Obama Explains What ‘Country First’ Means to Him

I want to know one example of how Obama sacrificed for this Country or put the Country First. Just one example. I also want to know why the DNC did not honor the men and woman who are fighting in Ir

Obama is doing much better, since mccain picked Palin. Ive noticed that the non sense about Obama on the Web has subsided. Now the nonsense is about Palin. No one is questioning Obama’s patriotism any longer.

You mean that Ben Stein didn’t say that Alaska is near Russia therefore Palin has foreign policy experience?

Obama who?

Ben Stein compared Obama to Hitler. See how two can play that game?

Obama – instead of entering the lucrative world of high profiled law firms, choose to help the impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago’s south side.
That is a personal sacrifice.
The Dems honor our fighting men and woman by voting for veterans benefits, something that McCain himself can’t claim. Republicans are great at paying lip service but are rarely interested in helping our veterans when it counts.

Davis:
Yes, no one will disagree with you that Henry Kissinger could undoubtedly provide excellent tutelage for Sarah Palin on foreign policy.
Maybe Obama would like to sign up for classes as well. But then again, he might have to pay back another student loan….

“For the third time in a week, Biden, speaking Wednesday at Harborside Event Center in Ft. Myers, Florida, mixed up battalions and brigades”
Not-ready-to-be-President Joe Biden would send a battalion in to get slaughtered when a brigard is need.

Both Obama and Biden are dangerously unqualified. neither one knows a brigade from a battalion from a hole in the ground.

geevil
mccain never has mixed up words… i bet you excuse mccains mix ups… so why cant you excuse bidens?
You know what he meant… or are you ready to say we should take what everyone says at face value?
if so… mccain is going to explode in a gaffe a minute mess and plain err palin doesnt seem to be any better

obama didnt take the high powered job on wall street, he decided to help the families of chicago
and when hadnt the dnc honored the men and women in our military?
oh you mean they didnt parade around like the gop last night and talk about how if we dont elect mccain we will be inundated with terrorist attacks and we will all die in fire and brimstone?
no thanks, thats not honor thats scar tactics…
i implore you to watch any night of the dem convention they talk about our men and women with respect, they arent using them as political clout

Obama wants to be the first (HALF) black President. This is one black vote he won’t get.

Joe Biden would be a heartbeat away from the presidency -and this babbling fool has no clue what a brigade is?

My how our grandfather’s Republican party has changed. To me, Sarah Palin parading around her pregnant teenage daughter in front of the entire country just proves the hypocrisy of Republican ideaology. Certainly a prime example of failed policies in education, proving once again that teaching abstinence only to teenagers at home and in school does not work. This example proves it, and the data which Republicans continue to ignore also proves it, as does the scientific evidence for evolution. Even the Catholic Church believes in evolution, having learned their lesson with Galileo. If this woman gets elected and should become president, our schools will be in so much more trouble. These people will not stop until we are only allowed to teach the old testament in school.Her family choices will be your family choices, and the only choice. It is a sad day in America when Republicans can use their spin to claim that this woman has as much ‘experience’ as a Harvard Law graduate who taught constitutioal law and has been a senator, compared to her being a governor of a state with a population that amounts to a small city is laughable. To see her grinning over the corpse of a magnificent caribou, bloodied and with an obvious look of agony on it’s face makes me sick. Her environmental record is horrible. The only reason in my mind anyone would vote Republican this year is because they do not like the color of Obamas skin. Plain and simple. This nomination has made me so angry I am going down right now to volunteer for Obama’s campaign.

I can’t wait for the debates. Another question that takes Obama 10 minutes to answer McCain will answer in 10 seconds.

Neither Abraham Lincoln nor Bill Clinton knew about military groups when they were swarn in. Yet, one was the best President this country has ever seen and the other gave us the biggest economic boost this country has ever seen. George Bush, on the other hand, knew about the military (even though he was AWOL) and he gave us the largest debt in human history, two wars (one unnecessary) and a broken economy. I guess knowing the difference between a brigade and a batallion really doesn’t mean that much when there are bigger problems facing the world.

I can’t wait for the debates. Another question that takes Obama 10 minutes to answer McCain will answer in 10 seconds.”
Works for me.
The deliberate statesman vs the hothead impulsive.

The name Barack Obama surfaced. “I was asking around among community activists in Chicago and around the country, and they kept mentioning him,” Newman says. Obama by then was working with church and community leaders on the West Side, and he was writing a book that the publisher Simon & Schuster had contracted for while he was editor of the law review. He was 30 years old.
When Newman called, Obama agreed to put his other work aside. “I’m still not quite sure why,” Newman says. ”This was not glamorous, high-paying work. But I am certainly grateful. He did one hell of a job.”
Within a few months, Obama, a tall, affable workaholic, had recruited staff and volunteers from black churches, community groups, and politicians. He helped train 700 deputy registrars, out of a total of 11,000 citywide.
…”It was overwhelming,” says Joseph Gardner, a commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and the director of the steering committee for Project Vote! “The black community in this city had not been so energized and so single-minded since [Chicago Mayor Harold Washington] died.”
Burrell agrees. “We were registering hundreds a day, and we weren’t having to search them out. They came looking for us. African Americans were just so eager to have a say again, to feel they counted.”

Jake,
Write this down. Tomorrow morning some GOP members will feint outrage for Obama downplaying the service of John McCain to his country.

Obama says…
“My definition of putting country first is making sure that we are safe, not hesitating to strike against our enemies.”
How?
“I will slow our development of future combat systems. ..I will not weaponize space ..and I will not develop new nuclear weapons..” – Obama 2008.
So, we’ll strike back how exactly? with Hope and Change? Words?

Laura McGann brought word from Alaska yesterday that Palin had, in her own words, pooh-poohed her own executive experience, mocking it as “not rocket science.” Strangely, for all the “not rocket science” nature of the work, Palin was unique among Wasilla mayors in that she still needed help. As ProgressiveAlaska notes: “…when Palin was first elected mayor…in 1996, she had to hire a city manager. When her predecessors had occupied the office, they did that job themselves. There went $60,000 per year.” (Much more on that via Andrew Sullivan.)
The whole attempt at contrasting Palin as someone who stands up to “oil producers” is similarly baffling, considering that McCain’s been broadly signaling that his presidency will be a drill-crazy bonanza for the oil industry.

“Which begs the question, of why does McCain receive so much dirty money?”
Because Obama has employed all the money launderers?

Should the voters’ perception that this country is on the wrong track attributed more to Bush’s personality or to how well his administration or the Congress has fulfilled their jobs?

Obama continued. “How well is he going to help create new jobs? Does he have any idea about what the new jobs of the future are going to be?
yes, I want to believe that he can deliver, but tell me one thing that he has done in the past that will ensure me that he delivers results!
Only, Sarah Palin has some results to show and that’s what I want to see

Obama; It means I get to be the first black pres. Anyone who doesn’t vote for me is a racist. “Some won’t vote for me because I am not of a certain pedigree. Oh, Ok, I get it.” One of Obama’s inspirational messages to insight. In his acceptance speech of his nomination.

“Obama wants to discuss issues.
McCain want to tell stories about himself.
That is this election in a nutshell.”
Obama talks about how he will be bipartisan to unify the country.
JM gives one example after another where he HAS been bipartisan in suggesting solutions.
Obama has twice said he is not afraid to debate JM anytime, anywhere.
JM has asked for 10 townhall debates where all questions are answered and four regular debates. Obama refuses to show and will not pick any more than 2 debates at most under strict conditions.
Obama is not afraid to talk with America’s enemies without preconditions. He refused to attend a debate because it was sponsored by Fox TV.
What courage !

Chris,
You realize when your ascribing the power to Obama to control what every supporters says sounds like lunacy right?
At least Obama has called for civility.
Your candidate John McCain (let’s call it what it is and stop pretending that you support Hillary in any way shape or form) says I;m no referee.

Obama is always a smooth talker. No surprise there. Has he ever done anything to prove himself? None, I think.

“Some won’t vote for me because I am not of a certain pedigree. Oh, Ok, I get it.” BsO’s inspirational message meant to manipulate all the black brothers and sisters to vote for him. Not this black sister. I knew the Clintons weren’t racists, even though BsO and his TIMEWARNER contributors helped to push that in order for him to be selected by paid delegates. Now his trolls are calling even black people racist. Yeah, that’s the FAKE we know.

Amazing, the GOP hacks are becoming so desperate they are making silly things up.
I think they can smell the stale old odor of defeat lingering throughout the country.

ryan, i appreciate your karl-rovian attempts to transfer my support for Senator Clinton, whom you obviously recognize as the superior candidate above mccain and obama, to become support for mccain, because it is easier for you to create an argument against a supporter for mccain, which i can appreciate because, as a supporter of Clinton, i already know she would easily destroy him in the general election, whereas right now, average polling in the states would possibly give mccain the White House via the electoral college….but the fact that you are unable to argue against me and the points i have made, albeit in numerous posts, only points to the lack of content you have at your quick disposal to argue FOR obama instead of AGAINST mccain, which is irrelevant anyhow, because, as you know but your intimidated intellect conveniently refuses to admit, I support Senator Clinton, because, unlike you apparently and the many who don’t support her, I want the best President for my family

If the personality issue had been successfully defined as hothead vs. thoughtful uniter, Obama might have favored raising it.

Country first! I just stumble upon this, and thought it was worth sharing:
Some sanity here from Mark DeMoss, former chief of staff to Jerry Falwell and now a leading Christian public relations executive:
“Too many evangelicals and religious conservative are too preoccupied with values and faith and pay no attention to competence. We don’t apply this approach to anything else in life, including choosing a pastor.” Imagine, he said, if a church was searching for a pastor and the leadership was brought a candidate with great values but little experience. “They’ve been a pastor for two years at a church with 150 people but he shares our values, so we hired him to be pastor of our 5,000 person church? It wouldn’t happen! We don’t say, ‘He shares our values, so let’s hire him.’ That’s absurd. Yet we apply that to choosing presidents. It blows my mind.”…

“Obama continued in that vein, listing all sorts of domestic issues that need tackling, from health care to the deficit.”

Obama, ‘Country first’ means don’t attack McCain, don’t think you are aways right and McCain always wrong, means you should work with Rep., means you should cross party line.

I’m always struck by how mean spirited that people can be. The choice in this election is clear! So get off the computer and get out there and work on behalf of your candidate. I have a question 8 years ago when republicans took over we were in pretty good shape economically, we were respected around the world, and unemployment was low and we didn’t have a mortgage crisis why do deserve a second chance? You ran this country into the ground!

It’s interesting that he has to define his patriotism… like everything else about him it’s nice rhetoric but backed up by what exactly?

My problem is that I’m socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I’ve always believed that less government means less intrusion on our social lives.
Conservative Republicans don’t seem to see the hypocrisy of wanting small government, but also wanting the government to control abortion, marriage and impose religion on the public.
The Libertarian party is probably closest to what I fit into, except they take everything to such an extreme that it is hard to get behind them. They just aren’t pragmatic (no, privatizing roads is not a good idea).
That leaves the Democrats. I disagree with them on a number of fiscal issues including the idea that I should pay for the health care of someone who abuses their body with drugs and alcohol. However, looking over the past Democratic administrations, there hasn’t been any policies they’ve actually implemented that are giant red flags to me. The biggest red flag, the Department of Homeland Security, is a Republican creation and since I believe the larger an organization gets, the less efficient it becomes, I see this this as the worst thing that has been done in two decades.
So I’ll either vote Barr or Obama. McCain isn’t even an option.

So when did Obama start with the “don’t hesitate striking our enemies” language? It doesn’t sound like him.

“Obama, ‘Country first’ means don’t attack McCain,”
Yes, we got the memo. McCain cannot be criticized for anything because he was a POW.
Meanwhile “Country First” just picked someone he barely knew or vetted as his successor a right winger popular with the base.
He’s a war vet who has suffered multiple lingering injuries and is a multiple skin cancer survivor who is the oldest nominee to seek office.
Country first? Or Campaign first?

“I think BsO’s wife Michelle took care of that earlier in the campaign. Why is he bringing this up again for us to remember?”
Ha!

Chris – Your coach analogy works well, if you find someone who can literally work with all the players to get things done. I’ve seen McCain over the years work with business leaders, citizens, military, government bureaucrats, and govt officials on both sides of the aisle. He’s been able to find compromises, create win-wins, and often fight the hard fight with egos and ids. Where’s Obama’s “coaching” success?

“That’s where Obama shines, in his ability to unite Americans of very different ages and backgrounds to work together, as evidenced by his campaign as well as legislation he passed. ‘
You’re kidding right? Did you see Joe Lieberman’s speech? Barry has no history of working with anyone besides his own party. How do you think he won the most liberal Senator title.

“we always have, for proof look at what Biden was saying in 1988″
and Joe Biden done what the past 20 years except serve as Senate paperweight?

Peach,
If fond of Ben Stein watch Larry King Live Aug 25 and see him call this administration the worst ever. Some Larson guy has 12 reasons for not backing McCain yet. Both Rep backers.

“Why are tough questions asked of every single candidate except Barack Obama?”
Don’t be ridiculous. News organisations have flown all over the world to Indonesia and Kenya to try to get incriminating information. They have scrutinized every legislation he has ever voted on, or not voted on, or voted present, or skipped. Not only in the US Senate but also the State Senate.
They’ve scrutinized every interview he has ever given, every speeach he has ever given.
His birthcertificate has been viewed under a microscope and they have used every plugin in Photoshop to detect ‘fraud’. We know everything there is to know about his father, his mother, his grandparents, his aunts, his half-brothers, his half-sisters, his neighbours, past and present. We even know that he is related to Cheney.
We know that he likes to eat arugula and drink orange juice for breakfast.
We know what his neighbours do for a living and their biography, who his fellow boardmembers are on every board he ever sat on, what they do for a living and their biography.
I could go on and on and on and on. It doesn’t reach the level of scrutiny right now that Palin is undergoing.

Mack: “How do you think he won the most liberal Senator title”
Given by a conservative group after Obama had won the nomination. When Hillary had won the nomination, they somehow had miraculously found that Hillary was by FAR the most liberal Senator.

Another vacuous cloud of words from Obama… We all know he is good with his mouth, but he has never actually done what he says he will do. He has been a cautious, party- line junior Senator who has spent most of his single term in office running for higher office. He has always put himself first.

Nancy,
What has John McCain accomplished during his 26 years in the Senate?

Words, just empty words – they don’t impress me! I don’t trust the man – he has flip-flopped and reinvented himself so many times, I really have no idea who the real BHO is! All I do know is that he is not fit to be pres., and if he does win, it will be another 4 years of W, and by that I mean you ain’t getting what you voted for!

Whose lives has Obama ever made better besides his own?
Certainly not that village in Africa he promised to aid.

Obama is so ignorant! Look at in the newspaper today about school in Chicago, his home town, what he has been doing to make his school district to be a better school…. he doesn’t care. He send his children to private school. He never know our problem because Obama is elite and a big mouth!
A Big mouth will not help us to solve the problems in our country!

Oy, Ryan heard it too.
This is Comedy Gold

McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis told Washington Post editors Tuesday – “This election is not about issues,” Davis said. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.”
I wonder McCain puts his campaign first, not the country first.

Has there been a worse public relations fiasco than the McCain campaign in the last few weeks?
First he goes into seclusion following his houses gaffe, interviewing only with Leno.
Then he picks Palin at which point we have dozens of PR gaffes.
It begins with the very last minute nature of the selection and its coming so soon before the convention with the pick being a virtual unknown commodity. What did you think the press was gonna do McCain, dutifully report your talking points? You can only count on Fox for that.
Then we have a dozen or so ridiculous inflations of her credentials and story line that are quickly debunked.
Then we have a twofer in ridiculous PR.
1) In response to leftwing blog talk that Palin is not the mother of her youngest child, the campaign decides to respond by announcing Palin;s daughters pregnancy. Let me repeat, because of crazy talk on the internet the McCain campaign response was to admit the daughter was pregnant.
2) Then instead of ignoring a National Enqurier story they decide to immediately denounce it before it even runs. They just gave the story legs to be discussed even from a denial standpoint.

Here’s an example of Obama putting Country First: When he finished Harvard, he went to work in the south side of Chicago helping to find adequate jobs and housing for the middle and lower class residents. Obama has done more good than McCain.
You people are funny. This administration didn’t put Country First when they issued contracts for war products to foreign countries and left Americans without jobs. How about Hurricane Katrina 3 years ago? Was that Country First?
Today, President Bush announced $1 billion in new economic aid to Georgia to help it rebuild after Russia’s invasion. How the hell is that Country First?

“President Bush announced $1 billion in new economic aid to Georgia to help it rebuild after Russia’s invasion. How the hell is that Country First?”
Yes, that’s what you said after the Russians left Afghanistan. The cities collapsed, the tribal chiefs took over, then the Taliban made a deal with bin Ladin. A decade later, 9/11.
Please become smarter. You vote. It really matters that you understand what being a world power is about. That is what putting Country First means: to put the welfare of the country ahead of the party. If you are in a party of hate and the Great Get Even, putting the country first means you cross lines and vote for the other candidate.
With every post like that I see from the Obama camp, I am more convinced that McCain/Palin is not just the right choice, but that there is no other choice.

“Regarding job creation…unemployment in Alaska has risen under Governor Palin.”
UNEMPLOYMENT HAS RISEN ALL OVER OUR BELOVED COUNTRY; you can’t blame Sarah for it all!

Len,
Well said regarding the collapse of Afghanistan and our role in the world.
Though you should know on the other post that deals with Georgia and Obama meeting their Prez, its McCain fans slagging Obama for the billion.
Such is politics.

And Obama just want to tell us all the things that is wrong with us and America and everry thing, and all the evils of capitalisum, like the evils of owning seven houses etc. And the greatness of comunisum is, you can not own houses , land or your bussines, every body is equally poor.And you will need a permit to travel from Chicago to Detroit.

Palin has only been governor for twenty months, hardly enough time to gain a lot of executive experience or to have proven her leadership works. Wake up, people, her biggest contributors to her campaign were the oil companies. They aren’t giving their money away for nothing.

Palin:
1. Husband 5 year member of the AIP whose sole purpose is to break away from the United States. Although S.Palin was never a “member” and just attended the convention, her husband was an ACTIVE member.
2. Why do people keep comparing Obama with Palin? Isn’t Obama/McCain and Palin/Biden?? Is the reason we are comparing them is because of the experience factor? We can all agree that both of them lack a certain amount of experience. BUT it wasn’t the Democrats who were whining about a lack of experience…it was the Republicans. The constant question put to the Republicans is “Was Sara Palin the absolute BEST republican VP pick” and when asked this, they ALWAYS revert back to Obama.
3. Please remember this when it comes to the experience factor: Obama made it to the Presidential nomination by the VOTERS and Palin made it by the voice of ONE person. That means that after taking Obama’s lack of experience under consideration, the VOTERS of America decided that he could do the job.
4. I just want to say that I LOVE the way the Republicans say that S. Palin and her daughter made a CHOICE to continue the pregnancy and that she herself made a CHOICE to keep her baby. If they are Pro-Life…what was there to discuss?

@ryan: “Though you should know on the other post that deals with Georgia and Obama meeting their Prez, its McCain fans slagging Obama for the billion. Such is politics.”
Too bad. That’s wrong. What we learned after WWI is that if you leave a nation in ruins, what emerges is a hate-filled nationalism that spreads like a disease. After WWII people objected to the Marshall Plan, but it is the foundation of the success of the European economy today which otherwise would have gone to the communists by default. Sadly it has slipped into deep socialism but the horse can only be led to the water to repeat a cliche.
And that is what we face here, Ryan. Understand, I was a Democrat until the left wing whack jobs who like a vodka with a twist more than a day on the job took over the party and destroyed its best chance of winning by jiggering the delegates and launching attacks on its best candidate. No way is that leadership I can believe in. I’m not sold on the Republicans, but I do believe that John McCain is a man of honor and that Sarah Palin is the best thing that has happened in this election.
It’s a screwy election, no doubt, but I have to go for the candidates I can identify with and who talks about the things I care about and believe they can deliver. It’s beginning to look like the unthinkable is thinkable: a minority President with a majority Congress. Deal.