Obama Finds Curious McCain’s Plea to Reduce Partisan Rancor

Republicans really do think that Americans are stupid and their campaign strategies are consistently based on this idea.
Sadly, they may be right.

ROFLMAO
Obama is the one who started his Campaign on Vulgar, evil and vile smear tactics and attacking all of his opponents.
From day one to present.
Evidents is in every debate, every speech, every statement, every ad.
Now he chooses to try to pawn off and pretend he is mister nice guy with his propaganda.
Surely he is joking around.

Obama is wasting his breath. McCain has a track record. Obama has JUST WORDS.

Seah,
Factcheck.org has determined that McCain has run 15 negative or attack ads. Obama has run 3. The differences in the tones of these two campaigns is stark. McCain’s campaign has been 5 times as negative.

Republicans are going to finally be out of here in 60 days! I am counting the days at this point. Yes, I am tired of hearing these mean ass thugs employ personal attacks. They will not talk about the real issues because they are too damn stupid to engage the American people in this type of dialogue. They have no solutions!
Obama/Biden 08

Elodiestclair,
Your statistic is truly laughable. A candidate is either negative or not. It’s binary. There are no degrees of negativity that one determines by counting ads and dividing them. You left out all the 1000s of negative commentary faxes that come out of both campaigns. If a candidate does not try to chip away at the other’s image then there is no race. Obama and his team plays the game right down in the dirt with the best of the them.

Will Obama stop crying, he sounds like old rag.
They are not in Washington, they were at a convention to save the US from Obama’s Marxism!!
whaaaaaaa:(

You know it would be kind of funny to watch all the lil groups Obama has cultivated if he became President. Over time, their illusions about what he is going to do for them personally will be shattered because he has promised so much to too many DIFFERENT groups of people. If McCain tears down Obama, then I think McCain will have done something great for the American people.

So happy to hear that Mike Duhaime is a major player in the McCain campaign. He is the same genius that ran the Presidential campaign operations for Rudy Giuliani this year. We saw how that turned out…perhaps one of the most ineptly produced campaigns in American political history.
The Palin pick is purely a cynical move on the part of the republicans…Clarence Thomas redux.

obama attacked mccain as having hundred of lobbyists. well, I got news, mccain earmarked ZERO. Last time I heard, Obama earmarked tens of millions of dollars.

no John, american people are not stupid. Would you trust someone who has no record of fighting Washington corruption than someone has a record of it??? If american people trust obama’s words over records then I will agree with you that Americans are stupid.

McCain needs to walk his talk when, if he wants to end the partisan politics he has plenty of opportunities to demonstrate it and ask his campaign to behave accordingly. It is so contagious that on her first appearance Sarah Palin gave what in this campaign was the most divisive and partisan speech. So Senator McCain share the memo let everyone get the message and please please dont politicize 9.11.

Lets not talk about how many lobbyists are on McCains campaign payroll.

“Yes. McCain talked about reaching across the aisle.”
With all the sincerity of a car salesman.
After the last two days he looked like a fool saying that.

I really don’t believe McCain has the wherewithal to run a campaign like this. He is become the puppet and once again The Rovians are the puppetmasters.
The old guy has lost his bearings. He don’t have a clue what’s going on. So sad to see him like this. His mom looks younger than him.
But instead of letting this guy gracefully run his campaign. The neocons and the Rovians are pushing this guy way outside his way of doing things and it shows.

Republicans are a sad cases of empty attacks. I can never understand their rants, raves, and negatives. Nothing of meaning. After Bush how can any respectable republican not want to try something else is beyond comprehension. Narrow minds, locked in vision, and sadly racist attitudes.

Mary yes it does haha I doubt we see mcccain and palin apart much,she was suppose to start going it alone next week but that was scrapped lol

“I got news, mccain earmarked ZERO.”
Than McCain’s has got a very serious problem. Aid to Israel is an earmark. How do you like your own news that McCain does not support Israel?

News flash for the more rabid McCain supporters…noone ever thought this would be a close election. But…this time the Democrats will continue to fight despite the nasty tactics, snide and hateful remarks and the like. And you guys who “love” sarah palin? You trust her judgement? in this day and age of birth control, to get knocked up at 44, then hide it from your kids, parents and the public til your 7 months along then fly across the country during your last month of gestation, start leaking amniotic fluid and then,,instead of checking into a local hospital hopping on 8 hours worth of flights back home without medical advice…SMACKS of extremely POOR judgement…
then there are all the political dealings..like her “reformer” record despite being the earmark queen…(more for her town of 5000 than for Boise Idaho)…and so much more…
are y’all blind, deaf and dumb? or do you not CARE???

“Obama is the one who started his Campaign on Vulgar, evil and vile smear tactics and attacking all of his opponents.”
Seeing Obama and his aides talking nasty about Hillary (it was never on issues but on her personality), we learnt more about Obama’s HATEFUL personality. He is a TRAITOR!!!
Keep Obama away from the White House.

Of course they don’t care…If they cared about unemployment,housing crisis,health care,education, the 2 wars…why they’d be dems.

Not this time…mr McSame.

I think Ms. Pittbull will wear thin rather quickly. She is very nasty and negative. Real Americans want to know what they will do to CHANGE things. All they talk about is Obama, for Gods sake, take a stand on the issues.
When you have nothing good to say about yourself the only option is to try to smear the other guy.

I am not in favor of socialized medicine and do not particularly like Obama’s plan, having said that. Under McCain I likely will not be able to obtain health insurance at all, as my employer will no longer be obligated to provide it.
That is not change my family can live with.

Karronna: See McCain supporters don’t know that about his health care plan, it’s his big secret, hence we won’t talk about the issues.

Our infastructure is crumbling, our ecconomy is crumbling, our health care system is crumbling, our social security is crumbling and the party in charge of it all wants us to vote for change….
OK, Obama/Biden it is!

I cain’t wait to see the beauty queen from Alaska have to give an interview to some reporters. She will not be able to hide forever. I wonder if one of them will ask her “Just what does a Vice President do”. ?????

Down with McClown!
McCain=Bush, same insane pain.
Whoever voted for Bush on 2004 and still approves of his performance owes the whole country an apology.
The Bush administration is an abomination.
McCain’s VP choice does not matter. What matters is YOUR choice.
Are you going to choose another Bush term? No way!
Go Obama!!

McSame has no idea about the economy, Palin has made a trip to a Chinese restaurant in Ohio 10 days ago, this is all she knows about foreign affairs. Let’s prepare for Gas at $12 a gallon, no Healthcare, no jobs, depression like in 1929, holy wars against Iran, Nord Korea, Syria, Russia, reversal of Roe Vs Wade, more tax cuts for those who own 7 houses…

Halina You are aware McCain wants raise the retirement age. All Obama wants to do is raise the payroll tax on those making over $150,000. My payroll tax is never capped because of my income. Wouldn’t you like social security to be there for your children?Something has to be done, after all we’ve talked about this for years.

Carol–
What state are you in? Bob Barr is polling at 11% of the vote in New Hampshire.

Mr Ed: In the state senate Obama did vote present 300 times..out of 3,000 votes. Quess what the guy who started this talking point voted present more times than Obama. Just a note…anyone(not being you apparantly)in Ill state senate knows this is a common tatic used by everyone when they are not happy with some part of the bill.See how much you learned.

“Mabe if Obama had voted something other than “Present” since being elected to the Senate”
Obama voted present 130 times out of over 4000 votes while in the IL state Senate.
You cannot vote present in the US Senate.
The Republican base is stupid. They believe anything

John Bush/McCain wants our votes when he supports exporting if not just jobs, but certainly capital overseas…. His support of the Airbus version of the proposed U.S. Air Force tanker program says it all in volumes. Sarah Pallin is a study in hidden issues and booby traps, a Carl Rove design in caos waiting. It is a very wise tactic to not fall for the decpetions hidden in this candidacy. I think there are dirty theoretical and opportunistic dishonest tactics in this choice. An examp[le is the fact that she is the attempting to distort the campaign by making HER record and experience the factor that Barack has to overcome, not Bush/McCain’s This time, lets not allow distortions to enter the process of enlightening the American people as to the choices presented. Watch for devious tactics, its all the Republicans have… the record of the real facts that will NEVER persuade any working person to support the Bush/McCain/ Pallin vacuum.

I don’t agree with Obama.
If Republicans want to campaign on “Character and Experience” let ‘em.
1) McCain is the first known adulterer to run for President. He demonstrated his character when he stripped off his Uniform to use women for sex. Since we impeach presidents for having sex outside of marriage – why should McCain be allowed to sidestep this issue in a presidential campaign?
2) Sarah Palin has no national or international experience. None. Zip. Nada. ZERO.
Obama needs to address the fact that these two people do not meet the legal, moral or professional standards they claim are required for the jobs they seek.
He needs to point out that they can’t even pass their own test.

Did Obama watch the Democratic convention? I lost count how many times John McCain was mentioned with the other speakers, but Obama mentioned his name at least 21 times and used the term “he” a lot. I think McCain used Obama’s name maybe 6 times and “my oponent” a few times. That’s all Obama does is talk about McCain and say stuff like they talk about him more than they talk about the issues. Well, uh, uh, uh, you know, Obama you bring his name up constantly.

Americans pay more per capita for healthcare than any country that uses socialized medicine. Can someone tell me how for-profit healthcare, courtesy of the free market, is serving our needs? It’s not. Let go your dogma.

Yes, Palin WAS a small town mayor, but she is currently a GOVERNOR. Democrats kept omitting that last fact, preferring to refer to her as a small town mayor. That is why Palin brought up Obama’s history as a “community organizer.”
Democrats asked for it. Just admit that and move on.

“Obama needs to address the fact that these two people do not meet the legal, moral or professional standards they claim are required for the jobs they seek.”
… and perhaps the republicans need to address the fact that not only might Obama fail the legal, moral, professional standards rfquired for the position he seeks… bugt he might ALSO fail the requirements of citizenship required for the rank of POTUS!

If at anytime you ever thought Iraq had something to do with 911, then you are the victim of propaganda. McCain was a part of that propaganda. So was Hillary Clinton.

DR Mambo: I’m here tonite to drowned out all these lies and inuendos these bloggers keep writing. Enough is enough. We’re going to hit em hard from now until election. This is our election to lose and by God if we lose it will be on the issues not slurs and lies.They are not interested in the issues. The Dems are fed up.

>>>>”MCAILING IS GOING TO LOSE
He might,
but McCain and Palin won’t!

Jackie: Obama beat Hillary fair and square. Time to move on. No true Hillary supporter could vote for McCain or Palin, so sorry I just am not buying your support for McCain.

When your employer no longer has to provide health insurance, and you get to shop for it all on your own, be prepared. Pre-existing condition may or may not be covered depending on how much you are willing to spend. If you’re a woman of child bearing years, that costs extra, want maternity coverage, even more. Employee group insurance plans cover all these higher risk factors and employees get pretty decent coverage. Try to shop for insurance as an individual and you get shafted and robbed. McCain’s plan is a real winner for insurance companies and a real loser for working families. Thanks, but no thanks McCain.

SO MCain want to reduce partisan rancor in Washington..?…. Is he leaving?

Jnwilderness
Please, you’e embarassing the rest of the black devil Dem-wits here with your stupidy. Even they know that the 2 years the Dems have controlled congress is NOT enough time to do anything with Peloi and Reid in charge. What happened to the “first 100 days”? Get real moron!

Somebody made a good point about the polls. You can’t really trust these polls. Not only are young people with cell phones not being contacted, but people with NO phones, such as POOR PEOPLE, are not being contacted. Not to mention the people who DO have phones but don’t feel like talking to a political pollster, so they just hang up.
The only people who are being contacted for these polls are those with landline phones who are willing to talk. There is a whole ‘nother layer of voters flying beneath the pollsters’ radars. Lots of people flat-out don’t trust anyone who calls them on the telephone and starts asking personal questions such as “who are you going to vote for”. I know I have hung up on a few of them; they are as annoying as telemarketers.
But let’s talk about community organizers for a minute. (You know, those community organizer people that Rudy and Sarah The Moose Slayer were ridiculing in their speeches.) Those community organizer people go out into the nitty gritty, down-and-out communities and they register voters. They help people understand the election process and they talk about the issues and the candidates. They organize transportation for people if they cannot get to the polling places on their own.
And these newly registered voters are able to vote for the first time in their down-trodden lives. They finally have a small little voice, magnified by thousands more.
And Barack Obama is elected.

John McCain said, “I caused the breakup of my first marriage.”
Uh, yeah, ’cause he was “fraternizing” with subordinates.
Great choice for all you Hillarians.

Mavis: Good post. The reps act like thats all Obama ever did. Heck he was 24 when he was the director of DCP.Doesn’t a Director have to have pretty good managing skills to do that job? Heck they can’t and won’t credit him with his other accomplishments.Columbia,Harvard, the state senate….

Whatever,
I’m not actually a Republican so I have no emotional investment in what the Republicans consider qualified for VP experience. I gotta admit though, when I reread my post I really did sound like a Republican sympathizer! I am a Libertarian though.
I only make the point that Palin’s credentials, whether you like her politics or not, were severely minimized by the Democrats. Palin threw this right back at Obama in her speech and he cried “No fair.” I thought that was pretty childish.
Like you, I personally find it very curious that Republicans (and Democrats, actually) keep comparing Palin to Obama — and not to Biden. I think this is because Republicans really don’t like McCain very much. They are almost treating Palin like she is the presidential pick. Large numbers of them wonder if McCain will die in office, which furthers their comparisons of Palin to Obama. You gotta wonder if they are even hoping he will….
My theory is that McCain may be counting on the libertarian-leaning Palin to offset the Bob Barr vote.
Barr has enough support in several key states to keep McCain from winning them, which would give Obama the edge in a close race. Republicans are desperately trying to get Barr kicked off the ballot of a number of states, which is too evil for words.
The USA keeps trying to “spread democracy” around the world, but apparently doesn’t even believe in it…

Obama will be fighting in court. He was served papers on Sept 4.I guess we will see who he really is and where he was really born. Hope it go’s the dem’s way because if he did lie you won’t have The One any more.

Eric wrote:
“I only make the point that Palin’s credentials, whether you like her politics or not, were severely minimized by the Democrats. Palin threw this right back at Obama in her speech and he cried “No fair.” I thought that was pretty childish.”
Go ahead and post a link to any quote of Obama criticizing Palin’s lack of experience. Of course, you won’t find one because he hasn’t criticized her for that.
Some people in the media have rightfully criticized her for it. McCain’s response? Alaska is sort of close to Russia, so she has foreign affairs experience. Does anyone REALLY want someone running the country who thinks that living near another country makes you qualified to be VP (and hence potentially President) when it comes to foreign affairs?!?!

McCain is a panderer: That’s what I’m talking about…make him prove his statement. “they” throw out all these statements and can’t back anything up.Not anymore the Dems are in your face till Nov.We’re fired up…ready to go. Bring it on.

bc46
Do me a favor and reread what I’ve written and my other posts and then come back and apologize to me for mistaking me for a McCain supporter.

bc46
Apology Accepted (AA for those that are using their cell phones without a QWERTY keyboard).

I get tired of the lies and innuendo and divisiveness, linda n carolina, especially when their new mantra is “bringing us together.” Far as I can tell, this is another line item to add to the long list of ties to Bush policy and politics. Us and them – classic Rove/Schmidt. Sincerely, if you continue the attacks and continue to split American voters into irreconcilable camps, this behavior will continue if (shudder) they win in the fall. John Bush seems to want it both ways (along with the rest of his “maverick” identity), to use divisive politics and then think we’ll all buy into it like lumpen protetariat. Not this time. No way. No how.

Brad Hanson would not approve of all this vitriol.
He obviously did approve of Todd Palin’s wife.
The National Enquirer has been mailing PDF’s of key facts they know to various reporters.
We may be seeing the end to a few things.

Palin is totally not qualified to be president. What happens if/when McCain is incapacitated or dies? He has had a recurrence of melanoma. That’s not too good. Even if he were not extremely elderly and had recurrent melanoma this would be a major problem.
If the vice-presidentIAL CANDIDATE is not qualified to be president, the presidential CANDIDATE who chose her is automatically disqualified as a serious contender.
She comes from a background of Alaskan politics that is largely divorced from the reality in the rest of the country. Any governor could do great if his or her under-populated state enjoyed a huge surplus from oil taxes. Her moose-hunting, creationism-supporting anti-choice fundamentalist ways are way out of sync with the realities of the majority of Americans.
I would prefer that the president of the United States be someone a little more rational.
He obviously ignored the experts who could have told him there are far more qualified candidates. We can’t count on him listening to the experts when they tell him his ideas are crazy. He will not listen to reason, just like Bush.
McCain by comparison is more of a flip-flopping wackadoo that cannot be trusted.
One of the news agencies said he has only meet her once and decided on her yesterday?? I think these 2 Mavericks will be heading off in the sunset together post election day.
a stupid reckless choice to put my future into the hands of someone he met once and is already embrolied in an investigation 2 years into her governorship—

Inwilderness: Sorry can’t read your first initial. Good title!

Jim,
I take it that you are pleased about McCain’s choice then…? Since Palin’s glaring flaws are so quickly detected by the common man, I trust that there is nothing you are seriously worried about.
I am certain you are secretly rejoicing that McCain has handed you the election, Palin being so obviously out of touch from that Alaska place that likely shouldn’t even get to vote they are so weird…..

Republicans have to stoop to peddling ignorance and fear because they know their base. Any complex plans or changes would just confuse the average Republican. They do not think, thats why they like people like Rush and Hannity to tell them what to do. Three speakers come on spitting blood, and then McSame comes on and says he wants to end “partisan rancor”, he knows their attention span won’t allow them to grasp the obvious contradiction!

Night everyone. Remember Dems…in their face till Nov. don’t let one lie,one inuendo, one smear go unanswered.Make em eat their words…run them off the blogs in embarassment. This is our time and if we don’t stand together we will lose again. Never again. Not this time.

The crooks are Bush and his league of republican rubber stampers. The democrats may have gotten a majority in 2006 of both houses, but they only got a majority of one in the Senate. Republicans have called for filibusters 90 times which means you have to get 60 votes. That takes some republicans standing with the democrats and that has rarely happened. If something is passed then there is Bush waiting to veto it when it does get the votes. So as long as Bush and his rubberstampers are in office, all the democrats efforts on behalf of the country have been futile.

Sue M Vet:
In fairness to all people, you might want to check how that $300,000.00 price tag was arrived at….
It was pure conjecture.
The dress may have actually cost the cited 3,000.00 since it was a known designer dress.
Nobody knew who “designed” the shoes, so the author just guessed — and slapped an enormous price-tag on them — twice the price tag she slapped on Mrs. Bush’s shoes.
Nobody knows if the jewelry was real or fake — so they slapped a random enormous price tag on them too — with the assumption that IF all the “diamonds” were flawless and huge, they might cost as much as THIS!!!
Writer’s can just as easily smear Obama’s wife in this way too, so you might not want to believe everything you read. Instead, you might want to demand that the writer of that hit piece back up her claims. I am sure you are interested in the truth, after all.

Actually Eric, you are mistaken. It was the Republicans who first compared Sarah Palin’s experience to Barack Obama as a response to reporters when they asked about her credentials. This is the way they operate, instead of answering a question directly and honestly they attack Barack Obama or the media. When the reporters asked Barack to comment on their assertions, he merely pointed out that his staff is comprised of 2,250 people and his budget is 3 times the annual budget of Alaska for just last month alone.
If you ask me, he has shown plenty of “executive experience” in the excellent financial and organizational running of his campaign. In fact, it was Hillary Clinton’s lack of properly managing her campaign that cost her the primary and ran up several million dollars in debt. Likewise, while Republican’s can tout Sarah Palin’s “executive experience”, what they don’t say is that she left her town with a $20 million deficit-much like the Republican’s lack of fiscal responsiblity with our country. Frankly, I don’t want Sarah Palin’s “executive experience” anywhere near the White House. What good is this experience, if it’s all bad and if she so ready to be president on day one, why is she hiding from reporters? Perhaps, because she needs to be tutored on national and foreign matters that apply to the lower 48? This right wing fundamentalist is out of touch with mainstream America and I find it dispicable that McCain ignored far more experienced and capable Republicans as VP. Clearly, he does not have America’s best interest at heart, it’s just win at any cost for them. The thought of McCain answered that phone at 3 am in the morning, keeps me up at night.
We need someone who THINKS before he acts and LISTENS to other points of views so that he can make an informed decision as to how best to run this country. We need someone who’s SMART and graduated at the top of their class and not the bottom. We need someone who is willing to be HONEST with the America people and that certainly won’t be McCain.

John, Obama is the next President of the United States.

Go Carol:
I am in Washington State. We tend to get a pretty good libertarian showing here, but New Hampshire is great, isn’t it…?

If you are a mom out there – please do not vote for McPainful. If you do, your child would end up in Iraq, Russia, N Korea or China (the contries that McPalin wants to fight) getting killed in unneccessary war because McSame would reinstate the DRAFT. If my only son does not want to join the military voluntarily, McPainful will not force him to.
No Draft, No Draft, No Way, No How, No McPainful.
President Obama 2008
Navy wife

It’s amazing how when the Republicans screw up they blame it on the Democrats and when the Democrats accomplish something the Republicans take the steal the credit for it!
Yeah, the last 8 years you can blame it all on the Democrats. Are they serious?
Talk about being out of touch and not accepting responsibility for their own actions! How can they offer change when they can’t even see that they did anything wrong!?!?!

Talking about the weaker sex. Let the whinning begin. He has had it so easy in the media for so long, he won’t know how to handle all the ill words directed at him. Answer the charges or shut up. Every media outlet boombarded Palin and her family relentously. Have you heard her whinning? Come on big guy the BIG O will help you find the SECRET in not being a whinner. I recall how he told us to lay off his misses, but the media had a hay day with a 17 year old, and a baby. Everything about this man is unbalanced. I am so weary of the HOLLIE WOOD SECT trying to change our society. Maybe the little O will like some cheese with that whine.

Events in the past two weeks reveal the deep contempt the Republican Party has for America and for most Americans. I’m sick of them. They have no business getting anywhere near our government. Their only goal is to destroy everything good about this country, to rob the treasury, and to turn our nation into a third world economy, the better to rob resources, pollute at will, peddle unsafe products and exploit labor.
The only reason the Republican Party opposes abortion is because they want more poor people to serve as cheap labor. Tom Delay was very clear about that purpose, in speaking to a young Republicans convention.

NinaK:
Correction: It’s “witness.” Thou shalt not bear false WITNESS.
Basically, don’t lie about people. Don’t misrepresent and lie about what people say or do. Both parties do this all the time.
As for judging, it goes: For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
The verse is not saying that you cannot judge, but is telling you to be very careful about HOW you judge, because the way you judge is the way YOU are going to be judged in return….
Both parties impugn each others motives in the worst ways — and it all come back to them — just like the verse says.
Just thought I’d help you out there…. :-)

The left can’t help themselves. Their vile attacks on a 17 year old girl will forever haunt them. You have shown your true nature and we will never let you forget it.
LIBERAL=SEXIST

Vicki If you think McCain has no record in the Senate or has no history of strong bi-partisan work then you really need to do your homework. Obama hasn’t even completed a first term in the US Senate and has spent most of it either doing exploratory committees around a Presidential bid and then the rest of it campaigning for President. He never held any hearings in his stewardship on the foreign relations sub-committee, he has an abysmal record of showing up to vote because he’s been campaigning (so does McCain but McCain’s put in almost 30 years while Obama has put in only about 143 days).
Not agreeing with McCain’s positions is one thing but believing this guy has had no major accomplishments in his Senate career just shows how very little you know about McCain. It’s your candidate that has a slim resume .

What Obama said is exactly what I was thinking. What a total disconnect!
Who was responsible for choosing the speakers and coordinating the speechwriters? Reviewing the speeches? Making sure everyone was on-message so a coherent message would be sent and received? That’s the sort of thing Rove is known for, and every speech was similar…EXCEPT for McCain’s. Why was he the one person left out of the loop?
If McCain can’t even manage his own convention, or if he left it to incompetents, that raises questions of how he’d operate as President. Would he not be in control as President either?
I’m just sayin’….

Mila:
There have been some very real attacks, some suggesting that Bristol’s continuing pregnancy means Palin is FORCING her to have an unwanted baby.
Perhaps you have not seen much of these attacks, but it has been very ugly.
Some it seemed to imply that to Democrats (some of them anyway) choice actually equates to abortion — because choosing to have the baby is such an inconceivable choice.

NO WAY,NO HOW,NO OBAMA.
=======================
SARAH PALIN ROCKS……..
COUNTRY FIRST……….

Mila I worked for a decade at Planned Parenthood and a decade in the HIV field
and I can comfortably say that I don’t care whether you have pro-choice or
pro-life parents, whether your teenager
gets abstinence based sex education or the most comprehensive sex education we can provide- teenagers still get
pregnant- so I see little irony here.
I just see ignorance. If anyone should understand this it should be those who support choice.

alpaig52:
No offense to anyone, but you seem to be one of the most sensible people on here….

America!?! Wake UP! Obama’s job is NOT to fix every little thing in Washington or bring his breadth of experience to the office – LOOK what experience has been doing for us for YEARS NOW??? It will take years and years of reform and policy work across party lines to actually make that happen. His job is simply to INSPIRE people to MAKE CHANGES IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES to VOTE to have FAITH IN THE PROCESS so that we can DO THIS IN OUR OWN COMMUNITIES. THAT is the sort of change that the young people are clinging to. Because for years and years and all the years that I’ve been alive, I’ve never believed in the government – I’ve only ever believed in people in my community and local government. Watch him speak – it makes you think differently about the world and life. That is NOT something you see or hear everyday. This man is something from a history book. We haven’t had that in a long-ass time, if ever. I continue to donate, volunteer, make calls, rally communities and build support for this man. I beg you to get on board and pray to God that the wars and divisiveness ends. God bless BHO and his team. We are REALLY going to do this.

I just got done looking at The Obama campaign website and after looking at his laundry list under issues “Are YOU CRAZY”. Who is gonna pay for all this crap he wants to do, the tooth fairy? Santa? This guy brings change alright, RADICAL CHANGE. He will single handedly force business to head over sea, ruin Health Care, and create worthless government jobs and social programs that we can’t afford. We already can’t afford the ones we got now. He wants to end world poverty at taxpayer expense buy funding it with 150 billion dollars. The list goes on and on. He would be a reckless commander in chief that Putin and our other enemies would certainly exploit. Wonder who they would vote for? He thinks he’s running for the World presidency. Are we world citizen’s now, and not Americans? Why was he giving speeches to rallies in Germany? America can’t afford Obama people so get real. We don’t need POLAR CHANGE we need the kinda change the Palin will bring to Washington. We need to clean up the do nothing’s and corrupted politician’s and get rid of the log jam, and have the government start working for the people. They need to start addressing the real issues like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,energy and the national debt. The constitution does not provide the government to be the answer for everything. We need to follow it and quit screwing around with EVERYTHING. Palin will see what’s going on and begin addressing the waste, corruption, and management of the people’s money.

McCain’s failed before. It will only hurt his ego after his third failed try at the presidency. With the campaign he is running, he deserves no respect.

It’s time for us to pay the taxes we owe for the war we once supported and move on with fixing the mess Bush has made. McCain knew the Tax Policy Center said Obama’s plan was better. But Rick Davis and Karl Rove insisted he lit about that too. Christie Todd Whitman said it nicely…she’s not a fan of a guy who campaigns by insisting “you’re wrong, you’re evil, and I will do away with you.” (Now, PBS)

E DONE DO YOU WATCH THE NEWS? OBAMA IS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. FOR ALL OF YOU THAT PRAISE PALIN GO TO NEWSWEEK AND READ THE REAL PALIN. SHE HAS A LOT OF ISSUES TO BE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.LINDA N NORTH CAROLINA. YOU HAS DEFENED THE DEMOCRATIC DENOMINATION GRACIOUSLY. I PRAY FOR OBAMA AND HIS CAMPAIGN

The lead that Obama is commanding has shrinked further …
The latest Gallup puts Obama at 47% (down 1%) and McCain at 45%. This is NOT taking into consideration the full comvention bounce for McCain/Palin.
The race is now officially TOO CLOSE TO CALL.

Has anyone really taken a close physical look at John McCain lately? He looks tired and beaten (or perhaps just old next to Sara Palin’s manic energy). The former McCain could win MY vote, and I’m a Democrat. The new John McCain is allowing himself to be handled and sold out (tragic after the brave stance he took in Viet Nam.)
As we get older, we look back at the sum total of our lives. How must McCain feel to know that he is leaving this planet a defeated soul? It’s tragic. McCain says FIGHT. I say, McCain FIGHT for what you really believe in!
WRT Sarah Palin….just wait! She is getting vetted fast. You don’t acquire the name Baracuda for NO reason. Frankly, I like her folksy/mince no words/spunky/Annie Oakley delivery. If she didn’t stand for everything I disagree with I would vote for her. Instead she’s the most conservative candidate we’ve seen in decades. Let’s not be fooled by presentation; this isn’t a Prom Queen contest! This ticket may ver well determine the FATE of the Planet. Really, it’s no laughing matter.
Being pro choice (and pro life – you don’t have to be anti choice to be pro life), pro sex education, pro constitution, pro community involvement (just like Barack Obama admirably contributed after graduating from college), anti genocide (like the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis slaughtered in the name of the USA), anti “Onward Christian Soldiers,” pro Veteran’s benefits (my husband flew a B52 during the Viet Nam war and lost his soul; he needed help to heal), pro spiritual values, pro treating your neighbor as yourself (now there’s a concept), pro prayer, pro peace, pro global oneness. Well, that’s a lot of ‘beingness,” isn’t it. Rodney King said after the Watts riots in LA “Can’t we all get along?” Now that is a good question. Is it possible for the inhabitants of this planet to get along? What would it take to seed the soil for acceptance and peace? That’s a far better question that the political devisiveness we see today. What is tragic, is that the WORLD is looking to us to get this right. Can we live up to their hopes and expectations?

Mila,
That housing budget was actually increased, not decreased. The proposal was for a huge increase in spending, but Palin reduced the amount of that increase, which still amounted to a net increase.
Democratic spin doctors figured they would just report it as a cut, however, in order to energize Democrats against her.
On the other side, Republicans spin doctors can claim that Palin cut spending, even though she increased it.
Is it not a scary thing how the political machine tries to manipulate ALL of us…?

McCain would like nothing better than to see our economy collapse so he could get more recruits for his hundred hundred years wars.

Giving the Republicans Another Four Years…? How about not…?
Can we agree that the reason there is so much animosity between Democrats and Republicans is from the fear of what the other will do to them if elected…? Democrats fear what Republicans will do and Republicans fear what Democrats will do.
But WHY is each side so afraid of the other…? I mean, the Constitution of the United States prohibits the government from doing harm to any of us!
Basically, the government has become accustomed to operating largely OUTSIDE of the constitution — and it is the unconstitutional abuse of power that each side fears from the other — with good reason. They both have a track record.
Our culture has become very, very aggressive. We need to understand that the plethora of laws made by our government are based upon aggression. (You WILL comply with this rule or we will draw our weapons….) When a law or regulation is enacted by our government, we need to understand that we are no longer dealing with each other in the realm of reason, but in the realm of force and aggression.
What would be the worst thing that could happen to you if your unfavorite political party got elected — but they still operated within the constitution…? Well, they might be annoying.
That’s not where we are at though. We stay awake at night, dreading what the opposing party is going to do. We fear each other in this aggressive society, but we would not need to fear each other if we operated within the realm of reason — and the constitution.
But when you ask congress to abide by the constitution they will call you a kook. Ask them if they want to just discard the constitution and they will cling to it reverentially.
But why don’t Democrats and Republicans insist that the other abide by the rulebook when thy are not in power…? Well, both sides cooperate with the other’s mischief because they believe that they will eventually get back in power — and then it will be their turn. They are content to wait.
This country needs a revolution.
Bob Barr ’08

This is a good start, but Obama has to do better than this. Palin is getting away with murder and nobody from the Obama camp is challenging her.
If she doesn’t have enough courage to face the American press corps, how is she going to face America’s enemies???
I found her speech vindictive, juvenile, and shallow. She would be a disaster as president or VP.

You could be right, Carol, about the budget thing, but I still think cutting the budget for pregnant teenagers’housing does not play well considering Palin has a pregnant teenage daughter who is fortunate enough to have a place to live. I know we’re constantly being spun, but though I hate the stuff from the right, I get a warm fuzzy feeling from the stuff on the left! Peace out!

Well, Haniel, if you want me to rephrase my post in terms of rage, I suppose I can do that. I tend to be more peaceful than that, but OK. :-)
I can say with certainty that many Republicans are enraged at what Democrats have done in the past and what they promise to do in the future. You have already spoken for Democrats so their righteous rage is thus noted!
It doesn’t make much difference if we use the word fear or rage though. The evils that enraged you courtesy of Republicans were committed outside the bounds of the constitution. The same is true the other way around — though you may not prefer to acknowledge that the liberal agenda has victims who suffer at its hands.
Let’s be reasonable: If the liberal position resulted in Shangri-La for everyone, we’d all want it, right…? And if the Republican position resulted in universal bliss we’d all want that. The fact is that the liberal agenda is achieved at someone’s expense — as is the Republican agenda. They are both win/lose philosophies, and to accept them you have to value certain people more than others.
The defining characteristic of the libertarian agenda is that it has no VICTIMS. You can’t tyrannize anyone to achieve a goal for yourself or for someone else. It has to be win/win or no deal.
Well, I guess I can’t vote for “my” better interests when someone else will have to pay the price. That would seem parasitical. And it would be very hard to pick between Republican and Democrats anyway — as they are nearly identical.
Yeah, it’s pretty frustrating in my camp a lot of the time. I guess I’d just like to see people choose reason over coercion. I certainly can’t need instant gratification or I’d be a goner. :-)

BO “But when it starts getting personal, when you start just focusing exclusively on trying to tear the other person down instead of what you are going to do on behalf of the American people…”
Obama, during his acceptance speech mentions McCain 21 times… on the other hand McCain mentions Obama only 6 times. So? Who exactly is getting personal.
And by the way, McCain paid for air time to congratulate Obama… is this the response?
McCain called to congratulate Biden on his nomination… what was the response to the Palin selection? Not even a 3am phone call!

58 days until election. Who is Sarah Palin and why is she ducking the press? Today’s TV shows include Barack Obama on ABC “This Week”, John McCain on CBS “Face the Nation”, and Joe Biden on NBC “Meet the Press”. FOX NEWS Sunday has Obama chief strategist David Axelrod and McCain campaign strategist Rick Davis. Where is Sarah Palin? Is she afraid to face the media and answer tough questions? Or do Republicans believe these mainstream news shows are biased (even though McCain himself is appearing). Palin needs to be held accountable for posisitions she has taken. I hope the hell someone on Face the Nation asks McCain specifically why she has decided not to face the media and answer questions about her positions and her experience. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking towards the election on we don’t know who Sarah Palin is except for what Republicans want us to know or what Republicans deride as media attack. Why is Palin afraid?

It was a very odd convention. Didn’t John McCain know the content of the speeches from Rudy to Mitt to Fred to the snide, snarky, and sarcastic Sarah Palin?
The other odd thing has been the co-opting of the change message. And the speeches made you wonder if these people thought aliens had been in charge of Washington for 8 years. It was more like we have seen the enemy and it is us.

diamond lou
the times obama mentioned mccain he was complementing him a few, and referencing his policies, NOT taking cheap shots…listen to the speach
obama DID call palin and congratulate her…the very next morning…
people, start thinking for yourselves instead of regurgitating what your favorite media source feeds you…

Obama whined when Hillary said anything about him, he whines now when Palin and McCain talk about him.
Poor Obama, the victim.
How does he think he is going to act in the Presidency when everyone is questioning every thing he does?
“Putin thinks I’m a Muslim. Boo-Hoo.”

All Democrats need to do is point to the absurdities and hypocrisy in Republicans. They are regular people…with their seven homes and $300,000 outfits…They are uniters not dividers….with the clearly partisan tone from the convention….That they are for country first…..but continue to support policies that gives American assets and jobs away….That they are reformers but have been part of Washington for 26 years and have been in charge for the last 8…That they support freedom and beat their chests about soldiers fighting that freedom but do everything they can to take that freedom away…The Republican changed long ago to the party of hypocrites, childlishness, and exalting mediocrity. Reagan had a message and could communicate the message. Republicans now have no message and would rather communicate imagery (such as Palin for VP)…

The Republicans whine and attack as if they are cornered. This is a well deserved panic, given that ordinary Americans have been victimized by that party for eight years: people who aren’t rich, aren’t lobbyists, and and don’t work for oil companies, who have seen their incomes drop and their young people killed and maimed in a dishonest war. Enough.

in the long run it doesn’t matter…
obama, may or may not, help us
mccain won’t and can’t
the congress will be even more democratically controlled after this election…he will be stymied…
so the choice:
mccain, stalemate and 4 more years of the same with a 50/50 cance of him croaking and a lunatic taking over
or
obama…at least he’ll be able to get some things done with the cooperation of congress…let’s not forget how important that is…bush had a repub congress for 6 years, and STILL got nothing done…
honestly, it makes little difference, but I would like to see the possibility for improvement to have a chance

the mccain campaign will not allow palin to speak to the press…it was just stated by davis
anybody who thinks the earth is 5000 yrs old and the victim of a rape shouldn’t have a choice in their own life, is a lunatic
she’s a liar and apparently brainless…
I can’t wait until she’s interviewed without a teleprompter…
can you say ‘stepford’?

I have ‘faith’, in a higher power and science…
unlike, apparently from reading here, most obama supporters, I am not a star-struck, islamic terrorist…
I want what’s best for OUR Country…
anybody who truely believes in their heart AND mind that the earth was created 5000 years ago, and started with 2 people placed here by god, is insane…
the fact that she believes her religion (wetf it is, she’s had 3 or 4)to be the only true one in this entire unbounded universe, is exclusionary (much like the repubs with minorites/gays/poor/etc.) and must be disheartening news to all the jews, muslims, bhudists, etc.
this woman is a bad person and is ANTI-Christian…she diametrially opposed to all its values…

Wow Arthur!
You wrote “This woman is a bad person and anti-Christian.”
You represent well what is so amazing to Republicans. The Party of Tolerance is so unbelievably intolerant of anyone who disagrees with them.
First of all, when you judge someone to be a “bad person” you are basically saying that YOU are the judge of good and evil — that you are the source of truth in the unbounded universe. I don’t really think you really intended to go there, but you did…
You have stated your contempt for certain religious ideas but then cast yourself in the role of being able to determine what is and what isn’t Christian. They haven’t got that figured out themselves, so I hardly think you do.
Insanity is a legal definition, not a psychological definition. I think you are trying to say that you don’t find Palin to be rational, but what you actually said was that she should not be held legally accountable for her choices, due to an inability to differentiate between right and wrong.
When you judge her as brainless for not going before the press at this time, you are stubbornly refusing to look at the existence of alternatives — as if the ONLY possible reason for this choice were her ineptitude — not strategy.
How about looking at other people as complex human beings…? Then you won’t be so utterly blind-sided should Palin meet the press and perform well. Maybe you could even wish her well…?

If Sarah Palin is “ready on day one” then why is she and the Republicans so afraid to have her face the “evil media” (who McCain called his base). I agree with indy_voterr, they afraid to have her stand on her own two feet. The McCain camps says she is telling us who she is “in her own words”… does that mean she wrote her own speech? I’d love to have heard her speech before they rewrote it. We might have gotten a glimpse of who Sarah Palin really is.

craig
her speech was written by a bush speechwriter 3 weeks before she was picked…it was written for a man, and re-written for her…
she had nothing to do with it…
she’s like a game show girl…hyping mccain and lavishing praise on him, while taking shots at others…he sits tere like a dirty old man checking her ass out…it’s a bit creepy…
his wife is a beauty queen too..
he goes for those women of substance

the democrats have registered >2 mil new voters since Jan
the repubs have lost 1/2 mil off their rolls
some polls have each ahead,some have it even…
only the vote will determine the winner

9/5 rassmussen obama>mccain 49-46 3000 polled
9/4
gallup obama 48/44 2800
diageo obama 46/40
all 260 polls to date: nice reference
with an average line calculated…

Arthur,
Please get your nomenclature straight!
Palin is not a socialist. You may not like her, which is fine with me, but at least be accurate about what she is and what she is not.
Socialism is not defined by paying a foreign company to do a job. Socialism is when the government takes control of an industry — when the government owns and controls business. That would be like Obama or Hillary wanting to “socialize” health care….
Oh, Obama is a socialist…? Pretty much. Now that you have learned that you actually like socialism, I trust that you will retract your accusation that Palin is a socialist too.

eric…
socialism is using public money to fund a business, any business, public or private…the government gets into business by doing so…it’s the first step…just like all the financial bailouts going on now, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…the government is siezing those concerns…
the repubs have done 20 years damage to our economy…and don’t even know it

eric, you say socialism is bad…
well, 30 mil people or something work for some form of government
not counting the defense industry…
government is business in our system…
and business runs our government…
the line is blurred
healthcare: doesn’t the government pay a large % of all its revenue now? so why not get control of it?
or how about SS? welfare? goverment spending just to create public works jobs? or paying for college education?
if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…chances are it’s a duck

carol
I hope she lives to 100…but not with any impact in my life…
I know OJ simpson is bad, not convicted of anything, but yet bad…
palin, I know her type…she is not good, which leaves only bad…
you seem enamoured by her, good, cast your vote…but don’t try to convince me to reconsider my opinion of her…
she will be very bad for the Country

Arthur,
You totally misunderstand me. I have no intention of voting for McCain/Palin because I do not agree with the Republican platform.
I don’t agree with the Republican platform but that doesn’t mean that I need to refer to Palin as consummate evil.
There may be some things about her that I don’t like. But there are other things about her that are commendable. Somehow you see only the bad and think it negates anything good about her. I see her as much more complex than that — a combination of strengths and weaknesses — like everyone else on earth.

what will mccain change? will palin tick her own party off like she did in AK, for personal gain?
so instead of dems vs repubs gridlock
it’ll be a 3 way logjam, dems vs repubs vs admin…even less will get done…
honestly, I’m apolitical and disenheartened by the whole mess…so I drive on, looking out for me and mine…
btw: I’m the stereotypical repub; white male, ex-military, pretty well off, president of an engineering firm, like to hunt & fish…believe in family, god (of personal choice), country….
I remember JFK and lived thru viet nam, as much as I hated clinton, he was a good president…sorted the balkens out without losing 1 American…and it was a bloody mess, as bad as Iraq…
if I offended anyone, sorry, I’ll just learn to not ‘cruise the net’ lol

I’m an ex-Republican turned Libertarian. I’m dismayed at how very aggressive our country has become — and I see it fueled by the major political parties.
My hope is that people will recognize that they all pretty much want the same things, but see different solutions. If they can get past the animosity maybe they could search for win/win solutions instead of thinking they can only achieve their goals if the other side loses.
I am currently raising my children. I am also the wife of an active-duty military physician who is serving in Afghanistan.
Peace out…. :-)

Obama, when you use our words, our thoughts on us, you don’t convince us, you repell us. ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN (just)WORDS. Don’t you come up with anything where there isn’t a whole dvd closet full of your contradictions?