good.

I like Obama, and if he makes it through the primaries I'm definitely voting for him!!

[Marilyn]

CNN heard about your thread!! Just kidding, but check out this article.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/...ssa/index.html

Looks like they are blaming Hillary. Does look like we are in for a nasty couple of years. I really am not looking forward to it!!!

We need to keep our focus on here of being friends and not get too carried away over this. I'm talking to myself here as much as anyone else. I can get pretty passionate about some of the issues. I will work very hard to not go ballistic on here. If things do get crazy, we need to promise each other we will keep it in the Vent forum.

[RLC12345678]

Originally Posted by Marilyn

We need to keep our focus on here of being friends and not get too carried away over this. I'm talking to myself here as much as anyone else. I can get pretty passionate about some of the issues. I will work very hard to not go ballistic on here. If things do get crazy, we need to promise each other we will keep it in the Vent forum.

I'll agree to that!

[Janet]

Originally Posted by Marilyn

CNN heard about your thread!! Just kidding, but check out this article.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/...ssa/index.html

Looks like they are blaming Hillary. Does look like we are in for a nasty couple of years. I really am not looking forward to it!!!

We need to keep our focus on here of being friends and not get too carried away over this. I'm talking to myself here as much as anyone else. I can get pretty passionate about some of the issues. I will work very hard to not go ballistic on here. If things do get crazy, we need to promise each other we will keep it in the Vent forum.

LOLOL Marilyn you scared me to death!!! I'm with you as to not looking forward to what could be a nasty campaign. I know MY focus is to not post anymore threads that could possibly become controversial AND I usually keep political views personal. Like I said earlier I will always search first before I ask or paste something like that again. LOLOL, matter of fact...I put a yellow sticky on my monitor that says....."Search first, may be controversial." I'm not taking any more chances!!! My feellings get hurt too easily.

[Emmsmom]

Well here is my brutal honest opinion.

1. We do NOT need a woman president. There are certain parts of this world who don't respect women and just do not take us seriously. Plus I can not STAND her. LOL

2. I do not think that we need a president that is in ANY way connected to the Muslim religion. There have been so many lives taken by Muslims during this war. I think that having a president who will represent Muslims(even if it is only to them) will be a HUGE slap in the face! I have to wonder how the troops will feel about this.

My opinion may not be popular among anyone here( and thats ok ! LOL ) but you can bet there are many others out there that probably feel the same.

[Lissa]

First off, I'm not trying to start anything but I'm stubborn, opinionated, and a PoliSci major.

2. I do not think that we need a president that is in ANY way connected to the Muslim religion. There have been so many lives taken by Muslims during this war. I think that having a president who will represent Muslims(even if it is only to them) will be a HUGE slap in the face! I have to wonder how the troops will feel about this.

1. Barrack Obama IS NOT a practicing Muslim, he attended a Muslim school when he was a child, but that wasn't his choice, it was his mother's.

2. Saying he shouldn't be elected simply because there are Muslim connections in his background goes against the single most important founding principle of the United States, the Freedom of Religion.

3. Lives have been taken by Muslims in this war THAT WE STARTED, does anyone know how many Muslim lives have been taken? If they apply the same thought process then they shouldn't adopt the kind of government we're trying to make them adopt simply because we have taken so many of their lives. I think there's a reason we haven't heard any of those stats, I don't think the average American could handle it. Yes we've lost over 3,000 people, I blame Bush, not the Muslims for that, but as I said, how many have they lost? We don't know, but my bets are all in that it's significantly more than we've lost. There are radicals and extremists, and I'm not saying that Saddam should have been left to his own devices, I think we should have gotten him in the Gulf War, but we can't blame the Iraqi people for defending their homes, if a country came here and tried to take over and completely change our system of government would we roll over and take it? Goodness no. We'd fight, and so are they.

4. If you look at Obama, and what he stands for, discrediting him based on religious ties is a slap in the face to all the people who have died fighting for religious freedom, which I guarantee is FAR FAR FAR more than the number of soldiers we have lost in a war that, once again, we started.

My opinion may not be popular among anyone here( and thats ok ! LOL ) but you can bet there are many others out there that probably feel the same.

No offense to you, though you'll probably take it that way, but I certainly hope that there are not many others out there that feel the same. But then again, this is America, since when has America actually stood behind the principles we supposedly stand for?