Only the open minded and forward thinking

• War on terror -- - MT in PA
  • Moderate muslims by definition have already been "won over." So what exactly is - Lu
    • did not elevate HIMSELF - O
      • You got that right. - nm
    • When you look at the sky.....(sm) - Just the big bad
    • Wrong, wrong, wrong, clueless Lu. - Every single last word you utter.
    • Obama won moderates over - O won
      • Only the open minded and forward thinking - Yes He Can
      • Um, that's my point. He won them over and - Lu
        • Ummm, this may come as a surprise to you - but...sm
          • You're the one not getting it. Obama doesn't not have to do much of anything - Lu
            • Yep...babbling idiots with thrills running up their legs... - sam
            • for Lu: - mb
        • I am talking about moderate muslims - I am
          • Geez...where do you guys get this stuff?...(sm) - Just the big bad
            • Right, - Yes
          • Sure you were! Now, that makes a big - difference! Child, get
            • Are you not able to distinguish between - satellites and missles?
              • Actually.....(sm) - Just the big bad
                • I understand the relationship between the two. - But...sm
            • Not all Muslims - You
      • You are in dreamland for sure!....Tell - that line to the thousands
  • remind me of Elizabeth Hasselbeck - You...
  • War on terror - ej
    • Whom do you mean by 'they? - Whom.
    • To poster below -- still think I'm batting zero? - MT in PA
      • Yup. A great big goose egg. - Ms. Hasselbeck.
      • I think you misunderstood not only - Excuse me.....
  • Obama does not use Bush's phrases, - Change
    • And all hold hands and sing kumbaya.... - pleeeze!!
    • Oh, he's bringing change all right.....LOL. - sam
  • Twisting words - Truthseeker
    • What you call twisting words is - MT in PA
      • For MT in PA - Your problem
        • oooh that's an insightful post -- - MT in PA
          • I agree with you. - It doesn't take much insight to
      • Let's break this down for you, MT. - O has explained this strategy before. sm
        • Yes, exactly...By winning over the moderates - Exactly right........
      • Backpedaling - Truthseeker
        • Retraction on the PO comment -- - MT in PA
          • How many need to tell you that you did - before you get it?
            • Apparently more than you! - MT in PA
              • So far, you are dewaling with at least - 5 or 6 different posters....
                • Not really, probably only about 3 or 4 - MT in PA
    • I agree with the truthseeker......... - Yes,....
      • That would be a good question for Obama - MT in PA
        • obviously he meant that he wants - No,
          • ohhh -- thanks for clearing that up - MT in PA
            • That would be English...sm - Just the big bad
              • LOL! Thanks for saying what I was thinking, JBB. - NM
            • For MT in PA: It is you who does not understand... - It is
              • No, I actually said that in a much later post -- - MT in PA
                • So far you are batting zero. - Nobody seems to agree with you. sm
                  • And you think I can't read -- Look below - MT in PA
                    • Yeah, MT, and usually it is the same - poster using multiple
                      • but not like you - right? using no name - MT in PA
                        • Same Poster--Multiple Screen Names - Truthseeker
                          • I never post under anything but my name.... - sam
                            • and by the way truthseeker.... - sam
                          • ROFLMAO --- I am in no way, shape or form - MT in PA
                    • What are you talking about? - What
                      • dunno -- musting being the posts are - MT in PA
                    • No one gives a flip about retreat. - But ignorant bigotry...
                      • And now we revert to personal attacks - MT in PA
                        • This is always how she ends up when - she runs out of come-
                        • Stating the obvious - does not in any way
                        • For MT in PA: You should, like President O who has a formidable personality, - You
                          • I actually did admit a retraction above - MT in PA
                          • So true. - Bravo. nm
    • I second that emotion. - Exactomento.
  • Moderate Muslims - stereotyping
  • Moderate Muslims are not terrorists. - SM
    • I think you should reread the post -- - MT in PA
      • No....I had it right too...(sm) - Just the big bad
        • No -- Obama was asked about the - MT in PA
          • Ummmmm....no...(sm) - Just the big bad
            • Again, I agree with the Truthseeker.... - Yes,
            • oh thank you so much for - MT in PA
              • Just goes to show ya - sm
      • I re-read your post, and I stand by my post. - SM
        • okay -- so you agree that I didn't - MT in PA
        • Why did O shut down Gitmo? Bet it is not - for the reasons you think.nm
      • Read? They read what they WANT to read into it. - -and negotiating with terrorists is nuts.nm
        • O said nothing about negotiating with terrorists. - Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
  • fighting fire with fire doesn't work - a constituent
    • You think we can talk to those who would rather - cut off our heads? Get real and wake up!! nm
      • what I think - a constituent
  • Moderate Muslims aren't the terrorists...(sm) - Just the big bad
    • See my post above -- nm - MT in PA

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Stephen Colbert's book "I am America and so can you."  I got a little preview this morning on Tim Russert.  It promises to be a delicious, laugh-out-loud satire.

Just give the man a chance.  He was vetted inside out before he got to the Senate.  He was then vetted even more before he was elected by the majority of Americans. 

He is NOT a terrorist.  His interests lie in helping the middle class, not in continuing the corporate welfare and helping the rich get richer, as has been going on for the last eight years.

We are in a SERIOUS economic crisis right now.  That "trickle down" theory simply isn't working because the richest and greediest at the top simply AREN'T allowing anything to trickle down.  They outsource our jobs so they can hire cheaper labor to get even richer.

Unlike Bush, Obama wants to give financial incentives to small businesses for keeping our jobs IN America.  That just might help many medical transcriptionists in the USA.

The constant jabs and stabs at his character are reflective of the smear tactics employed by the McCain campaign, and most people saw past it and rejected that tactic.

Worse yet, the constant flaming of him and suggesting he's a terrorist is doing nothing but practically insuring that his safety is in jeopardy.  If he survives long enough to take the oath of office and begin to do his job, I'll be his toughest critic if he doesn't deliver on the promises he made.

We've had EIGHT LONG YEARS of constant fear mongering, and Americans are tired of it.  I realize there is reason to be fearful of terrorists, but Obama is NOT a terrorist, as he's been portrayed on this board.  He's a Christian, not a Muslim, as he's been portrayed on this board.  He wants CLEAN COAL and wants to find technology to support that so the coal industry can continue to exist, and he is supported by the United Mine Workers of America (contrary to what has been alleged on this board).  He is encouraging public service in exchange for help with the costs of college (and will NOT FORCE it on everyone, as has been alleged on this board). 

Most of an article was copied and pasted here yesterday about some congressman from Georgia being fearful that Obama is a Marxist because he thought a civilian force to help protect us was a good idea.  One small paragraph of that article was DELETED, and that was the fact that BUSH SUPPORTED THIS.

As it is now, under Bush, we have the military in place in America, ready for ???? in case we the people become uncivilized.  We have Bush and Paulson buying banks.  We've had a "redistribution" of wealth for the last eight years that has benefited the richest of the rich.  We, the people, are paying trillions of dollars to bail out institutions that continue to party on our dime, institutions that continue to give multi-million dollar bonuses to crooked executives, while more and more Americans become jobless.  It's been reported that 47 million people don't have health insurance.  Just keep in mind that with each job lost, there is a high probability that health insurance is lost, as well, since many people can't afford exorbitant COBRA payments.

Obama wants to help every American afford healthcare.  This is especially relevant for me, as someone with an incurable disease and no health insurance, which I had to voluntarily terminate when my monthly premiums rose to 50% of my gross annual income.

These are the issues that are important to people.  Either way, Barack Obama was duly elected by the majority of Americans, and he will be our President -- unless the hostility towards him grows so hateful that any chance he may have had will simply be extinguished, and if that happens, it will be because of some of the rhetoric going on in this country that is reflected on this board.

I don't see him as some sort of "Messiah."  I see him as a biracial man who is the product of a union that wasn't even legal in some states just a few years before he was born.  He has a perspective that is unique in that he has lived both a white and a black life.

In my opinion, he represents a little bit of the very best in most of us.  It would be hard to see that, though, after reading the hostile comments on this board, some of them inflammatory opinions, and some of them copied and pasted articles (with portions of content removed that might be viewed as favorable to him, as in the case of the Georgia congressman yesterday).

If you're better off than you were eight years ago, then you're an anomaly because the country as a whole is in much worse shape.  I trust Barack Obama.  I don't trust hateful rhetoric -- rhetoric that is reckless and result in devastation for this country.  We've been divided, by design, for the last eight years.  It's time for us to come together.

Can we just give him a chance -- PLEASE -- for the sake of our country and for the sake of our children and their future?  You just might be pleasantly surprised at the sunshine that might peek through all those dark clouds that reside in your hearts and minds, if you allow yourself to see it.

can hardly wait.

We will stay off your board if you stay off ours. Do you agree or not?

HUD chief foresees a 'whiter' Big Easy

By Brian DeBose
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
September 30, 2005

A Bush Cabinet officer predicted this week that New Orleans likely will never again be a majority black city, and several black officials are outraged.
    Alphonso R. Jackson, secretary of housing and urban development, during a visit with hurricane victims in Houston, said New Orleans would not reach its pre-Katrina population of 500,000 people for a long time, and it's not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again.
    Rep. Danny K. Davis, Illinois Democrat and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, quickly took issue.
    Anybody who can make that kind of projection with some degree of certainty or accuracy must have a crystal ball that I can't see or maybe they are more prophetic than any of us can imagine, he said.
    Other members of the caucus said the comments by Mr. Jackson, who is black, could be misconstrued as a goal, particularly considering his position of responsibility in the administration.
    I would beg and hope that the secretary, if that is what he is saying, would re-evaluate the situation, said Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat.
    Mr. Jackson, whose remarks were reported by the Houston Chronicle, said New Orleans might reach a population of 375,000 people sometime late next year with a black population of about 40 percent at the highest, down from 67 percent before Hurricane Katrina sent a storm surge that overwhelmed New Orleans levees and flooded 80 percent of the city.
    The population of New Orleans before Katrina was a little less than 500,000, surrounded by large, predominantly white suburbs. The largely black Ninth Ward and the predominantly white middle-class Lakeview section near Lake Pontchartrain were overwhelmed by floodwaters.
    Mr. Jackson, a former developer and longtime government housing official, said the history of urban reconstruction projects shows that most blacks will not return and others who want to might not have the means or opportunity. His agency will play a critical role in the city's redevelopment through various grant programs, including those for damaged or destroyed properties.
    In the storm's aftermath, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, charged that relocating evacuees across the country was racist and designed to move black people, who overwhelmingly vote Democratic, out of Louisiana. The state elected its first Republican senator, David Vitter, in nearly a century in 2004.
    Both the preacher and the congresswoman suggested that the residents be housed at the closed England Air Force Base at Alexandria, La., to keep them closer to home.
    Rep. Bobby L. Rush, Illinois Democrat, said Alphonso Jackson's remarks and the prospects of real-estate speculators and developers in New Orleans are foreboding.

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Dear God,

The other night, the Rev. James Dobson's ministry asked all believers to pray for a storm on Thursday night so that the Obama acceptance speech outdoors in Denver would have to be cancelled.

I see that You have answered Rev. Dobson's prayers -- except the storm You have sent to earth is not over Denver, but on its way to New Orleans! In fact, You have scheduled it to hit Louisiana at exactly the moment that George W. Bush is to deliver his speech at the Republican National Convention.

Now, heavenly Father, we all know You have a great sense of humor and impeccable timing. To send a hurricane on the third anniversary of the Katrina disaster AND right at the beginning of the Republican Convention was, at first blush, a stroke of divine irony. I don't blame You, I know You're angry that the Republicans tried to blame YOU for Katrina by calling it an "Act of God" -- when the truth was that the hurricane itself caused few casualties in New Orleans. Over a thousand people died because of the mistakes and neglect caused by humans, not You.

Some of us tried to help after Katrina hit, while Bush ate cake with McCain and twiddled his thumbs. I closed my office in New York and sent my entire staff down to New Orleans to help. I asked people on my website to contribute to the relief effort I organized -- and I ended up sending over two million dollars in donations, food, water, and supplies (collected from thousands of fans) to New Orleans while Bush's FEMA ice trucks were still driving around Maine three weeks later.

But this past Thursday night, the Washington Post reported that the Republicans had begun making plans to possibly postpone the convention. The AP had reported that there were no shelters set up in New Orleans for this storm, and that the levee repairs have not been adequate. In other words, as the great Ronald Reagan would say, "There you go again!"

So the last thing John McCain and the Republicans needed was to have a split-screen on TVs across America: one side with Bush and McCain partying in St. Paul, and on the other side of the screen, live footage of their Republican administration screwing up once again while New Orleans drowns.

So, yes, You have scared the Jesus, Mary and Joseph out of them, and more than a few million of your followers tip their hats to You.

But now it appears that You haven't been having just a little fun with Bush & Co. It appears that Hurricane Gustav is truly heading to New Orleans and the Gulf coast. We hear You, O Lord, loud and clear, just as we did when Rev. Falwell said You made 9/11 happen because of all those gays and abortions. We beseech You, O Merciful One, not to punish us again as Pat Robertson said You did by giving us Katrina because of America's "wholesale slaughter of unborn children." His sentiments were echoed by other Republicans in 2005.

So this is my plea to you: Don't do this to Louisiana again. The Republicans got your message. They are scrambling and doing the best they can to get planes, trains and buses to New Orleans so that everyone can get out. They haven't sent the entire Louisiana National Guard to Iraq this time -- they are already patrolling the city streets. And, in a nod to I don't know what, Bush's head of FEMA has named a man to help manage the federal government's response. His name is W. Michael Moore. I kid you not, heavenly Father. They have sent a man with both my name AND W's to help save the Gulf Coast.

So please God, let the storm die out at sea. It's done enough damage already. If you do this one favor for me, I promise not to invoke your name again. I'll leave that to the followers of Rev. Dobson and to those gathering this week in St. Paul.

Your faithful servant and former seminarian,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com