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		<title>By: michaelmkones</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/23949/is-obama-american-enough-to-succeed/comment-page-1/#comment-210849</link>
		<dc:creator>michaelmkones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Keep repeating this pattern until your wreath base is covered, cover the stems of the last bundle with the first &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americanflagwallpaper.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;american flag wallpaper&lt;/a&gt; bundle and there you are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Keep repeating this pattern until your wreath base is covered, cover the stems of the last bundle with the first <a href="http://www.americanflagwallpaper.net/" rel="nofollow">american flag wallpaper</a> bundle and there you are.</p>
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		<title>By: CoolPillow</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/23949/is-obama-american-enough-to-succeed/comment-page-1/#comment-161939</link>
		<dc:creator>CoolPillow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama and those from his camp are the ones that play the race card.&lt;br&gt;The media will find out just how angry they have perpetrated this fraud on the American people - with all their totally biased, in the tank coverage of Obama on this Obama campaign.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Completely &quot;dismissing&quot; the multitude of bad associations and poor judgments that Obama has show.&lt;br&gt;His inexperience, weakness and inability to make a decision.&lt;br&gt;Now we find out about his aunt living in a Boston slum, 3 court cases involving his birth certificate - and the Old stories: Rev GD AmerKKKa Wright, Bill Ayres, Louis Farrakhan, Father Fleuger, Tony Rezko, illegal capmpaign contributions, ACORN silencing the press and investigating private citizens by hacking into state computers. There is NO END to the clouds that&lt;br&gt;hang above this man&#039;s head.&lt;br&gt;And yet, the media persists in anointed &quot;The Missiah.&quot;&lt;br&gt;I hope the print media loses all their paid subscriptions and the networks lose their ad base as well.&lt;br&gt;Shame on all of you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama and those from his camp are the ones that play the race card.<br />The media will find out just how angry they have perpetrated this fraud on the American people &#8211; with all their totally biased, in the tank coverage of Obama on this Obama campaign.</p>
<p>Completely &#8220;dismissing&#8221; the multitude of bad associations and poor judgments that Obama has show.<br />His inexperience, weakness and inability to make a decision.<br />Now we find out about his aunt living in a Boston slum, 3 court cases involving his birth certificate &#8211; and the Old stories: Rev GD AmerKKKa Wright, Bill Ayres, Louis Farrakhan, Father Fleuger, Tony Rezko, illegal capmpaign contributions, ACORN silencing the press and investigating private citizens by hacking into state computers. There is NO END to the clouds that<br />hang above this man&#39;s head.<br />And yet, the media persists in anointed &#8220;The Missiah.&#8221;<br />I hope the print media loses all their paid subscriptions and the networks lose their ad base as well.<br />Shame on all of you!</p>
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		<title>By: mellinpie</title>
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		<dc:creator>mellinpie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I never thought anything would make me lower myself to get into the racial arena with anyone, but to even ask the question if Sen Obama is American enough is, in my opinion, an insult to every person of color who was born here. &lt;br&gt;A white nation?? Give me a break. This nation was stolen from Native Americans.  To say that Obama isn&#039;t a true African American is ludicrous. He is EXACTLY that...1/2 African and 1/2 American.  He is an AMERICAN..he was born American. His mother is American.  Did he ever claim to have dual citizenship? I don&#039;t think so.  &lt;br&gt;Your article just reinforces my belief that people are completely ignoring the facts of this election and focusing on his skin color. &lt;br&gt;Maybe this &quot;white nation&quot; you refer to is intimdated by a BLACK person who has lived his life right, done well and achieved what countless white men of the past have done. If Obama were not of color, would this even be an issue?  I think not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never thought anything would make me lower myself to get into the racial arena with anyone, but to even ask the question if Sen Obama is American enough is, in my opinion, an insult to every person of color who was born here. <br />A white nation?? Give me a break. This nation was stolen from Native Americans.  To say that Obama isn&#39;t a true African American is ludicrous. He is EXACTLY that&#8230;1/2 African and 1/2 American.  He is an AMERICAN..he was born American. His mother is American.  Did he ever claim to have dual citizenship? I don&#39;t think so.  <br />Your article just reinforces my belief that people are completely ignoring the facts of this election and focusing on his skin color. <br />Maybe this &#8220;white nation&#8221; you refer to is intimdated by a BLACK person who has lived his life right, done well and achieved what countless white men of the past have done. If Obama were not of color, would this even be an issue?  I think not.</p>
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		<title>By: ninerbob2</title>
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		<dc:creator>ninerbob2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have no problem with Obama being half black.  I have a problem with is muslim background and the help he has had from muslim people.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Martin Luther King said, &quot;Don&#039;t judge someone by the color of their skin, judge them by the content of their character&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We hear alot about the candidates, but who is telling the truth?  I believe what I see and I will show you an eye opener!  This election is so important so please take time to watch the video.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First off, Obama is not the Anti-Christ!  But, go to you tube and type in &quot;Obama anti-christ - the acorn prophecy&quot;  and watch, seeing is believing.  Please take the time, this election is so important and we all should know the truth! &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/huntleybrown.asp&quot;&gt;http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/huntleyb...&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The truth about obama, all this I say is on internet:&lt;br&gt;He knew Bill Ayers well, he lied.&lt;br&gt;He would not wear the flag pin showing support after 911&lt;br&gt;he was Barry all his life until visiting muslim countries and became Barack, what brought out his muslim background wanting to be Barack?&lt;br&gt;He stated the big tragedy of the civil rights movement was that there was no redistribution of wealth to minorities.&lt;br&gt;Took the American flag off of his plane and won&#039;t put hand over heart for pledge of allegiance.&lt;br&gt;He is very close to Reverend Wright for many years and knew of the reverend&#039;s anti American and racists rants and lied about knowing what he has said.  As long as he was with Wright, it is obvious he had no problems with Wright&#039;s views.  &lt;br&gt;There is so much more to see America if you investigate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have no problem with Obama being half black.  I have a problem with is muslim background and the help he has had from muslim people.</p>
<p>Martin Luther King said, &#8220;Don&#39;t judge someone by the color of their skin, judge them by the content of their character&#8221;.</p>
<p>We hear alot about the candidates, but who is telling the truth?  I believe what I see and I will show you an eye opener!  This election is so important so please take time to watch the video.</p>
<p>First off, Obama is not the Anti-Christ!  But, go to you tube and type in &#8220;Obama anti-christ &#8211; the acorn prophecy&#8221;  and watch, seeing is believing.  Please take the time, this election is so important and we all should know the truth! </p>
<p><a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/huntleybrown.asp">http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/huntleyb&#8230;</a>  </p>
<p>The truth about obama, all this I say is on internet:<br />He knew Bill Ayers well, he lied.<br />He would not wear the flag pin showing support after 911<br />he was Barry all his life until visiting muslim countries and became Barack, what brought out his muslim background wanting to be Barack?<br />He stated the big tragedy of the civil rights movement was that there was no redistribution of wealth to minorities.<br />Took the American flag off of his plane and won&#39;t put hand over heart for pledge of allegiance.<br />He is very close to Reverend Wright for many years and knew of the reverend&#39;s anti American and racists rants and lied about knowing what he has said.  As long as he was with Wright, it is obvious he had no problems with Wright&#39;s views.  <br />There is so much more to see America if you investigate.</p>
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		<title>By: jasperjava</title>
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		<dc:creator>jasperjava</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This whole article smacks of someone who starts with uninformed assumptions about America based on perceptions gleaned from media or reports from overseas.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The author is obviously not very familiar with the United States. I reject the idea that America is a &quot;white nation&quot;. I reject the notion that African-Americans are &quot;slightly newer&quot; than white settlers. By that logic, Native Americans are more important than any other citizen.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The author doesn&#039;t know Colin Powell&#039;s background, either. He is not descended from American plantation slaves. His family is from the Caribbean.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Obama doesn&#039;t claim to be American because of his white mother and grandparents. That&#039;s ridiculous. Obama is an American because he was born on American soil. Period. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If Obama is a target for assassination, it won&#039;t be only because of his skin color, but because he&#039;s a threat to the system of entrenched privilege. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I appreciate the effort that foreigners are putting in trying to understand what is going on in this election, but it seems that this author has never even set foot in the U.S.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This whole article smacks of someone who starts with uninformed assumptions about America based on perceptions gleaned from media or reports from overseas.</p>
<p>The author is obviously not very familiar with the United States. I reject the idea that America is a &#8220;white nation&#8221;. I reject the notion that African-Americans are &#8220;slightly newer&#8221; than white settlers. By that logic, Native Americans are more important than any other citizen.</p>
<p>The author doesn&#39;t know Colin Powell&#39;s background, either. He is not descended from American plantation slaves. His family is from the Caribbean.</p>
<p>Obama doesn&#39;t claim to be American because of his white mother and grandparents. That&#39;s ridiculous. Obama is an American because he was born on American soil. Period. </p>
<p>If Obama is a target for assassination, it won&#39;t be only because of his skin color, but because he&#39;s a threat to the system of entrenched privilege. </p>
<p>I appreciate the effort that foreigners are putting in trying to understand what is going on in this election, but it seems that this author has never even set foot in the U.S.</p>
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		<title>By: smmoulder</title>
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		<dc:creator>smmoulder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Respectively, I don&#039;t believe the majority of Americans look at Obama from this perspective (that he is not really &quot;black&quot; because his origins to not trace back to slave roots). Personally, until I read your commentary, I had never thought of Obama&#039;s &quot;blackness&quot; from this angle at all. I imagine that many African-Americans might feel this difference, but clearly it isn&#039;t a difference that matters to them in the polls (and will not likely affect them in the booth). &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Clearly race is a factor in this race and denying that is simple naivete. But I suspect most folks in the middle are weighing experience (or lack of it) and youth against the demands of the highest office in some of the most trying times of our generation. Obama has provide a reassuring persona in that regard, but the nervousness will likely still be there for many voters right up to election day. I doubt that Obama&#039;s maternal lineage will ultimately be the tipping point for these voters - they&#039;ve processed the race piece of the puzzle already and are frankly more worried about their homes and their jobs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Respectively, I don&#39;t believe the majority of Americans look at Obama from this perspective (that he is not really &#8220;black&#8221; because his origins to not trace back to slave roots). Personally, until I read your commentary, I had never thought of Obama&#39;s &#8220;blackness&#8221; from this angle at all. I imagine that many African-Americans might feel this difference, but clearly it isn&#39;t a difference that matters to them in the polls (and will not likely affect them in the booth). </p>
<p>Clearly race is a factor in this race and denying that is simple naivete. But I suspect most folks in the middle are weighing experience (or lack of it) and youth against the demands of the highest office in some of the most trying times of our generation. Obama has provide a reassuring persona in that regard, but the nervousness will likely still be there for many voters right up to election day. I doubt that Obama&#39;s maternal lineage will ultimately be the tipping point for these voters &#8211; they&#39;ve processed the race piece of the puzzle already and are frankly more worried about their homes and their jobs.</p>
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