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To: MJ who wrote (243988)	3/30/2008 2:52:36 PM
From: Hoa Hao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793647

When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet, or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting Bourgeois society's stifling constraints. What a revolutionary!! Frankly, he comes across as some what "white bread" to me.

To: MJ who wrote (243988)	3/30/2008 3:12:11 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793647

This was my reaction to those cuts: So did he get into Occidental on merit based on the grades he attained in high school for not attending classes? [I don't think so....] And after this phrase: it could at least help you laugh at the world's ongoing folly, and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism, my thought was: Oh, you mean hypocrisy, bullshit and cheap moralism JUST LIKE THE THOUGHTS YOU PUT DOWN IN YOUR BOOK... Gee, the poor baby was disaffected, but managed to graduate college on dope and then get into Harvard law school. I bet his admittance there was based strictly on merit as well [yeah, right.] Where are all the people who railed about Bush's legacy admission, which was hardly fair, given the fact that merit didn't seem to be involved in that either. It is wholly unseemly for the Obamas, who accessed every opportunity afforded them BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE, to be caterwauling about racial injustice. They even whine about how tough it is to work and raise children on a combined yearly income of $500K when talking to lower middle class audiences who are lucky if able to afford the child care required to allow single, or both, parents to work outside the home. I, for one, have no respect for cheap moralists like Barry Obama.

To: MJ who wrote (243988)	3/30/2008 4:04:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793647

We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated." I agree with Steyn that the striking thing is not just that Obama regards his pose back at college with an ironical distance; but that it is very difficult to figure out where he is coming from now, just what he settled on believing. Perhaps like Bill Clinton, Obama settled on believing that he has unique abilities to talk enemies round into harmony. It's easier to believe this if you don't have any ideological bedrock to founder on yourself; but experience will teach you that enemies are often enemies because they do.

To: MJ who wrote (243988)	3/30/2008 4:37:39 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793647

Does Obama say anything about his "stepfather", the man from Indonesia that his mother married....after his own father left to go away from the family, and then back to Kenya. Pediatricians tell us that the first 7 or 8 years are the MOST impressionable and the formative years.... These may tell the true story of Obama...