The Note: Obama, McCain See Brands Diminish

Obama has his arrogance and McCain has his potentially fatal turn to negative campaigning. There are big risks for each candidate.

I agree unless Obama picks Kaine
and then McCain picks Ridge…
2 Harvard grads – classmates against
one who is anti many of the things that strengthen Obama’s base (as I listed above)
2 independent vets.

All that i know is Obama is a man that we need right now in Washington. i believe that government can not solve all our problems, but, yes, government can make the necessary changes that allow people to work closely to solve their problems. and i think Obama has got the qualities to make such changes. and folks please let us focus on the big issues not on ……….

How can Obama return us to our traditions??? Every tradition we stand for he is against and proudly displays his contempt and attempt to change everything, even the Presidential Seal…Hey! Maybe he will put his face right on it! Get rid of that pesky bird!
He is not what the people are waiting for..unless we have been waiting on a ruse! The Obamites would distract the people, saying things like focus on the big things. But my friends, the little things make up the big things. The core of this man is empty except for his own self serving ego. He has over the last months been caught in some very unseemly statements in addition to his company. He is not a man of change, he is some very old politics in a Hollywood suit.

Issues We care About!
The neoconservatives and the Bush administration should be held accountable not only for the cost of the Iraq War but the 492 billion dollar deficit.
- Part of the cost are the 30,000 USA Troops wounded.
-Start laying the groundwork to move the the US away from oil dependency.
As soon as the 2008 election is over The Republicans will start running for the next elections in 2010 and 2012. This is the reason gridlock doesn’t help this country.
The Republicans as a group should “pay a price” for the Gridlock.
Those that work together with the Democrats to end the mess that the neoconservatives created should be courted.
Vote Democrat ’08

Republicans can’t govern and Democrats can’t get elected. We need a New American Revolution. Will it take another Great Depression to clean house? If that happens, heaven help us. I see no FDR on the horizon.

McCain is arrogant and old, he sees our world through a narrow prism. Whereas, Obama is an internationalist and a problem solver.

Federal Prosecutors were chosen for the allegiance to Republican party, CIA agent Valerie Plame was outed to discredit her and her husband, Justice Department lawyers rewrite law/policy to serve what Cheaney/Bush want to do to prisoners, warrantless wiretapping, etc… and McCain says little, if nothing, about the Executive branch of Government overstepping the bounds of the Constitution. There is no way this man should be President. He sold his sole to the Republican party when he quit becoming the Maverick that he was in 2000.

Since when is “first person singular” a tense? I would hope journalists learned grammar in school.

Thanks for taking Obama’s comments out of context. Nice twisted use of hearsay.
Don’t suppose you’ll ever mention little facts like good ol’ “Support-the-Troops McCain” voted – repeatedly – AGAINST a new G.I. bill? The ones Obama voted FOR? And if McCain objected to them, why didn’t he ever draft one of his own?
Care to explore that one? No? Didn’t think so.

Come on, ABC, just go ahead and call him an UPPITY NEGRO. You know you want to!
:P

Obama is blowing smoke up the ass of america. He’s more international? Please. I just got back from living in Asia for 5 years, the only person that South East Asian’s seem to think is “international” is McCain. Those people follow the election and the issues more than most Americans do.

All is not lost. Sure, neither Presidential candidate represents the views, values and interests of America’s Citizens, but did we expect the “party anointed” to actually reflect our concerns? The DNC and RNC spared no expense during the primaries to marginalize all but the “party anointed” candidates, the will of the people be damned!
Regardless, thanks to fortuitous circumstances beyond either the RNC or RNC control, a great many House and Senate seats are up for grabs. This isn’t about partisanship, it’s about voting to secure the will of America’s Citizens will continue to act as sole guidance of our government.
Voters still have an unparalleled opportunity this fall, for their voices to be heard, not by electing an unrepresentative President, but by turning out House and Senate incumbents.
By returning these all-powerful House and Senate incumbents (windbags) to the private sector, we have a golden opportunity to inject new blood into Congress.
By changing the balance of power and tenure in the House and Senate, we can marginalize the damage that either a McCain or an Obama Presidency will cause!
Who knows, once we make it through this catharsis of “cleaning House and Senate”, of voting in “self defense” rather than partisan self interests, we might see more people running for office and more people voting. Any action that would improve representation and voter interests and restore congressional accountability, should be considered a good thing.
The fact that Congressional approval ratings suck, and suck hard, makes this opportunity completely non-partisan. Putting somebody new in office, and removing somebody who sucks, cannot be spun as anything other than an honest, worthwhile attempt to restore control of our government to the people, and enforce the only means we have of insuring Congressional accountability!
Congressional approval ratings are even more dismal than President Bush’s approval ratings, and this with Democrats running the show!
Apparently, even with majority control of both Houses of Congress, Democratic leaders feel they were at a disadvantage, and that now the other team must be completely removed from the competition of ideas for their team to be successful. How about this for an idea, why not try using policies and programs that don’t suck, and that benefit America’s Citizens instead of special interests and the business lobby?
It’s surreal that now, Democratic leaders assure us that they’ll fix things if only we’ll give them “total power”, absolute veto proof control of both Houses of Congress and the White House, and the ability to “overrule” those pesky partisan Republicans,, and those conservatives, and those independents, and then there are those conservative leaning obstructionist democrats (or CLODS), and the majority of America’s Citizens, but only if that really becomes necessary,,etc,,,.
Essentially, if only we’ll give Democrats the power to force legislation down our throats we have their assurances that they won’t do anything of the kind!
Seriously, if we’ve learned anything from the Bush and Clinton Administrations it should be that it’s dangerously misguided to give either party control of both Congress and the White House. At least until we, the people find a way (hint: hold them accountable at the ballot box at every opportunity) to insure Congressional accountability and representational responsibility on a regularly scheduled basis (hint: every election cycle).

I can’t believe how being embraced by world leaders is a bad thing. For so long America has had a tarnished reputation for its “cowboy diplomacy” and now that leaders in the Middle East and Europe see an opportunity to solidify an alliance with us, all of a sudden it’s sooo horrible!
Look, in order to really fight the war on terrorism we need the help of other countries. Gone are the days of the Bush philosophy of either you’re with us or against us.
Obama has the qualities to make our international relations stronger.

Sure do wish Hillary was the nominee – after all, she did get more votes!

Why not attack him for what he actually said? Why make up things or clip them out of context? He said the longer he ran, the more he felt the excitement wasn’t about him, but about America, and that he’s just a symbol for those that feel that excitement.