http://www.lulu.com/content/pa.....d-/7182389

Apart from that it is very hard to find

The Obama campaign used the race card against Hillary and Bill Clinton and how sad it was that 2 people who have done so much for civil rights were trashed and race baited by his campaign.

Lower than dirt!

While it’s unlikely Hillary did this without telling Obama, she could have done it without him signing off on it or giving his approval, if in fact he does not approve of it.

Some people complained that Hillary was more conservative on issues or more cautious. I didn’t care because I BELIEVED HER. When she said she would not try and repeal DOMA entirely, I believed in her because she would actually get it done, rather than Obama who said he would repeal it and has since run away from the issue. When she said she would repeal DODT with close consultation with the Pentagon, I believed her because that was her plan to get it done.

I am glad Obama is president, but I never believed him on gay issues, and I am surprised everyone did.

There was only one presidential candidate who has walked in every GAY PRIDE parade since she became U.S. Senator, and that’s Hillary!!

No, you shouldn’t be fooled by that.

And despite my extreme example I was thinking of leaders like Kennedy, Lincoln, Churchill and Trudeau, whose actual records are a quite different than our memories of how they inspired the people.

And by contrast we forget some achievements by leaders who are not so fondly remembered. Nixon, for example.

And there is a perfect example of leaders who can be very inspirational without enacting any policy whatsoever – royalty and other heads of state (not all royalty of course, but some have had a profound effect on the people).

It’s also kind of confusing that your President is both Executive Head and Head of State. He certainly gets more royal treatment than prime ministers do. He’s supposed to embody your perfect ideal, and yet to do his job he has to be mired in the partisan shit, and it doesn’t work too well.

The Germans actually had to invent a “President” as a ceremonial figurehead – essentially a replacement for the Kaiser.

But as to your main question, remember that apocryphal story about FDR saying “I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it”?

Of course he needs pushing; real politics doesn’t work any other way. Like I said, from your words, essentially I agree with you that it’s not good to have a starry-eyed or home-team image of your politicians.

refusing to investigate and prosecute, even.

And I do. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

And how about to prosecute bush admin official responsible for the human rights violations that occurred at gitmo? Now that’s integrity, isn’t it? A free pass…

Well, I never figured you for someone with much to say… But at least a few facts to back up your empty assertions would be sufficient. I didn’t think you were an obot…huh, go figure.

Faith based initiatives remain funded under obama. Afghanistan and Iraq are an extension of bush policy, and gitmo and the latest developments there (more obama backtracking) is more bushco. The only thing I retract is the abstinence only education…which is simply cosmetic, as with stem cell research and foreign abortion funding.

OBOT.

As a matter of fact the right kind of leader can play an important inspirational role without doing too much at all.

I was simply saying that even the most authoritarian leader has some limits, and cannot simply decide something and have it done.

But I don’t want to get off on a tangent; essentially I was agreeing with and adding to your comment #74.

and faith based initiatives, rather. That was error as he’s gutted much of the abstinence only education…but some of it is still funded.

And in many respect, he is very much like bush even comsetically with his pro abstinence only education initiatives.

I’m referring to his handling of afghanistan, iraq–america’s main foreign policy investments, for the most part in dealing with the “terror” problem. His policy toward gitmo has been in line with the matured bush admin. position. concerning his domestic economic plan, he is also following the bush plan. He hasn’t really deviated in any significant way from the bush administration except for a few cosmetic stances and reversals (abortion funding and stem cell research).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6urw_PWHYk

This kid looks like he’s about to go on the toilet and shit himself into a stroke. Thank God for Matt he got his Barack. I was really scared for these celebutards. They would have all had to up their doses of Zoloft and drink even MORE than they already do. When would they have time to smoke pot?

They want to hear emooootions. Emoootional talk about how hard it is for Daddybama. He’s got it so rough.

In 1775 5% won the revolutionary war, about 1% started it. Over and over again throughout history it is a minority who is ahead of the sleepingwalking sheep. It was less that 1% who were against slavery in 1800 the abolitionist. by 1868, the sheep catch up. Sheep sleep, while the rest work toward real change by speaking dissent to corrupt leaders. Barack is as corrupt as any.

His plan? Thought it was bush’s plan…well, it is. The bush plan for gitmo…only now, he’s putting his name to it.

What I meant was that he’s not the entire government and all it’s decision-making power wrapped up in one body.

There is also the illusion of focusing on one person when in fact s/he at the head of a massive system comprised of thousands of people and hundreds of issues.

And being at the head is not the same as being in the driver’s seat. Congress’s rebuke of the guantanamo plan is just one example.