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To: unclewest who wrote (243113)	3/22/2008 11:02:42 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794192

This is a lot of baggage to bring into the Executive Mansion. I gotta differ with you, Unclewest, with the exception which is my main impression. I've pasted that the first line. You have remarked previously about "The Unit" because with your special expertise you know it doesn't represent reality. But there's one line in there that I really like. I hear Dennis Haysbert say when somebody starts whining: "THINGS ARE TOUGH ALL OVER." Heck, I'd vote for Dennis Haysbert over Obama any day. I might even buy car insurance from him. Just like Ronald Reagan. Yesterday Obama and Bill Richardson patted each other's backs to thunderous applause in Portland, while saying absolutely nothing. I guess you have to consider the forum

To: unclewest who wrote (243113)	3/22/2008 4:57:50 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794192

Good analysis by Peggy Noonan, one of Reagan's speechwriters. What Noonan didn't say, or even alude to, is another fear from mainstreet Americans....After the last go around with the Rev Wright/Farrakham and Farrakham's ties to Malcom X" ...the question comes up and becomes: Is Obama being controlled by others we know nothing of as yet????? Noonan did say this, and I certainly agree: This connected in my mind to the persistent feeling one has -- the fear one has, actually -- that the Obamas, he and she, may not actually know all that much about America. They are bright, accomplished, decent, they know all about the yuppie experience, the buppie experience, Ivy League ways, networking. But they bring along with all this -- perhaps defensively, to keep their ideological views from being refuted by the evidence of their own lives, or so as not to be embarrassed about how nice fame, success, and power are -- habitual reversions to how tough it is to be in America, and to be black in America, and how everyone since the Reagan days has been dying of nothing to eat, and of exploding untreated diseases. America is always coming to them on crutches. But most people didn't experience the past 25 years that way. Because it wasn't that way. Do the Obamas know it? This is a lot of baggage to bring into the Executive Mansion.