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Politics : The Next President 2008 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2574)	3/29/2008 2:25:04 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 3215

It has everything to do with the election. He is Obama'a hero, mentor, pastor, friend, god, ally, lover and co-conspirator

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2574)	3/30/2008 6:15:06 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 3215

....historically, it is very difficult for one party to win three straight presidential elections. There is a natural pendulum swing. When you are the guy from the party in power, it's almost impossible to embody change. That is one of the big problems John McCain will have.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2574)	3/30/2008 10:28:20 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 3215

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2574)	3/30/2008 10:29:27 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 3215

Liveblogging Obama on the View Just tuned in to Obama. "Keep in mind, he's preaching three times every Sunday for thirty years. I'm not vetting my party. I didn't have my research team pull every sermon he's given for the past thirty times." "The statements that he made were rightly offensive. They were less offensive in terms of race than in terms of their view of the country." Obama calls Wright a "brilliant man caught in a time warp." Says it "doesn't excuse but explains" Wright's comments. "If you guys went there on a Sunday, you would feel right at home." Barbara Walters: "Had the reverend not retired would you have left the church?" Obama: "Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable staying at the church." It looks like he was ready to say more, but sigh Hasselbeck interrupts. She mentions some of the quotes — US of KKK A, "chickens coming home to roost" after 9/11. Obama stares at her as if he is trying to understand something very foreign to him. "The particular ones you mentioned, I hadn't. What you've been seeing is a snippet of a man...What if somebody compiled the five stupidest things you ever said, and put them on a thirty second loop, and ran them for two weeks straight? ... I didn't purchase all the DVDs, and I didn't read all the church bulletins." Obama says that when he said in his DNC speech, "there is no white America or black America", it was aspirational, not that there weren't serious problems in terms of race in America. "I talked to [Wright] after this episode. I think he's saddened by what's happened. I feel badly that he has been characterized in just this one way. But he was my pastor. I think people overstate this idea of mentor or spiritual adviser. He was my pastor." Obama tells a tale of Wright advising an black woman who was having doubts about marrying a white man to go through with the wedding, to not let racial differences to get in the way of love. 03/28 11:36 AM

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2574)	3/30/2008 10:31:03 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3215

Philly Democrats Want Hillary, Obama To Take Positions That Are 'Political Suicide' Hillary and Obama are scheduled to debate on April 16 in Philadelphia. Local Democrats are openly pledging to push the candidates to take a position that will doom many of their red state efforts and probably further endanger purple states. Philadelphia's Democratic leaders say they'll press Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama to back stricter gun laws, despite the risk of angering voters throughout the rest of Pennsylvania and possibly damaging the party's nominee in the general election. Gun violence in Philadelphia — 331 homicides from gunfire in 2007 — thrust firearms laws to the top of the agenda for city voters, and they don't care about the potential political pitfalls for the presidential candidates, said Carol Campbell, a Democratic ward leader in the city. Democratic ward leader Ralph Wynder, who is supporting Mr. Obama, said the candidates should address the pressing issues, but conceded that backing Philadelphia's push for tougher gun laws would be "political suicide." "You are probably going to be damaged goods in the state," Mr. Wynder said. So these candidates would probably prefer to avoid the issue, right? They're probably hoping it won't come up in that debate. Except... When Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton square off in an April 16 debate in Philadelphia, they may be forced to spend time discussing an issue neither has talked much about in this campaign: gun control. April 16 will mark one year since the murder of 32 students at Virginia Tech, the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. It's gonna come up. As the National Journal notes, "Pennsylvania, which is home to 300,000 members of the National Rifle Association — the highest per capita NRA membership in the country, according to Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action. A 2002 Quinnipiac University poll found that 42 percent of Pennsylvania households have guns, including 54 percent of union households, a key Democratic constituency." 03/28 09:29 AM