Quote Originally Posted by headshake
af·fec·ta·tion (āf'ěk-tā'shən) Pronunciation Key
n.
1. A show, pretense, or display.
2.
1. Behavior that is assumed rather than natural; artificiality.
2. A particular habit, as of speech or dress, adopted to give a false impression.

i'm not arguing with you stinky, i think you are one of the smartest, most educated people on this board (sorry, been going through some of the LED grow light forums mess), but to me that sounds like affectation to me.

if you are an individual such as barack, with different ethnic backgrounds, and barack hussein obama II is your given name and you introduce yourself as barry (which sounds like an attempt to separate from your african heritage, just an assumption obviously) is that not a habit to give a false impression?

when he goes to predominantly black schools and starts talking this "we are gonna do this and we are gonna take over the whitehouse" i'm pretty sure he's not talking about his party. this is gonna be a ground breaking election either way, but if barack does get elected will it only be a half as grounbreaking because he is only half black? at least palin is 100% woman....as far as we know. (maybe the $150,000 wasn't for clothes. and there was more than just a conference in new york.)

i personally would want people to call me by my nickname and not my given name, even if i decided to foray into politics. (which is where i'd like to end up someday actually, but for the RIGHT reasons!) there are several reasons for this, one is i don't particularly like my given name. also, i'm a third, and i don't like my dad at all. okay, i don't know my dad at all. why would i want to go by a name given to me to carry on a tradition when there really is no tradition to carry on with no dad there? so i will not stop going by my nickname if the political career does happen to materialize. why would he?
if fellow politicians decided to call me by my given name it wouldn't bother me.

once again, if it's good enough for your friends and family why is it not good enough for a nation you want to lead? as soon as you get into politics you decided to go by your given name and for what reason? his campaign message is change right? i guess that meant change your name, not the country! maybe, like me he didn't like his dad? (i don't know much about barack's personal life.) but in my opinion, he more than likely did it to get the black vote, and the muslim vote too.

personally i don't care what color you are or what they call you, as long as you can lead this country in the right direction. take control away from corporations and put it back into the hands of the people. the lobbyist situation in washington is getting out of control. stop putting people that have the right to protest on terrorist watch lists. America is heading down a bad road indeed. Dark days. i believe that we will see civil war in my lifetime. i'm 29. if not mine, my kids for sure. and it's gonna take a lot more than a name, campaign slogan or anything else to get it done.

we need health care for everyone. we have to take the power from the large drug companies. i think that would help alleviate a lot of the economical problems that this country has. well obviously not as much now, thanks to all of this mortgage crap. where was washington then? oh yeah, they just gave them all of OUR money to bail them out. and maybe the can make some money out of this ordeal (but this is our government we are talking about, they did just add a paper dollar sign to the national deficit counter so they could use left-most display to add another number!) what took so long? that's America for you, one big corporation! it's disgusting and makes my stomach hurt.

not to mention we need education for everyone, immigration and taxes fixed (the irs still owes back taxes i believe). that's just to name a few. medicare and social security are set to run out soon. in the next couple of years (i can't remember, maybe '09 one will be paying out more than it is taking in and the other one will follow suit shortly). and by what, 2030 or whatever it was, maybe a little later, they will be out of money in the surplus for those programs. they knew it would fail when they setup social secuirty. WTF! thanks lbj. the whole insurance fiasco was probably one of the worst decisions in the history of america.

don't get me started on the prison system overhaul that needs to happen, as well as the reform of laws between the federal and state levels. especially drug laws (our favorite herb legalized being number one!) how is it that we can have state and federal laws that are in direct confliction?

maybe an eye for an eye mentality would help some there?

i'll stop ranting now. sorry. i'm just passionate about this country (i was a marine, and i've been around the world, i've seen some real sh*tholes and bogus governments.) it just pisses me off to see americans taken advantage of and lied to. and i hate seeing the seperation of classes expanding. there is enough money for everyone to live comfortably. but we have to do what they say when we are under there thumb.

if barack wins, he will be the first senator to become president since jfk if i'm not mistaken. and i think we all remember what happend to him.....

-shake
lol, i don't know shake, are you for or against?
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