Re: Questionable associations of Obama

[Guest guest]

The media selected both Obama and McCain as the candidates. McCain was chosen because he was a liberal in republican clothes and much of the party hated him, so he would have little support. The press tore him up day in and day out and the Bush holdovers that ran his campaign were utterly clueless.

Obama was chosen because he was Obama.

However, now that the election is over, so is the honeymoon. The media is like a bunch of sharks: if they smell blood they will tear pretty much anyone apart. It will be interesting to see how far they go with Obama, particularly as the economy continues its downslide and they keep doing things like bailouts, nationalizing companies and other things that are going to steadily antagonize more and more people.

It is amazing how people will so easily throw away things like ethics and character. Clinton got elected on flash and smoke, which cover his lack of character, a deeply spotted ethical background, and other baggage. If I remember correctly, they even claimed that character didn't matter during the campaign. Small wonder that so many high on style, low on substance executives were hired in the 1990's who then smashed fine old companies with their incompetence. It is the same today. People threw away their ethics and moral concerns because a smooth talker promised to pay for their gas and cover their mortgages.

But mostly many voted for Obama because he wasn't Bush. Either years of a constant "get Bush, its all his fault" mantra from the media paid off.

In a message dated 12/10/2008 4:14:21 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, no_reply writes:

I had stupidly assumed that Democrats would do the moral thing and vote against him, but my innocence was betrayed. It seems they believe the man they want to represent United States morals, ethics and values is this man. What a fool am I.AdministratorMake your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now.

[Guest guest]

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McCain was

> chosen because he was a liberal in republican clothes and much of

the party hated

> him, so he would have little support.

The Republican Party was free to choose him or not. Why would they

choose him knowing this was the case, just to please the media? It's

not a situation where pleasing the media was a winning strategy.

At least to foreign audiences, and looking like it was the inside

picture too, Bush already looked totally torn apart before the 2004

election but still won it.

[Guest guest]

" Small wonder that so many high on style, low on substance executives

were hired in the 1990's who then smashed fine old companies with their

incompetence. "

They were unskilled as well. People who were promoted in leaps and

bounds through the ranks due to their ability to make friends and

allies in the corporations they served in. Think of con men and how

they swindle suckers out of their money. You put enough of them in a

position of management and the swindlers swindle each other until they

are all in control, and then they swindle everyone else.

Administrator

[Guest guest]

" The Republican Party was free to choose him or not. Why would they

choose him knowing this was the case, just to please the media? It's

not a situation where pleasing the media was a winning strategy.

" At least to foreign audiences, and looking like it was the inside

picture too, Bush already looked totally torn apart before the 2004

election but still won it. "

Maurice, let me explain something to you. Obama has less experience

governing in any office than Palin does. He has a poorer voting record

than either Palin, McCin, or Biden. He has more corruption linked with

him than Palin, Biden, or McCain. He was a poor lawyer, a poor public

official, and demonstrates a manic optimism but no healthy pragmatism.

Either the majority of all Americans are too dumb to see what kind of a

man he really is, or they believed the media, whom they have come to

trust, and whom skated over every scandalous thing Obama has ever done.

Huckabeee was probably the most capable of the Republicans, but the

media kept harping on his proud religious affiliation, which scared

Americans, who proclaim their own religions loudly and obnoxiously, but

are perhaps the most sinful people in the civilized world. And so we

had McCain, the only other viable President presidential candidate.

If it was a choice between a young man who promises that the US is

going to suck the world dry like a boy sucks juice out of a juice box,

and McCain, who says that realistically, economic recovery is going to

take hard work and many sacrifices, most American citizens, who are

lazy people, will vote for Obama, believing he will do everything there

is to do to get us on the road to recovery so that the average citizen

won't have to do anything.

Obama believes that each and every other country in the world ought to

be bled dry with the US being the leech that gets fat and plump. The

world still thinks highly of him, but let's remember that Obama plans

to start off his administration renegotiating the North American Free

Trade Agreement for starters because he believes it hasn't benefitted

the US enough, nor bled Canada and Mexico enough even though both

countries report that it is they who have lost jobs from the deal.

He'll be gunning for Europe and Asia next. Trying to undercut those

markets and bring jobs back to America. You who do not live in the US

will all suffer at the hands of this man who demonstrates the ideals of

every poor and ignornat American who never realized that it was his own

or her own ignorance that made him or her poor.

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[Guest guest]

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> " The Republican Party was free to choose him or not.

Tom, this was referring to McCain actually! Apologies if I aspie-

focussed so inwardly on my own meaning and failed to spot leaving left

some context unexplained - but after all the Republican Party

obviously didn't choose Obama.

I was answering 's point about the media somehow making the

party choose McCain against their own interests.