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Hope Restored

By newone - May 1st, 2008 at 12:41 pm EDT

Well its been a few days now since my last blog where I was really saddened about the Rev. Wright issue and said a lot of things but it was how I felt at the time. I still disagree with the way sen. obama dissociated himself from his former pastor but I have a better understanding of why he did it. I saw Barack & Michelle together talking to some Indiana folks in park and the chemistry and sincerity between them and what they said was quite touching. Whatever happens in this race it is clear they love each other and their children and I believe that should always be the most important thing in their lives. I also understood that although wanting to POTUS requires great ambition it also requires an even greater sacrifice and I do appreciate what this wonderful couple and their children are sacrificing for the sake of attaining public office to help their country.

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Losing Hope

By newone - Apr 29th, 2008 at 6:29 pm EDT

This might just be the last time I log into this community...I've got a feeling Sen. Obama is losing me. Fortunately I am from the UK and not eligible to vote anyway. I believe some things are more important than political ambition like family and integrity and rightly or wrongly I believe Sen. Obama compromised his integrity today by denouncing Rev. Wright and putting a question mark over his future attendance of his church. Hillary Clinton, Elisabeth Hasselbach, Sean Hannity and the MSM have been Barack for weeks now to renounce Rev. Wright at the height of the original controversy but he did not and I was so proud of Senator Obama for this. Today Senator Obama is outraged at comments Rev. Wright made yesterday and disappointed in the spectacle enough so to distance himself from Rev. Wright and quite possibly the church itself....something Hillary Clinton, Elisabeth Hassebach, Sean Hannity and the MSM have been wondering why he hadn't done so in 20 years. Well it seems they have got their wish and Senator Obama has bowed to whatever pressure he may have been under for political gain. But you know what the Rev. Wright issue is not going to disappear just because Sen. Obama has now renounced and rejected him. So now we have a situation where most Obama and non-Obama supporters are united in their dislike of Rev. Wright, I guess that it unifying in one sense. Senator Obama's action today is going to raise the same questions about his judgement about associating with Rev. Wright for 20 years as they have done in the past weeks but this time with more legitimacy because I am one Obama supporter who is wondering if Obama if 'outraged' by whatever it is that Rev Wright said or did at yesterday's press conference (I'm trying to work out what actually caused the outrage) then why has he been a member of his church for 20 years? Sen. Obama does not seriously expect me to believe that he has not seen this kind of behaviour from Rev Wright in the 20 years of being a member of his church. The only conclusion I can draw is that Sen. Obama is playing same old Washington politics that he says he wants to change. My faith and hope in Senator Obama took a severe knock today.

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Rev Wright Controversy On This Site

By newone - Apr 25th, 2008 at 7:03 am EDT

I am really saddened to see some people's reactions to Rev. Wright giving a TV interview. We all love Barack and pray for him always but the opinions of many here that Rev Wright should go hide in hole somewhere and not come out and defend all the smears that have ben made against is so sad....at times it seems like I am on a right wing republican blog. Some attitudes of some on this site show that there is still a long way to go to perfecting the union even among Obama supporters. I also hope that the enthusiastic support Obama enjoys does not turn in pathological fanatism.

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US Ignorance Is Scary!

By newone - Apr 24th, 2008 at 9:23 am EDT

It is amazing how much my dislike of Senator Clinton has become visceral. At the height of Bill Clinton's popularity she always seemed stoic but I never held it against her and felt a little sorry for her after the Lewinsky affair. Obviously since following Barack's campaign since February I have also gotten to know and see a lot more Sen. Clinton and I cannot believe how dishonest she is and how she will lie and say anything to the electorate and how prepared she is to attack Barack's character. However in all of this what scares me most is the apparent ignorance of a large portion of the US population when it comes to Hillary's lies or knowledge of Obama. I know the US is a huge country the size of a small continent but I am amazed at the lack of information a lot of US folks have, the Clintons seem to clearly play into this ignorance. The supposed negative ads would never work in the UK, people would laugh and see right through them! How do US citizens fall for these adverts?

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First Blog

By newone - Apr 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm EDT

I have been following Senator Obama's campaign since about mid-February after I watched his New Hampshire post election speech on You Tube. I have become addicted to everything this man (and Michelle) has done ever since. I have not participated on this site because I live in the UK and I am UK citizen and unfortunately I can't donate to this wonderful movement (it is more than a campaign). I really hoped that the primary race would be over after the Texas/Ohio primaries and was slightly disappointed that it did not and I believe the 'Naft-gate' affair lost Sen. Obama Ohio which is why now to learn of Mark Penn's trade meetings with the Columbians today has to be a campaign ending disaster for Hillary Clinton. Please Please Please, after what Hillary did in Ohio, use this issue to end Hillary Clinton's campaign. She has to be exposed to the Pennsylvania voters for the duplicitous person she is and this primary.

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