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    <title>Teeninchee&#039;s</title>
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    <description>For Barack Obama, because his skin is so brown, it is easy for even &#039;black&#039; people to forget that he is biracial and that he grew up as a brown-skinned child in a white world.  Therefore, his basic thought processes gained from his mother and Caucasian grandparents and other relatives would have been Eurocentric, not Afrocentric.  That is also why some &#039;black&#039; people have said he was not &#039;black&#039; enough.  (I understand that process because it is the life I have lived as a military brat in areas where the only black people were my immediate family.)    When Barack Obama went to school -- and I lived in Ottawa, Kansas, just down the road from where he would have spent time with his grandparents, people would have seen him as just another black kid, and he would have experienced whatever negatives a &quot;black boy&quot; experienced in his school (if there were any.) As far as I know, his father and his African relatives were IN Africa.  Therefore, there was no one to teach him Afrocentric values.  As an adult, he would have had to LEARN black values, black culture, black whatever&#039;s and THEN make a decision about what was going to be &quot;right&quot; for him and his life. That is what I believe he has done.  Going to THAT church in his 20s would have been an ideal place for him to LEARN &quot;black culture&quot; and it seems possibly gain a &quot;father/uncle figure&quot; in his life.  Evidently everybody doesn&#039;t see hatred in all of the sermons because non-black members feel comfortable there.  (It IS a racially mixed church.)  For Senator Obama to believe all this preacher says, as a biracial person, would be to believe the worst about 1/2 of who he is.  My biracial(actually multi-racia)l family fully accept both (all) sides of their heritage with ALL of the flaws. Half of the biracial was enslaved by the other half.  What do you do?

Another consideration.  When you belong to a church, do you go EVERY week of EVERY year?  Most people don&#039;t.  So, you COULD miss some stuff.  Senator Obama has already said he goes when he can.  

Why not condemn the pastor&#039;s statements earlier?  Privately, had he heard something he did agree with, he may have said so to those close to him.  Publicly, it was not necessary.  People in Chicago probably know what Pastor Wright is about, as the Senator has said, things other than what is blasting over the airwaves right now.  They were not concerned about rantings because they focused on the positive things in his life, his ministry.  Senator Obama was senator for the entire state, yet it still was not necessary to be openly distant from a unhinged pastor.  Moving to the nation-wide stage, however, it became necessary, and as it needed to be verbalized, he has done what is necessary for the world stage.  
 
However, I don&#039;t leave my church every time I don&#039;t agree with my pastor.  They promote their favorite football, basketball or baseball team, some preached the world would come to an end with the election of George Bush or any other Republican to any seat in government at any level.  It&#039;s my choice to stay.  Then, when I hear craziness from the pulpit, I just don&#039;t say &#039;Amen&#039;.  I don&#039;t nod my head.  I don&#039;t get up and applaud.  I start praying that God will help the preacher and protect the innocent.  When church is over I get together with various members and present the opposing viewpoint.  Sometimes you stay in a particular church or school or job in order to have an impact on the innocent who are there.  Other times you stay because of the OTHER benefits of belong to a particular congregation.  You might even have agreed with a particular preacher&#039;s points of view when you first joined (which has happened to me).  

One problem here is that politicians have long taken advantage of the notion that black pastors LEAD the thought processes of their members--which is why they flock to them during election cycles--hoping &quot;Rev&quot; will support them and put in a good word to help the members DECIDE to vote for them.  So the media is concluding that the Obama&#039;s have been LEAD to believe these negative things that their pastor has preached.  While that &quot;LEAD&quot; factor was greatly the case in the past, today, especially among educated and thinking congregations, we make up our own minds.  We enjoy the music, the fellowship and pray for the pastor. MOST of us today realize that the pastor is human, not God, and do not blindly follow where he (or she) leads.
 
I HATE what this pastor has said, but I do understand the why of it.  He seems to have hung onto the tenets of the U.S. of the 60s and before.  When one chooses to cling to the tenets of the past, however, one becomes bitter, and stuck and see the entire world through bitter glasses.  The membership does not always automatically decide to wear those same glasses, just because you hold them up.  If it&#039;s not Bible, you can choose to believe otherwise.
 
Obama is a member of a church that is multi-racial, multi-cultural.  Why are THOSE people there?  Believe me, it is NOT because they believe the pastor is lumping ALL &quot;white people&quot; into a group of &quot;bad people&quot;.  When your pastor goes off on a tangent, you tell your family and friends, &quot;Rev kinda lost it today!&quot; and go on with your life, enjoying the other benefits of membership.  I doubt very seriously that those members are sitting there agreeing with him.  
 
As a state senator, no one cared what Pastor Wright said; no one cared about Obama&#039;s church affiliation.  Now is time for him to distance himself from this pastor because he has mounted the national/world stage, which I believe he is doing as he realizes more and more the necessity of it.
 
Does what Wright believes make it what Obama believes?  Apparently not.  His effort to reach out to the Jewish community to repair those relationships is evident that he does NOT believe what his pastor believes.  That he totally denounce these words and separate himself from them at this juncture in his life is mandatory. 

Today Senator Obama has done what was mandatory. 

Just my $.02.</description>
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            <title>NO MORE DEBATES with CLINTON</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is challenging him for the Democratic presidential nomination, campaigned Friday morning in Jacksonville, N.C., and continued to pressure Obama for a debate before the May 6 primaries there and in Indiana.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080420/LOCAL0202/804200429/1002/LOCAL&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;http://www.theindychannel.com/politics/15925023/detail.html&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just read these when I logged on my computer this morning.&amp;nbsp; ENOUGH ALREADY!Can we PLEASE stop the debates NOW!&amp;nbsp; We have seen enough of them!&amp;nbsp; If there is anything else people WANT to know about a candidate&#039;s position, they need to GO to rallys, research online, go to places in their areas.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MOST of the &amp;quot;debate&amp;quot; requests from this point on, I believe, are merely attempts to HOPE for a gotcha moment.&amp;nbsp; And I am sick of the exploitation of those.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;INSTEAD---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How about somebody debating with HRC about the sealing of HER Wellesley college thesis, since they have dogged Michelle Obama about hers?&amp;nbsp; Debate with her about why Wellesley HID her thesis during the &amp;quot;Clinton Whitehouse Years&amp;quot;?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask HRC why it was that Barbara Olson died in the 9-1-1 attacks?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;Ask why Barbara Olson, the conservative lawyer and commentator, used an Alinsky quote to open every chapter of her 1999 book, &amp;quot;Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton.&amp;quot; Olson, who died in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, had charged in her book that the thesis was locked away because Clinton &amp;quot;does not want the American people to know the extent to which she internalized and assimilated the beliefs and methods of Saul Alinsky.&amp;quot;&lt;p class=&quot;textBodyBlack&quot;&gt;Under Wellesley&#039;s rule, Clinton&#039;s thesis became available to researchers again when the Clintons left the White House in 2001 &amp;mdash; available only to those who visit the Wellesley archives. But few have made the trip, and the document&#039;s allure continued to grow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;textBodyBlack&quot;&gt;A purloined copy was offered for sale on eBay in 2001, then withdrawn when Clinton&#039;s staff cited copyright law.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;textBodyBlack&quot;&gt;Bill O&#039;Reilly waved a few pages on Fox TV in 2003, chiding Wellesley for hiding Clinton&#039;s analysis of a &amp;quot;far left&amp;quot; activist.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;textBodyBlack&quot;&gt;Peggy Noonan, the former Reagan speechwriter writing in The Wall Street Journal in 2005, decried the continued suppression of &amp;quot;the Rosetta Stone of Hillary studies.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;textBodyBlack&quot;&gt;Just last month, an anonymous commentator lamented on the conservative Web site Free Republic, &amp;quot;She&#039;s a Marxist. Saul Alinsky&#039;s student. I sure wish we could unearth that sealed thesis of hers that she wrote at Wellesley.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;textBodyBlack&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17388372/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/3/4/184310.shtml&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Hillary Clinton may have a little-known Achilles&#039; heel as she runs for president   in 2008 &amp;mdash; a thesis she wrote as a 21-year-old senior at Wellesley College in   1969.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   The research paper examined the work of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky,   whom she called &amp;quot;a man of exceptional charm.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   One indication of the Clintons&#039; sensitivity about the thesis is that they had it   locked away from public view for the eight years of Bill Clinton&#039;s presidency.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   The Clintons asked Wellesley in 1993 to hide Hillary&#039;s senior thesis, and   Wellesley&#039;s president approved a rule that made any senior thesis of a graduate   available in the women-only college&#039;s archives for anyone to read &amp;mdash; except for   those written by either a president or first lady, MSNBC reporter Bill Dedman disclosed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MAYBE we need to see what Hillary the presidential candidate really thinks from 40 years ago since it was so important for&amp;nbsp; the candidate&#039;s wife from 20 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;And that is my $.02.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#039;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:58:26 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Alethea</dc:creator>
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            <title>Something new to talk about</title>
            <description>&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/03/the_clinton_records.html&quot;&gt;The Clinton Records&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;           Posted by BLAKE DVORAK | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/#&quot; onclickXSSCleanedXSSCleaned=&quot;return ET2(&#039;The Clinton Records&#039;, &#039;http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/03/the_clinton_records.html&#039;);&quot;&gt;E-Mail This&lt;/a&gt;  | &lt;a href=&quot;http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/03/the_clinton_records.html&quot;&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:blake@realclearpolitics.com&quot;&gt;Email Author&lt;/a&gt;                             &lt;p&gt;Now for something completely different...&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The wait appears over as the National Archives said it will make available tomorrow documents related to Hillary&#039;s time in the White House. CNN &lt;a href=&quot;http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/18/archives-to-release-clintons-first-lady-schedules/&quot;&gt;reports&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;The documents are among those the Obama campaign has long said need to be made public in order to fully evaluate the New York senator&#039;s experience and tenure while First Lady. &lt;p&gt;In a statement Tuesday, the Archives said the documents are from the files of Patti Solis Doyle, the director of Clinton&#039;s scheduling while she was first lady, and later the manager of her presidential campaign. Doyle stepped down from managing the campaign earlier this year after a string of poor showings in primary contests.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;acirc;&amp;euro;&amp;oelig;Arranged chronologically, these records document in detail the activities of the First Lady, including meetings, trips, speaking engagements and social activities for the eight years of the Clinton Administration,&amp;acirc;&amp;euro; the statement said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:02:55 EDT</pubDate>
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