[Rhodes22-list] A really really white american backs Obama

[JbTek]

I don't understand why people seem to always go to race. It doesn't matter
what color Mr. Adelman is......it doesn't matter what color, or race Obama
is.
You have to look at what a person does, not what they say or what color they
are.
I agree that McCain totally blew that "financial crisis". That was a joke. I
think he lost it right there.
Best thing he could have done would have been to vote against "the rescue
package".

Jb

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Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 7:33 AM
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>
> Mr Adelman, a policy analyst and former official in Ronald Reagan's
> administration, told the New Yorker writer George Packer that
"temperament"
> and "judgement" were his main reasons for switching sides.
>
> "When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the
> place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent and
> imprudent; ending up just plain weird," he said. Having worked with
> President Reagan for seven years, including three crucial summits with
> President Gorbachev, Mr Adelman said he "concluded that that's no way a
> president can act under pressure".
>
> In common with General Powell and other sceptical Republicans, Mr Adelman
> questioned Mr McCain's choice of a running mate. "That decision showed
> appalling lack of judgement. Not only is Sarah Palin not close to being
> acceptable in high office - I would not have hired her for even a
mid-level
> post in the arms control agency," he said.
>
> Choosing the Alaska governor "contradicted" Mr McCain's two main campaign
> themes - "Country First and experience counts" , he added. Mr Adelman
> admitted two years ago that he regretted urging military action in Iraq
and
> had over-estimated the capabilities of the Bush administration.
>
> Some political pundits believe his defection is more significant than that
> of Mr Powell because Mr Adelman comes from inside the conservative
movement.
>
>
>
> Tootle wrote:
> >
> > Not all black men are sheep.  Here is the opinion of one who is not:
> >
> > Oct. 29, 2008
> > A perfect storm
> > By Thomas Sowell
> >
> > http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Some elections are routine, some are
> > important and some are historic. If Senator John McCain wins this
> > election, it will probably go down in history as routine. But if Senator
> > Barack Obama wins, it is more likely to be historic— and catastrophic.
> >
> > Once the election is over, the glittering generalities of rhetoric and
> > style will mean nothing. Everything will depend on performance in facing
> > huge challenges, domestic and foreign.
> >
> > Performance is where Barack Obama has nothing to show for his political
> > career, either in Illinois or in Washington.
> >
> > Policies that he proposes under the banner of "change" are almost all
> > policies that have been tried repeatedly in other countries— and failed
> > repeatedly in other countries.
> >
> > Politicians telling businesses how to operate? That's been tried in
> > countries around the world, especially during the second half of the
20th
> > century. It has failed so often and so badly that even socialist and
> > communist governments were freeing up their markets by the end of the
> > century.
> >
> > Every weekday NewsAndOpinion.com publishes what many in the media and
> > Washington consider "must-reading". HUNDREDS of columnists and
cartoonists
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> >
> > The economies of China and India began their take-off into high rates of
> > growth when they got rid of precisely the kinds of policies that Obama
is
> > advocating for the United States under the magic mantra of "change."
> >
> > Putting restrictions on international trade in order to save jobs at
home?
> > That was tried here with the Hawley-Smoot tariff during the Great
> > Depression.
> >
> > Unemployment was 9 percent when that tariff was passed to save jobs, but
> > unemployment went up instead of down, and reached 25 percent before the
> > decade was over.
> >
> > Higher taxes to "spread the well around," as Obama puts it? The idea of
> > redistributing wealth has turned into the reality of redistributing
> > poverty, in countries where wealth has fled and the production of new
> > wealth has been stifled by a lack of incentives.
> >
> > Economic disasters, however, may pale by comparison with the catastrophe
> > of Iran with nuclear weapons. Glib rhetoric about Iran being "a small
> > country," as Obama called it, will be a bitter irony for Americans who
> > will have to live in the shadow of a nuclear threat that cannot be
> > deterred, as that of the Soviet Union could be, by the threat of a
nuclear
> > counter-attack.
> >
> > Suicidal fanatics cannot be deterred. If they are willing to die and we
> > are not, then we are at their mercy— and they have no mercy. Moreover,
> > once they get nuclear weapons, that is a situation which cannot be
> > reversed, either in this generation or in generations to come.
> >
> > Is this the legacy we wish to leave our children and grandchildren, by
> > voting on the basis of style and symbolism, rather than substance?
> >
> > If Barack Obama thinks that such a catastrophe can be avoided by sitting
> > down and talking with the leaders of Iran, then he is repeating a
fallacy
> > that helped bring on World War II.
> >
> > In a nuclear age, one country does not have to send troops to occupy
> > another country in order to conquer it. A country is conquered if
another
> > country can dictate who rules it, as the Mongols once did with Russia,
and
> > as Osama bin Laden tried to do when he threatened retaliation against
> > places in the United States that voted for George W. Bush. But he didn't
> > have nuclear weapons to back up that threat— yet.
> >
> > America has never been a conquered country, so it may be very hard for
> > most Americans even to conceive what that can mean. After France was
> > conquered in 1940, it was reduced to turning over some of its own
innocent
> > citizens to the Nazis to kill, just because those citizens were Jewish.
> >
> > Do you think our leaders wouldn't do that? Not even if the alternative
was
> > to see New York and Los Angeles go up in mushroom clouds? If I were
> > Jewish, I wouldn't bet my life on that.
> >
> > What the Middle East fanatics want is not just our resources or even our
> > lives, but our humiliation first, in whatever sadistic ways they can
think
> > of. Their lust for humiliation has already been repeatedly demonstrated
in
> > their videotaped beheadings that find such an eager market in the Middle
> > East.
> >
> > None of this can be prevented by glib talk, but only by character,
courage
> > and decisive actions— none of which Barack Obama has ever demonstrated.
> >
> > Posted by
> > Ed K
> >
>
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