Obama's Rough Landing Home

1. What is so obvious is the meida's love for McCain. They may give Obama Quantity but they give McCain Quality. All the lies, mistakes, flip-flops, and wrong info put out by McCain is overlooked. All the media wants is a tight close race. They are distorting Obama's words and deeds. McCain doesn't have to do anything but sit back and watch the media do his dirty work. Then he "cries" foul because the media reports on Obama. This is a NO-WIN situation for Barack Obama with the media.

Flander Anapolis at 12:08PM on Jul 28th 2008

2. McCain needs to stop whining he wanted Obama to make this trip now he made it, it was a success, Obama got a lot media coverage he didn't. You're too old to be acting like a kid. Way to go Obama you are really bringing these countries together, people are starting to like Americans again thanks.

MzChea at 3:13PM on Jul 28th 2008

3. by Patrick J. Buchanan
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.?

Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.
This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants.

Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude??

Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona? and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids.?

Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

Ray at 3:18PM on Jul 28th 2008

4. john mccain is practicing the straw man argument. Not familiar with it look it up. Mr. Senator MCCain you remind me of the story of Caie and Able. God didnt accept your offer he accepted one that was Able (Barack) to do the job. You objected Gods choice and your countenance fell and you sought out and killed your own brother in a fit of jealousy and rage. Sounds like the Bibillical story coming to life.

ahmad at 4:41PM on Jul 28th 2008

5. Nationalist Germans and Fundamentalist Muslims do not vote in the United States Presidential elections. Why was he there?

Elmo Jones at 5:56PM on Jul 28th 2008

6. Nationalists Germans and Middle Eastern Muslims do not vote in the United States presidential elections.
Why was he there???

Elmo Jones at 6:00PM on Jul 28th 2008

7. "Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants."

If the white folks who ran our government, construction industry, banking and airline industry to the ground while raking in millions, we need more immigration to the US, particularly skilled immigration, not a moratorium as Pat Buchanan suggests. But then again Buchanan is so obsessed with white skin color that he would rather bring the country down with incompetent whites running the show!

George at 6:41PM on Jul 28th 2008

8. Posting number 4 is so backward! What a racist. I am so ashamed of us.

Suliniber Kelanen

Suliniber Kelanen at 10:04PM on Jul 28th 2008

9. From Blacks4Barack....

For those who prayed for Obama's safe journey....Prayer Works !

Visit: www.Blacks4Barack.org

Say It Loud...BARACK & I'M PROUD !!!

Greg Jones at 1:09AM on Jul 29th 2008

10. Posting number 4 is so backward! What a racist. I am so ashamed of us.

Suliniber Kelanen

Suliniber Kelanen at 9:08AM on Jul 29th 2008

11.
I happen to be a white woman, age 71. I prayed for Barack's journey and pray for his success daily.

I, too, am concerned that we pick the correct person for president and am very concerned that the media report the news but not toy with our election which I think they are doing. They present stories in a light so that they are more appealing and create controversy that either is not be there or need not be there, just to get and keep our attention. They are making it a perpetual ballgame. They give John McCain a free pass at every turn. They have not pounced on his original decision on Iraq, his bummbling gaffes, his questionable advisors, his whining, his lack of content. Oh, it's mentioned but briefly and not on every news cast for days and hours until they dig up the next potential controversy as they have done with Obama. In an effort to make this a close election, they are toying with our system and might just effect the election and our future in a fashion even they might not choose if they weren't so interested in making themselves look brilliant and creating rather than reporting a story. We have a chance, not only to elect our first black president but to elect one of the most brilliant and effective people we have ever had chance to witness. Just look at his campaign organization and the way he is tackling issues. He is reaching out and inviting all points of view, while, John McCain can't use the internet and the few associates he brings along with him have to cover his gaffes.

Gayla H. Buccino at 9:58AM on Jul 29th 2008

12. McCain cried daily about Barack going overseas to look Presidental and show he can be diplomatic! so he went, now McCain is finding every excuse he can muster to say the news media is favoring Barrack Obama. I say good for Barack and McCain really needs to show some courage and quit whinning or perhaps Senator Grahan was talking about McCain! Graham said "Americans are whinners". The biggest whinners I see just happen to be conservatives, the killings at the Tennesee (Sunday july 27)church where the man wrote a note complaining about Liberals and is said to hate Liberals.

Ron McNeal at 1:03PM on Jul 29th 2008

13. Barack Obama and John McCain have made recent statements on US offshore oil drilling while on the US presidential campaign trail. Well, Offshore Drilling is a huge issue right now and rightly so. Between the
desire to deal with the economic mess that is being spurred by the price
of oil and the on-going longer-term concern of global warming, how do we
address all of this? Check out Obama and McCain in side-by-side videos
on clash/Offshore Drilling comparing their recent
comments on ANWR and offshore oil drilling. It is, if nothing else,
very interesting to hear their perspective.
http://clashorama.com/index.php?id=172

Katrina Lopez at 3:50PM on Jul 29th 2008

14. P-L-E-A-S-E EVERYBODY!! I JUST BELIEVE THAT BARACK IS ANOINTED AND SENT BY GOD BECAUSE WHOEVER WOULD HAVE BELIEVED THAT HE WOULD BE WHERE HE IS TODAY? THE PRAYERS OF THE RIGHTEOUS AVAILETH MUCH. WHAT GOD HAS HIS HAND ON, NO MAN CAN PUT IT ASUNDER. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE HATERS NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO OR SAY AND PEOPLE WHO WILL BEHAVE AS THOUGH THEY ARE GOD. SO PLEASE - - IN NOVEMBER, JUST VOTE FOR HIM AND ENCOURAGE EVERYONE THAT YOU KNOW TO VOTE FOR HIM AND THEN LET GOD HAVE HIS WAY!! I LOVE AMERICA, OUR GREAT COUNTRY, AND I WANT EVERYTHING TO BE BETTER IN THE FUTURE THAN IT IS NOW. THANK YOU.

BERNICE at 12:26AM on Jul 30th 2008

15. If he didn't land in Hawaii Kenya or Tehran, he didn't come home.

Dark Twain at 6:57PM on Jul 30th 2008