If one more person says: well, I don't know what Barack Obama stands for....I will scream. He stands for a breaking from corporations running the country to the PEOPLE running the country. Corporation don't have the good of the country as their core value. The core value (which is an oxymoron, because corporations do not have values, a moral compass, or a sense of right or wrong)....the core value of a corporation is to make profits at the expense of all other goals. Make profits. Do better than last quarter. It doesn't even matter is the corporation does last a long time to build a tradition or legacy, just needs to be around long enough to make a profit for shareholders. Now, this in it self is not an entirely bad thing, well, I'll say this: it's a goal that has helped this country to reach its greatness. But, the goal of immediate profits above all else does not always consistent with human compassion. Should profits control your health care decisions? Should profits control the Police force or the Fire department? Should profits control how we take care of the homeless, the disabled, the widows, the orphans, or the elderly?
If you want to know what Obama believes it's in his latest book The Audacity of Hope. I know, I know. Why should I buy this book to understand his positions. Because he will not be reduced to media soundbites. He will not reduce his opinions to easy little bits of information that make no sense to a very, very complex world and very complex problems. Its in the book. Check it out at the library (remember those?). Borrow it from a friend. Don't spend $15 bucks at Starbucks or Target and get something to expand your mind.
He's brilliant. He's energetic. He's dynamic. And he scares the daylights out of Hilary.
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Before this campaign season, I never really understood why Clinton-haters called Bill "Slick Willie". But now I totally get it. Right now-- having watched this post-Nevada, pre-South Carolina debacle unfold, I feel like a member of the GOP, circa 1998. Ugghhhh! Bill is just telling lies left and right. Honestly, I am so shocked by his distortions and bold-face lies about President Obama I feel like I am watching Bill channel Bush and Cheney. Almost like he has been possessed by their spirits of death.
And don't get me started on those idiots at CNN with their "Black Women are torn over race and gender" bull. WTF? Says who? What is there to be "torn" about? And exactly how many people did CNN poll b/f coming to the grand conclusion that Black women are torn? Probably, a whole 10 black women -- all working at CNN (New York---not ATL, of course). It will always be easier to just place us all into some small, easily managed box-- and just think that we all have 1 brain and no difference amongst us. You have got to be kidding me, CNN ?!?!
For the lazy people Obama has a Grammy for spoken word album of the year. Put it on your IPOD, your Zune, your laptop.
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