Obama: McCain Can’t Decide if He’s Goldwater or Kucinich

Excellent, keep on McCain flip flopping all over the place because the only plan he had before was deregulation!
The tide is swinging!

“Well we know Palin is Karl Marx. That much is clear.”
I was actually thinking of Harpo.

Well, Palin certainly isn’t an economist like Marx, that’s true. I guess that was giving her too much credit.

McCain’s simply confused.
He has no credibility on the economy even with Palin’s executive “experience” right by his side.
That why the Palin bounce is over.

Hey Tapper… WHY DIDN’T YOU PRINT WHAT OBAMA PROPOSED TO DO TO ADDRESS THE CRISIS:
The events of the past few days have made clear that we need to do more right now. We do not have time for commissions and we can’t afford to lurch back and forth between positions when dealing with an economic crisis, like my opponent has. That is why I am calling on the Treasury and the Federal Reserve to use their emergency authorities to maintain the flow of credit, to support the availability of mortgages, and to ensure that our financial system is well-capitalized.
Tomorrow I will be convening a meeting with my top economic advisors to discuss a plan based on the ideas I’ve been talking about with former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker and other advisors of mine. Then I’ll call for the passage of a Homeowner and Financial Support Act that would establish a more stable and permanent solution than the daily improvisations that have characterized policy-making over the last year. Specifically, it would accomplish three primary goals.
First, it will provide capital to the financial system. Second, it will provide liquidity to enable our financial markets to function. And third, it will do what I’ve been calling for since I supported legislation on it early last spring, which is to get serious about helping struggling families to re-structure their mortgages on more affordable terms so they can stay in their homes. We’ve made a good start but we need to do much, much more. We cannot forget that there are many homeowners who are in crisis through no fault of their own, and a solution that does not have them at its core is no solution at all.

“McCain seems confused these days.
Kinda shaky, too.”

There are some similarities between McCain and Kucinich. Both march to the beat of their own drummer. In the wake of the Wall Street meltdown, Obama should be well ahead. Blaming the Republicans is an obvious and useful maneuver, but Obama has to get to the 50th percentile to win in November. If the economy blame game doesn’t get him there, what will?

Uh. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton dislike Obama quite a bit. You see, they don’t think Obama is “black enough” and they are annoyed that he stole their spotlight as “black leaders”.
I there is a distinct undercurrent of hatred here.

McCain is punch drunk! GO OBAMA

McCain’s speech has become a farce. The policy of look-the-other-way regulation is John McCain’s policy.
On the one hand, we have McCain LYING (ask factcheck.org) about Obama’s tax policy which gives a tax cut to the middle class, and the preposterous LIE that Obama wanted schools to teach sex to kindergarteners. (In fact, the legislation in question calls for AGE APPROPRIATE (exact words) teaching for kids on how to avoid predators!
Then on the other hand, John McCain is LYING about his own LOOK-THE-OTHER-WAY policy regarding the financial markets.
Do issues matter? McCain laughed at all working women when he supported the Republican FILLIBUSTER of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
Does character matter? McCain was caught LYING about the LIES in his ads on “The View”.
John McCain once admitted that he sold out when he endorsed the flying of the Southern flag of Rebellion. Isn’t it time for him to admit he has sold his soul again and again in order to win the Republican nomination and this campaign?

PJ
So, Obama comes up with something three days late and it’s basically what’s already been done.
Obama – the shallow one!

Hey I like both Goldwater and Kucinich. I do not like McCain, but I do understand what Obama is trying to say.

belle star
two words
sarah palin
yea that was a good vp pick… whos running mccains camp people seem to think hes not doing it and that everyone else is just telling him what to do now….
he wanted joe lieberman
lol mccain doesnt know up from down or left from right
bearings are gone
thanks but no thanks mccain

The old guy is confused. Watch him grit his teeth and squint his eyes. “Gotta appear tough, safe, strong. I don’t have a clue what they’re asking me about. Quick, gotta say something!”

McCain can’t decide whether he’s George W. Bush or George W. Bush.
LOLOL

Reagan and Bush, Sr. racked up a huge national debt…
Clinton fixed it… and gave us a surplus!
George W. Bush racked up a huge national debt…
Obama will fix it!
…because today’s Democrats are the true fiscal conservatives!

McCain’s campaign is like an RV weaving down the highway at high speed with the 4-way flashers on. The other drivers on the know something is wrong, so they slow down and watch for the inevitable crash.

Sure, Obama, put Fannie Maes Jim Johnson in charge of finding your vice president?? What a lying hypocrite you are Obama, I am actually afraid of you!

Barry or Barack?
Black Liberation theologian or Weather Underground?

“Sure, Obama, put Fannie Maes Jim Johnson in charge of finding your vice president?? What a lying hypocrite you are Obama, I am actually afraid of you!”
That’s not the Jim Johnson that he knew.

John McCain can’t decide whether he’s John McCain or Barack Obama.

Barb in MN:
Keep then coming!
Rezko
Audachi
Ayers
Wright
Farrakhan
………just nice people!

McCain can’t decide whether he’s Yosemite Sam or Droopy Dog.

there are 57 delegate ‘states’ at th dnc. still a gaffe, but not how the haters like to tell it.

The McCain campaign meltdown continues.
After spending the last week blasting Congress he has released ads that talk about him and his Congressional allies.
Huh?
Oh yeah, he has to do that to comply with FEC regs because those ads are paid for by the RNC.
So to recap.
McCain has to contradict himself to get around spending limits in his commercial.
This from the reformer of campaign finance.
LOL

“ENOUGH OF REPUBLICAN LIES AND CORRUPTION.”
What lies?

I don’t understand. How is meeting with someone reckless?
I mean, when did diplomacy become some kind of admission to failure?

I wish someone would ask McCain why he thinks putting his hands over his ears and yelling across the ocean is an effective foreign policy.
Talking to enemies is the first step in diplomacy.
Our current system of not talking to anyone and hoping the country implodes is stupid.

“McCain’s right. 0bama went to Iraq and put more of our troops at risk so he could benefit politically.”
Not too mention he couldn’t be bothered to visit the wounded troops. had to work his biceps so that he can flex them on the View and Oprah.

This McCain is an economic hooligan. This guy will say absolutely anything. He has no principles. McWindsock.

“In case you GOP fanatics don’t get it – Obama doesn’t need to be an economics whiz-kid to recover from this mess”
He has his teleprompter.

“You can’t just run away from your long-held views or your life-long record.”
Worked for Obama so far. Maybe McCain needs a bigger bus. It doesn’t seem like either of the turkeys are talking about fixed incomes for seniors and students, jobs for the kids coming out of college, how we boomahs recover from watching our 401ks turn into melted cheese ten years from retirement, and anything else that we might actually care about.
If the polls are right and people voting issues are voting Obama but people voting character are voting McCain, then there is something very wrong here because 45% thinks they can get work done on the issues by a man who’s character they doubt, and the other 45% thinks a man with good character can’t get any work done on the issues.
And that explains why 10% are watching this in abject horror and amazement.

Is this an all-troll message board or something? How come whenever McCain gets tripped up on a REAL ISSUE FACING AMERICA, the trolls line up to smear Obama about trivial stupid Faux-talking-point crap that doesn’t matter? Do you think I want to compare Palin’s church with McCain’s church to Obama’s church right now as the country’s financial health is getting defib’d in ER????
You Repub are a desperately stupid bunch. Why don’t you pretend to care about the USA for a change?

Mr. Warren Buffett has endorsed Barack Obama for president and intimated that John McCain’s views on social justice were so far from his own that McCain would need a “lobotomy” for Buffett to change his endorsement.
And this is the world’s richest man talking so you GOP bobbleheads better stop your smearing and feel the winds of change

“Senior McCain adviser Charlie Black stated that the assassination of Bhutto was good for McCain and that a terrorist attack on US soil would be even better.
Gotta love those Patriotic republicans! ”
And Barry’s mentor of 20 years stated that God should damm America.

“Carl Fiorina said that Palin and McCain couldn’t run a 7-11″
She also said that Joey Biden and Barry O’Bama couldn’t either.

Mack, yes, but Warren Buffett probably wouldn’t offer Carly a job in the mail room.

“right and this is the same carly fiornia who received a $21 million golden parachute for leaving HP. and she’s campaigning for McCain who is fighting for reform from those evil CEO’s who receive golden parachutes…wait what am i saying?”
er…um….uh…Jim Johnson! A very fresh wound.

er.um uh. Keating 5.

McCain can’t decide if he’s GW or Dan Quayle. Palin can’t decide if she’s GW or Dan Quayle. Heaven help us.
No way, no how, no McBush/Quaylin.

” …a president does not have the legal ability to [fire the head of the SEC in a literal sense, but] certainly political pressures can be brought to bear to force a commissioner to resign.”
That’s right down Palin’s alley. That must be the experience McCain is always talking about.

I read a recent study that found that over the last sixty years, the economy has grown twice as fast under Democratic Presidents as it has under Republicans while the national debt has grown ten times faster under the GOP. That same study found that for 95 percent us, the economy actually grew four times as fast under Democrats. Most the Republican growth came for the top 5.

Obama hasn’t taken a position on AIG because he was beholding to them BIG TIME! Obama represents what is absolutely wrong with Washington.

Spain’s rains mainly on McCain.

Ok, Johnn, it makes sense that (1) the economy grows faster under Democrats than it does under GOP presidents, and (2) that most of the Republican growth occurs for the rich while the Democratic growth is more spread out. Point (2) is actually a cause of point (1). If wealth becomes more concentrated at the top (as it does under Republicans), then the rest of the people don’t have enough money to buy–houses, consumer goods, or anything else the economy produces. You can overcome this problem for awhile with easy credit to the masses to allow them to buy (think subprime housing loans), but eventually people reach a saturation point in terms of their ability to continue to borrow and buy and make payments, and the whole economy starts falling apart. That’s what happened in the Republican-led 1920′s that caused the Great Depression, and that’s what’s happening now. My god, do something. My right-wing, fascist, racist, anti-intellectual friend is voting. Are you?

Dear Mr. Obama
You got more money from the corrupt Freddie/Fannie than anyone else but the head of the committee himself.
Bush tried to reign in the mess, but your leadership did nothing.
McCain tried to do something, but your party didn’t do anything.
You are a fraud.

Can someone explain how $864 billion in new spending will solve our current credit and housing crisis, as Obama, and many of his followers think?
How does raising taxes help our economy get back on its feet?
Obama himself admitted last week he might have to delay his tax increases because the timing was bad.
When is the timing good, Senator?

“Democrats equal greater economic growth and for everyone.”
Err….what about Jimmy Carter? The economy grew, but in a negative direction.

So it appears that McKnucklehead has caused a diplomatic row with Spain.
SPAIN!
God help us when Palin meets other world leaders at the UN next week.

Before Reagan took office, the top marginal tax rate-70%.
Our economy with its high taxes was going gangbusters under Carter!!!!
It was great, you remember? Everyone had to conserve our natural resources, cuz there wasn’t any oil for a time, and inflation was like, super high!

jpt quotes The CHANGEling:
“What we need is honest talk and real solutions.”

The other bit of Terrific Obama Economic News…he wants to pass the Global Poverty Act.
This is a great plan, that takes .07 of our GDP, and simply gives it away to poor countries!
Seriously, that will totally lower taxes for everyone, when were almost giving a way 1 percent of our countries output!

Obama should not talk about McCain trying to hide his background until he comes clean about his own. Its quite obvious he is not forthcoming about many things such as many unsavory folks and/or positions he has tried to distance himself from Ayers, Reszko, Wright, Pfleger, The Born Alive Bill, pushing the wrong button, his lack of significant accomplishments, etc.
‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.’

Mack, you need to learn a little history. Over the last sixty years, the economy has grown twice as fast under Democratic Presidents as it has under Republicans, and for most of it, it has grown nearly six times faster. Only the rich benefit from GOP trickle-down economics.

I feel so sorry for McSame. The world has just become too complex for his limited mental capacities. He knows this is his last chance at the presidency and he is willing to sell his soul to the devil to get it.
Just watch McSame continue to pull things out of the proverbial hat. He can’t decide if he’s Obama or David Copperfield.
Poor McBush, McBama, McField, McPalin, or whoever he happens to be at the moment.

Lopez, lopez lopez.
Obama’s first order is to repeal the bush tax cuts….which help all sectors, middle and upper classes.
So right away, he’s raising taxes on the middle class, see? It’s a shell game.
But your right. The rich do need to pay more, cuz the top 1% already pay 39% of all taxes in America.
And 38% of us dont even pay any taxes!
Definitely, lets tax those that have the ability to create jobs, and tax businesses that we all depend on, which raises prices for everything you use.
/sarc off.

“Obama’s first order is to repeal the bush tax cuts….which help all sectors, middle and upper classes.”
Obama plans to repeal the Bush tax cut for the highest income bracket. He plans to keep i place the Bush rates for all other income levels.
Hippie chucker what is up with the obvious lies?
I know your candidate is in the toilet but you usually make fact based arguments.

“[McCain] knows this is his last chance at the presidency”

McCain is back-tracking and swinging like a pendulum if McCain loses this election his stupid team will have to be blamed the way they have conducted themselves, McCain is neither staying on the message nor discussing his plan. Long Obama ad was to go his website and study his plan, McCain should also try to say something and do more than lower taxes for corporations like oil companies, I’m now back to undecided and probably will note vote republican if they kept on changing their positions on day to day issues.

Hey Belle Star, you’re being sexist. Are you criticizing Michelle Obama for being a strong woman?
It’s obvious who wears the pants in the Palin family — it ain’t the “first dude.”
Can’t have it both ways.

hippie_chucker, read the book i mentioned and then figure out why our foreign policy sucks and then figure out why most of the world hates us. If we are so cognizant about energy needs, then why didn’t we sign up for any of the energy cap policies a lot of countries have signed up for?

2/3 of US corporations pay no corporate income tax. 2/3 of foreign corporations doing business in the us pay no corporate income tax.

Can’t have it both ways.

“The Global Poverty Program will cost less than the Iraq War and actual have some results at reducing poverty and by extension terrorism.”
That’s the standard talking point, but I hope you don’t honestly believe that. The Global Poverty Program as far as I can see is unconstitutional and is nothing more than an official UN shakedown of the US taxpayer. I can hardly think of a worse idea.

“Not trying to lie, Ill have to see the facts for myself on the tax cuts. My understanding was a repeal of Bush’s cuts wholesale.”
Fair enough.
Go to Tax Policy study of both plans for an objective view (they deal purely with taxs, not spending)
The 3 main tax increases for Obama are the income tax on the highest income bracket (back to 39%), he will insitute a payroll tax on income over $200K of 4% and he plans to raise the rate on capital gains for the highest income tax bracket from 15% to 20%.
He plans to leave the Bush income tax cuts on the all income levels(sans the highest of course) and is offering a whole host of tax breaks to middle class families.

And do you know who supplied the technology to the world’s worst polluters? And which of our companies made money out of it?

Woody,
Helping people climb out of poverty has tremendous benefits for the entire world. Jeez just creating viable markets for our products with people can afford them would be worth it.
Wealth is not a zero sum game.
Forget about figuring about who gets what piece of the pie, let’s make the
sucker bigger.
I have to run but we can pick this up tomorrow if you want.

Hassel…trying to figure out where you’re going with the stats. How exactly do we make poor people richer, unless its through free market enterprise?
Which party generally wants to rein in capitalism, and tax it to the fullest extent possible?

*scratches head*
Palin said the other day that we need more regulation so that we can get government out of the way of business.
I think. I’m not entirely sure because it makes no sense.

hippie_chucker people like you should remember thanks to the republicans this outsourcing problem has widened so much that trickle down mostly also goes to places like china india to a worker who works for less than half of what american worker is paid that trickle down in the end comes back to their bank accounts in cayman islands with amazing profits so trickle down returns back to you for profit tell me where is the american worker here, obama probably nails it to kee our jobs that wont be outsourced whereas McCain does’nt have a plan and says nothing is better than free market.

Barack Obama:”Thank you, Wall Street…Thank you, Wall Street…Thank you…Thank you. Now all I need is a delay in any troop withdrawal…Covered the Rabbis on their day…Covered Hollywood…Ah yes, it’s been a GOOD WEEK!!!”

Reg.
If you owned a business that made textiles but all of a sudden you had to pay high union wages, and high taxes, and comply with an ever increasing set of rules from the EPA, OSHA, IRS, etc, and you had the opportunity to go somewhere else, would you do it?
Because thats exactly whats happened to the american textile industry. First, 100 years ago, it was in the Northeast, then it moved to the South, and now its mostly in China, and now its moving to Vietnam, where, guess what, its cheaper.
It sucks, and an uncle lost his job in textiles in NC after 30 years, but that’s life. Protectionism doesnt work, and Nafta has created more jobs, period, even though the local effects probably dont seem that way.
The only way to get business to stay is to provide a friendly business climate, with low taxes, etc, but Obama is hardly that candidate, by any stretch.

Good lord I’m watching this Palin interview and she’s just all over the place. I’m having trouble following her answers and how they relate to the question.
And the questions just seem to be rehashes of the other interview and “how do you feel” questions. Hannity is pitching those softballs low and slow.

Joe,
so you’re on board with high taxes, and excessive oversight as the ticket to keeping businesses here?
Instead of insulting me, why not provide your argument for creating jobs.
I’ve provided mine.

Once again Obama throws pot shots from the peanut gallery. Is this what he would propose to do as President–refuse to take a position on monumental issues while mocking others? This guy is really pathetic.

It’s like Jake said in his article, obama hasn’t taken a stance either way. For one, that’s because he has no idea what to do. For two, he employs two of the culprits of the crumble on his staff. For three, he’s afraid to make a decision because he probably feels it is above his pay grade. For four, it a lot safer and easier to let someone else go out on a limb and ridicule them to make himself look good if the decision was not favored by his believers. For five, obama has no experience at risk; he stays safe on all issues; waits for the countries reaction and then uses that to play the people. What a fake!

good job john keep up the good work go mccain

Omentum,
From the original interviewer, who started the interview talking about Latin America:
“Pressed on why McCain would keep seguing into a discussion of Latin America if he knew who she was talking about, Cuello said: “I think because I was talking with him before about Latin America.”
He’s trying to steer her back to the question at hand, not asserting what youre saying.More at your TPM website
Obama has so many “gaffes” like this they really cancel out, I think- 10,000 dead from tornados in the midwest, 57 states, etc. etc…

Maybe on Friday McCain will want to attack Cox, and fire Spain…
Or was it a strong economy, or a fundamental worker…
John take a nap, and refocus

Can we please get a story regarding McCain’s new selection to head up his Minority Outreach program: George “Macaca” Allen?
Now that’s leadership….I can laugh at!

Interview with Mr. America community organizer:
- Sen. Obama, what do you think about our troops in Irak? (he stammers and searchs for teleprompter) … CHANGE
- what do you think about Russian attitude in Georgia? (he stammers and searchs for teleprompter) … CHANGE
- What do you think about the crisis of Wall Street? (he stammers and searchs for teleprompter) … CHANGE
- What do you think about our dependency on foreign oil? (he stammers and searchs for teleprompter) … CHANGE
- What do you think of the education system? (he stammers and searchs for teleprompter) … CHANGE
Give Mr. America community organizer some new batteries so he can repeat ´CHANGE´like a parrot until the end of the campaign.

Why didn’t the Republicans pick Mitt Romney as VP? I mean, he knew economics.

“No, it’s the result of liberal social engineering. It’s the result of government requiring mortgage quotas based upon race and not upon qualification.”
Concerned, I think you should be less concerned and more informed. The real problem is the derivatives market and the levels of margin they’ve accrued. Mortgages were packaged in various derivative instruments and valued at 30-60 times their value. Thus, a relatively small glitch in the housing market has been amplified 30-60 times.
As far as mortgage quotas based on race, could you please post a URL (or two) that points to a factual description of these quotas? I think you will find there were no such quotas.

Concerned: You might want to learn what discrimination actually means: it means that people who are equal in qualifications are treated differently based on other criteria.
That manual clearly states that subprimes and ARM’s already existed but that groups of people were left out for other reasons not related to the qualifications.

Obama’s democrat’s broke into Palin’s E-mail account.
Palin Email Hacker is Son of Democrat Tennessee State Senator
Bristol Palin may be pregnant out of wedlock, but at least she’s not going to jail.
David Kernell, a college student has been positively identified as the perp who hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account.
State Rep. Mike Kernell said today that he was aware of Internet rumors about his son being the subject of speculation that he accessed the personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Asked whether he or his son, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, had been contacted by authorities investigating the break-in of Palin’s account, he responded:
“Me, no.”
As far as his 20-year-old son, David, he said: “I can’t say. That doesn’t mean he has or hasn’t (been contacted by investigators.”
Kernell, D-Memphis, cited the father-son relationship.
He said he had talked to his son today, but that he talks to his son regularly.
He declined further comment.

Be glad it wasn’t Putin who hacked Palin’s e-mail account.
That would have been funny. Palin yelling at Putin from her Alaskan Island in the Bering Street: “Yooohooooo, I can SEEEEE you”.
Putin yelling back: “Yooooohooooo, I’ve read your EEEEEE-mail”

willem
when will you obamasnots get the message that the bering straight thing is not funny…Obama was asked to be more substantive and hes become more silly

Obama is really just kicking McCain’s here… McCain has gotten in over his head the last 4 days with his gaffes and position changes, and Obama is not going to let up on him.
Bring on the debates.

DHC
… we will not let you forget who is the mainstream of the democratic party on election day… Obama will lose!

Obama things he kiked out the Clinton wing of the Democratic party but he just made them angry… did you see Hillarys senate speech on the financial crisis thats the kind of candidate that we needed for the presidency

What a bunch of baloney. McCain has spent his entire career fighting regulation and voting for deregulation. He is whining about the “Fat Cats” when he is one of the fattest cats around and can’t even remember how many houses he owns. Did he say that from his family plane or from one of his six or seven houses? George Bush and his Republican friends started their adminstration with no budget deficit and have sold our country to the Chinese and run the deficit into the trillions. Now the Republicans are making the Federal Treasury into the biggest corporate welfare program on the planet – the only catch is that we don’t have any money so we have to borrow more money from China to bail out a bunch of rich Republicans who didn’t understand the word leverage and whose Daddys have always fixed everything for them – just like George Bush. Except that his daddy can’t fix it this time and we are the ones who are going to have to pay. Wouldn’t that trillion have been nice for education? Or for health care? Oh, I forgot. We can’t afford that. So where exactly did this money come from? Oh, that’s right. Straight from Beijing.

Thankfully, an adult is in charge in LA now.
Posted by: Concerned in OH | Sep 19, 2008 12:22:27 AM
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Be careful. Hollywood types think LA may refer to Los Angeles, CA.

Thank you, Concerned. I agree. The world would be a perfect Eden if not for the Democrats. Thank God for sending his Emissary, our current President, a proud Republican.

No Dave, they just delete all posts with links, lmao

In the 30′s ‘Progressive’ was a code word for ‘Communist’. Like everything else in this country it has shifted to the extreme right, so now it just means ‘Regulatory Responsibility’.

- Hitler wanted to change Germany and ruined his country.
- Mussolini wanted to change Italy and ruined his country.
- Stalin wanted to change Russia and ruined his country.
- Fidel Castro wanted to change Cuba and ruined his country.
All these totalitarian demagogues use a flowery speech to draw people. Behind it there´s nothing or even worse than nothing.
Obama wants to change America and he will lead us to ruin and disaster. I hope God protects us!

“Republicans are cheats, LIARS and crooks!! ” and bullies!! Their bottom line: vote republican or else, something bad gonna happen to you. Of course, they are gonna try and make sure something bad does happen to you. Oh wait, they just did that.

Breaking News!
“People who startle easily in response to threatening images or loud sounds seem to have a biological predisposition to adopt conservative political positions on many hot-button issues, according to unusual new research published yesterday.”
Now, that explains everything. They are just scared of everything and want to make everyone else scared too! Boo! hahaha

Were Hannity’s ‘gotcha’ questions, planned or a scripted oversight?
1)”PALIN: Didn’t see them but I hear that they’re all over the place and I’m just hoping that they’re going spend a lot of money in our local communities and bolster the economy up there.
HANNITY: So you’re hoping that the economy will…
PALIN: Absolutely.
She knew the question before she answered.
2)HANNITY: Why do we need to win in Iraq? Just get right to the bottom line. Why is losing not an option?
PALIN: Losing is not — retreat is not an option. Retreat is defeat in Iraq. Al Qaeda, they’re acknowledging even, along with General Petraeus, that Iraq is the central front on the War on Terror and the violent Islamic extremists who hate America would love that stronghold to be built in Iraq.
They forgot General Petraeus, once stated the extremists are in Afganistan and no longer in Iraq. General Petraeus says the surge worked, but too many American soldiers, in the field speak out against the surge. Now the solderiers are not aloud to speak out against the war, without charges being pressed against them. When your sons and daughters come home ask them for all they have seen. Not just heard from commanders.
3)HANNITY: What countries today pose the most danger, in your view, to America?
PALIN: Any country that is going to house violent Islamic terrorists. We have to keep our eye, of course, on Iran. We’ve got to keep our eye on some of the ongoing activities in Russia, also. North Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong Il — certainly there is a lot of concern there.
They both ignore the trouble already, in Americans streets with ‘gangland terrorists’. Look at Alaska.
4)HANNITY: What do you view — and I know this came up in your interview with Charlie Gibson, as it relates to the Bush Doctrine — what do you view as the Bush Doctrine and what do you view as America’s role in the world? What is our role as a country, as it relates to national security?
PALIN: That’s a great question and being an optimist I see our role in the world as one of — being a force for good and one of being the leader of the world when it comes to the values that — it seems that just humankind embraces the values that encompass life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And that’s not just in America, that is in our world.
And America is in a position, because we care for so many people, to be able to lead and to be able to have a strong diplomacy and a strong military. Also at the same time to defend not only our freedoms but, to help these rising, smaller democratic countries that are just — you know, they’re putting themselves on the map right now, and they’re going to be looking to America as that leader. We being used as a force for good is how I see our country.
Why didn’t she give this statement to Mr. Gibson? Why did she have to wait, to be scripted?
5)HANNITY even askes about her version of ‘troopergate’ , she gives several versions. She invites an inspection into the contoversy, but now wants to postpone the investigation. What happenned to ‘Transparency’. I guess it doesn’t include her…

This whole artical is based upon what Obama wishes were true. McCain warned and introduced legislation in 2006. Obama’s worst crisis since depression. I guess he doesn’t realize the importance of WORDS. John McCain was correct in his statement that the fundamentals are strong unless Barney Frank, Reid and Pelosi. Obama yesterday stressed the importance of remaining claim, but as usual he is a little slow on the uptake. I believe that he and Biden should write checks for the hundreds of thousands of dollars they received from Fannie & Freddie before they look to the taxpayer. Unlike Obama when I say taxpayer, I am talking about the 60% that actually pay taxes.

Except blame, blame, blame, what can Obama offer?
Nothing!!!

Who is the one following Bush’s disastrous policies?
McCain follows whichever stand looks more politically viable at the moment, judging from his amazing flip-flopping:
No bail out! Bail out! Oh, DON’T bail out! Bail out!…
Shows he didn’t put thought into it, otherwise he would’ve been able to explain his rationale.

“It wasn’t that long ago that the faux outrage du jour was at of the use of “Democrat Party” instead of “Democratic Party”.”
Democrat party is right winger favorite especially freepers.
Guess Concerned isn’t an independent as he claims.
Yes shocking that concerned would lie about such a thing.

The only connection I see between Kucinich and Mc Cain is that both have wives young enough to be their daughters. Dennis is the clear winner.

LOL, Half the time I get the Feeling Mccain doesnt even know his own freaking name! He lies so much that even he doesnt know what is truth anymore! Yeah, We really need this idiot leading us for the next four years! LOL
Jessup

Yeah right…and Obama can’t decide if he’s Kennedy or Martin Luther King!

Obama based his campaign on hope–yet he tells voters to get in the face of neighbors if they disagree with him.
He says he transcends race–but sits back as his ads and surrogates inflame racial tensions.
Does he actually think this will get more whites to vote for him?
Who is he talking to–the 95% of AA that are voting for him. The hispanics who are smart enough to see he is using them?

Ryan, you know that McCain wasn’t about blanket deregulation…read Tapper’s other post on this…WP editorial…

Obama is right. McCain doesn’t know who he is. Up until securing the nomination the conservative base was denouncing him as “liberal”. And their reaction to him was tepid until Palin was provided as a gift to rally them. Conservatives never liked McCain. And now McCain is trying to take a staunch conservative line. Problem is it conflicts with his more pragmatic view of the world. So, we see the split personality of McCain…

Debra wrote: “It’s interesting how the race card is being mentioned. Good let’s get real people will not vote for BO simply because he is 50% AA.”
What is really interesting–make that OUTRAGEOUS–is that two Obama surrogates, Bob Hagan of Youngstown, OH, and Tom Letson of Warren, OH, claim that people in Ohio are NOT voting for Obama BECAUSE he is black. In essence they are saying not voting for Obama means you are racist. Certainly there may be some racists who won’t vote for Obama, but there are tens of millions of voters, like myself, who are NOT racist but will not vote for Sen. Obama because we totally disagree with his socialistic ideology.

re:Posted by: Ryan C | Sep 19, 2008 11:13:27 AM
“McCain warned and introduced legislation in 2006″
McCain cosponsored a bill in 2005 that was reintroduced in 2006.
Obama authored a bill that was intro in 2006 and re intro’d in 2007.
Neither bill went anywhere
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Why wasn’t Obama able to work with other Dems to get his bill passed?

John McCain and Sarah Palin want to be elected like Republicans but they are trying to avoid to discuss issues critical for the American families. And portraying themselves like reformers because they are embarrassed of the last 8 years of the Republicans –Bush Administration.
Is the Republican Party in the need of urgent reform because is out of touch with the everyday life of the American people

What the ostrich and the Republicans have in common.Let me guess
Both hide their head on the sand and pretend everything is fine
An ostrich bury its head in the sand and pretend everything is fine
Republicans do the same and follow McCain
America and the world is suffering with the blunders of Bush Administration
The economy have crumple and the prosperity of many people are under risk not only in America but also worldwide.
John McCain and Sarah Palin promise of change: Is a change to Nowhere
This election is not only about some bridge in Alaska it is about all the bridges and roads in all the o United States because they are all crying out for repairs and maintenance. This is because for the last 8 years the Bush and the Republicans have spent enormous amounts of dollars to build up Iraq and they have forgotten about the needs of their own country.

Lets see alot of you wanted change back in 2006 so you voted the dems back in control of both houses, how has that worked out? Oh I forgot you blame Bush for all the problems currently facing the country even though the president DOESN’T MAKE LAW, Congress and the Senate do and who is controlling both of them. I do agree with the DEMS on one area, we do need change, keep the GOP in the white house and vote the GOP BACK INTO power in both houses.

Curtis: I don’t believe any poliician lies with pigs. Your picking up too much of Obama’s bad language. And for a college graduate he isn’t that smart. He is getting a lot of help from former president Clinton’s advisor’s and believe me he needs it. You can take bets on it Biden will be running the country behind the scenes if Obama is elected. Besides that, this country could go into a 1929 depression. Obama talks about change, the words he took from the book of RFK speeches. He also used his speeches and added a few words of his own. Obama cannot do anything on his own without help. For a college graduate what happened?

foreclosure: And don’t you wish you just had 10% of McCain and Cindy’s money? And they have it like the Clinton’s do. And its all for them, nothing for you.

Al: And Obama copied the word change from the speech of Robert Kennedy. Obama only knows the change in his pocket or how to change his clothes. There are no changes he knows how to make without extensive help. Of course maybe Ayers the professor who bombed here three times and give him some advice. And there is Wright always preaching about America and white people.

James Danley: I hate to differ with the people in Ohio but Obama is not black or white will never be either because he is the offspring of a black/white marriage. Find it on the internet. I have known that for years. However, the blacks resent using that name. They refer to him as black and so do many white people. That’s too bad because he isn’t.

linda n carolina. If McCain is punch drunk you must be drinking the same booze. And I am sure all this generation of college students are drugging and boozing every night. Are you one of them? The educated like the news media said. Don’t make me laugh. Do you know how many have to drop out because they are too dumb to master the course. That’s what drugs and booze do to you. Obama is an example. Just listen to him.

Mariann,obviously you are an angry white female who is extremely misinformed. You have no idea what the black population thinks of Obama but we do know what we think of you and your bitter talk. Your reasons for voting for McCain and Palin are yours and yours alone–thank God! But to try and defame Obama by stating the falseness of him being a muslim or the foul play on his name and all your other crazy accusations is reflective of your hardened heart–something that you will have to deal with way pass this election. Stick to the facts not to the outrageous accusations. The only person you are hurting is yourself. I can only say thank God you are not running for President.