Barack Obama Offers Real Change- ISSUES »
Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 8 months ago in NewsThe spin is that Obama supporters are too mesmerized by the man himself and overlook the actual policy (or claimed lack thereof). Here is the Obama policy statements. A detailed PDF is available for download here as well. Don't let media tell you the man is without policy because his speeches are uplifting and inspirational. There is sound policy
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
Yes I admit I am not impartial, of those left standing I am firmly a supporter of Obama. Critics claim he hasn't got actual plans but relies on inspirational speeches... this may be true if MSM is your only source of info. (Have you heard any real discussion of any candidate's actual policy in the MSM?) However the truth is this page has been up for months.
(Edwards by far had the most thorough pages stating what he would do and how he would do it, had it up months before any other candidate too, but that does not matter now.) So rather than believe 2nd hand spin about this, check it out for yourself. I think most would agree this is an agenda of merit. Style and substance here! Go Obama! We CAN change the way things are done in this country! Today is the day and Obama is the man for the occasion.
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
No doubt experience in the corrupt ways of the beltway will be touted as a value. But I believe it only insures "more of same". I want fresh approaches and new ways of doing things. Obama has not taken a dime from any lobby. Can any other candidate make that claim? (Edwards, but as I said, a non issue now).
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
"I believe that America's free market has been the engine of America's great progress. It's created a prosperity that is the envy of the world. It's led to a standard of living unmatched in history. And it has provided great rewards to the innovators and risk-takers who have made America a beacon for science, and technology, and discovery; We are all in this together. From CEOs to shareholders, from financiers to factory workers, we all have a stake in each other's success because the more Americans prosper, the more America prospers."
- Barack Obama, New York, NY, September 17, 2007
Have a look at Obama's plans for the economy-
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/economy/
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blablabla8 months ago
Radio i am usually with you but not on this one...
Here is Barack's corporate donors. He is actually as bad as Hillary in that regard.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/du...
The only one candidate that has not accepted corporate donations, (not that they offered any) is Ron Paul. Guess why he is not winning...
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
On a personal level I like Ron Paul. He would have had far more success as a libertarian I believe. The Republican party really turned it's back on this honest man relegating him to the position of chief "moonbat'. Libertarians have lost influence within the Republican party ever since Nixon's "southern strategy".
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koranagirl8 months ago
The only reason why Obama isn't being attacked by the Republicans as much is HC is is obvious. He isn't a threat to them. She's a B that will put them all in prison for their war crimes and billions in corruption, but OB will just make nice speeches about how nice it is to be in the White HOuse.
Check out his voting record at the Washington Post. He wouldn't even join the vote to censure Alberto Gonzalez who was about the worst an AG could get.
OB, what a nice guy. A great guy for a date, but not someone you'd want if you're in a nasty legal battle.
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BigBadJohn6668 months ago
Yes I admit I am not impartial, of those left standing I am firmly a supporter of Obama. Critics claim he hasn't got actual plans but relies on inspirational speeches.
One thing for sure, he definately has the gift of gab.
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canadianrancher578 months ago
Sorry I didn't read the artical but would like to comment. Barack is a man who seems to be in the right place at the right time, I don't know if he really presents new ideas but is feeding off the discontentment in your country. I feel that many ordinary people in your country are tired how politicians act in regards to the power they have been given and by that I am refering to greed and lying. Barack is projecting an image which appeals to nearly all who are looking for someone who is "of the people" and not "above the people". If elected president I feel he will still have a difficult time for many others who will be elected in the upcoming election may not share his views on what a politician should represent and many will let greed influence their decisions. I hope that the change he refers to is not just in the direction your country is going but in the attitude of those elected by the people. He sets a good example, hopefully others will follow.
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aniokly8 months ago
You don't send a butcher to do brain surgery. This nan is not ready for Prime Time. He will be like Elmer Gantry with missiles. Mesmorizing no talent speaker. Not the kind of leader you choose in the middle of a war with Muslims. You think he is above it all. He lied about Lobbiest money, he lied about his Muslim background, he lied about his association with Tony Rezko. What other lies has he told the sweaty masses?
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Bkumm8 months ago
I'm not really certain you can be both a mesmerizing speaker and have no talent at the same time. But, if anyone could pull it off, it would be Senator Barack Obama.
We're not in a war with Muslims. We are in a war against terrorists, that should have never been a war to begin with.
While it is true that in the past Senator Obama has taken money from lobbyists he no longer does so after seeing the corrupting influence they have in Washington city. Would you rather have a man or a woman who can't see that something is broken and take steps to fix it? I wouldn't.
He most certainly did NOT lie about his Muslim background. His birth father was a Muslim as was the man his mother later married. He went to local schools in Indonesia for four years and then came back to the US. This man lost two fathers.
The association with Tony Rezko is a smokescreen. People can't find anything else.
Spin like a top! We're done with that kind of politics.
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lum-chate8 months ago
After 7 years of Bush I would accept almost anyone else as an upgrade. But OBAMA! Obama mania is getting scary, very scary. I'm amazed at the amount of
utopian seeking voters falling for his syrupy utopian dialogue. If rational cannot stop this in Texas & Ohio I predict this snowballing effect will lead them down a path that they never expected or intended.
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jordan118 months ago
. Barack is a man who seems to be in the right place at the right time,>>>>>
The conduct of his life led him to this place. It was inevitable.
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IcCaRus8 months ago
jordan-
inevitable? quite possibly so. but in all fairness its happening way ahead of "schedule" for lack of a better word. i think he owes the speed of his ascent to one person, George Duh-bya Bush.
had bush not been such a colossal failure at conducting the war, foreign policy, katrina, the economy, etc, etc, etc... we would be looking at a "normal" election cycle, i believe.
if bush hadnt screwed up so badly, we wouldnt be in this huge wave of "change". ron paul would be even less relevant that he is now; he may not have even entered the race. the reps wouldnt have McCain as their presumptive nominee. rather, it would be a bush clone. who knows which candidates would or wouldnt have entered the race.
on the dem side, if not for bush, hillary would be the nominee, period. edwards might have challenged, but it would already be over. i agree that obama was set for a bright future, but it wouldnt have happened nearly so fast without Duh-byas failings.
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AntiNeoCon8 months ago
RFE, your acting like an awestruck teenager swooning over a rock star. Get control of yourself friend. :) Remember, he is just a guy...and a political guy at that. Apparently he has some really great writers, most good candidates do. Ronald Reagan for instance, and others. But do you actually see the real person based on what others write for him?? Like GWB, all he has to do is read them and insert emotion.
Besides, he don't really need your support...all he has to do is beat McCain and Hillary and with continued press hype that shouldn't be a problem. Back off friend, sit down, relax with a cup of hot tea, and smile. Its only politics, and you have the fever. :)
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Bkumm8 months ago
Yeah, heaven forbid that somebody actually get excited and emotionally invested in the person that could be leading the most powerful nation on Earth. Can't have that.
Yes, let's just sit back, relax and let politics as usual rule.
From what I understand, by the way, he writes a lot of his own material.
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
I am not in awe, I see decency for the first time in many years, The man does not use a teleprompter much of his speech that I attended was off the cuff. My comments are colored by a thread that suggested Hillary had real plans and Obama did not, which is not so. I liked Edwards (based on published policy), but now that Edwards is out I am convinced Obama is the man for the job. The power of inspiration is not something anyone should take lightly, would there have been a moon landing without JFK's inspirational words and vision? It wasn't his job to personally assemble the Apollo spacecraft, but dreaming the dream comes first. Who else even has a vision? I'm sorry both remaining viable candidates want to be president because they personally want the job. Obama may actually want the job for a higher purpose. "We", not I. I've read his books, I believe he has the right stuff. I don't see it in anyone else.
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
I for one want no more politics as usual, there is no guarantee with Obama, but there is no possibility with the others.
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Bkumm8 months ago
I love this line:
"Hillary could beat back the barbarians, but Obama will fold."
And if you think that the Republicans don't have a paper trail on Clinton a mile long, then you haven't been listening to Limbaugh enough (and we know you have).
So, if Clinton is so tough, why did she choke all up with emotion not once, but twice on this campaign? I haven't seen Senator Obama do that. And if it was just because she was under a lot of pressure, do you think that means she won't be as President?
Now, I'm not holding genuine emotion against the Senator from New York. But, don't tell me she's any 'tougher' than Senator Obama.
You want her to win because you know that Senator McCain doesn't stand a chance against the double barrels of Hope and Change.
She provides neither.
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
Anoikly is playing the "concern troll". Republicans want Hillary because they stand a chance of defeating her. They know Obama is a more formidable opponent.
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ConquerorWyrm8 months ago
Absolutely. The only way in which a Rep will win this election is possibly in a McCain/Clinton match-up. Hucky can not win a general, neither can Paul (well, maybe against Clinton for same reason McCain might).
How Clinton can lose and McCain (Paul) can win would be based not on support for McCain but loss of support for Clinton. I myself will NOT vote Rep this year (though I give a nod to Paul) and were Clinton the Dem nom, I would vote for neither...and there are a lot of Independants & Libertarians who would do the same.
Realistically, both through Dem v Rep turnout and ability to garner crossover votes, were Obama the candidate, he would win...an possibly in an historic landslide.
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
Bloomburg? He hasn't commented on a single national or international issue. A completely unknown quality. As mayor his big issue was kicking smokers out of bars, I hope he's got more to add to the discussion than that! But no one knows.
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
Republican strategists would rather take on Hillary because of her negatives among independents. anoikly posts this exact same comment in every thread about Obama.
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Bkumm8 months ago
Are you hallucinating again? I thought I told you to stay away from the mushrooms. Oh, well...
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
Maybe on a thread about Britney Spears...
Hey it's not full moon night at the Bamba Shack yet!
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
HARD TROLLer-
Your denigrations carry no more credibility because they are all caps. That is just annoying. Go to Snopes.com and search everything you said. All debunked.
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EDWARDIII8 months ago
This Republican believes Obama is a talented, brilliant human being. I admire him a lot, even while I disagree with him. Some times the man is bigger than the policy. But I don't think he will make a good president. Let him go back to the senate and learn to use the tools. Let him try again in eight years.
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ConquerorWyrm8 months ago
Eight years? I think winning a second term is going to be a bit tougher in the next few cycles...after the misbehavior in this current admin. As for returning to the Senate to learn to use the tools, hasn't that an even greater chance of corrupting him and institutionalizing him in the Senate? How long has it been since a Senator became President? Oh, it will happen this time. The top 3 in the field are all Senators. And as for the tools themselves...well, our current President's only experience was as a the weakest of the weak Governers of those states that have the weak Govenerner set-up. In other words, he was a prop, a figurehead for the most part. The tools to be President can be learned only in that chair.
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
Edward is a fellow who makes reasoned statements as a rule here. I disagree on this one, I want no more politics as usual. I want a paradigm shift. I know it won't come from Clinton or McCain. (I actually liked McCain and have had numerous correspondences with him, before he went wacky after the 2000 dirty tricks campaign on behalf of Mr. Bush). But I no longer trust his "straight talk". Too bad as he would have been a good choice for the Republicans in 2000.
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
That has generally been the case since the Mid 60's. Doesn't mean it must remain that way though.
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
He's managed his campaign far better than ANY one else for one.
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motivator9118 months ago
you know they say talk is cheap and in the case of Barack Hussien Obama I found it to definatley be true I went to Barack Hussien Obama's website AT U.S.GOV.ORG to check his voting record as I do all candidates that I consider voting for and if past history is any indication of future ambitions things would change little if at all if he would win. checking his voting record just the past 6 months there were over 200 bills passed in the senate and he did not even show up for over 150 of them and as sad as that sounds that aint the worst of it it ammazed me the 50 or so votes that he considered important enough to show up for compared to the 150 he considered not impotant enough to attend .......this is without a doubt the most accurate resum'e I have found over the 20 years I have been voting and as far as I am concerned he don't qualify I would highly recomend checking his web site were he cannot lie or blow smoke up your a**
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ConquerorWyrm8 months ago
A slight alteration to your view...
When GWB came in, for the fist 8 or so months, I was relieved as he was getting nothing done. Too often one who pushes for change, as they all say they do, ends up exploiting such with disregard to establishment and precedent, as well as the law. As we have seen of late, too much change can be very dangerous to this nation if it's pushed by a 'personality' in position of power. Even were Mr. Obama to do no more than slow the bleeding of this nation, I would prefer that to someone who would either quicken the quicken the bleeding (Clinton, McCain), slash the national wrists wide open (McCain), or unrecognizably alter (Huckabee) this nation were they to prove unable to restrain themselves from the excessive powers GWB will have left that office.
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
Which candidates running for president returned to DC for much of anything in the last 6 months? Did he do less than Hillary Clinton? Fact of life, running a presidential campaign is a full time operation if your serious. Have a look at any of them currently holding office.
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Bovver8 months ago
I get a chuckle out of people saying that Obama is anti-war. Basically the guy is just another establishment mouthpiece.
Read about Obama wanting a war with Iran if they don't start acting like a good lapdog:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_joshua_...
http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=20
Here his record on the war Iraq and other imperialist adventures:
http://www.counterpunch.org/taylor06232007.html
http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic...
Why he's pandering to the war monger set:
http://www.agonist.org/ian_welsh/20070304/the_o...
http://www.electronicintifada.net/v2/article661...
http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_cont...
Obama contrasted with the only anti-war candidate for pres:
http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic...
If you liked Bush's wars you can expect more of the same and new war with Iran when Obama is elected pres.
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
Despite these opinion pieces. Who among the current candidates do you claim is anti war? McCain? (100 years of war). Hillary?
She was ready to Nuke Iran a few months ago.
Can you find evidence instead of opinion to back up your claims?
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ConquerorWyrm8 months ago
Ah, the forever-strawman Ted Kennedy...cheap shot
Now define what you percieve as 'left'. I hate it when that and 'liberal' are used as if it were assumed that they meant in some way 'wrong' or 'bad'. I would like you to explain your definition of 'left' and why it is 'bad'.
As for divisiveness...under GWB? Get real! After 9-11, he was granted almost imperical powers and nary a word, most of all that, ahem, 'left-wing' media would even bother to publish/broadcast. He won a full House & Senate as well. The 'divisiveness' which you mention has only recently, reluctantly, been given voice to by either a majority congress or corporate owned media...because the people themselves are discontent and that echoes.
As for divisiveness, you mean, like the Rep party played during the last Dem administration? Going after personal aspects or charactor flaws rather than focusing on issues and what needs to be done?
Is that honorable?
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dranfu8 months ago
1. Time Magazine - Obama's Varied Record - This article talks about Obama's grass roots activities as a young man, his law career, and his State/US senatorial accomplishments. It's quite detailed and persuasive.
