Obama Implies McCain Puts Other Countries First

Pretty much, yes.
But the outsourcing strategy is everywhere and NAFTA made it more profitable. Unfortunately, that one goes to Bill Clinton.

Nope… see unlike McCain, Barack actually backed up his claims with FACTS!
A little something that McCain has forgotten about in the past couple of days.

The same way, McCain has put Airbus above Boeing. That is what McCain has done to American workers on behalf of his lobbyists on K Street.Obama is completly right and on target. Great leadership, great vision and may God bless you and may God bless America.

Isn’t calling “Buy AMERICAN” “disgraceful”… well.. unpatriotic?

We all know who Obama puts first – it isn’t another country – it’s bigger than that – it’s himself.

To be fair, how many “outsourced” jobs can be laid at the feet of unions, corporate taxes and the enviro-nazis? Aren’t the machinists striking Boeing, the maker of a good portion of US military aircraft, right now?
Tom

Look, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. McCain and his surrogates have questioned Obama’s patriotism. Why can’t the reverse be true? Fair game, I’d say.

This is taking the gloves off. The only patriotic thing that John McCain has done was in Hanoi, decades ago.

Jake,
When McCain does it, he has absolutely no facts supporting his contention.
Obama’s is factually accurate. He is putting other countries in front of American companies, which mean that Americans in PA lost jobs which were outsourced.
Factually 100% accurate.

From AP – The “Straight Talk Express” has detoured into doublespeak.

John McCain and his Blizzard of LIES
nytimes.com — This year, the McCain campaign keeps making assertions that anyone with an Internet connection can disprove in a minute.

Wow, what do you think, how will Middle America react to Obama calling a veteran and former POW unpatriotic???
Obama is desperate and his campaign is making desperate moves.
Maybe Obama should go on another European tour?? They love him over there, too bad they don’t vote here.

No, Jake that is not questioning someone’s patriotism. We all know that John McCain’s service to our country makes him a patriot; however, McCain’s policy decisions are not the best for our nation. Sending jobs overseas, profits to privileged Americans, and eliminating much-need capital by failing to tax American corporations does indeed help *other* nations and not our own. It is a fair point.

Post Partisan… huh? New kind of politics… huh? I think Obama is in way over his head.
It is obvious Obama has never ran in a contested election. It is obvious that he has never been challenged in anything he has ever done, in any job he has had.
Senator Obama is displaying all the traits of a spoiled child. He really believed he won the election in June.
Can anyone show me where he has had to compete with others in an exchange of ideas.
Saying no more Bush. McCain is Old and all conservatives are liars and all the other name calling, is not how grown ups conduct business.
If Senator Obama really believes he has come up with a new way to govern and run for office I suggest he get to it.

People too often forget that Barbara Walters is one tough customer when it comes to asking the serious questions and in this case I think McCain walked right into her minefield.
Thanks, Barbara. We needed this. It shows McCain for what he is.

Jake and the ladies on the View deserve our great respect, America say to you all thank you for your patriotism and your professionalism. May God bless you and May God bless America. We do need to know more about the role McCain has played in the competition between Boeing and Airbus and the contract went to Airbus because of Mccain’s meddling. God bless Obama. OBAMA/BIDEN08.

no patriotism is putting your country first overall
here he is just questioning who gets the contract for the “market” he puts above all of it.

Don’t forget the Air Force tanker project McSame wants to give to the French!

“I don’t think it is realistic to call for the kind of American protectionism that he wants unless you have a limited understanding of the the current global economy”
Exactly. Obama’s statement shows three things:
1) He’s desperate
2) He’s a hypocrite
3) He (and by the astonishingly ignorant comments on this blog his supporters) knows nothing about the global economy.

my friends, I love this country, but I really love my lobbyist friends too and I have to look out for them. I can’t help it, Obama made me do it, he made me decide to put my friends before my country, it’s all Obama’s fault

Jobs being outsourced have taken away millions of jobs from the America workers. Voters are looking for a balance before the corporations outsource everything. McCain’s said a few weeks ago the economy was fine. This doesn’t give too much confidence to the voters. Even the army jobs are being outsourced. China has now moved ahead in manufacturing. Is China going to become the next superpower? America done in by it elections every two and four years? Questions about jobs being outsourced are not questioning ones patriotism but asking what direction does America really what to go in. Do the America workers have any say in this process or is it decided in Washington DC? Or is it decided by the Corporations? How can the Corporations still make a profit without out sourcing millions of more America jobs. Perhaps technology and retooling of the industries will be a start. Obama has been talking about this for months now.

Colin Powell will endorse Obama for President.

no, I don’t think so. He didn’t say he didn’t love America, he just said that he wants to export as much of it as possible.

He is asking the question. Very different from stating that “senator obama ould rather lose a war than lose an election”. McCain needs to explain. And I don’t want to hear about POW. I know that.

ask which country and which corporate interest…and when you ask which country, ask which dictator…musharraf took billions and I can’t pay my car loan.

This shouldn’t be a surprise, since according to the Washington Post, no Senator in the 110th Congress has missed more votes than John McCain, even though both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were engaged in a primary that went on three months longer than McCain’s.

Harley Davidson just recently purchased the Italian Motorcycle company MV Agusta Group.
Harley will be selling Italian motorcyles in the USA. Harley will be selling Italian motorcycles to other companies in the world.
Using Obama’s blighted vision of the world, is Harley anti-American???

McCain is so slick he’s greasy. He side stepped the fact that he approved of LIES. What makes it ok to come out of McCain’s mouth??? Maybe it’s digested better when echoed by Palin.

Obama has no leg to stand on when it comes to outsourcing jobs. He wants to substantially increase corporate and capital gains taxes.
Here’s a little lesson on taxation for the Daily Kos/Democratic Underground crowd that apparently got the smoke signal from Arianna and are now posting madly away about unpatriotic John McCain:
One major reason jobs are being outsourced is because the US has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world. Higher than the European Union. Higher than China and India. Companies operate in other countries so they can game the lower taxes through transfer pricing. So OBAMA would actually make the situation WORSE. Not better!
This is so typical of Obama’s arrogance: He actually thinks he knows something about economics but he’s completely clueless.

The GOP still beleives in trickledown economic benefits. how has that worked for us in the last 8 years?

This is a bit of a stretch. The problem with Obama is that his arguments AGAINST McCain are extremely weak. His “He cant use a computer” was stupid and calling a man who his body is literally broken from his service unpatriotic is plain dumb. All he had to do is take the bills that McCain voted for and supported by Bush and make an ad for each and everyone of them. His ad team sucks, McCain is better.
McCain will come out with a KILLER AD that will have Obama on the defensive again….Dumb move Barry

I don’t think Obama should go there. I guess he timed this statement to dull the poignancy of the recently uncovered film of McCain when he was released from Hanoi prison.

outtahere,
thank you for your thoughtful reply. I didnt state my opinion very well about HD. What I mean is that the marketplace should determine who sells motorcycles and HD and other cos should not receive help from the govt. I dont really care if some jobs go overseas, for good workers will almost always find jobs elsewhere. btw, I dont like farm subsidies either. I think that if you cant make money farming or making cycles, find work elsewhere.

Lookup, GWB is generally a free trader and more ppl are working today than ever before. and the ave income in america is at its highest point ever.

Diane Morrisey, why would outsourcing lower a company’s tax rate? It certainly lowers the amount of money they pay out for salary, but it should have no effect on how much *income* they take in and certainly nothing to do with capital gains, both of which are what we tax.
Now, doing business and selling things *outside* the country certainly has an effect on your tax liability, but outsourcing jobs should have little to no effect except in that you don’t have to hire expensive employees.

joe, some cities implement a payroll tax so outsourcing would indeed lower your tax liability, but I agree, outsourcing should have very little to do with the overall tax liability for the vast majority of companies.

I am amused how the liberal media is sooo… endeared towards
Obama. Liberal media call Obama’s NEGATIVE ATTACKS= Fighting back.
Obama is your typical old school politician twisting his words for
his political gain, calling himself the change candidate but came from the
worse Congress in history DNC(Do Nothing Congress) and still embraces the
Washington politics that’s why he chose Sen.Joe Biden of 36 years of washington
corruption. ther is no change in this?! It’s all words NO SUBSTANCE.

keepyourheelsdown
where did you get the statistic that more people are working today than EVER before?
cause I am pretty sure if you look at the last year or two of the clinton administration the unemployment rate was lower than it is now…
so where is that statistic

Mike, please read the post about where Michelle was yesterday on this blog.

“more ppl are working today than ever before. and the ave income in america is at its highest point eve”
Numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau this morning show that the inflation-adjusted incomes of median households rose by 1.3% in 2007 from the previous year, from $49,568 in 2006 to $50,233 in 2007 (2007 dollars), while the overall poverty rate or increased slightly, from 12.3% to 12.5%. Given the weakening job market last year, the median income of working-age households (those headed by someone less than 65) rose insignificantly in 2007, and was $2,010 below its 2000 level.

No, Jake, suggesting someone would rather lose a war than an election is a more “textbook” definition of maligning one’s patriotism. Saying someone would put the interests of corporations over the interests of workers doesn’t even bump into questions of patriotism. But nice try.

The word is “mainstream” and it is one word. I don’t understand the acronym MSM. It should be MM.
Who is the mainstream media? Between Fox News talking about how the mainstream media isn’t reporting on something (does that make them fringe media?) and people going on here and talking about the evils of the mainstream media (again, as opposed to the fringe media?), you have to wonder if this is just a imaginary scapegoat that people can blame for the failures of their respective candidate.

Obama better watch what he puts out in ads…….. the fact that jobs are going overseas is because of……..high taxes, excess government regulations, environmental extremists, democratic congress failure to relax these impediments to our once great industrial base, that provided cradle to grave jobs that is criminal, and why the unions still support these politicians is baffling to say the least

“What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? The pit bull was vetted.” – Rep. Bob Barr R-Georgia.

McCAIN/PALIN ’08

jake,
i think it is in a sense questioning his patriotism. the difference though is that obama’s question is based on policy whereas mccain’s is not.

Isn’t this the third or fourth time Obama said he was going to get tough and fight back?
Must be a hard pill for BO to swallow when he was already picking out curtains for the White House.

RE: All the questions about how different corporate tax rates affects whether a firm keeps parts of its business in the US versus abroad
The ability to shift income to lower tax countries helps reduce corporate tax payments. Is that simple enough?

Another insightful comment from Obama the economic genius! Let’s bring back the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act to make Americans buy American! Allowing Americans to buy the products that suit them best, even if made overseas, why, that’s just unpatriotic! The Great Helmsman Obama should make these decisions for us!

“isn’t that pretty much the dictionary definition of questioning someone’s patriotism?”
Um, no.
And I say that as a Republican who will vote for McCain but who agrees with Obama on this.
Patriotism is the love of your country and the willingness to protect it from assault from both within and without.
Buy American is a trade policy, one with which I and Obama agree and with which McCain does not.
McCain is wrong but he’s still a patriot.

“Mark Halperins that were so upset that McCain”
Mark Halperin!1!!??
We are entering paranoid territory here. Halperin is the biggest GOP ball washer in Washington.
Next you’ll be telling me that Charlie Gibson – who just plays a journalist on TV – is in the pay of the Obama campaign.

Tennessee, which has a democratic governor and 2 republican senators, are doing everything possible to land overseas companies to set up in their state. Alabama is too — they have gotten Thyssen Steel from Germany, Hyundai, Toyota,Cinram and many more. With the Dollar low, these companies can make their product here. They pay way above average wages because they are used to European wages that are ludicrious. They have great benefits — unions hate them because they rely on 401K instead of pension. But they match and give generous profit sharing. More importantly, the people are working!!

“why companies go overseas is because we have the highest corporate tax rates in the world.”
Wrong again. Japan has the highest rate in the world. What you also neglect to mention is that we have more tax loopholes, and the most complicated set of procedures for getting out of paying taxes, of any of country of the developed worlds. Countless companies hardly even pay their taxes in the first place. Others launder their money through the Cayman Islands.
Jobs leave because of globalization. If we want to fix this we can do one of two things: stop letting countries like China steal our R&D and rescind their preferential trade status. Or we have to eliminate the minimum wage and start paying American workers China-style slave wages.
Or we can retrain by refocusing our economy on future jobs… like that strange fellow running for president keeps suggesting.

“Um … isn’t that pretty much the dictionary definition of questioning someone’s patriotism?”
What patriotism? John McCain puts his tax bracket ahead of his country.

McCain isn’t a patriot. He’s a dishonorable, disreputable, sleazy campaigner. If he wasn’t hiding behind Palin’s skirts he’d never be as far as he is.

“Palin voted against many abortion restriction, despite what others have said.”
More wrongness. Palin opposes abortion in all cases, even in the case of rape or incest.
And you’ll have to pay for that rape kit if you choose to report it.

What a smug man.

“Wrong again. Japan has the highest rate in the world.”-
I am glad you mentioned Japan has the highest rate of corp Tax in the world, and hence One of the Most expensive countries in the world.
simple things like fruit and veg cost Ridiculous sums in Japan, emm I wonder why!!.

Hey Charlie… you can see Russia!!! Really YOU CAN SEE IT Charlie!!!!
Wanna Go See it!!!!
I plan to use our oil to solve the us national security issues.
Im soooo excited Charlie …. hehe

THANK YOU! I have been waiting for him to point this out, especially about McCain dumping on the “buy american” provision!!

Jake _ I used to like to read your blogs because you were the ONLY one who questioned Obama. YOu were the ONLY one who thought maybe, just maybe, we should give Obama a second look. And I liked the behind-the-scenes- peeks.
I appreciated both those things.
But after 8 posts on lipsticks and pigs . . . . now you’re just looking for “hits”. Come on – you are better than this.

“Didn’t 0bama just get through whining about how no one’s talking about the issues?”
Yes and he was discussing the differences in the candidate positions on free trade and buying American.
But nice try Concerned.

Tax breaks for millionairs and corporations based in the Bahamas!
Now that’s reform we can believe in!

Obama has come unglued.
We saw how unglued Obama got when Hillary Clinton got under his skin, and it wasn’t a pretty sight. But now McCain has really gotten under his skin and Obama is flailing away like an outraged drunk.
Isn’t this the guy who said he was above partisanship? That he practiced a “new kinda politics” that were so much better than everyone else’s? That he was going to “change” Washington?
He’s demonstrating that not only is he just like other politicians, he’s even nastier. That he wants the Presidency so badly that he’ll do and say anything to get it. And that he can’t take a punch without losing his composure.
This country is so screwed if Obama gets anywhere near the White House.

But seriously, Obama raises an interesting larger point:
What does McCain mean when he says “Country First”? In what ways is he putting country first that other Americans don’t? What specific policies of his count as putting “country first”?

McCain voted against increasing the fuel efficiency of our cars in 2003 and 2005 and “missed” the vote in 2007.
What was the spin on why those “No” votes were bad for the US citizens and bad for decreasing our dependency on foreign oil?
Who gets rich when we “Drill, Baby, Drill”? Not me. Not you. The supply of crude and refined will continue to be controlled to keep the price at or near the current high price that Americans are evidently grudgingly but willing to pay. Big Oil Companies get rich, Lobbyists for them get rich, and Alaskans get bigger rebate checks.
“Drill Baby Drill” just passes the hot potato to the next generation. That is not responsible nor is it using good judgment.
What is good for America is not what most Americans want to hear or are willing to vote for. Shameful.

“ASK THEM HOW GREAT THE TRADE DEFICIT IS WITH CHINA—-”
Why bother? They’ll just ignore it or lie about it.
But since YOU asked, the trade deficit with China stands at over $142 billion so far for this year alone.

Whoa Charlie
I might look ditsy but Im a Governor dont forget that. enough with the hard questions.

Good grief!! Disgraceful from a completely dishonest self promoter.
I’d say he’s digging deep due to extreme fear of losing.

Obama is calling out McCain on his trade views. He opposes Buy American initiatives! If that qualifies as questioning McCain’s “patriotism”, I think it’s a fair assessment. If McCain really put America first, he would want to help these Harley-Davidson workers… Harley-Davidson being one of the true American icons.

Protectionism. Just the way for all of us to lose our a$$es in a world economy. Obama may be an expert in lowering the level of the ocean but he doesn’t know jack about economics. E.g., his windfall profits taxes: if we do it to oil, why don’t we do it to every other business whose profits have shot up recently – how about steel, corn and so forth and so on? And then what is he going to do – freeze prices to prevent inflation as “taxes” translate into “expenses?” All this is virtual bread and circuses to get elected.

I will take McCain the PATRIOT over the COMMUNITY ORGANIZER from South Side Chicago.

“Protectionism” worked well enough, and actually benefited American businesses for decades, but now it’s the devil! Free Trade! Free Trade! Rabble-rabble-rabble!
What does it matter if prices become cheaper when Americans have no money at all? Free Trade funnels American jobs and American money overseas. It does not help America, it helps CEOs fatten their already fat pocketbooks.

McCain is the Sultan of
Sleaze while claiming to
be running a respectful
campaign.

“TOM DID YOU REALIZE THAT WRIGHT WAS A MARINE—”
And Tim McViegh was in the Army.

“The state Senate Judiciary Committee voted 3-2 today to subpoena 13 people — including the husband of Gov. Sarah Palin — in an investigation of whether Palin abused her power in trying to get her former brother-in-law fired.”
Ken Starr anyone?

These comments are NOT questioning
Senator McCain’s patriotism, just tell ing the truth about American jobs
getting outsourced overseas and who
is responsible that…the Republicans!
However, this does question how those
American companies can say they are
patriotic when they ship the jobs
overseas and don’t even pay taxes on
the merchandise. So how patriotic
are the Republicans who helped make
this happen?
Senator McCain does not care about the middle and lower classes…only the wealthy and the corporations. I wonder how they will keep our economy going when the American people don’t have jobs
and cannot afford to buy anything…
oh, wait…that is happening now!!!!

On the ABC Political home page under “Political Headlines” seven out of the nine topics have to do with Gov. Palin. Is it just me or is there something wrong with this picture? GOOD NEDWS FOR REPS!! Latest OHIO poll from U. of Cincinnati, among registered voters, puts McCain/Palin ticket ahead by five points. Definitely a MAJOR ANTI DEM BACKLASH FOR ALL THE TRASHING OF GOV. PALIN – SO DEMS KEEP IT UP – YOU ARE MAKING OUR JOB MUCH EASIER!!

This is the second time today he has mocked McCain’s service. The idiot Obama ran an ad today regarding McCain’s inability to use a computer. The reason he doesn’t use one is because of his war injuries.
From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):
McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain’s encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He’s an avid fan – Ted Williams is his hero – but he can’t raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.

“Ken Starr anyone”
Mack,
Can you explain why this is similar to Ken Starr? ”
It will be a waste of taxpayer dollars.

100 and how many days was Obama in the Senate before he decided to run for president? WOW – SOME EXPERIENCE!! AND, Obama VOTED PRESENT 100 and how may times when tough issues came up? Hmmmm, AT LEAST OBAMA IS CONSISTENT ABOUT AVOIDING ISSUES!!

“It will be a waste of taxpayer dollars”
So far only $100K was appropriated by a bipartisan vote.
And so far Palin has lied about her role in the firing as well her family and staffs role.
So far after initially saying she would fully cooperate, Palin has done everything in her power to stymie the investigation.
It would appear that she wants to delay the release of any investigative report until after the election, why is that?

“Do you think that the Russians are quaking in their boots”
I think the Russians and Putin in particular are laughing their asses off at Bush and the prospect of Palin who knows foreign affairs because she can see Russia from an island in Alaska.

“1) Being a POW doesn’t excuse lying your tail off to win an election.”
I absolutely agree, Peter.
……So what’s Obama’s excuse?

Good trend, REPS – up-for-grab-states are… TURNING RED!!!!! DEMS (AND NEWS MEDIA), – KEEP THE TRASH COMING!!!!

WAKE UP FOLKS… DO WE REALLY WANT WAR WITH RUSSIA? MUSHROOM CLOUDS OVER NYC, LA, CHICAGO, MIAMI????
“We are all Georgians” …. NO IDIOT… I AM AN AMERICAN THAT IS MOVING TO MEXICO. I dont think Russia has anything against Mexico so that is where I will be if we are DUMB enough to elect McCain/Palin.

“MACK HE WILL BE LAUGHING AT BOMB BOMB IRAN IF MCCAIN WIIT WOULD DEFINATELY BE OUR DOWNFALL—-SOMETHING THE RUSSIANS FOUND OUT THE HARD WAY—-ALL IT TAKES IS A DUMMY AND A TWIT–THE OLD GUY AND MISS PIGGY”
It’s better to walk softly and carry a big stick than to give the stick away.

“No wonder that the terrorists believe that we are a bunch of degenerates.”
And why are you worried about what the terrorists believe? They’d kill every single one of us if they had the power.

“Um … isn’t that pretty much the dictionary definition of questioning someone’s patriotism?”
If the shoe fits.

Can somebody just ask Obama why did his advisor went to talk to Canada about NAFTA and why Hillary screamed at him?

Um … isn’t that pretty much the dictionary definition of questioning someone’s patriotism?
- jpt
Um….. YES, and IT IS ABOUT FREAKING TIME.

The name Benedict Arnold, today, is regarded as the equivalent of a traitor. But, few people know that before Arnold went over to the British, he was one of the great HEROES of the American Revolutionary War.
The point of making this reference is to show that just because you acted like a patriot and heroically in the past, does not mean you will continue to do so in perpetuity.
While I don’t believe McCain is Benedict Arnold — I do think that he sold out his honor and integrity for his own personal ambitions a long time ago.
Based upon McCain’s behavior over the past few weeks, one can certainly question whether he is putting his country ahead of his personal ambition.

Oh – those same Pennsylvanians who cling their religion and guns, and are so bitter? Well, they won’t be voting for you, sweetie – especially as you wink-wink, nod-nod to the Canandians that you were just messing with them when you said you were against Free Trade! You must think that voters are stupid or have short memories, BHO!

“Can somebody just ask Obama why did his advisor went to talk to Canada about NAFTA and why Hillary screamed at him?”
They’ll just lie about it and then blame Hillary.

TO HESOID:
YOU CAN SUPPORT MCCAIN/PALIN ALL YOU WANT… BECUASE WHEN THEY ARE ELECTED I AM MOVING TO MEXICO AND I WILL WATCH THE MUSHROOM CLOUD OVER YOUR HOME FROM ACROSS THE BORDER!

“MACYOU HAVE TO ADMIT—MCCAIN REMINDS YOU OF TYRONE FROM THE OLD SHOW LAUGHIN.
TYRONE AND GLADYS—WHAT A PAIR MCCAIN AND PALIN—LETS GO DOWN TO THE SWINGS”
Not really sure what you’re talking about, so I’ll have to take your word for it.

Levar, you don’t have to move to Mexico when McCain is elected President. You can just go to one of those “57 states” Obama’s been to. I’m sure yoou will be safe there..

“Can somebody just ask Obama why did his advisor went to talk to Canada about NAFTA and why Hillary screamed at him?”
Austin Goolsby told the Canadians that Obama was bing tough on NAFTA during the campaign, but that he didn;t want to scrap the treaty.
Which prety much tracks with what Obama was saying pubclily. He;s for free trade and wants to renegotiate NAFTA not scrap it. But he would use the threat of unilateral withdrawl as a leverage to improve the treaty provisions.
Or…at least that’s what the pro Bush Canadian Gvt leaked to the press. Goolsby denies he told them that, and lord only knows what really happened.

JPT don’t confuse patriotism with politics. Politics is about business, heck it’s been about oil for the last 8 years. Don’t forget that Operation Iraqi Liberation=O.I.L

REMEMBER MCCAIN MAKING A SPEECH IN ONE COUNTRY THINKING IT WAS ANOTHER—WOW IS HE FOR REAL…
Don’t remeber that one, but I do remeber Obama saying he has been to all 57 states. That has to be the classic. Or maybe it was when Obama said the seas were regressing at his nomination (tell that to people in Houston)

I love it! Palin is so much inside Obama’s head its funny. He’s lost it, he doesn’t look presidential and he certainly doesn’t sound presidential. Obama: “Uh..I..duh,…uh.. I’ve been to all 57 states campaining.and uh…I got a few more to visit..uh..change, yea, thats what we want…uh lipstick on uh palin no uh..pig yea she’s in my head..uh”

0bama -
A lot of unions should start asking what you and your fellow Bolsheviks have done for them. Oh wait, there just aren’t as many unions or members as there were many years ago when Congress was habitually Bolshevik-led. You and your useless, snarky ilk have done nothing except exploit (enslave?)the few hard-working union men and women left as errand-runners.

Well I would’ve liked to move to Canada but they are part of NATO and they will have MUSHROOM CLOUDS over their cities too.
I dont think Russia has anything against Mexico so it looks like a good place to seek shelter from NUCLEAR BOMBS AND MISSLES FROM RUSSIA!!!

LEVAR
YOU COULD NOT HAVE PUT IT ANY BETTER

Rodney.
You post on Iraqi oil makes no sense. If we went to war Iraqi for oil, why aren’t we receiving it? You are as good as avoiding issues as Obama and crowd. I can consider other opinions, if they seem logical.

JIMBO—THE ONLY REASON I CAN SEE IS THAT IT IS SOME SORT OF PAYBACK FOR THE BILLIONS WE HAVE BORROWED FROM CHINA.-I WOULD PULL OUR TROOPS OUT OF THERE IMEDIATELY AND LET THE CHINESE DEAL WITH THEM.THE TO THE VICTOR BELONGS THE SPOILS IS PURE BULL WITH IRAQ.THE LAST 8 YEARS HAVE MADE US LOOK LIKE A NATION GONE MAD.

Why is Obama acting like a complete doofus? Even Kerry didn’t fall apart this early in the campaign.

Thats going to come back an bite him in the arse. Obama has really fallen of the edge. Wonder if he has a parachute.

OUR FAILING ECONOMY IS WHAT SHOULD BE OF PARAMOUNT INTEREST—-AS FOR FOREIGN POLICY BUSH AND NCBUSH HAVE PROVED TO ME WHAT A FAILURE IS ALL ABOUT–A OLD GESER WHO HAS BEEN PART AND PARCEL OF THE PROBLEM ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT BE THE ANSWER—-HIS PAST 26 YEARS ARE THE PROOF–

I AM REFERRING TO BUSH./

Complain all you want about Iraq. Our being there FORCED the terrorists to PUT ALL THEIR EFFORTS THERE – AND NOT HERE. A thank you to George Bush for keeping our homeland safe for the last eight years. Almost everybody thought that we would attacked again – it has NOT happened – YET. Again, thanks to George Bush and to the combined intelligence efforts of our allies, especially great Britain and Israel. That’s why I am voting for a real professional candidate, not a wannabe
AMEN brother, or sister.

“Our being there FORCED the terrorists to PUT ALL THEIR EFFORTS THERE – AND NOT HERE.”
Brilliant. So let’s force some other poor country to suffer the bombs and deaths so we don’t have to. NICE.

Reformer is now a fancy word for outsourcing our jobs? What a crock. Another chapter in the failed “free market” insanity.

My liberalism believes in Capitalism. That means regulated capitalism so it isn’t left to run amok with free market failures that are compounding the economic problems we face. Welcome to the banking failures courtesy of republican’s free market failures. Welcome to the mortgage failures courtesy of the same free market hogwash.
Just because I don’t support corporatism (a fancy word for fascism) does not make me a socialist. But it is obvious where you are politically.

That darn free market! Making us the richest country in the world! Drat!

GEOFF—LIKES NAFTA—–YOU MUST BE AMOUNG THE 1 TO 10 % WHO HAVE ALL THE MONEY—WHAT ARE YOU WORTH—DO YOU LIVE ON 1000 PER MONTH .

Rich countries don’t have nearly 2 million houses either in foreclosure or on their way there. Rich countries don’t need to borrow 10 billion per month to fund endless occupations.

I love this! I’m going to give 100.00 to the Obama campaign and tell them how much more of this I want to see. Who’s with me?

Why do the McCain people think they can get away with this stuff? Well, they’re probably counting on the common practice in the news media of being “balanced” at all costs. You know how it goes: If a politician says that black is white, the news report doesn’t say that he’s wrong, it reports that “some Democrats say” that he’s wrong. Or a grotesque lie from one side is paired with a trivial misstatement from the other, conveying the impression that both sides are equally dirty.
They’re probably also counting on the prevalence of horse-race reporting, so that instead of the story being “McCain campaign lies,” it becomes “Obama on defensive in face of attacks.”
Still, how upset should we be about the McCain campaign’s lies? I mean, politics ain’t beanbag, and all that.
One answer is that the muck being hurled by the McCain campaign is preventing a debate on real issues — on whether the country really wants, for example, to continue the economic policies of the last eight years.
But there’s another answer, which may be even more important: how a politician campaigns tells you a lot about how he or she would govern.
I’m not talking about the theory, often advanced as a defense of horse-race political reporting, that the skills needed to run a winning campaign are the same as those needed to run the country. The contrast between the Bush political team’s ruthless effectiveness and the heckuva job done by the Bush administration is living, breathing, bumbling, and, in the case of the emerging Interior Department scandal, coke-snorting and bed-hopping proof to the contrary.
I’m talking, instead, about the relationship between the character of a campaign and that of the administration that follows. Thus, the deceptive and dishonest 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign provided an all-too-revealing preview of things to come. In fact, my early suspicion that we were being misled about the threat from Iraq came from the way the political tactics being used to sell the war resembled the tactics that had earlier been used to sell the Bush tax cuts.
And now the team that hopes to form the next administration is running a campaign that makes Bush-Cheney 2000 look like something out of a civics class. What does that say about how that team would run the country?
What it says, I’d argue, is that the Obama campaign is wrong to suggest that a McCain-Palin administration would just be a continuation of Bush-Cheney. If the way John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning is any indication, it would be much, much worse.

McCain’s Opinion? It Depends On the Audience
At a live, televised forum on public service timed to coincide with the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, McCain said he respected Obama’s decision after law school to forgo a lucrative career path and become a community organizer in downtrodden Chicago.
“I respect people who serve their community,” McCain said. “And Senator Obama’s record there is outstanding.”
Let’s review: For more than a week, McCain’s running mate, at the Republican National Convention and at multiple events with McCain since then, has snidely declared that being a mayor was a lot like being a community organizer…except that a mayor has actual responsibilities. And while pandering to the faithful, John McCain laughs and applauds that insult to community organizers everywhere, but when appearing on a show that will be seen by millions of undecided voters, he suddenly thinks being a community organizer is honorable. Of course this only proves yet again what a dishonorable and dishonest man John McCain is.
For more than a week the traditional media has given Palin’s elitist dismissal of community organizers, with McCain smiling at her side, wide play. Will they now devote equal time and attention to John McCain’s hypocrisy?

((Just ask the machinists in Pennsylvania who build Harley-Davidsons,” Obama said of McCain’s record. “Because John McCain didn’t just oppose the requirement that the government buy American-made motorcycles, he called Buy American provisions ‘disgraceful.’ Just ask the workers across this country who have seen their jobs outsourced. The very companies that shipped their jobs overseas have been rewarded with billions of dollars in tax breaks that John McCain supports and plans to continue.
“So, when American workers hear John McCain talking about putting ‘Country First,’” Obama said, “it’s fair to ask –- which country?”))
Ain’t odd, how quickly we forget,NAFTA was created by Bill Clinton. Who wanted the country to feel sorry for those poor people overseas who needed these jobs MORE THAN WE DID!!
Now look whose blaming the republicans for it! obama is flipping the script. What can you expect? Same tired ol mess.

Obama doesn’t have a grade-school understanding of basic economics.
But then again most people in general don’t have a rudimentary understanding of economics either, as evidenced by the stunning ignorance on display in these comments.
Thankfully, you generally don’t have to understand how free trade creates wealth to benefit from it.

Good job Jake!

Either way that you vote in this currupt two party system you are simply voting for the lesser of “two evils.” The end result is that you’re still voting for evil.
Those that claim to be Republicans missed out on choosing the the best, second best and third best candidate: Paul, Romney and Hucklebee.
Im throwing my vote away to a third party candidate just like those that vote Republican or Democrat will throw their vote away. Things will never change under the current system!

Oh, give me a break. Call it what you want, but he lines the pockets of his rich friends and business associates by the policies he supports. When everyone stops slobbering all over his VP selection, maybe they’ll remember the policies McCain supports and come to their senses. And the fact that he thinks the rich deserve bigger tax breaks than the poor. Not to mention sending their middle class jobs over seas and replacing them with lower paying jobs with less benefits. And then expects them to somehow pay for the education they need to accuire these lousy jobs.

“I don’t know what I enjoy more, seeing Obama react to Palin who is exposing his inexperience or you liberals who have a huge case of “Sarah” envy.”
Got nothing good to say about McCain… I don’t blame you… I would be ashamed if he were my candidate too! His desperation pick of Palin will not help him. Nobody would vote for Hagee or Dobson… And they will figure the same thing, soon enough, about Palin.
Nobody wants to return to the days of coat hangars for back alley abortions.

So the Clinton administration created NAFTA. The Bush administration has had almost 8 years to tweak it and make it better for all Americans. But instead they’ve made it worse. Not to mention the poisonous, potentially deadly merchandise being forced on our children. And the drugs being brought in from China are practically placibos or worse. McCain supports those policies knowing full well what it’s doing to the average American. And where are all these jobs that are going to replace our manufacturing jobs?

McCain is lacking the mental clarity to govern our country competently. The Justice Department has been trashed. The Interior Department is racked in scandal. Energy policy has been written by oil companies for the past 8 years. We need new leadership who will put America first, not lobbyists. McCain is a puppet of the lobbyists who are running his campaign. Don’t be fooled by their negative ads. They can’t run on the issues because they are on the wrong side of the issues. McCain is on the wrong side when it comes to the things that matter most to middle class Americans.

McCain’s campaign advisors include lobbyists for dictatorships in Burma and other countries. Why did he hire them? Because he would rather win an election that fight for the issues that are important to the vast majority of Americans. Where is the honor? … McCain sold out years ago.

Remember when Congress decided to stick to “the rich” by imposing a luxury tax on yachts? Well, big surprise here, “the rich” decided they could do without yachts for a while. And the yacht building industry was decimated. So, instead of the rich suffering, the workers lost their jobs. Now BO promises to do the same for the entire USA by sticking it to “the rich” and giving tax cuts to the other 95% of the population. Castro would be proud, if he were still alive. Anyone who votes for BO deserves what he/she gets.

“keep up the nasty viral comments Dem’s and be sure and support the media and people like Goldberh, Whoopi and Barbara Walters! ”
The poor little republican as victims of everything other than their own failures. No one is buying it… TOO BAD THE GOP DOESN’T REALLY BELIEVE IN PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Quit your crying.

Well Ruth – I don’t know what wealth is to you but $20 dollar per hour ain’t even close and if that’s min. wage in Missouri then I’m moving. There are no VIRAL messages here.
Now if you want to go back and do a history lesson Ruthie you will see that every single time a neo con gets into office 5 things happen
1. they leave a deficit (from Nixon to now check it out these are FACTS)
2. GDP goes DOWN
3. GNP goes down
4. salaries flat line
5. the middle class shrinks
NEO CONS have no clue as to how to govern – PERIOD – their great at dirty campaigning -the type it takes to win, then the drive our economy into the ground with their contractive economic policies

McCain has repeatedly voted against veteran’s benefits, has lied incessantly on the campaign trail, hired the very same thugs that slimed him in 2000, and hired a multitude of lobbyists as his advisers while denigrating (incorrectly) his opponent’s insider status.
McCain was a hero, but no longer. He has no honor or integrity left.

McCain has family assets of $100,000,000. Why would he sell America to the corporate lobbyists who run his campaign?

I guess that’s all you can bring up is dirt. Thanks for the give and take for the last several hours. It was very educational for my speech and debate team.
God Bless America

McCain has lobbyists on his staff who wanted to send jobs overseas to Airbus.
McCain won’t even be running his White House. The evidence is how the lobbyists control his campaign now.
Rick Davis. Randy Schueneman. And more more more.

Kravitz, among the names of lobbyist you left off Joe Biden’s son. I guess that means that Obama/Biden will live soewhere else if elected so their relatives/lobbyist can live in the Whitehouse.
At least McCain/Plin don’t have relatives that are lobbyist like Obama/Biden

This shows the desperation of Barack. Truly pathetic.

You guys defending McCain scare me. Obama is only a good choice because he isn’t John McCain. A lot of you aren’t worried about getting somebody in there who will make a positive difference, it just seems like you want to be right. To be able to say “my guy won”. No matter which one of these two hand picked canidates wins, not much will change. I think we will be a bit worse off if McCain wins though. The 2 party system is the problem.

The two party systemis the problem. And the only real change will be someone who will take on not only the “other” party to is right, but also take on their own party. And only McCain/Palin have any history and reputation in taking on the good ol boys. Obama is an example of Chicago politics, fixed and bought.

{which country a man who has served this country honorably in uniform would put first!}
“Duke” Cunningham was a frigging ACE in the Vietnam War and was awarded the Navy Cross. He is now in JAIL.
Do the math, pilgrim.

{jpt writes “Um … isn’t that pretty much the dictionary definition of questioning someone’s patriotism?”}
I can understand that interpretation but one can also view it as an attack the Free Market Fundamentalists in the GOP, like Phil Gramm or Grover Norquist.

Oh yeah, right, so let’s see, Teddy Roosevelt didn’t serve America first because he didn’t force the Federal government to support buggy whip manufacturers and gas-lighting installers in 1908, and instead said, gee, maybe we should move aggressively into the high-wage jobs of tomorrow, and not try shoveling back the tide.
Protection tariffs to delay the inevitable shifts in the economy are like using your credit card to pay the mortgage, instead of, you know, selling the house or getting another job. Plain stupid. And a President isn’t supposed to enable stupidity on the part of the whole nation to protect one small group of it. That’s not leadership, that’s total special-interest pandering. What’s Obama propose? Everyone gets special tariffs to protect his specialty? Just cut off international trade entirely, so no American job is ever threatened by competition from abroad? Go back to 18th century mercantilism?
And I thought this guy was educated and all.

Obama is wrong on protectionism. I can understand why people don’t like Obama, or don’t agree with him on the issues. What I can’t understand, is why people support McCain. I thought Republicans were about family values and morality. Since when is adultery a family value? I thought Republicans were against elitism. McCain is way richer than Obama, and if he’s not elitist, then why does he want to cut taxes for the rich, and tax everyone else more than Obama? Plus, the man’s a liar. HOw many times has he said something and then three months later he denies it because that’s the party line now?
I also understand loyalty. Can’t we do better than that on morality?
I understand being loyal to your party. But my question is, what exactly would the Republicans have to do to lose your vote? They lied us into a war, wrecked the economy, and the lied about that too. They’ve polutted the environment, reduced our freedom, and our country is less secure, and more hated in the world.
Anyway, it’s your choice. I don’t really care, because my life will be fine no matter who gets elected. But some of you are worse off from the last 8 years. Some of you feel the burn of the gas prices (I don’t because I have a Prius, and gas money is peanuts to me). You can have another 4 if you want, but how many years of Republicans are you going to take? Does it stop with you or your children? How does it end? With the U.S.A. as poor as Mexico and China? Why?

I’m pretty sure we can ask Obama the same question….let’s take a look back and see when McCain left the country to campaign for AMERICAN presidency in Germany or France?? Didn’t find it…that’s right you need Obama’s books to find out of the country trips on government money and donations from supporters for personal gain. I’m pretty certain that the people in America that contributed to your campaign, Obama, didn’t mean for you to campaign in Germany.

McCain’s tenure as a POW doesn’t exonerate him from anything that comes out of his mouth.
His lies and distortions will catch up to him. I don’t see him as a patriot in my book. Not anymore. He sold his soul trying to win this election. He should just retire gracefully. People don’t want a greedy, whiny old man as president.

Kim,
“All McCain \ Palin supporters have to ask is ” Are they members of the club ? ” – answer – “Yes” – all other inquiries irrelevant . It’s what you get when you have a tribal “Us and Them” – “If you are in the club you are the club” culture . Obama has to get them to make the effort to look below the surface . Obama shoule spend 3/4 + of his time concentrating on the voters and 1/4 – concentrating on McCain \ Palin . IE. don’t give them significance – build up a community Obama feel”
Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. Republicans need to feel like they are a part of the club (sheeple) and they don’t care what lies they have to overlook to get their “in” pass. Pitiful lot they are.
Obama/Biden 08!

You’re obviously wrong about the “patriotism” thing as Obama has assured us that he would never question John McCain’s patriotism, so the only other explanation is that Obama has gone completely insane, rendering him unfit for office.

Actually you are wrong on the dictionary definition. Patriotism is loving your country. It does not preclude loving other countries, and it is not nationalism, excessive love of your country to the preclusion of other countries. So as long as someone loves America, their love or priorities in reference to the rest of the world is irrelevant to that. Of course the connotation of the word WOULD indicate that someone who puts another country first is treasonous.

Sarah Palin is like Mini Vinnali, the pop group of the 1990 that won grammies. The grammies had to be taken back because the group lip sinked. Palin doesn’t have a clue on national amd international affairs.

Didn’t Obama’s staff reassure Canada that all of this talk about NAFTA and Fair Trade..was just that Talk? What has Obama exactly done for his short time in the Senate regarding trade? What did he do for the Maytag plant in his own state? He certainly isn’t a Sherod Brown from Ohio or even Hillary Clinton who states it needs to be fixed. I am under the impression that no matter who gets elected..K Street and Wall Street get their man.
The issue isn’t the corporate tax rate per se..it is getting companies to pay their taxes in the first place. To simply increase the rate overburdens those companies that actually pay their taxes. The best bet would be to close the loop holes and then lower the tax rate so everyone pays their fair share.

You can interpret this as Obama attacking McCain’s patriotism, but really its an attack on McCain’s trade/economic policies. Obama is attacking free trade and trying to make protectionism sound patriotic. It’s also another example of Obama’s willingness to spend more of taxpayer’s money (paying more for products and services) and take credit for creating jobs. But all he’s doing is taking money from US corporations and citizens (preventing them from creating jobs) giving this revenue to another company ensuring that company will become less competitive and more dependent on government hand-outs, and taking credit for credit creating/saving jobs with no actual net increase of jobs or wealth.
Obama’s claims that he’s only taxing the rich do not wash since corporations simply pass on increased costs to their customers. Make no mistake, the average American would pay more for products and services under Obama.
Instead of acting indignant about Obama’s attack on McCain’s patriotism, McCain’s camp should instead point out that Obama’s comments are a lame attempt to make socialism look like patriotism.

Well, whatever it is that he was trying to say; could be said without insulting insinuations…..Obama has to speak of issues without making personal attacks. Personal attacks whether stated directly or by insinuation, always makes the attacker seem like a low and dirty politician.

McCain is going to be like President Ulysses Grant. The one-time military hero who conquered the south. Once elected Grant faded mentally and descended into alcoholism. Big business interests controlled and looted the government. This will happen again with McCain.
Most of the pro-McCain posts here are made by people hired by big business to promote internationalism and to get him elected at any cost. He will be a puppet of multi-nationals. The Trilateral Commission wants John McCain, former Mexican President Vicente Fox wants McCain. Open the borders to illegal immigration, offshore everything. When everyone is dead broke, then the top 1% can usurp the Constitution.

So true, whch country is McCain putting first? Is it a country he is putting first or corporations? His own ambitions. I really hope everyone reads about the new Cindy McCain articles. It isn’t putting country first voting and advocating and employing people who lobbied for outsourcing to help a MULTINATIONAL corps bottom line

One wonders, would Sarah Palin prefer to be Vice President of the US, or President of Alaska?
When will our allegedly liberal press gonna ask her that? Isn’t that kind of important to know about someone running for high office? Does she really believe in an indivisible nation?

Jesus was a community organizer,
Thanks for the snarky remarks. Now let me ask you this, how many swing votes does Barack hope to capture by questioning McCain’s patriotism? He’s not helping himself at all with these comments.
BTW, Jesus was most certainly not a community organizer. He was concerned with saving souls, not seeking additional funding for Head Start. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, just please don’t try to equate the two. On second thought, go right ahead. That’s another catch phrase that’s driving people away from Obama. Likening Obama to Jesus, there’s a winning strategy.

I guess this is some of that ‘overheated rhetoric’ Obama is famous for.
1. Obama talked a lot of baloney about NAFTA.
2. Obama’s economic advisor Goolsbee gave secret assurances to Canada that Obama’s NAFTA speech was just a bunch of campaign baloney.
3. Obama lied about Goolsbee when he got caught.
4. Then Obama admitted he was tallking a bunch of campaign baloney about NAFTA all along.

McCain-Palin = Evil Obama-Biden = Pure

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notafool,
Tell that to the people who lost their homes because their job was outsourced/cheap foreign labor was imported.
You name is not fitting.
Obama/Biden 08! END THE MADNESS, YES WE CAN!!

I knew Obama was a lightweight vapid fool, enamored of his own manufactured facade’ but this is possibly the most stupid thing he’s said to date.

If Senator Obama has his way, he will tax employers out of business. What will that do to the employment situation in this country? Senator McCain wants to implement programs that will help increase employment. That way, the American people can pay for their own mortgages and health care. Obama’s plan depends on the government to pay! He will, however, be using our tax money to do so! And, if Obama starts questioning Senator McCain’s loyalty to this country, he will be in for a long two months!

Where is discussion on the National-International Issues? Palin is not the issue!
Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, is a beautiful lady. What else can you tell me about her? Is she qualified to be the President of the United States?
In contrast to many very highly qualified Republican ladies, such as Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Sarah Palin has equivalent high school knowledge in some fields, and not at all in the others. In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla Pageant, then finished third (second runner-up) in the Miss Alaska pageant, at which she won a college scholarship and the “Miss Congeniality” award. Palin admits to trying cannabis as a youth, during the time Alaska had decriminalized possession though she says she did not enjoy it.
Palin spent her first college semester at Hawaii Pacific College, transferring in 1983 to North Idaho College and then to the University of Idaho. She attended Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska for one term, returning to the University of Idaho to complete her Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, graduating in 1987.
Did Senator McCain think choosing a family advocating separation of Alaska from the United States would buy my vote?
I am disappointed with Sen. John McCain’s selection; he chose such a feather weight person to represent the Republican Party. Did he think that American women would vote for him because he selected a female rather than a male for the ticket? Senator McCain, please stop insulting the American women?
As you have stated yourself, you had voted 95% of the times in the Senate along the President Bush’s policies. Senator McCain, the issues during this election are: job, economy, medical insurance, infrastructure, education, and failed policy of the President Bush. As President Ronald Reagan once stated: Are we better now than 4 years ago? No, my family is worse than 8 years ago.
Should I vote for Bush-McCain policies once more? Tell me why I should!
Sarah Palin is not the issue nor is Paris Hilton.

Taxes have gone down in the last 8 years but jobs have gone off-shore at an increasing rate. So the argument made below makes no sense. You used to be able to get away with making statements like that in the past, but now there is a track record. I am not for big increases in taxes but making statements like the one below are ridiculous.
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“Funny it is the libs that are pushing the jobs over seas because of the taxes they lay upon businesses along with the mandates.”

” meanest, nastiest campaign ever”
Oh, pauly, pauly, pauly, repeating somebody’s words back to them isn’t mean and nasty – it’s called the truth.

So what does Mr. America community organizer propose to make America more competitive in a global world facing top rising economies like China or India? Protectionism?? Socialism??
´Return to the past´: starring Obama.

Funny it is the libs that are pushing the jobs over seas because of the taxes they lay upon businesses along with the mandates.
If the liberal Congress allowed drilling the economy would be fine right now, but they will not because they want to destroy the economy for political gain!!
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The only way Capitalism works is by finding cheaper labor somewhere.
Blame it on the democrats. I expect to hear how they were responsible for the excessive deregulation that has brought about the miracle of Bushonomics.

To Obama the word change is just a campaign slogan, whereas McCain and Palin have actually brought about substantive changes in government. Changes which have helped Americans, while Obama has spent his career just talking about it. Obama has spent most of his time in public office absent from his responsibilities, while ambitiously running for the next rung in the ladder, not to serve the people, but rather to further his own position. And, I’m sure most people could relate to McCain and Palin as fellow Americans, more than they can to the Obamas, who chose to spend TWENTY YEARS in the radical
anti-American racist church of Jeremiah Wright … and chose unsavory associates, such as Farrakhan, Pfleger, Rezko, Ayers, etc.. As for Obama’s phony indignation about being a community organizer … Palin never criticized those efforts, she merely, and rightfully questioned it as being the sole experience and credentials for someone to use as qualifications to become President of the United States … and, even then, it was in response to Obama’s attacks at Palin for being the mayor of a small town, when he also neglected to mention that she was Governor as well.

Obama has now torpedoed his main appeal beyond the antiwar base: That he would lead a post-partisan campaign (and administration) that would bring a different tone to politics.
Now the gutter politics of the Obama campaign has exceeded anything that Karl Rove ever did for the Republicans. Going after Sarah Palin’s baby, Trig, was the absolute bottom–implying she should have had him aborted.
While Obama “netroots” supporters ADMIT that all Obama is doing with his own personal disclaimers of this filth is trying to maintain plausible deniability, rather than actually putting a stop to it. Ugliest stuff I’ve ever seen in any political campaign, ever.
Take away the Iraq War, take away the cool post-partisan appeal, and what you have left is an angry black partisan candidate. Obama isn’t going to win this election by channeling Al Sharpton.

I see what Obama is doing. It’s not panic. It’s a shrewd, calculated move.
Obama is questioning McCain’s patriotism. Just like McCain went after Obama’s strength by stealing the “change” theme, Obama is going after McCain’s flank. Obama knows full well the media is going to protect him.
Obama is trying to get McCain to flash that notorious McCain temper and reveal McCain to be “dangerous” and can’t be trusted with his finger on the button. This is calculated. It’s Obama’s best shot. I hope he fails miserably.

Obama is running scared. Mccain and Palin are unbeatable .the clintons new he could not win even his vp new it. face it dems you have a loser here, the ship is sinking fast Mccain will win in a landslide Penn, Ohio Mich, are going to go to Mccain .

Navy vet, Jeremiah Wright was a Marine. Whatever his faults may be, his patriotism is not in question.
Now ask yourself this — who are you serving, Sir? The Republican Party or the United States of America? John McCain has made it very clear that he cares more about the party than the country, slogans notwithstanding. Why would he put an inexperienced and corrupt ignoramus with secessionist tendencies one stopped heartbeat away from the Presidency?
On what grounds should anyone vote for McCain? “Pretty please, we haven’t finished destroying the country in the 8 years we’ve had, and we want some more time to finish the job”?

megapotamus, could you remember that Boeing has lost a contract to Airbus and that McCain was a key decision maker in that competitition between the two giants of aviation? Once again he took lobbyists with him in bed and let America and Boeing down. Remember. God save America from McSame and the lobbyists. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAM/BIDEN08.

watchewtalkinaboot, Wolfie? McCain is firmly on the side of the racists. That would be, oh, a quarter of the Republican Party, give or take. You see, they are ashamed enough to deny it, but not ashamed enough to not indulge in it. By their actions do you know them.

McCain’s sleazy moves, as he tries to wriggle from the Keating Five disgrace, are the desperate actions of a man/campaign in deep trouble. McCain has lost all honor and dignity that he earned as a POW. His little barking dog, Sarah, follows her master with the drooling canned bark that turns off voters by the thousands.