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Rants against McCain, defense of Obama.

Obama Dream Speech

By fredfuller - Oct 6th, 2008 at 4:49 pm EDT

Here is a speech I would love to hear Senator Barak Obama deliver:

I need to address a few words concerning the smears and character assassinations being promulgated by Senator McCain and Governor Sarah Palin.

First, better watch your back. Smears and character assassinations can come from me, too. If you continue, I will describe in detail your involvement, Senator McCain, in the Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980s. You were a member of the Keating Five, and although you were cleared of charges, you still are a member of the Keating Five. I have been cleared on my association with Ayres in fact check after fact check, so back off or I will get deeper into your involvement with Keating.

I would recommend your calling off your attack dog in lipstick because she has some explaining to do, also. Troopergate, which is still viable, firing of a librarian for not censoring books Palin wanted censored, and even though she rehired the librarian, it still shows the governor is a censor. As vice president what will she bowdlerize then?

Much more from Alaska is available, and I will make it famous if you persist.

Finally, Senator McCain, your smears have affected my wife and my little girls. I am thick-skinned and can take it because I know you are lying in most cases, but they are not thick-skinned. No one hurts my family. If you persist, we’ll re-acquaint the American people with how you dumped your first wife for a younger, more beautiful woman when you got back from your stay at the Hanoi Hilton. Carol McCain, your first wife, was broken like a glass doll from a car accident and was no longer the beauty queen you left behind to fight in Vietnam. Don’t force me to talk about your relationship with your present wife while Carol recuperated.

There’s a lot more Senator and you know it and you know I can verify it all unlike your assassinations, which are based on rumor.

Stick to the issues, John. All this offal your dishing out has nothing to do with how the American people will pay their mortgages, pay for health care, pay taxes, or do the myriad other things they need to do. I can help them do it, Senator. Apparently you cannot so you hide in the filth of smears and character assassination.

Right now I’m not angry because I know that politics is a dirty game; I’ve got dirt on me, too, just as all politicians have. But I’m warning you to back off, or I’ll cover you in manure even though I lose the election. You will not do to me what Bush did to John Kerry, and what he did to you, Senator McCain, in 2000.

For your sake and Governor Palin’s sake, do not get me angry. Yes, I am a half black man, and you can accuse me of being an angry black man, but if you do get me angry, you can honestly say you have an angry black man on your tail.

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Scrutinize With a Fine-Toothed Comb

By fredfuller - Sep 9th, 2008 at 3:11 pm EDT

Becoming a candidate for president or vice president is tantamount to stripping naked in a department store window and allowing the public to look at you thoroughly. That’s good and bad.

It’s good because who and what the candidates are should be open; we, the citizens, need to know to whom we are entrusting our country. The whole idea behind our federated republic, governed by means of a system called democracy, is to allow other people to represent us and make decisions on our behalf. So, we gotta know who to trust.

Close scrutiny is bad mainly for the person being scrutinized because in our zeal to know, we allow unbridled curiosity to take over and snoop into places that have nothing to do with how an individual will serve. Unfortunately, giving rein to our curiosity, we believe lies about candidates. We do not research the lies but hold them dear in order to defend why we support one candidate over another.

John Kerry in 2004 was smeared by lies from the swift-boaters. Many voters went to Bush because they believed those scurrilous lies to be fact. Senator Obama has been accused of being a Muslim when it has been proven he has been a Christian all his life. But many do and will believe he is Muslim in order to have an excuse to vote against him. It is sad that most American voters are ignorant and will do nothing to become informed.

Now John McCain has been spared great smearing because we dare not smear such an illustrious war hero. For all we know McCain is a POW survivor and, depending on definition, a hero. I have found nothing to corroborate the status of hero, but that does not make it untrue. However, true or untrue his being a hero has nothing to do with his ability to be president and it does not exclude him from heavy scrutiny.

Obama, too, has been scrutinized. His service as Illinois state senator is open to anyone who wants to take the time to find it and read it. While in the state senate he sponsored and /or authored 800 bills, pieces of legislation that went before the senate for passage. How many were passed is not important to anyone familiar with how a senate operates, but he did sponsor them.

He has been in the U.S. Senate for two years plus. In that time he has sponsored 37 bills. His attendance record is not the best, 45.5%. He has voted on 360 pieces of legislation.

McCain has the worst attendance record, failing to show up over 60% of the time, but castigating his fellow senators for taking a recess when a critical housing bill was on the floor. Of course, McCain went to Florida during that time. When it comes to experience, even with his 26 years as a lawmaker, McCain does not have the experience Obama has.

Truth is no one has experience to be president except the person finishing his first term. Want to know who has experience? Ask Jimmy Carter, George H.W.Bush, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. The issue of experience, in my opinion, is a non-issue, especially now that Governor Palin is in the game.

Indeed Joe Biden seems to have escaped much scrutiny. Maybe we know all about him after the years he has spent in the Senate. Besides, he isn’t young, pretty or a hockie mom.

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Stick to Issues

By fredfuller - Aug 21st, 2008 at 1:25 pm EDT

John McCain's not knowing how many houses he owns in funny, but it is not an issue. Foreclosures is the issue and the people caught up in it. Please, Senator Obama, stick to the issues as you have been doing, and leave the mud slinging to McCain, whose hands are already filthy

Here is a letter I wrote to the Roanoke (Virginia) Times after hearing the senator speak last night in Lynchburg, VA:

My fiancée and I went to the Obama rally in Lynchburg Wednesday and heard the young man speak. He is truly the best orator I have heard since Bill Clinton, and I think he is better that Clinton.

Maybe I was caught up in the energy coming from the crowd shouting Obama’s name and pledging support, but I believed him. We were privileged to sit behind the platform, so we were close enough to observe his face.

I tried to close out the noise and listen carefully to his words and to observe his face as he delivered them. What I saw was sincerity, youthful sincerity that is passionate and clean.

Yes, he is a politician, a professional politician, but I believe he is not as deeply stained as politicians who have been in the fray for many years. I think one cannot be in politics and not get stained, and Obama is smudged to be sure.

But I do not think he is jaded and cynical. He appears to still carry that wonderful exuberance we see in children who are focused on a goal they intend to achieve. The sewage that has been flung at him from the ultra right, conservative bloggers and, in my opinion, other bloggers who are insane—calling him the Anti-Christ—and from his opponent’s campaign has not stuck.

He is not oblivious to the dirt because he mentioned some in passing, but he is brilliant enough to know that the sewage is not what the campaign is about. He sticks to issues, refreshing in light of the smears we have to endure.

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Age and the Presidency

By fredfuller - Aug 5th, 2008 at 3:10 pm EDT

Would anyone disagree that being president of the United States is the most demanding job in the world? Some would, no doubt, but analyzing the presidency reveals that it is unique among political jobs around the world precisely because it involves the whole world. Many times a week were hear the president called the most powerful person on the planet, and evidently that is true if we consider how he is the focus of most all nations. The president is the United States everywhere, not just the representative of the U.S. but the nation itself in the minds people in all countries.

The presidency is not a 9 to 5 job, although Ronald Reagan tried to make it so by attempting to close down the West Wing at 5 p.m. It didn't work. The job is forever in terms of hours. Presidents do not "sleep in" or take regular naps because the world does not sleep in or nap. Decisions have to be made almost immediately, and the reason for making decisions, which have the potential of changing life as we know it on earth, have to be interpreted clearly. If a president is drunk, an accusation made of Richard Nixon, decisions are compromised. If any impediment to clear thinking is present, disaster could happen. And if we look candidly at presidential decisions of the past, we may wonder if the president was thinking clearly at the time.

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Obvious Terror Takes Over McCain Campaign

By fredfuller - Aug 5th, 2008 at 2:58 pm EDT

John McCain is terrified of Barak Obama. He has looked around and sees that the young senator from Illinois can and possibly will be the next president. Shades of the last presidential race when Bush, i.e. Karl Rove, realized John Kerry could win. So, he, Rove, launched the Swift Boats, and the generally ignorant American voters bought it. (Rove saw McCain creeping up on Bush in the North Carolina primary and gutted him like a fish with telephone ads alleging McCain had fathered a baby by a North Korean woman while he was a POW. South Carolina voters bought it and McCain went down in flames.)

Now the old man from Arizona is trying to make Obama into a shallow Hollywoodesque celebrity because Obama is the man of the hour.

Here is my appeal to John McCain: I think it will backfire, Senator John, because anyone with half a brain, which it is doubtful many American voters have, know that your attack stems from fear and jealously. Look, senator, John F. Kennedy was the media darling of 1959. Crowds figuratively killed each other to see him, hear him and touch him. Few by comparison wanted to see Richard Nixon. It also was said Kennedy did not have the experience to lead, but when he crushed Tricky Dick in debates, most Americas changed their minds.

You're right, though, Obama is a celebrity. People want to see and hear a candidate that has something new to say, something dynamic and different to offer. Yeah, he's making promises he will not be able to keep, but so are you and so has every candidate for president since George Washington. If a president keeps all his promises he will not be much of a president because he will not be looking at the "moment" and deciding what best to do.

And yeah, some of his ideas will not work, but neither will yours. No president has had or will have all the answers, except Bush in Bush's mind. Finally, yeah, he doesn't have a vast amount of experience to be president, but neither do you. The only person with experience to be president is the president who enters his second term. None of your years has made you ready, or readier, because you have never been a president or a governor. Where have you ever led? In the Service? Please, you were shot down and imprisoned before you could lead. Please get off that kick.

However, you are singing a familiar and boring old tune, called "Carry Me Back to 2001 WB (With Bush)". You and George are joined at the hip. The only thing that will change if you are elected will be your body seated in the Oval Office; Bush's brain will drive you. John, people want to see the Bush years over. Even many of your GOP comrades want to see it over. That's why Obama is a star and that's why you're scared out of your mind and jealous as a jilted lover. Like T.S. Eliot's "Prufrock", you're old, you wear the bottoms of your trousers rolled, and you're borrrring.

Mr. McCain, go back to Arizona, enjoy your wife's money, slosh around in your war hero spotlight (You were once a celebrity, too. Remember?), and leave us alone. Your day is done. (As is mine at 69.) Obama's generation is taking over, just like JFK's New Generation of Americans. As JFK admonished, "ask what you can do for your country." The answer, dear old man, is to crawl off home and wait for death to take you as it does everyone. Enjoy your sunset years; believe me, they're wonderful.

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