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'Ideas and passion'
Sen. Hillary Clinton keeps persevering on experience. She says that she has 35 years of experience, and that Sen. Barack Obama has a speech. Sen. Obama was also right. He said that the Iraq war was a bad idea, let alone that it was downright wrong.
Let's look at it this way: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld had more government experience than just about anyone else. See how they did? Don't you just love this economy? Don't you just love paying nearly $2 billion a week for an illegal, immoral war? Don't you just love the fear-mongering being perpetrated daily by the Bush administration?
Experience isn't all it's cracked up to be. There was one man who also "didn't have enough experience." He was elected president. His name was John F. Kennedy.
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'Given America hope'
Barack Obama has given America hope. He says we have to work together to change the bad to good. He made a great speech about how Hillary Clinton and John McCain gave the wrong answer about the war in Iraq -- "Bush's Folly."
Sen. Obama is the only candidate who is honest about how he will keep America safe. I believe he could change the economy and help clean up the mess that President Bush has made. He has more real world experience than Sens. Clinton and McCain and focuses on the positive.
Sen. Clinton voted for the Iraq war, while Sen. Obama wanted to stop it from the beginning. Sen. Obama does not say something just to get people to vote for him; he tells the truth, while Sen. Clinton is being foolish and misleading the people.
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Obama picks up 2 Valley Dems
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's bandwagon on Friday picked up two San Joaquin Valley passengers as Reps. Dennis Cardoza and Jim Costa formally endorsed the surging Democratic presidential contender.
With Obama now appearing all but certain to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, Cardoza and Costa added their names to his growing list of superdelegate supporters. The carefully timed joint endorsement moves Obama within several dozen delegate votes of the nomination.
"I believe that Sen. Obama will inevitably be our party's nominee for president," said Cardoza, a Merced Democrat.
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Prove it now
As I listened to Sen. Barack Obama's speech declaring his candidacy for president, I began to think that he is really onto something, in wanting to bring together a divided nation.
This message is an important one. However let's look at the messenger. The messenger has the support of George Soros and his Internet network of people who spew the hate speech that is dividing this great nation.
The Democratic party ran on the same idea in the 2006 election that Sen. Obama is running on now.
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Obama restores private intel board's key power
President Barack Obama Thursday restored an independent intelligence advisory agency's authority to tell the attorney general if it thinks that a U.S. intelligence agency may have broken the law, a move intended to improve oversight of those agencies.
That power was stripped away by former President George W. Bush more than a year ago. Bush's executive order limited the Intelligence Oversight Board to exposing potential violations of law to only the national intelligence director, the president and the agency involved.
Obama amended that Bush-era decision Thursday with his own executive order, ruling that the attorney general would also have to be notified of any possible intelligence-related violations.
Reading letters to the editor, many people question Sen. John McCain's choice for vice president. Sarah Palin has no foreign policy experience, but neither does Barack Obama. She is an "unknown," but so was Sen. Obama. She has little experience in government, but as governor of Alaska, it appears she has more experience and accomplishments than Sen. Obama.
This leads to an important question -- not whether Gov. Palin is "ready to be one heartbeat away from the most powerful position on the planet," but if Sen. Obama is ready to be in that position.
I respect John McCain's choice. I do not feel his decision insults my "female Democratic" intelligence, nor do I feel his selection for vice president degraded his "maverick" image, but rather increased it. Before Nov. 4, I will scrutinize both parties' stances on a number of important issues, avoid stagnating on one or two, and disregard non-related topics (i.e. family issues, Sen. Obama's ties to a religious leader and Gov. Palin's 17-year-old daughter's pregnancy).
After all is analyzed, I may vote Republican, because, in my humble opinion, what is good for the U.S. is more important than party affiliation.
Durinda Montoya
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