> > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/elite-obama-on-the > -front_b_107418.html > ( -or- http://tinyurl.com/5c5ku4 ) > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > In case the media has not shown you, Barack Obama is on the front > lines of the flood, helping residents clean up and start over. > Working, not just a photo op. On the ground, not just a fly-over.
First of all, if Obama was not running for President, I guarantee you he wouldn't be there. Secondly. The media has also not shown you the ENORMOUS number of hours both the President and the Vice President spend with injured troops and their families, which I know first-hand they spend with them, and that they forbid media access to the meetings. > > What is this? A President-to-be that actually gets down and dirty with > a rescue effort? And, not only a President-to-be, but an "elite" > President-to-be at that! > > Of all the mischaracterizations heaped upon the Obamas, none has > seemed more ridiculous than the charge that they were "elite." Maybe it has something to do with his comments about small-town folk that cling to guns and religion--a typical elitist position. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that both of them in fact have lived very privileged lives, yet they find cause to bash this country despite the very comfortable lives and career paths they have both enjoyed. > This > son of single mother who was on food stamps for a while, this > community organizer who was able to pay off his college loans only > because of his best-selling book...he is called elite. > > But, John McCain, the son and grandson of Admirals, who played around > in college like the son of the privileged and who later dumped his > injured wife for a glamorous heiress....he is the common man? > Apparently, in the same way that "all hat, no cattle" George W. Bush > was sold to the country as a rancher. > > John McCain's campaign is full-to-the-last-drop with DC lobbyists and > establishment figures. So much so that they cannot get out of one > another's way as they exit, stage-right, when their conflicts-of- > interest are revealed. Like Jim Johnson? Or Eric Holder? > > And, yet, they call the Obamas elite. Obama hangs with some pretty suspect people, and not incidentally, I might add, but rather habitually, and over long periods of time. Explain for those of us who are unenlightened: 1. Just how didn't Obama see that his pastor was an anti-American racist asshole, with ties to Farrakhan and dangerous "black liberation theology," after 20 years of being a member of Church? 2. How is it that the Tony Rezko he knew isn't the same Tony Rezko that got convicted of fraud--and all Obama could do was chalk his long-time friend up to yet-another-proof-of-the-need-for-reform? And how is it that Ayers--an admitted terrorist who pipe-bombed the Pentagon--is still among his friends? 3. How is it that he could pick a lobbyist with Countrywide like Jim Johnson to head his VP search? Or Eric Holder, of "let's get Marc Rich a pardon" fame? 4. How is it that Obama now some foreign policy wonk after just 1 year in the Senate before running for President? 5. How is it that ONLY NOW, for the first time in her adult life, Michelle Obama is proud of her country? 6. How is it that the guy who said "If they bring a knife to the figtht, we bring a gun" is some "uniter," some "second coming" of RFK? 7. How is it that nobody is allowed to criticize anything about him because he's black? What happened to MLK's dream? 8. How is it that Obama is going to "heal" this country's division? 9. How is it he's painted as a "bipartisan" when he has a 100% liberal rating, on just about every liberal issues, and yet he hasn't sponsored any legislation in the US senate except for a bill that promises to send 6% of our GDP to the UN, to spend as they please on "poverty"....????? 10. How can he be a man of "integrity" when, as the slimeball John Edwards even noted successfully in the debates, he voted "present" over 100 times in the Senate, rather than cast a clear yea or nay? (Matt 5:37) Come on, Ed, let's see you turn some of those critical thinking skills on "your guy". Is there anything about him that gives you pause, freethinker that you are? I've already demonstrated amply that I can see through McCain, and I have in the past been very clear about my criticisms of President Bush--but you seem to be unable to find a single flaw in "your guy" when there are some REALLY BIG problems with this his bona fides that really ought to give everyone pause, not just conservatives. Who's the freethinker here? - Bob > > -- Ed Leafe > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
