Obama: Rested and Ready to Rumble?

I got removed, so here once again!
What A loser! I used to be a democrat, not anymore. I’d never vote for McCain, but I’d choose him over Nobama. I’ll be writing in Paris Hilton I guess. She’s a much better choice than these two.

Nice sping, but Obama’s performance was decent, but certainly not great or even good.
Please just look at how he stumbled over the abortion rights questions. Sad. He’s pro choice, but understands pro lifers and wants to work with them to make sure there are no more abortions (but, of course, he won’t make it law).
Poorly argued, trying to pander. Just like his oil drilling concession. He’s against it, but will drill in the name of “unity” and in order to reach compromise.
Why elect a man who caves on his principles when necessary for him to secure a nomination?

Mcain said enough to scare any woman who believes it is between God and themselves what they choose. Funny watching a man (McCain) say we need less government, but he has no problem flexin his muscle when it comes to government exercising its right when it comes to birth) (OF course! There is no free market in that!) Screw banks and healthcare, we’ll just regulate births.
WTF?
If you are republican, you better hold on, if abortion becomes illegal- be ready to take care of an onslaught of poor children in the welfare system. You heard me, and I warned you-
What a woman chooses is between her and God- it is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.

JUST SAY NO!

Since everyone is entitled to their opinion, here is mine:
What I saw last night watching the forum at Saddleback was two very different types of leaders. Sen. McCain would be reactionary and Sen. Obama would be calculating. Sen. Obama is a thinker and in my opinion, that’s what we need in leadership. Someone who is willing to consider all points of view. As far as the abortion issue is concerned, Sen. Obama stated that while he does not support abortion, he doesn’t believe that laws should criminalize a women’s right to chose what to do with her own body and that the woman has to bear the burden of making such a gut-wrenching, moral decision. What he did say is that more focus should be on preventing unwanted pregnancies in the first place. Plus, I heard on CNN this morning during Rick Vargas’ conversation with Pastor Warren that McCain wasn’t in the “holding tank” as previously reported and that he wasn’t even at the church during Sen. Obama’s turn with Pastor Warren. I found it odd that on one couple of the questions, McCain answered the questions before Pastor Warren even asked the question. McCain was clearly pandering to the evangelical crowd at the church especially when he kept referring to them as “my friends.”

While, I am African American MY STORY IS NOT OBAMA’S STORY. This guy is a walking slogan.
Also who says that poor women get abortions at all? On the contrary, most abortions are performed on middle and upper class white women. Take a look on the south side of Chicago or Bed stuy does anyone in those neighborhoods look like they give a damn about Roe V. Wade being overturned? Can they afford an abortion?

WE WISH OBAMA A GREAT WELCOME BACK FROM HIS HOLIDAYS. GREAT LEADERSHIP WITH VSION AND WELL INFORMED LEADER WHO WILL LEAD AMERICA AND THE WORLD IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. GOD SAVE AMERICA FROM McSAME, NO NEED FOR A 4 MORE YEARS OF FAILLED POLICIES AND LACK OF LEADERSHIP.

I take it that Mr. Clampet is still looking up the word elaborate. Well, It’s time for Murder She Wrote. See you at the convention kiddies!

“Above Your Pay Grade?” Give me a break. Whatever happened to “The Buck Stops here” Senator?
CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times have tried to keep the American voter in the dark in terms where Obama stands on many important issues. Thank goodness Rick Warren, a Pastor has done what many reporters have refused to do; that is ask Obama some tough questions regarding where he stands on the issues facing this nation. It is ironic that the Main Stream media has caused the Church to inherit a permanent place as a legitimate venue in future Presidential election debates. Thank you CNN! Your hidden agenda just backfired!
And what about that wimpy answer from Obama regarding his pay grade? Why can’t you just be a man and tell it like it is Senator Obama? Why do you feel obligated to hide your true intentions behind an accomplished speechwriter and an unusually good ability to read flowery speech from a teleprompter?

Obama IS smelling fear now…he knows he’s going to lose the General Election!
McCain 08!

Hello WestCoastMessenger!
Wouldn’t you think, that instead of riding that surfboard with a bicycle helmet on, he should have been in a classroom taking Politics 101. :D
PUMA! 9.2 million Voters and counting, coming to the polls with You!

George W McCain couldn’t answer a single question without telling a forty year old war story…some of which have been proven fantasies, invented many years after the war.
Looks like he’ll be real comfortable sitting in his rocking chair next year…telling endless “war stories” to his fellow residents at the retirement home in Phoenix.

The news is out. Mccain was not in a cone of silence yesterday. He came in 35 minutes into the forum. So how did they flip the coin? Obama was good but unlike Mccain, Mccain was just too good.

What a joke, CNN just reported that when Obama was answering the questions last night at the forum McCain was in a hotel room and then in a motercade on the way on to the event. No wonder McCain sounded like he was on his game last night, he had already heard the frigen questions.

An interesting news report came up today that’s all over the internet. McCain lifted his “Cross in the Dirt” story from The Gulag Archipelago by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. Nice work, Mr. McCain.
The news report is at Daily Kos online. Google dailykos, because we can’t post links in here.

Blowhard George W McCain said last night he’d follow “Bin Laden to the gates of Hell” and “I know how to get him”.
Okay, Blowhard. If you know how to “get him”…why haven’t you told anybody these past seven years?
Either you’re full of it…or you’re letting Bin Laden run around free to help you poltically. Which is it, Blowhard McCain?

and how does all this conspiracy talk explain obamas dismal,timid performance?
and would not the same logic apply to the fact that during the hillary/obama debates she always had to answer first? so does that mean that obama cheated at all the debates with hillary because he heard the questions before he had to answer? also if mccain is an senile as some of you rant about he would not have remembered the questions anyway…lol!

I’ve paid my dues on this bog-
Your ridiculous reasons are well noted.
Those of us who understand ignorance when we see it and excuses- I got it.
I am still voting OBAMA 08.
Haven’t heard one rgument yet to make me change my mind, and I am an Independent from a Republican family voting for Obama. Tsk Tsk… nice spin, the public is onto you.

It’s kind of amazing, reading the posts saying Obama can’t speak without a teleprompter, or that he was fumbling last night.
But what does one expect, from people who just follow what they’re told, and seem allergic to independent thought processes?
Obama actually listens to questions, and responds thoughtfully. In other words, he’s using his brain… something too many Americans seem to have forgotten how to do.
As for reports that McCain wasn’t in the building, was no surprise to me. I actually expected to see a *hump* on his back, like GW had during the debates in ’04. Laws/Rules are for the common folks, not for the GOP. I’m sure McCain wasn’t aware of the questions ;)
Can you imagine the Media uproar, if the situation was reversed, and Obama hadn’t been in the building? The Media would be blasting Obama, and these same McCain defenders would be lambasting Obama for cheating. But since it was McCain who failed to abide by the Rules, the story will pass.

I guess some people are stuck only on ABC. Rick Warren was on C.N.N himself and admitted it. He will be in again tomorrow, so you can hear him again. HE admitted that Mccain came in 35 minutes into the forum and that there was no coin toss. The only question, people are waiting to ask him tomorrow is why did he say a coin was tossed when Mccain was not even in the building?

Dont try to spin it He said that they both had knowledge of the first two questions but not all the others. Then why did Mccain deliberately come in late into the forum? Why did Rick say mccain was already in a cone of silence.When was the coin tossed? I knew that John Lewis answer was just untrue but then Obama knew about it and his first answer was Michelle. Good but that answer should have come last.

I’m pro-choice and have worked in women’s health care/ reproductive rights for slightly over ten years when I was younger. I have little problem with the responses either of these candidates gave when the question was posed about when life begins. The answer to that question is complex in particular with those who are pro-choice. Obama weaseled out of answering too some degree but my feeling is that his response wouldv’e probably been more complicated and taken more time then anyone wanted to hear and the response could have been one that could seem at odds with his position on reproductive rights. McCain quickly said life begins at conception and I know from experience that many who have abortions share that same belief and so that response does not necessarily mean one is anti-choice.
McCain stated he would have a pro-life administration and yet supports stem cell research and slid around that issue in pointing out that in the future the issues around stem cell research may be moot. That still doesn’t explain how he could be anti-choice and yet pro stem cell research.

Obama vacation
R&R was Reconditioning and Reprograming
Obama always was in Attack mode, from the first day of his campaign.
He was the most evil agressive attacking his opponents merciless constanly.
I am sure that drains the soul out of anyone. Why he needs to get away at least every 6 months.

And so now we find that McCain was not in the “cone of silence” Yet when asked about it by Warren he said he was trying to listen through the walls. No he is upset when he is questioned about it, brings up his war hero status and how dare anyone question him.
If he is so honorable why did he lie about being in the cone of silience?

Alpaig, agree with you Obama admitting that life starts at conception would never have hurt him instead his answers confused everyone, he needs to speak in a language that is easily understood by everyone. Saying that was beyond his pay grade was too lame, people will never know that all he was saying is that the answer was for only God to decide. Come out with clear-cut languages.

Who really cares whether anyone was in the cone of silence or not. Warren said both of these candidates knew the themes of the questions but not the specific questions. McCain basically pulled out responses from his stump speeches or responses he’s given to the press recently so did he really need to take that much time to say that stuff?
McCain was talking to the audience and us while Obama was having a conversation with Warren. I think both of these two did well and probably achieved what they had hoped to. I doubt Obama had any high expectations of pulling much of this audience into his camp and McCain was clearly pandering to this group and showing them he was their guy. I think it was clear though, regardless of whether McCain was in a cone of silence or not, that he was at an advantage with this group. We need to wait for the debates when they are on stage together and talking to a general audience. It was clear though that Obama is not going to have the cakewalk people thought he would though coming up against the more experienced McCain. I have to say though that Clinton wouldv’e been the one who couldv’e made mincemeat out of McCain in a debate. Clinton is a straight down the line liberal who doesn’t feel the need to find common ground or compromise with the far right and who prides herself on being able to deal with the far right and she was a far better debator then Obama regardless of who one liked better then the other. The best thing that happened to Obama was having to come up against Clinton once she got back in the game.

Obama said he reached across the aisle and worked with John McCain on an ethics bill. Obama then voted “NO” on the bill.
He couldn’t stand the pressure from Reid and Pelosi. He caved into Hillary’s convention demands.
Just imagine how well he will stand up to Putin.

“Basically what John McCain has done is he’s hired the same ‘old’ folks who brought you George W. Bush.”
Andy Fies, The use of “old” in the above Obama quote does not indicate old age but is used to express– a repetition of ideas, faces– nothing new. You are really reaching for drama and there isn’t any in that particular passage.

McCain will be the next President of the United States! My prayers are with you, John McCain, as you continue on your road to the White House. You have proven that you ARE the BEST candidate for the POTUS! Keep up the good work!
McCain 08!

Rachael….great post at 8:42 I smell fear, which has turned into anger with the Teflon one’s supporters.
Nobama, ever!
JOHN SYDNEY McCAIN OUR 44th PRESIDENT SOUNDS RIGHT.

Ha Ha Ha! This headline is a joke, right!
Ready to Rumble!
Obama is more like a decrepid, broken
down train moving slowly down the tracks!
He has nerve talking about telling
the American People the truth about the changes he wants to bring to this country!
Does this guy even know what the
truth is?
On just about every issue he shifts,
refines, or nuances his positions(also known as flip-flopping)!
He has No Plan to deal with the current
energy crisis!
His response to the Russian aggression against Georgia was timid and naive!
His economic policies will bankrupt our treasury and our people!
Just Say No to Obama! No You Can’t!

I want to see Obama get tough and fight back against the McBush camp. When Biden is named as VP it will be gloves off. Joe will have No problem beating McBush to a bloody pulp. Obama/Biden is the perfect tag team, Obama can keep talking about policy and leave the boxing to Joe.