OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!! (I love Obama)
I'm of the belief that everyone and I mean everyone including leaders of countries, religious leaders etc. down to the man in the street has to "earn" their respect. But...I do agree Liz that the article you posted the link about people of San Francisco, Calif. sending around a petition to name the Oceanside sewage treatment company George W. Bush was going too far and they in turn showed how small minded they were in doing so.
It also made me feel bad because San Francisco is one of my favorite cities. I enjoyed a lot of good times there with my family and friends.
Diane
OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!! (I love Obama)
Assassination fears for Obama
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America's most reviled racist group the Ku Klux Klan has warned of a "race war" after the election of Barack Obama, as fears continue to build around the first black US president's safety.
The Ku Klux Klan website "welcomed" Obama's election because "it could mean an awakening of our spirit and blood".
The site also claimed that "this is a race war - a culture war - being waged against white people".
President-elect Obama received the highest level of security ever afforded to a candidate during the campaign.
Throughout the 22-month campaign the secret service investigated more than 500 death threats against the 47-year-old African-American.
Two white supremacist skinheads were arrested last month over plans to shoot Obama and kill other blacks.
Twenty-year-old Daniel Cowart and 18-year-old Paul Schlesselman have been indicted on charges of possessing a sawn-off shotgun, planning to rob a licensed gun dealer and threatening a presidential candidate.
The US government has already started testing new designs for a presidential limousine equipped to withstand most bomb blasts and terror attacks.
While Obama's wife Michelle — a corporate lawyer — has expressed her concern over the threats facing their family, Obama has previously said it's "not something that I'm spending time thinking about day to day."
"I think anybody who decides to run for president recognises that there are some risks involved," he said.
Four US presidents have been assassinated — Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and John Kennedy.
Another eight presidents have survived "credible" attempts of their lives.
Obama has paid tribute thoughtout his campaign to Martin Luther King — the leader of the American civil rights movement who was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.
Newspapers all over the world yesterday reported that Obama's elect had achieved King's dream.
But many Americans are fearful the election could ignite racist resentment.
"It a great thing but a scary thing," said 28-year-old Cincinnati nurse Natasha Johnson.
"There have already been two failed [publicised] assassination plots… there are still a lot of people who don't agree with this."
As well as the KKK reaction, "Impeach Barack Obama" Facebook groups have already surfaced on the internet, with one attracting more than 700 members.
Bush & Mccain Two of a kind! I,m so proud we have someone who has the brains to change this country for the better!Attachment 27567 And yes some nutball might try to assassinate Obama because he is Bi-racial. God Bless him and America!
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I absolutely disagree with just one thing here, your assertion that we have to respect Bush Jr. The man is worthy of zero respect, in any form, and I eagerly anticipate his leaving the office in which he's wrongly squatted these eight years of hell (and, yes, I know the real damage was done by the neocons who ran things behind the scenes, not by this bumbling, inarticulate figurehead whose only real qualification was being a son of a...I mean...son of privilege). In a just world, he and his neocon handlers would be facing trial in The Hague for their very real crimes against humanity but, in reality, neither Obama nor anyone else entrenched in The System is going to take these ****ers to task.Originally Posted by ehollier
It's going to take a long time to right what these people made desperately wrong in maybe three years or so. I wish Obama and his people the best as they begin the task...it's not going to all magically get better, and I think some who have an overly optimistic view of Obama and the political apparatus in which he functions will be rather disappointed at some point. But, still, any improvement is decidedly welcome...
I'm a roving roustabout...
Plain ignorance. Obama has not spent one day in office and already he "has the brains" to change the country.
I agree.
Sewage-treatment plants are actually useful and serve a positive function.
I'm a roving roustabout...
It's a given, if you look at who's occupying the office now.Plain ignorance. Obama has not spent one day in office and already he "has the brains" to change the country.
Yes, there're greater intelligences involved -- the scary zealots who've actually been running things (take one look at Junior reciting a speech and it's plainly apparent that he has not even an approximation of an understanding of what he's saying) but they've hardly been too clever in covering their tracks, perhaps emboldened by a complicit media and an apathetic populace that let them get away with gutting the Constitution in plain view.
Regardless, it'll be refreshing to once again have a President who not only was elected (novel concept) but who is able to actually talk, and to do so without having lines fed to him while still managing to mess it all up.
I'm a roving roustabout...
I cant believe in 2008 the Ku Klux Klan even exists! Its pretty sad
I am Canadian and i watch it on CNN i felt so good that he one!!!
I think that he will do his best no ones perfect and even he said that it might not get fixed in a year or even a term... If i was American i would feel VERY proud... And really he cant screw up any more than Pres Bush did.....
For u that don't like him JUST give him a chance lets not make the color of his skin matter your all better than that, i know in my heart that he will help your country .. I wish that someday we will have someone like that here IMO!!! god bless your country and god bless all of you
Also IMO Elvis would be VERY proud of the decision that his country made last night......
R.I.P ~ROSANNE~
We will forever miss you at TCB
Tell Elvis we say HI
If anything happens to Barack Obama or his family let's just say that the KKK will be obsolete afterwards and just a memory. And it won't just be from blacks either. There are millions of middle class to low class and high class whites who voted for Obama and will be pissed off if some race group tries to harm him or start some race war, including me.Keep in mind it was WHITES who voted him in to begin with. Not blacks. Blacks are only 19% of the US population and their vote would have been almost invisible had whites not voted for him.
Maybe the racial hate groups that want to stay stuck in the past like the KKK should wake up and see the nation WANTS change. By seeing the white Americans vote him in makes me proud of my poeple and goes a long way to show in how far this country really has come in such a short time period.
As for him not having character is a complete joke. The man is so likable and charismatic as nay president in US history! How can you not look past the color of his skin and give this man respect? I wasn't for him at first but the more I listened to him and saw his long term plan and then looked at Bush and his biggest screw up to date, I knew who I wanted. True he may not have the experience needed but he's yet to show weakness in his approach either.
Also I am glad to see blacks showing class and dignity with all this. There's been no riots or personal jabs at whites as some might have expected from a few.
Having Obama in office could be the begining of the healing process that caused hatred between blacks and whites for more than 200 years.
All Elvis fans should also take notice at Barack's fast rising to worldwide fame and see the similarities. Just like the young white boy from Tupelo who had the black sound and moves of the black man who broke racial and political boundaries, he too rose out of poverty to the King!
A while back when Obama won the democratic ticket Marty Lacker was on the Memphis CA arguing with some racist bigots and said that Elvis would have endorsed Obama had he lived and that America needs to accept and get used to having a black man in office. I was actually shocked to hear him say that. I think it's safe to say that Elvis would have been proud as well.
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If anything happens to Barack Obama or his family let's just say that the KKK will be obsolete afterwards and just a memory. And it won't just be from blacks either. There are millions of middle class to low class and high class whites who voted for Obama and will be pissed off if some race group tries to harm him or start some race war, including me.
Maybe the racial hate groups that want to stay stuck in the past like the KKK should wake up and see the nation WANTS change. By seeing the white Americans vote him in makes me proud of my poeple and goes a long way to show in how far this country really has come in such a short time period.
As for him not having character is a complete joke. The man is so likable and charismatic as nay president in US history! How can you not look past the color of his skin and give this man respect? I wasn't for him at first but the more I listened to him and saw his long term plan and then looked at Bush and his biggest screw up to date, I knew who I wanted. True he may not have the experience needed but he's yet to show weakness in his approach either.
Also I am glad to see blacks showing class and dignity with all this. There's been no riots or personal jabs at whites as some might have expected from a few.
Having Obama in office could be the begining of the healing process that caused hatred between blacks and whites for more than 200 years.
All Elvis fans should also take notice at Barack's fast rising to worldwide fame and see the similarities. Just like the young white boy from Tupelo who had the black sound and moves of the black man who broke racial and political boundaries, he too rose out of poverty to the King!
R.I.P ~ROSANNE~
We will forever miss you at TCB
Tell Elvis we say HI
Yep i'am from canada also and seen that stuff. I just hope things look up for the future.I cant believe in 2008 the Ku Klux Klan even exists! Its pretty sad
I am Canadian and i watch it on CNN i felt so good that he one!!!
I think that he will do his best no ones perfect and even he said that it might not get fixed in a year or even a term... If i was American i would feel VERY proud... And really he cant screw up any more than Pres Bush did.....
For u that don't like him JUST give him a chance lets not make the color of his skin matter your all better than that, i know in my heart that he will help your country .. I wish that someday we will have someone like that here IMO!!! god bless your country and god bless all of you
Also IMO Elvis would be VERY proud of the decision that his country made last night......
It seems to me that there is one thing that people either don't know or don't pay attention to is that Barack Obama's mother was caucasian and he was raised by his white grandmother when she died. So in effect, Obama is representing both black and white people which I feel is a very good thing.
He is also very bright, charismatic and a strong family man with a whole new outlook on politics that's been needed in this country for many years. I am looking forward to seeing what this man will do and I believe we're in for some pleasant surprises.
Diane
Obama is not the first US president with black ancestry.
(I hate the expression "African American" - politically correct, divisive nonsense!)
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge all had black ancestors.
Please, McCain couldn't possibly have won. Chimp Bush was the main reason why he lost. Four years of McCain would have been another four years of Bush insanity. Then there was the final nail in the coffin: Sarah "I can see Russia from my house" Palin. Lunatic, right-wing nut job.
The economy had little, if anything, to do with it. No one could blame McCain or even the Republicans for that.
Depending on the source, blacks are anywhere between 12 and 13% of the total US population.
Two completely different things. Apples and oranges. And many blacks - probably the majority of them, then and now - either resent or don't give a crap about Elvis.
"Too"? Elvis was born into poverty. Obama was not.
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I don't think Martin Luther King or Elvis would've voted for Obama or be proud of him. They are calling this the first, "Media Election". Meaning Obama took control of all the Media except for FOX NEWS. I'm not going to forget that this man spent 20 years with Bill Aires a well known American Terrorist and went to a church for 20 years that is equivalent to white supremacist KKK church for a white person. There is also the ACORN voter fraud scandal.I'm sure both Elvis and Martin would be very excited and proudand i'm sure there both looking down at this beaming with pride
I"m proud as well,and excited
Go Obama!
-SatninLove
I've been in show business since I was 15 and know all the tricks that are pulled as far as fooling the public with a smile or side stepping an important issue with a cheap spin. This man could say anything to the public and make it sound like he's saying something profound but most people weren't listening to his words and how realistic his goals were.
Martin Luther King was about peace. I doubt that he would have approved of a candidate who hung out with someone for 20 years that set off bombs here in America & defended & gave money to a company that encouraged phony votes to get people elected.
There will be "Change" all right. People will see & most will ignore it when the obvious fruits of what's been the works for 20 years will take place but cause they're happy & blinded that there's a afro-American in the highest office. I'm not knocking all that. It's cool to see that when people want to come out and vote they will make it happened but that was the case since they were able vote. They could have made a difference all this time but chose not to. They chose to instead just sit there and throw the blame game around.
In my opinion these three points alone would have alerted Elvis.
1-Terrorist Buddy
2- The Church Attended was a Black supremacist one. Just watch the video clips.
3- Worked for and gave $250,000.00 with Bill Aires and again last year gave $800,000,00 to ACORN a voter fraud
Obama wasn't born in a mansion so he was born in poverty.
Last I saw many African Americans took part in the most successful documentary to date on Elvis, including the most famous black entertainer living, Beyonce.
To mention Thomas Jefferson who owned slaves, as a president with African roots is a smack in the face of all African Americans and their struggles and this amazing accomplishment. But that's another topic so I won't go into all that. Just accept that hsitory has been made and not only did the people of America want change so did the entire planet. There've been celebrations all over the world because of this!
To be fair, no one is pure white anymore anyway, especially in America.
You couldn't be further from the truth. Everything except for the racist ACORN and Wright sagas has yet to be proven as fact. But to be fair ACORN did that on their own not something Obama asked of them.
The terrorist ties is all fabricated. Even McCain has repeatedly said that Obama is not Arab and loves his country just as much as McCain does. If he had any ties to terrorism especially since 911 I can assure you that he would not have been elected as president. America may be naive at times but we're not that stupid.
The reason Fox didn't support Obama is because they're a Republican source while NBC is a democratic source.
Obama's stance on Iran and banning of nuclear arms is even more stronger than McCain's was.
Obama has vowed to force the death penalty on Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Ladin and to bring down all terrorist groups, which even Bush wouldn't push for.
So you tell me who is the real terrorist? Maybe it's the guy in office as we speak? The same president who used a personal vendetta to take down another country and cause the loss of lives of young soldiers that should have never been there to begin with.
And for the record I doubt Elvis would have allowed Bush to enter his home with the crap he's pulled in the last 8 years. How he destroyed our economy, ignored innocent victims needing help in New Orleans, and started a war that we had no business even being a part of in the first place. That's unpatriotic therefore Elvis wouldn't have supported that and McCain supported 99% of Bush' ideas for this country. So I think it's safe to say that Elvis and MLK would have endorsed and supported Barack Obama as the leader and commander in chief.
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