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	<title>Comments on: Obama On Offense: &#8220;I&#8217;m Out Of Touch?&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: Trevor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 06:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Most of the comments I just read here are pretty ignorant and appear to stem from racism and a fear of intellectuals. I just want to let those people know they are a dying breed. Prosperity brings education and there is a gravitation to cities, which brings racial awareness, possible harmony, and yes, lattes and espressos. So wallow over lousy coffee if you wish, but the times, they are a changin', again.

Don't be afraid, Obama will probably be the best president you have known in your life time.

Myself, I am a Canadian hoping America will lead us out of a mess. We are the two most wasteful countries in the world, and much of the planet is trying to emulate us.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of the comments I just read here are pretty ignorant and appear to stem from racism and a fear of intellectuals. I just want to let those people know they are a dying breed. Prosperity brings education and there is a gravitation to cities, which brings racial awareness, possible harmony, and yes, lattes and espressos. So wallow over lousy coffee if you wish, but the times, they are a changin&#8217;, again.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be afraid, Obama will probably be the best president you have known in your life time.</p>
<p>Myself, I am a Canadian hoping America will lead us out of a mess. We are the two most wasteful countries in the world, and much of the planet is trying to emulate us.</p>
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		<title>By: Marcy Harris</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marcy Harris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sounds like Obama is back on Crack!!!  That is if he ever got off of it.</description>
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		<title>By: Marcy Harris</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shelby,

You are off topic and your remarks are offensive and untrue.  Look at the two families as in Huck's and Mitt's.  Huck's kid tortures and eventually kills a poor sick dog.  Mitt's kids are all absolutely fabulous, all-American young men any mother would love to have.  Judicial Review lists the "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" of 2007 and Huckster is right there on the list with Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton.  Guess who isn't on the list--that would be Mitt Romney--famous for his ethical and moral dealings!  The Bible says, "By their fruits ye shall know them."  Well---------------


You hate Mormonism without understanding it's doctrines at all.  Go to LDS.org and get your head on straight.  

Believe me, there are plenty of very weird beliefs you have yourself.  No rapture language in the Bible and no one including Christ taught your silly Trinity until after the first Catholic (ooops!  you hate 'papists" too) of Nicea.  Strange how you are so anti-Catholic without realizing that your own trinity beliefs come from the Catholics at Nicea.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shelby,</p>
<p>You are off topic and your remarks are offensive and untrue.  Look at the two families as in Huck&#8217;s and Mitt&#8217;s.  Huck&#8217;s kid tortures and eventually kills a poor sick dog.  Mitt&#8217;s kids are all absolutely fabulous, all-American young men any mother would love to have.  Judicial Review lists the &#8220;Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians&#8221; of 2007 and Huckster is right there on the list with Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton.  Guess who isn&#8217;t on the list&#8211;that would be Mitt Romney&#8211;famous for his ethical and moral dealings!  The Bible says, &#8220;By their fruits ye shall know them.&#8221;  Well&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>You hate Mormonism without understanding it&#8217;s doctrines at all.  Go to LDS.org and get your head on straight.  </p>
<p>Believe me, there are plenty of very weird beliefs you have yourself.  No rapture language in the Bible and no one including Christ taught your silly Trinity until after the first Catholic (ooops!  you hate &#8216;papists&#8221; too) of Nicea.  Strange how you are so anti-Catholic without realizing that your own trinity beliefs come from the Catholics at Nicea.</p>
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		<title>By: brenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i have read all these coments  and i dont know how obama is ahead of hillary when 95% of these coments are agaist him and so many people are not for this man acn anyone explain this one.hillary will be a much better president for this country</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i have read all these coments  and i dont know how obama is ahead of hillary when 95% of these coments are agaist him and so many people are not for this man acn anyone explain this one.hillary will be a much better president for this country</p>
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		<title>By: Kikz</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Substance Abuse
A widely forwarded e-mail claims that Obama’s bills are more substantive and numerous than Clinton’s. Don’t believe it.

Obama’s Oil Spill
Obama says he doesn’t take money from oil companies. We say that’s a little too slick.

Barack Hussien Obama
Wright
Rezko
Farrakhan
William Ayers
Black Phanther
Malcolm X

They are the same kind or type of people.
It is up to you now to decide what is best for our country.

"Birds of the same feathers flock together."
"Tell me your friends are, and I tell you who you are."

What a scary thought ahead for our country...
Think people... think...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Substance Abuse<br />
A widely forwarded e-mail claims that Obama’s bills are more substantive and numerous than Clinton’s. Don’t believe it.</p>
<p>Obama’s Oil Spill<br />
Obama says he doesn’t take money from oil companies. We say that’s a little too slick.</p>
<p>Barack Hussien Obama<br />
Wright<br />
Rezko<br />
Farrakhan<br />
William Ayers<br />
Black Phanther<br />
Malcolm X</p>
<p>They are the same kind or type of people.<br />
It is up to you now to decide what is best for our country.</p>
<p>&#8220;Birds of the same feathers flock together.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Tell me your friends are, and I tell you who you are.&#8221;</p>
<p>What a scary thought ahead for our country&#8230;<br />
Think people&#8230; think&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: carol sullivan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>go obama   you are the only one i would ever vote for because you tell the truth  yes all america is ready for a change   we want to read the newspaper and get the truth and yes we also want the names of our dead warriers who died and we want to see their coffins flew in at andrews air center and we want news coverage of it all  how dare the news not be allowed to see this  so we can all greive with not just the number of dead and wounded but be able to see coverage of our poor military wounded and dead so we also can mourn their lives    not one time have i ever seen this since the viet nam war   go obama</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>go obama   you are the only one i would ever vote for because you tell the truth  yes all america is ready for a change   we want to read the newspaper and get the truth and yes we also want the names of our dead warriers who died and we want to see their coffins flew in at andrews air center and we want news coverage of it all  how dare the news not be allowed to see this  so we can all greive with not just the number of dead and wounded but be able to see coverage of our poor military wounded and dead so we also can mourn their lives    not one time have i ever seen this since the viet nam war   go obama</p>
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		<title>By: dona bee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can hardly believe it. Fox news doing a really and fair balance of coverage. There is hope for this station yet. Keith O still rules. Keep up the fair and balance act and Imight switch back to  watching @ least to Greta.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can hardly believe it. Fox news doing a really and fair balance of coverage. There is hope for this station yet. Keith O still rules. Keep up the fair and balance act and Imight switch back to  watching @ least to Greta.</p>
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		<title>By: TRUTH-BE-KNOWN</title>
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		<dc:creator>TRUTH-BE-KNOWN</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>E-mail ABC Before the next debate 4/16   http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3052660</description>
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		<title>By: Bif from Canada</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bif from Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here's the view from North of the 49th 

If the US elects HRC back in the White House over Obama if will be as colossal a mistake as giving Bush a second term.  "Fool me once..."  The world will see you citizens as getting everything you deserve.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s the view from North of the 49th </p>
<p>If the US elects HRC back in the White House over Obama if will be as colossal a mistake as giving Bush a second term.  &#8220;Fool me once&#8230;&#8221;  The world will see you citizens as getting everything you deserve.</p>
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		<title>By: Spec. Nixon US Army Alpha Co. 1/6 INF. Baumholder Germany APO AE 09034</title>
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		<dc:creator>Spec. Nixon US Army Alpha Co. 1/6 INF. Baumholder Germany APO AE 09034</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wanted to leave my opinion about this latest “Bitter Controversy”. 
Because I’m bitter; after Two 15 and 16 month tours to the sandbox and less than 6 months together with my wife in the last 2 years… Yes I'm bitter; but I'm not the only one.  I see and run into bitter people all the time. Much more frequently than I run into happy go lucky optimistic satisfied people. To clarify my statement though I would like to add. Some of the bitter people I run into are very funny, well behaved, well spoken, law abiding, respectful citizens. Being bitter doesn’t mean they are violent, disgruntled, hateful, or walking around permanently angry. People are just bitter, with these high gas prices and the economy only getting worse and worse. Former New Orleans Louisiana Citizens are bitter with a federal government that seemingly left its own citizens to fend for themselves: in one of the worst natural disasters since the big quake in San Francisco. Every American citizen is bitter from living with an antiquated immigration policy that’s broken and that seems like the government is just playing politics with. People are bitter with racial tensions seemingly worse now than they were in the 90's, 80's, or even the 70's. The rest of the free world is bitter and disenchanted with us as World Leaders. The Euro is sometimes twice the value of a dollar: so a 4 Euro pack of cigarettes cost $8 American dollars. The ridiculous hundreds of billions of dollars in debt we are in to communist China should make any red blooded American bitter. While were steadily outsourcing jobs and in trade agreements with countries that could care less about our people or our families being out of work or struggling; I have family that’s in Akron and Dayton Ohio out of work getting old, bitter. Broken borders... The Democratic Party should be bitter that the Clintons again seemingly (with scandal after scandal) left the door wide open for Al Gore (A Nobel Prize winner) to crash and burn and go down in flames. It is in my opinion that its partially because of them that the Country wound up in the hands of the Republicans who have lead us into this disaster. I still love my country but I'm definitely bitter and upset with the last 2 administrations that I grew up in that have let things come to this. 

I believe in the second amendment. I believe Sen. Obama believes in the Second Amendment and the right of Americans to be able to bear arms. He has been one of the Amendments fiercest defenders. I was baptized and have attended Christian School almost all of my life. My faith didn’t come out of bitterness but I know that Jesus message has always been to bring hope to the downtrodden and downcast. What the Senator said is correct.  We as Christians cast off our burdens and sorrows in Christ and in church where we believe we are uplifted by his Holy Spirit.. One of the reasons we fellowship in the Lord is because they're are bad governments. From the Pharaohs to Pontius Pilate they’re have been administrations that have made the people bitter. When times are tough people look to they’re faith for refuge Read Exodus, Psalms, Thessalonians, Corinthians, the New Testament... All those letters to the Churches after (the) Acts of the Apostles or Disciples were pretty much about staying strong in the faith through desperate times. I respect Sen. Obama more than ever for standing up and actually telling the truth. To say that most Americans are happy and optimistic like little children is out of touch. When times are good people aren’t worried so much about crime or guns. When times are good and people are happy and truly optimistic we don’t have so many people using drugs like Crystal Meth…  People are happy when they have good jobs that they’re confident they’re going to have the next year. When they’re’ not worried about loosing they’re home or worried about how they’re going to afford gas and still be able to save for they’re children’s education and they’re senior years… No government has ever been perfect, or utopian, but is it unrealistic to just want a President who will help the people instead of the lobbyist and big Bear Stearns? 

I believe that out of the three viable candidates that we have left, that Sen. Obama is the one who is the most in touch and connected to us. He didn’t grow up in a wealthy Illinois Republican dynasty, or in some very wealthy Military family that could give him access to the elitist Navy Pilot School. That doesn’t except the children of the common American family. Sen. Obama wasn’t some fancy Navy fly boy… He would’ve been one of us (or like me a Grunt). 
Then Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has some nerve; when she doesn’t even realize how out of touch she is. Look how she sounds in her new commercials being run in Pennsylvania: where she talks about her family summers at “The Cottage”. It's like she doesn’t get the difference or really care that most common people don’t have summers at “The Fabulous Cottage“ that looks like a mansion or some manor… or the White House.  She’s completely out of touch. Most of the people I know spent summers on the porch or at they’re friend’s house; with a 2 or 3 day trip somewhere like Disneyland or the beach or some place. I can’t even imagine a whole summer of my whole family not working and being able to hang out at some gated Mansion with butlers and maids. You can see in the commercial the place was humongous. The fabulous Hiltons and Mrs. Rodham Clinton may be used to summers like this at “The Cottage”; but what is this the Simple Life or the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? The Hills or Richie Rich?  
Sen. Obama grew up with a single Mother and from his childhood pictures (looked Happy and Loved on the beach with his Grandparents) with his Mom doing the best she could; but he had to make it on his own.  Like the most of us he had to make it by using his own wits and drive; without the rich connections or a Father that is the Admiral of the Pacific Fleet of the Navy. He didn’t even have the brand new convertible Corvette Stingray like Sen. McCain. He didn’t have the trust fund; like most of the rest of us he had to work and pray hard for everything. The President of the Harvard Law Review, a self made yet very intellectual Senator that really seems to still be one of us. That hasn’t completely forgotten what it‘s really like to be one of the 'have not’s'. Neither One of the other two candidates has ever even experienced an average or lower middle class lifestyle. They have all led fantastic lives and achieved and done amazing things. They have all had to overcome. The difference is 2 of them are completely out of touch with the common American or the average tax payer/voter. Senators McCain and the distinguished Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton are completely out of touch with the people, with the small hands that turn the wheels...They can read about being poor, or some older politician’s thoughts on abortion, and being frightened and out of work or being a young single mother… They can visit the barrio and the poor and be gracious enough to listen to you and me gripe; but they have never known a day of not being monetarily rich or financially set for life or even of having an immediate family member that wasn’t rich. Bill Clinton seems to me to be as close as Hillary will ever get to having someone who may have been poor in her family. Sen. Obama or Barry knows what it means to really have a debt or college loans that have to be paid back that you can‘t afford. 
The rich kids like the Kennedy’s’ like him and have endorsed him. Stars like Oprah, George Clooney, George Lucas, and even Rolling Stone magazine believe in him and support him... So the wealthy and well to do should know that he’s’ not out to get them or that he wouldn't just forget about them either. He’s just of and for the people and he’s honest with us because he knows people are intelligent enough to handle it.
You don’t have to sugar coat things or try to trick or politic us into liking you. I can’t afford a new set of Nomax gloves to take to the field with me. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton telling me that I’m happy and optimistic isn’t going to get those gloves or make them magically appear.

  I believe that Sen. Obama is really special. Like Governor Richardson said he’s the type of Politician that (if we’re lucky) we get, or that comes around once in a lifetime. I think this last much a do about nothing, is the result of panic and jealousy that the cats out of the bag and the other politicians are really looking bad. To anyone calling him out of touch for overtly being OBVIOUSLY in touch; it’s definitely just a jealous and desperate, frightened reaction. The words he said behind those closed doors in Marin weren’t scandalous or out of touch. The response from McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton has been… It’s easy to see. People are at the gas pumps bitter, Protesting the War bitter, (Pink against the War or whatever…) Michael Moore and Sicko and the environmentalist are bitter…  The problem with Immigration on both sides of the border is bitter the Minutemen are bitter. Out of Work people are bitter and mad at the way there jobs have been outsourced and that Nike is building a brand new 2.3 billion dollar factory in Vietnam. Dell and America Online etc… are spending millions building buildings and business in India spending millions training people in India. People are bringing guns to school and shooting everybody and killing themselves, bitter. They’re not optimistic. They say that there were officially One Hundred and something suicides in the Army last year; but I can almost guarantee that there were more than that, that the Army won’t classify as a suicide. In every unit there putting Soldiers on Suicide watch taking the bolts out of their weapons they’re boot laces and belts.  When people are happy and optimistic they don’t have to give up their educations and dreams to join the Army to defend their country and families. 

I am a little bitter but I do love my country and I BELIEVE in Sen. Barack Obama for President in 08. 

Thank You.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wanted to leave my opinion about this latest “Bitter Controversy”.<br />
Because I’m bitter; after Two 15 and 16 month tours to the sandbox and less than 6 months together with my wife in the last 2 years… Yes I&#8217;m bitter; but I&#8217;m not the only one.  I see and run into bitter people all the time. Much more frequently than I run into happy go lucky optimistic satisfied people. To clarify my statement though I would like to add. Some of the bitter people I run into are very funny, well behaved, well spoken, law abiding, respectful citizens. Being bitter doesn’t mean they are violent, disgruntled, hateful, or walking around permanently angry. People are just bitter, with these high gas prices and the economy only getting worse and worse. Former New Orleans Louisiana Citizens are bitter with a federal government that seemingly left its own citizens to fend for themselves: in one of the worst natural disasters since the big quake in San Francisco. Every American citizen is bitter from living with an antiquated immigration policy that’s broken and that seems like the government is just playing politics with. People are bitter with racial tensions seemingly worse now than they were in the 90&#8217;s, 80&#8217;s, or even the 70&#8217;s. The rest of the free world is bitter and disenchanted with us as World Leaders. The Euro is sometimes twice the value of a dollar: so a 4 Euro pack of cigarettes cost $8 American dollars. The ridiculous hundreds of billions of dollars in debt we are in to communist China should make any red blooded American bitter. While were steadily outsourcing jobs and in trade agreements with countries that could care less about our people or our families being out of work or struggling; I have family that’s in Akron and Dayton Ohio out of work getting old, bitter. Broken borders&#8230; The Democratic Party should be bitter that the Clintons again seemingly (with scandal after scandal) left the door wide open for Al Gore (A Nobel Prize winner) to crash and burn and go down in flames. It is in my opinion that its partially because of them that the Country wound up in the hands of the Republicans who have lead us into this disaster. I still love my country but I&#8217;m definitely bitter and upset with the last 2 administrations that I grew up in that have let things come to this. </p>
<p>I believe in the second amendment. I believe Sen. Obama believes in the Second Amendment and the right of Americans to be able to bear arms. He has been one of the Amendments fiercest defenders. I was baptized and have attended Christian School almost all of my life. My faith didn’t come out of bitterness but I know that Jesus message has always been to bring hope to the downtrodden and downcast. What the Senator said is correct.  We as Christians cast off our burdens and sorrows in Christ and in church where we believe we are uplifted by his Holy Spirit.. One of the reasons we fellowship in the Lord is because they&#8217;re are bad governments. From the Pharaohs to Pontius Pilate they’re have been administrations that have made the people bitter. When times are tough people look to they’re faith for refuge Read Exodus, Psalms, Thessalonians, Corinthians, the New Testament&#8230; All those letters to the Churches after (the) Acts of the Apostles or Disciples were pretty much about staying strong in the faith through desperate times. I respect Sen. Obama more than ever for standing up and actually telling the truth. To say that most Americans are happy and optimistic like little children is out of touch. When times are good people aren’t worried so much about crime or guns. When times are good and people are happy and truly optimistic we don’t have so many people using drugs like Crystal Meth…  People are happy when they have good jobs that they’re confident they’re going to have the next year. When they’re’ not worried about loosing they’re home or worried about how they’re going to afford gas and still be able to save for they’re children’s education and they’re senior years… No government has ever been perfect, or utopian, but is it unrealistic to just want a President who will help the people instead of the lobbyist and big Bear Stearns? </p>
<p>I believe that out of the three viable candidates that we have left, that Sen. Obama is the one who is the most in touch and connected to us. He didn’t grow up in a wealthy Illinois Republican dynasty, or in some very wealthy Military family that could give him access to the elitist Navy Pilot School. That doesn’t except the children of the common American family. Sen. Obama wasn’t some fancy Navy fly boy… He would’ve been one of us (or like me a Grunt).<br />
Then Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has some nerve; when she doesn’t even realize how out of touch she is. Look how she sounds in her new commercials being run in Pennsylvania: where she talks about her family summers at “The Cottage”. It&#8217;s like she doesn’t get the difference or really care that most common people don’t have summers at “The Fabulous Cottage“ that looks like a mansion or some manor… or the White House.  She’s completely out of touch. Most of the people I know spent summers on the porch or at they’re friend’s house; with a 2 or 3 day trip somewhere like Disneyland or the beach or some place. I can’t even imagine a whole summer of my whole family not working and being able to hang out at some gated Mansion with butlers and maids. You can see in the commercial the place was humongous. The fabulous Hiltons and Mrs. Rodham Clinton may be used to summers like this at “The Cottage”; but what is this the Simple Life or the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? The Hills or Richie Rich?<br />
Sen. Obama grew up with a single Mother and from his childhood pictures (looked Happy and Loved on the beach with his Grandparents) with his Mom doing the best she could; but he had to make it on his own.  Like the most of us he had to make it by using his own wits and drive; without the rich connections or a Father that is the Admiral of the Pacific Fleet of the Navy. He didn’t even have the brand new convertible Corvette Stingray like Sen. McCain. He didn’t have the trust fund; like most of the rest of us he had to work and pray hard for everything. The President of the Harvard Law Review, a self made yet very intellectual Senator that really seems to still be one of us. That hasn’t completely forgotten what it‘s really like to be one of the &#8216;have not’s&#8217;. Neither One of the other two candidates has ever even experienced an average or lower middle class lifestyle. They have all led fantastic lives and achieved and done amazing things. They have all had to overcome. The difference is 2 of them are completely out of touch with the common American or the average tax payer/voter. Senators McCain and the distinguished Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton are completely out of touch with the people, with the small hands that turn the wheels&#8230;They can read about being poor, or some older politician’s thoughts on abortion, and being frightened and out of work or being a young single mother… They can visit the barrio and the poor and be gracious enough to listen to you and me gripe; but they have never known a day of not being monetarily rich or financially set for life or even of having an immediate family member that wasn’t rich. Bill Clinton seems to me to be as close as Hillary will ever get to having someone who may have been poor in her family. Sen. Obama or Barry knows what it means to really have a debt or college loans that have to be paid back that you can‘t afford.<br />
The rich kids like the Kennedy’s’ like him and have endorsed him. Stars like Oprah, George Clooney, George Lucas, and even Rolling Stone magazine believe in him and support him&#8230; So the wealthy and well to do should know that he’s’ not out to get them or that he wouldn&#8217;t just forget about them either. He’s just of and for the people and he’s honest with us because he knows people are intelligent enough to handle it.<br />
You don’t have to sugar coat things or try to trick or politic us into liking you. I can’t afford a new set of Nomax gloves to take to the field with me. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton telling me that I’m happy and optimistic isn’t going to get those gloves or make them magically appear.</p>
<p>  I believe that Sen. Obama is really special. Like Governor Richardson said he’s the type of Politician that (if we’re lucky) we get, or that comes around once in a lifetime. I think this last much a do about nothing, is the result of panic and jealousy that the cats out of the bag and the other politicians are really looking bad. To anyone calling him out of touch for overtly being OBVIOUSLY in touch; it’s definitely just a jealous and desperate, frightened reaction. The words he said behind those closed doors in Marin weren’t scandalous or out of touch. The response from McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton has been… It’s easy to see. People are at the gas pumps bitter, Protesting the War bitter, (Pink against the War or whatever…) Michael Moore and Sicko and the environmentalist are bitter…  The problem with Immigration on both sides of the border is bitter the Minutemen are bitter. Out of Work people are bitter and mad at the way there jobs have been outsourced and that Nike is building a brand new 2.3 billion dollar factory in Vietnam. Dell and America Online etc… are spending millions building buildings and business in India spending millions training people in India. People are bringing guns to school and shooting everybody and killing themselves, bitter. They’re not optimistic. They say that there were officially One Hundred and something suicides in the Army last year; but I can almost guarantee that there were more than that, that the Army won’t classify as a suicide. In every unit there putting Soldiers on Suicide watch taking the bolts out of their weapons they’re boot laces and belts.  When people are happy and optimistic they don’t have to give up their educations and dreams to join the Army to defend their country and families. </p>
<p>I am a little bitter but I do love my country and I BELIEVE in Sen. Barack Obama for President in 08. </p>
<p>Thank You.</p>
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