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JJB1222 -> RE: Have you seen this Obama story? (8/8/2008 9:57:50 PM)
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ORIGINAL: TaoPoohBear
You forgot his left-wing socialist agenda.
It's all out there for the world to read - http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
Stuff like -
>"Our country's greatest military asset is the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States."
>Obama acknowledged that corruption was a problem that plagued both political parties. He subsequently enlisted the help of Republican allies to limit lobbyist influence, shine sunlight into the earmarks process and promote open government.
>Strong families raise successful children and keep communities together. While Senator Obama does not believe that we can simply legislate healthy families, good parenting skills or economic success, he does believe we can eliminate roadblocks that parents face and provide tools to help them succeed.
>The cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and states of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on ...
>Believes that every American has the right to affordable health care.
>Senator Obama is a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and has supported efforts to base homeland security spending on risk rather than pork-barrel politics.
>Barack Obama has been a lifelong advocate for the poor -- as a young college graduate, he rejected the high salaries of corporate America and moved to the South Side of Chicago to work as a community organizer. As an organizer, Obama worked with churches, Chicago residents and local government to set up job training programs for the unemployed and after school programs for kids.
All this sounds so lovely...and it should. It's from his website, where he puts his best foot forward. Too bad he's now tripping over those feet.
As for his "religious" upbringing...I wish he would make up his mind:
Barack Obama referred to his mother as "the dominant figure in my formative years... The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics."
when asked if her mother was an atheist, said, "I wouldn't have called her an atheist. She was an agnostic." quote from Barack's sister.
And yet for all her professed secularism, my mother was in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I've ever known."[22] Religion for her was "just one of the many ways — and not necessarily the best way — that man attempted to control the unknowable and understand the deeper truths about our lives," Obama wrote.[20] However, in 2007 Obama described his mother as "a Christian from Kansas." "I was raised by my mother", he continued. "So, I’ve always been a Christian."
How can one profess secularism and be a Christian?
In his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope Obama wrote, "I was not raised in a religious household...
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