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It seems there are plenty of people who'd like to ask Sen.
Barack Obama a question. We received a huge response from
iReporters, with
more
than 100 video and photo questions and dozens of comments here
on the blog. Topics ranged from rising gas prices to health care to
potential vice presidents.
Obama responded directly to
two
video questions on "The Situation Room," and we featured some
other
outstanding submissions on CNN.com.
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What did you think of the iReport questions? What was your favorite
answer? What should have been asked?
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May 08, 2008 1 month ago |
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May 08, 2008 1 month ago |
I wish someone would have asked Senator Obama why he supports a
global carbon tax as the solution to global warming. Another good
question would be: does he know that climate change occurs with or
without man's input and a tax will do nothing about it?
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May 08, 2008 1 month ago |
I asked if he was muslim. blizter didn't respond. I also asked
about healthcare and abortion. Blizter didn't read that either
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May 09, 2008 1 month ago |
...sniff, sniff... and poor smokey posed a question, all the way
from wee Sri Lanka, and he was ignored too ! Smokey's crying now,
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May 09, 2008 1 month ago |
OBAMA SPEECHES ARE JUST GAME OF WORDS, TO CONVINCE YOU THAT HE IS A
WHITE HOLY SHEEP.
THE SAD PART IS THAT PEOPLE GETS CONFUSED AND BELIEVE HIM WHEN HE SPEAKS, AND DO NOT SEE THE REAL ISSUE. AMERICAN PEOPLE PLEASE WE ARE INTELLIGENT TO LET THIS HAPPEN. I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT AMERICAN VOTERS GET IMPRESS WITH THIS FAKE MAN. THIS MAN AND THE PEOPLE BEHIND HIM ARE VERY TREASONOUS FOR THIS COUNTRY. WHY PEOPLE DO NOT SEE IT? OBAMA WILL LOSE THE GENERAL ELECTION: 1 INEXPERIENCE 2 HE IS ALL SPEECHES AND PLATITUDES WITH NO SUBSTANCE 3 HE IS AN IGNORANT PUPPET THAT SOMEONE WILL STAND BEHIND TO PULL THE STRINGS. 4 HE IS OUT OF TOUCH 5 HE CARELESS FOR ANYBODY BUT BLACK PEOPLE. 6 HE WILL CARELESS TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER 7 HE IS RADICAL 8 HE IS ELITIST 9 OBAMA IS A TREASONOUS TOGETHER WITH THE PEOPLE BEHIND HIM. | |
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May 09, 2008 1 month ago |
Producers, you are LIKE A VULTURE ON SURVEILLANCE TO ATTACK MS.
CLINTON CONSTANTLY.
THE MEDIA / REPORTER ARE MASTERS ON TWISTING WORDS. DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS TO DESTROY ANYBODY'S REPUTATION? CAN SOMEBODY BE PARTIAL ON THIS ELECTION AND STOP YOUR WORSHIP TO OBAMA? I LIKE TO SEE AT LEAST ONE HONEST REPORTER TO GIVE HER A CREDIT. REPORTERS I KNOW THIS IS YOUR WAY OF LIVING. BUT DESTROYING SOMEONE'S REPUTATION MAKES YOU FEEL A GOOD REPORTER? I hope someone attack you the way you attacking Clintons Campaign. MEDIA REPORTERS, WHAT WOULD HAPPEND IF EVERYBODY DOES NOT TURN THE TV ON FOR AT LEAST 5 HOURS. YOU WILL SEE HOW MUCH MONEY YOU WOULD LOSE. THEN YOU WILL NOT BE SO DESTRUCTIVE ON YOU OPINIONS AND COMMENTS. REMEMBER YOU GETTING YOUR PAY CK. BECAUSE US. | |
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May 09, 2008 1 month ago |
It is so sad that American People is very easy to be brainwash.
WAKE-UP THIS IS NOT THE AMERICA I WAS BORN. We are tire of Obama's speeches. He will come with some game of words, to convince that he is a white sheep. The sad part is that people gets confused and believe him when he speaks and do not see the real issue. (He does not have any ability for debate is why he avoid to have one) Obama took so long to distance him self from Rev. Wright. OBAMA IS another JUDAS he used his Pastor to gain the African American Vote than after: HE SOLD HIS PASTOR FOR 30 COINS. At the beginning and for months of his campaign he could not stop talking about his pastor, because he was his inspiration, he help him to define him self, when he felt dirty to be son of a typical white woman, and black man. He was grateful he had him as his spiritually pastor and personal adviser, that he felt like he was his family. He talks about him as if he could not do anything without his pastor. HE WAS ONLY USING REV. WRIGHT, TO GAIN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTE. Now that he won the African American vote. IT IS OBVIOUS HE CARELESS FOR THE MAN THAT INSPIRES HIM FOR 20 YEARS. (This does not mean I agree with Rev. Wright's comments). This has to do with Obama's instability and the different games he is playing to gain votes. He distanced from J. Wrights now, because he wants to prove he can gain the white vote DENOUNCING HIS PASTOR. HE KNOWS IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO WIN THE WHITE VOTE. OBAMA IS A TREASONOUS and the people behind him: FOR HOW MANY COINS IS HE PLANNING TO SELL OUR COUNTRY? WAKE-UP BEFORE IS TO LATE. STOP YOUR WORKSHIP FOR OBAMA, MAN THAT CAME FROM NO-WARE. HE MADE A LOT OF INLEGAL BUSINESS WITH REZKO. WAKE-UP BEFORE HE MAKE BIG MESS OF THIS COUNTRY. | |
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May 09, 2008 1 month ago |
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May 09, 2008 1 month ago |
one question can you stop the war in this
world????????????????????????????????? and to make peace
everywhere?
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May 09, 2008 1 month ago |
I am still waiting for Sen. Barack Obama to have a real interview.
Maybe O'Reilly will accomplish a real interview if the Senator from
Illinois finds a little guts or character.
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May 10, 2008 1 month ago |
Dear Friends,
Some leaders in the Democratic Party are playing with fire. They think that they can betray the will of millions of voters--and choose Hillary Clinton as the nominee, regardless of whether or not she is the choice of the voters. We can't let this happen. It would be the largest disenfranchisement in modern history, and it would mean the Democratic Party giving their stamp of approval to a clear and consistent pattern of race-baiting by the Clinton campaign. If we make our voices heard, we can stop it. Please join us in signing an open letter to leaders in the Democratic Party -- DNC Chair Howard Dean, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and all superdelegates -- demanding that they reject an outcome that involves trampling voting rights and legitimizing the politics of division and fear: http://www.colorofchange.org/dems/?id=1999-523825a> By the time the last vote is cast on June 3rd under the rules of the Democratic Party, it's unlikely Hillary Clinton will beat Barack Obama among voters. But there's a chance that superdelegates will hand Clinton the nomination anyway. This would be a shocking attack on democracy, and it would destroy the Democratic party's credibility on protecting the right to vote. Black people have a long history of fighting against voter suppression, and now the Democratic Party will be the enemy in that fight. As bad as that would be, there's another reason that a coup by party insiders would threaten racial progress. Senator Clinton's plan to have superdelegates hand her the nomination doesn't make sense without a parallel strategy -- she has to stoke enough division and race-based fear among Democratic voters to convince superdelegates that white voters will not vote for Senator Obama in the general election. One of Clinton's key arguments to superdelegates is that America won't elect a Black man, and therefore she's the better choice for Democrats to beat John McCain. While she makes that argument in private to superdelegates, in public Clinton's campaign and her surrogates are doing everything they can to damage Barack Obama by ginning up fear and division and playing to the worst instincts of our society. It's an insult to Black people and all Americans, Obama and Clinton supporters alike. The pattern has been clear and consistent to some party leaders. Last week, according to the Washington Post, James Clyburn -- who as House Majority Whip remains neutral and is the highest ranking Black member of Congress -- accused the Clintons of marginalizing Black voters. Referring to this strategy in another interview, Clyburn said that "Nothing in this campaign has been by accident." Congressman Clyburn warned that "black people are incensed" over the divisiveness of the Clinton strategy and that it threatens an irreparable breach between Black people and the Democratic Party. He's right. And if superdelegates hand Clinton a victory despite her defeat among voters, they will be condoning and rewarding that strategy. Some party leaders have expressed strong concern about superdelegates overruling voters. But as a whole, superdelegates have not made it clear that they will respect the will of voters. Today, we want to send a clear, unequivocal message to superdelegates and other party leaders: Reject the idea that the nomination can be won with a strategy that preys on racism, sows division, and disenfranchises millions of voters. jeebs1707 Pennsauken N.J. | |
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May 12, 2008 1 month ago |
We've had 7 plus years of ethical and moral behavior in the
government that is reprehensible and is still ignored and
overlooked by the Republican Party. We have had an assault on the
middle class and blue collar American's Workers Rights that has not
been seen since the early 1900's and still we argue over whether a
white woman or a black man should be president?! If the Republicans
get back in the White House you can kiss the working and middle
class goodbye. Why is it that the rich are getting richer and the
poor poorer and the middle class is disappearing? I'll tell you
why! Because we keep getting caught up in what the current spin on
the issues are. The issues are NOT THE 3 G's! GAYS,GUNS AND GOD! It
is healthcare, the economy and getting out of this godforsaken war.
If you hear anything other than that in this election from the
Republicans, then you know that they are trying another run at the
last 7 years of B.S. Do your homework on the issues and that
doesn't mean listening to RUSH or HANNITY or O'REILLY!!! WAKE UP
AMERICA!!! DON'T BE LAZY! It really concerns me when I see people
that say you are not supporting the troops when you speak out
against the war. I am a veteran of the 1st Gulf war and that was
nothing compared to what our brave men and women are going through.
I am just as patriotic as anyone else if not more. I can't stand it
when I see the Repubs saying that the dem's voted against giving
our troops the equipment and supplies they need. THe bills that
were propsed had tie ins built in them that had nothing to do with
the war and more for what the Repub Party wanted. If the President
were half the man he claimed to be then why are our troops families
having to buy their own childrens body armor? Why are our troops
having to "PIMP" their own humvees in order to make them safer and
better protected? Because "OUR" president talks the talk and
doesn't walk the walk that's why! If you think we are over there
fighting for "OUR" freedom, then your sadly mistaken. We are over
there fighting a "BOGUS" war that never should have taken place,
leaving a job undone in the hunt for Bin Laden. It wasn't Saddam
Hussein that funded and supported the attacks on the World Trade
Center. It wasn't Saddam Hussein that has attacked and hunted
American's overseas. Why did we not stay focused on the hunt for
Bin laden and run off to start another war whose reason for being
was admitted later on as being a "MISTAKE" by the leaders the
Republican Party. It's laughable that RUSH LIMBAUGH would make a
career out of bashing Clinton especially when he "pumped a couple
of cruise missiles into some tents" as he once quoted on his show,
but when BUSH starts a war on the premise of WMD's and then later
admits he had bad intelligence when all the credible people in the
intelligence community told him there was nothing where is the
public outcry?!! WHERE??!!! WAKE UP AMERICA BECAUSE IF YOU THINK
IT'S BAD NOW, IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE IF MCCAIN IS ELECTED. If
we elect McCain then this country will get what it deserves.
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May 12, 2008 1 month ago |
Katyarodanca? More like Retardanca!
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May 12, 2008 1 month ago |
At the beginning, I liked Obama. However, now I am a Clinton
supporter. I am amazed at the news media for being so biased and
turning everything into race. Not once when I turned to CNN did I
ever receive positive coverage of her. Let's ask Obama questions!!!
Yeah, let's support him. Would Obama be in this position if the
media did its job and actually looked at his judgemnt throughout
his life. Would he be ahead if...they actually reported on all in
contradictions in political speeches? Obama and the media can say
anything about race, but if HIllary states a "fact" white working
class support is leaving Obama. She gets smeared. She spoke the
truth. Black working class is not leaving Obama - so quit making a
news story where there is not one. Obama conveniently chose not to
vote on certain issues so he could avoid questions in the election.
He was not treated unfairly at the expensive private school he went
to in Hawaii - even his classmates spoke out and said he was well
liked. When he campaigned in Kansas...he stated he spent his
summers in El Dorado, Kansas visiting his mother. That's hard for
me to stomach since her family moved from Kansas to Hawaii, and she
was living in Hawaii or Indonesia. He stated (after stating small
town clings to religion or guns) he was raised on food stamps with
his mother. A large portion he was raised by his grandmother...I
didn't know the US government gave food stamps to people living in
Indonesia. He has introduced bills (can't remember if in the US
Senate or Illinois) and voted against his own bill. He has very
questionable ties to very questionable people..However, the main
stream media would report. When Bill Clinton was in the whitehoue,
the mainstream media did everything they could to promote this guy.
He is still the same person as he was back then ... what prompted
the media now to attack Hillary so harshly. Obama campaigned on
giving good speeches. What can he deliver? The media doesn't want
to ask harsh questions. He won't do so until absolutely pressed. He
is not the next JFK. Nobody can replace MLK. Obama claims to
understand the plight of black people in this country. He life does
not relate. Nobody in his family experienced slavery. His paternal
relatives did not want his father to marry a white woman. He has
lived a life of privelege. This campaign is about race when 90% of
the black voters support him and don't even know what he stands
for. 90% of white voters do not vote Hillary. This media bias has
set back race relations 20 years in this country. Mostly, thanks to
the media. The media did everything to get John Kerry elected but
failed. The media fails to report Ted Kennedy went to the "took it
all the way to the convention" 750 delegates short. The media has
failed to report that Ted Kennedy was against women rights until
pressed to do so. Votes in Florida and Michigan do matter (not to
Obama because he lost). In the general election it will matter if
he thinks your vote doesn't count. No one campaigned in those
states, yet people turned out in high volumes to vote - yes, they
were paying attention. Obama and Edwards did campaign in Michigan
by telling people to vote uncommitted if they were supporting them.
Obama ran ads right above the Florida line - which were shown in
Florida. The media claimed Hillary did campaign in Florida. She did
not. After the polls ended, she went to Florida to give a victory
speech. That is in regulation. I know CNN will not post this as it
does not support the "Wonder Boy" whose life cannot be questioned.
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May 12, 2008 1 month ago |
P.S. Asking Obama if he is Muslim is like asking a question that
will never get a straight answer. He is a member of a Methodist
Church. That particular Methodist Church allows one to coninue its
faith in the Muslim tradition.
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May 12, 2008 1 month ago |
Obama says that what William Ayers (bombing police stations, the
capitol, pentagon etc... - Ayers is a white man - don't want people
to think I am racist), Obama states he was only 8. True, the
problem lies with the fact that Ayers still wishes he had only done
more. That's were the problem lies. As a grown man, he is friendly
with a man who wishes he could only commit more terrorist acts.
This man doesn't just live in his community. This is the man that
Obama (on his own accord) asked for his blessings to run for
Illinois Senator. Sounds more like Chicago style politics.
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May 13, 2008 1 month ago |
I have watched CNN for years and years and greatly respect your
coverage. But, I keep wondering why you aren't investigating WHERE
Obama is getting all of his money???? Please don't try and convince
me that the average joe who is paying exorbitant prices for fuel,
food and health care is sitting around and writing him a $100 check
to keep him going as I just CANNOT believe that. We had 3 kids in
college this year and have an average income and we have NO EXTRA
CASH to fund this man's campaign - why can't you dig deeply into
this??? God knows you sure have dug Hillary's every breath and
minute of her life apart.
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May 14, 2008 1 month ago |
Check out Great song and Video endorsing Obama @
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May 19, 2008 1 month ago |
Unfortunately, I didn't see the interview. But I am adding some
info from his books.
Everyone must make their own choices, but some of this is truly frightening.... All scary, but especially the last! This guy wants to be our President and control our government. Pay close attention to the last comment!! Below are a few lines from Obama's books ' his words: From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.' From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.' From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.' From Dreams of My Father: ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.' From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.' From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.' NOW YOU TELL ME THAT YOU OR ANYONE ELSE WANTS THIS PERSON TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE USA? I am sorry, but this man scares the heck out of me. He is a smooth-talking, double-talking, two-sided person. Why he is all of a sudden such a wonderful person who draws such crowds ... well, it just blows me away. I know Hillary is a woman, I know that is a major reason for getting a woman out of the way for getting into office, but for goodness sake, we need to be watchful of who we DO put into office. In fact, watchful is not the word. I think "afraid" is a better word ... "be afraid, be very afraid" of electing Barack Obama as President! This is my opinion and that of many people with whom I have discussed this. | |
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May 23, 2008 1 month ago |
Any time a candidate brings up the issues of global warming or
climate change we need more hard hitting questions about about how
people affect those issues and how we can make progress in reducing
greenhouse gases at the same time as we are adding 300 million more
people to our population. The UN says people cause greenhouse gases
and global warming. The UN says Americans produce 20 metric tons
per capita of pollutants annually. To offset the output of 300
million more people by the end of this century, we would have to
cut the per capita output by half, bringing it down to the level of
Mexico, 10 metric tons per capita per year. Why are there so many
timid reporters like Blitzer who fail to address these questions to
the candidates on their shows? Why don't they produce an
investigative report that deals with the issue and the related need
for a national policy to stabilize our population as we address
technical solutions to auto, factory and flatulent bovine
emissions.
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May 23, 2008 1 month ago |
Let's ask Obama why he isn't proposing that any revenue from his
proposed tax increases be used to reduce the national debt that he
complains about?
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May 23, 2008 1 month ago |
Let's ask Obama if he plans to continue the tax on phantom capital
gains due solely to inflation or whether part of his tax package
would include indexation of capital gains?
How does he justify double taxation of dividends? Aren't capital gains and dividends earned by the mutual funds an important element in the performance and value of retirement plans and other retirement investments? Won't any increase in capital gains and dividend taxes adversely affect the performance of these mutual funds? | |
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May 27, 2008 1 month ago |
I'm no foreign policy wonk or expert but if you look at a world map
it's not much of a stretch to see what's going on and while Obama
and the left would never agree it actually makes some sense. Iran
is the real reason we went to Iraq as a blocking manauver to keep
them from making a run through a weak Iraq in the southern part of
the country which is shia dominated to get to Kuwait and the Saudi
Oil fields giving them a controlling influence in the oil fields
and more or less holding the world as is economocic hostage. Irans
is already fighting us with proxy wars with Hezbollah and Hamas and
it's a known fact that radical islamist want to overthrow the Saudi
government. To act as if we can simply pull back and everything
will be okay is ridiculous, we have to protect our interest
worldwide. Of course Obama would'nt understand any of this because
he bases his foreign policy on a countries size. Some one should
explain to him that Germany and Japan were to small countries.
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May 27, 2008 1 month ago |
I really hate to go back into the whole flag pin issue and I dont
think wearing a flag pin equates to patriotism but the only thing
that puzzles me is heres a guy who is so scripted and rehearsed why
wouldn't he wear the pin. Another knock on obama is that he's an
american apologist. I heard him say he wants to change america's
image in how we're viewed by the world. we have our problems
senator obama but know one does it better.
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June 13, 2008 3 weeks ago |
Whats important to me to stop the privatizatoin of Government, and
prevent the disempowerment of the unprivatzied portions of
government operations state and Federal, removeing taxes in effect
transfers power to the Wealthy, who then will be empowered when the
State has now real power, and the Fed Gov. is privatized, let me
guess, people with the money!? Who will be makeing all the rules
for us, let me guess the people with the money!? Stop the New World
Order, once American peoples power is gone, who can stand in the
wide world?
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