Obama Displays Leadership

In his May 9 letter ["Race-Based Votes"], Alan Miner suggests that Sen. Barack Obama had "nothing but the color of his skin to recommend him" as a candidate to be the American president.

[PatrickCT]

Nothing to see here, just more race baiting from the Democrat side.

Alan Miner's letter is about why, despite her being a Republican, Yvonne Davis was voting for Obama because of his race.

Would that not be a "Race-Based Vote"?

I also take exception to you saying this about Obama...

Being fully versed in and inspired to protect the Constitution and the principles on which this country is built...

...when it is a blatant lie.

[clear glasses]

Obama is nothing more than a mooching and looting politician.

[linda]

Miner is a bitter racist. Obama is KING!!!

[Not leadership]

I like Obama. He's an inspiring orator who knows how to connect with audiences. He's exibited restraint and inclusiveness in his campaign and has appealed to the better parts of our nature...but he's not a leader. If anyone can name one piece of legislation that he proposed and saw through from start to finish please let me know. I fear that if elected his speeches will cease to amaze and his lack of leadership skills will constrain him to mediocrity. He's exibited a great many qualities I like but certainly not experience or leadership, at least not yet.

[linda]

Not leadership wrote:

I like Obama. He's an inspiring orator who knows how to connect with audiences. He's exibited restraint and inclusiveness in his campaign and has appealed to the better parts of our nature...but he's not a leader. If anyone can name one piece of legislation that he proposed and saw through from start to finish please let me know. I fear that if elected his speeches will cease to amaze and his lack of leadership skills will constrain him to mediocrity. He's exibited a great many qualities I like but certainly not experience or leadership, at least not yet.

Guarantee he will unite the country and bring our former allies back. He will undo what moron Bush has screwed up over the last 8 years.

[PatrickCT]

linda wrote:

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Guarantee he will unite the country and bring our former allies back. He will undo what moron Bush has screwed up over the last 8 years.

Your "guarantee" means squat, especially after your little rant three posts up. Futhur proof that race is a a Democratic problem, not a Republican one.

[A-Patriot]

linda wrote:

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Guarantee he will unite the country and bring our former allies back. He will undo what moron Bush has screwed up over the last 8 years.

Yeah, back to the 90's when we had money. Oh gee. That was Bill Clinton.

Unite...no, he is more that ever a divider. His own words from his book (tongue-in-cheek) he proclaimed himself black, wrapping himself in that color like a flag. His wife may be nice but she appears to be downright mean. If she is mean I do hope they hire someone to instruct her on the proper demeanor of a First Lady.

Yes, Bush is a moron, but we know that about him. We know nothing about Obama other the rhetoric he spews, his supporters on the other hand, these "new voters" are for the most part voting for him for one reason and one reason only, otherwise they would have registered and voted way before this time.

No, after his first and probably only term, we will be worse off than now.

[Jeff H]

linda wrote:

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Guarantee he will unite the country and bring our former allies back. He will undo what moron Bush has screwed up over the last 8 years.

Clinton and Carter (democrats) were the most divisive presidents of my adulthood. Obama would be no more a united than Moamar Khadafi. Probably les effective as president, too.

[Walter]

Jeff H wrote:

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Clinton and Carter (democrats) were the most divisive presidents of my adulthood. Obama would be no more a united than Moamar Khadafi. Probably les effective as president, too.

Whatever Haddam Hussein. Just more right wing BS. Makes no sense.

[Grampy]

Not leadership wrote:

I like Obama. He's an inspiring orator who knows how to connect with audiences. He's exibited restraint and inclusiveness in his campaign and has appealed to the better parts of our nature...but he's not a leader. If anyone can name one piece of legislation that he proposed and saw through from start to finish please let me know. I fear that if elected his speeches will cease to amaze and his lack of leadership skills will constrain him to mediocrity. He's exibited a great many qualities I like but certainly not experience or leadership, at least not yet.

Too many fall for his verbal three card monte. Voting "Present" in the Illinois legislature is far from leadership.

[Grampy]

linda wrote:

Miner is a bitter racist. Obama is KING!!!

Not yet but after the jihad he may appoint himself King.

[Walter]

A-Patriot wrote:

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....Yes, Bush is a moron, but...

I've heard that before.

[linda]

Obama has intelligence. Something the bush/cheney team has none of. Clinton was a great president, he would still be president if the constitution allowed it. Obama will be president, make no mistake about it. Bush will go down in history as the biggest f up ever. Obama will go down in history as the most brilliant and effective president ever. Case closed.

[PatrickCT]

linda wrote:

Obama has intelligence. Something the bush/cheney team has none of. Clinton was a great president, he would still be president if the constitution allowed it. Obama will be president, make no mistake about it. Bush will go down in history as the biggest f up ever. Obama will go down in history as the most brilliant and effective president ever. Case closed.

Linda, just because you say it, that doesn't make it true. You sound more like a child at a Hannah Montana concert than a rational adult voter. Frankly, your blind conviction and lack of any supporting argument merely reinforces my opinion of "Obamamaniacs".

[NoBama]

Linda,
Obama will go down in history all right, for going down. There is no way he is going to win. Too many people have a brain for that to happen. It takes a lot more than empty rhetoric and an extreme left wing political orientation to become president.
Clinton was great, he did so much to enable terrorism. Please thank him for releasing Osama bin Laden for me the next time you're under his desk...

[Bren]

clear glasses wrote:

Obama is nothing more than a mooching and looting politician.

We wish that he was just this!!!

He is a dangerous anti-American, racist, closet Muslim!!

His associations with radical American-Muslims, domestic terrorists, and other radical anti-Americans should make people cringe with fear----that he is trying to get into our White House.

His family members in Africa that belong to Muslim terrorist groups, should have disqualified him from any office within our government.

Hussein Obama does NOT belong anywhere near our White House!!!

[clear glasses]

PatrickCT wrote:

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Linda, just because you say it, that doesn't make it true. You sound more like a child at a Hannah Montana concert than a rational adult voter. Frankly, your blind conviction and lack of any supporting argument merely reinforces my opinion of "Obamamaniacs".

She fell for the promise of free bread and circuses.

[Howell]

Not leadership wrote:

I like Obama. He's an inspiring orator who knows how to connect with audiences. He's exibited restraint and inclusiveness in his campaign and has appealed to the better parts of our nature...but he's not a leader. If anyone can name one piece of legislation that he proposed and saw through from start to finish please let me know. I fear that if elected his speeches will cease to amaze and his lack of leadership skills will constrain him to mediocrity. He's exibited a great many qualities I like but certainly not experience or leadership, at least not yet.

George W. Bush was not a leader, but he was elected President. Yet, he did show great leadership after 9/11 and by going into Afghanistan after Bin Laden. But then he showed he was just a politician by going to war with Iraq (a war he thought he could win) in attempt to become a hero and secure his second term. He was successful at the latter since he won is second term based on fear. But when all is said and done, he will not be judged kindly by history.

[Howell]

linda wrote:

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Guarantee he will unite the country and bring our former allies back. He will undo what moron Bush has screwed up over the last 8 years.

Unfortunately, no President can unite us. It takes an event such as 9/11 to unite us as a nation. But all Presidents have divided us to some extent. Republican presidents typical divide us along racial lines. Democratic presidents divide us along class lines. Either way, it's for the same goal; making the capitalists wealthier.

So no, I don't think any of the candidates will unite us, or even divide us any further. The only thing they can do is make us look better in the eyes of the world. McCain for one will not do that. He will be stubborn, just as Bush. Clinton would be better. Obama would be better. He was born to and lived in different cultures. This knowledge is key and something our presidents (current and in the past) have lacked.

[Howell]

Grampy wrote:

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Not yet but after the jihad he may appoint himself King.

You give way too much power to the President of the United States. Our president isn't the president of some middle eastern country. Our president only has the power to respond to an attack against our nation. Everything else he does takes an act of congress.

Our president needs to an intelligent and creative thinker. But the people we elect to congress need to be twice as intelligent.