John Boehner at City Club: Fire the Obama economic team
The U.S. House minority leader came to Cleveland today to kick off a series of discussions on how Republicans can repair the nation’s economic woes, starting by reversing Democratic initiatives.

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I congratulate him for the win, but the emphasis of his words last night and his tone made it sound like he was trying to sound like MLK. Do you agree??

I, personally, think that he deserved it. He gives AWESOME speeches, he’s very inspirational, and he’s making history ! Plus, he gave his money that he got from winning the Award to charity, which was very kind of him. But give your reason to why you think he did or didn’t deserve it !

President-Elect Barack Obama Victory Speech (Full Video)

Jack Cashill writes:

From a classical perspective, Palin’s is the more compelling narrative. The obstacles that she must overcome to fulfill her destiny are many, varied, and real. Raised in the frozen outback by a schoolteacher father and a school secretary mom, Palin accomplishes nothing without a good deal of work, often under difficult physical circumstances.

Palin takes a semester or two off to pay for college. She works at a diner over the summer. She enters the Miss Alaska contest to help pay tuition and is awarded second runner-up and “Miss Congeniality.” She interns during other summers to become a sports reporter.

After college, Palin joins fiancé Todd on his Bristol Bay salmon boat. During slow salmon runs, she works “messy, obscure seafood jobs” until she can find a job as sports reporter, and even then she keeps returning to Bristol Bay when the salmon are in season.

Throughout this period, despite the hard work and harsh environment, Palin never loses her sense of wonder about the spectacular natural theater in which she is so very much at home. When asked about the state’s best attributes during a Miss Alaska pageant, Palin responds, “its beauty and everything that the great Alaska outdoors has to offer.” Prophetically, she also plugs the state’s “potential in drilling for oil,” which, even then, “Outsiders don’t understand.”

Back in Hawaii, either through his grandparents’ connections or by dint of affirmative action, Obama spends grades five through twelve at Hawaii’s poshest prep school. Like Palin, he plays basketball, but while she is leading her school to the state championship, he is a second stringer on a team whose wins and losses go unremarked. The only scores Obama shares are the imagined racial ones that need to be settled, a working out of his “pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against [his] mother’s race.”

In his recent book Barack and Michelle, Chistopher Andersen quotes a black friend who rejected Obama’s claimed reason for being benched in a particular game.

No, Barry, it’s not because you’re black. It’s because you missed two shots in a row.

Obama admits to “marginal report cards” in prep school, but his underperformance does not diminish his dreams. He hits the mainland in the late 1970s with the “diversity” movement in full flower. Diversity’s rationale is that people of varied cultures enrich the educational experience. Obama’s upbringing, however, has been thoroughly white and elitist. The diversity bean-counters couldn’t care less. His skin color improves their “metrics.” Obama will ride this pony far.

After two druggy, uninspired years at Occidental College, Obama transfers to the Ivy League — Columbia, to be precise. In Dreams, Obama dedicates one half of a sentence to a summer job on a construction site. Otherwise, he is silent on how his tuition might have been paid for. As to his grades and SAT scores, it would be easier to pry North Korea’s nuclear secrets out of Kim Jong-Il.

i have a packet to do for my government class and i’m struggling really bad…here are the questions, if you can help at all, please do, because its due tomorrow. Thanks!

1. Obama’s personal strengths:

2. Obama’s personal weaknesses:

3. Obama’s background, biography, narrative, or story strengths:

4. Obama’s background, biography, narrative, or story weaknesses:

5. Obama’s policy strengths:

6. Obama’s policy weaknesses:

7. Constituencies that support Obama:

8. Constituencies that don’t yet support:

9. Primary states won:

10. primary states lost:

11. Overall strengths:

12. Overall weaknesses:

13. What attributes will you look for in a vice presidential candidate to mitigate your candidates weaknesses?

thanks again for any help!

Why do people not stick to the facts and judge on hearsay? I am not an Obama supporter, but guess what? I don’t support his health care plan–I believe that it still would leave too many Americans in misery….but I did do my homework. Please go to the link provided here:

http://www.keepandshare.com/htm/biographies/barack_obama/C01_barack_obama_biography.php

What I liked about this one is that politics are kept out—only the facts.
What are your thoughts? And please, no hate rantings, just be factual…Thank you!!!

Barack Obama Biography. Quick Bio of Barack Obama. Learn about Barack Obama in 5 Minutes. 5 Minute guide to Barack Obama.

i have where he is from who his parents are who is his wife who are his children where he went to school at and which books he wrote and i want to know how many copies each book sold

Please answer only if you watched.