JaMarcus Obama

Obama likes to josh, "I'm relatively young as a candidate," His background and positions are also unknown.
It seems that Senator Obama is described as having one of the most extreme positions that one can find when it comes to the issue of abortion....Normally, I can understand a lawyer's dancing on the head of a pin for the sake of not wanting to undermine a future legal argument or position. However, regarding Senator Obama, some other details give me pause and raise questions about whether his stated motivation(s) can be trusted.
Obama Would Evidently Throw The Baby Out With The Bathwater found at:
http://zachjonesishome.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/obama-would-evidently-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater/

It would be more like taking a QB out of high school and starting them in the NFL without their ever having proven their worth in college. For all his failures, Ryan Leaf did at least have a college resume that indicated the possibility of success. Obama has no state senate accomplishments to indicate success in the US senate, and no US senate accomplishments to indicate presidential success.

(BTW, I still say that if Cleveland had invested in an offensive line instead of beating Couch to death for six years, he'd be an all-pro today instead of retired due to injuries. He's STILL the only QB to take the new Browns to the playoffs. Definitely not a failure in the Leaf/Akili Smith mold.).

While Obama's record is thin as water, there is one place where we can look and see something tangible that he was proudly associated with. It's in a place he chose to be, was there more than long enough to be comfortable with the environment and to understand the rules. It's also something from the happiest and most meaningful part of Obama's life, his time as a community organizer.
Obama was involved with several low cost housing projects in Chicago, just the sort of help for the people that he is proposing now. The projects, several in number, were built using taxpayer funds and were nearly unliveable upon completion. They are in disarray and decay now. He partnered with his best friend in real estate, Tony Rezko, to see those projects built.
I'm not sure why they are being ignored now, particularly since examples of Obama's past work are so rare, but they should be shown for what they are and what kind of world Obama has in store for us.

Michael O'Shea must have just had his fantasy football draft.

JaMarcus Russell was a star at LSU and was drafted number 1 overall because of his accomplishments at LSU, his physical abilities, and his NFL potential. There is a learning curve in professional sports, especially at the quarterback position, and rookies are not expected to play like experienced verterans for at least a couple of seasons. Senator Obama hasn't had (much)success at any level of governement he's participated in. Other than reading off of a teleprompter, he has no discernable skills that would lead me to believe he could lead this great Nation of ours.

Comparing Obama to Russell is an insult to JaMarcus Russell. Russell loves football and could become a great quarterback...a great team leader. Obama's love for the USA is debatable, and he will never be able to lead.

The TRUTH is the TRUTH. But can the voters of our GREAT nation understand the TRUTH. Will the power of politics outweight the TRUTH?

I just went back to the archives of July. Guess what - there was a total of 107 (with 5% error margin).

Of these 107 articles, 48 of them were ANTI-OBAMA. Just a rant against him.

I am ok with it, to the effect that there needs to something on McCain. However, there were just 4 articles on McCain & nothing on his policies. The 4 articles were:
* McCaid Admin;
* Can 2008 be a McCain landslide
* Seven Step to McCain to narrow the speech gap
* How McCain could win

There were 2 Pro-bush articles and 53 articles on generic topics (Iraq, Economy, Iran, Drilling, Global Warming etc)

Bottomline - the way i see it, it is all Obama bashing with no material to critique McCain's policies, explain his policies, his stand etc. JUST OBAMA BASHING!!!!

Kalyan : It's not Obama-bashing to ask a legitimate question. And that question that all those articles are posing is, "Where's the beef? Where the hell is the beef? There ain't nothing here!" So far, I have seen little from the Obama campaign to suggest that he is anything more than a media creation. You may be too young to remember the profound words of Marshall McLuhan, "The medium (media) IS the message". In other words, the media no longer reports the news, they shape it and in fact frequently create it out of thin air. The phenomenal rise to prominence of a singularly unqualified individual such as Obama is a prime example of this in action. Thus, it does not constitute Obama-bashing simply to point this out. It is, after all, true.

Kalyan, you really should go over to Kos or Huffington where you can read McCain/Bush/Repub bashing until your eyes bleed, but FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, MAN! FOR GOD'S SAKE, KALYAN....GO! PLEASE, PLEASE GO!

....OR ELSE.....!

It's amazing how the press seems to think Obama was successful in wowing his German audience. I guess something was lost in translation about ending our reliance on fossil fuels, especially the worst of them all (and most abundant in America) coal.

Here is an excerpt from an article in Deutsche Welle
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2396828,00.html

"According to the German environmental organization Umwelthilfe (Environmental Aid), brown coal-powered plants in Germany produce 950 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour, while hard coal plants produce 750 grams. New gas-powered plants produce 365 grams. "No one who takes climate change seriously can now accept over 20 coal-fired power plants being built in this country," Loske said.
But there are advantages to power fired by coal, said Johannes Heithoff of RWE Power."Germany has a major supply of brown coal," he said, adding that Germany imports over 60 percent of the hard, or anthracite, coal is uses.
"Brown coal, on the other hand, makes us less dependent on others and more on ourselves for generating electricity," Heithoff said.
Brown coal is also cheaper to mine since it is deposited closer to the earth's surface than anthracite coal. Strip-mining, however, leaves major gashes in the landscape, though re-cultivation measures can help restore nature and wildlife. The major drawback is that burning lignite coal produces more CO2 emissions than hard coal."

This is a really stupid comparison. Why insult JaMarcus Russell?

kalyan,

I know you said you counted articles that were bashing Obama. But, perhaps you've confused truth with 'bashing'? As this is a conservative site, plenty of McCain truths came out during the primaries. Where and what were you reading?

Obama has absolutely no experience, none. What he claims to be his background for experience is his community organizing. Yet, even those projects he was involved in were not successful, but miserable failures. Now, in your comments you do not post a contrary fact to the point raised in the article. If you have some 'truths' to the contrary with verifible proof, please provide.

Generally speaking, I'm lost when it comes to football analogies, but I do know all about Roger Staubach. Do you suppose we could get him to run for president?

As part of your politics to football analogy, you listed the panoply of corresponding duties that are endowed in the Presidency. When contemplating Obama filling those many posts the one that to me may be most fearsome is Obama as personnel director. The prevailing m.o. for manning administrations is, and probably always has been cronyism. Presidents hire people they they know or owe. For all of his failings, Bush, in most cases, appointed people who at least made some effort to restrain the momentum of the liberal dominated federal bureaucracy. The vision of all those nanny staters, appeasers, and environment saviors under the nominal control of a selection of Obama's " known associates" is of a runaway train with the engineer applying not the brakes, but full throttle.
I've always admired the resiliency the people and economy of the US have demonstrated in the face of the political class's numerous disastrous efforts to "fix" them, but four years of Obama, a Democrat dominated Congress, and an unrestrained federal bureaucracy would leave, I fear, our freedoms, liberties and prospects in a lockbox so tight the only possibility of escape may be to take up the Founder's admonition to water the Tree of Liberty with the blood of patriots.
Thankfully, there are some encouraging signs that the Obamessiah's carefully crafted facade is developing some cracks, even with the MSM's stalwart efforts to maintain it. Given the utter transparency of his inadequacy and deceptiveness it is easy to suppose his disintegration is inevitable, but, like Freddie or Jason in all those slasher films, he will continue to rise again to menace our future because the array of forces propelling his candidacy will do virtually anything to achieve their twisted vision of socialist distopia.
The months from now to November may be the most perilous this country has faced since the Civil War and I pray daily that, come election day, the scales will have fallen from the eyes of a sufficient number of voters to finally drive the stake through the heart of his vampiric ambitions.

All I have to say is..."Ouch!"

If every THINKING American read this.....the polls would be so upside down tomorrow Obama would be forced to drop out of the race and endorse Hillary. And since everyone knows she's an evil bitch, McCain would win hands down!

Kalyan, we know McCain. Our appreciation of his qualities, good and bad, are fairly well understood.
Oblahblah is still unknown and a rank amature in the world of governance. He is the story. Just that the story is one of caution, concern and preservation of the liberties Americans defend every day. Oblahblah can't even defend his own stance on issues. How can't he defend the United States, against all enemies, foreign or domestic?

""How can't he defend the United States, against all enemies, foreign or domestic?"

The correct syntax of the above statement, Texas Tom, is "...defend the CONSTITUTION against all enemies, foreign or domestic."

Seems that both the conservatives/socialists/fascists and the liberal/socialists/communists have lost sight of that small detail; including Obama AND McCain since both have been and still are in support of government actions that are NOT AUTHORIZED by it.

Just one example of each:

Obama: Taxing Americans to pay for "feeding" the world. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56405

McCain: Giving amnesty to INVADERS; effectively rewarding criminals for their conduct. http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=9837

My vote is going to Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party; http://www.constitutionparty.com. Consequently I'll be able to sleep at night knowing that I did not vote for the "lessor of two evils".

It's "Ryan Leaf." And I would have used Tony Dungy instead of Marvin Harrison in the "impressive man" paragraph; Harrison's involvement in a shooting in the north side of Philly will have a lot of people thinking race, but Dungy has always been very classy and a great role model for men of all hues.