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Guest
03-07-2012, 02:20 PM
The full unedited video of a Harvard protest being led by Barack Obama on behalf of radical academic Prof. Derrick Bell will be aired tonight on The Hannity Show on FOX News.

The Harvard protest was a racial protest in support of Prof. Bell who has close ties to Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright. (who he didn't listen to for 20 years?)

Breitbart.com Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro will appear on The Sean Hannity Show to discuss the tape.

More info will be released in the next few hours, but I figured I'd get a jump on it.

Ben Smith Releases Selectively Edited Obama Race Video (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/07/buzzefeed-selectively-edits-obama-tape)

Guest
03-07-2012, 03:27 PM
The full unedited video of a Harvard protest being led by Barack Obama on behalf of radical academic Prof. Derrick Bell will be aired tonight on The Hannity Show on FOX News.

The Harvard protest was a racial protest in support of Prof. Bell who has close ties to Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright. (who he didn't listen to for 20 years?)

Breitbart.com Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro will appear on The Sean Hannity Show to discuss the tape.

More info will be released in the next few hours, but I figured I'd get a jump on it.

Ben Smith Releases Selectively Edited Obama Race Video (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/07/buzzefeed-selectively-edits-obama-tape)

What was the beef about? Any particulars available?

Guest
03-07-2012, 03:30 PM
The full unedited video of a Harvard protest being led by Barack Obama on behalf of radical academic Prof. Derrick Bell will be aired tonight on The Hannity Show on FOX News.

The Harvard protest was a racial protest in support of Prof. Bell who has close ties to Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright. (who he didn't listen to for 20 years?)

Breitbart.com Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro will appear on The Sean Hannity Show to discuss the tape.

More info will be released in the next few hours, but I figured I'd get a jump on it.

Ben Smith Releases Selectively Edited Obama Race Video (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/07/buzzefeed-selectively-edits-obama-tape)


Derrick Bell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Bell)

Guest
03-07-2012, 04:16 PM
The full unedited video of a Harvard protest being led by Barack Obama on behalf of radical academic Prof. Derrick Bell will be aired tonight on The Hannity Show on FOX News.

The Harvard protest was a racial protest in support of Prof. Bell who has close ties to Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright. (who he didn't listen to for 20 years?)

Breitbart.com Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro will appear on The Sean Hannity Show to discuss the tape.

More info will be released in the next few hours, but I figured I'd get a jump on it.

Ben Smith Releases Selectively Edited Obama Race Video (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/07/buzzefeed-selectively-edits-obama-tape)

Anyone who might be interested in watching this, yourself included, might also be interested in reading the General Discussion Forum thread entitled " Dog Poop found". Both strike me as kind of repulsive.

Guest
03-07-2012, 04:19 PM
I have not watched Hannity in over 3 years now. I would rather watch a test pattern. I wonder what ever happened to those. :grumpy:

Guest
03-07-2012, 04:23 PM
I have not watched Hannity in over 3 years now. I would rather watch a test pattern. I wonder what ever happened to those. :grumpy:

What are you afrid of, that your idol might have a few tarnish spots.

Guest
03-07-2012, 04:47 PM
What are you afrid of, that your idol might have a few tarnish spots.

It seems rather trivial. We all have been a little hotheaded about some cause we cared dearly about.

If you look at this Professor he hardly sounds like someone who is radical. In fact, Bell's views sound a lot like some of the Tea Party people seem to stand for in some way-- accountability and ethics. Rich white people justice I suppose would be what they were against in Critical Legal Studies.

Bell looks like someone from Critical Legal Studies which influenced the Critical Race Theory movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_legal_studies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

Guest
03-07-2012, 05:38 PM
I think this is the area of interest:

"....However, the video has been selectively edited--either by the Boston television station or by Buzzfeed itself. Over the course of the day, Breitbart.com will be releasing additional footage that has been hidden by Obama's allies in the mainstream media and academia."

Guest
03-07-2012, 07:18 PM
I think this is the area of interest:

"....However, the video has been selectively edited--either by the Boston television station or by Buzzfeed itself. Over the course of the day, Breitbart.com will be releasing additional footage that has been hidden by Obama's allies in the mainstream media and academia."



Forget that. Hannity is showing the entire video uncut and unedited. Didn't you read that part?

Guest
03-07-2012, 07:25 PM
It seems rather trivial. We all have been a little hotheaded about some cause we cared dearly about.

If you look at this Professor he hardly sounds like someone who is radical. In fact, Bell's views sound a lot like some of the Tea Party people seem to stand for in some way-- accountability and ethics. Rich white people justice I suppose would be what they were against in Critical Legal Studies.

Bell looks like someone from Critical Legal Studies which influenced the Critical Race Theory movement. Critical legal studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_legal_studies)

Critical race theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory)

Nobody knows yet the extent of his activity, or his role in this video.

But won't it be interesting, at least, to get a glimpse of Obama in his formative years as an activist in Harvard?

What are you worried about. Maybe it's nothing, as you already believe, but don't you as one of Obama's fans want to see this?

If not, why not? I can't imagine that all you Obama-maniacs don't want to see "The One" as you haven't been able to before.

The Hannity Show; FOX News; 9 PM........be there or be square.

Guest
03-07-2012, 09:32 PM
What are you afrid of, that your idol might have a few tarnish spots.

No fear at all. Just don't feel like wasting my time. :icon_wink:

Guest
03-07-2012, 09:33 PM
I'll be square. :grumpy:

Guest
03-07-2012, 10:39 PM
Oh...and be sure to let us all know what dramatic revelations are presented. Maybe match the bombshell Arpaio birther news conference? :grumpy:

Guest
03-08-2012, 07:04 AM
A wasted mind is a real loss.

Guest
03-08-2012, 09:50 AM
selective or not the incriminating comment made was the overt action to keep the information suppressed during Obama's campaign for POTUS.

He wasn't using a teleprompter in school!!

btk

Guest
03-08-2012, 10:00 AM
seems like no big deal.

Guest
03-08-2012, 11:53 AM
Richie???? :o

Guest
03-08-2012, 12:26 PM
I did not watch Hannity last night since I would rather look at re-runs of Gilligans Island than watch Hannity.

Anyhow, what was your critique and evaluation of the tape that was shown about President Obama during a race protest at Harvard? Was it more or less than what most young, black students have done? Give us all some honest feedback, please.

Guest
03-08-2012, 03:35 PM
Well....it's pretty quiet here. Did the revelations leave everyone so astounded that it's hard to put the feelings and emotions into words?
What a joke? Keep trying....cuz it's sure not working for ya. :grumpy:

Guest
03-08-2012, 04:40 PM
I am waiting with anticipation to watch the abundant coverage there will be on the network news tonight..:1rotfl::1rotfl:

btk

Guest
03-08-2012, 05:57 PM
there will not be and shouldn't be any coverage of this garbage. New? It's been on PBS Frontline online on Youtube since 2008. Where is the bombshell? To me the footage shows a very nice intelligent young man. Wow our President was politically active. Another bogus attempt to discredit a man using lies and fabrications. Some of you need to give it a rest.

Guest
03-08-2012, 06:37 PM
there will not be and shouldn't be any coverage of this garbage. New? It's been on PBS Frontline online on Youtube since 2008. Where is the bombshell? To me the footage shows a very nice intelligent young man. Wow our President was politically active. Another bogus attempt to discredit a man using lies and fabrications. Some of you need to give it a rest.

You sound like Soledad Obrien on CNN...actually some of the same words....and the video you refer to since 2008 WAS EDITED.

Ms. Obrien lost all her professionalism today in trying to protect the President !

Guest
03-08-2012, 06:55 PM
Here's a portion of the story on Hannity with a showing of the video, and a discussion about it., complete with the admission by a longtime Obama and Jerimiah Wright friend that the video was suppressed during the 2008 campaign.

Videos - The Sean Hannity Show (http://www.hannity.com/videos/?uri=channels/400391/1619647)

I understand there is more to come.

Guest
03-08-2012, 07:01 PM
Here's a portion of the story on Hannity with a showing of the video, and a discussion about it., complete with the admission by a longtime Obama and Jerimiah Wright friend that the video was suppressed during the 2008 campaign.

Videos - The Sean Hannity Show (http://www.hannity.com/videos/?uri=channels/400391/1619647)

I understand there is more to come.


Actually, and I have no idea of what else they have, but the fellow that was on with OBrien on CNN made a comment that I loved....."if you guys will not vet the candidates, we will".....he was very clear it was NOT JUST Obama but also some Republicans that they would vet.

I say...FINALLY.....the media ran the entire show in 2008 and let the vetting begin ! There was MUCH supressed in 2008

Guest
03-09-2012, 10:38 AM
This was the biggest dud since Geraldo opened Al Capone's vault.

Guest
03-09-2012, 10:55 AM
This was the biggest dud since Geraldo opened Al Capone's vault.

We'll see; still it's good that his formerly "contained" prior life is starting to emerge, along with the controversial people who had a hand in his nurturing and his mentoring.

It's obvious why this video which exposes these ties were hidden and then edited.

His protectors and defenders know their audience, and know a picture is worth a thousand words.

Guest
03-09-2012, 10:56 AM
This was the biggest dud since Geraldo opened Al Capone's vault.

It looked like the news' programs I watched recently agree with you. They also used the word "dud".

Guest
03-09-2012, 11:03 AM
It looked like the news' programs I watched recently agree with you. They also used the word "dud".

Could be....guess it depends on how wide your vision is. Still IT NEEDED TO BE OUT THERE...as with both parties...the President WAS NOT VETTED BY THE PRESS and ALL, no matter the party need to be vetted.

Guest
03-09-2012, 11:45 AM
Here's a portion of the story on Hannity with a showing of the video, and a discussion about it., complete with the admission by a longtime Obama and Jerimiah Wright friend that the video was suppressed during the 2008 campaign.

Videos - The Sean Hannity Show (http://www.hannity.com/videos/?uri=channels/400391/1619647)

I understand there is more to come.

As another President famously spoke "Bring it on"!!!!!

Guest
03-09-2012, 12:07 PM
This video showed that BHO was very much infatuated with the professor who wanted to fundamentaly change the American Way of Life. The tape was hidden until after the 2008 election, since it was known to be disasterous to BHO.
The MSM is purposely downplaying this tape as it works to reelect BHO. They are afraid of him. Remember, in 2008 when a local TV reporter asked him a penetrating question, he said, "No more interviews will be given to that station". It is entirely possible that the White House exerts same control over the networks, press, and cable news, with a few exceptions that they want to silence. I can see where ABC, CBS, and NBC have been told not to question the Leader or no one from the Administration will appear on any of your interview programs, your reporters will be ignored at press conferences, etc. This is how Hitler obtained absoulute power.

Guest
03-09-2012, 12:21 PM
This video showed that BHO was very much infatuated with the professor who wanted to fundamentaly change the American Way of Life. The tape was hidden until after the 2008 election, since it was known to be disasterous to BHO.
The MSM is purposely downplaying this tape as it works to reelect BHO. They are afraid of him. Remember, in 2008 when a local TV reporter asked him a penetrating question, he said, "No more interviews will be given to that station". It is entirely possible that the White House exerts same control over the networks, press, and cable news, with a few exceptions that they want to silence. I can see where ABC, CBS, and NBC have been told not to question the Leader or no one from the Administration will appear on any of your interview programs, your reporters will be ignored at press conferences, etc. This is how Hitler obtained absoulute power.

You're points have merit and warrant discussion, but now that you used the "H" word, that's all that's going to be commented on by the rabid sycophants and apologists for Obama.

Guest
03-09-2012, 02:33 PM
This video showed that BHO was very much infatuated with the professor who wanted to fundamentaly change the American Way of Life. The tape was hidden until after the 2008 election, since it was known to be disasterous to BHO.
The MSM is purposely downplaying this tape as it works to reelect BHO. They are afraid of him. Remember, in 2008 when a local TV reporter asked him a penetrating question, he said, "No more interviews will be given to that station". It is entirely possible that the White House exerts same control over the networks, press, and cable news, with a few exceptions that they want to silence. I can see where ABC, CBS, and NBC have been told not to question the Leader or no one from the Administration will appear on any of your interview programs, your reporters will be ignored at press conferences, etc. This is how Hitler obtained absoulute power.

What? Maybe, you should actually take a better look at this Professor Bell's work before making such an outrageous comparison between Hitler and Barack Obama.

Who controls "fair and balanced" Fox News? You should really look into that before talking about media manipulation for political ends!

Guest
03-09-2012, 06:30 PM
Umm.. Huh? A law student gives an introduction and a hug to a guest speaker? THAT'S IT???

Guest
03-09-2012, 07:05 PM
Umm.. Huh? A law student gives an introduction and a hug to a guest speaker? THAT'S IT???

This professor has very radical beliefs coupled with a strong racial prejudice, and is a longtime friend of the controversial and racist Rev. Jerimiah Wright.

That's enough to give you an idea of why it bears examination.

http://mrctv.org/videos/derrick-bell-2002-permanent-racism

Farrakhan is a "great hero for the people"

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/03/09/Bell%20Louis%20Farrakhan%20is%20A%20Great%20Hero%2 0For%20The%20People

Guest
03-09-2012, 07:17 PM
Umm.. Huh? A law student gives an introduction and a hug to a guest speaker? THAT'S IT???

Do you have any doubts about a film like this surfacing on MSNBC immediately if it were someone like Romney ?

It should have been part of the vetting that did not occur...to me, anyway, that is the point. As with anything like this you have to connect the dots...Wright, Ayers, Rezko and various other characters and they just get fluffed off as if it were nothing.....it is part of vetting and the media did not do it in 2008.

Example, for this bloodthirsty media to simply accept as a fact because Obama said it was so that his mentor (HIS words), his advisor, his pastor for over 20 years NEVER EVER gave him the impression that he held such ideas is ludicrious but they did...and in a hurry

Guest
03-09-2012, 11:10 PM
Here's a video of an interview with the great writer Thomas Sowell in 1990 on the Book TV Show on C-Span, where he talks about the radical racial agenda of Prof. Derrick Bell who is President Obama's hero and a friend of the racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright who is (was?) President Obama's minister for over 20 years. He doesn't speak kindly of him.

Thomas Sowell Discusses 'Despicable' Derrick Bell; Compares To Hitler (http://content.bitsontherun.com/previews/iMvtnZS1-dh3Zgtip)

Guest
03-10-2012, 09:47 AM
Here's a video of an interview with the great writer Thomas Sowell in 1990 on the Book TV Show on C-Span, where he talks about the radical racial agenda of Prof. Derrick Bell who is President Obama's hero and a friend of the racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright who is (was?) President Obama's minister for over 20 years. He doesn't speak kindly of him.

Thomas Sowell Discusses 'Despicable' Derrick Bell; Compares To Hitler (http://content.bitsontherun.com/previews/iMvtnZS1-dh3Zgtip)

Ever here anything about this stuff in 2008 as we hear about speeches and remarks made even further back in time this year for the primary ? Nah, if Obama says it does not matter, THEN it does not matter.

Guest
03-10-2012, 09:47 AM
Richie, just admit that the blockbuster news event of Fox turned out to be a wet fizzle. No one cares. You can try and whip up a frenzy but all the energy you are expending on this piece of tripe could be put to so much better use.

Get a grasp on reality and focus on the future - not try and bring up something that meant nothing at all from over 20 years ago.

Guest
03-10-2012, 10:03 AM
Richie, just admit that the blockbuster news event of Fox turned out to be a wet fizzle. No one cares. You can try and whip up a frenzy but all the energy you are expending on this piece of tripe could be put to so much better use.

Get a grasp on reality and focus on the future - not try and bring up something that meant nothing at all from over 20 years ago.

They must look to the past, as things are so much better now than they were a few years ago, so focus must be taken off that and onto something else that will make the current administration look bad. Obama has made more improvements in the last 6 months than Bush in 8 years. Look at the jobs rate and the Stock Market. No mention, but let the gas go up to where it should be and the sky is falling again. I think Romney will do even better, but Obama is on the right track.

Guest
03-10-2012, 11:56 AM
Good grief, VillagerII, what are you smoking??? How are things better and how high do you want the gas to go? I seem to remember that Obama wanted it to be $8.00. Is that your goal, also?

Guest
03-10-2012, 12:04 PM
Good grief, VillagerII, what are you smoking??? How are things better and how high do you want the gas to go? I seem to remember that Obama wanted it to be $8.00. Is that your goal, also?

How about a link to President Obama wanting gas to be $8.00 per gallon?

Guest
03-10-2012, 12:04 PM
Good grief, VillagerII, what are you smoking??? How are things better and how high do you want the gas to go? I seem to remember that Obama wanted it to be $8.00. Is that your goal, also?

How much gas per capita do Americans consume compared to the rest of the world. That is the problem, not the cost of gas. If gas is too high, get a more efficient car. That will help bring the price down.

Guest
03-10-2012, 12:12 PM
How much gas per capita do Americans consume compared to the rest of the world. That is the problem, not the cost of gas. If gas is too high, get a more efficient car. That will help bring the price down.

Have gas company stocks do you? Saying gas prices are right is wacked out.

Guest
03-10-2012, 01:29 PM
How about a link to President Obama wanting gas to be $8.00 per gallon?

NO.....I was informed that you do not need links....you can say anything you want with no justification....its ok...so I suppose I should apologize to you for asking you for links on your previous unfounded allegations on other folks.....sorry about that.

I feel so free that you do not need facts anymore...wow

Guest
03-10-2012, 01:38 PM
To post that the President any president can have an effect on gas prices is ignorant period.

Guest
03-10-2012, 01:50 PM
To post that the President any president can have an effect on gas prices is ignorant period.

I would not call them "ignorant" but you are correct that what the President can do is limited (except for a release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) and for me right now, the impact of the middle east instability is huge, but I sure wish I understood his opposition to the pipeline to take a step to some kind of help with independence in the future.

Guest
03-10-2012, 02:06 PM
I would not call them "ignorant" but you are correct that what the President can do is limited (except for a release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) and for me right now, the impact of the middle east instability is huge, but I sure wish I understood his opposition to the pipeline to take a step to some kind of help with independence in the future.

It looks like he does want an election year to force his hand on the pipeline issue. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/senate-narrowly-rejects-the-keystone-oil-pipeline-amendment/

I would hope that they would do a lot of reserach on this pipeline plan for environmental reasons before committing themselves to it. That is something that needs a lot of vetting.

Guest
03-10-2012, 02:09 PM
It looks like he does want an election year to force his hand on the pipeline issue. Senate Narrowly Rejects the Keystone Oil Pipeline Amendment - ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/senate-narrowly-rejects-the-keystone-oil-pipeline-amendment/)

I would hope that they would do a lot of reserach on this pipeline plan for environmental reasons before committing themselves to it. That is something that needs a lot of vetting.

I THINK, and I do say THINK, that the latest proposal which he actively spent time shooting down gave time to do just that.....he had to twist even Democrat arms to vote it down...not sure why but getting the environmentalist vote

Guest
03-10-2012, 02:22 PM
To post that the President any president can have an effect on gas prices is ignorant period.

Sounds like lefty tree hugger propaganda. Open up more drill areas and stop buying from Arabs.

Guest
03-10-2012, 02:23 PM
Janmcn--According to Investors.com it was future energy secretary Steven Chu who said, in 2008, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gas to the levels of Europe." At that time gas was $8.00 a gallon in Europe. I remember Obama echoing this statement, but I could be wrong.

Guest
03-10-2012, 02:41 PM
Richie, just admit that the blockbuster news event of Fox turned out to be a wet fizzle. No one cares. You can try and whip up a frenzy but all the energy you are expending on this piece of tripe could be put to so much better use.

Get a grasp on reality and focus on the future - not try and bring up something that meant nothing at all from over 20 years ago.

I'm not trying to whip up a frenzy. I'm just trying to add to the education of the dummies. Is it working? :)

I'm sorry if you would have liked the buried to stay buried.

Our president's formative years carousing with the communists and the racist professors and ministers.......Ah, the good old days.

Guest
03-10-2012, 03:21 PM
I'm not trying to whip up a frenzy. I'm just trying to add to the education of the dummies. Is it working? :)

I'm sorry if you would have liked the buried to stay buried.

Our president's formative years carousing with the communists and the racist professors and ministers.......Ah, the good old days.

This is a thread to "whip up a frenzy" ? The person who questioned you started a thread on farm subs that totally skipped over the inaction of those he supports....seems like THAT kind of thread is meant to "whip up..."

Guest
03-10-2012, 05:20 PM
How much gas per capita do Americans consume compared to the rest of the world. That is the problem, not the cost of gas. If gas is too high, get a more efficient car. That will help bring the price down.

As much as I'd like to have a more efficient car, I'm not about to spend $300-$500/mo so I can save $20/wk on gas. (I just finished paying off my Camry)

Guest
03-10-2012, 05:28 PM
Richie: I'm about the same age as Obama.

You could find a LOT of stuff about me from when I was college-age that has NO bearing as far as my opinions now. (Except maybe for the fact that, having had those opinions and having them changed shows growth)

I was a Democrat until a many by the name of Roy Stone said to me "What makes you think the government owes you a living?"

I was ardently pro-life until I discovered how we treat women who give their kids up for adoption, before I learned of hidden agendas and before my own experiences showed it wasn't so simplistic an issue.

I used to think we should get back on the gold standard until I realized that there isn't enough mining on the planet to come up with enough gold to 'back' the increased economic output of a modern worldwide economy. So we DO need 'fiat money', as Ron Paul puts it.

I used to be against nuclear power until I got more facts (there was a lot of protesting here in NH when Seabrook Station was being built and the Clamshell Alliance was protesting)

I used to be totally against any kind of socialized medicine - until profiteering insurance companies and working in a hospital started disillusioning me - and then seeing what goes on in Canada and in Europe, followed by the statistics that show how far behind we've fallen. The idea still turns my stomach but I just can't argue with the results and hope for some sort of 'hybrid' system (like France and Switzerland have)

When I was 18, I was working, taking college courses at night and wondering if I'd ever find a good woman. I'm 49 now. I'm a VERY different person.

Guest
03-10-2012, 05:47 PM
Richie: I'm about the same age as Obama.

You could find a LOT of stuff about me from when I was college-age that has NO bearing as far as my opinions now. (Except maybe for the fact that, having had those opinions and having them changed shows growth)

I was a Democrat until a many by the name of Roy Stone said to me "What makes you think the government owes you a living?"

I was ardently pro-life until I discovered how we treat women who give their kids up for adoption, before I learned of hidden agendas and before my own experiences showed it wasn't so simplistic an issue.

I used to think we should get back on the gold standard until I realized that there isn't enough mining on the planet to come up with enough gold to 'back' the increased economic output of a modern worldwide economy. So we DO need 'fiat money', as Ron Paul puts it.

I used to be against nuclear power until I got more facts (there was a lot of protesting here in NH when Seabrook Station was being built and the Clamshell Alliance was protesting)

I used to be totally against any kind of socialized medicine - until profiteering insurance companies and working in a hospital started disillusioning me - and then seeing what goes on in Canada and in Europe, followed by the statistics that show how far behind we've fallen. The idea still turns my stomach but I just can't argue with the results and hope for some sort of 'hybrid' system (like France and Switzerland have)

When I was 18, I was working, taking college courses at night and wondering if I'd ever find a good woman. I'm 49 now. I'm a VERY different person.


Thanks for the bio, but there's no evidence that Obama is a different person and actually the opposite is true. The circumstantial evidence is that these formative communist underpinnings are most likely the basis for his socialist utopia ideas of today.

Guest
03-10-2012, 05:48 PM
Richie: I'm about the same age as Obama.

You could find a LOT of stuff about me from when I was college-age that has NO bearing as far as my opinions now. (Except maybe for the fact that, having had those opinions and having them changed shows growth)

I was a Democrat until a many by the name of Roy Stone said to me "What makes you think the government owes you a living?"

I was ardently pro-life until I discovered how we treat women who give their kids up for adoption, before I learned of hidden agendas and before my own experiences showed it wasn't so simplistic an issue.

I used to think we should get back on the gold standard until I realized that there isn't enough mining on the planet to come up with enough gold to 'back' the increased economic output of a modern worldwide economy. So we DO need 'fiat money', as Ron Paul puts it.

I used to be against nuclear power until I got more facts (there was a lot of protesting here in NH when Seabrook Station was being built and the Clamshell Alliance was protesting)

I used to be totally against any kind of socialized medicine - until profiteering insurance companies and working in a hospital started disillusioning me - and then seeing what goes on in Canada and in Europe, followed by the statistics that show how far behind we've fallen. The idea still turns my stomach but I just can't argue with the results and hope for some sort of 'hybrid' system (like France and Switzerland have)

When I was 18, I was working, taking college courses at night and wondering if I'd ever find a good woman. I'm 49 now. I'm a VERY different person.


Not sure that I, who was not asked, can respond in a respectful manner, but we all change...and that change when your life is reviewed is obvious for the most part.

To compare your life to Obamas is a bit of a stretch as he has been working in a political arena and NOTHING else. He has been aspiring for office all his life basically. He has been developing a political philosophy all his life and nothing much more.

To be associated with the people he has associated with CLOSELY and INTIMATELY while practicing politics is a bit different. He set up a core of beliefs that he has manifested publicly and privately and that core came from an interesting cast of characters.

I am trying to respect your life and I hope you get my point....and there has never been an attempt to hide any of your past...which is normal because there was no reason to.