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Re: The President and the Chairman

Martha — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:36:33 -0000

I am glad you are doing and understand what the american people are going thru. I have already lost my home and my car is next because when I purchased it I could pay for it. Now how do I get to work where I leave the nearest bus is4 miles away.
Well fargo will not work with me they say they cant but yet the USA bails out all of these banks and I have to pay to file bankupcty. More money the I do not have.I feel God has even abandonded this country and me.
Hopeless

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DoveSong — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:24:29 -0000

Nuts dude... You must get some COOL-aid. Now that's Barack. Emphasis on the COOL...

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DoveSong — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:21:46 -0000

Totally! I thought the same thing myself many times! I kept saying, he (Barack) reminds me of somebody - Frankie! Seriously - the same essence. Wow. You nailed it!

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a-j — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:34:18 -0000

Exactly! When I heard people describe Obama as this or that famous person, the only "cool dude" I could think of was Sinatra.

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Juanito — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:23:17 -0000

Yes, the uber-cool guy from Jersey who took the pics while his mobster pal raped Monroe
at Cal-Neva Lodge at Tahoe. Raped her every which way. They'd slipped her a mickey
and she'd puked her guts out, was half conscious. That was a few weeks after she'd
flown east to sing happy birthday and soon was fired by 20th C. Fox.
Happy birthday to JFK.

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jp — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:11:09 -0000

OFFICE of the PRESIDENT ELECT what the !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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lb — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:59:55 -0000

The President Elect has always reminded me of Cary Grant-confident and elegant

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Jim Burrows — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:33:32 -0000

I understand Harold's point, but the reason Presley held such magnetism, was not just that part of his appeal was "demonstrative", but that he was seen, from the start, as a person who was white, but sang the blues, gospel, and r&b with the gusto, and the guts that the mere fact of doing that, in mid-fifties America, necessitated. Besides, Presley was just as cool while standing totally still, and singing a ballad in front of 62 million American on the Ed Sullivan Show, as he was demonstrative when on his knees, or lying flat on the floor whilst in the concert tour, also that year, as the more than 120,000 pictures taken of him, on stage, and in 1956 alone, can clearly attest. The unvarnished truth is that Obama's power to captiivate people who are black, white, or of any other racial background, and affect them massively, is a lot more like the case of the young Elvis. Unlike Sinatra, or even Jagger, Presley really inter-acted with his fan base. Incidentally, of those 120,000 photographs taken, in 1956, at least 90 percent were taken by fans, off stage, with him...

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Gene Perla — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:05:26 -0000

Wow, Harold, Sinatra! Right on the money.

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Swami_Binkinanda — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:28:59 -0000

It's not koolaide, it's distilled hope. Koolaide is for people being sold Jim Jones' suicidal kooky religion. This is the fulfillment of a long put-off dream of America.

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l in la — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:16:51 -0000

STEP AWAY FROM THE KOOLADE