Comments for Obama's right on at http://tracypress.com , comment 1 to 50 out of 20 comments http://tracypress.com Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:29:05 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-55253 Bar Fann, if you believe the most qualified candidate always wins, you are a delusional individual. That qualifies you as an Obama backer. That's why I'm afriad of him getting into the White House, people that think like you will have put him there. - mark j Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:51:47 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-55191 And what's Obama doing visiting all those Middle Eastern countries and now the big picture is of him grandstanding before 200,000 German's. Who's vote is he trying to get? I think McCain said it correctly when he said that he'd also like to be giving a speech in Germany but after he elected President. I really do think Obama has ideas of grandeur and as one writer commented "He just may be the Anti-Christ". - fortheunderdog Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:01:27 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54911 "It is beyond my comprehension" Beyond your comprehension? No doubt this, like most basic facts, is beyond your comprehension, but it remains true, that the person most qualified to be President is the one having the greatest number of votes, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed. Did OJ kill those two people? Yes. Was he guilty? No, because a jury said so. - Bar Fann Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:03:26 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54719 Bar Fann, Nice job showing us that we now have one more juvenile mind making comments here. It is beyond my comprehension, I guess because I conduct myself in a polite manner, that adults can make disparaging remarks about others just because they have a different point of view. You must be taking over for Al(everyone that doesn't agree with me is an idiot)Galaviz. Childish behavior from adults is a sad thing. I highly doubt Dave H. or I qualify as morons. Also, I can't speak for Dave H. but I do not own a big red nose, an oversized pair of shoes, and I sure as hell don't own any white face paint. - mark j Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:56:31 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54707 Hardesty and mark j, so you are saying that John McCain is no more qualified than you to be POTUS? Even I wouldn't go that far in my criticism of him. I think you two morons totally miss the point. I am not stepping around any questions; there is only one "qualification" to be president in this country is that the people vote for you. At the end of the day, when Obambi wraps up 400+ electoral votes and 60% of the popular votes, you two clowns will still be whining about how he isn't "qualified" to be the prez, and that the election results were somehow incorrect. You are sort of like all those New England fans who still believe the Giants weren't good enough to win the Super Bowl. Those fans are right, New York wasn't qualified to win that game anywhere EXCEPT ON THE SCOREBOARD! - Bar Fann Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:56:46 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54672 Bar Fann Nice to see you step around the real questions that you can't answer. I too qualify two out of three. Anything more solid? I doubt it. Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:01:22 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54627 correction, meant to say 'he may receive' oops. - mark j Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:57:50 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54583 Bar Fann, big deal, Obama meets the minimum requirements. I meet two out of three. The only one I cannot meet is the 270 electoral votes that he received from a bunch of very naive, delusional voters that think he is the second coming of Christ. This man and his wife are two people that do not want to rule for love of country, they want to rule for love of themselves and their ego's. - mark j Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:19:42 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54557 Dave Hardesty, you raise an excellent question when you ask, "What qualifications does Obamba have to be the president?" As far as I know, there are three important ones: 1. Be 35 years old. (Check) 2. Be naturally born citizen of these United States (check) 3. Receive more than 270 electoral votes. Uh huh. After We the People check box number 3 for Obamba, you and your buddies can sit around for the next eight years and tell us how he just isn't qualified for the job he's got. Fortheunderdog, I love the story. Although it might be said that the navy, even today, isn't quite as Francophobic as the Air Farce. I remember how surprised I was on my first middie cruise to hear gruff, tatooed chief petty officers and master gunnery sergeants break out their finest Lyonnais accents to pronounce the name of the flagship of John Paul Jones (Benjamin Franklin's nom de plume, no less) - Bar Fann Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:17:48 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54503 I think I will vote for one who makes a good "vice presidential" choice, Bill Richardson? NO Clinton! Sure would help me alot if I knew who would be appointed to the Cabinets ahead of time! Still not feeling so confident with either of them. -amy - amy Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:57:21 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54357 mark j, I agree with you. If Clinton had be chosen Democratic nominee I think I would have voted for her also. Like you said, there's something about Obama that irks me. He seems to respond to McCain's statements with a sarcastic snippet, nothing of substance whatsoever. - fortheunderdog Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:37:03 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54342 Mark D, I agree, we have way bigger fish to fry. This is one of the most critical times in this countries history. I know I am probably nit-picking on some issues with Obama that seem trivial, I'll give you that. There is just something about the guy. Again sometimes you go with your gut. I've said before, I am not exactly jumping up and down for McCain. If Clinton were the Democratic nominee I may have voted Democrat for the first time. - mark j Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:02:10 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54314 MJ: I just don't see it as terrifically interesting, belittling or otherwise. We have an ongoing clash of civilizations, health care reform on the table, a war in Iraq started initiated from pure arrogance, continued erosion of the situation in Afghanistan, enhancement of worldwide terrorism over the past eight years, massive deficit spending, housing meltdowns and economic woes. I am much more interested in those issues than in Obama's concerns about French skills. I pointed this out as the first comment on your original letter. Now if you want an actual issue to compare and contrast, take a look at the problem of not mandating insurance coverage in a reform effort. Now, Obama seemed weaker than HRC on that topic, given all the good economic analysis out there (as well as cross-country comparisons), but McCain is just about insane on the topic, potentially completely devastating health care through his plan. Now that is a true policy issue that needs further analysis. Beyond that, if you see Obama as talking down to you, I agree you shouldn't vote for him. I want to learn more, however. - MarkDavis Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:30:53 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54311 Mark D., I agree with a lot of what you are saying but allow me to expand your reference to Obamas' ill conceived comments about guns and religion. I could care less, I don't own a gun and I am not religious. However, he did disparage a very large percentage of people in this country. Those were belittling remarks that smack of an "I am better than you" attitude. That is very unbefitting of a man running for president. Now let's talk about his comments about our ability to speak a foreign language. Take some of the most intelligent and successful people in this country. I don't care who you pick but let's assume not all of them speak a foreign language. We should be embarrassed by them? Come on Mark. I've said this before on some posts, if he said he was embarrassed that a lot of people in this country can't speak proper English, pass a citizenship test, tell you the decade the Civil War was fought, or even the reason we celebrate July 4th, I would agree 100%. But to say he's embarrassed that we can't go to France and speak more than a few words of French. Way off base my friend. If you get past all his rhetoric and what I must admit, great oratory skills, he is very poltically naive. And again, those foreign language comments smack of an "I am better than you" attitude. Look forward to your reply. - mark j Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:58:27 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54300 Oh well, the URL device is broken for single quotes, it seems. Check out "What's the matter with Kansas" in Wikipedia. - MarkDavis Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:27:17 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54299 Weird evisceration of that URL. Trying again: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_the_Matter_with_Kansas?[/url] - MarkDavis Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:26:28 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54298 MJ: I don't see the elitism, myself. Calling on Americans to look outward raises the possibility of reversing some of the problematic aspects of current US foreign policy. His comments on guns and religion in the heartland spoken extemporaneously were ill-conceived for a politician, but do reflect the general sociological analysis laid out in, for example, "What's the Matter with Kansas": [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_the_Matter_with_Kansas?[/url] that argue that class interests have been railroaded by careful strategizing in Movement Conservatism. Is it elitist to not pander to that deception? It actually might be a clarion call to my mind for a candidate to declare that letting relatively minor issues that are unrelated to their well-being trump their economic improvement or educational enhancement is not elitism but is speaking truth to power. In general I disagree with MJ and DH and tend to want change and young blood in charge. I see intelligence, honesty and a story of invigorating excellence in the face of struggle in Obama. I see a fading edifice of failing policies in McCain. Running mates might shift my view, but it is unlikely. - MarkDavis Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:25:40 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54285 Mark D. & Dave H., Both of you make good points. Here's my line of thinking. I try not to judge people I don't actually know. Most of us are not going to have intimate knowledge of a presidential candidate. What are we to do as voters? We have to look at their history of public service and see if it coincides with what we want and our political leanings. We have to look at comments they make and if they make enough of the same sort of comments then we have to try to decipher what they are saying and who they are as a person to the best of our ability. I hope you guys would at least agree with that to some extent. Here's how all that adds up for me. Obama and his wife are elitists. They have a holier than thou attitude. They beleive they are above being called out for deragatory comments they have made about this country and its citizens. They will not look at us as citizens but rather as loyal subjects. I like to always try and look at things with a level head and look at all sides but man, sometimes you just have to go with your gut feelings. There is just something about Obama. If I were a religous person I would swear this guy fits the description of the Anti-Christ. - mark j Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:08:51 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54276 Sorry Correction: I suppose you have not seen any of the news media on Obama's behavior along these lines as we. The sentence should have read, I suppose you have not seen any of the news media on Obama's behavior along these lines. - Dave Hardesty Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:33:44 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15240/2244/#comment-54274 Mark "Numerically smaller by virtue of simply less time in office." I will grant some of what you have said is true. But if you do compair their records and the 10/26 year difference one would expect that Obama would have accomplished more in the 10 years of his public life. And I am sorry, I am not conserned with the seat of the presidency over the past generations or who is considered to be an outsider. In my opinion that line of erronious thinking has brought us to where we are today. As far as flip-flopping is conserned, I believe we can also easily determine that both are more than guilty of that. So then, how else is the voter to make his decision on which way to cast his or her vote? Bursts of anger? I suppose you have not seen any of the news media on Obama's behavior along these lines as we. Don't get me wrong. I am not particularly inthralled with McCain either. It's going to come down to who we believe is the best qualified candidate out of the two we have to select from. To the regret of the Obama campaign, I just don't see and haven't heard of anything that leads me to believe he is the better of the two candidates for the office of President of the United States of America. So unless something significant occurs before this November, even though I don't believe he is the best our nation has to offer, John McCain will get my vote. Now if you or anyone has anything of significance that would make me change my thinking on this, I would appreciate it if you would let all of us know. Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:32:16 +0100