Oct 10, 2008 1:16pm

‘Barack Osama’ Printed on Hundreds of NY Absentee Ballots

ABC News’ Julia Hoppock reports: Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s last name was spelled "Osama" on three hundred absentee ballots mailed out this week in Rensselaer County, New York.

First reported in the TimesUnion.com, election officials in Rensselaer County say the misspelling is merely a typo.

The Democratic and Republican County Board of Election chairs, Edward McDonough and Larry Bugbee, said that "the error was not deliberate" in a joint statement issued Friday.

"In preparation of absentee ballots for the November 4th General Election, a typographical error was made in the name of one of the candidates.  The error was included on only 300 out of more than 4000 absentee ballots that will be mailed out this month.  The Board of Elections acted quickly to correct the typographical error and regrets the error."

Bugbee told the TimesUnion.com that despite having three different staff members look over the ballot, "somehow the typo got by us."

McDonough reiterated that the misspelling was nothing more than a mistake.  "No question this is an honest mistake innocently done,” McDonough told the TimesUnion.com ”We catch almost everything.”

The sensitive misspelling comes at a time when the McCain-Palin campaign has intensified attacks on Obama’s character, emphasizing his ties to 1960s radical William Ayres.

"I don’t care about two washed-up old terrorists that are unrepentant about trying to destroy America. But I do care, and Americans should care, about his relationship with him and whether he’s being truthful and candid about," Sen. John McCain said of Obama and Ayers in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson on Thursday.

Vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin also has questioned Obama’s trustworthiness.  In several recent campaign rallies the governor accused Obama of  "palling around with terrorists."

And as the Republican ticket has ramped up the rhetoric, some of McCain and Palin’s supporters have become increasingly hostile towards Obama. At a rally on Monday in Clearwater, one man shouted "Kill him," according to the Washington Post, after Palin mentioned Obama’s association to Ayres.

When McCain asked a crowd in Albuquerque, New Mexico this week, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" someone in the crowd yelled "A terrorist."

Election Officials in Rensselaer County—which is split almost evenly among Democrats and Republicans—said in a statement they have acted quickly to correct the error.

The Obama campaign said they were glad county officials were fixing the misspelling. “We’re glad officials are working to correct this error and we assume it won’t happen again,” said Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

ABC News’ Lindsey Ellerson and Sunlen Miller contributed to this report.

User Comments

For you die-hard supporters for His Nothingness. The market crash is a vivid warning of what you will see under a Zero-bama administration.
Zero-bama pushed hard to pass a so-called economic stimulus program, basically giving some of you up to $700 bucks, to “save” the economy. On the contrary, HRC wanted a targeted economic plan aimed at banking and mortgage crisis – this was 12 months ago! Yet, the Congress, headed by his House Mommy and Senate Daddy wanting to show their support and to pick an Affirmative Action candi, went along, ignoring the real crisis and a viable solution at that time, again 1 freeking year ago.
Now, this $700 did nothing, as characteristic to His Nothingness, to the economy; actually it led to the down-slide of more than 40%!!!! in the market. On top of this, this phony still wants to give you $1000 to (1) buy your vote if you vote for him, and (2) boost and rescue the economy if you elect him.
This is a serious judgment problem. Has he really ever made a good judgment call when he has the responsibility of doing something????
Are you blind supporters really as moronic as this phony is!

Posted by: d0 | October 10, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

Mccain voted yes to the bailout too! You need to be mad at both candidates!

Posted by: votes count | October 10, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

And honest mistake obviously!

Posted by: hmn | October 10, 2008, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm

THREE staff members looked over the ballots and ALL missed the typo? That’s pretty sad. I’m glad at least, they got the B in Ballot correct.

Posted by: arugulaNewYork | October 10, 2008, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm

Surely Obama can weather a little storm like a misspelled name. Heck, isn’t it this kind of thing that ACORN buffers against? All it takes is a dozen of those people who are registered 25 or 50 times to more or less ofset the spelling error. Problem solved, Obama.

Posted by: Mary S Saphr | October 10, 2008, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm

I live in Rensselaer County, NY and it’s no surprise this happened. The county government manages to screw up everything time and again!

Posted by: Jackie | October 10, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

it will take a few weeks for the bailout rescue to start working, right now no checks have been cut, but once they are, the credit markets should slowly start to untangle

Posted by: Bhrandon | October 10, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

I’m not buying this one as easily as some of you.

Posted by: Susan | October 10, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

This was not an honest mistake; this was intentional. We are not morons. I’m definitely voting Obama. How crazy do they think we are.

Posted by: Liz | October 10, 2008, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm

“Are you blind supporters really as moronic as this phony is!”….Were you looking in the mirror at yourself when you asked this question?

Posted by: Mark | October 10, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

Freudian slip?

Posted by: samhiguchi | October 10, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

it is a sign from God … nobama nosama!

Posted by: Cassandra Washington | October 10, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

Serious judgement problem? Are you kidding me? Explain Lipstick Palin. If you think Obama is responsible for all the ills in this country, then you are an ignorant tool who has been brainwashed by the dolts at Fox Noise.
How do explain the last 8 years with the majority controlling the house and senate. Republicans! You are the one that is blind. You would rather have a doddering old fool who has done NOTHING for this country in his 26 years in the senate, win the presidency. WOW! He can’t even keep his dementia under control anymore. He is a lying sack of crap and so is his genius of a wife, VP choice and her genius of a husband. OBAMA ’08

Posted by: John McCain is a liar. | October 10, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

I wonder what would have happened if things went the way they were the only president that screwed the whole world. what a legacy Bush is leaving for the world to remember him by. Deregulation,shipping jobs to China, a war noone wanted debt up to and past the eye brows. four more years of the republican pundits and we can kiss are butts goodby.

Posted by: Rose Szymanskir | October 10, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

This is no more an honest error than is the spamming of macroed tripe throughout every blog post on the site. More Rovian dirty tricks. Stay tuned!

Posted by: Yukon Sam | October 10, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

S and B are far apart on the keyboard.I doubt it was a mistake; more like “vote tampering ” a crime under most interpretations of the law, but not under the George Hitler Bush Administration. They stole one election, why not do it again.

Posted by: dcitizen | October 10, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

Unintentional?
MKKKain.

Posted by: Greg | October 10, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

Jackie,
It shows your judgment to vote in such a moronic county government, as you do now for Zero-bama.

Posted by: d0 | October 10, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

dO -I think the “blind fear” of this intelligent, articulate man is incredible. The fact that some people would rather have “Joe (Sarah) six pack” in the White House speaks volumes of their thought level. The trash talk from them and their dangerous stirring up of simple minded people is appalling.

Posted by: disgusted | October 10, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

the “S” key is nowhere near the “B” key

Posted by: rry | October 10, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

What’s the difference between Osama and 0bama?
Cannot tell. They both buy supporters by promising a certain number of dollars to do things for them or if you vote for him.

Posted by: d0 | October 10, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

Repugnicants are squeeling like a pig with lipstick.. your time is up and you will be the biggest ham-hock served.

Posted by: Vince | October 10, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

Check out Angry McCain T-shirts
http://www.zazzle.com/angry_mccain_t_shirt-235939996761745106
Everyone should buy one.
Anybody know where that picture of McCain came from of him with the ANGRY FACE. It should make a commercial sometime soon.

Posted by: Greg | October 10, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

Nice boo boo hope the person at fault foots the bill to repair the mistake maybe if those in charge of all screw ups were forced to make restitution there would be fewer mistakes made, the main one is the election of George Bush, now thats a mistake beyond correcting and who pays for that all of us, We are the USA not Iraq. Maybe if he had paid a little attention to his own country we would not be in the position we are in.

Posted by: Rose Szymanskir | October 10, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

Ha Ha His past WILL catch up with him eventually

Posted by: Whoopdedoo12 | October 10, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

There is no way this was an “honest mistake”. The hate speech that McCain and Palin are spewing is awful and is clearly backfiring. It just continues to show the bad judgement by McCain that he thinks this kind of stuff will work. He’s going to lose, and lose big.

Posted by: Wendy | October 10, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

Stupid Americans is what the rest of the world is saying and thinking… Osama Husseien was actually NOMINATED !!! What a joke

Posted by: Whoopdedoo12 | October 10, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

No way this was an honest mistake…the “b” on the keyboard is no where NEAR the “s”.
Wow…any attempt to instill fear, even subliminally, is a desperate attempt.

Posted by: Anonymous | October 10, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

Mark: Looked in the mirror and liked what I saw and how I felt about my decision to vote for Obama. Absolutely happy about that decision! Obama is a good, honest man who will help us “all” turn the nation around from the devastating years during the Republican administrations and Republican dominated Congress and Senates. I am very proud and recommend that you do the same for your candidate of choice by looking in your own mirror. I’m fairly sure that McCain will give you the opposite feelings. Bush is gone, McCain will be another Bush and Obama will bring us back together to re-empower the middle-class. Big Business — “The party is over”. No more big parties at the expense of the middle class.

Posted by: dlboggan | October 10, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

How un-American can the republicans be? When are we going outlaw this party just as Germany did with the Nazi party.
True Americans have had just about enough!
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

President Osama will reveal he is a muslim after he gets elected

Posted by: Whoopdedoo12 | October 10, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm

I spell checked an email the other day that had Obama’s name it and the spellchecker marked “Obama” as a misspelled word and offered “Osama” as the correction. Perhaps the same thing happened here?

Posted by: Rebecca | October 10, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

Republican Nazi!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

and you would rather have this:
http://www.keatingeconomics.com/

Posted by: no_more_mad_cows | October 10, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

It’s a Republican error – they are trying to fix the election like they did the last two elections. They’ll come along and say the ballots don’t count cause Obama’s name isn’t on them.

Posted by: allyana | October 10, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

Makes you wonder who the typist was – Cindy or Sarah?

Posted by: Sharon | October 10, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

i hope palin becomes president after the old man keels over, she is soo smart!!! not!

Posted by: republican | October 10, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm

I think Palin should watch what she says. She sounds like she is trying to insight a riot and being used by the republicans. A civil war and increased racial tensions could break out. Obama has as much right to run for president “and win” as well as any other citizen in this country. I feel 100% that the republicans have gone too far. Nothing has changed in this country. When someone nonwhite runs for president, then all the folks who “say” they believe in justice, equality, etc. all of a sudden start having feelings of hatred. Yeah, some of these people are showing their true feelings now. You don’t scream in a crowd of people “kill him” in reference to a presidential nominee. Too much free speech. Yeah, this country is definitely getting worse. We’re going to destroy ourselves, and it seems we’re doing a good job of that right now. When I hear things like this in the news, I turn to another channel, or just log off the internet. I am not republican and I don’t want anybody saying “kill him” in reference to John McCain. We have some people who are utterly crazy. I don’t want Obama or McCain shot. But there are people who have “real hate” in their hearts. They need to know Jesus.

Posted by: liz | October 10, 2008, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm

If Hussein Obama gets elected,it will
be a “black day” for America…….

Posted by: Nicholas | October 10, 2008, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm

Another scare tactic from “my friends” at the GOP

Posted by: kimberlygwade | October 10, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

Obama will complete the socialist revolution in the U.S.A…. After hanging out with socialists for most of his adult life, he became involved with ACORN, and taught members how to bully banks into giving high-risk loans to people with low credit (people who can’t afford to own a home or make the necessary payments). Once these institutions began to fail, precisely by giving into ACORN’s wishes one too many times, now he’s one of the people using taxpayers’ money to bail out people and institutions that made these poor economic decisions. Apparently, it’s now politically incorrect to allow people to fail when they make poor economic decisions! Now he wants society to become dependent on government, as it will attempt to save people from their poor economic decisions. No more consequences for bad decisions! The government will save and support you! The people working hard for their money and paying heavy taxes to the government will support you. So while the people making poor economic decisions are being rescued, the people doing everything right are getting screwed in all of this. There’s no more incentive for people to make good economic decisions, because government will just intervene to “make everything better again”… it will fix what you did wrong. Obama then wants everyone making over $250,000/year to carry a heavy tax burden, so that he can redistribute the wealth and help socialism. The taxes will then go to support more government programs, where they will spend more money and provide more assistance to those who continue to make poor economic decisions or don’t do anything productive for society. Yes, the savior, our government! And the true messiah, Obama!

Posted by: Capitalism | October 10, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

Don’t worry, my friends. d0 (dl) has come up with a creative new name-calling called “Zero-bama”.
But the only question remaining is is whether President Obama is elected by a landslide, or by the biggest landslide in American history.
But the republicans still get their victory too. Having fulfilled their their mission of raping, sodomizing, and burning America beyond recognition, they will leave office saying “mission accomplished”.

Posted by: clifton | October 10, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

MsStain on America and his sidekick Chick-Cheney are down so far in the polls for pulling crap like this. They should just quit now and apologize to the country for allowing this kind of campaign to occur!

Posted by: no_more_mad_cows | October 10, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

Killing the messenger has never worked in this country. It may have slowed a movement down a little, but it never work, and it should never be attempted.
This is the 21st century, and we should act like it. Unfortunately, the right has done a great job at destroying education in this country, and they have dumbed down too many who believe the fear that the right trys to instill in the population.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

You know, it is another sad day for America. The republicans are outraged at McCain because they feel as if he is not “stepping up to the plate”. But to be honest with you…..let’s just put it out there……this is still an “undercover” racist country. The problem with the republican voters is that they never thought they would see (in this lifetime)someone outside of their ethinicity actually make it into the White House and that has caused fear. Fear comes from the unknown and I do understand…. Nevertheless, if we as a people can stand back and really think about what is going on in our country (finances, mortgages, OUR CHILDREN!!!!!) we would make the right decision to vote for the right candidate. Yes, I was one of the foolish ones that voted for Bush in 2004. In 2008, I will be pushing the Obama/Biden button.

Posted by: AUGrad | October 10, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

Funny about this ACORN investigation. I saw this morning it is a Democrat who is saying it is cheating and her team are the ones putting a stop to it.
I also heard, they are republican and democrat documents filled out.
So can we end this ACORN Crap please. Obama is not the one standing in line filling out the papers, nor does he have control of who is.
Cheaters are on both sides. How do you think Bush got back into office.

Posted by: becky | October 10, 2008, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm

When Democrats took control of the house and the senate, I told my friends and family that we would soon see how bad the Democrats could mess up the economy with their liberal ideas. They have far surpassed my expectations.

Posted by: Bobby | October 10, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm

looks like the trashy americans are trying to be bullies, and stir up violence, hate and fear, what kind of america is this. Hurry get your guns, cuz I’m coming and hells coming with me! crazy butt republicans!

Posted by: dude wheres your brain | October 10, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm

Not far wrong!
A terrorist is a terrorist no matter how his name is spelled!

Posted by: dl | October 10, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

a friend of mine was at the clinic, waiting of course, and this couple had to wait also, he told the nurse that when Obama gets elected things are going to change.

Posted by: ettadawnn7th | October 10, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

a friend of mine was at the clinic, waiting of course, and this couple had to wait also, he told the nurse that when Obama gets elected things are going to change.

Posted by: ettadawnn7th | October 10, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

hope you use your brains instead of your guns when you vote, otherwise, see you in the sticks!

Posted by: dude wheres your brain | October 10, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

The people who are responsible for the sad state of affairs in this country are the people who voted for Bush.
For the last 8 years we have been slipping closer and closer to hell, and bush is leading the way.

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm

Well another delightful work week is over.
It seems like a broken record but AGAIN we find out about MORE voter fraud by the Democrats at ACORN. This time they tried to cheat a 98 year old woman with Alzheimer’s out of her vote. We KNOW the dead will vote OBAMA. Nevada, Indiana, Florida, Penn., Wisconsin and on and on and the FRAUD keeps going. In Wisconsin, they won’t even bother to check the new voter roll since August 6, defying Federal Law, and STILL most Democrats stonewall and facilitate the fraud. If your “Messiah” is the right choice, why do you need to take MY civil rights by cheaping my vote? Simple answer, because you’re low-lifes.

Posted by: Jack | October 10, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm

I would rather you republicans, including McCain and Palin tell us really why you don’t like Obama. Just say he is black and you would never vote for a black man and stop the other crap. Grow up McCain/Palin, grow up Republican party, just say it, stop making up other excuses that are totally off the wall and unbelievable. It is like a school yard bully. It is sicking.

Posted by: becky | October 10, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm

There was an error?

Posted by: EOBF | October 10, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm

These folks need to be fired. How utterly incompetent. Being able to read is a prerequisite of preparing a ballot. What a bunch of ignorant, illiterates.

Posted by: lxg | October 10, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm

I don’t believe it is a typo. The letters S and B aren’t next to each other on the keyboard.
It’s no more a typo than “McSame” would have been if that misspelling appeared on the ballot.

Posted by: Alex | October 10, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm

Becky, good point. I think there’s a lot of racism or xenophobia behind the most vituperative attacks agains Obama.
I’m interested in hearing what the Republicans are FOR, rather that what or whom they are against. But the Republicans seem more interested in bashing Obama than saying how they would build up this country.

Posted by: Lea | October 10, 2008, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm

Uh, McSame is a typo??? I thought that was his name.

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm

Anyone who can listen to Obama and think he is anything but a bright, articulate man must have had a mother who drank and chain smoked every single day of her pregnancy. Oh! That is why they call you Joe six pack.
Did your mothers even know enough to teach you manners?
Did your mothers or fathers actually read to you when you were children?
Did they have intelligent conversations with you?
I think not.
You are all just part of the dumb a** class.
People should be required to take an IQ test and a social skills quiz before they are allowed to vote.

Posted by: jezzabella | October 10, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Posted by: FreshMeatz | October 10, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm

d0,
Typical Republican move to blame the current economic status on Obama.
8 years of bad political and economical decisions under Bush, less than 2 years with a Democratic majority in Congress, and now it’s Obama’s fault?
Obama made the market fall 40%? Just like Iraq had nuclear weapons. Fear tactics and blame are all you guys are good at…too bad it won’t work this time. Dubya secured the Democrats this election already.
Don’t blame the shortcomings (many, many shortcomings) of Bush’s administration on Obama.

Posted by: crizzy | October 10, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm

Sorry to bust your bubble there Becky, but being Black has nothing to do with it. I would vote for Colin Powell in a heartbeat. No, what I don’t like about Osama, errrrr, sorry, I mean Obama is that over the last two years I have watched him morph from an extreme liberal position to a “tell them whatever I need to in order to get elected” The man is a jive ass con, and when he is elected, which he certainly will be, you will come to see what I mean.

Posted by: EOBF | October 10, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm

This is truly funny.

Posted by: Lisa Again | October 10, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm

“…Looked in the mirror and liked what I saw and how I felt about my decision to vote for Obama. Absolutely happy about that decision! Obama is a good, honest man who will help us “all” turn the nation around from the devastating years during the Republican administrations and Republican dominated Congress and Senates. I am very proud and recommend that you do the same for your candidate of choice by looking in your own mirror. I’m fairly sure that McCain will give you the opposite feelings. Bush is gone, McCain will be another Bush and Obama will bring us back together to re-empower the middle-class…”
dlboggan
Well said. It shows GREAT character to maintain your cool with the evilness that the Republican party is spreading. They are absolutely shameful. How they cannot see through the smokescreen that Mccain is using to divert attention from the economy is crazy! The bottom is falling out of our economy and that stellar Christian woman Palin is inciting violence and fear in her followers. The diehard republican base is buying their garbage, but they are the dangerous ones. The ones who think it’s ok to kill doctors and bomb clinics.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm

Whoopdedoo12
You are the most ignorant person i have met yet. You sit here an say “Obama’s gonna reveal that he’s a muslim when he’s elected” when you don’t have a clue what the true evil is. I mean are you dumb or stupid, have you not been living in the united states in the past 8yrs. Seriously, how much more does the republican party have to mess up b/f you dumb supporters go ” you know what, were in trouble”. I guess your ignorance will help you destroy your life, but don’t take the american people with you

Posted by: Newyork | October 10, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm

If Obama were 100% white, all this “sh#!” wouldn’t be going on. It is meant for Obama to be in the White House. It is simply meant to be. Have you ever tried to keep something from happening and it happens anyway? Well, look out, I strongly feel Obama will be our next President. I understand “dirty politics” but this talk about calling Obama a “terrorist” is way overboard. Is this really the USA? I detest this kind of politics, so that’s why on Voting Day, I will run to that voting booth to make sure I vote Obama. I never try to intimidate others and I will never allow anyone to intimidate me.

Posted by: liz | October 10, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm

Barrack Osama now that is funny

Posted by: agentlillyb | October 10, 2008, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm

Hey J, how ya doing today?
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm

Uh, Nobama is an American? I thought it was a joke.

Posted by: Art | October 10, 2008, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm

What do Osama and Obama have in common?
They both have friends who blew up the pentagon.

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm

it was the universe letting it get out to show the continued ties of obama to terrorist from the largest pool of unidentified money that has ever flooded into the U.S. election system, before or after the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reforms of 2002 and the million dollars raised in the U.S. by Obama and sent to the fellow tribemen running for Kenya president to the continues ties to Ayers and the 100 million that Ayeres had Obama distribute to various radical organizations over five years as head of the Community Fund in Chicago.

Posted by: smitty | October 10, 2008, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm

Nope not only is Obama an American, he is about to be the next President of the United States of America.
It will be a great day, and I can see you will be celebrating with the rest of the country.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm

EOBF,
Didn’t Dubya’s daddy teach him all about the “tell them whatever I need to get elected”. “Read my lips…no new taxes (for a month)”
Dubya relied on military and farm votes to get in the first time and then cut both farm aid and military spending right when he got into office.
You guys don’t have such a good track record for the last two Presidents you put in.

Posted by: willis | October 10, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm

I’s still trying to figure out why anyone would vote for Obama.
The guy has no experience. He has no bills in the Senate he can call his own. His group of “friends/mentors” are avowed Communists, racists, murderers, and terrorists. He’s changed his political views more than one changes his socks.
Yet all the pea-brained Obamaites can keep chanting is “hope” & “change”.
Pretty pathetic.

Posted by: Jack | October 10, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm

This is UNACCEPTABLE. The people who are responsible for this mistake should be FIRED! What kind of idiots are handling these ballots?

Posted by: jmb | October 10, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm

You got that right; when I read about that typo, I looked down at my keyboard and the S and B ARE NOT close together. We are not stupid and I definitely have a clear head. Most Americans don’t like this crap that’s going on and we are sick of it. The McCain campaign is really running a dirty campaign, and I think it will get dirtier.
And yeah, of course Obama is going to fight back; he’s not a weakling. Yeah, McCain feels it’s now or never; he’s older than when Reagan took office. McCain is not meant to be president.
With the antics that’s doing on, McCain would continue to divide this country as Bush has. He is not in touch with the average American.

Posted by: liz | October 10, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm

Jack
Obvioulsy other people have a different assessment of Obama than you do. Isn’t democracy great?

Posted by: jock59801 | October 10, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm

AUGrad
First i would like to say that i could not have ptu that any better. And it’s true, these people do not want to see a black man as president. Fine you don’t like black people that’s cool, just never let me see you in the street,but you can’t tell me that miss “i can see russia from my house” and the Mcsame aka i don’t know how to use an e-mail/i was behind bush the whole time the war was starting and i encouraged, is not gonna help, it might help your conscious to know you stopped a black man from becoming president (OBAMA WILL BE PRESIDENT)b/c the good always trumps evil after the dark age

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

– He has no bills in the Senate he can call his own –
He has over 130 in this session alone.. McCain has 38.
http://thomas.loc.gov/

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

Jack, it’s pretty simple, our only other choice is an old man who thinks that the fundamentals of the country are sound, who was in favor of attacking a country who did nothing to us, who has just received a grade of D from a veterans group, and picked a moose hunter as his running mate.

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

WOW, speak about character. Voters should review McCain’s life as they do Obama’s. Here is a biographic sketch from his military, civilian, and Congressional peers.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

Posted by: Bad Buoy | October 10, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

Jock…still doesn’t answer the question of WHY anyone would support Obama.

Posted by: Jack | October 10, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

And I’m sure the republicans had nothing to do with this? right….

Posted by: Julie | October 10, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

McCain and Palin are digging themselves deep in a political hole with all the hate filled rallies they are holding in the name campaigning. It will blow back on their faces. The time has come for the Republican party to take a back seat, and let sane and intelligent people like Obama and Biden restore the sanity of this great nation. Enough of this this lunacy.

Posted by: what667 | October 10, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

d0,
Contempt for your opponent will not get you, or your candidate, anywhere. Hillary and many of her supporters did not take Obama seriously until it was too late. Some of them, like you, still don’t take him seriously. How much good does your contempt for Obama do for your candidate? Nothing. Looks like McCain is repeating the same mistake. People who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Posted by: tony | October 10, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

If Hussein Obama gets elected,it will
be a “black day” for America…….
This Presidential race is what it took to see how far Americans still have to go with race relations. All is took was all this desperate negative fearmongering bs from McCain/Palin recently to bring it all to the surface. Such mean, hateful things are being said that I can’t believe that this is 2008! Country first?! That’s laughable.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

BELEIVE ME, OBAMA WILL BE PRESIDENT, AND WHEN THAT DAY DOES COME I WILL RUN INTO THE STREETS AND SCREAM “NOT EVEN ALL THE RASCISM IN THE COUNTRY COULD STOP HIM”
OBAMA WILL BE PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL BE PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL BE PRESIDENT

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

Right.
A Typo…Because “S” is Right Next to “B” on the Keyboard….
Yeah, Right…
…as in “Right” Wing Extremists…
These Extreme Fundamentalist Terrorist Organizations, Such as the Republican Party, will Stop at Nothing!
We as Americans Seriously Need to Question the Larger Picture Here. Soon We’ll be Forced into Saluting These Animals as We March to Our Labor Camps.
America is No Longer Safe From These Fanatics. Bloodshed May Soon Follow.

Posted by: LOL | October 10, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm

What you talking ’bout Willis? Don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for “W” I rarely do “parties” and I never do Incumbents. Don’t blame me, I just get a laugh out of both sides of this thinking they are really changing anything no matter who they elect. I’ll see ya in four years when the very same round of bitching goes down again. Everyone will pick up the mantra of “change” and “reform” again, then re-elect, or elect another useless cog from the system, and we will do it all over again in another four years after that. Good Times.

Posted by: EOBF | October 10, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm

Why support Obama?
Hmmmmm…..because McCain will have a heart-attack 1 year in and we will be left with a woman who has 2 years experience as Governor of a remote state with a small population. Thank God for her experience in Wasilla….that’ll help.

Posted by: willis | October 10, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm

“an honest mistake innocently done” ???? I think that is much more than a “mistake”. Someone should be fined for that. I don’t understand how everyone was quick to jump on the “lipstick on a pig” statement. But when it comes down to the republican party brewing up a lynch mob, noone is willing say anything about that. This is just another desperate tactic by the desperate supports of McCain.

Posted by: Nizhoni77 | October 10, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

I feel sorry for all those angry people. The republican party has been leading them down the path to disaster since the Reagan years. All of a sudden the house of cards collapses. They’re just in the second stage of grief, anger.
Eventually they will accept what they have encouraged and been a part of and accept it.
Our country has lost much of it’s integrity in the world. Civil rights have been eroded to the point where we can be snatched off the street and shipped off to other lands to be imprisoned and tortured without grounds or recourse. Our constitution… shredded. Our economy is in shambles and we are getting buried in debt beyond comprehension.
As promised it has finally trickled down to us all.

Posted by: rbartro | October 10, 2008, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm

Nice try what else is out there?????

Posted by: NH voter | October 10, 2008, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm

Do you think the republicans will start saying that they will leave the country when Obama wins the presidency? Where do you think they will go… Canada, no, they’re socialists. Mexico, nope too many foreigners. France, not a chance.
I know, Iceland. That country is mostly white, but wait, they’re broke. I guess they’re stuck here.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm

– Jock…still doesn’t answer the question of WHY anyone would support Obama. –
Because his tax plan is superior to the tried and failed trickle down policy that McCain wants to continue. Because his health care policy, creating an insurance company that would provide more americans affordable, optional and portable insurance is better.. more americans insured, injection of $140 billion annually to businesses, and injection of revenue into the health care industry. His energy policy is superior, and is what we should have started back in the 70′s. His foreign policy stance has a better chance of reversing the damage Dubba has done to it, and which McCain would like to continue with. He is far more intelligent and rational than McCain, and being a constitutional law expert is a plus, particularly since I’m beginning to believe that the two nuts in office currently have never read the Constitution. And that are just a few reasons. Care to explain why you support McCain?

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm

Hey J, how ya doing today?
President Obama! Get used to it!
**********************************
ME!? Hey, I’m with Obama! I’m looking forward to the day he walks up the White House steps with Michelle and the kids.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm

McCain and Palin are the biggest lobbyists for oil companies and few other rich identities. If country was first for them, they quit campaigning to let Obama lead. They have nothing to offer other hate.

Posted by: Observer | October 10, 2008, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm

People must understand that there are several races of people in this country. You can’t keep a brilliant man down like Obama. Sit back and try to figure out why Obama is favored more than McCain. Because he is trying to do the right thing for ALL people, and it won’t be easy! This country is suppose to be about ALL people. The white race is not better just as the black, asian, hispanic, etc. races are not better. Obama is in touch with what is going on and he’s in touch with Americans; McCain is not. The McCain campaign are terrorists for trying to insight racial tensions and fear in Americans. GOD bless this country, because we’ll need it in the coming days.

Posted by: liz | October 10, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

Glad to see some people still have a brain in their head. My question is, Why didn’t McCain or Palin address the racist comments at their rally? Kill Him, or Terrorist is not something they should condone. And not saying anything like those comments are completely inappropriate and just plain wrong is condoning that type of crazy behavior. It was even reported that McCain laughed when one of the comments was made. Who would you rather have running the country? Another 4 years of Bush crap of running the country further into the ground, or a fresh set of eyes and ideas.

Posted by: tstrong28 | October 10, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

J,
You and me both Buddy, you and me both!
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm

This is simply a harmless mistake that we should laugh at. I doubt the McCain campaign or conservatives are sharp enough to infiltrate NY ballot development…
http://www.political-buzz.com/

Posted by: matt | October 10, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm

Whooop dee do do
This election is a joke. Get used to being a proletariat (Look it up)
Uh I’ll give you a hint “Marxist theory”

Posted by: Whoopdedoo12 | October 10, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm

Obama’s tax plan is the ticket to failure, especially now. Obama has said himself that his tax plan will morror Clinton’s. Clinton’s tax plan was the highest tax hike in history. Obama plans to almost double the capital gains tax, he’s raising the income tax and death tax.
Some of the top economists in the country have stated that his tax plan is a disaster. It’s all smoke and mirrors. There is no way he can push all of his socialist programs without raising taxes.
His tax plan also will hurt small businesses and either put them out of business entirely or they will be forced to lay off workers.

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm

– This election is a joke –
Only to those who either don’t care about America, or who would cast their vote based on fear and ignorance.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

Thank you d0 for giving your insightful opinion. I am getting sick of McCain and conservatives saying that Obama’s economic policies will cause an even greater debt and loss of jobs to overseas markets… But the truth is that you have to spend money on the people of your country first, before trying to be savior of the world and fight wars no one wants you to fight… I mean, in the past 8 years, this country has seen the largest deficit it’s ever seen, while also seeing an increase of jobs move to other countries. So are you saying that continuing the policies that have led us in to this mess are going to somehow miraculously going to get us out? I’m sorry, I’d much rather spend my tax dollars on education, health care and other things that strengthen this country than have trillions of dollars go towards a war that a majority of the people in this country don’t think should have ever happened. Think about it…. This country has spent over 500 trillion dollars on Iraq…. 500 TRILLION?!?!?!?! Not millions, billions, or hundreds of billions… HUNDREDS of TRILLIONS… Do you know how much our economy could use that kind of money? Yeah, Obama wants to spend a lot of tax payer’s money, but at least it’s trying to build this country up. The money spent on the war in Iraq hasn’t made us any safer- since ya know, Iraq was no threat to us at the time and Al Qaeda wasn’t there until we invaded. And still, the money Obama wants to spend is chump change compared to the money spent in Iraq…. What a waste of money and american lives….

Posted by: Cuse1727 | October 10, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

I don’t for a minute believe that this was unintentional. I have seen that particular crude and poisonous right-wing moniker one too many times in ignorant, racist and hate-filled propaganda emails and in ignorant, racist and hate-filled comments posted on various blogs including this one, to be fooled into thinking it was innocent. Disgusting, someone had better be held accountable for it.

Posted by: iamwomaninMI | October 10, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

Posted by: Mary S Saphr | Oct 10, 2008 5:31:52 PM
Surely Obama can weather a little storm like a misspelled name. Heck, isn’t it this kind of thing that ACORN buffers against? All it takes is a dozen of those people who are registered 25 or 50 times to more or less ofset the spelling error. Problem solved, Obama.
————————————-
I don’t know how it works in other places, but in Alaska you must show ID and sign your name to get a ballot. I don’t see how people registered more than once would be able to vote.

Posted by: akskimo | October 10, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

Coleman from Minnesota just announced that he is pulling all of his negative ads, mostly because he is getting his a$$ kicked in the polls.
Now today McShame said to a crowd that “Obama is a decent person, and person you don’t have to be afraid of”
Could this mean his negative ads aren’t working?
Check it out: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/10/mccain-walks-it-back-obam_n_133773.html

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm

Not an honest mistake at all. “b” is no where near the “s” on a keyboard.

Posted by: frankiestage | October 10, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm

Obviously another Repiglican dirty trick.

Posted by: redrockraven | October 10, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm

John McCain is pathetic!!!
I would like John McCain to explain his relationship to Gordon Liddy. This is a man who helped plan the Watergate break-in that, which Gordon Liddy went to jail for four-year for.
ADD TO THAT: Liddy, advised Branch Davidians during Waco on how they should defend themselves from ATF agents. Gordon Liddy said this to them: “If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they’re wearing flak jackets and you’re better off shooting for the head.”
ADD TO THAT, Gordon Liddy loves Hitler. This is what Gordon Liddy said about the impact Adolf Hitler had on him as a child: Gordon Liddy said that when he listened to Hitler on the radio, it “made me feel a strength inside I had never known before,” and Gordon Liddy said that “Hitler’s sheer animal confidence and power of will entranced me.” THOSE WERE GORDON LIDDY’S PRAISE OF HITLER.
John McCain in 1998, had a fundraiser at Gordon Liddy’s home. AND, over the years Gordon Liddy, has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to John McCain’s campaigns — including donating $1,000 this year to McCain’s campaign presidential campaign.
Last November, John McCain went on Gordon Liddy’s radio show. Liddy greeted him as “an old friend,” and McCain sounded like one. “I’m proud of you, I’m proud of your family,” he gushed. “It’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.”
JOHN McCAIN IS A DISGRACE!!!!

Posted by: George | October 10, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm

– There is no way he can push all of his socialist programs without raising taxes. –
First, he has no ‘socialist’ programs unless you are mistakingly referring to his health plan of creating an insurance company to provide insurance similar to that the US Senate enjoys. And he does raise taxes, to the top 5% income earners, and it will be below that of what Clinton did. Capital gains.. all exemptions in place that are there now, and only raised to those earning over $250K.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm

Cuse1727 – 5 trillion dollars, not 500 trillion. 5 Trillion is a ridiculous enough of a number.

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm

Let me tell you where all the republicans and racist people will move when Obama is elected. Mars! That’s why they keep exploring it. I say good riddance. I can live around any race of people as long as we treat each other with respect. It’ll definitely be a better USA.

Posted by: liz | October 10, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm

– This country has spent over 500 trillion dollars on Iraq. –
Not quite.. that would represent something like 50 times what our current deficit is at around 10 trillion.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm

It has been shown by economists that if the improbable happened and McShame was able to enact his tax cut, he would put the debt $1.5 trillion deeper than we are now. Typical republican, just keep adding to the debt!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm

Let me guess, the printer was a McCain supporter. This was done on purpose…what are the odds. It wasn’t spelled Ovama or Onama, it was spelled Osama….the same thing McCain supporters have been calling him as a joke. I sense foul place, mistake my ass.

Posted by: Independent John | October 10, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm

To all the racist and closeminded people, if you don’t like the fact a BIRACIAL man will win the White House, I have a solution for you move out of the country.
I hear that Siberia is really nice, bring a coat it gets chilly!
Buh Bye!

Posted by: Lele | October 10, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm

We’ve been “punked”. In reality d0 and dl are really one and the same republicant operative trying to sound like Joe six pack. Hey Bobby, check it out. The Democrats took the lead in Congress in January 2007. According to McBush, he knew of the sub-prime problem in 2006. If he’s such a “leader” why didn’t he get the problem corrected when the Republicants
were in power? In reality, the problem started in April of 2004 when Cox met with with Paulson, then CEO of Goldmen Sacks, and Cox agreed not to enforce what few regulations still existed with regard to the financial industry. After that meeting, the financial big-wigs were then set free to run wild over our economy. That’s what REALLY happened. Barack Obama had nothing to do with this mess. The truth will come out.

Posted by: rukiding | October 10, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm

Liz,
You have proven that by being able to live by republicans these past 8 years. You sound like a good person!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm

If Obama confiscate all those CEO bank accounts, assets, increasing taxes would never happen again. These crooks are filthy, filthy rich and they got it all from working-class folks. It is mind-boggling all the homes, income, jobs, etc. lost. This country is no longer the super power it once was. It is embarrassing.

Posted by: liz | October 10, 2008, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm

Anybody who believes that this wasn’t intentional is a moron. You know it was. I notice they didn’t misspell McCains name as McLiar.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm

– It has been shown by economists that if the improbable happened and McShame was able to enact his tax cut, he would put the debt $1.5 trillion deeper than we are now. Typical republican, just keep adding to the debt! –
Actually, according to the Tax Policy Center estimates, McCains tax plan would raise the deficit by $4.2 trillion over 10 years.. Obama would be $2.9 over the same period. Health plans? McCains would cost $1.3 trillion, Obamas would be $1.6 trillion over the same 10 year period. However, Obamas plan would inject $140 billion in savings to companies, and due to increased health coverage, increase revenue to health care provicers. His tax plan would also inject more money into the economy faster, further increasing revenue.
Obama has a plan, McCain doesn’t.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm

Siberia, then they will be able to Sarah’s house from their front porch.

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm

It’s a typo. I do it all the tyme.

Posted by: LongT | October 10, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm

Why not…Ovama, or Onama, or Ocama, or Oxama, or Ozama or Omama….ALL those letters nicely nestle around the “B” on the key board…
To think 3 English speaking and presumably writing ADULT Americans couldn’t see a typo such as this, and as important as this staring them in the face…
My God…what racial blindness leads to such ignorance.

Posted by: Zell | October 10, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm

LOL… Barack Osama.

Posted by: JJ | October 10, 2008, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm

Obama wants to “create” a government health care program. That is a socialist program. Let’s see, how does that medicaid program work? Oh yeah it sucks. I should know I was a caseworker who gave it out. You are very limited on what Dr you can see, how many prescriptions you can get, how many appointements you get. A lot of really good Dr’s will not accept it because they get a very small portion of what their fee is. Not only that, the government has done a crappy job, I wouldn’t leave them in charge of my bank account, much less mine and my childrens healthcare.
All the Obama campaign has done is make people believe that our country is this horrible place to live. Even with the state of our healthcare, it is still far superior to other countries. Socialized medicine will not work in thsi country because of the increasing numbers of our population.

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm

I have listened to Obama speak and agree he gives a great speach.Im sure he’s very intelligent also. I really don’t care much for John McCain because of his stand on imagration. The problem I have with Obama is he has many radical associates and is way to liberal. I actually researched him. Good artacle written by Business Investors Dailey “Obama’s Socialist Roots and Agenda” http://www.americasright.com

Posted by: Don Morrison | October 10, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm

Now I feel bad for giving McShame a break at 1.5 trillion in the hole.

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm

BS…it was deliberate and no amount of spin control will change that.

Posted by: algwriter | October 10, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

Obama step down before the Federal Court rules against you!
Read: case UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
PHILIP J. BERG, ESQUIRE, :
Plaintiff :
vs. :CIVIL ACTION NO: 08-cv- 04083
:
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, ET AL, :
Obama produce your;
1. “vault” version (certified copy of his “original” long version)
Birth Certificate
2. A certified copy of Certification of Citizenship;
3. A Certified copy of Oath of Allegiance.
Honesty is the Best policy!

Posted by: lee in orange county | October 10, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

– Obama wants to “create” a government health care program. –
No, Obama wants to create a government health insurance program, similar to what the US congress has. It will in competition with existing companies, affordable, optional and portable. It will increase health insurance coverage to an estimated 47% of currently uninsured americans as opposed to 7% under McCains plan at it’s peak. Additionally, tax breaks for employers providing insurance coverage will result in an estimated $140 billion a year savings, further creating jobs and injecting revenue into the economy, and the increased number of insured patients will do the same to the health care industry.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

LOL… Barack Osama.
Posted by: JJ | Oct 10, 2008 6:55:53 PM
I don’t know what you find so funny.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm

For all of the money we wasted on a moronic war, tax cuts to the rich, tax cut to the oil companies, a bloated defense budget, we could have had the best health program in the world. Instead we waste it on right wing blunders.
Time for the republicans to sit while real americans fix their mistakes.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm

if BO really cared about this country he would not be out there spending billions of dollars to buy the election when our country is in a financial crisis where is Barrack Hussein spending more money on prime time tv ads

Posted by: agentlillyb | October 10, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm

Lets see! What are the possibilities?
1) Obvious subversion by some neocon?
2) An honest typo?
3) Ignorant supporter who can’t spell?
4) Radicals who think he’s one of them?
5) A supporter with dyslexia?
6) Local government that always screw up?

Posted by: LongT | October 10, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm

Hell yeah, Osama for President.
He can’t be worse than Bush (the real Osama, that is).

Posted by: Karate | October 10, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

For all you people out there we need to be worry oabout how are they to get the jobs back in the United States and keep them here that’s what going to move this country of ours.

Posted by: shirley | October 10, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm

Obama’s tax plan looks great on paper, the reality is he will have to raise taxes on everybody. He says he will cut taxes to income less than $250,000, but will increase taxes on everything from the sale of your home, gas, retirement accounts, dividend, you name it. The money has to come from somewhere.
And the $250,000 magic number? That paygrade is great for people living in low income areas, but to people who live in states like California, New York, and metro areas, it is not that much. Especially with the high inflation.
I would understand Obama’s plan better if he would admit that he will be raising taxes and which ones, instead of the misleading statements of lowering them.

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm

ELECT OSAMA..YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!

Posted by: OnlyInAmericana | October 10, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

I CAN’T BELEIVE IT, I WILL SEE THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT IN MY LIFETIME, MAN THAT’ A GOOD FEELING. AND THERE IS NOTHING THESE RASCIST/REPUBLICANS CAN DO ABOUT IT. MAN THAT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

Osama? As in Bin Laden?
Hell no! Not over my dead body! Deport that fraud back to Kenya where his Muslim butt belongs!

Posted by: OnlyInAmericana | October 10, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm

“I CAN’T BELEIVE IT, I WILL SEE THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT IN MY LIFETIME, MAN THAT’ A GOOD FEELING. AND THERE IS NOTHING THESE RASCIST/REPUBLICANS CAN DO ABOUT IT. MAN THAT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD”
Back on crack I see, eh?

Posted by: romeISburning | October 10, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

Obama, freshman senator, attended congress 153 times in 3 years. He has a history of hard drugs, weed and alcohol. His political career was initially started/funded by Resko and Auchi, convicted muslim criminals. Attended a racist anti-american church for 20 years. His pastor, uncle, mentor, and family member, a former muslim, was his spititual guide for 20 years. He freely associated with known terrorists, Ayres and Dohrn for years.
Who in their “wright” mind would vote for a “joke” like this?

Posted by: Marlin 401 | October 10, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

– Obama’s tax plan looks great on paper, the reality is he will have to raise taxes on everybody. –
You are uninformed. I wonder why the Wall Street Journal also claims it is superior and will be better for the economy than McCains?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122152292213639569.html
And your tax comments are just as uninformed..
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

We’re 10 trillion in the hole because of bush and the republicans, and you are worried about your taxes going up! You didn’t think you would have to pay the piper? China owns us because of bush. They don’t have to attack us, just call us on their note!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm

It’s the most appropriate typo I’ve ever seen.

Posted by: SCMark | October 10, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

The people who head the department of the division of government that printed those ballots were appointed by the Republican Administration who mispelled Obama’s name as Osama. Gee, do you think it could been deliberate?
After all, The Republican Primary candidates all called Obama by the name of America’s #1 enemy when they campaigned and debated during the primaries. Yep, each one of the Republican Primary candidates said one of these three: Obama Bin Laden, Barack Osama, and That Democrat Osama. The Republicans NO longer Surprise me. Even McCain the maverick himself made one of those statements.
I just hope they don’t try to correct the ballots using the name ‘THAT ONE!’ McCain’s favorite name for Barack Obama.

Posted by: mere | October 10, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

American voters aren’t stupid enough to elect a President with NO experience. The typo was kinda funny though, you must admit. (Assuming it was unintentional, of course.)

Posted by: Bogey | October 10, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

This country IS a horrible place when you start losing “every” damned thing you’ve worked so hard to get. The republicans are stuck on stupid, greed and out-of-touch. People are in need and want to be heard. People have families to raise and have lost everything. And I do mean everything. Do you think honest Americans really care that Obama is biracial? Hell I don’t. I don’t care if he’s multiracial. He stands for “change” and he’s got my vote. I’m definitely on board. The hell with experience; we got that in office now.

Posted by: liz | October 10, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

Hey Marlin,
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

– Obama, freshman senator, attended congress 153 times in 3 years. –
And yet has sponsored more bills and amendments (over 130) than McCain (38).. and has voted more times in congress this session than McCain, who also happens to have missed more votes than any other Senator in the 110th congress.
http://thomas.loc.gov/

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

Americans voted for Lincoln, and he had no experience.

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

Why whine about how Barack Obama spends his campaign money? You can do the same thing. If I were you, I’d run out and re-fi my house – oh wait, you can’t, Bush-A-Nomics made that pretty hard to do these days….well then cash in your stocks – oh wait, you can’t do that either….well do what you can and get McCain enough money to run a 1/2 hour prime time event for himself – oh wait, you may have lost your job to the Bush trade policies….oh well, I guess you’re just out of luck. Maybe Sarah has a rich mother you could borrow it from, or Cindy will forego her next face lift to get you the money.

Posted by: kriskraft63 | October 10, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

Seems the GOP Operation: Rig Election has begun.

Posted by: Independent John | October 10, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm

I am a first-time voter from Mexico City (I am legally naturalized citizen). Please explain to me. Why does Senor Barack Osama have the same name with Osama bin Laden? Are they related? Is Senor Barack Hussein Osama a Muslim? Muchas grazias.

Posted by: nononsense08 | October 10, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm

People who simply vote for “Change” aren’t bright enough to realize — Change isn’t always good! Do your homework on these party’s … the Democrats are notorious for dishonesty. If Obama were to get a real job, he’d be starting in the mail room, like all the others who’ve never held a real job in their lifetime.

Posted by: Bogey | October 10, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm

“Obama, freshman senator, attended congress 153 times in 3 years. He has a history of hard drugs, weed and alcohol. His political career was initially started/funded by Resko and Auchi, convicted muslim criminals. Attended a racist anti-american church for 20 years. His pastor, uncle, mentor, and family member, a former muslim, was his spititual guide for 20 years. He freely associated with known terrorists, Ayres and Dohrn for years.”
What a bunch of fear tactics, exaggerations, and outright lies.
Hitler was good at stuff like that too.

Posted by: karate | October 10, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm

if BO really cared about this country he would not be out there spending billions of dollars to buy the election when our country is in a financial crisis where is Barrack Hussein spending more money on prime time tv ads
Posted by: agentlillyb | Oct 10, 2008 7:02:38 PM
If McCain and Palin cared about this country they would get off the negative garbage nobody cares about and would be telling us how they are going to fix the economy.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm

I would say that was deliberate or they have to have some really stupid and negligent employees working there. Right wingers would be screaming and ranting coming up with conspiracy theories if the put on the ballot McSame/Plain

Posted by: Hege! | October 10, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm

– He has a history of hard drugs, weed and alcohol. –
You obviously have not read about McCains history, have you? Not to mention his womanizing and lavish party boy character over the years.. one that got him in trouble during the Keating-5 scandal, and caused him to divorce his wife only to marry the woman he had been cheating on her with some 3 months later (yet got the marriage certificate before the divorce).

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm

romeISburning
First off, idiot, I’m happy too see this b/c there is so much rascism in this country, i thought that i would never see a black man in the oval office. And I’m sure your mad b/c you know and i know that Obama will win. So get with the times and stop being sad that that old man and miss “jo-six-pack *wink” won’t win. Oh man obma is gonna be the next president and there is nothing you fuks can do to stop it

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm

What is sad here is that McCain supporters are actually trying to use this to their advantage….how sad.

Posted by: Independent John | October 10, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm

– People who simply vote for “Change” aren’t bright enough to realize — Change isn’t always good! –
But when you look at the issues, and each candidates positions on them, in this case the change is for the better.. Obamas platform is superior, and people realize that.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

Bogey, call me stupid becuz I’m definitely voting for Obama. The typo wasn’t funny. This is serious. Have you ever been in the midst of a major riot or civil war? It’s nothing nice. You need to learn more about race relations.

Posted by: liz | October 10, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

I am a first-time voter from Mexico City (I am legally naturalized citizen). Please explain to me. Why does Senor Barack Osama have the same name with Osama bin Laden? Are they related? Is Senor Barack Hussein Osama a Muslim? Muchas grazias.
Posted by: nononsense08 | Oct 10, 2008 7:12:56 PM
I see the Republican trolls are out in force today.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

So Lincoln had no previous experience. Well neither has the homeless man on the street corner. Would you vote for him too?

Posted by: Bogey | October 10, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

DEAR “John McCain is a liar.” A BIG PS TO YOU- the we have a democratically controlled Congress….

Posted by: hummingbird | October 10, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

Barrack Hussein Obama is spending billions of dollars on his campaign to try and buy the election in a time of a financial crisis does that show good judgement? what is he doing right now buying up more air time for tv ads.

Posted by: agentlillyb | October 10, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm

Liz … can’t you read? I said assuming it was UNINTENTIONAL. Get a grip.

Posted by: Bogey | October 10, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm

I always get amused by these pot-smoking hippies living in their mother’s basement rooting for Obama because he’s young and black. What a bunch of lowlife morons!
You should be voting for someone based on their merit and level of experience, not on the color of their skin or age. That is reverse racist and ageism at its worst!
These lowlife white trash feel as if voting for a black person somehow will defy or upset Republicans. What these idiots fail to understand is that the Republican party were the ones advocating for an end to slavery in the 1800′s, and also gave blacks a chance to participate in the political process.
Instead of running around calling everybody that won’t vote for that empty suit a racist, stop and think (I’m sure some of you are able to use 3% of your brains) why millions won’t vote for this guy. Is it his leftist/socialist views and policies? Or is it his radical associations? Or just the fact that Democrats had more qualified candidates to choose from, but instead chose the “Affirmative Action” candidate!

Posted by: closer | October 10, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

Your right Bogey, we should vote for people who attack wrong countries after they were asleep at the wheel when terrorist took out two of our buildings. We should vote for a person who destroys our economy. We should vote for a person who ball face lies to us about weapons of mass destruction. We should vote for a guy who can’t find the person responsible for attacking the buildings. We should vote for a guy who does nothing when a city is flooded.
A guy who has no experience could not possibly do a worse job then the current republican president!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

Concerned–Let’s say that we live in LaLa Land and Obama’s plan is realistic. It would take a huge concerted effort to bring all parties on board for this Socialist Healthcare plan of Obama’s. This wishful thinking would result in higher taxes, lost jobs, no freedom of choice, and lower quality of health care. It is a pay or play system. Employers will be forced to join or pay a payroll tax fund. They will find a way to off set the costs by, hiring less people, paying less wages, not give raises, decrease benefits and pensions also raise prices of their goods.
Low-skilled workers will suffer the most.
Government insurance will result in minimum benefit coverage, lowering of premium caps and a lower standard of health. To give a good health care plan to a few elite in Washington is different than offering the same benefits to hundreds of millions.

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

McCain keeps having these Republicans abandon him he could end up with just the votes for himself, Cindy’s vote (unless John get something going with Sarah…that ole rascal), Sarah may vote for them, but she’ll no doubt have to get back with him on that, not knowing if Alaska did secede from the union or not, then of course her hubby, if he can just stay sober long enough….but you can count on Rush, he’ll be there, and Hannity, and who knows, maybe even Hugh Hewitt might show up (he needs the ratings). Better hope the election gets here quick John Boy, your support is dropping like Alaskan wolves.

Posted by: kriskraft63 | October 10, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

concerned american-when govonment programs are put up against private company’s,Businesses abandon thier employee coverages because it is more cost efficint to dump it on the gov.Suddenly gov. costs sky rocket and they cut doctor compensations of start rationing services. This is proven to happen.

Posted by: Don Morrison | October 10, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

osama, hussein, barak, whatever. it’s all the same. he’s half white, raised muslim, friends with radical racists and slumlords, no experience, no accomplishments. and we just might get him as our pres. america is going down the tubes oh so fast.

Posted by: msa123 | October 10, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

Bogey
Wow, now i know your rascist. (I know, i know, your not racsist. Stop trying to save face in a message board) please ” he would work in a mail room”. Just b/c you work at burger king, doesnt mean that other people don’t have bigger aspirations. And if the Democratic party is so dishonest, then what is the Republican party? And please don’t ignore the question stupid

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

Bogey, Obama is a Harvard grad. Where did you graduate from, President Bogey?

Posted by: liz | October 10, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

Former White House Adviser Gergen: McCain Rally Could “Lead To Some Violence”… Ex-McCain Strategist: A Tactical Mistake… Washington Post’s Dan Balz: “Over The Line”… Ex-McCain Supporter Schaeffer: Stop Or Be Accused Of Feeding Out “The Red Meat Of Hate”… GOP Former Governor Milliken: “Not The McCain I Endorsed”… John Kerry: McCain-Palin’s “Hate Filled” Crowds Should Disqualify Them… AFL-CIO’s John Sweeney: McCain In Same Camp As Racists And Extremists If He Lets This Continue…

Posted by: indevoter | October 10, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

Another McCAIN flip-flop: “It is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers. Government assistance to the banking system should be based solely on preventing systemic risk that would endanger the entire financial system and the economy,” McCain said.
Less than a month later, McCain outlined his HOME plan, which would help certain subprime borrowers refinance into affordable fixed-rate loans, though he continued to insist that no taxpayer money should go to help speculators or market participants who failed to perform their “due diligence.”
The HOME proposal looked very similar to one being hammered out at the time by congressional Democrats, led by Frank. The congressional version, which allowed the FHA to refinance up to $300 billion worth of mortgages, became law in late July.
McCain did not offer his “Resurgence” plan or any new proposals during negotiations on the $700 billion bailout.

Posted by: indevoter | October 10, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm

Your wonderful Democrats voted for the war too, but decided they didn’t like it once it became violent. BTW, Bush isn’t on the election ballot. Wake up.

Posted by: Bogey | October 10, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm

I thought it was Osama??

Posted by: JULIE | October 10, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm

– I always get amused by these pot-smoking hippies living in their mother’s basement rooting for Obama because he’s young and black. What a bunch of lowlife morons –
Well, this 50+ year old pot-smoking hippie of long ago who is married, owns his own home (no basement though) and is putting two kids through college isn’t voting for Obama because of his skin color. That would be beyond ignorant.
I’m voting for Obama because of his policy positions, and where they will take this country. Better tax plan, better health plan, better energy plan, better foreign policy stand, and is more intelligent and rational.
Please explain why you support McCain? All the experience in the world doesn’t change the fact that his policies would be worse for this country.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

No, but his biggest fan is: McSame.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 10, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

Must be a sign

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

Why bare you Republicans so full of hate?? Don’t worry Obama will take good care of you too!

Posted by: mary | October 10, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

…prominent conservatives such as George Will, Charles Krauthammer, David Brooks, and Kathleen Parker have suggested Sarah Palin would be unfit to assume the presidency, and former Romney supporters are raising again their unease with the once again too moderate-sounding McCain?

Posted by: No On PALIN | October 10, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

newyork … wow, a Democrat calling a Republican nasty names. How classy. Proves my point.

Posted by: Bogey | October 10, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

“Barrack Hussein Obama is spending billions of dollars on his campaign to try and buy the election in a time of a financial crisis does that show good judgement? what is he doing right now buying up more air time for tv ads.”
agentlillyb
I don’t get what your trying to get at with this one, is he not supposed to use the money he raised for his campaign on his campaign. You Mcsame supportes have the worst excuses :)

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

newyork,
First off, mothafucka, scr(w you and scr(w that good-for-nothing, racist, radical, JFK wannabe buffoon…moron!
Get off the pipe and get a life you, CABRON!

Posted by: romeISburning | October 10, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm

Yeah, a mistake, sure.
Every racist in the country is wetting their pants over this election and John “George Wallace” McCain is whipping them into a frenzy with his idiotic nonsense.

Posted by: bubba | October 10, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm

It probably was just a mistake… but people, let’s get a grip. He was Obama before Osama did what he did…

Posted by: Patricia | October 10, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm

msa 123,
McCain, McShame, McInsane, whatever. it’s all the same. he’s all white, raised all white, friends with racist views and a part of keating5, 27 years experience, accomplishments. and we just might get him as our pres. america is down the tube and about to hit bottom.

Posted by: liz | October 10, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm

mrsusa: America is so far down the tubes right now, thanks to the republicans, the only way out, is up!

Posted by: mary | October 10, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

liz … since you know it all, tell everyone why Obama won’t reveal his college thesis. Come on, Sweety, you know all the facts.

Posted by: Bogey | October 10, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

OBAMA IS A MUSLIM THUG

Posted by: blackyDAblackestofSheep | October 10, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

Republicans, Democrats, Independants….let’s come together for 30 seconds and agree on one thing:
George Bush is gone….THANK FUC|

Posted by: willis | October 10, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm

Independent realist–For a second there I thought you were describing the Clinton adm that Obama wants to design his adm after.
Well, let’s get a few things straight Sparky, Clinton/Gore were the two people asleep at the wheel. During their adm Al Qaeda bombed 2 of our embassy’s what did Clinton do? NOTHING, Al Qaeda bombed the U.S.S. Cole and killed out servicemen, What did Clinton do? NOTHING! Our CIA and FBI knew about Osama bin Laden, even knew where he was and had their sights on him at one time and the CIA were forced to back off. Al Qaeda was planning 9/11 for 2 yrs, during the Clinton adm, 10 months before Clinton left office he lowered our defense spending by 35%. Nine months later 9/11 happened. Clinton was just worried about digging into that surplus to defend out country against terrorist.

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm

Watch out students! It is highly possible that ‘they’ will try to stop you from voting or discount your vote,
If you are being told to quit school becuase yur loans don’t come through, ask to sit in, until they do. If the college doesn’t allow that, you could always organize a college sit-in

Posted by: Verena | October 10, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm

Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 10, 2008 7:23:33 PM
Unfortunately, the Republican hate mongers don’t know what the issues are. McCain has no plan to cure anything.
How many times have you heard John McCain and Fluffy talk about the economy this week and how they are going to fix it.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm

– Obama won’t reveal his college thesis. –
Obamas Harvard records were released in 2005.. but thank you for playing.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

If the GOP had chosen Romney in the primaries then the focus would be on the economy and not the smears. I think Romney would be ahead by a mile. Instead it’s a campaign of smears. Most of it old news. Americans are tired of the smears. If McCain dumps palin and picks up Romney for VP he might still have a chance, albeit a slim one. As is, I cannot support the McCain/Palin ticket.

Posted by: Romney for VP | October 10, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

Concerned American … not his thesis, dear.

Posted by: Bogey | October 10, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

How do you make an error like that? Look at the placement of the “s” and the “b”… I don’t believe there was an error. I think there was some intent in doing it because there have been many attacks where I am from on the fact that his name is one letter away from Osama. I think this should be looked into more.

Posted by: Honestvote | October 10, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm

Mary–I don’t want Barry Soetoro, Barry Dunham, Barack Hussein Obama, Obama bin Biden or any other alter ego to take care of me. I believe in self-responsibility. I work, support my family and don’t ask for handouts.
Bums for Obama!

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm

romeISburning
Shut the fuk up, ur pssy and you/I know it. Your lucky this is online or i would’ve put your fking head thru a wall. I’m not gonna have a typing war with you, now if you live around New York, then we can arrange something pssy

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm

Here’s a question for all to ponder:
If Obama is so ashamed of his middle name, why hasn’t he changed it?
Why is it a crime to even mention it? Is he that ashamed of it? What is racist about it? What is he afraid of? Why does mentioning his middle name make one a racist? If he wins, will it be ok for the pundits on election night to mention his full name as they normally do with every other winner..or will it be considered racist as well?
Please enlighten me!

Posted by: HipocrisyAtIsWorse | October 10, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

kriskraft63 – McCain STUCK TO HIS WORD about ONLY accepting PUBLIC FINANCING – and I am assuiming you don’t know what that means – it means the PUBLIC has access to WHO contributed what to his camapaign and it has a set CAP. Pelosi had a 1.2 BILLION DOLLAR fundraiser with people like execs from WALT DISNEY WHO OWN ABC contributing big bucks – yes, to the Obama campaign… And just this afternoon I pulled over and yanked down Obama signs put up on PUBLIC PROPERTY – I was the only one who would do it because our city government won’t enforce the law stating that can’t be done – all the neighbors (regardless of party affiliation) are too afraid to do /say anything in fear of retaliation. I doubt McCain will win – how can he in this craptastic political environment – but I am VOTING MCCAIN ANYWAY.

Posted by: hummingbird | October 10, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

The people who said they made this mistake, I bet were Republicans!

Posted by: Demo Rules | October 10, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Neither Obama OR Michele will reveal their college thesis. Wonder why? Says a lot though.

Posted by: Bogey | October 10, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

– During their adm Al Qaeda bombed 2 of our embassy’s what did Clinton do? –
Bin Laden had been trying to get America to come after him in Afghanistan, which he calls the ‘Graveyard of Empires”, for years. Guess who took the bait, then bungled it by sending in a ‘token’ force? And once his failure was being realized by the American public, he diverted attention by going after Iraq.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

Students, take your choice College or Iraq, or whatever other country Trigger-finger McCAIN decides to BOMB, BOMB, BOMB.

Posted by: College Student | October 10, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

Romney for VP-It was a sad day for me when Romney dropped out. I thought he should have hung on longer. But shoulda coulda woulda, you know. I think McCain will have a position for Romney in his administration. I also predict that if Palin runs for Pres she will pick Romney as her VP.

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

romeISburning
I’m stil waiting for your response stupid.

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

McCain’s health care plan, which eliminates the tax deductibility of health insurance premiums, will force a lot of employers to drop health insurance for their employees. Older employees, and those with pre-existing conditions, will be put in high risk-pools. If they can find insurance at all, they will pay dramatically higher rates. Low income families, who pay less than $5,000 in income tax, will not receive the full benefit of McCain’s plan, because your total tax-credits can not exceed your total tax. Other families will find that a $5,000 credit, is not nearly enough to purchase family coverage, which costs $12,000 per year on average.
McCain’s plan also allows Health Insurance companies to relocate to states with the fewest regulations. This is what happened in the Credit Card industry, companies moved to states like Delaware which have lax consumer credit laws. Now we have credit card companies that change the rules and interest rates whenever it’s convenient to them. Sure, McCain’s plan will allow people to shop across state lines, but the result will be a completely unregulated Health Insurance industry. Bottom line, McCain’s plan enriches the insurance industry, and screws us.

Posted by: James | October 10, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm

Obama, ACORN, and Fannie Mae: What exactly does a “community organizer” do? Barack Obama’s rise has left many Americans asking themselves that question. Here’s a big part of the answer: Community organizers intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to customers with poor credit (Source: Stanley Kurtz, The National Review).
What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. ACORN is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because ACORN works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. ACORN likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama.
In the name of fairness to minorities, community organizers occupy private offices, chant inside bank lobbies, and confront executives at their homes – and thereby force financial institutions to direct hundreds of millions of dollars in mortgages to low-credit customers.
In other words, community organizers help to undermine the US economy by pushing the banking system into a sinkhole of bad loans. And Obama has spent years training and funding the organizers who do it. Read the shocking details…
Read the $700 Billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 bill passed by the US Senate by a vote of 74-25 and currently in the House of Representatives.
Find out why Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are impeding Republican efforts to investigate Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Even Bill Clinton blames the democrats for obstructing efforts to investigate these corrupt institutions and their executives who stole tens of millions of taxpayer dollars.
In 2005, Sen. McCain co-sponsored a bill to tighten control of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The bill was opposed primarily by House Democrats led by Rep. Frank Barney who wanted little control or oversight of these financial giants. Read the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 that was co-sponsored by Sen. McCain and rejected by House Democrats.
http://www. obamaunveiled. com

Posted by: Pusser | October 10, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

An understandable mistake. We should commend ACORN for helping to get 105% of the population in Indiana registered. That’s a lot of cigarette and dollar bill bribes.

Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

– Concerned American … not his thesis, dear. –
And this concerns you… how? Just another distraction from the issues that McCain supporters are completely unable to defend.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

Concerned–Why didn’t Clinton do it? If he would have taken care of matters 9/11 might not have even happened. Clinton was the president and it was his reponsibility to take care of any threat to the U.S. and our military. He let the ball drop.

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

Obama may be deported !!!!!!!!!!!!
“Plaintiff Philip J. Berg, Esquire [hereinafter “Plaintiff”] hereby offers this Memorandum in support of his motion for a temporary restraining order, to enjoin Defendant Barack Hussein Obama, a/k/a Barry Obama, a/k/a Barry Soetoro, a/k/a Barack Soetoro, a/k/a Barry Dunham, a/k/a Barack Dunham [hereinafter “Obama”] from running
for the office of President of the United States”
“Obama’s grandmother on his father’s side, his half-brother and half-sister all claim Obama was born not in Hawaii but in Kenya. Reports reflect that Obama’s mother traveled to Kenya during her pregnancy; however, she was prevented from boarding a flight from Kenya to Hawaii at her late stage of pregnancy (which, apparently, was a normal restriction, to avoid births during a flight). By these reports, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama gave birth to Obama in Kenya, after which she flew home and registered Obama’s birth.”
The DNC is looking into Obama’s Kenya origial birth certificate. Another lie from “The One”. Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya. This will be the downfall of “the one”. Obama was a citizen of kenya, USA and then Indonesia. When he became a citizen of Indonesia, he lost his status as citizen of the USA. he can never be a “natural born” citizen of the USA. Therefore, he can’t be elected president, only natural born citizens can be elected president.
“A research team went to Mombassa, Kenya, and located a Certificate Registering the birth of Barack Obama, Jr. at a Maternity Hospital, to his father, a Kenyan citizen and his mother, a U.S. citizen.”
Can’t wait to see this play out

Posted by: barry | October 10, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

Dear newyork,
Go suck a d!ck and choke on it, you bum!
p.s
While you’re at it, make sure you ask for foodstamps to pay for your crack, CRACKHEAD!
And yes, you are lucky we’re online, otherwise I’d shove my Dominican foot up your gay az$…MOTHAFUCKA!!

Posted by: romeISburning | October 10, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

This, McCain and his female Sancho Panza say, is demonstrated by bad associations Obama had in Chicago, such as with William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. But the McCain-Palin charges have come just as the Obama campaign is benefiting from a mass mailing it is not paying for. Many millions of American households are gingerly opening envelopes containing reports of the third-quarter losses in their 401(k) and other retirement accounts — telling each household its portion of the nearly $2 trillion that Americans’ accounts have recently shed. In this context, the McCain-Palin campaign’s attempt to get Americans to focus on Obama’s Chicago associations seem surreal — or, as a British politician once said about criticism he was receiving, “like being savaged by a dead sheep.”

Posted by: indevoter | October 10, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

Bogey
You need to shut the fck. I can tolerate all these other Mcsame supporters (almost), but for some reason the stupid sht you say just doesn’t make sense. Say something that makes sense or shut up

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

OUTSOURCE THE PRESIDENCY!

Posted by: La Chatte, Portland, OR | October 10, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm

An Unoriginal Question About William C. Ayers: Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman in the New York Times said the following:
“If John McCain had a long association with a guy who’d bombed abortion clinics, I don’t think people would say, ‘That’s ancient history.’ ”
What if McCain had launched his political career in the living room of a former abortion clinic bomber who is now a respected professor at, say, a Christian college, who is unrepentant in his previous actions, but never charged with a crime, and was now pursuing a different avenue for his views …
What if he’d given McCain a $200 campaign contribution eight years ago, and they’d served on a board together, and were “friendly” though they hadn’t spoken in a while, and McCain had condemned his previous actions and didn’t know him back then …
What if right now McCain were ahead with a Republican wind blowing, and Obama were behind? What if Obama started attacking McCain about this guy? How would it look to you? How would the media react? And would it be a fair hit?
Watch the Hannity’s America documentary which proves Sen. Obama had a closer relationship with the terror master than he admits.
http://www. obamaunveiled. com

Posted by: Pusser | October 10, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm

HipocrisyAtIsWorse
Bush set the bar so low that even a bum like Obama can become president!
GWB: the gift that keeps on giving

Posted by: romeISburning | October 10, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm

An Unoriginal Question About William C. Ayers: Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman in the New York Times said the following:
“If John McCain had a long association with a guy who’d bombed abortion clinics, I don’t think people would say, ‘That’s ancient history.’ ”
What if McCain had launched his political career in the living room of a former abortion clinic bomber who is now a respected professor at, say, a Christian college, who is unrepentant in his previous actions, but never charged with a crime, and was now pursuing a different avenue for his views …
What if he’d given McCain a $200 campaign contribution eight years ago, and they’d served on a board together, and were “friendly” though they hadn’t spoken in a while, and McCain had condemned his previous actions and didn’t know him back then …
What if right now McCain were ahead with a Republican wind blowing, and Obama were behind? What if Obama started attacking McCain about this guy? How would it look to you? How would the media react? And would it be a fair hit?
Watch the Hannity’s America documentary which proves Sen. Obama had a closer relationship with the terror master than he admits.
http://www. obamaunveiled. com

Posted by: Pusser | October 10, 2008, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm

– If Obama is so ashamed of his middle name, why hasn’t he changed it? –
Please cite where he has claimed he was ashamed of his name.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm

mack dont talk too loud—-a great deal of the ballots are republican/

Posted by: rodney | October 10, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

romeISburning
Foodstamps. Please, i work for Discover and i go to school for Pharmacy at NYU I see you still didn’t say whether your in new york or not, but i understand how you would be scared pssy. This Haitian and Puerto Rican would turn your face into oatmeal and i put that on my unborn children. Your fake stop being a internet thug

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

– Concerned–Why didn’t Clinton do it? –
Only fools rush in where wise men fear to tread..
Please see the following to discern yourself as to how terrorist organizations have been removed over the past 50 years or so:
http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT314/index.html

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

WHITE AMERICA WILL NEVER ELECT THAT RADICAL MUSLIM/BLACK SUPREMACIST/TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER!
‘NUFF SAID!
P.S
GO AHEAD, CALL ME RACIST. LIKE A GIVE A F@#$!!!

Posted by: ihatelibz | October 10, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

obama will take care of the repubs—–a new pointed pillowcase and a sheet fo all–their new sunday clothes.

Posted by: rodney | October 10, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

HipocrisyAtIsWorse
Bush set the bar so low that even a bum like Obama can become president!
GWB: the gift that keeps on giving
romeISburning
And look the stupidity doesn’t stop. Man, if only we weren’t online. Shut the fck up stupid, you sound so dumb right now

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

What is happening in Ohio righ now re. early voting mess… defies description. ACORN IN BED WITH dem Sec of State!! TALK ABPOUT VOTER FRAUD!! Obama election … WILL MAKES VOTER FAIRNESS WORSE – NOT BETTER, AS HE APPOINTS EVEN “MORE” LIBERAL JUDGES. GOD HELP THIS GREAT NATION!!

Posted by: Temagami | October 10, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

newyork says “Foodstamps. Please, i work for Discover and i go to school for Pharmacy at NYU”
Stop lying, bum!

Posted by: romeISburning | October 10, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

All you Republican supporters are Idiots. McCain has and will continue to follow bush’s policy’s.McCain is just as guilty as anyone else for the failing economy.All the Republicans were to busy stuffing their Pork-Belly’s with oil money to even worry about the Economy.We need to Vote out all Republicans that are on the, upcomming ballots during this Election.

Posted by: Demo Rules | October 10, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm

– Watch the Hannity’s America documentary which proves Sen. Obama had a closer relationship with the terror master than he admits. –
Or perhaps do a little research on how McCain sat on the advisory board of an organization which directly funded and armed terrorists, pushed for legislation to do the same, and then covertly continued to do so after Congress cut off funding, subverting the law to do so.
See: http://www.kosovoliberationarmy.com for a look at what he supported then, and continues to support to this day, as evidenced by his statements in the last presidential debate.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm

From Audacity of Hope:
‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
This ACORN didn’t fall far from the tree…

Posted by: steve in JAX | October 10, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm

John McCAIN wants to follow the BUSH Plan to privatize Social Security and “let” people invest in Wall Street. Can you imagine what would have happened if those getting ready to retire had invested in Wall Street? This collapse would have devastated them and added 5-10 years onto their working lives. Now say they are suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s or some other illness that comes with age and can’t hold down a job. There are not enough bridges and overpasses in America to “house” them all.
John McCAIN has said “I really don’t understand economics very well” and he proves it nearly every day.

Posted by: indevoter | October 10, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm

– WHITE AMERICA WILL NEVER ELECT THAT RADICAL MUSLIM/BLACK SUPREMACIST/TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER! –
You are correct.. that is why we are not voting for McCain.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm

ihatelibz
Well i know you can’t you can’t read you hick fck, so let me brief you in on what’s happening. Obama is leading in the polls and come Nov.4 he will be the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT EVER. I wonder what you’ll do once he is president. Make a mayo sandwich probaly, my bad you already did make one

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm

romeISburning – hey – why is it that it’s only the Democrats here that use such nasty language?

Posted by: hummingbird | October 10, 2008, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm

sounds like the skinheads are having a meeting here tonight.

Posted by: rodney | October 10, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

An Unoriginal Question About William C. Ayers: Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman in the New York Times said the following:
“If John McCain had a long association with a guy who’d bombed abortion clinics, I don’t think people would say, ‘That’s ancient history.’ ”
What if McCain had launched his political career in the living room of a former abortion clinic bomber who is now a respected professor at, say, a Christian college, who is unrepentant in his previous actions, but never charged with a crime, and was now pursuing a different avenue for his views …
What if he’d given McCain a $200 campaign contribution eight years ago, and they’d served on a board together, and were “friendly” though they hadn’t spoken in a while, and McCain had condemned his previous actions and didn’t know him back then …
What if right now McCain were ahead with a Republican wind blowing, and Obama were behind? What if Obama started attacking McCain about this guy? How would it look to you? How would the media react? And would it be a fair hit?
Watch the Hannity’s America documentary which proves Sen. Obama had a closer relationship with the terror master than he admits.
http://www. obamaunveiled. com

Posted by: Michelle_Obama | October 10, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

Put down Bush all you want, I’m not too thrilled about the Iraq war either, however, until 2006 when the Do-Nothing-Congress took over, we had consumer confidence at a 2 1/2 yr high, gas sold for around 2.19/gal, unemployment rate was 4.5%, Dow Jones hit a high at 14,000+, But we were made at Bush for the Iraq war, so to punish him, we punished ourselves by voting in a Democratic majority congress with the dreaded Pelosi. Now the Congress has an even lower approval rating than Bush.
Now we have, gas at almost $4/gal, unemployment rate at 5.5%, 1 % of homes are in foreclosure and a financial crisis that McCain warned was coming in 2006 and was vilified for it by the Democrats. Now we find out they had their hand in the cookie jar the entire time.
You want to vote one of them into the White House. Where is the logic? Obama recieved the 2nd highest contributions from Fannie Mae in the 2 yrs he has served.

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

Why is it that McCAIN/PALIN supporters can’t post something positive about their ticket? Why is it all they can is slander and smear? Why don’t they talk about the issues. Like the McCAIN adds 100% negative, 100% of the time!

Posted by: indevoter | October 10, 2008, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm

– From Audacity of Hope:
‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’–
Nope.. the sentence does not contain “the Muslims”.. please get your facts straight:
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_obama_write_that_he_would_stand.html

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm

romeISburning
I’m at my desk right know laughing at you and your sad life. And you still haven’t told me if your in New York, stop being scared, I’m just asking something simple pssy.

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm

newyork says “This Haitian and Puerto Rican would turn your face into oatmeal”
Dude, you’re one lame az$ mothatfucka! If I was in NYC, biaatch, I’d b!tchslap your bum az$ back to wherever the hell ya came from, pee wee Herman!
CAGATE EN TU MADRE, CABRON!! COME TO WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, CARA DE CHOCHA, IMA SHOW YOU HOW WE DOMINICANS DO, CARA DE BICHO MAMAO!!! TU Y OBAMA SON DOS MORENO SUCIO..CARA DE MIERDA!
P.S
TU HERMANA MAMA BICHO BUENO! ESE CULITO WAS NICE AND TIGHT, PATO VIEJO!!

Posted by: romeISburning | October 10, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

SIDNEY MCCAIN HA HA HA HA HA WHAT A SISSY NAME—-GO TELL YOUR MOMMY.WE ARE PICKING ON YOU

Posted by: rodney | October 10, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

– You want to vote one of them into the White House. Where is the logic? Obama recieved the 2nd highest contributions from Fannie Mae in the 2 yrs he has served. –
Claim: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac gave Obama large campaign contributions, second only to Senator Dodd.
Fact: Partially true but misleading
Reality:
It is true that, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, the second highest recipient of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac contributions is Obama. However, these are from individuals who work for these companies, not the companies themselves (which would be illegal). Top spot is Sen. Chris Dodd with $165,400, with Obama being number two with $126,349. McCain has received $21,500.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/09/update-fannie-mae-and-freddie.html
Interestingly, if you look at contributions from Fannie and Freddies boards of directors and lobbyists, who are technically not employees, McCain has received a total of $169,000 and Obama has received $16,000. Combined, McCain has actually received more funding ($190,550) than Obama ($142,349) from these financial giants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/us/politics/10fannie.html
In any event, these figures represent significantly less than 1% of each candidates total campaign contributions, and are therfore unlikely to make much of a difference in their positions one way or another.
For additional information, see:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/727/

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

indevoter – hey – look up – then read – simple…

Posted by: hummingbird | October 10, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

Out of 26 letters in the alphabet, who really thinks selecting a “s” was by misstake?
I DON’T……I think it was deliberate!!!!

Posted by: shalom | October 10, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

Republicans evil work at hand here, i bet they will try to pull out all the stops to prevent obama likely voters to no be able to vote. since now obama’s lead is at double digits, if somehow “miraculously” McLier wins the election, the country is going to blow up in anger and outrage and do something about it. this election is clearly over and nothing the nazi republican troops can do anything about it. Go Obama ’08

Posted by: coronado martinez | October 10, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

DNC to Silence Lawsuit over Obama Birth Certificate: According to WorldNetDadily, Drew Zahn, a prominent Pennsylvania Democrat and attorney Philip J. Berg filed suit in U.S. District Court two months ago claiming Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen and therefore not eligible to be elected president. Berg has since challenged Obama publicly that if the candidate will simply produce authorized proof of citizenship, he’ll drop the suit. Berg told WND the longer the DNC tries to ignore his lawsuit or make it go away – instead of just providing the documents – the more convinced he is that his accusations are correct.
Despite assertions by the Washington Post and DNC that Obama has produced a certified Hawaiian birth certificate, Berg told WND he remains “99.99 percent sure” that the certificate is a fake and he wants a court, not a website, to determine its validity. Read the WND report … [Oct. 4, 2008].
We’re not 100% certain if Obama is a legitimate US citizen. But who are Obama’s friends and associates? Do we have the right to know?
http://www. obamaunveiled. com

Posted by: Michelle_Obama | October 10, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

newyork
That bum Obama ain’t winning. The sooner your gay behind gets that through your crackhead, the better!
America’s better than you and that bum Obama, az$wipe!

Posted by: romeISburning | October 10, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm

– McCain warned was coming in 2006 and was vilified for it by the Democrats. Now we find out they had their hand in the cookie jar the entire time. –
Claim: McCain championed legislation that would have prevented the current financial meltdown and the democrats killed it
Fact: False/Misleading
In his September 19th speach in Arlington, VA., Sen. McCain states:
“Two years ago, I called for reform of this corruption at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Congress did nothing. Senator Obama did nothing, and actually profited from this system of abuse and scandal”
What he is referring to is a Senate bill (S.190[109th] Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005) which was originally authored by Sen. Charles Hagel and co-sponsored by Sen. Sununu and Sen. Dole. It was not until after a 2006 Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Report to Congress outlining problems with the two organizations that Sen. McCain decided to add his name to the bill as a co-sponsor. The bill never made it out of committee (Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs), which was at the time controlled by a Republican majority and chaired by Republican Senator Richard Shelby. The statement about Congress and Sen. Obama doing nothing is true, but misleading, since there was nothing that they could have done until the bill came to the floor of the Senate, which it never did.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm

DNC to Silence Lawsuit over Obama Birth Certificate: According to WorldNetDadily, Drew Zahn, a prominent Pennsylvania Democrat and attorney Philip J. Berg filed suit in U.S. District Court two months ago claiming Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen and therefore not eligible to be elected president. Berg has since challenged Obama publicly that if the candidate will simply produce authorized proof of citizenship, he’ll drop the suit. Berg told WND the longer the DNC tries to ignore his lawsuit or make it go away – instead of just providing the documents – the more convinced he is that his accusations are correct.
Despite assertions by the Washington Post and DNC that Obama has produced a certified Hawaiian birth certificate, Berg told WND he remains “99.99 percent sure” that the certificate is a fake and he wants a court, not a website, to determine its validity. Read the WND report … [Oct. 4, 2008].
We’re not 100% certain if Obama is a legitimate US citizen. But who are Obama’s friends and associates? Do we have the right to know?
http://www.ob amaunveiled.com

Posted by: Michelle_Obama | October 10, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm

In any event, these figures represent significantly less than 1% of each candidates total campaign contributions, and are therfore unlikely to make much of a difference in their positions one way or another.
“` one percent“` we can’t possibly know that of Obama – he’s not under the umbrella of public financing.

Posted by: hummingbird | October 10, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm

romeISburning
You live in washington heights. Now i know your a bum
Shut the fck up pssy, if you live around there then you should be able to come up here, tha’s if you have a car. Like i said i don’t have online wars with fags so hit me up and we’ll arrange something. (718) 212 9426

Posted by: newyork | October 10, 2008, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm

“I’m at my desk right know laughing at you and your sad life.”
Did you mean you’re under your boss’ desk with “a hard one” in your mouth wondering “why me” and why your life sucks so much, dorky?
LMAO!!!
Cabron!

Posted by: romeISburning | October 10, 2008, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm

Top Five Senate contributions from Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac from 1989-2008:
Dodd-133,900
Kerry-111,000
Obama-105,849 in only 2 yrs
Clinton, Hillary-75,500
Kanjorski, Paul-65,000

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm

Millions in Illegal Contributions from Iran to Obama: Is Iran trying to influence the US elections? Well the records show yes. Iran would benefit with Obama in the White House.
According to both Washington Post and Reuters, Sen. Obama has raised millions of dollars in very questionable contributions including our enemy, Iran. The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) will not confirm whether they’re conducting an investigation, but FEC has asked the Obama campaign to explain or to return some of it. That includes over $17,000 given in $25 increments by someone named “Good Will” and listing his employer as “Loving” and his occupation as “You”. Someone using similar obviously false information donated even more, claiming to be from a different city.
It also includes millions of dollars from overseas donors. While past campaigns have placed stringent safeguards to ensure that all of that money was coming from U.S. citizens, the Obama campaign has not complied:
The FEC breakdown of the Obama campaign has identified a staggering $222.7 million as coming from contributions of $200 or less [note: more than half of the total]. Only $39.6 million of that amount comes from donors the Obama campaign has identified…
…The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their “state” as “IR,” often an abbreviation for Iran. Another 63 listed it as “UK,” the United Kingdom…
…[about $200,000 might be legit, but] others came from places as far as Saudi Arabia, Somalia, China, Iraq, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France.
Until recently, the Obama Web site allowed a contributor to select the country where he resided from the entire membership of the United Nations, including North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran! Read Washington Post report … [Oct. 5, 2008].
http://www. obamaunveiled. com

Posted by: Michelle_Obama | October 10, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm

What he is referring to is a Senate bill (S.190[109th] Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005) which was originally authored by Sen. Charles Hagel and co-sponsored by Sen. Sununu and Sen. Dole. It was not until after a 2006 Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Report to Congress outlining problems with the two organizations that Sen. McCain decided to add his name to the bill as a co-sponsor. The bill never made it out of committee (Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs), which was at the time controlled by a Republican majority and chaired by Republican Senator Richard Shelby. The statement about Congress and Sen. Obama doing nothing is true, but misleading, since there was nothing that they could have done until the bill came to the floor of the Senate, which it never did.
—————–
More to the point, McCAIN is the one who asked that the bill be tabled. McCAIN never fully supported the bill and didn’t want it to come up for a vote.

Posted by: indevoter | October 10, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm

If the Obamabots fixing the votes now for Hussein Obama, they were fixing it in the primaries also. He von the nomination by cheating the American people. Hillary should have all the votes counted.

Posted by: Jack | October 10, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm

Something tells me if that is a real number, newyork is gonna have a busy evening. lol

Posted by: Uhhhh-Ohhhh | October 10, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm

newyork
Stop sucking d!cks, mothafucka!!
What kind of an idiot lists his number online? HAHAHAHAHA!! Hey girly, put down the crack pipe and get a life, moron!
p.s
Washington Heights is better than your ghetto, crackhead!

Posted by: romeISburning | October 10, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm

BREAKING NEWS! Friday, October 10
An Unoriginal Question About William C. Ayers: Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman in the New York Times said the following:
“If John McCain had a long association with a guy who’d bombed abortion clinics, I don’t think people would say, ‘That’s ancient history.’ ”
What if McCain had launched his political career in the living room of a former abortion clinic bomber who is now a respected professor at, say, a Christian college, who is unrepentant in his previous actions, but never charged with a crime, and was now pursuing a different avenue for his views …
What if he’d given McCain a $200 campaign contribution eight years ago, and they’d served on a board together, and were “friendly” though they hadn’t spoken in a while, and McCain had condemned his previous actions and didn’t know him back then …
What if right now McCain were ahead with a Republican wind blowing, and Obama were behind? What if Obama started attacking McCain about this guy? How would it look to you? How would the media react? And would it be a fair hit?
Watch the Hannity’s America documentary which proves Sen. Obama had a closer relationship with the terror master than he admits.
Would the real Barack Hussein Obama stand up?

Posted by: Michelle_Obama | October 10, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm

Its refreshing to finally see so many hateful, ignorant, red-neck, racist people rear their ugly heads in writing here. The lack of expressing themsleves in an intelligent way show their desperate way to not be able to accept that Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States Of America and change the country for the better.

Posted by: coronado martinez | October 10, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm

Gee the level of comments by you McCain supporters is amazing. Five year olds have more sense than some of you.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm

Shaun Hannity is a no account hack. He has never been a journalist noir will he ever be a journalist. Anyone who watches or listens to Hannity with any kind of seriousness is a mind-numb Kool Aide drinking neocon.
The easiest job in America has to be the job of “fact” checker for Hannity, Limbaugh, or O’reilly.

Posted by: Hannity Sucks | October 10, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

“Something tells me if that is a real number, newyork is gonna have a busy evening. lol”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
That’s probably his gay hotline number!
(_*_)

Posted by: romeISburning | October 10, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

The typist must have attended schools in the Chicago area.

Posted by: david | October 10, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

Hipocrisy At It’s Worst:
Obama running for president and “The One” is an illegal. Obama is actually a citizen of Indonesia, not the USA. There is a lawsuit against “That One” for fraud.
case: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
PHILIP J. BERG, ESQUIRE, :
Plaintiff :
vs. :CIVIL ACTION NO: 08-cv- 04083
:
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, ET AL, :
http://www.obamacrimes.com

Posted by: Dukakis again! | October 10, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

This guy has been on the fast track to the Whitehouse all along. Sort of like good ol “W” was in 2000. No matter how many facts came out about how unfit the guy was for the job, once the machinery started to move, there was no turning back. Now 8 years later we see how that worked out, and just to show how much we learn from history, we are gonna do it all over again. This trainwreck is going to be fun to watch.

Posted by: Deja-Vue | October 10, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

I think the potty mouths are equal Republicans and liberals. But, I have to say, I’ve read all the posts here and the liberals started using foul language first. Republicans stop baiting the liberals, they get all fired up and throw a temper tantrum and it’s just a really ugly sight that we could all do without.

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

According to the Federal Election commission and Fact Check all Obama got was 16,000 from the employees, NOT FROM THE COMPANY. It stated he did NOT get any money from the companies at all.
But McCain, according to the Federal Election commission John Mccain got over $168,000.00 From the Top CEO’s, Executive Officers and LOBBYISTS OF Fannie and Freddie.
Now what is that Reform Legislation McCain is so proud of?

Posted by: mere | October 10, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

Posted by: S Adams | Oct 10, 2008 7:57:04 PM
Why don’t you post the Republican names as well. Please cite your source.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

– Top Five Senate contributions from Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac from 1989-2008: –
Keep clinging.. grasping at straws is an act of desperation, typical of one drowning as their candidates numbers continue to decline.
Fortunately, intelligent Americans will decide on the direction this country takes, and those who vote based on fear and ignorance will simply have to live with it. Indeed, polls show that the more educated in this country are overwhelmingly voting Obama, and those who are supporting McCain are mostly the elderly and evangelicals who simply follow the pack, even if it means going over a cliff.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm

Well, I guess that is one way to drum up a little business on an otherwise slow Friday night.

Posted by: Uhhhh-Ohhhh | October 10, 2008, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm

Dukakis again–Actually, a birth certificate bearing Barack Hussein Obama Jr was found at a hospital in Kenya. When Obama’s mother married her second husband, Soetoro, she became an Indonesian citizen, thereby making Obama an Indonesian. However, the Kenyans are claiming him and so are the Indonesians. The hang up with Indonesia is that they do not have a dual-citizenship law. When Barry was 20 he took a trip to Pakistan and used an Indonesian passport. It’s all very confusing just like the man.

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm

And how many times John McCain said, “I DO NOT TAKE MONEY FROM LOBBYISTS, but Obama?”
Gee, $168,000.00 from the Lobbyists of Fannie and Freddie along with the CEO’s and Executive Officers.
Almost makes me want to CRINGE everytime I remember McCain being so proud of that Reform Legislation.

Posted by: mere | October 10, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm

>> The FEC breakdown of the Obama campaign >> has identified a staggering $222.7
>> million as coming from contributions of >> $200 or less [note: more than half of
>> the total].
Yes! The people have spoken. More Americans support Obama. McCain is supported by the wealthy and big corporations. That should tell you something!

Posted by: sammy | October 10, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm

Good point Deja. The last time we elected a no experience rookie to the Whitehouse was such a smashing success we just can’t wait to do it again. Hahahahahahaha.

Posted by: Who Needs experience? | October 10, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm

Concerned-I come from a very educated family, the only person in my family that is democrat is my 82 yrs old grandmother and she is not registed to vote. Thank God.
Everyone is republican, even my middle-class to upper-middle class town is pro-McCain. We believe in self-responsibility and taking care of our own.
Bums for Obama!

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm

Was the DNC blind sided by Obama. Didn’t anyone look into all his associates before the selected him for thier canidate.He was selected by the media not elected by the people.

Posted by: dwduck61 | October 10, 2008, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm

I think the potty mouths are equal Republicans and liberals. But, I have to say, I’ve read all the posts here and the liberals started using foul language first. Republicans stop baiting the liberals, they get all fired up and throw a temper tantrum and it’s just a really ugly sight that we could all do without.
Posted by: S Adams | Oct 10, 2008 8:03:45 PM
Omg…that reminds me of PeeWee Herman. “I know you are but what am I”. Grow up and discuss like adults. This fear mongering politics is a thing of the past, get used to it. It won’t work this time.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm

The Democrats create more and greater catastrophes than any other political party in the history of the world. The worst act of terror in history of the world was created by Democrat Harry S. Truman. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused a horror that was not necessary. Democrat Harry S. Truman had the option of selecting strategic targets that were more humanitarian. Democrat Harry S. Truman used the excuse for dropping the atomic bomb as necessary to save lives. That is not a true statement because other targets that were more strategic would have not effected the civilian population with horrific destruction.
Now there is a worldwide financial catastrophe caused by the total failure of the Democrats in Congress with Democrat Senator Barack Obama refusing to acknowledge that any financial and economic problem existed in 2005. Financial people of Asia and Europe point a knowing finger at the failures of the Democrats and Barack Obama. The financial world knows the Democrats lie and use deception about the financial crisis.
Now Barack Obama says he can fix the problem created by the Democrats and his inept actions in the Senate. The financial people of the world do not trust the Democrats and Barack Obama. Americans finally understands who the real culprit is that caused this worldwide financial and economic crisis The Democrats in Congress and Senator Barack Obama are to blame.
American Independent Voters for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Posted by: Independent Voters | October 10, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm

Does anyone know what legal penalties there are regarding voter fraud and if those laws are ever enforced? Is anyone ever held accountable? Does anyone get fined or go to jail?

Posted by: Bev | October 10, 2008, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm

Posted by: S Adams | Oct 10, 2008 8:12:42 PM
Education does not = intelligence. Being book smart doesn’t mean you have common sense.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm

You Liberals need to make up your mind. Are the Republicans stupid and poor? Or are we educated and wealthy? I keep seeing something different.
I can outline what the Republicans think of Liberals: uninformed, illiterate (votes with hollywood elite, because they are sooo cool), uneducated (needs hand outs), gay, uses abortions as birth control, and is on welfare and wants Obama so you can keep watching your stories and Oprah all day.

Posted by: S Adams | October 10, 2008, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm

– Concerned-I come from a very educated family –
Sure doesn’t show it based on the repeated false and misleading information you have posted repeatedly here. And your statement about your party affiliations indicate you are simply voting the party line, which is another sign of lacking.
And in all of your posts, not a single mention of an issue McCain stands on, or your rational for supporting it, just a continuation of the same fear and ignorance tactics used to get the current numnuts in office, regardless of its obvious result to this great country.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

From Dreams of My Father:
“I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa , that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”
Now, I understand. Obama went from muslim criminals, racist/radical preachers to terrorists.
The truth just now coming out, Obama is not an American citizen, but a citizen of Indonesia! http://www.obamacrimes.com

Posted by: Jewel | October 10, 2008, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm

– Education does not = intelligence. Being book smart doesn’t mean you have common sense. –
Nope, but it does show that they are the ones who are less likely to buy into the hype and look at the underlying facts and issues. The uneducated will simply hear the sound bites and take them on ‘blind faith’, regardless of their truth or lack thereof.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm

Posted by: S Adams | Oct 10, 2008 8:17:46 PM
You just proved my theory on education not meaning you have common sense.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

The tone of McCain’s campaign worries me. If one of these redneck, no educated, people get it through their heads that Obama shouldn’t be President and try to do something about it, McCain will not be President like he thinks he will. The Republican Party as we know it, will forever be over. No Republican wants to be tied to an agry party like I’ve been witnessing lately.

Posted by: LF | October 10, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm

Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 10, 2008 8:20:47 PM
I was talking about S. Adams. Judging from their posts all the education they supposedly possess hasn’t helped any.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm

Of all 26 english alphabets they mistakenly printed ‘s’ in place of ‘b’.
They should tell that to kids.
What is this country turning into?

Posted by: Commonsense | October 10, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

– You just proved my theory on education not meaning you have common sense. –
Don’t worry J, he has continued to prove your theory over and over again :)
And I’m still waiting to hear about a real issue.. don’t think I’ll hold my breath though. Even McCain can’t defend his own position on the issues.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm

Of all 26 english alphabets they mistakenly printed ‘s’ in place of ‘b’.
They should tell that to kids.
What is this country turning into?

Posted by: Commonsense | October 10, 2008, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm

– I was talking about S. Adams. Judging from their posts all the education they supposedly possess hasn’t helped any. –
I know.. wasn’t defending him, just placing emphasis on the polls in relationship to education level. And you do notice that he says he ‘comes from an educated family’, not that he is educated, which is apparent simply by his continued rhetoric regarding “democrats” versus “republicans” instead of issues and each candidates positions on them. Those who base their vote on the party line are worse than those who don’t vote at all, and simply shows a herd mentality and lack of ability to critically examine the issues and make up ones own mind. Karl Rove would be proud of him.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm

Posted by: S Adams | Oct 10, 2008 8:17:46 PM
“I can outline what the Republicans think of Liberals…”
Allow me to outline what one progressive Independent thinks of today’s Republicans.

Posted by: m@cchiavelli | October 10, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm

In a nutshell – McCain/Palin Republican aupporters are classic fascists.

Posted by: m@cchiavelli | October 10, 2008, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

The truth was told by the McCain people about Senator Obama’s associations. The Obama people bring out the attack team to offset the facts and truth. Obama’s integrity and judgment was in questions.
The misspelled name may or may not be an accident. Some worker (s) should be asked questions.

Posted by: Marla | October 10, 2008, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm

Well put m@cchiavelli!

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm

Votevets.org vetsforobama.org or republicansforobama.org
Obama’s record on the military and veterans is FAR FAR superior to McCAIN’s.

Posted by: indevoter | October 10, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm

And I’m still waiting to hear about a real issue.. don’t think I’ll hold my breath though. Even McCain can’t defend his own position on the issues.
Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 10, 2008 8:27:27 PM
I’ve notice that McCain doesn’t defend his own positions because he doesn’t know what they are…lol.
I look at the issues and where that candidate stands in relation to what my concerns are. I don’t care if they are a Republican or a Democrat. I was actually thinking about voting McCain after Hillary lost.
But he hasn’t told me what he is going to do to fix things, therefore my vote will go to Obama who has answered some of those questions.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

– The truth was told by the McCain people about Senator Obama’s associations. –
The truth was told by Obama himself. The GOP took a single snippet out of what he said in the Phil. debate against Clinton about Ayers: “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and then claimed there was more too it than just a guy in his neighborhood. But the full response is quite a different story:
“OBAMA: George, but this is an example of what I’m talking about. This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn’t make much sense, George.
The fact is that I’m also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.
Do I need to apologize for Mr. Coburn’s statements? Because I certainly don’t agree with those, either.
So this kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They’re not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn’t.”

Just more slander coming from the GOP in a desperate attempt to win at all costs.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm

I think the conspiracy is about to come fullcircle. Mr. Newyork you seriously need to get a job

Posted by: Whoopdedoo12 | October 10, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm

They should charge whomever printed those things with a federal offense. If it was a joke it wasn’t in the least bit funny.
Three people proofread those and NOBODY noticed it? I am sure we all believe that.
You watch, the Republicans won’t want those 300 votes counted because that person isn’t running…lol

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

Why is it that McCAIN/PALIN supporters can’t post something positive about their ticket? Why is it all they can is slander and smear? Why don’t they talk about the issues. Like the McCAIN adds 100% negative, 100% of the time!

Posted by: indevoter | October 10, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

John McCAIN wants to follow the BUSH Plan to privatize Social Security and “let” people invest in Wall Street. Can you imagine what would have happened if those getting ready to retire had invested in Wall Street? This collapse would have devastated them and added 5-10 years onto their working lives. Now say they are suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s or some other illness that comes with age and can’t hold down a job. There are not enough bridges and overpasses in America to “house” them all.
John McCAIN has said “I really don’t understand economics very well” and he proves it nearly every day.

Posted by: indevoter | October 10, 2008, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm

The Democrats create more and greater catastrophes than any other political party in the history of the world. The worst act of terror in history of the world was created by Democrat President Harry S. Truman. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused a horror that was not necessary. Democrat Harry S. Truman had the option of selecting strategic targets that were more humanitarian. Democrat Harry S. Truman used the excuse for dropping the atomic bomb as necessary to save lives. That is not a true statement because other targets that were more strategic would have not effected the civilian population with horrific destruction.
Now there is a worldwide financial catastrophe caused by the total failure of the Democrats in Congress with Democrat Senator Barack Obama refusing to acknowledge that any financial and economic problem existed in 2005. Financial people of Asia and Europe point a knowing finger at the failures of the Democrats and Barack Obama. The financial world knows the Democrats lie and use deception about the financial crisis.
Barack Obama’s education did not help him see the obvious coming worldwide financial and economic crisis. In fact, the Democrats and Barack Obama were informed in 2005 and again in 2006 by President Bush of the coming Fannie and Freddie problem. The Democrats and Barack Obama did nothing. Now Barack Obama says he can fix the problem created by the Democrats and his inept actions in the Senate. The financial world see Barack Obama as an educated failure with no real fix for the financial and economic crisis.
The financial people of the world do not trust the Democrats and Barack Obama. Americans finally understand who the real culprit is that caused this worldwide financial and economic crisis The Democrats in Congress and Senator Barack Obama are to blame.
American Independent Voters for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Posted by: Independent Voters | October 10, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm

Posted by: indevoter | Oct 10, 2008 8:57:57 PM
That would be easy if they knew what he stood for besides inciting hate.

Posted by: J | October 10, 2008, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm

Keep it up Ind. voter.. repeating the same lies over and over again don’t make them any more true, and simply reinforce the fact that you are unable to defend McCains position on any issue.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

The regional bank I am doing business since 1965 is in great shape because the officers of the bank are smart enough to have little exposure to paper from Freddie and Fannie. My personal retirement account is with a bank I am doing business since 1975 and they also have little exposure to the Freddie and Fannie paper.
My social security tax started in 1958 and my personal retirement account started in 1975. My personal retirement account pays me 40% more than my social security payments. You do the math and you’ll see that privatization is many times better than government social security. If I could have escaped payment of the social security tax, my private pension would be more than double. Privatization is the only way to go.
Yes, my personal retirement account has insurance coverage with a personal account that totals $250,000. I have a third account at a different bank and my account has coverage to $100,000 and my wife‘s account has coverage of $100,000. That is $450,000 of FREE insurance coverage. Do the math and you can see that privatization beats government coverage any day. And they try to tell me a poll reports that Democrats are smarter than Republicans. Also, all my accounts are doing just fine with NO help from the Democrats.
If you are in financial trouble, you better vote for a Republican because there are not enough votes to vote an independent presidential candidate into the Whitehouse. I know it is sad, but nevertheless it is the truth.
My banks are MTB and NPBC.
American Independent Voters for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Posted by: Independent Voters | October 10, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm

– If you are in financial trouble, you better vote for a Republican –
Dang it, you made me spit pepsi all over my keyboard!! Thanks for the laugh.. I needed it!

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm

25 days from now, we are ALL IN THIS TOGETHER… the cabrons,and the haters, and the poppy mouths, and the violently angry, and the independent voters and the concerned citizen and Mary and Bogey and J …
What then?
In the words of the great prophet Rodney King,
“this is crazy”.

Posted by: amazed | October 10, 2008, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm

Sarah Palin’s radical right-wing pals!
—————
The candidate with the closest ties to a real terrorist organization is….
Gov. Sarah Palin.
She owes her political career to the Alaska Independence Party – a secessionist movement in Alaska that wants Alaska to secede from the United States.
Comments Joe Vogler, founder of the Alaska Independence Party made in 1991:
“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government.”
“And I won’t be buried under their damn flag, I’ll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home.”
Volger advocated renouncing allegiance to the United States. While denouncing Federal regulation over land, he said:
“And then you get mad. And you say, the hell with them. And you renounce allegiance, and you pledge your efforts, your effects, your honor, your life to Alaska.”
Palin attended the AIP’s annual convention in 1994, and sent them a message this year encouraging them to “keep up their good work”.
Key supporters, including campaign organizers involved in her first political campaign – to run for Mayor of Wasilla – were prominent members of the Alaskan Indpendence Party. After becoming Governor, she has rewarded members of the AIP with plum appointments in her government.
Palin’s husband, Todd Palin, was a member of the party from 1995-2002.
Read full article at “Salon.com”

Stop this America bashing terrorist – Sarah Palin – from taking over the American government!

Posted by: m@cchiavelli | October 10, 2008, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm

Obama and his supporters must go to school to learn how to lie and deceive voters. We know the lies that come from Obama and his misinformed supporters.
We visited the shrines of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
American Independent Voters for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Posted by: Independent Voters | October 10, 2008, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm

Talk About Reaching Into The Grave
Obama supporters talk about Todd Palin’s association with a dead man, a man that was disenchanted with the corruption in Washington, D.C. during his lifetime. Joe Vogler supported America’s freedoms under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Joe Vogler (1913-1993) was the founder of the Alaskan Independence Party and active in politics, regularly running for public office in Alaska for many years. Vogler was born April 24, 1913, on a farm outside Barnes, Kansas. Joe Vogler attended the University of Kansas on a scholarship in 1929. He graduated with a law degree in five years and was admitted to the Kansas State Bar.
Obama’s Anti-American supporters are alive and kicking. Obama’s supporters point to destroying the American way. Obama points to China and he say China is an example we can follow. I guess Obama wants communism and the controlling of the entire population of America.
Here is something all Americans must look at:
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm

Posted by: Independent Voters | October 10, 2008, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm

just plain stupid and insulting.

Posted by: sk8boardgrind | October 10, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm

BREAKING NEWS! Friday, October 10
An Unoriginal Question About William C. Ayers: Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman in the New York Times said the following:
“If John McCain had a long association with a guy who’d bombed abortion clinics, I don’t think people would say, ‘That’s ancient history.’ ”
What if McCain had launched his political career in the living room of a former abortion clinic bomber who is now a respected professor at, say, a Christian college, who is unrepentant in his previous actions, but never charged with a crime, and was now pursuing a different avenue for his views …
What if he’d given McCain a $200 campaign contribution eight years ago, and they’d served on a board together, and were “friendly” though they hadn’t spoken in a while, and McCain had condemned his previous actions and didn’t know him back then …
What if right now McCain were ahead with a Republican wind blowing, and Obama were behind? What if Obama started attacking McCain about this guy? How would it look to you? How would the media react? And would it be a fair hit?
Watch the Hannity’s America documentary which proves Sen. Obama had a closer relationship with the terror master than he admits.
Would the real Barack Hussein Obama stand up?

Posted by: Michelle_Obama | October 10, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm

BREAKING NEWS! Friday, October 10
An Unoriginal Question About William C. Ayers: Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman in the New York Times said the following:
“If John McCain had a long association with a guy who’d bombed abortion clinics, I don’t think people would say, ‘That’s ancient history.’ ”
What if McCain had launched his political career in the living room of a former abortion clinic bomber who is now a respected professor at, say, a Christian college, who is unrepentant in his previous actions, but never charged with a crime, and was now pursuing a different avenue for his views …
What if he’d given McCain a $200 campaign contribution eight years ago, and they’d served on a board together, and were “friendly” though they hadn’t spoken in a while, and McCain had condemned his previous actions and didn’t know him back then …
What if right now McCain were ahead with a Republican wind blowing, and Obama were behind? What if Obama started attacking McCain about this guy? How would it look to you? How would the media react? And would it be a fair hit?
Watch the Hannity’s America documentary which proves Sen. Obama had a closer relationship with the terror master than he admits.
Would the real Barack Hussein Obama stand up?
http://www. obamaunveiled. com

Posted by: Michelle_Obama | October 10, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm

Seems the independent investigator has found that Palin did abuse her power in Troopergate.

Posted by: annie | October 10, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm

hope i get one of those ballots. i’ll sell it on ebay!
can’t wait to move out of new york.

Posted by: twinkie | October 10, 2008, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm

Hey, has anyone heard about any past girlfriends of Obama?? We’ve heard all about McCain’s womanizing days. We’ve heard about Bush’s party days. Everyone knows about Teddy Kennedy’s exploits. Even John Kerry had a number of ex-girlfriends popping up during his campaign. But no one has ever popped up claiming to be an ex-girlfriend of Barrack. It’s interesting because we are constantly hearing how handsome he is and how he makes the ladies swoon and faint. You would think that those ex-girlfriends would be swarming at the news agencies and tabloids wanting to go on record as Obama’s ex. But nothing? Not a peep. No claims, no pictures, nothing. Just another strange thing about Obama.

Posted by: Wisdom | October 10, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

FRIENDSHIP WITH AN UNREPENTANT TERRORIST
Imagine having a friendly relationship with an unrepentant Weather Underground Terrorist, William C. Ayers who bombed the Pentagon, US Capitol, and the New York City Police headquarters – and wishes he had done more!
According to Washington Post, both Obama and Ayers were members of the board of an anti-poverty group, the Woods Fund of Chicago between 1999 and 2002. In addition, Ayers contributed $200 to Obama’s re-election fund to the Illinois State Senate in April 2001, as reported here. They lived within a few blocks of each other in the trendy Hyde Park section of Chicago, and moved in the same liberal-progressive circles. Read about Obama’s close involvement with the Pentagon, US Capitol, and NY Police HQ terrorist, William C. Ayers.
Desperation: In a desperate move to deflect his involvement with a known terrorist, Obama’s campaign has begun to increase its negative attacks against Sen. McCain by providing an array of false and misleading information.
Lobby Money: Obama often boasts he is “the only candidate who isn’t taking a dime from Washington lobbyists,” yet his fundraising team includes 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million last year to lobby the federal government, records show. Those lawyers, including 10 former federal lobbyists, have pledged to raise at least $3.5 million for Obama’s presidential race. Listen to Obama lie, then read the names of lobbyists who contributed more than $138 Million to his campaign. [Source: ANCNews].
Small-Town Americans: This past week, Obama made a fool of himself once again by denigrating blue collar workers and saying that “small-town voters are foolishly clinging to guns, religion and anti-immigration sentiments because they are bitter about Washington’s unfulfilled economic promises.” His controversial remarks were rebuked by many Americans who feel that Obama’s words are demeaning. Read the details and watch how Obama tries to backpaddle his way out. [Source: Mike Levin; Philadelphia Enquirer].
http://www. obamaunveiled. com

Posted by: Michelle_Obama | October 10, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

Probably a spell check error.Seriously.

Posted by: mm | October 10, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm

We all know politics is a dirty game, but I gotta admit, its all fun and games until things like this start happening. This was one of the first things I read that really made my stomach turn man, this is not cool.
http://www.congratstothewinners.com/2008/10/obama-spelled-osama-on-ballots.html

Posted by: Friendly Fred | October 10, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm

Hey, racists:
Have you EVER heard of factcheck.org? You’d be in for a big surprise if you visited. He is NOT a Muslim, (I don’t see what the big deal with that is anyway) a friend of Ayers, or a terrorist sympathizer!
You bigots don’t deserve to vote in elections with your hate filled speech. It’s unacceptable and it want to destroy the TV!
By the way, to all those who call him a socialist… what the hell is the bailout then? Would you rather have a fascist regime like under Bush? At least some socialist countries are have a high standard of living.
I’m not an economics major, but we need CHANGE! We have to give Barack’s different plan a chance. It beats Bush’s (I mean McCain’s) plan.
Racists SUCK!
Obama/Biden ’08

Posted by: tennisguypitt | October 10, 2008, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm

– Obama and his supporters must go to school to learn how to lie and deceive voters. We know the lies that come from Obama and his misinformed supporters. –
I’m fortunate enough to live near one of the largest universities in the country. When I visit the campus, I take the opportunity to talk with the students and their views on the upcoming election. I find that most are voting one way or another simply due to their party affiliation or based on support from friends, and really have no knowledge of the issues underlying each candidate.
This is a university that has a rather diverse student population, and they are fairly open minded, tolerant of others, and genuinely want to do what is best for the country. After talking with them, showing them the educational background, experience and position on issues each candidate has, the vast majority have seen that Obama clearly represents what is best for America and will be casting their votes for him in November.
Of the McCain supporters I have talked to, only those who were fixated on a single issue did not change their position after learning about and investigating the issues. Most of the time, that issue revolved around abortion, although even some who were pro-life changed their minds after examining the other issues and what that would mean to the country.
All in all, I would say that I have benefited well over 100 students who were going to vote for McCain for completely irrational reasons to change their votes and now support Obama after seeing the issues that they were unaware of. I simply show them the issues, where each stands, and their view of the candidates takes a completely different path, removed from any of the fear and intolerance that many Americans cling to.
I’m in a swing state that will be one of the keys for the upcoming election. I’ll keep doing my part, because I truly care where this nation is headed and have about enough of what we have been subjected to the past 8 years.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm

PALIN = CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!
ABUSED POWER – IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES!!!!!!!
McCAIN = IDIOT FOR NOT VETTING PALIN!!!!!
LAST NAIL IN THE REPUBLICAN COFFIN!!!!!!!
LANDSLIDE FOR OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just like I said last night Republican idiots….
TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK-TICK — RING, RING!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 10, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm

Gee, what happened to Ayers now Republicans??
McCain/Palin are going to be on TROOPERGATE DEFENSE every single day from now until Election day!!!
Sorry no time for calling Obama a liar and terrorist anymore fools!!!!
SHE IS AT THE VERY LEAST A LIAR, AT THE WORST SHE WILL BE IMPEACHED AS THE GOVERNOR OF ALASKA!!!!
Palin will be lucky to get elected as Dogcatcher of Wassilla after this!!!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 10, 2008, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm

Posted by: Michelle_Obama | October 10, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm

Yes Michelle.. he is indeed getting desperate.. unable to address issues, slinging more mud..
Remember what McCain said in 2000:
MCCAIN: I just have to rely on the good judgment of the voters not to buy into these negative attack ads. Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.
And he continues to show his lack of vision over and over again.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm

Posted by: Independent Voters | Oct 10, 2008 9:19:05 PM

Joe Vogler a great American who supported the Constitution?
So, you didn’t read the quotes?
The guy hated this country, Todd Palin was a member of this party, Sarah Palin owed her early career in Wasilla to crucial support she received from leading figures in the AIP, and she has rewarded these anti-Americans with plum appointments in her administration.
—-
I’ll put you down as another radical, ant-American terrorist, “Independent Voter”.

Your support for Vogler just shows how out of touch the current McCain/Palin Republican party is with mainstream American values.
You loudly proclaim yourself “patriots”, if you support Vogler and the AIP you couldn’t be more anti-American!

Posted by: m@cchiavelli | October 10, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm

Posted by: tennisguypitt | Oct 10, 2008 9:33:17 PM
Hey, racists:
Have you EVER heard of factcheck.org?
———–
tennisguypitt: don’t hold your breathe:-)
McCain/Palin supporters don’t trust Factcheck.org because it is sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation – you know, THAT Annenberg Foundation, the one that brought Ayers and Obama together to serve as board members on a project the foundation was sponsoring.
Of course, another reason McCain/Palin supporters don’t use factcheck.org is because it is well known that “facts have a notorious liberal bias” (Stephen Colbert).

Posted by: m@cchiavelli | October 10, 2008, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm

Three bureaucrats in a row couldn’t get it right and libs want people like them handling my heath care. I think not.

Posted by: reggie1298 | October 10, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm

How do you give McCain the benefit of the doubt when you know that if you were to throw him in a room with truth, you’d risk a matter/anti-matter explosion?

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

I will laugh all the way to the bank when the 1/2 brother puts the middle class out of business. So he can pay for all the low lifes on welfare. Great pay for the lazy and they will be more lazy. Our country is going to get screwed. but at least we told ya so.

Posted by: Curious George | October 10, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

An s shows up in the exact place it needs to be so that the last name is spelled Osama and it was just a “mistake”. Right…… Listen I know Republicans will do anything to make sure Obama doesn’t win, but this blatant cheating and race baiting is pathetic and shows why no one has any respect for the Republican Party anymore.

Posted by: Rick | October 10, 2008, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm

Judge Henry Kennedy, who presides over District Court in Washington, D.C., has granted Larry Sinclair’s motion for discovery and signed an order for subpoenas regarding Sinclair’s defamation lawsuit against three Internet posters.
In March 2008, Sinclair filed a lawsuit in which he claims, deliberately made up and spread lies about his mental state and character after he posted allegations about Sen. Obama in January on You Tube. In particular, Sinclair claims to have used cocaine and had sex with Sen. Obama in 1999. Read Judge Kennedy’s Order.
In other news, the New York Sun is reporting that in a shocking revelation, Colin Kahl who is a key adviser to Sen. Obama’s campaign is suggesting in a confidential paper that America will have to keep between 60,000 – 80,000 troops in Iraq as of late 2010, a plan that squarely contradicts the public pledge of the Illinois senator to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.
The secret paper was written by Kahl for the center-left Center for a New American Security. In “Stay on Success: A Policy of Conditional Engagement, “Kahl writes that through negotiations with the Iraqi government “the U.S. should aim to transition to a sustainable over-watch posture (of perhaps 60,000 to 80,000 forces) by the end of 2010.”Read this confidential and shocking revelation which Obama campaign is now trying to deny.
http://www. obamaunveiled. com

Posted by: Michelle_Obama | October 10, 2008, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm

I despise all republicans as they are classless and full of hate…they never reject the politics of division and hate because it wins them elections and they don’t care about being slimy.
BUT, IT WON’T WORK THIS TIME!!!

Posted by: Jack | October 10, 2008, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm

The sub-prime mortgage mess has costs USA $3 trillion dollars in losses as of today. The whole idea and legislation for allowing low income people to sign mortgages to own homes is the responsibility of the Clinton Administration and the Democrats. Even when MCCain wrote letters about the problem two years ago, every Democrat looked the other way. One woman moved into a $215,000 home in Atlanta with less than $1,300 month take home pay and three kids. She did not make a down payment and was only paying interest on the full loan amount. The easy mortgage money caused home prices to soar and now everything is crashing down. Far too many people did not read or understand the contract.
It does not seem that Senator Obama has any good ideas about the crises and McCain’s ideas have been no-no’d even though it would help the actual home owners. Bailing out big corporations with tax payers money is OK but a mother with three kids are out on the street. The Democrats are blaming the Republicans and the Bush Administration overlooking the fact, the original legislation and regulations were the work of the Democrats. It will take the average family at least five years for them to recover to the point they were on June l, 2008.
Last night on CNN International TV, talking heads in London, Berlin and Toyko were blaming the USA and the Democrats while watching their stock market fall 10 or 12 percent. The USA and the Democrats (even Obama was named) are not favorite people of those foreign TV talking heads.

Posted by: Marla | October 10, 2008, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm

Mistake my ass.
More like a fascist exposing himself.

Posted by: Thomas Mc | October 10, 2008, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm

And he continues to show his lack of vision over and over again.
Posted by: Concerned American
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Oh! I know… Obama has showed us his vision over and over again…
He is inspired by CARL MARX!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm

Osama Bin Hussein is evil, black, a child molester, a terrorist, a muslim, a womanizer, a criminal, a hypocrite, a hypochondriac, an alcoholic, gay, obese, ugly and soon to be the next President of the USA
Mu-wa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!!!

Posted by: BOOOOO ! | October 10, 2008, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm

Curious George: You are right on. It’s too bad though, but it’s true.

Posted by: Bogey | October 10, 2008, 7:53 pm 7:53 pm

Good evening Natasha.. what facts would you like corrected tonight?

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 7:59 pm 7:59 pm

Posted by: Marla
“Last night on CNN International TV, talking heads in London, Berlin and Toyko were blaming the USA and the Democrats while watching their stock market fall 10 or 12 percent. The USA and the Democrats (even Obama was named) are not favorite people of those foreign TV talking heads.”
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Why are you so surprised that they were blaming the US [economy, housing crisis, credit crunch, stock market, etc.] and the democrats? Our state of the economy affects the rest of the world economies, dear. (The minute that the DOW sneezes the Global markets catch a cold!)*
Stop watching “mickey mouse news” on CNN/CNN International. BBC, Deutsche Welle, etc. are far more serious news organizations!
Foreign TV talking heads do not like Obama?… You have gotten to be kidding me! (especially those CNN International talking heads!)
* NYSE Euronext, the holding company created by the combination of NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., was launched on April 4, 2007. NYSE Euronext (NYSE/New York and Euronext/Paris: NYX) operates the world ‘ s largest and most liquid exchange group and offers the most diverse array of financial products and services. NYSE Euronext, which brings together six cash equities exchanges in five countries and six derivatives exchanges, is a world leader for listings, trading in cash equities, equity and interest rate derivatives, bonds and the distribution of market data.

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

Palin found guilty of abuse of powers while Governor of the 49th largest state in the nation! Imagine what she would do if we let her anywhere near the white house! McCain is tanked. Wrong tax plan. Wrong Health plan. Wrong energy plan. Wrong VP check. I guess his D- education is really showing. Now Palins life in politics is over, and John can finally retire.

Posted by: sammy | October 10, 2008, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm

I agree that Palin has no political future but, I suggest she has a future as a playmate for Playboy Mag. or another choice would be to color her hair blond to match her image as a JOKE.

Posted by: Tex | October 10, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

TODAY IS TROOPERGATE VS ACORNGATE !!
FOR THE NEXT 3 WEEKS IS…
ACORNGATE!….OHB-AYERS-TERRORGATE!
(The best is yet to cone!)
TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK-TICK — RING, RING!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm

Natasha you fit in well with the rest of the depressed and mindless Repubs.
I imagine you feel the same as the idiot that ranted “Kill Him”

Posted by: Tex | October 10, 2008, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm

“I agree that Palin has no political future…blah blah blah”
Posted by: Tex
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Don’t hold your breath!
STAY TUNED…
ACORNGATE!! BHO-AYERSTERRORGATE!!
Obama will be soon going back home… to his friend Billy!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm

Look out Natasha, the “Fat Lady” is warming up and will soon be singing the victory song for the Obama/Biden campaign win.

Posted by: Tex | October 10, 2008, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm

Oh my God!!!!!!!!!!! I must take back my statement that Palin might have a future as a Playboy Playmate….. I just had a visual of the Pit Bull with lipstick.. Oh hell I must go puke now.

Posted by: Tex | October 10, 2008, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm

Pay no attention to Natasha.. she is not even an American. They want to get McCain and Palin elected so Palin will be out of Alaska where she and her husband have been diligently watching their planes. Once removed, Alaska will be wide open and ripe for attack.
Unfortunately, Palin will be returning to Alaska, but she will no longer have the ability to watch their planes on radar.. perhaps she can buy a pair of binoculars or maybe a telescope, and she can watch from the back porch on one of her three homes.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 8:57 pm 8:57 pm

Yeah she can sharpen her skills with more “Foreign Affairs” experience.

Posted by: Tex | October 10, 2008, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm

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bullsht! there’s no typo there… YOU DON’T EVEN USE THE SAME HAND TO TYPE THE TWO LETTERS!!!
amazing what some “americans” will stand for.
You’re not MY fellow “americans”

Posted by: GIGI | October 10, 2008, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

Tex, how so? you reckon she might buy a telescope??? lol!

Posted by: GIGI | October 10, 2008, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm

– amazing what some “americans” will stand for. –
I believe that Matt Taibbi summed it up nicely in his October 2nd article:
“Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power. Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she’s the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV — and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation.”

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm

I imagine you feel the same as the idiot that ranted “Kill Him”
Posted by: Tex
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Get lost!
Both you and the man who said that are MORONS!
Hollywood style melodrama wiil not work in order for Obama to win votes!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm

GIGI, I think it would have to be a telescope because from “Solid Inside Sources” she can’t use a set of binoculars due to her permanent disability. You know the left eye twitch as seen in her infamous debate.

Posted by: Tex | October 10, 2008, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm

Pay no attention to Natasha.. she is not even an American.
Posted by: Concerned American |
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You are sick in the head! I am a better Amrican than you idiot! And, guess what, I was NOT registered by your buddies – the crooks of ACORN!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 9:13 pm 9:13 pm

Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 11, 2008 1:07:52 AM
hehe… i loved that article… read it on my way home from teh Austin City Limits concert ;)

Posted by: GIGI | October 10, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm

– Hollywood style melodrama wiil not work in order for Obama to win votes! –
True.. It is his platform and where it will take this nation that is winning him votes. The Hollywood melodrama is what McCain has been using trying to divert people away from his disaster of a platform in hopes that nobody notices.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 9:16 pm 9:16 pm

Natasha, if you want to look into the eyes of an idiot, go look in the mirror. Anyone who swallows the BS handed out by the GOP and their pundits the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity, is truly an idiot and DA.

Posted by: Tex | October 10, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm

Oh my God!!!!!!!!!!! I must take back my statement that Palin might have a future as a Playboy Playmate….. I just had a visual of the Pit Bull with lipstick.. Oh hell I must go puke now.
Posted by: Tex
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You have just been promoted from a MORON to a complete IDIOT!
What happened? Are you upset because TROOPERGATE IS NOT GETTING AS MUSH ATTENTION BECAUSE OF VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD – ACORNGATE????!!!!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm

– You are sick in the head! I am a better Amrican than you idiot! –
Then here is your chance Natasha.. please explain why you feel that McCains health care plan is better for America than Obamas. Please be concise and use real facts, not sound bites coming out of the GOP. And if the word ‘socialized’ comes up, you are automatically disqualified due to lack of knowledge.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 9:23 pm 9:23 pm

Natasha, I’m not upset at all because we are finally going to have a possible chance for change when Obama is elected. I say possible because there is an outside chance that once elected, he just might be attacked by a Pit Bull with lipstick and not be able to complete his task.

Posted by: Tex | October 10, 2008, 9:23 pm 9:23 pm

When Obama supporters stop with the drugs they will see him for what he is. A vile cockroach.

Posted by: Karl | October 10, 2008, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm

The only change will be the total down fall of the United states. Obama is a Muslim and he is supporting radical Islam in Kenya through his cousins.They destroyed 80 Christian churches and murdered people who were too slow to get out of the way.Obama had himself raised over a million dollars to support a tribe that he is related to. None of the Muslim places of worship were touched. that is the change we can get from Obama.

Posted by: Karl | October 10, 2008, 9:30 pm 9:30 pm

Karl, we had to resort to drugs just to make it through the nightmare of the last eight years.

Posted by: Tex | October 10, 2008, 9:30 pm 9:30 pm

Hell Karl, I bet you don’t even need drugs to experience the hallucinations your experiencing.

Posted by: Tex | October 10, 2008, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm

– The only change will be the total down fall of the United states. Obama is a Muslim and he is supporting radical Islam in Kenya –
It seems that it is you who are taking the drugs Karl.. particularly if when you look at Obama you see a cockroach.
Please check your facts.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm

The hate and ignorance on here is disturbing. Did anyone catch any of the lowlights of the McCain/Palin rallies this week. I do give McCain credit for sticking up for Obama and talking down his supporters. But the ignorance out there is troubling. If people want to vote for McCain because they believe in his message or idea, ok fine, but this is something else all together. The McCain camp has run out of ideas, and this is a sign of desperation. What is sad is that some of the stuff being said, could easily spiral out of control, and no one will be able to take it back after Nov. 5th.

Posted by: Sox lover | October 10, 2008, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm

“It is his platform and where it will take this nation that is winning him votes.”
Posted by Concerned American
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Oh! I know…ACORN is winning him votes!
Just 12 hours ago…And this from a major Chicago newspaper (ahahaha!)…Oh, btw… the FBI is now geting involved (he-he!)
States probe possible voter registration fraud
Separately, paper finds rolls purged
From Chicago Tribune news services
October 10, 2008
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-vote-fraud_frioct10,0,2159694.story

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 9:35 pm 9:35 pm

KARL – PLEASE VISIT http://WWW.KOSOVOLIBERATIONARMY.COM TO SEE WHAT MCCAIN DIRECTLY SUPPORTED, THROUGH LEGISLATION FOR FUNDING AND ARMS, AND THEN COVERTLY THROUGH THE US COUNCIL FOR WORLD FREEDOM, SUBVERTING US LAW TO DO SO. THEN PERHAPS LOOK UP IRAN-CONTRA. MCCAIN DIRECTLY SUPPORTS ISLAMIC MILITANT TERRORISTS, AND CONTINUES TO DO SO. DID YOU NOT HEAR HIM SAY AS MUCH IN THE LAST DEBATE?

Posted by: Wilber | October 10, 2008, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm

Hey Sox lover, I wouldn’t be surprised if it spiraled out of control prior to Nov. and Bush/Chaney declared marshal law and called off the election. That would be one way for the GOP to stay in power.

Posted by: Tex | October 10, 2008, 9:38 pm 9:38 pm

Natasha, Natasha…
How exactly were the names of the front line-up of the Dallas Cowboys who were falsely registered to vote in Nevada supposed to exercise that vote?
Were some guys going to get dressed up in full football regalia, pretend they were the Dallas Cowboys, and show up at the voting booth on Nov. 4 in Las Vegas to cast their ballot?
The only “fraud” that has been demonstrated is the fraud perpetrated by individuals who were padding the number of names they had signed up in order to collect higher pay.
In a word, ACORN is a VICTIM of this type of registration fraud, not the perpetrator. Any organization that pays for new voter registrations which are later found to be false or fraudulent may have to pay fines, or will at the very least be out the money it paid to the person who handed in these fraudulent new registrants.
If only you’d stop to think before cutting & pasting the latest nonsense talking points issued by Rove, Hannity, Beck, and Limbaugh….

Posted by: Bullwinkle | October 10, 2008, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm

Yes Natasha, we all know about ACORN, and have for quite a while now.. as reported:
“Ms. Lewis said it was Acorn itself that informed state officials about some questionable registrations collected by its employees that are now under investigation. Acorn said it had terminated the workers involved.”
And for Obamas legal involvement with them in 1995:
“In fact, the Justice Department was on the same side as Acorn in the lawsuit, as were other organizations, including the League of Women Voters. Those plaintiffs won the case.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11acorn.html?ref=us
Gee.. the Justice Depertment and League of Women voters were on the same side as Obama. And please note that the article you cite does not mention Obama anywhere in it..
Keep clinging.. I’m still waiting for a response to my query.

Posted by: Wilber | October 10, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm

Now that ACORN been busted now he wants to go on tv and pander for votes.
Posted by: seeya | Oct 9, 2008 6:22:27 PM
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Oh yes, to sell his “lemon” platform.
Obama Buys Primetime Television Time Before Election
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/obama-buys-prim.html?cid=134252107#comment-134252107

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm

The racism,arrogance and division is killing this country.Thank you McCain/Palin for fueling fires to try and win a few votes.I hope Palin is ejected from politics for life, she’s abusing power and then telling us not to trust Obama.Then McCain does another switcheroo on his attacks, now Obama is not that bad.Plus idiots writing in Osama, this country is F!@#$ up!!I..karma will sort out the mess we are drowning in.

Posted by: Disgustedinhumanity | October 10, 2008, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm

Yes Natasha, we all know about ACORN, and have for quite a while now..
Posted by Wilber
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Haha! We know, it has been out there for quite a while now but the left-wing liberla media was palying stupid about it. It is now picking up LOTS OF STEAM!
Obviously you did NOT watch the news today. Even CNN was buzzing all today! Did you watch the Lou Dobbs show? It was breathtaking!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm

I’ve figured out Natasha.
She’s a Russian practicing her English
She’s been following the election from Moscow by reading articles and watching FOX News or Sean Hannity by satellite.
When she comes on this blog, she cuts & pastes excerpts from stuff she’s read and then throws in the odd “idiot” & “moron” to spice things up.
Why don’t you extend your wings, Natasha? Show us some original thought.
Why don’t you start by answering the question “Concerned American” put to you regarding your thoughts on McCain’s health care proposal.
Oh yes, just to raise the bar a little – don’t use the words “idiot”, “moron”, or “socialist” – or you’ll just reveal yourself to be an “idiotic moron”

Posted by: Bullwinkle | October 10, 2008, 9:54 pm 9:54 pm

Chicago Tribune
States probe possible voter registration fraud
Separately, paper finds rolls purged
From Chicago Tribune news services
October 10, 2008
Questions about possible cases of fraudulent voter registrations were being raised this week as officials in several states investigated hundreds of questionable or duplicate registration forms submitted by an advocacy group.
An ongoing probe in Nevada into the group responsible for collecting the registrations, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has not led investigators to believe anyone will try to vote illegally on Nov. 4, said Matt Griffin, Nevada’s deputy secretary of state for elections.
“We’re talking registration fraud; it’s not voter fraud,” Griffin said. “But we have a duty to follow up.”
No one has been charged with criminal wrongdoing.
ACORN, which said it registered about 1.3 million voters nationwide this year, is facing similar allegations in several other states. The group has encountered complaints of fraud stemming from registration efforts in Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Mexico, Michigan, Ohio and Missouri.
ACORN is a non-partisan group that works to recruit low-income voters, who tend to lean Democratic. Jeff Ordower, Midwest director of ACORN, said his group hasn’t done any registrations in Kansas City since late August. He said he was told three weeks ago by election officials there that there were only about 135 questionable cards—85 of them duplicates.
An FBI spokeswoman said the agency has been in contact with election officials about potential voter fraud.
Meanwhile, The New York Times reported that tens of thousands of eligible voters have been removed from rolls or blocked from registering in at least six swing states. Election officials quickly defended their registration procedures and said they had done nothing wrong.
The paper based its findings on reviews of state records and Social Security data and said it had identified likely problems in Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina.
The Times said voters appear to have been purged by mistake and not because of any intentional violations by election officials or coordinated efforts by any party. The states are trying to comply with a 2002 federal law.
Michigan elections director Chris Thomas said the state removed only people who have died, notified authorities of a move or were declared unfit to vote, which is well within the law.
© Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-vote-fraud_frioct10,0,2159694.story

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm

– Oh yes, to sell his “lemon” platform. –
That was the response I expected. Thank you Natasha for proving once again that McCain supporters are completely unable to discuss the issues and defend their candidates stance on them.. which is understandable since McCain himself is apparently unable to do it either.

Posted by: Wilber | October 10, 2008, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm

I’m taking bets…
Does anyone think Natasha can write even a single post without cutting & pasting or writing the following words: “idiot”, “moron”, “hahaha”.
Can she write a single original thought?
Her lack of original thought strangely mirrors that of the McCain/Palin campaign.

Posted by: Bullwinkle | October 10, 2008, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm

– Haha! We know, it has been out there for quite a while now but the left-wing liberla media was palying stupid about it. It is now picking up LOTS OF STEAM! –
What, still no response to my query?

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 10:02 pm 10:02 pm

Pittsburgh-area DA probing ACORN voter sign-ups
Times Leader (PA) – Associated press
By JOE MANDAK
The district attorney for the Pittsburgh area is investigating possible forgery and other irregularities on voter registration forms turned in by a group already being scrutinized for registration problems in other states.
Similar allegations are being investigated by the Delaware County district attorney and the U.S. attorney’s office in Philadelphia.
The Pittsburgh-area investigation focuses on fewer than 100 registration forms apparently forged or otherwise illegitimate, such as duplicating the name of someone already registered under another party, said Mike Manko, spokesman for Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr.
The forms were collected by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, Manko said. The investigation mirrors others throughout the country in which ACORN canvassers allegedly turned in forms with fake Social Security numbers, incorrect birth dates, forged signatures or fake addresses.
Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman Robert Gleason Jr. said ACORN and others submitted nearly 253,000 voter registration forms in Philadelphia this year. Thousands of them have errors, he said. Delaware County officials are also investigating more than 290 registration cards, Gleason said.
Philadelphia’s voter registration administrator, Bob Lee, said 57,000 of the 253,000 registration forms were rejected, but that more than 41,000 of those were filled out by people who were already registered.
He acknowledges that some of the other 16,000 rejected voter cards are troubling _ in particular about 5,600 that include nonexistent addresses. Others were rejected for being too young or not including a birth date. Others list an incorrect Social Security or driver’s license number, which could be simple mistakes or attempts at fraud, Lee said.
“So, there’s an issue here,” Lee said.
Patricia Hartman, a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors in Philadelphia said she could not comment on whether they are investigating the Philadelphia registrations. Delaware County’s DA didn’t return calls.
ACORN claims to have registered about 1.3 million voters nationwide this year and is facing similar questions in Nevada, Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Mexico, Michigan, Ohio and Missouri. Officials in Nevada said some bogus registration forms used the names of Dallas Cowboys players.
ACORN’s stated mission is to help low-income citizens organize politically. The group describes itself as nonpartisan, though Republicans contend it is aligned with Democrats and the Obama campaign.
Allison Price, a spokeswoman for the Obama campaign, said, “We haven’t hired ACORN or any outside group for our general election field effort, but anyone violating election law should absolutely be held accountable.”
ACORN issued a statement Friday claiming to have registered 40,000 southwestern Pennsylvania voters this year, and calling media reports about the national fraud allegations an attempt by “a relatively small group of political operatives … trying to orchestrate hysteria about ‘voter fraud.’”
Maryellen Hayden, ACORN’s head in Allegheny County, told local reporters on Thursday that eight ACORN workers are targeted in the Pittsburgh-area investigation. She said workers were warned not to fill in the registration cards themselves and that other workers double-check the cards for legitimacy.
Allegheny County elections director Mark Wolosik said the county vets each new registration card and referred some questionable ones to the district attorney.
“It might be that somebody’s already registered in the file by that name and the signature doesn’t match, or the birth date is off by one day, or a street number is listed that is not in the range of street addresses in Allegheny County, for instance,” Wolosik said.
Forgery is a felony, Wolosik said, punishable by up to seven years in prison. But he suspects the real problem is that ACORN workers were filling in a few bogus names to meet an unstated quota.
Hayden on Friday said “canvassers are paid by the hour, not by the card, so there is no incentive for them to falsify cards,” though she also told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that canvassers are asked “to collect between 15 and 20 signed voter registration cards in five hours.”
Pennsylvania registration workers cannot be paid based on the number of cards they turn in. If someone is found to have violated that prohibition, he could be charged with a third-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison, Wolosik and Manko said.
Voters who arrive at the polls to find fraudulent cards were filled out in their names can request a provisional ballot. Once the voter’s identity is confirmed, the person’s vote will be counted.
Newly registered voters are asked to show IDs to confirm their identity, Wolosik said.
Times Leader – (PA)
http://www.timesleader.com/news/ap?articleID=908814

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm

Palin violated the state Ethics Act, Branchflower found.
“The evidence supports the conclusion that Gov. Palin, at the least, engaged in ‘official action’ by her inaction, if not her active participation or assistance to her husband, in attempting to get Trooper Wooten fired [and there is evidence of her active participation],” Branchflower concluded.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6004368&page=1
It’s just a matter of waiting now, until we can finally swear in President Obama and get the nation headed in the right direction finally.

Posted by: samomally | October 10, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

Her lack of original thought strangely mirrors that of the McCain/Palin campaign.
Posted by: Bullwinkle |
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Now that is what I call an original thought!
The above “thesis” is published by Mickey Mouse for Obama ’08

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm

Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 11, 2008 2:02:15 AM
Don’t hold your breathe waiting for Natasha to actually answer your questions – not that I think you are;-)
1. Judging from her cut & paste jobs, she doesn’t fully understand what she is writing.
2. What could she write? McCain hasn’t laid out much of a health care policy has he? A $5000 tax-credit to be paid for by taxing existing employee provided health care policies? Allowing policy buyers “to shop across state lines”, which only means that health care companies would incorporate in the state with the least regulations and the lowest requirements?
McCain’s health care proposal: tax existing benefits, and then race to the bottom!

Posted by: Bullwinkle | October 10, 2008, 10:12 pm 10:12 pm

– Now that is what I call an original thought! –
Natasha, all you can do is cut-n-paste articles that have absolutely no bearing and do not even mention Obama.. perhaps you could explain, in your own words, what it is exactly the connection is?
And yet, I sense another cut-n-paste dodge at really answering a question.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

Oh, apparently besides watching FOX NEWS on satellite, Natasha also gets the Disney Channel in Moscow.

Posted by: Bullwinkle | October 10, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

– McCain’s health care proposal: tax existing benefits, and then race to the bottom! –
Yup, and it would cause more Americans to lose insurance due to inability to pay and existing conditions. Just like his tax plan, his health plan simply favors the wealthy and does little for the working class Americans in this country.
And he continues to beat his ‘I’m for main street not Wall Street’ drum. I guess in his neighborhood, those on mainstreet earn over $100,000 a year, which is how much you would have to earn before even seeing a tax cut under his plan.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

Natasha…
A little friendly advice. You might save a lot of space by summarizing or highlighting sections from the articles you keep posting on this blog – as they pertain to the discussion.:-)
Do you think you could do that?
If that is too much trouble, then at least try and limit yourself to posting links.
Most of us just skip over your posts at this point anyhow: posting links would save us the trouble of scrolling down an entire page at a time to get past your garbage to someone else’s more interesting, thoughtful comments.

Posted by: Bullwinkle | October 10, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm

– Do you think you could do that? –
Doubtful.. Natasha is the poster child for ignorant voters. Several days ago she was arguing that it was only Biden who has sat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.. which just goes to show her level of knowledge about the candidates, let alone their positions on the issues.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm

I am taking bets…has anybody counted how many different names one or two BHO supporters use to post on this blog?
And have you noticed that in the absence of any logical arguments they are repeating about “cutting and pasting” (my comments/replies from various blogs)
The difference is that I provide links to anything that I post. The O’Bammies are posting comments of other bloggers presenting them as “their own original thoughts (they do not disclose the source/links)
Obviously the bambinos have been taking lessons on plagiarism from Joe Biden!
Oh, does anyone remember how Joe Biden kissed his Presidential bid goodbye a few years ago because of “plagiarism”?
It appears that Obama surrounds himself with people of questionable character and screwed up judgement like Tha One’s!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm

Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 11, 2008 2:26:33 AM
Doubtful.. Natasha is the poster child for ignorant voters.
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Well, I’m glad I missed her contributions on Biden.
If she is in fact an American Citizen, we can be glad she only has one vote to cast, and – judging from the quality of her contributions on this blog – there’s reason to hope she’ll get lost on her way to the voting booth this Nov. 4th. :-)

Good night, I do always enjoy reading your contributions, they are invariably enlightening. :-)

Posted by: Bullwinkle | October 10, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

Bullwinkle-
You are not in charge of this blog so shut up and stop telling me what to do and how to post my comments.
If you want to “play” moderator go and open a private blog so you can “boss” your buddies around. Or go get a dog so you can feel like a Master!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm

– The difference is that I provide links to anything that I post. –
The difference is that while some here provide direct and original content, you seem only able to repeat, verbatim, entire articles that have no insightful meaning. And when asked to respond, you choose not to, ducking the question by posting some other article in order to shift the discussion to some other tangent.
You have yet contribute anything original, and apparently are either unwilling or unable to do so. You can neither defend your candidates stance on the issues, nor even express your reasons for supporting them, and simply attack, which as McCain said in his own words back in 2000, simply shows a lack of vision or an inability to articulate it. We are still waiting.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm

To idiot Maria the republicans have been in power for the last 8 years. Wake up you fool they are the guilty ones. They are the ones that trashed this country and ran it into the ditch. They are ones that threw 700 billion dollars of taxpayer money to an illegal war in Iraq when all said and done will be 3 trillion dollars. The real terrorists are the republicans because they have trashed this country. You cannot hide behind the flag on this one. Your whole philosophy is deregulation and look what you caused. You people are a disgrace.

Posted by: MR | October 10, 2008, 10:42 pm 10:42 pm

Sleep well, Natasha..
we’re one day closer to November 4th when the rest of this country will put the lie to your mindless jabbering.
You and Sarah Palin are like two peas in a pod – you never answer a direct question, but just chatter on inconsequentially.

Posted by: Bullwinkle | October 10, 2008, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm

ACORN was actually infiltrated by Republican operatives the DELIBERATELY filed fraudulent voter registrations to try and smear ACORN.
Next,
Natasha really sounds like a guy to me that enjoys pretending he’s a woman for perverted/subversive reasons.
My reasoning is that his/her intelligence level falls well below that of Palin, the benchmark for ignorant women these days.
BTW, is Dan Quayle still alive?

Posted by: LOL | October 10, 2008, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm

I am going to get cybersexed tonight. Anyone care to join me?

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm

DemocRATS……(one scandal after another)
Son of Tenn. Democrat indicted in Palin hacking
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hacking the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
David Kernell, 20, of Knoxville, Tenn. entered the plea in federal court in Knoxville, the same day prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging him with intentionally accessing Palin’s e-mail account without authorization.
Kernell, an economics student at the University of Tennessee, was brought into court wearing handcuffs and shackles on his ankles.
He was released without posting bond, but the court limited his computer use to checking his own e-mail and doing class work.
Kernell’s father is longtime state Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis, chairman of Tennessee’s House Government Operations Committee. The lawmaker has said he had nothing to do with the hacking incident.
David Kernell was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Knoxville and faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. Trial is set for Dec. 16.
The investigation is continuing. The indictment said at least one other person successfully reset Palin’s e-mail password and accessed her e-mail account after the hacker named “rubico,” whom the government contends is Kernell, posted his exploits on the Web.
“I wouldn’t say specifically whether that other individual may be charged or not,” Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney said from Washington.
U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Clifford Shirley restricted Kernell from discussing the case with any potential witnesses, which include his roommates.
Kernell was also restricted from having any contact directly or indirectly with the Alaska governor or her family.
Shirley warned that if Kernell violated any part of his release conditions, he would be held until the trial.
Kernell’s attorney, Wade Davies, accompanied his client in court.
“As soon as we found out about the charges this morning, David voluntarily turned himself in,” said Davies, who refused to answer any other questions.
The indictment alleges that on Sept. 16 Kernell reset the password to Palin’s personal e-mail account to gain access to it. Authorities say Kernell then read the contents of the account and made screenshots of the e-mail directory, e-mail content and other personal information, later posting some of the information to a public Web site.
© 2008 The Associated Press
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iem-vu_mlRjRYfqkscEkw2ciRm7wD93MKS2O0

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm

Wow, a cut-n-paste dodge to shift the discussion to a different tangent.. how did I guess that one..
Good night Natasha, you do your party proud.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 10, 2008, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm

The GOP =KKK. Just look how disgraceful your campaign rallies are. At McCain rally a woman said she didn’t want an Arab like Obama in the white house. Wow how pathetic. Everyone knows that Republicans have inferior brains but this is ridiculous. You people should be ashamed of your party. You behave as if stupidity is a virtue. Unbelievable is all I can say. Ignorance is bliss

Posted by: MR | October 10, 2008, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm

Poor Scum publicans have nowhere to go but negative. They trash are country and then have the audacity to want us to reelect them. You people are a disgrace and should be dealt with in a very very harsh way. You terrorist neocons cannot hide behind the flag anymore. How can you cons trash our country and then try to pretend you are what’s good for America? You people are pathetic!

Posted by: MR | October 10, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm

You can neither defend your candidates stance on the issues
Posted by Concerned American
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Ahaha…ha! I see how well you defend yours! Please stop attacking me or stupidly repeating idiotic comments (troll) in order to divert attention from That One!
McCain has every right to expose the real Obama! The mask has to come off and somebody got to do it (since the left-wing-liberal media is covering up “God’s Gift to America” per….Bela Pelosi!
Now- be a good boy and go defend your candidate. Your role here is not to tell me what to do (go get a dog so you can feel like a Master)
And, stop writing with different names -or you think that we are all as naive as you are?

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm

These Democrats simply cannot afford to lose another election and they know it, and will stop at nothing to win it. The mere fact McCain is still even in this race is evidence that the Democrats have once again picked a candidate that excites few but those to the far left…to others he is merely the only alternative. This was supposed to have been a shoo-in for the Democrats this year…there again, Hillary was supposed to have been a sure thing, but she is not as radical as Obama so was run out of town by the Communists in the DNP and their sycophants in Hollywood and the MSM.
So, with the ACORN voter fraud, Ayers, Rezko, Farrakhan-the whole Muslim (?) thing, Rev. Wright, and on and on they might still lose. They are counting on the perceived ignorance of the majority of the American people. Obama can sit back and do/say nothing and his poll numbers go up. Odd that at the root of this economic mess are the Socialists in Congress, but yet it benefits their candidate.
We are focusing on the $ now, but be certain that whoever gets elected will be tried as Presidents Carter, Bush I and II, Reagan and President Clinton were. And domestic security, national interests, and foreign policy will once again come to the forefront.
Obama offers a new dynamic in the area of foreign policy to be sure. I’m pretty positive that he sees the relegation of Islam to the back burner of Mankind as a fundamental mistake…judging by the rise of Al-Qaeda, the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban and others, I would agree. He would, in a heartbeat, drop Israel like a hot potato in order to support and negotiate with the other 95% of the people in the Middle East who, also, control the flow of oil. Ask yourself, which is in the interest of America? But, I have a problem with terrorists getting away with what they’ve done over the last 35 years. Obama doesn’t.
There again, the U.S. didn’t do Jack after the Beirut Bombings and even under Reagan we cut and ran and never did anything about the Iranians even after they took our embassy people (twice in fact), so I find it hard to be too critical of Obama and the Libs in this area.
My take on Obama is that he probably really does want to kill Bin Laden, but not for the same reasons as most Americans-not so much out of revenge, but for the destabilization of Islam that Al Qaeda and the Taliban have caused and maybe even for deeper religious issues…assuming that Obama is indeed a Muslim.
It could be that Obama is indeed a new breed of Marxist-Muslim that seeks a more progressive Islam.
We call Obama an empty suit, but we need to stop and really think that that is probably not the case at all. But rather think about what he means by ‘Change’…I somehow don’t think he’s just talking about the usual trickle down vs. bubble up thing or party politics as usual, but a fundamental change to this country that many of us won’t like-and will be powerless to reverse.

Posted by: Grand Old Party | October 10, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

This is what it looks like when someone writes with a different name…
Ahahaha…I am a moron, and IDIOT, I have a desperate irrational fear of blacks, I resent most people.
I am incapable of original thought, so I clog up this post with cut-and-paste articles like the following:
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Michael Tomasky’s Blog for the Guardian.co.UK
IDIOT
Comments (14)
In 2006, the Alaska state branch of the right-wing Eagle Forum asked gubernatorial candidate Sarah Palin if she was offended by the inclusion of the phrase “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance:
Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its [sic] good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in the late 19th century by a fellow named Bellamy (a Christian socialist no less!) as part of an effort to improve the circulation of the magazine he was with at the time and generally improve the condition of American boyhood, about which a certain amount of fretting was then underway about their collective constitution and resolve (widespread at the time; this was roughly around the same time Baden Powell started the scouting movement on your side of the pond).
So that’s 100-plus years after the founding fathers were doing their thing. And even then, the words “under God” weren’t inserted until the cold war, the better to highlight the difference between America and the Godless Russkies.
This is widely known in the US. There’s been a controversial legal battle here over the last few years, and every news-following American has a pretty good idea of most of the above facts. This woman is an idiot.
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The above is the true opinion of the great Natasha, Minnie Mouse AKA Minnie the cut-n-paste Moocher.

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

– Now- be a good boy and go defend your candidate. Your role here is not to tell me what to do (go get a dog so you can feel like a Master) –
Sure.. lets take health care. Both plans will cost roughly the same, but Obamas plan will cover more Americans and be more efficient at doing so.
Obamas plan is to create an insurance company which will be able to pool policies in order to negotiate better prices. It will compete against other insurance companies, be affordable, optional, and portable across jobs, and provide similar insurance coverage as the members of the US Congress currently enjoy.
http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/pm126
In addition, the estimated $140 billion in tax cuts to businesses providing health care to their employees will provide an injection of capital into the economy, spurring job creation and expanded production. The increase in insured patients (estimated 47% of currently uninsured compared to 7% under McCains plan at peak) will additionally inject revenue into the health care industry, again contributing to job creation and economic expansion in related industries.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122152292213639569.html
McCain on the other hand just wants to deregulate, tax employers for their insurance coverage on workers, and give a fixed tax credit across the board regardless of income. His policy, like his tax policy favors the wealthy, and would result in more americans losing health insurance coverage due to inability to pay and pre-existing conditions. And any cost savings due to increased competition would take a considerable amount of time to realize, if at all due to market monopolization and consolidation.
Comments?

Posted by: jed | October 10, 2008, 11:16 pm 11:16 pm

And moron Natasha Obama has every right to expose the criminal behavior of McDumba$$. The fact is you neocons have ran this country into the ditch and you cannot dispute it. The fascist I mean Republican Party has been in power for the last 8 years. You gave all the tax breaks to filthy rich and destroyed the economy while doing so. You spent over 700 billion dollars of taxpayer money to fund and illegal war in Iraq. When all said and done it will be 3 trillion dollars. And for what? Then you morons have the audacity to bring up something that happened when obama was 8 years old. Just look at the company McDumba$$ has had. Lets start with the racist Bob Jones who he spoke for in 2000. You know Bob Jones University? That’s the one that banned whites from dating blacks. Just look at the evangelical leaders that have endorsed McCain. The are the same idiots that said 9/11 and Katrina happened because of the blacks and gays. You people are despicable. GOP=KKK

Posted by: MR | October 10, 2008, 11:25 pm 11:25 pm

LOL at grand old party. You are proof republicans have inferior brains. You are just like the racist woman at the McCain rally who claimed she didn’t want an Arab in the white house. You are still one of the few idiots that still believe Obama is a Muslim. Marxist Muslim? LOL sounds like an oxymoron.

Posted by: MR | October 10, 2008, 11:36 pm 11:36 pm

Wow, a cut-n-paste dodge to shift the discussion to a different tangent.. how did I guess that one..
Posted by: Concerned American
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Funny that you mentioned it. I see plaenty of comments in this blog about Troopergate – what do those have to do with the subject, hah?
As long as you O’Bummies post dozens of unrelated comments (to divert attantion from your “actor” candidate)we will do the same.
I can find dozens of stupid comments that you have written that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic – you are just a BIG TROL WRITING WITH DIFFERENT NAMES.
Sweet dreams troll!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

Let’s face people the fascist party has been in power for the last 8 years and the must go at all cost. These neocon terrorist have bankrupted this country while they try and hide behind the flag. You’ve exposed and you better be where because you’re going to have to deal with angry people like me that want to hold you accountable.

Posted by: MR | October 10, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

Who cares about trooper gate? By her being the biggest moron to known to mankind ought be crime. She needs to just go back Alaska and shoot more moose.

Posted by: MR | October 10, 2008, 11:52 pm 11:52 pm

Obama loves terrorists and racists as long as they don’t stand in the way of his career.

Posted by: HawkTheSlayer | October 10, 2008, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm

– I can find dozens of stupid comments that you have written that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic – you are just a BIG TROL WRITING WITH DIFFERENT NAMES. –
Expected response.. even when I directly answered in response to your “Challange”, you are unable to defend your own candidates stance on the issue, as apparently neither are McCain and Palin themselves, and simply retort with an attack and name calling.
And sorry Natasha, there are many people here in the ‘truth squad’ posting in response to your entries. We do take breaks now and then you know. Your paranoia fits you. Good night.

Posted by: jed | October 10, 2008, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm

And moron Natasha Obama has every right to expose the criminal behavior of McDumba$$.
Posted by: MR
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BRING IT ON, Mickey Mouse!
Stay tuned BAMBINO…
We are not done yet with BHO-AYERS-TERRORGATE and ACORNGATE!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm

– Obama loves terrorists and racists as long as they don’t stand in the way of his career. –
Yes, I’m sure McCain is kicking himself for pushing legislation to provide funds and arms for islamic terrorists, then sitting on the board of an organization that was used to continue doing so, subverting the law after congress cut those funds. Oh wait, maybe not, since he said in the last debate that he still supported US actions in Kosovo.
see http://www.kosovoliberationarmy.com to see what John McCain was supporting, directly and willingly and even skirting the law to do so.

Posted by: jed | October 11, 2008, 12:01 am 12:01 am

“Calling Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin a racist for rightfully questioning Obamas ties to a radical terrorist William Ayers, after Obama was caught flat out lying about the extent of that relationship.. HILARIOUS :DDDDD Ayers is white. Nothing even remotely racist about questioning Obamas judgement when it comes to his friends , and associates. AFTER ALL HE IS RUNNING TO BE PRESIDENT. HELLO IN OBAMA MEDIA-VILLE? ANYBODY HOME?”
Unbelievable, and what is funnier. Its Obama who aligned himself with racist radicals.
The media are cowards covering for a fraud.
Posted by: Badger
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Haha! When they run out of excuses the start palying the race card!
I bet, when Obama loses on 11/4 the media will go on and on with their spin about his defeat – “Racist America Dumps Obama”!
Watch, from now to election day they will bombard us with daily doses of “The Race Factor”!!
They left-wing-liberal media clowns are truly pathetic. They are a disgrace to serious journalism.
Posted by: Natasha
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/obama-buys-prim.html?cid=134269607#comment-134269607

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 12:10 am 12:10 am

Obama Soviet Anthem: Hilarious
http://www.wikio.com/video/389423

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 12:15 am 12:15 am

WOW NATASHA — ARE YOU REALLY AS DUMB AS YOU SOUND?

Posted by: SARAH | October 11, 2008, 12:19 am 12:19 am

– WOW NATASHA — ARE YOU REALLY AS DUMB AS YOU SOUND –
You have missed some of her more hilarious posts, and yes, she apparently is.

Posted by: jed | October 11, 2008, 12:23 am 12:23 am

Quote: “No question this is an honest mistake innocently done,”
Hey folks, please look down on your KEYBOARD, and
1) see where the “S” key is…
2) see where the “B” key is…
The 2 keys are HALF A KEYBOARD APART!!!
TYPO?!?! HAHAHA!
They better check the ballots on those battleground states, because there will probably ballots with “HONEST TYPOS” that read:
“Barack OSAMA” & “Joe BIN LADEN”!!!
So much for “DEMOCRACY”! HAHAHA! Remember Florida and the “hanging chads”, anyone?!?!
Republicans are no better than Communists when it comes to voting frauds…

Posted by: Bryan T | October 11, 2008, 12:25 am 12:25 am

I was pulling for mccain in 2000, mostly because he supported a tax plan similar to obamas one this election, and bush wanted to give huge breaks to the wealthy. I was disapointed that he didnt make it, but I voted for bush anyway. big mistake. didnt make the same mistake in 2004, but it didnt do much good. not this year. I have a republican voters card, but obama is clearly superior in where he wants to take this country and his loyalty to real americans. mccain sold out, and is taking the low rode to win at any cost. its time for him to retire and put his political carer behind him.

Posted by: derick | October 11, 2008, 12:30 am 12:30 am

Why should American’s settle for two candidates that are not even close to being good for The United States of America? Why do we settle for the choice of picking the lesser of two evils in a country where we are supposed to be “free” and have “rights?” Either way you vote, you are voting for a politician. (Look up what the definitions are for politician.) What they say they believe in goes out the window once in office and the mega bucks of the huge billion dollar companies starts to roll in.

Posted by: Aaron | October 11, 2008, 12:39 am 12:39 am

WOW NATASHA — ARE YOU REALLY AS DUMB AS YOU SOUND?
Posted by: SARAH
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Sarah is pissed off because we are picking on her That One – “God’s Gift to America” (per Bela Pelosi)!
Here Mini Mouse- take a hard look at your “Chisen One” – you may be emlightened!
A VIDEO PORTRAIT OF BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 12:44 am 12:44 am

Oh my, Natasha, now I understand your desperation:
“Barack Obama leads John McCain by 46 percent to 39 percent, according to a FOX News national registered voter poll released Friday.”
and
“A 61 percent majority of voters believes Obama is going to win the election – more than three times as many as believe McCain will (18 percent)”
Perhaps you should change your position Natasha and follow the hurd! You are now in the minority 18%.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/10/fox-news-poll-obama-maintains-lead-mccain/
PS: I answered your ‘challange’, and yet nothing from you. Your silence speaks volumes.

Posted by: jed | October 11, 2008, 12:49 am 12:49 am

WOW NATASHA — ARE YOU REALLY AS DUMB AS YOU SOUND?
Posted by: SARAH
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THE ONLY DUMB PEOPLE ARE THE ONES VOTING FOR MARXIST OBAMA!
OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE ON THAT ONES’ LIST OF DUMMIES!!
A VIDEO PORTRAIT OF BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036
DO NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA .COM
http://www.donotvoteforobama.com/

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 12:50 am 12:50 am

Obama would be a great film star…
(Btw, he is the one running for President – not Satah Palin!)
1. Yes, Sarah Palin is being drug around in the dirt because she is a Republican woman and how dare the person call Sarah a Caribou Barbie! That is one of the most sexist comments, yet. Also, for the one who called her “trailer trash” that just shows to me that it is not the Republicans who are elitists but the Democrats.This should be very offensive to those whose homes are trailers and who don’t make a six figure income.
2.It keeps coming up about the Bridge to Nowhere. Obama has ALSO been in favor of MANY things and then changed his mind….Israel/Pakistan…Russian/Georgia, etc. but NO-ONE dwells on that. In fact, he can’t make a decision; he just goes with the flow after asking dozens of advisors. He is charmismatic, I will give him that but charisma isn’t what we need. Some of you mentioned that McCain’s heroism doesn’t qualify him for the White House…well,okay then…neither does being a charismatic celebrity. Obama would be a great film star. He loves the spotlight. He’s an eloquent speaker. I’ve heard that John McCain is not. Hmmm…someone who’s become good at smoothly eloquent speaking probably has learned to make words work for him and twist them when necessary and people won’t even notice.
3. I’ve noticed that some are comparing Palin’s lack of experience and background to Obama. How come they are not doing the same comparison on McCain and Obama? Why is Joe Biden not the one that is being compared to her? At least, I have not seen much to that;maybe someone can fill me in on somewhere I could see this.
4. It seems Palin has so many sins in her life and McCain, too. Then,I guess the Democrats are without sin. They are presenting themselves as perfect. Too bad the voters are not nearly as perfect as Obama. In the Bible, there was a story about an adulteress that was getting ready to be stoned to death. Jesus told them “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” The Dems have done a great job of casting the stones and hitting Palin.
And, let’s not forget the Democrat who was President, and even though I’m not a Democrat, he did a decent job of the duties in office, yet he was an adulterer while in the office that he was elected to, disappointing Americans, but in this whole election,no one, not even the Republicans (except this one) has brought that up;(which is right thing NOT to do)maybe, it is because we all have skeletons in our closet. Have you ever thought what would come out if you ran for office?
5. The newstands are full of articles tearing Palin down, but I’ve yet to see the faces of Obama (the liberal media’s little darling) or Joe Biden on the covers presented in a negative way. I agree with one blogger who said that these publications are only ruining themselves. Let’s do real journalistic reporting…report the facts, Jack on both sides, both negative and positive and let the readers decide. I would absolutely LOVE to see an article in a mag that compares Obama to McCain and in the same mag Palin to Biden, side by side on issues, skeletons in the closets, biographies, awards and honors….maybe in the form of resumes so the American public could compare and then at the polls hire the ticket they think would be the best for the job.
6. Finally, and then, I’m through. I understand it may be good to understand the candidates’ views based on their faith but it is a little undeserving to undermine one for “praying” that God’s will be done. Our country was founded on a faith in the One True God, The Creator and our laws and values were built upon the Christian faith, but now, it’s not politically correct to be a Christian,no one must renounce their deep beliefs in order to please everyone. I couldn’t see one bit of hatred in the video that has been circulating where she spoke at her church in Alaska. Praying for someone does not cause hatred or racism or sexism. Their beliefs in their faith did not say they hated gays,only that they would be praying for them. And, in the privacy of a church building, they may do whatever (within the law) that they believe. Now that Obama has disowned his pastor, no one has mentioned anymore about how that church shaped his views. They are afraid to because of the venomous rhetoric that came from the pastor’s mouth. Does anyone know what Biden believes;have they gone to a church he attends or does he attend one? What about McCain? What are his religious values? So, then, why does that play into the equation with Palin? I could understand if she were part of an anti-government,hate religion. The most she could be convicted of in her faith is saying that she believes in praying to God, asking His will for the country. Go back in history to other presidents; many were men who prayed or sought God’s will. At least, the great ones did.
Thank you, both Republicans and Democrats for letting me air my feelings. How, sometimes I wish we didn’t have parties. I can’t stand the division and hatred that ensues. Especially when we say “United we stand, Divided we fall.” Let’s just let each other vote our consciences or faith or whatever standard and quit yelling at each other. I really hope that people in other countries don’t read our comments because it will show the United States are not so united after all. And…I will be praying for this election, that God will put in the candidates He wants (and, although I will vote Republican which is voting based on my faith) I know that whichever party gets in will be because God put them there “for such a time as this” and I will relax and support the Preident of the United States and respect the office.
Posted by: Gloria | September 09, 2008 at 01:43 AM
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That says it all Gloria!
:-)
Los Angeles Times Blogs
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/campbell-brown.html?cid=130091336

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 12:54 am 12:54 am

CNN’S Campbell Brownose is a partisan Moron!
Let’s “scrutinize” her for a change just to show her what personal attacks feel like…
Let’s Take A Look At Campbell Brown’s Family
by Dave Gibson (9/4/08)
A few days ago, CNN anchor Campbell Brown went on a very personal attack against Republican Vice-Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds was giving Brown an interview, when she decided to place the focus of the conversation on the Governor’s 17-year old daughter Bristol, who is pregnant.
Brown said: “Tucker, though, this obviously putting this young woman, Bristol Palin smack in the media spotlight at what’s already got to be a very challenging time in her life. I mean, how do you respond to people who wonder why her mother would have subjected her to this scrutiny by accepting this high-profile position?”
Brown went on to say: “I recognize that in an ideal world, it would be private. You know, this is a presidential campaign. Nothing is private. The world is watching and if we, you know, as much as everyone might want to give this young woman her privacy, you know that’s not going to happen. And so you do risk putting her through an incredibly difficult process by accepting this job if you’re her mother. You can’t deny that, right?”
Well, this is obviously not an ideal world. Nor is it any longer a world in which the press gives legitimate, unbiased coverage to any and all candidates. This is in fact, now a world in which the press has decided to join the side of the leftist Democrat Party, and attack the Republican Party. Night after night, that same press ignores the fact that Barack Obama launched his political career at the home of unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, while attacking the parenting skills of Sarah Palin.
Since CNN’s Campbell Brown has changed the rules of the game, and it is now evidently appropriate for the mainstream media to question a candidate’s parenting skills and focus on the behavior of the candidate’s family…Then it is also fair to examine the behavior of those related to those members of the press who pose such questions.
In 2003, CNN’s Campbell Brown’s father Jim Brown served six months in federal prison, after being convicted of lying to a federal agent, during a fraud and conspiracy investigation involving Cascade Insurance Co. At the time, Jim Brown was serving as the insurance commissioner of Louisiana, a position which he was forced to resign after the U.S. Supreme Court refused his appeal for the second time. Brown continued that position’s legacy, as the two previous insurance commissioners were convicted of taking bribes and illegal campaign contributions from insurance companies, and still sit in federal prison.
So I would pose this question to Campbell Brown: Since the world is watching you…Do you think it is fair to your father to place this kind of scrutiny on him, since he is a convicted federal criminal? I mean, I know that it has to be painful for him. So don’t you think that you should have ended your journalistic career after he was convicted and resigned in disgrace? You want to be a good daughter don’t you?
We are currently seeing the most illegitimate campaign coverage in U.S. political history. We have seen so-called journalists become nothing more than cheerleaders for the left, and press secretaries for Barack Hussein Obama. In fact, I believe that the Obama campaign should have to list the glowing coverage provided by MSNBC as an in-kind campaign contribution!
I as a true conservative, now find myself in the unusual and uncomfortable position of defending the Republican Party presidential nominee. However, when the left-wing ignores major issues, and so alters their coverage to paint the Democrat as basically the next messiah, and stoops so low as to attack a child…I have no choice.
If those who often cheer for our enemies and hate this nation so much that they would refuse to report the truth as it relates to the success of our troops, as well as to the more than questionable past of Barack Hussein Obama, no one who loves this country has any choice but to support Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin.
http://newsbyus.com/index.php/article/1440
CNN, John McCain’s camp at odds following confrontational Campbell Brown interview
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/campbell-brown.html?cid=129044476#comments

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 12:59 am 12:59 am

Miss Obnoxious – Campbell Brown – sooner or later will have the same luck as MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, who was demoted just a few weeks ago for being Mr. Obnoxious!!!!!!
We want the idiots of all 24 hour “news for dummies” networks to give us just the facts – not creating the news according to their personal political agendas.
Miss Brownose is the worst of all journalists in the history of CNN…she is a disgrace to serious journalism.

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 1:03 am 1:03 am

More ‘original’ thought brought to you by Natasha, using other people words. And yet not addressing a single issue in either candidates platform.. just shifting the blame for losing, pointing fingers and other distractions. Unable to come to grasp with the fact that it is the platform that is tanking the campaign, resorting to grasping at anything they can to coddle themselves in their defeat.
Sad.

Posted by: jed | October 11, 2008, 1:06 am 1:06 am

Obama’s Illegal Alien Roommate
Obama’s friend and roommate while he attended Columbia University was an illegal alien from Pakistan. Obama sure seems to have had a lot of friends from Pakistan.
Obama had numerous unpaid tickets while in school. He only paid them before he ran for president. Obama doesn’t seem to like to the obey laws.
http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=864701

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 1:08 am 1:08 am

jed,
you are the definition of an idiot, dear…poor you- what happened? ACORNGATE has you that uptight? Do not woory – it will soon be over (November 4th that is!)
I post comments of my own and material from other sources. In the second case I always post my sources and their corresponding links.
So-
Shut up and leave me alone – Moron!
Oh by the way, stop plagiarizing – provide your sources and their links. Oh! I know…you have taken lessons on plagiarism from Joe Biden! (you know, it cost him the Presidency some years ago).
Also, stop posting comments under a half a dozen different names. Pergaps you should change your IP once in a while! LOL!

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 1:22 am 1:22 am

Natasha, I’ll take your complete refusal to answer my question as confirmation that you do indeed consider Obamas health plan superior and simply afraid to admit it.
Thank you for confirming.
Good night, and may Allah be with you.

Posted by: jed | October 11, 2008, 1:23 am 1:23 am

List of Barack Obama’s friends and roommates
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/List_of_Barack_Obama's_friends_and_roommates

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 1:24 am 1:24 am

And the media morons barely talked about this! Oh! I know…they were more interested in what newspapers Palin reads!
On the campaign trail in Beaverton, Oregon, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama mistakenly tells a crowd that’s he’s been to 57 states – with one left to go.
video
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=82127

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 1:29 am 1:29 am

Natasha, I’ll take your complete refusal to answer my question as confirmation that you do indeed consider Obamas health plan superior and simply afraid to admit it.
Thank you for confirming.
Good night, and may Allah be with you.
Posted by: jed
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I am a Christian Goofy!! But I will pray even to Allah that Obama is not elected President so we do not get to ever see his retarded “Nationalized Medicine” plan!
Obama would be a great President…in Cuba or North Korea!

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 1:39 am 1:39 am

VOIGHT: My concerns for America
Obama sowing socialist seeds in young people
“We, as parents, are well aware of the importance of our teachers who teach and program our children. We also know how important it is for our children to play with good-thinking children growing up.
Sen. Barack Obama has grown up with the teaching of very angry, militant white and black people: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers and Rev. Michael Pfleger. We cannot say we are not affected by teachers who are militant and angry. We know too well that we become like them, and Mr. Obama will run this country in their mindset.
The Democratic Party, in its quest for power, has managed a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure in a man who falls short in every way. It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
The Democrats have targeted young people, knowing how easy it is to bring forth whatever is needed to program their minds. I know this process well. I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. The radicals of that era were successful in giving the communists power to bring forth the killing fields and slaughter 2.5 million people in Cambodia and South Vietnam. Did they stop the war, or did they bring the war to those innocent people? In the end, they turned their backs on all the horror and suffering they helped create and walked away.
Those same leaders who were in the streets in the ’60s are very powerful today in their work to bring down the Iraq war and to attack our president, and they have found their way into our schools. William Ayers is a good example of that.
Thank God, today, we have a strong generation of young soldiers who know exactly who they are and what they must do to protect our freedom and our democracy. And we have the leadership of Gen. David Petraeus, who has brought hope and stability to Iraq and prevented the terrorists from establishing a base in that country. Our soldiers are lifting us to an example of patriotism at a time when we’ve almost forgotten who we are and what is at stake.
If Mr. Obama had his way, he would have pulled our troops from Iraq years ago and initiated an unprecedented bloodbath, turning over that country to the barbarianism of our enemies. With what he has openly stated about his plans for our military, and his lack of understanding about the true nature of our enemies, there’s not a cell in my body that can accept the idea that Mr. Obama can keep us safe from the terrorists around the world, and from Iran, which is making great strides toward getting the atomic bomb. And while a misleading portrait of Mr. Obama is being perpetrated by a media controlled by the Democrats, the Obama camp has sent out people to attack the greatness of Sen. John McCain, whose suffering and courage in a Hanoi prison camp is an American legend.
Gen. Wesley Clark, who himself has shame upon him, having been relieved of his command, has done their bidding and become a lying fool in his need to demean a fellow soldier and a true hero.
This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.”
Jon Voight is an Academy Award-winning actor who is well-known for his humanitarian work.
The Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/28/voight/

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 1:46 am 1:46 am

Jed wrote: “Unable to come to grasp with the fact that it is the platform that is tanking the campaign…blah blah blah”
Posted by jed
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Oh Goofy, I most certainly have grasped Marxist Obama’s platform….
IT’S A LEMON!

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 1:52 am 1:52 am

Natasha
You got it twisted. God is not your servant. You serve him. Prayer is communication with God and seems the way you are talking, your phone has been disconnected. You are praying into thin air. God doesn’t hear you when your have been consumed by the devil

Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 1:59 am 1:59 am

Stop the character assassinations folks. John McCain tried to lead the charge on this but he could not stomach the venom that was being spewed. For God sakes it got so bad the man had a flashback and thought he was in prison.
He said my fellow prisoners
Give this man a break. Go home. Wait it out for four years. The GOP stunk the place up for eight years and have ran a horrendous campaign this year. You had terrible candidates, you have no new ideas, your hand has been at the tiller during
9/11
and the doubling of the national debt. (they just recently had to put an extra digit on the national debt bilboard.
save face gop…. go away … get your act together…. come back then…..
but please ….. no more character assassination…. this country needs to come together to face the problems ahead. ….. don’t destroy this country any worse than it is today……. i literally beg of you. please stop.

Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 2:09 am 2:09 am

Omentum-
Liars are consumed by the devil. Obama, and the left wing liberals (inluding the media) have served us LOTS of LIES!
ACORNGATE – BHO-AYERSTERRORGATE!
It is so pathetic that the left-wing-liberals play either the race, or the religion card in order to divert from the issue of “character” and “judgement” to win Obama votes!
Nobody died and left you to be my preacher. Go and give some advice to That One, who for 20+ years he was under the influence of that lunatic pastor of his, who was going around screaming “God Damn America”!!
Now, mind your own business – make sure you are connected (with God or the Devil or Allah) and leave me alone.
Your manipulative tactics will NOT work democRATS!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 2:16 am 2:16 am

Omentum wrote”
“He said my fellow prisoners”
————————————–
Funny that neither you Goofy nor the liberal media clowns paid much attention to Obama’s “57 states”!! (or you are going to tell us that this is not true?
REUTERS
May 9 – On the campaign trail in Beaverton, Oregon, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama mistakenly tells a crowd that’s he’s been to 57 states – with one left to go.
Reuters video: Obama: I have visited 57 states with one more to go!!
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=82127

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 3:14 am 3:14 am

Barack Obama mistakenly tells a crowd that’s he’s been to 57 states – with one left to go.
Yeah, every gaffe that Obama makes we call it a “mistake”. How convenient!
Btw, there is something called “the 57 states of Islam” (perhaps the poor thing got confused what country he was in).
Reuters video:
Obama:I have visited 57 states with one left to go! Ahahahaha!
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=82127

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 3:21 am 3:21 am

Jackie: That is no mistake. I am glad that happened. It shows that someone thinks of him as a terrorist for associating with Ayers. Good for them. He deserves that name. They may have changed it but at least it got out for the public to see. Good for NY.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 11, 2008, 3:28 am 3:28 am

Omentum: And Obama is with the devil himself for his association with terrorists. Give us a break. You are well aware of that. Ayers bombing his own country and thinking nothing of it. Obama lying to the public he didn’t know. We all know he doesn’t like America but is using it to make history. He wants to walk in the shoes of MLK. One factor, MLK was intelligent. But his lies are catching up with him. And I don’t believe any of the polls. It is a gimmick to make the public believe that they should vote for Obama because McCain can’t win. Nice try but its not working.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 11, 2008, 3:35 am 3:35 am

Omentum wrote:
“Stop the character assassinations folks”
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Pardon moi? Since when inquiries into Obama’s “sweet deals” with convicted terrorists, drug dealers, and other underground Chicago criminals is called character assassination? It is NOT our fault that Obama does NOT use his brain and certainly it is NOT our fault that he his judgement is all screwed up! Last time I checked the facts he did launch his campaign in the livingroom of convicted terrorist – the Pentagon bomber – William Ayers. The crappy excuses that he did not know who Ayers was are only for the very naive to believe. Everybody at Chaicagi knows who Ayers is! Oh! I know…Obama was doinf “community organizing” launching his campaign with Ayers help. Obama is trying to tell us that he did not know who Ayers was wheb=n he was serving with Ayers on the Board of various …”organizations”!
Any Democrat or Republican who refuses to ask questions and demand ansewers about issues relating to Obama’s character and judgemnet – anyone who does nor demand for the Obama mask to come off – can not be called an American. Sorry, but every American should be asking the same questions. This is not a matter of race as many claim. This is a question of character and jusgement. Period.

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 3:36 am 3:36 am

d0 | Oct 10, 2008 5:21:26 PM Not to diminish the loss, but I believe the 40% drop is from the high – a year ago.

Posted by: deanbob | October 11, 2008, 4:08 am 4:08 am

First to the people out there that obviously dont know how the government works let me tell you.Yes we now have a dem house and senate but only 51% majority now lets examine how the veto works when the president vetos a bill (as he has promiced to do to every liberal bill that comes across his desk) it has to go back for a vote however to get it passed now it takes a 2/3rds majority not just 51% so now theres no way to get it passed and it dies. So the dem controlled congress and house cant do anything BECAUSE OF THE REPUBLICANS BLOCKING THEM!! Its sad that you all dont even know how your own government works. Secondly Palin was out and out trying to insite violence against Obama period. But what do we expect not the first time she has used her position against someone she doesnt like ILLEGALLY. Lets not forget the 1st amendment does not protect your right to free speech if you are trying to incite a violent uprising against a elected offical. Why isnt she in jail right now for this? Why isnt the man that yelled out “KILL HIM” in the custody of the secret service right now? I tell you why Bush is still the president thats why. Also it sadens me that after 8 long years of the republican party you all are still buying into there fear. You are all such sheep.

Posted by: getsmart | October 11, 2008, 4:10 am 4:10 am

It is interesting that ABC has reported about these ‘anti-Obama’ disruptions, but did they bother trying to interview the disrupter? With as many disruptions as have been reported, couldn’t one of the disrupters have been talked with? Of course, there’s no chance it was a ‘plant’. ??

Posted by: deanbob | October 11, 2008, 4:14 am 4:14 am

Natasha: You are right in every word you said. Obama is half Kenya and that country is under dictatorship and Obama in this copied speeches from the book of RFK has a sound of dictatorship. He also tries his best to act like MLK. He is the worst candidate this country every had running for president. Knowing he had ties to a terrorist and lied about should be enough to wake up the people of this country. However, most of this generation of young college students are blinded by the fact that he is one of them because of his use of drugs and booze and 52% of college students are on drugs today and the college’s are now having a problem with booze as stated on the internet. Obama brought nothing but destruction to this election. I hope that McCain wins so we can get this country back to where it once was. If Obama is elected he will have Wright, Farrakhan, Father P, Rezko and Ayers coming to dinner many times over. He will try to control this country by the ways of Kenya. Obama never did like the white race but he is using them for his own benefit and many of the white people are blind to it.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 11, 2008, 4:18 am 4:18 am

getsmart I understand the VETO process. But if there are bills needed to be passed and they are not allowed to come to the floor because of one party, they will never make it to the desk of the president.

Posted by: deanbob | October 11, 2008, 4:19 am 4:19 am

Mariann Pepitone I think more people need to read Obama’s books. If they are open, they will gain an insight that you’ve described.

Posted by: deanbob | October 11, 2008, 4:25 am 4:25 am

LOL: Are you trying to say the Democrat Dogs are innocent? Give us a break. The Republicans do not have a candidate running for the presidency that had ties to a terrorist that bombed his own country. Wake up. Obama and Ayers are both anti-american and its people like you that are the ruination of this country. That’s why this country is in a mess with and it will take a Republican president to clean it up. And it will take the justice system to put druggers in jail and off the streets. We all know that there is an abundance of druging students in college and heavey on booze. Obama did the same thing and is not ashamed of it. You can be at the head of your class in college but still come out an ASS.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 11, 2008, 4:29 am 4:29 am

deanbob you are correct if the dems never let the republicans get a bill out because they had the majority then ofcouse they would never make it to the president. Sounds like childeren doesnt it. I wont let you get anything cause you wont let me get anything. Im not saying the dems are so innocent in all this but lets not let them take the blame for it all either.

Posted by: getsmart | October 11, 2008, 4:39 am 4:39 am

The other shoe has dropped. The adorable Sarah Palin has demonstrated that she is another Mr. Cheney in waiting. I hear she appreciates how old Cheney has carried himself the past 8 years.
Sorry …. no more radical VP’s

Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 4:40 am 4:40 am

I am a terrible typist but I can’t begin to figure out how I would ever hit the s instead of b. But I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: BobC | October 11, 2008, 4:41 am 4:41 am

What’s the difference between MRDick Cheney and Sarah Palin
LIPSTICK

Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 4:42 am 4:42 am

OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE
BIG 60 IN THE SENATE
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE
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Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 4:44 am 4:44 am

OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE
BIG 60 IN THE SENATE
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE
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Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 4:44 am 4:44 am

My fellow Obama supporters
We must admit the GOP is helping us considerably in winning this election, but there is much more work to do. TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED.
Get out. Knock on doors. Organize. Mobilize. Ensure you are ready to hit the ground running on November 4th.
Vote absentee NOW. Take the day off. Shuttle people to the polls.
Drag friends family and strangers to the polls. Don’t stop until the polls are closed.
GO HOME AND PARTY.
DEMS ARE BACK!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 4:49 am 4:49 am

Omentum Are you a PAID POLITICAL ad?

Posted by: deanbob | October 11, 2008, 4:51 am 4:51 am

Let the looney right wingnuts feed on their red meat and let them stew in their anger and delusion.
We have a mission. Our Mission is sure.
Take back this country and make it better for the next generation.

Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 4:52 am 4:52 am

My name is Omentum
and I approve this message

Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 4:53 am 4:53 am

Obama supporters
School folks on your local candidates. Help them campaign as well. Help them get their message out.
Send a Dem to Washington. We need all the help we can to clean that place up.

Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 4:56 am 4:56 am

Obama has a spine of STEEL. Amid all the financial problems, foreign relation problems, two wars, character assassination from the right, he has remained STEADY. UNFLINCHING to all the attacks that have been levied against him.
He has proven to be presidential in a time of trouble.
Honestly…. you must ask yourself …. over the past month …. Has Senator McCain been STEADY, UNFLINCHING, HONEST, PRESIDENTIAL.
Be honest with yourself
My name is Omentum and I approve this message.

Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 5:02 am 5:02 am

Imagine the uproar from the GOP if they “accidently” left the ‘L’ out of ‘Palin’ on those ballots………….

Posted by: SearamblerOne | October 11, 2008, 5:18 am 5:18 am

Three people checked the spelling? Where did they get these idiots from? Oh thats right they worked the
2nd shift for McCains campaign.

Posted by: spacerook1 | October 11, 2008, 5:33 am 5:33 am

If I do a spell-check on my computer, I get the following choices:
McCain = moccasin
Obama = ABM, Abeam or IBM
Palin = Plain, Pain, Patin, Paling, Pal-in, or Pal in
Biden = Bidden, Bide, Widen, Bided, Bider and about 6 more…
What cries would there be if the McCain/Palin selection was listed as:
Moccasin/Pain

Posted by: Rick_VT | October 11, 2008, 5:50 am 5:50 am

I can find dozens of stupid comments that you have written that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic – you are just a BIG TROL WRITING WITH DIFFERENT NAMES.
Sweet dreams troll!
Posted by: Natasha |
***************************
Hey Natasha, YOUR off the subject. Analyzing your
erratic behavior, you are having Symptoms of a
Bipolar Disorder. In case you forgot, we are
commenting about incompetent proof-readers.
Try to stay focused.

Posted by: spacerook1 | October 11, 2008, 5:52 am 5:52 am

seems anti Obama people dont put much pre-thought into their words and actions. Other than spewing hatred and lies, do they ever have calm rational thoughts? OBAMA for PEACE
Its really sad in USA that there are so many uneducated or just ignorant people out there that would believe Obama could be a U.S. Senator with anti U.S. terrorist links (Gee maybe he would be the one under investigation for wrong doing, Ya Think?) VOTE for intelligence OBAMA
should anyone mention to all these smartypants types that Bush’s family friends with the actual Bin-Ladins lets not mention facts, like Palin is the one found to be abusing her govt powers for personal business of revenge type of behavior and having her husband doing govt business…. stop the LYING war machine VOTE most honest choice OBAMA!!!

Posted by: billy | October 11, 2008, 5:58 am 5:58 am

Imagine the uproar from the GOP if they “accidently” left the ‘L’ out of ‘Palin’ on those ballots………….
Posted by: SearamblerOne
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Too Funny !!! You can also add to the list a
slew of typos like the all time favorites
McSain,McBlaim,McClean,Mclaim…
That’s why we have proofreaders instead
the lazy idiots who rely on the computer
spell checking. Besides, this is a ballot
not a novel.

Posted by: spacerook1 | October 11, 2008, 6:06 am 6:06 am

Omentum, Seems like Natasha has
mysteriously left the blog. Probably
used up all her McCain allocation. I
hope she is not involved in the poll
counting.

Posted by: spacerook1 | October 11, 2008, 6:16 am 6:16 am

the “S” key is nowhere near the “B” key
Posted by: rry
True, but there’s a lot of BS from some neocon Republicans.

Posted by: flreason | October 11, 2008, 6:23 am 6:23 am

Freudian typo slip I suppose. Frankly I find it hysterical.

Posted by: msa123 | October 11, 2008, 7:02 am 7:02 am

It is truly amazing how the average citizen in this country could actually support even another day of Republican rule. I can understand the rich and their not wanting to give up their free ride. I’m not even talking about the candidates just the Republican party and what it has done to our nation. But when you do look at the candidates and could choose McCain and Palin and all the unproven lies they are spouting in a last ditch attempt to secure your vote is undenialbly amazing. Yesterday McCain had to back off and admit Obama was a decent family man because his own party is on his case. They have gone too far when they are trying to incite violence. Who is the terrorists? Palin has no integrity at all. Wake up America.

Posted by: jemmiekat | October 11, 2008, 7:03 am 7:03 am

Republicans don’t need to dress up for Halloween this year. They’re scaring the pants off Barack Obama’s followers by their mere presence. Anything they say, wear, or do provokes instant cries of “RAAAAACISM!” Wink, blink, or think critical thoughts about Obama? You’re a bigot!
How many racial bogeyman have Obama operatives and sympathetic journalists discovered lurking in “coded language” and attire? Let us count the ways:
*At Tuesday’s presidential debate, John McCain referred to Obama as “that one.” Official Obama press agitator Bill Burton sent off an e-mail blast to reporters: “Did John McCain just refer to Obama as ‘that one’?” Horrors. Taking their cue from Burton, spooked Obama supporters hyperventilated like teenagers on the set of the Blair Witch Project movie. “The racial undertones were subtle but unmistakable,” declared Maya Wiley of the leftist Center for Social Inclusion. “McCain was tapping into a current of superiority among white voters. It was an attempt to ‘otherize’ Obama.”
“Otherize?” Sounds like something you do to your car tires to prepare for winter.
UC Berkeley linguistics prof George Lakoff was also haunted by “That One:” “The phrase was meant to say, ‘You and I are in the same area, but he’s the outsider.’”
Memo to McCain: Next time, call him “The One.”
*Obama supporters on the heavily-traffic Democratic Underground website (where such mainstream Democrats as Elizabeth Edwards hang out) saw the ghost of the Ku Klux Klan in Sarah Palin’s white suit jacket. Yes, white clothes = racism.
“Palin is wearing white again, inciting the racist crowds. She should just drop all pretense and put on her white hood and light up a cross. She is a despicable human being,” fumed a DU poster. “Grand Princess of the KKK,” proclaimed another. They’re “trying to send subtle signals to their rabid base,” yet another member of Obama’s rabid base declared.
My racial decoder ring must be on the fritz. Because I’m not getting the signal. If she wears white stockings, drinks a vanilla milk shake, and refers to budgetary black holes, are those incitements, too? And what about her gorgeous white teeth? Perhaps she should drink more coffee — hold the white cream! — to avoid emitting further racial radiation.
*Such paranoia is not limited to the fever swamps of the Internet. Earlier this week, the Associated Press disseminated an “analysis” accusing Palin of injecting a “racial tinge” into the campaign because she criticized Obama for his longtime relationship with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Palin’s comments were completely unobjectionable: “This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America.”
I saw a vice presidential candidate drawing stark philosophical differences between two tickets. The AP saw Freddy Krueger with lipstick and a noose.
“Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as ‘not like us’ is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American,” the AP piece frothed.
Obama is half-black. Ayers is white. One of the Weather Underground’s victims was black police officer Waverly Brown of Nyack, New York. Where do I buy a pair of the super X-ray glasses that can detect the racism in Palin’s remarks about the Obama-Ayers alliance?
*I’ll have to borrow those hysterical-colored spectacles from Time’s Karen Tumulty, who spotted racist goblins in the recent McCain ad criticizing Obama for seeking advice from Fannie Mae corruptocrat, Franklin Raines. “Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman,” Tumulty balked in a blog post titled “McCain plays the race card.”
Um, “sinister?” The ad’s photos of Obama and Raines were standard shots — some with dour expressions, others smiling. The fact that Tumulty perceived them as “sinister” suggests that she should perform a self-racism exam before diagnosing anyone else.
*A parade of Congressional witch hunters for Obama also detects the specter of George Wallace behind every policy bush. Democrat New York Gov. David Paterson says conservative criticism of Obama’s community organizing days is code for “black.” Democrat Rep. Gregory Meeks complained to the New York Observer: “They are trying to throw out these codes.” In the same piece, Democrat Rep. Yvette Clark divined segregationist intent in Palin’s references to Joe Six Pack and hockey moms. “It leaves a lot of people out.”
And Democrat Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid echoed Time’s Tumulty on the McCain camp’s Obama/Raines broadsides: “The only connection that people could bring up about Raines and Barack Obama is that they both are African-American, other than that there is nothing.”
The Washington Post reported that Obama’s office phoned up Raines for housing advice and has stood by its reporting. Is the newspaper part of the McCain/Palin hooded racists’ coven, too?
Obama’s witch hunters better beware. When there’s racism in every hiccup, nobody’s air supply is safe.

Posted by: HP Boston | October 11, 2008, 7:05 am 7:05 am

*RFLMAO* Barack OSama hahaha!! OMG this makes me laugh!! I wish the McCain camp wouldn’t be so doggone soft on Osama, they need to attack like the pitbulls they are!!! Ayers, Wright, ACORN, Pfleger….hell its all the truth– why hold back? The american people need to know EVERYTHING before they go to the polls. I dont want a president with terrorist pals in the white house, thats B/S!!

Posted by: albensmom | October 11, 2008, 7:42 am 7:42 am

More right-wing extremist hatred first fueled by McCain and now picked up by bigots everywhere.
here’s the exec. email addresses at NY elections if you want to contact them directly. They should send out a public apology.
jsampel@boe.nyc.ny.us, fumane@boe.nyc.ny.us, jdent@boe.nyc.ny.us, ngraham@boe.nyc.ny.us, jcpolanco@boe.nyc.ny.us, nschacher@boe.nyc.ny.us, GSoumas@boe.nyc.ny.us, myennella@boe.nyc.ny.us, webmail_cederqvistm@boe.nyc.ny.us, webmail_gonzalezg@boe.nyc.ny.us, webmail_perkinsp@boe.nyc.ny.us

Posted by: 1more4REALchange | October 11, 2008, 7:48 am 7:48 am

Typographical error, yeah, right, that’s the ticket…. And if you believe that, you are already in the MkKkain camp.
(Sometimes I think we are living in a Thomas Nast cartoon.)

Posted by: Hruodwulf | October 11, 2008, 7:52 am 7:52 am

Posted by Whoopdedoo12: “President Osama will reveal he is a muslim after he gets elected”
For those who did not see Obama’s interview about a month ago with George S., Obama referred to himself as Muslim. George S. interrupted, saying something like “you mean Christian, right?”, to which Obama said yes.
I have never seen any mention of this in the media–no surprise.

Posted by: LJC | October 11, 2008, 7:53 am 7:53 am

Fact Check, It was Bush who wanted that $700Billion rushed through.
Fact Check, It was McCain who stopped his campaign to rush to DC to Talk his party into voting for the $700BailOut.
Fact Check, It was the REPUBLICAN’S who put all that $150Billion Sweeten Deal before they would vote on the $700Billion BailOut.
Fact Check, It was McCain pushing his party to Vote for it with letters and private discussions.
Fact Check, Barack Obama did not push his party to Vote for it with Letters or private discussions.
The $700Billion dollar Bail out with the sweeten deal is PROOF of what DC will be with a Republican McCain Administration.

Posted by: mere | October 11, 2008, 8:21 am 8:21 am

Dear God,
Deliver us from the narrow minded, fear mongering, lying McCain-Palin supporters. Palin is a robotic Stepford Wife of the Republicans who have programmed her to say ANYTHING THEY WANT HER TO SAY to keep John McCain from looking like even more of a fool. I pray that the citizens of this great nation will WAKE UP and realize that Barak Obama and Joe Biden will be much better leaders to get US out of the unbelievable mess that BUSH and Co. have created. AMEN

Posted by: Terresa | October 11, 2008, 8:22 am 8:22 am

I am pretty sick and tired of being called a racist because I don’t support Sen Obama. BTW, Little suggestion for you parents on this board. You would be shocked to find out how many of your kids think Martin Luther King Jr. freed the slaves.
You would be surprised to find out that even your teens think that segregation laws were enforced all over the US and not primarily in the South when laws were changed during the Civil Rights movement.Please set your children straight and you might let them know that King was a Baptist Pastor.

Posted by: mm | October 11, 2008, 8:37 am 8:37 am

This was exactly the reaction the perpetrators of the “mistake” intended. Hundreds of emails some for and some against. “Not an intentional mistake”, good story. The three people who proof read the ballot should be fired. They are incompetent, cannot read English. Shame on you, Rensselaer County

Posted by: Rsarmaus | October 11, 2008, 8:38 am 8:38 am

Thank God, We as true U.S.Americans can embrace having an intelligent, well spoken, calm, and assertive Leader who we can trust to change the direction USA has been going. Forget blame but do learn from having experienced the worst economy crash ever in the USA, WE NEED SOME SMART FOLK IN THE WHITE HOUSE RIGHT NOW!!!!
So all you inbred hillbilly redneck Bush fans its time to evolve, whether you believe in evolution or not you can evolve. Try Obama

Posted by: BillyBobLeroy | October 11, 2008, 9:19 am 9:19 am

There is a difference between G.W. and “The Bush Administration.” G.W. is the figurehead that is basically a ventriloquist dummy to the republican house. Get the republicans out or it will be the same game. So basically, I don’t blame Bush…
-Obama ’08~

Posted by: Bob | October 11, 2008, 9:24 am 9:24 am

There seems to be a pattern on ABC forums. The Right wing radicals are flocking to FOX and ABC to hear what they want to hear from each other. The tone of some of these comments varies from complete ignorance and vulgar, to radical and dangerous.

Posted by: Disclaimer | October 11, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am

Obama = AntiChrist !
IF any of you even Claim to have an ounce of faith in God , Then You Can not vote for Obama .
You are selling your faith , your Soul for Dollars and Lies by the Great Deciever !
Obama WILL allow the murder of children
Obama WILL take our guns
Obama WILL close small business (like mine) with his tax plan
Obama WILL screw America !
Do your research PLEASE ?
MY Soul is Not for Sale to the SnakeOil Salesman Obama !

Posted by: sam | October 11, 2008, 10:23 am 10:23 am

“I am pretty sick and tired of being called a racist because I don’t support Sen Obama”
Posted by mm
————————————–
But of course, they are playing the “race card” to divert the attention from Obama’s character and judgement…
I wonder why ABC and the rest of the left-wing-liberal media clowns are not reporting about this…
Associated Press:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQmszDq4LOiRMcYNSaUdrmvTcB2AD93O8N500

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 10:37 am 10:37 am

Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans
The Associated Press
By MIKE ROBINSON – 7 hours ago
CHICAGO (AP) — Jailed political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.
Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose administration faces multiple federal investigations over how it handed out jobs and money with advice from Rezko, is considered the most vulnerable.
Rezko also was friendly with Obama — offering him a job when he finished law school, funding his earliest political campaigns and purchasing a lot next to his house. But based on the known facts, charges so far and testimony at Rezko’s trial, there’s no indication there’ll be an October surprise that could hurt the Democratic presidential nominee — even though Rezko says prosecutors are pressing him for dirt about Obama.
“I think this strikes fear into the Blagojevich administration and the Statehouse Democrats but not into the Obama campaign,” says state Sen. Kirk Dillard, R-Westmont, a John McCain delegate to the GOP convention but an old friend of Obama.
Rezko, 53, a real estate developer, was convicted in June of scheming to use his clout with the Blagojevich administration to squeeze $7 million in kickbacks out of a contractor and seven money management firms seeking to do business with the state.
Within two months, Rezko was seen in U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s office, along with his attorneys.
There has been no official confirmation that Rezko is talking but his sentencing has been postponed indefinitely and both sides say they are going to “engage in discussions that could affect their sentencing postures.”
“They never would have delayed the sentencing if he weren’t talking — it’s proof positive,” said Jay Stewart, executive director of the Better Government Association of Chicago.
In addition, attorneys say federal investigators have been questioning Blagojevich contributions around the state using information that only Rezko could have supplied. Finally, courthouse personnel requesting anonymity because grand jury probes are secret said Rezko has been repeatedly brought from his cell to the U.S. attorney’s office to talk to prosecutors.
Rezko could have a lot to tell. He has raised millions of dollars in campaign money for many Illinois politicians and according to federal prosecutors used his clout to control appointments to state boards.
Obama has sent to charity $159,000 that Rezko raised for his campaigns for the state legislature, the House and the Senate. Rezko raised nothing for Obama’s White House run.
Obama’s name came up in testimony at the trial four times, twice in connection with an obscure legislative memo, as a guest at a Rezko party and when defense attorney Joseph Duffy told jurors his client was a friend of the senator.
None of the witnesses accused the Democratic nominee for president of doing anything improper.
But questions concerning Obama’s relationship with Rezko linger, particularly over Rezko’s role in the purchase of the Obamas’ home.
The two have known each other for years, starting when Rezko offered Obama a job after he graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991. Obama didn’t take it, but a friendship developed.
The men talked politics frequently and occasionally dined together with their wives.
In 2005, the Obamas paid $1.65 million for their home near the University of Chicago. The sellers wanted a parcel they owned next door to sell on the same day, and Rezko’s wife, Rita, was the buyer. At the request of the Obamas, Mrs. Rezko later sold them a 10-foot strip of land to enlarge their lot. They paid $104,500.
The deal took place while Rezko was under investigation and when details of the cozy relationship surfaced, Obama said it was a “bonehead” error to have asked for the additional land because it looked like he was getting a favor.
“I regret it,” Obama said at the time. “I’m going to make sure that from this point on I don’t even come close to the line.”
McCain and vice running mate Sarah Palin have mentioned Rezko little if at all. But Republicans have aired a television ad focusing on Rezko. And McCain aides have repeatedly tweaked their opponent over the real estate deal in e-mails to reporters.
“We’re delighted to have a debate on judgment with Barack Obama, who bought his million-dollar mansion in a shady deal with a convicted felon,” McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said in August.
Blagojevich, meanwhile, got a black eye from the trial.
One witness testified that Blagojevich talked about hiring him for a major state job while his $25,000 donation to the governor’s campaign fund was lying on the table.
Two attorneys testified that Blagojevich hinted that they could get lucrative state contracts if they raised money — possibly for a future White House campaign.
Obama’s name has not surfaced in accounts of the investigation since the trial. But Rezko himself raised it in a letter to the judge months ago.
“Your Honor, the prosecutors have been overzealous in pursuing a crime that never happened,” he wrote. “They are pressuring me to tell them the wrong things that I supposedly know about Gov. Blagojevich and Sen. Barack Obama.”
© 2008 The Associated Press.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQmszDq4LOiRMcYNSaUdrmvTcB2AD93O8N500

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am

Call him what you like now. I would prefer Senator…. but if you must spew your venom … by all means free speech reigns.
But please have the respect and decency to call him President on Jan 20.

Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am

Natasha
I have a Great Idea for you.
You can search for witches (since you are so good at this witch hunt you are doing against Obama) and Palin’s pastor Muthee can drive them out of cities.
Oh no… Bad Idea
You would be driven out of your city.
Better yet. GOOD IDEA.

Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am

Natasha
I have a Great Idea for you.
You can search for witches (since you are so good at this witch hunt you are doing against Obama) and Palin’s pastor Muthee can drive them out of cities.
Oh no… Bad Idea
You would be driven out of your city.
Better yet. GOOD IDEA.

Posted by: Omentum | October 11, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am

Jeff wrote: blah blah blah…
“I wonder what the next move for the McCain camp will be? What do they say and do now? I’m sure they will find a way to blame this on Obama as well. You all better get use to saying President Obama, because of McCain’s poor judgement on his VP pick (nice). We are all smarting than we were four years ago, and won’t fall for the same BS coming from the republicans. Your time has come to an end my friends…”
Posted by: jeff
————————————
Ahaha…ha! Not so fast Mickey Mouse!
HOT OFF THE PRESS…
TONYGATE!!
Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans
The Associated Press
By MIKE ROBINSON – 7 hours ago
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQmszDq4LOiRMcYNSaUdrmvTcB2AD93O8N500

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 11:18 am 11:18 am

They said Bill Clinton would take people’s guns.
Anyone have their gun taken away? Of course not.
Obama and Biden have clearly stated they respect the 2nd amendment. Biden’s from Scranton, PA for God’s sake.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be good for small business because people will be able to buy into the same type of affordable health care plan that Congress has.
Right now if you have a pre-existing condition you couldn’t start a small business because you can’t get health insurance.
Oh and by the way. Small businesses die when the economy is bad. Like now.

Posted by: Toto | October 11, 2008, 11:24 am 11:24 am

The “s” key is nowhere near the “b” key. This was intended to make people afraid and not vote for Obama.
You know who’s going to be cheering when Obama becomes our next President? Not Osama bin Ladin, that’s for sure.
Barack Obama – who IS an African-American Christian, by the way – no seriously – he really is – I know you can’t believe it, but he really is – crazy, I know! But he really is! ;0) – Barack Obama is the only candidate who has actually stated that he will refocus military attentions on catching Bin Ladin.
Want Bin Ladin to be happy? Then vote McCain!
Want your children to have a future? Want to have money when you retire? Want to be able to breathe the air, let go of dependence on foreign oil, and live in safer world? Then vote Obama!
Read his website and look at his plans for our country. Make choices based on the issues. Don’t make decisions based on utter b&@lsh$@. Please.

Posted by: Leah | October 11, 2008, 11:40 am 11:40 am

Actually when the economy is this bad people might need their hunting rifles.
As a hunter, I know that a couple hundred pounds of venison in the freezer goes a long way to feed a family.
I also know that Barack Obama and Joe Biden do not want to take anyone’s guns. I’ve researched it.
That’s a myth.
Fishing is also good in a bad economy. But we need clean water for good fishing. Need to stop companies from polluting our precious rivers and lakes.
America’s Economy. Saved by Zero.

Posted by: Toto | October 11, 2008, 11:47 am 11:47 am

You Republicans are really a bunch of twisted idiots. How many Larry Craigs, Father Teds, Carl Roves & boy raping priests will it take for you to get that you are being lied to? GW is handing out the $, yet you try to paint the left as the socialists…John McCain cheats on his first wife and his second wife was a drug addict, while Obama has faithfully been with the same women, yet you think McCain has better values? Give me a break. You people are embarrassing.

Posted by: Chris | October 11, 2008, 12:21 pm 12:21 pm

Obama the magic negro is going to prison.
I’m Tony Rezko and I approve this message.

Posted by: Rezko | October 11, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

“you catch most errors” but missed this one? the election officials in rensselaer county must be practically brain dead. they should be ashamed of themselves and the writer and checkers must be removed to perform more medial tasks. spelling a name that’s been mentioned almost non stop for 2 years been on every paper and magazine AND why not use spell check? election staff of complete and utter dimwits.

Posted by: MarkD | October 11, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

When will be election over for the Next American Idol?

Posted by: Americans Next Idol | October 11, 2008, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm

Lets put the “typo” on the other foot.
I wonder what the Republicans would be saying if the election board had “not deliberately” printed McVain …. at least the two letters are next to each other.

Posted by: Linda | October 11, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm

How could this typo have happened and three proof readers didn’t catch it?Look at your keyboards palce your hands in the beginners typing postion someone went out of their way to reach that B The other poster is correct what kind of stink would be taking place if they misspelled McCains name and made it McVain.

Posted by: faxbot | October 12, 2008, 6:45 am 6:45 am

I’ve been transcribing medical reports for 20 years. Calling this a typo is a stretch. I’d call it deliberate.

Posted by: 24dinner | October 12, 2008, 6:50 am 6:50 am

Nicholas – you prove that racism is still very much alive in the United States. Shame on people like yourself.

Posted by: millefleurs | October 12, 2008, 6:56 am 6:56 am

A typo? …very doubtful.
Had it been a “G” or a “T” or just about any other letter then I’d say yea. Since it says Osama, it’s clearly a reference to Bin Laden, and therefore not a mistake.
Just another lame attempt by the McCain camp to throw hate into the mix, then claim “oops, sorry”.

Posted by: John M | October 12, 2008, 7:45 am 7:45 am

Cassandra wrote:
How do explain the last 8 years with the majority controlling the house and senate. Republicans! You are the one that is blind.
Ummmm, not really. Democrats have controlled these since 2006. What has happened since then? The economy has gone down the crapper. We gave you the keys to the car and you basically totaled it.
Thanks for nothing.

Posted by: J.S. | October 12, 2008, 8:27 am 8:27 am

Mr. McCain needs to tell the story about his past. Yes, we all know about his military career and the fact that he was a POW for many years. I would like to hear the truth about his role during the fire onboard the USS Aircraft Carrier Forestal. I have read that his story of his role has changed more than he has changed his underpants in the past 35 years. A true account of his jet catching fire, his so called wounds, his plane captain dying as McCain watched – very questionable that this happened, and how he left the Carrier, for R and R in Saigon, while the fire was still being fought by brave sailors. I would like to know the truth about Mr. McCain’s six years stay as a POW during the Vietnam War. Mr. McCain talks about Mr. Obama’s association with a 1960′s terrorist who was againist the war in Vietnam, and who is now for better living conditions, and better schools. Lets talk about Mr. McCain’s imprisonment as a POW and whether or not he gave to the VietCong more information than his name, rank, and service number. He sure did get treated better than most while in the Hanoi Hilton Prison.

Posted by: Yeoman33 | October 12, 2008, 8:48 am 8:48 am

If you believe that I do not know what I am talking about when I question Mr. McCain’s service to this country it should show you that lies can fabricated by anyone and about anyone. People and especially our candidates for the Presidency should always be truthful when telling about another person and to know what they are saying is true. Stretching the truth is also bad. Candidates for the Presidency should know what they are saying is factual. Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain are campaigning to be President of the United States, the leader of 300 million people, and because of this truth and honesty is of the upmost importance. The lives of 300 millions people are at stake.

Posted by: Yeoman33 | October 12, 2008, 9:11 am 9:11 am

Yeoman, you seriously need to wake up from your coma of anger. It’s only making your conspiracy theories very turgid.
Listen to me, 1, 2, 3, take a deep breath. Ok, now let it out. Do that a few times, think about what you’re saying, then come back and rationally speak the English language with luster.
Stop being sacrilegious, because it’s only showing your brain to be in melee with itself.

Posted by: J | October 12, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

For the moron that said Obama never had a real job have you never read anything about him? He was a civil rights attorney yes attorney last time I checked that was a real job. He also was a law professor at University of Chicago I believe that would also be considered a real job. Community organizing is a real job in the non-profit sector. I work in non-profit and I will be damned if someone says I don’t work everyday. Going out and trying to solve the world’s problems for less pay than a cushy office job is real work belive it or not some people are just called to make change and some are called to just make money. I am not mad at either one. I am a scientist by degree but I have chosen to help my community working in non-profit.
McCain is the one that would start in the mail room he is a career politician and was a less than stellar navy pilot. Any other “job” he had was because of his rich wife. Also he has no advanced degree and finished at the bottom of his class for the one degree he does have.
Honestly if Obama and McCain were to hand their resumes to any of the top companies in this country or abroad Obama would be hired over McCain in almost every case.

Posted by: Ashley | October 12, 2008, 11:12 am 11:12 am

Asley, I bet your lips are sticky.
get out from under Obamas desk!

Posted by: . | October 12, 2008, 11:39 am 11:39 am

All I keep reading is how we should get all the Republicans out of office and have only Democrats. Are you serious?!? You people would really want a one party government??? I guess that explains why people migrate to Obama…ignorance truly is bliss.
BTW…I think it’s freakin’ hilarious about the blunder of his name. Why is everyone getting their panties in a wad over this? If Obama can stupidly “forget” his own religion and it’s excused, then a misspelled name is nothing!

Posted by: Aaron | October 12, 2008, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm

300 ballots need to be reprinted vs. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF FRAUDULENT ACORN REGISTRATIONS THAT WILL TRANSLATE TO FRAUDULENT VOTERS.
There will be law suits on Nov. 5 if this is close and it will make the Gore/Bush debacle look like a tea party.

Posted by: Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama '08 | October 12, 2008, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm

If this nation doesn’t wake up and listen to what people are say about obama abd read his books that he wrote and see just what kind ioof a terrioest he really is, and see that he isnmnot what this nations needs in the Highest office of the USA. The news medis is so biased that they won’t ttteel the truth about obama. I know there are some that even if the truth hit them in the face, they would still vote for whoever is running oin the Democratice ticket because they are so dumb and don’t want to see the truth. If Jesus was running for presidetn and the Republican ticket and the devil was running on the Dem. ticket(which he is) they would vote for the devil. People WAKE UP. Christians statr Prayin that God will and can change this nation and electon around for His honnor and Glory. We as Christian can maske a difference

Posted by: S Jones | October 12, 2008, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm

This mess with the banks and all the job losses didn’t start with the Bush party it started with the clinton’ and tha nafta act and allowing banks to loan money to people that didn’ have a job but just a s.s card and mostly illeagle imagrinta’ Do you research nad find ou the real facts

Posted by: G. alan | October 12, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

Another “Brainwashing” technique….they prey on uninformed people. They like you now…but later?

Posted by: Jinny Lee | October 12, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

Deliberate or not, whoever is responsible should have their pay docked to the equivalent of replacement absentee ballots with the correct spelling, including mailing charges. I know if someone spelled McInsane on the ballot, the republicans would be screaming bloody murder and for heads to roll.

Posted by: Dave Kisor | October 12, 2008, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm

Breaking news, Obama has problems, Tony Rezko is now speaking to the FBI about his connections to Chicago politicians!

Posted by: J | October 13, 2008, 3:40 am 3:40 am

Now I know why I chose to live outside the US. My country has gone completely insane.
~ Another fiscally conservative Republican who is voting Obama-Biden.

Posted by: C.M. | October 13, 2008, 4:48 am 4:48 am

Maybe S Jones typed up or proof-read the ballots. Why is it the so called Christians are the least tolerant and most hateful people who post? Sad but true. The typo on the ballots was no accident. And I would encourage all the low info posters on here to actually do some research of your own..try snopes.com or factcheck.org, there is no question Obama is a citizen, he was born in Hawaii, McCain was not born in the U.S., he was born in Panama, but is a citizen because of his father’s military status. Stop spewing Hannity and Co’s propaganda, think for yourselves. Obama is going to take this in a landslide, and I can’t wait!

Posted by: radio3142 | October 13, 2008, 4:57 am 4:57 am

Obama the magic negro is going to prison.
I’m Tony Rezko and I approve this message

Posted by: Rezko | October 13, 2008, 5:22 am 5:22 am

I think we’ve proven time and time again that Republicans are stupid. I’m not sure why anyone’s surprised. Even if it had been caught beforehand, any self-respecting Sarah Palin fan would let something like that go. I mean, it’s not unethical or unfair or anything, right?
And we know that both McCain and Palin have a very good handle on the difference between right and wrong, between B and S, although they know the most about BS. And when Republicans do wrong, they just deny it. They don’t even attempt to explain it, just deny, deny, deny. An honest mistake? Really? REALLY? When was the last time this happened? Do we have retards in the voting offices? And is that so that other HONEST mistakes can be made in the collecting and counting of votes? Remind you of anything? Like the last two stolen elections?
Stupid, cowards, MORE OF THE SAME.
I just wish that the people voting for McPalin could live in the America they seem to want while the rest of us enjoy uniting and resurrecting our country.

Posted by: sv | October 13, 2008, 6:51 am 6:51 am

Karl Rove said last month….look for an Oct. surprise…maybe because he knew who planted these voter sheets with Obama’s name on it. He is the last person in the world I would trust. The republican party has tried everything to demean Obama but when people really listen, they realize that he is the only one offering the middle class help. He is smart and has good ideas. It is time to have an intelligent president who will get the answers if he is not sure by surrounding himself with the best of the best. I truly believe he will try harder for the middle class and that’s who need the help the most.

Posted by: Pat Napolitano Marietta. Ga. | October 13, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am

As Mc Cain continues to try to link Obama with Ayers and says it’s a matter of judgement….he forgets he was cited for “bad judgement” in the Feingold affair so where does he come off being so high and mighty. He has plenty of skeletons in his closet. He got of with a tap on his hands because he was a war hero. Anyone else would be in jail with the rest of them.

Posted by: Pat Napolitano Marietta. Ga. | October 13, 2008, 8:38 am 8:38 am

i live in troy ny and i gotta say i highly doubt it was a mistake. this county is pretty backwoods with alot of rednecks and racists and i wouldnt doubt that they did it intentionally.
now that being said, what would the problem be if he was a muslim, why would that be a bad thing. because there just happens to be a few muslim terrorist groups? are there not christian terrorists? how about the people that blow up abortion clinics? or the ones beating up and murdering gay people? i dont understand why it would be such a travesty to have a muslim president. we’re supposed to keep religion out of our politics anyway, even though the christians fight constantly to turn their morals and beliefs into law.
anyone who would vote for mccain and puts that horrible woman in a position to possible be president is obviously not to bright. even mccain’s people realised they made a mistake in doing so. why do you think they had johhny boy sittin up there answering questions when it was supposed to be an interview with pallin

Posted by: derekB | October 13, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am

don’t know what’s more scary, the cover up by the MSM for Obama, or his brainwashed Nazi Youth supporters like Bethb, who typically respond to any questioning of their Messiah with an angry barrage of hate filled insults.
Guess what Obots, your candidate was never vetted at all and has run the most corrupt campaign in history.
Better get used to people like Natasha, and millions of others who will only make sure to find out about Obama especially if he does steal the Presidency.
get used to it. He will never escape the upcoming scrutiny.

Posted by: . | October 13, 2008, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm

Hundreds of voters in New York’s upstate Rensselaer County were sent absentee ballots that listed the name of Democratic nominee Barack Obama as “Barack Osama,” an error that recalls the name of 9/11 terrorist Osama bin Laden.
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Posted by: reenasally | October 13, 2008, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm

The s key is pretty far from the b key on a keyboard. Typo my ass. Maybe this can get away as a Freudian slip, but as a typo no way.

Posted by: yeah right | October 13, 2008, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm

Three different staffers proofed that ballot?? And what was their total IQ? Three? I would fire every single person in that office.

Posted by: republicant | October 14, 2008, 6:28 am 6:28 am

A cursory count of the keys on my keyboard adds up to the likeliness of this being a mere typo at somewhat less than 1 in 100.

Posted by: Subliminal | October 14, 2008, 7:33 am 7:33 am

how can you call obamas campaign the most corrup ever when 1) W completely stole the election, and 2) the whole thing in mccains campaign in the past few weeks has been questioning who he really is and calling him a terrorist. mccains whole campaign has been more about bashing his opponent then focusing on he issues
also, all the right wingers are saying we need to know the real obama, what about eh real palin? before she was nominated who had ever even heard of her? now with this whole trooper gate thing no one has the right to be questioning obamas integrity when your candidate is a total nobody mccain found to try to and steal away the hillary supporters

Posted by: derekb | October 14, 2008, 9:53 am 9:53 am

I’m a huge Obama fan…he’s the intelligent choice for our country. After living near Rensselear County I’m not suprised…I don’t think the county is full of fear-mongering nuts but rather is run incompetently.

Posted by: Anne | October 15, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

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