Jello Biafra and Shepard Fairey Spoof Obama 'Hope' Image

The following was taken from the Stratfor Intelligence Briefing newsletter:

August 25, 2009 As August draws to a close, so does the first phase of the Obama presidency. The first months of any U.S. presidency are spent filling key positions and learning the levers of foreign and national security policy.

There are also the first rounds of visits with foreign leaders and the first tentative forays into foreign policy. The first summer sees the leaders of the Northern Hemisphere take their annual vacations, and barring a crisis or war, little happens in the foreign policy arena.

Then September comes and the world gets back in motion, and the first phase of the president's foreign policy ends. The president is no longer thinking about what sort of foreign policy he will have; he now has a foreign policy that he is carrying out.

Presidents—all presidents—run on a platform that will win. If they are good presidents, they will leave behind these promises to govern as they must. This is what Obama has done.

He ran for president as the antithesis of Bush. He has conducted his foreign policy as if he were Bush.

This is because Bush's foreign policy was shaped by necessity, and Obama's foreign policy is shaped by the same necessity. Presidents who believe they can govern independent of reality are failures. Obama doesn't intend to fail.


OBAMA has conducted his foreign policy as if he were Bush.

I guess, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

You are sick. You are one heartless, cruel piece of work. By the way, Professor, neither Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. nor Lee Harvey Oswald was an elected offical, you boob. Oh, and get spellcheck, Einstein.

Wow. Every now and again I read a story on here and glance at a few of the comments. If one were to ask "are people basically good or bad" then read this...I shudder to think at what one would conclude after reading these nasty, mean-spirited, racist, bigoted words. Oy. And the cherry on the sundae is the most hate laden postings usually mention God. Oh irony.

Oh yes, I forgot Lee Strobel's "The case for Christ". He is a lawyer and was an atheist who spent 6 months trying to disprove who Christ was using modern courtroom methods of proof. He couldn't. He is now a saved believer.

momo: Jesus wasn't fathered by a roman soldier. He is God made flesh, fully God and fully man. If He isn't, nobody has any business paying attention to anything He said. He said He was God.."If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father." And, "Before Abraham was, I AM" (YHVH). He is either a lunatic, a liar, or He is the Lord. There are no other choices. Please read "More than a carpenter" by Josh McDowell.

I never said I was or was'nt for obama. But I agree I havent seen any changes yet either. And don't think there are going to be any good changes at all. It was a mistake to me that he is in office. I can't understand how he did get in. Not a racist, not an obama fan, just scared.

Wow! And there we wonder why there is so much racism. people that have one track minds, and stupid comments that keep it going. Aren't we supposed to work together? This is not the time to worry about black or white it is what is being done or not. And looks to me more not.

So, I'm a "right wingnut" as they say, and I can't fathom how anyone could regard the "OBAMA 666/SENISTER" comment as legitimate. Either the post is coming from a nine year old dropout writing on behalf of his father (who cannot write), or (more likely) it is a liberal, posing as a moron to perpetuate the notion that every conservative is a plaid-wearing farmhand without dental hygiene. (Consider the fact that spellcheck in these forums is automatic. It's even telling me now that I misspelled spellcheck.)

Jesus of Nazareth was possibly fathered by a Roman soldier who may have been lighter skinned than the family he was raised in. No one really knows what he looked like. He was one of many evangelistic preachers in his day. He was a practicing Jew and supported all of the Jewish law. When asked what is the greatest commandment, he answered "Love God with all your body, soul, and mind." And the second, "like unto it" was "Love thy neighbor as thyself." These commandments are patently impossible to obey but are something to strive for. Most professing Christians do not even attempt to understand or obey them.

Jay: Being given "freebies" is nothing if the brain behind the body getting the freebies is not willing to be educated or to work for the rewards. Blacks and hispanics get all kinds of "freebies", and the problems I listed in my first e-mail to you are still very much a reality.
As for society pressuring kids to have it now, worry about it later, that's the parents fault. Problem is, there is a 70% illegitimacy rate among blacks. How can a child learn and grow up properly when babies are having babies? I know a lot of teachers, and I've heard horror stories. 7 year olds mouthing off to the teacher saying "F you, you ain't my mama!" when guidance is trying to be administered. Where do they learn that? "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it."

God ordained marriage between one man and one woman and children are a part of marriage, NOT one night stands. They are parents...NOT a "baby mama" or a "baby daddy".

A child needs a father for part of their guiance and a mother. The two balance each other out. When 12 year olds are cranking out babies and getting government assistance, or high schoolers are doing the same and there are schools where you bring your baby so at least you can graduate...............Lord in heaven, help this backward nation.