C_Fox's Blog

I edited this, but for some reason the editing didn't show up. Obama tood 64% of the vote in Mississippi, not ninety. But, 90% of those votes were from blacks. Also corrected other things but....

Sorry, now it can't be done again.

I too have asked Obama supporters why they want to have him as our next president and have gotten no real answers. I think for the most part C Fox, this blog is accurate. I tend to disagree with your "Catholics and Protestants only trusting those of their religion" though. If that were true no Catholics would have voted since the sixties, except for Teddy. And I know that's not true. It is a sad statement for our country that people vote for or against race or gender. It leaves the issues out of the circle. My main concern for the next president is the economy. Gas prices, unemployment, etc. I want the next CIC to be dependable, honest, humble. Oops. That can never happen. Seriously though I do want the next President to be aware of where this country is headed and try to catch it before it crashes. What's important to American people seems to fall on deaf ears when it comes to government. Education funding, homelessness, health care. I could go on and on.

Even Oprah is guilty of it. She backed Hillary up until a black man was running. Then she jumped right on the Obama bandwagon.

sirB, I saw something on a political/news program that someone had e-mailed in after Bill Clinton's comments about South Carolina that raised the very same point. This person had said "Bill Clinton didn't make Obama the "black candidate", Oprah did." And it's sadly true.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Obama is a great orator. That said, we as a country need to be asking him the unsaid portion of his US Senate slogan. "Yes We Can"- do what? Even though I'm a younger woman, I don't really like the idea of Hillary in the White House. But, she has at least offered some feasible ideas. I'm at the point in this cycle where "historic" campaigns of ANY stripe really don't matter to me. (Question for you folks, speaking of "historic". Would Mitt Romney's campaign also be "historic" if he hadn't stepped aside?) Electing Deval Patrick here was also "historic", and look where that's gotten us. I don't really want to wake up on January 10th, 2009 to find out we as a country are even more screwed than we were on January 9th.

Xantun, I think Romney's election would be historic only in the sense that we have never had a Mormon President before; we have had other religions that vary. But, for some odd reason a lot of people see Mormons as extreme or too distant from their own beliefs. It doesn't matter that he said his religion would not dictate his decisions. Actually, don't they all say that?

And, those voting for Hillary because they are curious as to how a woman would handle the Presidency seems like a rather risky reason to vote for her. We've seen how other women have handled leadership in other countries; its not like we've never heard of one before. I was actually thinking about Condi as a possibility seeing as she is very experienced in foreign affairs and we need someone like that for our next President in view of the overseas problems we face. But, apparently, she really doesn't want the job. (She's smarter than I thought! LOL)

And, Obama; look at what his platform consists of. He has promised the world to every organization, every special interest group, ever concerned parent and worker in this country...but what's new? He's just promised more than most. You name the issue, he's going to fix it. Yet, he says he wants to increase federal funding. How? Does he want the Fed Reserve to print up money (which increases debt), or is he talking about increasing taxes? See, he doesn't really say. He doesn't specify a lot of things. He's very non-committal which leaves him the ability to flip-flop without criticism. Smart man. And what about when he won't be able to fulfill all

Xantum, I agree with you. Obama is a great orator with nothing substantive to say. Yet his words (or smething ) seem to move people.
Which is scary because you hvwhe no idea what he really believes in if anything
weve seen the danger of pursuasive orators in Adolph Hitler

Obama's campaign for change has more substance than you might think. There's a lot of content on his website if you care to look into it.McCain is running to continue the politics of Bush. We've seen it for eight years with Bush and we know what it's like. In that context, Obama's ''change'' agenda is quite clear.

An aside to Chip...I'd love to know which experts say it would help Al Qaeda if we pulled out of Iraq. If pulling out of Iraq helps Al Qaeda, that's more proof that we never should have invaded Iraq at all, which is a reason to vote for Obama.

I'd also like to know why, specifically, Chip would support Powell. Powell is probably the posterboy for RINO.

C_Fox, you're saying Condi is good at foreign policy?

Xantun is your point Obama is successful because he's a good campaigner? Isn't that the point?

MattyGee -

Do you just MEMORIZE the blurbs from the MoveOn.rog website?

On spot NorthernObserver!

And in response to MattyG:

I have seen his website; he wants to "change" everything! Heck we all want to change most everything, but have you noticed how he intends to make these changes?

If he becomes President (groan), get ready to dig deeper into your pockets; his plan for "change" is to give the Federal Budget more money...that's on his website, too. And guess where he intends to get it from?

You're right, NO...our government has no money. The money being spent comes from the Federal Reserve that they print up out of thin air, gives it to our Government for redistribution and charges our government for the use of it. The government turns around and puts that borrowed money on our shoulders via taxes so they can pay back the loans to the FED. Are you aware that 40% of your tax dollars goes towards this usury charge by the FED? And are you aware that the FED is a privately owned system consisting of 12 international banks...it is not a government run system?