By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
The polls close in less than four days, with Barack Obama poised to become America's first black president. The mood of the country?
Democrats are eager and waiting to control the presidency after eight long years of George Bush.
Obama has some responsible plans on energy and foreign affairs to get the nation going in the right way again.
Republicans are resigned to losing, thanks in large part to a miserable campaign run by John McCain, topped by his pick of the unqualified Sarah Palin.
But if and when Obama becomes president-elect, reality will start to sink in for all Americans.
Obama, especially, will have to begin laying out plans for exactly how he's going to accomplish his goals -- especially with the help of a Democrat-dominated Congress.
Obama can't lose his fervor for bipartisan efforts to attack America's deep-rooted problems, especially when it comes to the economy.
And Obama will have to resist going along with the excessive spending plans being concocted by ultra-liberals such as Nancy Pelosi.
An Obama presidency is around the corner, but no one knows exactly what will happen when the prize is finally his.









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Thats a hoot
Sarah Palin unqualified? She is far better qualified than Mr Muslim is to be president, hands down
obama has bought his way this far
If it were not for the corrupt media and obama's ill gotten campaign funds, he would be losing by mucho more. He is dirty and sneaky and will not be good for this country. The unethical media are electing this man, not the american public.
My letter to all the media... sent to many and even to the obituary columns under "Journalism is Dead"
Dear Mr. Editor,
I know you and your paper really don't care what the general public thinks, because if you did, you would uphold what you are expected to follow as professional journalists. You and 90% of your counterparts have skewed this election by not reporting the news but by relaying to us, the general public, your ideas and preferences, causing the American people to be mislead.
Most of you do not even try to hide the fact that you favor Obama, and have reported mostly favorable stories on him and unfavorable on Senator McCain. You and your cronies are a disgrace to the word JOURNALISM. You have slimed and degraded an American hero who has fought for you to have the right to say what you say. Censorship is not far from your future with your messiah in office
We shouldn't have to remind you that the function of the journalist is to improve and educate readers/viewers by widening individual views, by expanding their vision, and inevitably by getting away from narrow self-interest
Since the development of professional journalism, you have been expected to follow a code of journalist conduct that requires you to follow standards, some are as follows:
Use multiple original sources of information, especially if the subject of the report is controversial;
Check every fact reported;
Find and report every side of a story possible;
Report without bias, illustrating many aspects of a conflict rather than siding with one
Decline gifts or favors from any subject of a report, to avoid the appearance of being influenced;
Abstain from reporting or otherwise participating in the research and writing about a subject in which the journalist has a personal stake or bias that cannot be set aside.
By anyone's standards, even the lowest of the low, you have not even kept within the spirit of these standards.
Your ethics in journalism have flown the coop. You aren't journalists; you are a public relations firm for Obama.
You all should all be fired and go work for Obama.
I, for one, have lost all respect and trust in the media and I'm sure I'm not alone. I know many many people who have given up on all of you and have since refrained from reading the newspapers or watching the obama networks and are now enjoying more quality time with family and friends. I hope the entire main stream media go broke and shut down. Good bye and good luck to the lot of you.
The destruction of this nation lies at your feet; I don't know how you sleep at night.
Disgusted reader
Our Press Corps ShouldThoroughly Investigate and Report on This
So today we hear about Obama’s Aunti Zeituni who Obama so affectionately talked about in his book and who lives in a slum in Boston. If he hadn’t used her image in his book, I wouldn’t really expect him to keep track of her and to help her. But he did use her and yet he doesn’t even care enough to be sure that she is safe and he can’t even get her an inexpensive little apartment somewhere away from the slums? (I honestly don’t care that she’s here illegally. I do care about the stunning hypocrisy of the multimillionaires, Barack and Michelle Obama. They are such tools.)
And then in the article about Aunti Zeituni the AP casually mentioned that in her homeland of Kenya, there was rioting and bloodshed earlier this year. Yes there was, and the rioting was at the instigation of the Marxist Odinga, Barack Obama’s first cousin, who Obama helped to try and get elected last year to the presidency. Obama campaigned both in person (no time to visit his brother tho) and from his United States Senate Office. And Kenya is a democracy (which Obama was trying to replace with a Marxist dictatorship). Fifteen hundred people died during those riots including Christian women and children who were burned alive in their churches. (Contrast this reality with Obama’s smooth talking temperate façade. Talk about a wolf in sheep’s clothing.)
Presidents have enormous power, and most of what they do is done behind closed doors. That’s why it’s so important for America to have a basically good person who is who he says he is in that office. And Barack Obama is not a good person. And Barack Obama is not who he says he is.
A few days ago, Obama said that if we don’t want to pay higher taxes to help other Americans then we are selfish.
Barack Obama is the selfish one, and a hypocrite and a very dangerous man.
YAWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
YAWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN or should I say
PROPAGANDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Good last ditch effort but it isn't going to work...
Southern smiles and world peace,
Sharon/BabyBoomerQueen
http://www.BabyBoomerAdvisorClub.com
Yeah? I saw a picture of
Yeah? I saw a picture of McCain with Joseph Stalin on the internet tubes and on several websites too which is actual evidence, yeah. It's real for sure, he's old enough. Trotsky and Lenin were in the picture too! McCain's for sure a COMMIE! And Sarah Palin, she was just a baby then ,but she was in the picture also. Chairman Mao took the picture, yeah.
...your right
I say that picture too...and guess what else...it was the only picture that I have ever seen with Sarah where her mouth was shut!
I think I will download it and put it next to my toilet seat.
Southern smiles and world peace,
Sharon/BabyBoomerQueen
http://www.BabyBoomerAdvisorClub.com
Outlawed SNL skit
You've got to watch this SNL skit the Democrats tried to "pull" from the whole internet! Too much truth for thier liking!
http://msunderestimated.com/SNLBailoutSkit.wmv
Obama is the Selfish One - Not Us
During his speech last Wednesday, Obama said that his “fundamental belief” is that “I am my brother’s keeper”. But what about his younger half brother George Obama? He’s in his twenties. He lives in a slum in a hut in Kenya. He wants to become a mechanic but doesn’t have the money. When he met Barack in 2006 he said it was like talking to a stranger. And although Barack Obama makes millions of dollars a year, he has never lifted a finger to help his brother. The duplicity of Barack Obama just shocks me. He is a smooth talking phony.
A few days ago, Obama said that if we don’t want to pay higher taxes to help other Americans then we are selfish.
Barack Obama is the selfish one, and a hypocrite.
They are Oversamplng Democrats - Just Get out and Vote.
Ignore the polls. We are seeing the full blown efforts of Chicago's Daley Political Machine, the most corrupt in history.
They are trying to discourage Republicans. They want us to stay home. Don't fall for it. Just get out and vote.
As for Barack Obama, he is a full blown socialist. His Mother, Father and Grandfather were Communists. His friends are all hard leftists (or felons). Of course Obama shares their views. They were his mentors and dearest companions. And socialism has a perfect 1000% failure rate. We don't need it or want it for America.
Wow, JA this is getting
Wow, JA this is getting really over the top. I can imagine you were hyperventilating when you wrote it. you'll lose your credibility if you skew your data that much.
It is a foregone conclusion that America will be a better place
The right wing commentary has gotten more and more ideological and radical - indeed even hysterical. It will continue to try to paint Obama what he is not. It will continue to try to destroy his character. That is their only hope. It is not going to work.
To those who are spouting Socialist. Well, if Obama is a socialist, then McCain and Bush are bush-wacking Pirates, dressed in business suits. In league with those running some of the the large businesses these days with "golden parachutes", with special note of the oil companies, car companies and the investment banks. All of them crying "deregulation, deregulation", "self regulation, self regulation", "limits to liability", "limits to liability", etc....
The American people are starting to tune out the Republican Party. And rightly so. I think the reason is obvious - America as a Nation trumps the Republican Party. Many are starting to see through the Republican facade. William Buckley Jr. gets it, Colin Powell really gets it, but the Party Leaders and demagogues do not - especially people like Rush, Bush, Bachmann and and de Rothschild. The Party is so imbued in its own Propaganda, in its own sense of Superiority and Self Righteousness, that it has indeed lost its way.
The Republican Party has something of a Maoist sentiment of being the ruling Party and the Ruling Class. In spite of the dissent of most of the Nation. Real Republicans need to seize the levers of the Party, tear it down and rebuild from the grass roots up. Its ownership is too centered in selfish ideological hands and its philosophy has gone Piratical; way too right wing. I think it is way out of the mainstream. For so long it has been there, and held its ground by moving the mainstream and demonizing the left. No more.
I believe that Republicans do not have a lock on conservatism - indeed, Obama is a true pragmatist and he knows that you need to be fiscally conservative to be more socially liberal. Otherwise it does not add up. He is not really a liberal. Obama and the Democrats also understand you can't let the Foxes run the Hen Houses, and certainly not under self policing policies. And certainly not with limits on liability if they eat all the Hens and can't replace them when caught.
Republicans today do not understand the concept of collective. This is mostly because they are the ones that are benefiting from the Caveman's survival of the fittest ideas and the "ownership" society. They have the money and the power and they view and work politics to maintain it. They feel entitled and they pay lip service to social policies while generally demonizing them as being something unAmerican. When, indeed America needs to shift away from the extreme right wing to a more common sense approach.
Republican Party leaders and their rich backers want to keep giving the mainstream masses a wind up toy. A Bush, a Palin, a McCain or any Barbie or Ken will do. Just dress 'em up and get 'em talkin' just like ole "Joe Six Pack" and "Joe the Plumber" whoever that is. Its sure not you or me. Let them think their leaders are just like you. This has kept the masses happy, while Republicans and cronies eat the Hens.
Of course, when the Hens are noticed missing, it will be someone else' fault. Probably the Democrats somehow, it does not matter how, or someone in Iraq. No wait, it might be Putin, or possibly its Castro, no wait he's almost dead, okay then, Chavez ...... Or maybe that Muslim Arab Socialist African Malaysian Hawaiian and UnAmerican Obama...... And so the tomfoolery goes........
Liberals are not socialists. The latter is a word sullied by dictators and megalomaniacs. Theirs' is a false concept of socialism, used for selfish gain and to keep the masses poor and in chains. As McCain has said - strong backs, or the backbone of America is that American laborer. A back strong enough to carry the malarkey called Republican Conservatism or, I think, Piratical Conservative is more fitting.
There is no stronger Nation than one with a well run economic engine. One that is fairly and sensibly regulated. One that shares the wealth equitably. One that is built on morally sound incentive systems for its operators. One with a collective advancement and support system for all its members.
Republicans as much or more than any others will tell you that you don't send into battle men without protection and weapons. You don't send men that are unskilled and untrained in the use of weapons. You don't win battles by leaving your compatriots unprotected. And you don't leave the weak and wounded behind. Their rescue is the mark of heroes. If its heroic in the battlefields of war, why not so in the battlefields of life?
America is indeed headed for a brighter future with Obama than with McCain.
Nothing is a foregone conclusion. It is leaning to Obama for goo
I see the difference between Obama and McCain as more gut instinctive. Its not about this fear stuff being thrown around and its not about minimizing Obama into something less than McCain on the economy. Nor is it about this socialism or radical nonsense.
The polls are showing the truth here. The American people are finally seeing what McCain and Obama stand for. They see a stronger leader in Obama, something they hope for and with bated breath are hoping is not just too good to be true.
The more they see of both of them, the more this moves to Obama. With good reason I might add. You can't watch this long and not get it that Obama is genuine, capable and altruistic.
And, you can't miss that McCain's campaign is all about "spin" to understate rather dramatically. The problem is that the truth is so far off what McCain needs to spin it into, that the spinning takes a legion of spiders. And the web spun from all that spinning, is just tying the ticket to the floor.....
America will be voting for the change she clearly needs. And America realizes she must vote out the partisan gridlock to ensure the change can happen. She knows the Republicans, under current leadership, are incapable of dealing in good faith on that matter. And I would say that if there is a risk with giving Obama the House and Senate, it pales in comparison to the opportunity to put America right.
Obama is seeking change. Big change, yes; but not to some new radical thing. The change is just a restoration of America to her fundamentals. A rejuvenation to her founding moral principles, to her bedrock of freedom, democracy and the American Way. It is incredible that revolutionary change is needed to restore America to her own bedrock. Indeed she has drifted, or more accurately, been driven far asunder. She is almost a fiction today, so far is she from her own truth.
Maybe we are too awestruck by Obama's success so far to hope there could be more in this man. I think he will be able to drive forward his grass roots political movement. I will say though, and you can mark these words, that it will not be a Democratic movement, a liberal movement, or a radical movement. It will be simply an American movement that is lucid, inclusive, and cohesive....
I would not say he is the person America has been waiting for, but I argue he is the leadership she is waiting for.... His person and history is a great surprise and challenge for America. A surprise that I believe will ultimately delight her and a challenge, one that is long over due by the way, that she will not only embrace but meet as well....
On Tuesday, when America gives Obama the wheel, he will astutely point the train in America's direction....
Obama will drive an American restoration. In good time, we will once again see that shining light on the hill, that glowing torch in the harbor, that open door to the neighbors, and follow that American Dream.....
America needs to move quickly though, she has drifted too long and is far behind. There is indeed the fierce urgency of now.....
Uncertain?
If you are so uncertain about the outcome, why on Earth have you been such a frenetic Obamaniac? It has been a foregone conclusion that the political election cycle would turn in favor of a Democrat after eight years of a Republican administration and that a Republican campaign would be difficult though not hopeless. I will agree that Pelosi and her far-left liberal spending policies are the real danger, along with those with whom Obama would turn for counsel. If elected, Obama will be leveraging for a second term and will therefore be fairly innocuous and boring as a commander-in-chief. It's been fun, Yael, but it ain't over yet. I haven't found Palin to be as abysmal as you continually fret. Perhaps it is your fear of women. Your intolerance is out of character for a true liberal.
sonofrogue - I'm a vet,
sonofrogue - I'm a vet, too.
As a vet, I don't appreciate being lied to repeatedly by McCain.
Senator McCain stands up in front of veterans groups wherever he goes and pulls out his quote from George Washington on the need to take care of returning veterans. Meanwhile, McCain has one of the very worst voting records when it comes to veterans issues of any legislator past or present.
But you don't have to believe me - many non-partisan stats are out there for you to find out what a FRAUD McCain is on your own. At the following link you can see just what the DAV thinks of him: http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=3483.
At this next link - you can see how the IAVA feels about him: http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=4227&rtype=R
In both cases above- you will see that Obama (and every other Democrat) scores MUCH, MUCH better than McCain.
No Fraud can be greater than the fraud the Republicans on the aggregate have pulled when sending troops into hell and bringing them back to no support. Only TWO Republicans above 66?
Using a non-sequitor sort of argument McCain (and people like you) has tried to foist in so many ways - if McCain has been lying to veterans all along - his brothers in arms - why then, should he hesitate to lie to you?
sonofrogue - did you notice - those are real links to real NON-Partisan organizations. YEAH - they are actual facts that betray McCain's sense of patriotism and TRUTH.
president elect NObama......
Mr. abooloshithead.......... go back to whatever shithole country you come from and tell me what joy it is to live under totalitarian, islamofacist rule..... thats what we have to look forward to in this country if NObama steals this election........and he will
Qualificatiosn of Palin v. Obama
On the eve of official election is no time to get crude, but I do think when the press calls Palin unqualified, they are simply referring to her inability to weave a complete thought into a grammatically correct sentence. While we would never pit Palin against Obama for an Oratorical yardstick, the woman supposedly majored in journalism and therefore, some expectation that composing a thought inside the brain and the art of having it all land, unscrambled onto the listener's ear would be palatable. No one is really asking for much in the way of qualifications anymore, not since Bush anyway, but lets not take it further down a notch, shall we?
"unqualified Sarah
"unqualified Sarah Palin??????????"
What qualifications does B.O. have??
Qualifactions don't matter for Obama who's only running for president BUT they do for Palin running for VP?? How does that make since. I think you been drinking with Biden.
There must be a shortage of real journalist in Kansas City. Maybe if you post on Craigslist, you may find one. Everything I've read that you have posted sounds like the same vial vomit coming out of the socalist Obama's mouth. His redistribution of wealth has started at $300k, $250k, $200k,$150k and now $120k. Why don't you just bend over and let him have that too.
Sorry as the site now has
Sorry as the site now has seen fit to drop the titles of posts, I wish to point my last was for the benefit of Interflop, and no one else.
Hey Interflop
I spent 26 months in the mud, the blood, and the gore for my country dipstick...What have you done for it? I have earned the right to voice my opinions, have you? Or do you simpply enjoy the right to make an absolute ass out of yourself that many others better than you gave you?
Kindly do me the favor of just mincing off on down the street and leave patriots alone. We know what you are when we see you, trust me on this one.
If anyone is to leave my country, it is not going to be the ones who defend it. Count on it.
Yael T. Abomatron is on happy pills...
Yael T. Abomatron is on happy pills...
I can't WAIT to read your column AFTER the elections. Either way, you're pants will be in a wad, and you'll betray yourself.
Wishin, and hopin, hopin and wishin.
Get your crying towel out Alphabet, ain't gonna happen. No matter how much you want New YorK and LA to win this one, the good people in fly over are going to take Osama Yomama, DOWN come next Tuesday, BTW Check out Drudge for the latest.
To bad,so sad, a real American whose name you can pronounce who does not pal with terrorists will win. Suck it up Alphabet, suck it up!
Rogue
Your comments indicate to me that you do not support our country. Why do you have such contempt for America and its democratic process?
Perhaps you should leave.
Interface Going on a Trip...
so, if the messiah loses, are you leaving since you think someone else should leave... Maybe you and Susan can book a longggggggggg trip together.....
Yael T. Abouhalkah's moving to China!
Yael T. Abouhalkah's moving to China!
Obama said they're so far ahead of the United States... maybe Obama and his loyal subjects will move to China where socialism IS ACTUALLY PRACTICED.