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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:00 am Post subject: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (9 "Barack Obama: Leap of Faith," by Daniel Henninger.
publication.
for posting.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:27 am Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (1 rating)
Senator Obama is intelligent, articulate and no doubt has strong views on most pressing issues of the day even though few seem to know what they are, and he has an agenda, beyond “hope” and “change.” Why then doesn’t he share it with us, in detail?
Is it because he doesn’t dare?
Alice Felt
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:02 am Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (7 ratings)
Clarity in insight;
Thank you. One followup question though, beyond "does this guy get me?" and that is: What is preventing me from getting this guy?" As was suggested by that stunning NY Times front-page piece, there is either a life-long purposeful deceit or, there is no decision-making there there.
Some choice; even for the elite.
Instead, they continue to peddle their hateful racial chimera, never realizing that no one but them gets that.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:41 am Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (15 ratings)
Obama has written two books which are not easy to read but definitely spell out his positions and beliefs on just about everything.
The media has been picking at his background for over a year.
He participated in countless debates and townhall meetings during the primaries.
If the author considers him a mysterious and unknown figure, he must have been sleeping the past year.
Tim Zumbaugh
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:07 am Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (11 ratings)
Even a political abstraction is better than "out of sight, out of mind".
It's refreshing to see a candidate who is capable of abstractions.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:21 am Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (14 ratings)
I'm a middle-aged, middle-class, white guy.
I'm sick and tired of being told that since I don't support Obama that "I'm a racist"!
The facts are that most people just like me don't have a problem voting for a black or woman.
To speak for myself, my problem with Obama is that he wants to move this Country closer and closer to socalism.
It's not the person, it's the message!
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (16 ratings)
Obama is a known quantity.
It is just the Dems want to redefine him and are having trouble.
That means bring out the race card.
It is not his race but his lack of American experiences.
He spent much of his youth in places other than main stream America.
He went to elitist universities, then chose to work as a community activist with a socialist/marxist organization(ACORN).
None of those experiences have shown him the positive side of middle(economic and geographic) America.
He has no sense of capitalism.
He chose to go to an extremist church for political reasons and that is a different faith experience than most of us have.
His social contacts were not typical people but poltical and university people.
Without the race card he woould never have moved beyond state senator.
He has used it wisely.
He has no idea of the small business owner, the rural community, outdoor people, mid management people, or the blue collar people that have a happy and successful life.
He has chose to exist with the malcontents and that is his view of America, certainly not mine!
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:09 am Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (13 ratings)
There is only one way to describe Mr.
Obama,and that is as an egocentric, megalomaniac, self-aggrandizing, opportunist.
The left-wing of the party that is in complete control needed this Pied Piper candidate not as an agent of change as the claim goes but as one who had perfected the art of political expediency.
The fact that he happens to be black was just decorations on the cake.
Roger Menendez, MD
El Paso, TX
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (10 ratings)
We know enough about Obama.
He is the candidate who reflects the views of the left wing that has completely taken over a once proud party.
It is now the party of darkness, victimization, race and gender obsession and anti-miltary.
Obama's record as an ativist,State Senator and US Senator, as thin as it is, reflects what his party has become.
The Denver convention, dominated by victimization, what's wrong with America, Bush bashing and hysterical emotionalism should be laughed off the stage.
It is, however, much to serious a matter.
Instead, it, it's candidate and the entire bunch should be, once again, refjected in November.
Rodger Potocki
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:29 pm Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (10 ratings)
Perhaps over the next two months....the "real" Mr O will show itself...
most of my Dem friends don't care....they just want to go blue and any blue will do..
which suggests that the politicians are at a value level that is no different than betting red or black at the roulette table.
40% of the electorate has been dumbed down....
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (10 ratings)
The most difficult leap of faith will be accepting his ability to talk like an Evangelical as evidence that he really is one because he, most definitely, is not an Evangelical.
He is a wolf in the Lambs clothing.
John McCain is the fully vetted, qualified, experienced and MORALLY DEFENSIBLE candidate for President of the United States of America.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:02 pm Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (8 ratings)
I agree with the author.
It's not racism it's a question of Mr.
Obama's qualifications for the position, since most of his positions and qualifications are unknown.
Voting for Barack is like buying a pig in a poke.
Hey I have a bridge that I can sell you.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (10 ratings)
The fact that Obama is the Democratic nominee for president tells us that many Americans, especially those on the Democratic side of the populace, think of the election as another version of American Idol, where week by week the performers do their numbers before the cameras, are evaluated by the talking heads, and then get voted on, until the dramatic conclusion.
In a contest where the qualities being evaluated are performance, that method works fine.
But in a contest where the qualities needed are wisdom and good judgment, this method is lousy.
Obama could only have emerged as nominee by being the Anti-Hillary.
She leans liberal, but he is the most left-wing member of the Senate.
She is a new thing, a serious woman candidate;
He is the newer thing, a serious black candidate.
Hillary is a return to the last Democratic glory days;
Obama lets them imagine the future Democratic glory days.
As Hillary is as much a symbolic candidate as a real one, Obama one-upped her in symbolism.
In a field without Hillary Clinton, in a contest where it was not a clash of myths and images, Barack Obama would not have shined nearly so well.
If Obama were still confident of the power of myth, the attraction of the dramatic story, he would have asked Hillary to be his VP.
They would have bet it all on the story.
But by picking Joe Biden, Obama has decided to think about substance and contest McCain on substance.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:40 pm Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (13 ratings)
I'm a middle-age, middle-class, white man and am sick and tired of be a called a "racist" if I'm not supporting Obama.
I don't have a problem voting for a black or a woman.
My problem with Obama (and his fellow Democrats) isn't the person, it's the message.
They want to take us closer and closer to Socialism!
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: Barack Obama: Leap of Faith (2 ratings)
Very interesting first paragraph.
I can only wonder, with some bewilderment, what Mr.
Henninger must think of former governors Ronald Reagan and George W.
Bush. Should Iran-Contra or, say, warrantless wiretapping be overlooked in formulating such statements of their presumed political and reality-based viabilities to be Presidents of the United States?
After all, Reagan and Bush were governors, no less than Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
And I think it very safe to say that there was no leap involved by either;
It was more like jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft without a parachute.
William J.
Neill
Conroe, Texas
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