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blackspade:
In Canada they have universal healthcare, and schools are better. If you get sick in Canada, you get the best treatment for almost free. But, it's more expensive to live there than the USA. In America healthcare and schools aren't as good, but it's cheaper and easier to live here if you're a newcomer.


I suggest America, I've been here for almost 2 years, and they basically pay for everything right now. I have a federal education grant, where they pay for my education, and they pay for my living conditions, and they give me a check for living expenses. You might be able to get the same thing in Canada though.

How do you get all those benefits?

HELL NO, I rather them or me be buried where I can visit the grave.

When someone is buried you still have a sense of feeling that they are there. When they are cremated, It gives me a sense that they do not exist anymore whatsoever.

r o t f l m a o!!!

I am going to look more into this story.

I hope its true.

chykeo:
BOY,

THIS PARTICULAR SPEECH IS NOT OBAMA'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. THIS IS THE SPEECH HE GAVE AT THE 2004 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, WHEN HE WAS AT THE STATE SENATE IN ILLINOIS. IT WAS THIS SPEECH THAT BROUGHT HIM TO LIMELIGHT.

FOR THE 2008 ACCEPTANCE SPEECH GO TO www.barackobama.com YOU CAN WATCH IT THERE

Thanks For the Link. I copy and paste the wrong transcript.

I read other blogs like CNN and they are not buying it. Maybe my reasoning is a little bias because CNN is mostly Liberal.

Anyway, Barrack seems to be leading in the polls.

Its still a long way to go.

4 Play:
What is Obama's experience? Is it being a "community organiser"? The best Obama can claim is that his running mate has more experience than McCain's running mate. Biden has never held a proper job for long in the real world,outside of politics. He has no executive experience whatsoever,nor does Obama.

The last people who should bring up the experience issue is the Obama campaign. Obama said that his lack of experience is made up for by his good judgement,exemplified by his position on Iraq,he then went on to pick Biden. Are we to deduce that Biden,given his votes against Gulf War 1 and for Gulf War 2,also lacks judgement?

A LITTLE CUT AND PASTE FROM BARACK WEBSITE!!!

"The College Years
Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.

The group had some success, but Barack had come to realize that in order to truly improve the lives of people in that community and other communities, it would take not just a change at the local level, but a change in our laws and in our politics.

He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

Political Career
It has been the rich and varied experiences of Barack Obama's life - growing up in different places with people who had differing ideas - that have animated his political journey. Amid the partisanship and bickering of today's public debate, he still believes in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose - a politics that puts solving the challenges of everyday Americans ahead of partisan calculation and political gain.

In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

In the U.S. Senate, he has focused on tackling the challenges of a globalized, 21st century world with fresh thinking and a politics that no longer settles for the lowest common denominator. His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent. He has also been the lead voice in championing ethics reform that would root out Jack Abramoff-style corruption in Congress.

As a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. And knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America's addiction to oil, he's working to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars"


and talking about experience, Bush and Bill Clinton who had the best experience? Who was the worst president?

Experience does not mean anything becasue BUSH had the most experience and Will go down as the worst president in the history of USA!!!

[quote author=nigeria1@@ link=topic=165448.msg2725883#msg2725883 date=1220033544]Mccain is good for Nigeria economy. believe me on this. And he is also good for my own economy over here in canada. Mcmcain would destroy america. and destroy the manufacturing section which is good for canada manufacturing sector. And means better life for me in canada. Go mccain go. You see this obama want to repair everything in america and make america better. I do not think that is good for nigeria economy and canada economy.

Mccain promises he would remain in the war for 100 years. all nigeria need to do is pray that he lives for 8 yeras. so that oil prices would become $700 per barrel. canada is also an oil producing country, which is good for my own economy. so i need to be selfish and selmeat on this issue. (joke)

Obama is bad for nigeria economy, if he repair the USA. oil price would drop. we do not need that in nigeria. with mccain by the grace of God. it may go to $700 per barrel. which is good for canada and nigeria . Obama does not believe in free trade to canada. can you imagine. go mccain go, we need someone to destroy the USA economy.[/quote]YOU DO NOT MAKE ANY SENSE!!!

If you destroy the US economy, U DESTROY THE WORLDS ECONOMY!!!

[quote author=~Lady~ link=topic=165448.msg2726123#msg2726123 date=1220035831]That old man will chew McCain's V.P.
I know Biden that man is no joke and he does not hold back. I feel sorry for the woman. She is inexperienced, the women don't want her, and she has to face Biden in debate.

I feel so sorry for her.

Lol, if you say so.

actually a typical washington is one who holds true to the same old politics. biden is that. he may have been there for long, but he never got caught up in the politics, he still takes the train to work and back, while everyone is driving their mercedes and switching it up everyday.

Biden is also a Catholic and Obama needed help in that area with conservatives.[/quote]I gree with ya. Biden will destroy this women in the debate. This damn election just got way more interesting.

Kobojunkie:
I believe the pick is a perfect choice for McCain, even though I was hoping he would go for Mitt Romney.

Palin happens to be one of the very few conservatives out there who has been actively fighting against wasting spending in Government. She is just like McCain in that area, and the fact that she happens to be a woman, makes it even more interesting.

OH Kobojunkie, Ofcourse U will say that. You are a republican.

Can you answer this question, WHY DO McCAIN ALWAYS TALK ABOUT HIM BEING A POW?

Tell your man to come up with something new instead of " I was a pow blah blah blah".

Bad choice.

HERE IS THE TRANSCIPT,


OBAMA: Thank you so much. Thank you.

(APPLAUSE)

Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.

(APPLAUSE)

Thank you, Dick Durbin. You make us all proud.

On behalf of the great state of Illinois,

(APPLAUSE)

, crossroads of a nation, land of Lincoln, let me express my deep gratitude for the privilege of addressing this convention. Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely.

My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin- roof shack. His father, my grandfather, was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.

OBAMA: But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son. Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place, America, that's shown as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had come before him.

(APPLAUSE)

While studying here my father met my mother. She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas.

(APPLAUSE)

Her father worked on oil rigs and farms through most of the Depression. The day after Pearl Harbor, my grandfather signed up for duty, joined Patton's army, marched across Europe. Back home my grandmother raised a baby and went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they studied on the GI Bill, bought a house through FHA and later moved west, all the way to Hawaii, in search of opportunity.

(APPLAUSE)

And they too had big dreams for their daughter, a common dream born of two continents.

OBAMA: My parents shared not only an improbable love; they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or "blessed," believing that in a tolerant America, your name is no barrier to success.

(APPLAUSE)

They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential.

(APPLAUSE)

They're both passed away now. And yet I know that, on this night, they look down on me with great pride.

And I stand here today grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents' dreams live on in my two precious daughters.

I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy; our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

(APPLAUSE)

, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

That is the true genius of America, a faith,

(APPLAUSE)

, a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles; that we can tuck in our children at night and know that they are fed and clothed and safe from harm; that we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door; that we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe; that we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution; and that our votes will be counted -- or at least, most of the time.

(APPLAUSE)

This year, in this election, we are called to reaffirm our values and our commitments, to hold them against a hard reality and see how we are measuring up, to the legacy of our forbearers and the promise of future generations.

OBAMA: And fellow Americans, Democrats, Republicans, independents, I say to you, tonight, we have more work to do,

(APPLAUSE)

, more work to do, for the workers I met in Galesburg, Illinois, who are losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that's moving to Mexico, and now they're having to compete with their own children for jobs that pay 7 bucks an hour; more to do for the father I met who was losing his job and chocking back the tears wondering how he would pay $4,500 a months for the drugs his son needs without the health benefits that he counted on; more to do for the young woman in East St. Louis, and thousands more like her who have the grades, have the drive, have the will, but doesn't have the money to go to college.

Now, don't get me wrong, the people I meet in small towns and big cities and diners and office parks, they don't expect government to solves all of their problems. They know they have to work hard to get a head. And they want to.

Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you: They don't want their tax money wasted by a welfare agency or by the Pentagon.

(APPLAUSE)

Go into any inner-city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.

OBAMA: They know that parents have to teach, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white. They know those things.

(APPLAUSE)

People don't expect -- people don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better. And they want that choice.

In this election, we offer that choice. Our party has chosen a man to lead us who embodies the best this country has to offer. And that man is John Kerry.

(APPLAUSE)

John Kerry understands the ideals of community, faith and service because they've defined his life. From his heroic service to Vietnam to his years as prosecutor and lieutenant governor, through two decades in the United States Senate, he has devoted himself to this country. Again and again, we've seen him make tough choices when easier ones were available. His values and his record affirm what is best in us.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded. So instead of offering tax breaks to companies shipping jobs overseas, he offers them to companies creating jobs here at home.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: John Kerry believes in an America where all Americans can afford the same health coverage our politicians in Washington have for themselves.

(APPLAUSE)

John Kerry believes in energy independence, so we aren't held hostage to the profits of oil companies or the sabotage of foreign oil fields.

(APPLAUSE)

John Kerry believes in the constitutional freedoms that have made our country the envy of the world, and he will never sacrifice our basic liberties nor use faith as a wedge to divide us.

(APPLAUSE)

And John Kerry believes that in a dangerous world, war must be an option sometimes, but it should never be the first option.

(APPLAUSE)

You know, a while back, I met a young man named Seamus (ph) in a VFW hall in East Moline, Illinois. He was a good-looking kid, 6'2", 6'3", clear eyed, with an easy smile. He told me he'd joined the Marines and was heading to Iraq the following week.

OBAMA: And as I listened to him explain why he had enlisted -- the absolute faith he had in our country and its leaders, his devotion to duty and service -- I thought, this young man was all that any of us might ever hope for in a child. But then I asked myself: Are we serving Seamus (ph) as well as he's serving us?

I thought of the 900 men and women, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, friends and neighbors who won't be returning to their own hometowns. I thought of the families I had met who were struggling to get by without a loved one's full income or whose loved ones had returned with a limb missing or nerves shattered, but still lacked long-term health benefits because they were Reservists.

(APPLAUSE)

When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they are going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return and to never, ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace and earn the respect of the world.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: Now, let me be clear. Let me be clear. We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued. And they must be defeated.

John Kerry knows this. And just as Lieutenant Kerry did not hesitate to risk his life to protect the men who served with him in Vietnam, President Kerry will not hesitate one moment to use our military might to keep America safe and secure.

(APPLAUSE)

John Kerry believes in America. And he knows that it's not enough for just some of us to prosper. For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga, a belief that we are all connected as one people.

If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child.

(APPLAUSE)

If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription and having to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent.

(APPLAUSE)

If there's an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties.

(APPLAUSE)

It is that fundamental belief -- it is that fundamental belief -- I am my brother's keeper, I am my sisters' keeper -- that makes this country work.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family: "E pluribus unum," out of many, one.

Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.

Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

The pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue States: red states for Republicans, blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.

We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we've got some gay friends in the red states.

(APPLAUSE)

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq, and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?

John Kerry calls on us to hope. John Edwards calls on us to hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism here, the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't think about it, or health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it.

That's not what I'm talking. I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: Hope in the face of difficulty, hope in the face of uncertainty, the audacity of hope: In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation, a belief in things not seen, a belief that there are better days ahead.

I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity.

I believe we can provide jobs for the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair.

I believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs, and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices and meet the challenges that face us.

America, tonight, if you feel the same energy that I do, if you feel the same urgency that I do, if you feel the same passion that I do, if you feel the same hopefulness that I do, if we do what we must do, then I have no doubt that all across the country, from Florida to Oregon, from Washington to Maine, the people will rise up in November, and John Kerry will be sworn in as president. And John Edwards will be sworn in as vice president. And this country will reclaim it's promise. And out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come.

Thank you very much, everybody.

God bless you.

Thank you.

END

toshmann:
jackie wasnt bad. she was classy. a home maker. she emphasized the importance of interior decor for the whitehouse. she kept away from policy and politics while standing solidly behind JFK and for the kids. michelle could learn from her too.

how about cindy? nobody is talking about her. as rich as she is she is able to maintain a marriage . . . . . i mean, in america very few rich women are happily married . . . . .you know what i mean . . . independently rich women are not usually great marital examples but cindy is doing it.

agaba, i no get problem with michelle o. but tell am say make she de put up more smiles. e no de cost money to smile. infact experts say it takes less muscles and effort to smile than to bone

YOU GUYS ARE AFRAID OF MICHELLE BECAUSE SHE IS A STRONG WOMEN.

toshmann:
hmmmn, BB1 the smilologists

anyway, laura remains the best 1st lady in recent times. cindy may be closer. not hillary, not michelle. she looks bitter, too tall, too i-sabi-too-no-look-down-on-me . unfit for the image
she needs plastic surgery. and ahaa, her younger daughter needs emergency dental work up (hey, just kidding )

Please don't go hating on my Lil Malia. That Girl is beautiful.

PS. I do not see anything wrong with the way Michelle Obama dress or smile. Maybe its just how she is.

Oh yeah, The best first lady will always be Jacki O aka Miss JFK!!!

DeepZone:
Great pick, Watch us rally every American woman to vote republican. Obama nearly got me yesterday but the euphoria is gone now.

McBUSH is a dumbass. He just wants Hillary supporters to jump on his nuts. This dude has no respect for women. He even called his wife a cunt. GTFOH!!!

Damn Republicans!!!

The Republican National Convention will not be half as good as DNC!!!

Negro Nuts

Cayon:
them say that's why many white ladies love dogs as pets

Who are the "THEM"?

[quote author=nigeria1@@ link=topic=163866.msg2706915#msg2706915 date=1219703200]WHO owns google uk OR usa.[/quote]USA owns Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, Yahoo, and DUH GOOGLE!!!

doyin13:
see as u dey display your ignorance

British Aerospace, BP, Shell, HSBC. . . . . .

Shior

They are only famous in the UK except Shell!!!

lmao@ op username!!!

Please, Laura Bush and Cindy McCain are WEAK!!

Michelle Obama is a strong women who wants to be heard and is full of knowledge. She is not just Obama Backbone, She is a women who loves to express her opinions.

Beanshead:
obamas assasination atempt was predicted by pastor tunde bakare. he said obama would bcm president. but that before that they would try to kill him. hmmm, i blv they only helping the prophecy cm true! long live OBAMA! he cnt be killed, God is behind you, so we are as well. wots your view?

Tell that dumbass pastor to stop spewing rubbish out of his ass.

LMAO!!!

That Lady is iLL!!

Well, DID SHE GET PREGNANT BY U?

Take to sport section.

What the hell is an ALBINO?