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Monday, September 29, 2008  

Online Debate of Candidates from The Michigan Business Directory

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are the views of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of The Michigan Business Directory.

OVERVIEW: The Michigan Business Directory would like to start an open dialogue of Michiganders with opinions on the upcoming election.

Keep it clean, and keep it relevant to the issues.

THE CANDIDATES

Barack Hussein Obama
Birthdate: August 4, 1961 (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Hometown: Jakarta, Indonesia; Honolulu, Hawaii
Spouse: Michelle Robinson Obama
Children: Malia Ann Obama, Sasha Obama
Religion: United Church of Christ

Education
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1991
Occidential College/Columbia University, B.A.
Punahou School

Experience
Businesses Owned, Past Careers, Board Memberships, Etc.:

  • Center for Neighborhood and Technology
  • Chicago Annenberg Challenge
  • Cook County Bar
  • Cook County Bar Association Community Law Project
  • Board Member, Joyce Foundation
  • Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law
  • Leadership for Quality Education
  • Member, Trinity United Church of Christ
  • Board Member, Woods Fund of Chicago
  • Public Service / Elected Offices:
  • Senator, United States Senate, 2005-present
  • Senator, Illinois State Senate, 1997-2004
  • John Sidney McCain III
    Birthdate: August 29, 1936 (Panama Canal Zone)
    Hometown: Alexandria, Va.
    Spouse: Cindy Hensley McCain
    Children: Sydney McCain, Doug Shepp, Andy Shepp, Meghan McCain, John Sidney McCain IV, James McCain, Bridget McCain
    Religion: Episcopal

    Education
    National War College, 1973
    United States Naval Academy, 1958
    Episcopal High School

    Military Service:

    • United States Navy 1958-1981 with service in Vietnam
    • Prisoner of war in Vietnam, 1967-1973
    • Awards: Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross

    Businesses Owned, Past Careers, Board Memberships, Etc.:

    • Member, American Dream Political Action Committee, 1997-present
    • Member, Council on Foreign Relations, 1997-present
    • Honorary Board Member, Hispanic Youth Foundation, 1997-present
    • Honorary Board Member, The Leonard Cheshire Foundation, 1997-present
    • Honorary Member, National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts Advisory Council, 1997-present
    • Honorary Vice Chairman, New Majority Council, 1997-present
    • Board of Trustees, Gallaudet University, 1995-present
    • Founding Member, Pacific Council on International Policy, University of Southern California, 1995-present
    • Board of Directors, Board of Directors Chair, International Republican Insitutute, 1992-present
    • Life Member, Navy League, 1987-present
    • Member, The Alfalfa Club
    • Member, Air Force Sergeats Association
    • Honorary Advisor Board, Arizonia Black Chamber of Commerce
    • Honorary Co-chairman, Advisory Board of Directors, Arizona Cancer Research
      Foundation
    • Honorary Member, Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
    • Complimentary Member, Association of the United States Army
    • Honorary Member, Barry Goldwater Foundation
    • Honorary Member, Fifty-Five Years and Up Incorporated
    • Honorary Member, Board of Regents, Francis Scott Key Foundation
    • Honorary Member, The John Goodwin Tower Center
    • Honorary Board Member, Kids Voting Arizona
    • Member, The Military Order of World Wars
    • Honorary Member, Mo Udall Foundation
    • Board of Directors, Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom
    • Member, Purple Heart Association
    • Member, The Retired Officers Association
    • Member, Sons of the Revolution in the State of Virginia
    • Member, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association
    • Member of Board of Visitors, US Naval Academy
    • Honorary Member, Board of Directors, Council of Notables, U.S.-Spain
      Council
    • Member, Veterans of Foreign Wars
    • Member, Vietnam Veterans Association
    • Senate Navy Liaison, 1977-1981
    • Pilot, Captain, United States Navy, Vietnam, 1958-1981

    Public Service / Elected Offices:

    • Senator, United States Senate, 1987-present
    • Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 1995-2001, 2003-2005
    • Chair, Committee on Indian Affairs, 1995-1997, 2005-2007
    • Representative, United States House of Representatives, 1983-1987
    • Republican presidential candidate, 2000

    START THE OPINIONS!

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    Comments:
    In a candidate with no real relative experience on his résumé, the company he has chosen to keep over the years may be the only means of knowing what the man actually believes in. Yet the man is desperate to run from almost every associate he has ever known. This is because his life is filled with personal associates whom have a very public history of highly anti-social and very anti-American backgrounds.

    The public has a right and good reason to know if Barack Hussein Obama is the Manchurian candidate of the Saudi Royal Family and at present, all evidence certainly points in that direction. At a minimum, there are way too many unanswered questions regarding an endless string of less than acceptable associations.

    As a general rule, people who hide things have something to hide.

    When Obama’s twenty year pastor and mentor became a racially charged public disgrace, Obama cried “guilt by association.”

    When Obama was caught lying about the depth and breadth of his personal relationship with Weatherman terrorist William Ayers, he again cried “guilt by association.”

    When former Black Panther lawyer Percy Sutton connected Obama to Black Panther mentor and Saudi front man Khalid al-Mansour, Obama cried “guilt by association” yet again.

    When the nation learned that Obama’s “community organizing” was nothing more than Alinsky style communist bent Black community rabble-rousing in an effort to manipulate the most easily manipulated segments of our population, Obama cried “foul and more guilt by association.”

    As Obama is linked to Arab Muslim after Arab Muslim, and mountains of money pour in from all over the globe through more than 500 campaign bundlers, with no means of backtracking where all of that money is really coming from, Obama runs for cover and redirects press attention away from himself by sending an army of investigators to Alaska to dig up (or invent if necessary) dirt on Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

    Meanwhile, nobody in the left-wing lamestream press is asking a single serious question of the Obama campaign and there is NO mass public outcry for full disclosure from the candidate who is running on “full disclosure.”
     
    The race is not over. People will start to realize that Obama is all glitz and no experience. America is not that stupid. I believe that people will do what is right for this country and vote for McCain.
     
    Obama has used the greatest form of democracy to fund his campaign, the people. No lobbyist, no special interest groups. When Obama takes office he has no debt to pay to anyone but the people. Who have you known since your time on this earth has raised as much money for their campaign from the people? Are you not tired of the fear tactics Bush used in his time in office? We have war and failed econonmics. Research what Winston Churchill said about fear and a nation. It is time for a change. Time to wake up.
     
    Anonymous,

    You are very wrong. If you look deep into Obama's campaign .. you will see that large portions of his campaign money is from overseas sources and the ability to trace the money is controversial. As a matter of fact, the liberal media seems to not want to report where the money is coming from.
     
    A large source? That sounds questionable, a large source comes from the people. What have you seen in the last 8 years that have you convinced we need to continue with the same ideas and form of government? Let me point out to you the logic of the situation, Bush knew these economic situations were coming, why do you think he changed the bankruptcy laws? You can not claim bankruptcy to save your house anymore, the credit companies wrote the new credit act. Is that not a conflict of intrest? Fear and misrepresentation sent us into a war first of all we will never win, tell me this how can you win a war against a people who are not afraid to kill themselves for thier cause? We were bamboozled by fear and lies. See we seem to forget why we went to Iraq in the first place, everyone now says to defeat terrorism but was the first excuse? Do you remember? It was supposed to be to find weapons of mass destruction, non were found. After that was a bust the mission changed, now we are there to stablize the country. What happened to find Bin Laden the reason we are supposed to be at war for anyway. We did not go to war with Iraq untill after 9/11, Iraq was said to have nukes before 9/11, so is Bush telling us we were going to go to war with Iraq even if 9/11 never happened. We were supposed to go to war with Bin Laden and the Taliban which never happened. What about Enron and Halliburton? If you do not know what I am talking about research what those to companies have to do with the Presidency. We need a change, you could write all the rhedoric you wanted about Obama but we need change. Everything in life needs to change in some fashion in order to work or continue to work. America needs a change of polotics at the helm. Bush's Presidency as already proved itself let us be truthful and honest with ourselves. We need change.
     
    To argue about "Bush" right now is ludicrous. To elect "change" solely because it is "change" is foolishness. Terrorists warned the United States, seven years ago, that the next attack would be "from the inside out". Think about it.
     
    We can sum it up here:

    From "Dreams of My Father" by Barack Obama: '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" by Barack Obama: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'

    From "Dreams of My Father" by Barack Obama: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'

    From "Dreams of My Father" by Barack Obama: '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" by Barack Obama: '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.'
     
    To talk about Bush is not “foolishness" if John McCain has the same economic and socialist agenda as said "George W. Bush". I wish you could experience how the Obama campaign is being run across the nation. Anybody involved with the campaign, even republicans have stated Obama's campaign is the most organized, effective and the "tightest ship" they have ever been on. This means the people he chooses and the people working for him have their ducks in order. Have you ever heard of that saying; what your kid learns at home he is bound to reflect it away from home? That is a true statement because I have kids, what you kid learns from you in the home is reflected at school, in social activities and sports. I say that because Obama's campaign is a reflection of what and how his Presidency will run. I am not just voting because of the word "change" or are others. People want to make it seem that simple but we are not "ignorant Americans" voting because of a word. That is like this saying going around that black people are voting for Obama because he is black. Not that anything is wrong with that because democrats vote for democrats and republican vote for republicans and nobody talks about the bias in that. If I were black I would be proud of that fact I am voting for a black candidate because he was black if that were entirely true with all black people. You have to take a look at history, if that statement were true why did Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton not win the majority of the black vote when they ran for President of the United States? Black people did not feel they were qualified and Obama is qualified. I am saying this to say we are not voting simply because of the word "change" charge your fellow Americans to be more mindful than that.
     
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