Gourdpainter, can I be your best friend?

Just kidding...  But I like the way you post.  I've found you far more interesting than any others on this board that use monikers.  I don't use a moniker because I don't feel the need to, but I also agree to please let this man have some dignity while he mourns his grandmother. 

No President will be able to make any changes overnight.  The President is only as smart as the people around him.

Obama has stated again and again that it will not be easy but that we all must come together.  I have not heard that once from the RNC, but only comments to bash a man because he may have a few beliefs that are different.  He has a beautiful family (without all of the skeletons) and he does not plan for Americans to lose jobs but rather to make more jobs here and give tax credits to companies who hire people right here in the USA.  He does have 2 daughters that will need an education and to prosper on American soil; does anyone not see that or is it just me?

• Obama could win popular but still lose election - see message - Just me
  • Out of respect - gourdpainter
    • Out of respect to his grandmother - Backwards typist
    • then why are u still on the board nm - ...
      • With regard to working through grief sm - starving artist
    • Oh please - see message - Just me
      • Know what? - gourdpainter
        • That wasn't McC with that ad - Backwards typist
      • At least YOU could stop for a while and say a prayer! - change
        • why do you assume they didn't - ...
        • Why? Obama obviously didn't, he's still on - the campaign trail.
          • In your mind he should stop campaigning? - change
            • So he should not stop to mourn but we should? - Just me
            • thank you, thank you, thank you -- - I do believe that's the first
              • I think you misunderstood me... - change
        • I DID! I posted below too! - Just me
      • Obama didn't even stop campaigning to mourn - Give me a break!
        • Not even death can soften your bitter, Republican heart,s. We need change! nm - change
          • Give me a break is right. - Just me
            • I think you are confused. - change
            • There will be some left so deeply buried in their own mud - They'll never see the light of day again.
            • I agree with everything you said but - Give me a break!
          • CHANGE, YES, CHANGE -- we need O to take the - change from our pockets and give it
          • Well please don't apply one person's attitude to everyone - sm - MeMT
        • Heartless people, that's what YOU are! Shame, shame ! nm - change
          • As I said above ...Oh please - Just me
          • yes - Obama certainly is - heartless.
    • Gourdpainter, can I be your best friend? - SM
    • OMG - about a third of the posts on here today are - by you, GP -- nm
      • Oh MY, please forgive me - gourdpainter
        • Then fairness should go on the other hand - Just me
        • Actually, I do skip over a lot of your posts - but that wasn't my point - sm
          • OMG! What a ridiculous remark from....but that wasn't my point..sm - change
            • Look, if the pubs are going to get a bad wrap - no matter what, sm
      • Yeah and the rest by Sam... - NM
        • There is a message inside - sorry meant SM

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Knowing this is late, I hope you had the best day ever!

And all the other nay-sayers. 

About the post below concerning the audio interview with Obama on the energy issue, did you even listen to the audio that was presented? 

Not only did I listen to it, I went to the source web site and listened.  Here is the link if you want to check it out further.  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=32228

The entire interview was about 48 minutes long.  It was Obama answering questions from several journalists on a number of issues.  He was first questioned about energy at about 25:15 in the tape.  The issue that was brought up in the post below that you called 'Horsefeathers' was discussed at about 40:30.  I encourage you go listen for yourself and hear the words from the horse's mouth. 

Other issues discussed along with the time markers for each discussion were: 

Health care 10:38
Securities Industry  20:00
Iraq  29:18
Environment  39:55
Racial issues  42:24  (And this was a listener/reader question)
Voting system in the caucuses (sp):  46:09

Obama is, without doubt, a very intelligent man and eloquent speaker, but I fear he may be far too intelligent, possibly to the point that he cannot be reigned in if necessary, and that in combination with a Democratic House, Senate and Judiciary branch makes him a very dangerous man. 

Six months after the gassing of Kurds in 1988, the White House lent Saddam a billion dollars.  In 1991, at the end of the Gulf War, US troops stood idly by while Saddam's presidential guards ruthlessly suppressed the uprising by the Kurds that Poppy Bush encouraged and had called for.  In 1980, Saddam was made an honorary citizen of Detroit, Michigan.  He was our friend back then, even though we knew his blood thirsty ways.  We even supplied him with WMD, which we then destroyed with fly over bombing through the 1990's with sanctions placed on the country to weaken it even more.  We also were friends with Osama in the 1970's when we had him and Afghan freedom fighters fight against Russia as we did not want Russia to have control of Afghanistan.  In essence, Osama was trained by our CIA for war.

...why is that?  I hope you don't generally treat your friends this way.

As far as me singling people out to torment -- it would only be you and it would be singular.  Plus, I didn't "single" you out, just saw your posts on a PUBLIC forum and as I said, they looked kind of mean and cruddy.  However, I would say you are the PLURAL stalker.  Come one, come all you will take them on and condemn and mock all that folks say on the liberal board!!  And then accuse them of all being the same person.   Lots of paranoia goin' on in that ole brain of yours, doesn't sound very healthy at all!!!   No, sir!!!

Everybody gets one vote (hopefully only one) to make her voice heard.  One side has to lose.  Be prepared either way. 

few nieces who are biracial and they are absolutely beautiful kids.  I think some of the cutest kids are "oreos."

I doubt she would have any credible knowlege.  Obama came out of nowhere.  The first time I and most other people ever heard of him was when he ran for Senator.  I recall the media referring to him as an "up and coming" politician.

The financial collapse just sure came at an opportune time too didn't it?  I shudder to think what's ahead.  As I've said before, I'll put my faith in God and His will WILL be done in the end.

for YEARS, losing weight, constant debilitating pain, weakness, n stamina, low energy.  She knew, as most of her friends knew, that it was probably rheumatoid arthritis (family history).  It was painful for us to watch her get out of her car and try to walk.  She became skeletal, and had to go without treatment for a couple of years, avoiding an official diagnosis, until she finished school, internship and certification to become an LISW so she could get a job with insurance which would then cover her.  Had she gotten the 'official diagnosis' prior to that, she may not have been covered.  Now, with treatment, she is doing much better.

But that was my point about genetic testing.  You can insure your 2-bedroom shack for less money than Bill Gates's mansion.  You can insure your Nova for less than his Rolls.  But unless you do genetic testing or exclude pre-existing conditions, we are all in the same boat on health insurance coverage.  His bypass surgery (not that he can't afford to just write a check for it) will cost just about what yours will. 

The ex-wife, scorned "pubically" -- was that what you really meant or did you mean publicly?  If so, it's the best typo I've seen all day.  If not, I'm still laughing!

Thanks -- I needed one today!

Somewhere down below I posted things I  had AGAINST Obama.  Sam replied.  Now I can't find the thread........typical for this old-timer.

Sam, I noticed a lot of "McCain says" and "McCain calls for" in your reply.  I say both candidates "say" and "call for."  Let's reason here together.  After his 25 years in the Congress do you think McCain doesn't have cronies in Congress and on Wall Street?  Do you think he isn't indebted to monied people in Arizona?  Likewise, Obama, do you think he doesn't have cronies in Congress and Wall Street AND in Chicago?   Well...news flash.  Sure he does.  Do you REALLY think either candidate, regardless of what they "call for" in pre-election propaganda are really going to do anything to benefit the common working class Americans?  I certainly do not.

I just finished reading the Wall Street report this morning and you know what I think?  I think everyone had better get out their Bible and have a read of Revelations whether they want to honor it as God's Word or just history.  It's all there as well as the end result.  Yep, I think we had all better turn to God.  He said if we would turn to Him he would deliver us and I believe HE is our only hope.  Otherwise, what I see is China forclosing on our huge national debt and then skip the socialism, we'll go directly to communism and we won't pass go and we CERTAINLY won't collect $200. Another good read might be the fall of the Roman Empire.

I can't believe I'm still wasting my time railing about the state of this countries ills.  No one will see that it is not DEMOCRATS or REPUBLICANS that are at the root of the problems, it's the AMERICAN people who can't get past party affiliation.  No change will come until the American PEOPLE make it come.

I don't really think Obama is going to come right out and admit that he is friends with Ayers - that would spell disaster for his campaign and plans.  I have learned I cannot trust what is fed to me, so I watch all of the stations, including Fox, and I read through tons of information on the internet and make up my own mind instead of letting the media make it up for me. 

I will tell you, when this campaign first started, I was so excited to hear what he had to say about the issues and to think he has young kids, etc., etc., but the more I have researched (just facts with proof), I have decided that I cannot vote for this man.  He is not who I believe will take America forward.  His policies most definitely I don't agree with but I cannot accept a man whose character is questionable. 

employees getting better benefits when the union employees do.  My husband works for the state and although he is not union eligible (middle management), his work class follows the same policy as the union employees.  If the union employees get a raise or a benefit change, he gets the same. 

My husband, however, is not protected by the union should any situations arise.  I call him a "tagalong".