Oct 9, 2008 1:53pm

Obama Buys Primetime Television Time Before Election

ABC News’ John Berman Reports: Barack Obama is ready for primetime.

The Obama campaign has bought a half hour block of primetime television — from 8-8:30pm ET — on Wednesday, Oct. 29, on CBS, NBC, and MSNBC, according to television industry sources.

The bold buy, first reported by the Hollywood Reporter and featured on the Drudge Report, will put the Obama show uninterrupted to American television sets across the country less than one week before election day.  The Obama camp remains in talks with other networks to do the same on other channels.

Evan Tracey, chief operating officer of the Campaign Media Analysis Group or CMAG, estimates that 30 minutes of primetime network television would cost at least $500,000.

Sen. Obama is at greater liberty to make such a large buy late in the election game due in part to his decision to reject public financing of his presidential run — and the spending limits that come with it — a move Sen. John McCain has criticized.

"[Obama] said," McCain told ABC News "World News" anchor Charlie Gibson in an interview on Thursday, "He wrote down a piece of paper that he would take public financing for his presidential campaign if I would.  He betrayed the trust of the American people there."

McCain continued blast Obama for forgoing public funds adding, "He looked in the camera twice during the debate with Sen. Clinton and said, ‘I will sit down and negotiate with John McCain before I decide to forgo public financing for my campaign.’  He never called me.  He looked in the camera and told the American people something that was patently false."

As the Hollywood Reporter notes in their original report, Reform Party candidate H. Ross Perot bought national television time prior to the 1992 election.

Both Obama and McCain bought advertising during the Olympics and, earlier this year, the Obama camp looked into the possibility of sponsoring a Sprint Cup car in NASCAR race.

ABC News’ Tahman Bradley contributed to this report.

User Comments

April 2008.
Hillary CLINTON: “Well, I think that is a fair general statement, but I also believe that Senator Obama served on a board with Mr. Ayers for a period of time, the Woods Foundation, which was a paid directorship position.
And, if I’m not mistaken, that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11 and after his reported comments, which were deeply hurtful to people in New York and, I would hope, to every American, because they were published on 9/11, and he said that he was just sorry they hadn’t done more.
And what they did was set bombs. And in some instances, people died. So it is – I think it is, again, an issue that people will be asking about.
And I have no doubt – I know Senator Obama’s a good man and I respect him greatly, but I think that this is an issue that certainly the Republicans will be raising. And it goes to this larger set of concerns about how we are going to run against John McCain.”

Posted by: Hillary Thinks Ayers is Relevant | October 9, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

It is reasonable to ask whether ACORN is in fact a criminal conspiracy to subvert the voting rights of Americans. Which makes it all the more remarkable that Barack Obama paid ACORN $800,000 to register new voters, and then lied about it, falsely telling the Federal Elections Commission that the $800,000 went to a group called Citizen Services Inc. for “advance work.”

Posted by: No Obama Never | October 9, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm

OCTOBER SURPRISE!!!
TROOPERGATE REPORT COMES OUT TOMORROW!!!
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/550940.html
Now we can ALL see what McCain and Palin were so desperately trying to hide for the past 5-6 weeks!!!!!
I am sure since McCain and his dirty trick lawyers have been trying to cover it up for over a month, that it AIN’T GOIN TO BE PRETTY!!!
Bye, bye McNasty and your Moose with lipstick too!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 9, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

No suprise it will be nothing not like ACORN is going to be!

Posted by: No Obama Never | October 9, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm

Obama is going to need Prime Time to lie about his Lies and ACORN!

Posted by: No Obama Never | October 9, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm

Bozo has to buy air time the Wednesday before election day and he’ll have his well crafted speech from one of his script writers…and nothing he can say to change this Hillary supporter to vote for him…I’ve been with McCain since Hillary dropped out and love the addition of Palin.
Obama can buy up all the time on every network and I don’t give and F…..he is UNACCEPTABLE….no man of his word like Sen. McCain…..SCREW B. HUSSEIN.

Posted by: Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama '08 | October 9, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm

What about Sarah Palin’s association with the American Independence Party? The group’s stated goal is to secede from the United States — a treasonous offense. Todd Palin was a member of this party, and Sarah Palin attended at least two of their conventions and — whoops! — spoke to their convention as recently as this past Summer. The founder of the party, the late Joe Voegler, once condemned the American flag. Where are the questions about whether Palin loves the American flag?
What about Sarah Palin’s association with the witch doctor, Pastor Muthee, who blessed Palin at her church and prayed for her “finances”? Does Sarah Palin believe in witches? Does Sarah Palin support witch hunts? Does she know who Cotton Mather was?
What about Sarah Palin’s association with indicted Senator Ted “Tubes” Stevens, whose 527 organization was run by Sarah Palin?
Then there’s Senator McCain.
What about Senator McCain’s association with convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy? This is the guy who, on the public airwaves, instructed his viewers about how to kill a federal agent. This is the guy who boasted that he fired a handgun at a cardboard standee of Senator Hillary Clinton. Yet Senator McCain has appeared on Liddy’s radio show numerous times since these statements — as recently as May, 2008.
What about Senator McCain’s relationship with pastor Rod Parsley, who wants to engage in religious warfare?
What about Senator McCain’s relationship with anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic pastor John Hagee?
Should I go on?
What about Senator McCain’s relationship with his chief campaign advisor Charlie Black who said a terrorist attack would help the campaign?
What about Senator McCain’s association with Shelley Shannon who is accused of shooting and wounding an abortion doctor?
What about Senator McCain’s association with Charles Keating? What about his association with Freddie Mac lobbyist Rick Davis — you know, John McCain’s campaign manager? What about his association with the U.S. Council for World Freedom, whose board also included a Nazi sympathizer?

Posted by: karen | October 9, 2008, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm

Karen: got any left in that bottle your sipping from?

Posted by: david | October 9, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm

karen….your desperation is showing….there is nothing other than Keating 5 in McCain’s background that is questionable….$112,000, he was exonerated from. You can’t even come close WITH ANYTHING on either McCain and Palin as Barack Hussein Obama’s list is too long to mention here….but Presidential candidates don’t associate with racists for 20 years, crooks that buy parts of their homes, terriorists here and abroad. There isn’t anyone who would question John McCain’s ALL AMERICANISM…..but your rootless cosmopolitan…..world citizen, socialism first candidate….ISN’T THE BLACK GUY TO BE THE FIRST BLACK PREZ.

Posted by: Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama '08 | October 9, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm

I’m impressed that in these terrible economic times that Obama is able to raise enough money to compete in spending with McCain.

Posted by: MIguy | October 9, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm

Karen, The Ayers connection is the “HOLY GRAIL” of all negative associations that can be relative to this election and YOU KNOW IT!!!!
GET OVER IT!!!!!!

Posted by: David | October 9, 2008, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm

The affirmative action candidates are on both sides. We’ve got the senior citizen and special needs person on our side as Republicans. What the heck is wrong with this picture?

Posted by: 1percenter | October 9, 2008, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm

Sarah Palin’s husband ADMITS tampering with worker comp claims. Says he DID pressure the top-cop as well. Says Sarah had nothing to do with it.
If you believe she didnt know, Ive got a bridge to nowhere to sell ya! You Betcha!

Posted by: bubba | October 9, 2008, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm

What about Sarah Palin’s association with the American Independence Party? The group’s stated goal is to secede from the United States — a treasonous offense. Todd Palin was a member of this party, and Sarah Palin attended at least two of their conventions and — whoops! — spoke to their convention as recently as this past Summer. The founder of the party, the late Joe Voegler, once condemned the American flag. Where are the questions about whether Palin loves the American flag?
What about Sarah Palin’s association with the witch doctor, Pastor Muthee, who blessed Palin at her church and prayed for her “finances”? Does Sarah Palin believe in witches? Does Sarah Palin support witch hunts? Does she know who Cotton Mather was?
What about Sarah Palin’s association with indicted Senator Ted “Tubes” Stevens, whose 527 organization was run by Sarah Palin?
Then there’s Senator McCain.
What about Senator McCain’s association with convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy? This is the guy who, on the public airwaves, instructed his viewers about how to kill a federal agent. This is the guy who boasted that he fired a handgun at a cardboard standee of Senator Hillary Clinton. Yet Senator McCain has appeared on Liddy’s radio show numerous times since these statements — as recently as May, 2008.
What about Senator McCain’s relationship with pastor Rod Parsley, who wants to engage in religious warfare?
What about Senator McCain’s relationship with anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic pastor John Hagee?
Should I go on?
What about Senator McCain’s relationship with his chief campaign advisor Charlie Black who said a terrorist attack would help the campaign?
What about Senator McCain’s association with Shelley Shannon who is accused of shooting and wounding an abortion doctor?
What about Senator McCain’s association with Charles Keating? What about his association with Freddie Mac lobbyist Rick Davis — you know, John McCain’s campaign manager? What about his association with the U.S. Council for World Freedom, whose board also included a Nazi sympathizer?

Posted by: karen | October 9, 2008, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm

Not a surprise for a rock star. Funny way to spend all the money gotten in small amounts!!!! Good chance to answer all of the questions about his past and current associates. Well one can always wish.

Posted by: William | October 9, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm

oh really? David? Methinks not.
Looks like McCain is trying and trying and trying to make Ayers the holy grail…but pssst….guess what? It’s been tried before and it’s not working…
BUT the American people deserve to know McCain’s dirt and I’m thinking they’re going to get to pretty darn soon. :)

Posted by: karen | October 9, 2008, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm

Sarah Palin’s husband ADMITS tampering with worker comp claims. Says he DID pressure the top-cop as well. Says Sarah had nothing to do with it.
THey actually found someone MORE corrupt than McCain to be his running mate. Its a miracle!

Posted by: bubba | October 9, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm

Dear God,
Please let November 5th come swiftly I am so sick of John McCain.
AMEN

Posted by: Jessica | October 9, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

Karen, McCain’s add on Ayers just came out this morning for the first time. Certainly not enough lapse of time to have gone by to be able to conclusively say it’s not going to work.

Posted by: David | October 9, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

Acorn, ACORN ACORN, CHEATING CHEATING CHEATING. This election is already in the tank. From the left Media lying about Obama and hiding his past to ACORN, registaring fake voters for the Dems and only the Dems. There is also talk about Obama obtaining money illegally from donors who have donated the max. The Dems are shady and pulling out all the stops. WE need to stop them. VOTER FRAUD IS ILLEGAL

Posted by: Curious George | October 9, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

Enough of this William Ayers-Barack Obama link. There’s no basis and it’s a cheap shot. My family and I made up our minds and we’re voting “THAT ONE”!!!

Posted by: Joey P | October 9, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

Now that ACORN been busted now he wants to go on tv and pander for votes.

Posted by: seeya | October 9, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

You can always tell when a story is first reported on Drudge. It brings out every scumbag in America.

Posted by: jim | October 9, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

How will he explain his member ship in THE NEW PARTY 1992 to 1998?
Archives prove Obama was a New Party member
Thomas Lifson
Another piece in the puzzle of Barack Obama has been revealed, greatly
strengthening the picture of a man groomed by an older generation of radical
leftists for insertion into the American political process, trading on good
looks, brains, educational pedigree, and the desire of the vast majority of
the voting public to right the historical racial wrongs of the land.
The New Party was a radical left organization, established in 1992, to
amalgamate far left groups and push the United States into socialism by
forcing the Democratic Party to the left. It was an attempt to regroup the
forces on the left in a new strategy to take power, burrowing from within.
The party only lasted until 1998, when its strategy of “fusion” failed to
withstand a Supreme Court ruling, but after, but the membership, including
Barack Obama, continued to move the Democrats leftward with spectacular
success.
Erick Erickson, editor of RedState, explained fusion in a Human Events
article :
Fusion is a pretty simple concept. A candidate could run as both a
Democrat and a New Party member to signal the candidate was, in fact, a
left-leaning candidate, or at least not a center-left DLC type candidate. If
the candidate — let’s call him Barack Obama — received only 500 votes in
the Democratic Party against another candidate who received 1000 votes,
Obama would clearly not be the nominee. But, if Obama also received 600
votes from the New Party, Obama’s New Party votes and Democratic votes would
be fused. He would be the Democratic nominee with 1100 votes.
The fusion idea set off a number of third parties, but the New Party was probably the most successful. A March 22, 1998 In These Times article by John Nichols showed just how successful. “After six years, the party has built what is arguably the most sophisticated left-leaning political operation the country has seen since the decline of the Farmer-Labor, Progressive and Non-Partisan League groupings of the early part of the century …. In 1996, it helped Chicago’s Danny Davis, a New Party member, win a Democratic congressional primary, thereby assuring his election in the majority-black district …. The threat of losing New Party support, or of the New Party running its own candidates against conservative Democrats, would begin a process of forcing the political process to the left, [Joel]
Rogers argued.”
Fusion, fortunately for the country, died in 1997. William
Rehnquist, writing for a 6-3 Supreme Court, found the concept was not a
protected constitutional right. It was two years too late to stop Obama.
J. Brown of Politically Drunk on Power has dug up http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/10/web-archives-confirm-barack-ob
ama-was.html> multiple documentary sources (with hyperlinks) proving that
Barack Obama was a member of the New Party, despite alleged attempts to
cover up his tracks by scrubbing evidence. He or she deserves tremendous
praise for doing this detective work.
Obama’s career bears many signs of being helped along by the radical left.
At the critical moment when he entered electoral politics, he was part of a
movement to take over an established political party and dirct it to the
task of building a socialist America.
Hat tip: Rocco DiPippo

Posted by: Gene | October 9, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

WOW, Anyone with one active braincell knows that Barack Obama is the better choice for the American people. All you rascists out there who can’t turn the channel from FOX Noise need to educate yourselves. Sarah Palin is a joke and an insult to every woman in the country. McCain is just a doddering old fool with obvious dementia issues.

Posted by: John McCain is a liar. | October 9, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

david: Can you refute anything Karen just said? Did you look any of it up? I think you better stick to the McCain kool-aid. It goes down smooth and usually contains less than 1 calorie of truth. What Karen’s drinking is way too strong for you.

Posted by: Hokie Freak | October 9, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

Wow….just saw the WI rally today and a brave young black guy stood up and said when are you going to ask about Obama’s associations? The audience is sick of the liberal media controlling this thing, from day one with Hillary even. I think this is going to have to be a “Flight 93″ kind of thing where some good Americans are going to have to rush the cockpit before they try to crash into the Capitol…..that is what I see this election as…..and we need to take them down. AMERICAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS….McCAIN/PALIN ALL THE WAY.

Posted by: Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama '08 | October 9, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

THESE PEOPLE THAT JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN HAVE PAID OR ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND THEIR RALLYS ARE ANGRY JUST LIKE THEM. IT IS A SAD DAY IN AMERICA THAT A MAN THAT WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES STANDS BEFORE THE PEOPLE AND HELP PROMOTE THEIR ANGER. THIS IS SAD FOR ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE THAT STILL EXIST IN THIS NATION.

Posted by: sara | October 9, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

Poor Cynics,
About to commit suicide, huh? Can’t stop “THAT ONE”, can you?
“THAT ONE” just keeps drinking your milkshakes, doesn’t he?
“THAT ONE” just keeps making you pull plug after plug of hair from your head, doesn’t he?
“THAT ONE” will be POTUS, won’t he?
My Fellow Prisoners…….
Put some dirt on me. I’M A POLITICAL DEAD MAN WALKING.
John McChicken McCain.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK

Posted by: Nat Turner | October 9, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

It is NOT complicated. DEMAND a VOTING NETWORK so that you can vote on REAL issues, NOT on what parasite gets to such your blood. Current people in power will NOT allow citizens to vote on issues since they are making huge profits off the statuesque. People MUST demand change by NOT voting in elections, thereby forcing the government to let citizens vote on issues that the current government WILL NEVER allow. Such as:
-Financially independent government (NO TAXES)
-Laws (no politicians)
-Crime (no lawyers & judges)
-Foreign Policy (no diplomats)
-Who owns non-renewable resources (the most greedy or everyone)
-Copyright laws
-Environment protection
-Government Income
-Government Spending
-Home mortgages
-Honest Government
-Less paper work
-One government (no national, state, county, and city – just the voting network)
-Standards
-Unemployment
-War (sending soldiers or bringing them home)
-Get paid for reading SPAM & JUNK mail

Posted by: Black Cat | October 9, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

Jessica, I am going to join you in your prayers. God is good – he’s not going to let us down. Enough is enough and 8 years is enough.

Posted by: Joey P | October 9, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

LOL, it’s funny how there are like… 4 of you typing the same absurd comments.
Ayers? Who cares? Only the 4 of you and Sean Hannity, that’s who. Go back under your rocks and let the smart people run things around here.

Posted by: King | October 9, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

Obama onced worked for ACORN this is shady like the nominee. Just like his wife working with William Ayers wife, but he didnt know they bombed the Pentagon. Ayers wife was on the FBI’s most wanted list.

Posted by: Curious George | October 9, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

What ever happened to the email issue? OH thats right it was discovered the hacker was the son of a democratic politician so a media blackout has occurred.
The blatent bias against the parties and candidates makes me want to puke.

Posted by: Cryos | October 9, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

Karen, The Ayers effect is actually working. I don’t think NObama would feel the need to buy airtime on 3 major networks if he was truly confident he had this election in the bag. That is a defensive posture to the Ayers issue.

Posted by: David | October 9, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

White House for sale to the highest bidder. Democrats are weapons of mass destruction. Destroying our economy to make a point that they dont like W. What a bunch of losers. Civil war is coming.

Posted by: Sitting Back and watching | October 9, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm

I know that party line liberals won’t understand this and will disagree, but Obamas associations matter more than McCain. McCain has a long standing record and a record is the best thing to judge a politician on.
Obama has no such record. Knowing you can’t trust politicians to do what they say you have to resort to judging character and judgement. This brings associations into play. I guess it doesn’t bother liberals that Obamas mentors and associates are communists, marxists, socialists and terrorists since Obama is a democrat. All they want is a free lunch.

Posted by: Cryos | October 9, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

The Dow is below 9000.
We are fighting a two front war. Unemployment is rising.
Inflationary pressures are building.
We have a 10 Trillion dollar debt.
The housing market has tanked.
The financial markets have tanked.
Health Care is skyrocketing.
Social Security is going broke.
No one cares about your conspiracy theories. Every time the Republicans attack, Obama goes up in the polls.
America needs a leader, not smears. We’ve been hearing the same BS for months. In fact, the same Republican tactics are used in every election. It’s the “we offer nothing”, but listen to this accusation…” strategy.
Last week Obama ran 36% negative ads, McCain ran 100%.
And how’d that work for McCain?
I would like McCain and Palin to PLEASE keep talking about Ayres. Obama will talk about how he will help this nation.
McCain and Parrot will keep smearing and offer no solutions – because they know they have none. Obama will continue to show leadership.
And we’ll see a LANDSLIDE on November 4th!

Posted by: Obama/Biden - the positive choice! | October 9, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

Are some of you rocket scientists watching TV with the sound turned down again? The pundits, analysts–everyone–have already determined that ACORN’s issues have nothing to do with Obama.
However, the unethical and corrupt actions of McCain (Keating 5) and Palin (Troopergate) have everything to do with these two dishonest people.

Posted by: dvrc | October 9, 2008, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm

ACORN? Ayers? Are you kidding me?
LOL, get with it!! The economy is crumbling and you think this petty sh!t is important?
You are a disgrance and a danger to this nation with your bullsh!t GOP nonsense and total negligence of your responsibility.

Posted by: Seriously | October 9, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

I truly hope Obama will put to rest the following issues:
Fannie Mae (his affiliation and benefit)
Freddie Mac (his affiliation and benefit)
Bill Ayers
Acorn Illegal Voting
Why he received campaign funds from Iran
Why the Kenyan Government arrested a critic o fhis who was about to release some real information on him. What was it?
Why he said all our troops do is bomb and kill innocent people in Afganistan and Iraq
Why he won’t support a bailout fo rthe middle class and lower class homeowners but will support the bailout of wallstreet and the banks that got us there.
How he is going to really lower our taxes.

Posted by: Steve | October 9, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

hot off the press – Palin is in trouble…
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/us/10trooper.html?hp

Posted by: Jane | October 9, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

STOP HATING!!!! If John McCain had done this, those of you who are criticizing Obama would be praising McCain for being so “shrewd” and “forward-thinking”!
And for those of you who claim so ignorantly that John McCain has nothing other than the Keating Five scandal in his background, I just have 3 things to say to you, G. Gordon Liddy!!!! If you don’t know…look it up!!!
P.S. and I won’t even mention his association with Pastor John Hagee or the fact that McCain cheated on his wheelchair bound first wife after her horrendous accident and then left her for his current walking, talking ATM machine! Talk about bad ethics and judgment!

Posted by: Dee | October 9, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm

“The Dow is below 9000.
We are fighting a two front war. Unemployment is rising.
Inflationary pressures are building.
We have a 10 Trillion dollar debt.
The housing market has tanked.
The financial markets have tanked.
Health Care is skyrocketing.
Social Security is going broke.”
And liberals say republicans are the party of fear LOL. Liberals are pulling out every last fear card and having the MSM blatently favor Obama and hide DEMOCRATS RESPONSIBILITY TO THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS because they know without all the extra nudging the american people wouldn’t elect an unqualified marxist into office. This year is a good experiment to see if they can force whoever they please onto the american people as a president.

Posted by: Cryos | October 9, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm

McCain is upset with Obama for not sticking with public funding. Well, McCain flatly lied when he promised to conduct an honorable campaign. His is one of the worst scumbag campaigns in the last 50 years. Pure Commie scum.

Posted by: Mark | October 9, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm

King- I am glad you dont mind your candidate is an inexperienced crook. If your choice of candidates is ok with the one thing most people in this country stand for the most, then you are a fool and so is your party. It will serve you right when you and your middle class fools go down the drain. Dont say the SMART ONES didnt warn you.

Posted by: Curious George | October 9, 2008, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm

McCain Campaign Strategy Meeting
Can’t win on domestic policy
Can’t win on international policy
Can’t win on tax policy
Can’t win on medical care policy
Can’t win on financial policy
Can’t win on education policy
Can’t win on credibility (thanks Palin!)
Can’t win on judgment
Can’t win on personality
Can’t win with old war stories
Can’t win with a sarcastic pageant princess
Can’t even win getting mavericky
“Uh, John, lets try name calling. That’s change right? Let’s do something really different and start smearing. That’s what Americans want. That’s what our country needs. I’m good at sarcastic insults as long as they’re written down. And besides, I won’t have to know what I’m talking about if you’ll let me just make accusations!”
“Sarah, I would rather sell my integrity than lose an election. We’re mavericks. Let’s do it!”

Posted by: Obama/Biden - the positive choice! | October 9, 2008, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm

John McCain: “He never called me” … Boo Hoo. “Life isn’t fair” … Boo Hoo. I thought the Republican presidential nominee was tougher than this!

Posted by: sawrad | October 9, 2008, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm

Why can’t Obama ever do a town hall like McCain did today in WI?…..McCain not afraid of ANY questions….Obama always has to be scripted. Loved watching the town hall today in WI….get sick of hearing BO yelling his speeches and will turn off the TV for four years if he ever wins….seriously. I would love a McCain/Palin win, as Palin is a good communicator and is Middle America more than any of the other three candidates.

Posted by: Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama '08 | October 9, 2008, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm

As a non-American I’m appalled at the pettiness and cheap shots that pass as intelligence during a crucial election.
The United States of America has fallen to despicable lows over the past 8 years. The arrogance and ignorance has reached intolerable levels and now we see the beginning of payback for the greed and hubris that is beginning to be visited upon citizens of America due to its pathetic leadership under the Republican party.
And now apparently the Untied States feel it is appropriate to trade extremist insults of their candidates.
How pathetic . . .

Posted by: pefro | October 9, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

NO TAXES — here is HOW. The government can be financially independent (NO TAXES) by seizing businesses that make money off money (banks & credit card companies) and non-renewable resources (currently in the hands of the most greedy); of course the current government would never allow this.
Stop throwing your rights away by voting for someone else to make decisions for you. Demand to vote on REAL ISSUES. You can expect MORE taxes, MORE bureaucracy, and LESS freedom with any of the candidates. About 50% of people don’t vote in elections, we need the other 50% to stop voting everyone’s rights away.

Posted by: Black Cat | October 9, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

John McCain Consorted with Domestic Anti-Abortion Terrorists
Raw Story reports that John McCain, against the advice of wiser heads, addressed a conference of the far right Oregon Citizens Alliance in the early 90s. He should have listened.
The speaker just prior to McCain publicly expressed sympathy for Shelly Shannon, who then stood accused (and was eventually convicted) of the attempted murder of Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas — as well as carrying out a multi-state spree of clinic arsons across the West.
Shelly Shannon also considered herself a soldier in the underground terror organization, Army of God, which views Shannon as a “hero of the faith” and a “Warrior Soldier in the Army of God.” The group devotes a section of its web site to celebrating her exploits and her martyrdom.
.

Posted by: rhbate | October 9, 2008, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm

@david.
You said “Karen, The Ayers effect is actually working. I don’t think NObama would feel the need to buy airtime on 3 major networks if he was truly confident he had this election in the bag. That is a defensive posture to the Ayers issue.”
You see, this is the problem with you Republicans, you have BS reasons why Obama is “wrong” for whatever decision he makes. He cannot win with you.
You all rant and froth for weeks and weeks, demanding Obama explain himself in some format or another… talk about Ayers and give a speech denying his association and what he knew, etc…ad nauseum.
And when he does, you say nonsense like you said above. If he never said anything, you would be crying the same tune.
You people are pathetic. Enjoy you well earned loss and reputation.

Posted by: black POTUS, live with it | October 9, 2008, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm

McCain is too old and feeble to realize that this is not the issue that will turn the tide. His airheaded VP is too busy flashing her boobs and butt at white male voters to notice it isn’t working.
Troopergate is going to only add distraction to the mess.
This whole Ayers thing has been gone over before, and it was determined that it isn’t an issue. Trying to re-make it into an issue whilst our 401ks are going down the toilet is a bankrupt policy.
Plus, as has been mentioned, McCain publicly had to acknowledge that taking trips to the Bahamas and money from Keating was ‘poor judgement’.
He is still exhibiting poor judgement, from his VP pick to his selection of his battlegrounds.
Give it up McSame. You’re history, in more ways than one.

Posted by: Jh Atlanta, GA | October 9, 2008, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm

The Neocons are in a tizzy. Foaming at the mouths, Going Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs! Completely Desperate, to funny! LOL!
The Ayers story came out three months ago. It’s old new that McFraud is using again because he’s tanking in the polls and know’s that he is going to lose.
Nobody cares except McSame’s supporters.
Even the undecided voters don’t care.
McFraud has lost all respect and his integrity.
The Titanic Express is sinking fast…
“Man the Life Boats, she’s going down”!

Posted by: TakeAmericaBarack | October 9, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm

I feel sorry for the Republicans that believe everything your leaders tell you. You believed George W. Bush and look what happened. All these innuendos and so called “connections” to relationships that Obama is a terriorist is a lie. Yes, he knows him but he did not set bombs with him or “pal around with him”. He sat on boards with him just like other Republicans and Democrats did in Chicago. If I were any of you that believe such crap without thinkin critically, and rationally, I would shut up and get the facts right. It seems you are grasping at straws on this one. I bet half of you are financially suffering. So why are you so concerned with what happened a long time ago. You should ask your candidate what is he going to do for you since the stock market plunged another 679 points and most Republicans just like Democrats are loosing money in their retirements. Wake up people! William Ayers is not important.

Posted by: LF | October 9, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm

curious george wrote: The Dems are shady and pulling out all the stops. WE need to stop them. VOTER FRAUD IS ILLEGAL
Better pull your underwear outta your crack, it cutting off oxygen to your brain.

Posted by: Clint | October 9, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm

Do I detect some angry Republicans? You guys have ruined the United States. You decimated our foreign policy, and wrecked our budget. Be angry at yourselves. My advice is to relax, what will be will be, take anger management, hug your pets, and clean up your yard. Manage your affairs, reduce your credit cards, and paint your house. You won’t be getting a new one or a new car now. Be happy with what God gave you and quit being so greedy, and controlling.

Posted by: Bonzai | October 9, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm

WHAT DID YOU THINK?
OBAMA GOT MONEY FROM SUSPICIOUS PEOPLE TO BUY THE WHITHOUSE

Posted by: THE CLINTONITE | October 9, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm

“NO TAXES — here is HOW. The government can be financially independent (NO TAXES) by seizing businesses that make money off money (banks & credit card companies) and non-renewable resources (currently in the hands of the most greedy); of course the current government would never allow this.”
Wow this is what a lot of liberals have come down to. Straight socialists/communists. Why don’t you go live the good life in Venezuela where they do this sort of thing.
If liberals keep pushing this line it looks like it will come to civil war. Time to weed out the people unwilling to work and push out our constitutional rights to enact communism.

Posted by: Cryos | October 9, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm

ACORN
ACORN=Cheating=NOBAMA
AYERS=terrorist=NOBAMA
REV WRIGHT=hates gov=NOBAMA
REV WRIGHT=hates whites= NOBAMA
REZKO=fraud=NOBAMA
OBAMA=TAXES=helping those who wont help themselves.
OBAMA=gov healthcare=more taxes from you to pay for those who dont earn healthcare
NOBAMA=DEPRESSION

Posted by: Curious George | October 9, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm

You do realize that Obama’s wife worked with Ayers wife at the same firm during the 80s? And why won’t Obama open his campaign receipt records? WHERE did all this money come from, because I have understood that most people are struggling to put food on the table and there are limits that the stars can contribute. Transparency, please.

Posted by: wanttheelectionover | October 9, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm

ONLY vote on ISSUES, NOT PEOPLE.

Posted by: Black Cat | October 9, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm

Do you mean the town hall meetings with preselected Republican audience members and where the candidate is alone on stage?
Those town hall meetings?

Posted by: Anon | October 9, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm

If Obama has this thing wrapped up WTH does he need 30 minutes of primetime on 3 major networks for?
Just wondering. I’m not voting for either of these clowns after their shameful votes in favor of the bailout.

Posted by: Fed Up With Them All | October 9, 2008, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm

It’s hilarious, the more the NeoConnies shake their pom-poms and squeal about Ayers, the lower McCain goes in the polls.

Posted by: Clint | October 9, 2008, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm

What’s this ACORN nonesense? Can’t Republicans ever argue about actual issues like the economy? Are all Republicans morons? Obama doesn’t need to cheat. He has all the money in the world and is leading big in the polls.

Posted by: Kevin | October 9, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

Thanks for the essence of racist ignorant hated, Curious George.
It’s comedy gold! You are a clown and a joke

Posted by: ... | October 9, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

This is great! Hopefully he will be able to use that time slot to show how great he is and how badly McCain and Palin lie and should get cancer and die.

Posted by: Evil McPalin | October 9, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

CLINT- Seems to me you have the brain the size of a pea. Maybe you dont have enough smarts of your own to make a choice regarding the Acorn debacle. DO you understand or should someone from the trailor next to yours explain it.

Posted by: Curious George | October 9, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm

Man. This is some crazy stuff. I mean, it’s bad enough that McCain keeps spouting these lies and avoiding the issues; it is even more remarkable that anyone is buying it. Speaking of which, I live in the reddest red part of America, and I haven’t seen a McCain/Palin bumpersticker in two weeks.

Posted by: John | October 9, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm

30 minutes without racist slander on FOX, that would be heaven!

Posted by: herta | October 9, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm

ACORN ACORN!!! Hello, CNN interviewed the election officials TODAY that found the voter fraud and they said it was 50-50, Republican and Democrat.
It’s just a another desperate attempt to smear Obama by McFraud’s desperate supporters. Losers!
The Titanic Express is sinking fast…
“Man the Life Boats, she’s going down”!

Posted by: TakeAmericaBarack | October 9, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm

HOT OFF PRESS – looks like Palin is in trouble…
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/us/10trooper.html?hp

Posted by: jane | October 9, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm

Again, as a non-American the extremist nonsense in the posts by curious george and cryos make me very frightened for America.
You sound like characters off of a very bad american soap opera.
Demonizing the opposition is cheap, obvious and juvenile. Where is the common sense and maturity?

Posted by: pefro | October 9, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm

My guess is that Obama was recruted by Brzezinski at Columbia 1981, 1982, 1983. You cannot notice this positively, because Obama in his memoires, he has got this thing called Dreams from my Father, he tells you everything about himself, he tells you about marihuana, cocaine, almost heroine, but not quite, tells you all this stuff, but when it comes to Columbia University he tells you nothing. It’s exactly puzzling, because why would he tell you about marihuana and cocaine, which are bad and than not tell you about his career, with this wonderful Ivy League prestigious elite Columbia University, he doesn’t say anything about it.
The same thing is what The New York Times found. The New York Times, trying to do the life of Obama, they focused on his years in New York City, because they’re from New York and they couldn’t find anything. They couldn’t find out what courses he took, who his friends were, anything that he did, he doesn’t seem to be in the yearbook, it’s all very strange. Chicago Tribune which is very, very favourable to Obama did the same thing, could not find anything about those years at Columbia.
webster tarpley

Posted by: llauna | October 9, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm

Kevin – Obama has direct ties to ACORN, and actually was a trainer for them. ACORN has been under investigation since 2006 for voter fraud for registering dead people, ficticious people, underage people. There are currently 9 investigations going on on the issue for improper and fraudulent registrations for this election year alone. Since Obama contributed $800,000 of his campaign funds to the group, he really needs to become more honest on the relationship. Last I understood it, voter fraud in this country is illegal and is mud in the face on all of us.

Posted by: wanttheelectionover | October 9, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm

“WHAT DID YOU THINK? OBAMA GOT MONEY FROM SUSPICIOUS PEOPLE TO BUY THE WHITHOUSE”
Yep, I’m one of those suspicious people that maxed out to Obama. So did my wife, and 2 sons. We figured it was time for honesty in the “Whithouse” because the GOP has turned it into a “$hithouse”

Posted by: Clint | October 9, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm

Why is nobody talking about how mccain cheated on his first wife who was involved in a car accident and paralysed.this is a very serious trust issue and issues like this should be raised.he cheated on that poor woman with cindy ..please contact me on patbare2001@yahoo.com

Posted by: pat | October 9, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm

Dems blind themselves with ignorance. WHAT IS THIS ACORN. Please someone explain the facts to these idiots that live in a hole covered by the liberal media and OBAMA machine. ITS VOTER FRAUD -
Pefro-your slinging of the racists crap is old. If you dont agee fine, but dont play the racists card. Its played out my brother.

Posted by: Curious George | October 9, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm

Look Barack Obama has made an effective choice again. He’s proven that he can galvanize the public in support. I’m sure he can do it in other ways. Mr. McCain chose to run negative ads during the olympics which after watching Phelps win was a downer. Mr. Obama had ads that were positive about his policy. It’s all in the timing.

Posted by: Akamai | October 9, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm

Says McShame: “He looked in the camera and told the American people something that was patently false”. Oh please spare me — as IF he’s never looked into a camera lens and said something that was patently false. McShame’s campaign is running the most disgusting campaign ever. Both candidates have no doubt lied — it’s part of the game. But I’ll take Obama’s youth and intelligence over McShame’s age and poor judgment (Palin???) any day. OBAMA/BIDEN ’08.

Posted by: SFTransplant | October 9, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm

How low will McCain go???
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, it’s a WILD ride!!!
Acorn? As if there is any fraud connected with registration. These are the $5.25/hr people (check your local want ads right now and you’ll see them) who are hired by ACORN to meet a “quota” of “registering” people.
They just fill out fake names and go home. There is no conspiracy. You people are so pathetic. Are you too dumb to realize this or do any research on your own? The ACORN move was dumb, but to cry “massive voter fraud!” is not an educated response.
On top of that, it isn’t like they have any proof of dead people acting BEING REGISTERED or GETTING VOTER CARDS.

Posted by: Anon | October 9, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm

llauna
It wasn’t that long a book. The drug stuff was a brief anecdote. Get over it.

Posted by: jock59801 | October 9, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm

Yeah clint your 50cents put them over the top.

Posted by: Curious George | October 9, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm

Nobody but the robots want to hear from him.

Posted by: Melissa | October 9, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm

Obama NEVER worked for ACORN. He never trained orgainizers. He did represent them with other groups along with the Justice Department to force Gov. Edgar to enforce the Federal Voting Access Law.

Posted by: linda n carolina | October 9, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm

The townhall today was great. tough questions were asked from very angry american citizens and mccain answered them very well. I hope he takes a note from what they were all saying and start telling everybody about the cause of this crisis (dems supporting fannie/freddie saying they didnt need tighter regulations) and obamas shady past with ayers, wright and acorn.

Posted by: Louise | October 9, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm

Awwww Curious, your much more effective squealing about your Acorns. Must be heck to lose your nuts.

Posted by: Clint | October 9, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm

“Again, as a non-American the extremist nonsense in the posts by curious george and cryos make me very frightened for America.
You sound like characters off of a very bad american soap opera.
Demonizing the opposition is cheap, obvious and juvenile. Where is the common sense and maturity?
Posted by: pefro”
One you are not from the US so I could really care less about your interest in our elections just as I could care less about yours.
Two Obama and democrats are given a complete pass in the media and McCain/Palin are demonized so someone has to raise truthful issues about the candidates. It’s pretty sad when blogs are one of the only ways to see information about one candiate when the other candidate is criticized on the front page week after week after week. Perfect example: email, email, email, in the headlines. As soon as it was discovered the hacker was the son of a democratic politician the subject was dropped and I have not seen one article other than in techonology sections about the issue. American media has proved itself to have lost all objectivity
Maybe you’re from some socialist country or dictatorship where you just do what you’re told but some people in this world still have a sense of independence and don’t want to be told how to think, what to eat and what to do. If you’re a slave to your government and politicians thats your choice.
A Thomas Jefferson quote is very pertinent to what liberals have become.
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”

Posted by: Cryos | October 9, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm

I love that ACORN is helping to RIP this election from all you loser Repukelicans—keep it up ACORN!
And it will be soooo sweet on Nov 4th when that worthless whore Palin and her pimp get sent packing for good—get your hankies ready suckaz…it’s gonna be a LANDSLIDE.

Posted by: Reality Check | October 9, 2008, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm

Ah yes, voter “fraud”, another classic GOP boogeyman.
You people do this every time you lose.
You have never, in all the years, ever had any real proof that dead people or Mickey Mouse is voting, and you still don’t today.
idiots

Posted by: King | October 9, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm

Democracy: Vote on ISSUES
Republic: Vote on someone to make decisions for you
Parasitic Dictatorship (USA): Vote on what parasite gets to TAX you
Can we PLEASE live in a REAL DEMOCRACY and vote on ISSUES?

Posted by: Black Cat | October 9, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm

ACORN, ACORN, ACORN, ACORN, ACORN…five networks and only one is covering this story and try and find it in NYT or the Post.
I have been checking all day since FOX broke the story, and no one else has touched it. Wonder why?
I was certainly naive when I first started watching Clinton get creamed by the media, who I had thought where balance , and professional. What an awakening!

Posted by: anotherview | October 9, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm

“On top of that, it isn’t like they have any proof of dead people acting BEING REGISTERED or GETTING VOTER CARDS.
Posted by: Anon”
THeir offices have been raided in 2 states and a lot more is to come. Even democratic lawmakers are calling for the FBI raids. However don’t expect it to make news since it implicates democrats.
Kind of like the economic situation. It is proving to work if the democrats just repeat “republican deregulation” and do nnot talk about democrats’ congressional record of opposing Fannie/Freddie regulation that most people are stupid enough to not know the real situation.

Posted by: Cryos | October 9, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm

Clint-wait until you have to move out of your trailor because of forclosure. Where will you go then. Maybe you could get a visit from the community organizer and get a blanket. Its wonderful to see the Dems so ignorant. If this one wins we all lose, but the middle and lower class lose the most. So clint be prepared.

Posted by: Curious George | October 9, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

Keep it up, frothy wingnuts, you’re still dropping and losing your classic states….and they are not even counting the first time voters.
LANDSLIDE!!!!!!!!!!!1
What’s the next McCainPalin plot twist?
It’s like an exciting movie!

Posted by: ... | October 9, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

Looks like the McGoo Caribou Palin people are in full force on this blog tonight. Talking about irrelevant “associations”, when there is a severe economic crisis in this country. Looking for conspiracies that don’t exist just to get air-time. If you dolts would look into ANYONE’S background long enough, there would be unsavory skeletons tucked away. Again, absolutely no relevance to the here and now.

Posted by: seansatx | October 9, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

Reality check -you might want to get back to the soup kitchen, they are serving.

Posted by: Curious George | October 9, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Obama has $200 million of undocumented campaign funds (under $200 donations). I bet though liberals on this board will defend it even though imagine if you flipped political parties.

Posted by: Cryos | October 9, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

“Sooner or later people are going to figure out that 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.” ….John McCain
Obama/Biden ’08

Posted by: Liz | October 9, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm

You still have never been able to prove voter fraud on more than an anecdotal level, GOP.
Fake forms does not equal voter fraud, period. Learn law.
Keep fishing. I never thought watching fishing could be so fun.

Posted by: Anon | October 9, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm

Obama feeling the walls will be closing in a bit in the next few weeks. He will have to answer questions, maybe even take the gag out of Rev. Jerry’s mouth. They stopped him from peddling his book in October….and he would have made a fortune….after the election NOT SO MUCH.
For a guy who’s so confident, why book air time on three major networks for this kind of money unless you don’t have this all sewn up, and there’s more to drop and you’re scared.
This election is generational…young and stupid following the suit, and the grown ups behind the guy with the record of service TO THIS COUNTRY.

Posted by: Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama '08 | October 9, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm

30 minutes, that’s enough time to be honest. Why back peddling on your Chicago allies? Obama needed them when he started his political career , why can he tell the truth? The 3 “A’s” of Obama, 1. Ayers, 2. Alinsky and 3. ACRON. Last November , he told the group,” I’ve been fighting alongside ACRON on issues you care about my entire career.”Obama was and is fully aware of what ACRON was doing eith the money and expertise he provided. The voter sould be aware on Nov. 4 of the role of both in the election. Write or call your representative on the Hill demand voters registered by ACRON be thrown out.

Posted by: jpmichigan | October 9, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm

Allow me to attempt to explain McCain’s desperation —– If he were to lose the White House, Cindy woiuld divorce him immediateley.
The reason being — the White House is the only haouse she CAN NOT BUY.
****** Therfore McCain in desperate ******
There now you have my two cents.
Oh wait, it is now less then that according to the droppping DOW.
LOL LOL LOL

Posted by: abby | October 9, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm

linda n – then you haven’t been listening to your candidate very well – the ticket touts his work with ACORN.

Posted by: wanttheelectionover | October 9, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

@jpmichigan
Did you just suggest denying the right to vote to a legal voter?
Sounds like you did!
Typical Republican mouthpiece talking about things you do not understand

Posted by: Anon | October 9, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm

Sorry cyros, after watching 8 years of George Bush and his Republican party bend the truth and participate in illegal and immoral acts – with barely a squeak from the American media – I have great trouble believing one senator’s son not getting covered in the media is important in any way.
Bush and the Republicans have REALLY almost destroyed the United States – your paranoia about the Democratic Party is laughable in that context.

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm

It seems like the straight talk express just made a stop at the city garbage dump.
Keren, you did a great job listing all McCain’s associations. Obama’s campaign threatened that if McCain brought up Ayers at the debate, they would bring up Keating.
Guess what, they didn’t.
If the McCain camp wants to play the “guilt by association game”, he looses.
Oh wait, he’s already lost.

Posted by: johnjoh | October 9, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm

If Osama Obama does get elected. I’ll bet anything he’s assassinated within 1 month of being elected.

Posted by: Your Mom | October 9, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

Will MSM Report on Obama Membership in Socialist New Party?
By P.J. Gladnick
October 8, 2008 – 16:15 ET
The mainstream media thought that the membership of Todd Palin, who is not a
candidate for any office, in the Alaska Independence Party important enough
to report in such outlets as the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, and the New York
Times, among others. So now that Barack Obama’s membership in the far left
New Party has been unearthed, will they report his membership in that
Socialist organization?
Proof of Obama’s membership in the New Party was discovered by the
Politically Drunk On Power blog:
In June sources released information that during his campaign for the State
Senate in Illinois, Barack Obama was endorsed by an organization known as
the Chicago “New Party”. The ‘New Party’ was a political party established
by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the
socialist principles of the DSA by focusing on winnable elections at a local
level and spreading the Socialist movement upwards. The admittedly Socialist
Organization experienced a moderate rise in numbers between 1995 and 1999.
By 1999, however, the Socialist ‘New Party’ was essentially defunct after
losing a supreme court challenge that ruled the organizations “fusion”
reform platform as unconstitutional.
After allegations surfaced in early summer over the ‘New Party’s’
endorsement of Obama, the Obama campaign along with the remnants of the New
Party and Democratic Socialists of America claimed that Obama was never a
member of either organization. The DSA and ‘New Party’ then systematically
attempted to cover up any ties between Obama and the Socialist
Organizations. However, it now appears that Barack Obama was indeed a
certified and acknowledged member of the DSA’s New Party.
On Tuesday, I discovered a web page that had been scrubbed from the New
Party’s website. The web page which was published in October 1996, was an
internet newsletter update on that years congressional races. Although the
web page was deleted from the New Party’s website, the non-profit Internet
Archive Organization had archived the page.
From the October 1996 Update of the DSA ‘New Party’:
“New Party members are busy knocking on doors, hammering down lawn signs,
and phoning voters to support NP candidates this fall. Here are some of our
key races…
Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off
against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House),
Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).”
You can find the above quote from the scubbed New Party web page at this
Internet Archive Organization link. More confirmation of Obama’s membership
in the New Party can be found at an article in the November 1996 Progressive
Populist magazine:
New Party members and supported candidates won 16 of 23 races, including an
at-large race for the Little Rock, Ark., City Council, a seat on the county
board for Little Rock and the school board for Prince George’s County, Md.
Chicago is sending the first New Party member to Congress, as Danny Davis,
who ran as a Democrat, won an overwhelming 85% victory. New Party member
Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago.
The Democratic Socialist Party of America also reported on Obama’s New Party
membership in its July/August 1996 edition:
The Chicago New Party is increasely becoming a viable political organization
that can make a different in Chicago politics. It is crucial for a political
organization to have a solid infrastructure and visible results in its
political program. The New Party has continued to solidify this base.
First, in relation to its infrastructure, the NP’s membership has increased
since January ’95 from 225 to 440. National membership has increased from
5700 in December ’95 to 7000. Currently the NP’s fiscal balance is $7,000
and receives an average of $450/month is sustainer donations.
Secondly, the NP’s ’96 Political Program has been enormously successful with
3 of 4 endorsed candidates winning electoral primaries. All four candidates
attended the NP membership meeting on April 11th to express their gratitude.
Danny Davis, winner in the 7th Congressional District, invited NPers to join
his Campaign Steering Committee. Patricia Martin, who won the race for Judge
in 7th Subcircuit Court, explained that due to the NP she was able to
network and get experienced advice from progressives like Davis. Barack
Obama, victor in the 13th State Senate District, encouraged NPers to join in
his task forces on Voter Education and Voter Registration. The lone loser
was Willie Delgado, in the 3rd Illinois House District. Although Delgado
received 45% of the vote, he lost by only 800 votes. Delgado commented that
it was due to the NP volunteers that he carried the 32nd Ward. Delgado
emphasized that he will remain a visible community activist in Humbolt Park.
He will conduct four Immigration workshops and encouraged NP activists to
get involved.
Kudos to Politically Drunk On Power for digging up this information about
Obama’s membership in the socialist New Party. The question now is if the
MSM will deem his party membership important enough to report on. They sure
didn’t hesitate to report on Todd Palin’s membership in the Alaska
Independence Party.
UPDATE: Yet more proof of Obama’s close involvement in the socialist New
Party from NewsBusters’ Hermano who provided this link to the Chicago
Democratic Socialists of American September-October 1995 New Ground 42
edition:
About 50 activists attended the Chicago New Party membership meeting in
July. The purpose of the meeting was to update members on local activities
and to hear appeals for NP support from four potential political candidates.
The NP is being very active in organization building and politics. There are
300 members in Chicago. In order to build an organizational and financial
base the NP is sponsoring house parties. Locally it has been successful both
fiscally and in building a grassroots base. Nationwide it has resulted in
1000 people committed to monthly contributions. The NP’s political strategy
is to support progressive candidates in elections only if they have a
concrete chance to “win”. This has resulted in a winning ratio of 77 of 110
elections. Candidates must be approved via a NP political committee. Once
approved, candidates must sign a contract with the NP. The contract mandates
that they must have a visible and active relationship with the NP.
The political entourage included Alderman Michael Chandler, William Delgado,
chief of staff for State Rep Miguel del Valle, and spokespersons for State
Sen. Alice Palmer, Sonya Sanchez, chief of staff for State Sen. Jesse
Garcia, who is running for State Rep in Garcia’s District; and Barack Obama,
chief of staff for State Sen. Alice Palmer. Obama is running for Palmer’s
vacant seat.
So Obama signed a contract with the New Party? Verrrry interesting.
-P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.

Posted by: freddie77usn | October 9, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

Dear John McCain is a liar: My, such a strong name you have chosen for yourself. I think it is you with the inactive brain if you believe that people who are not for Obama are all racists. Some, maybe, of course. But most people who don’t like him are against his politics (whatever they may be). I think you are falling back on a nonsensical comment about his race because you cannot come up with anything better. Your post isn’t written like an intelligent person – lacking in vocabulary and relying on silly, childish insults to Sarah Palin and John Mcain to attempt to make a point Naturally, it is no surprise that you support Obama.

Posted by: Lisa Again | October 9, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

@cryos
You said: “I bet though liberals on this board will defend it even though imagine if you flipped political parties.”
Physician, heal thyself.

Posted by: Anon | October 9, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

Hummm, curious, where did you learn to spell “trailer”?? The only people that spell trailer, “trailor” is trash.

Posted by: Clint | October 9, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

Now, this cannot be correct. We all know that Democrats are the party of the poor. I simply don’t believe that they could raise enough money among their poor and destitute to make this happen. LOL!

Posted by: Lisa Again | October 9, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

Your mom: You can leave the board – that type of comment is not wanted by either side.

Posted by: wanttheelectionover | October 9, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

freddie77usn
The New Party was just a bunch of progressive Democrats. It had nothing to do with socialism. Sorry, the McCarthy witch hunts are over.

Posted by: jock59801 | October 9, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm

This man is going to bring this country to it’s knees. You do not create jobs or wealth by being a socialist. Capitalism creates a country. He however, like a lot of Marxist, communists & social dictators will not live that life. His past and present associations are already big indicators of that but the stupid Americans who will vote for him cannot be told. ACORN is signing up the Dallas cowboys in their zest for voter registration and the Almighty one is blacking out main street media. I feel like we are in a police state already all in the name of Obama!

Posted by: Josie | October 9, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm

@Lisa Again
Care to address the 100+ anti-Obama posts or posters (or a single one) that follow the same description as the person you are talking to?
I doubt it. You attempts to appear cordial and fair are fooling no one.

Posted by: Anon | October 9, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm

All I can say is this…Ive actually read Obama’s blueprint for change..a 60 page report with extremely specific details re: economic,social and political policies to change current conditions…I wish McCain were the war hero veteran maverick he proclaims himself to be..my father was a warhero of ww II, vietenam and Korea, I dont know a nobler group than those who’ve served in battle..and I wish Mccalin were intelligent enough to be trustworthy (Im an average woman from the midwest)
..but Im not a gambling woman..Im going for the candidate who’ll ensure my longevity here in the US..honestly I dont think warmongering,xenphobes, in fear of the world deserve a president like Obama..and if you all choose to elect Mccain, I can only say you get exactly what you deserve….(too bad the rest of us would be punished for your craziness)…

Posted by: bell | October 9, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

McCain betrayed the trust of the American people when he decided to engage in the dirtiest most dishonest political campaign in recent history. He puts Karl Rove to shame.
It makes me proud to have donated what little I could to assist Sen. Obama in defeating this disgusting team of Sen. McSlimey and Gov. Racist.

Posted by: That One's going to win | October 9, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

Your mom,
Let me guess you are a white American probably living in the southeast.
You are a disgrace to all whites who have worked hard to get where we are at today.
Long live President Barack Obama
Yo mama’s so f…

Posted by: johnjoh | October 9, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

The sad and pathetic Republi’cons’ falling over each other over this ‘guilt by association’ tactic.
However the fact of the matter is Leonore Anneberg, the chairman of the foundation which hired professor Ayers and Obama to serve on its board is a McCain Contributor. She contributed the max. 1500$ limit to his campaign.
The McCain site proudly lists her as one of his supporters even though she has hired a “terrorist”.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/khenderson/gGg7kZ
McCain – Palin – No Honor, No Mavericks just Hypocrites.
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Posted by: Politicaleye | October 9, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

Josie
I feel like we are in a police state already as well, but that is because Bush/Cheney is in the White House. You may not be aware of it, but Obama isn’t actually the President right now.

Posted by: jock59801 | October 9, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm

Josie, this country is already on it’s knees thanks to the administration that is in the White House now. You think we’re going to vote 4 more years of the same? I think so, not this time, not this year.
Obama/Biden ’08

Posted by: Liz | October 9, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm

Oh great! His Royal Highness Sheik Al Barrack Hussein Obama is going to buy air time to tell us how great he is. How about you get on the air and answer the damn questions the liberal media won’t ask you as you skated unscathed to steal the Presidency!!!
Rezko
Ayers
Wright
ACORN
Tell the truth you coward!

Posted by: Jim | October 9, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm

The smears are going to backfire this year. McCain dug his own grave. He was running as a different kind of politician but now he is just another dirty republican. He is turning off independent voters in a big way.
I find it odd that Gov. Palin has decided to allow herself to be used this way. She is going to come out of this looking like a racist nutjob. This will be the end of her political career upon the stunning defeat she and her slimey running mate are about suffer.
I am so proud of my middle name by the way. At least it isn’t some sissy name like Sydney, but I guess that is appropriate as McCain has proven to be a groveling coward.

Posted by: Ellen Hussein Brown | October 9, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm

Posted by: Hillary Thinks Ayers is Relevant
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Nothing against Hillary, but this argument didn’t help HER beat Obama either. This whole thing about associations is stupid. Palin and McCain both have their own issues, many of which have been elaborated on by plenty of people in these comments. Thankfully, one of the candidates running has decided to keep his honor and integrity intact and not go for the lowest-hanging fruit (ie., stupid americans who will believe anything). Obama’s ads, if you care to notice, actually focus on what I care about. I don’t feel compelled to change the channel when they come on because they’re not nasty and don’t insult my intelligence. I think McCain said it best himself when he said “people aren’t stupid. They know what it means when a campaign goes completely negative. It’s because they don’t have anything else to say”.
He’s exactly right.

Posted by: nancy miller | October 9, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

As if Obama doesn’t get all the support of CBS, NBC and CNBC without having to buy time! He will destroy this country from the inside out. Just look at what is happening to the stock market because he is ahead. People want to get their money out of the market before Obama can double the capital gains tax along with the other tax increase. Just wait, the people following the pied piper will be standing in the streets, wondering what happened.

Posted by: ssbarco | October 9, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm

Law pausing foreclosures.
What do your experts think of this idea.? Is it legal in this time of national crisis? Could Congress pass a law that would stop and prevent all foreclosures on homes for at least 1 year (or maybe a few more) if the borrower paid at least 6% interest on the loan balance (plus taxes and insurance)? Here is what it could do. It should apply to all residential loans made, owned or serviced by any federally regulated financial institution. With the prime rate at 4.5% a 6% return is fair and much better than nothing. It should slow dramatically the number of foreclosed homes being added to an already flooded market. It will allow homeowners to make reasonable payments for at least a year or more. It will allow Congress to revisit the interest rate at the sunset date of the law. It would apply only to ARM loans made during a certain window, say January 1, 2001 through July 2008. This should not cost us taxpayers anything. This will modify loans that cannot be modified now because they are in large pools of investments owned by many investors. For those homeowners that bought way more than they can afford even at 6%, sorry but this won’t help you. This will give the residential market some time to stabilize and hopefully start increasing in value again. Granted this does not solve the long term problem of what to do with these loans in the future, but it might help our current crisis and give us more time to look for long term solutions.

Posted by: GrampaB67 | October 9, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm

I feel sory for anyone voting for the KKK ticket of Palin-Mccain
A sad bunch of racist you all are

Posted by: Bob | October 9, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

Apparently the only qualification Palin needs is that she is white. It would seem the media and her kool-aid drinking followers need no further information.
Her associations are far more radical than any Obama has. The leader of that radical group her husband was a member of for SEVEN YEARS was murdered trying to buy supplies to build bombs. Now, what would you call that….oh yeah, a domestic terrorist.

Posted by: White makes right | October 9, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

Maybe these selfish candidates should think about “Country First” or “Hope” or whatever they chose as their theme and donate that money they raised to the “BAILOUT PLAN”. If Obama has $90M and McCain has $84M, that will save many of us taxpayers $174M!!!

Posted by: Candace | October 9, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

You know why some people hate Sarah Palin? Becuase she is a successful FEMALE politician that happens to be the antithesis of what liberal leftish women want in their FEMALE politicians. These leftist hens can bad mouth Palin all they want…as they can’t stant the fact that she is a success but not in their mold.

Posted by: Jim | October 9, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

ACORN Statement Regarding Las Vegas Voter Registration
October 08, 2008
Over the past year, ACORN has worked hard to help over 80,000 people in Clark County register to vote.
Hundreds of canvassers and volunteers have worked for months talking to citizens from Nevada’s most disenfranchised communities and encouraging them to exercise their right to participate in our democracy. Their work has been tireless—they deserve a great deal of credit for spending days in the hot sun at public places from parks to community centers to shopping centers helping citizens complete voter registration applications. Most of the 80,000 registrations they have collected and turned in to election officials come from young people, low income people and minorities—the very people whose voices are too often left out of our electorate.
As part of our nonpartisan voter registration program, ACORN staff reviews every single application submitted by our canvassers. Special, dedicated staff makes up to three phone calls attempting to reach the voter listed on EVERY SINGLE CARD before they are turned in to verify the information. Our callers verify the information on the cards before turning them in to election officials to make sure that as many new voters as possible get on the rolls and to make sure that all of our voter registration workers are doing the high quality work they are trained to do.
While the vast majority of our voter registration canvassers do a great job, there have been several times over the past ten months that our Las Vegas Quality Control program has identified a canvasser who appears to have knowingly submitted a fake or duplicate application in order to pad his or her hours.
Anytime ACORN quality control staff has identified a suspicious application, we have separated that application out and flagged it for election officials. We turn any suspicious applications to election officials separately, along with a cover sheet identifying the nature of the problem and an offer to provide election officials with the information they would need to pursue an investigation or prosecution of the individual. (Note that civic organizations are required by law to turn over ANY signed voter registration applications even when they are known to have problems). We immediately dismiss any employees we suspect of submitting fraudulent registrations.
It was surprising that law enforcement officials appeared suddenly at our Las Vegas offices Tuesday, because ACORN and its attorneys have already been proactive in providing information about problematic cards and any employee suspected of misconduct. In July, ACORN staff and our attorney set up a meeting with Clark County elections officials and a representative of the Secretary of State’s office to urge them to take action on information ACORN had provided. Since then, and as recently as September 29^th , ACORN has provided officials with copies and—in some cases—second copies of many of the personnel records and the “problem card packages” and cover sheets with which we originally identified the problem cards.
ACORN is a community organization dedicated to making everyone’s voice count in the vital public policy debates in our country. Helping citizens become active voters is a crucial part of our work to help build a fairer and more inclusive democracy. We will continue with this important work by encouraging every eligible voter to the polls this November.

Posted by: Rodger | October 9, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

Questions were raised during an interview with Time Magazine on Wednesday when Obama’s communications director, Robert Gibbs, appeared to waffle on the issue, saying: “I don’t know when Barack Obama found out, I don’t know at what point. It’s something that I would be more than happy to ask him.”

Posted by: Curious George | October 9, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm

Well if you think it’s bad now b/c of Bush/Cheney get ready for the ride! As bad as it is, you can go on any channel and hear someone critcize Bush. I flip the channels and not one person says anything about this man. Where the hell did he come from? Do you know? Can’t anyone question what is going on? They repeat the same sound bites that the main stream channels put out it’s almost zen like. They don’t seem to think for themselves. HE PROMISED THE POOR BLACK PEOPLE OF CHICAGO HELP, THEY ARE STILL WAITING! Promised Illinois tax cuts, they are still waiting! As a community organizer just graduated from Harvard he chose to go on the street and teach ACORN how to go in and intimidate bank loan officers. Doesn’t anyone find that strange? He worked for one year when he left Columbia and then went to Harvard 6 years later. Doesn’t anyone find that strange? Can the average person afford to do that? He wanted a big chunk of the new bailout bill to go to ACORN. He is going to ruin this country. Taxes, taxes you won’t need to worry about taxes b/c you’ll be trying to collect welfare when your employer who is fined for not buying the Health Insurance he has his fingers on and the high taxes Obama is hitting them with, will have to fire you.

Posted by: Josie | October 9, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

LOL Jim, do you really believe that.

Posted by: erin | October 9, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

cryos – you are exactly right. Hopefully come election day we get all those “bubba” voters (as the press like to call them) to come out and vote. Obama would not stand a chance.
Why is everyone ignoring who Obama really is? He will never give you a strait answer – his only come back is that “they are lying” where are the investigations into his past – even Hillary Clinton knows he is corrupt. Why does the press continually choose not to question all of is past associations? As Americans we should all want and demand to know what we are getting ourselves into. Talk is very cheap – and in the end we all pay. He has no substance – just some good big money backers. Are you really going to allow yourselves to bought with his fancy words?

Posted by: redbloodedamerican | October 9, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

Jim,
Sarah Palin lies down every night with a domestic terrorist. That doesn’t bother you?
You seem to be a wee bit hypocritical on the whole associations thing.

Posted by: White makes right | October 9, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

Obama’s America: a radical socialist run nanny state that caters to every lazy blame everyone else idiot with huge entitlement programs and massive wealth redistribution taxing every investment every American has. YOu think your 401K looks bad now..wait till King Barack’s long slender fingers reach in and take more out for the poor.
It’s the end of the nation coming…and the best part is to see how soon all you Obama cult members will be standing there wondering where it all went wrong.
Print up those “Don’t blame me…I voted for McCain” stickers if this imposter wins. I seriously think he may be impeached in his first year.

Posted by: Jim | October 9, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

Voter Registration Group ACORN Long a Target of GOP Operatives:
http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/376-acorn-long-a-target-of-gop-operatives.html

Posted by: Rodger | October 9, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

Desperation smells so foul…poor little repukelicans you all know it is already over except for a hell of alot of crying for you losers. Dem prez and total control of Congress…maybe all of you pukes should follow your words with actions and move to Canada or maybe to Caribou Barbi land.
I heard PigPalin wants to secede from the US anyway so it’s perfect for all you pukes to start over with a new lily white inbred country. Conservatism is DEAD.

Posted by: Repukes are Finished | October 9, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm

Rodger – Then please explain how they have managed to hire felons,which is illegal. Also, please explain average voters stating that they have been hounded to fill out cards, even though they told them they had already registered. Additionally, please explain Mickey Mouse, Terrell Owens and a 14 year old boy (just the tip of the iceberg) that the Secretary of State offices discovered – and not on a tip by ACORN.

Posted by: wanttheelectionover | October 9, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm

The people that ACORN hired for a small fee compared to the million they get from the government to help them get people to register to vote happen to be convicted felons out of prison on Identity fraud charges, drug charges and god knows what else. The poor people who unknowingly gave them their names and ID and last 4 digits of their social security should sue Obama and ACORN for what they are THIEVES!

Posted by: Josie | October 9, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm

No concrete evidence of systemic voter fraud in the United States has ever surfaced. Many election integrity experts believe claims of voter fraud are a ploy by Republicans to suppress minorities and poor people from voting.
Historically, those groups tend to vote for Democratic candidates. Raising red flags about the integrity of the ballots, experts believe, is an attempt by GOP operatives to swing elections to their candidates as well as an attempt to use the fear of criminal prosecution to discourage individuals from voting in future races.
In March, the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration held a hearing and heard testimony from election integrity experts who said voter fraud is a “myth” and voter identification laws actually disenfranchise legitimate voters.
Indeed, in a column published in the Washington Post last year, Justin Levitt, an attorney and expert on voting issues who teaches at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, and Jeff Milyo, a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia department of economics, said “the notion of widespread voter fraud… is itself a fraud. Evidence of actual fraud by individual voters is painfully skimpy.”
ACORN has long been a target of Republican Party operatives dating as far back as the 2004 presidential election. But the accusations of malfeasance have never been supported by evidence.

Posted by: Rodger | October 9, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm

“Obama Buys Primetime Television Time Before Election”. Could this be the much talked about “October surprise”?
Obama/Biden ’08!

Posted by: saw | October 9, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

Obama is the height of arrogance. A ego maniac who will spends millions to see himself on TV and assure his win when this country is in such a financial mess. He makes me sick. He is a Teflon Willy backed by the media so that anything of his past is passed over, not reported and everyone else is smeared just to assure his win.
Everyone keeps up this mania by following the masses. Most of you don’t know one thing he stands for because he only says the word change without explaining anything.
I have a great idea for all the Obama supporters. Since you obviously fall for words well spoken and firmly believe what is said to you by a good orator. Why don’t you get House from the TV show as your doctor? He is so believable in his role that it is easy to forget he isn’t real. Then you can hire Alan Shore from Boston Legal as your attorney…he is also very believable. See that is what a great actor does…they make you believe they are real. Substance doesn’t matter.
Keep living in your fantasy worlds and one day when he is President…3/4 of the country will wake up. What a rude awakening you are in for….

Posted by: Deborah | October 9, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

Never thought I would see the day when the republicans were a bunch of whining babies. It’s like the whole world is upside down. Oh wait, it is, for them. They are about to get their crooked, racist behinds kicked to the curb.
How pathetic to brag about the “bubba vote” and “if we could get them all out to vote, we would win.” Proud to still be a racist after all these decades, your mommy must be so very proud.

Posted by: White makes right | October 9, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

You can’t trust Obama on the little things. You won’t be able to trust him on the big things. Didn’t Obama’s preacher, Reverand Wright quote the Bible- ” He who is faithful in little, will be faithful in much?” Guess not, too busy – “G-D’ing America”, I guess. Obama No Experience, Just Words,Just Words.

Posted by: Voteing McCain In Ohio | October 9, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

Not only is McCain out of touch but….anybody here that advocates voting for McCain who is a member of the republican party the same party that has screwed up and ruined our great nation is either a paid blogger, delusional or stupid. Why should republicans get rewarded for screwing up America from Iraq to this financial mess? Isn’t that like rewarding CEOs with huge bonuses even when they screw up the company?
Sure let’s reward the people that screwed things up. Who’s stupid enought to do that? A fool, idiot, moron, masochist, lobbyist? I could add more but you get the picture.

Posted by: McCain/Palin = Corporations First | October 9, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

ACORN??? Ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!
YOU REPUBLICAN LOSERS GOT NOTHING!!! Obama’s not in charge of this Acorn nonsense…
Plus Republicans are implicated as well, since CNN is reporting that 50% of this Acorn crap involves the Republicans as well!!
Now onto something REAL, that you Republicans DON’T want to talk about….
TROOPERGATE!!! McCain’s dirty trick lawyers dispatched to Alaska over a month ago have FAILED to cover the TRUTH UP!!!
The TRUTH will be released tomorrow in the TROOPERGATE SCANDAL and there is nothing the Republicans can do about it, except try and divert attention to this Acorn nonsense about 2000 faked voter registrations…
Big whoop, out of 130 million US voters, huh? Shoot the Republicans will steal a lot more votes than that, using their dirty tricks this election season!
Hey McCAIN can you say OCTOBER TROOPERGATE SURPRISE???
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/550940.html
Time to commit suicide yet Republicans??
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 9, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

We have been watching Senator Obama campaign and debate for nearly two years. He impresses me as someone who is intelligent, calm, rational, eloquent … the list of positive attributes seems endless . He is truly inspirational, and I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to vote for such an exciting candidate. And, yes, the Kool-Aid tastes great!

Posted by: sawrad | October 9, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

I’m voting for Obama, but Hillary was right. He may not need to clarify things at this point, specifically how he did not know about Ayers background by the time he was in Ayer’s house for a
fundraiser. I have no idea about ACORN, beyond the local group advocating consumer rights. And while I think McCain is acting desperately, full disclosure from Obama is need.

Posted by: mkevinf | October 9, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Reagen tanked our economy, Bush Sr put us in a recession and Bush Jr has flat out DESTROYED the USA financially, you Republicans SUCK, plain and simple. NO MORE!!!!!!! NO way NO how, NO McCain, NO Palin!!!

Posted by: Democrats 08 | October 9, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

THE STOCKMARKET CRASHING DOWN IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF BUSH AND THE EXTREME RIGHT-WING REPUB’S YEAR’S OF FAILED POLICIES AND POOR AGENDA. IF YOU REPUB’S WANT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY TO COME CRASHING DOWN, AND PUT US ALL IN THE POOR-HOUSE, JUST KEEP VOTING FOR YOUR DUMBASS CANDIDATE’S AND YOUR HALFASS BACKWARD’S PARTY!!!

Posted by: James L. | October 9, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

THE STOCKMARKET CRASHING DOWN IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF BUSH AND THE EXTREME RIGHT-WING REPUB’S YEAR’S OF FAILED POLICIES AND POOR AGENDA. IF YOU REPUB’S WANT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY TO COME CRASHING DOWN, AND PUT US ALL IN THE POOR-HOUSE, JUST KEEP VOTING FOR YOUR DUMBASS CANDIDATE’S AND YOUR HALFASS BACKWARD’S PARTY!!!

Posted by: James L. | October 9, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Got to say it again. If this blog is any indication, there are way too many Americans who are extremist nut cases. Especially the right wing ones, who have had the pleasure of 8 years of right wing enhancement of America by Bush and the neo-cons and are frightened of the Democrats. Soap opera mentality.

Posted by: pefro | October 9, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

good for obama – he can afford it because his campaign funds (none of which came from lobbyists) mostly all came from regular folk like me – good for him!!

Posted by: earthisnotflat | October 9, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

White makes right…..blah blah blah. Yeah..republicans are racist…the only racist is Obama for constantly playing the race card when anyone turns the bulb up too brightly over his head with a relevant question on his shady past. “oh..you can’t ask Barack that…it’s got racist overtones.” Give me a freakin break. The sad truth for you is Obama is poised to lose this campaign as every poll indicates the nation is second guessing King Barack. IN the privacy of a voting booth..they won’t vote for a radical terrorist friendly no record impostor.

Posted by: Jim | October 9, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm

Ihope you people wake up soon.to the real seriousness of this election year.those that vote for obama will cry when they see the capital gainstax go 39%and it will because he has already said so.and your weekly paycheck will shrink by 9-10%more than you pay now.are you ready for that.i am cause a country boy can survive. 4-wheeldrive and my rifle and dog .honest folks with all the stuff on google about obama,his communist friends,the weatherman friends ……..wake up! you have been prewarned,you can’t say you did not know.

Posted by: SC SUPERMAN | October 9, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm

Deborah-
You should be ashamed of who and what you have become.
Face it, your words portray you as nothing more or less than a racist.
Obama will be a great president. McCain is too feeble and Palin is too stupid.
We are already teetering on the edge of losing our status as a superpower. McCain’s presidency would strike the final devastating blow and upon his almost guaranteed demise, we would then be stuck with a complete imbecile trying to run this gosh darn country, doggonit.

Posted by: White makes right | October 9, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm

It’s scary how fast he is blowing through all that money. He has an ego the size of Oprah’s bank account.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm

You can’t trust Obama on the little things. You won’t be able to trust him on the big things. Didn’t Obama’s preacher, Reverand Wright quote the Bible- ” He who is faithful in little, will be faithful in much?” Guess not, too busy – “G-D’ing America”, I guess. Obama No Experience, Just Words,Just Words.
Posted by: Voteing McCain In Ohio | Oct 9, 2008 7:31:25 PM
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This bush republican administration has already damned America from the Iraq war to this financial mess. Yet you’re so I.Q. challenged you want to focus on a preacher. Typical republican supporter.

Posted by: McCain/Palin = Corporations First | October 9, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

I don’t know McCain/Palin’s camp became KKK, but certainly reminded me of KKK. I hope today’s stock dive would shut their mouth of spreading lies for at one day.

Posted by: leighg1 | October 9, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

“We are already teetering on the edge of losing our status as a superpower. ”
And we will be over the edge if Obama is elected. Open your eyes. People are pulling their money out of the market in anticipation of an Obama Presidency.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

McCain’s dismal attempts to paint Senator Obama as a “terrorist” is an insult to the entire U.S. Senate and the American electorate. It’s a Bushian tactic but we ain’t buying it this time. When will the Republican Party have a message that is not a negative message? … when the last vestiges of Bush-Cheney-McCain-Rove-DeLay-Larry Craig-Mark Foley are gone from government.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm

Jim,
Still afraid to answer the question are you? I shouldn’t be surprised, after all you follow a coward, means you probably are one too.
So now shine your little light over Palin’s head would ya. Her husband was a member of a group for 7 years who promoted domestic terrorism.
I’m waiting….

Posted by: White makes right | October 9, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm

Stop Hating on Oboma

Posted by: fred | October 9, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm

Rodger stop lying ACORN is tied to Obama .You know Dems!!!
He paid them 800,000 to register people. That means the living, not dead ones. These people are registering names of pets. ACORN employees have been charged last year for this. You would think they learn a lesson. FBI is now investigating 8 states so far.

Posted by: blksister | October 9, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm

Acorn smacorn, you Republicans got nothing…
Hey McCAIN can you say OCTOBER TROOPERGATE SURPRISE???
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/550940.html
Time to commit suicide yet Republicans??
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 9, 2008, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm

I’ve been a Democrat my whole life and I have a word of caution, I don’t smell Democrat with this guy.

Posted by: Joe | October 9, 2008, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm

Posted by: McCain/Palin = Corporations First | Oct 9, 2008 7:36:00 PM
Yeah! Corporations are lame! We’ll all live off of our looks and volunteer work! We don’t need money to live! We’ll go back to being hunters and gatherers!

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm

McCain will probably complain like a cry-baby, AGAIN. When was the last time you saw McCain on TV when he wasn’t complaining like a cry-baby? It’s been weeks now. Whine..whine..whine. Shut up!

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm

Mack – and do you blame them? These folks are as self-focused as Obama – me first, then we’ll talk about what is right for the country. If Obama really cared, his 30 minute spot would be open to his opponent so they can finally have that Town Hall Meeting. But that’s right, then he would have to share the spotlight.

Posted by: wanttheelectionover | October 9, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm

Ain’t voting for Oboyma and his plagiarizing balding side kick with other people’s hair…

Posted by: fred | October 9, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm

The Democrats are poised for one of the biggest choke jobs in the history of U.S elections. The polls right now are all over the place and most credible ones are giving Obama a 2-5 point advantage. The story not being played(gee, I wonder why not) by the mainstream media is that the nation is involved right now and over the next few weeks in a massive second look at Obama. McCain is now irrelevant as the nation knows who he is and what he stands for. The things scaring the bejezus out of the Obama people is the trending that independents are now engaged in a serious second look at ol Barry and they dont’t like what they see. Too much uncertainty. The fact is that the race will tighten in the next two weeks and McCain will most likely eke out a victory only because Obama is too risky for some.
It’s happening right now. Ouch..now that hurts for some of you.

Posted by: Jim | October 9, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

“Hey McCAIN can you say OCTOBER TROOPERGATE SURPRISE???”
A drunken trooper that tazed his kid. Good luck with that one.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

Mack –
You are a total idiot, sorry but my god.
No one is pulling their money out of the stock market anticipating an Obama presidency. Warren Buffet who is about as well respected as you can get in the investment world is an Obama supporter. This stock market meltdown has been brought to you buy your fearless leader Prez. Idiot Bush and frankly the cowards in congress who wouldn’t stand up to him.
McCain said it best himself “I don’t know too much about the economy.” He hung himself, live with it.

Posted by: White makes right | October 9, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

oh my God!!! I hope this isnt a racist trying to hate on Oboma. This day was sat aside by God. He is doing a new thing in the earth and Obama is part of that new thing. So you can feel free to side with the Devil to prevent this from happening or you can go along with what God is doign in this day. We should be past this racial business. However, i do realize that there are some that just dont wanna let go of the fact that we, African Americans are real people and we can obtain anything we set out to.

Posted by: fred | October 9, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

McCain is a like a little boy… crying his eyes out because he’s getting his ### kicked and his mommy can’t help. Why no help, McCain? Because the voters are sick and tired of your complaining, your whining, your sleazy ads, and the corrupted policies that were written by the lobbyists who hang around like a toxic cloud.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

Ok White…I will make a deal with you. Now that the media has spent 4 weeks rifling through Paliin’s trash, under her sofa cushions and vetting her more so than any other candidate….let’s look back on the 4 years of ignored vetting on old Barry. What the media has done to Palin in 4 weeks doesnt even compare to the 4 years of free passes ol Barry has received.
I’m waiting…..

Posted by: Jim | October 9, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

Posted by: White makes right | Oct 9, 2008 7:42:00 PM
You’re a racist.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

Ain’t voting for Oboyma and his plagiarizing balding side kick with other people’s hair…
Posted by: fred | Oct 9, 2008 7:40:20 PM
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YEP, THAT IS ABOUT ALL YOU REPUBLICAN LOSERS HAVE LEFT HUH?
Don’t worry, after tomorrows release of the TROOPRGATE REPORT, you can all join in spinning with the rest of the Republican talking heads and idiots on TV. Trying to defend the Palin/McCain Titanic TROOPERGATE SCANDAL disaster!!!!
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/550940.html
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 9, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm

Jim, Mack, racists of the world–
I am so happy you think the polls are off, cuz they are.
Guess what the whispers really are saying? People are going to vote for Obama that are saying they won’t. Know why, cuz they have friends like you and don’t want you to know the truth. They are going to vote their pocketbooks my friends (or my prisoners).
The polls are wrong, it is far worse for McCain than it looks. His internal polling is telling him this and that is why he has gone totally off the rails and is hitting all the greatest hits of the 60′s with his race baiting rally’s.

Posted by: White makes right | October 9, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm

Wonder why McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis isn’t around today? He’s at the bank cashing the $15,000 check from Freddie Mac. Lobbyists are putting the pressure on McCain to get nasty because their payday at the pig trough of our national treasury are coming to an end.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm

Vote John McCain !!!!! Vote John McCain!!!!!!!!!!
Is Barack Obama blowing smoke or not?
Is Barack Obama a chain smoker or not?
If he is only a closet smoker and not transparent by smoking in public and admitting that he has a nicotine addiction then how can we trust him on other issues that are truly grave to our country?
Does he smoke a lot of cigarettes only when he plays poker with his Chicago friends or is it a daily habit?
How can we trust him on health care if he is a smoker. Would not someone who really wants to hold down healthcare costs want to quit smoking?
We want to know if Barack Obama is going to promise to not chain smoke around Joe Biden because Joe Biden had asthma as a teenager.
The reason that Joe Biden could not fight for his country in 1968 during the peak of the Vietnam War was that he had teenage asthma.
Joe Biden had horribly bad luck, ninety percent of all children are diagnosed with asthma before age six but Joe Biden was unlucky enough to be in the ten percent group of children who acquire asthma after age six and became asthmatic when he was a teenager.
After five student deferments while he attended college and law school, his teenage asthma finally came to the attention of his local Selective Service Board and he missed the opportunity to serve his country during time of war as an officer.
But for his bad luck with his teenage asthma diagnosis, Joe Biden could have gone in and served his country honorably as a officer and a gentleman and perhaps as a Judge Advocate Law Officer similar to his son.
Most Americans would be concerned about Joe Biden’s health if he had to step into the Presidency.
We hope that Barack Obama will promise not to smoke in front of Joe Biden because the smoke could aggravate Joe’s asthma that prevented him from serving his country during time of war.
Vote John McCain !!!!! Vote John McCain!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: John McCain supporter | October 9, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm

Fred, It has nothing to do with race. I don’t care if someone is blue, green or pink with yellow spots. And when you mention God and the Devil I can assure you that God does not side with a man who let’s babies from botched abortions born alive to die without medical aid. Dear God, that alone should tell me what is right and wrong. Devil or God!!

Posted by: Josie | October 9, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm

It is not a crime to donate to non-profit groups. The government does it all the time. Sometimes noble causes are often sabatoged by unethical people. The problem is, they can’t always determine where that money goes or what it does. The Obama campaign is again the victim of guilt by association. If there is indeed voter fraud, those that are responsible for it will be prosecuted.

Posted by: william | October 9, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm

“No one is pulling their money out of the stock market anticipating an Obama presidency.”
People have stated that they have pulled their money out of the market in anticipation of Barry raising the capital gains tax. They would rather take a hit now than get hammered later. Keep living in your kool-aid induced dream and vote yourself out of a job.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

White Makes Right is a lefty loon probably out of the South Side of Chicago who has bought Obama’s “brillance” hook line and sinker.

Posted by: Jim | October 9, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

“Hey McCAIN can you say OCTOBER TROOPERGATE SURPRISE???”
A drunken trooper that tazed his kid. Good luck with that one.
Posted by: Mack | Oct 9, 2008 7:41:29 PM
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Ya Mack, your such a simpleton, that you THINK that is all it is about, huh??
Read it and weep you Republican loser!!!
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/550940.html
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 9, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

McCain is spewing smoke because his corrupt campaign has blown an engine. Maybe Larry Craig could help un-blow the engine.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm

“The problem is, they can’t always determine where that money goes or what it does.’
What about the $49 million that he and Ayers blew through while they headed the Annenburg Challenge? With no results.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm

Jim, Jim, Jim—
You poor misguided critter. Obama’s dirty laundry has been gone through. Hillary was pretty thorough. I personally got a little sick of 2 months of nonstop Rev Wright coverage and the Ayers thing, nothing there. Causal acquaintance.
Now back to Palin, no one has gone over anything with her. You hardly hear about her domestic terrorist husband. Trooper gait isn’t about the sleazy trooper, it is about the ABUSE OF POWER and yet, we hear nothing. Like I said, the only thing people care to know about Sarah Palin is that she is white, that must mean she is good, right?
Still waiting…coward.

Posted by: White makes right | October 9, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm

Yonkers, N.Y., councilman whose home was bombed nearly four decades ago by the Weather Underground says Barack Obama should know better than to associate with the domestic terror group’s co-founder, Bill Ayers.
“Barack Obama constantly says, ‘I was only 8 years old when this happened.’ That’s kind of his throwaway line,” John Murtagh told FOX News Thursday morning.
“I’m not questioning what Barack Obama was doing when he was 8 years old. I’m questioning his behavior as an adult to choose his friends, mentor and longtime personal and professional colleague.”
Murtagh discussed the 1970 bombing as John McCain’s campaign put renewed focus on Obama’s ties to Ayers, who lives in Chicago and is an education professor at the University of Illinois.
Murtagh, whose father was a New York Supreme Court justice when his family’s home was targeted, put out a statement on behalf of McCain’s campaign Wednesday claiming “Barack Obama’s friend tried to kill my family.”

Posted by: Curious George | October 9, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm

your mom, be careful what you wish on others because it might just come straight back at u, may be as a stray bullet

Posted by: honesty | October 9, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm

Guess what the new term in Political Science class is?
“Guilt by association”. Geez, Obama is really putting his Harvard degree to good use. Glad he used it for something, he did crap for the people where I live. He promised taxes will go down, got in and voted for them to go up. Business as usual for a Chicago Politican!

Posted by: Jeff in the windy city | October 9, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm

Hey, maybe he is going to use that 30 minutes of airtime to tell all of us and show films of his trip to Pakistan as a college student!
I can’t wait!

Posted by: david | October 9, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

HMM Obama already baught a channel to run 24/7 has ads with children singing his praises….Are we still in America or are we in one of those other countries led by a DICTATOR .. this is what they do in other countries that is how the DICTATORS keep their control…
Wake up befor it is too late.
here are his friends Ayers who bombed innocent Americans,Rezco a known crook , The Pastor who preached Hatred, Acorn which he did defend as a lawyer and his campaign has given 800,000 dollars to and Acorn is involved in VOTER Fraud ……..WAKE UP !!!!!!!! Is this what we want??? I don’t ! vote MCCAIN

Posted by: Tammy | October 9, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

White…go back to the Obama phone bank and make your calls. Or better yet…drive your van around the inner city and pick up the felons and homeless and lie to them about how Obama will take care of them if they register and vote. Sounds just like the type of thing you would be helping Obama with.
Why don’t you go back to your day job?

Posted by: Jim | October 9, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

“Guess what the whispers really are saying? People are going to vote for Obama that are saying they won’t.”
That is the dumbest thing that I’ve read all day and that’s saying alot. Congrats.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

Stray bullets are only in chicago where this year more people have died then in Afghan and Iraq combined. But hey the left has won on one front. They now have a seperate school for gays and lesbians. Unbelievable what the left will think of. I am sure NOBRO approves of this.

Posted by: Curious George | October 9, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

Oh,,Obama, oh,,The Dems, you are so rich..act like a mafia.
Money can buy…the election..

Posted by: crisis08 | October 9, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm

Jim–
This is going to upset you. I am pure white (I mean really, really white) semi-conservative from Idaho. I can’t fathom voting for a “war hero” who won’t look his opponent in the eye. A “war hero” who wont’ confront his opponent to his face. I prefer to have a real man for president. Also one who will invest in infrastructure, not more war.
Mack–
My job is safe, but thanks for asking.

Posted by: White makes right | October 9, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm

Obama is spending two to one, three to one, or eight to one because he went back on the pledge that all candidates have made to take a set and finite amount of money to run the election. I believe Americans can see when the playing field is level and they will act with the decency they have always shown when it comes down to fairness.

Posted by: tiredtoo | October 9, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm

The Obama campaign has bought a half hour block of primetime television — from 8-8:30pm ET — on Wednesday, Oct. 29, on CBS, NBC, and MSNBC, ….
______________________________
What!! Nothing on Fox News? However will he win the election without the support of their viewers!!! LOL!

Posted by: MISSING?! | October 9, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm

My conspiracy theory is bigger and better than your conspiracy theory: McCain was been kidnapped by an angry midget alien from Planet Acorn. They replaced his brain in a procedure now known on Planet Acorn as the McCain Transplant. The real McCain brain is in a jar in the kitchen back on the space ship. THIS IS TRUE.. I HAVE PROOF!!! signed, the Brain

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm

Mack–
Try getting info from somewhere besides Faux News. I have read several articles talking about this “reverse” Bradley effect. It makes perfect sense too, I mean if you were my brother, I would definitely lie about not voting for Obama, you seem a little unbalanced.

Posted by: White makes right | October 9, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm

Nope white..doesn’t upset me. I frankly don’t think the color of your skin makes a difference in any of this. You do as your screen name reveals your racist overtones as does the fact you have to identify your skin color in a blog post. I don’t care if you are white, brown, black, yellow or green. Your views are warped as you think REpublicans are racist. No my little foolish blogger…you are the racist.
You are a pathetic liar and like Obama..inject race into everything.

Posted by: Jim | October 9, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm

Sorry, can’t watch his prime-time show at that time – Animal Planet has my vote. Can he find another block of time so he can pander his conversation to the particular group he is talking to at that moment?

Posted by: wanttheelectionover | October 9, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm

“It makes perfect sense”
Hah!

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm

McCain is a real Maverick alright. More like a coward hiding behind his wife and Palin’s skirts.

Posted by: Liz | October 9, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm

The Dept of Defense briefed Sen. McCain this morning. They told the Senator that two Brazilians had been killed in Iraq.
To everyone’s surprise, all the color drained from McCain’s face. Then he collapsed onto his desk, head in his hands, visibly shaken and almost in tears. Finally he composed himself and asked: “Just how many is a Brazilian?”

Posted by: rhbate | October 9, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm

Posted by: McCain/Palin = Corporations First | Oct 9, 2008 7:36:00 PM
Yeah! Corporations are lame! We’ll all live off of our looks and volunteer work! We don’t need money to live! We’ll go back to being hunters and gatherers!
Posted by: Mack | Oct 9, 2008 7:39:46 PM
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How has the republicans philosophy of giving all the money and tax breaks to coprorations and the wealthy worked for America?
Here’s a hint, look and the creadit and stock markets.

Posted by: McCain/Palin = Corporations First | October 9, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm

Senate “D List”
Below you will find a complete list of Senators who earned a D or lower from IAVA Action this year. These legislators must improve their voting records if they are to legitimately claim that they support our troops and veterans.
Tom Coburn
Michael Enzi
John McCain
Jim DeMint
These officials have been graded by the Iran & Afghanistan Veteran of America
IAVA. ORG

Posted by: rhbate | October 9, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm

My conspiracy theory is bigger and better than your conspiracy theory: The methods now used in the McCain Transplant were perfected in Alaska during the last gubernatorial election. THIS IS TRUE.. I HAVE PROOF! signed, the Brain of John McCain

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm

Bubba voters was a term dubbed by your own very liberal barak big H Osama Bama lovin press. Who is racist?

Posted by: jackson | October 9, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

Obama promised the people in Chicago that taxes will go down, he ran under that auspices. When he got in he voted for taxes to go up. His race has nothing to do with him running. His character has. He will not and is never asked to explain his associations and his shady dealings with a litany of nefarious people. I am more shocked by the main street media, CNN and MSNBC and how totally corrupt they are in their reporting to the common American! Why is that for two days 21 states are now under investigation for voter fraud by ACORN and they have not mentioned it once? They would rather show a man not being allowed to use his SEGWAY around his condo complex than inform the viewers about ACORN. It would be funny if it wasn’t so terribly sad.

Posted by: Jeff in the windy city | October 9, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

Jim–
I was going to respond, but alas you are just not worth it.
Still no comment on that domestic terrorist that Palin sleeps with every night?????

Posted by: White makes right | October 9, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

The economy is in a horrible state. To continue with the policies which precipitated in this horrible situation is beyond comprehension. If America pursues the path it is on, history will record it as one of the most disastrous mistakes in the history of the country, if not the world. Americans must put aside petty distractions and make decisions that they know will help pull the country out this financial abyss.

Posted by: rhbate | October 9, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

Obama is a socialists.
All socialists advocate the creation of an egalitarian society, in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly, although there is considerable disagreement among socialists over how, and to what extent this could be achieved.
Vote for him if you don’t like Capitalism.
I am a Capitalist.
Capitalism is the economic system in which the means of production are owned by private persons, and operated for profit[1] and where investments, distribution, income, production and pricing of goods and services are predominantly determined through the operation of a free market.

Posted by: Gbrown | October 9, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

Reverse Bradley Effect — look it up. It’s real and McCain will be losing by a a huge amount.
Over and Out.

Posted by: White makes right | October 9, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

Ahh the sweet stench of repukelican desperation…Face it losers it is LOCKED in Dem prez and total control of Congress…maybe all of you pukes should follow your words with some actions and move to Canada or maybe even to Caribou Barbi land.
PigPalin and her piece of garbage husband want to secede from the US anyway so it’s perfect for all you pukes to start over with a new lily white inbred country.
Conservatism is DEAD. Hail King Barack bitches.

Posted by: Palin the Pig | October 9, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

“Sorry, can’t watch his prime-time show at that time – Animal Planet has my vote. Can he find another block of time so he can pander his conversation to the particular group he is talking to at that moment?”
It would probably be an effective form of toture to force someone to listen to that self-aggrandizing empty suit for 30 minutes.

Posted by: Mack | October 9, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

Most you guys are Idiots, When Ayers was doing what ever he was suppose to be doing, Obama was 8 years old, grow up people.You need to clean that stuff out between your ears.And it isnt wax!

Posted by: Demo Rules | October 9, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

let me make a few more add on here: if you are single and earn 30k per yr,obama is going to get$9,750 dollars from you for taxes,its a fact.single and50k you pay $14,800 under obama,single and 75k you will pay $24,300 under the obama plan andmarried and earning125k you will pay out $31,000 to obama for taxes. these facts are readly available on google you need to look and cry,when you see what your vote will get you,for obama

Posted by: SC SUPERMAN | October 9, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

Fellow Democrats, as Obama use to say when he was running ACORN…..Vote early and Vote often!

Posted by: Mr. Democrat | October 9, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

Obama is paying for the air time with illegal foreign campaign contributions. Is he going to finally admit he is a socialist? Maybe he’ll talk about his extreme views on abortions. Or, maybe he’ll name his cabinet: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Louis Farakan, and Odinga as ambassador to Africa.

Posted by: jacrac | October 9, 2008, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm

McCain lost his marbles somewhere between the end of the Republican Primary and the end of the Democratic Primary. He would have been better off if the campaign experts who propped up George Bush had stayed away. But McCain lacked the moral integrity to send them off. He let them into his tent and now he has to sleep with them. That was poor judgement, McCain. Now you’ve morphed into an angry little man with small ideas. Cry like a baby, McCain.. then go away.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm

White…your claim on Palin’s husband is another rant by a hysterical leftist loon scared that a successful female is going to get close the Presidency….Palin happens to be successful outside of the liberal lefitst mold that people like you want females to come out of.
Keep trying…

Posted by: Jim | October 9, 2008, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm

Republi’cons’ are such a bunch of whiners when they are down. Lashing out at the media as “Liberal” as soon as they publish anything unflattering about the GOP.
The shameless dimwits hide behind their designated pitbull’s skirt and then yell sexism as soon as you punch back.
The swine from the “lipstick-on-a-pig” party has tried all kinds of low-blows and finally settled on this non-issue of Ayers.
Its funny how Hypocrites that stole the election in 2000 with help of Supreme court and in 2004 with help of Diebold, now cry foul about ACORN.
I hope your kind of Republicans are finished with after this elections.

Posted by: John Hussein Walker | October 9, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm

Obama is paying for the air time with illegal foreign campaign contributions.
Where in the world do you get this false info from, Rush and Hannity?

Posted by: annie | October 9, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm

When Obama is on TV, Palin will hold another Hate Rally. Maybe she and her wing-nut supporters can start a fire… burn an effigy or two. Yell some more hate into the TV cameras. Afterwards they’ll round up the zealots and bus them back to the prison camp.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm

I’m waiting for the n-word to come out. All these right wing neo-cons saw nothing wrong with Bush suppressing votes in Ohio in ’04 and the harrasment of registared voters in Fla in 2000. Bush-Cheney Halliburton connection, an uneccessary war to look for Osama Bin Ladin in Iraq? with 4000 of our precious men and women dead.. Shoe ain’t so comfortable when it’s on the foot eh?
Cry and whine all you want now, because on November 5th you will STFU and suck on it for at least the next 8 years
OBAMA/BINDEN ’08/12

Posted by: Obama forever | October 9, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm

annie – since no one else has yet, could you please explain why Obama won’t open up his campaign receipt books for review? Or is there something to hide? I think I see a pattern……

Posted by: wanttheelectionover | October 9, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm

Barack the Magic Negro would never take illegal campaign funds…….after all he is the Messiah, and serves plenty of Kool-Aid.

Posted by: Mr.Democrat | October 9, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm

all his followers will be thrilled. Scary, its like he’s the messiah, Even with the media, after the last debate, the media couldnt talk enough about his greatness, his walk, talk, how he handled himself, how he spoke, it was sickening. May god, its like he is god and everyone is in his trance. God bless us if this man gets elected

Posted by: bete | October 9, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm

Nice to know…I will check my calendar and make sure I do not watch any of those channels in that time slot on the 29th..thanks, Obama, for the headsup…everyone…boycott those channels for the entire day of October 29th..that should give their rating a kick in the a$$!

Posted by: mfmros | October 9, 2008, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm

Was Barack Obama Planted?
From J. Hansen
10-9-8
This is long, but very important and worth the time to read it.
This election has me very worried. So many things to consider.
I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with. About six months ago, I started thinking— “where did the money come from for Obama”. I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.
I started looking into Obama’s life.
Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California. He is very open about his two years at Occidental; he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies.
“Barry” (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan.
During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a “round the world” trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family.
My question – Where did he get the money for this trip? Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they where in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York. It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack – not Barry.
Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia? It’s not cheap! to say the least. Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia, he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York? He was already living in New York.
By “chance” he met Antoin “Tony” Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago. Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named “Entrepreneur of the Decade” by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association”.
About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School. Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School? Where did he get the money for Law School? More student loans? After Law school, he went back to Chicago. Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented “Rezar” which is Rezko’s firm. Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago. In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with “seed money” for his U.S. Senate race.
In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans – Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.
Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran. Do we see a pattern here? Or, am I going crazy?
On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was “sacked” after the press found out he was having regular contacts with “Hamas “, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran. This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will “Take care of things”.
Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan? They are in charge of all those “small” Internet campaign contributions for Obama. Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East?
And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on “This Week” with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, “My Muslim faith”. When questioned, “he made a mistake”. Some mistake!
All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check it – Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times – Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times – September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.
Now the BIG question – If I found out all this information on my own, why haven’t all of our “intelligent” members of the press been reporting this?
A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear – “Beware of the enemy from within.”

Posted by: Anderson | October 9, 2008, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm

My conspiracy theory is bigger and better than your conspiracy theory:
The zealots who were at the Palin Hate Rally were actually prisoners who were let of jail for the day by the sheriff; the sheriff who showed up in the storm trooper uniform. When the Hate Rally was over he took them back to jail on a blue and white bus. You can see the bus parked in the background on the CNN studio feed… (you need satellite to get the feed.) The rack with the prison jump suits was on the sidewalk next to the bus.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm

Obama said that there are 57 states. However there is 57 MUSLIM COUNTRIES!!!!!!!! Obama rejected public financing for his race to win the Presidency because most of his money is coming from overseas. Can anyone guess from which Muslin countries that most of his money is coming from????? One other note,
Fidel Castro promised CHANGE if the cuban people would help him overthrow the current government. Obama is also promising CHANGE and his change is well camo but it means SOCIALISM…..

Posted by: 55Mariposa | October 9, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

mfmros – why boycott CBS, NBC and CSNBC on only that day. Start the boycott TODAY and through the remainder of the month.

Posted by: wanttheelectionover | October 9, 2008, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm

Joe “I’ve been a Democrat my whole life and I have a word of caution, I don’t smell Democrat with this guy.” ……….I agree

Posted by: snoopy7 | October 9, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm

Hey, I actually saw a black man at McCoons speech today!

Posted by: mary | October 9, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

wanthteelectionover: You got a deal…I will start right now…and I will also include any local nightly news! Can we get something started here? Let’s go on every site and see if we can get ‘er done!!

Posted by: mfmros | October 9, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

Whether you can directly tie Obama to terrorists the inference remains that he IS the candidate that both homegrown and foreign terrorists alike would prefer to see as our next president… That FACT speaks volumes about the kind of person that he is… All of the pie-in-the-sky promises are just that… false promises to win the trust of the public… He is both “irresponsibly” pro reproductive dysfunction and fetal murder/infanticide… he WILL destroy what is left of this nation…

Posted by: Homonauseoushumanfetus | October 9, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm

Apparently BARRY needs to find a crowd to talk to as his campaign crowds are diminishing while McCain-Palin crowds are packed. Hillarious how Andrea Mitchell and the Lib Media are reporting the rallys as “hate” rallys.hahahahahahahahaah!!!! With the ridiculas media bias it’s an amazment that Republicans get ANY votes.

Posted by: killerbee | October 9, 2008, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm

Maybe you all on the Right should read something other than the National Review because there as all ready been an investigation done on Acorn by the Justice Dept. and they found no criminal activity. October—That!

Posted by: anton | October 9, 2008, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm

annie, newsweek had an article about Obama’s campaign returning $33,000 to Palestine. And I’m sure that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Posted by: jacrac | October 9, 2008, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm

Alot of ppl in school think the Government want him. You know the saying “Enemy within”. The people in the Middle East laugh at us b/c of 911 and how he could have let them into our country and still “cells” are here under our very nose. In the UK they arrested two Doctors who planted the bombs in Glasgow. You never know today who is the enemy, but I can say one thing. Obama is not your average American, with so many associations and a sketchy past it is bizarre he got so far in the Senate. Someone is pushing him on the American ppl and I can’t figure out who it is.

Posted by: Sully | October 9, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

These are dismal times when someone with no track record or experience is leading in the polls. Granted that McCain has been a Republican like Bush and in politics for some time… and he is not my favorite person. But I will never, ever vote for someone with as little experience as Obama, not to mention his far to the left social values. Never. He is too green and too extreme. It seems that people are just throwing the dice, while convincing themselves that he is great because they don’t want to admit the former.

Posted by: msa123 | October 9, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

MFMROS…get a grip, u are loosing it.
propaganda man…F..ing..racist

Posted by: honesty | October 9, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

Law pausing foreclosures.
What do your experts think of this idea.? Could Congress pass a law that would stop and prevent all foreclosures on homes for at least 1 year (or maybe a few more) if the borrower paid at least 6% interest on the loan balance (plus taxes and insurance)? Here is what it could do. It should apply to all residential loans made, owned or serviced by any federally regulated financial institution. With the prime rate at 4.5% a 6% return is fair and much better than nothing. It should slow dramatically the number of foreclosed homes being added to an already flooded market. It will allow homeowners to make reasonable payments for at least a year or more. It will allow Congress to revisit the interest rate at the sunset date of the law. It would apply only to ARM loans made during a certain window, say January 1, 2001 through July 2008. This should not cost us taxpayers anything. This will modify loans that cannot be modified now because they are in large pools of investments owned by many investors. For those homeowners that bought way more than they can afford even at 6%, sorry but this won’t help you. This will give the residential market some time to stabilize and hopefully start increasing in value again. Granted this does not solve the long term problem of what to do with these loans in the future, but it might help our current crisis and give us more time to look for long term solutions.

Posted by: GrampaB67 | October 9, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm

Well I haven’t read anything about him not opening his campaign receipt book. Do have a link on that.

Posted by: annie | October 9, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm

My conspiracy theory is bigger and better than your conspiracy theory:
After the Palin Hate Rally, the people who were yelling “kill him”..”hang him”.. “terrorist”..”treason” were taken over to Dairy Queen for an ice cream cone and then they got back on the bus and were taken back to the county prison camp. This was confirmed by unnamed sources from inside the sheriffs department who were upset that they did not get paid for the overtime involved in driving the prisoners to the Hate Rally, and then back to the prison camp.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm

Hey, Detroit Lion fans know all about hiring a totally inexperienced executive who promised change and hope. MATT MILLEN was totally unqualified for this executive position to run a billion dollar business. He totally failed and has badly hurt the team. No Detroit Lion fan would EVER want another unqualified boob to run the team again!

Posted by: killerbee | October 9, 2008, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm

i agree with you wholeheartedly sully

Posted by: msa123 | October 9, 2008, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm

Anderson, you must really be intelligent, being how you found out all that information all by yourself. I’m so impressed. The bad thing is, that everything you posted has been all over ABC News for the past 6 months. Gosh, you’re intelligent!

Posted by: mary | October 9, 2008, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm

Palin has been signed by Fox for a reality show next year. It’s working title is “Who Do You REALLY Hate.” Contestants will be given 3 minutes to make their case for the most hate-worthy person of the week. Winners will get a one-week trip to a Hate Camp in Oklahoma.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm

Honesty: I would expect nothing more than a filthy mouth from an Obama supporter…..you should sit down and sip your kool-ade slower next time!!

Posted by: mfmros | October 9, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm

Sully…. the “who” would be George Soros in league with the leaders of Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Russia and China… You are fooling yourself if you do not KNOW that our current market woes are not being exploited by the likes of these… Soros alone single-handedly could wreak financial havoc on the economy of a small country…

Posted by: Homonauseoushumanfetus | October 9, 2008, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm

Buying air time before the election. I cannot remember an election year when the last few days were NOT filled with an enormous amount of political ads. And I have witness more than 4 decades.
Republicans just love making issues out of nothing!!!

Posted by: mere | October 9, 2008, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm

Sarah Palin Hate Camp is now awarding franchises. Franchisees will learn to tie a noose and build flamable crosses. Special lessons will also be given in Jew-baiting.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm

Not sure how Obama even qualifies as the better candidate. He is mostly a personality rather than a political figure. Based on what track record would I consider him the better candidate? I truly find it laughable since Obama uses the word middle class once in his debate, or the word education once, and he is propped up as being a defender of education or the middle class – without having an details or specifics about how he will improve on these issues. Then McCain uses the a term “that one” in a debate and he is labelled a racist. What a joke? Honestly how are the Democrats really going to save the economy? Not that I believe McCain has given enough specifics either.. but so far all I hear is rhetoric. The only thing I hear from the Obama attacks that McCain is just like Bush. He is relying on the distaste for George W Bushes leadership to win this election. Considering the Republicans reluctantly chose McCain because he didn’t fall into line with the Bush policies consistently, I find that ironic. Maybe Obama should start his own weekly TV reality series since he feels it is necessary to give America a half hour prime time show. We could call it “Tall Tales with Barack Obama”, he could use the same 300 foreign policy experts he uses to draft a tale each week where he will save the world from disaster or economic collapse.

Posted by: DBM | October 9, 2008, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm

I guess he and David Axel of Evil are running scared. The felons don’t want to spend 20 years in the big house for aiding and abetting in voter fraud while Obama gets to spend 4 years in the White one! Use your brain folks, he’s a fraud and a phony!

Posted by: Joe | October 9, 2008, 4:40 pm 4:40 pm

These are dismal times when someone with no track record or experience is leading in the polls. Granted that McCain has been a Republican like Bush and in politics for some time… and he is not my favorite person. But I will never, ever vote for someone with as little experience as Obama, not to mention his far to the left social values. Never. He is too green and too extreme. It seems that people are just throwing the dice, while convincing themselves that he is great because they don’t want to admit the former.
Posted by: msa123 | Oct 9, 2008 8:26:55 PM
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You can’t possibly be taken serious posting stupid $hit like the post above after republicans have ruined our great nation. Have you been under a F…ing rock for the past 8 years? Even Stevie Wonder can see how republicans have F’d up this country. Yet you still advocate voting for them? Incredible! Zombies like you is why republicans have gotten away with their b.s. for so long. It’s about to change Nov 4, 2008 because people are finally totally fed up with them screwing the little guy while giving all to corporations and the wealthy.

Posted by: McCain/Palin = Corporations First | October 9, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm

Once Obama removes “In God We Trust” from our already struggling currency because of his “celebration” of our “No longer being a Christian nation” we will all see what happens to our godless country…

Posted by: Homonauseoushumanfetus | October 9, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

If you’re old enough you can remember when the Republican Party was fairly open about hating Jews, Blacks, Browns, Catholics and Communists. Now they’ve narrowed it down to Anyone who isn’t a Republican.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

McCain whining because Obama didn’t consult with him about using public funding. Well, McCain broke his promise of not taking the low road to the white house by doing character assassination and fear tactics. McCain also betrayed Obama when, after agreeing with Obama’s idea of making a joint statement about the economic crisis, McCain hangs up and goes alone on TV to declare suspending his campaign and delaying the debate, like he’s the only one concerned with the economy. For an ex-soldier, McCain is certainly too much of a liar, traitor and dishonorable person. McCain is as erratic and reckless as a politician as he was as a pilot.

Posted by: Charles | October 9, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm

McCain is really scaring me these days. He looks like a chipmunk on speed. Pacing around with a nervous twitch. I really don’t want that nervous, angry little man anywhere near the red button that could launch the missles that would start WWIII.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm

Where is REV WRIGHT? Why won’t BARRY let this inspired, enlightened, in touch modern day LIBERAL be a spokesman for BARRY’S campaign? You libtards always defend BARRY and his spiritual mentor and GREAT FRIEND! WHERE’S REV WRIGHT? LET REV WRIGHT SPEAK!!!!

Posted by: killerbee | October 9, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

Obama can have his t.v. show but with no teleprompters. Must be totally extemporaneous speaking. Was Obama an active participant of ACORN; a member of the “New Party”; and did Bill Ayers ghostwrite Obama’s first book Dreams of My Father? People want to know. Check that out ABC News. Righttttttttt.

Posted by: Paulrevere | October 9, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

Corporations you idiot supply the jobs in a country. Without them you’re screwed. So yeah, get real unless you’re supported by a terrorist group or you’re a trust fund baby you have to work. No corporation = No jobs = NO friggin life idiot. Socialists promise you this and promise you that and the next thing you know you end up in a line for toilet paper. Capiche? People won’t get to go to college because guess what no frigging money. Our government will dismantle and the guy who doesn’t seem to want to disclose his Columbia and Harvard reports will be fine and dandy! Got it?????

Posted by: Joe | October 9, 2008, 4:50 pm 4:50 pm

As soon as the election is over Palin will go back to Alaska, divorce her loser husband, and head back to Washington DC to become a professional fundraiser for neo-conservatives. She’ll make millions on the fundraising circuit, outstripping Hannity and Limbaugh combined. Someday we’ll all just laugh at the “concept” of her in the white house.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm

If Obama answers that “3:00 AM call to the White House” he would forward it to…the United Nations!!!!
Is this what you want America?
Do not vote left-wing-liberal Obama bin Biden to be our next Commander in Chief. It took 3 statements by him (after speaking with his 300+ foreign policy advisors) to kind of condemn Russia (he still has not even come close to it) for invading a democratic and sovereign country – Georgia.
And, this while Senator McCain, Senator Clinton, our government, and ALL our allies – blasted Russia’s invasion of Georgia! Even China turned its back to Russia on the Georgia issue despite the fact that the Russian leaders – Medvedev (Putin’s hand picked puppet) and Putin himself were courting China’s support on the Georgia conflict!! Ha-ha!
Wake up America – do not vote for That One!
Senator McCain said: I looked into Putin’s eyes and saw a “K” and a “G”, amd a “B”.
That One is still learning what these 3 letters mean! LOL!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm

The filthy language is getting worse as the election nears…wonder why the Obamabots are getting so foul mouthed..
Could it be that the October surprises that are beginning to hit now are hurting their candidate? Obama should have given that some thought before he weaved his web of lies!!

Posted by: mfmros | October 9, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

I loved listening to REV WRIGHTS great sermons when he talked of hating America, Jews, whites, Govt making AIDS. HE WAS REALLY INTERESTING. I was really getting into what he was saying! LET REV WRIGHT SPEAK!!!!

Posted by: killerbee | October 9, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

Many of the posters on here sound like complete nutcase extremists. Nutcases.
It’s not very flattering to the mentality of the United States.

Posted by: pefro | October 9, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm

The economy is in a horrible state. To continue with the policies which precipitated in this horrible situation is beyond comprehension. If America pursues the path it is on, history will record it as one of the most disastrous mistakes in the history of the country, if not the world. Americans must put aside petty distractions and make decisions that they know will help pull the country out this financial abyss. It is surreal

Posted by: rhbate | October 9, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm

Palin will make millions as a professional fund raiser. She’ll be great until she pisses off Limbaugh and he turns on her. When that happens he will carve her up into a tiny piece of mincemeat.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm

Lynn wrote: “Someone needs to get Palin to shut up and stop being reckless before she incites a tragedy~~~one that would send this country over the edgE”
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How convenient, hah?! You want to get Palin to shut up so to avoid taking the mask off the real Barack Hussein Obama? Get real!
YOU, left wing liberal Morons have spent weeks on personal attacks against Palin and now all of a sudden you are becoming “testy” because we are determined to get American voters to learn about the “Real Obama” and his “sweet heart deals” with convicted terrorists, drug dealers, and a lunatic anti-American Marxist pastor of 20+ years!
The real tragedy will be to elect Barack Hussein Obama President. The real tragedy will be to elect someone who refuses to place his hand over his heart during our National Anthem and refuses to wear the American flag.
But of course, what do you expect from an Un-American, Non-patriot, MARXIST Barack Hussein Obama, who launched his campaign in the livingroom of convicted terrorist Ayers …
I guess this is what community organizing was all about for Mr. Hussein Obama! He was organizing the community spreading his Marxist ideas around in perfect harmony with terorists and other criminal elements of the Chicago underground!
Oh, I know…he speaks well!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/cindy-mccain-ta.html?cid=134082873#comment-134082873

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm

Hey, Detroit Lion fans know all about hiring a totally inexperienced executive who promised change and hope. MATT MILLEN was totally unqualified for this executive position to run a billion dollar business. He totally failed and has badly hurt the team. No Detroit Lion fan would EVER want another unqualified boob to run the team again!
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 9, 2008 8:28:30 PM
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G.W. Bush has a MBA, yet he has created a financial disaster for America. So your point is?

Posted by: McCain/Palin = Corporations First | October 9, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

I’m really bummed that I’m going to be busy on Oct 29. I’m going to have to miss Obama’s TV special, featuring his big Ego.

Posted by: S Adams | October 9, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

Cindy McCain went off her meds yesterday, got nasty. Too bad. I read a story about McCain abusing her. Called her a trollop and made her cry on the bus. Now McCain is making America cry with his sleazy campaign ads.

Posted by: Steve from Danville | October 9, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

TIME MAGAZINE PHOTO
BOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!
Obama: No Hand on Heart for National Anthem
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1662530_1446035,00.html

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm

Now I know why McCain picked Palin. The reason why is simple. The rest of the Republicans who would have been worthy to be McCain’s VP would never lower themselves to the level of Palin. Can you imagine Ron Paul speaking to a group of racist, nazi, morons, while yelling out to them, “who is Obama”? NO Way. Can you see Lieberman speaking to that same group. NO Way. They would lynch him because most of those characters hate Jewish people. But Palin who is a sick puppy was perfect choice to be with McCain. She is not an attack dog. She is a JUDAS like 99% of the Republican and the Democrat politicos. She just wants her little bag of gold coins. This country is going down the toilet because we have no culture, history or class. The American people think that we live in a Democracy but the truth is that we live in a monarchy. Instead of one king, we have 400 super rich families that rule America with a soft hand. It is better to die standing on your feet, than live on your knees. Most Americans have been living on their knees that is why they are clueless to what has happen to them. Don’t blame Obama or McCain. Blame your miserable existence. Ask yourself, what does it take to create a great society. I will tell you. To have a great society you must put children first. Do we do that? NO!. Do we take care of our old with respect? NO! Do we take care of our sick? NO! To have a great society you we must take care of these three groups. Do we? NO! So don’t say America is the best. Because we are not. Why because we are bunch of miserable selfish beings who only care about me and I. I have been all over the world and I can tell you this there are no great society. Why because the same miserable bastards who live in America also live throughout the world. No buddy is willing to fight for the kids but boy everyone loves to fight for their bullsh– religions and their colorful flags. I am sad because I have dedicated my life to helping young people and all I see is you, a bunch of miserable bastards who don’t give a damn about kids. You will all burn in hell. Trust me. Why because you harmed GODS babies and GOD in end will take care of business.

Posted by: cony007 | October 9, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

“If you’re old enough you can remember when the Republican Party was fairly open about hating Jews, Blacks, Browns, Catholics and Communists. Now they’ve narrowed it down to Anyone who isn’t a Republican.”
That’s about right Steve. Truth be told. Of course, they also hated orientals, French, pretty much anybody but the reflection in the mirror.

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm

I have been wanting to say this but have held off, but i am going to get this off my chest. I am so tierd of John McInsane talking about Obama as if he was low and behold to him. First it was the “suspend my campaign” and “I have directed the Obama campaign to do the same.” Slow down Johnny, Barrack is a man and the nominee of a major political party in this country. You don’t tell him what to do, did you call him in advance to tell him you were suspending your campaign, did you discuss it with him first, hecks no. So Sen. Obama don’t have to discuss nothing with you son, you are his opponent not his PaPa. Learn your place, slavery is over. That’s why whopping the pants off your old,angry behind, you caught up in the 1950′s dude!! You don’t own nobody, you can’t even correct yourself. Catch this train, or get out the way!!

Posted by: SD | October 9, 2008, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm

Natasha so what. I don’t cover my heart when the anthem is playing either. It doesn’t mean I’m not patriotic. I’ve been to many events where a lot of people don’t. No one points fingers at them.

Posted by: lindy | October 9, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm

It’s going to be a 30 minute loop of him saying, “change, uh, um, uh, uh, um, 95% won’t pay taxes, McCain is Bush, uh, um, uh, uh, uh, um, uh, uh, uh, um……change we need, McCain is Bush, 8 more years, Bush, uh, um, 95%, um, uh, I was 8, taxes, Bush, um, uh, where am I, uh, um, I poopied my pants, uh, um, it’s Bush’s fault, um, uh.”

Posted by: Turd Furgeson | October 9, 2008, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm

“I’m really bummed that I’m going to be busy on Oct 29. I’m going to have to miss Obama’s TV special, featuring his big Ego.”
Posted by: S Adams
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Thank God that he announced it in advance… Even the most stupid movie will be better than watching That One – that MARXIST Community Organizer!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

Now I know why McCain picked Palin. The reason why is simple. The rest of the Republicans who would have been worthy to be McCain’s VP would never lower themselves to the level of Palin. Can you imagine Ron Paul speaking to a group of racist, nazi, morons, while yelling out to them, “who is Obama”? NO Way. Can you see Lieberman speaking to that same group. NO Way. They would lynch him because most of those characters hate Jewish people. But Palin who is a sick puppy was perfect choice to be with McCain. She is not an attack dog. She is a JUDAS like 99% of the Republican and the Democrat politicos. She just wants her little bag of gold coins. This country is going down the toilet because we have no culture, history or class. The American people think that we live in a Democracy but the truth is that we live in a monarchy. Instead of one king, we have 400 super rich families that rule America with a soft hand. It is better to die standing on your feet, than live on your knees. Most Americans have been living on their knees that is why they are clueless to what has happen to them. Don’t blame Obama or McCain. Blame your miserable existence. Ask yourself, what does it take to create a great society. I will tell you. To have a great society you must put children first. Do we do that? NO!. Do we take care of our old with respect? NO! Do we take care of our sick? NO! To have a great society you we must take care of these three groups. Do we? NO! So don’t say America is the best. Because we are not. Why because we are bunch of miserable selfish beings who only care about me and I. I have been all over the world and I can tell you this there are no great society. Why because the same miserable bastards who live in America also live throughout the world. No buddy is willing to fight for the kids but boy everyone loves to fight for their bullsh– religions and their colorful flags. I am sad because I have dedicated my life to helping young people and all I see is you, a bunch of miserable bastards who don’t give a damn about kids. You will all burn in hell. Trust me. Why because you harmed GODS babies and GOD in end will take care of business.

Posted by: cony007 | October 9, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

Good reasoning Hope — it is reasoning like this that gives us the kind of politcians and campaigns we get. As Americans, we getting what we deserve. Power hungry, egomaniacs who turn the race into how horrible the other person is rather than discussing in a civilized manner what there plans are and how they are different. Democracy can’t work this way. It requires informed debate. And since citizens don’t demand it — we get the selling of the president, a the current state of the campaign is more suitable for a reality show!!!!

Posted by: Luke | October 9, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm

mcsame and sarah pa..fallin are loosers and their poor right wing followers who, did I mention are very comfortable and or rich are crying fowl, because it’s time for the main stream to enjoy what they have been enjoying for the past 8 years…..greedy few.

Posted by: honesty | October 9, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm

So he’s still trying to buy his way into the White House..what else is new about Barry “the racist radical”?

Posted by: typical white voter | October 9, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm

It’s so repulsive when a man speaks so vulguar about a woman. Why do people feel a need to insult, belittle, condemn, criticize and laugh at Sarah Palin if she is so ridiculous. Why, because she has the guts to stand up to the BS of the Obama campaign. Do you guys have a clue what Oprah says about the white folk and the belittling way she talks about us, the people who have made her billions.

Posted by: Lizzie | October 9, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm

typical white voter…..
call him what you wish, buy ur self some
hot drinks, you’ ll be needing it
because he is our next president and he will move into that white house and you will be seeing a lot of him on ur TV screen… get ready bro.
obama 08

Posted by: honesty | October 9, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm

If it wasn’t for Hamas’ and Kenya’s financial support, Obama Hussein wouldn’t have enough money to pay for advertising.

Posted by: BT@BT.com | October 9, 2008, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm

Michelle Obama had the nerve to call us whitey. This couple is not for us, will do nothing for the average American but use our tax dollars for ACORN and it’s tentacles. Do you guys know how big ACORN and the other groups attached to it are? It’s beyond comprehension!

Posted by: Lizzie | October 9, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm

Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama ’08: McCain doesn’t care about this country, he only cares about himself. Obama/Biden ’08!

Posted by: sawrad | October 9, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm

honesty wrote: “typical white voter, call him, blah blah, he’s the next president, blah, moves into white house, blah”
So, honesty, will he paint the white house pink and guard it with pit bulls? Huh bro?
That’s why I won’t vote for him. It has nothing to do with his radical ties, lack of experience, or big ears.

Posted by: ApparentRacistWhiteGuy | October 9, 2008, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm

Whoever made it possible dont matter, bottom line it’s now possible,
get used to it.
Obama 08

Posted by: honesty | October 9, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm

If I need to show my ID to buy a beer when I’m almost 30 years old, the guy running to become THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD should need to prove something as easy as a birth certificate. I could care less either way, the point is why would you try so hard to withold something so so so soooooooo very easy to come up with? And don’t say it doesn’t matter, because if it doesn’t matter just go to the courthouse pay $15 and have it printed up, it’s that easy. But I know, I’m a racist for saying that, because we all know black people have a harder time getting birth certificates or something stupid like that…..right, right….I also hate America, Jews, and anyone under 5 feet tall.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson | October 9, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm

Hey …
no one needs ur vote, looser.
Nov 4th and the winner is obama 08

Posted by: honesty | October 9, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm

I ask you, who pays attention to anything Hollywood says especially Madonna. Good grief Sarah Palin must be a threat to them. She’s all they wish they were. Actually I think we should all boycott movies especially that idiot one of Bill Maurs on religion. Disgusting.

Posted by: C Good | October 9, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm

Mack: Yes, it seems as thought the United States is teetering on the edge of losing our status as a superpower, and we have “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” Bush, Cheney, Rove and Rumsfeld to blame.

Posted by: sawrad | October 9, 2008, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm

McCain T-shirts!!! Huge sale. 50% off, no wait, 60% off, er…uh….my fellow prisoners, I’ll let ya have ‘em for 10%. great for car washing, etc! thanx, Johnnie! I’m not John McCain, but I sure do approve this message!

Posted by: Berlin | October 9, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

Lizzie: From the New York Times, Bob Herbert:
“The idea that the voters of the United States might install someone in the vice president’s office who is too unprepared or too intellectually insecure to appear on, say, “Meet the Press” or “Face the Nation” is mind-boggling. The alarm bells should be clanging and warning lights flashing. You wouldn’t put an unqualified pilot in the cockpit of a jetliner. The potential for catastrophe is far, far greater with an unqualified president.”

Posted by: sawrad | October 9, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

honesty, It’s spelled ‘L-O-S-E-R’ not Looser. In a sentence, it’s, “honesty is a loser.”

Posted by: ApparentRacistWhiteGuy | October 9, 2008, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm

Natasha…W’s daddy bought and MBA for him…he did not earn it…it would be a much different world if he had earned it….for once, he would be able to put a sentence together!!!

Posted by: TRO | October 9, 2008, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm

Turd
No, you aren’t a racist for saying that; just a fool. Obama has already produced his birth certificate documents to everyone’s satisfaction except the right-wing noise machine. And people are finally learning to ignore them.

Posted by: jock59801 | October 9, 2008, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm

No hand over heart from Obama during national anthem
10/22/2007 @ 5:28 pm
Filed by David Edwards and Jason Rhyne
Weeks after coming under fire for his refusal to wear an American flag pin, Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama is again facing questions about his patriotism from some conservative blogs — this time for apparently failing to put his hand over his heart during a rendition of the national anthem at an Iowa campaign event.
A video of the event in question, obtained by ABC News, shows Obama with his hands firmly clasped in front of him during the song. Meanwhile, rival Democratic candidates Gov. Bill Richardson (D-AZ) and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) strike a traditional anthem pose beside him, holding their right hands over their hearts.
The conservative NewsBusters media watchdog group first reported on the story, linking to a Time Magazine photo of Obama at the event. “Does [Obama] perhaps believe that, like wearing the flag pin, the hand on the heart isn’t “true patriotism?” asked the site’s Mark Finkelstein.
The episode took place during a Sept. 16 steak fry hosted by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) in Indianola, Iowa.
The following video is from ABC.com, broadcast on October 22, 2007.
http://rawstory.com//printstory.php?story=8016

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm

Yes, I agree C Good. Madonna, who has had about 9 abortions and apparently proud of it. These women lead such sad and desperate lives. Drugs, alcohol, promiscuity . Sarah Palin is the average woman thank god, who believes in the right to life. A life all the idiots who castigate her about are busy enjoying theirs but don’t want it for anyone else. Sick, shallow women. If you don’t believe in infanticide and wanting to kill your child, there is something wrong with you! Yeah right, and Barack Obama is good for the country!!

Posted by: Lizzie | October 9, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm

OK, for all of you who think that Obama is a terrorist due to his association with William Ayers there are more terrorists out there to be outed! Obama and Ayers were on the same board for a not-for-profit educational board and because of this association Obama is, obviously, a terrorist. Now the Annenberg Foundation funded this group and therefore the president of the foundation is funding efforts of terrorists (Obama and Ayers). The president, Leonore Annenberg, happens to be a McCain supporter. So if this doesn’t make McCain a terrorist (using his logic), then at least we have to ask the question of why McCain is accepting money and advise from someone who supports terrorists.
Guilt by association works both ways. By the way, how many degrees of separation does one need before they are no longer a terrorist? Probably most of us would be a terrorist if it we were accountable for 4 degrees of separation. (We all know that 6 gets us connected to esentially anyone in the world). Once we answer this question, answer this: When will the ghost of McCarthy come back and put you into prison or get you on to a blacklist so you can’t get a job because you are associated with a terrorist?

Posted by: Honest Abe | October 9, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm

Barack Obama is amazing. As someone wrote, “Take of your Rove-colored glasses” and you might see it!

Posted by: sawrad | October 9, 2008, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm

Served on Annenberg org board, who supports McCain – does that make both of them (McCain & Annenberg) terrorists/guilty by association? A local reporter (let me guess if you’re McCain/Palin campaign/supporter – “biased,liberal,left-wing media, etc..”) stated that you couldn’t be involved in local education issues and not have contact with Ayers. Also, many “liberals” didn’t like him due to his strident positions.
I’ll say this for the McCain/Palin folks, when they go down (to defeat), they go down hard (incl. ridiculous & scary, violent overtones)…….

Posted by: Bigd51 | October 9, 2008, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm

This is truly sad. The desperation in the eyes of the Republican party as their boat crashes up upon the rocks.. How about y’all just say.. the last 8 years have been an unmigitated disaster… a president who we cheered takes our nation to war under false pretense. We invent new levels of big brother spying and alienate the entire modern world against us. We dissolve the largest surpluss and pass on the greatest deficit. This is the United States.. we are not electing a new king.. If you cannot understand the Mr. Obama represents a slender chance to gather clever minds… and attempt to stear a nation back into the realm of sanity.. well then.. you don’t… but I am glad to see that the majority of the electoral college will.. Ya.. birth certificate… wake up!

Posted by: markensparklefarkle | October 9, 2008, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm

Dear Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama ’08… you are mentally ill. Please seek medical assistance. ANd please do it soon because under a McCain administration, mental illnesses will not be covered.

Posted by: FactCheck | October 9, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm

Booooo – Jon Clown – as in Jon Klein – President of CNN…
CNN: “But Obama Ain’t Palling Around With Terrorists Now!!!”
Via CNN which does a ‘fact check‘ of the Obama – Ayers connection: Verdict, the two men do not have a close relationship now, and there is no proof that they were working together closely at any point “in the last three years.”
And what sources does CNN quote to determine that Palin et al. are lying completely about the Ayers – Obama connection?
The New York Times article cited by Palin concluded that “the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers.” Other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-times, The New Yorker and The New Republic, have said that their reporting doesn’t support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.
And again others did, right? Like the Wall Street Journal and National Review Online. I’m guessing that when you’re fact checking you take those reports into considerations right? Especially because they actually uncovered quite some evidence indicating that the relationship between Obama and Ayers was closer than Obama is willing to admit.
Right?
Nope. That was it. That was CNN’s ‘fact check.’ It simply repeated the conclusions of pro-Obama publications, and then concluded that the accusation is false.
Another point of significance: no one’s saying the two are close now. That’s not the point. It’s nice of CNN to try to spin this thing for all it’s worth, but the accusation is that the two had a professional relationship in the 1990s. That Obama served on the board of an education organization founded by Ayers, that the two attended meetings together, that Obama endorsed a book Ayers wrote about education, and that Ayers held a private fundraiser for Obama when the latter launched his political career.
It’s nice of CNN to swiftboat the matter, though.
Is there actually anyone falling for this ‘reporting’ and ‘fact checking’ or are the only ones accepting CNN’s words as ‘true’ those already in the tank for Obama?
CNN: But Obama Ain’t Palling Around With Terrorists Now!
http://poligazette.com/2008/10/06/cnn-but-obama-aint-paling-around-with-terrorists-now/

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm

I just sat and scrolled through some of these posts and messages. I will be SO very glad when the election is done. All this chaos on message boards has come quite far enough. Everybody by this time has basically made up their mind who they are voting for. All the mud-slinging in the world isn’t going to change that. For heaven’s sakes, get a grip on yourselves, go VOTE for your candidate, and may God help the winner of the election. He’s going to need God’s support as well as YOURS, all of you. Grow up, VOTE…..and stop acting like children. We’ve all got quite enough on our plates to deal with folks………think of your children, and THEIR children….go spend your time doing something GREEN. Go pick up your neighborhoods, go give somebody a hand. Go volunteer somewhere….then get out and vote.

Posted by: Disgusted | October 9, 2008, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm

Quotes from Obama’s 2 books:
From Dreams of My Father:
‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’
From Dreams of My Father :
‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’
From Dreams of My Father:’There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’
From Dreams of My Father:
‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’
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.’
And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!
From Audacity of Hope:
‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
With all of this ‘shady’ past, are you liberals seriously really overlooking EVERYTHING? This is not about Democrats vs. Republicans.
Obama is an extremist with a Socialist Agenda… NEVER before has this country elected a President with this kind of Socialist agenda… NEVER.
Posted by: Elaine | Oct 8, 2008 4:15:17 PM
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/cindy-mccain-ta.html?cid=134082873#comment-134082873

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm

Apparent racist white guy..
it’s great to know that some of u loyal mcsame followers actually can spell, keep up the good work (loooooooser)

Posted by: honesty | October 9, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm

Does anyone in the world believe that the President, one lone man runs a country? Esp. the US of A? Pls raise their hands. For goodness sake, all this 3 am phone call etc..etc.. Sounds good but come on, the country is governed by a staff of people what just one man with a red button. The misguided judgment that if he dies and the VP then steps into his shoes and is again governing solo is absurd. I’m so tired of these ridiculous posts and the Obama team with their smoke and mirrors and lies and lies. I wish it was Nov 4th already!

Posted by: Lizzie | October 9, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm

Natasha and Elaine
LOL
To show what clueless sheep you are, you copy out the same fake quotes that were proven to be false over 6 months ago. How embarassing!

Posted by: jock59801 | October 9, 2008, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm

Honesty, Sarah Palin is a threat to Hollywood and to everyone else…and I also like Obama’s radical ties. He needs a pair of cuff links to match.

Posted by: this one for that one | October 9, 2008, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm

Dish Network has an Obama Channel, with Obama ads, profiles, and plans airing round the clock (paid for by the campaign, of course). I just watched an inspiring piece on Michelle and her family. If America does not elect these people, it will be truly shameful.

Posted by: Baldrick | October 9, 2008, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm

Who are you going to vote for if not for Obama ? I don’t want to vote for him either, I was all ready for Hillary, but there’s no one else.I supported Ron Paul, the Republicans have gone crazy, there’s no one left. you gonna vote for an old man that wonders around a stage and flash’s that undertaker grin at you ? Who’s for the war in Iraq , that’s crazy, who’s for Wall Street, that’s crazy.
Ex Republican

Posted by: RGeier | October 9, 2008, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm

Natasha
Oh no! Run away! Someone didn’t put their hand over their heart while they were respectively listeing to the national anthem. What evil!
I didn’t even know there were rules about these things. Will the Politburo arrest me if I don’t do it next time?

Posted by: jock59801 | October 9, 2008, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm

I won’t be watching the celiberity Obama, I have other things I can do with my time. He knows he is not qualified to be president, so he is buying the prime time to try to convince you and himself. Maybe he consulted Michelle and she told him to do it.

Posted by: Voteing McCain In Ohio | October 9, 2008, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm

Does anyone know the name of the movie where they had a TV show that brainwashed everyone? Can anybody recall that film? I bet that is what is going to happen on OCT 29th…don’t watch!! LOL
They’ll put out subliminal messages in the 30 mins, wow this is getting crazy!!

Posted by: Sully | October 9, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm

jock59801 – If Natasha’s excerpts from Obama’s books have been proven wrong six month’s ago, it would be nice if you could give your source. Maybe the rest of us would like to look it up rather than just believing you.
Thanks.

Posted by: BT | October 9, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm

McCain leads a rally where his supporters are screaming that Obama is a “terrorist” and he says nothing.
Palin supporters scream “kill him” and she says nothing. What does that say about the kind of people they are and the kind of people who support them?
One Car.
One House.
One Spouse.
Obama 08
“Jesus was a community organizer — Pontius Pilate was a governor”.

Posted by: kate buckingham | October 9, 2008, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm

“and did Bill Ayers ghostwrite Obama’s first book Dreams of My Father?”
Now that has to be the stupidest one yet. It doesn’t even make any sense. I think you are getting your smears mixed up. Or do you just have a random word generator for this?

Posted by: jock59801 | October 9, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm

Don’t believe Republican LIES, FABRICATIONS and MISREPRESENTATIONS of Obama and his policies.
McBush and the Pitbull know they cannot make legitimate attacks on Obama, so what do they do? They stoop so low into the gutter and MAKE UP STUFF about him to try to instill fear into people and to deflect attention from their HOPELESS CALAMITY of a campaign and lack of true plans, policies and ideas about reform.
FACTS ABOUT OBAMA:
1. He is a Harvard law professor and constitutional law expert, with a Juris Doctor of Law degree and is involved in many senate committees such as foreign affairs, homeland security, veterans affairs, health, education and family (he has the qualifications and experince)
2. He is patriotic and only cares about America and the interests of its people
3. He is not and has never been a Muslim
4. He is not and has never been associated with terrorists (he was only 8 years old at the time of the Ayers scandal!!!!)
5. He has never been to a “madrassa”
6. He is not planted by Osama Bin Laden to infiltrate America (don’t laugh, some idiots really believe this!)
VOTE OBAMA, not McBush

Posted by: kate buckingham | October 9, 2008, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm

TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK-TICK Goes the clock…
Countdown to OCTOBER SURPRISE Republicans!!
TROOPERGATE REPORT DUE TO BE RELEASED TOMORROW MORNING!!!
MSNBC is reporting Palin/McCain beginning to panic, as the bombs are getting ready to drop!! Reports of “impeachable offenses” are imminent….
Too Bad Republicans, your Moose with lipstick goes down the drain tomorrow!!
Along with that old senile fool that picked her!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 9, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm

Good to see Obama is doing this. It’s not like he’s getting enough coverage as it is…

Posted by: tony | October 9, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm

Woo! All the hater right wing nuts are out on this web becasue they know it is over for the right wing nuts and they have to get it all out of their sytem. McCain/Palin is not what the American people need two nuts tring to stir up raicst fights.

Posted by: gl | October 9, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm

I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR OBAMA’S EXPLAINATION ABOUT ACORN AND THE MAJOR VOTER FRAUD GOING ON WITH HIS OBAMABOTS. ALSO TO EXPLAIN THE 7 INDICTMENTS AGAINST ACORN AND THE FACT THAT U GAVE 800,000 DOLLARS TO AN ORGANIZATION THAT REGISTERS DEAD PEOPLE AND OTHERS THAT DO NO QUALIFY TO VOTE. ANSWER THAT OBAMA

Posted by: VALLI | October 9, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm

I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR OBAMA’S EXPLAINATION ABOUT ACORN AND THE MAJOR VOTER FRAUD GOING ON WITH HIS OBAMABOTS. ALSO TO EXPLAIN THE 7 INDICTMENTS AGAINST ACORN AND THE FACT THAT U GAVE 800,000 DOLLARS TO AN ORGANIZATION THAT REGISTERS DEAD PEOPLE AND OTHERS THAT DO NO QUALIFY TO VOTE. ANSWER THAT OBAMA

Posted by: VALLI | October 9, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm

Hope, Change, Hate Nobama — I think your name says it all. What else would someone expect from you but all that crud. You must really have nothing to do if you can sit typing all day. You are the fringe who support McCain (i.e. Songbird, as he was called by his fellow prisoners)/Palin.

Posted by: diana | October 9, 2008, 5:56 pm 5:56 pm

BT
Well, the best “source” is the book itself, which you might learn something from if you ever actually looked at it.
The first quote is actually true, but not in the least bit racist.
The second quote is a total lie. It was taken from a hostile REVIEW of Obama’s book.
The third one is taken completely out of context. He was talking about a guy who was in a position that he HIMSELF agreed would be easiest for a black person (community liaison).
The other two are from discussions of the various viewpoints on race in America. Read it; you might learn something.
As for the “Muslim” quote, they managed to take one of the most moving passages in the book and turn it into something that sounds treasonous. That is just slimy.
What he said was that he would stand with the AMERICANS if American citizens started being rounded up for internment camps

Posted by: jock59801 | October 9, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm

I have the sure cure for the Obama commercials – the “mute” button. Here in Florida, Obama runs commercials back-to-back and it’s getting very disgusting. I have never used the “mute” button this much, ever!
Obama = MUTE BUTTON, This is real change!

Posted by: martha S. | October 9, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm

Valli:
I think you ‘got’ an ACORN stuck up your…
Or… maybe that is just your head.

Posted by: tom | October 9, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm

Listen to Oprah, Matt Damon, Barbara Streisand, Madonna, Rosie, Rosanne, and all the other political historians and vote for a socialist like BHO.
China, Africa and the sophisticated Europeans are gonna be mighty mad if you don’t.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm

Good by October 29th maybe Obama can tell the public why he is fighting in the courts NOT to show his original birth certificate! He can tell us why he has hired several EXPENSIVE attorneys to fight in the courts from showing the documents. The country doesn’t have enough problems the country has to have a “con” pulled on them by a candidate that KNOWS he should not be running for this office.

Posted by: Ann | October 9, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm

IF U THINK THAT THE ECONOMY IS BAD AND THE HOUSING MARKET IS BAD. JUST WAIT TIL OBAMA SOCIALIZES THIS ENTIRE COUNTRY. U WON’T EVEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH. DON’T SAY I DID’NT WARN U

Posted by: VALLI | October 9, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm

IF U THINK THAT THE ECONOMY IS BAD AND THE HOUSING MARKET IS BAD. JUST WAIT TIL OBAMA SOCIALIZES THIS ENTIRE COUNTRY. U WON’T EVEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH. DON’T SAY I DID’NT WARN U

Posted by: VALLI | October 9, 2008, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm

It might be funny, if it wasn’t so sad. Nutcase, extremist views of some Americans. It’s a country with a long, racist history and remnant white supremacists – the whacked out extreme views should be condemned at every opportunity. And the idiotic paranoia. Good grief, you’ve lived under one of the most twisted and damaging regimes in American history for the past 8 years; time to move on from that moronic extremism. Demonizing people who don’t agree with you is so substandard – America should move on from that. A little humility would go a long way in the face of the collosal blunders.

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm

Obama would allow a child that survived an abortion to die based on his opposition to Illinois legislation in 2001, 2002 and 2003 that would have defined any aborted fetus that showed signs of life as a “born alive infant” entitled to legal protection, even if doctors believe it could not survive. Obama and his supporters have made sure that his actual stance is not clear. What is clear is that Obama wrestles more with the legality of allowing a child to live after a failed abortion instead of the morality of the issue.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obama_and_infanticide.html

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:11 pm 6:11 pm

BHO needs to buy airtime on FoxNews. Since NBC’s, CNN’s, and CBS’s ratings are tanking and Fox’s are skyrocketing, he better find a wider audience than these 3 former news channels. I say former because they really have lost any credibility for the future.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm

Obama step down before the Federal Court rules against you! Illegal aliens are not allowed to run for public office.
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.
http://WWW.obamacrimes.com
Honesty is the Best policy!

Posted by: Just-the-facts | October 9, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm

McCain and Palin are finished. If you want to read about the real John McCain, check out this link:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

Posted by: miles1967 | October 9, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm

“Electing Republican John McCain for president would be like asking the iceberg to rescue the Titanic…” Sen. Hillary Clinton

Posted by: charleschaplin | October 9, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm

On July 23, 2007, Obama said he would meet with leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea WITHOUT preconditions.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19933710/
Obama has since changed his stance saying that lower level talks should be conducted between the two countries first. However, Obama had the nerve to tell McCain during the first Presidential debate that former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger disagreed with McCain – that was NOT true. Check this out
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/27/kissinger.iran/index.html?eref=rss_politics
But wait – has Obama changed his stance again? From the Obama/Biden website: “Obama and Biden are willing to meet with the leaders of all nations, friend and foe.They will do the careful preparation necessary, but will signal that America is ready to come to the table, and that he is willing to lead. And if America is willing to come to the table, the world will be more willing to rally behind American leadership to deal with challenges like terrorism, and Iran and North Korea’s nuclear programs.”
http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/foreign_policy/

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm

what a sad level of commentary on this thread. is this the best discussion that can be offered? no wonder we’re in such a sorry state as a nation. the comments on this thread are very sad to read.

Posted by: chris | October 9, 2008, 6:16 pm 6:16 pm

Jesse Jackson, the greatest living civil rights leader, on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 said that Obama “talks down to black people.” Jackson has apologized and endorses Obama, but isn’t it interesting that he felt this way about Obama?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5343688

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:16 pm 6:16 pm

help
I noticed you put a link to a “fact check” that debunks your own comment:
“It is worth noting that Illinois law already provided that physicians must protect the life of a fetus when there is “a reasonable likelihood of sustained survival of the fetus outside the womb, with or without artificial support.”
Therefore, nothing Obama did could have “allowed a child that survived an abortion to die,” as you claim.

Posted by: jock59801 | October 9, 2008, 6:18 pm 6:18 pm

Hey Republican Dumb Arses – Get used to seeing Obama address the nation, because he is gonna be our next President. And he will RULE your stupid arses! LOL

Posted by: this one | October 9, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

I can’t wait for Obama to be elected – I will show as much mercy as those ranting and raving about all the “Republican” bad crap today – you all deserve the media blitzed election results – which are coming in as presumed electoral wins for Obama every day – a month prior to the actual election – led around by the Democratic ring in your noses – I will hand you kleenexes by the boxfuls as you cry and whine and continue to ignorantly blame Republicans…. for paying 50% of your income for childrens’ health “insurance” regardless of your own parenthood status – someone has to pay for it – someone has to pay for all the perceived “tax cuts” to the “rich” and all the rest of Obama’s delusional “plans” as his supporters call in their favors – THEY will be partying away as you pick up the tab…. I’ve never anounced myself as a “Republican” but I am PROUD TO BE A REPUBLICAN now.

Posted by: hummingbird | October 9, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

In 2007, Biden donated $995 to charitable organizations, or 0.3 percent of his pre-taxed income. That compares to the 5.7 percent of income the Obamas donated to charity last year and the 26 percent John McCain gave away.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/12/biden-tax-returns-revealed/

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

What are you people going to do when it turns out that ACORN is not only not affiliated with Obama, but is also a perfectly innocuous non-profit organization which just happens to be dedicated to doing good things, like registering regular people to vote?
What then? Everything I hear makes it sound like you’re already convinced that ACORN is the mafia or something. But not only is there no evidence that Obama is linked to them, there’s also no evidence that that would be a bad thing.
You people are jerks.

Posted by: El Bruce | October 9, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

The only “CHANGE” you will have left is what is in your pocket. I “HOPE” BHO supporters have the “AUDACITY” to realize this.
I can play on words also.

Posted by: BHO's drug dealer | October 9, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

Why won’t Obama cooperate with the Federal Judge???????????????????
If Obama can’t produce his original
Birth Certificate, Certification of Citizenship and Oath of Allegiance, it will be NObama on Nov. 04, 2008.
http://WWW.obamacrimes.com

Posted by: martha m. | October 9, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

Hey Republicans – NOBODY CARES ABOUT ACORN! NOBODY CARES ABOUT AYERS! NOBODY CARES ABOUT REZKO! NOBODY CARES ABOUT ANY OF THAT CRAP! AND NOBODY CARES ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN EITHER! OBAMA RULES! MCSAME DROOLZ! ROFL

Posted by: KING OF ALL MEN | October 9, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm

Would Bush’s association with Osama Bin Ladin’s family makes George Bush and his family a Terrorist?
In fact, W had the Bin Ladin family collected from all over the US and have them fly out to Saudi during the time FAA grounded the entire United States Airline companies. Let’s not forget Osama Bin Ladin’s brothers, cousins, sisters, etc were on that plane taking off when over 3000 Americans were under the ashes of the Bin Ladin 9/11.
It sure sounds like McCain is implying President Bush is a TERRORIST by association…hummmm!

Posted by: Daniel | October 9, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm

Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman – yes, the very man who ran in the 2000 U.S. presidential election as the Democratic candidate for Vice President with presidential nominee Al Gore – has endorsed McCain. Lieberman said – “I think you know that both of the presidential candidates this year have talked about changing the culture of Washington, about breaking through the partisan gridlock and the special interests that are poisoning our politics, but, my friends, only one of them has actually done it. Only one of them has shown the courage and the capability to rise above the smallness of our politics to get big things done for our country and our people. And that one is John S. McCain. Sen. ….Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country in the years ahead, but, my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record, not in these tough times for America.”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/02/lieberman.transcript/index.html

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm

…seems that the report that’s coming out tomorrow regarding troopergate is that Sarah Palin has been cleared of all wrongdoing… I wonder how the McCain campaign would know that to make a statement before the official report comes out tomorrow? Sounds kinda fishy to me!

Posted by: MaryJane | October 9, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm

martha m. – Obama is U.S. citizen. Crackpot conspiracy theories won’t change that. Nice try.

Posted by: republicans Spew Lies | October 9, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm

help
Whether the talks occur at the Presidential level or not is a relatively subtle point. That can be re-assessed as conditions change.
get over it.

Posted by: jock59801 | October 9, 2008, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm

Ask Sarah Palin about her buddy Joe Vogler. He’s a traitor who hates America.

Posted by: Let's Roll | October 9, 2008, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm

You cannot deny the work Bill Clinton has done to advance equality in America. Bill Clinton is NOT a racist – it seems the press tried to report that he was during the Democratic primaries. Clinton even showed frustration regarding the media bias towards Obama.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5506458

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm

El Bruce
Do you know what you are talking about?
ACORN, a legitimate organization, I will stop laughing at that on Nov 4th.
Stick with cutting-and-pasting, you obviously have read BHO website thoroughly.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm

Hillary Clinton claimed, during the Democratic primaries, that Obama was simply not fit to be commander in chief on day one of a possible presidency. At the same time, Hillary Clinton said she was, and added that Republican John McCain was also qualified. Hillary Clinton said: “Look I have said Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign, I will bring a lifetime of experience, and Senator Obama will bring a speech he made in 2002.”
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_clinton_vice/2008/03/09/79057.html

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm

Posted by: Dan | October 9, 2008, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm

If Obama was against the war in Iraq, why did Hilary Clinton also accuse Obama on Meet the Press, during the Democratic primaries, of having kept quiet too long on Iraq, saying, “When he became a senator, he didn’t go to the floor of the Senate to condemn the war in Iraq for 18 months. He didn’t introduce legislation against the war in Iraq.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18106281

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm

El Bruce – MAFIA – ACORN is nothing in comparison to the CHICAGO DALEY FAMILY…look THAT up… They’ve been financing Democratic Presidential candidates for several elections back – actually THE spokesperson for AL GORE.

Posted by: hummingbird | October 9, 2008, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm

New York Observer interview: “But — and the ‘but’ was clearly inevitable — he doubts whether American voters are going to elect ‘a one-term, a guy who has served for four years in the Senate,’ and added: ‘I don’t recall hearing a word from Barack about a plan or a tactic.’”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGRhNzJlMWY5NjdiNzhjMTRkYjMzNjYwOGJmYzNjMTY

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm

help
Anyone that doesn;t vote for BHO is a racist according to his supporters.
Even “hockey mom” and “Joe SixPack” is racist according to these disgruntled people.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm

How dare you question ACORN!
Well, for those of you that can read this will certainly shed a little light on why all Americans should question ACORN.
Last time I checked… both Democrats and Republicans were losing money in the stock market.
You decide.

Posted by: Americans4McCain | October 9, 2008, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm

Oprah must be on.
Did I just read 4 pro-McCain postings IN A ROW on ABC’s website?

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm

It seems so obvious that John Mccain is desperate. Anyone who can see our nation falling around them and all they can do is hurl insults and slander is a loser. Mccain is ducking and dodging the economic issues as Muhammad Ali dodged punches in the ring. McCain openly admitted he knows nothing about economics. We have someone in office now who has been proven to be a great dissapointment. We need not make the same mistake again because McCain and Bush are one and the same. Some people can only look big by making others look small. This is the Mccain tactic of attacking the character of someone instead of addressing the pressing issues at hand. Recently, McCain had a rally that resembled a KKK rally. His supporters yelling out to kill Obama and calling him a terorist and McCain never showed any displeasure for the unjustified outbursts. Making mockery of the man’s name is not just childish but it shows ignorance and intollerance. This man is fortunate to have a name connecting him to his ancestral past just as most Americans do. The Irish have names like Mahoney , O’reily , Mcnamara etc. Jews have Levy , Goldstein , Finestein etc. Hispanics have Gomez , Rodriquez, Fernandez etc. Italians often have vowels on the end of their last names like Columbo , Gallo , Costello , Gambini etc. Point is this man is just one of a very few African Americans still having a last name tied to their ancestral past. The vast majority of African Americans still carry the last names of those who held their ancestors as slaves. The trick is to alienate the man by mocking his name. Well it won’t work. John McCain is now John McCan’t because with the tactics he chooses to use he can’t win.

Posted by: alhaqq4me | October 9, 2008, 6:32 pm 6:32 pm

It is incredible that even in the face of the worst economic conditions since the great depression, Obama has such this kind of popular support and can afford to buy these expensive blocks of time.
Tough luck for McCain, who has to rely on the public dole for campaign funds. Well, McCain, live by the sword, die by the sword: you and Bush ruined the economy and tried to ruin this nation — why do Republicans hate America so? — so all that’s left for you is ruin and humiliation. Your landslide loss now appears inevitable.

Posted by: rumorist | October 9, 2008, 6:32 pm 6:32 pm

It seems so obvious that John Mccain is desperate. Anyone who can see our nation falling around them and all they can do is hurl insults and slander is a loser. Mccain is ducking and dodging the economic issues as Muhammad Ali dodged punches in the ring. McCain openly admitted he knows nothing about economics. We have someone in office now who has been proven to be a great dissapointment. We need not make the same mistake again because McCain and Bush are one and the same. Some people can only look big by making others look small. This is the Mccain tactic of attacking the character of someone instead of addressing the pressing issues at hand. Recently, McCain had a rally that resembled a KKK rally. His supporters yelling out to kill Obama and calling him a terorist and McCain never showed any displeasure for the unjustified outbursts. Making mockery of the man’s name is not just childish but it shows ignorance and intollerance. This man is fortunate to have a name connecting him to his ancestral past just as most Americans do. The Irish have names like Mahoney , O’reily , Mcnamara etc. Jews have Levy , Goldstein , Finestein etc. Hispanics have Gomez , Rodriquez, Fernandez etc. Italians often have vowels on the end of their last names like Columbo , Gallo , Costello , Gambini etc. Point is this man is just one of a very few African Americans still having a last name tied to their ancestral past. The vast majority of African Americans still carry the last names of those who held their ancestors as slaves. The trick is to alienate the man by mocking his name. Well it won’t work. John McCain is now John McCan’t because with the tactics he chooses to use he can’t win.

Posted by: alhaqq4me | October 9, 2008, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm

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
Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/campbell-brown.html?cid=130091336

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm

J.D.
Touché!
I don’t see any racists in BO’s corner – just 90+% support from African Americans. Sounds like Saddam’s approval rating to me.

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm

help
Don’t forget that only Whites are capable of racist thoughts.
Meanwhile, blacks are voting based strictly on race. They are trying to “OJ” this election.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm

ACORN – Seeds of Disaster
All Americans should read this.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjRjYzE0YmQxNzU4MDJjYWE5MjIzMTMxMmNhZWQ1MTA=&w=Mg==

Posted by: Americans4McCain | October 9, 2008, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm

ACORN and the art of news suppresion. THE ONLY MSM CARRYING THIS STORY IS FOXNEWS. THE REST ARE SUPPRESSING THE STORY.
The federal government has launched a twelve state voter fraud investigation against ACORN, a voter registration group.
NOW, why would the following news agencies not be running one story on this: ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, TIME, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and THE WASHINGTON POST.
Just because the Obama campaign donated $800,000 to ACORN and just because Barrack conducted training sessions for ACORN shouldn’t make a difference. Should it?

Posted by: independentview | October 9, 2008, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm

Hope, Change and Hate Nobama 08 wrote:
“Obama can buy up all the time on every network and I don’t give and F…..he is UNACCEPTABLE….no man of his word like Sen. McCain…..SCREW B. HUSSEIN.”
************************************
Yes, John McCain is such a man of his word. Let’s see:
“I hope that the American people will see beyond the negative campaigning. It shows a campaign that has nothing else to offer.” John McCain, 2000
When asked about whether his commitment to forgo negative campaigning might cost him the presidency, he stated, “there are worse things than losing, my friend.” John McCain on NPR, 2007
John McCain 2008? Not so much.
“Tax cuts during a time of war are immoral.” John McCain, 2003 or 2004
John McCain 2008? Not so much.
“Barack Obama doesn’t have the experience or judgment to be president,” John McCain pre-Sarah Palin
John McCain post-Sarah Palin? Not so much.
John McCain – POW, tortured in captivity 1960s
John McCain 2005 or 2006? Waterboarding is not torture.
“I’m suspending my campaign and will not leave Washington before a bill is approved,” John McCain 10 days ago
John McCain during the following few days? Interview with Katie Couric, speech at Clinton’s Global Initiative (before even getting to Washington), then changes mind and participates in debate (even though a bill has not been agreed upon, and in fact, his stunt may have harmed the process that was already underway).
John McCain’s VP choice: Sarah Palin to “break the 18 Million cracks in the glass ceiling,” 2008
John McCain, the adulterer/womanizer, marries his heiress mistress shortly after divorcing his disabled wife, and called his current wife a c@#t in public once? A supporter of women?
Not so much at all.
Let’s face it: “Hillary supporters” like you either are really republicans posting as a disenchanted democrat or you have deeper reasons for hating Barack Obama so much – perhaps envy? Racism? It surely cannot be policies because the difference between Obama and Clinton because there is virtually no difference between their proposals for our country – very far from those of McCain/Palin.

Posted by: Michele | October 9, 2008, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm

OCTOBER SURPRISE!!!
TROOPERGATE REPORT COMES OUT TOMORROW!!!
Posted by: Davis
—————————————-
Do not get that excited – ACORN will continue to make the headlines in Ocrober! You see, even if something negative comes up about Palin it will fade away in a day or two – she is NOT the one running for President dear, THAT ONE is – the MARXIST Community Organizer from Chicago!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm

ANOTHER SURPRISE!!!!!
Obama Campaign Runs Afoul of Finance Rules
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 8:25 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size
A Newsmax investigation of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign finance reports has turned up more than 2,000 cases in which individuals have made donations far above the legal limit of $2,300 per election.
Such donations, if not returned within 60 days, violate federal campaign finance laws.
Some can be chalked up to common names, such as Michael Brown, William Taylor, or James Smith.
But many others cannot.
On Aug. 31, for example, the Obama campaign filed a report listing a single donation from a Debra Myers in “Rancho Palos Verde, Calif.,” for $28,500 – more than 10 times the amount the law allows per election. Although Debra Myers is identified as a physician, only two individuals with that last name have a listed phone number in Rancho Palos Verdes (the city’s name actually does have an “s” at the end). Neither is a Debra or a “D” Myers, or a physician.
The Obama campaign also identified Woodrow Myers Jr. of Indianapolis, Ind., on Aug. 31 as having given $28,500 to the campaign. Woodrow “Woody” Myers is a former Indiana state health commissioner who spent $2.1 million of his own money in a failed special election to challenge Andre Carson, the grandson of U.S. Rep. Julia Carson, who died in December. The younger Carson won the race this year, with heavy backing from lobbyists, the Democratic Party and related PACs. (Interestingly, Woodrow Myers’ wife is identified as Debra, although Newsmax could not confirm whether this is the same Debra Myers the campaign report lists as being from Palos Verdes.)
HOW CAN AMERICA JUST NOT GET IT?? WE ARE BEING BOUGHT OUT!!

Posted by: lilij | October 9, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

Posted by: Americans4McCain | October 9, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

Hatred of Bush is no reason to turn this country into a socialist one.

Posted by: BHO's drug dealer | October 9, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

Sad to say the only racism I see in this election is the overwhelming support from African Americans for Obama. I understand that African Americans side with the Dems – but at a 90+% clip. Good thing the 85% of whites in America are split because BO would be finished if Whites were as racist as African Americans. Sorry – but that’s how I see it.

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

OBAMA’S A RADICAL THUG

Posted by: RealDemAgaisntObambi | October 9, 2008, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm

“Troopergate” the October surprise?
Another laughable statement by a BHO supporter.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm

Obama and ACORN: More Lies, More Fraud
October 8, 2008 at 09:02 am
Michelle Malkin piece on ACORN’s nefarious “voter registration” activities, here. Included was the fact that the Obama campaign had been forced to correct its filings with the FEC regarding payments made from “advance work” to “get-out-the-vote” work instead. ACORN, which claims to be non-partisan and a non-profit, was paid over $800,000 by the Obama campaign, through its front group, Citizens Services, Inc. for that so-called “advance work.” Obviously, the documentation supporting that “advance work” claim by Obama was fraudulent.
According to its website,
ACORN is a non-profit, non-partisan social justice organization with national headquarters in New York, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. To maintain independence, ACORN does not accept government funding and is not tax exempt.
Citizens Services, Inc. is a “non-profit” corporation, chartered in the State of Louisiana in January 2005, with three listed Directors, one in St. Paul, MN, one in San Diego, CA, and one in El Paso, TX. It shares its office address, phone and fax numbers with the Louisiana National Office of ACORN.
A specific, month by month account of money paid by the Obama campaign to the ACORN front organization, Citizens Services, Inc. for those fraudulent “advance service”, taken from FEC reports and totaling $832,598.29 since Feb, 2008.
Barack Obama has a long and colorful history of denying his embarrassing, radical leftwing associations, until he can no longer maintain the façade. At which point, he jettisons whatever or whoever has caused the embarrassment and MovesOn.
As he has done throughout his career, Obama has been rewarding those who support his ambitions. The Obama campaign, flush with cash, has been funneling money to ACORN through Citizens Services, Inc. much as he did in Chicago with the Woods Foundation and the Annenberg-Chicago Challenge. While Obama served on the Board Of Directors of the Woods Fund, for example the Chicago ACORN received grants Of $45,000 (2000), $30,000 (2001), $45,000 (2001), $30,000 (2002), And $40,000 (2002) From The Woods Fund, as reported on the Donors Forum Website, ifs.donorsforum.org.
Hopefully, this dishonest tactic of Obama’s will not work with ACORN and all its blatant attempts at wholesale voter fraud. It should be clear to even the most jaded observer that ACORN’s claims to being a “non-partisan, non-profit” are merely a skimpy cover, as are those of Citizens Services, Inc. And Obama’s attempts to distance himself from ACORN, has he did previously with Rev, Wright, Michael Flegler, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, et. al. are only more of the same old same old.
This is NOT the way to “Change We Can Believe In.” It’s The Chicago Way!

Posted by: pennsylvaniavoter | October 9, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm

So 90% of blacks equals saddam approval. that is just low, blacks are Americans too, and this will be the first black president so it should be expected from the blacks, this is not the 60s so you need to adjust your atitude.

Posted by: honesty | October 9, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm

Exposed! The Democrats’ Coverup Of The Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Crisis (video)
This video is a must watch… (please follow link)….
http://stuckon-stupid.com/

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm

When this election is over, there will some very deep scars in our nation because of the division McCain decided was more important than preserving the country. McCain did what no one else has ever done on such a wide scale; that is to drive the country into a pit full of hate, distrust, bigotry, and yes even violence. In essence, McCain has done more harm than the terrorist could have ever done to our nation. A nation that is divided and not united, will fail. We may be witnessing the beginning of the fall of our dear country. When a country has no moral compass or shared values, everyone loses. This no longer is about an election, but what this country will look like after the election. I am very fearful of what will remain intact and standing from our legacy.

Posted by: Jake | October 9, 2008, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm

help
Do not apologize for sayng what you are seeing. Liberals/socialists have ingrained into people’s minds not to believe anything they see, until they are able to put spin into it.
FACTS are FACTS.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm

Lord Obama..get use to it if this radical wins and we’ll see these more often. This man has to be defeated or we’ll lose our country.

Posted by: Christie | October 9, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm

Good thing Obama is his “brother’s keeper” and not mine. By the way, which brother is he referring to – Obama gave 5.7 percent of his income from 2007 to charity. I promise you this guy isn’t who Oprah says he is. He is not for the downtrodden. Please no more comparisons to Ghandi, Jesus, JFK and Lincoln.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/12/biden-tax-returns-revealed/

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm

Seriously, Americans as you present yourselves here are whacked out extremists . . . get a grip. And try a little humility mixed in with your biased and judgemental edicts . . . what meanness, what hate, my god . .. Did you parents teach you nothing about respecting other people and their beliefs? I’m stunned by the arrogance, ignorance and bigotry displayed . . . and especially the meanness and hate. Seriously. Hopefully this is just a pathetic little backwater, and not indicative of the society at large. Apologies to those of you who speak with a measured respect and some intellect.

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm

John McCain should do the same thing and he should make sure that it’s run on Oct. 29 right after Obama!

Posted by: carlyonsue | October 9, 2008, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm

Aw Christie, will you move. No more republicans in the white house.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm

carlyonsue, no one would listen to McCain. Besides he can’t afford it.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm

Jake
It’s real simple.
Blaming whatever divide is exposed post-election on McCain is another laughable statement by a BHO supporter.
Remember, BHO brought race into this election.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm

From what every other news organization (except ABC of course), this goes beyond GOP efforts to scream voter fraud. This from the NY Post:
ACORN has helped register over 1.27 million people nationwide. It gets 40 percent of its revenues from the taxpayers, with the rest coming from left-wing heavyweights like billionaire George Soros and the Democracy Alliance.
Lefty lawyer Sandy Newman founded Project Vote, a 501(c)(3) organization, to register voters in welfare offices and unemployment lines with the explicit goal of turning back the Reagan revolution.
The two groups are inextricably linked – and at their nexus is Barack Obama. Despite his denials of any association with the group, Obama’s political DNA is encoded with the ACORN agenda.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10082008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_pro_barack_vote_fraud_drive_132618.htm?page=0

Posted by: NOBama | October 9, 2008, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm

honesty
You must attend Rev Wright’s church. In my church my paster preaches about equality and the love of Jesus. We say “God love America!”
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4443788
I don’t support people because of their skin color. The best qualified gets the job!

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm

Posted by: Christie | October 9, 2008, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm

What does That One (Barack Hussein)think about This One? (Medvedev: latest anti-US rhetoric)
Wait- That One will consult with Sir William Ayers before he answers the question…LOL!
The Telegraph – UK
13 hours ago
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev calls for Europe to freeze out US
The Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, has called on European leaders to create a new world order that minimises the role of the US.
(continue reading this article here)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3159998/Russian-president-Dmitry-Medvedev-calls-for-Europe-to-freeze-out-US.html

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 6:58 pm 6:58 pm

It’s funny. Democrats talk about loopholes in the tax code being taken advantage of by wealthy people.
What do those same Democrats think about politicians finding ways to win campaigns through exploiting and targeting loopholes?
How Obama won his first election:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
Ever wonder how Obama received more delegates than Hillary, even though the popular vote was extremely close.
ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX and the rest simply ignored what happened during the Democrat Primary.
I didn’t!
Check out how Obama won delegates.
http://www.realdemocratsusa.org/2008/07/caucus-factor.html
Real Honorable Fella????

Posted by: Americans4McCain | October 9, 2008, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm

I know Obama has indicated he was “deeply disappointed” by Rev. Michael Pfleger’s “sermon” that mocked Hilary Clinton during the Democratic primary, however it concerns me that Obama would even associate himself with Rev Pfleger who has hosted Louis Farrakhan, the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam, at Pfleger’s church and has called Farrakhan “a gift from God to a sick, sick world.” I would say that Obama doesn’t have good judgment.
http://cbs5.com/campaign08/michael.fleger.obama.2.736372.html
http://cbs2chicago.com/politics/fleger.obama.clinton.2.736268.html

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm

We white people are big supporters of Senator Obama for president too. We don’t want another corrupt neocon taking our country any further into hell than they already have. McCain with his deregulating, privatizing and war mongering makes him the scary candidate. We can’t tolerate any more of the corrupt government that Bush had. Bush and Cheney have ruined everything they touched with the cooperation of the republican rubber stampers.

Posted by: Vicki | October 9, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

Race was always in this election, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the core values of what our country represents, or did until recently. This is a nation founded on Christian principals, yet it behaves in a manner so unlike these principals. The hate that’s spewed here, in rallies, and on TV, should make all of us hang our head in shame. The world sees this and wonders…is this the America we once knew? Unfortunately, many right here in this country say the same thing. Is this election so important that we need to bring down what took over 250 years to build? Is it really?

Posted by: Jake | October 9, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

The house that Obama bought in 2005 in cooperation with Tony Rezko, his friend and campaign fund-raiser – a move Obama concedes was “boneheaded.” Rezko was convicted in June of 16 counts of corruption.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122005063234084813.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
Bill Ayers’ (an unrepentant terrorist – Google him – you’d be shocked!) position as a professor led to Ayers serving on two nonprofit boards with Barack Obama, who lived in the same neighborhood. Both Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, hosted Alice Palmer’s meet-and-greet for Obama at their home in 1995.
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/obama.bill.ayers.2.803163.html
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/06/acd.01.html

Posted by: help | October 9, 2008, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm

Hope, Change, Hate is a perfect name for a McCain supporter.

Posted by: Yelfpmets | October 9, 2008, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm

Does any BHO supporter think about his economic plans?
He wants to save us $10 billion a month by surrendering, but even he admits that will take 16+ months. That is over 25% of his term.
BHO wants to tax capital gains even more, thus driving more people out of the market.
He wants to heavily tax 50% of small businesses. The successful one’s at that.
He wants to “grow the economy from the bottom up,” while he doesn’t seem to understand that these people are at the bottom for a reason. Usually from poor choices.
BHO wants to nationalize healthcare, and we know how competent the federal goverment is.
He wants to give $50 billion a year to the UN for anti-poverty programs. And we know how that organization loves to siphon US taxpayer money.
And the list goes on…..

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm

I am laughing my a$$ off at all the posts that are scared of Obama. Republicans have won in the past because of scare tactics. Not this time, sorry. Give it your best shot though.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm

Wow…I guess when Phil Gramm called us a nation of whiners, he meant John McCain.
John McCain: “He said he’d call me and he didn’t”.
What are you, a teenage girl sitting by the phone on a friday night waiting for the most popular guy in school to call you? Pathetic!

Posted by: Carianne | October 9, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm

Let’s ALL say a Fond Goodbye to the Republican Party….as we know it…….This is gonna’ be WONDERFUL……Imagine President Obama with a large Majority of Dems in the HOUSE and SENATE to walk thru all the wonderful programs that we’ll ram thru….hahahaha……You Pubs will know how it feels to suffer………Oh , it’s gonna’ be a LONG 8 YEARS for youse guys…..hahahahahaha

Posted by: kip | October 9, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm

That One even has the nerve – at the time that he is telling us how sad he is about the state of our economy and how much pain he feels for the middle class – he has the nerve to spend a half a million dollars just so he can hear himself talk on prime TV – the hypocrite! He should give the money to the needy – that egomaniac! Marxist Moron!
When did we say that Hussein will be on TV?…On the 29th?
By that time there will be so many surprises – he will be running for cover – never mind showing his face on prime time TV!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm

Funny how you obama backers all have taken the same 3 lines obama speaks all the time and repeat them like robots with no thought whatsoever. 4 more years of failed bush policies. October 2007 Dow Jones reaches all-time high over 14,000…unemployment was down to 4.7%….no signs of consumer inflation….GDP grew over 3% quarterly….3.7 million jobs created thru 2007….all during a war. But I’m sure you researched that before you all repeated “4 more years of Bush” with drool coming out the corner of your mouths. Please at least educate yourselves….Bawny Fwank sood had seeen dis comeen.

Posted by: JimmyMcTurlet | October 9, 2008, 7:10 pm 7:10 pm

Barack Hussein Obama is about to break every racist right winger’s heart because he is going to win this election by out cooling, out buying, and out playing stupid conservatives stuck in the past employing old Adwater divisive tactics
I LOOOOOOOOOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: f4skyhawk | October 9, 2008, 7:11 pm 7:11 pm

he has the nerve to spend a half a million dollars just so he can hear himself talk on prime TV – the hypocrite! He should give the money to the needy -
Oh no, boo hoo, the nerve of that Obama.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm

CROWN POINT, Indiana (CNN) Thursday — More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana’s Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.
An official enters the Las Vegas, Nevada, ACORN office, which is under investigation for alleged voter fraud.
The group — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN — already faces allegations of filing fraudulent voter registrations in Nevada and faces investigations in other states.
And in Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.
“All the signatures looked exactly the same,” Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. “Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same.”
The forms included registrations submitted in the names of the dead — and in one case, the name of a fast-food restaurant, Jimmy Johns. Sally LaSota, a Democrat on the board, called the forms fraudulent and said whoever filed them broke the law.
“ACORN, with its intent, perhaps was good in the beginning, but went awry somewhere,” LaSota said.
Over the past four years, a dozen states have investigated complaints of fraudulent registrations filed by ACORN. On Tuesday, Nevada authorities raided an ACORN office in Las Vegas, Nevada, where workers are accused of registering members of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
A subsidiary of the group was paid $800,000 by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign to register voters for the 2008 primaries, and ACORN’s political wing endorsed Obama back in February. But Obama’s campaign told CNN that it “is committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process,” and said it has not worked with ACORN during the general election.
Brian Mellor, an ACORN attorney in Boston, said the group has its own quality-control process and has fired workers in the past — including workers in Gary. But he said allegations that his organization committed fraud is a government attempt to keep people disenfranchised.
“We believe their purpose is to attack ACORN and suppress votes,” Mellor said. “We believe that by attacking ACORN, they are going to discourage people that have registered to vote with ACORN from voting.”
CNN was unable to reach ACORN officials in Gary and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the group’s Indiana operation is based. Offices in both cities were empty when reporters visited.
Lake County elections officials have set aside all 5,000 of the ACORN-submitted applications in what Hoagland called the “fake pile” for later review. But she said every one will be reviewed before the election to make sure no legitimate voters are skipped.
There has been no evidence of voter fraud yet, because voters have yet to go to the polls. But elections officials say they will be sending their information to prosecutors, who will determine whether any investigation will begin.
“We have no idea what the motive behind it is,” she said. “It’s just overwhelming to us.”

Posted by: pennsylvaniavoter | October 9, 2008, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm

CROWN POINT, Indiana (CNN) Thursday — More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana’s Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.
An official enters the Las Vegas, Nevada, ACORN office, which is under investigation for alleged voter fraud.
The group — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN — already faces allegations of filing fraudulent voter registrations in Nevada and faces investigations in other states.
And in Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.
“All the signatures looked exactly the same,” Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. “Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same.”
The forms included registrations submitted in the names of the dead — and in one case, the name of a fast-food restaurant, Jimmy Johns. Sally LaSota, a Democrat on the board, called the forms fraudulent and said whoever filed them broke the law.
“ACORN, with its intent, perhaps was good in the beginning, but went awry somewhere,” LaSota said.
Over the past four years, a dozen states have investigated complaints of fraudulent registrations filed by ACORN. On Tuesday, Nevada authorities raided an ACORN office in Las Vegas, Nevada, where workers are accused of registering members of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
A subsidiary of the group was paid $800,000 by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign to register voters for the 2008 primaries, and ACORN’s political wing endorsed Obama back in February. But Obama’s campaign told CNN that it “is committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process,” and said it has not worked with ACORN during the general election.
Brian Mellor, an ACORN attorney in Boston, said the group has its own quality-control process and has fired workers in the past — including workers in Gary. But he said allegations that his organization committed fraud is a government attempt to keep people disenfranchised.
“We believe their purpose is to attack ACORN and suppress votes,” Mellor said. “We believe that by attacking ACORN, they are going to discourage people that have registered to vote with ACORN from voting.”
CNN was unable to reach ACORN officials in Gary and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the group’s Indiana operation is based. Offices in both cities were empty when reporters visited.
Lake County elections officials have set aside all 5,000 of the ACORN-submitted applications in what Hoagland called the “fake pile” for later review. But she said every one will be reviewed before the election to make sure no legitimate voters are skipped.
There has been no evidence of voter fraud yet, because voters have yet to go to the polls. But elections officials say they will be sending their information to prosecutors, who will determine whether any investigation will begin.
“We have no idea what the motive behind it is,” she said. “It’s just overwhelming to us.”

Posted by: pennsylvaniavoter | October 9, 2008, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm

“is this the America we once knew?”–Jake
If liberals/socialists would stop pointing out only the negatives, and instead focus on just ONE positive thing this country has accomplished the world might not see us as they do.
But the chic thing to do is America bash and Bush bash? And heaven forbid if a liberal/socialists is not seen as sophisticated.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm

Sleeper cell???

Posted by: bama | October 9, 2008, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm

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 | October 9, 2008, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm

ZZ You would be surprised at the number of people who would watch him! I know I would and I wouldn’t be alone! And yes he can afford it! Have you forgotten about his wife’s money? He can afford to buy all of the television time that he wants to buy!

Posted by: carlyonsue | October 9, 2008, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm

Get a real name. DS.

Posted by: no name | October 9, 2008, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm

I have a theory that may be far out there…
I think Cindy is going crazy at the thoguht of losing, because she bought herself a legacy that isn’t going to come true. Wanted to be in the History books, but she’ll have to settle for a paragraph.
Well, this sounds kinda crazy. But, I figured I’d throw it out there and see if it sticks.
How does that feel? Crazy, right? Stupid right? Well, you guys on the other side can stop it too then… please. It’s really like a mosquito buzzing. But, that mosquito may have disease. I think it is dangerous what they’re doing. It’s not good for the country.

Posted by: WisconsinRaised | October 9, 2008, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm

I hate the repubs.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm

But carlyonsue he won’t. And yes Cindy can very well afford it. Too bad she can’t connect with the middle class. That’s what counts doesn’t it.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm

BHO better buy some airtime on FoxNews since their ratings are skyrocketing and NBC’s, CNN’s, CBS’s and all the other Obamamania media’s ratings are tanking.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

Senator Obama was never an ACORN community organizer, never a trainer or worked for ACORN. Senator Obama was an attorney representing ACORN in a successful lawsuit alongside the U.S. Department of Justice against the state of Illinois to force state compliance with a federal voting access law. Mud, dirt, lies, evil, and hate – all the republicans have left.

Posted by: Vicki | October 9, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

It was announced on Larry King Live tonight that campaign officials announced that Sarah Palin was CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES in troopergate today! PRAISE THE LORD! THAT’S WHAT I’VE BEEN PRAYING FOR!

Posted by: carlyonsue | October 9, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

Jake: Thank you for your thoughtful comments.

Posted by: sawrad | October 9, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

Did you see the last ratings for the debatae? Fox didn’t do bad, but they didn’t kill everyone else J.D. Get it right.

Posted by: WR77 | October 9, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm

“I hate the repubs.”–zz
I was under the impression that liberals were supposed to be tolerant, and open minded.
This quote sums up the “typical” BHO supporter.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm

I hate the repubs.
Posted by: zz | Oct 9, 2008 11:15:59 PM
lmao, how about I just don’t tolerate them.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm

The last time I saw this much ignorance and hate displayed was when John F. Kennedy was elected and people called him a ‘n lover’, and ‘a commie appeaser’ and said he would ‘turn America over to the Catholics’. Apparently ignorance still thrives in the USA. How sad and pathetic. Again, the hope is this blog is just a little backwater of hate; one has to think there are many people in America not filled with this kind of idiocy, suspicion and hate.

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm

Hey Republicans – NOBODY CARES ABOUT ACORN! NOBODY CARES ABOUT AYERS! NOBODY CARES ABOUT REZKO! NOBODY CARES ABOUT ANY OF THAT CRAP! AND NOBODY CARES ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN EITHER! OBAMA RULES! MCSAME DROOLZ! ROFL

Posted by: f4skyhawk | October 9, 2008, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm

“To show what clueless sheep you are, you copy out the same fake quotes that were proven to be false over 6 months ago. How embarassing!
Posted by: jock59801″
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Bambino, go read page 261 of his book “The Audacity of Hope” and be quiet.
Yes, Obama has danced around the issue of his comment about “standing by the Muslims” – trying to convince us that what he means is…the American Muslims!
What BS!
I get a sense of creepiness every time I listen to BOH’s “pretty speeches”…

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm

Elite: A group of people considered to be the best in a particular society or category, esp. because of their power, talent, or wealth: [America's educated elite | an elite combat force]
I want an elite QB on my football team.
OBAMA 2008!!!

Posted by: Elitist | October 9, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm

This Acorn thing bothered me from the night of the second debate. In fact, I kept expecting one of the candidates to adress it! If McCain’s people had been on top of things they could have slayed Obama with the Acorn “thing”. I’m pro Obama, but his people should have informed their candidate that very night and beat the repubs to the punch.

Posted by: evilgardentool | October 9, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm

WR77
According to Nielsen, Fox has 5 of the top 10 cable shows on TV. CABLE SHOWS, not CABLE NEWS SHOWS.
Try again.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm

Here is the test for the so called real americans – what did the Gallup poll say yesterday after the steady drumbeat of Caribou Barbie and Grumpy McSame? BHO by 11 and what did it say today? BHO by 11 – so here is what I say to you all… HAHAHAHAHAHAH
Hey Republicans – NOBODY CARES ABOUT ACORN! NOBODY CARES ABOUT AYERS! NOBODY CARES ABOUT REZKO! NOBODY CARES ABOUT ANY OF THAT CRAP! AND NOBODY CARES ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN EITHER! OBAMA RULES! MCSAME DROOLZ! ROFL

Posted by: f4skyhawk | October 9, 2008, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm

Yes, Obama has danced around the issue of his comment about “standing by the Muslims” – trying to convince us that what he means is…the American Muslims!
Oh Natasha maybe Obama is talking to you, trying to convince you because the rest of knows what he is talking about.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm

Elitist |
The only thing BHO is “elite” at is saying whatever it takes to get elected and running for the next highest office soon after.
Elite indeed.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm

I am very glad that so many Democrats are getting registered to vote. Very glad that people are getting tired of the lies of McCain and Palin. Lots of republicans are well acquainted with and work with William Ayers. The man is a college professor. How pitiful that all republicans have to hang on to are lies out of McCain and Palin’s mouth. McCain is going to have a heart secure if he keeps acting so strange and erratic.

Posted by: Vicki | October 9, 2008, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm

The bottom line is that the Obama campaign is going to get indicted. Whether it happens before the election or after, it is going to happen. He can have his day in court to prove whether the 800K was knowingly funneled to ACORN. The FBI is now investigating in 12 states.
And isn’t it interesting that congress tried to appropriate taxpayer money to ACORN right before the election in the bailout bill. Why?

Posted by: pennsylvaniavoter | October 9, 2008, 7:30 pm 7:30 pm

Americans care about the ACORN situation and other associations, etc… Just not liberals, because to speak out against another liberal goes against their indoctrination of only having an open mind for one view only, theirs and theirs only! That is what you call liberalism and socialism, you are dictating by verbal force by self-righteous, double standard hypocrisy! That is what you call reverse racism!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:30 pm 7:30 pm

uhh….carlyonsue..
Palin’s OWN pre-emptive (mccain camp) investigation cleared her…So in other words she cleared herself the day before the REAL investigative report is due?
Who the heck cares anyway?
McCain and Palin are a losing ticket.

Posted by: karen | October 9, 2008, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm

Republicans are a bunch of angry people, look at the rallies they have, they look like blood thirsty nazies. They recognize that McCain has nothing to offer, their motivation is not John McCain, their motivation is hate. Most Americans disagree with all this negativity from the GOP and that turns people off. McCain is making a big mistake, he’s not offering any solutions and his campaign strategy is to talk to a bunch of angry people about how much they hate “that one”. The Republicans want to turn our country into a nazi state. The hell with them. Keep America moving forward, vote Democrat.

Posted by: Miguel | October 9, 2008, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm

Why is it America can bomb thousands of citizens of another country (Iraq) for the betterment of that country, but an American can’t bomb one of his own government buildings (Ayers)for the same reason?
I’m not saying either is right, I’m asking the question.

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 7:34 pm 7:34 pm

Badger: I totally agree with you! Can you just imagine what would happen if it were said that John McCain had ties with some white supremist group that is out to bring down the government? He would be crucified! There would be lench mobs with ropes wanting to hang him from the nearest tree!

Posted by: carlyonsue | October 9, 2008, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm

Yup…we care about voter fraud…liberals care too. There is no way we want to the election to not be fair. Acorn to be fair, did bring discrepancies to the notice of authorities…unlike the Republicans in Nevada in the election before where there was clear voter fraud. Voter suppression is fraud too and that must be watched. I’m sure it will be heavily watched and that despite all of it…if everything is fairly counted Obama and Biden will win.

Posted by: karen | October 9, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm

Hey Republicans – NOBODY CARES ABOUT ACORN…blah blah blah”
Posted by: f4skyhawk
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Speak only for yourselves, democRATS!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm

This is all a distraction. We have kids in a war and the economy is nosediving. The republican machine and their hate mongers are doing what they do best: using paranoid fear tactics to keep in the game.

Posted by: enni | October 9, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm

Republicans are done, 8 years is enough. No one in their right mind would vote for them this election.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm

Good Grief people, Obama was 7 years old when Ayers was doing all that stuff. Can you all get over yourselves? One thing I didn’t hear? What about McCain coming back from Nam, getting into an adulterous affair with Cindy Bimby and then asking his loyal wife who was in poor health for a divorce, yep this guy is great. Let’s just hand the country over to China, or some other foreign country, cause Waldo has certainly been trying to ruin this county. God Bless Ameirca and God Bless Obama/Biden 2008

Posted by: Sara Heitz | October 9, 2008, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm

Ayers has a Web site, billayers.org, in which he blogs about politics and other subjects. He lets friends and foes post comments.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm

OBAMA=BUSH
The Obama cloak of silence is falling apart. The past is very similar for Obama and Bush. Drinking/Drugs at an early age, both had a dismal record in politics, both promised a rose garden, both will bring everyone together, both lacked experience and knowledge, both received support from big names and the catch word for Obama is “change” and for Bush it was a “change and uniter” not a divider.
One “W” in our lifetime is enough, Obama is now in the limelight because of his 15 to 20 year association with Resko, the huge donations to Obama, the house Resko bought and sold to Obama because he couldn’t afford a 1.6 million dollar home. This was a nice gift to Obama, $300,000 under price. He only returned part of the donations he received from Resko, why? After all his “change” speeches we find out he is it, up to his eyeballs!
Now, the truth is coming out about his terrorist friends Ayres and Dohrn. The terrorists were supporters and friends of Obama – why? It is a rare sight to see Obama in the Senate doing his job and voting. His record in the Illinois legislature was very dismal, as he was “present”, but would not vote and take a stand on the tough issues. Obama’s “CHANGE” seems to have been misplaced along the way, somewhere between the “talking and the doing”.
This nut doesn’t fall far from the ACORN tree !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: AL JOHNS | October 9, 2008, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm

Fake forms does not equal voter fraud, period. Learn law.
Posted by: Anon
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You are as ignorant and as naive as That One! Learn law.

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 7:40 pm 7:40 pm

For those who think these Ayers smears are working please hear it from a republican, female,….not working at all! I and the majority of my friends jumped ship some 5 weeks ago, we are voting for the democratic ticket. The McCain campaign from the day he picked Gov. Palin as his VP is a complete embarassement. They have spiralled to a point so low that it is now shameful to be proud of having been a republican. We are shocked that their rallies could turn into such hateful gatherings. Whatever strategy they have in my humble opinion is a flop. Hate is not the way to go, we have been there, done it for so long and it has gotten us nowhere. What I find absolutely amazing is the older people who are now willing to turn the page. I don’t know what they see, but from where we sit we see absolute desparation, and a party that is ready to destroy this country to stay in power. When your supporters yell destruction to your opponent it should in a civilized country be the limit, but it appears that they want to exploit hate at any cost. What a complete shame from the man who we thought was great in 2000, he is a completely different person, we don’t recognize him. Humanity must in its hour of decencey put principle above power – when they now use Cindy to attack it is evident they have sunk to a new low. Decent republicans should put party affiliation aside, crossover and support Senator Obama, this country must for the good of all Americans come together, it is evident that Senator McCain is not up to the task. By not denouncing the hate mongers at their rallies, and all over the internet, they have proven they are dividers, not uniters – we don’t need this it will get us no-where. Peace loving americans need to unite behind Sentor Obama. What scares my friends and I is that most at those rallies where all the hate is being propagated will go to church on Sunday and pray, I urge them to self reflect, pray for forgiveness, love and peace for this beautiful country. Please stop the hate, we have too much at stake.

Posted by: Jane | October 9, 2008, 7:40 pm 7:40 pm

Senator Barack Obama in Kenya > Obama and Odinga: The True Story
Posted by africanpress on August 10, 2008
The mainstream media has justified ignoring this story based on a “conspiracy theory” chain email (politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/465) making the rounds from some African missionaries. Politifact.com examined the email—which claims Obama gave $1MM to Odinga’s campaign—and declared it “a pants on fire”.
However, the underlying (more important issues) are verifiably true. In August and September 2006, Senator Barack Obama traveled to South Africa, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Chad and Kenya as a congressional delegation of one (Codel Obama) (“Codel Obama” The Hill 9/7/2006) While in Kenya, Obama consistently appeared at the side of fellow Luo Raila Odinga (“your agent for change’), who was running for President. (“Senator Rebukes Kenya’s Corruption” Chicago Sun Times 8/29/2006) Because of his African heritage, Obama was treated as a virtual “Head of State” in Kenya While campaigning with Odinga, Obama was openly critical of governmental corruption under President Mibaki –usually a fair, if undiplomatic, criticism from an objective observer.
However, Kibaki’s government has been better than most—and Odinga has his own corruption issues.(
“Loud and Populist, But No Political Outsider” The Guardian 12/29/2007)

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:40 pm 7:40 pm

Speak only for yourselves, democRATS!
Posted by: Natasha | Oct 9, 2008 11:36:25 PM
lol democRATS, I would say it is cute but, leave it to the republicans to preach hatred. Come on are you really Sean Hannity.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm

Obama’s partisan support for Odinga was considered so transparent, that the Kenyan Government spokesman, Alfred Matua, complained of political posturing to aid Odinga’s election chances: “It is very clear that the senator has been used as a puppet to perpetuate opposition politics,”(“Walking The World Stage” Newsweek 9/11/06) And, “…we earlier thought he was mature in his assessment of Kenyan and African politics,” Mutua told AFP.”We forgive him because it is his first time in the Senate and he is yet to mature into understanding issues of foreign policy,” he said.”(“Obama’s Kenya Honeymoon Ends Abruptly After Graft Rebuke” 8/29/06) Subsequently, Ambassador Ogingo Ogego made a public complaint to the US.(“Kenyan Envoy Kicks Off Diplomatic Row” My Africa 9/27/2006)
Raila Odinga subsequently lost the controversial (probably rigged) presidential election. In what appeared to many—including Human Rights Watch– as a coordinated strategy from the top, (“Violence We Fled was Planned, Say Kenyan Refugees” Reuters 1/26/2008 and “Kenya: Violence Planned Before Poll, Says Report” The Nation 3/18/2008) his Luo supporters (a core of whom call themselves The Taliban”(“Ethnic Gangs Rile Kenyan Slums” Newsweek 1/10/08)) engaged in what US Envoy Jendayi Frazer called “clear ethnic cleansing” (“US Envoy Calls Violence in Kenya ‘Ethnic Cleansing’” USA Today 1/30/2008) of the Kikuyu opposition

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm

See the proof obama is a terrorist!
http://traceurl.com/go/144/Futurism

Posted by: obamatrauma | October 9, 2008, 7:42 pm 7:42 pm

Odinga’s supporters went on a rampage—burning Kikuyu homes and businesses, (“Ethnic Cleansing in Luoland” The Economist 2/7/2008) raping Kikuyu women, and murdering everyoOne in their path—including at least 50 Christian Kikuyu woman & children who had sought refuge in a church. They burned them alive. (“Mob Burns Kenyans Seeking Refuge In Church” CNN 1/10/2008)
“We have evidence that ODM [Odinga’s party] politicians and local leaders actively fomented some post-election violence,” Georgette Gagnon, acting Africa director for the New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW), said on Thursday.” (Violence We Fled was Planned, Say Kenyan Refugees” Ibid)
So: who is Raila Odinga that Senator Obama would expend his political capital and risk the goodwill of half the population of Kenya?
Their relationship is unclear. The BBC initially reported that Obama and Odinga were first cousins.(“Odinga Says Obama is His Cousin” 1/8/2008) The Obama campaign has since denied a familial relationship. Raila Odinga’s father Oginga Odinga was leader of the “Kenya People’s Union” and perceived as a “committed socialist” (“Oginga Odinga: Kenya’s Most Persecuted Politician” Kenya: Key Issues 8/21.2002). Odinga Sr. was also the political ally of fellow Luo; Barack Obama Sr.(The Risks of Knowledge (Ohio University Press, 2004) p. 182)

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:42 pm 7:42 pm

What we do know about Odinga is not good. A former Minister of Energy, Odinga is reported to have been set up in the oil business by the al Bakri Group and Muammar Quaddafi (“How Rich is Raila-The ODM Kenya Presidential Aspirant?” African Press 4/26/2007) Abdel Qader Bakri (or- Abdulkader al Bakri) was listed on the infamous “Golden Chain”–an internal Al-Queda list of wealthy Saudi financial sponsors seized by Bosnian police in a Islamic “charity” raid in 2001. (“Terrorist Financing Staff Monograph 9/11 Commission and “The Golden Chain”) According to his website, Odinga was educated in Communist East Germany, (Herder Institute, Leipzig & Otto von Guericke Tech. Institute, Magdeburg) (http://www.raila07.com) Odinga’s eldest son is named “Fidel” (http://www.raila07.com)
Perhaps most troubling is Odinga’s links to Islamic extremists in Kenya. According to Voice of America and the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, on 8/29/07, Odinga signed a secret agreement (exposed 11/27) with Sheikh Abdullah Abdi of the National Muslim
Leaders Forum (NAMLEF) in which he agreed to institute Islamic law in exchange for Abdi’s support (eakenya.org)–thereby potentially disenfranchising and curtailing the liberties of millions of Christian Kenyan women. Further, he promised that Muslims suspected of terrorism would be safe from extradition—thereby establishing a ‘safe haven’ for terrorists in Kenya.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm

After the public outcry, Odinga denied signing a secret agreement. Angry at Odinga’s apparent repudiation, a member of NAMLEF subsequently released the agreement to the press. Odinga then claimed the document was a forgery, but acknowledged a secret agreement had been signed in exchange for Muslim support. Finally, under constant pressure, Odinga released what he claimed was the actual document (“Real” MOU) a considerably watered down version of the original; but still anathema to many Christian groups. “In response to the revelations, The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya released a statement in which church leaders said Raila, in both MOUs, ‘comes across as a presumptive Muslim president bent on forcing Islamic law, religion and culture down the throats of the Kenyan people in total disregard of the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of worship and equal protection of the law’” (“Concerns Raised Over Alleged Vow To Enforce Islamic Law in Kenya” Christian Post 12/18/2007) To many westerners, the idea of imposing Sharia in a predominantly Christian country may have seemed fanciful. However, Kenya has had Sharia courts for family law (not criminal law)—called Khadi courts—since 1963.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm

See the proof obama is a terrorist!
http://traceurl.com/go/144/Futurism
Posted by: obamatrauma | Oct 9, 2008 11:42:08 PM
LMAO, ok I believe. Thanks for the link.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm

For the US and “the war on terror”—the most worrisome section—contained in both agreements– concerns extradition (or renditions) of suspected terrorists to the US and
elsewhere. The Kibaki government had been a leading supporter of the US’s efforts to dismantle Al-Queda cells in Kenya (National Commission of Terrorist Attacks on the United States- 9/11 Report) and elsewhere. Raila Odinga made opposition to the government’s crackdown of suspected Al Queda supporters a cornerstone of his campaign “In Kimanthi’s view, ‘only some of the leaders’…were Al Queda sympathizers. The renditions- along with frequent police sweeps on the Swahili coast-had become an emotional issue in the presidential race. Islamic outrage had placed the incumbent, Kibaki, on the defensive and provided Raila Odinga with a tool to rally the support of Kenya’s Muslims.” (“The African Front” New York Times Magazine 12/23/2007) And, “Our government will not be held at ransom to extradite Muslims to foreign lands”, Odinga told supporters in the coastal city of Mombassa. ‘This government is behaving as if it is still a colony.’” (“Outcome of Kenyan Election Could Impact Anti-Terror Cooperation” CNSNews.com 10/17/2007)
So, how much of a national security concern is this? Well, actually: huge “…proximity to the volatile states…including Somalia and Sudan have made Kenya especially vulnerable, in the views of counterterrorism experts, to the call for jihad. Since the early 1990s, the mosques of Mombasa and other towns have resonated with militant Islamic rhetoric. Radical imams have preached violence against Westerners, attacked the Kenyan government as the lackey of the United States and Israel and called for the implementation of Shariah. Members of the Qaeda cells that blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania…were recruited in mosques near the Indian Ocean beaches [in Kenya]“ (“The African Front” , ibid)

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm

Good thing Obama is already trying to violate 1st amendment rights by being a whiny thug…..http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2008/09/obamas-squad-threatens-freedom-of.html…..if he can’t take a few tuff ads in an election, what’s he going to do, cry and threaten to sue the president of Iran if they get nukes?

Posted by: JiminySlippits | October 9, 2008, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm

Yep, give it a rest, will ya.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm

Vicki
That is a lie. Obama’s relationship with ACORN has been well documented as early as 2003 in the LA Times.
Madeleine Talbot, who at the time was a leader at Chicago Acorn. Talbot, we learn, was so impressed by Obama’s organizing skills that she invited him to help train her own staff.
And what exactly was Talbot’s work with Acorn? Talbot turns out to have been a key leader of that attempt by Acorn to storm the Chicago City Council (during a living-wage debate). While Sol Stern mentions this story in passing, the details are worth a look: On July 31, 1997, six people were arrested as 200 Acorn protesters tried to storm the Chicago City Council session. According to the Chicago Daily Herald, Acorn demonstrators pushed over the metal detector and table used to screen visitors, backed police against the doors to the council chamber, and blocked late-arriving aldermen and city staff from entering the session.
Reading the Herald article, you might think Acorn’s demonstrators had simply lost patience after being denied entry to the gallery at a packed meeting. Yet the full story points in a different direction. This was not an overreaction by frustrated followers who couldn’t get into a meeting (there were plenty of protestors already in the gallery), but almost certainly a deliberate bit of what radicals call “direct action,” orchestrated by Acorn’s Madeleine Talbot. As Talbot was led away handcuffed, charged with mob action and disorderly conduct, she explicitly justified her actions in storming the meeting. This was the woman who first drew Obama into his alliance with Acorn, and whose staff Obama helped train.
While most press accounts imply that Obama just happened to be at the sort of public-interest law firm that would take Acorn’s “motor voter” case, Foulkes claims that Acorn specifically sought out Obama’s representation in the motor voter case, remembering Obama from the days when he worked with Talbot. And while many reports speak of Obama’s post-law school role organizing “Project VOTE” in 1992, Foulkes makes it clear that this project was undertaken in direct partnership with Acorn. Foulkes then stresses Obama’s yearly service as a key figure in Acorn’s leadership-training seminars.
According to the New York Times, Obama’s memberships on those foundation boards, “allowed him to help direct tens of millions of dollars in grants” to various liberal organizations, including Chicago Acorn, “whose endorsement Obama sought and won in his State Senate race.” As best as I can tell (and this needs to be checked out more fully), Acorn maintains both political and “non-partisan” arms. Obama not only sought and received the endorsement of Acorn’s political arm in his local campaigns, he recently accepted Acorn’s endorsement for the presidency, in pursuit of which he reminded Acorn officials of his long-standing ties to the group.

Posted by: pennsylvaniavoter | October 9, 2008, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm

Quote:
“That One, yeah, the communist radical one.
Obama stresses his commonality with the American people. Do most people feel comfortable working closely with unrepentant domestic terrorists who still want to overthrow the capitalist system in America?
Obama presses educational issues as part of his campaign. He spent years working with Ayers on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which pushed efforts to create primary educational organizations that would create political activists for the Left – and which largely failed in any of its intended purposes.
Obama has lied and obfuscated about his relationship with Ayers. Clearly, Ayers was not just “some guy in the neighborhood”, but a political adviser at least on educational issues who provided a key launch for Obama’s political career.”
Posted by Of Course Ayers is Relevant
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That One, yeah, the MARXIST radical one!
This is a must watch for all morally sound American fellows who must know how dangerous “That One” – the Marxist Fellow – Barack Hussein Obama – will be for our country….
A VIDEO PORTRAIT OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
http://www.eyeblast.tv/Public/Video.aspx?rsrcID=2036
REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR OBAMA
http://www.donotvoteforobama.com/
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/cindy-mccain-ta.html?cid=134082873#comment-134082873

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 7:47 pm 7:47 pm

Obama is not fit to be president of the USA!……
It is a question of character and judgment!…..He Lies!
An extremely troubling example:……
Obama accused pro-life groups of “lying” about his record in the Illinois State Senate on legislation that would have protected viable babies born after botched abortions!…..
It turned out that Obama was the one who lied!……
He did indeed vote against a bill in the Illinois State Senate that was identical to the federal legislation that sought to protect babies who survive abortions!……
Mr. Obama’s stand on the issue is significant!……
The federal “Born Alive Infant Protection Act” passed the Senate in 2001 on a vote of 98 to 0. The bill was supported by Senator Barbara Boxer, the body’s leading pro-choice spokeswoman, and was not opposed by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League!……
Mr. Obama is now in the difficult position of trying to explain why he voted against a bill that the legislative record shows addressed infanticide rather than abortion!…:(

Posted by: aware2u | October 9, 2008, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm

At no point has Obama tried to distance himself or retract his support for Odinga. Their campaign strategies have many similarities.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm

In fairness to Senator Obama, after Kenya erupted into violence ( and at the request of Condoleezza Rice), Obama did record a message “. …calling for calm…” and had “..near daily conversations with the US Ambassador…and Raila Odinga” (“The Demons That Still Haunt Africa” TIME magazine 1/10/2008). Perhaps not surprisingly, President Kibaki apparently declined to take his call. Kibaki’s not the only one no longer filled with enthusiasm for Senator Obama’s brand of diplomacy. As Nicholas Kristof reported (with some surprise) in February: “You might think that all Kenyans would be vigorously supporting Mr. Obama. But Kenya has been fractured along ethnic lines in the last two months, so now Mr. Obama draws frenzied support from the Luos ethnic group of his ancestors, while many members of the rival Kikuyu group fervently support Hillary Rodham Clinton. (“Obama’s Kenya Roots” New York Times 2/24/2008)

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm

Curiously, it has been the Kenyan press (almost alone) who have realized the potential implications: “… this is what may be the most memorable effect of the ODM’s [Odinga’s party] post-election campaign for State House. The longer their protests last, and the less disciplined they are – or the more atrocities like Eldoret [church massacre] are conducted in the party’s name- the more likely Kenya is to be stuck on the front pages of the world’s media and the more embarrassment it will bring to the Senator.” (“The Kiss of Death, How Kenya Could Spoil It For Obama” KenyaImagine 1/13/2008)
Clearly, Obama campaigned for someone who is corrupt, ruthless and has financial ties to terrorists. More importantly, Obama campaigned for a candidate who had the stated objective of dismantling US & Kenyan government efforts to root out Al Queda and other terrorist organizations. Organizations that had already caused the deaths of hundreds of Americans and Africans in embassy bombings. Senator Obama’s actions—intentional or not—were in direct conflict with the efforts and interests of US national security. I think this raises serious questions about the judgment, maturity and readiness of Senator Obama.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm

McCain is not the answer. Stop the hate.
Three Facts About John McCain’s Extreme Record on Senior Issues
McCain supports President Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security and would gamble the Social Security Trust Fund in the stock market.
Source: Wall Street Journal, 3/3/08
McCain voted against much-needed increases in Medicare funding for seniors, taking away many seniors’ only access to health care.
Source: Vote 584, 11/17/95; The Hill, 7/15/08; Vote 177, 7/15/08; Tax Policy Center, Preliminary Analysis Of The 2008 Presidential Candidates’ Tax Plan, 6/20/08
McCain’s tax scheme gives Big Oil a $4 billion tax break, while 37 million seniors get no relief at all.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm

I THANK THE LORD there’s a silent majority out there who has never been polled in their lives but who will still be voting on election day! I think the Obama campaign are in for a terrible shock on election night in spite of what all the polls say! They think they already have this election won! They need to brace themselves for an awful shock!

Posted by: carlyonsue | October 9, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm

For the US and “the war on terror”—the most worrisome section—contained in both agreements– concerns extradition (or renditions) of suspected terrorists to the US and
elsewhere. The Kibaki government had been a leading supporter of the US’s efforts to dismantle Al-Queda cells in Kenya (National Commission of Terrorist Attacks on the United States- 9/11 Report) and elsewhere. Raila Odinga made opposition to the government’s crackdown of suspected Al Queda supporters a cornerstone of his campaign “In Kimanthi’s view, ‘only some of the leaders’…were Al Queda sympathizers. The renditions- along with frequent police sweeps on the Swahili coast-had become an emotional issue in the presidential race. Islamic outrage had placed the incumbent, Kibaki, on the defensive and provided Raila Odinga with a tool to rally the support of Kenya’s Muslims.” (“The African Front” New York Times Magazine 12/23/2007) And, “Our government will not be held at ransom to extradite Muslims to foreign lands”, Odinga told supporters in the coastal city of Mombassa. ‘This government is behaving as if it is still a colony.’” (“Outcome of Kenyan Election Could Impact Anti-Terror Cooperation” CNSNews.com 10/17/2007)

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:52 pm 7:52 pm

Is this who you want to vote for. Are you that ignorant.
John McCain has repeatedly opposed increasing funding for education, leaving our children with failing programs. He’s even supported abolishing the Department of Education.
Source: Vote 5, 1/16/03; Vote 60, 3/19/03; Vote 330, 9/9/03; Vote 35, 3/10/04; Vote 56, 3/16/05; Vote 64, 3/16/06; Vote 58, 3/16/06; Late Edition, CBS, 12/11/94
John McCain voted to protect tax breaks for the wealthiest of Americans rather than make college more affordable for middle class Americans.
Source: Vote 126, 6/25/97; Vote 241, 7/30/99; Vote 153, 5/22/01; Vote 155, 5/22/01; Vote 268, 10/25/05
McCain left America’s young children behind, repeatedly opposing increased funding for early childhood education and Head Start programs.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:53 pm 7:53 pm

So, how much of a national security concern is this? Well, actually: huge “…proximity to the volatile states…including Somalia and Sudan have made Kenya especially vulnerable, in the views of counterterrorism experts, to the call for jihad. Since the early 1990s, the mosques of Mombasa and other towns have resonated with militant Islamic rhetoric. Radical imams have preached violence against Westerners, attacked the Kenyan government as the lackey of the United States and Israel and called for the implementation of Shariah. Members of the Qaeda cells that blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania…were recruited in mosques near the Indian Ocean beaches [in Kenya]“ (“The African Front” , ibid)

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 7:54 pm 7:54 pm

aware2u . . . gee whiz. oh my gosh, I think he told a lie! Lying is the prime quality of almost every political candidate we’ve seen recently . .. the entire last Republican administration was based on lies – and it resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people.

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 7:55 pm 7:55 pm

I THANK THE LORD there’s a silent majority out there who has never been polled in their lives but who will still be voting on election day!
Carlyonsue, that would be the people that have cell phones. Guess how they will vote.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 7:56 pm 7:56 pm

Do you Republicans ever think for your selves or just relate the rhetoric your talking heads hand out? I have never seen candidates stir up so much hate, as McCain and Palin have done, these past few days. Their rallies are not rallies, their town hall meetings are not town hall meetings – they have taken on the persona of KKK meetings. How anyone can be proud to call themselves Republicans and support a McCain/Palin ticket is unbelievable. To support McCain and Plain at this point in the campaign is to support hate and bigotry. I wonder how McCain and Palin can sleep at night. I guess there are bloggers on this site who believe that hate and bigotry are the only way Republicans can win so you just go along for the ride. And how do you defend your great ticket if violence breaks out? Even the most conservative of Republicans are shocked at what is happening at the McCain/Palin rallies – warning that all he11 will break loose before this is over. Pat your selves on the back Republicans – you and your ticket are sporting frightening behavior that may breed violence and will soon show the world that hate and bigotry are alive and well in the United States.

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm

The McCain campaign is so desperate, it has begun to strategically place people in the audience to raise issues and act with hatred to get the crowd in an uproar. It is sometimes a little to obvious because these people are always where they can be easily heard and very visible on camera.
As for Palin inciting the crowd — that is extremely frightening for that to be happening via a VP candidate!

Posted by: wyoung | October 9, 2008, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm

ZZ I have a cell phone and I know who I’m voting for! I’m voting for McCain! I’m not alone either! Having a cell phone has nothing to do with it! We all have cell phones now even us conservative Christian Republicans!

Posted by: carlyonsue | October 9, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm

mccain is no hero, his life negates whatever merits his POW status brought him…this article is required reading for all repubes being drugged with the mccain/palin kool-aid, how does it feel to be lied to? READ and liberate yourselves of the lies around this pseudo-hero
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain/
stop hidding your racist agenda behing rePUBICan ideology ..his father and grandfather must be turning in their graves for the shame he has brought to his name

Posted by: YourAssCrack | October 9, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm

You don’t care about ACORN, a radical group that has sought the destruction of our system from within.
A group that is directly tied to the financial mess that we are in right now.
You got a glimpse of the change you are looking for this week.

Posted by: pennsylvaniavoter | October 9, 2008, 8:04 pm 8:04 pm

AMERICA WILL NEVER ELECT A RACIST, RADICAL CLOSET MUSLIM WITH A NAME LIKE “HUSSEIN.”
THE SOONER YOU IDIOTS GET THAT IN YOUR HEADS, THE LESSER YOUR DISAPPOINTMENT WILL BE ON NOV. 4TH!!

Posted by: RealDemAgaisntObambi | October 9, 2008, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm

The American People vote for the next candidate, not the liberal bias media(indoctrination!), or Polls!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm

Carlyonsue, what I am saying is that cellphone users are not polled. If you have been better off the last 8 years by all means vote for McCain. But my family has not nor has anyone I know.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 8:08 pm 8:08 pm

corruption = Acorn
Acorn = Obama
Obama = socialism dictatorship
Obama socialism dictatorship = Ayers,
Odinga,
Farrakhan,
Rashid Khalidi,
Rev. Wright,
Father Flager,
Rezko,
Black Panthers,
weather underground,
Chavez,
Castro,
Ahmadinejad etc…

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:08 pm 8:08 pm

Obama is a Socialist Dictator!!!
Better than the old man and Tina Fey look alike.
Posted by: real truth | Oct 9, 2008 5:28:49 PM
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This is nice to know from Obama supporters

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm

The Unasked Question
Peter Wehner – 10.08.2008 – 5:39 PM
Mark Halperin of Time magazine conducted an intelligent and revealing interview with Robert Gibbs, a senior adviser for Barack Obama’s campaign, which can be seen here.
Mr. Halperin’s question was straightforward. At some point Barack Obama learned that William Ayers was a domestic terrorist and was unrepentant about it, Halperin says, yet at a minimum Obama continued to associate professionally (and perhaps personally) with Ayers after knowing about his past. Halperin then asks if it’s therefore reasonable to conclude that Obama, while having deplored the violent acts of Ayers, felt it was fine to continue to have professional associations with a domestic terrorist. The answer, of course, is yes – and watching Mr. Gibbs squirm and evade that simple, direct question tells you everything you need to know.
One wishes that Senator McCain, or Tom Brokaw, or Bob Schieffer, or Jim Lehrer, or anyone else in the press would ask that same question of Senator Obama, in just the same way that Halperin did. It would be an illuminating response.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/36922
Hey Obambo, answer you question, you good-for-nothing loser!
PUMA

Posted by: typical white voter | October 9, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

real dem, I feel your pain. LOL Like a pain in the a##. Go spread your rehtoric elsewhere.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

carlyonsue – God will condemn people like you to he11 for even calling yourself a Christian. No Christian supports hatred and bigotry – and even more so that you do so in the form of your candidates. Do not hide behind the shield of a Christian – you most certainly are not one!

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

I THANK THE LORD there’s a silent majority out there who has never been polled in their lives but who will still be voting on election day! I think the Obama campaign are in for a terrible shock on election night in spite of what all the polls say! They think they already have this election won! They need to brace themselves for an awful shock!
Posted by: carlyonsue
———————————–
AMEN!
We will not vote for That One…
Here is a preview of what he should give us answers to when he shows up on prime TV on the 29th – that if he has the “—-” to look at the American people in the eye and tell us the truth and nothing but the truth…
This is an excellent presentation – TV quality video… very informative indeed…
I get a sense of creepiness every time I watch this presentation…
What about you patriotic Americans?
http://www.eyeblast.tv/Public/Video.aspx?rsrcID=2036

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 8:12 pm 8:12 pm

you know, the reality is that everyone posting on forums like this one on both sides really need to take a step back and take a long look in the mirror. Reflect on how you are speaking to fellow americans.
You wonder why and constantly complain about this government not getting anything done, and cling so tightly to your ideological beliefs that you can’t make a single rational argument, and fly off the handle demeaning anything you can of your ‘enemies’. you have become so fanatical that you make yourself blind to reality. fanaticism in all forms is evil, and the ancient proverb “evil eats itself” is a very apt statement at this point.
This is a time of crisis like we haven’t seen since 2001, and what are we doing?
in 2001, we came together as a nation and worked for a better future. for the first time in my life i saw a country that looked beyond race, religion, and sexual preference because we all realized that when we are one, when we put the petty differences aside and look at each other as Americans, united for one purpose, there is nothing that we are unable to achieve.
That the timing of this crisis came during a presidential cycle is the largest tragedy, because the false dichotomy of american politics has hyper sensitized the electorate to a degree that has never been seen in america. You can feel the abject hatred through the words you read on these screens, and i am only able to shake my head at how far this country has fallen. i think back to my history classes because i wasn’t alive during the civil rights movement, and i feel like we are hurtling towards a rift that will swiftly consume us all.
Massive problems that this country are facing will never be solved with republicans and democrats being incited to hatred. Throwing slime all over the candidates in this election is making already heightened nerves trigger the fight or flight response, where flight is not an option. We have nothing but words to use, and the safety of the internet creates what i call ‘liquid courage’. we allow the darkest corners of our psyche to manifest and unleash scurrilous attacks on the ‘enemy’.
To the candidates (in the off chance this reaches them): Drop the personal attacks and focus on these issues: Economy, Energy, Iraq and Afghanistan, Russia, how to get North Korea back to the table, how to start negotiations with Iran and other unfriendly nations, Budget and the Deficit, what we need to do to restrengthen NATO and our weakened alliances and view in the world, Education, Health Care, and how important it is to address our environment so that we are a model for the rest of the world to follow.
Notice that i said nothing about Taxes, and that is because everyone needs to know a few things so that our country can move forward.
Our government has been extremely irresponsible and we all know this. Blame at this point does no good, what we have to do is stop the bleeding that is swiftly becoming terminal. We have a $11 Trillion dollar national debt, and that is growing by $1 trillion every two years as it sits now.
The only methods that a Government has to create revenue under the capitalist economic system are Taxes and Tariffs. Tariffs were proven to only hurt the national economy as the world economy grew, so they are no longer a good way to provide income, but are used more to promote domestic products. That leaves the government taxes to provide income, and without taking over businesses it is the only option.
it is my belief that the primary reason americans dislike paying taxes is because we feel the government does not manage that income very well. We as citizens must demand fiscal responsibility from all our representatives in government, local, state and federal. We have allowed ourselves to become complacent when it comes to voting in our senators and congresspeople, reelecting the same ones because of name recognition and the way the system works. it is our responsibility to get rid of those who go along with fiscal mismanagement like the current administration has done.
So from this election cycle forward, we have to demand fiscal responsibility from our senators and congressmen, and in return we must shoulder the burden of increased taxes in order to address both the deficit and the national debt. We must demand the repair of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans benefits for the brave men and women who carry out the orders of the president. We must demand that the health care system in this country is optimized and made so that no one who lives here ever stays home because they are afraid of bankruptcy if they go to the hospital. We must demand that we stop all imports of foreign oil, and invest in sustainable development in addition to all alternative energy sources and give tax credits for next generation fuel research. We must demand that our teachers are paid a living wage, and improve the schools for all our children, and make college affordable so that we stay on the cutting edge of technology. We must demand these things because we as Americans deserve this way of life.
We must demand that the spirit of the Constitution lives on, and that no administration ever places security above freedom its citizens, and that we treat everyone with the same rights that we cherish. This is vital because without promoting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all on the earth we are not living up to the standard that the founding father and all whom have given their life for those ideals a disservice.
After 5-10 years our government should be able to reduce taxes back to current levels, and if they aren’t, we have every right to vote them out and elect people who will do their job.
This is the call to service that we need in this time of crisis, and we owe it to our forefathers to step up to that call. Put aside the hate, and remember back to how we put aside differences when the country we all love needed us most, because she is calling to us again now.

Posted by: Reason | October 9, 2008, 8:12 pm 8:12 pm

Hate, talk about hate. Obama maniacs invented the word. Shutting down radio stations, deleting posts, Obama campaign using the police to shut down free speech with his truth squads in Missouri. Donna Brazile going on tv and telling Clinton voters to just stay home we don’t need you. There is 10 months of hate that has been shoved down our throats by Obama and his followers, who commands them, ‘get in their face.’ Your assertions are laughable.

Posted by: pennsylvaniavoter | October 9, 2008, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm

Let’s see here:
1. ACORN was founded in Chicago
2. ACORN is a “community organization” group
3. BHO is a “community organizer”
4. BHO turns into a Chicago politician
5. He funneled $800,000 to them from his campaign
But according to his supporters they have NO RELATIONSHIP. Expect multiple stories to emerge, just like with Ayers.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm

I get a sense of creepiness every time I watch this presentation…
What about you patriotic Americans?
OMG I agree. I find any McCain video creepy especially his laugh. I don’t trust him at all.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm

October 9, 2008
Rasmussen: FL, IN, MI, NC, NJ (10/8)
By Justin Halpern
Florida 10/8, 700 LV, 4%
Obama 50, McCain 47
Indiana 10/7, 500 LV, 4.5%
McCain 50, Obama 43
Michigan 10/8, 500 LV, 4.5%
Obama 56, McCain 40
New Jersey 10/7, 500 LV, 4.5%
Obama 50, McCain 42
Sen: Lautenberg(D) 51, Zimmer (R-i) 37
North Carolina 10/8, 700 LV, 4%
Obama 49, McCain 48
If I’m McCain, I’d start spending money in NJ. It seems that state is not too keen on “The One.”

Posted by: independent voter | October 9, 2008, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm

Natasha – you want creepiness – watch some of the videos from the McCain/Palin rallies – they are not only creepy – they are frightening. Videos posted all over you tube – give them a try – they give a very clear picture of the despicable behavior of your candidate who is so desperate at this point that common decency has become another one of his failings.

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm

OBAMA = CHAVEZ/HITLER

Posted by: Blacky, the black sheep | October 9, 2008, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm

Sandy, really look into your comments, and you will really see who the judgemental person, full of frustration and hate that you show, spew, and are! Reverse psychology is the only weapon a liberal has and uses, you libs are blinded by anger and hate, but only from indoctrination, so yes, you can get help to see the truth!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm

OBAMA = CHAVEZ/CASTRO

Posted by: Blacky, the black sheep | October 9, 2008, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm

JD, I don’t give a rat’s ass about Ayers. I want to know about the issues. You do remember about the war and the economy.

Posted by: dave | October 9, 2008, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm

carlyonsue – God will condemn people like you to he11 for even calling yourself a Christian. No Christian supports hatred and bigotry – and even more so that you do so in the form of your candidates. Do not hide behind the shield of a Christian – you most certainly are not one!
Posted by: sandy
————————————
sandy- please do not turn this to a race issue. I for myself have a great respect for a true American patriot – a humble man with solid character and sound judgement, whose name is Collin Powell. Oh yes, I wish he was the one running for President!
I have absolutely NO respect for the “arrogant” Marxist Barack Obama, who has neither the character nor the judgement to be our next Commander in Chief.

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 8:21 pm 8:21 pm

You are seriously trying to convince people by referring to a Rolling Stone article….a freaking Rolling Stone article…what did Iggy Pop write it. Come on, my goodness, yes, because Rolling Stone is known for it’s moral and unbiased, award winning investigative journalism. A freaking magazine that sells based on how many near naked people they can put in it and how many cracked out bands they can write about. Rolling freaking Stone, yes, good one, and you can go to Rush Limbaughs website to see why Obama isn’t qualified, soooo smart.

Posted by: JimmyCrackedCorn | October 9, 2008, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm

October 9, 2008
ARG: MN, MO, MT, NH, OH, TX & WV
By Eric Dienstfrey
American Research Group
600 likely voters in each state, margin of error +/-4
Mode: Live Telephone Interviews
Minnesota
Oct. 4-7: Obama 47, McCain 46
(9/20: Obama 48, McCain 47)
Missouri
Oct. 4-6: McCain 49, Obama 46
(9/15: McCain 50, Obama 45)
Montana
Oct. 6-8: McCain 50, Obama 45
(9/9: McCain 49, Obama 47)
New Hampshire
Oct. 6-8: Obama 52, McCain 43
(9/15: Obama 45, McCain 48)
Also:
Senate: Shaheen 51, Sununu 42
Governor: Lynch 65, Kenney 26
Ohio
Oct. 4-7: Obama 48, McCain 45
(9/13: Obama 44, McCain 50)
Texas
Oct 5-8: McCain 57, Obama 38
(9/16: McCain 57, Obama 36)
West Virginia
Oct. 4-8: Obama 50, McCain 42
(9/16: Obama 45, McCain 49)
WV seems a little off…but overall great news for the Mavericks!!!!

Posted by: independent voter | October 9, 2008, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm

FACT 1 ACORN
It is an Umbrella company which sponsers thousands of independent groups mostly non profit groups that work in your community and you wouldnt even know it is a part of ACORN unless something like this comes up.
The reason that The Republican National Committee havent shut down funding to ACORN is because they have sent so much funding to many of the groups and they dont know which organization falls up under ACORN. The same way Barack Obama didnt know. So they are standing on thin ice because this is tax payers money the Republican National Committee has been sending to these organizations through Earmarks. As your own Sarah Palin tried to state becareful at the finger you point because you have 3 more pointing at you.

Posted by: corrice | October 9, 2008, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm

FACT 1 ACORN
It is an Umbrella company which sponsers thousands of independent groups mostly non profit groups that work in your community and you wouldnt even know it is a part of ACORN unless something like this comes up.
The reason that The Republican National Committee havent shut down funding to ACORN is because they have sent so much funding to many of the groups and they dont know which organization falls up under ACORN. The same way Barack Obama didnt know. So they are standing on thin ice because this is tax payers money the Republican National Committee has been sending to these organizations through Earmarks. As your own Sarah Palin tried to state becareful at the finger you point because you have 3 more pointing at you.

Posted by: corrice | October 9, 2008, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm

YEP!
That is what makes them hypocrites.
You the “I’m for abortion(on innocent babies), but against the death penalty(on convicted killers)” type.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm

you libs are blinded by anger and hate, but only from indoctrination, so yes, you can get help to see the truth!
Posted by: YEP! | Oct 10, 2008 12:19:45 AM
Anger and hate is spewed by Hannity. You don’t hear that from dems.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 8:25 pm 8:25 pm

Michelle Obama worked at the same law firm as Bill Ayers wife, how exactly did Obama meet his wife, hmmm? I wonder! Michele was and still is friends with Ayers wife, and they say there is now connection of friendship between Bill and Barack, LOL!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm

If the Republicans didn’t want John McCain in 2000, why would they want him when he’s 73 years old? The fact that he chose Sarah Palin who can’t even give an intelligent interview means he is mentally unbalanced and erratic.

Posted by: Paula Lacey | October 9, 2008, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm

Why the press hides Obama’s lies
Ever since the first sound bites of the execrable Reverend Wright hit the airwaves, it has been obvious that Barack Obama is a less than candid human being. It was impossible to believe that a man who had spent twenty years in Wright’s pews did not have a pretty good idea of the minister’s vile views. You would have had to have been deaf and dumb not to. And Wright was the inspiration of Obama’s books!
Yet when the candidate was confronted by the press about this, he denied knowing about Wright’s excesses and made a speech that was hailed by the media as a monument in race relations equal, some said, to Dr. King.
It was at that precise moment I knew we were living in a media-constructed lunatic asylum. That didn’t take a rocket scientist, I can assure you, only someone with a modicum of common sense. But it only got worse. When Wright predictably “acted out” and let loose with one of his racist screeds of the very type Obama pretended never to have heard, the candidate blithely pushed the minister under the bus with barely a peep from the compliant press.
About that time I learned of his putative relationship with William Ayers, the unrepentant Weatherman. I was assured by the New York Times and others that this was of no consequence, that Ayers was, in Obama’s words, just “some guy in the neighborhood.”
Another lie.
The more we learn of Obama’s ties to Ayers the more complex and disturbing they become. It is unlikely that we will ever know the extent of them, certainly not before the election. Most of what we do know does not come from the Times or the Washington Post of vaunted Woodward & Bernstein fame, but from Stanley Kurtz of the National Review, who has been following this story of the Ayers-Obama whitewash for months. Under orders or not, the normally voluble Mr. Ayers himself has kept his yap shut.
And now we learn of yet another strange obfuscation or omission. In 1996, Obama was apparently a member of the Chicago “New Party,” a now defunct socialist political party of some stripe or other.
There’s nothing wrong with being a socialist. I called myself one for the better part of twenty years. Millions of people have and many still do. But there is something very wrong with hiding who you are or who you were from the electorate—especially if you want to be President of the United States. Yet that seems to be a habit of Mr. Obama’s, with the collusion of the press. To my knowledge, no one in the mainstream media has begun to inquire into the details of Obama’s curiously unreported years at Columbia and Harvard, although much could be relatively easily ascertained. Obama himself has not been remotely forthcoming about them.
The inescapable conclusion is that Barack Obama is a highly deceptive, often dishonest individual. Again, many would say this is standard operating procedure for politicians in our culture (and most others too). But Obama presents himself as something different, a new kind of post-modern politician above the conventional dirty dealings of backroom politics.
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/10/08/why-the-press-hides-obamas-lies/

Posted by: urmom | October 9, 2008, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm

There is a beautiful video on you tube called “Hate or Hope? You Decide”ABC will not allow me to post the URL. For Senator Obama supporters, you have to sit through about a minute of vile McCain supporters but after that the video is truly beautiful.

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm

zz
The only anger from the Republicans is that the Democratic leadership is counting on Bush-hatred to get a socialist elected President.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm

There is a beautiful video on you tube called “Hate or Hope? You Decide”ABC will not allow me to post the URL. For Senator Obama supporters, you have to sit through about a minute of vile McCain supporters but after that the video is truly beautiful.

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

There is a beautiful video on you tube called “Hate or Hope? You Decide”ABC will not allow me to post the URL. For Senator Obama supporters, you have to sit through about a minute of vile McCain supporters but after that the video is truly beautiful.

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

Why the press hides Obama’s lies
Ever since the first sound bites of the execrable Reverend Wright hit the airwaves, it has been obvious that Barack Obama is a less than candid human being. It was impossible to believe that a man who had spent twenty years in Wright’s pews did not have a pretty good idea of the minister’s vile views. You would have had to have been deaf and dumb not to. And Wright was the inspiration of Obama’s books!
Yet when the candidate was confronted by the press about this, he denied knowing about Wright’s excesses and made a speech that was hailed by the media as a monument in race relations equal, some said, to Dr. King.
It was at that precise moment I knew we were living in a media-constructed lunatic asylum. That didn’t take a rocket scientist, I can assure you, only someone with a modicum of common sense. But it only got worse. When Wright predictably “acted out” and let loose with one of his racist screeds of the very type Obama pretended never to have heard, the candidate blithely pushed the minister under the bus with barely a peep from the compliant press.

Posted by: urmom | October 9, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

About that time I learned of his putative relationship with William Ayers, the unrepentant Weatherman. I was assured by the New York Times and others that this was of no consequence, that Ayers was, in Obama’s words, just “some guy in the neighborhood.”
Another lie.
The more we learn of Obama’s ties to Ayers the more complex and disturbing they become. It is unlikely that we will ever know the extent of them, certainly not before the election. Most of what we do know does not come from the Times or the Washington Post of vaunted Woodward & Bernstein fame, but from Stanley Kurtz of the National Review, who has been following this story of the Ayers-Obama whitewash for months. Under orders or not, the normally voluble Mr. Ayers himself has kept his yap shut.
And now we learn of yet another strange obfuscation or omission. In 1996, Obama was apparently a member of the Chicago “New Party,” a now defunct socialist political party of some stripe or other.
There’s nothing wrong with being a socialist. I called myself one for the better part of twenty years. Millions of people have and many still do. But there is something very wrong with hiding who you are or who you were from the electorate—especially if you want to be President of the United States. Yet that seems to be a habit of Mr. Obama’s, with the collusion of the press. To my knowledge, no one in the mainstream media has begun to inquire into the details of Obama’s curiously unreported years at Columbia and Harvard, although much could be relatively easily ascertained. Obama himself has not been remotely forthcoming about them.
The inescapable conclusion is that Barack Obama is a highly deceptive, often dishonest individual. Again, many would say this is standard operating procedure for politicians in our culture (and most others too). But Obama presents himself as something different, a new kind of post-modern politician above the conventional dirty dealings of backroom politics.
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/10/08/why-the-press-hides-obamas-lies/

Posted by: urmom | October 9, 2008, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm

The messiah speaks, and the young people listen! That’s Louis Farrakhan speaking of Obama running for President! Those are his exact words, recorded on video! Read it and weep you libs! McCain/Palin 2008 Country First
NO TO LIBERIAL SOCIALISM!!!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm

YEP!
Dohrn was on the FBI’s top 10 list, just like all my “neighbors” and “someone whose children go at school my kids’ school.”
A liar from Harvard is the same as a liar from elementary school.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm

Isn’t it pretty pathetic how Republicans always try to demonize their opponents. It can’t just be a democratic election – it’s got to be a we’re right; they’re evil standoff.
Read the comments above from the nutcases extremists – it’s as if Republicans are the only true Christians and anyone who disagrees with them is evil. Any Democratic candidate is basically portrayed as a lying spawn of the devil. Such ignorance and arrogance. It’s immature. Almost down to ‘you suck!’ – ‘no you suck!’ Such hubris. Such dumbed down nonsense.

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm

Isn’t it pretty pathetic how Republicans always try to demonize their opponents. It can’t just be a democratic election – it’s got to be a we’re right; they’re evil standoff.
Read the comments above from the nutcases extremists – it’s as if Republicans are the only true Christians and anyone who disagrees with them is evil. Any Democratic candidate is basically portrayed as a lying spawn of the devil. Such ignorance and arrogance. It’s immature. Almost down to ‘you suck!’ – ‘no you suck!’ Such hubris. Such dumbed down nonsense.

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm

This is your McCain
John McCain has repeatedly opposed increasing funding for education, leaving our children with failing programs. He’s even supported abolishing the Department of Education.
Source: Vote 5, 1/16/03; Vote 60, 3/19/03; Vote 330, 9/9/03; Vote 35, 3/10/04; Vote 56, 3/16/05; Vote 64, 3/16/06; Vote 58, 3/16/06; Late Edition, CBS, 12/11/94
John McCain voted to protect tax breaks for the wealthiest of Americans rather than make college more affordable for middle class Americans.
Source: Vote 126, 6/25/97; Vote 241, 7/30/99; Vote 153, 5/22/01; Vote 155, 5/22/01; Vote 268, 10/25/05
McCain left America’s young children behind, repeatedly opposing increased funding for early childhood education and Head Start programs.

Posted by: oo | October 9, 2008, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm

Sandy, the Indoctrinator!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm

It is our duty and our responsiblility NOT to elect as our next Commander in Chief a man who was serving on the board of several organizations side by side with convicted terrorists like William Ayers – the Pentagon Bomber!
Our country deserves better than that!
A USA Military History (Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6370539579217643597&hl=en
God Bless America!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm

The 60′s is an era that is past. The Revolutionaries and militants like Bill Ayers, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinum. Joan Baez, Warren Beatty, are different people now. Most of us were not even born then and we don’t care about that past stuff. The Republicans just look silly. Is this all they have. Read my Lips. We don’t care!!!!!

Posted by: Paula Lacey | October 9, 2008, 8:32 pm 8:32 pm

i agree, hate has dominated not just this election, but the last 20 years of american politics…i blame the worst exacerbation of this polarization of america on newt gingrich, the christian right coalition, bush and his cronies, rumsfeld, cheney, limbaugh and characters and hacks like jerome corsi and karl rove…
may god help us all, we are turning inexorably into a third world nation

Posted by: YourAssCrack | October 9, 2008, 8:32 pm 8:32 pm

I don’t think McCain can called Obama on not receiving a call when he call now failed to call Obama about the joint statement.
Does anyone find it ironic that these things that McCain thinks that everyone should know about Obama are things he didn’t care to mention when he was on top of the polls?
I don’t.

Posted by: ScarletFBL | October 9, 2008, 8:32 pm 8:32 pm

Michelle Laxalt, Republican operative is RIPPING McCain team for sending Palin out with racist TPs
On Larry King – she is tearing them a new one. She said that people within the campaign tell her that Palin is being being treated like a secretary or a staffer and not as a VP candidate.
She said that “good old boys” (whom she said had been fired by Reagan and her father Sen. Laxalt for the same dirty tricks) have set Palin up by taking her out of Alaska and “tossing her into the deep end” with only 5 weeks to go – and sending her out with the most “incendiary talking points, the most dangerous, racist talking points and they should be ashamed of themselves.”
Wow!

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm

“Isn’t it pretty pathetic how Republicans always try to demonize their opponents. ”
Do you mean the way you vultures demonized Bill and Hillary Clinton by playing the race card against them and assassinating their character?

Posted by: ytumamatambien | October 9, 2008, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm

Yep hun, get over it. McCain can’t win. He called his supporters “fellow prisoners”. He’s losing it. We can’t afford to have him in office.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm

HOPE, CHANGE, HATE, NOBAMA ’08”: So you can’t find anything but exonerated Keating 5 on McCain, can you? Well here’s a list for you of all kinds of questionable associates that McCain has…and by McCain hobnobbed with all kinds of racists during the 2000 primaries. Here’s your list of scumbags that McCain has been and is still associated with: MCCAIN’S CORRUPT FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES…..
JOSEPH “JOE BANANAS” BONANO: Bonano crime family, who had retired to Arizona.
DONALD R. DIAMOND: McCain did political favors for real estate developer Donald R. Diamond, using his official clout to facilitate sale of land that Diamond had wanted sold to the government.
REP. RICK RENZI (R-AZ) co-chair of McCain’s Arizona Leadership Team indicted for extortion, wire fraud, money laundering and other charges related to a land deal in Arizona ___
CHARLES KEATING. Keating had called on McCain, among other Senators to help him resist regulators in exchange for the money. ___
LOBBYISTS ON HIS CAMPAIGN STAFF. McCain had at one time over 69 lobbyists on leave from their firms, running his campaign operation. McCain has defended lobbyists and the lobbying industry over and over again. ___
LOBBYIST AND PARAMOUR VICKI ISEMAN—OF PAXON TELECOM. McCain denied an affair even though he and his staff admitted it in a legal deposition, in which they warned McCain off of being seen too often in public with her.
RICHARD QUINN. In the 2000 primary, McCain paid $20,000 a month to South Carolina consultant Richard Quinn, a NEO-CONFEDERATE REVANCHIST who advocated voting for David Duke___
CHARLES BLACK JR.: …campaign adviser of McCain has friends in low places. Defended McCain’s relationship with telecom lobbyist Vicki Iseman ….lobbying clients included General Motors, United Technologies, JPMorgan and AT&T.___
SENATOR PHIL) GRAMM architect of deregulation which led to Enron and the subprime mortgage meltdown.,
“PASTOR” JOHN HAGEE: believes Pope is the Anti-Christ, believes Jews responsible for their own suffering …advocates starting a war with Iran in the Middle East to ‘hasten Armageddon’___
JACK ABRAMOFF: Convicted lobbyist associated with John McCain before Abramoff went to prison. McCain has suppressed hundreds of pages of hearings testimony trying to escape his criminal ties to Jack Ahramoff, Randy Scheunemann and Ralph Reed. ___
RANDY SCHEUNEMANN, Scheunemann was lobbying for the Republic of Georgia – yet now, he’s advising McCain on Georgia and Russian conflict____
RALPH REED: Abramoff crony who directed at least $4.2 million to various lawmakers in a scheme to defraud Indian casinos. During hearings, McCain never called Reed to testify before the Senate
There is a whole cast of corrupt McCain advisors and fundraisers who prove how deeply McCain embedded is in the Republican culture of corruption___
CRAIG BERKMAN,–McCain campaign associate, borrowed $5 million from the investors whose funds he controlled without their permission, and even failed to tell “most” of them what he had done. A two-year suit against Berkman was decided in July 2008, when a jury found he had defrauded investors and ordered him to pay them $28 million.
FREDDIE MAC and FANNIE MAC: Until March 2008, a top executive at Freddie Mac Hollis S. McLoughlin, has been paying $15,000 a month to the lobbying firm of Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager., Davis has been a focus of controversy because Freddie Mac and Fannie Mac paid him or his lobbying firm more than $2 million dating back to the year 2000.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080815/pl_usnw/dnc__mccain_watch__scheunemann__abramoff__and_reed

Posted by: allen_osuno3 | October 9, 2008, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm

To the question of the moment–What did Barack Obama know and when did he know it?–I answer, Obama knew everything, and he’s known it for ages. Far from succumbing to surprise and shock after Jeremiah Wright’s disastrous performance at the National Press Club, Barack Obama must have long been aware of his pastor’s political radicalism. A careful reading of nearly a year’s worth of Trumpet Newsmagazine, Wright’s glossy national “lifestyle magazine for the socially conscious,” makes it next to impossible to conclude otherwise.
Wright founded Trumpet Newsmagazine in 1982 as a “church newspaper”–primarily for his own congregation, one gathers–to “preach a message of social justice to those who might not hear it in worship service.” So Obama’s presence at sermons is not the only measure of his knowledge of Wright’s views. Glance through even a single issue of Trumpet, and Wright’s radical politics are everywhere–in the pictures, the headlines, the highlighted quotations, and above all in the articles themselves. It seems inconceivable that, in 20 years, Obama would never have picked up a copy of Trumpet. In fact, Obama himself graced the cover at least once (although efforts to obtain that issue from the publisher or Obama’s interview with the magazine from his campaign were unsuccessful).

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm

“Isn’t it pretty pathetic how Republicans always try to demonize their opponents. ”
Do you mean the way you vultures demonized Bill and Hillary Clinton by playing the race card against them and assassi nating their character?

Posted by: ytumamatambien | October 9, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

Breaking news! New story on all the major sites stating that Barack Obama invented the internet….yes, I repeat, he invented the internet. I know you thought it was Al Gore, but the only thing he has invented is Global Warming. And yes I know I’m racist somehow for saying that, because there’s a hidden meaning between Obama and “inventing the internet.”

Posted by: TimmyTaco | October 9, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

YourAssCrack
Are you really trying to say that the conservative right is turning our country into a third world?
I’ve seen some stretches in my day, but “THAT ONE” is up there.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

Wright founded Trumpet Newsmagazine in 1982 as a “church newspaper”–primarily for his own congregation, one gathers–to “preach a message of social justice to those who might not hear it in worship service.” So Obama’s presence at sermons is not the only measure of his knowledge of Wright’s views. Glance through even a single issue of Trumpet, and Wright’s radical politics are everywhere–in the pictures, the headlines, the highlighted quotations, and above all in the articles themselves. It seems inconceivable that, in 20 years, Obama would never have picked up a copy of Trumpet. In fact, Obama himself graced the cover at least once (although efforts to obtain that issue from the publisher or Obama’s interview with the magazine from his campaign were unsuccessful).

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

I agree with Joe Biden. I haven’t heard anything about McSame’s policies that are going to be different from Bushes. I haven’t read it in the papers, or heard it on the news. I guess it will be four more years of the same and worse if he wins. Maybe it’s out there but I haven’t heard and I keep up with the news.

Posted by: Paula Lacey | October 9, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

Fact 2-1(John McCain)vs (Obama) vs(Sarah Palin) Guilt by Association vs
Obama stated didnt know much about Mr. Ayers past, he was eight years old when he was committing the crimes he commited. He is in an organization with Mr. Ayers
McCain McCain friends and largest donators are in the same group with Ayers. McCain state the reason he voted aganist the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday was because he didnt know who he was or what he stood for. He didnt ever know there was race issues in the united states cause he was in the navy the same navy where blacks could only be cooks
Sarah Palin( husband was a member in an organization that wants to succede from the united states, she spoke at their rally, she is married to a terriost a man who pled guilty today to trying to get his brother inlaw fired, but stated his wife/best friend who as he stated we do evrything for each other type relationship she got my back i got hers.

Posted by: Corrice | October 9, 2008, 8:36 pm 8:36 pm

Building on his reputation as a charismatic and “socially conscious” preacher (and no doubt also upon the fame conferred by his Obama connection), Wright decided several years ago to take the publication national. In September 2005, Trumpet officially separated from Wright’s church and became an independent
entity, with Wright as CEO and his two eldest daughters managing the magazine. Then in March 2006, with key financial backing from the TV One network, Trumpet released its first nationally distributed issue. The goal was to turn Trumpet into “a more sophisticated publication that would speak not just to black Christians but to the entire African-American community.” In November 2005, Wright’s daughter and Trumpet publisher/editor in chief Jeri Wright announced the goal of increasing circulation from 5,000 to 100,000 in 10 months. Thanks to a national publicity blitz, she was able to declare that goal had been met well ahead of schedule.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:36 pm 8:36 pm

If you’ve heard about the “Empowerment Award” bestowed upon Louis Farrakhan by Wright, or about Wright’s derogation of “garlic-nosed” Italians (of the ancient Roman variety), then you already know something about Trumpet. Farrakhan’s picture was on the cover of a special November/December 2007 double issue, along with an announcement of the Empowerment Award and Wright’s praise of Farrakhan as a 20th- and 21st-century “giant.” Wright’s words about Farrakhan were almost identical to those that, just four months later, led a supposedly shocked Obama to repudiate Wright. The insult to Italians was in the same double issue.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm

Did any of you guys catch that black guy on Hannity & Colmes begging McCain to go after Obama over Ayers, Wright, ACORN and Rezko?
F-ING LOVE IT!!!!!!
THAT’S HOW I FEEL!!!!!

Posted by: PennsylvaniaISnoFOOL | October 9, 2008, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm

The people who caused this economic crises can’t fix it. If they knew what they were doing, we wouldn’t be in this situation. Expecting blood from a turnip is ridiculous. They don’t get it, so they can’t fix it.They want to keep doing the same thing and expect a different outcome. It’s never going to happen.

Posted by: Paula Lacey | October 9, 2008, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm

I’ve registered over 500 people to vote and have something to say about ACORN.
First of all, I have registered over 500 people to vote in the past months. It is a fantastic experience. There is nothing like registering someone to vote for the first time in their lives and they actually have tears in their eyes.
Having worked in grassroots politics since I was was a kid with my father dragging my sisters and myself in the foggy autumn streets in Wilmington, Delaware, I learned how it all matters on Election Day. I can vaguely remember that first victory party as someone less than 10 years old where the winning candidate addressed the crowd to thank them for helping him win.
I’ve done plenty of work since I was a kid back then and there have been as many tragic losses as euphoric victories in my political sojourns.
As for ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), there is lot to be said about their efforts. I worked for them when I lived in San Francisco. All I can say is that the people that I worked with at ACORN were the some of the best people I have ever had the chance to work with. Yes, they hire people on the down and out to do efforts like registering people to vote.
The main thing about that is that the forms that are filled out are then scrutinized by the well-versed staff and then sent to to the local Elections Board staff, who check the forms for legitimate photo IDs, license numbers and addresses. Those forms are then submitted to the Electoral staff for their town and scrutinized again for validity.
It’s a three-level validation process before a voter registration form is validated. The ACORN issue is nothing more than a sore-sport non-issue that the Republicans are using to validate their severe losses on November 4th.

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm

I obtained the 2006 run of Trumpet, from the first nationally distributed issue in March to the November/December double issue. To read it is to come away impressed by Wright’s thoroughgoing political radicalism. There are plenty of arresting sound bites, of course, but the larger context is more illuminating–and more disturbing–than any single shock-quotation.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm

We are going to keep bleeding until we put someone smart and well educated in the White House. A students who made “C’s” and “D’s” and was caught by the enemy and wasn’t smart enough not to be taken as a prisoner of war is not the one to lead.

Posted by: Paula Lacey | October 9, 2008, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm

No ytumamatambien I meant just review the comments on here from Republicans demonizing Democrats and Democratic candidates. Prtraying them as evil, anti-american and all this nonsense. It’s quite predictable and it’s pretty divisive and polarizing tactic. An appeal to the reptilian brain.

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

. Trumpet provides a rounded picture of Wright’s views, and what it shows unmistakably is that the now-infamous Y**Tu** snippets from Wright’s sermons are authentic reflections of his core political and theological beliefs. It leaves no doubt that his religion is political, his attitude toward America is bitterly hostile, and he has fundamental problems with capitalism, white people, and “assimilationist” blacks. Even some of Wright’s famed “good works,” and his moving “Audacity to Hope” sermon, are placed in a disturbing new light by a reading of Trumpet.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

sandy
I’m shocked. You “used to live in San Francisco.” The city with the highest rate of minorities being driven further and further from the center of the city, due to liberal policies and intolerance of minorities.
Another hypocritical Democrat. Where do you live now, Boulder?

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 8:43 pm 8:43 pm

Getting across his political message is Wright’s highest priority. Back in May 2007, the liberal, Chicago-based Christian Century published an extended study–really a defense–of Wright’s church. Attempting to inoculate Wright (and Obama) from critics like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, Christian Century dismissed the notion that Wright’s Trinity church “is a political organization constantly advocating for social change.” Yet in Trumpet, Wright and his fellow columnists show themselves to be exactly that.
Wright is the foremost acolyte of James Cone’s “black liberation theology,” which puts politics at the center of religion. Wright himself is explicit:
[T]here was no separation Biblically and historically and there is no separation contemporaneously between ‘religion and politics.’ .  .  . The Word of God has everything to do with racism, sexism, militarism, social justice and the world in which we live daily.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:43 pm 8:43 pm

In fact, for all his rousing rhetoric, Wright is a bit of a policy wonk, moving fluidly and frequently from excoriations of American foreign policy in various African countries, to denunciations of Senate votes on the minimum wage, to fulminations against FCC licensing policies and Clear Channel, and so much more. Wright is up to speed on local, national, and international politics, and it’s tough to imagine him missing an opportunity to confer with Obama on his wide array of legislative crusades.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm

Did any of you guys catch that black guy on Hannity & Colmes begging McCain to go after Obama over Ayers, Wright, ACORN and Rezko?
F-ING LOVE IT!!!!!!
THAT’S HOW I FEEL!!!!!
Posted by: PennsylvaniaISnoFOOL
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:-) :-) :-)
It was extraordinary, indeed! That man brought tears to my eyes, really! Did you also see that other man who spoke right before this gentleman?
Go America!
Vote McCain-Palin ’08!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

“A students who made “C’s” and “D’s” and was caught by the enemy and wasn’t smart enough not to be taken as a prisoner of war is not the one to lead.”
Posted by Paula Lacey
Are you kidding me?

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

When Trumpet surprised Wright with a “Lifetime Achievement Trumpeter Award,” it said that he “preaches a liberation theology” whose “religious message [is] fused with political activism.” Not only does black liberation theology founder James Cone see Wright as
his most important follower, but Wright’s successor as pastor at Trinity, Otis Moss III, also views Wright as the quintessential political pastor. Moss (himself now considered the most promising young black-liberationist preacher in the country) turned down the opportunity to step into the leadership of his own preacher-father’s nationally known church for a chance to serve at the still more renowned Trinity. Wright’s Trinity, affirms Moss, is “the most socially conscious African-centered and politically active church in the nation.”
While the majority of Trumpet’s articles weave radical politics into a religious framework, some are purely political. For example, the April 2006 issue features a column entitled “Demand Impeachment Now!” The author pointedly refuses to call Bush “president,” merely referring to him as the “resident” of the White House (and therefore as “Resident Bush”). Another piece taunts Vice President Cheney for his shooting accident and ends, “America, it’s time for regime change.” Neither piece has so much as a religious

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

Did any of you guys catch that black guy on Hannity & Colmes begging McCain to go after Obama over Ayers, Wright, ACORN and Rezko?
F-ING LOVE IT!!!!!!
THAT’S HOW I FEEL!!!!!

Posted by: PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM | October 9, 2008, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

veneer.
What about patriotism? While many consider Wright’s call for God to damn America irredeemable, others might argue that “in context,” Wright’s prophetic denunciations actually prove his love of country. Unfortunately, neither Wright nor any of the other regular Trumpet columnists displays a trace of this “I’m denouncing you because I love you” stance. On the contrary, the pages of Trumpet resonate with enraged criticism of the United States. Indeed, they feature explicit repudiations of even the most basic expressions of American patriotism, supporting instead an “African-centered” perspective that treats black Americans as virtual strangers in a foreign land.
Although the expression “African American” appears in Trumpet, the magazine more typically refers to American blacks as “Africans living in the Western Diaspora.” Wright and the other columnists at Trumpet seem to think of blacks as in, but not of, America. The deeper connection is to Africans on the continent, and to the worldwide diaspora of African-originated peoples. In an image that captures the spirit of Wright’s relationship to the United States, he speaks of blacks as “songbirds” locked in “this cage called America.”

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm

I prefer to help someone get saved and see the tears in their eyes, but whatever does if for you I guess……and yes I know, you don’t believe God exists, blah blah blah, we’ll see

Posted by: NotObama | October 9, 2008, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm

Wright views the United States as a criminal nation. Here is a typical passage: “Do you see God as a God who approves of Americans taking other people’s countries? Taking other people’s women? Raping teenage girls and calling it love (as in Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings)?” Anyone who does think this way, Wright suggests, should revise his notion of God. Implicitly drawing on Marxist “dependency theory,” Wright blames Africa’s troubles on capitalist exploitation by the West, and also on inadequate American aid: “Some analysts would go so far as to even call what [the United States, the G-8, and multinational corporations] are doing [in Africa] genocide!”
According to Wright, America’s alleged genocide in Africa, as well as its treatment of “Africans in the Western diaspora,” both leads to and flows from a single underlying truth: “White supremacy is the bed rock of the philosophical, ideological and theological foundations of this country.” So for Wright, it’s really not a question of correcting America in the spirit of a loving patriot. America, to Wright, is a kind of alien formation, scarcely less of a “cage” for “Africans in the Western Diaspora” than it was during the days of slavery: “[T]his country is built off, and continues to exist on, the premise of white supremacy.” Again and again, Wright makes the point that America’s criminality and racism are not aberrations but of the essence of the nation, that they are every bit as alive today as during the slave era, and that America is therefore no better than the worst international offenders: “White supremacy undergirds the thought, the ideology, the theol-ogy, the sociology, the legal structure, the educational system, the healthcare system, and the entire reality of the United States of America and South Africa!” (Emphasis Wright’s.)

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm

Democrats love minorities for their votes, but they make taxes so high that these beloved Americans can’t afford to live within 10 miles of them.
Another hypocritical standard brought to you by the left.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm

Wow, what racists here. Hannity is a racist. How sad that you agree with him.

Posted by: erin | October 9, 2008, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm

One of Wright’s most striking images of American evil invokes Hurricane Katrina. Here are excerpts of a piece in the May 2006 Trumpet:
We need to educate our children to the reality of white supremacy.
We need to educate our children about the white supremacist’s foundations of the educational system.
When the levees in Louisiana broke alligators, crocodiles and piranha swam freely through what used to be the streets of New Orleans. That is an analogy that we need to drum into the heads of our African American children (and indeed all children!).
In the flood waters of white supremacy .  .  . there are also crocodiles, alligators and piranha!
The policies with which we live now and against which our children will have to struggle in order to bring about “the beloved community,” are policies shaped by predators.
We lay a foundation, deconstructing the household of white supremacy with tools that are not the master’s tools. We lay the foundation with hope. We deconstruct the vicious and demonic ideology of white supremacy with hope. Our hope is not built on faith-based dollars, empty liberal promises or veiled hate-filled preachments of the so-called conservatives. Our hope is built on Him who came in the flesh to set us free.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm

Given Wright’s conviction that America, past and present, is criminally white supremacist–even genocidal–to its core, Wright is not a fan of patriotic celebration. Predictably, Columbus Day is a day of rage for Wright. Calling Columbus a racist slave trader, Wright excoriates the holiday as “a national act of amnesia and denial,” part of the “sick and myopic arrogance called Western History.”
Strangely, given his view of this country, Wright insists that real credit for America’s discovery goes to Africans. As evidence for the African discovery of America, Wright cites Dr. Ivan van Sertima’s book They Came Before Columbus. (Sertima’s work has been severely criticized by scholars and was dismissed by prominent British archaeologist Glyn Daniel in a 1977 New York Times book review as “ignorant rubbish.”) Wright concludes: “Giving Columbus the credit is called ‘American History’ or ‘The History of Western Civilization.’ Back in the 1960′s we called it what it was and is, however, and that is ‘a pack of lies.’  ”
Contempt for Columbus Day is hardly novel, but in the 2006 July/August issue, regular Trumpet columnist the Rev. Reginald Williams Jr. comes down hard on the Fourth of July, which Williams dismisses as “the national holiday of the dominant culture.” Williams invokes Frederick Douglass’s famous 1852 Fourth of July address:
What to the slave is the 4th of July? What have I to do with your national independence? .  .  . What to the American slave is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham .  .  . your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless .  .  . your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings .  .  . mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy–a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm

McCain’s economic plan gives Big Oil a $4 billion tax break while 101 million American households get no relief at all.
Source: Tax Policy Center, Preliminary Analysis Of The 2008 Presidential Candidates’ Tax Plan, 6/20/08; Center for American Progress Action Fund, 3/27/08
John McCain supports tax breaks for companies that send American jobs overseas. This year, we’ve lost more than 600,000 American jobs to outsourcing.
Source: John McCain 2008, “Jobs for America,”; “The McCain Budget Plan,” Washington Post, 7/14/08; USA Today, 3/20/08 Vote 63, 3/17/05; Vote 83, 5/5/04; Vote 517, 10/26/95
John McCain will continue George Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans while the middle class struggles with stagnant wages and rising prices.

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm

To Williams, Douglass’s words ring every bit as true today as they did before the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. (This column is illustrated with a large picture of slave manacles.) Williams goes on to echo and update Douglass, condemning the Fourth as “nothing more than a day off work and a time for some good barbeque to the millions of African Americans who suffer and have suffered under the policies of this government and this country.” Liberation theologian that he is, Williams is particularly hostile to those who “will even invoke religious fervor, and biblical quotes to justify their flawed sense of phony patriotism.” No flag pins here.
Hostility to capitalism is another of Trumpet’s pervasive themes. As we’ve seen, Wright blames multinational corporations for conflict and poverty in Africa. Trinity Church urges parishioners to boycott Wal-Mart, and Wright decries what he calls “the “Wal-martization of the world.” In another one of his regular Trumpet columns, Reginald Williams criticizes McDonald’s for failing to heed leftist advocacy groups by voluntarily raising the price it pays for tomatoes (so as to raise the wages of tomato pickers). Williams apparently wants to replace market mechanisms with a pricing system dictated by “human rights groups.”
While the nationally distributed issues of Trumpet in 2006 contained no pieces blaming 9/11 on America’s “terrorist” foreign policy (as Wright did in a famous sermon), one remarkable piece defended then-congress-woman Cynthia McKinney’s suspicion that the Bush administration knew about the 9/11 attacks before they happened. This column, “The Beloved Cynthia McKinney” (illustrated with pictures of McKinney in model-like poses), decries the fact that McKinney was “tarred and feathered in the press” for raising questions about possible government foreknowledge of 9/11. The “crimes of 9/11,” it darkly announces, are “not only unsolved, but covered up by both Democrats and Republicans.”
America’s justice system is another favorite Trumpet theme. Wright likes to call it “the criminal injustice system.” A piece headed “Read Me My Rights: Protocol for Dealing with the Police” decries racial profiling and counsels those detained to refuse to speak to police without a lawyer present. Reginald Williams calls prisons “the new concrete plantations” and likens the inclusion of nonvoting prisoners in state population counts to the official counting of nonvoting slaves in state populations before the Civil War. In other words, the abolition of slavery and segregation notwithstanding, America is still a fundamentally racist nation. Wright likes to call the American North “up South.”

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm

THAT MAKES IT 15 TIMES today that I’ve been called a racist by BHO supporters.
I’M BLACK.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm

Is Wright an anti-white racist? He would certainly deny it. In When Black Men Stand Up for God (a book he coauthored, in praise of Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March), Wright says, “The enemy is not white people. The enemy is white supremacy.” There are white members of Wright’s church, and black liberation theologians have always, if a bit reluctantly, welcomed support from white radicals. Nonetheless, the problem of reverse racism keeps coming up, abetted by episodes like the assault on “garlic-nosed” Italians.
Wright’s swipe at Italians is actually directed toward the Romans who crucified Jesus (in what James Cone calls a “first-century lynching”). Following black liberation theology, Wright emphasizes that the black Jesus was “murdered by the European oppressors who looked down on His people.” In a sense, then, disclaimers notwithstanding, Wright turns the crucifixion into a potential charter for “anti-European” anger.
Wright, however, rejects the notion that “black racism” is even possible. That is why he prefers the term “white supremacy” to “racism.” “Racism,” says Wright, is a “slippery” and “nebulous” term, precisely because it seems potentially applicable to blacks and whites alike. The term “white supremacy” solves this problem, and Wright deploys it at every opportunity.
Wright opposes “assimilation,” expressing displeasure with the likes of Condoleezza Rice, Clarence Thomas, and Colin Powell. He dismisses such blacks as “sell outs.” Wright’s hostility to assimilation goes beyond classic American expressions of pride in ethnic or religious heritage. For example, Wright claims that “desegregation is not the same as integration. .  .  . Desegregation did not mean that white children would now come to Black schools and learn our story, our history, our heritage, our legacy, our beauty and our strength!” This, for Wright, is genuine “integration.”

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm

It’s a three-level validation process before a voter registration form is validated. The ACORN issue is nothing more than a sore-sport non-issue that the Republicans are using to validate their severe losses on November 4th.
Posted by: sandy
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You are as naive as That One, my dear!
With so many nice things that you have to say about ACORN I have to conclude that you are a Marxist yourself.
Sorry- you are excused only if you have no clue about what ACORN really is.

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 8:51 pm 8:51 pm

One of the most striking features of Wright’s Trumpet columns is the light they shed on his longstanding theme of “hope.” Wright’s “Audacity to Hope” sermon is built around a painting he describes of a torn and tattered woman sitting atop a globe and playing a harp that has lost all but a single string. In that sermon, Wright’s allegory of hope amidst despair concentrates on our need to soldier on in faith amidst personal tragedy. Yet the “Audacity” sermon also features allusions to South Africa’s Sharpe-ville Massacre (1960) and “white folks’s greed [that] runs a world in need.”
In Trumpet, the political context of the “hope” theme is harsher still. Instead of counseling determination amidst personal tragedy, Wright uses “hope” to exhort his readers to boldly carry on the long-odds struggle against white supremacist America: “We deconstruct the vicious and demonic ideology of white supremacy with hope.” Here’s another passage in the same mode:
[O]ur fight against Wal-Mart’s practices has not been won and might never be won in our lifetime. That does not mean we stop struggling against what it is they stand for that is not in keeping with God’s will and God’s Kingdom that we pray will come every day.
In that earlier striking passage on the post-Katrina flooding in New Orleans, Wright speaks of his determination to “drum into the heads of our African American children (and indeed, all children!)” the idea that America is flooded with the “crocodiles, alligators and piranha” of white supremacy. That image creates the context for one of Wright’s most energetic invocations of “hope”:
We are on the verge of launching our African-centered Christian school. The dream of that school, which we articulated in 1979, was built on hope. That hope still lives. That school has to have at its core an understanding and assessment of white supremacy as we deconstruct that reality to help our children become all that God created them to be when God made them in God’s own image.
The construction of a school for inner city children undoubtedly falls into the category of the “good works” which nearly everyone recognizes as a benefit bestowed by Trinity Church on the surrounding community, Wright’s ideology notwithstanding. But is a school that portrays America as a white supremacist nation filled with predatory alligators and piranha a good work?
Wright’s status as a father-figure comes through clearly in the pages of Trumpet. In a Trumpet interview, Jesse Jackson characterizes Wright as “between a huge father, pastor, preacher, [and] prophet.” Wright’s young minister protégés call him “Daddy J” and “Uncle J,” and perhaps this latter name prompted Obama’s reference to Wright as “like an uncle.” Obama’s longing for a father figure surely gave him a great hunger to get to know what Wright was about. In their first meeting, Wright warned Obama that many considered him too politically radical, and it is simply inconceivable that in 20 years’ time someone as sharp as Obama did not grasp the intensely political themes repeated in so much of what Wright says and does. Radical politics is no sideline for Wright, but the very core of his theology and practice.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:51 pm 8:51 pm

There can be no mistaking it. What did Barack Obama know and when did he know it? Everything. Always.

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm

ACORN is evil! Obama is evil! Biden is evil! Republicans – God Bless George Bush – sit at the right hand of GOD!
Damn the Democrats! Damn Obama! Damn ACORN!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 8:54 pm 8:54 pm

Barack Hussein Obama is a cancer!

Posted by: white female 4 sarah | October 9, 2008, 8:54 pm 8:54 pm

The Obama-Ayers Coverup [Update]
Will the media ask questions about the Obama-Ayers relationship and its beginnings before 1995, when Ayers helped arranged the hiring of Obama as head of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and maintained a close relationship of its board for years?
Here are some questions the media should be asking and did not ask throughout the long primary season, abdicating its responsibility. Imagine what would have happened if the media had fully vetted Obama and practiced journalism as they should have done.
1.When did Barack Obama first meet Bill Ayers? Was it in New York City? Under what circumstances? Was it at Cooper Union when Ayers was a graduate student there and Obama at Columbia? Was it at Columbia when Ayers was at the teachers’ college?
2.Did Ayers play any role in Obama coming to Chicago as an organizer in 1985? Did the Ayers influence the Woods Fund in any way to subsidize through the Gamaliel Foundation Obama’s job? (The Woods Fund was created by the family of the Safari Coal Company, a major supplier of Commonwealth Edison, whose CEO was Thomas Ayers.)
3.Did Ayers introduce Obama the organizer to his family, his father Tom and brother John? Did they involve Obama in the school reform movement they led in Chicago?
4.Did the Ayers family help Obama become a summer associate at Sidley Austen, the father’s company’s law firm?
5.Did Bernardine Dohrn know Michelle Robinson when they both worked at Sidley at the same time? Did she or Ayers introduce Michelle to Barack at Sidley?
6.Did Dohrn, who attended the University of Chicago Law School with Judson Miner, play any part in helping Obama get a job at the Davis Miner law firm?
UPDATE: It was 40 years ago today that William Ayers was arrested at the Democratic national convention — just like the “Recreate68″ extreme-left protestors at this convention:
It was forty years ago today that Barack Obama friend and political ally, and unrepentant terrorists, William Ayers was arrested while protesting the DNC proceedings. William Ayers set no bombs that day, but he was only working his way up from petty criminal to domestic terrorist. And of course this was long before Barack Obama and he struck up the friendship that would lead Ayers to launch Obama’s political career at his house.
Still, the McCain campaign would take this opportunity to remind voters that those responsible for the violence in 1968 have since been incorporated into the party they once protested, and have been revered even by the likes of Barack Obama, and this despite the failure, in the case of Ayers, to ever apologize for the violence he committed against the American people. (Read all)
The media had better start asking these questions, and demanding answers.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/28/the-obama-ayers-coverup/

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm

Yeb, who the hell cares. We have an economic crisis. I want to know what each one will do.

Posted by: oo | October 9, 2008, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm

Barack Hu ssein Obama is a cancer!

Posted by: white female 4 sarah | October 9, 2008, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm

The messiah speaks, and the young people listen! That’s Louis Farrakhan speaking of Obama running for President! Those are his exact words, recorded on video! Read it and weep you libs! McCain/Palin 2008 Country First
NO TO LIBERIAL SOCIALISM!!!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:56 pm 8:56 pm

McCain supports tax breaks for companies that send American jobs overseas.
Source: Vote 63, 3/17/05; Vote 83, 5/5/04; Vote 517, 10/26/95
McCain opposed increased funding for job training programs to help displaced workers.
Source: Vote 395, 11/20/93; Vote 170, 6/30/05; GOP Debate, 12/12/07; Vote 80, 5/4/04; Vote 111, 5/15/02; Vote 482, 10/10/95
McCain attacked legislation requiring the federal government to purchase American-made goods as the “worst, most disgraceful aspect of the legislative process in Washington.”

Posted by: zz | October 9, 2008, 8:56 pm 8:56 pm

pefros
No one has said “Biden is evil.”
You are making stuff up. “Typical” BHO supporter.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 8:57 pm 8:57 pm

ACORN is evil! Obama is evil! Biden is evil! Republicans – God Bless George Bush – sit at the right hand of GOD!
Damn the Democrats! Damn Obama! Damn ACORN!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 8:57 pm 8:57 pm

corruption = Acorn
Acorn = Obama
Obama = socialism dictatorship
Obama socialism dictatorship = Ayers,
Odinga,
Farrakhan,
Rashid Khalidi,
Rev. Wright,
Father Flager,
Rezko,
Black Panthers,
weather underground,
Chavez,
Castro,
Ahmadinejad etc…

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 8:57 pm 8:57 pm

Ayers, Wright, ACORN and Rezko? That is all you’ve got? They did not work for Hillary, nor will they work for McCain. Go back and read an earlier post on all of the unsavory characters McCain has been associated with – makes Ayers, Wright, ACORN and Rezko look like Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, and Winnie-the-Pooh!

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm

Can anyone imagine the irreparabledamage a Pelosi-Reid-Obama goverment could do?
Can anyone say checks and balances?

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm

sandy
Didn’t those characters sign up with ACORN and vote for Obama?

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm

J.D. – and racists cannot be Black? Give me a break? The color of your skin does not make you a racist. What comes out of your mouth does!

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 9:02 pm 9:02 pm

You guys are so scared that Obama will win. I am LMAO over this. Your 8 years is done. You can use all the scare tactics you want. It’s too late.

Posted by: annie | October 9, 2008, 9:02 pm 9:02 pm

I like puppies and cookies, anyone else?

Posted by: Jimmy | October 9, 2008, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

Obama’s a f-ing Trojan horse sent by those who hate us to destroy us from within. Just watch last Sunday’s Hannity’s America. Obama was helped into Harvard by a ra dical black Mus lim with ties to the Saudis, and views that are right down scary! This person urges blacks to cut off white peoples noses and ears and do with us as they please..”GOD WANTS YOU TO.”
Is this the school of Obama’s thoughts? God help us if this clown ever comes close to the oval office!!

Posted by: whyBarrywhy | October 9, 2008, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

J.D. No a saw them carrying signs outside the local McCain headquarters.

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm

After the last 8 years of Republicans in the White House – kick them out. Have you no brains? You want to give that bunch of filthy rich liers another shot at it? It’s time to give a different bunch of bastards a shot at it. But Republicans are never fair.

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm

Sandy, that’s all you got, LMAO! Ms. Sandy the Indoctrinated liberal socialist her self speaking here, LOL!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

After the last 8 years of damage done by Republicans in the White House – kick them out. Have you no brains? You want to give that bunch of filthy rich liars more power to continue? It’s time to give a different bunch of bastards a shot at it. But Republicans are never fair. Sigh.

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

sandy
Please do not act like Obama won the democratic primaries by a landslide. He divided them based on, of all people, Bill Clinton being seen as a liabilty.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

Friends don’t let friends vote Democrat… no scratch that, I have no problem with a TRUE Democrat.
Friends don’t let friends vote LIBERAL

Posted by: Steve C | October 9, 2008, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm

sandy
Never one time did I mention race in my arguments BHO.
But nonetheless, I’m a racist for disagreeing.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm

It’s either liberal or McCain. I can’t vote for someone that is losing it.

Posted by: annie | October 9, 2008, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm

pefros
And the Democratic Congress has lower approval ratings than Bush.
How do you explain that? Or is that Bush’s fault also?

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm

Sandy, and why is JD racist, because he doesn’t agree with you, that is the most pathetic excuse. You liberal nut cases are the one’s popping up the race card, get over yourselfs and wake up!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 9:10 pm 9:10 pm

Steve C., LMAO, right on bro!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 9:12 pm 9:12 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 9:13 pm 9:13 pm

It seems the Democratic Congress’s idea of “Change” took us from bad to worse.
Where else have I heard about this “Change We Need?” If the current Congress is any indicator, America will lose any HOPE of lasting another 50-100 years.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:13 pm 9:13 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 9:13 pm 9:13 pm

Life, liberty, PURSUIT of happiness, and fairness. Which of these does not belong.

Posted by: TomJones | October 9, 2008, 9:13 pm 9:13 pm

This is the craziest election that I have ever witnessed. The media and the people of America have been blinded. Answer this for me. If the accusations against Obama were against McCain, there would be an outrage. As for Obama’s association with Ayers.I understand Obama was eight when it occured, but the problem is they are still friends. This is a known terrorist. I believe in forgiving people, but how can the next possible CINC be associated with a unrepentive terrorist who says he wish he could have done more. Many want to blame the economy on Bush and say McCain will do the same. If I lived by that mantra,Obama is just as bad because he is a democrat. This economy is bad because banks were forced to give loans to people who could not realistically afford a house. Who’s idea was this? Democrats. Who has tried to get some reform since 2000? Republicans. Who voted down the reform each time/ Democrats. Be careful what you ask for. If you don’t think everyone’s taxes are not going to get raised you are fooling yourself. ACORN is a monster. Who is involved with that? Why were their headquarters in all the swing states? Forget the moderators because it is a sham! Let the canidates go at it, hold nothing back and then let the people decide. Why is it no one is speaking of a congressional hearing on this mess? If we can have hearings on steroids in baseball, we can have one for this. They all have some skeletons, but who has the most. In what country has nationalized health care worked. I just hope and pray my kids won’t grow up in a socialist country. God Bless America

Posted by: Tony | October 9, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm

annie- go get a glass of warm milk and go to bed, sleeping beauty!
The stupid media with their “manipulated polls” missed half of the primary results … every time I turned around they were telling us how they were blown off by the results!
Guess what… I have a gut feeling that they have a “coniption” at about this time on election night! Have you forgotten the “primary surprises”???!!!
The “mother of all surprises” for the media and all America will be at around this time on election night!!
Obama can show up on prome TV as much as he wants – he forgets that Ayers will not go away just because he will show us “his ego” on prime time TV!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm

hum…i have traveled extensively in my lifetime and i have actually lived in several countries for some extended periods, countries in asia, europe, south america and north africa, i have also visited the middle east a few times and always returned with renewed admiration for our great nation and my fellow compatriots and our ability to overcome and move forward, for the stability and civility of our democracy
i have lived thus through many elections in many democracies and “elections” in quasi-democracies, through turbulent times in dictatorships and under some represive goverments and where i always thought we were one of the most civil nations to live and prosper i have seen this past few years too many signs and attitudes i thought i’d never see in my own backyard.
that said, until you see elections in other places and compare them to what’s happening now in america, i have only to see people hurling stones and shooting guns in rallies, and then what next? machetes and knives?
just the other day some a**hole yelled “kill him” refering to obama at one of sarah palin rallies and NO ONE CHALLENGED HIM…NO ONE…everyone heard it, yet we don’t know who he was and whether he has been identified..how many others are there? is this what we are going to become?
it is a sorry day in america when electoral violence, or the threat of it, is ignored…you don’t know where it will all lead…but usually vilifying your opponents is where it all starts…ignorants are so easy to provoque and mccain/palin are doing a heck of a job at inciting their audiences…
and some jerk is accusing bush/bernake/paulson of turning america into a socialist state? they are the one that proposed the bailout plan…so now what?

Posted by: YourAssCrack | October 9, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm

YEP! I did ay he was a racist. What is said was being racist is NOT a matter of color – Blacks can be just as racists as any other person. It is not the color of one’s skin that makes a person a racist – it is what comes out of their mouth. One is not a racist because one happens to have black skin. Racists come in all colors, including black.

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm

sandy
You find it RACIST to point out the FACT that thousands of Blacks are leaving San Francisco due to high than he11 liberal taxation, and liberal, progressive Democrats are gentrifying(code for raising the rent) those former areas.
I stand by my statement.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm

Late Night Talk Shows are having a field day with McCain’s wandering during the debate…
People who say Obama shouldn’t mention McCain’s age are right – the comedy shows are doing all of this for us. Conan was brutal to McCain, but pretty much everyone is showing the video shots of McCain wandering aimlessly around during the debate. He REALLY looks insanely bad in these.

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 9:23 pm 9:23 pm

So what now? Vote McCain/Palin 2008 Country First. He might be a Republican as some say, but he’s not a typical Republican, he’s a Leader ready to Lead! Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Regan!!!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 9:25 pm 9:25 pm

Oprah for Secretary of Education.
Just look at the dismal failure her African school is.

Posted by: no obama 08 | October 9, 2008, 9:26 pm 9:26 pm

FOUND OUT! Remember the only black guy at McCain’s rally in Wisconsin – he WAS a plant. A Republican radio host by the name of James T. Harris. Nice try, McCain!

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 9:27 pm 9:27 pm

Comedians have a record of doing their job, no matter the criticism! Which is exactly what McCain has, a record of doing his job and getting things done with plenty of criticism from both sides of the isle! Obama has no record of getting anything done, and is criticized from the right, and praised from the far left(liberals). What has Obama done to gain such praise? Nothing!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 9:31 pm 9:31 pm

The People Running This Country From 2000 – 2006 IN THE MAJORITY — WERE THE REPUBLICANS. MAY I REMIND EVERYONE THAT BUSH IS STILL IN CHARGE. THIS FIASCO THAT WE SAW AS A CRIMINAL ELEMENT IS NOW STEALING EVERY LAST NAIL IN THE WHITEHOUSE WALLS BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE — HENCE, THE FLEECING OF OUR NATION — YOUR MONEY AND OURS – OPENLY AND BRAZENLY WITHOUT SHAME NOR REMORSE – FROM THE WALL STREET CROOKS TO THE BILLIONAIRE BAILOUTS…..
THE PEOPLE RUNNING THE SHOW FOR THE 6 YEARS OF 2000 – 2006 — WHEN THE REAL ESTATE MARKETS SUDDENLY TOOK OFF AND HAD A “BOOM” IN VALUE — ARE THE VERY SAME PEOPLE NOW FLEECING THE GOVERNMENT BEFORE THE DOOR SLAMS SHUT ON THEIR A**ES BEFORE THEY GO.
WAKE UP — DEMS HAVE ONLY BEEN IN A 1 PERSON – NOT A MAJORITY – BUT ONLY AHEAD BY 1 VOTE — IN THE SENATE FOR ONLY 2 YEARS.
AND YET THE REPUBLICANS FOR THE 6 YEARS OF THESE LIBERAL LENDING POLICIES DID ABSOLUTELY **** NOTHING ***** TO REGULATE THESE WALL STREET CROOKS….
AND THE ANGER THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE IN SOME AREAS IS TOTALLY MISPLACED….
FOLLOW HISTORY — GO BACK IN TIME TO THE BEGINNING OF THIS CREATION OF A FINANCIAL MESS AND LOOK AT THE FACTS….
REPUBLICANS NEED TO LEAVE THE PARTY LIKE US IN ORDER TO EFFECT CHANGE FROM THE OUTSIDE.
THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS HIJACKED BY A CRIMINAL ELEMENT — NOW OPENLY STEALING AS THE BUSHITES ARE PREPARING TO LEAVE OFFICE.
AFTER ALL, IF ONLY PAPA BUSH’S SUPREME COURT HAD NOT STOLEN THE 2000 ELECTION — AND WE HAD GORE INSTEAD FOR PRESIDENT –
JUST THINK OF ALL THAT $$$$$$$$$ MONEY THAT WE ALL COULD HAVE SAVED….
MAY THE WRATH OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BE FILLED WITH THE REAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE CRIMINALS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WHO ARE STEALING EVERYTHING IN SIGHT -
INCLUDING THIS COMING ELECTION.
NO MORE PAIN, NO MORE MCCAIN=PAIN EXPRESS.
TIME FOR REAL REVOLUTION.
THE BOSTON HARBOR AWAITS.

Posted by: AnonymousFormerRepublicans | October 9, 2008, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm

sandy
No refutiation of my (according to you) RACIST statement.
Or has HuffingtonPost, MSNBC, DailyKos, CNN, BHO’s website, US Weekly, Rolling Stone, Matt Damon, etc… not provided an answer?

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:35 pm 9:35 pm

pefros
“Typical” Obama drone. I ask him a question and his cut-and-paste program has begun working overtime.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm

Anonymous, will please explain to everyone how many times the Democrats filibustered bills during those years! Hello, tell the whole truth, because we all know how hard it is for liberals to tell the TRUTH! Obama is a perfect example of that, and evidently his supporters show the same naivete actions!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 9:41 pm 9:41 pm

JD, LMAO!!!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm

you – sorry for the typo!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm

Out!

Posted by: YEP! | October 9, 2008, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm

Obama is a homosexual…he loves it in the rear.

Posted by: Kevin | October 9, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm

YEP!
Keep up the good fight, thankfully it is almost over.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm

J.D. – a racist is a racist regardless of color. I stand by MY statement.
The typical drone on this blog deos not coming from the liberals – but from the Republicans who only spout what their talking heads ell them to say. Republican blogger after blogger uses the same tired talking points. They did not hold water during the primaries, nor will they now. What Bush and McCain have done to the Republican party is their own fault. Conservatism will have to give way to a new party – conservatism as I have known it all of my life is dead. Young Republicans are more open-minded, more liberal, more educated than their older counterparts and unlike their older counterparts, most of them have learned to think for themselves.

Posted by: sandy | October 9, 2008, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm

I have just one thing to say. This great deep dark secret you’ve got on Obama is his ‘relationship’ with Ayers? Really, That’s all you’ve got? BBWAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Posted by: Jaycee | October 9, 2008, 9:50 pm 9:50 pm

Obamas favorite Acorn program is voter fraud. Acorn people have been busy registering people in prison an even under age. They haven’t stopped there they went into retirement homes to sign up people who don’t even know their own names let alone who Obama is. They even helped Illegal Mexicans get drivers licenses and voter registration cards.this has been reported by USA today.

Posted by: Rob | October 9, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm

sandy
So you find it RACIST to point out a FACT? Obviously, you are a person of science.
PS: I’m a young Republican with 2 engineering degrees(electronic and mechanical). Please tell me more about logic. I didn’t learn enough of it in 7 years of college.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm

Now we all see how hypocritical some Republicans are; not to mention showing what real cry babies act like.
If the campaigns were switched and it was McCain leading, who thinks we’d be seeing so much vile, unAmerican behavior from the Republicans?
Some are blatantly racist, some believe campaign much-to-do-about-nothing from the McCain campaign who stopped running on issues long ago, but mostly, they can’t admit that their Conservative ideals have lead the country into a big sink whole but the record doesn’t lie. Our country under Republican rule is not working: we’re overly militaristic, we can’t pay our bills, can’t take care our people’s health, can’t give our children a education good, can’t keep the infrastructure strong, we waste energy as a rule, and we’ve suspended Constitutional freedoms in the name of “war”.
Republicans are reaping their true rewards for voting Bush two elections in a row; not to mention Reagan & Bush three elections in a row.
It’s hilarious. They actually think that Obama is going to destroy the nation. And they call Democrats naive.

Posted by: Necniv | October 9, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm

Rob
ACORN’s philosophy is to overwhelm the system with fraud. That way some of them still slip thru.
Kinda like drug dealers do on the border.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm

Necniv
Please inform us of how your Constitutional Rights have been dramatically altered. Unless you are a terrorist, terrorist-sympathizer, or just a good ole American thug, you have nothing to worry about.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm

No matter what evidence we have on Obama the left doesn’t care if they are voting for Hitler ,Stalin or Jack the ripper. They think as long as he is not a conservative he is good.

Posted by: Mike | October 9, 2008, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

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

Mike
Well said. They hate Bush so much they are willing to turn the US into a socialist nation.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm

Mccain supporters aren’t mad about the economy because its their president who screwed it up. So they want to blame it on socialism. Mccains stupid mortgage gimmick is the biggest Socialist program their is. Republicans better watch out as we Democrats and independents already know there’s to many faces of Mccain.

Posted by: Brian | October 9, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

I find the left insulting. My family fought during the civil war to free slaves. yet these people have proclaimed that they didn’t and anything I have to say is racist.My family has voted to end discrimination yet the left has continued to defame my family by calling me racist. We has inter married with many different races and yet they still say the same trash. I call all you liberals fakes and liars. For all your education your just voting for Obama from some stupid region in your behinds

Posted by: Rob | October 9, 2008, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

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

Brian
If the Republicans are to blame for this economic mess, then why haven’t the Democrats call for an investigation? Surely both sides would like to tear the guilty offenders apart.
My answer is that the Democrats are protecting their own. CHANGE WE NEED, right? Transparency, right?

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm

I think Mccain/Palin bit off more than they can chew rallying up the radical right. Its new to Mccain because he’s really not a conservative. So Mccain is on the stump snubbing some of the comments his fellow prisoners are asking him. How can Mccain show his face in the Senate after this horrible campaign. Where is his honor and dignity?

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

I have complete trust and our next president John McCain. He will lead this great country back to victory.He will win. God is always on the right side and sentor John McCain is on that side. May God Bless our next president John McCain and our GREAT country AMERICA.
John McCain my friend, may God lead you to victory in this election and give you the knowledge you need to over come the wicked one.
GOD BLESS

Posted by: jan p | October 9, 2008, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm

Obama tried to get a 200 million bail out for Acorn that McCain got tossed out. Acorn doesn’t do much and just enough to claim being legit. The money they don’t use they use to campaign for Obama and register people who are not of this country . They have fraudulent voter cards so they can stuff the ballot box in Obamas favor.Maybe homeland security should investigate and put Obama out of business.

Posted by: Mike | October 9, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama policies have their fingerprints all over the economic mess we are in.
If it were a Republican, the Democratic party would have named names instantly. But all we hear is “Bush did it.”

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 10:19 pm 10:19 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

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

Hello ACORN, I’m Attorney General Rudolph Guiliani, please meet my friend RICO.
Coming this spring.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm

Obama better buy some airtime on FoxNews. They are the #1 cable news channel, according to Nielsen.
The hacks on CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and ABC wonder why their ratings are tanking.

Posted by: no obama 08 | October 9, 2008, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm

People please- we are taking about politicians here. Not saints. Neither Obama nor McCain is free of sin or unsavory associations. I mean the majority of Americans elect a guy of high moral standing last time around and look what that got you- the biggest deficit in history and a war nobdy likes, and started socialsim before the liberal even got elected. The problem is you guys nominated the wrong guy- sure he’s a hero but guess what- he old, he is a flip flopper, and worse of all he starts every sentence with “my friends”. We should have picked Romney at least he knew would know how to beat back Obama in this ecomomic crisis but noooo you religious elitist couldn’t have a mormon.

Posted by: JimBeam | October 9, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

WHO IS REAL SEN JOHN MCCAIN?
Here is real Sen John McCain. Our hero and our American dream
Sen John McCain should be rewarded with the Oval Office for all his unparallel work in Vietnam.
Here are the reasons:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/schanberg
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/
http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1794

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

First let me say this…the board on which Obama shared with Ayers was also shared with people who work on the McCain campaign. Hmmm…Funny they never mentioned that.
ACORN registered 1.3 million people of BOTH sides of the ticket. There have been duplicates, but as far as voters are concerned some people write down names to be funny, or to get people to leave them alone. Some people don’t know if they are already resigtered to vote, and some people do stupid things to pissed people off. I’m not making excuses, but they are working with the board of elections and pulling out any registrations that are fraudulant. The system isn’t perfect, but the accusations that Obama is directly involved with voter fraud is ridiculous.
Let’s not forget the bigget voter fraud in US History 8 years ago. If you can honestly say Bush had nothing to do with that, then you have no room to open your mouths about Obama. ACORN is an non-partisan program that has dedicated itself to get minorities and other groups to vote. If minorites tend to lean Dem, that is not their problem.
There is ALWAYS voter fraud issues around elections. So far only one ever effected an election.

Posted by: Ohplease! | October 9, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

$500,000 for 30 minutes to babble about nothing. Think of all the poor people Obama could help with that $500,000. What a waste of money. And this man claims he’s going to change America. He might change it all right, but I’m sure it won’t be for the better. Please people, vote for anyone but Obama.

Posted by: J | October 9, 2008, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm

ACORN is an non-partisan program–OhPlease
That is a good one. Have you heard the one about….

Posted by: no obama 08 | October 9, 2008, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

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

The only thing Obama wants to CHANGE is his title from “most-liberal Senator” to “most liberal President.”
This man is all about himself.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

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

I HOPE his primetime Obamamania climax doesn’t coincide with anything Oprah was planning to do that night.
“CHANGE WE NEED” should be “CHANGE, GOT ANY LEFT?”

Posted by: obama's drug dealer | October 9, 2008, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm

I’m beginning to think Republicans and lemmings have a lot in common. It doesn’t take much for someone to repeat something false and ridiculous, or it to spread like wildfire. Don’t even bother fact checking anymore. It’s irrelevant. You can’t argue with nonsense.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_whoppers_of_2008.html
Facts about both Candidates lies.

Posted by: Ohplease! | October 9, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

No Obama:
Why don’t you PROVE to me that it isn’t non-partisan? At least do your homework.

Posted by: Ohplease! | October 9, 2008, 10:54 pm 10:54 pm

OhPlease
A breakthru has been made in my eyes. Did I just read that BHO lies, and it came from a BHO supporter.
That is something I have never heard in these last 19+ months of this election.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm

OhPlease
Why have no Democrats called for an investigation into ACORN? Why did the Democratic Congress try to funnel them 20% of future profits on the bailout bill? Why did BHO donate $800,000 to ACORN?
Must be because they are also bipartisan. Right?
Again, claiming that ACORN is bipartisan is another of the BIG ones I’ve heard here.
When God was handing out brains, BHO supporters must have been doing blow in the bathroom with the Chosen One.

Posted by: no obama 08 | October 9, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm

Posted by: Jane D. | October 9, 2008, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm

Democratic tactics have divided this nation into 3 camps:
1. Ex-Hillary supporters
2. McCain/Palin supporters
3. the far left wing.
Hillary must be laughing her head off by now.
PS: Haven;t seen Bill Clinton doing much for BHO lately. Anyone wanna bet that he and Hillary vote for McCain?

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h0zX5SwQKnukSn9Ul4Wo5x-mihIg
Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

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

THAT MAKES IT 15 TIMES today that I’ve been called a racist by BHO supporters.
I’M BLACK.
Posted by: J.D. | Oct 10, 2008 12:50:04 AM
———————————
Shame on OHB supporters…
Btw, leadership starts at the top – OHB is an anti-American – it does not matter if you are black or white – he is a “elitist” Marxist who hates any patriotic American no matter whay their color!
Btw, OHB is an egomaniac!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 11:14 pm 11:14 pm

I would like to make a point here. I was watching Hannity and Colmes and Hanitty the same person who attacked Clinton for his affair was defecding Mccain for cheating on his wife using the old POW thing. It is amazing to me how the partisan thing plays out. Anyone is willing to defend their party for their shortcomings yet I’m sure just about everyone that is breathing has a skeleton in the closet some worse than others. I don’t play into the partisan thing one bit I just vote on who I think the best person to handle office will be in this case I think it is hands down Obama and it troubles me the hatred and rhetoric being made towards him as what I can only describe as racist and seeing how I live in the bible belt south I know this mentality very well. Very scary indeed to accuse someone of “palling around with terrorists.” I so want to see Obama get into office because I think the Republicans are an absolute disgrace right now. I just hope after the election they’ll use the same fortitude they used to stir up anger to tell people to take a chill pill and unite.

Posted by: Dee | October 9, 2008, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

The last 8 years wasn’t enough! Vote Republican! We want MORE! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm

Dee
I didn’t realize that McCain got a hummer in the Oval Office by one of his interns.
Your comparison is moot.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 11:21 pm 11:21 pm

BHO supporters:
Please stop calling him a Democrat. Socialist, communist, elitist, etc… but he is not anywhere near worthy of the platform of JFK or FDR. Maybe in your eyes, but not in historical circles.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm

Obama supporters, please make sure to donate $5 or $10 bucks tonight to help pay for this air time.
Who do you want to cut away the tumors in our economy and our country? A surgeon like Obama, or a Maverick with the T&A patrol?
Make sure you donate! Every vote counts !!

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 9, 2008, 11:30 pm 11:30 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 11:32 pm 11:32 pm

Obama step down before the Federal Court rules against you! Illegal aliens are not allowed to run for public office.
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.
http://WWW.obamacrimes.com
Honesty is the Best policy!
Posted by: Just-the-facts
————————————–
Ahahaha…ha! OHB and honesty! He plays naive about it!
:-)

Posted by: Natasha | October 9, 2008, 11:33 pm 11:33 pm

I like Obama’s style get in America’s racist face. This is a great strategy.

Posted by: Average Voter | October 9, 2008, 11:33 pm 11:33 pm

Will BHO be using his own presidential seal for his self-flaggelating, vote for me or you are a RACIST speech?

Posted by: no obama 08 | October 9, 2008, 11:34 pm 11:34 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm

Average Voter
The “get in their face” attitude of ACORN is how we got into this economic mess in the first place. It’s called socialism.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 11:36 pm 11:36 pm

But No Obama you are a racist! Did you know that 9/11 was the best thing that could happen to America because that building represented corporate greed and was filled with Republicans? Obama was right not to wear that stupid flag pin. Obamais the change that America needs

Posted by: Average Voter | October 9, 2008, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm

All this terrorist nonsense needs to stop for sure.
No one, and I mean NO one has more direct funding involvement in supporting terrorist the the Republican Bush Family.
That is a fact that no one here can deny. You can try and try, and stick your head in the sand all you like, but if you do your research proper (not on the interwebboobtube) you will find out reality.
So how can any Republicans say anything about voting in people who fund terrorist for the past eight years.
Bin-laden was CIA payroll during the Russia-Afghanistan War. Deal with it.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 9, 2008, 11:39 pm 11:39 pm

We need more of the Republicans! 8 Years of Republican Governnent was not enough! Vote Republican! Again!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 11:39 pm 11:39 pm

Eight More Years!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 11:40 pm 11:40 pm

Average Voter
I’m Black. Am I commiting black-on-half black racism? Is that possible?
Maybe in an Obamanation.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 11:41 pm 11:41 pm

The people that jumped from the top of the World Trade Center were eating at a fancy restaurant. Most made over $250,000 a year the kind of people who does not give a care about the little guy on Main Street. I did not shed a tear and Obama will set this country to its rightful place.

Posted by: Average Voter | October 9, 2008, 11:42 pm 11:42 pm

Okay, all you Republicans chant along with me . . . .
Eight More Years!
Eight More Years!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

In 2 postings “Average Voter” sums up the “typical BHO supporter.”
Use Stalinist tactics, celebrate 9/11, and don’t “wear that stupid flag pin.”
Thanks for the insight.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm

Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals at the recent Olympics. Don’t you think he should have been forced to give 7 of them to people who didn’t place? Wouldn’t that have been “fair”?
The New England Patriots finished their 2007 season 16-0. THe Oakland raiders finished it 4-12. Shouldn’t the Patriots have been forced to give the raiders 7 wins to bring the Raiders up to a “fair” number?
Let’s say you have a 4.0 GPA from studying rigorously and working hard. Your friend the partier has a 2.0. Shouldn’t you be required to give him a point from your GPA so that it can all be “fair” at 3.0?
Those making $250k in this country gave 35% of their money to the federal government in income and a certain percentage in state income, as well as sales tax, property tax, etc. Many other people have no job, or a job that pays them less money. Shouldn’t those making $250k be forced to pay an even higher percentage of their salary to bring up the “salary” of those who make less or nothing at all? Isn’t it more “fair” if everyone makes the same?

Posted by: SmallBiz241 | October 9, 2008, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm

JD if you are black then you are jealous of Obama. You may be of low station in your life and many blacks cannot be more than bus drivers. Obama will give blacks hope. They have a role model in him. He is articulate and educated which is different than many black men. Ultimately he will eclipse MLK as the best the blacks can do.

Posted by: Average Voter | October 9, 2008, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm

IMHO I can’t ever understand the idea of a Black Republican.
Black/Brown people are still not allowed full membership to most White Republican country clubs. How can you be a part of a party that STILL does not allow women to eat with men, and STILL does not allow black members in their clubs.
Incredible. It’s 2008, and you really need to understand you are being hoodwinked.
I understand and respect conservative views, but I think you need to understand some basic human rights, that are too you at best, are just privileges.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 9, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 11:47 pm 11:47 pm

“The people that jumped from the top of the World Trade Center were eating at a fancy restaurant. Most made over $250,000 a year the kind of people who does not give a care about the little guy on Main Street. I did not shed a tear and Obama will set this country to its rightful place.”
Average voter is inline with Bill Ayers.
What a fu***g slime.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 11:47 pm 11:47 pm

9/11 was America’s just desserts and many of you hide behind phony patriotism. There is no reason why a person should make $250K when there are people who are in need.

Posted by: Average Voter | October 9, 2008, 11:49 pm 11:49 pm

I THINK A LOT OF YOU PEOPLE NEED TO GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT AND READ MORE THAN JUST “PEOPLE” MAGAZINE:
Associated Press:
To press its argument, the McCain campaign also released a 90-second Web ad about Obama and Ayers.
“Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They’ve worked together for years,” the ad says. The ad also claims that one of the nonprofits on which Obama and Ayers worked was a radical education foundation.
That educational foundation was The Annenberg Challenge. It was funded by the Annenberg Foundation, a charity set up by longtime Republican backer and newspaper publisher Walter Annenberg. Annenberg has died, but his wife has endorsed McCain this year. For his work on this educational project, Chicago gave Ayers its “Citizen of the Year” award in 1997.

Posted by: oliver | October 9, 2008, 11:49 pm 11:49 pm

JD I bet your thermostat is above 72 degrees

Posted by: Average Voter | October 9, 2008, 11:50 pm 11:50 pm

Obama Bomaye–Black/Brown people are still not allowed full membership to most White Republican country clubs. How can you be a part of a party that STILL does not allow women to eat with men, and STILL does not allow black members in their clubs
Boy, talk about stereotyping. Hate is a virtue bestowed onto BHO supporters.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm

Eight More Years!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm

I am from NY, and went to the Trade Center to help as soon as it happened. And you know what we found, we found parts, not rich people.
75% of the people there where not the stupid rich, they where simple people, of ALL ethnicities and had nothing to do with banking.
Whom ever it was who is talking nonsense about 9/11, your an idiot. Stop talking about things you know nothing about.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 9, 2008, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm

J.D. I know this as fact from people who have worked in these clubs as staff. It still happens in 2008. It’s shocking, I know, It’s frikin amazing even. But it’s the real deal.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 9, 2008, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm

There is no reason why a person should make $250K when there are people who are in need.–Average voter
Spoken like a true socialist.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm

Obama Bomaye! you are Naive. 9/11 was something that needed to happen. The people in that building were mostly rich corporate slime who fleeced average Americans. That is why no one tried to really save it and it fell like a house of cards into the pile of dust it should have been. It was the price we paid for electing Bush. Obama would have put an end to those people right off. He will make changes so people like the WTC and its ilk never rise to power in America again.

Posted by: Average Voter | October 9, 2008, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm

Eight More Years!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm

No JD spoken like a true American. Show me a guy that makes over $45K a year and I will show you a dishonest man.

Posted by: Average Voter | October 9, 2008, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm

Obama Bomaye
Wow, all I had to do to get into my country club is apply and pay my dues.
Could it be that your “friends” need to stop complaining and try to become members?
Maybe they will if BHO gives them enough welfare.

Posted by: J.D. | October 9, 2008, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm

Eight More Years! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 9, 2008, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm

Average Voter–”Show me a guy that makes over $45K a year and I will show you a dishonest man.”
Man, you must be one sad individual. I am an engineer(electromechanical) and no place for dishonesty.
PS: I easily made over 45K last year, so does that mean I’m a dishonest engineer. Not there can be such thing, as the proof is in the pudding as we say.

Posted by: J.D. | October 10, 2008, 12:03 am 12:03 am

pefros. You are a stupid racist. The repubs will never get 8 more years.

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 12:03 am 12:03 am

Average Voter, are you a special needs person?
I was there fool. I saw the several hundred missing persons faces every day all over this city fro months. And most of them were by god not rich people.
These where dead people who’s families will never see again. Don’t disrespect people you don’t know in places you don’t know.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 12:04 am 12:04 am

JD you are a liar. First you say you are black. Then you claim to be an engineer. Which one is it? Tell the truth. Or are you a hater like Jesse Jackson?

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 12:05 am 12:05 am

Obama Bomaye
Well we can agree on something. Average voter is a schmuck.

Posted by: J.D. | October 10, 2008, 12:05 am 12:05 am

Show me a white adult who makes under 40k a year and I will show you one frustrated fool, who didn’t clearly play the hand that the good lord jesus gave him.
This is America. If you are white, you have no excuse.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 12:08 am 12:08 am

“JD you are a liar. First you say you are black. Then you claim to be an engineer. Which one is it? Tell the truth.”
And they say Republicans are racist.

Posted by: J.D. | October 10, 2008, 12:08 am 12:08 am

Cut in half one lime. Using a hand juicer, squeeze lime into a cup. Add honey to taste. Add boiled water. Drink

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 12:09 am 12:09 am

Obama Bomaye! What doyou mean places I don’t know. I am American. What are you? Do you believe the lies that the Republicans pasted for you to see. The phony pictures? Do you think that Bin Laden would take out a place like a park or school. No. Why is that because all of the greedy corporate jerks worked in that building. They jumped and what did they think? Their money could not save them.An Obama presidency will mean the end of people like that.
He also should put an end to that new wtc they are building it is a complete waste of money for the little guy.

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 12:10 am 12:10 am

Make that 16 times I’ve been called a RACIST by BHO supporters.
PS: I’m black and a 6th generation American.

Posted by: J.D. | October 10, 2008, 12:11 am 12:11 am

We need another man kind of like Bush. An administration similar to Bush with some of the same advisors. I recommend another Republican – John McCain and his advisors.
Eight More Years! Eight More Years!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 12:13 am 12:13 am

Average Voter
It is easy to post your nonsensical drivel anonymously online. Try walking up to a NY fireman and spouting of your hate.

Posted by: J.D. | October 10, 2008, 12:14 am 12:14 am

“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
—Michelle Obama
That is what America should be about. Michelle is right. The WTC was a greed cave. People in NYC are the prime example, $3000 a month apartments shopping at Century 21 for clothes they don’t need. $10 to cross the Holland Tunnel. That is greed. Obama will make everyone work together and share. That is the way it should be.
Obama 08′

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 12:15 am 12:15 am

God Bless the Republicans! God Damn the Democrats!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 12:15 am 12:15 am

American Yes, but you are not a New Yorker, and this did not happen less then a mile away from your door step.
Your an idiot. I sat there with 200 Fireman that lost dozens of their friends, I saw fire engines ripped to shreds and you are going to tell me it was a bunch of rich people who died.
Bush gave the executive order to fly the Bin Laden family out of the country. These where the only non military air craft in the air that day, because Bush Sr is in business with the Saudi bin-Laden family..

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 12:16 am 12:16 am

Free the Rich!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 12:17 am 12:17 am

JD the firemen were unfortunate casualties of class warfare. It was not their fault but that is what happens you know. They were trying to save the rich people that worked there and died in the process.

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 12:17 am 12:17 am

Give the Rich Another Chance! Vote McCain!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 12:18 am 12:18 am

Sandy: You said that I’m not a Christian because you think that I support hatred and bigotry! I have never said anything about Barack Obama’s color! You are the one who brought up race! It was not me! You are the one who is filled with hatred and are the bigot! His color doesn’t matter to me in the least! I didn’t say anything about it! If he represented my views I would have no problem voting for him! But he doesn’t represent my views! And, as Ive said before, I think he is a fast talking con man! His race has nothing to do with it, though! I would say the same about him if he were a white man or any other color! I don’t agree with his plan to fix the economy or his plan to pull the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan or his stand on abortion! I will also tell you that I don’t believe anyone can be a Christian that is for killing innocent unborn babies! Obama even voted against a bill when he was a state senator in Illinois that would have outlawed the killing of babies who were born alive as the result of abortions! He thought it would chip away at Roe v Wade! If he were a real Christian he would be trying every thing that he could to do away with Roe v Wade! I also believe that he did indeed associate with Bill Ayers when he was in Chicago and I think he knew exactly who Bill Ayers is and what he did even if Barack was only eight years old when Ayers did his bombings! He also associated with Louis Farakhan and other thugs when he was in Chicago. He was also involved in much corruption in the government, both city and state, when he was in Illinois. Those are the reasons that I’m not voting for him! His race has absolutely nothing to do with it!

Posted by: carlyonsue | October 10, 2008, 12:20 am 12:20 am

Eight More Years! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 12:20 am 12:20 am

carlyonsue
Obama’s color is red. He is neither black nor white.

Posted by: J.D. | October 10, 2008, 12:22 am 12:22 am

Obama Bomaye says:Your an idiot. I sat there with 200 Fireman that lost dozens of their friends, I saw fire engines ripped to shreds and you are going to tell me it was a bunch of rich people who died.
To me losing 200 was worth it to get rid of the rest of the parasites. That is the truth my friend and you need to ope your eyes. Obama was so accurate as to not wear that pin. There was nothing inherently American about the WTC.
i will use his words
“I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest…” — Barack Obama
There was nothing about that building that was patriotic. Why commemorate it? My man Barack called it like he saw it.

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 12:23 am 12:23 am

“To me losing 200 was worth it to get rid of the rest of the parasites.”–BHO supporter
The fact that the WTC was located in America and full of Americans makes it patriotic.
BHO supporters come from the “one born every minute” crowd.

Posted by: J.D. | October 10, 2008, 12:27 am 12:27 am

I’m afraid the Republican brand is tarnished beyond repair. Hopefully the United States is not.
Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 12:27 am 12:27 am

Troopergate is HERE!

Posted by: Fannie Mae Green | October 10, 2008, 12:30 am 12:30 am

JD I would beg to argue that just because a place has Americans in it does not mean it is patriotic. You have to look at the transactions that took place in that building stand for as whole. It was everything that a truly equal America is against.
The right wing brings up Rev. Wright as a distraction and twists his words:
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.” — Jeremiah Wright
What Wright is saying is that the World Trade Center was nothing that equality stood for. There is nothing hateful by saying that. It was just twisted and not seen for the message that warns us that greed will not go unpunished.
Obama 08

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 12:34 am 12:34 am

It is ridiculous for McCain to criticize Obama for not taking public funds when MOST of Obama’s funds come from the public. He has an historically large campaign donor base — most of whom are small contributors. What could possibly be MORE public! Also, McCain is someone who has, for most of his life, been slopping at the public trough. His only stint in the public sector was short-lived and working for his wealthy father-in-law. Give me a BREAK!
Finally, in response to Hillary’s rant which put this whole Ayers thing in the spotlight — what a hypocrite — she sat down with the Woods Foundation during her failed attempt to nationalize health insurance. Stop responding to these well-crafted sound bites and get your facts straight John Q Public or you will wind up with more of the same!

Posted by: Deborah from NC | October 10, 2008, 12:36 am 12:36 am

New Yorkers prefer if America stayed away, and didn’t feel our pain to be honest. We don’t consider our self to really be anything like anyone outside, and don’t really want to hear about what people think they know about the WTC and 9/11.
As for the Rich that everyone goes on about, the building wasn’t even a 3rd full that day, so most who showed up where just everyday New Yorkers, not the bankers.
I don’t like the rich idiots on Wall St. and at the WTC anymore then anyone else but people really, don’t talk about the WTC and who was in it unless you are here in NYC, and where here on 9/11 and know what you are talking about. You sound like a fool.
I am a devout libertarian and I know both parties are pretty messed up (I despise the Clintons as they are as bas as the Bushs.)
Obama is smart and listens to the smartest guy in the room, and McCain/Palin are chaos, and think they are the smartest in the room.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 12:42 am 12:42 am

Deborah,
Hillary is a stupid racist and so is Bill Clinton. Obama has overcome all obstacles such as the Clintons and he will also overcome McCain and Palin. Palin is a real prize flaunting her retarded baby around for all to see and gain sympathy. I would cast one vote for either of them. Never elect anything that leaks once a month. Hillary is a victim of Bill Clinton. Obama was smart and did not choose that racist liar.
26 more days till the US gets its best president- Obama. When that happens Obama will get rid of the Clintons once and for all and for the good of everyone.

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 12:43 am 12:43 am

ayers is connected to mccain as well, by one degree of walter annenberg. ayers is a distinguished professor now which the mayor of chicago vouches for. mccain is connected to pro-life extremists who bombed abortion clinics (and good friends with george bush, who shook hands with osama bin laden). you can’t blame ACORN for a few bad eggs that quickly filled out voter information falsely. The company’s intent is in the right place.
obama is putting together a transitional team in case he’s elected. over the next few weeks we’ll learn who his cabinet might be, which are THE most important associates we can worry about. he’s surrounded himself with a smarter campaign than mccain, and joe biden was a very good pick in term of foreign affairs. let’s see who else he’d have.
if he looks to be making some smart picks there, do we really need to worry about past “shady connections?” i’m sure if you looked, you could find more from mccain, and his judgment in the last few weeks is definitely questionable.

Posted by: Dignity to the Presidency | October 10, 2008, 12:45 am 12:45 am

Average Voter
You are a coward and a disgrace to all Americans, keep your garbage on DailyKos.
F*CK you and all other that think like you.

Posted by: J.D. | October 10, 2008, 12:46 am 12:46 am

Average voter. One day you will be a dribbling idiot you POS negra.

Posted by: swx650 | October 10, 2008, 12:50 am 12:50 am

Obama Bayme said: New Yorkers prefer if America stayed away, and didn’t feel our pain to be honest. We don’t consider our self to really be anything like anyone outside, and don’t really want to hear about what people think they know about the WTC and 9/11.”
You sound like a secessionist to me and the more I look at your statements the more I want to tell you that sorry to burst your bubble but New York is American and belongs to eveyone. if you don’t think so give me my tax dollars back so it can stop paying for Soho and the other trendy neighborhoods that you so love. You sit and drink your bubble tea and pay too munch for rent while people pat for your lifestyle. Libertarian my a$$. Obama is going to come in and do wealth distribution like he has instituted in Chicago. Chicago is 10 times the better city than NYC and cleaner because Obama instituted 10.25% sales tax to make them pay for the parks and things they enjoyed.
you can stay isolated but the WTC was an American building that deserved to be a martyr for greed.
Obama ‘O8

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 12:51 am 12:51 am

It’s True. Obama and McCain are both connected to Ayers. And both take money from supporters of Ayers.
Ayers is now mute.
As for the Clintons. Yes they have ties to the United Daughters of the Confederacy. That’s like the Bake Sale group for the *clan* that you would think it’s sounds like they would be associated with.
The fact that he beat the Clinton’s, who do sadly the same fear mongering and wink wink politicking that Palin does, gives me hope he will overcome this gang as well.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 12:52 am 12:52 am

“Ms. Palin has denied that anyone told Mr. Monegan to dismiss Mr. Wooten, or that the commissioner’s ouster had anything to do with the trooper.”
“In all, the commissioner and his aides were contacted about Mr. Wooten 36 times over 19 months by the governor, her husband and seven administration officials, interviews and documents show.”

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 12:54 am 12:54 am

average voter, that’s pretty creepy that you say “never elect anything that leaks once a month.” clinton & palin may not be the best picks, but if you call out racism while at the same time being misogynistic, it kind of negates your argument. you’re reducing women to “things” which goes beyond racism.
are you sure you’re not a republican?

Posted by: Dignity to the Presidency | October 10, 2008, 12:54 am 12:54 am

If Obama Hussein wins he will turn this nation into Haiti and South Africa with rampant racial violence, appoint a black militia and whites and hispanics will be running for the Mexican border. Be ready to cash in and run from the sewer he will turn this nation into.

Posted by: Obamination | October 10, 2008, 12:55 am 12:55 am

Dignity to be President
Obama has a transitional team and already has people in mind like Valerie Jarret and some Chicago democrats that are known for getting things done. Obama Endorsed Alexi Giannoulias For Illinois State Treasurer and he is Greek American involved in foreign affairs and would make at great Sec of Treasury.
Obama ’08

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 12:55 am 12:55 am

Dignity I feel that women do not make good politicians. Both Palin and Clinton have husbands that are corrupt and so does Pelosi who while I am a democrat she is terrible speaker of the house. Obama should boot her right off when he gets in.
Obama 08′

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 12:58 am 12:58 am

Each night I pray to God we get 8 more years of good Republican leadership in this country. Eight more years! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 12:59 am 12:59 am

Great, so along with the commercial ads every 20 minutes and radio and etc. etc. No telling how many more millions Obama’s camp will spend to obtain the Presidency.
It’s not surprising that he chooses the networks he has chosen these same networks have been very instrumental in helping him in his successful polls. I feel it’s time for the media to step out of this race and let the people decide. Why should we be subjected to more propaganda. If Obama was qualified to be President he wouldn’t have had to spend so much money and resort to public manipulations.

Posted by: OurCountryFirst | October 10, 2008, 12:59 am 12:59 am

pefros you better be prepared because Jesus was a community organizer and a democrat. You better pray to Satan. That is the REPUBLICAN’S GOD.
Obama 08′

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 1:01 am 1:01 am

Vote Republican! We want MORE! The last 8 years weren’t enough! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 1:02 am 1:02 am

Average Voter, you are one funny nugget. You really don’t know New York at all. I don’t like that nonsense in my New York either, but it’s better then a Mall I suppose.
I am all for Obama, since I saw him on Charlie Rose well before he was running.
And I know for sure the McCain/Palin ticket has all the makings of a Beer Hall Putsch with their SS Sheriff spouting hatred, that will set off a downward economic spiral that will leave our country in total chaos. And when McCain bounces and Palin takes over as president it’s gonna get really fun.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 1:02 am 1:02 am

Chant with me now Republicans . .. Eight More Years! Eight More Years!
Eight More Years!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 1:03 am 1:03 am

perfros you hopped up cutie. I bet the boys just love you in the shower. all you want is more more more.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 1:06 am 1:06 am

Obama Bomaye!, i agree with you on the clintons–and the WTC. isn’t it funny how the people most shocked by 9/11(and use the event to fuel their right-wing ideology) live in the cornfields of Nebraska, perhaps the safest place from Terrorist attacks? rural america voted for bush, but i feel like the city dwellers feel the consequences…of course i’m generalizing, but it’s getting to the point where city-dwellers & rural people so obviously have a different view of what this country should be.

Posted by: Dignity to the Presidency | October 10, 2008, 1:06 am 1:06 am

Obama Bomaye! YOU are a fool. I went to Hunter College so I do know New York. I also know that it is an evil place full of greed with your evil Mayor seeking to lift term limits.
The World trade Center was a disgrace to equality and NYC is better off without it and the people that died in it.
Obama o8′

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 1:07 am 1:07 am

Average voter is a Republican troll. C’mon – you people aren’t really buying that crap, are you? The purpose is to stir you up against Obama – it’s too obvious.

Posted by: Jane D. | October 10, 2008, 1:07 am 1:07 am

It’s time for Democratic corruption to have a chance at things, Republican corruption is boring and dangerous.

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 1:10 am 1:10 am

Average Voter I know you don’t but the crap you are selling.
Hunter? Sorry about that. Maybe we can get you a grant or something next time. (Dude that was too easy.)
NY isn’t evil, but greed is.
But you know jack about the real New York, it’s the best place in the world when the economy goes in the toilet, and the worst pace when it’s doing well. That’s just the way it works.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 1:13 am 1:13 am

Or Jane D. are you a racist? You want to accuse me of being a Republican when yesterday on this very same board you brought up what you said verbatim That “Ayers, Acorn and Alinsky was the three A’s” that were going to sink Obama. You outed yourself yesterday as being a Nader supporter.
Obama 08′

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 1:14 am 1:14 am

That’s the spirit pefros ! You can do it !

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 1:14 am 1:14 am

ourcountryfirst,
obama’s not BUYING the presidency. he has more money than mccain because mccain accepted public funding, which has limits. all candidates buy ads.
abc’s not really that biased (nor is it that exciting to watch either)–fox news is REALLY biased, and i think MSNBC eventually became the left-wing answer to fox’s right wing. fox is NOT fair & balanced…does anyone out there really think it is?

Posted by: Dignity to the Presidency | October 10, 2008, 1:14 am 1:14 am

http://deoxy.org/videos?v=GcGM8ggYeTE
Gore Vidal’s message to Bush

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 1:17 am 1:17 am

So Obama bomya claims to be Obama supporter yet he slams state funded education and calls himself a Libertarian. What school did you attend my fellow New Yorker? NYU with its closeted right wing cloaked as Free Thinkers?

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 1:18 am 1:18 am

Nader? Come’on don’t get Nader in this.
That fellow doesn’t know how to be polite at the table. And until he learns his manners and stops appearing in public looking like a schlub he needs to keep quite, and spend his money quietly making things work better. Good Ideas, but no one is going to hire a disheveled ranting ninny no matter what he has to say.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 1:19 am 1:19 am

Cool, Obama.
Palin today announced that SHE had vindicated HERSELF in Troopergate.
OJ also just announced that he was innocent of the charges for which he was recently convicted. Therefore, he will be freed later this morning.

Posted by: Bugg | October 10, 2008, 1:22 am 1:22 am

Obama Bomaye I have been looking at your previous post and there seem to be inconsistencies between what you think you stand for and what you post. Where do you get off putting down Nader for his appearance. What does that have to do with anything. I am voting Obama but you are missing the point and voting Obama for wrong reasons if you think that someone has to look like celebrity to be president. I appreciate you voting for Obama but you are delusional to think that your ideologies are libertarian. You put down state education and by the way my masters is from Teachers College. You are headed in right direction to vote Obama but you have much to learn from Obama too.

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 1:26 am 1:26 am

Wow, lots of McCain and Palin dimwits who have just been conned big time. You supporters are so dimwitted that you don’t realize that these negative issues have been brought up already and have no validity and it is clearly a way to not focus on the issue of the economy. McCain will stoop to any level to win this election. He knows this is his last chance, he is slipping in the polls…uh, hello….are you guys so dimwitted that you will buy yellow snow from these 2 uneducated unqualified dimwits. If you are saying it is based on one’s character then you better look closely at McCain’s and Palin’s because there is no doubt about their shady past. McCain ranks 894 in a class of 899 in the Naval Academy where his father and grandfather were admirals. He broke all the rules in the book while at the Academy but was covered because of his family ties. This is not when he was 8 yrs old, people. When McCain’s wife got in an accident and was paralyzed…he had an affair with Cindy and left his wife for her…hmm….wealthy heiress…paralyzed wife…hard to choose. His relationship with Keating…even though he managed to get out of prosecution…it is fact that he had a very close relationship with a definite criminal….and you supporters don’t see this as a question of his character? Palin was almost recalled as mayor because of ethical issues while she was in office. She left an office with zero debts to one with $5 million. She built a hockey rink for her son using public funds that to this day stands empty. She spends $50,000 to redecorate her governor’s office. Palin even though makes a decent salary does not hire a nanny and turns her governor’s office into a nursery and her aides take turns watching her child in addition to babysitting others. Palin as governor spends 312 days at home and gets per diem for it….she fires a commissioner because he wouldn’t fire an ex-brother in-law going thru a messy divorse with her sister….there are more facts about their character than all the mud they are trying to sling and you dimwits need to stop being so easily fooled.

Posted by: ofcourseobama | October 10, 2008, 1:26 am 1:26 am

Average voter – you have me confused with someone else – or someone is using my name – but I never said “Ayers, Acorn and Alinsky was the three A’s” that sank Obama.” You can’t even get your facts straight – transparent Republican troll. You’re laughable.

Posted by: Jane D. | October 10, 2008, 1:28 am 1:28 am

Jane D. you are the one that said that and I remmeber everytime you come on this board you accused Obama supporters of being Republicans so you can get people disgusted enough to go for Nader/Gonzalez . I don’t do 3rd Party voting and it is a wasted vote. Nader is older than McCain. Are you kidding me? Peddle your goods else where. You would have better luck on CNN.
Obama’08

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 1:31 am 1:31 am

Average Voter, I can’t even begin to tell you how much I dislike NYU, which has now taken over the building in 75% of NYC (it feels that way at least).
I’m a realist, and a true to god red blooded Libertarian, and I don’t buy that you even buy what you are selling. Which at this point smells like foul street meet on Canal and B’Way.
But I digress, your nonsense doesn’t even make sense.
Those banks fund Obama, just like they fund everyone else in this race to some extent. The only difference is McCain has Fanny/Freedie people on the bus with him, which makes him more guilty.
This country is in trouble not because of Wall St., it’s because we always want more then we can afford, and someone stopped playing the music and a few thousand people didn’t have a chair to sit in.
People should not live beyond their means, and then Wall St. could fall off the earth and it wouldn’t mean anything to them. But that is not how the game is played.
In Europe they have culture, and the culture in the US is Capital. That is just the way the game is played.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 1:33 am 1:33 am

Sinking in polls and bad ideas = negative ads by McCain and Palin
Low education and bad grades = McCain and Palin
Road to wealth thru cheating and lies = McCain and Palin
Ability to fool rednecks and create hostility towards progress = McCain and Palin
GO INTO RETIREMENT MCCAIN AND PALIN GO BACK TO ALASKA AND RESIGN AS GOVERNOR BECAUSE YOU BOTH HAVE NO BUSINESS SERVING A MULTICULTURAL EDUCATED AMERICA

Posted by: ofcourseobama | October 10, 2008, 1:39 am 1:39 am

Average Voter – how do you sleep at night? Thanks for the laughs!

Posted by: Jane D. | October 10, 2008, 1:40 am 1:40 am

As for Nader’s appearance. Ha.
Nader looks like a schlub. I don’t look any better, but i am not running for office.
It’s not a beauty pageant and you missed my point on Nader.
His appearance does not instill confidence. He manner of speaking does not instill confidence. His lack of cohesive public speaking does not instill confidence. That is confidence in a way that the masses will vote for him.
That is a talent. He does not have that talent.
He should get off the stage, and get things done for the better of America, instead of playing his Ego game year and year.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 1:40 am 1:40 am

OB of you were true blooded Libertarian you would be about free will and your posts say differently. You don’t put down a man because of his suit and say he cannot be a leader. I never said I went to NYU, I said teachers college which has long commitment to socialism and I did my practicum field work at Settlement House. New York cannot separate it self as the racist, classist city that it is. Those Twin Towers stood for Sodom and Gomorrah.
I am glad that you are voting for Obama. Your are taking a step but I will use Michelle’s words to best explain it:
“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.” — Michelle Obama
The World Trade Center/Wall Street is a divison and not in step with humanity. It is cynical to just say oh all cities have corporations. The people in that building all made over $250K.
What is American about that?
Obama 2008

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 1:42 am 1:42 am

Jane D. I know you mean well but face it. A vote for Nader in an important election like this is a wasted vote. If I were doing 3rd party I would do Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente green party before Nader. Hopefully Gonzalez will run for Mayor of SF again
Obama 08′

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 1:46 am 1:46 am

OB, Your post sound elitist and hardly libertarian but like I said I don’t care how you got to the water as long as you vote for Obama.
Obama 08′

Posted by: Average Voter | October 10, 2008, 1:48 am 1:48 am

ofcourseobama, that is some fine facts you got there on those two.
But people aren’t listening to that. Republicans are usually one of the following, and hear only things that pertain to their selection.
A. I am wealthy, and I want to stay that way, so I vote Republican.
B. I am a God fearing Christian. God spoke to me, so I vote Republican.
C. I don’t like anyone who isn’t White. That is why it’s called the White House silly.
D. I am dillusional and misinformed about how the world sees me, and how I see the world. But that’s ok.
E. All of the above.
Sad, but true

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 1:50 am 1:50 am

VOIGHT: My concerns for America
Obama sowing socialist seeds in young people
The Washington Post
Associated Press
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 Post
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/28/voight/

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 1:54 am 1:54 am

Sorry Natasha, Voight is a Tool and a shill who needs any publicity/work he can get and is living in the past … This nonsense went out with McCarthy.
Average Voter i’m an elitist? You with your fancy Masters running around to different Colleges. Madness.
And I’m all for free will, and self education as well. As in free education, and free libraries and freedom from being programmed.

Posted by: Obama Bomaye! | October 10, 2008, 2:04 am 2:04 am

It sounds like ‘average voter’ is a republican troll saying outrageous things that no real democrat/ Obama supporter would say about the 9/11 tradegy. He/she is just stirring everybody to create more hatred towards Obama.

Posted by: plainview | October 10, 2008, 2:10 am 2:10 am

Americans cant stand another 4 years of the Republicans in control.Americans dont care about Ayers, Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was doing what ever he was suppose to be doing in the 60′s.McCain , you have no idea what to do with the economy.Obama warned about this Wall-Street problem, around 1 1/2 years ago.

Posted by: Demo Rules | October 10, 2008, 2:11 am 2:11 am

It sounds like ‘average voter’ is a republican troll saying outrageous things that no real democrat/ Obama supporter would say about the 9/11 tragedy. He/she is just stirring everybody to create more hatred towards Obama. Sorry for typo on tragedy in last post.

Posted by: p | October 10, 2008, 2:12 am 2:12 am

WOW !!! The Republicans are FREAKING OUT. Too funny. All that hate wasted. All that cynacism wasted. All that money…wasted. All that…the list goes on and on. Your churches and pundits have told you the sky will fall and the country will implode. Please note, the country is imploding thanks to YOUR guys. Of course a year from now this will all be the fault of the Dems and the Repubs will have conveniently forgotten about Bush.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 2:22 am 2:22 am

Obama was raised by angry militants? Laughing…that is rich. But ok. I hate to point out that it would seem as if those “angry militants” indeed had a point. Look at the state of our country today. If you think this is good then you have rocks in your head. The guys who dressed up like Indians and threw a shipload of tea into Boston Harbor were considered millitants too. Or worse, traitors. Jon Voight can’t even get along with his own daughter but we are supposed to swoon over his rants? Laughable. The Repubs truly are freaking out.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 2:36 am 2:36 am

McCain should just concede his campaign right now and leave with whatever little honor he might have left. His campaign has become a national disgrace, and Palin is an embarrassment to the entire country.

Posted by: JD | October 10, 2008, 3:09 am 3:09 am

Question to ABC – Political Radar: Please tell us why are you not reporting on the ACORN voter fraud issue that is popping up all over this country?? And the fact that Obama is front and center? I find it interesting that you are ignoring this. You are working for the American people. Do your job for god’s sake.
At least some of the media tells it like it is…I found this article…
For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for “advance work.”)
What’s more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN’s voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992.

Posted by: ml | October 10, 2008, 3:23 am 3:23 am

Give Barack Obama what he really deserves, his own Primetime sitcom.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 3:28 am 3:28 am

Question that I would like to be answered. ABC – Political Radar: Please tell us why are you not reporting on the ACORN voter fraud issue that is popping up all over this country?? And the fact that Obama is front and center? I find it interesting that you are ignoring this. You are working for the American people. Do your job for god’s sake.
At least some of the media tells it like it is…I found this article…
For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for “advance work.”)
What’s more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN’s voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992.

Posted by: ML | October 10, 2008, 3:31 am 3:31 am

Meet Sarah Palin’s radical right-wing pals
Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin’s political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy. Her door was open,
says Chryson and still is.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 3:32 am 3:32 am

Meet John McCain radical right-wing pals
Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain’s campaigns since 1998, including $1,000 in February 2008. In addition, McCain has appeared on Liddy’s radio show
during the presidential campaign, including as recently as May. An online video labeled “John McCain On The G. Gordon Liddy Show 11/8/07″ includes a
discussion between Liddy and McCain, whom Liddy described as an “old friend.” During the segment, McCain praised Liddy’s “adherence to the principles
and philosophies that keep our nation great,” said he was “proud” of Liddy, and said that “it’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program.

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 3:34 am 3:34 am

Obama Bomaye! – I am a Republican and none of your list apply to me. Thanks for the sterotype though, and profiling. And According to your logic, All Democrats create sterotypes and are racist toward anyone who is white, and/or republican. Wake up.
Barack Obama was supposed to be for the middle class and change, yet he voted for the Bailout, ( how’s that workking out for everyone? ). He voted YES along with John McCain. That doesn’t sound like Change and it doesn’t sound like he has the interest of the middle class in mind. He is nothing but rich, wind bag who has a bunch of racists voting for him.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 3:35 am 3:35 am

Meet other McCain radical right-wing pals.
This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign. You know, you can go back, I have written a book about
McCain, I had a dozen researchers go through him, I didn’t even put this in the book. But John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing
organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra
scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this
organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League – the parent organization – which ADL said “has increasingly become a gathering
place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.”

Posted by: kawasaki | October 10, 2008, 3:36 am 3:36 am

I have to laugh that the world economy is tanking and the only thing McCain campaign can seem to talk about is William Ayers. There were republicans on this same board, in fact Annenberg put the board together and his wife just endorsed McCain. I’ve seen McCain change his answer to the economic meltdown 3 times in two days! I don’t know what it will take for them to see that American’s don’t care what some man did when Obama was 8 years old. I’ve read stories about McCain’s friends Keating, G. Gordon Liddy, and more than a few others. McCain is dividing this country — I have decided on Obama because of McCain’s behavior. It’s the economy, stupid!

Posted by: Colorado decided | October 10, 2008, 3:36 am 3:36 am

Colorado decided how’s that Bailout that Obama voted for working out for the middle class?

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 3:39 am 3:39 am

plainview: You are right. It is obvious that “Average Voter” is indeed a Republican just on here trying to enrage the “base” of his party. They are mad as hornets that Obama may actually win. All that hatred gone to waste. Hours of listening to Hannity and Limbaugh with all of their hatred and condemnation and he still may win? They are freaking out and sinking to new lows. Average Voter is just one example.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 3:44 am 3:44 am

Obama “assumed” Ayers was rehabilitated. OK..right on, think we believe that lie? Another example of the bad judgement Obama has exhibited since REV. WRIGHT. He makes it up as he goes along. PATHETIC.
Obama paid ACORN $800,000. to register new voters.
There is going to be a huge problem with the vote this year.. Obama needs to be investigated, he is sneaky and engaging in unlawful practices in order to win the Presidency.
Please report this story ABC.,

Posted by: ml | October 10, 2008, 3:45 am 3:45 am

kawasaki: You are so right and thank you for your posts. The Neocons were yelling at McCain yesterday asking him why he isn’t raising more hell about Ayers etc. Gosh, I wonder why? Lol. When you live in a glass house (or houses in McCains case) you don’t throw stones.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 3:48 am 3:48 am

wirey-one, there aren’t any news caster with hatred and bias for Obama though, right? What about all of MSNBC, specifially Keith Obermann, Chris Matthews, etc, etc, etc. No one is freaking out about another liar getting voted into office. Obama said he was for change and the middle class, but voted for the Bailout of the rich. How does that help the middle class? And how is it change if voted for the same bill that McCain voted for, that Bush, pushed on congress and the American public. You can have Obama the liar for president.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 3:48 am 3:48 am

you are right wirey-one forget about Ayers. Let’s talk about this “bailout” that Obama urged congress to pass. How is that bailout helping anyone. The Dow has dropped over 2000 points in the last two weeks. Now what is Obama doing about that? He voted to have all of his rich, white, ceo’s and wall street fat cats to have their bank accounts nice and full, while the middle class gets the shaft. Thanks Obama.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 3:55 am 3:55 am

you know, the reality is that everyone posting on forums like this one on both sides really need to take a step back and take a long look in the mirror. Reflect on how you are speaking to fellow americans.
You wonder why and constantly complain about this government not getting anything done, and cling so tightly to your ideological beliefs that you can’t make a single rational argument, and fly off the handle demeaning anything you can of your ‘enemies’. you have become so fanatical that you make yourself blind to reality. fanaticism in all forms is evil, and the ancient proverb “evil eats itself” is a very apt statement at this point.
This is a time of crisis like we haven’t seen since 2001, and what are we doing?
in 2001, we came together as a nation and worked for a better future. for the first time in my life i saw a country that looked beyond race, religion, and sexual preference because we all realized that when we are one, when we put the petty differences aside and look at each other as Americans, united for one purpose, there is nothing that we are unable to achieve.
That the timing of this crisis came during a presidential cycle is the largest tragedy, because the false dichotomy of american politics has hyper sensitized the electorate to a degree that has never been seen in america. You can feel the abject hatred through the words you read on these screens, and i am only able to shake my head at how far this country has fallen. i think back to my history classes because i wasn’t alive during the civil rights movement, and i feel like we are hurtling towards a rift that will swiftly consume us all.
Massive problems that this country are facing will never be solved with republicans and democrats being incited to hatred. Throwing slime all over the candidates in this election is making already heightened nerves trigger the fight or flight response, where flight is not an option. We have nothing but words to use, and the safety of the internet creates what i call ‘liquid courage’. we allow the darkest corners of our psyche to manifest and unleash scurrilous attacks on the ‘enemy’.
To the candidates (in the off chance this reaches them): Drop the personal attacks and focus on these issues: Economy, Energy, Iraq and Afghanistan, Russia, how to get North Korea back to the table, how to start negotiations with Iran and other unfriendly nations, Budget and the Deficit, what we need to do to restrengthen NATO and our weakened alliances and view in the world, Education, Health Care, and how important it is to address our environment so that we are a model for the rest of the world to follow.
Notice that i said nothing about Taxes, and that is because everyone needs to know a few things so that our country can move forward.
Our government has been extremely irresponsible and we all know this. Blame at this point does no good, what we have to do is stop the bleeding that is swiftly becoming terminal. We have a $11 Trillion dollar national debt, and that is growing by $1 trillion every two years as it sits now.
The only methods that a Government has to create revenue under the capitalist economic system are Taxes and Tariffs. Tariffs were proven to only hurt the national economy as the world economy grew, so they are no longer a good way to provide income, but are used more to promote domestic products. That leaves the government taxes to provide income, and without taking over businesses it is the only option.
it is my belief that the primary reason americans dislike paying taxes is because we feel the government does not manage that income very well. We as citizens must demand fiscal responsibility from all our representatives in government, local, state and federal. We have allowed ourselves to become complacent when it comes to voting in our senators and congresspeople, reelecting the same ones because of name recognition and the way the system works. it is our responsibility to get rid of those who go along with fiscal mismanagement like the current administration has done.
So from this election cycle forward, we have to demand fiscal responsibility from our senators and congressmen, and in return we must shoulder the burden of increased taxes in order to address both the deficit and the national debt. We must demand the repair of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans benefits for the brave men and women who carry out the orders of the president. We must demand that the health care system in this country is optimized and made so that no one who lives here ever stays home because they are afraid of bankruptcy if they go to the hospital. We must demand that we stop all imports of foreign oil, and invest in sustainable development in addition to all alternative energy sources and give tax credits for next generation fuel research. We must demand that our teachers are paid a living wage, and improve the schools for all our children, and make college affordable so that we stay on the cutting edge of technology. We must demand these things because we as Americans deserve this way of life.
We must demand that the spirit of the Constitution lives on, and that no administration ever places security above freedom its citizens, and that we treat everyone with the same rights that we cherish. This is vital because without promoting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all on the earth we are not living up to the standard that the founding father and all whom have given their life for those ideals a disservice.
After 5-10 years our government should be able to reduce taxes back to current levels, and if they aren’t, we have every right to vote them out and elect people who will do their job.
This is the call to service that we need in this time of crisis, and we owe it to our forefathers to step up to that call. Put aside the hate, and remember back to how we put aside differences when the country we all love needed us most, because she is calling to us again now.

Posted by: Reason | October 10, 2008, 4:00 am 4:00 am

Is this what our nation has become? This happened in Florida:
7th-Grade teacher to students: Obama is a “N”-word. Angry parents in the northwest Florida community of Marianna want a middle school teacher fired after he put the “N”-word on the board to describe Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama. The Marianna Middle School teacher, Greg Howard, is now serving a 10-day suspension after writing an acronym on the dry-erase board on Sept. 26: C.H.A.N.G.E. – Come Help A N*gg*r Get Elected. But many parents want the 17-year teacher fired. The seventh-grade social studies teacher’s class has 17 White students, six Black students and one Asian student. Initially he was suspended for the day without pay, but that was elevated to the 10-day punishment. He must also write a letter of apology to students. We feel like the punishment is sufficient, Larry Moore, superintendent of the Jackson County School District, told The Detroit Free Press. We did not feel he had to be fired.” NAACP officials say they will reserve their actions in the case until their investigation is complete. Audrey Wad, who has nieces and nephews at the school, didn’t need any more information before expressing her outrage. To me, it’s hurtful,she told the Free Press. The idea that he would impose his political opinion on the children is wrong to me. That’s where he crossed the line.

Posted by: Beck | October 10, 2008, 4:01 am 4:01 am

Obama/Biden ’08!

Posted by: Ron | October 10, 2008, 4:01 am 4:01 am

How much is Karl Rove paying you right wing nuts to troll this site?

Posted by: Obamain08 | October 10, 2008, 4:01 am 4:01 am

Beck, OK that is wrong we all agree. However, if Barack Obama were running against another more qualified African-American he would lose hands down. The why anyone is voting for him is because of his race, and that makes his voters just as racist as those you spoke of. The fact of the matter is, Barack Obama is not qualified to lead a nation. He has lied when he said he was for Middle class Americans and Change, when he voted YES for the BAILOUT, THAT IS NOT WORKING.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 4:06 am 4:06 am

Obamain08 — How’s that bailout that Obama voted for, working out for the middle class?

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 4:08 am 4:08 am

“Reason”: You appear to have more knowledge than all the candidates combined! Seriously. I’m scratching my head wondering why YOU aren’t running for President! Your blog is clear, factual, and concise. Nice!

Posted by: Beck | October 10, 2008, 4:09 am 4:09 am

I heard that his Airplane Stinks!

Posted by: Whoopdeedo | October 10, 2008, 4:13 am 4:13 am

Beck, he only addresses economics and there is more running a country than economics, such as foreign affairs and the wars we are currently in. Those issues also need to be addressed, as well as the Islamic facism, and world wide terrorism. That’s the “reason” he isn’t running for President.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 4:14 am 4:14 am

I REFUSE TO BECOME OBAMABOTINIZED..!…LOL!!!

Posted by: Chris | October 10, 2008, 4:23 am 4:23 am

I REFUSE TO BECOME OBAMABOTINIZED..!…LOL!!!

Posted by: Chris | October 10, 2008, 4:23 am 4:23 am

Obama – Big Mistake!
The man is all talk!
Nothing else to offer!

Posted by: Susie | October 10, 2008, 4:27 am 4:27 am

Angelo: Ok then, who are you voting for? It obviously isn’t Obama or McCain, is it? As for the bailout, while I agree with you there and hate it I have to try to look at the bigger picture…the credit markets. So, enough of your rants, we get it, you don’t like Obama…so who? Nader? Lol.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 4:30 am 4:30 am

Who the hell wants to WASTE a half hour of primetime listening to Obama?

Posted by: Jill | October 10, 2008, 4:33 am 4:33 am

OK Rightwingers, If you know how to read, read this:
McCain: Tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations and none for those making less than $100,000 a year. (and yet he says he is for ‘main street’)
Obama: Tax cuts for the majority of working Americans, modest increases for those earning $200,000 or more a year (less than they were under Clinton’s tax plan)
McCain: Shift health coverage to deregulated private sector with fixed tax credit to all income levels, more Americans would lose coverage (and again, favors the wealthy)
Obama: Provide an additional insurance carrier that would allow more people to get insurance, and with tax cuts to employers providing coverage saving them an annual $140 billion, which would also increase revenue for health providers by increasing insured patients.
McCain: Wants congress to investigate Enron loophole (even though congress has already tried twice to pass bills that would close it, and both were vetoed by Bush)
Obama: Wants to close Enron loophole right away, causing an immediate drop in gas prices for all Americans
McCain: Wants to drill for more oil, and build nuclear plants (even though we would not see any output from them for 7-10 years)
Obama: Faster shift towards alternative energy sources and better utilization of existing resources.
McCain: a D- student with a navy background that was dismal in both character and quality (read his book!)
Obama: a Harvard Law school graduate, magna cum laude, and a constitutional law expert
McCain: Military shoot first ask questions later foreign policy stance
Obama: Diplomacy and dialog with military as option of last resort
McCain: No foreign policy experience except for armed services
Obama: Member foreign relations, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and subcommittees on European, East Asian and Pacific, African affairs as well as International development and security, specialized in International Relations in college.
McCain: Vast majority of introduced bills in Senate are directly related to the military.
Obama: Introduced bills for equal rights, environment, housing, health care, alternative and renewable fuels, safer drugs, constitutional rights, improved fuel economy and other issues relating to a better America and helping Americans.

Posted by: Beck | October 10, 2008, 4:33 am 4:33 am

wirey-one, I see you have some insight.
You are right I am undecided about a Presidential choice, and I do not know enough about Nader. But one thing is for sure everyone of those idiots that voted for the bailout, will be voted out of office on November 4th. And that in itself might be more important that who is going to be elected President because they are the people who actually work on the laws to be passed. One thing for sure, anyone who voted for that bailout is not for the middle class.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 4:34 am 4:34 am

His “buddies” Buffett and Farrahkan are paying for all of this.

Posted by: Jill | October 10, 2008, 4:37 am 4:37 am

His “buddies” Buffett and Farrahkan are paying for all of this.

Posted by: Jill | October 10, 2008, 4:37 am 4:37 am

Beck, Obama 143 days in the senate.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 4:37 am 4:37 am

So Angelo, if John McCain becomes our next President and God forbid something happens to the “Maverick”, next in line to lead the free world will be Sarah Palin. Will we be in the sh** then? DOGGONE!!! YOU BETCHA!!!

Posted by: Beck | October 10, 2008, 4:40 am 4:40 am

Beck — “Obama: Diplomacy and dialog with military as option of last resort”
Yeah with people who want to wipe countries off the face of the earth, and with terrorists who make videos of themselves beheading their hostages. How do you have dialog with that?

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 4:41 am 4:41 am

You can make fun of the way she talks all you want you are just showing your immaturity. However, while she has little experience to be in office, I would say she as just as qualified as Barack Obama, who said, once he is in office would use his advisors to help him make the difficult decisions that need to made for the country, which I would gather is what Sarah Palin would as well.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 4:45 am 4:45 am

Angelo, do you agree with the ongoing war with no end in sight in Iraq? While I do agree with keeping our people safe, I don’t agree with attacking every nation that we PERCEIVE to be a threat to us. Diplomacy first. Look at what President Bush did with Iraq. Supposedly, the mission was accomplished and we’re still there almost five years later. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The bottom line is we have a trigger happy President now and voting for McCain guarantees at least 4 more years of the same old stuff.

Posted by: Beck | October 10, 2008, 4:52 am 4:52 am

Interesting!! If Obama thinks he is winning, why does he need to buy time on major networks? Interesting that his ego is so big that he thinks he is POTUS already!! Interesting that the money for this time is costly and, AGAIN, WHERE does all the money come from or did he cut a HUGE deal with networks who are in the tank for him? Maybe someone should ask these questions!!!

Posted by: mfmros | October 10, 2008, 4:54 am 4:54 am

Angelo: You seem to be a very knee jerk reaction kind of guy judging from your posts. Sure you can talk about videos of beheadings and think that is what Obama is talking about. You could also think about how we are giving terrorists battle hardened training where only the best and brightest survive. Two sides to every coin. The idea is to try diplomacy first. If that doesn’t work then all hell can break loose. I would hate to think we killed any service member when a sitdown would have prevented it. It’s called keeping a cool head. That is something McCain is not known for at all. Turn off rant radio and look to other sources for real news.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 4:54 am 4:54 am

Unbelievable. Our current “Great Uniter” president’s legacy continues as Americans insult one another. And McCain’s attacks on Obama are pitiful transparent ploys. As for the mortgage crisis:
“In addition to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Republican Administration and Congress made this mess between 2001-2005. In order to stave off a recession and to feed the market’s demand for more mortgage-backed securities, Bush set forth the most aggressive push for increase minority and low income homeownership in our history as part of his “Ownership Society” plan. In 2001/2002, Bush created “America’s Home Ownership Challenge.” You can find all of the official documents in the White House Press Releases if you use “America’s Home Ownership Challenge” as your search term inthe White House archives.
Bush aggressively pushed the private lending industry to make over 7 billion in low income and minority loans and to “create more creative” loan products to do it. He pushed them to “loosen credit standards” and pushed them to make the most risky loan products available to the riskiest buyers. Then, he turned to Fannie Mae and Freddie mac and threatened to not renew their charters unless they did the same. Through the Republican congress in 2003 and the Bush Adminsitration’s work through HUD, the Bush Administration forced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to, for the first time, make available riskier loan products to minority and low income buyers. Bush pushed and passed a “Zero-down Payment” initiative and forced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to use riskier 3 and 5 year arm loan products. Bush and the Republican Congress forced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make zero-down loans to the riskiest buyers and forced them to effectively finance 103 percent of the mortgage (including closing costs). Bush also pushed and passed “America’s Dream Downpayment Act” in which the government gave downpayments to minority and low income buyers with blemished credit and who could not afford to come up with a downpayment. It was between 2001-2005 that most of these bad loans were made. You can find all of the official documents at the White House, HUD, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac press release websites. You can also find the head of Fannie Mae’s letter (Raines) back to Bush (after Bush threatened to not renew their charter) saying that he would meet his aggressive challenge online. It had nothing to do with Clinton.
Going back to the Republican’s Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Republican’s had enough of a majority to override a Clinton veto. Although Clinton threatened to veto it, he eventually caved because they could override it anyway and he was under extreme attacks from the Republican party.
Republican’s and Right-Wing ranters often say that liberals are making up that Gramm and fellow Republicans are responsible for this mess are say that liberals cannot say how the Act was responsible for this. The answer is easy. The Act allowed, for the first time since the Great Depression, for banks to deal in securities which allowed them to purchase mortgage-backed securities. The mortgage-backed securities that they purchased turned out to be bad because Bush and the Republicans pushed lending institutions to use riskier loan products with the riskiest buyers. Once the mortgages started going bad, the mortgage-backed securities that the banks had bought turned into massive piles of bad debt which has in turn caused the banks to go under. If not for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act being passed by the Republican Congress, banks could not have dealt in mortgage-backed securities and would now be immune from this crisis.
Why did Bush and the Republican’s push minority and low income loans so much — it was not out of the goodness of their hearts. They pushed it because there was a huge demand in the securities trade industry for more mortgage-backed securities. Mortgage-backed securities were in such demand because it allowed banks to turn an illiquid assest – mortgages– into a liquid asset by bundling the mortgages and selling them as securities. Also, many thought that they were great securities to buy because they were further secured by collateral — the homes — and if they debt went bad, the collateral could be sold. They also thought that much of mortgage-backed securities loans through Fannie and Freddie were government guaranteed because they were quasi-government agencies.
In any event, there was a huge demand for these in the market and not enough supply. To increase supply for mortgage-backed securities, more loans had to be made. The only way to get more loans made was to come up with more creative loan products to get people into homes that otherwise would not qualify. This led to interest-only, zero-down, arm, and balloon loans. Hence, the mess we are in now.”
Regardless of the varioius explanations of the financial crisis, I want a President who knows how to communicate, exhibits capable leadership qualities, chooses a running mate and staff who are knowledgable about issues and can help out country, and speaks about the problems most Americans are facing. John McCain has compromised himself. I have no respect for him any more.

Posted by: Susan | October 10, 2008, 4:58 am 4:58 am

Beck, agreed the war in Iraq needs to come to an end, that would help us out economically, if we didn’t have to send resources to finish in Afganistan and Pakistan. But, these are situations we can not abandon, and I will tell you why. Let’s say we leave all of those nations, and have our troops come home. Yes we end the war on foriegn land, but that gives al-queada an invitaion to bring the war to our soil, and quite frankly we are not prepared for that kind of assault, no matter who the president is. We need to finish what we started, and yes the first step is get our combat troops out of Iraq and reassign them to Afganistan and Pakistan. We also need more help from our allies, since terrorism affects them as well.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 4:58 am 4:58 am

GOOD! Obama needs to explain his pro-abortion and Infanticide positions. Obama needs to explain his anti-second amendment stand. Obama needs to explain Universal health insurance that will work and not take all of our money. Obama needs to explain how he will create jobs WITHOUT making all new jobs government jobs – i.e. Communism, Marxism. Obama needs to explain his ties with terrorists who hate America. Obama needs to explain the millions of unidentified contributions from foreigners. Obama needs to explain his contributions to ACORN and his ties to the terrorists who are destroying our election. Obama needs to explain to people who have moved to America from communist countries that, although his words are the same words people heard in their communist countries, that he will not make America a communist country. He’ll need more than a half hour to explain the man behind the mask. Ross Perot did a half hour “me” show. It didn’t turn out so well. But Obama needs to explain himself – and fast.

Posted by: Obama explain Terrorist Friends | October 10, 2008, 5:01 am 5:01 am

I am a fan of GMA but am increasingly dissatisfied with ABC’s campaign coverage – obviously favoring Obama. Particularly Diane, Charlie Gibson, & George Stephanopoulos. This morning GMA presented a video of a man in the Wisconsin audience talking about how angry he was, BUT GMA cut the video off before the man finished speaking which gave the impression that he was angry with McCain & Palin – he was a McCain/Palin supporter and his full message would have shown that to the public. You spin & twist so much of the campaign news to slant your news toward Obama. Pick up some of the news from Chicago regarding Obama and his connections with Ayers, ACORN, & Tony Rezko – I challenge you to investigate the truth of those issues for your viewers.

Posted by: Joan | October 10, 2008, 5:03 am 5:03 am

Mr ARROGANT is at it again….there is not enough money in our economic crisis except for ME ME ME…….maybe more should be done researching where this money really did come from…..since MAIN STREET IS HURTING…so he says
maybe this can she a little light on the subject:
This election has me very worried. So many things to consider. About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since than. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with. About six months ago, I started thinking ‘where did the money come from for Obama’. I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.
I started looking into Obama’s life.
Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California. He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. ‘Barry’ (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan. During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a ’round the world’ trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family.
My question – Where did he get the money for this trip?
Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they were in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York. It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack – not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia? It’s not cheap to say the least! Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia, he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000 a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York? He was already living in New York.
By ‘chance’ he met Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago. Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Decade’ by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association’. About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School. Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School? Where did he get the money for Law School? More student loans? After Law school, he went back to Chicago. Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented ‘Rezar’ which is Rezko’s firm. Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago. In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with ‘seed money’ for his U.S. Senate race. In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans – Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.
Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first.
Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?
On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley, advisor to Obama, was ‘sacked’ after the press found out he was having regular contacts with ‘Hamas’, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran. This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will ‘Take care of things’.
Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that were born in Pakistan? They are in charge of all those ‘small’ Internet campaign contributions for Obama.
Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East?
And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on ‘This Week’ with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, ‘My Muslim faith’. When questioned, ‘he made a mistake’.
Some mistake!
Now the BIG question – If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven’t all of our ‘intelligent’ members of the press been reporting this?
A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear – ‘Beware of the enemy from within’!!!

Posted by: Mary B | October 10, 2008, 5:04 am 5:04 am

wirey-one — Compelling post. But when dealing with a group that believe they are fighting a war for religious or spiritual purposes, they will not be diplomatic with us, as military force. They believe, we are infidels, and that we all need to die. They believe that killing Christians and Jews is an honorable thing to die for. So what are going to say that is going to appease this type of mentality? Either our military who is trained to fight, fights them, or they bring the war here and we, ourselves fight them.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 5:05 am 5:05 am

Angelo: Just read your last post about Palin. Obviously you didn’t see any of the non Hannity interviews with her. If you think she and Obama are in the same class intellectually, then talking to you is a lost hope. She is a dolt. She is Bush in a dress, only moreso. At least she has had all the witches cast out of her. We know this because there is a video of the witchdoctor casting them out…lol. If you think she is ready to be the head of our country then I have serious doubts about your judgement. She obviously doesn’t read much (like Bush) and apparently doesn’t know what an Archilles Heel is. I watched all the interviews with her and they all went easy on her. If she had been a man they would have been rabid at dissecting the answers she gave them.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 5:06 am 5:06 am

ARE WE ALL GOING TO HAVE JOBS NEXT MONTH??? WILL WE BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO PAY OUR MORTGAGE OR RENT??? WILL WE BE ABLE TO BUY FOOD TO FEED OUR CHILDREN??? WILL WE BE ABLE TO AFFORD HEALTHCARE??? EXCUSE ME, MAYBE I NEED TO CHANGE THE TIME…WILL WE BE ABLE TO DO THIS NEXT WEEK????
MAYBE THE WEALTHY, RICH REPUBLICANS (AN SOME OF THOSE ARE ON THE BRINK OF BROKE.
OH NO ONE CARES ABOUT THAT!!! THEY CARE ABOUT WILLIAM AYERS WHOM IS LIVING LOVELY IN CHICAGO AND HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN FOR HIS SINS BY MOST PEOPLE. THEY CARE ABOUT REV. WRIGHT WHOM IS LIVING PRETTY DANG GOOD.
WHEN WE GO DOWN IN THIS CRISIS, MR. AYERS AND MR. WRIGHT WILL BE MAKING IT, THOSE BROKE ASS REPUBLICIANS THAT ARE WORRIED ABOUT MR. AYER AND MR. WRIGHT WILL BE LOOKING STUPID LIKE THEY ARE NOW BECAUSE THEY MADE A BET ON BUSH WHOM SOLD THEM OUT……

Posted by: Bee | October 10, 2008, 5:07 am 5:07 am

Angelo: Well I personally lived in Saudi Arabia for 5 years and know many Saudi’s who do not feel that way. They love their kids etc. and don’t want to die. It is very easy to just group all of them together. I am not a fan of Islam by any means. I lived under their thumb so i speak from experience not heresay. I guarantee that the vast majority of them would rather talk first then just shoot. You seem to be referring to Iran in this matter or at least that is what is implied as no one has stated they would sit and talk with Al-Queda. Unfortuately rant radio has somehow managed to make you think they are all the same. Unfortuate, but seeing as Bush didn’t even know the difference between Sunni and Shia it isn’t surprising.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 5:14 am 5:14 am

Obama is a black man running for President. Don’t you think that if there was actually anything to this “Ayers” nonsense, it would have come out by now.
And the pro-McCain mainstream media would certainly have made a meal of it by now. This is just desperation politics at its worst.Think about the timing people.
If McCain had bought the airtime, it would be a different story and different messages being posted by the neocon jerks on these boards.

Posted by: princess9681 | October 10, 2008, 5:16 am 5:16 am

What is the name of his sitcom..”LIES OF MY LIFE” WRITTTEN BY SEYMOUR B.SCHITZ AND KEN E. SNOWUM? SORRY, I NEVER WATCH SOAP OPERAS!!

Posted by: mfmros | October 10, 2008, 5:20 am 5:20 am

Wow, so our new president will address the nation about our concerns and fears while McCain will continue to attempt to heighten them. McCain/Palin campaign is attempting to divide America at a time when we need unity. He is not right for America! He will destroy it, and he doesn’t care. This is a man intent on becoming president at any cost, even at the lost of America as we know it. However, he has lost. America will prevail with President Obama!

Posted by: shaaron | October 10, 2008, 5:26 am 5:26 am

Obama is the candidate of the people! The American people are paying for his campaign, that is the difference between his financing and McCain’s. McCain supported by lobbyists, while Obama is supported by the people, all people. Look at the lack of racial diversity during his campaign crowds. That is the old America. I love how the Obama crowd looks like the melting pot. This is the new America. The old ways are dead and stinking, much like the McCain/Palin campaign.

Posted by: shaaron | October 10, 2008, 5:31 am 5:31 am

The saddest thing of all? John McCain was a man that I respected and voted for in the primaries of 2000. Where is that admirable man? Sarah Palin??!? Are you people serious? I just know that the first thing Elizabeth Dole and Christine Todd Whitman did after hearing that announcement was run right to barackobama.com and make a donation! The point is, there were many things to admire about John McCain prior to 2007. Unfortunately, it seems the only thing that McCain learned from his time running against “the guy we all want to drink a beer with”(!) was to nominate his female counterpart. SHUDDER! This will be only the second time I have cast my vote for a democrat – and will continue to do so until the republican party is no longer hijacked by the shrill Hasselbecks and Hannitys of the world. America first? No, it’s “by any means necessary”. What an awful way to end the brilliant career this one-time Maverick had.

Posted by: Obama Momma | October 10, 2008, 5:33 am 5:33 am

To all Fellow Democrats
We know what time it is!!!! Let’s try and get a lot of these STUCK ON STUPID Republicans on the right track!!! KEEP BRINGING THE KNOWLEDGE

Posted by: Bee | October 10, 2008, 5:38 am 5:38 am

Time to vote 3rd party as the Democrats have ruined our economy. Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank, Boxer, Fienstein, Waters along with some Republicans need to be terminated as Senators. I will be voting against all incumbants. I will not be voting for Obama. Obama is very Dangerous as we see the stock market running from him with fear as the stocks plunge in anticipation of him being elected. Obama will be a 4yr president if he makes it that far. I’m afraid that he will mess this country up so bad that we will be in a civil unrest type of situation. OBAMA supporters open your eyes, this guy is a phony!

Posted by: It's not about the Economy | October 10, 2008, 5:39 am 5:39 am

Bee – “KEEP BRINGING THE KNOWLEDGE”
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You need to open your eyes and mind and see what Obama really is, a PHONY. Vote for a 3rd party OBAMA is not our answer.

Posted by: It's not about the Economy | October 10, 2008, 5:43 am 5:43 am

Brilliant! I can’t wait. I hope Obama unveils his Cabinet choices, his first 30 days in office plans etc.
Many people I know, are already getting comfortable with “President Obama”; these are folks who weren’t sure in the beginning. However, McCain’s sketchy, and yes ERRATIC behavior has them shaking their heads and feeling “no way” he seems like a leader.
His training (soldier) is that of a follower, not a leader. His maverick status has evaporated since he began his campaign and his running mate OUT Bushes…Bush! She is more Rightwing than Bush.

Posted by: Trudy | October 10, 2008, 5:43 am 5:43 am

Why…in this time of economic crisis is Obama spending the money to purchase a spot on prime time television?

Posted by: Laura | October 10, 2008, 5:43 am 5:43 am

Has anyone read the latest Newsweek article about Sarah Palin? As much as I dislike McCain and Palin, I sympathize with Sarah Palin, the short notice she was given (that she had been chosen by McCain to be his running mate), and the amount of cramming she had to do before her debate with Joe Biden. McCain threw her and his campaign to the dogs. I’m convinced that Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the ones to vote for. Put another way…This one is voting for “THAT ONE!”

Posted by: Beck | October 10, 2008, 5:43 am 5:43 am

Trudy – “his first 30 days in office plans”
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He does not have a plan look at his web site it’s full of rhetoric BS.

Posted by: It's not about the Economy | October 10, 2008, 5:48 am 5:48 am

To: It’s not about the Economy
I see you are one of those “STUCK ON STUPID PEOPLE” If it’s not about the economy, what is it about? I know you can’t say we can trust John McCain, Ralph Nadar or that other Cat… My eyes have been open due to the fact that George Bush and John “pull the trigger” McCain opened them. My mind is always open and that’s why OBAMA is my choice…Maybe you need to check yourself and see what it is that you are missing.

Posted by: Bee | October 10, 2008, 5:48 am 5:48 am

Oh by the way!!!!!!! check this out…MUST READ
In Letter to ‘NYT,’ Man Who Prosecuted Weather Underground Hits Linking Ayers to Obama
By E&P STaff
Published: October 10, 2008 9:00 AM ET
NEW YORK In a surprising a letter to the editor published in the New York Times today, the chief prosecutor of the Weather Underground in the 1970s expressed outrage over the linking of Barack Obama to Bill Ayers by the McCain campaign, adding, “Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.”
William C. Ibershof also corrects a charge in the Times: “I do take issue with the statement in your news article that the Weathermen indictment was dismissed because of ‘prosecutorial misconduct.’ It was dismissed because of illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by John N. Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director.”
Felt, of course (you may have already forgotten) was also known as a guy called “Deep Throat.”
The full letters follows.
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As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972), I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.
Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.
Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago.
I do take issue with the statement in your news article that the Weathermen indictment was dismissed because of “prosecutorial misconduct.” It was dismissed because of illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by John N. Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director.
William C. Ibershof
Mill Valley, Calif., Oct. 8, 2008

Posted by: Bee | October 10, 2008, 5:53 am 5:53 am

I’M VOTING FOR “THAT ONE” WITH ONE HOUSE, ONE WIFE, ONE CAR AND A WHOLE LOT OF BRAIN!

Posted by: Aurora Fam | October 10, 2008, 5:54 am 5:54 am

Bee – I’m not stuck on stupid, OBAMA supporters are. I’m part of the reason the stock market is losing, I have cashed in to put my money in a safer place as when Obama raises the Capital Gains tax no body will have a job. I have just laid off about 200 people from my company and expect by the middle of Feb I will layoff another 400 – 600 more. Your a sheep just following the heard to slaughter. Open your eyes & mind and see what the Democrats and some Republicans have done to our country. Go luck to you.

Posted by: It's not about the Economy | October 10, 2008, 5:56 am 5:56 am

Look at all the haters! Guilty for working on a committee that was formed by a MCCAIN supporter? You can go tell McCain this………That one will be the one he will be answering to when he’s voted in as the NEW COMMANDER and CHIEF. As for the pit bull dressed up in high heels wearing rimless glasses who need prayers from her minister to chase all the witches away….I dont hear you all speaking on that. I guess it’s different? Well if you want to criticize about religion start with hers. Why are all you MCCain supports angry? Is it because he couldn’t raise as much money from his supporters? Could it be because people see through all this negative mess he keeps trying to throw that isn’t making the people shift lanes? Have you all bothered to ask him if he is still associating with MR KEATING? I would be curious to know the answer to that. You know the thief who paid for McCain and his wife to relax in the Bahamas with their children…..You know the guy who stole millions from the savings and loan.Oh I guess we aren’t talking about him these days. I wish the Obama campaign would play snipets of George Bush talking about McCain when he ran for president. McCain isn’t faithful to anyone just ask his former wife the one who waited for her husband to be returned back to her after he was held a POW….Exactly what category does that fall in? Heres something for you McCain supports AN IDIOT IS A GENIUS TO ANOTHER IDIOT.

Posted by: High Five to Obama | October 10, 2008, 5:59 am 5:59 am

Boy these Obama supporters like calling names. I can see the writing on the wall. These next 4yrs are going to be HELL.

Posted by: It's not about the Economy | October 10, 2008, 6:01 am 6:01 am

Don’t miss this show!
On the day of his prime time show, Barack Hussein Obama will officially drop “Hussein” from his legal name.
Also, he will officially denounce and reject Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, ACORN, and his own father (and possibly, Michelle).
There will be other rejections as well…..including, but not limited to, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, NAACP, and the nation of Kenya.
It will be a prime time show of Obama’s super “throw’em-under-the-bus” talents.
Get your popcorn.

Posted by: Rocky Mountain Dude | October 10, 2008, 6:06 am 6:06 am

You guys that are trying to slander Barack Obama’s good name are a bunch of racist idiots! Yes, he would be the first Black President…so what? It’s time that everyone in this world was treated equal! Remember the word CHANGE! That’s what he intends to bring to the USA for the good of all Americans. Most of you sound as if you’re aliens instead of Americans. John McCain can barely balance himself long enough to have a debate. He needs to go home and retire. He’s only embarrassing himself and the american people. Barack Obama is the key to getting our country back on track like it was when Pres. Clinton was in office. Barack Obama for President 2008 ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: PHYLLIS | October 10, 2008, 6:06 am 6:06 am

To It’s not about the Economy
I see your point and all I can say is Thank you, I will graciously accept your good luck wishes because I am staying with Obama. I however hope that you will see that it might be a hard decision for you but to me you have 2 choices. Obama or McCain…Ask yourself, is it time to make a change or do you want to keep doing what we have been doing for the last 8 years….. It’s your decision. We don’t have time to play around, we have to do what we have to do.

Posted by: Bee | October 10, 2008, 6:09 am 6:09 am

PHYLLIS – Barack Obama is the key to getting our country back on track like it was when Pres. Clinton was in office.
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ROTFLMFAO!!!! Unbelievable

Posted by: It's not about the Economy | October 10, 2008, 6:15 am 6:15 am

TO: IT’S NOT ABOUT THE ECONOMY
SEE THERE YOU GO!!!

Posted by: Bee | October 10, 2008, 6:19 am 6:19 am

Sarah Palin is the “Archilles Heel” in McCains bid for the Presidency, even if she has no idea what that means…lol. So sad to see a man who once had some character fall into the pile of refuse that is modern Republican smear mongering. This from the man and woman who say they can work in a bi-partisan way to get our country back on track. Yeah, right. Politics is one thing, obliterating the truth to fit your needs is something else. Palin is a joke talking about Obama while she is under investigation. She is a talking head and an empty one at that.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 6:27 am 6:27 am

Posted by: mssmith | October 10, 2008, 6:29 am 6:29 am

Insanity: Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result. Obama 08′

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 6:30 am 6:30 am

If you are truly being fair to both parties in this presidential race, then you would not just repeat the lies of the McCain Campaign saying “Who is Barack Obama and what is his relationship with Ayers the Terrorist?” You would not ask why Obama is running a negative ad campaign when you know he is only responding to the 100% negative ads of the McCain Campaign. This is not something that you do not know, but it is something that you do not mention and pretend that you do not know. This is insulting and condescending. You already know that Barack has denounced the actions of Ayres and that Barack was 8 years old at the time of these actions. You already know that McCain has a connection as well to the woman who headed this board which helped the children in the community and he also hired one of the other board members as a consultant. Go onto Keith Olbermann MSNBC. The other networks want to help push McCain’s lies and SMEAR as legitimate, but McCain and Cindy and Palin are only pushing trash. And the networks are trying to convince us that this is the way Republicans work. If that is true, that is sad and I cannot wait until the networks hire people of change that will challenge lies, Smears, hate and evil. On these blogs you have someone threatening to assassinate and you call yourself promoting the Republican way. I do not believe all Republicans are racists, but all racists seem to justify their actions by saying it is the Republican way. You are inciting violence and evil and that is not okay. You are not being impartial or fair or equal and you know it. I am shocked at what is considered okay to do and okay to say. I have never been involved in blogs or campaigns until now, but this is shocking and unbelievable and disappointed. The bright light is that November 4th is fast approaching and Obama will be the next president. After the election, I do not ever have to blog again, not will I have to listen to the stations that promoted this hate. I have some new stations. I love Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow.

Posted by: Woman for Truth | October 10, 2008, 6:32 am 6:32 am

You do not mention the Keating 5 and ask do we really know John McCain. You do not mention the Iran-Contra group and how McCain not only supported this Terrorist group, but that his name was on their letterhead. Do we really know John McCain?
You do not mention John McCain and the rally he attended of a Hate group Terrorists who shot a doctor who performed an abortion and the delegate supporting McCain that called that individual who shot the doctor a good woman. John McCain did not walk out. He stayed their as if to support these actions. Do we really know John McCain?

Posted by: Change Agent | October 10, 2008, 6:33 am 6:33 am

JEALOUS RIGHT WING HATERS!!!
It is so amusing to me to read your hundreds of bashing posts full of lies against Obama! I think there are only FIVE of you McCain guys out there posting hunreds of times under different names. It so transparent!
Hey let me save you some trouble NOBODY is buying into your Rep dribble!
MCCain/Palin= DISHONORABLE smear tactics and they sinking fast!!!

Posted by: Sara for OBAMA | October 10, 2008, 6:34 am 6:34 am

Insanity: Expecting a good result from a man who wants to lead a country with a background of associations with slumlords, ex-cons, radicals, and racists. Oh yeah, with no experience leading anything but volunteer community services.

Posted by: mssmith | October 10, 2008, 6:34 am 6:34 am

You also do not mention to Sarah Palin about the Joe Vogler and her husband. This is an Alaskan Independence Party who were terrorists and who her husband Todd Palin’s was apart of and registered with this Independence Party up until September of this year when Sarah was picked as Vice President. Vogler was quoted as saying the following:
The Alaskan Independence Party quotes Vogler as stating “I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”[1] [2]
“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.” [3]

Posted by: Change Agent | October 10, 2008, 6:34 am 6:34 am

I’m voting for OBAMA/BIDEN 08!

Posted by: A REAL Woman for Truth | October 10, 2008, 6:36 am 6:36 am

Obama can denounce all he wants until he’s a 102. Actions speak much louder than words. And that fact has been around alot at least since Obama was 8 years old.

Posted by: mssmith | October 10, 2008, 6:36 am 6:36 am

For the first time in my adult life I am not Proud to be an American……Yes I stated the opposite of Michelle Obamas Statement and I quote her “For the first time in my adult life I am proud to be an American”
I have never been a Republican or Demorcrat I voted Perot in 2004 because I felt neither DEM OR REP were qualified . I vote on my choice who I think will represent our country the best . However this year I gotta tell ya I AM SICK !!!!!!!!! CBS NBC ABC MSM are in it for OBAMA AND YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT by the way they Attack MCCAIN AND PALIN >>Yet they will NOT REPORT ON ANYTHING CONCERNING OBAMA >>>>AND THERE IS A LONG LIST LONG LIST ….AYERS REZCO WRIGHT ACCORN AND THERE ARE MANY MORE….IF MR. OBAMA HAS NOTHING TO HIDE WHY DOES HE LIE ??? WE AS AMERICANS DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH .. AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA SWEEPS IT UNDER THE RUG.FACTS ARE …. OBAMA has had a long relationship with ayers,”not just a guy from the neighborhood” OBAMA DID SIT IN THE PEWS FOR 20 YEARS while the pastor preached HATRED…OBAMA did once defend ACORN as a lawyer …OBAMA did give 800,000 to ACORN THIS CAMPAIGN….ACORN IS UNDER INVESTIGATION AT THIS TIME FOR VOTER FRAUD!!!! FACT MR.OBAMA HAS NOT HAS NOT ANSWERED THESE QUESTIONS HE HAS NOT BEEN TRUTHFUL….So as I sit here I had decided I was voting for MCCAIN AND PALIN.. HOWEVER I NOW DECIDED NOT TO VOTE AT ALL… MY REASONS BEING… WHY WASTE MY GAS MONEY TO VOTE WHO I BELIEVE IN WHEN THE ELECTION HAS ALREADY BEEN DECIDED BY NO NOT AMERICANS BUT BY ABC,NBC ,CBS, AND ACCORN WITH THE VOTER FRAUD. SO THAT IS WHY I AM NOT PROUD …OUR AMERICAN VOICE HAS BEEN DISABLED WE ARE NOT FREE TO CHOOSE .

Posted by: Tammy | October 10, 2008, 6:41 am 6:41 am

My concern and frankly my issue is that if you were true unbias fair and equal reporters who are impartial, why do you keep repeating the lies and smears of McCain inciting violence and hate and evil. Why are you not addressing the true associations of Palin and McCain. Both McCain and Obama has ties to Ayres and McCain has more ties to terrorists than any candidate and Palin’s husband was apart of Terrorist group and Sarah attended the meetings and spoke there. When you truly are equally giving time and commentary to both’s associations, then I see you as impartial. If I found this information, then I know, you already know this information as well, but you never mention it or address it. Professionals address both sides, not just one. The next time George Stephanopolis says Why not Ayres? Ask for McCain or Obama? McCain had one consultant and one contribution on the same board. Then ask why not Keating 5? Why not Iran Contra connections with his name on the letterhead? Why not Hate groups who shoot to kill doctors? Why not the Alaskan Independence Party? Did McCain’s support of only 20% of veteran bills versus Obama’s 80% support give Cindy a chill? Why not ask Cindy if she did not get a chill from the many bills her husband rejected, why did she not get a chill from a bill that would keep the soldiers in Iraq for an unlimited amount of time. How about an illegal war spurred by Bush/McCain which allowed Bin Laden to escape and grow, because the war should have been in Afghanistan? Why did that not give Cindy a chill? And can Cindy really handle switching shoes with Obama or Michele or America’s middle class and poor for 1 day? Really, Mrs. Bud?

Posted by: Tired of the Bull | October 10, 2008, 6:45 am 6:45 am

Prove me wrong please. Show me how far the media has come and dare to address any of the above statements I’ve listed. I am not afraid to apologize and say that I am wrong, but I am sick of hearing about Ayres and Obama. Ayres is not running for President !!!! Why are we not hearing about McCain and Keating 5 and McCain and Iran Contra, McCain and Hate groups killing doctors and Sarah and Todd Palin’s Alaskan Independence Party and McCain and how he voted against the veterans and your rebuttal of McCain not be a 30 second side mention after a 20 minute blowup of McCain’s misrepresentations and lies. What it looks like to me is that Republican people own these stations. Be fair to America and if they have a right to know about Ayres, who isn’t running for President, then we have a right to know about John McCain’s connections as well Palin’s connections, otherwise you and John McCain and Sarah Palin are the biggest deceiving hypocrites of all time. What you are doing is not Republican politics but modern day racism. Anyone who incites violence, hate, and evil are not presidential or pro-America. America is a melting pot of all cultures.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008 – Because GOOD will forever CONQUER EVIL.

Posted by: Tired of the Bull | October 10, 2008, 6:50 am 6:50 am

The funny thing is all of you Obama supporters actually think he’s going to be able to do something for the economy let alone you personally.
Get it through your heads, Obama does not care about you, he does not care about the middle class. He voted YES to the BAILOUT that is not working, except for the white, rich, ceo’s of banking and insurance and the wall street fat cats. He votes YES with McCain on bill that was pushed by President Bush. Wake up, he is the same as every politician that has step foot in Washington, and why not, he is half white himself.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 7:01 am 7:01 am

mssmith: Oh you mean McCain? Laughing at you. I guess G.Liddy is a great guy? How about ex-con and great friend of McCain. The list goes on. Why do you think McCain is so careful about bashing Obama on these things? He lets his under investigation “Pitbull” or is that “Barracuda” (laughable) to do the dirty work. He lives in a house made of glass. You just live with your head in the sand. If you haven’t noticed your parties plan isn’t working so well, then again you guys never take the blame for anything do you? Laughing at you.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 7:04 am 7:04 am

omg… Now a muslim outreach meeting in September with activists present and Obama ‘admits it was a mistake’? This is insanity. He admits another ‘mistake’? Actions speak so much louder than words… and that ‘truth’ has been around at least since he was 8 years old, and he still hasn’t learned.

Posted by: mssmith | October 10, 2008, 7:06 am 7:06 am

Obama to congress on the “bailout” –
“Just get it done.” Thanks Obama!
It’s done, so is America. You’re a genius!

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 7:07 am 7:07 am

wireyone: Obama lives in the same glass house as McCain, he just hasn’t been around as long. But he’s obviously convinced you that he doesn’t. He’s had the same kinds of connections that you mention McCain has had. So what makes your guy so almighty? He’s more of the same, but trying to convince you otherwise. But go ahead and throw the dice. It’s all you’ve got.

Posted by: mssmith | October 10, 2008, 7:11 am 7:11 am

I never thought I would be in 2008 and TV networks and the McCain Campaign would be okay with inciting hate and abuse of the civil rights of a candidate while people are threatening lives based on lies conjured up by Palin and McCain and play it over and over and over again including the words said and I question the people who support and condone this behavior and despite the illegitimacy of it’s content and ignorance of their actions at a time when our Country is in it’s worse financial position in history where World leaders are coming together with us to try and figure this out before our system totally fails and John McCain is talking about Ayres who is not running for President, because he does not care about the American people and their current state more than he cares about attacking and slandering Obama by any means necessary. You clearly see that his bogus claim to put his campaign on hold was a lie and joke, because we are worse and he is out there attacking Obama rather than helping or caring about anyone but himself and his precious campaign. I Hope everyone is looking and taking notes on this man. He is dangerous. He is out of control. Palin is clueless and clearly unqualified. She couldn’t come up with a magazine title, yet alone strategy to help.
OBAMA/BIDEN – 2008 Evil Will Never Win No Matter Whether You Dress It Up As A Pitbull with lipstick Or A cranky, angry, mean old pretend Maverick

Posted by: American for Change | October 10, 2008, 7:15 am 7:15 am

Obama trying to be all things to all people. “I was poor once too!” “I’m black!” “I’m half white” “I was raised muslim!” “I am a Christian!” “I will take from the rich and give to the poor!” “I will force business owners to provide healthcare for their employees!” “I will tax those who provide jobs at a higher rate!” The man has not a clue what he stands for, except we all know one thing: He wants to be president in a bad, bad way.

Posted by: mssmith | October 10, 2008, 7:17 am 7:17 am

If Obama is for change, why did he vote YES to bailout the rich, with John McCain, and congress, and President Bush?
That’s sound like the same. And it is insane to think this bailout would ever work. So I guess that makes Obama “the same”, and “insane.”

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 7:19 am 7:19 am

I never thought I would be in 2008 and TV networks and the McCain Campaign would be okay with inciting hate and abuse of the civil rights of a candidate while people are threatening lives based on lies conjured up by Palin and McCain and play it over and over and over again including the words said and I question the people who support and condone this behavior and despite the illegitimacy of it’s content and ignorance of their actions at a time when our Country is in it’s worse financial position in history where World leaders are coming together with us to try and figure this out before our system totally fails and John McCain is talking about Ayres who is not running for President, because he does not care about the American people and their current state more than he cares about attacking and slandering Obama by any means necessary. You clearly see that his bogus claim to put his campaign on hold was a lie and joke, because we are worse and he is out there attacking Obama rather than helping or caring about anyone but himself and his precious campaign. I Hope everyone is looking and taking notes on this man. He is dangerous. He is out of control. Palin is clueless and clearly unqualified. She couldn’t come up with a magazine title, yet alone strategy to help.
OBAMA/BIDEN – 2008 Evil Will Never Win No Matter Whether You Dress It Up As A Pitbull with lipstick Or A cranky, angry, mean old pretend Maverick

Posted by: American for Change | October 10, 2008, 7:20 am 7:20 am

America for Change and wirey-one I sure do hope you like redistribution of wealth.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 7:21 am 7:21 am

Can’t wait to have some of America for Change’s salary and wirey-one’s salary pay for my mortgage, lets Go Obama, redistribute that wealth, I need a free ride.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 7:23 am 7:23 am

i want a free ride too…!…….. Go Obama! Yipppeee! He’s for me!! All I have to do is stay poor and uneducated and hold out my hand. YEA!

Posted by: mssmith | October 10, 2008, 7:33 am 7:33 am

Obama was just interviewed on our local news station. All the questions he answered were almost duplicates of what McCain said 2 days ago in his interview. If this man can’t make his own judgments in interviews, what the hell will he do for this country??? He said in this interview – he can’t fix the budget in the next 4 years and he’ll “keep troops” in Iraq – what about bringing them home??

Posted by: Jill | October 10, 2008, 7:37 am 7:37 am

OMG! A day after reading this, I’m still laughing! First he creates a fake ‘presidential seal’. Is this his fake ‘state of the union address’? LOL! This guy is hilarious!!!

Posted by: RUKiddingMe?? | October 10, 2008, 7:39 am 7:39 am

THIS will be cool if Obama gets elected. Then I won’t have to work hard – because if I do, I will get ding’d in taxes. I will finally be able to sit back and coast along, and just hold out my hand and ask, “Where is my tax credit, where is the money, and WHERE is my health insurance?!” Now there’s an incentive for all Americans!!

Posted by: mssmith | October 10, 2008, 7:40 am 7:40 am

Seems like B.O. is getting nervous, buying Prime Time, huh, no problem Oprah has got plenty of money. Wake up America, who do you think is behind B.O. with all those bucks, you guested it Oprah. That peckerwood B.O. is so full of BS its coming out of his ears, he knows nothing about the Economy, National Defense,National Security, the way the American people think, and a heap of other issues. B.O.thinks he is the “New Messia”.He is on the biggest ego trip of his life, but with “NO EXPERIENCE” he thinks he can run the most powerful nation on the planet. Folks, we need a leader, not a Media Rock Star. God Bless America, and God Bless John & Sarah……..

Posted by: Bronco Bill | October 10, 2008, 7:48 am 7:48 am

mssmith: I will ask you the same question I asked Angelo, who are you voting for then? I will agree that to get either parties nomination you have to sell your soul to a point. So who? I’m sorry but I will vote for the guy with the most obvious intelligence. I am not myopic and have seen the have a beer guy (Bush) bring this nation to it’s knees. If you vote for McCain you may very well get Palin as President. That is SCARY by anyones standard. She isn’t as bright as Bush. With all the blowback she still used the term, “Joe Sixpack” during the debates. She is a disgrace. She is the “Archilles Heel” of the McCain ticket, even if she has no idea what that means. Can you say Education? Hers is lacking. If she wasn’t in this race you would have a better arguement. The thought of her being President is scary. At least she isn’t a witch though…lol.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 7:53 am 7:53 am

I am suggested a TV black out during the half billion 30 min air time purchased by Obama on 10/29. No politican should be allowed to play celebrity by dropping half billion dollar to be on all networks to sell a lemon platform to the american public. Not while the nationa and the world is suffering from a massive financial crisis! Let’s all turn on cartoons during the obama TV buys on the 29th and send a message that washington is corrupt.
Only corruption can drop half a billion dollar in ad buys during the worst financial criss we have ever faced!
Join me…take this country back!

Posted by: James | October 10, 2008, 7:55 am 7:55 am

BroncoBill: Laughing at your post. Anyone who calls or infers Obama is stupid is laughable when they support Palin. Go stick your head back in the sand. It is the right who is panicking as we speak. I have never seen so much rhetoric as I have seen these past few days. It’s funny. All that hate radio time wasted…lol.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 10, 2008, 7:57 am 7:57 am

Join me…take this country back!
Posted by: James | Oct 10, 2008 11
We are, by voting democratic.

Posted by: d | October 10, 2008, 8:00 am 8:00 am

wirey-one it seems like you’re a little on the fence yourself. I think one way to look at it is this, nothing can be done to fix the economy, in fact, we ourselves need to live within our own budgets, and not borrow from banks. The only thing we can almost control is our situtation with the wars. Iraq was is going to end, no matter who is the president, that will help our economy. Then we need to WIN in Afganistan and Pakistan, and put a stop RADICAL Islam.
At that point, you will see our economy rebound. But to say that either candidate can fix this economy is naive.
The best we can hope for is a qualified
canditate in 2012, and tighten our belts until then.
But, vote out the congress that voted for the bailout.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 8:00 am 8:00 am

Ok this is getting stupid! We can get in a disscussion about you know him or you know her back and forth BS for another 6 monthes or we can move forward as a nation. Do any of you think any of these politcians hands are clean? I mean come on vote for the ones who’s policies you like and thats it, or we’re going to be here for years trying to find Jesus to run for president.

Posted by: Joe | October 10, 2008, 8:27 am 8:27 am

Bronco Bill, Brace yourself if your Maverick dies in office. If Sarah’s hand is “on the tiller” you’ll see inexperience! What part of old (and I do mean old) John McCain do you like? If you vote for him, you’re asking for four or more years of Bush-like leadership. Please read my previous post that listed both candidates’ agendas. Remember…If you vote for McCain, you might end up with Palin. Don’t vote for her because she looks good in a skirt! There’s more to it than that.

Posted by: Beck | October 10, 2008, 8:36 am 8:36 am

“If you vote for him, you’re asking for four or more years of Bush-like leadership.”
Beck, I do believe Barack Obama voted for the “bailout” that Bush, forced on congress and the American people. So Obama is just more of the same. He voted for the bailout, he does not care about you, he does care about the middle class.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 8:40 am 8:40 am

“If you vote for him, you’re asking for four or more years of Bush-like leadership.”
Beck, I do believe Barack Obama voted for the “bailout” that Bush, forced on congress and the American people. So Obama is just more of the same. He voted for the bailout, he does not care about you, he does NOT care about the middle class.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 8:41 am 8:41 am

these paid bloggers of obama can get real. how can you elect a president who has too much baggage. too much for obama’s lifetime. how can he deny them all. the is an intelligent man, playing stupid that he does not know these people’s activities. where is his accountability? is this how he run the country, he does not know what is going on around him? how these people influence his presidency? if you are an american, and you are concern about your future, and the future of your children, is this a kind of a president you wish to be one of the history of the country. don’t be an ostrich guys digged your head to the ground, and pretend that there is nothing wrong about obama. please, speak up for your conscience.

Posted by: len | October 10, 2008, 8:44 am 8:44 am

len your post proves one thing that Obama supporters refuse to realize. He is a true politician that only care for himself, and maybe the people who fund the campaign.

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 8:50 am 8:50 am

Angelo, get real…Both McCain and Obama left the campaign trail Wednesday and returned to Washington to vote on the historic $700 billion bailout. Both voted FOR the bill. I’m done on this blog! It’s getting ridiculous. Vote Obama ’08!!!

Posted by: Beck | October 10, 2008, 8:52 am 8:52 am

Oct 1st, 2008 | WASHINGTON — The Republican presidential candidate who took the economic bailout so seriously that he suspended many campaign activities last week stayed quiet in the Senate when it came time to vote on it.
Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama, his Democratic rival, both left the campaign trail Wednesday and returned to Washington to vote on the historic $700 billion bailout. Both voted for the bill.
Obama used the opportunity before his colleagues and TV cameras to lay out his rationale and explain his economic vision.
“This will not solve all our problems,” Obama said on the Senate floor, as his Democratic colleagues streamed in to listen. “This is what we need to do right now, to prevent the possibility of a crisis turning into a catastrophe.”
McCain did not speak about the measure from the chamber. Before the roll was called, the Arizona senator dined in Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s office with other GOP senators.
“He was working hard with his colleagues to ensure that this package moved forward,” said Mark Buse, McCain’s Senate chief of staff. “He didn’t see the need to speak on the bill.”
Both senators voted for the bill, which passed 74-25. It now goes to the House, which is expected to vote on Friday.
McCain discussed the measure earlier in the day in Missouri, but his decision not to speak about it in the Senate stood out because he had cited the seriousness of the issue when he took the dramatic step a week earlier of suspending his campaign and suggesting what became a bipartisan White House meeting on the crisis.
McCain is action-oriented by nature and usually is a ready Republican participant in trying to work out compromises on major pieces of stalled legislation. But he has struggled to strike the right balance between being involved in the crisis without appearing to exploit the situation for political purposes. Democrats accused him of politicizing the crisis when he rushed back to Washington last week to help.
The Republican let his words speak for him earlier Wednesday at the Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Mo. “If we fail to act, the gears of our economy will grind to a halt,” he said in a speech.
It’s been rough going for the bailout package and it was hoped that the rare appearances by Sens. Obama and McCain would help propel it to passage. The candidates in turn were seeking political advantage by addressing the top issue on voters’ minds.
In reality, the candidates have had little to do with drafting the bill’s various versions. And their influence over their Senate counterparts was unclear.
The House on Monday rejected an earlier version, a move that sent the stock market into a 778-point dive.
Wednesday it was the Senate’s turn. In rare agreement, leaders of both parties presented a rewrite with a variety of sweeteners for lawmakers reluctant to vote ‘yes’ a little more than a month before Election Day.
Obama urged any lawmakers on the fence to “step up to the plate.”
“Let’s do what’s right for the country at this time, because the time to act is now,” he said on the Senate floor.
Lawmakers of both parties said Wednesday the changes made the bill more palatable. McCain, in Missouri, said he was pleased that the bill includes taxpayer protections, limitations on executive compensation and sufficient protections for people’s bank accounts.
They include an increase in Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. protection for bank accounts from $100,000 to $250,000. Both McCain and Obama had endorsed the hike in deposit insurance.

Posted by: Beck | October 10, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am

Hussein Muhammad Nobama has to explain his ties to ACORN. Why is he giving them money and why only blacks work for ACORN?

Posted by: Women4Palin | October 10, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am

Ah Beck come on — Barack is the candidate for change though. Why didn’t vote NO to prove he was changing the course of the Bush disaster. He didn’t, he voted YES to the bailout, he vote YES for No Change. He had his chance to vote for the People of this country that he claims he is for, but he voted to bail out the rich, with Bush and McCain, where’s the change Beck?

Posted by: Angelo | October 10, 2008, 8:57 am 8:57 am

If Hussein Muhammad is really so far ahead in the polls, why does ACORN have to cheat???? Why are the democrats cheating???
I was going to vote for Nobama but have changed my mind. The democrats are cheating.

Posted by: Women4Palin | October 10, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am

Mr Obama please explain your ties to ACORN???? Why are they cheating??? Why resort to fraud????

Posted by: Sarah Jane | October 10, 2008, 9:01 am 9:01 am

Mr Obama please explain your ties to Bill Ayers?? Why is he giving your campaign advice???

Posted by: Sarah Jane | October 10, 2008, 9:04 am 9:04 am

Maybe Ayers should be considered a real HERO (unlike like McCain pound puppy POW) for fighting the Vietnamese War; like those that fought the British in the Revolution. Anyway, its 40 years + ago !

Posted by: philosopherkingtomas | October 10, 2008, 9:11 am 9:11 am

Also while Obama and Bill Ayers worked together on the board of the Woods foundation they saw fit to send ACORN 200Gs.
MSM

Posted by: John Potus | October 10, 2008, 9:13 am 9:13 am

Mr. NOBAMA please explain not only your connection but your staying in Rev.Wright’s church 20 years then throwing him under the bus when he became a liability. Also your membership in the NEW PARTY 1992-1998 and how it’s left wing doctrine was to infiltrate the Dem Party and push it towards SOCILISM. If NOBAMA/Bidin win we will have no liberties and those of us who work for a living will be supporting the lazy S.O.B’s that won’t work.

Posted by: Gene | October 10, 2008, 9:26 am 9:26 am

Did Biden Get It Wrong? You Betcha
Not only is Obama our undoing but Biden
doesnt even know what the Vice President Does!! All those years of politics and Pailin knows more about the role of Vice President than he does!
Crooked and Stupid… What a pair!

Posted by: trace | October 10, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

You know why Obama is doing this primetime stint? Because Palin is going to be on SNL, that’s the only reason. He has to be in the spotlight, the celebrity that he is. If he had and original thought, I would be shocked.

Posted by: Joe | October 10, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am

Eight years of Republicans in the White House was not enough! We want MORE! Vote Republican. We want MORE! Eight More Years! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am

We want more of the same! Eight More Years! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 10:18 am 10:18 am

Average Voter…so you’re saying a black man can’t be successful and make over 45K per year? Isn’t that what you’re accussing JD of? Now who’s being racist and petty here. You say only the rich were at the WTC on 9/11 and deserved to die for being rich…wow!! So are you willing to say this face to face to the 3000 plus families who lost loved ones? Or how about the firefighters and the people who risked their own lives to search for the missing? So I suppose the children that died in the 1995 Oklahoma Federal Building also deserved to die (Tim McVey was a vet as well as Terry Nichols) because their parents worked for a racist government? You are disrespectful and a disgrace to yourself and only show your ignorance through your posts. There are those out there who would rather play the blame game and hold out their hands for that government check each month–well who the heck gave them the right to dig in my pockets for MY hard earned money and the hard earned money of others who had the ambition get out of bed each and every day and go to WORK!! Oh yeah, I forgot, WORK is a 4 lettered word for some! Grow up!!

Posted by: fooled no more | October 10, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am

Eight years of Republicans in the White House was not enough! We want MORE! Vote Republican. We want MORE! Eight More Years! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 10:23 am 10:23 am

Ohio secretary of state found guilty of voter fraud. Why are the dems cheating??
Voters have a right to know Obama’s involvement in this fraud. Obama has to explain his ties with ACORN.

Posted by: women4 palin | October 10, 2008, 10:24 am 10:24 am

I care deeply about the state of the economy but Nobama has to explain his ties with ACORN.
I will not vote for a fraud.

Posted by: demsnever | October 10, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

9/11 happened on Bush and Cheney’s watch – and they had lots of advance intelligence. I say this with no satisfaction, it’s just the truth. And then they attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and killed thousands and thousands of people. They have bankrupted the USA and left it billions and billions of dollars in debt.
Eight more years! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

The trouble with Sarah Palin appearing on SNL is that we won’t know who is Palin and who is Tiny Fay! Dumb and dumber!

Posted by: Intelligent voter | October 10, 2008, 10:27 am 10:27 am

Ms. Palin, what I don’t get is that a so-called Christian finds it perfectly okay to incite Racism and violent behavior. Why are you so sarcastic and snide? Is it that you don’t have anything of real value to say? You are so sad…the Republicans are using you and you don’t even get it! I wonder if this is worth your soul?

Posted by: Intelligent voter | October 10, 2008, 10:36 am 10:36 am

Posted by: miles1967 | October 10, 2008, 11:01 am 11:01 am

What the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has to say about Mr. O http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=77539

Posted by: Real Story | October 10, 2008, 11:19 am 11:19 am

9/11 happened on Bush and Cheney’s watch – and they had lots of advance intelligence. I say this with no satisfaction, it’s just the truth. And then they attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and killed thousands and thousands of people. They have bankrupted the USA and left it billions and billions of dollars in debt.
Eight more years! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 11:22 am 11:22 am

Obama should be prime time. The media Everything else pales in comparison to Obama: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77539 Check out this link as part of your research. How come the media is not all over this?has done little to show the real Obama.

Posted by: Tekrab | October 10, 2008, 11:26 am 11:26 am

TO ALL MY FRIENDS…
LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE…
FYI only.
George Bush has been in office for 71/2 years.
The first six the economy was fine.
A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%
4) The DOW JONES hit a record high– 14,000 +
5) American’s were buying new cars, taking Cruises, vacations
overseas, living large!
But America wanted ‘CHANGE’! So, in 2006 they voted in a Democratic Congress and yes–we got ‘CHANGE’ all right. In the PAST YEAR:
1) Consumer confidence has plummeted
2) Gasoline is now over $4 a gallon And climbing!
3) Unemployment is up to 5.5% (a 10% increase)
4) Americans have seen their home equity Drop by $12 TRILLION DOLLARS And prices are still dropping
5) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure
6) as I write, THE DOW is probing another Low ~~ $2.5 TRILLION
DOLLARS HAS EVAPORATED FROM THEIR STOCKS, BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS!
YES, IN 2006 AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE…AND WE SURE GOT IT!
REMEMBER THE PRESIDENT HAS NO CONTROL OVER ANY OF THESE ISSUES, ONLY CONGRESS DOES.
AND WHAT HAS CONGRESS DONE IN THE
LAST TWO YEARS?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
NOW THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT CLAIMS HE IS GOING TO REALLY GIVE US CHANGE, AND HE HAS THE BACKING OF A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS!!!!
JUST HOW MUCH MORE ‘CHANGE’ DO YOU THINK YOU CAN STAND?

Posted by: Real Story | October 10, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am

Why not buy air time for the election. Obama has bought votes by donating $800,000.00 to Acorn and having them go out and get a bunch of fake registered votes.And depriving the rest of us the right to elect the candidate of our choice.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am

Palin says, ”there was absolutely no pressure ever put on commissioner Monaghan to hire or fire anybody at anytime.”
On the other hand, the reported facts indicate, “In all, the commissioner and his aides were contacted about Trooper Wooten 36 times over 19 months by the governor, her husband and seven administration officials, interviews and documents show.”
Sarah lies for God.

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am

9/11 happened on Bush and Cheney’s watch – and they had lots of advance intelligence. I say this with no satisfaction, it’s just the truth. And then they attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and killed thousands and thousands of people. They have bankrupted the USA and left it billions and billions of dollars in debt.
Eight more years! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 11:30 am 11:30 am

McCain and Palin are the hemmoriods on America’s a$$. Wish all it took to get rid of them was a little Preparation H.

Posted by: Itchy | October 10, 2008, 11:34 am 11:34 am

McCain is a disgrace to the human race.As he likes to say there won’t be any reward for him in heaven or Palin.He & Palin can got to Alaska and be President & VP there taking all the racist with them. Palin & her group already wanted to succeed from the US. Good Riddens and the IQ for America would triple.

Posted by: Didi | October 10, 2008, 11:41 am 11:41 am

I don’t know can anyone tell me has Barack Obama said anything in his speeches about the acorn voter fraud going on ? May-be he could announce to his followers to stop the fraud this is not how he intended to win the election. Or is it?

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 11:46 am 11:46 am

Didi i’m not sure McCain is “a disgrace to the human race” – that might be a bit much. But he certainly does seem to be an old, psychologically unstable man prone to ‘losing it’ in temper fits, as is documented by many people who have known him over the years.
An aged, unsteady McCain coupled with the vacuous, evangelistic former TV sports personality Palin make a terribly dangerous joke of a Presidential ticket.

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 11:48 am 11:48 am

I can’t even believe some of this I’m reading. the Ayers thing didn’t work in the Primaries, it’s not going to work now. and VOTER FRAUD??? Are you serious? After Bush stole the White House two elections in a row, and Whistleblowers have come forward and testified to that effect?
You all are calling the Democrats desperate, and saying that our desperation is showing. Right.
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re not the ones hatemongering at our rallies while people shout “Kill him!”
Our numbers are up, yours are down.
Who’s desperate???

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

Brigitta I agree hatemongering at rallies is ridiculous and awful and wish they would stop. But do you know if Obama has told his followers to stop the Acorn Voter fraud? I do feel it is my right as an American to have my vote count. I don’t believe any candidate or party should condone election fraud.

Posted by: conf1689 | October 10, 2008, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm

Well this in a half hour I will not waste of my time. Obama is not worth watching. All he does is lie. He will never be President. He is a joke.

Posted by: B | October 10, 2008, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm

9/11 happened on Bush and Cheney’s watch – and they had lots of advance intelligence. I say this with no satisfaction, it’s just the truth. And then they attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and killed thousands and thousands of people. They have bankrupted the USA and left it billions and billions of dollars in debt.
Eight more years! Vote Republican!

Posted by: pefros | October 10, 2008, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm

I think the most prudent think for the radical right to do at this stage is to blame the Clinton administration. Certainly they had something to do with the most sizable run up ever in government spending these past 7 years, certainly they had something to do with planting weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and then sneaking them out, certainly they had something to do with deregulation of the finacial industry and the current meltdown. If you’re an earnest republican, you have an obligation to point the finger at someone other then your own party. If it weren’t so sad, it might be more comical to watch the aged John McCain trying to come across as an agent of change, when he’s basically been attached at the hip to George Bush’s policies for the past 7 years…but hey maybe that’s Clinton’s fault as well! There will be a colossal mandate come November 4th, not unlike when Ronald Reagan first went into office. I’d recommend that for their own mental health the McCain-Palin supporters take a deep breath, and calm down. In 25 short days it will all be over. John can head back to the senate and write up a plan to buy back all of the foreclosed homes in the US (seemingly the antithesis to ther conservative mantra – then again John’s been a bit erratic) and Sarah can head back to Alaska where I’m sure she’s welcomed as a very capable executive.

Posted by: cm | October 10, 2008, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm

The economy is in a horrible state. To continue with the policies which precipitated in this horrible situation is beyond comprehension. If America pursues the path it is on, history will record it as one of the most disastrous mistakes in the history of the country, if not the world. Americans must put aside petty distractions and make decisions that they know will help pull the country out this financial abyss. It is surreal that so many Americans are devoting their time to petty matters that will have no significance after the election is over. The economy will persist to be a problem for a long time to come.
Those who seek to spread divisive propaganda at a time when the nation is suffering as it is now are not serving their country, nor do I think in the long run they are serving their own narrow interests. It is in no way an example of the idea expressed by the motto: “Country First.” In the final analyst, it is an example of POLITICS FIRST.

Posted by: rhbate | October 10, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

Well this in a half hour I will not waste of my time. Obama is not worth watching. All he does is lie. He will never be President. He is a joke.
Posted by: B
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In a half an hour of prime TV time Obama will prove to the American people that he is capable of becoming a great TV/Movie star!
LOL!!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm

B: I totally agree with you B! I wish more people felt like we do!

Posted by: carlyonsue | October 10, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm

Obama on prime TV! Ahaha…ha!
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
Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/campbell-brown.html?cid=130091336

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm

conf1689: Fraud is exactly how he intends to win this election if we let him! That’s how Obama has won every election that he’s ever run in! When he ran for state senator in Illinois his supporters are said to have even taken names from the tombstones in the local cemeteries and registered them as voters!

Posted by: carlyonsue | October 10, 2008, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm

B: I totally agree with you B! I wish more people felt like we do!
Posted by: carlyonsue
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Hey carlyonsue: What’s the matter? You do not agree with me that Obama will prove to the American people that he is an “actor”?!
I agree with B, too! haha!
:-)

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

This TV quality presentation is a must watch…
A VIDEO PORTRAIT OF BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036
ANERICA THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm

DO NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA .COM
http://www.donotvoteforobama.com/

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm

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, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm

Barack Obama, TV $tar
Candidate spends big for prime-time special…
The Boston Herald
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1124620&format=text

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 6:47 pm 6:47 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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Yeap, to sell his “lemon” platform!

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

Yes, Natasha, I believe that Barack Obama is indeed an actor! We will find that out to our horror if he is elected!

Posted by: carlyonsue | October 10, 2008, 10:02 pm 10:02 pm

Boooooooo! While he feels the pain of the middle class (yeah, right) OHB spends millions to promote his “ego”.
Barack Obama, TV $tar
Candidate spends big for prime-time special…
The Boston Herald
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1124620&format=text

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 11:09 pm 11:09 pm

Yes, Natasha, I believe that Barack Obama is indeed an actor! We will find that out to our horror if he is elected!
Posted by: carlyonsue
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If that Marxist becomes President he will destroy our country.

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

“Most you guys are Idiots, When Ayers was doing what ever he was suppose to be doing, Obama was 8 years old, grow up people.You need to clean that stuff out between your ears.And it isnt wax!”
Posted by: Demo Rules
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Hey Mickey Mouse- Obama launched his campaign for President in Ayers livingroom! That did not happen when he was 8 years old. Everybody in Chicago knows who Ayers is. Obama knew darn well who Ayers was. He had no business serving together with Ayers on boards of various organizatios…he had no business associating himself with a convicted terrorist – I do not care how many years had passed.
Get a grip of yourselves democRATS!

Posted by: Natasha | October 10, 2008, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm

“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 | October 11, 2008, 12:09 am 12:09 am

Enjoy!
Obama Soviet Anthem: Hilarious
http://www.wikio.com/video/389423

Posted by: Natasha | October 11, 2008, 12:17 am 12:17 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, 2:22 am 2:22 am

The fact that he flip-floped on the campaign financing choice tells alot about him. He got McCain to agree and then he turns and goes out and get MILLIONS from liberal Hollywood.
Hows that for relating to the middle class.
I am afraid for our country if he gets in. He wants everyone else to share the wealth…I expect he is giving some of those millions to charity?!!

Posted by: mrskorn | October 11, 2008, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm

Barack Obama the lies keep piling up. How can people believe a Obama when he does nothing but lie. Obama is lying when he says he will not raise taxes on the middle class, Obama lies when he says he is ready to lead…Obama lies when he says he is not a racist. Obama lies when he says he did not pay $800,000.00ACORN to disrupt the voting process in battleground states. Obama lies when he says he is not involved with the Marxist terrorist Bill Ayers. You cannot believe anything Obama says.

Posted by: Lovemercy | October 12, 2008, 8:58 am 8:58 am

Senator Obama prevaricated on accepting campaign financing. He has used ACORN before, and they are accused of falsely registering thousands of voters, and then Obama denied he had hired them. There are millions of dollars questionable from foreign sources, which is against the law. My sense is we really cannot trust Senator Obama. He has misrepresented his positions and votes on gun control and the 2nd amendment and is against concealed carry, now the law in 48 states. It seems that Senator McCain “suffers” from real experience, judgment, character, patriotism and integrity. It is patently unfair to blame McCain for Bush-haters, for the tumultuous economy, spearheaded by President Carter, all the way to Reid. The Democrats initiated the low-income sub-prime business and now disavow any responsibility. It is the major factor in the financial meltdown and now Democrats are looking to Obama to fix it? Wow, that is putting the fox in the chicken pen to watch the chickens! We just might get change, a change over to an almost totally socialistic government, where tyranny of the government over the governed is what you will see. I have already voted for the McCain/Palin ticket and hope other voters vote with their brains, instead of just emotion and misunderstandings of where their candidate has been and where he is going with our republic. Vote for change that puts your country first, and not as an afterthought to get elected.

Posted by: curtis41 | October 12, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

Just think the news media has and will give McCain and Palin “FREE” air time…

Posted by: Wayne E | October 12, 2008, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm

Obama should be careful in booking his TV slots. I think a lot of liberals may get upset because they miss Knight Rider
http://thejagergazette.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-books-30-minutes-on-prime-time-tv.html

Posted by: jager | October 20, 2008, 11:27 am 11:27 am

I do believe the desperation of bad judgment and bad planning is making the McCain fans flutter. Hooray for our guy! I’m going to give him some more money to help out with any other half hour prime time speeches he might want to make. This election just keeps on getting better and better. And now, Colin Powell…

Posted by: Generational Transformation | October 21, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm

The three stooges, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid is that what we need for our country.???????? They want to take from your 401K, pensions, retirement accounts and distribute it to the 12 million illegal immigrants and other unemployed people. The illegals should be sent back. We do not have jobs for our own people and because of high taxes that is why companies have been forced to go there to survive. They call it a windfall tax……..they will take from you and give to someone else even if you are just getting by. These people are dangerous. Vote McCain and Palin and ask God for your guidance before you mark your ballot.

Posted by: Edna CutliP | October 29, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm

The three stooges, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid is that what we need for our country.???????? They want to take from your 401K, pensions, retirement accounts and distribute it to the 12 million illegal immigrants and other unemployed people. The illegals should be sent back. We do not have jobs for our own people and because of high taxes that is why companies have been forced to go there to survive. They call it a windfall tax……..they will take from you and give to someone else even if you are just getting by. These people are dangerous. Vote McCain and Palin and ask God for your guidance before you mark your ballot.

Posted by: Edna CutliP | October 29, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm

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