Obama on the Need for Habeas Corpus: Distinguishing Between ‘Barack, the Bomb-Thrower’ and ‘Barack, the Guy Running for President’

Obama is gonna take the fight to the GOP all the way till election day.
He is going to make them own their lies, and their shameful rhetoric.
“Republicans, he suggested, “should spend their time trying to catch Osama bin Laden” instead of worry about what to do with him after he’s caught.”
Excellent.

Barack Obama is the only President this country needs in the next 8 years.
He’s formidable.

“No, no, no, no,” Obama said. “Talk to Michelle she’ll tell you. But what I’m not going to do I’m not going to describe in an ad that I did something that is opposite of what I did.”
FISA?
Cheney Energy Bill?
Death Penalty?
Hello?

If I were Obama, I would lay off the references to being a bomber. It just reminds people that he has been up close and personal with bomb throwers.

He is opn a roll. If the press will not pursue these false and misleading statements made by the Republicans then he must.

“He is opn a roll. If the press will not pursue these false and misleading statements made by the Republicans then he must.”
Yup. Make the press report that he called them out on their lies.
He is going to make them own their lies.

“Betcha that is the primary reason he is on the side of Habeas Corpus”
Beckie,
You don’t believe in Habeus Corpus?
Why do you hate America?

John, if you’ve found “hope” in McSame/(Im)Palin’, I’ve got a “Bridge to Nowhere” to sell you!!!
McSame and his “Soulmate” (wonder if Cindy is jealous?) will bring no hope unless you’re making $5 million a year or are a corporation for which one of their staffers/advisors work. The rest of those who vote for McSame will be sorry — for, with the Republican Ticket, there’s no hope without dopes!
Obama/Biden 08

What video is this? Is there a link? What exactly did they say about the bridge – that she killed it or that she told congress no? (while both are lies, I still would like to know)

Obama has a new ad out describing the McCain/Palin campaign mumbo-jumbo as just what it is — a bunch of bald-faced lies. I hope the media gets back to the facts that Obama clearly presents versus selling “spots” to the ex-beauty pageant gun-toting hocky mom who thinks we’re at war with Iran because God wants us to be.
Please don’t let these losers into the whitehouse again! Just say no to the M/P ticket of lies.
Vote for your future and your family’s future.
Obama 08!

These remarks by Obama are telling because they come several days after the attacks were issued by Palin-Guiliani-McCain. The fact that it took a few days tells me something important. Obama is not quick to hit attacks with new attacks. He spends his time to think through his argument and respond. This is an admirable quality… and, one surprisingly that George W. Bush exhibited when we hit back on Afghanistan. We waited after 9/11 to survey what had happened and then hit the precise source of the problem. George Bush had the praise of the world for taking the right action after deliberation. Of course, things sort of veered of track after that moment… Now, I’m not suggesting how Obama handles political slander tells us anything about how he would handle a terrorist attack. But, it is a positive sign. I don’t want to make too much more of it than that.
While I don’t know much about Palin herself (and, I’m sure we’ll learn more as the McCain campaign allows her to communicate directly with the press and have exchanges with the public), I was somewhat disappointed in the amount of slander and attacks in her speeches. I know that these are not her words, and she’s probably being fed this material via Bush, now McCain, operatives. But, I sure hope that she doesn’t tarnish her personality before she even has a chance to tell us what that really is (in her own words).

OBAMA IS UN-FIT FOR COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
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RELIGION,GUNS,COUNTRY FIRST ARE VERY
IMPORTANT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE….
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McCAIN/PALIN ’08

John, you are full of crap…I think it’s ok, for him to take it to the GOP because after all, they all attacked him. Now out of a sudden, he’s a whiner, give me a break, here…Did you say anything about Mr 911..Guilliani, Palin, Reverend, Funny Man, I want to be President, Hucklebee..lol…I think it’s fair game!

McCain doesn’t care about you little people that support him here. His lobbyist and the rich cats are the ones that he will take care of when he is elected. He just needs you little ones of low you people of low information to get him to the White House.

Do you Really Know Barack Obama?

“She took on big oil.”
I guess that refers to the one time she raised taxes on the oil company profits last year. Alaska projects they will get 11 billion in taxes, but somehow I doubt it. More than 2/3 of US corporations just dont pay any federal corporate tax, and I’m sure they’ll work around that as well. But the tax is a windfall profit tax (the rate goes up with each extra dollar in oil prices a certain amount over cost)
Didn’t mcCain criticize Obama’s call for a windfall oil profit tax?

US Vet- I watched Biden on Meet The Press and Obama on This Week and McCain – Where was McCain’s VP? Still studying for her VP experience…

El-Pajaro – Great Post! If I had to be accountable for all the people I have served on countless Boards with, I would be toast.

Ryan C, Course I belive in Habeus Corpus! But ask yourself what your guy really believes! To quote the flip-flopper: “If you got a terrorist — take him out. Anybody who was involved in 9/11? Take him out.” Kindly tell me how are you gonna apply Habeus Corpus after you have taken him out? Is he gonna have a sign on him saying “I am a terrorist, I was involved in 9/11″? Or is he going to be taken out after we know he is one of those bad guys?
Then he suggested that Republicans should spend their time trying to CATCH Osama bin Laden, instead of worry about what to do with him after he’s caught! So aren’t we supposed to TAKE HIM OUT?! Your guy just confused me on the issue! But that is the One – can’t speak without his teleprompter!

The McCain/Palin strategy seems to be to try to convince people that they are not Republicans. I wonder why they would do that?

NMP,
Sarah palin is connecting directly with the American people.
It was reported today that she will be doing an extensive interviews with ABC News this week. You should tune in to watch it. I’m sure America will.
I’m sure she will do great!
Meanwhile, Obama’s numbers keep dropping day by day by day by day.
No wonder Obama didn’t want anyone to watch him on O’Reilly this week. Obama showed that he doesn’t have a clue about economic policy tonight.
Keep going on the shows Obama. Keep going negative with your BS. The more you talk, the more votes you lose!
Mccain-Palin ’08
Hillary in 2012

Anyone heard about the rumor that Biden may be droppig out? Wonder why that is?
Jake, have you heard about this?

US VET – McCain energized his own base and votes he should have secured anyway. Palin’s propaganda is connecting to low information voters – she is not connecting to the “American people”. Those of us that have taken time to thoroughly research (what we can) her history and beliefs will NOT be voting Republican. I also believe that the more America learns of her extremist views – the polls will fall the other way.

Let’s take a bet to see how long it will take McCaint VP pick to flame out? lol
The Clinton Machine underestimated, ridiculed and belittled and this Harvard Law grad and University professor, and got beat.
Barack Obama IS NOT Al Gore or John Kerry!
Chicago politics isn’t for the faint at heart! lol
The marginally intelligent cCaint-Pollen are going to be shown up for the INCOMPETENTS that they are!

Obama first suggest ‘take the out’. Presumably, that means shoot to kill regardless of anything. But, if you don’t take them out, read them their rights.
OK, if I’m a soldier, I think I now know what the choices are. Don’t ask, don’t tell. Shoot to kill.

How’s that? Doesn’t congress make the laws? How can a Republican minority do what you suggest? Please explain!!!

Were you in Dearborn, Michigan or Farmington Hills, Michigan? Obama can’t close the deal. We all knew that in the primaries against Hillary. There’s nothing new here. HE CAN’T CLOSE THE DEAL. He will NOT win the election in November. Thank you, Lord!

US Vet McCain voted : NO 20 million for veteran facilities. NO…322 million for safety equipment for Iraqi troops. NO…1 million for new equipment for the National Guard.NO 430 million for veteran outpatient care. That’s how much McCain supports the troops.

Borrowing money from China to pay for an unnecessary war is not patriotic nor smart.
McSame/Bush .. say no to 4 more of the same!

“We don’t always catch the right person. We may think this is Mohammed the terrorist, it might be Mohammed the cab driver.”
Racist remark?

Congratulations to the Dem’s for caving in on offshore drilling. Barry’s poll numbers must be falling down the well. Please explain why you libs ignored the oil prices costing billions from the citizens. Why is drilling now good when it was evil just yesterday?

Paige,
If you think Obama has the support of a majority of military families, you are really out of touch with our family. Obama does not respect our sacrifice at all! And his BS about signing up for Selective Service as some means to have military experience is a total slap in the face to the men and women that have and do wear the uniform.
Anyways, I never said anything about monetary donations. No doubt Obama gets a lot of money. That’s part of his problem. He’s money rich, and integrity poor.
And even with all his millions at hand for who knows where, he still can’t buy respect and integrity. He also received less votes than Hillary. Why? People know he is a phony.
The DNC elite nominated Obama. The voters did not.
And in the GE, it is winner take all for those big states. No more caucus BS games for Ozero to play.
America is on to Obama’s BS.
Obama’s words have brought a case of diminishing returns in support from the American people. We are seeing it in the polls. We’ll see it on election day.
Come on board!
McCain-Palin ’08
Hillary in 2012

Obama is completely out of control. Is this what we can expect how he will react under pressure?

Talk about shameless. What business does he have attacking Palin on a Bridge she did indeed kill but both he and Biden supported? How can he attack her on earmarks when he has taken home almost three quarters of a BILLION dollars in pork?
He’s starting to step in it big time. When you’re forced into attacking the other tickets No.2, you’ve got problems…

Obama is completely out of control. Is this what we can expect how he will react under pressure?
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How is that?

I can’t wait to see Palin interviewed by the tough-as-nails Charlie Gibson, who will no doubt ask her “do you believe a woman should be forced to bear her rapists child?”

State polls mean everything. BO and McSame tied in VA. BO up in Michigan. So with that we need either VA or CO & NM (where we are up by 5pts). Either way, winning VA will only be icing on the cake. the mavericks are toast!!

If McCain used and I quote from Obama “these poeple” to describe Obama, the whole racial divide and concure, racial profiling, and race baiting people from the left would be comming out of the woodwork to condemn him to race hell. But I guess thats how the whole libral double standard works. Notice it when a conservitive says it, ignore it when it is a black libral that says it.
(Excerpt below from the above article)
“The reason that you have this principle is not to be soft on terrorism, it’s because that’s who we are,” Obama said as the crowd rose to its feet, applauding. “That’s what we’re protecting. Don’t mock the constitution! Don’t make fun of it! Don’t suggest that it’s un-American to abide by what the founding fathers set up! It’s worked pretty well for over 200 years!
“These people!” Obama said.

How can he attack her on earmarks when he has taken home almost three quarters of a BILLION dollars in pork?
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Because he didn’t claim that he didn’t take it while she did.
IL received $25 for every IL resident on earmarks while Alsaka received $198.
See the differance? Oh and this year he requested nothing, but palin see that $198 that is hers

It is truly simple. If you are happy with your life the way it has been for the last 8 years then vote McCain….if you are not happy vote Obama. With unemployment rates highest in 5 years, soaring food prices, gasoline prices……the choice is easy.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Barack is getting desperate. This complete meltdown is going to be a joy to watch.
He’s gotten a free ride from the media and now … only now … does he have to answer to criticism. Bottom line – he can’t take it.

So who do all these republicans out here tonight want us to blame for the state of the economy.
Sarah P- “Fannie and Freddie have grown too big and expensive” – as vapid as it gets!!!

LMAO! A democrat calling somebody shameless for what they say on the campaign trail. Oh, this is good. Didnt somebody say, history to a Democrat starts today. Keep it up Obama keep shoveling.

KFED, if they are prisoners of war, then the Geneva Conventions apply, after all under our constitution they are US law.

“So who do all these republicans out here tonight want us to blame for the state of the economy.”
How about we start with your darlings in the Congress. You know the Majority liberal Democrat one with the lowest approval rating in history…you know the ones who won’t help America with it gas pump problems…you know the one led by your media circus madam..Nancy Pelosi..who spends her time whoring out her country for liberal radicals in her braindead constituency. How about we start there bro…

Being civil about this, and protecting other people’s rights, is what distinguishes us from the terrorist, whether they are American or Iraqi’s. If we grab them and throw them in Jail for the rest of their lives without as much as a reason, we are no better then them. We would just be bigger terrorists.

The only truth Palin’s ever
told is that she looks like
a Bull Dawg with lipstick.
The amoral, filthy
Republican party has finally
found their poster child.

Fight them, Sen. Obama, fight for us to take our country back!!!!

Watching Obama implode should be a complete joy. If he wants to talk about anybody being “shameless,” he should take a square look in the mirror. For some idiotic reason, he things he has the experience and qualities to be the president of the free world! What arrogance!

Olooser even lied about having to sighn up for the draft,he graduated in 79,the law didnt come back into effect until 1980.

Obama says: if the government grabs you, then you have the right to at least ask, ‘Why was I grabbed?’, True, true. It’s just easier to kill terrorists rather than bringing them off the battlefield and clogging the courts.

Habeas Corpus for Americans, not for terrorists?!
An American Court is an American Court.
American Justice is American Justice.
And we should be proud of that.

PRISONERS OF WAR NOT U.S. CITIZENS!
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No Enemy Combatants, the Supreme Court has ruled that they do have the right. Now then if the Bush Admin decides that they want to call them Prisoners of War that is something different again

SHAME, SHAME, FLIM FLAM OBAMAMAN! You need to reevaluate your “change” platform! Everybody is wary of your kind of change – we have heard your mentor, friend and Pastor Wright talk about his hatred for the US government and things he/they don’t like about it! Are you going to bring about the kind of change they want? How about Louis Farrakhan – are you going to bring about the kind of change he wants? No one trusts you Flim Flam Obamaman!
President Elect McCain and Vice President Elect Palin will bring the kind of change and reform that America needs and wants. They aren’t stealing your code words – they are reiterating that they and only they will bring about the change that America needs and wants.
And you keep saying – these people! If you were speaking about black people, you’d be in big trouble. You need to know how to address people if you want to run in International circles. It just would not go there and for that matter, here!
In addition, everybody now knows that you can’t get your point across effectively. You are always having to go back and explain what you said. Why doesn’t America get you? Because we just don’t believe you ever! There are too many unanswered questions about you – we don’t know who you are. Even after we hear you speak we say – what? I don’t think it is because you can’t speak well – it’s just that when your words come out – they are interpreted as your not meaning what you say. You are not credible!
So when – these people – say something about you – they mean it and we understand it! That is why you will be, yet, another losing Democratic bid for the White House. In addition to being inexperienced and unvetted, you are not credible!
THE FLIM FLAM OBAMAMAN – BETTER KNOWN AS – BARACK HUSSEIN SOETORO OBAMA

orangecat,
Just for your info, the Pres. does not set domestic policy, The do nothing Dem led Congress does.
All has gone to hell in this country since2006 when the Dems took control of Congress.
Blame those who are responsible for the “mess” we are in, not someone who has no control over domestic policy, i.e. the President!!!

Obama and the democrats ARE more interested in the rights of terrorists than about protecting America. Gov. Palin did not have to tell me this. What better proof could one get than the actions of democrats in Congress? Lets go and give terrorists rights… But it’s elections time, democrats, “the chickens are coming home…”

Republicans are crying about democrats in congress. Well if the they were doing their work well, they will still be in power. What do they have to show for all those years, ZILCH. Now they have the nerve to question the democratic congress. Shameless indeed

InnominateUser:
Do you actually believe what you write? Obama is going to be the next POTUS and you can take that to the bank! THE GOP has NO IDEA what is about to hit them. I don’t believe it was the Obama camp that made the desperate pick of Caribou Barbie a day before the campaign. Duh – who sounds desperate. It’s a damn shame they didn’t know she is illiterate – that’s why she can’t talk to the press lol lol Gee it’s hard learning all those names of the other 49 States!

Oh yeah, and I forgot. Obama’s too Black for this country. He spends 20 months out in the media spotlight and people are still saying “Oohh, I don’t know. I just don’t know him enough yet. Besides, I think he’s too inexperienced.”
Four days after the pitbull’s released and America’s GUSHING over her. “We love her. She’s like one of us. She’s got WAYYY more experience than Obama. You know, like Alaska’s right next to Russia. That’s international experience!”
Segregation wasn’t long ago enough. People will say he’s ‘arrogant’ and that’s why they won’t vote for him. Bull. He’s black.
(Oh and I’m white, so all of you who will say I’m pulling the race card – look in the mirror first.)

well, maybe Obama may have to actually say what he stands for than just give the same ole speech each ad every day. Oh wait a minute, just look at his voting record… oh no, he never votes, just says he is present.
hmmmm
There must be a reason he doesn’t really want anyone to know what he stands for.

Ever notice how the blowhards who promote never ending war do so with other people’s lives. It’s easy yo be brave when you’ve never seen the inside of a uniform. My advice to guys like Mark L — enlist.

Obama is like a 3 year old crying on the playground. When his nursemaids run to assist, he manages to blurt out through the frantic whimpers “He looked at me!” wwwwaaaaaaaaaa!

“Sarah Palin probably thinks “habeas corpus” is some type of flower.”-Miranda
You bet, lol
Tim Kaine is not experienced but SP is. He runs a larger state and for longer. Such hypocrisy, I guess its a prerequisite to register as a…

US Vet – I deal in facts not wishful thinking and the fact that Vets are donating to the Obama campaign 6 to 1 over McCain does not show much support for your candidate. A poll is a measure of enthusiasm on a given day. Cash talks. You stated: “you are really out of touch with our family. Obama does not respect our sacrifice at all! And his BS about signing up for Selective Service as some means to have military experience is a total slap in the face to the men and women that have and do wear the uniform.”
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First of all – tell that to my Great Uncle a POW of WW2. Secondly, I look at the legislative facts, not hyperbole.
Mccain:
Voted against Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments.
Voted against the new GI Bill. Oh wait, he didn’t actually show up for the vote. But I think McCain was quite clear about where he stood on that particular bill.
Voted against an amendment providing an additional $20 billion to VA medical facilities.
He was one of only 13 Senators voting against a VA bill for $430 million outpatient care and treatment funding for veterans
Voted against closing corporate loopholes to increase VA funding by $1.5 billion.
Voted against closing “abusive tax loopholes” to increase VA funding by $1.8 billion.
McCain has only a 20% rating from Disabled Veterans of America and received a D from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
Despite McCain’s claims to the contrary, he has a terrible voting record on military and veterans issues.
Obama:
Wants to fully fund the VA
Wants to allow all veterans to use VA services once again
Wants to combat homelessness among veterans
Wants to fight veteran employment discrimination
Wants to help soldiers transition back into civilian life
Wants to improve mental health treatment and care for traumatic brain injury
Obama’svoting record in the Senate actually supports his claims that he wants to help military families and veterans.
Obama also co-sponsored two important pieces of legislation still pending:
S.2963, “A bill to improve and enhance the mental health care benefits available to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, to enhance counseling and other benefits available to survivors of members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and for other purposes.”
S.2899, The Veterans Suicide Study Act
Obama has an 80% rating from Disabled Veterans of America

McCain can’t tell ethnic groups in Middle East apart… still thinks Czechoslovakia exists… and shafted veterans in the GI Bill vote. You republicans are living in the twilight zone.
It’s also pathetic to see Reps be more excited about Palin than about your actual presidential candidate. You folks got it backwards. You actually prefer Palin to be president! Sad.

Sen. Obama, please continue to fight for the middle class. You are our voice and you have our support. Don’t ever doubt that. We hope that you will continue to expose the shamelessness and hypocrisy of your opponents. They’re despicable and will employ all kinds of dirty tricks to win the elections. But they will not, because Americans are not that stupid.

The constitution doesn’t apply to non US citizens, especially those who are our enemies. Palin was dead on about you and you know it!
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The Supreme Court ruled otherwise, but I defer to you Tim as I am sure that is what McCain would want me to do.

Thanks goodness for Obama for sharing true American ideals.
McCain/Palin campaign is full of lies regarding their voting record, political ties, connection to lobbyists, and support of programs like the Bridge to Nowhere.

Barack is imploding, his collapse is imminent.
I’m not only expecting McCain to win but win in a landslide.

If Palin could grasp any issue with constitutional law…
you know the thing that actually made this country great…
instead of subjegating facts and science to her church beliefs…
maybe she would understand why law is important why willing it doesn’t catch anybody…
you actually have to have a plan that goes after them …maybe she could talk to her boss about that…
maybe she could point out that he’s got our focus where the terrorists AREN’T.
Meanwhile she screws up her comments on the banks
her first question so far
1 question one completely inept answer
3567 to go…
maybe she should spend less time attacking Obama …and more time doing her homework from joe lieberman every night.
atleast read the cliffnotes completely Sarah.

for shamelessness and dishonesty.
This is coming from a Chicago politician… Someone who supports Mayor Daley when an $8 million dollar contract had to be rebid after an inside deal with his nephew. Who in this country trusts a Chicago politician?

ED Palin does not approve of abortion for incest and rape.This is “trashing her”??? Maybe you want the government to control your wife’s and daughter’s reproductive decisions but it’s not ok with me.Everyone has the right to know where she stands on the issues and if you and she don’t like well too bad.

Really. You’re focusing on Ayers? An association that is minimal and for which there is no evidence that Obama ever supported or contributed to any of Ayers’ activities with the Weather Underground. That’s what you’re focusing on? You’re not concerned that the McCain, Palin, and the other speakers at the RNC lied repeatedly to you? Much the same way the GOP has been lying to us for the last eight years?
No connection between Iraq and 9/11. Meanwhile, Bin Laden is still free. The Taliban is expanding again in Pakistan. Our military is stretched just about as thin as it can get. Most of the world dislikes us, if they don’t outright hate us. (And yes, contrary to what small minded, xenophobic, ignorant people think…that does in fact matter.)
By no means am I excusing Democrats because frankly…they’ve dropped the ball along the way too. But Obama wants to talk about policy and things that actually matter in our lives. The McCain campaign wants to make this a personality contest. They don’t want to talk about unemployment, the mortgage crisis, out-of-control energy consumption (And hey…offshore oil drilling in federal waters won’t really cut prices at the gas pump…just an fyi), or health care. They’re lying to you.
And yet…you’re focusing on Ayers. Or how elitist Obama supposedly is. Or how he’s secretly a Muslim. Don’t you care about rising unemployment? Don’t you care about people losing their homes? Don’t you care about your grandchildren inheriting a damaged planet? How can you not be angry about what has happened in this country in the last eight years? How can you laugh about the erosion of our constitutional rights? How can you label someone who cares about actually preserving the things that make us Americans as unpatriotic? How can you accept the constant lying from Bush, McCain and now Palin?
I don’t understand how anyone in this country can possibly condone the hateful, spiteful, divisive rhetoric that I heard coming from the RNC last week. I don’t understand how anyone can accept a campaign that says the issues don’t matter in this election. I don’t have health care, and I’ve taken out thousands of dollars in student loans to pay for my education. So I can teach children one day to think for themselves. Not accept whatever line some pundit or politician is shoveling at them.
I’m patently offended and disgusted that someone would have the audacity to tell me this campaign shouldn’t focus on energy policies and health care, but instead…it should be about irrelevant issues like Ayers.

Joe Biden voted 3 times against a bill until his son was hired by MBNA in Delaware. The next time it came up he voted for it. The bill favored MBNA and Biden says it’s not how it looks. Sounds like a LAME duck to me…

Democrats still have time to pull Obama from the presidential race. He is way below John Kerry or Al Gore at this point in the polls. Hillary has a better chance in an open election.

Mc7lobbyistinmycampaign is going to shake up Washington, how about shake up your campaign?

Ayers? Seriously? Thats all you got? Socialist? For real? Comments made by conservatives sound like my 14 yr old daughter. Grow up.

” Maybe you want the government to control your wife’s and daughter’s reproductive decisions but it’s not ok with me.”
She’s pro life. THANK GOD. What’s sad is trying to scare people into thinking that’s going to make her views forcibly yours. That’s truly low, and quite frankly pathetic. It’s also backfiring on your party in epic proportions..keep it up.

“Our Constitution is there to protect CITIZENS of America, not those with whom we are at war.
There is no such thing as habeas corpus rights for prisoners of war, whether a lib thinks there should be or not!!!”
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Now, here’s my question, KFED: the Geneva Convention was put in place to make sure that soldiers fighting in wars would be ensured a level of human treatment that could be called habeus corpus. How are our soldiers meant to feel any chance at humane treatment if we are locking up enemies and either torturing them or throwing away the key?
I know that a lot of people watch too much “24″ and think that crap actually works, but stacks of studies show that it doesn’t. You get false info out of terrified people. (You also end up imprisoning taxi drivers for half a decade.) What does work? Friendly coercion, among other things.
So it’s not about being a bleeding heart liberal. It’s about caring how our soldiers are treated, and actually paying attention to what forms of information collecting WORK.

Obama will protect and defend the constitution more than the Republicans because he is a constitutional scholar whereas McCain and Palin probably don’t understand the spirit and the letter of the constitution. Todd seems like the cool Alaskan dude. Wonder whether he is sedated to put up with his high energy wife, while his wife Sarah seems high on drugs (Caffeine). McCain is temperamental and if he becomes the president he needs to be kept away from the red button or from making other rash decisions. The only real cool ticket is Obama-Biden but if they don’t expose the dishonesty of their opponents they will be in for a surprise. Obama always remained cool through the primaries and will remain cool through the election. He has a plan and the gallup polls don’t make a difference.

Jack,
That is an incredibly interesting post about Barak “horse”….where can that be documented?

Rebecca, if most of the world hates us then why is it that most of the liberal governments that trash-talked us have been thrown out of office and replace with conservative ones? France, Germany, Canada… all replaced liberal leaders with conservatives. The fact of the matter is most liberal news media around the world hated us, much like MSNBC. Its a shame all countries don’t have a Fox News where you can hear the other (true) side.

Is it me or is Barack incoherent these days?
Barack is one to call people shameless and liars.
Sarah Palin killed the bridge to nowhere. So what if she changed her mind after the cost doubled? She made the right decision.
Barack Obama voted for the Bridge To Nowhere…and never changed his mind. He voted AGAINST using the money for Katrina relief.
John Kerry made the right decision, and then changed it to the wrong decision.
I think the winner of this is clear.
…and why is Obama calling her a “shameless liar”?
Hope? Change? New Politics?
Not…

It would seem that Obama’s “political skin” is as thin as his resume. I do not ever recall any politician whining and crying about the campaign process the way he does. Yes it is rough, but already it seems he does not have the right stuff to get through it let alone be Commander in Chief of the United States.
I ask you, if Obama gets elected (God help us), what is going to happen the first time Ahmadinejad or Kim Jong-il junior, or some other punk ass says boo to The Chosen One? He will probably start to cry before he huffs “these people!”

LeLe- did you mis-post? What are you talking about? The post names are BELOW the comments.

Just what we need…more lawyers in the White House! Smartest people on the planet…just ask one.

How many meetings did Obama convene on his oversight committee on Afghanistan? Could they not have discussed ways to get Osama Bin Laden?
He convened ZERO meetings. ZERO.
That is the real ZEROBAMA.

“After viewing “Obama Exposed” last night on CNN, I am ready to support Barrack 100% for Mayor of Chicago.”
Yeah they really need a good community organizer….
/snicker

Democrats are hilarious in their arguments…so much emotion, so little substance
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“This campaign will not be about issues”- Rick Davis, McSame campaign chairman

McCain & Palin are nothing but outright liars. They both have been caught in one lie after another.They are deceiving you every day, and just because they say somehting does not mean it is true.
You guys who still believe their lies are stupid. Yeah that’s right. He thinks you are stupid, and YOU ARE STUPID…for believing him
The worst economic record is happening right under your nose, and you want to give the repugs another chance? He thinks you are stupid, and YOU ARE STUPID for believing him.
McCain backed Bush 95% of the time, and he says he is going to change Washington? He IS Washington, and he voted for all the terrible things that are happening today! He thinks you are stupid, and YOU ARE STUPID….for believing him.
Fool me once shame on you, Fool me twice…sahme on me. Fool me three times…I am stupid. That is what you are …STUPID.

This is rediculus name one thing that maverick john has done that is different than that compassionate conervative bozo

JOe – We all live in your neighborhood.

Wefdog
Correction….The Middle East “is” eating him alive.

It’s beginning to shape that way, McCain by a probable landslide.

Sam
why don’t you post the plans and “changes” that Mccain and palin have to get us out of this mess…
and please don’t say keep this…and keep that…
that would be the road we are on…
and show me the answers and knowledge that they have on any issue out of mcCain adn the surge quelling violence…
how about the economy?
how about our dependence on oil …and the fact that drilling only gets the oil out of the ground and the people who get it out of the ground put up to the world market…they have to…and like McCain’s big plans with oil in iraq…we get outbid by china
oh and that oil they want to drill …even if we drilled everywhere it would add 3-4% to the world supply…it doesn’t go back to America directly
did you all know that
so what are they planning …really planning with details for theat problem?
they are blowing smoke up you a@@.
McCain palin is the same false campaign that was run in 2000 and 2004.
same one same plans, same policies, same ethics, same tactics, same players…
same lobbyist leadership team…
what are they going to do and what knowledge of ANY of the issues can you show me where either of those two answered questions in detail with follow ups like Obama and Biden have done in the past 2 days in their interviews
because if you didn’t see them then you missed a lot of plans…
and a lot of answers to the horrible questions we are facing
Palin…silence…like the same wall that blocked out the scandals and mistakes of the last 8 years.

“It is not very presidential of Obama to say things like; these people, not the first time he is insulting the American people”
I’m sorry but if you’re an American and you don’t respect the constitution, you are not a true American.

Some of you people need to get your information from credible news sources other than Limbaugh and Hannity.

America is going to hell in a handbasket – the religious conservatives should appreciate that reference.
With this much partisanship & hate, and with this much ignorance & attachment to old ways, we’re all doomed.
OR…. are we?
Stewart/Colbert ’08!!!

Who would you trust…an attorney or certified patriot?

Jack it didn’t say that Palin stopped the bridge
it said that she said…the congress wasn’t going to give them enough money in the earmark to do it.
then she kept the money
and ignored the other earmarked bridge that is twice as costly and almost as controversial…just up the bay from the other one.
yeah she said nothing about that one…and kept the money…
this woman is bad…
the worst Presidential decision for the country …throwing the nation under the bus for his own election

Never underestimate the Stupidity of the American public. The Republicans havn’t and look how much it’s paying off.

OMG O’Reily is eating Obama alive lmao

The more I hear Obama speak, he’s not presidential.

Angelene, welfare is not a business.

Oh Jake thanks for telling us what that big word means. :)

Make no mistake about my wife and I have donated to Obama and will vote for him. Since we own our own home and bring over $100,000 a year I can’t wait til McCain wins. When enough of you lose your healthcare, jobs and homes and maybe your diginty I’ll still be sitting here wondering how the hell all of you voted for another 4 years of Republican rule.
Best of luck!!!

I’m 57, fought aggressively against the Viet War and my last Presidential vote was ’92 for Perot.
Each 4 years I look to see if there is someone running who I can keep my lunch down long enough to get thru the voting exercise. It starts with the candidates being able to show at the least that they are grownup enough to communicate with each other in a civil manner.
Now I can’t say if I can vote for McCain yet, but I can now say I will definitely not be able to vote for Obama. When he called McCain / Palin liars he crossed the line of civility that is of great importance to me. We need as a people/nation to stop this name calling or all is lost.

Donald Neeley
the truth is the mortgage crisis is a direct effect from the Republican congress…adn the deregulation that Mr Gramm championed through that congress…on both banking, and energy.
do you know Mr. Gramm the guy who wrote the enron loophole
yeah …you also might know him because he literally wrote John mcCain’s economic policy
you know the one that is just a xerox of Bush’s…you know the last 8 years…
plus whatever gramm slipped in between the lines.
throw the bums out.

Thanks LDC, I will be happy as a lark WHEN McCain wins!

Obama just makes me sick. He is sooo condescending. This is what the country needs– a law professor wannabe to lecture small town America about the constitution. This guy has never done anything long enough to get really good at it and this is no exception.
NObama!

steve
but she lied.
she did not tell the congress thanks but no thanks on that bridge
congress wasn’t looking like they were going to give her enough money for it in the earmark.
so she told the voters of the state of Alaska exactly that…then kept the money.
that is a lie.

donald neeley–great repug talking point, take the fact that repugs have been running the economy for the past 8 years and blame the fannie mae bailout on the democrats and obama; brilliant!

Poor Obama. He’s been unmasked for being nothing more than a talking suit. Keep crying and singing the blues. It looks so presidential.
As for Palin trying to get money for Alaska, that’s the job of an executive, to get as much as he or she can for they city/state they represent. She was doing her job and apparently doing it well.
~~ You mean like getting earmarks for your constituency? Obama IQ = 2XPalin+4XMcCain
McCain = 90% Bush
Palin = Bushette

John, I’m with you. I’m a Democrat who is very grateful for a comfortable living and I’ll still vote Dem. I just don’t understand the accusation that we’re all socialists. I don’t have a problem with intelligent and moderate Republicans. I have a serious problem with neocons like Bush, Cheney and Palin. At the same time, I have a serious problem with socialism. I actually support free trade and foreign investments. So when I hear people call me a Commie and I’m dumbfounded.
Anyway, glad you and your wife are doing well!!

YOU ALL NEED TO REMEMBER THAT MCPALIN REDNECKS AND LOW INFORMATION VOTES DO NOT USE THE INTERTUBES…THEY ARE ALL PAID CAMPAIGN BLOGGERS. NO ONE WOULD ACTUALLY WRITE THIS IGNORANT CRUD UNLESS THEY WERE GETTING PAID TO DO SO.
PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELF ON BARACK OBAMA HE IS THE REAL DEAL….WHOSE WORD ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE? THE PEOPLE WHO CANNOT ADMIT THAT BUSH IS HORRIBLE OR THE PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO STOP BUSH EVEN UNDER THREAT?

I have to admit, it’s just downright odd the way Obama has changed as a candidate since Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate.
Obama used to be the one to fascinate, the cool personality. He was suave, didn’t dare attack opponents like he does now. Now he just looks like a really bad politician. Mockery never won anyone the presidency (think Al Gore’s eye roll during the debates).
We all knew that the day would come when Obama wouuld be forced to transition from being a star to just being a regular politician, but nobody thought it would be this soon.
I almost feel bad for him. Just a month ago he was so arrogant he thought he could speak in Germany at Branderburg Gate.

ludwig
Obama has more knowledge on foreign policy because he has shown us with the thousand or so questions he has been thrown and answered in detail and adeptly with several follow ups
Mccain on his second one even on iraq…
goes for the joke…the anger…or drum roll “POW”
Palin has shown us…uh…nothing!
and mccain screws up anything outside the word surge…
freakin he screws up on Iraq…hios so called specialty…oy.

Somehow Obama, the “constitutional law professor”, professes that we instinctively know the difference between a suspected terrorist and an innocent citizen.
The problem IS that virtually ALL terrorists will claim innocence and demand protection of the law. That is part of the terrorist training manual.
Obama is way off base in this issue.

I’m not going to be lectured by Barack Obama on shameless behavior. Perhaps that makes me a bitter person as he would say…

Ludwig
Check your facts, these are EMPLOYEES of these companies if you are interested in the truth just check FEC reports filed by the campaign.

Ynot….
Where did you hear those rumors?

Do people actually buy ‘change in Washington’ message comming fom McCain campaign? Maybe I’m crazy, but where exactly was McCain employed last 20+ years??? And, again I may be wrong, was it not his party that had both congress and presidency for 6 out of last 8 years? Change…maverick…so I voted with the president 95% of the time, but i sure want to “drain that Washington swamp”. I mean, people actually beleive this????

Obama has Senate experience, working on national issues. He also has been in presidential race against Hillary of all people, where he has crafted the best assembly of advisors and talent ever for presidential race and has honed the most thought out, nuanced policies on everything national and internationl. McCain griped a lot, but every time he pulls out his Vetoin’ Pen, Obama should pull out his Blackberry and point out that as a real reformer he put all the earmarks on the internet. Perhaps if Cindy’s carpal tunner isn’t too bad she can google it for him. And Palin? She eats a mean moose, that deserves a spot on the ticket.
Obama = REAL CHANGE
Biden = MALE HILLARY
MCCain = 0.9 BUSH
Palin = Bushette

where are the answers?
where are the changes?
where are the detailed discussions from weither of the Mccain palin ticket on anything to get us out of ANY mess
drill dril drill
is not an energy policy…
it is a cheer…for the dumb.
and picking a woman for your VP who does not put science and facts over her faith…
is not answering what changes you are going to do to solve the mortgage crisis…
the economy bologne (and continuing an already failing tax policy as a way to get us out of this is not a change OR an answer)
getting help from our allies again who hate the idea of America being stupid enough to fall for this Palin thing… (a candidate who has avbsolutely no grasp or knowledge on a single issue we are facing).
dealing with al qaeda who now that we caused a wasps nest to be bashed around in Iraq in the middle east has migrated all over the world and grown bigger and angrier…
an ignored and taunted (because that is exactly what many will call the President of Georgia’s actions right or wrong before Russia invaded and after people like Jow Biden were telling the Georgian President to stop hie behavior…a President who was emboldened by his lobbyist, Scheuneman who is Mccain’s lead foreign policy adviiser now)
what about healthcare…what change are you planning Mccain palin? nothing…oh okay.
where are the answers where are the changes that they have been chanting for three days now…
blowing smoke and bologne just like Palin’s candidacy as someone who wasn’t a rove tactic just like the last 8 years throwing the country under the bus for political gain)
where are the answers, plans, changes that are going to help us?

dl, please note that earmarks are sent to states WITHOUT the approval or disproval of local officials. They are sent by state congressional (FEDERAL) reps. Yes, Palin did keep the money (congress sent half of what was earmarked) since it was coming anyway and used it for statewide transportation projects. If you read about the campaign for governor in 2006, Palin talks about a link to Ketchikan, not a bridge. As usual these issues are complex, but as gov. she did not build the bridge and spent the money where it was needed on other infrastructure projects.

Somebody has to ask the question, if Obama has raised and spent millions and millions of dollars, how has McCain managed to catch up to him in the polls. Why can’t Obama close the deal? Isn’t it fair to say that he’s literally wasted millions of dollars campaigning so far? Why would we want a guy like that in charge? Trust me, I don’t like John McCain one bit. But there is a reality here that we Democrats need to own up to.

“Obama also mocked the new TV ad put out by the McCain campaign claiming that Palin ‘stopped the Bridge to Nowhere.’
“I gotta admit these folks are shameless,” Obama said, “because the record is indisputable,” he said, describing how Palin had originally supported the project.
“I wouldn’t do that,” Obama said.
Yeah, sure – then why did you and Biden each actually vote *for* the wasteful bridge in the US Senate?
Very few Americans are as stupid as he thinks…

Where oh where has Michelle gone? Oh where oh where can she be?

Concerned in OH,
Hill wont go for that because she is looking forward to 2012…..she is planning on NObama losing.

Obama is an empty suit reading Jimmy Carter speeches. There is no substance or follow through on anything.

According to Yahoo News Davis said Palin has not been treated fairly by the media so far. “Why would we want to throw Sarah Palin into a cycle of piranhas called the news media.”
Now Schmit, Rove and Davis have successfully in advertising terms branded the media as Piranhas who have sharp teeth and are aggressive with a appetite. This is what they were thinking – Piranhas! If you pick up any paper in the heartland of America there is a reference to this in one form or anther.
I thought of a quick response to this – Democrat’s courting voters Who love Nature with the following videos – Trained Goldfish Performs Amazing Tricks! and Dolphin play bubble rings and Killer Whale and Trainer.
Ok lets not kid ourselves, The Republican attack machine is charging right now, feeling confident with a three point lead over Obama/Biden. Can a Gold Fish, Dolphin and Orca Whale Trainer extraodinaire, John Hargrove take them on and save America this election cycle? Do you think my quick response will work?
Now for Habeas Corpus – lets see how about a General Colin Powell endorsement for Obama? If we can’t have General Colin Powell’s endorsement then lets court the General’s fans. I’m working on this concept in a little storage room where I parked my computer. My goal is to clone Winston Churchill!
Barack Obama is a distance cousin of Sir Winston Churchill. I love Churchill’s great speech – “We shall fight them on the beach” Clone now Human Sir Winston Churchill will then endorse Obama/Biden. The World will be safe. It runs in the family. Of course this Winston will adapt to the times.

McCain/Palin are Mavericks!
Obama/Biden are hopey and dopey.
“these people” sounds like Rev Wright and his attacks on America.

Senator Nobama NEVER gives a straight answer to a question. NEVER!

I have just read through most of the posts above and must say…. your politics is so bogged down in personal smears on two men who are seeking the best for your country (and mine by poor association). The politics of America is something that I would not like to see exported anywhere in the globe.
I note the other interesting fact is that your claim freedom of speech, liberty and justice and do nothing to practice any of it…
I feel really sad for your society.

Republicans are just protecting themselves. Go ahead and vote for McCain you non-business having, getting trickled on, tax paying fools. The world is not divided into black, white, brown or yellow; it is divided into haves and have-nots. The best way to keep the have-nots poor, it to keep them worried about other racial groups. Have fun being scared.

To dl:
You are completely missing the point. I’m looking for a candidate strong enough to take the high road.
One having the fortitude that made this country what it is (maybe was at this point).
Whether the other side is lying or not, calling them liars is second class and shows no character. I want a grownup in the most important job in the world. Calling other people liars is not that person.

Interesting how the insults and childish assaults fly when all of a sudden you’re loosing!

We can’t afford Robin Hood Obama!!
If he wants to give to the poor let him and RICH SOCIALIST friends donate (redistribute their wealth) to whatever cause or income level they choose.
Just don’t STEAL my hard earned money!!

westcoastlighty
the rove tactics that got an inept and ignorant of the issues candidate like
Bush elected…it is a pwerful slimey hide and seek campaign and tactics…
Gore lost, Kerry lost…
both with great smart credentials…better than Bush’s by far… and Woodwards book is literally recording and reporting now…that Bush wasn’t savvy enough to answer questions because he was ill informed …because he has Bush saying he didn’t go to the war meetings…because he had a lot to do…what meetings did he go to
this was going to be the battle no matter who was the candidate…Bush Cheney and the gang are good at running…
and barack has shown…he’s the best we got at running… sorry he beat a huge legacy in the primary…
this Mccain campaign is being run on the same tactics and same shoulders of the people who hid wmd and fooled a nation into a war…
who hid the chronyism and failures of katrina
who hid meetings on energy behind closed doors before andd after we went to war…
whocalled the press unpatriotic and “liberal” when they tried to call them on it…
who hid judicial appointments
who his smear campaigns from the VP’s office…
who …
I mean the list goes on…
this was always going to cvome down to a literal battle of good vs. evil
and yes whether you think Bush is evil or cheney is evil or rove is evil or not…
what they did over the past 8 years with all the cover ups and secrecy (That Mccain is clearly showing he will be comfortable continuing)
was and is evil.
and as hokey as it sounds…
good, is gonna win.
throw the bums out.

Obama and Biden’s only plans for change is to take more money from those who have actually earned it and give it to people who have not. I guess Obama wants to make things “fair”.
Listening to his convention acceptance speech was a re-run of tired old Democrat talking points. Everyone is a victim that needs to be helped by Uncle Sam.
Obama likes to pretend he is the new JFK. He is just the opposite. JFK was strong on defense. JFK asked us to do for our country — Obama wants our country to do everything for us. JFK would not recognize today’s Democrat Party.

I think Clinton summed it up the best “ Who do you trust??? A Man that promises everything but can deliver nothing. Or someone who you agree with on only half of the issues but can deliver on everything.
Vote McCain/Palin and remember…
Obama is an empty suit reading Jimmy Carter Speeches (Obama – Kilpatrick)

Tough guys like Sarah Palin miss the point regarding Habeas Corpus. They think it’s being soft, but the reality is, if you’re holding the wrong person, you need to know that, because the REAL criminal is still at large! Wouldn’t she want to know that?
That’s why we have due process. Sarah Palin wouldn’t keep us safe because she’d just lock people up and think she’d solved case!

I just can not wait for the debates
to see who finished first in his class (Obama) and who finished fifth from the bottom of his class (McCain).

I know Obama has been very busy and cannot write all of his speeches but he really needs to stop having Michelle write them. She’s the bomb!

Barack, GO GET THEM!

I think Clinton summed it up the best “ Who do you trust??? A Man that promises everything but can deliver nothing (Obama). Or someone who you agree with on only half of the issues but can deliver on everything. This is coming from your own people (Democrats).
Vote McCain/Palin and remember…
Obama is an empty suit reading Jimmy Carter Speeches (Obama – Kilpatrick)

Never before had the Democrats a worse
ticket than the current one. And that
includes Jimmy Carter, who is proof that
peanuts are dangerous to your brain.

30yrdem-not any more
there are a lot of people lying on here but it ain’t the dems…
and you were never a dem if you would vote for a ticket with Palin on it…
hawk
anti belief in man made global warming
faith over fact
women’s equality out the window
anti stem cell
anti choice
anti anything the clintons the gores …even some of what the old Mccain use to stand for…
so no if you can vote for that ther is no way you were a democrat… unless you had a stroke and a complete ethics reordering on the future of the world.

Obama finished 75th out of 86 in his Law School class. I guess the duh’s and umms between arguments didn’t win him extra credit points? He has accomplished NOTHING! No legislation, no new ideas. Socialistic rhetoric can get you only so far. I believe in personal responsibility, small government and lower taxes..and The Bill of Rights!!!

Why doesn’t Obama go after McCain’s quick to take action. There’s video out there with McCain openly admitting he can sometimes make a decision too quickly, later to find out it was a mistake. Don’t know where I saw it. Obama said in his speech if McCain wanted a debate on temperment bring it on. McCain is known to have a short fuse. Is that someone you want taking that 3 am call?

Obama = Jimmy Carter II

I think Clinton summed it up the best “ Who do you trust??? A Man that promises everything but can deliver nothing. Or someone who you agree with on only half of the issues but can deliver on everything.
Vote McCain/Palin and remember…
Obama is an empty suit reading Jimmy Carter Speeches (Obama – Kilpatrick)

Seriously, if people would vote on the issues and not race, it would be a landslide by OBAMA. Our country is at the lowest that it has been in a long time. For the past EIGHT years, the economy has gone down at a steady rate, WHY would anyone want more of the same?? Vote for change, because seriously, I don’t think that it can get any worst. But if you stick with the same ol, same ol, what can you expect?? Obama and his wife have every right to speak out against Palin, McCain and anyone else who’s said ill stuff towards/about them. The time has come to stand up and vote for what matters most. The Future of America.

Obama lost the election already. Maybe he can help his buddy Tony Rezko with his appeal now.

This time will shape up up exactly like 2004. Kerry pretty much did himself in back then and ZEROBAMA is twice as bad.
I love my non-lib friends because they do not whine.

think Clinton summed it up the best “ Who do you trust??? A Man that promises everything but can deliver nothing. Or someone who you agree with on only half of the issues but can deliver on everything.
Vote McCain/Palin and remember…
Obama is an empty suit reading Jimmy Carter Speeches (Obama – Kilpatrick)

I loved Barack Obama’s remarks. Truth told, without haebeas corpus, we’re wasting our time chasing after a lot of people who aren’t terrorits. Look at Abu Ghraib. According to the Red Cross, about 90% of the prisoners of Abu Ghraib had nothing to do with terrorism. (Some prioners were criminals – but NOT terrorists.
So we were torturing a lot of people to get information that they couldn’t give us. Or some times they gave us phony information while real terrorists were mudering our troops.
The Constitution is not only an ideal, but a darn smart document. It saves the taxpayers time and money. Thank you, Obama, for reminding us.
As for Sarah Palin,some one who disses the basic premises of the Constitution has no business running for any thing, not even dog catcher of Wasilla.

Hey, all you soldiers on the battlefield, all you guys looking down from those predator drones, you may THINK the guy with the AK 47 was the guy who shot your buddy but you COULD be wrong! Or the guy you captured with a trunk load of missiles and bombs in his car didn’t REALLY mean it when he was working for Al Qaida for 5 years. After all, he’s just a poor cab driver who didn’t have a clue what he was doing.
Capture him, bring him to the US, get him an attorney and let’s see if he REALLY was the guy who shot your friend. After all he needs same habeus corpus rights ALL Americans have!!!!

The McCain campaign has stolen:
* Bush’s failed policies
* American flags from the Obama campaign
* Change message from the Obama campaign
* Songs
McCain is more of the same. Vote Obama.

The democrats do not deserve to win. It’s been 8 years of pure hatred for Bush starting from the minute he was elected, and that’s before 911 and Irag. The democrats wished total failure on Bush even before he took office. That’s some deserving party. Obama is just a twenty years with Reverend Wright-hatred, posture- politician, promoting more hatred with his manipulative statements, and given all benefit because he’s half black. What a joke. All these haters putting their hopes behind this guy because party comes before country. Pathetic, self-conscious, self-righteous,elite hate-mongers. Obama is an Axelrod- Chicago-thug politician in sheep’s clothing. Sarah Palin is so fresh in comparison. The democrats deserve to lose because they put hatred and party before country and solving problems. How will they howl if they lose again!

Maybe if he had picked Hillary—even though–she should have been at the top, he wouldn’t find his star power fizzling out faster than a dud fireworks. He never had substance, only hype, and now that he is out-hyped, he’s got nothing.

Home failures, OIl price hike, employment rate hike, banking problems ,etc all started when Dems took over congress. ( check the data) , The president signs bills, congress writes. We need to throw all the dems out. We need to adhere to low taxes, cut the budget .

Hey, Obama-
“”You can’t just make stuff up, you can’t just reinvent yourself,”
Obama in Flint Michigan
Obama does it every other day.

I can understand the comments on both sides, but Obama is coming up short in my neighborhood. It really isn’t that people think he is a bad guy, he isn’t, in fact he is a great American success story. What I seem to find is that most of my friends just think McCain has more experience and has a history of taking on Washington grid lock. I know others feel different, but it is almost weird how many people have said that to me. Especially many independents and democrats. The same folks who have supported Levin in the past. Take it for what you will, but Detroit Suburbs seem to be really moving to McCain.

I have a question…
Can anyone tell me what is so good about the prospect of moving the country in a progressive direction?
Honestly, don’t spout off a bunch of talking points as your answer. Tell me exactly what you mean when you say you want a progressive agenda for our country.
You won’t change my mind, I’ll be up front about that, I just want an honest answer to my question. So everyone can know exactly what you really stand for in this political season. For that matter, what you personally stand for, if you will just answer the question.
I’m for conservative/traditional values. I believe the best course for this country is strong defense, leadership of moral values based in Christianity, lower taxes, smaller government, personal responsibility, giving a hand up rather than a hand out, that individuals ought be self-sufficient and finally, I believe each and every one of us is accountable to God.
I just don’t understand progressive to mean anything I believe. As example, progress in the fields of medicine or science make perfect sense. Progress in sociology can never happen since there will always be someone yelling loud for something.
The best way I can explain progressive as I understand would be… comedy. Think of your favorite comedian or comedienne. After watching their performance has it ever occured to you that their act always seems to digress to just plain raunchy.
That is how I understand progressive to ultimately lead any nation. This isn’t an attack, it is just the way I understand and can articulate the argument.

Well to the Hillary supporters, if you are now voting for Mrs. Palin, good for you. Palin will enforce a non abortion platform in America. As a Hillary supporter myself, she doesn’t represent me.

What is totally clear is that Barack Obama and Joe Biden voted in the US Senate for the “Bridge to Nowhere”
Even Ted Stevens said that Palin did not support it…in the debate tape for election she was luke warm at best. And no one disagrees that she stopped it.
Obama is a liar…and I’m not sure the MSM will be able to keep propping him up.

McCain/Palin really got inside the argumentative Obama’s head. The guy is coming unglued! He is really rattled. The last time he was this rattled, he had his campaign smear the Clintons as racists. Too bad that isn’t going to work this time. Now the low class Obama is calling his opponents outright liars. I don’t think I can remember a candidate for President directly smearing his opponent as a liar. There are many, many things Obama has lied about during this election. People like him that live in glass houses shouldn’t be throwing stones.

Richard: Please detail where SG is
wrong?

I recently switch over as well, Obama offers nothing after you heard him a few times, and I like the idea of voting for a woman. He should have picked Hillary!

Palin wins hands down on belittling sarcasm. With sarcasm she would have nothing to say except her little fibs.

Obama made ONE BIG mistake ! He did
not pick Hillary – my vote goes to
McCain/Palin ! I know he would have had
a hard time controlling Bill and there-
fore I doubt he can deal with the big
problems that face our country.

It’s incredible how ignorant some of these McCain people are. All they can do is lie about Obama’s relationships with people. Obama meets someone through a community fundraiser and these fools want to make it sound like Obama is a close friend. If McCain is so great, why must you mutton heads lie all of the time?

who’s governing Alaska these days?

The policy prescriptions in John McCain’s acceptance speech tonight were nothing but retreads of the failed policies of the Bush-Cheney years:
He promised tax cuts for the rich and the corporations.
He promised “free trade” deals that hemorrhage American jobs.
He promised vouchers for people to pull their kids out of public schools.
He trashed the teachers’ unions.
He promised more deregulation of big business.
He promised more privatization of government services.
He promised judges who will curtail consumer protection, worker safety, and women’s reproductive rights.
He promised to continue the saber rattling and threats against Iran, Russia and any other country that defies U.S. hegemony.
He promised more militarization of our foreign policy.
He called for peace through war.

Seriously…. Do you think this nation is going to hand over our security, economy and wellbeing to a person who’s only achievements were the position of ” community organizer “, “election supervisor” and never took a pro or con stance on anything in the senate??? Why not reverse the positions Biden President (has experience) and Obama VP (needs the training).
More food for thought… If you are a Hillary supporter, do you think she will be up for running in 2016 if Obama is elected?
Vote McCain/Palin Folks (It’s a no brainer)

You are so full of hate and misinformation – the Republican party loves you. How long has it been since you’ve thought beyond a campaign slogan or a character assassination? There is a problem with Obama – he believes more in the American people than the Republicans do. They appeal to the lowest level and hope to draw it out and build on it – he believes they are smart enough and believe we can be better – I read these blogs and think – they are too brain washed by the politics to think on their own – God save us – let us hope there are enough voters out there to get us out of this cycle of hate.

Seriously…. Do you think this nation is going to hand over our security, economy and wellbeing to a person who’s only achievements were the position of ” community organizer “, “election supervisor” and never took a pro or con stance on anything in the senate??? Why not reverse the positions Biden President (has experience) and Obama VP (needs the training).
More food for thought… If you are a Hillary supporter, do you think she will be up for running in 2016 if Obama is elected?
Vote McCain/Palin Folks (It’s a no brainer)

He inspires me! Obama/Biden 2008

Why is that the same people who call republicans uneducated can’t wrap their minds around comparative advantage.
GRRRR, FREE TRADE BAD CUZ UNION SAY SO. GRRR.

Seriously…. Do you think this nation is going to hand over our security, economy and wellbeing to a person who’s only achievements were the position of ” community organizer “, “election supervisor” and never took a pro or con stance on anything in the senate??? Why not reverse the positions Biden President (has experience) and Obama VP (needs the training).
More food for thought… If you are a Hillary supporter, do you think she will be up for running in 2016 if Obama is elected?
Vote McCain/Palin Folks (It’s a no brainer)

How can you say Democrats give Americans more credit? Republicans actually trust people enough to believe they can live their own lives and be successful without the government telling how and when to do everything. People ARE smarter than democrats would let you believe. That is why there is such disconect between Democratic leaders (elitists) and the honorable rank and file democrats who are manipulated by being promised financial help from the government in exchange for their economic and social freedoms.

Something happened last week. The Dems
are rattled. It’s obvious on the Net,
cable “news”, and the print media. I’m
not quite sure what it is, but taking
a cue from Ohbama’s appearances today
and the general tenor of his campaign
surrogates, a new wind is blowing. Up
north, they call it a Chinook.

These comments are absolutely hillarious. I can not imagine how these people make it through the day with all of this fear they have.

Is it the fear or lack of true belief in their candidate that drives them to make these crazy comments?

Gov. Palin is doing a two day interview with no restrictions to the questions. So what is the complaint? She will also be going on the Sunday shows following the interview. Make your judgements after you see how she does. You might even like her after you listen to her.

You know people,Ayers is old enough to answer for himself. If you have a problem with what he allegedly did when Sen Obama was 8 years old then please take it up with him. As far as I know in the US of A, a person is considered an adult at the age of 18 years in which case even their own parents are not held responsible for what they do so why is Sen Obama being held responsible for what someone did many years ago, a man who has by all accounts, reformed his life and put it to good use to his community and thus his country.
This is another example of republican double standards, this party is looking more and more like the Pharisees in the bible. Do as I say not as I do mentality jugde the speck in your brother’s eye but totally ignore the big fat wood in your own eye. Remember as you judge others so will ya be judged!

Mr. Obama has to resort to the politics of personal destruction since he himself has no record, experience, or substance to justify his presidential aspirations. He is running primarily on ambition, rhetoric, and personality. It’s also quite a stretch for some commentators to compare Mr. Omaba’s experience with that of the incomparable Abraham Lincoln.

Mack – she lied. Her statement is contrary to documented facts. Yet the McCain campaign turned the lie into a campaign ad.
Clearly that doesn’t bother you, or many other McCain suppporters.
Lying to the American people isn’t putting country first. It’s more of the same.
If McCain wants to try to stake a (dubious) claim to “change”, Obama should hammer the crap out of him on values. Clearly the Republicans have abandoned even the pretense of that positioning

If I were a republican, I’d be very ashamed of most of these posts. As an American, I am ashamed. This is all the more reason we need a change at the top. Attitude reflects leadership.
United we stand, divided we fall.

‘The One’ is losing it. They need to put both candidates on stage at bipartisan campaign stops! Barry wouldnt be so quick to call people shameless liars. He not only lacks judgement, but manners and respect. Townhall meetings should be mandatory. I mean they were voluntary and he keeps saying “thats a debate that I am ready to have” and then his campaign will go into negotiations with the debate oraganisers, they’ll know and rehearse questions ahead of time…what a crock! THese jerks want to lead the USA but have to have a scripted, rehearsed debate OR they dont have the ba**s to appear face to face with each oother so we get a substantive debate instead of namecalling etc…. THERE IS NO DOUBT that ‘The One’ is a very very shady ACORN organizer from that honest land of Chicago politics who launched his political career in the home of an unrepentant domestic terrorist and he stumbled and bumbled the first and only time that he was caught off guard with the questions from G. Stephanopolous! That was a telling moment. This guy is a coward and play the victim or race card at every turn. It is undeniable. When is HE going to answer the tough questions! AND GET THIS…he had the “audacity” to say about Palin “look, you cant just reinvent yourself” ARE YOU KIDDING ME! He wasnt even challenged on that…..BARRY, you have reinvented almost EVERY position thatt you have ever taken on an AS NEEDED basis!!!!!!!! WTF?? Your gonna get trounced YO!

Great article. Thanks for this. I didn’t get to hear this speech. I am concerned about the assault on our constitutional rights.
It is THE most confusing thing in the world to me… than people support George Bush and Cheney who got us into a war based on lies, they have led our country into massive debt. Their adminstration is hanging in a cloud of lies and abuse of power.
McCain and Palin have been ‘lying’, flat out ‘lying’ and people are buying this? I don’t understand why people can’t see that this man has switched views on legislation he authored himself. He is not honorable if he has to ‘lie’ to win… I don’t care how long he was a POW… it clearly didn’t teach him to be more honest.
I don’t understand why people find any thoughts of security in choosing a politician who lies to the american people to be their leader.
I am sick of all of the lies and abuses of power!!
Enough!!
Obama/Biden ’08

The way our country is going, all these people that scoff at the importance of habeas corpus are going to be the ones who need it. They will be saying but I didn’t do it, you’ve got the wrong guy and the authorities will be able say, so sad, too bad, no habeous corpus. We will be back for you in a couple of years.
Why don’t they understand that the principles that gave birth to this country are for their protection as well.
They don’t seem to understand, conceptually, what the Constitution represents? I can only guess that they think because they are registered republicans they weren’t going to be spied on with illegal wire tapping.
What fools.

It has come to our attention that liberals are sour, whine, and are in general unhappy people because they have been consuming a steady diet of “cheese” in the form of Obama speeches.

Ah yes – looky looky looky – this is what Karl Rove drags out every 4 years. Ain’t they mean and hateful. This is their opportunity to be racists because they are so jealous of the wonderful guy with the brilliance who graduated from Harvard at the top of his class. Yup yup. The are green with envy becuase Obama is such a gem! I can’t say I blame them, Rove & Co. keep promising them more guns and bibles before every election but after the election, Rove disappars! lol lol

“They think you’re Stupid”.

has obama forgotten that both he and biden voted for the bridge to nowhere twice, including the second time, when his alleged friend coburn wanted him to agree with the vote to send the money for katrina relief instead? let’s see – obama votes for the bridge to nowhere twice, biden votes for the bridge to nowhere twice, and he has the nerve to make an issue of palin’s stand on the issue?
it’s a pattern of his – accuse someone of doing something and conveniently leave out the fact that he did the same thing.
would be nice if we had reporters who would point this out every time he does it.

Scooter: Um you are the one with no hope and you know it. You now have dumb and dumber running your party. lol lol. You know I went to the heartland once, didn’t see the point and came back to the East coast. You guys are so jealous of Obama you dragged out Caribou Barbie from the sticks of Alaska tried to make her a star like Obama, tried to clean her up and educate her (that hasn’t happened yet) and then are trying to co-op “Change” as a campaign slogan along with country first and all the other bull you fools come up with.
Obama is the original.

Posted by: julescator | Sep 8, 2008 11:50:50 PM
Anyone who doesn’t vote for Obama is a racist and that includes all those Hillary supporters who vote for McCain too, according to this true blue democrat.
Has anyone else ever met a very smart intellectual who graduated with honors and yet didn’t have a bit of common sense?

Scooter- This woman lies so much I am starting to think that Sarah Palin ain’t her real name! lol lol
It’s a disgrace that she parades that baby around like a badge when she cut the budget 62% for special needs children in Alaska. Is there anything this woman hasn’t lied about and this is just the second week.
You guys are so desperate for attention that you were forced to go way to Alaska to get a woman who you are now finding out is barely fit to be a parent, let along VP of this great nation. I don’t blame you for taking it out on Obama. waaaaaaaa waaaaaaa waaaaa

Why don’t any of the MCcain R supporters mention that we spend 10 billion a month in iraq? why do they reach for the lowest common denominator and act like bullies in the school yard with their fingers up their noses saying ”we won we won” it does not matter if they fight dirty and lie as long as they win. I think this country should be split in 2, they can all go to Alaska and wait for the end of the world, destroy your own land not ours. Perhaps there are some of us evolving at a greater rate – and we believe in science and evolution and some kind of brotherhood of man.
Back to the issues. these people keep accusing Barack of spending when John McCain Palin want this war to go on endlessly when we owe trillions to China .
It is so dumb people. really. we had a surplus with Clinton and now trillion dollar deficit. what is wrong with you,, maybe you are just racist. i cannot figure out why else you would be stupid,,, or they are the same thing.

Where is the bridge?
Did it get built?
If not, who stopped it from being built?
Any executive should try to get for their state what they can get, that is natural, but she turned against it when it was going to cost her state money…why would you not want an executive looking out for the best interest of a State?

Response, the gas is cheaper because there is an election to be won- smarten up and use spellcheck. I think there are more misspelled words by the idiots that put others down instead of discussing the issues. My intelligence theory is proving right.

Hey, Palin seems to be a very likable person. I encourage people to check her out. There isn’t a reason under the Sun why you can’t like Palin and still vote on the issues that affect our every day lives and pull the trigger for the Obama Administration and its policies for correcting the ship so our country can get back on course.

Poor widdle Obama – did da big mean waddy from Awaska hurt your widdle feewings? What a wimp.

Guess what fundamentalists- very angry for a god loving folk….
Do not compete religions, its all metaphor anyway. What is this – who are we?!! just live and let live..but let us have the white house this next four years and see how much better things get……and if not, like someone else said- we will probably suffer the next great depression in the us and mccain and palin and bush and all of them will be to blame…but do not forget they have millions so they will not be the ones who suffer- you will

The Obama campaign is finally responding more effectively to so-called McCain/Palin “maverick” “reform” claim! My goodness, it is about time! How can McCain and Palin and their handlers think they can get away with such notorious lies? They do indeed think we are all so stupid and gullible. This pair will in reality do anything to try to get elected. It says volumes about their character! Obama’s response is what has been so much lacking–and I am Obama finally sees the merit of fighting back against such obvious (even reckless) distotions!Obama’s ad states the fact, and it is powerful. Truth will in the end trump fiction! That is the way it should be. Falsehood must be continously exposed or the people, uneducated in their leaders, will turn the levers of power to opportunists and the wrong people. I was getting fed up with the Obama campaign AND THE DNC for not effectively responding, especially when the issues and truth of this moment are on their side! Bravo! Let’s see more of this! Expose their lies continuously. GET THE MEDIA TO DO THEIR JOB BY INSISTING THAT THEY INTERVIEW PALIN IMMEDIATELY WITHOUT PRE-CONDITION. We have the right to know all we can about her if she wants to be our leader! It is not a privilege for us to ask, to know and to demand answers where there is some doubt or controversy. The Democrats should START A CLOCK and let it tick to show daily how many hours and days have passed since Palin was selected a running mate without her agreeing to a press interview–the sort of thing that Republicans pulled on Obama before his overseas trip. That should do it! Palin can’t hide for too long. Again I URGE DEMOCRATS TO START A TIME CLOCK ON PALIN. The media must seek to do its job as a sentinel of freedom in our democracy!!!

Rocky Lockwood: “Where is the bridge?
Did it get built?
If not, who stopped it from being built?
Any executive should try to get for heir state what they can get, that is natural, but she turned against it when it was going to cost her state money…why would you not want an executive looking out for the best interest of a State?”
Don’t come to a conclusion if you don’t even know the facts. The bridge was a nearly $300million favor for contractors from corrupt Alaskan Republicans that they tried to sneak in as pork barrel. This major project was a bridge to a town with a whopping 50 people. Who stopped it? The US Congress called Palin out on it after the money was given to Alaska, and Palin was publically humiliated. ONly then did she say she was against the bridge. Oh yeah, this supposedly anti-pork barrel change agent kept the money.

I love Obama – he makes me proud to be an American. I love this country!!!! I love that Obama came on the scene just when we need him the most. There aren’t many human beings that have his wisdom, knowledge, temprament, brilliance and he is a good person. He is as cool as a cucumber and I like that. I will never forget that picture of him in Germany in front of 200,000 screaming Germans. The whole world is rooting for Obama. They’ve seen McCain for 26 years doing nothing but yelling “hey look at me, I am a Maverick”. How the heck do you call yourself a maverick when you sat in the Senate for 26 years and had your fingerprints all over the 2 biggest financial disasters of the century, not to mention the wrong side of the war.
It looks like McCain is going to lose both the war (lost long ago) and the election. Poor thing.

Pabw
I will not attempt to speak for all Republicans, but I assure you, many of us are voting against the agenda and record of Barack Obama. (which is hard to nail down without some research)
Barack Obama, who has a history of using the most machiavellian tactics to get elected, is not the “New Style” politician that he claims to be.
John McCain may vote along Republican lines 90% of the time, but the 10% (as compared to 4% voting against his party for Barack Obama) has consistently been to cross party lines. That is definitionally “Maverick”…at least far more maverick than Barack Obama can ever claim.

The only reason lifelong democrats are now voting republican is because they are racist or have some race issues . This election is plain as day. In Europe they polled and Barack would win by a landslide . Why can’t people get passed the race thing …..the older people have more of a problem with it. It is wonderful and exciting and he could be the greatest president we have had in a hundred years… imagine that !! the other 2 are so obviously ill-prepared to take on what needs to be done, I think I will be leaving and leaving the country to the others to destroy each other.

For those who don’t know a recession is defined as two straight quarters with a negative GDP.
GDP is the best measure we have to objectively measure the strength or weakness of the total economy of the US.
It is not perfect, but it’s the best we’ve been able to come up with.

When was Obama a professor?

One of the inconvenient truths about Democrats is their desire to give foreign born terrorists and “combatants” the same rights as U.S. born citizens. WHATEVER Obama says on this is meaningless. Democrats will grant rights to our enemies if they get a chance.

Hey Thundergod:
We HAVE lower taxes
We HAVE tax breaks for corporations
We HAVE a free market system
What happened? The GOP got to run their entire agenda and WHAT HAPPENED?
We have a $10 trillion deficit
We HAVE record home foreclosures
We HAVE destroyed a Soverign country and can’t put it back together
we HAVE 6.1% unemployment and climging
We HAVE higher gas prices
We HAVE Al Queda getting stronger in Afghanistan
We HAVE lost the respect of the world
We HAVE a credit crisis
We OWE a Communist Country more than $600 billion
Now you give us the case for putting the GOP back in office. If they couldn’t run their program when they had the House, Senate, Presidency, Supreme Court – then they never will.
Now pleas make the case for putting these empty suits back in office!!!! Make the case, I am listenig.

The FBI does not vet candidates…that would be a misuse of a government agency.

The only person who is shameless is the career politician Obama who graduated college and just runs and runs and runs for political office. Than he states as experience his ability to run a campaign. Obama the candidate who voted for George Bush’s multi million dollar energy giveaway to haliburton. Barack Obama who now says he will keep the George Bush tax break in place. Obama who said not in his “wildiest” dreams could the worlds best military be succesful in Iraq. This Democrats for Mccain/Palin 08!

Liza,
Because we spent billions upon billions purchasing weapons and paying soldiers so Europe and Canada did not have to do so.
Had we not done so…they would have health care…provided by Russian speaking doctors.

The only reason lifelong democrats are now voting republican is because they are racist or have some race issues . This election is plain as day. In Europe they polled and Barack would win by a landslide .
Posted by: Liza Nicklaus | Sep 9, 2008 12:25:27 AM
If Obama loses in November, we have no problem if he tries for an office in Europe. His philosophy on taxation, how to defeat terrorism and how to run an economy may very well be identical to most Europeans.
Next trip, have him stay in France or Germany.
Best wishes

Some people seem to have this blind faith that Obama will be able to fix the economy. Does anyone know for sure if he can balance his own checkbook? Maybe they are going on his savy land deal with the lot next door to his home?

If Obama were white, he would not have even been considered a serious candidate. Experience does matter.

JW,
None of us, Republican or Democrat are that crazy.

It started with Nixon, why we do not have health care like England, France, Canada CUBA, Norway, Australia , New Zealand, Italy ….every other industrialized country has it..that is because Nixon knew certain people could make a profit……
that is the problem with you republicans, you manipulate the naive population when you know that under your administrations the rich get richer and the middle class shrinks. the divide btwn the two get bigger and bigger.. and some people like it that way because enough is never enough. that is why some people wear 300k outfits to speak to the american people.
this is just silly… i really do think we should be two different countries. i am out of here, you won republicans, you will lose your smartest and most talented – stupidity reigns, greed reigns, inequality reigns you win, going to bed to dream of a place where people get along and are sensical.

No one is asking for suspending Habeas Corpus for US citizens. The question is whether it should also apply to foreigners who try to mass murder us. That was the point Palin raised in her speech.
So, Obama claims he’s honest enough to not mis-represent his own records. I’ll buy into that for now and will continue to watch. But, is he honest enough to not misrepresent others’ positions? That I seriously doubt. The proof is in his distortion of HC’s health care plan during the primary.
If anyone thinks Obama is completely honest, please give me the chance to sell you the Golden Gate bridge – very low price and you will make 1000 times your purchase price selling it as scrap metal.

Actually Thundergod:
I’ve run my own business as well as worked for some terrible and very good managers.
The good executive pull together opinions and then leads the team toward execution. (Obama’s economic advisors)
A good executive sets goals for the company and drives them toward their attainment. (Obama’s goal for universal healthcare, lower taxes for the middle class, 80% of America)
A good executive sets a vision for the company and works with his team to push toward it. (Obama’s energy independence and green collar jobs in 10 years).
What would you seriously have an executive do other than this?
BTW, we’ve voted the congressional majority for the last 10 1/2 years and the GOP ticket for the last 8 years.
There has been ENOUGH ineptness in government. There is a civic duty that should cause you to reach out past gun control and abortion issues. These issues won’t be resolved any time soon and serve only to expand the hole in your pocket.
What we need from a DEM or GOP balanced government is fiscal responsibility not overspending based on taxes and definitely not overspending based on credit (national debt). Any adult trying to apply credit to operational expenses (groceries for an example) would be crazy yet we run our government this way. DEBT is a sure way to slavery… When China and other countries own more of the US, our policies will become adversely affected… talk about loss of FREEDOM.

I like how the one guy is too concerned with making another person’s math and syntax look stupid that he totally ignores that somewhere between 90,000 and 1.5 million Iraqi people have died as a direct or forseeable cause of our occupation of their country. But good job with pointing out how stupid that guy who brought it up was. You were really clever. Hey go over my post with a find tooth comb to make sure I didn’t use the wrong participle.

As a democrat I have a tip for the Obama supporters who when they can’t come up with an argument yell “you’re a racist!”. Guess what? That won’t work.

every person in here for palin points to her “executive experience” well you know who else had that experience george bush and he used all that experience to drive the country into the ground, obama may not be the best candidate but he is surely much better than another war mongoring republican who is out of touch and still trying to fight the viet nam war it is 2008 times have changed we can not simply bully and blow up every country just because we feel like it

All of you Obama supporters blasting Palin and her request for a bridge shows your stupidity. The bridge was for the residents and others to get to a Ketchikan airport for travel. She certainly did not put that money in her pocket. Alaska needs thousands of miles of roads and bridges. Airplanes are the most common mode of transportation.
By the way, the good Senator Obama requested and received tax funds for his Black Liberation Theology Church that teaches hate, racism and God Damn America plus he also channeled funds to the University of Chicago and Michelle received a super-duper pay raise.
Obama is the liar and the crook.
The State of Alaska send three times more money to Washington from the sale of natural resources than it gets back in funds, Alaska is a god mine for the greedy people in Washington.
One can not travel from Anchorage, the largest city, to Juneau, the capitol, by car.

dgh62: Also, If Obama were White, we wouldn’t be having this conversation!
:-)

Rocky,
I see, so all of the fighting over who is a better “career” politician for president in the democrap and republicrap camps isnt crazy?
Give me a break! This is the exact reason why our so called “democracy” is in such a mess. Long Live the ideas intentions, and the Republic our forefathers intended for us to have and that has been shamelessly destroyed by career politicians like the ones running for President now. Brainwashed americans, I am so ashamed.

Dev: Perhaps you are not reading the posts. Only the GOP brings up Obama’s race. Try reading the posts before commenting please!

Mary:
The attack should be couched in the hypocrisy of her anti-pork stance when she is really for pork.
That’s like saying I’m a VEGAN but I each pork chops everyday.
Wait.. What? You eat what?

JW,
No, we are arguing (if you want to call it that) pragmatism and reality. The last really viable 3rd party run was in 1912.
Build a national organization, and then we can talk.

Palin wants to be VP, but she wants to skip the job interview. I don’t trust her.

I was listening to the fired up Obama tonight on the news. I was surprised to hear Obama “screeching”. I haven’t heard him speak in this manner before. I am still a Hillary supporter and I am afraid this might start turning people off. It reminded me of the debate when Hillary recanted whether illegal immigrants should have a drivers license. That was the start of her going downhill. Obama people, please have him tone it down a little to avoid the screeching tone. We undecideds are still trying to decide which direction to go. He needs to go back to being positive. Whenever he speaks about Palin, he is allowing the press to put her name out there one more time.

I wish Obama would settle on one accent and stick with it. He has different messages for different groups and does the same thing with his speech. He tries to sound more like a “brotha” in some cases, an intellectual in others, while tossing out a few memorized sentences in Spanish when pandering to those groups.
Would the real Obama speak ? I’d like to hear his real voice.

Liza,
Hope does not come from government…never has.
You apparently missed my point. England and France both were able to have socialized medicine exactly because the U.S. provided military protection at a huge cost to our nation. Add in the Marshall Plan, and other similar programs and you have the root of why Europe and Canada have socialized health care.

Shell:
I am a self-admitted FAR right Conservative.
And I canot believe you are much happier with your candidate than I am with mine.
BUT – when mine fils, it is out of personal diagreements with this or that particular party.
Obama, on the other hand, has yet to find his voice: He is pandering to this or that wing to try to reestablish his position.
Obama IS a well spoken, and I truelly believe (though his opinions differ radically from mine) well intentioned young man.
BUT – he is a YOUNG man. One not yet ready to face the harsh real-politik problems facing this nation. Nor one ready to understand the economic nuances facing this very tough economy.
Perhaps in 10-20 years he may make a great President.
But that day is certainly not today.

Heres’s a thought that will keep you awake at night, President Obama / Speaker Pelosi.
More flip flopping than the deck of flounder boat. Not to mention getting nothing done. Obama has created no legislation and Pelosi’s tenure has produced the the least amount of meaningful work of any congress. And both seem to have a penchant for taking vacations at times leadership is needed. (Obama in Hawaii during the Georgian crisis uttered a typically meaningless statement. Pelosi calling a recess with fuel prices soaring and a banking crisis , which saw the government taking control of half of all mortgages , before congress returned ) Kinda like sticking your head in the sand , I’d say

Dave in lv – Sorry Dave you are misinformed. We no longer have the best economy in the free world. You are sadly mistaken and should probably google the facts prior to writing on a blog. The problem is you assume you have a modicum of knowedge but you don’t. Listen to me carefully, the country would have failed were it not for the government bailing out the banks, Fannie & Freddie. Now the auto industry want $50 billion in lost cost loans to fix their problems. If you thing running up a deficit of over $10 trillion is repsonsible, then perhaps you came from a differnt planet. You clearly have no grasp on financial matters. Also, we have a $4 trillion deficit when Bush took office and a surplus. Now tell me again how well we are doing!

OHH, Poor Baby Barack!!
Can’t find your picture on the front page this week!!!!

Rocky:
I agree all nation’s act in their own self-interest. That is what they are supposed to do. I was merely pointing this out since we always try and make our motivations seem more than what they are.
There is nothing wrong with self-interest. I just want people to be honest and say it.

Rock,
Exactly my point. Brainwashed americans constantly voting for the same ole worn out rhetoric of promises that will never be kept by “career” politicians. What a shame people wont wake up from the same old night “meer.”
Will President McCain or Obama save us from ourselves? Not in a million years!

Alex Wolf:
I couldn’t quite follow your counter argument. Can you please re-state it?
If you are responding to my question regarding Palin’s experience to be POTUS if some untimely demise were to befall McCain, please explain it merely on her qualifications and not in comparison to Senator Obama’s. I wasn’t asking about his preparation. I believe you already posted a comment in regard to his readiness.

still waiting tell me what bush has done good for this country, especially you hard truth tell me

Hey Dave,
Clearly Bush was too late to help your education – looks like you got left behind my friend. Sorry your so bitter.
Try night school – they can teach you things like ‘punctuation’ and ‘capitalization’.
Posted by: The Hard Truth | Sep 9, 2008 1:12:56 AM
Hard Truth, Don’t you mean “you’re so bitter”?
Best wishes

Jorge: Palin did NOT give back the money – Alaska used it for other expenditures. Get your facts right.

While I’m not surprised I am a little disappointed. Judging from the majority of these comments it’s no wonder this country is so screwed up. We truly are becoming a nation of idiots. I’m curious how many of you that posted what amount to ignorant racist comments have actually done any research on any of these candidates. Or are you simply lemmings willing to follow the leader right over the edge of the cliff? Try thinking for once. It wont hurt too much.

What good has Bush done? How about kept another 9/11 from happening for the last seven, count em, 7 years…duuuhhh?

clearly mccain and palin are liars who think we are fools.they and their gorvernment have weaken our malitary and left us venurable by taking us to a war that was based on lies,and they still talk about iraq.look at how this stupid war has cost us in all areas and they are bragging about the surge being successful.in the frst place who broght voilence in iraq? it was bush-mccain-palin and thier party.we don’t need mccain-palin because thier judgement is more flawed than bush.there are so many skeletons in palins closet that is going to bring mccain down.and what do we call someone who bends the truth LIAR that is who she is.

It’s just as I predicted: Obama is hitting the wall. Sarah has more common sense, intelligence and eloquence in her toenail than Obama has on a good day. This election is over.

Dave in lv – trust me, with MBA in hand I certainly know the definition of a recession. How about this – the country is not in a recession – technically, however the PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES are. How about that. You GOPers need to stop cutting and pasting out of textbooks and start looking at the country! Is there anything you would change at this point? Or would you continue down the same path and pray for a different result? That is the definition of INSANITY – (appropriate in this case)

John Wark: Prove it. The only way McCain gets into the White House is if the Obamas and the Bidens invite him and Cindy to DINNER!

Obama making an issue out of the Bridge to Nowhere when both he and Biden *supported* it? Shameless, these folks are just shameless.

TO DAVE:
Funny how you can’t answer MY question to you. Typical of left strategy: cut and run.
President Bush has cut capital gains from over 30% to now 15% which has boosted our economy in numbers you won’t understand, foreign capital has flocked here in the trillions, causing a 20% higher tax collection than Bill Clinton did under his “great” economy [he was riding the benefits of Bush I years] That one I cannot explain to you, Sir, because I can only guess you do not understand level 1 economics.
President Bush led the middle east into a new era pinning the extremists against the reformers who previously had NO voice. In 30 years, the Iraq war will be hailed as the most risky and influential Presidential move in history. Another hard one to explain to you since I can only assume your knowledge of history extends to what you ate for breakfast, Dave. Reform movements in Beirut, Damascus, Teheran, Amman and even Saudi Arabia and Egypt have formed and Jihadist oponents are now starting to emerge… please let me know about how bad this is, don’t worry cuz that’s what I expect from you Dave.
Third, and most important for these times ahead. President Bush has sent a message, through our hardline stance with the Russians, pressure on the Chinese, and direct invasion of Iraq, that America will stand by her allies and crush her enemies.
I do disagree on many other issues with the President, but at least his name is not BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. I stand with this country, not his.

was the cost of killing saddam hussein who posed no real risk to us which has been proven time in and time out worth it instead of going after the man who actually killed american citizens, and my capitilization you keep talking about, dude this is an internet comment section ill worry about capital letters when im writing a real paper not responding to scumbags like you on the internet, and who was the president who ignored repeated warning just a motn or two before 9/11 ……. i do not remember enlighten me

Country First…..McCain/Palin!
Obama Bin Biden going down.

zeekbag – when you say FoxNews is Fair and Balanced, you lose all credibility and need not write past that sentence. The network of Hannity, Rove, O’reilly and an assortment of hate mongering knuckleheads is not my idea of fair and balanced! You need a serious education!

Animal:
Sad, isn’t it?
From either party?
310 million people and these are our choices?
One could hope that the Dems are all civic minded and didn’t care about the title and that the Reps are all smart businessmen making better $$$$ in the private sector . . .
But still . . . That Obama and McCain are this nation’s choices . . . .
Makes me wonder!

Don – dude, I need your photo. You would make a great poster boy for our the Dems upcoming “Country of whiners” campaign.
Just because you have been screwed over, doesn’t mean it was your fault. Got it.
Your right, blame America First. I guess we really do suck after all. Thanks for the heads-up.

The thing that seems to amaze me is thay Obamas always seem to say I MISPOKE
why are they always having to correct themselves…it is because the truth always comes out first and then have to reword “what they really meant” if they they are trying to hide who they really are.
Can you imaging being a leader with leaders around the world and then say “what I really meant was”

Ron -
Gee: Evil banks took the applications of no-income of low-income individuals to homes they couldn’t hope to finance.
BUT – who submitted those applications?
GROW UP AND LEARN HOW THINGS WORK!
EVERYONE IS AT FAULT HERE!
It isn’t a partisan issue rather then a 1) mom and pop got greedy and bought or financeed their way to negative equity
and
2) banks under empowered by both parties (do I need to provide links or are you able to google on your own? )were ready and able to provide such speculative loans.
This particular issues isn’t one of partisanship rather than one of greed by ALL parties involved.
Including Mom and Pop.
Learn how things work before you criticize please.

Nick – as a Financial Professional, I feel the need to educate you on the tax cutting routine the GOP runs on you people every 4 years. Here is the game. The fed cuts taxes, they run up the deficit( deferred tax bill). But the most important effect of the GOP tax cut is that all 50 states raised taxes. This is evidenced by the higher gas taxes, car rental taxes, hotel taxes, all those taxes on your phone and utility bills. This is a game. You are actually more taxed after the GOP tax cut than were you before. It is a talking point that has no validity and is not based in reality.
Ask youself. We have had tax cuts under Bush so why is the economy tanking? Don’t let people tell you what to believe – do your homework. Feds lower taxes, States raise them. This game is old and tired.

Hey Nick, here’s a little something that is not so theoretical. Real world, non-partisan stuff: “In a study of the candidates’ plans made public Wednesday, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center concluded that in contrast to Mr. McCain, “Senator Obama offers much larger tax breaks to low- and middle-income taxpayers and would increase taxes on high-income taxpayers.”
The study said, “The largest tax cuts, as a share of income, would go to those at the bottom of the income distribution,” whereas “Senator McCain’s tax cuts would primarily benefit those with very high incomes.”
My question to you: What do you have in YOUR wallet? Which side do you fall on? WHo is gonna do more for you? Then vote that way.

Alex:
There are other choices. Bob Barr and Ralph Nader. Ron Paul isn’t a viable candidate but he is pushing his Constitution party (I believe).
We do have choices in principle. Just not ones that have an impact on our future unless you go with one of the two major parties.

I am sitting at Obama’s Campaign Headquarters. Why?

Alex Wolf and Thundergod:
Take care and have a good night!

Alex:
BTW, I live in a very red county. So I face your situation in the reverse most of the time.

Animal Farmish: You too!
See you on the flip side!
And TY: Proof that we may disagree, but can still be civil and (dare I say: Friendly! EEK) to each other!
Thanks for that reminder Animal and here’s hoping we all sleep well tonight and for the foreseeable future!
Night my friend!

Hard Truth, Because you can’t come back and you know it. You really don’t have a creditable response to what I asked you to count because you know it’s the “hard truth”. You can’t hide from intensified Tide. Then, those who come back from that mess over there don’t get the services the deserve, and come to find out thatr MCCain voted AGAINST veteran benefits? I’m a vet and I am incensed. You gonna wave the Flag and chant USA, USA in my face and turn around to tell me that Veterans don’t really have your support to provide for them. What kind of twisted nightmare is that?

julescator
A number of people I have met with absolutely no common sense had MBA’s from Ivy League schools. I am not impressed with MBA, CPA, DR. etc.
What should we change? Glad you asked.
1. Do whatever it takes to gain energy independence
Use solar, wind, geo, build nuclear power plants, clean coal, drill for new oil reserves, develop shale oil, etc.
I like Pickens plan
Result will be a better trade balance which leads to a stronger dollar, adds jobs and increases revenue to US Gov.
2. Do whatever it takes to minimize ILLEGAL immigration
- Increase the number of legal immigrants and streamline the process so that it takes a few months instead of years.
- Put heavy duty fines on businesses that employ illegals and ENFORCE it.
- Withdraw funds from sanctuary cities
- Do whatever it takes to enforce the border and SUPPORT our border police.
- Improve enforcement of people who overstay visas
result will be higher wages for most workers
3. Cut earmarks altogether, cut farm subsidies and cut or change programs that aren’t working
4. Today it is ILLEGAL to ask anyone registering to vote if they are a legal citizen. I would REQUIRE proof of citizenship before a person could register.
5. Improve the care given to military families and compensate any reservist for loss of income.
6. Increase the size of the military so tours of duty overseas is less disruptive to their lives.
7. Simplify the tax code so that anyone can do it quickly and easily.
8. Increase the number of judges and courts so that justice can be done quickly.
Plus a few other odds and ends.
Best wishes to all and good night

Sarah is real & not a confection of dismissive condescension as the MSM are —- I watched supercilious barren women from Salon & the New Republic rebuke Palin for not being a feminist because she is pro-Life.
It’s hilarious to see a neutered crone like Steinem rant on Palin for having five kids and a successful career in the REAL WORLD—-not the ethereal realms of nutjob libtard ideology.

It’s hopeless trying to tie this guy down on his policy of hope, zero policy
info is given, other than raising taxes.
If one is judged by the friends they kept, then Elliot Ness has more work to do.

BTW, don’t hand me that Surge crap any longer. If those Bozos had listened to the people on the ground, they would have had enough boots on the ground to kick enough butt so that the entire sorry affair could have been handled up front. (Anybody remember Desert Storm? 500,000 boots on the ground, a clear cut strategy to win thanks to the brilliance of Colin Powell and Stormin’ Norman, and by GOd we won!)My point, if the prosecution of the war was PROPERLY planned and executed with enough resources and more thorough risk management, threat anticipation and contingency planning, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO NEED FOR A SURGE!!!!! How many of our sons and daughters are sleeping in their grades right now because of the misguided, miscalculated failed polices of Bush, Cheney (the PuppetMaster), Rusmfeld and Wolfowitz?

Don – slow down and get it together.
I don’t think anyone is sleeping in their ‘grades’ at the moment.
b/t/w – it was the Dems (Murtha, Pelosi, et al) who wanted MORE troops until Bush put them in and then it was a bad idea.

Brian,
Japan invade the Phillipines (Americas second base of war against japan) and Australia who had been fighting the japs. gave America free use of all our bases and land.. We never asked for help! We offered America a second base after you lost the Phillipines we had most of our troops in the UK and europe! We had our natio’s ( our national gaurd) Fighting in papa and singapore! We were bombed by Japan for offering America harbour! They stuck your ships first!
Once again we never have dialed 1 its not the Australian way!
All of Australia supported saying sorry to our native people for the crimes of the past! 98% aprovale for saying sorry !
Once again we are Americas friends because we like you guys not because we need you!
Rudds good! Obama is the best choice in my oppinion!

Obama’s ‘Not Exactly’s’
1.) Selma Got Me Born – NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have
you in 1961 – Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.
(Google ‘Obama Selma’ for his full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about
its various untruths.)
2.) Father Was A Goat Herder – NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well
educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter – NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one
of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom – NOT EXACTLY, your
cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a
legitimate election in 2007 , in Kenya . It is the first widespread violence
in decades. The current government is pro-American but Odinga wants to
overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your half-brother, Abongo Oba
ma, is Odinga’s follower. You interrupted your New Hampshirecampaigning to
speak to Odinga on the phone. Check out the following link for verification
of that….and for more.
Obama’s cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get Sharia
Muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his followers
have burned Christians’ homes and then burned men, women and children alive
in a Christian church where they took shelter.. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin
before the election process here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see
what you get. No one wants to know the truth.
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian – NOT EXACTLY, she does her
daily Salat prayers at 5 AM, according to her own interviews. Not to
mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1
man.
6.) My Name is African Swahili – NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and
‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein
is also Arabic and so is Obama. Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. If
elected, he would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black
President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side and
43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father’s side. While Barack
Hussein Obama’s father was from Kenya , his father’s family was mainly
Arabs.. Barack Hussein Obama’s father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5%
Arab (his father’s birth certificate even states he’s Arab, not African
Negro).
7.) I Never Practiced Islam – NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at
school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31
years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
4-3-08 Article ‘Obama was ‘quite religious in Islam’s’
8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian – NOT EXACTLY, you were
registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making
faces (check your own book). February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York
Times a year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call
to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed
delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr.
Obama described the call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth
at sunset.’ This is just one example of what Pamela is talking about when
she says ‘Obama’s narrative is being altered, enhanced and manipulated to
whitewash troubling facts.’
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian – NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you
could speak the language.
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia , I Have More Foreign Experience – NOT
EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak
the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs – NOT EXACTLY, except for Africa
(surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been
anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest
allies.
12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion – NOT EXACTLY, you were
quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no
mention of struggle to identify – your classmates said you were just fine.
13.) An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office – NOT EXACTLY, Ebony has
yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did,
exist.
14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life – NOT EXACTLY,
Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and
never did, exist.
15.) I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ’08 – NOT EXACTLY, here you are,
despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by
then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) Voting ‘Present’ is Common In Illinois Senate – NOT EXACTLY, they are
common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17.) Oops, I Misvoted – NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by church groups and
Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law – NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON
LEAVE.
19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer – NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior
lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill – NOT EXACTLY, you didn’t
write it, introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass – NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14 days
from start to finish.
22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill – NOT EXACTLY, your bill was rejected by
your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation – mainly
because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) I Have Released My State Records – NOT EXACTLY, as of March, 2008,
state bills you sponsore d or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all
the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess – NOT EXACTLY, you were
part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens . You failed to
mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help
America – NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic
policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU
voted against your own bill.
26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois – NOT EXACTLY, even your own
supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year – NOT EXACTLY, they were not
YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow
Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) No One on my campaig n contacted Canada about NAFTA – NOT EXACTLY,
the Canadian Governm ent issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism – NOT EXACTLY, you missed the Iran Resolution
vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction off Israel .
30.) I Want All Votes To Count – NOT EXACTLY, you said let the delegates
decide.
31.) I Want Americans To Decide – NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that
limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate
during small windows of time.
32.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate – NOT EXACTLY, you passed 26,
most of which you didn’t write yourself.
33.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics – NOT EXACTLY, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
34.) I Don’t Take PAC Money – NOT EXACTLY, you take loads of it.
35.) I don’t Have Lobbyists – NOT EXACTLY, you have over 47 lo bbyists, and counting.
36.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad – NOT EXACTLY, your
own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
37. I Have Always Been Against Iraq – NOT EXACTLY, you weren’t in office
to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time.
38.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care – NOT EXACTLY, your
plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.

he is scared to death!!!!!
game, set, match, mccain/palin.

Mack,
I hope the 1400 australia troops that are leaving today for afgainistan because your country asked us for more help! Dont see what you just wrote.
Does you computer have wifi ? Tech made in Australia.
Do you drive a rear wheel drive car from either Pontiac, Chevrolet or Ford there made in Australia.
Australia ranks higher in education, science, health, maths than the USA.
We play the biggest role of any nation in NASA. From building half of your first SAT to buiding Nasa new scram jet (made in australia)!
Please fight with truth.
Australia ranks higher then America in nations others trust!
Facts please!
We are your friends because we like you! Maybe not you but we know you are not most Americans!

The people who live in the lower 48 know so little about Alaska, its people and its problems. The size of Alaska is almost 1/4 the size if the south 48. One can not drive from Fairbanks to Juneau or from Wasilla to Ketchikan. Getting around is expensive in that one must fly commercial, or if lucky by private plane. All this land mass cost money to manage. Alaska sends three times sends more money back to Washington from sale of its natural resources than it gets from all of its earmark funds. Bet Illinois does not send $1,000 from sale of natural resources and one must wonder how much Uncle Sam send back to Illinois. Wasilla, AK is a beautiful small town and if I could I would spend my summers there for the climate and natural beauty.

It’s that thing on his nose that grows larger with every lie and obfuscation he says; there was not anything there before the primaries started; and since McCain has started to resonate with his campaign, it’s been going down hill for Mr. Obama.

Australians are some of the best people on earth and are welcome on this and any other blog they wish.
They have helped the US time and again at great risk and with all too little thanks.
We may not agree and they may have a different version of English, but MANY of us value their comments. I’m not sure if the English would really approve of our version either.
Best wishes

For those of you that don’t know why McCain voted against the Veteran’s Bill, I will explain. The bill that was on the floor gave a soldier with 6 months duty the same benefits as someone who had served for 30 years. That is what McCain was against. He believed it should work like any other retirement. The longer you in the more the benefits. That’s what he voted against. The reports have a way of hiding the truth these days. They are trying everything they can to make McCain look bad.

Sarah Palin doesn’t get it.
On Monday, Palin claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are private companies NOT funded by taxpayers.
McCain is more of the same. Vote Obama.

Sorry ThinkUSA but Fannie & Freddie are both GSE’s. That stands for Government Sponsored Entities. They were both chartered by congress and benefit from subidies and tax breaks. They also both benefited from an implicit guarantee from the Federal Govt which is why they were still able to issue debt and preferred equity at a time when their balance sheets were imploding. They were never true “private” companies and as such have always cost us taxpayers a lot of money. Now they are costing us even more. They were and are too big and they were too expensive.

“Obama is being rapidly revealed as an empty suit, a self-aggrandizing pole climber who has no attributes except ambition.
A change bringer? Ha, he is a product of the chicago daly machine and knows how to go along to get along. His political accomplishments are insignificant, and he’s never run anything, not a business or a government, nothing. Oh, perhaps he was too busy writing books about himself.”

BO talks and talks, but never says anything. Then everyone else has to explain what they hope he said. BO stinks.

I’ll give you another President who never had any “executive” experience: Abraham Lincoln.
In fact, Lincoln’s experience pretty much mirrors Obama’s except Lincoln was in the House and not the Senate.
So maybe you don’t want to elect Obama because of “executive experience”, but then I imagine you would have completely ignored Lincoln who served in the House for less than 2 years before he ran.
Of course, Lincoln was kicked out of the Republican party and ran for his second term under the National Union party – a party of ex-Republicans and Northern Democrats, so maybe you consider him a turncoat anyway.

Politicus,
McCain’s is a brand of toliet paper here in Australia…
And John’s middle name is Sidney… Its a girls name!

Is it true that Gov. Sarah Palin secured the most earmarks for Alaska than any other state? Why don’t we hear more about that? Afraid to go after the Queen of Earmarks?

Tom,
You asked:
Is it true that Gov. Sarah Palin secured the most earmarks for Alaska than any other state?
Why don’t we hear more about that? Afraid to go after the Queen of Earmarks?
YES
ABC’s owners Disney is now made up of all Republican board members.
Disney is hoping to be the new FOX!

Politicus,
I think as an ally we are interested in your election. Who you vote in may mean the loss of life for Australian troops! You voted in Bush and Austalians die in IRAQ and Afganistan.
Our PM has done many good things!

Kate, I’m sure Kevin Rudd, your PM, has done many good things. Being one day ahead on things is one of them. Being a good-looking bloke, young, inspiring, enthusiatic, and calling for change – hey just like Obama! You should be proud he had your military turn tail and run last November. Hey, just like Obama wants!

People keep asking Obama about Ayers, Rezko, Wright. How about we ask McCain about his relationship to Gordon Liddy?
Do you know who he is? Right, he was involved in Watergate years back. He masterminded the initial break in at DNC Office in Washington. He was convicted of burglary. And he did not also regret of his participation in the Watergate scandal. John and Gordon are really close friends you know, dates back from the 1980s. He used to contribute to McCain’s campaign. He’s now aligned with Fox News.
That’s why the GOP isn’t directly questioning Obama about his ties to Ayers and Rezko. Liddy is more damaging to McCain’s candidacy than Ayers and Rezko to Obama’s.

Politicus,
Australia didnt cut an run as you say we still have our navy and airforce there we removed our ground combat troops so Iraq will stand up and do it themselves!
Their were no WMD’s the war was a mistake! Like Obama… Prime Minister Rudd said so before we went there! We should have listen then.
Iraq is America’s biggest forgein policy mistake ever. Even Bill O Riely admits that!
Under Rudd interests rates have gone down wages have gone up and the economy has grown!

Politicus Ayers was found not guilty!
Ayers conection to Obama has been viewed by everyone and the only one’s who care are sean hanity and his robots!

Just because McCain is really, really old doesn’t make him any less vapid. He is basically saying THE SAME BS the president was saying 8 years ago. How has that worked out? I’ll never understand folks that make the same mistakes over and over, yet expect a different outcome. Perhaps this current mess is how they like it

Kate, Ayers and his future wife, Dorhn, turned themselves in to the Feds.
“but all charges were dropped as a result of alleged ‘government legal misconduct.’ ”
Hey that means he never did anything wrong when he was the leader of the Weather Underground, now doesn’t it?
Puh-leaze… If you get a speeding ticket while driving on the right side of the road and Mad Max wrote your name down incorrectly on the citation and charges are dropped because of it, does that mean you didn’t speed on the wrong side of the road?
Ayers was quoted at age 50 that he was unrepentant and wished he could have done more (domestic terrorism). The Weather Underground claimed credit for 20 bombings. Sure wish Ayers had been a suicide bomber….Barack Obama wishes it as well..

1976 or 1977, with federal charges against both Ayers and Dohrn were dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct.
The were never found guilty of any crime.
Ayers is now a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, known for his work in school reform.

“Thanks but…” I’ll just charge the state of Alaska for living in my own home. Sarah Palin
In a humble gesture to show her commitment to pork busting Palin charged the state of Alaska to pay her over 16,000 dollars for staying in her own home instead of the governors home.
Palin brought the pork back…right to her own back door.
Instead of living in Juneau Palin not only thought it beneath her to live there she felt she ought to be reimbursed for the inconvenience.
The designer clothes wearing, I’m better than you Palin seems to want it both ways. Talk like a fiscal conservative but live like a fat cat on taxpayer money.
The truth about Palin is starting to come out.

Why do we debate so heatedly? Nothing will change because of it. The race, as it stands, is such that if one prefers a candidate over another then one will continue to do so. Whatever proof you show a diehard McCain/Palin supporter that Obama is a good choice, they will splatter you with each of his missteps since highschool, and vice versa. Realize that the popular vote doesn’t really mean anything, and that screaming through text on a glowing box won’t do anything but raise your blood pressure and make you bitter. So what if other people think other things?

She fought the corrupt system!! So she could take it over and grab what she could.
Don’t forget the 44,000 she charged the state to “transport” her children, and husband, back and forth from the capital to their home in Wasilla.
I’m sure it was always “official state business”.
Yes, Palin is turning out to be a bigger liar than McCain is.

anyone that has to stand on a stage and tell you what they did and brag about it is hiding something. Its called a smoke screen. And if I hear another comment about a bridge to nowhere or lipstick on farm animals or pets im going to puke. She is eye candy for the republicans.
Please it was so shameless to think american people are stupid to just fall in line cause she was a woman. Oh wait judging by some of your comments on here you are stupid enough to believe. Oh well. IT WILL BE THE SAME IF YOU VOTE MCCAIN. WAKE UP!!!!!!

1. Barack has explained that whats at state here is to important to wait! I except that!
2. He hasnt change on guns or abortion… Ill give you fisa he did change on that!
3. Is an out and out lie you need to do some research becuase that complete BS.
Yawn…
Barack Obama 08

Habias corpus is a right under the Constitution for those charged with crimes …NOT for our enemy during war.
Obama and the Democrats wants our enemy to have Constitutional rights?..
Moranda rights? 2nd Amendment rights too? Freedom of Religion to Islamic terrorist who believe it is their religious duty to kill us?

Obamas record in Illinois reflects a list of legislation that handcuffed the police and specifically gave undo protections to criminals…
Obama appears to want to use the same mentality on a national level and extend protections to our enemy worldwide and handcuff our military.

McCain wasn’t the boogeyman in 2004 when the DNC wanted him to run as a Democrat. Palin and Hillary have much more in common than just being women. Both fight for the underdog. Both show themselves as more concerned for their constituents than in pleasing their parties. Both love and want to protect our children. Want something better for them. Both are Patriots that care about this country and want to protect her. Both, in fact all three Hillary, Palin, and McCain have stood up the corruption within their parties. Hillary faced it down every single day of the primaries. Now you can throw out this she was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it. What that tells me is she was a RESPONSIBLE politician. The bridge to nowhere was going on long before Sarah came into office. This tells me she was for it because she wasn’t on the “In/Knowing” once she got in and found it was not feasible for the tax payers of Alaska she said thanks, but no thanks. Instead of going ahead with a mistake, she stood up and did the right/responsible thing for her constituents. I supported Hillary, I will now vote for McCain and Palin. No longer will I blindly follow behind either party or any candidate. Country FIRST.

Samantha,
Puma is a republican ran stunt look up its founder he was linked to john mccains campaign then forced to quit.
Yes my spelling sucks!
I love HRC she is a great woman..
Barack is great too
I dont think much of Rice… I havent see her do much she flys to alot of places but never seems to get anything done!
Palin is a political stunt like they stick a woman in our face and we will all be so happy and not look at her and her record… Us girls are not that stupid!
Your right my spelling sucks Ive been blogging to long!

Jack Kennedy
Knowing that McCain And Palin are bad for America doesnt make anyone an American hater.
Voting Obama is a vote for the love of the Constitution and America !
Obama 08

Obama calling anyone shameless is just… well… shameless…

” The surge has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams” Barak Obama to Orielly
“Life begins at conception” Joe Biden on Meet the Press.
How do you libs feel about you candidates taking the McCain/Palin positions on those issues?

Hrm so since we haven’t caught them there should be no issue with regard to their treatment. Nice that that one is settled Mr. Black Liberation Theology.

Obama is an empty suit. A virtual affirmative action candidate. He’s never showed anything remotely like political courage. OTOH, McCain has frequently pissed off Republicans when he thinks it’s right to break with them and Palin took on the Republican establishment in Alaska almost single-handedly. Obama? Just the product of a political machine who, in one of his books, admitted to specifically searching for Marxist professors while in college. He’s a vile Marxist coward and nothing more.

” Everyones heard about wright and obama.. We dont care !!! ”
That’s why you’re going to lose. When you don’t care about the racialist past of your candidate, that’s what happens.
Good luck with your affirmative action candidate. Maybe he can go back to that community organizing one day. And what is a community organizer? Obama doesn’t know either.
“When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn’t answer them directly. Instead, I’d pronounce on the need for change. Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds. Change in the Congress, compliant and corrupt. Change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed. Change won’t come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.”
- Barrack Obama, Dreams from My Father
If the Marxist, terrorist lover can’t even answer this question, why should anyone regard this activity as anything other than a way to boost his political career?

i don’t envy the american people in this years election considering they have to choose between just continuing the chaos of the last 8 years (McCain/Palin) and some vague idea of “change” (Obama/Biden). being a foreigner, i would just hope that the discussion leading towards your decision would be more intelligent and less emotional.

“McCain has never mentioned my Muslim faith.”
I kinda didn’t get the big deal/ McCain didn’t mention his muslim faith,since that isn’t his faith. Unlike some folks he took the high road instead of “the insinuate/rinse/repeat” method of many of his supporters

Amazing what being down 10 points will do to Obama. Typical liberal whiner. “These people”!! Shut up. Nobobody cares anymore Obama. You are losing and losing big. The American people finally figured you out and they don’t like what they see.
Go cry on Oprah’s couch.

Obama has been unmasked. I wonder if “these people” are the same people Michelle was referring to when she kept saying “they”. By the way where has Michelle been hiding?

Shameless is correct after Palin has exploited her son’s disability and her teenage daughter’s pregnancy for political benefit. Take them on and teach them the Constitution. McSame and Palin have no respect for the Constitution, not at all, they are warmongers and fearmongers, not this time around, no more 4 years of failled republican policies inside and outside. God save America from McPalin. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA/BIDEN08.

Oh…and by the way, all those whiners who keep saying “McSame” or “4 more years of Bush” ??…..nobody in this country believes that for a minute.
McCain-Palin is about as FAR AWAY from Bush-Cheney as you can get. They are THE CHANGE WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR, except they don’t go telling the whole world this. THE ONE is about to be the one sitting at home voting “present” in the senate in 2009.
Nobama
Keep your change.

ynot4tony2,
Can you show me the record of Barack Obama and Biden voting for the bridge to no where ? LOL

What is really funny is Hillary is the only Lib showing any class in the Gov. Palin pick. She wants to talk issues, you idiots want to throw insults. You moron libs really blew it throwing Hillary under the bus. This is more fun than a circus. Or should I say the Democrats are a circus.

eagle1,
For me truth is an issue!
Yes Hillary should be on the ticket!
I am yet to see or hear Barck Obama slam Palin for anything other then an issue!
Facts matter!
Truth matters!

What kind of law professor doesn’t understand habeas corpus does not need to apply in certain cases.
“The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it.”
Article one section 9
In addition, it is applicable to the US and US citizens bound by our laws.
The real question here is why is the messiah (O’bama) so scared and protective of his long time relationships with radical bomb planting anti-American terrorists, angry racist Nation of Islam consorting Preachers, Marxist activists, and plain old Chicago criminal thugs?

The Orwellian DNC Animal Farm that calls itself a united political party is failing.
Justice is prevailing and Obama is down in the polls.
I voted for Hillary and I am now voting for McCain. Many others are following suit by the thousands.
Like someone said in an earlier post, the DNC is a trainwreck.
Just wait until the end of September. You thought ten point gain by McCain was bad. The Obamabots will spread kool aid and lies with a vengeance. The Obama campaign is unraveling before our very eyes. The pretty ribbon and packaging and speeches are all unraveling to reveal the DNC’s gift to America- an empty suit.
My question to the Obamabots:
You maligned Hillary Clinton and used race baiting witch hunts to advance Saint Obama as your nominee but how did you expect the DNC advance to the next game when you had so many dead teammates on the field after the primaries?

Suspending Habeas Corpus during wartime is not unusual for the United States.
So either Obama doesn’t believe we are at war or he doesn’t know history – either way is scary.

Jack Kennedy-
for those with no concept of Real Americans, if you have to ask, you are not.
I’m pretty much as real as they come, justed wanted to know what your concept was. This country was founded on so called “radicals”. That’s kinda why the right to have your “guns” and your “god” or pretty much anything else even “wrongheaded opinions” It used to be a free country anyway, but I’d rather have my President/VP fixing issues rather than espousing their particular religouse opinions. That’s kinda how the run it over there in the desert

My grandmother always said, “You can’t tell time on someone else’s clock.” Judgments about people’s personal lives are better left unsaid and unrealized.
So why then do I think that Sarah Palin would be a terrible vice president? Because I also think that John McCain would be a terrible president.
I don’t care about how Sarah Palin or John McCain take care of their families. I care about how their policy choices affect my family and millions of other Americans.
McCain and Palin get their health insurance paid for by the government (hers in Alaska and his in Washington). Yet they oppose giving the nearly 46 million uninsured Americans the same access to affordable health care.
John McCain’s kids don’t have to worry about paying for college. Yet he has opposed every single education support program to help others.
McCain and Palin say they will stand up to oil companies. Yet the only energy policy they support gives millions of dollars in tax breaks to oil companies to do more drilling and he has opposed every piece of federal legislation to explore alternative fuel sources.
McCain and Palin say they will revamp how Washington does business. Yet his campaign is filled with lobbyists and she has cooperated with Sen. Ted Stevens in funneling federal money for useless projects in Alaska for years. And McCain and Palin have no solutions for Americans worrying about their jobs in a fragile economy. iReport.com: Is Palin the right choice for you?
McCain and Palin want us to leave their families alone. Yet they want to make rules for our families by eliminating our right to make our own choices over abortion, eliminate our access to family planning education or domestic partner benefits, and our freedom from discrimination.
They want to control what our kids learn in school about sex and about science. In short, through the policies they promote and the judges they support, they want the government to have more control over our private lives than at any time in history.
McCain and Palin now say their campaign is about change, too. Yet the only real change they have proposed is a change from a suit to a skirt in the vice president’s office and one man fighting a misplaced war for another in the Oval Office.
That seems to me to be the right reason to oppose them in November. It’s not the process or the people, it’s what they represent. This unconventional choice of a vice presidential nominee by John McCain won’t result in a win in November, because McCain and Palin are the wrong choice for the country.

Personally speaking, life the past 8 years under Republican leadership has been the worst I have ever experienced. Why on Earth would anyone even suggest that four more years of the same would be different? Palin is a shameless liar. I’m not sure why the hours of video of her contradicting herself time and time again aren’t enough to convince people. I’m sorry, but if you’re a “Democratic” woman voting for McCain you are either, not a Democrat, or an idiot. Seriously.

Obama just can’t help himself. He continues to run against Sarah Palin
while John McCain gets to look like the adult. The big O can just not stand
that Sarah has stolen his thunder &
diminished his role as messiah.

this entire mess started with John F. Kennedy… he was a womanizer, a pig, the Dem’s started making excuses way back then, and now have perfected the EXCUSE MACHINE… let’s hope America finally sees the light of truth when it comes to this Obama guy, and starts voting for honest people. Obama is a fraud, a liar, and worst of all Anti-American….

Hargrove—Hillary is a traitor to the Democratic party! How dare she limit her attack on Sarah Palin, who is not a Democrat, and a liar, when she did not do the same for Barack Obama, who is a Democrat. Especially when, it is her sexist/racist playbook that the Republicans are now using against Barack. Perhaps because she too is a lies about her record. “Dodging bullets,” Hillary, I don’t think so.
_____________________________________
This is yet another racist statement from an Obamabot.
Hillary, the DNC kicked you to the curb for Saint Obama. Now they will blame you for this unelectable joke of a nominee not winning the election.
Hillary please disassociate with Obama. It is a set up. Let Obama fight his own losing battle. You are doing more for Obama’s campaign than his own VP nominee Joe Biden and stupid Obamabots are now calling you a traitor.
Unbelievable

1. Obama is unqualified and we all know it. His Fairyland isn’t going to “save” us and do we really need to be saved in the first place? We can do this on our own. If you are stupid enough to buy into Obama’s schpill about McCain being the same as Bush – then I recommend you read McCain’s history. And yes, he’s been called a Maverick for a very long time – it isn’t a new thing….believe me, you will feel stupid after educating yourself on the man.
2. Obama’s tactic are sleazy, and his short record in the Senate has produced over 200 “Present” votes, meaning he was there, but opted NOT to vote for his constituents, no reforms. So, nothing is new, business as usual in Washington. He hasn’t turned the Senate upside down, he can’t work with both sides of the isle…what’s he got going for him? Just a TelePrompTer? Oh, yes, and Fairyland is always there too I supposed.

What EXACTLY is Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers? Is Bill Ayers a casual acquaintance or a close friend? A business associate? What? Can someone link to any NYT or WP articles that detail the relationship? Or link to any news source that can provide the details? The info in Wikipedia is remarkably sparse.

Obama is right about the Bridge to Nowhere except he intentionally omits the “rest of the story”. After Sarah Palin got in to office and saw the other projects that needed to be addressed, with an informed decision, she changed her position and did oppose the Bridge to Nowhere and instead spent two million dollars for a ferry to get the people on and off the island.

Oh, no!
Obama Buys $1.65 Million Dollar Home After Election to Senate – With Help From a Kickback Pal, Of Course
January 12, 2008 by mortensign
Kickback Suspect Helped Obama Buy Home
Shortly after election to the Senate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., bought a $1.65 million house with the help of an Illinois man now under indictment for bribes and kickbacks. Antoin “Tony” Rezko bought an adjacent lot from the same seller when Obama purchased his home under market value, a move Obama now calls a “bone-headed mistake.”
Obama’s Connection With an Accused Political Fixer Raises Questions
In sharp contrast to his tough talk about ethics reform in government, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., approached a well-known Illinois political fixer under active federal investigation, Antoin “Tony” Rezko, for “advice” as he sought to find a way to buy a house shortly after being elected to the United States Senate.
The parcel included an adjacent lot which Obama told the Chicago Tribune he could not afford because “it was already a stretch to buy the house.”
On the same day Obama closed on his house, Rezko’s wife bought the adjacent empty lot, meeting the condition of the seller who wanted to sell both properties at the same time.
Rezko had been widely reported to be under investigation by the U.S. attorney and the FBI at the time Obama contacted him and has since been indicted on corruption charges by a federal grand jury in a case that prosecutors say involves bribes, kickbacks and “efforts to illegally obtain millions of dollars.”

October will be very interesting in the “Truth Dept.” of the Obama Campaign. Word is Reverend Wright’s book, due out in October just before the election is going to drop the mother of all bombs on the Obama Campaign and sink it like the turd that it is.
NObama has been telling a slew of some real whoppers and Rev. Wright is going to shed some light on the truth and BO ain’t gonna like it because he also provides evidence and documentation.
BO stinks….Vote McCain-Palin!!!

Biden was for plagarism before he was against it.
Biden was against Gulf War. Can you imagine what the Middle East would look like now if these two clowns were in office. Iraq would have been not only in Kuwait but Saudia Arabia too.
Biden was for dividing Iraq up into 3 sections. Who is he do dictate how Iraq divides up their own country. What a lightweight.
Biden was for the Iraq war before he was against it. He then voted against surge that has given us victory (a word not in Lib vocabulary) and voted against equipment for our troops. What a troll!!!

American’s are NOT going to support the whole world while suffering and living like paupers for the better good of the party, with socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless society based on common ownership democrats! That is anti-American and futile attempts to pretend help and aid. Liberals are not helping other 3 world countries by forcing them to live in a primative manner and farm by primative means with our tax dollars, refusing them technology, liberty, methods and education of this century. Quit wasting our money to enslave others to your foolish communist-cult ways which you yourself wouldn’t and don’t tolerate.

They’re running scared…that’s why they quite touting their own plans and started rolling out the heavy lies. John McCain hasn’t been a maverick for seven years…and he didn’t “reform washington.” Sarah Palin has never been a maverick. She does however speak in tongues and prays for pipelines. There’s just too much money to be made being a cooperative jeezopublican for them to change now.
O’Bama will win huge in November.

Uh oh. Independents have McCain up by 15% and white women have given a 20% swing to McCain.
Ok Libs time to go to work and call all Independents and Hockey Moms RACISTS!!!
Come on, get started, you can do it.

“Yes, you are!” shouted a woman in the crowd.
Priceless.

Here’s whats shameless. Advocating for a law that would close every gun store within a 5 mile radius of a school (as though kids go buy guns after school), telling a reporter that you feel the DC handgun ban “is constitutional”.
Once the court knocks down the ban, then turn around and say you support the 2nd amendment.

All you libs said Palin wasn’t vetted by the press.
Can any of you libs tell me what is the Messiah’s relationship with Bill Ayers the admitted terrorist who he calls his friend.
Can you libs tell me why the Messiah sat in a church for 20 years and subjected his children to Black Theology and filthy racist speech.
Can you libs tell me why the Messiah got millions in funds for his friend Rezco the convicted felon for multi family housing and now they are all boarded up.
Can any of you libs tell me why the Messiah migrated to leftist and communist leaning professors in college.
Can any of you libs tell me if the Messiah still uses cocaine as he admitted using a lot. How do we know he is not addicted. He is currently addicted to nicotine.
The point is the press did not vet the Messiah at all. I can’t find anywhere on the internet where the so call main stream press asked any of these tough questions. When some of the came out Hillary cleaned his clock and he barely limped over the finish line.

eagle: Fair enough, but only if you tell me John McCain’s health care plan. We all know Hannity’s talking points he repeats them ad nauseum.
One thing for damn sure – the GOP brings out the worse in Americans!

This guy has some nerve!!! He has shifted position more times than anyone I have seen in recent political history!! Worse than Kerry in ’04! He has the nerve to open his big mouth and say these things while he ignores the fact that he has changed position on taxes, the war, health care, the economy, his church, his past (which they are still hiding). WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS?! What a piece of crap! John McCain is no saint either but his past is wide open. Sarah Palin will be interviewed by ABC this week. That will make her and her past wide open. Why won’t Obama explain Bill Ayers? Why won’t he explain Reverend Wright? Why can’t he tell the truth about why he won’t pledge to the flag or put his hand over his heart when reciting the pledge to this country? Why? Well, most likely because if all were revealed truthfully, he would have NO CHANCE of being elected. That’s why.

Obama has no right to criticize any ones record when he has none other than to vote present almost 200 times.
What a chicken, too limp to take a stand even in his own state legislature. The only executive experence has been to run his 43 million fondation into the ground. He says running his campaign is his experence and he dosn’t belive in taking on the children of other candidats yet he can’t even control his own people to keep their mouths shut and not drag those children in the mud.
He is either a liar or a very poor executive or both. Which I believe he is both. He is in Panic City right now. The bloom has come off the “O” all around.

julescator – Thanks you just made my point.

Obama wasn’t properly vetted by the voters of the Democratic party.

Alan – Is there a point in there somewhere? Baby Momma Drama Queen is the topic. Stay on topic please. The new Celebrity in town is the advocate for teen age pregnancy and high school drop outs! Keep up will you?

Chris Obama is not the topic in here. we have moved on the the new stars; Mac Daddy McCain and Baby Momma Drama Queen. I can’t wait for them to get into the White House. By Novemember most of America’s teenage girls will be pregnant and will have dropped out of school like our new teen Idol Bristol!!!! He baby daddy is cute. Is the 13 year old sexually active yet?

Watch to see a campaign implode. The dem’s went far left/ the media jumped on the empty suit bandwagon, the empty suite picks the stuffed shirt/ should have picked Hill/ did not have enough guts/ McCain shows courage picking an unknown reformer/Media goes nuts / exposing them for their bias/The empty suit continues to talk about his experience is better than hers/ who is he running against anyway?/ only to continue to point out his own thin resume with the Palin/ the stuff shirt complains that the sarah pick has been afraid to answer questions despite the fact she had ONE WEEK to prepare for the biggest speech of her life. now no more big speeches for bama/ empty suits strong suit/ has to debate/ not so strong because has no real convictions/ note -sat in church pew for 20 years with a bigot who hates america/ /next up/ media attempt to destroy palin. /cannot help themselves/ Biden proves he is a stuffed shirt/ cannot help himself/ the country really starts to pay attention/ Let me see?? empty suit vs war hero , who was tortured, left in a cell to die for 5 years because when offered a chance to go home/ he said no unless ALL the POW’s go / has been hated in his own party because he has reached out across party lines with a V.P. known for taking on her own party of corrupt “old boy” politician in Alaska with a 80% approval rating VS. empty suit and stuff suit / one at the top of the ticket /who has done nothing but campaign for 2 years of his 3 1/2 years in the senate and the stuffed shirt that cannot stop talking about him self.\/ watch/ i have faith in Joe Biden/ running on a campaign of change/ the duo think raising taxes on cap gains, dividends, personal income and corporations is a good idea in a slow economy despite the fact they voted for a “stimulus check” to get the economy going/ Opps / now obama says he may delay raising taxes because of the slow economy/ well if its not a good idea in a slow economy , why is it a good idea at all/ THATS the change people are looking for. Great idea!!!! Oh. by the way, the US has the 2nd highest corporate taxes in the world/ Raising their taxes will make them even more competitive in a global economy, right? The American people are starting to see the comparisons, Empty suit and stuffed shirt in big trouble. Watch obama call for Hilliary to go to battleground states, not good enough to be v.p. but please come an save me/ And everyone will see the emperor has no clothes.

If Obama ever caught Osama, he’d probably just ask him for a campaign contribution. Living for “Hope” is living in fantasy land. I don’t have “Hope”. I have a JOB! Symbolism over substance, the mantra of the Dems.

Isn’t it odd that Tapper does not even call Mr. Obama on the candidate’s use of habeas to change the subject from Osama bin Laden to Guantanamo detainment? Miranda is not habeas corpus and neither of those laws are not meant for belligerants but for our citizens. Plus, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas when it was necessary to suppress rebellion in the border states so it hasn’t been absolute for 200 years.

Obama’s position just goes to show that he hasn’t given this 5 minutes of thought. He wants to kill anyone we think may have been a terrorist. “Take em out.” He doesn’t give any value to capturing these people and a) determining if we have the right person and b) finding out who their friends out and c) getting other valuable intel out of them. He just wants to shoot first and hope for the best. Classic non-military Liberal position. He’d rather shoot Bin Laden than get his roll call list. Idiot. That’s why he’s soft on terror. He thinks everyone involved in 9/11 (except Bin Laden) is dead, so the problem is solved.

Most people know more about William Ayes than they know about McCain leaving 100,000,000 people with no tax cuts (that would be you in the middle) If you make over $250,000 McCain has all kinds of breaks for you. The more you make the bigger the tax deduction.
Now those of you that make under $250,000 Obama will cut your taxes, McCain will raise them. read the WSJ and get smart! (or is it too late for that?)

Ok talking about lying -
1 – He does push for reading the rights to terrorists, because he wants to bring them here, not in Guatanamo FACT
2 – Fact they are not covered by the Constitution or Geneva Convention- They are enemy combatents not POWs
3 – The Bridge to no where Sarah never came in support of it, the previous Governor did and she stopped it. But lets say she originally supported it and then realized hey why we spending this money and then quashed it. Does not Obama change his positions daily and not to benefit the people.
4 – Obama talks about the constitution and how we should follow it, then why does he push un-constitutioanl items, like the (un)fairness Doctrine, why does he threaten peoples free speech

McCain/Palin shameless…can you believe the Obamassiah has the nerver to call someone else “shameless”. He is a simple tool of the Pelosi/Reed/Murtha/Dean Party and a lying disgusting human being….

eagle35 and Ohio girl: Finally someone noticed what I have been doing. It is quite simple. This nasty campaiging doesn’t look good no matter which side you are on. The Obama supporters have been looking at this kind of stuff for months. Now you see what it’s like to be on that side of the fence.
I am one of those Independents you speak of. My point it this! This is a very serious election and we have wasted a lot of time with cheap political tricks and downright mean posts.
As Americans we should vote on the issues not who has the best insults and lies. I think we all owe it to ourselves to vote on the issues. Every election year we let our political paties pit us against each other and we end on voting against our own self interest because we think this is a school yard fight. They are all rich and will get richer no matter who wins.
I like all of these candidates they are decent people. We dishonor them when we stoop to all this pettiness. There is enough dirt on both sides to talk about for months. Let’s be smart this time and VOTE THE ISSUES – NOT THE SMEARS! Fair enough?

Kim says: “What does Obama have to “explain” about Ayers? That they live in the same neighborhood? That they served on a community board together (with many other people who live in their neighborhood)? That Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground when he was a child? What do you need explained to you?”
If McCain were friends with Tim McVey or David Duke and he went to them for political advice are you telling us this would not matter? Wow!!!
And you Libs say Palin wasn’t vetted.
(ABC, why are you deleting this comment?)

I am not sure what all the bashing is about. It’s simple. If you think McCain will be the best president then vote for him. If you think Obama will be the better candidate, then vote for him.
Why all the fuss? I think most people have decided who they are going to vote for.

deathbydemocraticparty:
Your choice is easy. Vote for McCain.

“VOTE THE ISSUES – NOT THE SMEARS”
The issues:
Obama will raise income taxes, business taxes, death tax, and capital gains taxes. This will hurt the economy and employment.
Obama is in favor of unrestricted right to kill innocent babies (rated 100% by NARAL).
Obama voted “present” over 100 times while a state senator.
Obama has missed 67 out of 293 votes (23%) as a US senator.
Obama is opposed to drilling for oil.
Obama wants to give social security benefits to illegal aliens.
Obama wants to cut and run from Iraq and was opposed to the surge.
Obama opposed Roberts and Aleto to the Supreme Court.
Obama wants to read terrorists their rights.
If you don’t know, don’t vote.
People who know, don’t vote for Obama.

McCain/Palin will win in November.
I am libertarian, and I will vote for McCain.
Obama camp said People in France and Germany like Obama, and when I said these people in Germany and France are not Americans and who cares?
They replied “well, McCain is strong will dominate the world, and those European countries like Germany and France don’t want to see the US dominates the world, they want to have equal share, and so they like Obama, because he is weak.”

Obama will lose simply because he lacks what the people of America want: true leadership. He has less experience than his running mate, and his campaign has the nerve to slander Palin? Pathetic!

baraky:
soft on terrorists…
tough on normal Americans…

Bill – What about those polls a couple weeks ago that had Obama well ahead?
I suppose you didn’t believe those either …
Bill – It’s time to get off the computer and get some air.

Deathbydemocraticparty wrote:
Wow. Someone who cares about the constitution. You know…the thing that differentiates us from the authoritarian world like Iran, Russia, and Saudia Arabia…ya that’s it. The Constitution…starts out “We the people”…as in the document that defines the rights of the individual in a free society…yeah…you got it. The constitution. Thank-you Senator Obama for caring about the document that guides our country. Its so refreshing in a politician to care about such a vital issue. You absolutely have my vote!
Obama/Biden 08!!!
Isn’t that rich of you to know want to show respect to the Constitution, yet the far-left has no problem trampling on the Constitution when it supports judges who legislate from the bench rather than respect the Constitution and allow elected lawmakers to make laws. That’s the only way the liberals can pass their agenda. Face it, the country is center-right, not liberal.
Obama calls Republicans shameless. How shameful is it of him to run as a uniter when he is left of the left in this country. How will he govern from the center? He doesn’t know what it looks like. He wants to be above the partisanship, when has he been anything other than a partisan, voting the left party line when he’s not voting “PRESENT”. He’s got to take a stand on something since his record is completely deficient of any accomplishments other than writing his 2 memoirs and what seems to be a decent family life.

Obama is a wolf in sheep’s clothing being aided by the elitists of the media.
Obama when asked about his assocation with Bill Ayers stated Ayers was “just a guy who lives in the neighborhood.” But it’s not being reported that Obama was the CEO of the foundation named CAC which was founded and guided by Ayers.
Ayers is the co founder of Weather Underground, which BOMBED USA sites including the US Capital and the Pentagon.
Democrats for the sake of America, please do your homework and at least google and check into this.
And God help us, if once you check into it you can still pull the lever for Obama.

The truth is that Obama and the democrats have done everything possible to cause us to loose this war against Islamic terrorists and to cause the American people to loose support for the war and the Commander and Chief. I saved the stories with their quotes over the years, so saying that Obama is for winning the war is simply bs. And anyone who would say that Obama is perfect needs to drink some Cool-aid before the election.

I heard the Republicans spout some ridiculous stat about Obama’s public voting record, so I went to check it out myself…
…I was disappointed to see that Obama has selected “No Vote” (NV) over 40% of time.
This caused me to reflect on his commitment and responsibility to his constituents. Isn’t the whole purpose of a Representative to represent his people? (to participate in voting on the Senate floor?) That’s pretty much one of the main parts of the job description.
I have to say that when I look at Obama’s track record (things done- not just said or said he will do), that my confidence in him being the next President has dropped.
If you were on the board of a large company and were interviewing 2 promising candidates for arguably the most important position in your company, and one of the candidates had an impressive list of of accomplishments (reflecting years of experience), and the other candidate had a list of accomplishments that was clearly much thinner — would that not be an important factor to be weighed?
I admit that I’ve gotten caught up in a candidates’ appearance and how effective they are at public speaking, but am now trying to be a more responsible voter and actually research each candidate further — it’s not hard nowadays with the internet and easy access to public voting records, transcripts of candidates interviews, etc. You can actually read what they’ve said, and see what they’ve done. You are in control. You can think about it, and you can decide without the distraction of a reporter or editor that.
My hope is that more people will take a little time to do this before casting their vote this November.
We all want what is best for our Country — let us examine the candidates thoroughly, cautiously, with the same zeal, energy, and scrutiny we’d give if someone came to your door to ask if they could take your child somewhere. It’s that important.

What a joke military tribunals have worked for 200 years . The democrats are the reason we have had to fight this war with one arm tied behind our backs! I was outraged that th Suprems said forign enemy combatants deserve all rights affroded U.S. citizes. Obamma says Hillary is unfit because she used bad judgment voting for the Iraq war then he picks Biden who voted for the war ??!! Clinton had Bin Ladden 3 times and let him go!You can’t trust these people with Nat’l Security!

Our constitution does not cover foreign terrorists. It is for our DOMESTIC protection. Furthermore, there are no rights bestowed upon, nor protections afforded enemy combatants (under the Geneva Convention) who are fighting a guerilla war. Someone please tell me why this is so confusing.
America no longer has a collective “moral fiber”, so the excuse of “that’s who we are” is not valid. Even so, our former moral fiber compelled us to take care of our own citizens and residents first.

This is one independent woman, who will be voting for McCain-Palin in November.
Obama can’t seem to make up his mind. He wants to pander to the far-left as he did throughout the primaries and now is trying to move to the center without offending those who got him there.
He is a left wing extremist with some very poor characters as his advisors. His only crutch, Joe Biden, has serious health concerns with 2 brain aneurysisms the last few years and whose health is failing him according to his son.
Reverend Wright is releasing his book in October, which is supposed to contain proof of many lies by Obama and 2 or 3 serious scandals.

Alibama is losing it.

Please keep up with the DNC talking point insults. This is great!!! When are you going to start calling the hockey moms and independent white women “racists” now that they now that a majority support McCain? Please, please do not stop with the insults.

Well folks, if the Media and by that the likes of Cris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, well then Obama is a shoe in. But just maybe some people won’t let the Media chose the next President which they’ve tried do do for years.

It’s a joke to try to blame the Dems for how this war has gone. Let’s just forget about the GOP has been in the drivers seat for 6 of the last 8 years. The long parade of failed policies, tactics and politicians has all been courtesy of the Republican party. Trying to lay any of this at the feet of Dems in general and Obama in particular is beyond laughable. The attacks on Obama without taking responsibility for who brought us this far is typical of Republican tactics and rhetoric. Stop pretending that the GOP had nothing to do with it. The first step towards recovery is admitting you have a problem in the first place. How about an argument that cites FACTS? Saying that McSame and Palin are “Mavericks” isn’t enough to prove that this ticket will somehow transform Washington. How about some substance? Let’s see you PROVE IT.

hey wasnt this country founded on christian values? we have fallen so far from that thanks to organizations like the aclu. separation of church and state didnt mean you cant have the 10 commandments up in a public place it means that the church isnt the govt & the govt isnt the church. the founders of this country would go friggin mad if they saw it today.
how many religious private schools have had shootings? how many have to have armed security guards because of the violence in the schools. when schools started out in this country they had prayer and religion. so its hard to believe that the so called scholars today could be even remotely correct in their understanding of the constitution and the intent of the founders of this country. since the schools of the founders time were teaching christian values THATS PROBABLY HOW THEY WANTED IT!

The record is clear. The Dems took over both houses in 2006 and they have done nothing. They have a single digit approval rating. Pelosi and Reed are just punchlines of numerous jokes now. The conservative tried to tell them a raise in the minimum wage would increase unemployment particularly if done during a economic turndown and then when unemployment increases as predicted they blame Bush. Bush has tried during his entire terms to drill for American oil but was blocked by the Liberal Senate. This has also contributed to unemployment and inflation. There is plenty of blame to go around. The problem is not taxes. There has been a 20% increase in annual revenues in 8 years. The problem is spending from both sides. You think Obama will stop spending? McCain at least has a record in this regard.

“What I have also said is this: that when you suspend habeas corpus — which has been a principle, dating before even our country, it’s the foundation of Anglo-American law — which says, very simply, if the government grabs you, then you have the right to at least ask, ‘Why was I grabbed?’ and say, ‘Maybe you’ve got the wrong person.’
The writ of habeas corpus serves as an important check on the manner in which state courts pay respect to federal constitutional rights. The writ is “the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.” These are people who are not citizens, they do not and never have been given the rights that citizens of the United States have. In other words, Obama is wrong.

Shameless is telling people that you’ll serve your full term in the Senate, then go back on your word. Shameless is attending a church for years that is anti-white and anti-semitic. Shameless is defending your church and your pastor, then denouncing them two weeks later. Shameless is being the first candidate since McCain/Feingold was passed to turn down federal campaign funds. Shameless is trying to portray yourself as anything other than one of the most drastically liberal members of the Senate. That’s what shameless is.

First Security and then Economy.
I trust McCain on those issues and he can make America strong.
I have followed the Economy and Security in Europe and how our Dollars dropped below Euro, I cannot trust the no executive experiences to run my country. Without security how are we going to have a strong Economy?
Most politicians give empty promises, but at least McCain has plenty experiences and he can make America safe then strong.
I am very scared to know Obama wants to run my country and he has no experiences.
I don’t trust Obama for many reasons and many people already knew the reasons why he cannot protect our great country from future attack.
I sometime asked myself “why the liberals chose Obama who has no experiences instead of many Black Americans who have more experiences and more intelligent than Obama?”
We have too many problems to solve after Bush whom I didn’t vote for, but Obama to solve? No, I don’t trust Obama with his empty promises and with no expereinces.
Thank you and please don’t attack me. I only expressed my concern for my great country.
With respect
Beatrice (Libertarian)

One thing I am about 90% sure of–the position of President has become largely that of a figurehead: reassure folks in times of trouble, claim credit when times are good, blame others when times are bad, talk tough when required and above all, give good speeches with media appropriate sound-bites. Personally, my ideal president would be Morgan Freeman in the movie “Deep Impact”.

This is too good. The latest insult is Palin hates eskimos and that is why the Republicans chose her to run on the ticket because she is a “racist” and that is who they (the Rep) wanted on the ticket.
Please do not stop this stuff. You Libs are coming completely unglued and it is a joy to watch.

The only army BO ever thought about joining was the Salvation Army. Then he found out it was a Christian organization and he decided to become a community organizer to pocket funds from John Q. Public and cozy up to William Ayers, Tony Resko and Reverend Wright.

If there’s anything the Republican Party loves to do it’s ignore the Constitution…well except half of the second amendment.

“Bill Clinton didn’t have terrorist fly planes into our buildings” Exactly, George Bush did and he is supposed to get credit for allowing that to happnen on his watch?? I know you want to say it’s because of Clinton’s inaction, which is total BS. The fact of the matter is George Bush downgraded the terrorist Czar from a cabinet level postion and cut the budget for fighting terrorism and moved his focus to building a missle defense system. He received a Presidental Daily Briefing on August 6th, 2001 which stated “Bin Laden determined to strike within the United States” and futher down in the text it described how he intended to use airplanes to fly into our buildings and what did George Bush do? The answer is nothing — he stayed on vacation on his fake ranch in Texas and played cowboy and now you think he is some kind of hero because he went to Irag before he caught or killed those terrorist who flew planes into our buildings. George Bush is probably the worst American in the history of this county, he represents everything that is evil and false and peopele who follow him can only be delusion to believe he is anything but.

Remember, folks, a tax increase ANYWHERE is a tax increase on EVERY one…
Historical fact:
When corporations have been taxed more, the cost of their goods and services went up. Meaning, the cost of living for you and me goes up.
Historical fact:
When taxes have been lowered, people and corporations have had more money to spend, and the government ended up with more money (than they would have with a tax increase) since they tax every time money changes hands.
A candidate that is telling you that you and I won’t be affected by his taxation on the large corporations “who can afford to be taxed more” (Obama said that in his interview with Bill O’Reily last night), is showing you his lack of understanding of how the economy works.

Imagine the following scenarios:
Q) Mr. President – The Russians have invaded Germany! What should we do?
A) Present.
Q) Mr. President – OPEC has announced they are stopping sales of oil to the U.S. How will we handle it?
A) Present.
Q) Mr. President – We’ve just had a dirty bomb (nuclear) detonate in New York City. What do we do now?
A) Present.
This is what a Barry Soetoro presidency means to America.

This forum is full of the same fools who voted for Bush twice and that have put this country on the road to disaster. Go ahead and vote for that walking corpse McSame and his Bride of Frankenstein and see what that will get you.

Sorry again Kate. Its my business to know about the GSE’s. Whether it be Fannie, Freddie, FFCB, FHLB, Farmer Mac, or even TVA, they all are chartered by Congress. As such they receive benefits in kind because of the implicit guarantee from the Federal Government. All of these entities except for FFCB have a line of credit at the U.S. Treasury Dept. Their quasi public status means they are regulated differently than their private competitors. As a result, their capital requirements are also less than their private competitors. Another big cost born by taxpayers is that neither Fannie or Freddie have to pay State or Local income taxes. Do you really believe that if they were “private” companies with no government backing that the bond market would have considered their debt AAA given their toxic balance sheet. Give it up and try finding a topic that you know something about.

julescator-
I have been reading the comments for over an hour and your comments really stand out. At some point we all tell on ourselves and you are doing a great job of representing Obama. I was undecieded and looking at ALL of the issues just wanted to say thanks for helping me choose McCain-Palin I know for sure now if your for Obama I am for McCain!!!

John che says: “Go ahead and vote for that walking corpse McSame and his Bride of Frankenstein and see what that will get you.”
Please do not stop insulting senior citizens and a female Governor with an 82% approval rating. How is that working for you? Please keep the insults coming. You fools do not realize how great it is to hear all these rants. Don’t forget to call her a “racist” because she does not like Eskimos either. (the latest Moveon type claim). Please don’t stop.

Wareagle, say hi to cousin Neville Chamberlain.Slick Willy had several chances to “get” Binladen & refused because of his POLITICAL view that the world wouldn’t like it.The 1993 WTC attack was President Bush’s fault also I assume War less eagle? The lefties like to rewrite history.Sorry it doesn’t work that way no matter how hard you try.
Vote for O’carter???

“These people are shameless”. Now isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black?
“I’m not going to describe in an ad that I did something that is opposite of what I did.” That’s because he has never done anything of importance except further his own career and write two books about it.

Obama has little to offer besides judgment and change. He opposed the surge and was proven wrong. Then he lied about it in his acceptance speech. He then chose Senator Biden as a running mate. Biden has been in Washington longer than McCain.
Bad judgment, not much change, and not much hope if Obama becomes president.

Do you expect a soldier in a war zone who captures a terrorist on the battle field to rope off the scene, gather evidence, read him his rights, and supply him with an attorney? This is impossible in a war zone. If this goes to a criminal court in the U.S. it would be impossible to convict the scum of a parking violation. This is the real world not some TV show. Geez the ignorance is unbelievable!!!

mnuhmnuh,
It’s your ignorance on display: the higher the federal deficit, the higher interest rates, the greater indebtedness of the country, and the decreased liquidity of banks to loan (who reserve money to loan to the federal government). If businesses cannot borrow, they cannot grow. The deficit has ballooned under Bush, and the McCain tax plan promises the same. Independent non-partisan tax groups (more than one) have estimated that the McCain plan will add 1.5 TRILLION dollars in deficit above Obama’s plan. Now that’s fiscal responsibility.
If tax cuts for the wealthy work so well, how is it that every Republican administration has increased our deficit–and the only budget surplus in recent memory has been under a Democrat? McCain further wants to keep spending 10 billion dollars a month in Iraq–a country with a budget surplus. So the idea that Obama plans to spend more than McCain is patently false. He just wants to spend the money here at home.
And that bridge to no where? The bridge might not be there, but the federal funds went into the coffers of Alaska. A state that currently has a huge surplus due to the high gas prices that the rest of the country is paying. Very principled move.

During this election, we, the American people, have been spoon fed by the media. Rhetoric, cartoons, and campaign propaganda are what we have received, instead of each candidate’s true agenda. What I want from the Democratic Party is their definition of Progressive and how it fits into the lives of all Americans. What I want from the Republican Party is similar. After all, no one wants to be labeled backward, but I feel if we are given the truth, then this election would be over.

Obama has little to offer besides judgment and change. He opposed the surge and was proven wrong. Then he lied about it in his acceptance speech. He then chose Senator Biden as a running mate. Biden has been in Washington longer than McCain.
Bad judgment, not much change, and not much hope if Obama becomes president.

Reading over these comments, I’m amazed how many Republicans are unemployed. With this much free time on their hands, you would think they’d volunteering in their communities, helping those around them, you know…living up to their alleged principles.

Only legal immigrants/visitors and citizens should have rights to habeas corpus. Other terrorists should be detained forever with the key thrown away.

KoKoMo,
Those are interesting points you brought up and I will think about them, but I think you overlooked my point which was:
* For a candidate to tell the “average joe” that they won’t be affected by larger corporations being taxed more, is irresponsible.
The fact remains, a tax increase ANYWHERE will result in a tax increase on us all.
Corporations can’t just “absorb” that tax -they pass it on to the consumer by raising the cost of their goods and services.

“If you’ve got a terrorist, take ‘em out.”
Meaning what? Dinner and a movie? Gitmo is a no-no for Libs. Killing them “only creates more terrorists.” So what does he mean when he says “take them out?” Obama is the master of using thousands and thousands of words to say absolutely nothing.

The rest of the world is in favor of Obama. What does that tell you. He’s the weakest. Coddling terroists will not be the only problem when the rest of the world realizes we are run by and appeaser.

The rest of the world is in favor of Obama. What does that tell you. He’s the weakest. Coddling terroists will not be the only problem when the rest of the world realizes we are run by and appeaser.

I’m 41 years old. My family has always voted Democrat, all the way back to my Great grandmother. I don’t really know why. We just did. I have never been really excited about voting for a candidate. But this year I can’t wait!
Sarah Palin has really opened my eyes. She inspries fear and loathing from people I generally disagree with. This year I am voting Republican! McCain you are either lucky or smart for choosing this woman. Watching the reaction my side has given, has switched me to your side.

Jen12,
Exactly !!!
Vote McCAIN/PALIN 2008

Tom G – that’s an interesting point you made. Hard to argue with.

Since when was Habeas Corpus a bad thing? She mocked the constitution like it was this horrible thing. Doesn’t anyone believe in rights anymore. Isn’t that what America is all about? The real America, the one that actually includes everyone. Remember? That was what was supposed to make us different from any other country on this planet. That as our proud legacy. Why are we ruining it? Wasn’t 8 years of this mentality enough?

“Republicans, he suggested, “should spend their time trying to catch Osama bin Laden” instead of worry about what to do with him after he’s caught.”
Doesn’t that just say it all? He starts with the word “republicans”. I thought he was trying to unify the country and the parties? Shouldn’t it be, “All parties should be…”
I would like to address a comment made earlier by somone who thinks it’s ok to abort a child, if it’s a result of rape. While rape is an awful, awful thing, why does a child who didn’t ask for anything, be killed? There is an alternative, it’s called: Adoption. Think of the child as a blessing amidst horrific circumstances. Who knows, maybe there is a special purpose for that child, but if the angry/easy way is taken, the world would never find out.
You Liberal thinking democrats only want a handout. “What can my country do for me…I’m entitled.”
Let’s not forget, your golden boy Clinton, had the benefit of a Republican controlled congress. There’s your reason for the economy doing so well. Bush, comes into office, and the Dems take with control in the senate…Well, well…surprise, surprise, we’re in the toilet.
You want lower taxes and more money in your pocket? Vote McCain/Palin. You people that want to tax big corporations and the rich. Let’s not forget, it’s those with money that create jobs. I personally would rather work for someone who has money, than someone who doesn’t. Government jobs are nothing but a drain on the economy. Why? Because, you John Q. Taxpayer pays those positions. It’s always been the private sector/corporations that move and shake the economy.
Any candidate that thinks it’s smart to tax “big oil” is an idiot. Period. Play that scenario out. Our government taxes oil. What happens? You think the oil companies are going to say “Oh, I’m sorry, I’ll eat that tax increase.” No way, that relates directly to your wallet, and you the taxpayer will pay for that increase.
Let’s talk about not drilling and this BS that is Ethanol. Wonder why food prices go up? Because the price of corn went up to produce this waste of time.
Petroleum is and always will be one of the lifebloods of this country. Drill on our own soil, and let’s start making our own demands.
And lastly, ask yourself, since 9/11, have we been attacked on our own soil? I thought not. Silly Liberals, America is not for you.

People, People, People, the idiots that bought houses and cars and things they couldnt afford messed up the economy, not George Bush…want to see what living on the government dole does to people, watch the reruns of the New Orleans evacuation…they literally throw themselves on the ground and wait for the government to rescue them….that is exactly what dependency does..

Its going to be Obama hands down. Everything else is just gravy. The GOP is on the attack way too much and its showing through. ITs been too much garbage for too long and to just have McCain come up and say “change” with nothing to back it. So sad.

Shameless, from a Democrat who still thinks bill Clinton walks on water?
Talk about hypocritical. The only difference between this guy and a snake is that, unfortunately this guy can speak.

Sorry Libs – your Trojan Horse has been exposed – oh my!

who cares if obama is islamic? what does that matter? Are you assuming all islamic people are terrorits? Or that makes Obama any less patriotic? you know all these candidates have been working for the people because they love America. Questioning a candidates patriotism is foolish.
Please educate yourself before you vote.

Obama is a follower of the moron named Saul Alinsky. Crush and Destroy your opponent and tell the world anything they desire even if you tell someone else a different thing the next day. The people are too stupid to catch your lies.

I wouldnt vote for him for dog catcher…doesnt matter what he says or does, he is a liberal democrat, I dont vote for those clowns, costs me money that I earn, went to college to ensure I earn and I dont want it redistributed…I earned it, its that simple. Its not racist, if Clarence Thomas or Walter Williams were running I would sure as hell vote for them…

Steve wait until you see how much $$ you lose from the Fannie and freddie your GOP government just took over. OUCH! whats that? oh thats your pocketbook.
Is funny how the GOP stands for less government and there they go…bailing out Fannie and Freddie.

I really believe that the phoney press conference that BO, gave this morning was such a set up. They really think the American people are stupid that they could not see that those 3 so called questions given by the reporters where real. Please give the American people a break. By the way the pirahans and the aligators are sharpening their teeth regarding Palin,thank God for her. McCain is really a Maveric and does not give a D..what others think, He is mature, honest and knows how to run a country when the country is in trouble, this is no time for a Pretender in an empty suit for of styrophone, and a sourpuss VP,who are so negative about America. OBiden has a problem even smiling. They say they worry that Palin is one heart beat away from the presidency, But,how about that nightmare who is only two heartbeats away…ready..POLOSI. ugggggggg…….Say no to NObama/Nobiden

goodbye, what is excatly Obama’s economic plan? You seem to know. Last I knew basically Obamas plan will save everyone making less than $250M a year some real tax dollars.
You see MCcains plan to cut corproate taxes is useless b/c Coproations manage down the bottom line to not pay taxes anyway! Do you get it? Now if there was a revenue tax that was shared by the purchases and the seller, we might be talking some turkey. but a bigger tax cut for corporations, pluhesee. I’ve seen way too many tax returns to believe that mularkey.

Obama’s leadership experience is ZERO.
He has lead nothing. Obama votes “present” on difficult issues.
John McCain has FOUGHT his own party for what he believes in…Obama does NOT.
Obama was against drilling before he was for drilling the OCS. Since his party has been against drilling in the USA for more than 30 years…I don’t trust them with the future of our country.
Yes, McCain was against drilling the OCS before he was for it, BUT the Republicans have never been UNITED against NUCLEAR ENERGY and drilling the OCS like the Democrats.
It all adds up to a vote for McCain/Palin because I can’t trust the Democrats to put our country first and environmentalists second.
BTW, the FEDERAL RESERVE caused this housing and financial crisis by raising the FED overnight rate many times. The FED did the very same thing leading up to the year 2000 market collapse.
It wasn’t Bush that did this. It WAS the FEDERAL RESERVE under Bernanke.
I love my country and I support it with the BEST available people I can vote for… McCain/Palin 08.

Last I knew a military guy made a horrible president. can anyone say Eisenhower?

This blog is so far into Obama’s pockets, it’s a joke. How is this considered objective journalism?

Obama now spends more time covering is tracks, being on the defensive and whining about what is said about him in a political campaign. Does he not know, “Politics is a contact sport” and his faux pas and gaffes are going to cause him nagging problems and problems that cause him to nag.
Obama, you are playing in the big leagues, for you to break down and whine to all who listen is not going to gain you a favorable position. This is a direct exposure of character and if you have any then it’s best you use it to your advantage. So far your platform leans to much on taxable wealth disribution and little emphasis on energy and resources development, this is a mater of national independence and security in a growing ever hostile world. It will take a strong willful leader to make this country maintain it’s freedom, prosperity and a improving future, your not offering any proof of substance.

Obama is yesterdays news already. It was only a matter of time before everyone realized the emperor has no clothes. Come on now – how many major policies has he flip-flopped on in 3 months? Soldiers out of Iraq, Campaign Financing, Offshore drilling, rescinding the Bush tax cuts, and the surge that ‘wasn’t working’. Everything this guy stood for he has now flip-flopped on. Don’t you people realize? HE IS MAKING IT UP AS HE GOES ALONG! he is a fraud and finally – people are starting to realize all this.

I remember over the last eight years Greespan was warning about freddie and fannie and the government did nothing about it……him makes me think of a particular document also ignored by the GOP when in government…. something about a terrorist attack on the US….it was completely ignored can you helpme on it?

Champ, you have anyhting to say that has substance? your reply is the typical BS from the GOPers I cant stand. The republicans sound like the boy who lost his little red ball and now theyre blaming everyone and everything. so sad

Obama’s intellect is taxed by dreaming up new threats and failings allegedly posed by McCain and/or Palin. Obama has lied more and done less since 1992 than McCain and Palin combined. Add that whackjob Biden to the mix, and you have two charred pots calling their opponents black. Obamoonies and the far left zealots don’t have a plan, or a clue, or the intestinal fortitude, or the intellectual honesty to cut the social handouts, expel the illegals, tap into our national resources, oust the entrenched public service union parasites, and lay physical waste to our enemies, their supporters, and their homelands. Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, and their minions are domestic enemies that pose a clear and present danger to our national security.

jaydee, Ask yourself why did Freddie and Fannie give one million dollars to the Democrats….and why did Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad get special loans from Countrywide and refuse to refinance them. Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad should be cencured and booted out the door but then as Democrats it is expected so their seats are safe.

You know, for BHO being a “former Constitutional Law professor”, he sure needs to go back and read the Constitution and he needs to pay particular attention to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
The 14th Amendment defines who is a U.S. Citizen and outlines what protections they have, no matter what state they’re in. It also states who else is afforded the protection’s guaranteed by the Constitution when it states: “…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Since GITMO is not a State within the 50 (or 57 as BHO said) United States, nor is it a U.S. Territory; nor is Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan or any other country or territory belonging to another country, so unless the terrorists are captured on U.S. soil, and keep in mind, GITMO is NOT U.S. soil, it’s Cuban soil, then they are not afforded the protections of the Constitution and Habeas Corpus is NOT a factor.
And I would suggest, before anyone debates my statements, please read the 14th Amendment…or better yet, read the whole Constitution including the Amendments.

Jimmy Carter was last military president? that only stengthens my point. Carter and Eisnehower were both lame. And commenter calling himself Hillary, You are really dumb to think Obama is going to institute the same economic policy as Carter.

Tapper.. Don’t leave us on a misrepresentation — from Obama mouth.
So Palin flipped on the bridge. At least she flipped the right way – she did change her mind and oppose it. She can run the ad.
Obama. He promised to accept public financing. He flipped the wrong way.
Obama. He fist came to public office, by screwing over his mentor, his friend, and by getting the incumbent (along with 3 others) disqualified – by disenfranchising voter’s signatures…Mmm sounds a lot like Florida. Has he flipped the right way? Can he run on that?

I am glad that Obama is finally taking Palin on about her flippant “read them their rights” comment. As someone who has been fighting in a foreign country to instill freedom, I can tell you that the right of Habeas Corpus is precious and not to be mocked!

While Palin did eventually change her mind about building the bridge, she kept the $230 million that Congress had allocated for the bridge.
Without Palin and her hired lobbyists pulling for earmarks and pork, funding for the bridge would have never happened. She got money to build a bridge, kept the money, and didn’t build a bridge.
Sounds like old-school politics to me.

Read NEWSWEEK! They have printed all the REAL Truths about Sarah Palin to dispute all the rumors and lies on the Huffington post and Liberal Mainstream Media reports! Congrats! to “NEWSWEEK”. Go out and buy it and read it!

Hllary, JayDee, et al… Ummm, I hate to be the on to break this to you…but the last active duty, military President was actually George H.W. Bush. He was a Naval Aviator during WWII.
And Snert Lee…Ouch! Nice comeback. Sarcasm much?!?!? Didn’t think so! Leave it to the professionals!

Tom G:
‘fraid I can’t agree with you. I make what you make, my husband works as well, we both have advanced education, and we can barely make our ends meet. I certainly don’t expect government to bail me out of every problem. (I put myself through college, for god’s sake. I didn’t even expect my parents to bail me out.) But I do expect that by working 60 hours a week, I should not be drowning in health care costs (AFTER insurance premiums are paid), food costs, gas prices, property taxes, etc., etc.
If two people (my husband and myself) in a middle class family like ours cannot make enough money to manage, at the end of each month, to save for retirement, there’s a problem. All we want is some relief: decent health care; affordable child care; sustainable energy (and the jobs that go with that); reasonable tax burdens. Not too much to ask.

“That’s what we’re protecting. Don’t mock the Constitution! Don’t make fun of it! Don’t suggest that it’s un-American to abide by what the founding fathers set up! It’s worked pretty well for over 200 years!
???
And your position on the 2nd Amendment Mr Friend of Bomb Throwers????
Oh yeah… you amend your amends of Amendments.

I haven’t been a big Obama supporter, but I’ll take him over Mcsame.
It’s sounds like he’s not using a script and actually getting pissed. He’s got my attention now.

If Obama doesn’t care about his half brother living in a shack on less than 12 dollars a year do you think he really cares about you? Of course not he’s just telling silly people what they want to hear since they don’t have enough sense to understand it’s all lies.
Posted by: goodbyeUSA | Sep 9, 2008 3:05:41 PM
So Obama should be responsible for all half siblings he doesn’t know.

“I mean these IDIOT Repuglicans were in charge when we suffered the worst terrorist attack in US history!”
Hey Tiger2471,
Bill Clinton left this country open to attack. The Sept. 11, 2001 attack happened only months into Bush’s presidency. Bill gave weapons to the terrorists. He is the one who gave aide to Bin Laden. Don’t blame Bush for 9/11, blame the Democrats. They are the ones who gave money and guns to Bin Laden. Bill Clinton is the one who, without any discussions with the UN, bombed Kosovo and entered into a war with Bosnia. Clinton never consulted with the UN, nor was he criticized for not doing so. George W Bush may not go down in history for being the best president we’ve ever had, but he will go down in history for having the courage to bring democracy to an Arab nation and change the face of the middle east. He has isolated Iran and North Korea. He has turned the world’s attention to the serious threats we face, and we are safer for it. As for 9/11, you can’t blame a president who had only been in office for a few months, when all the warning signs were there during Clinton’s presidency. He was just too busy lying about and covering up his scandal with Lewinsky to notice. His attention was diverted from looking out for the people of his country because he was too busy worrying about himself. COUNTRY FIRST!

Ok let me get this straight first Palin supported “The bridge to nowhere”during her gubernatorial race in 2006. A paper trail supports this.
Then she backed away from it but kept the money.
Now Senator Ted Stevens has thrown in his two cents because he wants to beat Mark Begich. Ted said he never thought? There is no paper trail to Ted’s Thought. There is a paper trail to Palin’s actions.
I rest my case.

Kim, you could not be more wrong when you say “always during wars that are finite”. By definition ALL wars are infinite until they end. There was no “exit strategy” (except victory) in the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea (which we are still technically in), and the only finiteness to Vietnam was quitting. Only when the instigator surrendered, did we exit (except for the Civil War, WWII, and Korea – we stayed around for many, many years longer). The finiteness here is the same, when the terrorist surrender, we can go home.

Our entire electoral process is designed to split America. All I have read about is extreme views from the left and right, it’s sickening. Wish a state would secede, I would join their military in a heartbeat.

‘Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage’…
Obama is scared…
The more they find on Palin, the more America loves her. They are making Palin one thing that no election has ever had… A real person that everyone can identify with.

Name any president… There is a mess left by all.

Sounds like he’s out of ammo. The meltdown has begun!!!

“voter in pa”, your facts are WAY OFF! I realize you are blinded by obamaitis, but simply chedk the Thomas Register at the Library of Congress. Obama has sponsored ONLY 152 bills.
They include: “Juneteenth Independence Day”, “congradulating the White Sox”, another Juneteenth, designating “National Summer Learning day”, and other junk.
He failed to vote on the “Defense Authorizations Bill”, “Department of Homealnd Security Appropriations”, “National Defense Authorization Acto for 2008″, and many more.
Obama is bad for America.

goodbyeUSA:
You are extremely condescending and silly. I am very successful–simply not well-paid. There are many occupations that don’t pay above $50,000 a year; this is, in fact, the median income for most American households. I put myself through higher education, and so do not, as I said, expect any hand-outs. My point is that most households are working two jobs, and most are currently struggling. (I don’t, in fact, know anyone who is not–and all the people that I know are middle class.) The problem is the rising cost of property taxes, health care, utilities and food that is placing considerable pressure upon ordinary families. Surely we are not all spendthrifts and drug addicts.
I am for nuclear technology (and unlike our current president, can pronounce it), and will tolerate some off-shore drilling. But this cannot resolve the situation long-term. There are real policy issues to confront, and assumptions about the incompetence of others is a comfortable fiction; it is not, however, the reality of most middle class people who are experiencing real discomfort.

Ahh poor Barry, he’s falling apart and its fun to watch.

I would vote for Obama if I wasn’t a small towner clinging to my guns and religion, and this xenophobia is a pain. I really want to vote for him cause I love a presidential candidate that can actually shift on major positions within 24 hrs. and who thinks airing up your tires will have a dramatic impact on oil usage, which would possibly be true if the majority of people were driving around with under inflated tires, but since every time you get your oil changed they air up the tires, I find it doubtful.

Hope and change have arrive and they are McCain and Pailin. Wow what ticket 2 mavericks against two idiots who have done nothing in thier unfortunate careers. I have always wanted to be a community organizer and they both plaigarize. Haha what a joke they steal other peoples speeches but think they offer change. They can’t even change someone else’s speech to give thier own. And Biden’s plaigarized speech was taken from a british socialist, kinda says something doesn’t it?

Oh come on!! Don’t give me this white supremecist crap!! What percentage of blacks will vote for Obama. I’m sure some whites won’t vote for Obama cuz he’s black. Also, some men won’t vote for McCain because Pailin is a woman. I’m not voting for Obama because he’s a socialist it has nothing to do with the color of his skin!! So now the libs are already setting it up if he loses
America is racist, what a joke!! Why don’t the democrats come up with a candidate that isn’t an empty suit and you wouldn’t have to worry about losing cuz you have the media doing everything they can to get him elected.

A fired-up Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., took on his opponents — “these people,” he said incredulously, in a familiar refrain — for shamelessness and dishonesty.
I strongly believe Obama does know shameless and dishonesty, remember his pastor, his dealing with his Chicago pals on his home, his being on the board that now he can’t remember. I ask all to please see his voting record during his time in Washington. He has spent more time writing books than voting. “shameless”

I am just one of those non-elitist, unedumakated, bible thumpin, gun totin, mean spirited racist Republicans. I did not know that until I spoke with an Obama supporter the other day. All I asked was what makes Obama qualified to be President? I was told what an uninformed racist idiot I was. However, I did not get an answer to my question, so my vote still goes to McCain Palin.

It looks like mr magic has lost his mojo.
Just sputtering around slinging his usual lies, just like most dems. Go Mcain/Palin 08

Cooday:
It is the 1st of many interviews she will have.
Why are you so skeptical? Does a woman being VP scare you? Joe Biden doesn’t like women unless he is drunk and hitting on them. Palin scares Joe.

“Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin’s hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background.” Quote from article in WSJ.
Yes, Obama I guess some politicians will do or say anything just to get elected!

Oh, those of you thinking that the Obama media and campaign will actually care about facts is funny, cuz they won’t. It is also funny how hard the libs have tried to trash Pailin and all they can come up with is a couple of lies and a pregnant 17 year old. I mean they are still saying that Trig is her daughter’s son even though he is like four months old and her daughter is 5 months pregant, last I heard that wasn’t possible unless you are a lib trying to win an election.

I love the people bragging that Obama co-sponsored soooo many bill. Which, involves the sponsor asking if he would like to have his name on it and him saying ok. Not exactly and executive decision. Being one of 100 votes on any bill, not exactly executive experiece. Voting present repeatedly, not exactly executive experience. Executive experience is being the person who makes the final decision on EVERY issue. I wish I could just go to work and say “present” and go home then claim experience, but real life doesn’t work like that. How about getting a bill in the mail and instead of paying it just writing “present” on it, wow would life be easier like that. So I guess in a way I may envy Obama that he hasn’t ever done anything in his life with any responsibilities, but may become president. Isn’t it great, but I’m still not voting for the blank slate.

Kathy said:”All we want is some relief: decent health care; affordable child care; sustainable energy (and the jobs that go with that); reasonable tax burdens. Not too much to ask”
It is when what you really want is for ME to pay higher taxes so you can live beyond your means.
Decent health care: what does that mean? Free?
Affordable child care: Why did you have children if you couldnt afford them? To foist them on society? Not the sign of a good parent, is it?
Sustainable energy: Ok. I guess you agree we should drill more.
Reasonable tax burdens: For thee, but not for me right?

Everyone keeps asking the question is Sarah Palan ready to be president?
The truth is she will learn a lot from John Mc Cain just like Obama would learn something from Biden.
Obama has been a senator for a few more months than Palin been governor, but Obama has never run anything but for an office, trying to get a job, doesn’t qualify you for the job. But the REAL larger question and the question that no one seems to be addressing, why does anyone think that Obama is more qualified than Palan to be President?
His resume for the last 20 years of his life just doesn’t stack up to Sarah’s
Palan’s got experience, she’s made decisions, she’s managed people and money, she’s put herself out there, Obama, has been an attorney for his whole life, ducking responsibility and decisions.
We don’t need someone who shifts decisions based on wind direction.
We need a leader who can standup for their convictions; we need someone with a backbone, who understands us; our fears, joys and pains.
We need someone who can take a punch and come back; John MCCain has shown that,
But there’s the focus on age…. (A bogus point) 71 isn’t old anymore, and I dont want to think that when I hit 71, my life is over, Im not productive, hell Jack Lanne is over 90 and in better physical shape than most 30 years olds, we have to get rid of the concept of too old, it should be about the person, not the number, it should be about the person not the SEX or Color.
Also think about it, McCain is tough physically, mentally and spiritually, knock him down he bounces back,
His mother is not only sharp but physically active at 96.
That being said, AGAIN why the belief that Obama is more qualified than Palan?
Whatever happens in this election I expect to see Palan running for President one day, and she’ll have my vote. Our country is indeed ready for a woman and a Black man for president. But Obama is not that Black Man, Obama is a socialist, he was raided as a socialist, look at the influences in his life. Obama believes in a different form of government, and we should be afraid of that.
The cultural wars are getting hotter, America is at a crossroad. Does the US stand on its on feet where each person solves their own problems with some assistance, or do we create a whole new society where Government does everything for us?
Obama has answered that question with a resounding yell of… Big Brother CAN.

takes time to think through a thought. hmmm. Obama does that include putting your hand over your heart when you say the pledge, or wearing the flagpin in the morning. or calling your terrorist friends for advice. or saying Americans are bitter and kling to guns and bibles. I sure would not want to play chess with this guy. It would take day’s for a move.

does anybody notice how this liberal writer roots for the Obama canidate. the way he phrases stuff. Obama fired up. ibidi ibidi ibidi . Thats all folks. The stuterer Obama

Lies, Scandals and Republicans – and you people keep falling for it over and over and over. I love watching conservatives get excited about a politician that shortly after getting elected screws them over. Now that is satisfying in so many ways.

I’m glad to see a few of these posts mention Obama’s wanting to turn us into a Socialist Society. That, to me, is the scariest thing about him. Why do Dems want the US to be Socialists? What Socialist country any place in the world has had the successes, the freedoms and the opportunities we have enjoyed in the United States? NONE. Is that what we really want? It may sound great but it won’t be. There is nothing in history to prove it works and it won’t work here, especially because we’ve had better.
Get a life, you Dems. If your guy wins, you won’t have much of one.

The only change you will get with McSames / PA(l)IN is the name on the door of the oval office.
Conservative christian women: are you dumb or what? You are supposed to preach peace (Christ-like) and yet you want a women who is a bikini wearing, gun-toting, kill em all mentality, woman who doesn’t remind me of how a women should be–package check please! Bet there’s a weiner-heimer hiding there.

Let us look carefully at the steps to communisum. 1)freedom. willfully give it away. How? By knowingly and willingly standing for the WRONG things.
2) We arrive at the door od Socialism. Paint it with any brush, when the white wash has run off due to the tears of pain, then you will see it was just rob the rich and give to the poor. I want some of those Ivy Leaguer’s to start sharing some of their grades with me.
3) When we are at the mercy of the greatest Idiots and they instill Communisum!
Just three step backwars is all it takes

Excerpt fom Susan Eisenhower speech at the Democrat National Convention.
I believe that Barack Obama has the energy and the temperament to lead this country. He knows that we can either advance on the distant hills of hope or retreat to the garrisons of fear. As our standard bearer, he can mobilize a demoralized America and inspire all of us to show up for duty. Discipline will be required, as will compromise, flexibility and quiet strength.
Barack Obama has already articulated a powerful vision for our nation’s future and our standing in the world.
The task before our next president will be overwhelming. But no undertaking will be more critical than bringing about a sense of national unity and purpose, built on mutual respect and bi-partisanship.
Unless we squarely face our challenges, as Americans together, we risk losing the priceless heritage bestowed on us by the sweat and the sacrifice of our forbearers. If we do not pull together, we could lose the America that has been an inspiration to the world.
On December 1, 1862, in his annual message to Congress, Abraham Lincoln immortalized this thought when he said: “We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
Let us respond this November to President Lincoln’s challenge.
Let us restore the hope and bring the change that our nation so desperately needs.
When Susan Eisenhower ended her great speech with “Yes we can!” over 84,000 supporters cheered, over 38,000,000 viewers saw her on TV and jumped out of their living room couches and cheered!
Obama/Biden ’08

AntonioG:
I actually probably have a higher tax burden than you. (From the sound of it, you are concerned about raised taxes, which indicates an income of $250,000 or more.) My brother runs a Fortune 500 company and pays a lower percentage in taxes than I do. So, I guess fairness only concerns you when you are clutching your wallet. I also have a credit rating of 780, which would indicate that I do NOT, in fact, live beyond my means. I just teach your children. I’m in the same situation as police, firefighters, many civil servants, and other people who chose to serve their communities rather than their bank accounts.
And a final thought: we were all doing fine eight years ago.

Wow, Tell me something Conservatives…
How is Obama any more “Socialist” than FDR? FDR gave you all that your parents had. Neocons take it all back. All that New Deal crap gave us a strong economy, strong middle class, good schools, ROADS! Cripes a little and I REPEAT, little socialism goes a long way. Everything in balance. Capitalism in it’s pure form will gobble all you little selfish scumbags up in a decades time. Obama is no Marx. Obama has no desire to strip this country of what made it the wealthiest nation in the world. He only wants to improve our home. McCain will do nothing for you. His masters won’t let him, and not enough of you spineless republican jellyfish have the balls enough to gather round and make it happen. At least Obama, who is whether you like it or not, backed by the majority of the whole world. That’s clout!
Sweet Jesus pull you heads out of your fear filled asses you degenerates.
You’ll all be bitching about no middle class soon if you continue to let your fears drive your voting. McCain is a soft serve puss. I actually liked him when he ran against W. Then he folded like the good little panty waist he is, taking it right in the can from the imbecile. He’s no Maverick. He’s a flat, lying piece of passionless horse crap.
Try voting FOR someone instead of voting AGAINST someone else. There’s only one choice for 08. Only one man will allow US the people to drive the policy making of our future.
OBAMA!!!

Interesting how Dems keep throwing President’s approval rating of 30% in, but there is total silence on the Dems’ Congress’ 10% approval rating.
Selective hearing, vision, etc.
Worry about what super Pelosi and Reid had accomplished in 1 year (absolutely nothing).
Obama has NO chance now, thank God.

“So let me say clearly what I do want: for the wealthy (and the rich) to pay THE SAME proportion of their income in tax that I do”
This is a great principle. The same rate for everyone. IT’S CALL THE FLAT TAX.
Republicans have favored a flatter, fairer tax rate system but the Democrats want more income redistribution and keep wanting to jack up tax rates. Its bad for investors, business, and the economy.

“How is Obama any more “Socialist” than FDR? FDR gave you all that your parents had.”
Hey, spoken like a socialist! What is this guff about FDR giving our parents stuff? My parents like most parents, got what they got through their own hard work. FDR gave them and us nothing. It came, all of it, 100% of it, from the taxpayers and the people. All FDR did was lengthen the Great Depression (see “FDR’s Folly”) through his bad policies that destroyed farm products, etc. and pack the Supreme Court so the courts would rule based on politics instead of the Constitution. (The court in 1934 and 1935 declared his socialistic New Deal programs like the NRA Unconstitutional, and in 1937 he tried to pack the supreme court to get around it). FDR’s jailing of Japanese citizens makes him the most anti-Constitutional President we had.
If Obama is going to follow those footsteps, lets not follow him there.

“1. Barack has explained that whats at state here is to important to wait! I except that!”
Suckers for used-car salesmen with bad spelling habits are prime Obama voters.
“2. He hasnt change on guns or abortion… Ill give you fisa he did change on that! ”
Obama is an extremist gun-grabber and a pro-abortion extremist who voted against a bill protecting infants from infanticide.
Face it, Obama is an extremist.

Folks, no matter who gets elected the U.S. taxpayer gets it stuck in his ear. If you really want change, vote out all incumbents, term limits on house members to 6 years, Senators to eight years,no retirements (they make $175,000/yr.), no health ins. for life, same Social security as we have, no per-diems, no franking priveleges and a flat tax! Quick, name 5 politician that went bankrupt. Now, how many millionairs in Congress?