Obama elected President. My father is turning over in his grave tonight! What are your ancestors thinking now?

That not true he has as much or more experience the three of our past Presidents: Lincoln , Roosevelt and Clinton and I think they did a damn good job.

Don’t take this wrong because I’m not saying you’re prejudice, but you know the rumormonger bad mouth Kennedy and this reminds be of all the controversy surrounding his fight to the Presidency. Kennedy was the first Irish Catholic President; I remember the African American community was ecstatic because they went out of their way to help vote him into office. Never-the-less almost as soon as he won the whispers of a mob connection started. One rumor was that the mob had helped him get to the White House and the big boys owned him. It was also said that his father starting the Kennedy’s Empire with money from bootlegging, I tell you the anecdote ran for bizarre to outrageous. At the time the African American didn't understand all that anti-Irish, anti-Catholic sentiments; he looked like any other white man to us. I was young and it never occurred to me that white people were prejudice against other white people. But I do know this the African American people loved John F. Kennedy. To this day he is the only President whose picture hangs on my mother’s wall. I remember the day he was killed my mother had to come home from work, she was so upset and she wasn’t the only black adult I saw crying that day. I’ve been voting for over twenty/thirdy years some of my candidates lost some won but the last time I witness this magnitude of bitterness and hatred toward an elected President was Nov 22, 1963.

1 Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1988, 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.

2 He earned his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of Harvard Law revue.


3 After Harvard, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law.

4 He became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate

5 In the Illinois State Senate, Obama worked 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.

6 The first law he help passed was with Republican Tom Coburn, was 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.

7 He 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.


8 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.

9 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.

10 Obama is the first African American President



Kennndy Biography

Although he made some friends at Harvard-especially among the few Irish students there-and was popular with young Irish women, Kennedy never was accepted by a majority of the students. Anti-Irish, anti-Catholic sentiment was strong. One friend warned Kennedy to be very careful in his behavior because Boston Brahmins were watching for any sign that would justify their prejudices.

You can look this up on the internet if you like?

I did a quick study of presidential experience (see the results here) and discovered that out of 42 presidents, only 20 had more experience as an elected public official than Obama does now. Only 20 presidents had more experience than Obama as an elected official in Washington, D.C. In terms of his experience, Obama would be a typical president. Yet you won't find anyone in the media reporting on the fact that Obama has more foreign policy experience than four out of the last five presidents.