Did Obama Make the Right Choice in Joe Biden of Delaware?

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We are going from one sporting event (Summer Olympics) to another type of sporting event: the Democratic National Convention kicked off in Denver on Monday.  The only unknown part of the convention, the vice-presidential choice, was announced on Saturday.

Joe Biden, Delaware, was named the Democratic vice-presidential candidate by Barack Obama on Saturday.  The original plan by the Obama campaign was to communicate who the vice-presidential candidate would be to supporters by text message.  That plan didn’t work out so well.  News of the vice-presidential candidate was first reported by the traditional media, though the Obama campaign sent their text message announcement out at 3:00 AM on the 23rd.

Obama and Biden made their first appearance together in Springfield, Illinois at the Illinois State Capital.  This is the same place Obama made the announcement he was running for president in 2006.

Monday night will focus on the story of Barack Obama.  In a relatively new tradition, the nominee’s wife, Michelle Obama will be the featured speaker.  Tuesday night’s theme will be Renewing America’s Promise and Hillary Clinton will be the featured speaker.

Wednesday night is an attempt at trying to be non-partisan in terms of foreign policy, using the theme “Securing America’s future”.  The night will focus on Obama as commander in chief.  The two main speakers on Wednesday are ex-President Bill Clinton and vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden.  Though it seems President Clinton was upset about his speech subject for the evening - he would rather have been talking about the economy.   Now it looks like the Obama campaign will let President Clinton talk about whatever floats his boat.

Thursday is the final night of the convention and the Democrats will be moving from the Pepsi Center to INVESCO Field to allow a larger audience to participate in the event.  After the roll call vote, Obama will give his acceptance speech.  Though there is contention between Hillary Clinton’s supporters and the Obama campaign about how long the roll call vote should continue until Obama is officially declared the candidate.

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Mccain – Obama – Their Faces Tell All!

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The Chinese have done it for longer than 2500 years – they still are. And more and more Westerners are doing it today. From a person’s face you can read amazing amount of information: the facial features and other characteristics show personality qualities such as the temperament, potential, disposition, creativity, and whether the person is, or will be, fortunate or not so fortunate. It also reveals sex life, popularity and life expectancy. The face provides the answers to your most important questions about compatibility with a potential life partner and prospects for success in business. Face reading provides valuable knowledge that can help us make the right decisions about the people we meet and deal with, and it can give us insight into ourselves. And, it may help us make the right decision in the U.S. upcoming presidential election.

            Some people say,”A politician is someone who belongs to the opposite party.” Pay no attention to them. Chinese face reading is neither cynical nor political. Its focus is character.

 

JOHN MCCAIN

The main elements on John McCain’s face are Earth and Fire. It means he has the sense of showmanship and he is adventurous. He is willing to take chances and wants to be in the public eye.

            Overall the features on his face are balanced, which is good. But at the same time his face has a lot of unevenness, different kinds of dimples and cavities. They may mean that the person has an uneven personality and temper.

            The lines on his forehead do not go evenly from one side to another. They are crooked. The area of forehead describes the person’s years 14-30, and according to the Chinese studies, that shows McCain had a lot of problems and difficulties during those years. His forehead is dominant. It is fairly high and broad, meaning he had good education and family background. He is intelligent and can form beneficial relationships in deciding what the future will be like.

            The eyes are rather small, suggesting that he can see things only in narrow focus, not exercising the command that his intelligence merits. He has a tendency to be self-satisfied about his accomplishment. People find him hard to get to know.

            His nose is straight, telling that he is doing financially well and he is honest. The person with this nose often seems to have achieved success easily. Things just fall into his lap. This person chooses and follows a direction to a goal.

            Even though the nose tells how reliable John McCain is, his ears reveal totally opposite. A person with his ears, where the inner rim of the ear is strong, is not considered reliable and he likes to go his own way. He does not want to depend on others.

            Senator McCain’s mouth is balanced. It tells he is adaptable; he smiles easily and has good vitality. He handles people well and finds it easy to deal with the public.

 

BARACK OBAMA

The main element on Senator Obama’s face is Gold. According to the Chinese studies, the genuine gold personality is easy to spot in a crowd with the person’s radiant eyes, perfect face shape, beautiful smile and the posture of royalty. It seems that anything a Gold person does will be a huge success. Very often they have a high social standing and enjoy the limelight. Unfortunately they often lack inner strength.

            Everything in Barack Obama’s face is in balance. His forehead is very smooth, hardly any lines, telling that all the way back to his youth, he’s had good intellectual ability and excellent values.

            The nose is straight, evenly built from top to bottom. It suggests an excellent career, happy family life, and very good health in the middle years and even longer. People with this kind of nose are trustful and extremely understanding. Everything has to be logical and sensible.

            The ears are protruding. The Chinese art of face reading informs that ears like that usually belong to a person who is easygoing, but somewhat irresponsible. Also, just like Senator McCain, the inner rim of his ears is strong and that can suggest the person not being reliable. Barack Obama’s ears also reveal that he is sophisticated, worldly, likes to live in big cities. He wants to take chances, but on his own, not depending on others. He is sociable, interested in color, sound and effect, and leads a rich life. He always looks for new people, new ideas, new trends and eagerly looks for a chance to express his views. He is successful, and because of determination and influential friends, he can make a mark for himself in the world.

            The mouth represents the personality. Mr. Obama’s mouth discloses that he is outgoing, strong and has a high status in life. And he will get lots of money!

           

How serious is this? Well, electing the next president to our great country is dead serious! If the thousands of years of facial feature studies and this totally non-political interpretation of the two candidates’ faces helps, that is great – and serious!

Face reading is fascinating. Read more at facereading.cx

Obama’s Misplaced Robin Hood Complex

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/CQiIi)

Barack Obama, like any good liberal, has a Robin Hood complex. This came out plainly when he bluntly told “Joe the Plumber”, a man who has been vilified by the left and has had his actual comment distorted into things he never said, that he wanted to, “spread the wealth around,” by taxing people who make too much. In this case, Obama has set that bar at a level of $250,000.

When it became clear to the Marxist left who believe in, “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” that such ideas were not going to fly in America as they had across Europe, they started to sing a different tune. In singing that different tune they have co-opted the figure of Robin Hood whose claim to fame, they believe, was that he “stole from the rich” to “give to the poor”. To an extent it is true, but not to the extent that liberals want you to believe.

Robin Hood is a beloved story told to many children and has admittedly undergone many tweaks and changes over time. As time has worn on, the left has been able to portray themselves as modern day Robin Hoods who want to take from those that have too much to give to those that have little or nothing. But the true story of Robin Hood is not simply that he “stole from the rich” and dispersed those spoils to the poor. Rather, those that Robin Hood fought against were the bureaucrats and the corrupt that kept the people under the heal of their boot. He fought against what was, at the time, excessive government and those that controlled the reins of power and the feudal order of the time.

In early tales Robin Hood was a member of the freeholder class and a land owner – not someone that was poor himself. He had no real reason to stand up against the feudal system except that he saw it as wrong.

The Sheriff of Nottingham is perhaps Robin Hood’s best known adversary. In other tellings of the story Prince John was also right up there with the Sherriff and a cruel leader in the absence of King Richard who was off fighting in the crusades. Both were of the nobility, the “chosen” class, and given fiat powers to rule over the people without consent of the people. There were, for all intents and purposes, tyrannical politicians. The Sheriff was in fact, the “tax collector” of the day.

The second most famous enemy Robin Hood fights is Guy of Gisborne, whose roll changes depending on the exact story being told. Whatever version of the story however, Guy of Gisborne is a corrupt figure in the service of the Sheriff either directly or indirectly and a partner in the corruption seeking out Robin Hood.

Others of Robin’s foes are members of the Catholic Church who have turned to corruption like the Bishop of Hereford who was fleecing his congregation for his own betterment.

In fact, Robin Hood was not just a champion of “the poor” but of what was right. He regularly befriended tradesmen who would join his band of Merry Men. Businessmen oppressed under the yoke of taxes, farmers, workers and even nobles rallied behind Robin Hood. In fact, in early tales the “Merry Men” of Robin Hood were pretty well to do yeomen like figures. They wielded swords, not the quarter staffs of later tales and of poorer folk, and swords were not cheap so one had to have money to have one.

Yes, depending on the telling of the story, the exact circumstances do change. But overall the theme remains the same – Robin Hood fought against oppressive government and corrupt public officials and even church officials on behalf of the citizenry. Not just the poor, but all the citizenry.

This is a far cry from what liberals like Barack Obama want to do. But for some reason they still envision themselves as modern day Robin Hoods. Is it because of ignorance? Is it because of stupidity? No, it is because liberals do what they always do. They change the meaning of words to suit their goals. They rewrite history to clean their own consciousness while relabeling all the bad things their fellow travelers have done from slavery, to the formation of the KKK to Jim Crow laws to the murder of Jews during Hitler’s reign in Germany as somehow “right wing” and the product of conservative ideologies. Meanwhile they portray themselves as heroic and fighting for the downtrodden. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain, the one at the switches and levers that wants to oppress and intimidate you into service.

They ignore the fact that Robin Hood was really more of a conservative than a liberal by today’s definitions of the terms and not a fellow traveler of theirs. They ignore the fact that he fought against tyranny, the established political order of oppression and high taxes. They ignore that that he took on corrupt religious leaders and called them to the carpet. And while ignoring all this, they supplant themselves as the true heir to a false legacy they have created for Robin Hood.

Yes, Robin Hood did steal from the “rich”. And by “rich” I mean the corrupt politicians and leaders of the day in which the stories are set. But he did not run around, much to the dismay of liberals, taking on good people who worked hard to make a living for themselves, stripping coin from their purse and running off to give it to another man who had not earned it.

On the other hand, liberals like Barack Obama are all about empowering big government and high taxation. Which makes them more like the Sheriff of Nottingham or Prince John than any sort of Robin Hood.