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

[petelargo]

exactly. you got my point. thank you.


Just bent wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "petelargo" <petelauritzen at earthlink.net>
> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 7:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] A really really white american backs Obama
> 
> 
>>
>> 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
>> > regularly appear. Sign up for the daily update. It's free. Just click
>> > here.
>> >
>> > 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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