The Top 5 Reasons Obama Cannot Seperate From Wright

If you watch the news at all, ever. You will have heard about reverand Wright and his relations with Barack Obama. Well today Obama came out and attempted to "disown" Wright. I do not believe this worked, there is several reasons why. Here is your top 5 reasons why Barack Obama cannot seperate from reverand Wright.

#5) Obama Called Wright An "Uncle"

If you remember, several weeks ago in Pennsylvania, Obama came out and gave a speech which refered to Wright as an "uncle" and compared him like family. "I can no more disown reverand Wright than my own family". If he is family and you claim you will not disown him, then what will you do with the American people who you refer to as family in your campaign. Are you going to disown them too?

#4) Attended Trinity For 16 Years

In the few sermons we have seen Wright give we have heard nothing but ridiculous and outrageous comments. Since we have seen him make these comments every time we see his sermon, what should make us think he wasn't making these comments once out of the 16 years Obama attended this church. I think something stinks of political expediency in Obama's words.

#3) Wright Baptised and Be-wed Obama

If Obama thought highly enough of Wright to allow him to wed him with his wife and baptise his children then who is to say he doesn't agree with Wright. Obviously there was some kind of 'friendly' relationship going on there.

#2) Knew Wright For 20 Years

Obama knew this guy for 20 years, before he even attended the church. Obama has made several appearances with Wright and has been seen a lot in the church. Wright has been consistend and it is safe to assume he will stay that way.

#1) Took Too Long To Respond

This guy should have been denounced the first time. Why would Obama wait till the going got tough. Is it not kind of weird that he would wait till Wright actually came out on TV to denounce him. If Obama was against his first comments then he should have disowned him then, instead he waited until Wright was politically threatening. Which makes me believe he was leaving him only for political reasons.

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The Top 5 Reasons Hillary Should Get The Nomination

I'm Back! For those of you who follow me on a daily basis, I have missed over the past 2 days... This will not happen again hopefully. I have been having some troubles with my file trasfers and have been working on an update to the site. I know you all have been anxiously awaiting my quick return, and returned I have. I will be posted daily once more.
Anyways, I am sure you guys did not care to read that^ :D. So today we will discuss politics, I decided this would be a nice way to come back to my blog. So--yesterday I went out and donated to the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was a feeling of accomplishment too. I really want her to win, she is the only candidate who can turn this country around mind you. Which is why she will end up with the Democratic nomination. I will go ahead and do 6 reasons for this one... I think they all have their importance.

#6) Can Obama Put Someone Away

Obama had his chance after Iowa, he then had a chance on Super Tuesday, then he had a chance in Ohio and Texas, and then he had a chance in Pennsylvania ... If this guy cannot put her away after that many chances, what makes you think that he can put McCain away in one chance? I think that we need someone running who can fight back, not someone who can give it back.

#5) Hillary's Voters

The people that are voting for Hillary Clinton are the hardnosed Decmocrats who stand by their word. There is a growing concern among the SuperDelegates that a good chunk of people voting for Hillary will vote for McCain before Obama. I really, off the top of my head, cannot come up with a reason as to why they would do this other than race. Which isn't a good excuse at all I might add. I think though that these Democrats are also a little bit concervative and when you see this guy coming in who plans to change everything-- that doesn't bode well for the voters. We cannot
have 15% voting Democrats or 30% of Hillary's voters missing the general election, or worse--voting for McCain, come November. It hurts the party and it will be a tough uphill battle if we are missing them.

#4) Leads Popular Vote

When you tack on Florida and Michigan Hillary leads in the popular vote. These votes do count as votes, whether or not they will count for delegates is stil to be determined though. The popular vote, in most peoples eyes, is more important than the delegates anyways. Especially in Democrats eyes... almost every one of us was arguing the point of the popular vote when Al Gore lost in 2000, so denying that you do not think popular vote is important would be hippocritical.

#3) Obama Outspent/Sourced Hillary

It is nearly indeniable that money has played a factor in this race. Obama has outspent Hillary in nearly every state across the board. Obama has recieved 190$ million in donations to Hillary's 160$ million. That is a huge--huge--difference. Obama outspent Hillary in Pennsylvania by a ratio of 12$ million to 4$million (or 3 to 1). If you cannot seriously tell me that that did not make a difference-- please just stay away from the polls. When you spend that much more than your opponent you should win, anything short of that should be considered embarrassing.

#2) Hillary Has Won The Big States
Let's face it, come November we need California-Texas-Ohio-Pennsylvania-New York- New Jersey-Florida-Michigan-Massachussetts. Those are heavily populated states that carry a large amount of delegates, and other than those there really isn't many "big" states left. Sure Obama can win the farmer states like Kansas that will go Republican in the fall, but Hillary can win
the states that will be "battlegrounds" come this fall. Also, how many Idaho's make a California. don't think it is likely you can win without New York-Texas-California-Ohio-Pennsylvania... so Obama has a huge issue

#1) Hillary Has The Experience

I love how the Obama camp keeps playing Hillary off as if she didn't do anything the entire time she was First Lady.Yeah I am sure she just sat there and watched as her health care plan magically wrote itself up *rolls eyes*. Might I throw some other things at you and see what sticks? Bosnia aside--that was a fluke--Hillary has been all over the place. Working with religious leaders and diplomats alike. Hillary went door to door in Massachusetts in the 80's trying to talk kids thinking of dropping out into staying with school. Whether or not you consider that diplomacy or not is debatable, but what is not is the experience that came a long with it. It is not just talking to the kids and getting to know them, she was able to learn about the peoples needs. It has helped her in understanding the nations needs, especially in the education department.
Which is up a creek right now, right along with our economy. Speaking of economy, I wonder how Obama will get by without raising taxes while attempting to put money in a fund for people who get themselves into bad loans, let the people figure it out for themselves. They should not have accepted the loan if they couldn't afford it, predatory or not.


While there is still probably more reasons I could go over, economy-war-whatevah... I do not think that is necessary. For a couple of reasons though, 1) you have already mulled over their positions on the issues and 2) it would bore you to go over a couple paragraphs of position differences, why they are better-- what have you. While I still think that we are on a horrible path in our economy that is going to take years and years to reverse, I also believe there is a quick fix. If we subsidize the farmers and everything we can to increase American food production it will drive down the extra costs of food and will help in the production of Ethanol.

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~Brett

The Top 5 Reasons Elitism In Politics Is Irrelevant

Throughout much of the late 20th century and the early 21st century politics have been centered around the "money men" or "big business", the so called "elites". The people that make the economy turn have been given favor after favor by our government and it raises the question "do we want an elite President". Well in my honest opinion, the Presidents that are supporting big business are the presidents hurting our economy the most. Now let me get off track here for a second while I explain the definition of an "elite", an elite is described as follows; "a select group of people with outstanding personal abilities, intellect, wealth, specialized training or experience, or other distinctive attributes — are those whose views on a matter are to be taken the most seriously or carry the most weight; whose views and/or actions are most likely to be constructive to society as a whole; or whose extraordinary skills, abilities or wisdom render them especially fit to govern". Ok, now that we got that out of the way, let's get right to the list.


#5) Ivy Leagues/Social Upbringings

I did some research, although I did not have to look far it turns out, the last 3 presidents we have had (including the current one) have went to an Ivy league school. An Ivy League school has developed its own connotation, it used to be known only as a conference in sports, and it now means "a school with academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and a reputation for social elitism". Ok so let us think about this for a second, we complain about the elitism that is our politics today... yet our last three Presidents have all been to a school known for "social elitism". When you know that they are of the "elitist" group and you still elect them then why on Earth would you expect it to change. Every president we have had over the past 100 years has also had a social upbringing that has allowed them to excel and get to the top, we are talking about people with finances just not possible for the average American here. These people had parents in the government and a clear path to success.

#4) Big Time Jobs

The people who are elected President don't come from farms down south, they come from families that had enough money to pay for full college and get themselves darn good jobs. We are talking about Lawyers, Oil Company Owners(big business), and religious leaders(not that requires college necessarily). No normal person can consistently compete on these levels not financially nor socially.

#3) Who Else?

If you don't put an elitist in office who else are you going to put there? There is only so many qualified "non-elites" and most of these people are content with where they are at. Elites also bring a good background and nice education along with themselves. It always looks nice when the President has a 4.0 at Yale, whether he paid for it or not.

#2) Money

Once Again, who will be able to compete on a financial scale. I am not talking just about "oh who can buy their way through college", alright let's assume you completed college, now what? Let me tell you right now, no one is going to completely fund your campaign if your new and they have never heard of you. In the case that you come from a poor family, you probably aren't going there. So now where to? Campaigns are expensive things, millions of dollars expensive; even on a state level. You have to have money to put yourself in position or it will never happen, it's a sad fact.

#1) Populist Candidates

Right now, in the eyes of most, there is only really one clear populist candidate. By clear I mean that they haven't really been labeled as an "elitist" and that is Hillary Clinton; even she went to an Ivy League though. The only problem is, I think she has probably gotten herself into to deep of a hole to climb out of. The populist approach probably won't work at this stage of the game anyways due to other news coverage and limited campaign funds. Throughout history though there really hasn't been that many "people's Presidents". I don't see this trend bucking either, I would hate to break it to you.

The elitist group probably isn't going away, and for good reason. I think it all boils down to whether or not the people actually know the facts though.

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The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Hillary for Staying

Here is a list of the 5 reasons you should not blame Hillary for staying in the race. It is a controversial issue so I will try to keep it as fair as possible.

#5) Taxes

If Hillary does not stay imagine all those states and territories that will not have a say in the election, yet they paid high taxes for their states primary or caucus. These people will not be getting a refund so we might as well hold one.

#4) How Much Hillary Has Spent

If you spent $150 million would you just give up half-way through an election. The money would have done a lot more good to charity so don't make her spending be all for nothing.

#3) The Efforts

Think about all of the people who donated long hard hours into a campaign. People were working the volunteer job for months, I am sure they would all be disappointed and pretty upset if she just laid over.

#2) Her Right to Stay

It would be a complete injustice for the Democrats to tell her she needs to pack it up, at this point she has already worked extremely hard, and spent a lot of cash. There really is no rule that says at any given point a candidate has to give up just because people want them to.


#1) Half A Game

People do not want to a see a football game that ends in the third quarter, why should elections be any different. The people should get a chance to voice their opinion just like the other 150 million people before them. How can we clearly define a winner when not everyone has had their say.


There you have it, the five reasons you cannot blame Hillary for staying. I know the list is a bit controversial so just please try to keep the flaming down and the comments peaceful.