Hello America..We are not all that different

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Saturday October 11, 2008 · 11:30 AM PDT

2008/10/11 · 11:30

Hello America, my name is Ophira Eduin. My father was a Japanese citizen who immigrated to America in 1943. During World War Two, he was temporarily interned in a Japanese American relocation camp because of his ancestry. There, he met and married my white mother, who was an aide at the camp. After his release, he joined the military, and was ultimately awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery during armed conflict. I never knew him. I am not like you, but am all of you, American, a citizen, a patriot. My family sacrificed to make this country strong.

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 6:58 AM PDT

2008/10/10 · 06:58

If only there were a gallows and burning torches. These would befit the spectacle being played out at recent McCain/Palin rallies and speeches. "A witch"! "Satan Lover" the crowd screams. These remarks are punctuated with further cries of "Burn her"! "Treason" and "Kill Him". These horrors are unfolding before our eyes in this country we love so dear. It seems guilt by association is reason enough to condemn Barack Obama, but does that not also mean the McCain and Palin share the crowds thoughts by not denouncing them?

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Communication with someone who committed a crime means

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Communication with someone who committed a crime means

You agree with the crime

3 votes

You may be unaware of the crime

4 votes

You prefer to treat everyone like a human

35 votes

You believe in redemption

14 votes

Obama’s Hands Not Clean

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 5:38 AM PDT

2008/10/09 · 05:38

The McCain campaign has become more desperate while watching their chances at victory slip away in the polls. This campaign has always been negative, but its most recent antics include virulent smears from all the usual suspects, including: Sarah Palin, Cindy McCain, and their surrogates. Historically, the down candidate has always gone negative during the waning days. This isn’t new, and can always be expected, no matter how much the public says it dislikes negative campaigning. The candidate in a losing position basically has nothing to lose by going negative, because it’s a zero sum game for him or her. Despite its protest against negativity, there is still some thrill and entertainment value which the public secretly enjoys. Otherwise, the public would tune out and write the media demanding this negative information not be broadcast of published. That is NOT the case. However, the Main Stream Media (MSM) has gotten into the fray and started calling foul on the McCain campaigns egregious claims and distortions.

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Tuesday October 07, 2008 · 7:34 AM PDT

2008/10/07 · 07:34

I dont understand US. I dont mean me in particular, but the collective US. Look how simple minded some of us are. I am addressing the most recent McCain attacks. These attacks center on the theory that there is some mystery to Obama. I take offense with this notion. Obama is a US Senator. If I get their train of thought, we have a US Senator who is privy to National Security related information, and votes on the countries direction, who is some sort of Manchurian candidate bent on taking down the country. If this is true, why aent they asking to have him removed from the Senate? The answer is....its smoke and mirrors. The essential question of our day is what happens tommorrow. Yet, some people are caught up in yesterday. Yesterday includes issues such as race, status, and position in life.

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 1:49 PM PDT

2008/10/02 · 13:49

There were many questions before the first presidential debate about Obama concerning the Commander In Chief issue, and National Security. Obama answered the attacks and questions throughout the campaign, but it took him saying the very same things during the debate with John McCain to raise the public’s comfort level on his abilities. Now let’s take Sarah Palin. She has failed every conceivable set of questions posed to her. I dont think the debate changes our first and last impressions of her.

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 5:36 AM PDT

2008/09/30 · 05:36

Like John McCain, I too am a retired military person. Frankly, I can’t stand the guy or what he stands for, and will be voting against him. You see, John McCain is a former officer, and as such, he was supposed to lead his subordinates by setting the example, telling the truth, and putting them first. Much has been made of his POW experience, but these 5 lost years are less than one third of his military career. During his non-POW years did he learn nothing about leadership? The biggest negative to John McCain is his desire to cast everything as a military campaign, a tactical or strategic move. In my military career observations, the types of leaders who looked at everything in terms of cause and effect on THEM were the worst of the lot. That not leadership, that’s satisfying your own ambitions.

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John McCain is a cheese eating RAT because..

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John McCain is a cheese eating RAT because..

He places the needs of himslef above the voters

4 votes

He thinks that he is destined for greatness

2 votes

He is rich and everyone else is a peon

1 vote

He lies to our face and expects us to believe it

7 votes

All of the above

36 votes

American Shades of my inalienable Rights

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 9:21 AM PDT

2008/09/27 · 09:21

I read a report that said that the Gov is training military folks in Riot control in advance of the upcoming election. the perception is that if Obama loses, and people (especially Black people) feel that there was some underhandedness in play (blocking voters at polls, foreclosure lists etc) there will be hell to pay. Personally I imagine there might be protests, and maybe even a riot or two on a small scale, but these people have to be aware that none of this would ultimately change the result..John McCain would still be president. I would ask that everyone please abide by the results. Hell, we were stuck with George Bush, and there is plenty evidence of hanky panky in the background. The good thing about this country is that the Prsident comes with an expiration label..4 years. If not now, later, but our time will come as a people (black and white)

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 6:26 AM PDT

2008/09/25 · 06:26

As a registered member of the Republican Party, I feel that all Americans have a civic duty to not only vote, but to value that cast vote based upon its overall impact to the country, and not a particular person or party. Therefore, although the powers that be have placed me as a voter with the Republican Party, I have always voted my conscious. Some things I am liberal about, and other things I am conservative about, but my mind is always open to change based upon new information. My most recent concern with the Republican Party has been its utter dominance and control by religion. This has occurred to such a degree that candidates are now measured and qualified for fitness to hold political office based upon their reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations. I have no issue with people practicing their faith within their own homes, churches, synagogues, and temples, but the injection of religion into politics has gotten out of hand. Where I really see a line being crossed is when the Republican Party’s religion voters not only want to have their own beliefs, but want to force them on the rest of us in the areas of abortion, sin, sexuality, and many others. Whatever happened to live and let live?

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Are Republican-leaning religious groups destroying them?

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Are Republican-leaning religious groups destroying them?

The Republican religious groups have co-opted the party in a negative way

13 votes

The Republican religious groups have co-opted the party in a positive way

1 vote

Republican religious voters are kind hearted people

1 vote

Republican religious voters are mean spirited people

2 votes

John McCain trully believes in the religious rights platform

1 vote

John McCain is using the religious rights platform to get elected

11 votes

Race As a Factor

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 1:36 PM PDT

2008/09/17 · 13:36

In today’s age, some may not believe what I am about to say is possible. As for myself, I am a Blk American, who also happens to be retired Army. Because of my military service, my children were raised with all creeds and races of people. At any time, I could come home and find my house full of children of many races. In fact, as small children, when I asked about a particular play mate of theirs, it never occurred to them to say the "black boy" or the "white girl". I had to learn each visiting child’s name in turn, and this was always a source of pride in my house. Even today, one of my son’s girlfriends is Puerto Rican, another is black, and my third sons’ girlfriend is white. They all feel comfortable in my home because when it comes to race, we simply don’t care. To be frank, I have too many other things going on (mortgage, work, bills etc...) to spend my time separating people out by color. I and my wife are true believers that racism will be eliminated by young people, who don’t have the racist notions that many in the older generation still hold even to this day.

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