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AOL Straw Poll: April 28-May 5
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(Page 1 of 713)NATIONAL WARNING12:31PMApr 28th 2008
This is not a joke. Our country is in BIG TROUBLE. We are gradually
heading towards a fascist government. This means that we could
eventually wind up like China or the USSR. Don't delude yourself into
believing that's not true. It is. The only candidate who is
acknowledging this is Ron Paul. Do what you can to help him win. You
will benefit as his agenda involves correcting this problem.
If you still don't like Ron Paul, please do some thorough research on
him and all the other candidates. If you do that with an open mind,
you will see the truth behind what I have said.
UNITED WE STAND!
Our goverment has betrayed us12:31PMApr 28th 2008
Please watch the following videos. They are only 10 minutes each:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jj03Sx0l9Hw
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Save America12:31PMApr 28th 2008
This website nicely describes how you can help save this country.
Please check it out and let others know about it:
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Voting advisor12:31PMApr 28th 2008
Ron Paul is the only candidate who represents the good American
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Message from our founding fathers12:34PMApr 28th 2008
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CG12:34PMApr 28th 2008
Folks, watch out for 'treaties'. The EU was formed on 'treaties'. The Treaty of Lisbon. The Treaty on European Union. The Treaty establishing the European Community renamed the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
See Europe? One currency one constitution. After people said no to the EU, the parliaments decided to forego the consent of the people and rather run through a parliamentary ratification process. Treaties are being forged in this country (eg The North American Standards and Regulatory Area (NASRA), until it's renamed again). Look for a deliberately crashed economy, coinciding with a strong euro, to help convince people to accept merging - which means no more US constitution. Despots hunger for power and control.
We've got three globalist candidates. I'll write in Ron Paul. I won't vote for the destruction of this country. Hey, at least my write-in won't be electronically switched.
STOP THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION!12:35PMApr 28th 2008
The Bush administration, unbenounced to the American Public, is
plotting to erase the borders between the USA and Canada along with
the borders between USA and Mexico. This is to form a new country
call THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION (A.K.A. NAU). This is will result the
the erasure of the constitution and cause all civil liberties to be
removed. This must be stopped. Do what you can to prevent it! Do it
before it's too late!
McCain should withdraw12:35PMApr 28th 2008
Please sign this petition to have McCains delegates all dropped as
McCain used illegal measures to have his campaign funded:
http://www.petitiononline.com/JDAlvey1/petition.html
McCain is NOT above the law! Show him!
Richard12:36PMApr 28th 2008
Obama Distorted Rev. Wright's Background
Monday, April 28, 2008 9:39 AM
By: Ronald Kessler
In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Barack Obama again fabricated the background of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to try to excuse his longtime pastor’s denunciations of America and of whites.
Referring to racial discrimination, violence, and segregation, Obama said Wright “went through experiences that I never went through.”
In his speech on race in Philadelphia, Obama made similar claims. He described a “lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one’s family . . .”
Obama said this was “the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up . . . For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years.”
But as detailed in an April 13 Newsman article, “Obama’s Rev. Wright Mythology,” Obama’s characterization of his mentor’s upbringing is untrue.
Wright grew up in a racially mixed, middle-class section of Philadelphia called Germantown, which consisted of homes on broad tree-lined streets. Both his parents had good jobs: His father was a pastor; his mother was vice principal of Philadelphia High School for Girls.
Wright was privileged to attend the elite Central High School, which admits only the most highly-qualified applicants from all over the city. When Wright attended Central High, the student body was 90 percent white, according to students who attended at around the same time.
Wright’s classmates clearly respected him. The 211th class yearbook described him as the “epitome of what Central endeavors to imbue in its students.”
In contrast to Wright, Bill Cosby, who also attended Central High, has denounced the black culture of victimhood that Wright has promoted in his sermons, a culture that Cosby says sets up blacks for failure.
Since the Newsmax story on Wright’s background ran, only Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly has picked up on the fact that Obama’s characterization of his preacher’s upbringing is fiction.
Meanwhile, the coverage resurgence of Wright over the weekend spotlights the fact that, by suppressing any mention of Wright until mid-March, the media in effect selected Obama as the Democrats’ nominee.
Wright appeared in a Bill Moyers interview on Friday, gave a talk to the NAACP in Detroit on Sunday, and spoke to the National Press Club this morning. As a result, clips of Wright denouncing America and claiming the country introduced the AIDS virus to kill off blacks have been blanketing the airwaves.
Moreover, at the NAACP, Wright in effect ratified the black culture of failure by saying African-Americans’ brains are different than those of whites: If they speak differently from whites, they are not wrong — just different, he said, implying that they should not be corrected.
If the Obama-loving media had picked up on stories that Newsmax started running in January before the primaries began about Obama and his relationship with his pastor, Hillary Clinton undoubtedly would be ahead today in delegates and votes.
After the media finally ran the stories, Obama’s double-digit lead over Clinton in national polls vanished. At the same time, John McCain shot up in the polls.
As Ken Blackwell, a black columnist, recently wrote, the media have covered Obama “as if he were in a beauty pageant.” In doing so, they have done a disservice to Democrats by not telling the truth about Obama and his pastor until most of the primaries were over.
By not reporting how Obama is using bogus claims about Wright’s upbringing to excuse his “God damn America” tirades, the media are continuing the coverup.
kathryn12:37PMApr 28th 2008
Hillary is all that is left to save this country. She is patriotic and has all of us in her best he other politicians have agenda
's that do not include us!
Dorothy Nicholson12:38PMApr 28th 2008
Right on rp. We should all vote for the candidate who would make the
best president: RON PAUL.
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rp 0810:05AMApr 28th 2008
We should never vote for someone because we think they are
"electable". That gives all the power to the corrupt political
SCTXCA12:39PMApr 28th 2008
joseph10:03AMApr 28th 2008
It seems that most of the people who are saying that Obama can't win against McCain are revealing their closet racism. What these people are really saying is Obama (a Black Man) can't win over McCain (a White Man). This same attitude existed during WWII when white men refused to fight along side a black man. Racial arrogance plagues America.
Ask most black men how most white men treat them. You will find that very few have met a white man who Didn't think he was better than a black person. The Clinton's know this as well as everyone else. Hillary touts, I'm the only democrat who can win against McCain. What she is really saying is that NO BLACK PERSON can win against a WHITE MAN. It takes a White to beat a White at this level of politics.
This campaign only reveals that America has a deep racial problem that has been denied for years. When Clinton got caught with his pants down it was Black clergymen and black churches who Clinton turned to fortress himself from national criticism. Now how strange is it that the same Clinton's are denigrating the black church to smear Obama by using part of a sentence given in a sermon given by Obama's former Pastor. This is low. Blacks feel alienated, betrayed and used by the Clinton's... and also by the major new channels who keep vomiting an incomplete quote by a Preacher. The continual replaying of a half quote is meant to alienate whites from blacks... and non-thinking whites are falling for it wholesale.
Finally, I find it interesting that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is doing what God tells him to do... the same thing that God, in the old Testament, told the prophet Jeremiah to do. They both got the same treatment from the world.
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Thanks for the post. Not because you are supporting Obama but because what you say is true and most, especailly whites, don't want to admit this. Rev Wright isn't some lunatic who's out there smearing someone's name. That's what most of you are doing. It's one thing to tell the truth that is negative but it's an entirely different thing to lie to try and hurt a candidate and mainly because of his/her race. Hillary will do or say whatever it takes to win. If you don't believe me, ask yourself why would she seek the endorsement of a man that paid to have her husband investigated while Bill was president. Well, that's exactly what she did and the man did endorse her and he's no other than the owner of the largest newspaper in Pittsburgh, PA. And people wonder why most don't like Hillary. It's one thing for someone to endorse you unsolicited but to seek out an endorsement from someone like this said a lot about a person. Yet, most try to crucify Obama for what his pastor said or done. Obama never seek his endorsement or agreed with what Rev Wright said or done. He merely said I don't agree with some of what he has said or done but I won't throw him away as if he wasn't part of my life. That's what Christian do. They take the good with the bad and try to make someone a better person. Now, tell me where you see those characteristics in Hillary?
CG12:40PMApr 28th 2008
McCain has worked at a feverish pace to derail all efforts by Vietnam Veteran families to open the POW/MIA files. He even killed a legislative attempt to open the files, The Truth Bill, with The McCain Bill.
See the horrendous treatment McCain has shown these families and why his reputation as a straight talker is all a big lie:
www.VietnamVeteransAgainstJohnMccain.com/cin_secretworldofmccain.htm
angusmerlin12:40PMApr 28th 2008
Hillary Clinton is now the leader of the popular vote.
With Hillary Clinton's Pennsylvania 55 % to 45% win over Barack Obama last Tuesday she is now well ahead in the popular vote, including both the primary and caucus votes. Primaries only, Clinton holds a 214,000 vote margin. Including the caucuses, she holds a 15,112,000 lead. Even adding in the states, who did not count the number of caucus attenders, the Clinton is still ahead by 12,000 votes. According to Michael Barone of Rassmusen Polls (4/26/08), given big wins in West Virginia, Kentucky and in Puerto Rico, Hillary Clinton's holds the power to maintain this lead, even if Barack Obama does win in North Carolina.
Considering Clinton's surge in the popular vote strength; considering that Clinton has won all the large industrial states (exception Illinois); considering that Clinton holds the working class white vote, the woman' vote, the senior vote and the Catholic vote; and realizing that she has won all the swing states without which no recent Presidential candidate has won the Presidency, considering all these factors, Hillary Clinton is well on the path of Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House.
Should Hillary Clinton drop out of the Presidential race, only in the Obama campaign's dreams.
Sail your ship full strength forward, Hillary Clinton.
Carpe Diem.
AOL- Please post. After several attempts, my post is not coming up and staying up...
John12:42PMApr 28th 2008
you have to wonder why the "red states" would want Barack Obama to win, maybe because they see him as the weakest of the two democratic candidates? Maybe, Mccain would have a better shot at beating Obama than Hillary? remember registered republicans can vote in a democratic primary in some states.
QUESTION: Why are SOME states allowed to have registered republicans vote in a democratic primary and not others? I think that that is unfair.
Sophie C Moore12:47PMApr 28th 2008
The vile comments made by the adult voting community is surely reflecting on the violence that our youth is expressing on the internet and other media. The adults are no worse than what they are trying to dispict of the candidates. Our society needs take a good look in the mirror. They too, lack integrity. I exclude the people who are earnestly and honestly trying to assess which candidate is going to best serve our country.
Vince12:49PMApr 28th 2008
Anita
Hillary lied to us. The worst thing she could have done. After 8
years of lies, tricks, deception and corruption by Bush & Co. and
4000+ deaths of wonderful Americans she lies to us. Can't trust
Clinton Machine. Not this time! No mistakes or fatigue or
misremembering. LIES. POINT BLANK.
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You have Hillary confused with Obama... Obama is the biggest liar,
fraud and misspeaker in the public eye today. If you don`t believe
me ask his preacher: Wright..
robert12:50PMApr 28th 2008
OSAMAS ASS IS DONE, WHEN HILLARY GETS
THRU KICKING HIS BIG EARED ASS, JOHN
MCCAIN WILL FINISH THE JOB.
Becky12:51PMApr 28th 2008
I am in a quandry....I do not know which is a bigger egotistical bamboozler .......Obama or his Rev Wright????

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Petition to have John McCain drop out for violating federal law12:29PMApr 28th 2008
As American Citizens, let's show McCain that he is NOT above the law:
http://www.petitiononline.com/JDAlvey1/petition.html
Also, download, print and email copies of this document. It explains McCain quite well:
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