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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:13 AM
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Brilliant Speech given by Obama to CANF, and yet, all I read is about what Hillary said?
Let us uplift our candidate. :)


He has done a great job campaining in Florida these last 3 days.

When the General Election comes around, Florida and what Obama did there will be way more important than what Hillary said about 1968.

Thanks to Hillary, McCain's Pastors have been knocked out of the news, as well as McCain not being present to vote for the GI Educational Bill yesterday.

Here's the most excellent OBama cerebral speech given to "not the choir"!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x136736


Also his 2003 speech at a Labor Rally: (to verify consistency over time)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=136233&mesg_id=136233
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:17 AM
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1. Thank-you for the information FrenchieCat. I'll check this out.
:hi:
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:18 AM
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4. Please do. This is what is important.
This Obama fellow has got it going on!
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Whalestoe Donating Member (928 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:17 AM
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2. Watching it right now... Thank you. n/t
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:28 AM
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9. !
:hi:
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Whalestoe Donating Member (928 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:59 AM
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18. Barack is at the top of his game here. Amazing!
:hi::hi:
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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:18 AM
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3. K&R for some a good reminder of what's really important
TY FC! :hi:
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:20 AM
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5. You are most welcome!
Here's another great pic!


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quantass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:20 AM
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6. Yea that Cuba/Latin America speech was AMAZING! Everyone should watch it!
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:22 AM
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7. The Chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation
Basically stated in his speech right before Obama that Bush had totally fucked up in his Cuban Policies. Good news for the Dems in Florida!

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bhikkhu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:28 AM
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8. That was one important speech - thanks.
It is perhaps telling of the "neglect of the Americas" that there is probably not a lot of interest...years of local dysfunction have conditioned us to expect little, and to envision nothing.

I have an open mind, and see problems too without being able to see solutions...things have been the same set of stalemates for so long. I am amazed again at the grasp of policies and history and potentials that Obama demonstrates. Thanks again.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:33 AM
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12. You're welcome. Obama can win these Cuban-American Republicans......
They were clapping quite a bit.


Just trying to balance out this forum.

There is really too much "Hillary" here, at this forum.

IMO, She's no longer viable as a contender....
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:32 AM
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10. Thanks hon
Am listening now on another 'puter.

He is amazing.

:hug:

K & R'd
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JimGinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:32 AM
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11. If Lou Dobbs Saw It I'm Sure His Head Exploded Though...
:nuke:
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:34 AM
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13. Just saw your wonderful thread.....
Seems like we are on the same track. :)
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:43 AM
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14. I don't know how to say this, but CANF doesn't work for democracy in Cuba.
And courting that organization is nothing to be proud of. Their mission is to overthrow the Cuban government -- sort of like how we took democracy to Iraq.

I guess he feels he needs those votes but CANF is a special interest group and the welfare of the Cuban people, let alone, democracy in Latin America is nowhere on their radar screen.
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 03:01 AM
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19. That was my first reaction too, but
I think Obama is trying to put it on their radar screen. This is intriguing.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 03:19 AM
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20. Intriguing? it's like trying to reform the Mafia.
These people were just caught last week sending money into Cuba via one of our own diplomats to destablize the Cuban government.

These people are not altruists.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/cuba/sfl-0522cuba,0,6186805.story?track=rss
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 03:20 AM
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21. I know !
I know, I know, I know. That's why I find it fascinating!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:36 PM
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24. Judi Lynn said, "but look who he's talking to!" LOL.
Well, I hope you guys are right.

:)
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:51 AM
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15. I caught part of his speech tonight on C-SPAN
As usual, he sounded calm, measured, thoughtful and Presidential!

:thumbsup:
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:58 AM
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16. Frenchie!
Thanks for posting. This is an incredible speech, especially because CANF has been bouncing around from one political party to the other and has sometimes not shown the best judgment...but maybe that's because they have been emptily pandered to for so long.

Fascinating!
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 02:59 AM
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17. I'm watching it right now.
And thanks for the link, Frenchie!
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 05:18 AM
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22. It was OK, considering that he was addressing a bunch of sociopathic shitstains
--which he pretty much has to do because sociopaths vote too. Yay for US imperial domination of Latin America! Thanks, but no thanks.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 12:55 PM
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23. I've read that younger Cuban Americans are much more liberal
than their gusano parents. I'm surprised Obama did this, to tell you the truth.
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