Barack Obama Elected President!

[EricaKane70]

Even though its obama 50% to McCain's 44%, I think those numbers don't look that good for obama. He's only ahead by 6% points considering McCain said he knows nothing about the economy, that margin should be bigger than that.imo

[Roman]

Erica, it's June.

Give it some time. LOL

[EricaKane70]

Considering McCain said he didn't know much about the economy months ago, I think thats a fair to say that.imo The part in the article about americans thinking obama would do better with the economy than McCain, with obama at 57% to McCain's 39% sounds more realistic.

[Roman]

I am not about to think, with HRC bowing out a week ago, that BO's poll numbers are supposed to be through the roof.

I'm glad he gained. That's what's important to me.

[EricaKane70]

I wouldn't expect his numbers overall to be through the roof either, but on the economy his numbers should be alot bigger than McCain considering his party is the one with the big oil men that are continously raising gas prices.

[Roman]

And people are being polled where 13% of them still think Obama is a Muslim.

[GHJunkie4Life]

Considering the Independents and undecideds who probably won't make their voice heard until November and will (hopefully) turn out in large numbers for Obama I think thats pretty good.

[EricaKane70]

Well those people are racists, even when you give them facts and evidence against that they still believe obama is a muslim. Also the journalist on foxnews that did a segment about obama's fist bump with michelle being a terrorist fist bump offered a weak apology, but at least she realized she was wrong.

[EricaKane70]

Obama campaign: Wife never used the word 'Whitey' By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

16 minutes ago

Democrat Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday that Michelle Obama never used the word "whitey" in a speech from the church pulpit as he launched a Web site to debunk rumors about himself and his wife.

The rumor that Michelle Obama railed against "whitey" in a diatribe at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ has circulated on conservative Republican blogs for weeks and was repeated by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The rumor included claims of a videotape of the speech that would be used to bring down Obama's candidacy this fall.

"No such tape exists," the campaign responds on the site, http://www.fightthesmears.com. "Michelle Obama has not spoken from the pulpit at Trinity and has not used that word."

The site is a response to the realities of a brave new world, where information travels 24 hours a day on blogs and voters are increasingly turning to the Internet for information. It's a particular problem for Obama, a relative newcomer to national politics who is still unknown to many voters and has been the target of persistent misinformation campaigns online.

In another sign of the campaign moving into the general election race, the Democratic National Committee's spokeswoman said Thursday its political and field operations are relocating to Chicago, where Obama's campaign is based. While other departments will remain in Washington, it's an effort to streamline the campaign and party efforts in one strategy instead of the overlapping efforts of past presidential elections.

E-mails about Obama rank No. 2 on the list of "Hottest Urban Legends" on snopes.com, an Internet rumor-debunking site, behind e-mail greeting cards that could expose computers to viruses.

Michelle Obama has often been the target of conservative attacks, prompting Obama to demand his rivals "lay off my wife." Much of the criticism came from her comment that her husband's campaign has made her proud of her country "for the first time," a remark that inspired a Tennessee Republican Party Web video questioning her patriotism.

There have also been more insulting attacks, and not just limited to the Internet. The Fox News Channel recently labeled her as "Obama's baby mama" and also raised the inflammatory suggestion that she gave her husband a "terrorist fist jab" when they bumped knuckles the night he clinched the nomination.

The Obamas recently resigned from Trinity, where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was the longtime pastor. Wright came under fire for sermons in which he cursed America and accused the government of conspiring against blacks. Video of the sermons spread quickly on the Internet and threatened great damage to Obama's campaign.

Other false claims about the Illinois senator _that he's secretly a Muslim who refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance and is intent on destroying America — spread widely during the primary campaign, and the candidate made it a habit of telling audiences to respond to e-mail rumors to set the record straight.

Barack Obama bristled when a reporter asked him about the "whitey" rumor on his campaign plane last week, saying it was nonsense that shouldn't be repeated in questioning by a mainstream reporter.

"It is a destructive aspect of our politics right now," Obama told his traveling press corps. "And simply because something appears in an e-mail, that should lend it no more credence than if you heard it on the corner. And you know, presumably the job of the press is to not go around and spread scurrilous rumors like this until there's actually anything, one iota of substance or evidence that would substantiate it."

At the same time, his campaign was preparing the debunking site in a recognition that refusing to address rumors only perpetuates them.

The site explains that Obama is "a committed Christian" who never attended a radical madrassa during his childhood in Indonesia. With chain e-mails falsely claiming Obama was sworn into the Senate on the Quran, the holy book of Islam, the Web site includes a photo showing him taking his oath of office on the family bible.

It shows C-SPAN video of Obama leading the Pledge of Allegiance with his hand over his heart as he presided over the Senate on June 21, 2007. It encourages people to send e-mail to friends and "spread the truth."

"The Obama campaign isn't going to let dishonest smears spread across the Internet unanswered," said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor. "It's not enough to just know the truth, we have to be proactive and fight back."

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On the Net:

http://www.fightthesmears.com

[Roman]

This is for those women who really dislike BO:

Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you !@#$%^&*]." McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days. [The Real McCain, PoliPoint Press, 2008.]

Now, I posted this to say this.......what is said in private is what is said in private.

If this man called his wife, the woman he loves, the c-word in front of others......that should show many where his respect for people is.

[Wales2004]

I disagree with this. There are people who have a very difficult time digesting information that conflicts with whatever they learned in the first place. Being a Muslim is not the horrible thing people are making it out to be. We're talking about human beings who practice a certain religion. Terrorism and Muslim aren't the same thing. One of my classmates happened to be Muslim and I hate to think that people are discriminating against such a great person and treating her like a criminal due to her faith.

Probably because some of the people who watch their news are "terrorist" jabbers as well.

Women who really dislike BO aren't going to change their minds about him over this but they may change their minds in time. Some of them that dislike him aren't inclined to vote for McCain anyway.

If this is true then McCain may as well be dead to me. The reason I had some respect for him was that I saw an interview of him a few years ago and the topic of his ex-wife came up. I respected the fact that he didn't trash her as some men are prone to doing after a divorce. I respected that he took responsibility for his part in the demise of their marriage and I know that doesn't make him noble but it was the right thing to do. There is no excuse for this period.

[Jess]

Women who dislike Obama because he beat Hillary are not going to like him regardless. I think Hillary would be a fine vp, but not because of those women. I do not want BO bowing to them because that is caving in to bad behavior. He is the nominee. He ran the campaign, he raised the money, he took the hits and if he wins, he gets to take the oath. He gets to decide who will be his VP. I hope he picks Hillary because she will be a fine VP. I hope he does not cow tow to a bunch of disloyal bullies.

The whitey comment is typical Rove bs. I hope America punishes it.

[EricaKane70]

They don't just discriminate against one's religion they discriminate the race of middle easterners. I’ve seen several people comment about how a person of middle eastern descent is related to obsama and how they worry for their safety. I don't think the 13% we are talking about are distinguishing between terrorists and muslim, they see them as the same person. Because if these people didn't why would being a muslim scare them away from voting from obama. Fox news has done a good job at tying all terrorist to being a muslim which I find to be very racist. The whole thing with Fox making obama out to be a muslim when he is not is racist, because it sends the message that being a muslim is wrong and that its a bad thing. An I feel bad for your friend because people are discriminating against her because she is a muslim by trying to tie her faith into being associated with terrorism.

[Wales2004]

Maybe I missed something in the reference to the poll. I did not read that it was associated with Fox and I consider the fear tactics employed by members of Fox to be separate from people believing that Obama is Muslim despite his being Christian.

IA with you that Middle Easterners are discriminated against by people who see them as terrorists. IA that those people see terrorists and Muslims as synonymous. But those people aren't saying that Obama is a Middle Easterner, they are saying he is a Muslim. I was merely disagreeing with you that all of the people in the poll that saw Obama as being Muslim were automatically racist. I could be wrong since I don't know the nature of the poll but I don't think the fact that some people have a harder time sorting out information and reaching a different conclusion than whatever was in their minds in the first place, means such a person is racist.

Personally I think the words "racist" and "racism" are misapplied frequently. We live in a label happy society where people are less likely to try to understand and/or accept each other and too ready to slap a label on each other. Getting along better is within reach but we can't because we're too defensive at times, or we have these preconceived ideas about others and are too quick to share them without giving people a chance.

Sometimes people don't know any better. If you grow up segregated and you never interacted with people who are different in any way from you (including religion, race and ethnicity), then it should be understandable that you might have a difficult time coping with a new reality. That doesn't necessarily make you a racist. It makes you a person who doesn't know any better. I've encountered people who have said things not because they were malicious or trying to oppress anyone, but because they simply didn't know any better.

[Roman]

I ask.......why does MSNBC have this man and Brad Blakeman on their network?

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