Ma_R, it would also help if you took out of your diatribe all the things you claim to not know yet keep repeating. For one thing, what evidence do you have that Obama is "ashamed" of his middle name? How many Presidents have always used their middle name?
Another thing is who here on the Rant has "blindly" endorsed Obama or refused to question him?
Seems to me you are having a conversation with yourself.
Diatribe? Oh Phil, here I am pouring my inner most political secrets out to the members of CHB, and I am accused of commiting diatribe? It isn't a diatribe if the diatriber (diatribee) is a Dem, it becomes a reasoned argument in that case and since I am now a Dem, I must be commiting a reason argument (also against the rules for somebody as new to the party as I am.)
Once somebody becomes a President, middle initials are all they need. John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, William Jefferson Clinton is the exception (kind of like John Wilkes Booth)But, then again a good Dem, and I am one, does not remind America about the H-word.
Let me put myself in the shoes of a Republican, a streatch since I have adopted the Dems as my mentors.
Question: Why hasn't Obama told us what his policies will be if elected?
Question: Why did Obama make those preemptatory accusations of racial abuse last week?
Question: What's up with the church thing? I know religioon is a kind of private thing, but the whole white hating thing is soooo 1960ish.
Question: What qualifies Obama to be President, two years in the Senate?
For the record, if I were still a Republican that is, Mr. Obama, why should we believe anything you say? What was that, read your audacity book. Oh, didn't you write that? Oh, I see, it must be honest because it was published? I see what you mean, I also believed the DeVincci Code.
I sympathise with the many people on this board who wants to change America, we probably agree much more than we disagree, but if I were still a Republican I would have to ask if BHO is really the answer we are looking for. I would do the research and decide if I really wanted to vote for this guy, a guy who may be more flawed han the last potential Dem President.
But then, I am now a Dem and I beg your forgiveness for my years of greed and ignorance. I look forward to the days, and being a Dem is a sure path to riches beyond my talents (see Babs, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi et al). Once I am rich, giving that 40% will be just a bump, instead of a burden. I will feel that feeding my family, at the expense of feeding somebody elses family, is the wrong type of thought and that making excuses for thise less fortunate is the sure path to the totally non-denominational afterlife where the roads are made of recycled plastic bottles and global warming is just a story to scare the ignorant masses below my caste.
I beg entry into your party and hope you will forgive my past as a pagan Republican.
