Obama to Voters on GOP Convention: ‘You’re Hearing a Lot About McCain, a Lot About Me, Nothing About You’

I can look ay Cindy McCain in a $315,000.00 outfit and be assured we have very little in common.

I don’t know if I really care to hear about me anyway…politics and promises are broken all the time. I think I heard Obama say last Thursday night in his speech…we were all going to get a pony. But I don’t want what he’s selling. Americans (50% of them) vote with their EMOTIONS on who they FEEL should lead our country and hold highest office. Have to EARN it in my book, sorry. Just because of Affirmative Action doesn’t mean you give those WH keys to the first weak black candidate to come along.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN

True dat!

Debra, I know it sounds unbelievable, but it’s actually true. It’s not just the dress, it’s the whole outfit – I’ll give you that. http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/09/cindy-mccains-300000-outfit.html

With the incessant attacks by the McCain camp, there has been a failure to define both McCain and his policies. One side is apparently playing short term tactics in checkers, while the other is using strategy in chess.

Obama exclaimed: “Haven’t heard a word about it! I’m not exaggerating. Literally two nights – they have not said a word about it.
NO he is lying not exaggerating. Didn’t he hear DRILL BABY DRILL! Besides is this community organizer toostupid to understand McCain the nominee lays out the agenda. (unlike Obama who needed Hillary to give his speech for him)

The Dow drops 300 points today due to increased unemployment. Obama’s right – no mention of the economy from the RNC. Oh Yea – we’re all just whining.

So disappointed with O’Reilly who is taping an interview with BO right now. He’d been dodging an interview for months, but agreed to do it on the night McCain gives his speech. McCain, classy, did a congratulatory ad on Obama’s Grecian rock concert speech and let him have his night. Hopefully all the loser Libs will be tuned into CNN or MSNBC anyway.

“haven’t heard a word about getting serious about green and alternative energy …You haven’t heard a word about how we’re gonna deal with any aspect of the economy that is affecting you and your pocketbook day to day.”
BZZZT!!! Wrong. The pipeline for natural gas, drilling on the northern slopes, using our own energy resources, all were key points in Palin’s speech.
And as soon as Obama can steal them, they’ll be part of his except he will say it louder and claim to be original.
Thanks for playing, BO. You were outclassed by McCain in strategy and now you are searching for the oxygen bottle like a fish flip flopping on a beach when the tide goes out.

Pain is everything Obama’s marketing team tried to make America think Obama is.
I am so happy to have her as a choice!
She is brilliant and funny as h*ll

len “were key points in Palin’s speech”
Which she introduced by saying: “Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems – as if we all didn’t know that already.”
Why drill when it won’t solve anything? Even Palin agrees.

More scandals to come regarding palin’s past as a Beauty Queen…

She has declared the Iraq war is a “Mission from God”!She’s a hard core fundamentalist fanatic. The Right Wing Taliban, has ordained a “high priestess”.How very unpatriotic and UN-American,of John McCain.He needs a critical Psychological exam.Worrisome and dangerous move.

Good point by Geevil….if Obama was so interested in addressing his plans for US, why would he constantly dodge debates/town halls/forums. Hillary must have called McCain and they are laughing over this, because she got the run around with him all the time. Guy can’t talk without a script and prompter. He’s JUST NOW, trying out the town halls McCain has done for years….and is so comfortable with. I think he’s trying to scrap one now with McCain, so American people can’t witness another ug, um, ah, agh disaster. Although I bet Axlerod has been getting him coached in debating these past months. Hillary whipped him everytime, and as a Hillary supporter who witnessed the media, BO campaign and lib press crucify her, I am THRILLED to vote for McCain/Palin.

Tony: I’ll tell you how he’s going to pay for it by taxing the rich people.

“Why drill when it won’t solve anything?”
Parse carefully, Willem. She said “everything” and it won’t. A plan such as Pickens’ for example, is a set of organized staged conversions where we substitute energy sources according to availability and proportional need. Hydrogen and natural gas are two parts of that because we can run cars that way. Solar and wind can be used to generate low-peak use. Clean coal and nuclear can be used for peaks. We have abundant sources inside our own borders. We engineer our way out of our problems. It is the American Way. Palin emphasizes that.
We will never quit using petroleum because we use it for too many things, but we can certainly quit using it to push our cars over the asphalt.
Or do it your way by doing nothing so eventually your only Saturday night out will be to call up Barney and go bowling courtesy of Fred’s two feet.

This is a kind of fake politics that I never like from Obama – an attack on him is an attack on America. This Obama is unbelievable.

At this point i’ll rather vote for a sheep than a Republican. I come from a family of proud Republicans. But after the last eight years, we need to kick the bums OUT! They need to tell me why they’ve gotten it so wrong the last 8 years. Then tell me how they can do it better. Not trade insults like school children.

diamond lou
For eight long years, tell me what the Republicans have done right? How can McCain separate himself from his own party? He has the same bums running his campaign, writing his speeches, funding his campaign. Should i vote for him because he is a POW and ahs an attractive running mate? How doe sthat improve my investments in the markets?

Excellent response.
Goes great with his line from his speech.
“What the critics don’t understand is this has never been about me, this is about you”

Obama is a sheep? I don’t get it.

Palin is the new Obama!

“Sarcasm and distortions don’t do anything to help America.”
That’s right, Annie Oakley. He’s special. Everybody say, “AMEN!”
When did Barack lift a finger to help America except to use his candidacy as a voyage of self-discovery so the rest of us could watch from the sidelines with the same sense of bewilderment he has today as he discovers he is hollow?
When there’s no there there
You Need Sarah There Care!

It’s time for Odrama to go back to the temple of doom in Denver and give one of those really really big speeches that say absolutely nothing. That should do it.

Obama learned how to demand that your opponent offer specifics from Hillary Clinton. Palin learned how to be lofty and vague from Obama. This is RICH!!!

cindy’s outfit cost more than my house.
COUNTRY CLUB FIRST !!!!

michael…..The Reps lost 25% of their convention because they were raising money for THE GUSTAVE HURRICAN VICTIMS! Lucky Obot convention had great weather and no distractions…so what….he’s still an empty suit yelling his speeches to the cult.

how about nothing from Palin herself…
seems she is in a lockdown facility…
practice for 9/11.
just tell her she can’t shoot down Egyptian planes
because they look like Afghani planes
or because they don’t believe in Jesus
or because she’s a hockey mom?
or because planes fly not because of science as she doesn’t seem to hold onto the fact that science is based out of facts….but because of magic.
or because she knows how to hunt…
or because someone threatened her sister…
or because it was the word.
or because she “doesn’t know the difference between historical perspectives on Russia”
or that she was a small town mayor…and that job it tough.
or because Alaska is next to Russia so her judgement on foreign policy and national security is sound”
Please stop the madness…the worst VP pick in the history of our nation.

I just read the word Afghanistan has not been used once during this convention. For all the power, military and might party mantra – shouldn’t the RNC address or at the very least mention the country many of our soldiers are in?..? Hello 9/11 – bad guys….?..

len,
Fantastic post laying out a comprehensive case.

Palin did a great job last night even with her prompter going out on her three times…..very quick on her feet. Her pitbull/lipstick joke was an ad lib because the prompter wasn’t working. She’s got my vote, no matter what happens in the next 60 days.

samantha
I am white and I am voting for the BEST Person for the job
the smartest and the one who gets it right more than any of them…
President Barack Obama
you need to see these candidates answer questions and follow ups…
Mccain is a joke…he can’t get by a second follow up (here comes the joke, the anger..or drum roll…POW)
Palin can’t seem to answer anything besides 2 speeches written by someone else but delivered like an actress by her.
Obama and Biden relish the discussion and the thought process.
there is no question for anyone who has actually attended BOTH of these parties tickets who is the better candidate…
Obama Biden…learn from 2004…pick the smart guys.

This is really strange. Ryan C sends post all day long from early in the morning to late at night. Kind of annoying even for us democrats. Get a job and move out of mommies house!

Democratic convention: Whiners (Gore, Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Biden et al) with no solutions + the last day filled with music celebrities at the Temple of the One entertaining the devotees at Obamapalooza.
Even James Carville and others thought the Dem convention was a bust.

“Thanks Ryan. I try to remember that when this bitter butter battle is over in November, we’ll all still be facing the same challenges we are now.
So in between the fun of jibjab, we should talk about how to get those jobs done. We have lots of social problems, but it is the engineering that will save our bacon while we are battling over who gets the best parts of the pig.”
You are a true American sir.

debra
it’s not Odrama
that seems to have all the “drama”
sure seems with all these investigations and lawsuits and business closings and denials of science and lobbying and no sign of either parent staying home with the kids etc… and absolutely no proof of knowledge or comprehension of ANY issue we face…
isn’t Palin “Alaskan for drama…or is it the judgement of a pitbull”
the worst VP choice seriously in the history of our nation.

Brad
because you don’t listen
you only focus on the negative crap foxnews conjures up.

Sorry Obama was not in Minn., O’Reilly flew to him wherever that was…WHO CARES, NO ONE IS TALIKING ABOUT HIM.

brad
i think you hear what you want to hear.

Deb….there is something about LIFE EXPERIENCE that matters more than the elite Harvard Grad. Also, living in and loving THIS country. Obama grew up in Indonesia with Muslim school, missing out on July 4th parades, saluting our flag every morning in school and part of the American fabric in his youth. His mom was an atheist and both dad’s Muslim….THAT has to effect your thinking in the formative years..sorry.

Obama is so yesterday. Palin is the real deal. Biden who?

Why do people blame the messenger. Palin’s comments on Obama view of small town people is per his words not hers. People should be going after him for saying it.

At least Obama admitted that his community service amounted to all of three years. A huge contrast to that sappy video the DNC showed that made it look as if he has done community service for three decades.
No wonder my uncle who worked for better conditions in the Chicago Housing Authority, Operation PUSH and Public schools had never heard of Obama until he ran for senate.
Barry the Bonehead. Obama is a fake and everyone in Chicago knows it. including Jesse Jackson. The only reason he gets high votes is because the crooks in Chicago know that Obama will reap favors on them when he gets in office.

So Palin gave a nice speech to a friendly Republican audience. Big freaking deal. When is she going to be allowed to be interviewed by the media so tough questions can be asked of her experience and her policies. I suspect the Republicans will try to bottle her up for as long as possible to control the image of her. However, there are now 61 days left in the campaign and 90% of Americans do not know who Sarah Palin is except for one speech and Republican propoganda. She needs to appear on as news programs as possible (and not just FOX) and be hit with tough questions on foreign policy, abortion views, sex education views, her experience, etc…

Yes we know. Change, hope, we are who we’ve always been waiting for.

Jennifer….give it a rest. No one is going to attack Gov. Palin on her religion or church to the extent Obama’s good old uncle/mentor of 20 years. Move on.
I’m watching our 44th President on stage now rehearsing for tonight’s speech. It’s so nice not to look at the angry Nobama, who looks so mean, like Michelle when he yells his speeches. Geeze, he really looks like he has no sense of humor.
McCAIN/PALIN

Debra – You’re right. I should give it a rest. If you don’t care about winning Florida or the impact this will have and is starting to have in the Jewish Community – why should I?

Yes I would like to know when we get shipped to Tehran.

“Obama, choices Joe Biden
as his running mate, someone that is extremely accomplished and only enhances the democratic ticket.”
Hey I thought he was about change. I’ve been lied to!

Debra,
So where are Palin’s life experiences. Beauty queen? Small town mayor. Governor for a year and a half? Never travelled abroad except to visit the Alaskan national guard. What on earth does she about living in a mult-cultural country? What does she know about other country’s cultures at all. Seems to me that her only claim to fame is that she stood up to corruption once and has been milking that ever since. Republicans like to describe her as a “regular person”. Well, George W. Bush was also a regular person. A nice guy. Personable. Family Man. An an incompetent moron. No where do I see in Palin’s background the ability to handle complex issue. She may be okay for president of the PTA. But no way does she have the experience to be president….Okay, now you can go bash Obama all you want. But remember Obama has been in front of the American people for 18 months and has attracted 18 million votes. 90% of Americans do not know Sarah Palin. She was chosen by one man and Republicans are trying to shape this image of her to shove down American throats in 61 days. I don’t care if she is a “regular person”. I care if she understands what the world is about and whether she is ready to lead. Nothing I have heard from her leads me to believe she is.

“So where are Palin’s life experiences.”
You have to dig to find it since the MSM only seems to print the negatives and rumors.

“JESUS CHRIST —The greatest Community Organizer known to man.”
Yes we know. Barry is the Messiah. It’s not about him, it’s about us.

geevill,
I don’t really care. And you’re right. I probably will vote Obama and for one simple reason. Republicans had their chance and failed miserably. McCain likes to present himself as a maverick but is not. He will continue the failed policies of the Republicans. I don’t get caught up in the personalities. Republicans will do what Republicans do and Democrats will do what Democrats do. Republicans haven’t had an original idea since the Reagan administration which is the last time I voted Republican. I see nothing different this year. Same tired old ideas and same old chest pounding and arguing about who is more patriotic, who loves America more, who believes in god more, and all that nonsense. Republicans have been all image and no substance for years. The selection of Sarah Palin falls right in line with that.

I know that she didn’t talk ABOUT us with a mouth and talking heads and supporters flinging insults against left and right for being Hillary supporters. I remember when Obama talked about US. I hate him NOW!

“Mack,
Exactly my point. If I have to dig deeply to find Sarah Palin’s life experienced then I guess they are not that extensive. ”
No, just means that you have to dig through the trash stories to find it.

Mack,
Trash to you might be news-worthy to others since I suspect you would ignore any negative information. However, I suspect where there is smoke there is at least a little fire. 90% of the American people do not know who Sarah Palin is. There are only 61 days to find out. There is a rush to suppress the bad and present her in the best possible light. Fine, but this is no way to seriously handle the office of vice presidency. Sarah Palin’s name should have been in front of the press month’s ago. It is John McCain’s own fault for creating a media-frenzy. I personaly think it was intended so all the right-wingers could once again rail against media bias. That is bull. It is the media’s job to find out about a candidate and report, good and bad information. You only want the good.

Obama will have a hard time justifying his better qualification vs Palin. Or, pick a random blogger here and Obama will still have hard time justifying a better qualification. If Obama is elected and becomes a net positive for the US, we can adopt a ‘dart throwing’ strategy to select POTUS.

OBAMA IS RIGHT!!!!!!!!
After watching some of the bitter words spoken by GOP representatives last night, senator Obama hit the nail on the head.
AND THAT IS WHY HE’S WHERE HE IS TODAY…
This man knows how to communicate people feelings. He is able to put what I felt into words….
I felt frustrated and just did not really know how to express it after listening to the former mayor of New York and gov. Palin…..
There is just something that’s almost evil feeling about what went on last night….

I voted for Bush in 2004 because of national security, and I voted for Gore in 2000 because of his character. Gore was always decent and he proved he put country first when even though he fairly won, he stepped aside.
In other words I am an independent woman. I hate party politics. I forced myself to keep an open mind about Palin until I heard from her — against a huge tide of logic, she is plainly inexperienced, and against a huge tide of vetting news about how hypocritical she is personally, about earmarks and the literally hundreds of millions of our tax dollars she has squirreled away up in Alaska.
If I was a Democratic, then I’d be in PUMA. Party Unity My U-know-what. May the best person win, and in their case, Obama won, didn’t he. Hillary, eventually, took it in stride and she is standing up for her issues. I’m proud of her for that, not for “party unity.”
So it came to last night and my mind was pretty well open. Palin completely lost me, and the independent girlfriends in the room with me, and my mostly conservative husband. We believe in common decency. Obama and Biden have given McCain and Palin both all the respect in the world. In turn, she insulted both of her political opponents and in turn, she insulted me and I suspect, most other independents.
McCain obviously made a hasty, poorly informed decision. She obviously belongs nowhere near the top of our government. Palin was like a partisan revivalist, like a cheerleader shouting “beat ‘em, thrash ‘em, kill ‘em, trash ‘em.”
Partisanship is not reform, dividing this country is not a change, and it is not American. I would refer Palin to our most fair founders George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, to our great compromisers and keepers of our union Abe Lincoln and Henry Clay, and to the independent, decent, American choice in this election Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Janice
Maumee, Ohio
2 sons in the Marines and a bigger woman than Sarah Palin

Obama has stated that the media should leave Palins kids out of it. Biden has said the same thing. The so-called “liberal media” doesn’t listen to Obama, or Biden, or McCain, or Palin. They listen to the viewers and are going to report on whatever gets them the highest ratings. So stop whining!

CNN now playing the race card, Jack Cafferty is disgusting. He is actually insinuating that whites are racist if they dont vote Obama.The media has gone beyond their already biased Obama praise, and McCain sabotage. This is CRIMINAL. Wolf Cambell, Chris Mathews etc agaents foer Obama.

joseph:
so if Obama played down to her duties as a mayor, is it justified for her to play down his duties as a community organizer? I did not hear Obama critizizing her duties as a mayor, but I heard what she said….
And by the way, senator Obama was also a civil rights atty and law professor….Can you do that, bud? If you can, then why not do it……That is a great and honorable profession…..

“CNN MSNBC already BLATENTLY LYING about Palin, and McCain today.”
They see their cash cow slipping away.

“Mayor of a village of 9000 doesn’t qualify you to be vice-president, especially if you left the village millions of dollars in debt.”
And street organizing experience qualifies you to be President?

“Trash to you might be news-worthy to others since I suspect you would ignore any negative information.”
Good and bad should be reported. Don’t attempt to tell me there is nothing good to report.

I heard her nick name is Wassilla the Killa given her by the environmental groups opposed to her plans to open up hunting polar bears.

49 % obama 42% mccain stop lying like all republicans —CD

Obama’s experience. And you have to love the Republicans zooming in on his FIRST public service lol that was a LONG time ago and that was how he started his career.
Obama:
B.A in political science from Columbia University, with a specialization in international relations
J.D. in Law from Harvard, graduated magna cum laude; President of the Harvard Law Review
12 years (92-04) teaching constitutional law
7 years State Senator: sponsored more than 800 bills
4 years Senator for Illinos, a state with 12.8 million people
Need I say more? Shall I share Palin & McCain’s “experience” because honestly neither one of them have anything amazing to speak of either.
And don’t bring up McCain being a pow, good grief he got shot down, and as much as I respect that having been raised by a 21 yr marine father, just because you join the military does not make you better than anyone else.
It is a very very respectful duty, but it is voluntary.
McCain is a great man I believe, but he is no more experienced than Obama is to be the president.
The ONLY experience you can have worthy of being “experienced” for the US Presidency is having been a US President.

Hey mike, Bet the 12 yrs of teaching constitutional law didn’t Change either. Obama Never Needed To Change His Notes. Just Read Those Words Those Words!!! That doesn’t qualify Presidential Qualities.

Its true. How can she bash him for being a Community Organiser and wanting to help people at the age of 23 when at the same time she was running for beauty pageants when she was that age. What hypocracy!!!

Listen to you. “Guess Palin for McCains VP WAS The Right Choice!!” You people are still seeking validation for this wacko backwoods barbie.

One word NOBAMA ! America is in trouble, no time for a ROOKIE.

I’m disappointed in McCain/Palin on knocking community organizers. They can knock Obama all they want but, there are “community organizers” or what republicans call volunteers, who try to help people or communities. They are out there helping people who lost jobs in their communities, help children have safe areas to play and etc.. I find them really good Americans. I myself help those great Americans. The GOP forgot that its the people in the trenches and in the neighborhoods that makes America great. I was behind McCain until now. I’m can’t support someone mocking Americans. Palin was shameful mocking them.

Obama is right. In this campaign, we have heard almost nothing about him except through alternative media.
It sucks when our New York news media wants to perform thought control on us by hiding infromation. I think we ought to perform profitability control on them by avoiding their advertisers’ products and services. After sending them an email explaining why.

“Did you see Jack Cafferty and Donna Brazille today? Those 2 had the Biggest SourPuss Faces I’ve seen yet!!! Guess Palin for McCains VP WAS The Right Choice!!! Go McCain/Palin!!! PS Obama IS gonna need ALL the Money he can get, McCain Can Do Alot More On Alot Less!!! THAT”S PRESIDENTIAL!!!!”
HaHa! It’s like a funeral over at CNN.

Seriously, would anybody select a doctor whose only practiced medicine for a year perform surgery? Why in the world would you even consider someone so inexperienced as Obama to be president. If elected, he will be the most underqualified president ever elected. 90% of these bloggers are just as qualified as him. Democrats should be ashamed for being duped by a con man and selecting someone so underqualified to lead our country. You should be ashamed for endangering the future of our country so recklessly. I just hope the rest of the nation isn’t as stupid. I’ll give it to Obama, if he pulls this off, it will be the biggest scam in the history of the world. (Bigger than the Trojan horse!) The man’s done nothing except stir up contoversy by not wearing a patriotic flag pennant. That’s it. He’s one successful novel away from running pyramid schemes. Its a hoax, he’s a chamelon and a snake. Wise up America, its almost too late. Ps- Shame on you the Liberal media, your behavior is outright immoral. McCain/Palin! (Or Lord help us!)

Obama claims neither McCain or Palin spoke about you. I listened and watched. Sorry OB the entire speeches were not just about you. They spoke the most about OUR country and that is about you, me, women, children, of all race,color,creed,man,and my dog.