What I got out of listening to the first presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama this last Friday night. Summary= In regards to John McCain I saw and heard a very knowledgeable individual with years of experience in dealing with the affairs of the country.His arguments were precise and to the point,and his delivery and manor while not eloquent was down to earth and well based on the facts that he pointed out to support his position.On the other hand I saw and heard Barack Obama, an individual that seemed very nervous and in his actions reflected his lack of experience and knowledge of the subject of the debate, which was the economy and the national defense.His arguments were not precise and to the point, and he did not present the facts to support them in most cases but consistently relied on the strategy of cover everything but touch on nothing(like dancing around the mull berry bush or like the balloon shirts our grandmothers used to wear.) His delivery and manor was therefore somewhat confused . Specifics= On national defense: McCain had his opponent on the ropes time and time again forcing him to say the he, McCain was right,(Obama said that he agreed with McCain and that McCain was right so many times that I thought I was listening to a fresh recruit in boot camp answering his drill Sergent) getting him so nervous that he,Obama several times referring to McCain as Jim not John (confusing John.s first name , with Jim the moderator.) McCain was very precise in driving home to the audience three main points in regards to national defense, one: that while Obama states that he wants to enhance and restore this country's image, that he maintains has been eroded, his very stands on wanting to set a timetable for the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq,will give Al Quida a great propaganda victory and allow them to state to the world that they forced us out of Iraq.Thus really hurting our image.also his stating to the world that he would sit down with dictators such as Kim Jong-il of North Korea and Ali Kharmenei of Iran without any pre.conditions would lend dignity to there movements and give them a venue to further spread their message of hate and terrorist threats. These stands of his are the same type of blunders that he claims he would prevent from happening when and if he was elected president. when John McCain pounded him on this, Obama tried to dance around this issue by parsing words and saying that pre-conditions was THE SAME AS PREPAREDNESS. As McCain said his opponent just does not understand it. Two: Obama's refusal to admit that he was dead wrong in not supporting the surge in Iraq and his remarks that this tactic had no chance of succeeding reflected his lack of understanding regarding military tactics. Now his refusal to admit to this indicates a very insecure person,afraid to admit when he has makes a mistake. Three: On Russia's recent invasion of Georgia, McCain again was very precise and had the facts to support his argument, plus the experience of being in the soviet blog time and time again, he pointed out that in the final analyse, oil was the reason behind Russia.s moves in this region, again forcing Obama to state that his opponent was right.On the economy: Obama again tried to cover everything while not committing himself to anything, but when his opponent nailed down the reason for our problems in the economy by stating that the cause was the run -away spending in the form of earmarks by both the republicans and the democrats in congress,that he has been fighting to do away with for years and that Obama was responsible for 18 million dollars of pork barrel spending in the form of earmarks during the time he spent in congress, Here once again Obama said that McCain was right, but tried to excuse his spending by saying that he had suspended his pork barrel requests, but was reminded by McCain that this happened only when he began to campaign for president.!!!( I expect this figure of 18 million would have been much higher if he had spent more time on the job that he is getting paid for( I do not know how many hours the Senate has been in session over the last four years, but he was only present for 153 hrs during that time as I understand it) the last two of which he has been absent due to running for president, but still getting his regular salary of over 180 thousand dollars per year from the taxpayers, Damn, talk about a rip off!!!!In summary: It appears to me that Obama while being a great communicator in the form of a public speech being able to arouse tremulous crowd emotions( like Bill Clinton and Adolf Hitler) he has very limited ability to engage in a one on one debate with an opponent.( unlike Bill Clinton, who did have this skill as well as being a great communicator, I have to give the devil his due. signed Zarc

With the recent nominations of the VP's the American voters now have the opportunity to decide on who we want to fill this office. On one hand we have the democratic choice, Sen. Joe Biden, one of the oldest members of our do nothing congress, who represents the politics as usual and the good old boy Establishment that has been a disgrace to their office and a insult to the voters who elected them. With this selection we all know that the slogan of Obama and the Democratic party "Change that you can believe in" is just more of the same old " promise them anything, they do not have the common sense to know s--- from shinola." On the other hand we have a fresh new face in Gov. Sarah Palin,a real down to earth, working housewife,and her five children and a husband who works as a commercial fisherman and in the oil fields, at last a family that we can relate to,(I know that there has never been a day in their lives that they have not been proud of their country) with all the problems of the average American family. For all you young voters and especially for you women of America who have been soul-searching to find the right person to fill this office and perhaps be the next president of this great country of ours. To borrow a saying from the early settlers of this country who were also searching for a partner to face the long hard journey to the West with " this is a gal that you can cross the river with" signed Zarc ( http://Forbodden@blogspot.com

DO I HAVE THIS STRAIGHT?


HIS FATHER WAS A BLACK AFRICAN MUSLIM FROM KENYA.
WE HAVE SEEN PICTURES OF HIS AFRICAN FAMILY.

HIS MOTHER WAS A WHITE AMERICAN ATHEIST FROM KANSAS.
WHERE ARE THE PICTURES OF HIS AMERICAN FAMILY?

HIS FATHER DESERTED HIS MOTHER WHEN HE WAS ONLY TWO YEARS OLD AND WENT
BACK TO AFRICA BY WAY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. HOW? WAS HIS FATHER WEALTHY?

HIS MOTHER MARRIED AN INDONESIAN MUSLIM AND THEN MOVED TO JAKARTA WHERE HE
WAS ENROLLED IN A MUSLIM SCHOOL.

WHEN HE REACHED HIGH SCHOOL AGE HIS MOTHER SENT HIM TO HAWAII TO BE WITH
HIS WHITE GRANDPARENTS AND HE WAS PUT INTO AN EXPENSIVE PRIVATE SCHOOL. HE
LATER WENT TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY. HOW? WERE HIS GRANDPARENTS RICH?

HE LIVES IN A $1.4 MILLION HOUSE OBTAINED THROUGH A DEAL WITH A WEALTHY
FUNDRAISER. HOW?

HE 'WORKED' AS A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN CHICAGO. HE HAS NEVER HELD A
PRODUCTIVE JOB OR RECEIVED A PAY CHECK THAT WAS NOT GOVERNMENT-FUNDED
AND/OR TAXPAYER SUPPORTED.

THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHTS POSITION, NOR IS IT SUBJECT TO
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SET ASIDES; ON-THE-JOB TRAINING WON'T CUT IT.

HE ENTERED POLITICS AT THE STATE LEVEL AND THEN THE NATIONAL LEVEL WHERE
HE HAS MINIMAL EXPERIENCE.

HE IS PROUD OF HIS 'AFRICAN HERITAGE' (A FATHER WHO GOT A WHITE GIRL
PREGNANT AND DESERTED HER).

WHERE IS THE PRIDE IN HIS 'WHITE HERITAGE'? (A MOTHER WHO FLAUNTED
CONVENTION AND DID NOT BELIEVE IN GOD).

SOME MIGHT THINK THERE WAS NOT MUCH TO BE PROUD OF EITHER WAY.

HE BELONGS, AND HAS BELONGED FOR OVER 20 YEAR S, TO AN 'AFRO-CENTRIC'
CHURCH IN CHICAGO THAT HATES WHITES, HATES JEWS, AND BLAMES AMERICA FOR
ALL THE WORLD'S PERCEIVED FAULTS. (INCLUDING CREATING THE AIDS VIRUS IN
ORDER TO INFLICT IT ON AFRICANS).

HE REPEATEDLY WHITEWASHES THE PASTOR, HIS CHURCH AND THE MEMBERS WHO
CHEERED AFTER HEARING VITRIOLIC TIRADES AGAINST AMERICA.

HE COULD NOT CONFRONT HIS PASTOR BUT HE WANTS US TO BELIEVE HE CAN
CONFRONT NORTH KOREA AND IRAN ?
YEAH RIGHT ! !

DURING HIS VERY BRIEF TIME IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE HE HAS MANAGED TO
AMASS THE NUMBER ONE ULTRA LIBERAL VOTING RECORD OUT OF THE ONE HUNDRED
MEMBERS.

HE HAS VOTED CONSISTENTLY FOR BIGGER GOVERNMENT AND HIGHER TAXES. HE HAS
VOTED FOR BIG ENTITLEMENTS AND LEGISLATION THAT WOULD SEVERELY CURTAIL
AMERICA'S ABILITY TO FIGHT TERRORISM AND TO PROTECT OUR BORDERS AND OUR
NATIONAL INTERESTS AROUND THE WORLD..

BUT, HE IS A GOOD ORATOR. ISN'T THAT A COMFORT?

YEAH, I THINK I SEE HOW WELL HE COULD UNITE THE COUNTRY.

I THINK THE TRUTH IS THAT HE HOPES NO ONE WILL PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO OUR NEW CHIEF PILOT. HE HAS
NEVER FLOWN AN AIRPLANE, IN FACT HE HAS NEVER EVEN SAT IN THE COCKPIT, BUT
HE SAYS HE HAS RIDDEN ON PLANES BEFORE. WE ARE SURE HE WILL GUIDE US
SAFELY THROUGH THE STORMS WE MAY ENCOUNTER ON THIS FLIGHT.

PEOPLE WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD THE STORY ABOUT THE
WOLF HIDING IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING SO HE CAN DESTROY THEM FROM WITH-IN ? THE
HAND WRITING IS ON THE WALL, DO YOU NOT HAVE EYES TO SEE IT ?

THINK LONG AND HARD BEFORE YOU VOTE FOR THIS GUY OBAMA !
Hopefully you will send this to your emails friends!!

Well, now that Obama has selected one of the most ardent members of the "politics as usual", members of congress, as his running mate,(Joe Biden) he sure has put the lie to his "change you can believe in" slogan. I can not believe that a lot of our fellow Americans were taken in by that line of bull crap from the start however I realize that a lot of younger, more naive first time voters were swayed by his silver tongue, (there is a quote from the bible about being swayed by this type of speaker, however I can not remember it, perhaps some one will tell me what it is.) So it all boils down to this "the same old democratic party con game but just different con artists." signed Zarc

While my wife and I were taking all the back roads on our way to Murfreesboro,Arkansas we stopped at a small country store in Malvern, Arkansas to get gas, and I had the pleasure of talking to and old man(83 years old) that lived there all his life ,so I asked him what he thought about the two nomminees for president, here is what he said: " it is hard to decide on these two,however when a man tells me that he attented the same church for twenty years and listened to the same minister preach sermon after sermon all that time and could not recall what he was preaching about I have serious doubts about voting for him for the highest office in the land." I do not think that it could have been said any better. signed Zarc

TAKE A FEW MOMENTS AND READ THIS LETTER. THESE ARE STRONG, POWERFUL AND COURAGEOUS WORDS COMING FROM A RETIRED COLONEL.

AND READ WHAT LINCOLN HAD TO SAY AT THE END.
WOW!

33 Senators Voted Against English as America 's Official Language on June 6, 2007.

On Wed. 6 June 2007 23:35:23 - 0500 Colonel Harry Riley , USA , Ret wrote:

Senators:
Your vote against an amendment to the immigration Bill 1348......to make English America's official language is astounding.

On D-Day, no less, when we honor those that sacrificed in order to secure the bedrock, character and principles of America , I can only surmise your vote reflects a loyalty to illegal aliens.

I don't much care where you come from. What your religion is. Whether you're black, white, or some other color...male or female......Democrat, Republican or Independent....... But I do care when you are a United States Senator representing Citizens of America ....and Vote against English as the official language of the United States .

Your vote reflects Betrayal. Political Surrender. Violates Your Pledge of Allegiance. Dishonors historical principle. Rejects Patriotism. Borders on traitorous action and, in my opinion, makes you unfit to serve as a United StateSenator.......Impeachment.......Recall........Or other appropriate action is warranted or worse.

Four of you voting against English as America 's Official Language are Presidential Candidates: Senator Biden, Senator Clinton, Senator Dodd and Senator Obama.

Four Senators vying to lead America, but won't or don't have
the courage to cast a vote in favor of 'English' as America 's Official Language when 91% of American Citizens want English officially designated as our language.

This is the second time in the last several months this list of Senators have disgraced themselves as 'Policital Hacks'........Unworthy as Senators and certainly unqualified to serve as President of the United States .

If America is as angry as I am, you will realize a backlash so stunning it will literally 'rock you out of your panties'......... And preferably totally out of the United States Senate.

The entire immigration bill is a farce... Your action only confirms this really isn't about America .....it is about self-serving-politics......despicable at best.

PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
'Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged!!!

PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING AROUND THE UNITED STATES! TILL THE ELECTION!

Subject: Sleepless Nights


Last night I had the strangest dream. It was so real, so life-like and so vivid I woke up in a cold sweat. Let me describe it to you briefly...

1. Hillary wins the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States

2. Naturally, she wants to choose as her running mate someone with a lot of knowledge and experience in government and foreign affairs, someone who is a seasoned campaigner who could bring a lot of strength to the ticket. Who better than Bill, her husband?!!!

3. Hill and Bill go on to win the election in November and the Democrats maintain control of the House and the Senate.

4. Hillary is sworn in as President on January 20, 2009. The next day, after all the inauguration parties are over, she calls a press conference to make an announcement: she is resigning as President!!! Bill, as the Vice President, immediately becomes President!!! This is all perfectly legal under the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, for it states that "no person may be elected as president more than twice". Bill is not being elected for a third term but is merely serving out the remainder of Hillary's term---all 4 years of it.

5. But wait! There's more! The following day Bill calls a press conference to make an announcement. He has chosen someone to fill the now-vacant office of Vice President. Guess who he picks? Why, Hillary, of course!!! And she would still be able to run for president again!!!
Please forward this e-mail to all of your friends and to as many others as you wish to cause sleepless nights... :-( Signed Zarc









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