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  • Obama "Talk the Talk...but can he Walk the Walk" Part 2

    Obama “Talk the Talk… but can he Walk the Walk” Part 2 In 1999, Barack Obama was faced with a difficult vote in the Illinois legislature — to support a bill that would let some juveniles be tried as adults, a position that risked drawing fire from African-Americans, or to oppose it, possibly undermining his image as a tough-on-crime moderate. ...
    Posted to XX Factor by MiamiVice on August 8, 2008
  • I Liked Ike -- Now I Like Mike - HUCKABEE, that is

    I liked everything I heard about Mike Huckabee, even before he started running in earnest for his Party's Nomination to be our next U.S. President. The more I learned about Mike Huckabee, the better I liked his candidacy. Further, he is a very well-spoken and persuasive guy, with that down-to-Earth Midwestern style I always liked about ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on July 8, 2008
  • Men vs Women Dems vs Repubs Black vs White Hitch vs Me

    The Black community is expert at tearing down it's Black Men, from children who dis Daddy, to womenfolk who dismiss their menfolk contemptuously, to ''Black on Black'' street violence and Black racism directed not just at Whites, but at other Blacks as well. You can see this everywhere you look in our ''post-Martin Luther King's success'' American ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on May 6, 2008
  • Obama's unconscious loathing of America

    Obama would appear to be the very embodiment of hubris. However, that hubris masks a deeply conflicted individual riven with intense resentments. As he attempts to conceal his (record of) disdain for mainstream (''white'') Americans we ought to bear in mind that he has always gotten through the door so to speak, because he was a charismatic, ...
    Posted to Politics by MJM on March 20, 2008