New McCain TV Ad Says Obama Didn’t Pick Hillary as Veep Because She Had His Number

It’s interesting that Obama would select Biden, someone so critical of him. Add to this Clinton’s many negative comments from the primaries…….seems to me McCain doesn’t need an attack dog as his VP pick, he can just run repeated video footage from Clinton and Biden.
Barack Obama has lost his mojo. His choice for VP was based on what the polls told him to do, like much else these days.

Obama didn’t pick Clinton because she was critical of him, yet picked Biden who was his harshest critic.
Do the folks running the McCain campaign even listen to what they say sometimes?

JA
Romney would have said it if he was honest.

The fact of the matter is McCain and the repubs know this ad works three ways…
gets Clinton to lose her senate seat plays clinton supporters who are making decisions on emotion (which is not most of the people who supported clinton I may add …just the emotional ones who can’t let go and put their emotions over the issues and things like women’s rights)
and third it solidifies the republican base because it reminds republicans that the democratic party is the party of Hillary Clinton…

Obama could not pick Hillary.
He could not deprogram his followers to Accept her.
He instilled in thier minds, hearts and souls hatred for her, The Same as he has done for Bush, the Government and McCain.

seah
Obama didn’t “program” anyone
as neither did Hillary.
Unfortunately a small group of her supporters are sending her down the tubes.
Which is sad.
Most people want to see Hillary in the Senate or in the Cabinet…and then she would have a chance also to run in 8 years…when the time may be right again for her.
but if obama loses these ads will lose her the senate…
and trust me Obama has nothing to do with these ads…
and if you continue to say it is obama supporters to blame for the fall out from these ads toward Hillary…
you will ocntinue to look more and more foolish.

Obama could not pick Hillary for a number of reasons…
and Hillary knows it…
one of which may be that she didn’t want it.

How sophomoric is the McCain campaign. Just ridiculous.

drjohn
the ad is effective but I am sure Hillary is actually sweating it more than OBama.
Unfortunately this hurts her more than Obama…
so two outsommes from this ad
smart hillary supporters realize what this REALLY means to the issues and who are the REAL bad guys…and McCain gets hurt
or
Obama gets really hurt by this and Hillary loses her senate seat…because people don’t wake up.
In any case…two people get hurt…no matter what.

I love this ad!
Hillary supporter for McCain

dl,
You have no idea what you are talking about. Obama was too scared and arrogant to pick Hillary as his VP. Now he will never win. Hillary will have no problem winning her senate seat and the presidency in 20012.
Democrat for McCain

Albermike
you need to wake up
go look at her senate election numbers and even take away 20% of her votes…
if Obama loses… so does Hillary
that is not a threat
if you can come out of your emotional funk and think logically yuo would understand that.
even supporters of her (some of her chiefs) will not be happy if Obama loses.
you have to see …that is just common sense.
think logically not emotionally
(the one light is I think Caroline Kennedy would run if Obama and Hillary loses in NY…otherwise I make a guess she moves it to MA and runs for Teddy’s seat…that part might be a fantasy but the first part I think is pretty solid the tea leaves for that are more like letters tot he press)

The ad is intended for one purpose and one purpose only. To win McCain votes from Hillary supporters who are still sore about the primary results.
While I don’t think it will be effective on issues-voter Hillary supporters (which is the majority of them), but it good get some of the tantrum-throwing Hillary out to vote McCain when otherwise they may have stayed at home pouting. And in this race (like all races of late) every vote counts.

and AlbertMike
Obama it seems to most logical people was pretty strong to pick Biden over Hillary…
Hillary is solely about an election and a choice and issue that is important based on a relatively small percentage of the dem party.
But he made a strong and smart and noble choice to not think about election numbers…a purely political choice…but one who answers the most important question…
“Who will be the most effective person in the role of the Vice Presidency and in that make the most of the position for the country, issues and people?”
That is the question that should be asked more than any other.
and there is no one who can look at Joe Biden’s record (especially in the last 10 months) and pick someone better…whether you like him personally or not…he gets things done…and he knows the landscape of both the world’s politics better than anyone and how to get things thropugh a partisan congress (go look at his last 6 months alone…it is unbeleivable and been praised by everyone).
so stop
this is about effectiveness of a government…not political
and that shows both brains and smarts to have made the choice in the face of people who are screaming every day on the internet to not make that most effective choice.

abnd please don’t take my statement about a “small percentage of the dem party”
as anything but talking about the small percentage that is angry about him not picking Hillary…
18 million people did not want him to pick her as VICE President…

McCain should be HAPPY that BHO failed to choose Hillary Clinton, because McCain could not have defeated such a ticket.
McCain’s campaign has been dismal thus far, and now BHO has just shot himself in the foot.
Biden will do NOTHING for Obama’s chances of being elected; he is a “neutral” choice, in spite of his stupid attacks against Old Man McCain. We can expect more of the same: negative ads for the next two months. From BOTH sides.

Hello again, Willem…
What does it MATTER who McCain’s pastor is, as long as he isn’t spewing hatred?
Religion should be kept OUT of politics!
I am more interested in how the candidates are going to tax me out of my home or continue a win-less war. What a choice!
Their religion is of secondary importance (if any at all).

Burkett followed Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in issuing a series of false attacks against Kerry’s military record: He attempted to link Kerry’s post-Vietnam War service to Jane Fonda; claimed Kerry “was never for peace” and that Kerry “call[ed] Vietnam veterans murderers and rapists”; and flip-flopped on whether Kerry’s 1971 Senate testimony was “radical.”
Yea sure another guy who provided fodder to dicredit any vet who served and did not support the Republican agenda.

Dear Senator McCain,
Thank you, thank you sir for running ads trying to drive a wedge between Senator Clinton and Senator Obama.
I do not know why, but my intuition tells me that the only thing that will anger Bill Clinton and the rest of the Democratic Party off more than getting beaten in the primary, is when someone cynically tries to capitalize on their pain.

This is one of Mac’s best ads.
Obama was so intimidated by Hillary. He is threatened by anyone that is stronger and more popular than him.
And in debates she made him look foolish–not hard to do.
Obama lost me a long time ago with his lame excuses about Rev Wright and his extreme arrogance.
Ever notice how he sticks his nose in the air with a smug look if anyone dares question him?
Biden beside Obama makes him look like a kid pretending to be president.
Kind of like Bush/Cheney.
Hillary/McCain

Anybody remember what Romney said in the debates?
He said the McCain twice voted against President Bush’s tax cuts
“Those views are outside the view of mainstream Republican thought,” Mitt said.
In a counterpunch, he said Romney left Massachusetts with high taxes and a large debt. “His job creation was the third worst in the country,” McCain said, a claim Romney rejected.

if hillary won she was not obligated to pick obama as her running mate this is a stunt by the repub party to try to tear the democratic party apart i’m not buying it. obama has been more than gracious to mrs.clinton and her supporters and if they don ‘t want to vote for him because he’s black that is shame because this country will lose a whole lot voting for mccain who wil strip women of all their rights, and start world war and start the draft. america wake up it not time to backwards but to go forwards

BTW:
When was the last time McCain or one of his potential running mates has been to Georgia (not the one with Atlanta in it).
I believe Biden was just there showing that the Democrats are young and nimble enough to address all of the world’s trouble spots–not just chase after lies in Iraq and lose the battle against those who attacked us.

Obama had to have three chances before he finally got a position on Georgia that mirrors McCain’s position.
And Biden was dead wrong about Iraq. In fact, the Iraqis despise Biden.

The GOP will stoop to any lengths to “divide and conquer” for their own personal gain (that means “big oil” and wealthy people). GOP wants to fool and leave the American people with the false Perception and impression that Barack has no experience and is an empty suit. They believe that if you say it long enough the Stupid American Public will begin to believe it! Let’s be clear, Obama Has experience, it ‘s just not Washington experience and he also has Vision and inspiration, enough to enoble men to have hope again. He offers real change and forward thinking progressive ideas and solutions to Really solve the current problems facing us today. One of Barack’s strongest assets is that he is unmired by the trappings of wealth and power — that means big oil, as we have to find an alternative solution to oil, if the United States is to continue to be prosperous and to thrive. All of these attributes are which makes Barack a truly great leader of men, needed for these times!
And to damp down this false perception that he has no experience, Barack pragmatically chose for Vice President, Joe Biden, a man who is wise in foreign affairs, unlike John McCain, “who, despite the hype, doesn’t seem to know as much about foreign affairs as they want us to believe! And, is also confused as to how many homes he owns and what kind of car he drives!
McCain recently talked at length about problems on the “Iraq/Pakistan border” – the countries are a thousand miles apart. Asked how to deal with Darfur, he mused about “bringing pressure on the government of Somalia”. Uh – it’s Sudan, Senator McCain. And he keeps expressing his desire to build up US relations with Czechoslovakia, a country that hasn’t existed for 15 years. ”
Those of us who care deeply about the Truth need to debunk this notion that John McCain is so knowledegeable about foreign affairs, because it is another lie they want us to swallow.
Just because McCain spent five years (5) as a POW prisoner, does not make him an expert on foreign affairs, what it does make him an expert on is on how to survive as a prisoner. Let us not be fooled again, because saying its so, does not make it so. And, saying Barack Obama does not have experience over and over again, does not make it so.

BTW. When McCain is so worried about Hillary not being Obama’s Running Mate,
Why doesn’t HE aks Hillary? What’s keeping him?

“I’m a Clinton supporter that intends to vote for McCain because I want the do-nothing democrats to have to work for Clinton’s 2012 presidency. I don’t want Obama, Reid, Pelosi, etc to get the easy button. They have sat on their hands these 2 years and McCain is what we need to get them off their lazy a$$e$.”——–Damn right! That’ll show ‘em for not picking MY choice. “I’d rather lose the election to the other party than support MY party because they chose someone other than who I wanted”. Can this mind-set be any more childish and petulant?

The dems have plenty to go after if McGoo picks Romney. This should be fun.

Not another Kennedy….what kind of experience does she have? Maybe, only the Kennedy name. As for Hillary, do you
think that Washington is sick of them? Does anyone remember how they trashed the White House and took things that maybe were not theirs? I am not an Obama fan, but I think Hillary would be worse. You think things are bad now…just wait until a DEM is elected. WalMart won’t be able to keep up with the rising prices.

All of you “fake” HRC supporters PLEASE vote for McCain. PLEASE!!! Stop with your childish posts upset because she lost and didn’t get picked. She ran a horrible campaign. Period. And you want Obama to reward her with the VP spot? She brought up Rezko as if her closet is clean. What about all of her and her husbands scandals? When a democrat says “I will vote for the republican because I don’t like the guy who beat my guy” is the most stupid, asinine and dumbest statement I have ever heard and you didn’t really hear anything similar to this in the past which suggests that it is indeed racial. All you HRC supporters who’ll vote for McCain, stop talking about it and BE about it! When November rolls around, do what you’ve been threatening to do since she lost and when it’s over, and Obama and Biden have won, sit at home and realized you’ve just wasted your vote

I think it’s funny how this group Puma, who may or may not exist is called divisive and yet Obama sent his text at 3am to take a jab at HC. It was childish and petty and shows Party Unity isn’t important to him. McCain is using Obama stupidity against him. McCain could really do more damage with the party unity angle if he wanted to. Many Dems feel like the party is upside down and is in desperate need of real leadership.

Latest poll data from ABC:
Little has changed in basic standings from last month’s ABC/Post poll, with single digits dividing the two: Obama is now favored by 49 percent of registered voters to McCain’s 43 percent, and among likely voters it’s a similar 49-45 percent contest.
You know what this means? It means Obama wins.

Senator McCain’s ad answers his own question. Why isn’t Hillary on the ticket? Because she attacked Obama incessantly during the primaries and used divisinve tactics that later made it impossible for Obama to run or work with her. If Obama HAD tapped her, the McCain camp would have run the exact same ad, only asking, “Why is Hillary running with Obama?” and rolling the quotes. THEN there would have been a long series of them because she gave a LOT of cannon fodder in the debates. Biden too took his swipes, but he stayed WELL behind the line that Sen Clinton continually JUMPED across. Her rhetoric was so fear based and divisive that many of her DEMOCRATIC supporters STILL threaten to vote GOP in the aftermath of 8 disaterous years! She can’t unring the alarm bell that she rang out of desperation to save her failed bid. Why would Obama want to re-ring it every time his running-mate gets air time? I like HIllary. I’m an Obama supporter, but OF COURSE I WOULD HAVE SUPPORTED HILLARY IF SHE HAD WON. Sadly, there are a FEW (but NOISY) nut job Hillary folks who simply cannot asuage their hurt feelings any way short of hating Obama for Clintons failure and punishing him with a spite-vote for McGOP. “My Hillary can’t be president! Let the country BURN!” Nice folks. Excellent exercise in civic responsibility.

“….I’m a Clinton supporter that intends to vote for McCain because… ”
…”Can this mind-set be any more childish and petulant?”…..
AutoCad YOU CAN CALL US(Hillary Supporters) CHILDISH OR ANYTHING YOU LIKE BUT WE WILL STILL VOTE FOR MCAIN.

Mr. Coffee:
The 49-45% National Poll means nothing.
As we select a president by electoral votes, and not by the national, popular vote (as we all learned in the 2000 election), the polls that matter most are the individual state polls, which now show McCain with leads in former toss-up states like Nevada, Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia, and Missouri.
Obama needs to add at least two or three of those states to his “safe” Democratic states to win the overall electoral vote.
If he doesn’t, it’s game over.

The fact that McCain has even made this ad should send up a red flag for all of the disgruntled Hillary supporters. Do you really think he cares about you or Hillary? Of course not, this is about manipulation. He doesn’t give a damn about how Hillary was treated one way or the other. He’s just trolling for votes from a group of people that he will not listen to because his policies are the polar opposite of Hillary’s!! Wake up and don’t fall for it!!!

drjohn
It was McCain and his idiot lobbyist that encouraged Georga to do what they did in the first place. Didn’t you see him on TV telling McCain that his words were nice, but what they needed was actual deeds. Translation, military assistance which we don’t have thanks to McBush and this stupid war in Iraq!

rpf,
I’ll just use your argument and state that I’ve talked to over 999,991 Obama supporters who were well educated and very informed about there candidate. However all the Clinton supports just didn’t have a good grasp on her positions and could come up with a good logical reason why they supported her.
Prove me wrong.
Thanks,

Why do people keep calling Dems Liberals? They are not, please educate yourself. McCain has ALWAYS been an attractive candidate to Dems even though he’s a Repub. It’s interesting that during the primaries, Obama supporters kept saying Hillary and McCain were the same. Now it’s Obama and Hillary who have the identical positions. Can you people make up your minds.

As a non democrat Clinton supporter, I would never cast another vote for Obama. It is not so much that I agree with all of McCains policies, as I don’t like/trust Obama. I have no party that I HAVE to be loyal to, just my own ideals. I would vote a third party, but consider that a vote for Obama too, so my vote will go to McCain. You Obamabots can call me names and whine and cry, but that only more cements my vote for McCain.

again, guys.. its august… ignore the polls.

tim…
I think you’re right; polls don’t mean much anyway, especially this early.
We still have almost two-and-a-half months of listening to ads telling us how bad the other guy is!
A lot can change in 71 days!

samhiguchi…
you and me both. and there are ALOT of us out there. at this point, feel the people that are affiliated with one party or the other is just brainwashed. i mean, they are ALL liars. i just cant stand the thought of obama getting in there more than mccain. its a sad state of affairs.

Rhys. Worried that it will become known that McCain was an Episcopalian for 70 years of his life and only recently started visiting a Southern Baptis church? Afraid the Base will not like that? Since it well known, especially to ‘the Base’, what it means to be a lefty Episcopalian? With their support for civil, social, and especially Gay and Lesbian issues.
For the Base, the upbringing of Obama and the kind of Church he visited was clearly an issue. The Base has a right to know McCain’s upbringing and the Church he visited for 70 years, don’t you think?

To think McCain wants anything to do with Hillary’s voters other than to fool them into giving him their vote is stupid. His platform is the opposite of the platform that Hillary Clinton was running. McCain’s platform is the opposite of Barack Obama’s platform. Any Hillary Clinton supporter who votes for McCain is voting to have women’s rights taken back half a century. They’re voting to continue wasteful spending overseas instead of helping regular American citizens to pull themselves up and out of this recession. Clinton supporters who vote for McCain are going to be the next “Nader 2000 voters” who handed the presidency to the biggest disaster this country has ever seen. I hope those Clinton supporters who vote for McCain can live with themselves knowing that they could be the ones responsible for further sending our nation into a sinkhole by voting for 4 more years of disastrous policies.

realist…
i really dont think you’ll find alot of TRUE mccain supporters.. lol just the lesser of two evils man…

Hey Ray, the possibility that we MAY be better off today HAD we done something in the past doesn’t negate the FACT that we ARE in hock up to our eyeballs because we HAVE borrowed billions and billions of dollars from China to finance the Iraq fiasco, thanks to GW and Co. Who is going to pay back this debt? Your kids and their kids, that’s who…..

Note: And I dont care about my misspelled words and what anyone says about it. I dont even care about the few nut case, so called Hillary supporters that dont even support her and her wishes. 18plus mil voted for Hillary. 18 plus mil voted for Obama. 25 percent of her supporters are voting for McCain or not voting. 13 percent of republicans are voting for Obama.

Ever notice that McCain ads are always based on distorting OTHER peoples words, straight out of the Rove play book. The neo-cons are using the usual “smear and fear” again.

I love these adds from mccain. he doesnt realize the power he is speaking on Obama. the bible says the power of life and death is in our tongue. o’yea! Obama is the one.

realist…
tell me why “bush economics” is soley to blame for our debt?! if you’re going to throw out allegations that our current president is to blame for everything, you have to present facts. its just too easy for people to say “its all bush’s fault”. its not. this has been culminating for years and years. you do realize as a country, we have spent more money than we have taken in for the last 32 out of 35 years right?! while bush had made some mistakes, you simply cant say one party or the other is to blame. its a LOT broader problem than that.

champ…
its called evolution. bad things have happened, and we are moving on. also, let me remind you, there are different types of “dangerous” people.

lefty…
you sort of make sense… lol

“They are voting for McCain not because they want him but because they are voting against Obama. Actually you are voting against your country.”
Uh, no. We’re voting for the most qualified candidate. It’s just a coincidence that Obama is a crooked no-experience politician with a proven record of straddling the fence and a questionable background, a race card shark with no solid viewpoints that last more than a few days, one who takes credit for things he “wills” to happen since he’s the Messiah. But I can understand how you would get caught up in his controlled media frenzy.

How does anyone like the fact that while we are dumping billions into Iraq, they are building a huge surplus while we are going broke. Iraq just signed a 1.5 billion deal with China for Iraqs Oil. Isnt Bush great!!! I love calling customer support and getting someone in India and the fact that our jobs are going over seas and business’s are closing their doors. Isnt Bush great!!! I love the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and the middle clas is becomming poor. Isnt Bush great!!! I love having a president that only care about his own agenda. Lies to the American people, plays God and only tell the people half truths when he feels we need to know something. Isnt Bush great!!!

tracy…
first off, its politics. they both are going to avoid certain things. but coming from a guy who is torn on the abortion thing, take into consideration that some people think, no matter the situation, its just wrong to willingly murder another human being. im not sure i feel about it either, and i doubt i ever will, but you have to see both sides of it. a very tough call.

McCain has an add that talks about Obamas adds getting Negative WOW talk about do as I say NOT as I DO !!!!!! He is sounding like my grandfather except my grandfather is YOUNGER !!!!!!! Oh and the drill here drill now, yeah you can say that when you won’t be alive to see a drop of oil from the gulf and the damage done buy getting it !!!! why would you care then ?

dl,
You have no idea what you are talking about. Obama was too scared and arrogant to pick Hillary as his VP. Now he will never win. Hillary will have no problem winning her senate seat and the presidency in 20012.
*******************************************
dl, You lost your credibility, in “20012″, no
one will know what the hell we are all whining
about. Although in “2012″ it is almost guaranteed
with all these sour grapes out there, I doubt
she’ll even have a chance getting on the
Democratic primaries !

Russia invades Georgia and President Bush goes on vacation. Our president has spent one-third of his entire two terms in office either at Camp David, Maryland, or at Crawford, Texas, on vacation.
His time away from the Oval Office included the month leading up to 9/11, when there were signs Osama bin Laden was planning to attack America, and the time Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city of New Orleans. Sen. John McCain takes weekends off and limits his campaign events to one a day. He made an exception for the religious forum on Saturday at Saddleback Church in Southern California.
I think he made a big mistake. When he was invited last spring to attend a discussion of the role of faith in his life with Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, McCain didn’t bother to show up. Now I know why. It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president. When asked what his Christian faith means to him, his answer was a one-liner. “It means I’m saved and forgiven.” Great scholars have wrestled with the meaning of faith for centuries. McCain then retold a story we’ve all heard a hundred times about a guard in Vietnam drawing a cross in the sand.
Asked about his greatest moral failure, he cited his first marriage, which ended in divorce. While saying it was his greatest moral failing, he offered nothing in the way of explanation. Why not?
Throughout the evening, McCain chose to recite portions of his stump speech as answers to the questions he was being asked. Why? He has lived 71 years. Surely he has some thoughts on what it all means that go beyond canned answers culled from the same speech he delivers every day.
He was asked “if evil exists.” His response was to repeat for the umpteenth time that Osama bin Laden is a bad man and he will pursue him to “the gates of hell.” That was it.
He was asked to define rich. After trying to dodge the question — his wife is worth a reported $100 million — he finally said he thought an income of $5 million was rich.
One after another, McCain’s answers were shallow, simplistic, and trite. He showed the same intellectual curiosity that George Bush has — virtually none.
John McCain graduated 894th in a class of 899 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. His father and grandfather were four star admirals in the Navy. Some have suggested that might have played a role in McCain being admitted. His academic record was awful. And it shows over and over again whenever McCain is called upon to think on his feet.
He no longer allows reporters unfettered access to him aboard the “Straight Talk Express” for a reason. He simply makes too many mistakes. Unless he’s reciting talking points or reading from notes or a TelePrompTer, John McCain is lost. He can drop bon mots at a bowling alley or diner — short glib responses that get a chuckle, but beyond that McCain gets in over his head very quickly.
I am sick and tired of the president of the United States embarrassing me. The world we live in is too complex to entrust it to someone else whose idea of intellectual curiosity and grasp of foreign policy issues is to tell us he can look into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and see into his soul.
George Bush’s record as a student, military man, businessman and leader of the free world is one of constant failure. And the part that troubles me most is he seems content with himself.
He will leave office with the country $10 trillion in debt, fighting two wars, our international reputation in shambles, our government cloaked in secrecy and suspicion that his entire presidency has been a litany of broken laws and promises, our citizens’ faith in our own country ripped to shreds. Yet Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been. I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.

You rock CW

If McCain picks a pro-choice running mate he’s been lying to the Right. If he picks an abortion foe, he’s been lying to the Left. Either way, MCCAIN IS A LIAR. In FACT even floating the idea of a pro-choice running mate shows he’s not truly against abortion like he’s been telling the Right so McCain been lying to them all along. Abortion is something you’re either for or against, the middle ground that McCain has been trying to play on does not exist.

Gas cost $1.41 when W took office

realist.. you’re point is?!

Tim I do agree with you on Social Security and the deficit…..everyone is to blame for that.

realist…
ok, but you dont agree the oil crisis was ignored?! the terrorist activity?! or attacks i should say?! how can you not agree that those were ignored?! and if you look into what brought upon the housing crisis, you’ll find the clinton administartion made some very poor decisions on that as well….

again, with the irrelevent polls… lol

manitu…
well said. very well said. some people just dont see the big picture though. they love to hear what THEY WANT TO HEAR. they want to hear “less taxes on the poor middle class”, “punnishing the big bad oil companies” and all the other crap he tries to brainwash the american people with. they just dont see the big picture. stealing from the rich to give to the poor is not what america is about. besides, maybe, JUST MAYBE, its a spending problem and not a taxing issue??? maybe… but who wants to hear that when they want their government to babysit everything we do.

oh yeah, dont let me forget to point out one little important fact about the rich (who already get hammered on taxes)…. THEY PROVIDE OUR JOBS!!!!!! when was the last time you guys worked for a “poor” person??? please, not all at once…

mary anne..
it all makes sense, but only problem is that the republican party needs to be taught a lesson too. so NOW what do we do?!

An Open Letter to Senator McCain: Okay, we know you and the Republican machine are great with word turns, but it remains to be seen if the Republicans can pull us out of this very bad recession. I fear you will be an oil man and decide to keep Texas oil in the salt mines of LA. and those honorable Democrats will shut down the coal industry that help us win WW II. …I helped Gore win Florida in 2000 but pushing an old wagon down that road again has no rewards. Coal is the short term answer plus the oil reserve must be emptied this winter. This will allow the economy to recover….now just allow it to happen.

Realist.
The terms for the cease fire with Iraq during the first gulf war were not not kept by Iraq. OUR SO CALLED INVASION WAS A CONTINUATION OF THAT WAR – CONVENIENTLY FORGOTTON BY LIBS!! HOW MANY UN RESOLUTION??? UN DID NOTHING – SO WHAT’S NEW??

realist…
ok, but i think the republicans DID try to do something during the 90′s on the oil crisis… lol thats my point. they at least wanted to drill for our own oil instead of sending billions overseas which we have continued to do. im not saying that would have solved everything, but it sure would have been nice now right? we could have just been focussing on alternative energy instead of having to worry about gas prices and STILL sending billions of dollars to our enemies. and im more reffering to the terrorist attacks on the world trade center (the first time), our embassies, the u.s.s cole.. ya know the ones that the clinton administration totally ignored.. you do realize the rest of the world agreed with the information that led bush to go into iraq right? i cant point that out enough…

Richard.
Empty the oil reserves? Israel hits Iran and with our oil reserves spent – WE’RE DEAD!!!!!! DUH!!

McCain Ads are superb – right out of their own mouths about the one – no spin, just the honest truth! Words, just words!
Obama didn’t pick Hillary because she IS the better choice for POTUS and he dislikes her and Bill. He picked Biden because Biden is no competition at all (just a white-haired dude who lost the primaries by a land-slide), and he is hoping that Biden will rally round Hillary supporters (you know Scranton, working class, blue collar, Union). However, if Biden couldn’t do it for himself, dunno how he is going to do it for BO! BO is just another politician, but I guess his fear and dislike of Hillary is deeper than his desire to be pres.
PUMA!

The UN has no balls – or ever will. That’s why we on the right laugh when Obama says – take it to the UN – let them decide. LA LA LAND!!

thank you manitu.. lol

People keep saying 18mil of Clinton supporter are upset and not going to back Obama. Right now 25 percent of those supporters are not voting for Obama and 65-75 percent are. If the roles were reversed I would have voted for Hillary in a heart beat as I do not want 4 more years of a candidate that supports 95 percent of Bush policies.
Keep in mind people. While most on this blog keep up with each canidate, most people are clueless and vote one way or another either because they voted Rep or Dem in the past. They do not care about polices or issues but vote on emotions, who has the best light show at the convention, who gives the best speech etc. If you asked most of them what each canidate stands for they couldnt answer. Sad but these people determine who is going to be the President. Oh-They will be the first to complaine to. Take the Clinton now McCain voters. Emotion mostly and spite. If they are voting for McCain they should believe in the Republicans ideas and policies. God help us if this is going to happen everytime a woman runs and gets defeated. If Hillary is your hero then do what she wants. Obama and Clintons policies and ideas are very close. Clinton is doing great at supporting Obama and campaining for him. He will keep Clinton in his circle because he knows what she can bring to the table. But thats right-Lets vote for McCain because that will show the DNC. Guess what idiots. If the DNC had given Clinton everything she wanted the outcome would have been the same.

Tim, I said the budget DEFICIT, not the national debt (which is several trillion dollars, give or take a buck). The current war tab is widely reported as over half a trillion dollars. The projected budget deficit for this year is around 480 billion. Google it, several sources give the same numbers. I agree the national debt is something that has been building for decades and is not simply one party’s (or one person’s) doing. I was merely making a comparison of the monetary cost of the war vs. this years budget deficit. I realize there are a LOT more economic factors that would need to be considered if we are going to have a discussion of the national debt. But that is OT to this blog, which started as a discussion about Mccain’s latest ad…..

What so many of these posts fail to acknowledge (maybe you just don’t understand the view from the middle) is that many of us who supported Hillary Clinton in the primaries are not Democrats. In my lifetime I have voted for both Republicans and Democrats for President. Just because we have only two parties (sorry and out of touch as they may be)doesn’t mean every voter falls into one camp or the other. Swing voters will decide this election and many of those “swing voters” were, and still are, Clinton supporters. The McCain camp knows it and is wooing them with words of respect for their candidate and her achievements. It seems to me that the Obama camp is going to throw away all these potential swing voters in their unbelievable show of “poor winner” behavior and it will probably cost him the election.

mhhunt: if it were the case that Obama loses, this country will tank. At that point, you will have nobody but yourself to blame for what you see, people losing their homes, your friends and family members being shipped off to die in foreign lands for oil, etc. McCain is the man who once said he doesn’t know much about economics.

i hope John Mccain should concentrate on his own vp choose rather than talk about democratic choice which has already been chosen, not every body has to be chosen i thought barack has made a good choice, john mccain has been too hipocritical during this process he said obama should go to iraq and europe he went Mccain critisize,he went for vacation after 18 months on the campaign mccain critisize and now mccain is in his range for his own vacation, Obama gave a speech in berlin mccain critisize but he has given various speeches in europe example at the consercative party convention in UK, had it been obama chooses hilary to be his VP it wound have been nice again for them to make more negative add about her so what the Mccain camp was hoping they did not get it. I hope the American people takes note of this type of hiporacy which does not give answers to the economical,energy educational and infrastructural problem Americas faces today.

The canidates on both sides of the tables campaine to the American people like they are a bunch of mindless sheep. Mainly the republicans. They cant talk about what they can do for us but can only send out negitive ads about Obama. They send out stupid ads comparing Obama to Spears and Hilton. And the sheep follow. Can you blame them. Now they have found some mindless blind sheep in way of the Clinton now McCain voters and are taking advantage of that. Oh sure and those sheep will follow too. When is the American people going to stand up and say enough is enough. We elect you into office and demand that you work for the American people and what is best for this country and not what is best for your own agenda. The we are not mindless sheep and demand honesty about what you can do for us when you are campaining and we do not want th hear stupid negitive ads. Oh yea- What would the republicans talk about. McCain would say, I agree and support 95 percent of Bush polocies and dont you want more of the same for 4 years? Havnt the last eaight years been great!! I guess he is limited to negitive ads and leading the
mindless sheep. Whats really sad is it seems to work. Americans deserve what they get everytime. I guess our economy, health care, borders, fuel prices, two wars and probably would have more if Bush had not of run out of military, etc are not bad enough yet. I see half the nation wants to vote for more of the same way we have been living. When you see they state our country is in and you are willing to vote for a man that has said he AGREES with 95 percent of Bush failed policies we have a problem in this country.

MCcain thinks that most Americans are fool.WE are not. The Hillary supporters are not going to vote for you in the fall. We are DEMOCRAT AND WILL REMAIN DEMOCRAT FOREVER. So these tactics won’t work. We can not wait for another four more years. SORRY.
OBAMA-BIDEN ’08.

Today, one of the Obama’s camp’s supporters told the news media that Obama and the DNC are not worry about Hillary’s supporters. Obama and the DNC felt it was not necessary to select Hilleary to win; because, they strongly believe that Hillary’s supporters are just blowing off steam and come election day Hillary’s supporters will vote for Obama like the other Obama’s supporters. I was going to let it go and look at Obama but ater that statement, no way. I just donated money to McCain’s campaign and will vote for McCain in the coming election. The Obama and DNC need to be taught a lesion for their disrespect to Hillary and her supporters.

John McSame has to be the weakest candidate i’ve witnessed in my lifetime.
all my friends and family used to be republicans but we are now switching and voting on the other side this time. i cant believe what our party has become lately an in the last 8 years. it’s despicable and we need to get our respect and honer back. and i just cannot vote for a wartime traitor and evil neo-con in the disguise of a GOP maverick. there’s no way he even has a chance so we’re bailing now while it’s still early.
just this add alone would have ruined my respect for this person
count me in as another republican voting for mr obama

So McCain was going to Hillary’s words to attack Obama whether or not Obama picked her for VP. This comes from the same person who described Obama’s health care plan as “Hillarycare,” a derisive term in the GOP circle. Now he is criticizing Obama for not respecting Hillary?

I’ll say this again, because Hillary supporters flat out don’t see this: If Obama picked Clinton as his VP, he would’ve done ALL of McCain’s work FOR him in terms of mobilizing his base. Not only that, I’m sure he remembered some of the bs that Bill and Hillary spread about him in the primaries.
And stop kidding yourselves…she didn’t want to be VP. She wanted to be president. Stop acting like children, grow the hell up, and support the party who will win this election.

childish, petulant, “fake”, stupid, ditto on childish, good-bye to your reproductive rights, opposition to equal pay for equal work,….mantra, mantra, mantra.
well, Obama pays his female operatives NOW less than he pays his male operatives.
Overturn of reproductive rights, does this mean the Democratic controlled congress will not vet the justices nominated same as the DNC/MSM has not vetted Obama?
As for all the name calling ’cause Hillary supporters don’t fall into party line, well, it reminds me of interviews I’ve done with WWII era survives. Both extremes, the fascist and the communist resorted to it big time. And the object: CONTROL. Instill fear, annihilate dissent.

A vote for McCain or Hillary name write-in is a vote against the DNC and Obama. NoObama and No DNC. And, it is not just the women that feel strongly about this, it is also the men that support Hillary.
COUNTRY FIRST, party second!!!

I think this is one of the most brilliant ads to-date by the McCain campaign. As a Hillary supporter, it just opens up the wound once again about how Hillary was treated by Obama, the DNC and the MSM. Reinforces the pride and arrogance of Obama, not even to include her in the consideration for VP. This seals his fate in November and exposes the two-faced hypocrite that he is.
Way to gO McCain!!!

Just deal with the facts……..A Vote for McSame is a vote for four more years of what you got now….
Let your conscience be your guide.

Dave I was going to post the same thing, but considered the fact that we all might break under extreme circumstances. But I agree that McCain sanged like a bird and folded. He dismisses these facts by saying, “I wish I had been stronger.” like he dismisses the lies of his affair as “I regret mistakes in my first marriage”. What does that mean? It means, he lied, cheated on his wife, abandoned her for a younger woman, after she became disabled. Then he was lying to Cindy about his age. Why is this relevant? Because he folded, he shouldn’t be playing the POW card. They want to say he’s a hero and to some he is, but some other heroes died rather than fold and give information to the enemy. McCain said he probably didn’t even love America until he was a POW and was deprived of her company. That means when he took his oath of enlistment (same oath as President) he lied. He didn’t love America then, he was arrogant, cocky and riding his father’s coattails. His enlistment was more a birthright than patriotism then and I believe he’ll do anything to be president, to include folding to the torturous acts of waterboarding, err I meant swiftboating.

If John McCain’s smart enough to pick a solid female VP candidate like Gov. Palin of Alaska. The Hillary democrats will turn out to vote for that ticket in large numbers. Besides, Biden can’t get nasty with her in the VP debate without looking like a jerk.
If he does that, he can’t lose in November.

Marty,
totally agreed, but why would you choose palin?

WOW!!! I was not going to support McCain and fall in line and vote for Obama. to be safe, it is best for me to support McCain. I will give money next week for his McCain. I never did trust Obama.

This was good and all “FACTS” something the republicans know little about…..
You can tell when McSame (The lying ,cheating, coward) is the best they could come up with to replace their cheer-leader who has crippled our country!
Read again who the Republicans present as their top choice:
Dave I was going to post the same thing, but considered the fact that we all might break under extreme circumstances. But I agree that McCain sanged like a bird and folded. He dismisses these facts by saying, “I wish I had been stronger.” like he dismisses the lies of his affair as “I regret mistakes in my first marriage”. What does that mean? It means, he lied, cheated on his wife, abandoned her for a younger woman, after she became disabled. Then he was lying to Cindy about his age. Why is this relevant? Because he folded, he shouldn’t be playing the POW card. They want to say he’s a hero and to some he is, but some other heroes died rather than fold and give information to the enemy. McCain said he probably didn’t even love America until he was a POW and was deprived of her company. That means when he took his oath of enlistment (same oath as President) he lied. He didn’t love America then, he was arrogant, cocky and riding his father’s coattails. His enlistment was more a birthright than patriotism then and I believe he’ll do anything to be president, to include folding to the torturous acts of waterboarding, err I meant swiftboating.

Obama supporters just don’ get it. I can understand why Obama didnt want Clinton as vp, but he needs to stop lying and tell his advisors to stop lying too. They never considered her, the 3am text was a last dig at her, and he didnt have the guts to tell her she didnt get the nod an advisor did, then he decided to talk to her. She has campaigned for this man in fl, cali, nevada and new mexico. I say enough hillary tell dean and pelosi to hit the pavement for their guy. Also as a Hillary supporter I get it Obama and his supporters hate Hillary fine, and I am under no illusions that she will get any position in his cabinet and I also wouldnt be surpised if he funded someone to run against her in the senate that’s just the type of guy he is. I hope he comes through for you guys with all his promises.

sara, You talk about the damage to the Nation caused by President Bush during the last four years. Albeit the economy could be better but how do you think Obama will improve the economy? Obama’s economic plan of increasing spending on more and bigger government welfare programs by a TRILLION dollars will make the economy worse, not better.
– Obama’s tax increases will hurt the Middle Class. Obama has stated that he will repeal Bush’s tax cuts which would mean a family of four earning $50,000 taxes would go up by $2500.
– Obama’s overall tax increases will hurt small businesses and force them to down size and lay of more people or go out of business that could very well lead to another great depression.
– Obama refuses to drill for new oil here on our own soil, build new refineries or build nuclear power plants which will increase our dependence on foreign oil and keep gas prices high. Obama has even stated that he thinks the high price of gas is ok with him.
As to Supreme Court Justices, I want the elected Executive Branch and Legislative Branch writing our Nations laws, not a group of nine judges. Why did the US fight a Revolutionary war to throw out King George if in the end the US turns all the power to make laws over to a bunch of unelected judges?
That is why will vote for McCain is the only choice if you want lower taxes, a growing economy, lower gas prices and a Supreme Court who do not think their role is to write the laws of the land and overrule our elected representatives.

I say McCain picks a woman as VP or Lieberman. Which would be great, then we have a moderate ticket, and talk about bipartisan.

Hype Obama wasn’t running for President in 2004. Check out the DNC speech and tell me who loves America. McCain was jumping the GOP ship 8 years back, now he’s the hero Maverick, ready and experienced? He was the same guy 8 years ago. THE GOP, ROVE in paticular chewed this guy up and spit him out. He was so scarred he threatened to turn on the party, like he did in Nam. He’s weak. The DNC can just run ads of McCain praising Bush and his policies, mixed in with the Rove attacks and show how screwed up you guys are. McCain is no more qualified this year than he was in 2000, when the GOP rejected him. He didn’t even make it out of his party let alone America, but now he’s America’s best choice. Is he and Cindy giving you guys free booze? And for those turned off by Obama’s arrogance, read McCain’s book. He an ego-maniac! Clinton supporters are just being unreasonable. It sportmanship at it’s worst. SHE LOST!!!!!!! 18 to 19, but she lost. You don’t see Al Gore supporters protesting and voting against their OWN interest. Talk about cutting off your noses to spite your face. Clinton is still a political giant. She’ll be alright, but you, your family, your neighbors wont be if we have four more years of McBush policies. You’ll see gas go higher, friends losing homes, women losing rights, the poor getting poorer, rich getting richer and wars, everywhere. It’s okay to be passionate, but think people. Lastly, if Obama doesn’t win and it is believed to be because of Clintonites, how can she expect the support of Obama supporters? She would never be president. Please folks, get real and stop playing games with the future of your countrymen and friends because your being spiteful in support of someone who has endorsed the candidate. I could underrstand if she wasn’t on board, but she’s even smart enough to know that if you lose an ear, you don’t cut off the other one to make it look even.

‘All of you little conservative puppets go ahead..keep talking about Rezko….I can’t wait until the name Keating starts coming up.’
It HAS come up. It’s over twenty years olde… and McCain was cleared of any wrongdoings in it..
However as I recall, there were a lot of Democrats caught with their feet in that doo doo…..

I think this is great when people talk about drilling on US soil for more oil….They are right…..there would be More oil BUT….not for “US!”….There would be more oil for the oil companies to put on the market and to make bigger profits….THERE IS NO GURANTEE THAT THIS WOULD HELP OUR COUNTRY AT ALL…this was all part of GW Plans to further help his partners in the oil industry before he is thrown out of office and McSame says he see nothing wrong with it!!! The question is, “DO YOU?”

>> CHAMP STANFORD | Aug 24, 2008 2:52:04 PM <<<
YOU'RE RIGHT!
HILLARY WILL BE OK!
But WE need more than a sweet talking Chicago style politician with "words…
just words"!

According to two officials involved with the search, Hillary “asked not to be vetted unless she was going to be picked”. (see “Biden got Obama call during root canal”, AP article, 8-23-08)
This fits in with her, “I’ll release my tax returns when I’m the Nominee” and “I’ll release the donors to the Clinton Library when I’m President.”

Ed -
I’m an independent. But, I’ve already decided. Vote McCain:
-experience
-vetted and known
-grasp of foreign affairs
-called it right on Lebanon, called it right on surge (nobody called it right on Iraq – Obama doesn’t count, he was not in the senate and was under Ayers influence)
-moderate (extremes not healthy for social stability)
-history of bipartisan work

-Obama wasn’t running for President in 2004. Check out the DNC speech and tell me who loves America. -
The convention keynote speakers are a launching pad for the rookies. They put their best foot forward, otherwise it would be stupid for them to even address the convention. It’s like going on a first date, you always try to look and sound your best.

First of, Sara, 527 MP Company was my unit! I am a veteran who has served, in war and have watched death and continue to assist those making their transitions from the military to civilian life. MY SON is currently serving and just got back from Iraq, I father has a PH from Korea, and my uncle was killed in Nam so I’m speaking my mind! Speak yours. Ask my experience before you address me. I don’t have to talk about it because I lived it too. It a part of my family. What is unique for Mccain is he was a POW, but he is no more patriotic than I. My life has been committed to American service thank you very much. Now like Obama, I’d love to debate you on the issues, but like McCain you want to paint folks as unpatriotic.

The left can find ALL KINDS OF EXCUSES for not drilling for more domestic oil -most of them not justified. The oil companies WANT TO DRILL – if congress would get off their butts and stipulate that the oil STAYS HERE – or at least most of it, I think it would be a go. But it seems like the libs in congress led by Pelosi and Reed have closed discussion.

James, your ignorance is showing…… The Saudis, the Spanish, Russia….they are all cutting back on production…they know they have us over a barrel and they are trying to hold us hostage. The US Companies are now selling 1/3 of their production to China….Do you think drilling here is going to change that ???
They are in it for “THE PROFIT” not their “COUNTRY!”

hype bites supreme, I agree with you, the media has not done its job of vetting Obama. As more comes out about Obama’s ties the the convicted felon Rezco and the unrepentant terrorist Ayers, I get really concerned about who Obama really is and if he would be good for our Nation. Obama’s ties to the corrupt political machine in Chicago alone is cause for concern. That is why I will vote for McCain.

-he clearly displayed a love for this country years before -
How?

CHAMP STAFFORD
I never imputed anyone’s comments to be “unpatriotic”. Every generation of my family has served this country. My oldest son was in Desert Storm, my youngest son served in Afghanistan in 2003 and my youngest daughter just returned from Iraq. I would love to see the issues debated instead of people attacking someone about their actions during Nam, then I wouldn’t feel compelled to defend someone I really don’t like very much.

It is a old marxist to use someone’s good quality against them as the libs attacking McCain on his war record. You don’t hear much from Obama on the issue, why? OBAMA DOESN’T HAVE A WAR RECORD – LET ALONE A MILITARY RECORD. I THINK THAT HE WISHES THAT THE ISSUE WOULD JUST GO AWAY.

His life and works to that point had been so that he was asked to give the speech. In the speech he spoke of an America we all believe in. He had no Presidential hopes at that time, he was just elected to the senate. I submit that that speech is where Obama became a threat to the GOP, but JSM said he didn’t probably didn’t love American until he was captured. He voted against the GI BIll and for Iraq. Now how do you vote to send kids to war, but not to college when they return? Obama is leading in military contributions, which means the troops are picking their leader. They don’t want the fake hero images painted by the GOP. Remember flight suites and Mission Accosmplished? Fake heroes is what the GOP makes, but real heroes like Jim Webb don’t paint themselves as such. Bush dodged Nam and sent more troops to death than any President in the last 25 years. Mccain is out to top that.

I liked Hillary but didn’t see her as electable, I live in a red state full of republicans, neocons and evangelicals that love to hate the Clintons. We know much money the Republican Swift Boat campaigns get to generate their smears.

The 3 am text message was a deliberate slap at Hillary. If this is indicative of Obama as a person, let’s have a new game. How many blue states can we turn red by 3 am election day?
I am also angered by the implication that people who supported Hillary are sheep to be lead from one candidate to another. We do not need to be told who to vote for and we do not follow someone simply because we are told to. We have not sipped the Kool-aid and are capable of examining the issues and deciding who to vote for on our own. we are intelligent, concerned citizens who look for more than just a nice package. We want specifics and we want substance not rhetoric and nuanced ideas that have no basis in fact or fantasy.

McCain may or may not know much about economics, but if OBAMA gets elected and gets all of his entitlement programs passed, Obama’s IGNORANCE OF BAD ECONOMIC DECISIONS WILL BE SELF EVIDENT – REAL FAST!!!

Sara, thank you and your family for their service and sacrifice. THERE’S IS NOTHING WRONG WITH LOVING AMERICA and I too feel that non-veterans should not address military issues, but I assume everyone has been affected my OEF/OIF. That’s why I think they should stop playing the hero card, because he was a POW. You’re a hero as well as your family, I believe I am a hero. Everyone serving is a hero, to include firefighters and policemen, but that alone doesn’t make you better qualified for President. Your votes and actions after serviving play a larger role. Go to the New GI Bill website and see an absent McCain for yourself. Bush credited McCain for helping to pass the bill and his campaign nor himself corrected it. He’s a fake and a sham of a man. He has no morals to accept that credit knowing he opposed it every step of the way. Obama supported the bill early on, so did Clinton. Obama was instrumental in uncovering the bad treatment of our real heroes at Walter Reed and genuinely cares about the risk of putting service members in harms way. I want someone directing my son towards to right causes to fight, for our freedoms and liberties and no treating him and his collegues as the casualties of oil money.

James,
There is no way we can “drill” our country into oil sufficiency. There simply aren’t enough oil deposits available. We should have learned from the 70′s, but we didn’t. In addition, much of the oil being drilled in the US right now is being shipped out to other countries. How is drilling more going to help us if the oil companies aren’t going to leave it here for our use????We need changes in what the oil companies are allowed to do. And even though Obama doesn’t want more nuclear reactors, our country needs them. France’s nuclear reactors are safe, efficient, and have reduced France’s need for foreign oil. We may have a lot of coal, but it is too damaging to the environment. Until we can come up with a more efficient and cheaper scrubber system for our coal burners we can reduce our need for oil by building the French=type nuclear power plants.

Obama says he wants to change Washington and be rid of the same old politcs that have been plaguing this country for the last few decades–thus why he wouldn’t consider Hillary. She’s too much of an old pro. So my question is why did he choose a Senator for his running mate who has been in office for over 35 years (since the Nixon years)if he’s for changing the status quo? That sure doesn’t sound like change to me!!

Erin and other Hillary die-hards: So when McCain was asked during the primaries “How do we beat the ***?” referring to Hillary and his response was “That’s an excellent question!” – you like this man and consider him more respectful to women? Never mind the vile word he called his own wife or even his horrific legislative track-record on women’s issues.

Why is China drilling off the coast of Cuba if there isn’t that much oil there? It would appear that if they can drill there, we would be foolish to stand by and let them tap into whatever reserves exist there. Drill here, drill now, but make sure that the oil stays here. Instead of sending all that money to countries who try to undermine us, we would strengthen our own economy.

What I would love to see….
is Hillary jump parties and become
McCain’s Vice President…..
THAT would serve the Hillary haters one swift kick in the booty….. and an absolutely winning ticket for the Repubs!

Champ.
Future crises should be no problem – Obama will defer to UN – problem solved, then we will all be safe!!

Forget about running devious ads on TV. What is the case with McCain adviser being a lobbyist for Georgia? If true, McCain is indirectly responsible for egging Georgia on to a confrontational posture towards Russia. Is that not irresponsible given our troop commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan?

I never realized how the posters in this blog loved Hillary so much that they have to vote for McCain. Sound genuine to me. Psych.

When I read someone say something as ridiculous as that McCain egged Georgia on in an effort to gain political points against his opponent, I know that the Kool-aid drinkers have arrived and all intelligent discussion is about to morph into name-calling and campaign rhetoric out of the blogging attack machine. Time to go.

Jimbo: I think your wrong. Obama will not be solving the problems that’s why he picked Biden. Biden will run the country behind the scenes and Obama will be president in name only. And all the highly educated school students as the news media calls them even though thousands have to drop out, should know just what Obama’s angle is. Then the people will think Obama is so smart.

sara, You are wrong. There is clean coal technology which is very environmentally friendly. According to the Rand Corporation there is 400 years of oil available from oil shale in the Green River Formation. Rand “the United States in the Green River Formation, which covers portions of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Estimates of the oil resource in place within the Green River Formation range from 1.2 to 1.8 trillion barrels. Not all resources in place are recoverable; however, even a moderate estimate of 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from oil shale in the Green River Formation is three times greater than the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. Present U.S. demand for petroleum products is about 20 million barrels per day. If oil shale could be used to meet a quarter of that demand, the estimated 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from the Green River Formation would last for more than 400 years1.”
As to oil from off shore, in Federal Land and in Anwar, oil engineers estimate there is probably 40 to 80 years worth of oil from those sources.
So if you ad up all these sources of oil, the US has over 400 years of oil available to us. The reasons for not going after all this oil is just plain stupid in my opinion. The more oil we have here the less subject we are to being held hostage by the oil producing Nations who are not our friends. As to oil here going somewhere else, by producing more oil here the US would once again be a world power which would increase the value of our dollar, lower our deficit and provide more money here to create more jobs and power up our economy.

Jennifer, you need to speak with your family and/or your doctor and they can help you to understand the other
options available to women. Even visiting webmd or mayo can help you to understand.

If you think about it John McCain plan for forty-five new nuclear power plants is reasonable, needed and attainable. Our current 108 nuclear power plants supply twenty (20) percent of our electricity requirements. This is amazing considering that it has been thirty years since there has been new construction on new nuclear power plants anywhere in the United States. Construction on new nuclear power plants has occurred throughout the world but not in the United States thanks to Democratic leadership. In France, nuclear power supplies 80 percent of their electricity needs. Because 108 nuclear power plants are generating twenty percent of our needs, an additional 45 nuclear power plants will only increase the percentage of nuclear power to roughly 28 percent of our needs well short of French eighty percent nuclear power generation of electricity. John McCain proposals are reasonable and will help lead us to energy independence. Democrats under the leadership of Barack Obama want to study the issue for another 30 years. By that time the only remaining United States builder of nuclear power plants General Electric will have gone the way of Westinghouse and sold its nuclear construction division to a foreign owned company Toshiba Corporation of Japan. Given the Democratic led hostile business environment for nuclear power in the United States, we will have no United States owned companies capable of building nuclear power plants.
The reality is that a few nuclear power plants will have a greater contribution to our energy independence than all the contributions of solar, wind, and thermal energy. Only the proposals of John McCain on nuclear power, offshore drilling, wind, and solar energy will make the idea of United States energy independence a reality.

If McCain picks Romney or a former competitor, I don’t think the Obama campaign would attempt to smear him by using Romney’s competitive stances against him. I think there will be a backlash in using Hillary Clinton as an attack medium, but it won’t be in a similar smear. It may very well happen with a significant chunk of undecided women who don’t like how their former candidate is being used, and who recognize that they’re being played for dumb in a very mean spirited way.

How does the Democratic leadership under Barack Obama expect new sources to electricity to power all the new hybrid and electric cars that will be coming on line. If it is wind or solar they have to be joking because the wind does not blow all the time. The new sources of additional electricity to charge up all these cars will have to come from nuclear energy.
Why is there such an ingrained irrational paranoia about nuclear energy and waste disposal among some Americans especially the Democratic leadership under Barack Obama.
Importantly also why is it somehow okay for hundreds of thousands of Navy sailors to have served for nearly thirty-five years aboard nuclear power American aircraft carriers and nuclear powered submarines and air force personnel to handle nuclear bombs but Democratic leadership under Barack Obama will not consider to even remotely assume any risks involved with nuclear power. Is it okay for our servicemen to be exposed to alleged risks but not the Democratic leadership who oppose nuclear power. This paranoia is particular evident with the Democrats acceptance of risks that are associated with other aspects of modern American living. Forty thousand people die every year in the United States in auto accidents but there is no outcry to ban all automobiles in the United States. Bridges have collapsed recently in Minnesota and tunnels ceilings in Boston have fallen but there is no consensus on eliminating bridges or tunnels. There have been airplane crashes that have also involved injuries on the ground but there is no outcry to ban air travel. There have been repeated rail and ship accidents but no outcry to ban railroads or ship travel. The irrational fear involving nuclear power and waste disposal has no justification. American people undergo multiple medical and dental xrays and CT scans yearly and have no fear. TSA airport screeners and medical staff work daily around xray equipment, fluoroscopes, and CT machines and do not experience adverse health consequences as a result of their work exposure. There were no documented adverse health events associated with the Three Mile Island release of minor radiation in the 1970s and no payments for health losses were ever made involving lawsuits related to that accident. The containment vessel held at Three Mile Island. In light of most Americans acceptance of risks associated with automobiles, trains, planes, and ships, the fear on the part of the Democratic leadership of nuclear power can not be viewed as rational. John McCain’s proposals to build 45 new nuclear power plants along with his other energy proposals on conservation and renewable energy will help America achieve relative energy independence in the near term and long term.

If there was a a requirement that in order to retain citizenship in the USA, one MUST start and maintain a business -THE DEMOCRAT PARTY WOULD SOON DISAPPEAR. WHY? WHEN ONE ENTERS THE REAL WORLD ONE CATCHES ON – REAL FAST!!!

Ex Dem: You are absolutely right, the democrats have lost leadership because look who became the nominee. A candidate that doesn’t know one thing about politics or foreign policy and has to use others speeches for the platform. I thought Harvard graduates were much smarter than that. I sure would like to see his grades. Obama selected Biden because he has a big mouth and knows how to use it which got him in trouble one time. PUMA is an organization that is anti-obama and would like to block him from the nomination. There is only one way and that is for the all the superdelegates cast their vote for Hillary. This has been done before because I read it on the internet. The nominee lost and the other candidate won. No one knows what is going to happen at the convention. However, Hillary should not have endorsed him, supported him only. I believe his text message at 3a.m. was an injustice to Hillary Clinton, but that’s the way of Obama. He is an underhanded dog.

Politics.
It is folly to use rationl arguments for the production of energy here.

you can read the lawsuit filed against obama on the internet………

Well, Judgement, Biden was a big suppporter of the war and as of last year still was all for removing Saddam.
He also was dead wrong about Petraeus and the surge.
So Obiden have a lot in common.

James,
The clean coal technology that is available is too expensive for the coal plants to use at this time. That is why there are no new coal plants being built with this clean coal technology. Every currently operating plant gets a special permit to “add-on” to their current plants so they can bypass the new restrictions because they claim they will go broke if they have to use the new scrubber systems. Whether they will go broke or not doesn’t seem to matter, they simply have to claim they will and Bush’s EPA allows them their special use permits. As far as the shale oil technology, it too isn’t at the point where it is financially viable. Even with oil over $130 a barrel prospecting for oil shale is not something the oil companies wish to pursue at this time. I don’t know where you are getting your oil figures, but the oilfields in Anwar are projected to hld less than 6 months worth of oil reserves for the US. It makes no sense to drill in that area for only 6 months worth of oil.

Sara.
ANWAR WILL ONLY PRODUCE SIX MONTHS OF OUR OIL NEEDS?? WHERE IN THE WORLD DID YOU GET THAT FROM – THE HUFFINGTON POST? SOURCE?????

Hmmmm. I find it interesting that the great actor Ronald Reagan had smart people running his presidency. In fact, they never even bothered to wake him up at 3:00 am in the morning if there was a crisis. These people that he hired, and the citizens of the US never voted for took care of whatever came up.
Yet if Obama hires “smart people” he is not competent to be president. It truly is amazing how things are different from one person to another.

Sara.
I HONESTLY would like to know in what area(s) Obama would make a better president than McCain and WHY?

From strictly a personal standpoint I can understand why Obama did not pick Hilary – obvious. But from a political standpoint, I think that it was a big mistake in NOT picking her. An OH Repub.

Obama supporters -why didn’t you vote for Biden in the primaries if he is so great? well, since Biden quit after Iowa let me ask why did he get only 1% in Ioaw. Biden has been a Senator for over 35 years. Answer -Biden is a stiff.
He sucks. A weak pick by Obama.

Peach, Hillary voted for the war as well…..so what. Are you questioning her judgement. Are you saying you can’t have a vp with a different opinion. Why would Obama want someone who thinks the same way as him. It’s good to get a different perspective.

McCain has to put sound pieces together to win the white house because he has nothing else. He need to stop playing silly games with tv ads and get back to the issues, if he can remember what they are.

James,
If FutureGen is reestablished I might agree with you. Until such time I simply can’t agree with Tech Review.
And Shell’s supposed steps to work shale oil are a nice bait and switch. The talk is cheap. Back in the 70′s Shell also talked about shale oil, but decided that the current price of oil was not going to last and shelved plans for pursuit. The major oil companies have again decided that the current price of oil is not going to last so for them to invest the amount of money necessary to actually recover usable oil from shale is not a wise investment at this time. However it is politically more sound for them to blame the Democrats than their own greed.

If I was a Hillary supporter I would be furious. The DNC just gave full voting rights to Michigan and Florida. Howard Dean knew they would have to do this for the convention. If they didn’t screw up the primaries in the first place, Hillary would of won the nomination instead of Obama. Most of her so called super delegate supporters left he flat near the end of the primaries. This would of never happened if the DNC would of had their party rules in order. Hillary was a victim of sabotage from her own party!!

Maryann,
I was a Hillary supporter from the minute she worked on healthcare in Bill’s presidency. However, she lost. She failed to plan for a full primary run. The people she picked to run her campaign failed her. Obama’s didn’t. As much as I wish Obama would have selected her as his running mate, there was no way it was going to happen. Bill did her in as much as the people she selected. Personally I don’t like Obama, but I don’t trust McCain. His maverick days ended in 2000 when he lost to Bush. He took the “no tax” pledge to win over conservatives. He has changed his stance on almost every issue just to win over more conservatives. I wouldn’t vote for McCain if he was running unopposed. We already have enough conservatives on the Supreme Court. They already delivered one election to the Republicans. I don’t wish to see them deliver the entire country so I will be voting for Obama. Not very happily, not very eagerly. But I will vote for Obama.

Beckie, I know. I think Obama is damned if he does damned if he doesn’t. If he picked someone like Kaine who is outside of Washington, people would complain that he didn’t have experience. So he picks Biden who has foreign policy experience but has been in Washington for over 30 years. So it really doesn’t matter who he chose someone would complain. It was a no win situation.

Hey Pepitone,
Bush was a “C” student @ a “prestigious ivy league school… Hmmmmm. Cant do WORSE than Bush. I mean really… “strategery”. Ha

Sara.
Ditto on Dave Peck.

What has the Democratic congress done to improve the lives of the American people since they have had the majority? Why should they get a rubber stamp with Obama when they didn’t even care enough to fight with Bush or try to compromise for an override? Pelosi and Reid have failed to lead their respective bodies to enact any legislation of consequence. They want to spend our taxpayer dollars on impeaching a man who only has 6 months to go anyway. Why didn’t they begin that 2 years ago when Barack started running for the presidency?

Blip:
“It’s nice that the GOP is looking out for Hillary. Because you know they have nothing but love for Hillary and all of her supporters.”
hmmmm..

As I said earlier, it’s time for us to change blue states to red states by 3 am on election day. It can be done.

This country is in the shape it is because we the people have not held our elected officials accountable and we have not made our voices heard. We allowed the politicians to control everything and sat back and watched. It is now time to become involved. One man is not going to fix things. One speech is not going to fix things. There is no one solution. It is going to take someone with bi-partisan experience who understands the failings of government and rather than bemoan the problem, roll up their sleeves and get to it. It is very easy to point a finger a be a critic. what are you going to do to fix it. My problem with Obama is that for all his rhetoric he has done nothing outside of this Presidential run to address any of the issues that he claims to feel so strongly about. There is no history of change. There is no passion for issues that are now stump speeches.

John McCain has supported 100% of Bush policies. If you want to be at war with Iraq for the next 100 years, and love what is happening to the economy, and the environment and dont mind knowing thousands of Americans are unemployed and homeless, then vote for McCain and more of the same.

CW… not a McCain supporter… but I have the answer for you.
70 percent of people recognize Bush as a failure. This means 30% don’t… and these are your crazy Republicans.
But in that 70% is a small but significant chunk (say 13% of the overall pie) who know that Bush is a failure but they don’t really mind it. These are people who are either really rich and doing fine. Then you have Crazy communists and Christians hoping that another four years of Bush will bring on total class warfare or the second coming.
Altogether, it gets McCain like 43% of the vote.
Crazy… but how else can you explain it?

Don’t worry after the Dem Convention Joe Biden he going to hit McShame back hard with the keating 5!

With all due respect, everyone involved is a millionaire living in million dollar homes and great health coverage. I am afraid that I see no distinction on this argument other than Barack and Michele have invested in other areas other than real estate – who knows maybe alternative energy like T. Boone Pickens and Nancy Pelosi.

Jake – you forgot to post Hillary’s response to the ad.

: Debbie aka Debra -I can not wait until Obama is the next President and then what will you have to say then!

Many of us though Hillary was the best choice for our country.
Second best choice… is McCain!
Obama was and still remains an empty suit with a skinny resume and a big mouth.
And as he hsa said….. “words”.. are just empty “words”.
That’s not enough for my trust, or my vote.
Posted by: hmmm———- So what you are saying is, and even though Clinton supports Obama and their policies and ideas are 95 percent the same, you think McCain, that is on the other side of the earth from Clinton and Obama is a better choice. What am I missing? If you supported Hillary and trusted her and thought she was best for this country. Then why when she supports Obama and is asking her supporters to do the same, are you now not listening to her and supporting a canidate that we know supports 95 percent of Bush policies. It doesnt add up to me. Is it because of the DNC decision? Do you thing voting for McCain will teach them some kind of lesson? You would acually be not only voting against your country but against Hillary by doing so. Do you know the good Clinton can do working in Obama’s cabinet? Or working with Obama on heath care and other issues? If McCain wins, she wont be in his cabinet nor will he reach out to her for help.
It just doesnt make since.

Erin -
You don’t get it.
By choosing Biden, Obama can no longer claim with any credibility that McCain doesn’t have the judgment for the presidency because of his Iraq vote.
If he says it again, anyone with half a brain looks at Obama and says “Your Vice President, who you chose, voted the same way as McCain.”
But carry on pretending you don’t get it. Got to get those DNC talking points down.

Go back and actually read up on the Keating 5 incident. While Cranstan, DeConcini, and Riegle were found to have actively interfered with the Lincoln Savings and Loan investigation, Glenn and MCCAIN were found to have exercised “poor judgement”. He actually met with the Federal Home Bank Board about Keating’s Lincoln S & L along with the other 4. All 5 of them should have been condemned by the Ethics Committee. How quickly everyone has forgotten about the S & L debacle.

peach you idiot I do get it. But like I said he’s damned if he does damned if he doesn’t. So tell me, why are Hillary supporters so upset that Obama didn’t chose her as vp when she voted for the war. You guys can’t have it both ways.

MCCAIN were found to have exercised “poor judgement”. So why is McShame alot to have poor Judgement and not Obama? McShame made a bad judgement regarding the Iraq war and not setting a date. McShame my have more experience but he have very poor judgement. Joe Biden made a statement that he would take good judgement over experience which he was referred to Obama regarding good Judgement! We have the winning ticket! Like I say the Haters are being quit today which is a smart move. Can’t stand the heat get our the kitchen!

gl…Debbie and Debra are two different bloggers.
LOVE HILLARY, LIKE BIDEN, HATE OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT.
JOHN SYDNEY NEVER BARACK HUSSEIN

Anyone who would really vote for McCain and four more years of Bush policies to protest Hillary’s loss, will, in effect help to destroy our country completely.

“Do you thing voting for McCain will teach them some kind of lesson?”

Hillary is releasing her delegates if you all didn’t hear.

“Both Obama and Biden are well known for extraordinary ability for negotiating bipartisan legislation successfully.”

Debra you think continuing the Bush economy is the best thing for our country and that’s why your voting for McCain. Wow!

dl>
If Clinton is truly releasing her delegates then that’s all the more reason for many of us to vote for McCain this time…
Eespecialy since you in particular.. and other Obama supporters… have promised that should Obama not win…. there would be repercussions on Clinton’s political future!
I, for one, HATE threats.. and usually respond negatively to them!

“May I remind you 18mil also voted for Obama.”

Well I am sure we all want what is best for the US and Im sure we all have sone different ideas on who can fix this mess.
The good news, and it may be close, is Obama/Biden will be elected and we may have a brighter future. If not then we will get what we deserve. Life will go on either way and in four years we can do it all over again. I hope and pray that whoever is elected, its the right decision. Obama 08

“I cannot stand Obama. I don’t trust him at all. And I am totally disgusted with Dean and Pelosi too.”

cindy what about his policies. Do you feel we are better off now than we were 8 years ago. Do you think the economy is good. You’re voting out of emotion.

” So tell me, why are Hillary supporters so upset that Obama didn’t chose her as vp when she voted for the war. You guys can’t have it both ways.”
Posted by: erin | Aug 24, 2008 6:06:48 PM
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Biden voted for the war, too.
Hillary’s state was bombed on 9/11!
The majority of our GOVERNMENT voted for the war… based on the input they were given and the bombings they had just experienced.
If B O had been given this information, and were empowered to vote at that time, he might have even have voted for it… or at least he might have voted “present”.
As for being disappointed about Hillary not being his VP and having to clean up after him…. I’m not in the least disappointed..
I’m ecstataic for her….. because one way or another, Obama is going to tank.
Just DO NOT THREATEN Hillary’s future just because he does!

It’s been a well known thing that Hillary has been known as divisive, and now I see why. If she runs in 2012 I’m not sure she will be able to win because of all the drama surrounding her now. There will be millions of people who will vote against her to spit all of these Hillary supporters who plan to vote against Obama for McCain.

That’s not at ALL clear. The economy has fallen apart for many, for some of whom life will NOT go on for another four years — if only because of lack of nutrition and meaningful health care.
There are a million people HOMELESS in the STREETS of this supposedly-wunnerful country, hundreds of thousands of displaced vets who are a danger to themselves and/or others, cities full of the unmentioned underclasses. There are bank robberies going on in perfectly “peaceful” small towns, people shot down by the dozens in Chicago almost every day, restaurant invasion robberies in Oakland every single night.
It’ll blow sooner or later. Hopefully it’ll blow on the candidates, of both parties, who can barely mention the “middle class”, let alone the poor, because they are so corrupted and distracted by the endless privilege of politicians.
Posted by: Belle Starr——— Very good point and I agree. Thats why Obama has my vote. Hes not perfect but he is the best chance we have. McCain would just be continuing our current road to destruction.

How come 9 out of 10 of Clinton supporters that are now going to McCain are woman? Yet they say its not about gender. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it must be a duck.

CW – How come 9 out of 10 of Clinton supporters that are now going to McCain are woman? Yet they say its not about gender. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it must be a duck
I was thinking the same thing. Most of the still angry Clintong supporters are whining women that are willing to cut of their nose to spice their face.

Its amazing that EVERYONE seems to forget that the economy has tanked, oil prices skyrocketed, the housing crisis ALL HAPPENED DURING A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS!!!!!!!!!! Remember when the mortgage industry and housing was just OFF THE CHARTS for the first time in history, gas prices were relatively steady, and the economy was robust…guess what folks…a REPUBLICAN CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT were at the helm…with regards to the war, geez…anyone have ANY history lessons that they have learned??? War is UGLY. No one said anything when we went into WWII for years and over 50,000 people died. That was an act of terrorism! I am a military wife and people, let me tell you…REGARDLESS of what you think, when you badmouth the war, president, congress etc., you are demeaning our brave men and women who VOLUNTEER to defend the good people of the United States.

CW
I hate illogically emotional angry statements that have absolutely left the world of reality…
I threatened nothing…and you get all freakin emotional.
You are hurting Hillary’s numbers in NY.
Period…that is not a threat. IT’s the truth.
I don’t mean to insult anyone…but
God when are people going to get a mature bone in their body and realize this is all about emotional spite and self centered anger…like a child.
Cut your noses off to spite your faces.
It’s both sad and ridiculous at the same time.

dl ——— Not sure how we got crossed but I am on your page and agree. She would make a great cabinet member and can be in a great position to do great good. But only if Obama is elected. Then in 2012 we will see what happens. If the Clinton supporters jump tp McCain, then she wont be in a position to do hardly any good. I think we are thinking the same way?

and gl
I am an Obama supporter from early on…(Hillary at first but I volunteered for both of them…and Biden after I saw ALL the candidates speak then as time went on I settled on barack after hearing them all NUMEROUS times)…
what we need now is to not shoot the issues in the head…
Hillary WOULD have a chance to run again…but she can not be blamed (right or wrong)
and that is what I am trying to tell people.
and yes…I think she could have a good shot…especially if she had a significant role.

eyes wide open
if for nothing else he is not McCain, Charlie Black, Randy Scheunneman, Gramm
these are the guys who are his leadership team
Randy Scheunneman ran the comm for lIberation of Iraq…picked specifically by Cheney and Bush to head up this lobbyist PR group to sell the war (that is not made up go look at the military contracts that came out of that committee)…he is now McCain’s lead foreign policy advisor
Charlie Black…one of the biggest lobbyists in the business and attached to a lot fo yucky clients.
and grammm (Mccain’s economy guru who literally wrote his economic platform)…okay …enron loop hole…banking deregulation…and his list is bad…what he pushed through congress…
these are the same guys who DID bering us the last 8 years and now they run McCain’s campaign.

eyes wide open —— Why am I voting for Obama. Im 50 now and a working class white male. I voted for Bush twice.I sometimes have to burn my hand twice before I learn not to do the same thing again. Well McCain would be doing the same thing again. Now as to your comments. True or not, if one looks hard enough at anybody they can find things about that person that one may not agree with and find fault. Niether McCain or Obama are perfect I assure you and God is not running.
I am voting for Obama because I am tired of the insanity of expecting a different outcome doing the same thing over and over. Obama-Unknown mostly- Came up and beat one of the most well known most powerful political names in the world. He managed his finances fantastic and continues to do so. He has shown that he is a great manager and thats what this country needs. We dont need the same as we have had for 8 years. Yes he is a gamble but not as big a gamble as McCain. When I see him talk like at the church the other night. I see and hear a sincere honest man answering questions the best he can. From his heart and mind. Some make fun of him for that. When he said above my pay grade. He was humble enough as to say Im not God and thats what he meant. Thats honest. McCain gives one-two word answers and and they sounded rehearsed and told us nothing about McCain the man himself. I feel this country needs a uplift facelift. Sometimes you have to get rid of the old and bring in a whole new way and fresh face with fresh ideas to get things going in a positive direction. Obama did things in his youth I do not agree with. But who am I to judge. I was a hard core racist while growing up.
When Obama addressed racisim in this country, I saw hin again as sincere and honest and he approached head on what so many have avoided. He has said he cant do it alone and has said he needs help from all of us. Thats honest. If we think any one man can fix this country,we are dreaming. It will take all of us to bring this country around.
McCain and his conceated “I know everything” type attitude scares me. Obama has proven he is good with finances, business management, is sincere and cares about Americas tomorrow. Im not a scolar nor no all facts about everybody but I like what I see and hear and Im a pretty good judge of people because of some experiances in life I wont go in to. Obama is certainly better on the economy. Obama met with a whole group of economic winners and experts for advice on putting together a economic package while McCain just acted like he knows best even though he admits to knowing nothing about the economy. Obama- being young and new- will ask for help and advice which any one man should do before making decisions that will affect billions of people. Thats not weak. Thats smart. If we had a President that would have done that more often we probably would not be fighting 2 wars and sending all our jobs overseas. That just some of the reasons I am voting for him. You asked.

CW
I have NEVER voted Republican in my life; interesting that we are both switching with this election.
I appreciate your sharing your reasons; at least you seem to have thought them through and come to a conclusion which satisfies you.
I’m from Illinois… actually I’m a displaced New Yorker but have lived here longer than I did there…
I see lingering messes from Obama’s state senatorship and, although I too fell for the sound of his voice for a while, I lost it’s affect when he let his bloggers use the “race” card, and smear Hillary way too many times!
Anyway, I don’t think either of us has a terrific choice this year…. but I applaud your right to vote for whichever candidate you choose!
Thank G-d for the United States!

All this drama is great… it gets people hooked into the convention.
It will expand viewership considerably. Plus, it will give the Clintons a great chance to boost Obama while calling McCain out on his sleazy opportunism and disingenuous concern for Hillary supporters.
The more McCain can flap his jaws… the better. Who knows… maybe his teeth will fall out on national TV!

Shame on McCain for this silly ad using Hillary Clinton’s words to put down Obama. So what???? …. Anyone could make a similar ad using Mitt Romney’s words against McCain. … But we, the voters, deserve better than this kind of b.s. ………… This is boring, old-style U.S. politics. We can do better than this. OBAMA/BIDEN ’08

Debra, what Wendy said is correct. There were many harsh words and debates between Romney and McCain. The dems will have a field day with it.

Debra, do you really believe the Fundies are going to vote for an Episcopalian and a Mormon?

if McCain picks Romey the big difference is Romney got millions of votes and won delegates. Biden is a loser and quitter.

Who ever said that the Pres. and VP should be clones of each other? I think some spice in the soup is in order.
As for attacks, just wait – Biden will chew up McCain and spit him out before McCain has time to form a thought.

Obama sure went out of his way to alienate Clinton supporters by never vetting Clinton even out of respect and by releasing the veep text at 3 AM, wow what a slap in the face. Even if she gives lukewarm support, to her supporters he just dangled raw meat!!

I gotta hand it to Maobama for tapping into the left side of the bellcurve voters. They care nothing about substance and vote like Chris Matthrews from the tingle below the belt. I read one of them to ask “What’s wrong with COMMUNISM?”–well I can’t blame them for not knowing world history because Obama doesn’t even know how many states there are. The Golden Idiot was praising China’s economic structure a few days ago–yes, it’s amazing what a few million slave laborers can do for that infrastructure Obama! One billion dead from the square wheel failed experiment and they wish to keep reinventing it…if his supporters want a socialist/communist government so much, why don’t they just move to Venezuela or China?

Sweetie, scared much? So you trot out all those old scare tactics from the 80s?
They’re soooooo old. You’ll have to find a new one. These ones aren’t working.

Isn’t the VP pick supposed to balance out the ticket? It’s quite logical and honest to state the Maobama bin Biden is a SOCIALIST ticket, and here’s why:
Obama is THE MOST liberal member of the U. S. Senate. He is more liberal than 94% of the Senate on economic issues; 94% of the Senate on social issues; and 92% of the Senate on foreign issues. His composite “Liberal” score is 95.5%.
Biden is the 3RD MOST liberal member of the U. S. Senate. He is more liberal than 94% of the Senate on economic issues; 88% of the Senate on social issues; and 94% of the Senate on foreign issues. His composite “Liberal” score is 94.2%.
Both Obama and Biden are further to the left than Bernie Sanders, who comes in fourth. He is more liberal than 90% of the Senate on economic issues; 88% of the Senate on social issues; and 98% of the Senate on foreign issues. His composite “Liberal” score is 93.7% — and Bernie Sanders identifies himself as a Socialist.
Source: National Journal 2007 Vote Ratings

Sweetie still doesn’t get it. You do know what the approval rating for Congress is, do you? It’s abysmally low.
It’s even lower for the Senate.
And it’s even lower for the Republicans in that Senate.
Now do a cross-tab: Obama is the ‘most liberal’ of the Senate; Obama is the Pres. candidate who is solidly ahead in the national polls but more importantly, in the electoral college.
And you know why that is? Because the country wants a far more liberal Congress.
So when you try to scare people with that silly “he’s the most liberal senator”, people actually think: “thank you, than that’s the one I want”.

McCain is expected to get 15% of Hillary’s votes, and he hasn’t even started campaigning in earnest yet. Obama will lose by double digits, check your history re: Kerry, Dukakis and compare.
Now Obama used to be a community organizer for ACORN which was found guilty of registering tens of thousands of nonexistent voters in multiple states. And he’s still sending money via front organizations to ACORN. That could be the only possible card up his sleeve, but defrauding the FEC is a violation that would wind him up in jail.

It CAN get worse, and it only DID get worse since the Democrats took over. They could make things, far, far worse. Chavez’ government has its political prisoners, it’s socialist reforms have gone down the same predictable pathway to loss of freedoms, never to be regained short of revolution. The American spirit will not be put out by a Barack Hussein Obama, we will not relinquish our freedoms to the Golden Idiot. Never.

Then go to Venezuela and fight the system there.

dl 6:40:45 She is releasing her delegates because they would professionally pay the price of NEVER GETTING ANYTHING FOR THEMSELVES OR THEIR DISTRICTS if they don’t back Obama. That is the REAL world in politics-check out Illinois. PS…He won’t carry Missouri. Sincerely, RL in Southern Illinois.

“Chavez’ government has its political prisoners, it’s socialist reforms have gone down the same predictable pathway to loss of freedoms, never to be regained short of revolution.”
Bollocks. Rightwing propaganda not supported by facts. Chavez introduced Constitutional amendments, which were defeated.
What a dictator, caring for the Constitution. Chavez obviously doesn’t think that the “Constitution is just a godd**n piece of paper”. I don’t want to be accused of plagiarism: this was an actual quote from George W. Bush.
HRW does not list any political prisoners in Venezuela. Or did you mean the people who were arrested after that coup d’etat?
Venezuela sure is a bit edgy about opposition groups after that coup d’etat. I don’t deny that. But since the US (with the help of McCain’s IRI) has been actively engaged in that coup against a democratically elected leader, I can understand why they would be. You would be too.

geevil wrote
“if McCain picks Romey the big difference is Romney got millions of votes and won delegates. Biden is a loser and quitter.”
the big difference is Biden has character.
even McCain know that.

dl – Is ignorance Bliss? is so you libs must be blissful!! But unfortunatly you are full of lies
Banking issue was brought to you by the Dems in Congress, but ignoring the issue so they can hold their Stalinist show trials, Sen. Schmer(D) from NY is responsible for the larges collapse!!
Did you ever wonder why all these dems including Obama got great deals from Banks on their mortgages?
They were paid off!!

I don’t care how wonderful Obama treats Bill Clinton at the convention. He made no bones about disparaging Bill Clinton’s legacy to this country when he was campaigning against his wife, Senator Clinton. This country enjoyed the wealthiest period of its existence and Obama the new little twit, had to run him down constantly. I wouldn’t care if Jesus himself was Obama’s VP, I still WOULD NOT VOTE FOR HIM!!! He is done! And, he said the following about HIllary Clinton throughout the campaign AND THE WOMEN SUPPORTERS OF BARRACK OBAMA SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO THIS, “I knew her claws would come out.” “I knew when she was backed into a corner that she would react and I know her and how she reacts.” “Who does she think is, Annie Oakley supporting the gun rights?” “I did not whine when her campaign released negative fliers about my.” And, my most favorite of all time when he was in a closed door session two days after getting the nomination, where reporters were present, and when he was asked how he intended on making amends with the women voters who felt so angry about how he kept sexually bashing Senator Clinton because she was a woman, “They’ll get over it.” This is how insignificant he treats women voters so please don’t tell me how much better off we will be with him as our president. And, I don’t care what his wife has to say about him at the convention. She should be ashamed of herself, being a woman, and not taking a stand at his negativity toward Hillary Clinton as a woman. And any women who votes for Obama should be ashamed of themselves! We are already rolling out commercials encouraging women to vote for John MCCain in November and this is only the beginning. He is as big of a flip flopper as his prune face supporter, John Kerry. And, Biden, is just another politics as usual Washington gas bag. Oh yea, there is a great ticket for America. Steve Erkel and Bluto the bully so good luck with all of that! I hope they get trounced in November by John McCain! The McCain campaign is treating women like we are the golden goose and the sky is the limit when we request something. I hope next time the man of choice by the Washington gasbags in the party, remembers to tell them to stick to the issues and not to crucify any candidate due to race, gender, etc., and to keep their pie hole shut! They are deconstructing and reconstructing our party and it is a disgrace! First they went with an experienced gasbag like kerry and he couldn’t win. Than, they went with an inexperienced black man thinking the liberal base would feel guilty if they didn’t vote for him. Obama was more to the right and than now he is in the middle. Is it any wonder that we cannot get anyone elected to the office of President when we are constantly changing all the time? It’s ridiculous! And, we don’t care if you vote for Hillary if she runs again or not. All we care about is our party being in tact and adhering to their original principles and that a woman is not harassed just because she is a women. If Obama supporters want to boycott voting for Hillary if she runs again than the women block will boycott anyone he supports, including himself. It will go and on because we have dug our heels in and we have no intention of going away this time. We are done! Go McCain!!! We are doing everything in our power to make sure that he gets elected!The Republicans will keep on getting elected instead of the Democrats if this nonsense continues!

“Asked what his role in the campaign is now, Gramm said in an interview, “I’m a supporter.”
As for whether he continues to advise McCain, he said, “We’re friends. I haven’t stopped being his friend. If he asks me, I’d give it to him.”
He added, “I’m not an official adviser.”
( snipped from the wall street journal )washington wire, aut.14,2008
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As I previously wrote, Gramm is no longer an official member of McCsin’s campaign.