Obama’s (Almost) Round-the-Clock Coverage

The RNC is already pumping 3M in ads against Obama, in addition to a 527, Vets for I don’t remember what, that is burning 1M in McCain’s favor. So, why didn’t Obama go for public financing? Um… I wonder!!!
P.S: Common sense, my friend!

It is true that Senator Obama’s is on TV too, too much. The sad thing, he has not said one complete sentence that was worth remembering. Besides, his position will change again with the temperatures rising. He is not presidential material.

It figures, the press is in love with Barack Obama and it shows in the extraordinary media bias in favor of Obama. RESIST THE COMMON MEDIA!

President Obama is a BREATH OF FRESH AIR.
Posted by: wilder5121 | Jul 6, 2008 3:34:31 PM
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He’s a breath of something but I wouldn’t call it fresh with all his rehashed socialist ideas coming straight out of the ’60s.

“Vote democratic across the board”
Posted by: Lou | Jul 6, 2008 3:46:39 PM
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You don’t want us to even look at the issues of the candidates? Yeah, I guess that is a pretty Democrat idea.
COME ON guys look at your candidates, look at their issues. There will be some you like and dislike from BOTH parties but don’t let a party name tag decide your vote for you.

Obama just give a Democrat smile once in a while and make those reporters happy. They will report that smile and how happy it made them and then America will be happy. Just don’t over do it or they will turn on happiness.

Hey,,since here has lots of dust. How about breaking news,,,
Nadel just won!

If the press only now starts to follow Obama, they are late. Clinton is already robbed.

I guess Obama thinks he is a big movie star now. He wants the press to follow him everywhere he goes; He sounds like a narcissist. Can his arrogant superior attitude get any worse? Sickening!

Even the media thinks Obama is a joke.

This is a lie. Carter was the worst. If you’re life sucks it’s your own fault not anything to do with Bush. You can’t even come up with anything of substance. Just keep saying the same lines and insults ad nauseum over and over again. Al Bore or Kerry would have caved in like a witch’s teet on a bright, Sunday morning with all the things that this country has had to face the past 8 years. Go get a job and live in the real world
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As I said, your low IQ want allow you to discuss the issues. Does anyone intelligent want to debate the issues?

Obama is a man of Christian faith. He has nothing to hide. He represents unity and speaks unity. Why are you afraid for our country to come together and live out the true meaning of its creed?
Division equals nothing. Together the possiblities for America are endless. I am looking for to see the real greatness of America.

O’Bama O’Bama – never to be president because he doesnt know what he’s talking about. He lies, he goes to a church that hates whites, he is ignorant of the world and how it works, he in inexperienced, etc, etc, etc, etc. McCain is the ONLY, ONLY answer this November……the ONLY ANSWER!!!!!

Chuck,
I know you had to google all that info, but I’m old enough to remember the 70′s. He was a loser. Double-digit inflation. Horrible leader who showed weakness. And everytime he got on the set during the hostage crisis he looked like Khomeni had kicked him in the nutz. The hostages were released because Reagan was coming into office, and when they demanded 45 billion as ransom he said, “We are not going to give that kind of money to a bunch of barbarians.” Only person I know who likes Carter is my dad who was laid off his government job in 1983 and never went back to work because he said it was “Reagan’s fault”. Most left-wingers are like him. Pro-abortion, anti-Israeli-pro=Palestinian, big government from cradle to grave. No sense of personal responsibility.

The Obama campaign is now a spectacle, not very dignified, full of self induldence and unpresidential. But then, this is how he avoids talking about illegal immigration, sanctuary cities, criminal harboring of illegal aliens by Mayors, doing something to avoid $5.00 a gallon gasoline, helping the housing crisis, saving our schools from liberals revisionism, fighting the terrorists, protecting the family, etc etc, I have seen Obama talk his fluff and when he gets distracted into talking about the issues, he stutters badly.

McFlipFlopper is in no position to label anyone a flip-flopper. With his flip-flops on offshore drilling, immigration reform (to the point of voting against his own bill), his support of the Bush Tax Cuts (which he voted against and labeled unfair and biased in favor of the wealthy), etc., it’s hard for him to make any headway with this argument.

Obama has become a spectacle instead of a leader with solutions and ideas. But a spectacle is easier to hide his inability to articulate the issues. We will see how this self serving style serves our country.

I guess this means we will have to listen more to him telling us what we just heard is not what he said at all.
More flip flopping ahead I’m sure…

Must be nice. When will I ever get my 15 minutes?

Geez Glenda, how’s your life? Everything perfect? I wonder if you’ve taken a risk, because taking a risk certainly does entail the specter of big failure. Conversely, what if Obama is a big success, for himself and for us too? Wouldn’t that be great?

“zeroknots — no wonder you are an Obama supporter, your comments says it all.”
Define “support” in this context? :)

Obama’s campaign strategy is great! There are so many reporters following Obama that they don’t have time to write about any other candidates, let along write a fair unbiased critique of him or his opponents. We already saw him make use of this effective strategy in the primary. We could all learn from his campaign style and strategy. Unfortunately, it seems he is getting very nervous that his luck is running out as he tries to find ways to stay in the media while evading discussion on campaign issues, debates, town-halls meetings, etc.

Lou, I resent that Obama and his supporters are running on the platform of race. As you mention, years ago, people shed their blood nationwide in the civil war for freedom from slavery. In the 60′s there were more deaths in the fight for civil rights, and laws were changed. Then came affirmative action, and the DNC presidential candidate nominee will soon be announced. This is quite an accomplishment over the years. Far faster and further than women have come in the past 100 years. I will not vote for a candidate who can not campaign on the issues and continues to push his racism on America. We deserve better, our citizens have sacrificed and in honor of their sacrifice, I will vote for the person who can protect and better our future, not for a DNC platform, which primary focus is on a person’s color. It’s time for our beloved country to move beyond color and until this election, I thought most had. It was quite an awakening to hear and see the hate speech messages that Obama’s long time spiritual leader was sending to church-going audiences. Let’s unite and build this country, not tear it down with this type of DNC/Obama tactics.

Thank you!

Five years of torture is a horrible thing. But it is not a reason to be elected President. Both McCain and Obama need to be judged on their policies and their response to questions on issues.

I am amazed that Obama would brag about his background, as a community organizer in his commercials, that would qualify him to be president. He was an important player in getting free government money for southside Chicago welfare residents. In another words, he played the system for the money. What an empty suit.

All you Hillary supporters, vote for Obama, your candidate will be VP or at least Secretary of State, and President in 2012.

Your right im sorry!

Hey Ryan:
If Barack Obama is unqualified, then that makes McCan’t super unqualified. McCan’t will keep this country in the same catastrophic state it is in today. Ryan, I suppose you laugh all the while you are pumping your gas. You so secure that you won’t be downsized from your job tomorrow. Just to name a few things that will stay the same and get worse in this country if McCan’t is re-elected, (Bush again}. Get real Ryan, you know in your heart of hearts that Barack Obama is the more qualified candidate.

Kevin, you can call McCain all the names you want, but the one name you better get use to is….President McCain.
He WILL be your next president.

I’d say that’s your personal choice, and that’s fine. ‘Choice’ means reserving the right to make up one’s own mind.
If with you it’s a religious matter, how can I impugn that? With me, it’s a social matter: how do we empower the members of our society.

Annoy the media, think for youself. Vote McCain.

When Obama announced he’d expand the Faith-Based Initiatives, I initially cringed because I support the separation of church and state, and I for one believe that the role of government is to intervene in our society and level the playing field. However, I believe that Obama is rightly pointing out the progressive participation of religious groups, such as during the civil rights era. So, I am going to take a breath and see where this man leads on this issue. If I don’t agree I am going to blog, to pressure the man with my opinion. It is interesting to note that a protest group has become active on Obama’s own campaign website, trying to get him to change his opinion on FISA. That’s a promising thing.

ANGIE:
I appreciate your last few comments – they are thoughtful and well expressed.
I don’t necessarily agree with your position or have answers for you, but your willingness to ask sincere questions (not cut/pasted) is greatly appreciated.
It makes for a much more interesting conversation.

I think it is so cute the way people try to convince themselves that McCain has any chance in November.

Hardlabour:
I agree.

Thanks, I could genuinely use a refresher course on the separation of church and state. Truly. The terms get bandied about and muddied up. However, I believe that the spirit of what I was stating was correct, for me: I want a secular government, irrespective of religions

jo…great to see you back, still desperately attempting to defend the eight long years of incompetence, corruption, and failure from the Worst President Ever.
You must be one of the few people left in America still doing that. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

WOOT WOOT

wow. obama does more before 10 am than i do all weekend.

i love barack obama – he’s a true breath of fresh air and the kind of man that America needs now. John McCain was a good man, once, but he sold his soul to the GOP and now he’s just another Bush. I was a Republican once, but I’m sick of the GOP now – I’m ready to take a chance on the new guy.

selima – what worries me is that john mccain is a good man, but he’s still a republican. And he’s old. What happen if, god forbid, he dies or has a stroke in office? What kind of awful Republican second-string ideologue mediocrity will we get stuck with? Rudy? Romney? If old man McCain kicks the bucket, will we end up with another Bush-type Republican incompetent? We can’t afford to take that chance. That’s why I’m voting for Obama.

It is my belief that only those Americans competent enough to speak good English,think openly and able to judge a presidential candidate based, on his qualifications should be allowed to vote. Some of the comments expressed on this page make me fearful of the people who hold the right to choose the next president of the United States of America.I guess it’s just a matter of free speech. This display of “free” speech comes with a very heavy price.
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Point well taken

Flip flop until you get it right Senator Obama. I have no problem with you fine tuning anything. I appreciate your making sure you have made the right decisions unlike our current President — who has made and then decide later whether they were right or not — that is why we are in the mess we are in now!

Jo, there has been a person(s) hijacking names on here for several days. I have contacted the Web master but have not heard anything back. I presume because of the holiday weekend. I would expect some response and actions starting tomorrow. They bet they will have had all the fun that they will be allowed. I’m sorry that it has happened to you, as it has to many of us.
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Thanks, Skybeader. I was wondering where the hostility was coming from. But some are hostile no matter what. That’s a good idea, though. I’m sure it will be fixable.

Of course people like Sandy will always think that anything that makes her golden child bad is false. Simply because it must be. HE’S PERFECT!!! Obama is a damn savior in the far left’s eyes. You’re all naive as hell and THAT’S why you won’t get the white house in the near future.

I’m also calm.

Most of this discussion is nonsense and is not of any value. If you want to take the government away from the lies of both parties and the lobbyist, then fire all democrat and republican incumbents by voting them out. How much damage has Congress done in the last 10 years and how many good things have they done for the average American. They do not pay attention to critical needs of our country and 90% of the citizens because lobbyist have the power and money to control the bills they pass. However, we have the ability to fire them for not doing satisfactory work. I don’t see hope in either party until they know the American public will not take anymore of this catering to big money, the powerful, and the needs of their party.

“McCain and his wife Cindy have BOTH referred to Bridget as Black.” Please post your links that include their exact quotes and the venues in which they were made. The family Web site and the daughter’s own videotaped interviews all proudly speak of her ethnicity and heritage. I will be glad to read the quotes you have where they state otherwise. This would be a huge flip that ABC could really go after. TIA

President Obama is a BREATH OF FRESH AIR.
Posted by: wilder5121 | Jul 6, 2008 3:34:31 PM
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He’s a breath of something but I wouldn’t call it fresh with all his rehashed socialist ideas coming straight out of the ’60s.
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Gee, next thing you’ll be saying is Senator Obama is a reincarnation of someone or other who you did not like in the 60s. Senator Obama was born in 1962, he would have been 8 years old in 1970. Pretty smart kid to learn all the politics and political tactics by age 8, wouldn’t you say?? Come on, your bigotted claims are outrageous. What is wrong with so many of you, anyway?? You seem to have severe cases of dirrhea of the mouth! Slander is not a virtue!!

Skyebeader – I think you have an overly inflated opinion of Ahmadinejad. The guy doesn’t even have that much influence in his own country. The Iranian people are smarter than that.

This is ridiculous! Obama and McCain neck to neck in the polls. With the country in the worse shape it has been in since the Great Depressions, in some areas worse, this should be a landslide victory. It should be 90/10 with the 10 being McCain’s relative. Why is America scared of an inter-racial president? K-Fed would be a better president than another Republican with the same ideas as Bush. The Republicans don’t know what they are doing. They are just experimenting. If they knew how to fix this mess, they would have. If they know how, what is the holdup?

Mr. Ware also reported on factions within the Iranian government that are pressing for peace, which is what is behind the recent Iranian offer to not go beyond their current uranium enrichment level.

Israel is certainly positioning itself for an attack on Iran, agreeing to prisoner exchange with the Palestinians, and conciliatory nods to Egypt and Jordan. Let’s all hope that such destruction can be avoided, and that cooler heads in both countries prevail.

Obama is the only one who can move this country in a new direction. He has received the best education this country has to offer to return and lead us out of this mess. Michelle has received the best education this country has to offer. They want to help, rather than taking all of their money and education and ly on a beach somewhere. Let them do it. This is a new day. McCain’s time has passed. He is out of touch and has no message.

From what I’ve heard Iran feels pretty comfortable that the US is too over-extended militarily to do more than an initial bombing attack–for which they have prepared. What comes next?

A house divided cannot stand. The world doesn’t like us, now we don’t like each other. Is this what will destroy our great American society in the end, or do we unify now, and judge a person by the content of their character and not their complexion.

Obama has attempted to step outside the rigid framework of US foreign policy, whether that might work maybe we’ll see. US foreign policy has continued to be stuck in a Cold War mentality, even after the end of that (dis)engagement. It is a tantalizing possibility, which is what interests me about Obama. Why not engage with those countries that have always been crossed off the list? And at this point all’s we can say is it might happen, since Obama hasn’t been elected yet. I think Obama was bold even to have raised this as a policy prospect, and boldness counts for a lot.

Chattyway, you must be an extraordinarily quick typist. I am slow, and so produce only these snippets. Big money does have an inordinate influence in all of our lives, all of the time: Obama and McCain both. We consume far more than we produce because of the profits to be made off of our consumption. How do you suggest curtailing this influence among both political parties?

ROGER__ Haven’t you noticed. We have that now.

I’d like to see a limit put on the amount of funds that can be raised. I would really like the amount to be very very low and that one cable channel be made available strickly for campaigning. Each candidate from presidential down to the local dog catcher would all be given equal amounts of time. Then I would like to see lobbying outlawed along with anything that could be considered monetary inticement for a candidate who is sponsoring or voting on a bill. I also think all politicians should be held to strick ethical standards including criminal prosectution for fraud.

What do you think can be done Brian?

Obama and a teleprompter, really? Perhaps I am not looking closely enough but to me he doesn’t ever appear to be reading from one. The media have commented on J. McCain’s teleprompter snafus, but not his. Sometimes I have suspected Obama of employing a Southern twang, a la MLK Jr., but otherwise his verbal dexterity sounds authentic.

Looking from right to left could be making eye contact with all of his audience, couldn’t it?

American presidential candidates have always tried to neatly encapsulate their campaigns into nice-sounding packages: The Great Society, Camelot, etc. And while trite, they do lay some groundwork for future message. Obama’s website features a banner missive that states something to the effect that not only should we believe in his power to effect change, but in our own. A platitude to some extent yes, but has anyone else ever dared to dare us in this way?

So what if he doesn’t look straight ahead? My point is that if other Democrats vote like you, based on the use of a teleprompter, and not the platform being taken, then Democrats are slower than I thought.
If you father served on the USS Bass between 67-70, then my Marine sniper father would thank him for the supplies.

Hi carlasue,
I am actually not looking to argue with all these other people so much as read their opinions (the genuine, thoughtful ones) and have a discussion, because god knows I don’t know everything. People come from different walks of life, so obviously one candidate isn’t going to suit everyone.
I am also working class, and as such was reticent to support a Democrat. I have reliably voted Independent, and switched to Democrat only this time so I could be sure of being able to vote for Mr. Obama in both primary and general election.

right on, pdyoung!!!!!!!!!!!1

Free market health care has no guarantees associated with it, it’s like leaving it up to the wolves.

We’re getting rather far afield here, and you can’t claim a fact out of something that hasn’t been decided yet.

I don’t know if this part of the Obama effect but gas in my part of Los Angeles is down almost 20 cents a gallon over the past two weeks! Yikes, maybe that shows how bad the economy is :(

savoymt
I got news for you, the US has been a military industrial state for about a hundred years now. And the ethical slide you say Bush instigated didn’t get mentioned when our married Commander in Chief was getting a happy ending in the Oval Office.
And to bring McCains associations into the mix would open the flood gates to Obama’s acquiantances, something the liberals have to be deathly afraid of.
You go ahead and vote for “Change” I just “Hope” you are ready to admit that going from bad to worse is also considered a “Change.”
If liberals are so ready to have race talks, you guys and gals need to stop calling anyone that disagrees with you racists. If not, keep it up, more and more Americans are getting fed up with it.

It’s interesting that this thread has been going round the clock without refresh. Obama is getting rather stale.
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It’s time to move beyond Obama!!
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My son lives in the Hyde Park area in CHicago near all these places Obama frequents. He really is an ordinary guy made out to be this elitist guy by the GOP and KArl Rove when they themselves are the true elitists and country club devotees. Obama’s down time is playing basketball, visiting family and enjoying his two young daughters. WHy does the GOP always have to smear its opponents? Because they thrive on playing the fear card.

What does McCAin do on week-ends? Nothing. This is another candidate much like Bush. He does not work on week-ends he has said, he is superstitious to the max,and has a bad temper. DO you really want McCAin to be the leader of this country? Not me! I want an intelligent man willing to listen to different views ready to work every day who has an even temper and maintains his cool under supreme stress. He is also an adoring father.

The cost of the war includes salaries for military personel and their families! The military personel would be paid irrespective of a war or not! The cost also includes the continuing manufacturing of military products, which are made even during peace time! People should remember that there are other countries, like Iran, Syria, Russia that would like to destroy this country. I am sure that everyone would like to know that this country is well protected! So, the next time someone complains about the cost of the war, please educate them….

Vetura performed better than Obama could ever dreamed of. Wait, is that one of the Dreams?

The MEDIA should start asking questions about his Radical, Questionable background – that is the info America needs – NOT when he gets his hair cut.
Obama is a Scary guy – we need to know more about this Fraud.
Where are the DEBATES??? – Don’t worry about McCain & his reporters following his every move – he does not live in Chicago -home of corrupt politics.

Now he is complaining?? The Obama’s put themselves on Access Hollywood (so lame!) then he said he “regrets letting his daughters on tv” and “won’t do it again”. He even flip flopped on this decision. PATHETIC!! He can’t even make up his mind on something as petty as that and he wants to be president??? Like Hillary said “if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen”. Hillary should be there instead of poor little baby boy.