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To: bentway who wrote (575007)	7/5/2010 11:55:26 AM
From: Jim McMannis	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570742

That's true but now we have to figure a way to get rid of him before he does more damage on top of what Bush did.

To: bentway who wrote (575007)	7/5/2010 12:00:52 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570742

>> Just electing a black president will have an enormous global impact. It has shown America and the world that "blackness" isn't a sufficient qualification for the presidency.

To: bentway who wrote (575007)	7/5/2010 12:14:54 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1570742

" in a country that was one of the last to give up slavery" wrong, big time wrong. in fact it's still going on in many countries of the world. But keep flogging yourself with your silly white guilt. PS I don't vote for someone because of the color of their skin, that would be stupid and racist

To: bentway who wrote (575007)	7/5/2010 12:35:12 PM
From: d[-_-]b	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1570742

in another way, that prize was for us, the voters that elected Obama. We elected a black president Hopefully in 2012 we can get another for electing a competent president. Just electing a black president will have an enormous global impact. Really - how? Every young black American can now legitimately aspire to the presidency They all wanted free houses and gas from what I recall of the election - documented on youtube thousands of times.

To: bentway who wrote (575007)	7/5/2010 12:38:11 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1570742

" Every young black American can now legitimately aspire to the presidency." after watching Obama play and party everyday without doing any work, I can see why.

To: bentway who wrote (575007)	7/5/2010 12:56:23 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 1570742

"Yes, we CAN!" The only thing the greatest country in the history of this planet is doing right now is drowning in debts and being strangled with entitlements. Thomas Jefferson "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." "The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead." "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. " "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. " "We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country." "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

To: bentway who wrote (575007)	7/5/2010 3:01:08 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1570742

Just electing a black president will have an enormous global impact. Just electing a female president would have had the same 'enormous' (not so sure about this magnitude in any of the 2 cases) global contact. Or electing a hispanic - or why not American Indian? - president, which no doubt will be regulated by some soon-to-come law covering the distribution of the US presidency according to ethnic and gender differences. Frankly speaking, I had no problem with the election of a mixed race, in this case black/white US president at all, just wish he had been a person with the competency to handle the job and thus living up to the expectations of the 3rd world. /Taro