One more thing. When you send American citizens to die for another country to prosper, does that mean that you love America any less? When you send money to Ethiopia but don’t give to hobos, do you love Africans more? Who the f^$k determines how love is measured? Get real. So many have so many reasons to feel so many different ways about this country. Leading this country should transcend it all. I can’t imagine who would pretend to know anyone’s true feelings,..especially those of a politician. The only question that matters is who will do the best job leading us? Presidents of the past have never truly represented us all. In past years Bush’s have been elected as well as Nixon, as well as slave-owners. He’s not superman but I think he’s the best representative of (us)U.S. in this time.

We cannot afford this muddle:
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070701faessay86401/barack-obama/renewing-american-leadership.html.

better a warrior than a lawyer

and your comments reflect more about YOU than they do about both me and Obama!

Spoken like a true Anti-American/Pro-Jihaid Leftist Democratic Liberal Nutbag!

Congrats, that was easy to infer….

I guess the reason I’m confused is that I read a lot of right-wing blog entries by people who insist they love America and question whether Obama does as well. And yet these same America-lovers are often the same ones who express a great desire that huge swaths of the country — my own state of California, the entire Northeast — be destroyed by terrorist attacks or natural disaster. These same people frequently express the idea that people who agree with my political views should be killed. While they demand that every citizen uncritically follow the current administration’s wishes in all things relating to national security, they certainly feel free to call the other branches of government “traitors,” “scumbags,” “Islamo-lovers” and all sorts of other perjoratives. And I frequently read that we must be willing to eliminate most of the bill of rights so that terrorists won’t kill us.

So these America-lovers despise great chunks of their country, wish death on vast numbers of its citizens, loathe two-thirds of its government, and don’t care if the administration ignores the constitution.

So how is Obama’s love insufficient? Rather, how is your love for country expressed in a way that’s superior to his? Because I’ve got to say, I don’t buy the idea that wearing a flag pin in your lapel and a support the trooops magnet on your car makes you a patriot. Nor do I believe that hating liberals is the same as loving your country.

It is said that no one can understand the trials and tribulations of being black in America unless they are black. That the advances they have made are nothing less than miraculous. These are people who have never been to a Native American reservation where schools are sometimes 30 miles away. Where the housing makes the slums of New York look like Park Avenue. Where there are no jobs and alcoholism is rampant. When one thinks Native American now, they think casinos and wealth. Not so for those Native Americans who live in North/South Dakota and New Mexico and Arizona. There are no casinos on those reservations. They are just too remote. Yet the one thing that every Native American has that is common ground with the majority of Americans is a love for this nation. When they went to war, in the name of their nation, during WWII, they were not even allowed to vote. But for a few radical Indians, you will never hear from them the words of the Rev. Mr. Wright. But they do remember the Buffalo soldiers that practiced genocide againt their ancestors. My ancestors. And I am still waiting for an apology from the Mssrs. Jackson and Sharpton for the actions of those soldiers.

Those Native Americans who have managed to excape the dead-end of the reservation go on to productive lives and never look back. The feeling is that if you are tied to the past, you are doomed by the past and that getting beyond the past is the only way to live the American dream of being independent and getting ahead.

Obama is/always has been a political opportunist whose leftist views are covered by pretty rhetoric. We have all seen how well that has worked out for other nations who have bought into the “pretty” rhetoric of those who promised hope and change.

It certainly is . . . but more about you, and less about Obama. That statement seems to imply that the issue of his race is as secondary (at best) aspect of living as an American, something that doesn’t shape one’s existence as an American. All he needs to do is focus on the apple pies, and once he “gets” that (assuming he has to learn how to be an American, rather than he already IS an American) he’ll be able to politely reflect on issues of race over the 4th of July BBQ.
Spoken like a true non-black American.

But it’s the Republicans and McCain who will get blamed by the delusional Leftists!

You could have videotape of the Billary Symbiote taping a “Pastor” Wright sermon themselves, and then watching them anonymously dropping it off at FNC, and BDS-afflicted Leftist Nutbags would start screaming “Karl Rove did it, Halliburton funded it, and the Rethuglikkan Chimp-in-Charge Bullshitler” engineered the whole thing!”

Leftists: more deluded than Sybil, and dumber than a sack of ballpeen hammers! Gotta love them! In a pitiful and contemptable sort of way!

Chip: “It seems to matter most to people who could never bring themselves to vote for a black man or a Democrat anyway.”

Chip, not sure what you mean by that, but as people constantly try to categorize me, based upon my comments, let me completely baffle you: I haven’t been to church since my First marriage; that worked out so well, I haven’t been back, and that was 24 years ago! I haven’t prayed since I was in Sunday school last, which was about 44 years ago. I’m a registered Independent, and I’ve done something that very few people who post on Blogs have ever done, I’ve voted for BOTH “Republicans” and “Democratic” Presidential candidates.

I’m in a mixed Marriage, and I’ve dated Egyptian, Lebanese, Omani, American White, American Black, Filipina and Japanese women!

I’m not a “Republican”; I’m not a “Conservative”; I’m one thing, and one thing only, I’m an AMERICAN!

I’d vote for Obama in a heartbeat, IF he was an “American”; unfortunately, the Left in this country has so completely LOST THEIR MINDS, that they no longer qualify for that honorific. Besides, Obama is NOT “black”; I’m not a mathematician, but as understand it, currently, a person can have only TWO parents! That means, that regardless of the ethnicity of your parents, you can only be 50%/50% of something; you can’t be 51% or 63%. You can be 50%, or even 75%, etc.

So, Obama is 50% white blood and 50% black blood; that’s the same number as far as I’m concerend, but then, I was educated in the 60’s, so what do I know?

Bottomline, if Obama is 50% white and 50% black, WHE is he a “black” man? Who decides that? The US Government, your church, your parents? Is it kept track somewhere in a Database or a Register?

Please enligten me!

I have black colleagues at work, who start to talk about Malcom X, say he was “black” civil right leader, etc., and I just reply, you know what, I know he had one white grandparent, and he thus is 25% white blood, and thus in my book, that makes him a great WHITE civil rights leader!

Completely flummoxes them, they just usually mutter to themselves and walk away.

As far as I’m concerned, Obama is a MAN; a Leftist, and Anti-American, and I don’t give a damn if he thinks he’s “black” or the Racist Democrats label him as “black” so they can use the victimization card and accuse Rupblicans of racism; to me, he is a sadly confused, dishonest MAN, Leftist Anti-American MAN and I don’t want him as President of My country!

PS: “Old Dem” PROVES that Anti-American/Pro-Jihadis Leftist Nutbags such as himself, and his Democratic pals, should NEVER be allowed out of their cribs, and they certainly are incapable for running a country or being trusted with Power.

You can’t have Clowns like “Old Dem” in charge, when they hate the very country they want to lead, to the very core of their being, and their sole goal for garnering power is to destroy the country they want to run!