Barack Obama?

Question

What are the opinions about this great guy running for president?

Answer 1

Obama in 2016!

He's bright and seems like he'd make a great leader, but after seeing him speak yesterday I hope he waits before making a serious run at the presidency. I think he could do the job if he gets elected in 2008, but if the Dems nominate someone else I think it would be so much better. I think with some more experience, he could be a great president, rather than a good president.

As much as I hated picking between two republicans for congress (Allen and Webb), I think I like the ex-republican Webb for president in 2008. Of course, that is based on one speech--I'll have to find out more about him before voting, but I think he has the strength to be a true leader and not a poll-follower, while keeping the interests of his constituents at heart.

Answer 2

Not wanting to rain on your parade, but not much. He may be a great guy, I'm not sure if he's presidential material......

He claims to be progressive.

He is not a great orator, in my opinion. He is a politician, so he has skills in dodging questions, and not really giving his position on any given topic.

Who knows? He's young with not much experience, something that Hillary will have fun dealing with in the primary.

Here's a quote from the second link

Seriously, Obama's equation of the American ideals of ownership, independence, and autonomy with "Social Darwinism," Barber's charge that Social Security personal accounts are a ploy to reinstate Hobbesian chaos, these are signs of the sickness at the heart of contemporary liberalism: the inability or unwillingness to recognize the cooperative market order -- our system of mutual benefit based on ownership and exchange -- as the primary source of American prosperity, security, and solidarity.


WHAT IS OBAMA'S ALTERNATIVE to ownership? Taxing one citizen to pay another. Contemporary liberals have a bad habit of confusing social cohesion with the volume of government transfers, as if the coercive pattern of taking and giving was the measure of order and the test of our hearts. This is what leads Obama and Barber to so easily confuse ownership with anarchy, autonomy with chaos.

Answer 3

I think he is arrogant beyond belief to think that after 2 years in national office he is in any way, shape or form prepared to be president. Maybe after a few more years he might be seasoned enough, but it is just way too soon for him to be under serious consideration. He needs more experience and seasoning. And whatever happened to his commitment in Congress? He's there 2 years and ready to move on so he'll spend the next 2 years running for office? If I were in his constituency, I'd be seriously concerned about his commitment to the people who elected him.

Answer 4

Your joking right?

LET US REMAIN ALERT ...





Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black Muslim from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white atheist from Wichita, Kansas. Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii.



When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya. His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a radical Muslim from Indonesia. When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia. Obama attended a Muslim school in Jakarta. He also spent two years in a Catholic school.



Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick to point out that he was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school.



Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came via his father and that this influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after the divorce and never again had any direct influence over his son's education. Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam. Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the radical teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world.



Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when seeking major public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background.



Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential candidacy.

Answer 5

He came out of obscurity to be the "wonder boy" of the nominations for the 2008 presidential elections. I think His muslim background will be an uphill battle for him in his bid for the highest office for a Commander in Chief while we are in a war against islamic jihadist.

Answer 6

Dangerous.

He's a Liberal Socialist in sheep's clothing. He's in the pocket of a whole lotta Chicago gangsters, and you should look at his career in Illinois before you assume he's a so-called "moderate".

Answer 7

He has little if any experience.

He appeals to a relatively shallow and unsophisticated portion of the electorate - a much larger portion than I would like.

Answer 8

OMG you're not serious are you? Read on!


What's My Line—The Obama Game Show - Bill Wilson - By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst -


WASH—Jan 15—KIN-- He was born of a Muslim father and an atheist mother, who in his own words was "a lonely witness for secular humanism, a soldier for New Deal, Peace Corps, and position paper liberalism." She divorced when he was two years old and remarried another Muslim living in Indonesia, where the young man was educated in Catholic and Muslim schools in one of the most radical Islamic countries in the world. Though his father and stepfather were both Muslim, he tries to mitigate their religion by saying that by the time his mother married them, they had become atheists. After he was ten years old, he mostly was raised by his atheist grandparents.

The New York Daily News reports that he changed his life in his junior year of college at Columbia: he said he stopped doing drugs, ran three miles a day, and "He went to socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn and started lecturing his relatives..." After graduating Columbia and then Harvard, he began working in Chicago supporting social programs. He recruited a local United Church of Christ Church on a government-sponsored community outreach. Around 1988, he joined the church because, he says, "that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved."

The United Church of Christ is not to be confused with the "Church of Christ." The United Church of Christ, however, supports homosexual marriage, abortion, environmental justice, globalism, the International Criminal Court, the Palestinian movement and believes that Israel is illegally occupying the covenant land. The UCC seems to conveniently justify and legitimize his beliefs that social progressivism is equal to Christ and he writes in his memoirs that his own salvation was not an "epiphany." He reasoned after his daughter asked about life after death, "I wasn't sure what happens when we die, any more than I was sure where the soul resides or what existed before the Big Bang."

His name is Barak Hussein Obama. And he is running for President. He is courting evangelical Christians from the pulpit at Rick Warren's Saddleback church and by using public proclamations reported in the news media. Some Christians are saying he is a Democrat that evangelical Christians can support. Many have suggested that his Islamic and atheist upbringing combined with his social progressive membership in the United Church of Christ make him an outstanding presidential candidate. Others believe he may be a threat to the national security. Will the real Obama please stand up? Jesus said in Matthew 7:15, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."

Answer 9

He has no experience and would be a mouthpiece ofr the liberal Democratic party. He would be worthless as a president if you like your way of life as it is.

Answer 10

I think he would have better luck, running for office in Iraq.