3 Strikes you’re out John – Obama wins again

I was secretly hoping that McClain come on strong tonight in the last debate just so President Obama had some type of challenge. But I was wrong. McCain ran around the ring like a chicken without a head and Obama kept hitting until McCain appears weak, tired and older by the minute.

McCain took cheap shots after cheap shots and of course our man Obama remains calm, cool and collective as usual. When asked about their choice for Vice Presidents, Obama spoke of Palin’s leadership as Mayor and Governor. McCain shot down Biden over and over again. When McCain went for the undercut and brought up Obama’s association to so-called terrorist, he calmly step back and went for the left side. Obama still didn’t mention any of McCain’s associations.

McCains condescending attitude toward Obama truly shows his true colors. If only we could hear McCain’s thoughts while Obama speaks, our skin would quiver.

At the end, McCain looks drained, lost and angry. Questions asked of the moderator to McCain went unanswered and confused. I checked in with Fox News just to be fair and they also agreed Obama wins.

Who the hell is Joe the Plumber?

Yes they printed BARACK OSAMA on NY Ballots

In a move that does not surprise me or anyone else with decent intelligence, the Republicans are really getting nasty. So nasty in fact that they shocked themselves for going there.

Absentee ballots sent to voters in New York State’s Rensselaer County, near Albany, were printed with Barack Obama’s last name spelled as “Osama,” the Albany Times Union reports. Officials tell the newspaper that it was a typo that made it by three rounds of proof-readers. Three rounds folks, three rounds.

Although they admit that only a few hundred made it out to voters, but the damage has been done and no-one knows really the impact.

Oh yeah… they also claimed that it was a typo by mixing the letter “S” and “B”. Even though the letters are in two different rows and not even close to each other.

They also called it a Freudian slip. That’s just another word to confused folks. A Freudian slip is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is believed to be caused by the subconscious mind. In another word, you actually were thinking it.

Republican officials were apologetic. “We have three different staff members who proof these things and somehow the typo got by us,” said Republican Commissioner Larry Bugbee. “We really apologize.”

And of course as usual the Obama camp did not panic, instead or abused the situation as would others. “We’re glad officials are working to correct this error and we assume it won’t happen again,” Obama spokesman Blake Zeff said.

Cant wait to see what else they come with.

 

 

Obama…Calm Cool and Collective

This is how we’re describing President Obama (sounds good doesn’t it) here at WGYB (wegotyourblack).

Calm Cool and Collective…

The debate last night just shows that McCain has no chance of winning. Even some Republicans are quoted saying that the game is over, call off the dogs, the fat lady is singing. If you haven’t seen this debate, please find it and watch it. Obama was at his best, his demeanor was GQ like as opposed to the paranoid, can’t sit down, obnoxious giggle John McCain. Obama kept his eyes on McCain the entire night while that other one avoided eye contact as much as possible.

Obama really showed us that he is educated, well spoken and ready to be President. McCain showed us that he needs to go somewhere and enjoy his fake 6 o’clock shaped wife that has no purpose but being a president’s wife wannabe.

Time Magazine said, quote:

Barack Obama ran that classic, careful late-game offense Tuesday night in the second of three presidential debates this fall. Ahead in the polls, he was safe, cautious, disciplined and boring — and nothing John McCain attempted was enough to lure him into recklessness. By the end of the evening at Belmont University in Nashville, McCain was 90 minutes closer to running out of time.

CNN said, quote:

Obama has made substantial gains since the first debate, and much of that is largely because of the financial crisis. Voters clearly want a change. But this debate only cemented his presidential persona. He’s in the process of closing the deal with the American voters.

Associated Press said, quote:

WASHINGTON – Republican John McCain, lagging in the polls, was unable to gain ground in the U.S. presidential campaign in his second debate with Democrat Barack Obama.

Fox Clueless News seems to be the only last night praising McCain. On their site they’re still talking about Obama being a radical candidate. Get a clue…

McCain referred to Obama as “That One” last night. We all know what he really was thinking and wanted to say.

I could mention Sarah Imbecile Palin in this article, but I digress…

A letter to McCain from Rogert Ebert

Rogert Ebert was so moved and disgusted with the way McCain treated Obama the night of the debate, he felt compelled to write him a letter. I couldn’t agree with you more Ebert. Thank you for letting us here your true feeling. We’ve all seen this ass on TV calling himself a Maverick, but a true Maverick looks another man in the eye when you shake his hand.

From Ebert:

I do not like you, John McCain. My feeling has nothing to do with issues. It has to do with common courtesy. During the debate, you refused to look Barack Obama in the eye. Indeed, you refused to look at him at all. Even when the two of you shook hands at the start, you used your eyes only to locate his hand, and then gazed past him as you shook it.

Obama is my guy. If you are rude to him, you are rude to me. If you came to dinner at my house and refused to look at or speak with one of my guests, that would be bad manners and I would be offended. Same thing if I went to your house. During the debate, you were America’s guest.

What was your problem? Do you hold this man in such contempt that you cannot bear to gaze upon him? Will you not even speak to him directly? Do you think he doesn’t have the right to be running for President?
Were you angry because after you said you wouldn’t attend the debate, he said a President should be able to concern himself with two things at the same time? He was right. The proof is, you were there. Were you angry with him because he called your bluff?

During the debate, Jim Lehrer repeatedly called upon both candidates to speak directly to each other. Obama looked at you. He addressed you as “John,” which as a fellow senator is his privilege. His body language was open. You stared straight ahead, or at Lehrer, or into space. Your jaw was clinched. You had a tight little smile, or a grimace, or a little shake of your head.

I had to do two things at once while watching the debate. I had to listen to what was being said. And I had to process your rigid and contemptuous behavior. If you were at a wedding and the father of the groom refused to look at or speak to the bride, how would that make you feel? Especially if you were the father of the bride?

You made a TV commercial showing the moments Obama agreed with you. Everybody knows he did. Did his agreement show honesty, or weakness? It is significant that you said it proved he was not ready to lead.

What is the better leadership quality: (1) Willingness to listen to your opponent, and keep an open mind? (2) Rigidly ignoring him? Which of the two of you better demonstrated the bipartisan spirit you say you represent? Was there anything he said that you agreed with? Could you have brought yourself to say so?

I’m not the only one who noticed your odd, hostile behavior. Just about everybody did. I’m sure many of your supporters must have sensed the tension. Before the debate, pundits were wondering if you might explode in a display of your famous temper. I think we saw that happen, all right, but it was an implosion. I have instructed my wife to exclude you from any future dinner parties.

All about Barack Obama

Obama is the first African American to be nominated by a major political party for president. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel. After announcing his presidential campaign in February 2007, Obama emphasized withdrawing American troops from Iraq, energy independence, decreasing the influence of lobbyists, and promoting universal health care as top national priorities.

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Obama, Sr., a black Kenyan of Nyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a White American from Wichita, Kansas. His parents met while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student. They separated when he was two years old and later divorced. Obama’s father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982. After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro’s home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in 1979. Obama’s mother returned to Hawaii in 1972 for several years and then back to Indonesia for her fieldwork. She died of ovarian cancer in 1995. As an adult Obama admitted that during high school he used marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol, which he described at the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency as his greatest moral failure.

 

Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations. Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983, then worked for a year at the Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.

After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago’s far South Side.  During his three years as the DCP’s director, its staff grew from one to thirteen and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants’ rights organization in Altgeld Gardens. Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute. In mid-1988, he traveled for the first time to Europe for three weeks and then for five weeks in Kenya, where he met many of his Kenyan relatives for the first time.

Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. At the end of his first year, he was selected, based on his grades and a writing competition, as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. In February 1990, in his second year, he was elected president of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the Law Review’s staff of eighty editors. Obama’s election as the first black president of the Law Review was widely reported and followed by several long, detailed profiles. During his summers, he returned to Chicago where he worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990. After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.

The publicity from his election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a publishing contract and advance for a book about race relations. In an effort to recruit him to their faculty, the University of Chicago Law School provided Obama with a fellowship and an office to work on his book. He originally planned to finish the book in one year, but it took much longer as the book evolved into a personal memoir. In order to work without interruptions, Obama and his wife, Michelle, traveled to Bali where he wrote for several months. The manuscript was finally published in mid-1995 as Dreams from My Father.

Obama met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in June 1989 when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin. Assigned for three months as Obama’s adviser at the firm, Robinson joined him at group social functions, but declined his initial offers to date. They began dating later that summer, became engaged in 1991, and were married on October 3, 1992. The couple’s first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998, followed by a second daughter, Natasha (“Sasha”), in 2001.

Applying the proceeds of a book deal,  the family moved in 2005 from a Hyde Park, Chicago condominium to their current $1.6 million house in neighboring Kenwood.  The purchase of an adjacent lot and sale of part of it to Obama by the wife of developer and friend Tony Rezko attracted media attention because of Rezko’s indictment and subsequent conviction on political corruption charges that were unrelated to Obama.

In December 2007, Money magazine estimated the Obama family’s net worth at $1.3 million.  Their 2007 tax return showed a household income of $4.2 million—up from about $1 million in 2006 and $1.6 million in 2005—mostly from sales of his books.

In a 2006 interview, Obama highlighted the diversity of his extended family. “Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it’s like a little mini-United Nations,” he said. “I’ve got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I’ve got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher.” Obama has seven half-siblings from his Kenyan father’s family, six of them living, and a half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, the daughter of his mother and her Indonesian second husband. Obama’s mother is survived by her Kansas-born mother, Madelyn Dunham. In Dreams from My Father, Obama ties his mother’s family history to possible Native American ancestors and distant relatives of Jefferson Davis, president of the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War.

Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school’s varsity team. Before announcing his presidential candidacy, he began a well-publicized effort to quit smoking. Obama told the Chicago Tribune. “I’ve quit periodically over the last several years. I’ve got an ironclad demand from my wife that in the stresses of the campaign I do not succumb.”

Obama is a Christian whose religious views have evolved in his adult life. In The Audacity of Hope, Obama writes that he “was not raised in a religious household.” He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents (whom Obama has specified elsewhere as “non-practicing Methodists and Baptists”) to be detached from religion, yet “in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known.” He describes his Kenyan father as “raised a Muslim,” but a “confirmed atheist” by the time his parents met, and his Indonesian stepfather as “a man who saw religion as not particularly useful.” In the book, Obama explains how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand “the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change.”

Our Man Obama

I love reading these negative articles about Obama. Not because I want to give them credit, but because they are ridiculous. They are obviously written to hurt him, hurt us as a people and to try to take us back about 50-60 years. All I have to say is:

“ya’ll better wake up, cause’ we’re bout to take it over”

 
I’m going to copy and paste some exact quote from some of these so-called writers and feel free to voice your opinion:

• To be sure, were Obama to be elected, his presidency would be a great step forward in this country, haunted as we are the specter of our racist past. However, is it worth to gain this milestone at the expense of electing a man wholly unqualified for the office? Merely paying lip service to such intangible ideals such as “change” and “diversity” will not make our country safer nor our economy stronger. Unfortunately, it appears that Barack Obama simply does not have the appropriate qualifications to be president. Written by R.S. Cochran is a college English professor, a lifefong Democrat.

Well, let me break it down for you happy go lucky folks that truly believe that our man Obama is not qualified. Read these resume my friend and let me know if you need more.

Obama:
          Occidental College (Los Angeles) – 2 years studying Politics and Public Policy.
          Columbia University (New York) – B.A. Political Science with a specialization in International Relations.
          Harvard Law School – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude, Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Law Review.
 Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in History and a B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)
McCain:
United States Naval Academy – Class rank 894 of 899.
Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester – Business Administration.
North Idaho College – 2 semesters – General Studies.
University of Idaho – 2 semesters – Journalism.
Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester.
University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism.

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