Chicago faced a crisis in the prosecution of capital crimes when a moratorium was put on executions because so many defendents were exonerated by DNA.
Barack Obama got police, prosecutors & civil rights advocates together, & got an agreement by police to record all homicide interrogations. All felt this would strengthen the prosecution’s case when confessions were valid, but would also discredit coerced confessions. This allowed the legal system to proceed.
Obama listens to all sides, and tries to find common ground. As he says, the common ground isn’t always in the middle.

An endorsement from psuedo-Democrat McCulloch, just after an endorsement from like-minded Claire, is all I needed to finalize my decision to support Clinton over Obama.

Yeah!!! Hooray! Go Obama!!!

How anyone can endorse a person who is dishonest about his race is beyond me. Obama’s mother was white, his father from Kenya. His father was out of the picture after 2 years, then his mother remarried a man from Indonesia, where he grew up and attended a Muslim school until the age of 10. After that the man was raised by his white grandparents. How anyone could call this man “African American” is a true insult to the millions of African Americans in this country. I’m sorry, but dark skin pigmentation does not make one an African American.
It’s also hilarious that the Kennedy’s have endorsed Obama, just remember what happened to Jack and Bobby, surely that is not a curse that anyone should want.

Rich - You make no sense. Kenya (which, in case you didn’t know, is in Africa), Kansas is in the United States of America. Kenya + Kansas = African-American.

He’s never been dishonest about his race, and nice try in perpetuating the totally disproved myth that Obama is a muslim.

If Mike McMillan can be black, why can’t Obama?

Oracle - I don’t know what Mike McMillan’s background is, but the first time I saw him at an event, I wondered how a redneck white boy could get elected in a north St. Louis ward.

I finally figured out what bothers me about Obama’s public speaking. I like him and he’s smart, but his rhetoric always seemed to me forced, artifical, almost phony in tone, cadence, inflection, that sort of thing, tho I’m sure his words are sincere. I was listening to news this morning and they had Obama speaking, then Martin Luther King, then Kennedy, for some reason. First it sounded like Obama tries to channel MLK, then I realized even more so JFK. If you’re going to channel someone, one could do worse than those guys, but he’s no MLK or JFK yet. His verbal tone and rhetorical style different when he’s just speaking. Trying to mirror others seems to me affected in a way I find off-putting. And there you have it.

Thank You!
Thank You!
Thank You! (att post #2)

You, in those brief few words have listed, for me, a good Republican, what is making this a great election year.

PLEASE continue to fight among yourselves… call each other names… disagree in public.

And please make sure that Hillary destroys your party while winning the nomination…and that Black voters stay home because she screwed over a brother.

Or give it to Obama, so that, mistrusted he will not have the support of the party faithful… you know, people like you… and the machine regulars sit on their hands and let the Black kid fail.

I’m good either way…

OOOOh, folks,
Obama is not magic. He just tries to get a handle on everybody’s concerns & where we have (or ought to have) common interests, he will work on that.
If we really care about a little improvement, we will work with him (& the “coalition of the willing” from the other side).
But, we are going to have to trust this man.
We are going to have to acknowledge that “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” But if you try sometimes…you just may find…..YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED.
(apologies to the Stones & Ace of Cups)