A time line to Barrack’s adult life and what it really means, In this I will show no disrespect for the accomplishments of a brilliant man who has pulled himself through some rather tough situations and not depended on govt. to take care of him.

1979 Graduates High School leaves Hawaii for Occidental College in Los Angelas, CA – Closest Mainland College he can afford
1981 – Transfers to Columbia University, NY, NY studies political science and realizes the power that can be found in the political arena
1983 – Does some private work for Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group. Realizes he is going no where fast in getting fame and power and looks around the country to the place he can go to get into politics, of all city’s in America Chicago has the best democratic machine
1985 – 1988 Puts his time in “working for the people ” as a community organizer in Chicago’s Southside – meets all the right people and decides a better education will move him along
1988 – Joins Trinity church – guaranteeing the African American vote and fully becoming part of the machine
1988 – Enters Harvard Law School to become what most politicians in America are a Lawyer – Puts himself on the national scene by becoming the first African-American to be head of the Harvard Law Review – starts to realize his dream
1992 – 2004 – Graduates Harvard moves back to Chicago – Joins the staff of University of Chicago Law School – does a huge voter drive keeping his name in the public eye – releases his first book 1995 – founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992, board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago,board of directors The Joyce Foundation board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challengeboard of directors of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center.

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Apparantly I dont fit in with the Republicans, according to everything I read as a conservative I should be a gun toting, religious, pro-life war mongering southern boy. I have never owned a gun, I’ve shot a couple, I like them but I dont hunt and dont like the idea of having one in my house ( thats what I like to say but really my wife is scared of them)- I believe that the 2nd amendment applies to all of us and if I want a gun i should have one.
I’m an atheist but I believe that if I want to go to church, I can. Also I believe if my son wants to pray at the school he should be able, but on the same token the muslim children should have the the same ability. I agree that church and state should be seperated, I dont want to walk up to a court house and see the ten commandments but if they have been there for more that 25 years ( the age a vehicle reaches antique age) than the display is historic and should be deemed so. I dont believe the abortion debate applies to todays presidency race, I have my own opinions and this will anger many but I dont want the president candidates to talk about it – we have bigger issues. I did not agree with the Iraq war – I dont think it was in our national interest to our nation to attack them – we should have packed our bags and gone into Afghanistan to finish that battle and let the UN take care of it without our help. I do want Iraq finished correctly because we dont need another Afghanistan in the middle east. I believe in the Reagan principle that we need smaller govt but I want both party’s and washington to stay out of my personal life.