The future of Barack Obama?

Barack Obama's future hinges on this election one way or the other. If you think about it, what he is doing is pretty brash. As a first term senator who has only been involved in national politics for four years he has established himself as the main challenge to the Clinton control of the Democratic party. In many ways he's taking a similar path as John F. Kennedy did. Obama, like Kennedy, is an attractive, young, well spoken politician. Kennedy gained attention in 1956 when he was almost selected for Vice President, and it gave him the celebrity and the momentum he needed to get the nomination in 1960. Obama gained much attention and celebrity from the speech he made at the convention in 2004. What happens next will be interesting. If Hillary gets the nomination and loses then he would automatically be the main frontrunner for 2012. But if she wins the election he could be SOL. He could decide to try to work with the Clintons but the Clinton people could also punish him for going up against him, and inevitably the people who had supported the Clintons from the beginning would believe they deserved more power in the party. He took a risk running this year, so early in his career, but it also would have been a risk not to run, his luster could have worn off, people could have forgotten about him and he could have lost the influence he could have had. What do you think?

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1. 1963 Communist Goals The following was entered into the Congressional record by Albert Herlong, Jr. (a Floridian who served in Congress from 1949-69) in 1963. 1) US acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war 2) US willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war 3) Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the US would be a demonstration of "moral strength" 4) Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. 5) Extension of long term loans to Russia and Soviet Satellites 6) Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination 7) Grant recognition of Red China, and admission of Red China to the UN. 8) Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision of the UN 9) Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the US has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress 10) Allow all Soviet Satellites individual representation in the UN 11) Promote the UN as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the UN as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo) 12) Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party 13) Do away with loyalty oaths 14) Continue giving Russia access to the US Patent Office 15) Capture one or both of the political parties in the US 16) Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights. 17) Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in text books. 18) Gain control of all student newspapers 19) Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. 20) Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions. 21) Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures. 22) Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings", substitute shapeless, awkward, and meaningless forms. 23) Control art critics and directors of art museums. " Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art". 24) Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. 25) Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography, and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV. 26) Present Homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal, natural, and healthy". 27) Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch" 28) Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state" 29) Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. 30) Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man". 31) Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture:" Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. 32) Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture - - education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. 33) Eliminate all laws or procedures, which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. 34) Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 35) Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI 36) Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. 37) Infiltrate and gain control of big business 38) Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat. 39) Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. 40) Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 41) Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. 42) Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a "united force" to solve economic, political, or social problems. 43) Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. 44) Internationalize the Panama Canal. 45) Repeal the Connally Reservation so the US can not prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike. ------------------------------------------------------------- Check http://www.glennbeck.com for more I will give the low down about Obama and you may not like it but if you follow the links to the policitco.com articles and read it all you will not like or trust Obama. He is the biggest liar on the campaign trail. 1.. He used an innocent man in Iowa to get free new and his PR people lied to keep the spin going. This man is a Armenian Physicist here doing some work with some of the most important programs for Universities and the Government. And he was helping a friend in Cincinnati Ohio out with his novelty card business when Obama used him read the links. 2. He is not a Christian as you will not find one Muslim saying a word about his so called conversation from Islam. You can convert to Islam but not away as it is called a fatwa or to us a death sentence. No one word about this. 3. He stated he would invade Pakistan who is an alley on terrorism and barely holding on with eh Islamic extremist there. Which was done by Obama to destabilize this country that has a nuke and I will add the only Muslim country that does. Why would he do this even Hillary knows this is very bad. 4. He last week said he would never use the Nuke which was a signal that if he wins that they the Islamic terrorist who wishes us all to be dead can do it and he will not act. Id this what you want for a president? No look at what Turkey did to Christians and they will end all of the things you love on the left as we are all infidels to them and the left here is satin itself. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0707/Enter_the_Armenians.html
2. Senator Obama has already said he would not run as Vice President with Clinton. Just because he does not have a lot of time in politics does not make him a bad choice. I actually prefer it that way because he has not been corrupted by the Washington DC political machine. Abraham Lincoln had less time in politics than Barack Obama has had and Lincoln did a lot of good for this country while he was President. Try reading the book "Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama" which will give you a clearer insight into the man. And he DID use a Bible, NOT the Koran. He carries his Bible with him in his vehicle wherever he goes. Read the above book! He is not a radical Muslim. CNN went to Indonesia and found out the truth about this lie. http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/22/obama.madrassa/index.html http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
3. To be honest I really don't know whether he would be Hillary's running mate or not.. And I disagree on him being the "Kennedy candidate", It's not the fact that he's inexpierenced because many of them are, It's his stances on the issues. Kennedy wanted the abolition of the fed reserve as does Ron Paul..Contrary to popular belief Barack Obama is not the "progressive," his voting record seems to be the opposite. He has made it fairly obvious he is opposed to the war in Iraq, but what about entering a war with Pakistan and Iran now, immigration, the economy, why did he reauthorize the Patriot Act? His voting record -Military action in Pakistan if we have actionable intel. (Aug 2007) -Fact Check: Yes, Obama said invade Pakistan to get al Qaeda. (Aug 2007) -Extend welfare and Medicaid to immigrants. (Jul 1998) -Voted NO on declaring English as the official language of the US government. (Jun 2007) -Voted YES on establishing a Guest Worker program. (May 2006) -Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security. (May 2006) -Register women for draft, but not for combat. (Jul 2007) -Voted YES on preserving habeus corpus for Guantanamo detainees. -Voted YES on reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act. (Mar 2006)-Opposes gay marriage; supports civil union & gay equality. (Oct 2006) -Supports affirmative action in colleges and government. (Jul 1998) -Explore nuclear power as part of alternative energy mix. (Jul 2007)
4. Obama is one of the few true pragmatists in the senate. His sometimes disparate views and votes make him hard to peg into one slot or another. Being a centrist myself on most issues i think Barack is the best choice for president, however if hillary gets the nomination he will continue to be a very influentual senator, and thats nothing to sneeze at. oh and the comments of him wanting to "invade" pakistan are poppycock. he only said he would go any where and use any means to get Osama bin laden, unlike our current president who dropped the ball on this one. if bin laden was in dallas Barack would go there too to get him.
5. Taking a risk like that requires a lot of integrity. Unfortunately, having integrity is not of the voting public's main concerns. If he doesn't win now, he never will.