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- UtahPirate, on 12/28/2007, -32/+344My real question is, who has taken the time to read Obama's Congressional record? I have, and I have to say, I'm impressed with it. I've also seen LOTS of misinformation about it, such as that he voted to expand the USA-PATRIOT Act, or that he voted this way or that way... if you're going to make a claim, SHOW YOUR WORK. Point to the spot in Obama's online Congressional record where he made such a vote. I really can't find it, and it's ridiculous to keep saying something that isn't true in the hopes that it becomes true.
And if you're just repeating what everyone else is saying, I don't want to hear it. I really don't. Because that makes you stupid. If you want to know the truth, go to the source.
Congressional voting records database: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/ - Tex, on 07/28/2008, -33/+315From the speech: "I’ve heard from seniors who were betrayed by CEOs who dumped their pensions while pocketing bonuses, and from those who still can’t afford their prescriptions because Congress refused to negotiate with the drug companies for the cheapest available price.
I’ve met Maytag workers who labored all their lives only to see their jobs shipped overseas; who now compete with their teenagers for $7-an-hour jobs at Wal-Mart.
I’ve spoken with teachers who are working at donut shops after school just to make ends meet; who are still digging into their own pockets to pay for school supplies.
Just two weeks ago, I heard a young woman in Cedar Rapids who told me she only gets three hours of sleep because she works the night shift after a full day of college and still can’t afford health care for a sister with cerebral palsy."
He's really hitting it home now. - dotmike1, on 12/28/2007, -38/+238Hands down, that was one of the best speeches of the political season. Obama is a pure intellectual
- theuniversal, on 12/28/2007, -12/+199The video of Obama's full speech (22min):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPtg-gvgWhE - inactive, on 12/28/2007, -88/+233Don't vote for Ron Paul. Vote for Obama instead. Rationality compels you.
- bobnbob, on 12/28/2007, -48/+186Obama inspires ME to make a change in My country. Barack Obama is the real deal - he has a rack record of service to the people BEFORE being rewarded himself.
Obama '08! - colincornaby, on 12/28/2007, -36/+172Just think, Ron Paul would do nothing for these people.
- sourc3, on 12/28/2007, -15/+131Ron Paul vs. Barack Obama. That would be the first time that I can remember that there'd be a choice between two great candidates, rather than the lesser of two evils.
DOWN WITH BILLARY! - DeeAnnaRoberts, on 12/28/2007, -9/+123He writes his own speeches.
- ncairns, on 12/28/2007, -4/+109He graduated from Columbia University and then Harvard Law School magna cum laude, where he served as the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review in the publication's history - and did NOT come from a privileged background.
You *don't* believe he wrote that?
Please. - Tex, on 07/28/2008, -17/+107I sometimes wonder if Cashman ever gets tired of typing the exact same mantra over and over again.
- DeeAnnaRoberts, on 12/28/2007, -27/+115Barack Obama once again , demonstrates that he not only has a clear head and can remain calm in a crisis, but also display wisdom and judgment.
Obama 2008! - nikki23, on 12/28/2007, -25/+112I'm voting for Obama.
- barackoblogger, on 12/28/2007, -17/+103Obama has the capacity to inspire people and call them to ACTION!!!
Imagine where the civil rights movement would be withouth the INSPIRATION of Martin Luther King Jr.
Obama was a community activist. He's always said that his campaign is not about him, but it's about empowering people to get involved in their OWN communities! - aceakm, on 12/28/2007, -3/+82Sucks to be Hilary.
- mutagenesis, on 12/28/2007, -10/+77The fact that I could read through that entire thing proves how good it is.
- cg4et, on 12/28/2007, -20/+87The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting to get different results. Obama is the only Democrat who genuinely changes the game away from the same old divisions of the past and moves us into a new era of rebirth and renewal, not just in the progressive movement, but in the country as a whole. I'll be voting for Barack!
- subliminalurge, on 12/28/2007, -5/+71Yeah, clean coal and ethanol. ***** that *****. Let's stick with dirty coal smokestacks and foreign oil.
Great thinking there, dude. - Tex, on 07/28/2008, -7/+68I have no doubt, given his education background, that he writes his own speeches.
I don't care how much you support Ron Paul, Minarchian, you can't question the man's education. - ad33lshahid, on 12/28/2007, -17/+72even though i support paul, i think obama has a much better shot.. maybe thats something for all paul supporters to think about.
- TheDHC, on 12/28/2007, -13/+68id be content with Obama if kucinich doesn't get the nomination
- MikeSobe, on 12/28/2007, -11/+66That is West Wing quality.
- timinchicago, on 12/28/2007, -15/+68he has long supported CLEAN coal, if and when technology allows it. Paid for? is that how he got the endorsement of the League of Conservation Voters?
Same conventional thinking, we get the same results. For me that summarizes it all. Only Obama can shake up the system that is broken. Clinton would mean the same results mean we would not solve our national problems.
see: http://www.newsweek.com/id/78157 - nikki23, on 12/28/2007, -7/+59You are completely distorting Obama's message and stances on the issues.
- inactive, on 12/28/2007, -7/+58Funny, I haven't heard you complain about Bush's drunken sailor spending.
Yes kids, investment in the future costs money! - rolf, on 12/28/2007, -6/+57Obama voted YES on March 2, 2006 on the Reauthorization of the Patriot Act, which serves to extend the original Patriot Act since it was set to expire.
Vote 29: H R 3199: H.R. 3199 Conference Report; USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/c...te/2/votes/ ...
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/c...7/votes/pag ... - adeptusliberus, on 12/28/2007, -15/+63that there is the brutal truth.
- arunforce, on 12/28/2007, -23/+71Obama is made of win. Share please.
- thefirstenemy, on 12/28/2007, -21/+65His plan calls for us to be out within 16 months, with 1 to 2 brigade leaving each month. It's not like bringing out more 200,000, plus equipment, is any easy task. I doubt Ron Paul, who wants an instant withdrawal, rather than a phased one, can get them out much faster. His approach will most likely just end up being more careless.
- Ajajadude, on 12/28/2007, -3/+46Funny, someone was saying in another article how he was a whore of the nuclear power industry.
- Ajajadude, on 12/28/2007, -14/+55It's not black-and-white. Yes, we need to get out of Iraq, but we can't just cut all funding to the operations there. Sure, it'd be a great political statement to Bush but the only people it would really hurt is the troops.
- fmaxwell, on 12/28/2007, -6/+41Have you been complaining about Bush racking up the highest deficit spending numbers and the largest national debt that this country has ever seen? And for what? To kill people in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not to help hard-working Americans get the health care, good jobs, and retirements that they deserve.
Obama doesn't need to borrow money to fix the problems. He can work to repeal the disastrous tax cuts for the wealthy that Bush pushed through (by the way, Bush promised that the economy would be invigorated by those same tax cuts and it's in the worst shape that it's been in decades). He can stop hemorrhaging money for the war in Iraq, putting such fine firms as Halliburton and Blackwater Security on notice that their services are no longer required.
You right wing nut-jobs seem to think that money for wars is somehow "free" and need not be collected through taxes but that money for social programs to help Americans is some kind of different money, the spending of which should be avoided at all costs. Are you all really this deluded or is it better described as intellectually dishonest? - ISIfunded911, on 12/28/2007, -6/+40All speeches are good and emotional. They are written by the best of the best. What really matters: the past votes of a candidate, his precise plans, and what his critics have to say about him. You need all those pieces to have a clear picture. A speech is the worst approach to a candidate, even though it feels good to listen to it.
Read this if you really care about the health of seniors who cannot afford their prescriptions:
“There isn’t one iota’s difference between the plans put forward by Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, and former Senator Edwards because they all keep the for-profit health insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies in control of the health care system,” Kucinich said. “The only thing ‘universal’ about their plans is that they universally fail to address the real reason 47 million Americans are uninsured and another 50 million are under-insured: for-profit insurance companies get rich by gouging people and by not paying for health care.”
Kucinich is the co-author and co-sponsor of a bill (HR 676) that would establish a national, not-for-profit health insurance system that would guarantee coverage to all Americans, including medical, dental, vision, mental health, long term care, early child care, and preventative health services. Under the Kucinich plan, there would be no premiums, no deductibles, and no co-pays, and no denials of services. The legislation has been endorsed by the 14,000-member Physicians for a National Health Program, the California Nurses Association, labor union locals, and award-winning film-maker Michael Moore, whose “SiCKO” documentary is a scathing indictment of the for-profit health care industry in the U.S.
“If you don’t have the courage to take on the insurance and pharmaceutical industries,” Kucinich said of the other Democratic candidates, “don’t try to fool the American people by pretending to offer real reform. The Clinton, Obama, and Edwards plans will ensure that for-profit companies remain in control, and they will be rewarded and enriched with federal subsidies to reduce the prices they charge. Instead of gouging the consumers, they’ll be gouging the taxpayers.”
Kucinich also objected to the “mandates” proposed in the three plans. “These candidates want to force individual citizens and employers to buy health insurance, using the promise of tax credits to make the coercion more palatable. We shouldn’t be mandating that people buy private coverage, we should be guaranteeing coverage for our citizens like other enlightened industrialized nations do.”
Kucinich noted that Americans spend more than $2 trillion a year on health care, and upwards of $600 billion covers costs that have nothing to do with care: profits, dividends, exorbitant salaries, executive compensation, stock options, advertising, paperwork, and coordination and duplication of services among the many private companies.
“Take that money out of the pockets of the for-profit companies and put it into providing a national health care plan that covers everyone for everything,” Kucinich said. Comparing and contrasting the differences among the Cinton, Obama, and Edwards plans “is a phony debate,” he charged. “If they’re afraid of offending their campaign contributors from the for-profit health care industry, or they’re concerned about whatever personal investments they have in that industry, they should be honest about it and just say so.”
He continued, “I can’t be bought, and I can’t be bossed, and that’s why I’m the only candidate willing and eager to challenge the insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. The sooner we get the profit out of the system, the sooner every American can have access to comprehensive health care. It’s a right, and this nation has a moral and social responsibility to provide it.”
http://www.dennis4president.com/go/newsroom/clinto ...
From: http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Feb2007/street0207.html - djaoki, on 12/28/2007, -23/+57If Paul does not win the Republican nod, my vote will go to Obama.
Although, I have to admit that this speech chock full 'o cliched and contrived statements. - inactive, on 12/28/2007, -21/+54That speech won me over big time.
I am finally, dare I say, optimistic? - woofers07, on 12/28/2007, -13/+43Did you just say something negative about RP? Oh man, you're gonna get it now.
- KampfGherkin, on 12/28/2007, -9/+39As a RP supporter from a liberal background I'd have to agree. It is worrying in a sense, but I personally see it like this: fiscal responsibility, overgrown government and foreign policy are the sword's edge in the coming years. If these things are not brought under control quickly, you will soon have no more America to be proud of as it sinks into the abyss of enormous debt and a military-industrial-complex hijacking your country and your freedoms. In a place like that, what will socialized health care do for you?
It's a question of pressing priorities for 2008 in my opinion, as a nation it's do or die. - Akronos, on 12/28/2007, -3/+31http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_li ...
He voted YEA to reauthorizing the PATRIOT ACT. He even says so in his own page if you don't believe that either. http://obama.senate.gov/speech/060216-floor_statem ... - nikki23, on 12/28/2007, -1/+27No kidding, cashman posts comments with no basis in reality.
- Kschreck, on 12/28/2007, -35/+61For the most part I was backing Ron Paul but we all know he doesn't stand a chance. Everyone here knows that Obama is the second best chance at restoring the United States. I plan on voting for Obama if I feel that Ron Paul doesn't have a chance. Amazing speech, very touching.
- bethlagarrison, on 12/28/2007, -17/+43How dare you speak ill of anything Ron Paul suggests?!
BURY PATROL, HOOOOO!! - sandbird, on 12/28/2007, -15/+38And Obama would crush Paul. It wouldn't even be a contest.
- Dohko_Xar, on 12/28/2007, -8/+31Why the ***** hell must the first comment in a story be a dumb ***** comment?!
***** YOU! - chungmaster, on 12/28/2007, -2/+25As opposed to spend and spend?
- inactive, on 12/28/2007, -65/+87This is real change. To hell with Ron Paul!
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -4/+25I think its kind of sad that the low standards set by President Bush have brought some people to the point where they find it so difficult to accept the notion that, yes, some do write their own speeches, and well so.
- thanakar, on 12/28/2007, -5/+26You say "Welcome to capitalism, and it's by the far the best economic policy implemented yet." but you also mention Ron Paul is against jobs being moved overseas. Jobs moving overseas is part of the capitalist maximizing their profits by using less costly overseas workers. How is Ron Paul going to convince corporations in the States to keep the jobs here, which will in turn cut into their profit margin becuase they have to pay American workers more than they pay the foreign workers?
That's the problem I have with Ron Paul. He SAYS alot, but really never tells you HOW he's going to implement all these changes. - trotskyist, on 12/28/2007, -2/+22You're such a ***** idiot.
seriously. - trotskyist, on 12/28/2007, -1/+21His public campaign finance reports would disagree with you.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.asp?id=N ... - NeoRicen, on 12/28/2007, -18/+37I support Obama, and I digg stories regarding him, but I have to digg that comment down, it was so fake and contrived.
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