By Dschabner

Sep 27, 2008 8:48pm

Raining on Obama and Biden’s Parade

ABC’s Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman Report: The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, Barack Obama played to a crowd in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1964.

Obama and his running mate Delaware Sen. Joe Biden took the stage at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., before a crowd of 10,000 to 20,000 people who had been waiting hours in the mud to see them. The weather in northern Virginia has been awful the last couple of days.  And not long after Joe Biden’s introduction, just minutes after Obama started speaking, the rain started falling again.

"I know some of you got a little damp," Obama told the audience gathered in the school quad. "I’d like to cover everybody’s dry cleaning bill here tonight, but I can’t because I got to use it on the campaign, so consider it one more modest contribution to our efforts to change the country."

As the rain began to pour harder, Obama noticed his running mate’s stool close to the edge of the slippery stage.

"I’m gonna ask Joe to move that stool up because I don’t want to have to choose another vice-president," Obama joked. "I don’t want him slipping over, toppling over there."

Obama spoke for just under 30 minutes, and used the unruly weather as a metaphor nearing the end of his speech.

"Sometimes the skies look cloudy and it’s dark. And you think the rains will never pass," Obama preached, "The young people understand that the clouds -– these too will pass, that a brighter day will come."

Astute students of history have noted, weather is not something politicians should take lightly.  The presidency of William Henry Harrison, indeed Harrison’s life lasted a mere month after after he caught a cold at  his inauguration, which was held outside on a chilly Washington morning.

User Comments

If Obama/Biden think its raining now, wait until the night of November 4th when Obama has to give his concession speech to President John S. McCain!
McCain/Palin 08!
“COUNTRY FIRST!”

Posted by: david from texas | September 27, 2008, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm

To david from texas
With Palin on the ticket? Dream on!

Posted by: TRUTH | September 27, 2008, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm

Don’t bet on it!

Posted by: LAN | September 27, 2008, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm

It will all be brighter after Obama wins in November, remember, stop the liars, vote Democrat.
McSame/Failin 00, it’s not just a phrase, it’s their life choice.

Posted by: JR | September 27, 2008, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

Thank you Senator McCain for one of the most powerful performances in a Presidentidal debate America has ever known. Obama has one of the weakest.

Posted by: politoli | September 27, 2008, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

Whether on the road or on stage. Obama has some decency. What hit me last night was how smug and stupid McCain is and was on the debate. Not an inch of decency. Not even close to Presidential. More like a school bully who knows he is losing his power to push people around. What I can’t understand is some people will still vote for him even after the economy is crashing and people are dying in needless wars. I used to ask whether these people are stupid. Now I know, “yes, they are”. One thing for them… If McCain wins – it’s your choice. You make your choice. Live with it, pay up the next $700 billion+ and shut the f*ck up. You just lost your right to b*tch.
http://angryafrican.net/2008/09/27/actually-you-are-a-stupid-twit/

Posted by: Angry African | September 27, 2008, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

Right, david.
The McCain-Palin crooked talk express has totally come off the rails. He’s plummeting in the polls and totally making it up as they go. Viewers of the debate saw a grumpy old condescending geezer and rightly rejected his tired policies and boring war stories.
Where is Sarah anyway? She hasn’t been heard from since her babbling debacle with Couric. Thursday will be fun. I’m stocking up on popcorn already. You betcha.

Posted by: jefferson | September 27, 2008, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm

What hit me was how smug and stupid McCain is and was on the debate. Not an inch of decency. Not even close to Presidential. More like a school bully who knows he is losing his power to push people around. What I can’t understand is some people will still vote for him even after the economy is crashing and people are dying in needless wars. I used to ask whether these people are stupid. Now I know, “yes, they are”. One thing for them… If McCain wins – it’s your choice. You make your choice. Live with it, pay up the next $700 billion+ and shut the f*ck up. You just lost your right to b*tch.
http://angryafrican.net/2008/09/27/actually-you-are-a-stupid-twit/

Posted by: Angry African | September 27, 2008, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm

McCain came across like a jerk yesterday. Palin has been a disaster. Go Obama-Biden

Posted by: Nick from Texas | September 27, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm

For those of you who thinking Obama lied about Kissinger’s remarks about meeting with Iran, here is the transcript from CNN;
“KISSINGER: Well, I am in favor of negotiating with Iran. And one utility of negotiation is to put before Iran our vision of a Middle East, of a stable Middle East, and our notion on nuclear proliferation at a high enough level so that they have to study it. And, therefore, I actually have preferred doing it at the secretary of state level so that we — we know we’re dealing with authentic…
(CROSSTALK)
SESNO: Put at a very high level right out of the box?
KISSINGER: Initially, yes. And I always believed that the best way to begin a negotiation is to tell the other side exactly what you have in mind and what you are — what the outcome is that you’re trying to achieve so that they have something that they can react to.
Now, the permanent members of the Security Council, plus Japan and Germany, have all said nuclear weapons in Iran are unacceptable. They’ve never explained what they mean by this. So if we go into a negotiation, we ought to have a clear understanding of what is it we’re trying to prevent. What is it going to do if we can’t achieve what we’re talking about?
But I do not believe that we can make conditions for the opening of negotiations. We ought, however, to be very clear about the content of negotiations and work it out with other countries and with our own government.”
If that isn’t saying preconditions I don’t what is – so who is lying? Joh McCain, a man wiht 13 cars and 9 houses who calls Obama an Elitist!

Posted by: jozy | September 27, 2008, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm

I meant “no preconditions.”

Posted by: jozy | September 27, 2008, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm

Typical scumbag politician…”the young people understand.” I guess the rest of us just don’t get it, huh? Maybe those of us out here in the heartland who are “clinging to our guns and religion” understand more than this Harvard maggot thinks!

Posted by: Independent | September 27, 2008, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm

“I know some of you got a little damp,” Obama told the audience gathered in the school quad. “I’d like to cover everybody’s dry cleaning bill here tonight, but I can’t because I got to use it on the campaign, so consider it one more modest contribution to our efforts to change the country.”
Barack Obama
TRANSLATION
Sorry folks. I know I promised you tax cuts, better health care, jobs,financial security but I was trying to win an election. Now I hate to tell you that the country is broke. So lets make some sacrifices for the country, okay.

Posted by: zoilodel | September 27, 2008, 9:12 pm 9:12 pm

That just the heavens rejoicing the coming of a true leader for the UNITED STATES.
The washing of the filth from the great commonwealth MY STATE – VIRGINIA
WE ARE GOING BLUE BABYYYYYYYYYY
When we take Virginia. GAME SET MATCH.
ITS OVER

Posted by: Omentum | September 27, 2008, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm

Mc cain was so ugly and nasty on last nigh Who would be proud of America if that snobish jerk get in

Posted by: johnnie | September 27, 2008, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm

It will have to rain very hard to wash the filth off Obama. What a scumbag!

Posted by: Independent | September 27, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm

WHEN ARE THE GOP GOING TO GROW A PAIR
Here we are A SUPER POWER
SCARED
to talk to a rogue president.
let them be encouraged to lash out. seconds later they will be a smoking hole.
GROW A PAIR MCCAIN.

Posted by: Omentum | September 27, 2008, 9:16 pm 9:16 pm

RIGHT NOW THEY ARE PROGRAMMING PALIN
a delecate process
She only have 1 kb of ram

Posted by: Omentum | September 27, 2008, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm

McCain during the debate reminded me of Dustin Hoffman in the movie Rainman.
Palin in her interview with Couric reminded me of Ricky Gervais in The Office. Lipstick added.
This country needs a President Obama, and it needs it badly.

Posted by: gregory | September 27, 2008, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm

Truth: You said it. I am willing to bet there was not 10,000 to 20,000 people at his campaign, maybe 6,000. The media likes to inflate his polls and his crown that are thousands lesser than what was there. And I believe John McCain is going to landslide Obama. Obama might win some states but McCain will win the electoral vote. Palin is a big drawing card and can draw more people than Obama. In Green Bay McCain got 11,000 while Obama got 6,000. In Lady Lake Florida Palin drew 60,000 people. I know Obama and Biden think they won already but won’t they get a surprise on November 4th.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm

ABC puff piece. Do you wonder why it appears the major media are ga ga over Obama? It looks like “the thrill” is also running up the ABC leg!

Posted by: TN J | September 27, 2008, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm

Politoli: I am glad you said that because I believe McCain won the debate also. When the news media states that the polls show Obama edged McCain. No so. They are probably calling up Obama’s supporter’s and some of their friends. The media is pro-obama and will do anything to say he is ahead. They said Obama was ahead 52% to 43%. Not so. That was a bogus 9 point raised to make Obama look like he was winning the election. Later they brought it back down to 46% to 46%. The media is as underhanded and crooked as Obama and you cannot trust their polls.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 9:27 pm 9:27 pm

Mariann, you say McCain will win the electoral vote?
He badly needs to change the current state of the race then.
Of the 78 Presidential Projection sites on the Internet (that focus on the electoral map), 69 currently predict a victory for Obama. Only 4 predict a victory for McCain. The rest predict a tie.
MY prediction is, that ALL of these 4 for McCain will be erased by Palin’s performance next week in the VP debate.

Posted by: pollster | September 27, 2008, 9:28 pm 9:28 pm

McCain’s Tactic: Deceive, Divert, Delude. McCain’s reality: Befuddled, Bewildered, Behind

Posted by: Saxxon Domela | September 27, 2008, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm

McSame absolutely put country last in picking “Queen of BS” Palin and pulling of the latest stunt on play politics with bailout.
Whoever thinks he still puts country first should have their head examined by a vet!

Posted by: sandy | September 27, 2008, 9:31 pm 9:31 pm

Apparently, the democraps didn’t watch the debate. How in the world could anyone who did watch say that the empty suit NOBAMA won? How many times did he agree with McCain? 5 or 6 at least.
Here wehave democraps, this weekend, trying to GIVE AWAY 700 BILLION on this bailout and their boy, NOBAMA is still saying he’ll eliminate taxes for everyone making under $250K. come on! any fool that believe that BS deserves to have NOBAMA as their Muslim savior. GOD HELP US ALL!

Posted by: tizzy | September 27, 2008, 9:31 pm 9:31 pm

gregory: The country isn’t that desperate that we need ObamaOsama for our president. The know nothing, do nothing and say nothing unless it is a speech copied from another president. Does he lack intelligence to run this country. You better believe it. He had to be schooled on foreign policy for three days in Florida by his advisors. McCain don’t need training. He will need extensive training as president if elected. And this country will go into a disaster like it never had before. Worse than 1929.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm

sandy: I think your the one that needs to be examined. Whoever votes for a former anti-american, racist, white hating candidate needs to be put away and I don’t mean in the hospital. And that also means you. I am surprised he didn’t stutter last night. He must have been studying that foreign policy for hours and hours.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 9:35 pm 9:35 pm

Curses, foul language don’t win arguments. Reasoning and logic does.
Just shows the breed of followes barack Obama has.

Posted by: zoilodel | September 27, 2008, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm

About 160,000 readers from The Wall Street Journal voted on the outcome of the debate.
58% said Obama won the debate, aganst 38% for McCain.
That’s a 20% advantage for Obama.
And don’t tell me the WSJ is simply “liberal media”.

Posted by: rover | September 27, 2008, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm

pollster: I don’t think so. There are states that still will not vote for Obama and even on the internet it stated he might have a problem with race. I don’t pay attention what the polls are saying about the electoral vote because they really don’t know what state will vote for who. Only the voters know. And when you commenting about Palin, don’t forget about big mouth Biden who got in trouble with Obama three times for his missteps.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm

rover, that WSJ poll….
you turned the outcome around; check again -
58% said that MCCAIN won!
LOL

Posted by: trent | September 27, 2008, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm

Obama presidential? He kept referring to his opponent by his first name “John” constantly – yet no one in the media noted it. If McCain would’ve said something like, “Now Barack, you know that’s not correct” – the media and bloggers would be up in arms about “lack of respect” – it was universally a tie – not sure what websites you’ve been looking at – the DNC’s site? CBS News? MSNBC? Yes, those are bastions of impartiality aren’t they?

Posted by: Michael | September 27, 2008, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm

“Truth: You said it. I am willing to bet there was not 10,000 to 20,000 people at his campaign, maybe 6,000.”
Mariann Pepitone| Sep 27, 2008 9:20:45
How much do you want to bet?
You’re wrong, as usual!
Jay Snipes, chief of the University of Mary Washington police force, estimates that 12,000 are at the rally and another 14,000 were unable to get in, according to an email he sent the Obama campaign.
Guess another network has it wrong, too.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/27/politics/fromtheroad/entry4483053.shtml

Posted by: bailey | September 27, 2008, 9:41 pm 9:41 pm

I am a loyal democrat that will vote for McCain…bet you don’t hear that too often, but it’s happening across the land…for 4 reasons:
1. Obama has said that it’s his judgement that is better than the other side…even better than Hillary’s,yet he picked Joe Biden, who too voted for the resolution to go to war….why? to bolter a lacking foreign affairs portfolio.
2. Obama has voted 129 time “present” while in US State Senate…he was protecting making a decision for future use….not making a decision shows that he was more for himself than his state.
3. He has never once voted against his party lines. To think that the government will be run by Reid and Pelosi scares the crap out of me..
and 4. Who do you think that the government doesn’t want to see in office….The people are terrified that John McCain will actually do what he says he will do and all the gravy trains will be broken.
I was a huge supporter of Clintons, and I also notice that the big Dems are rushing to help Obama….why?

Posted by: democrat4mccain | September 27, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm

Country first? More like what’s in it for me first. Cut taxes, cut spending. Crumbling infrastructure. Everybody wants something for nothing. This country is in big trouble and most of the comments resort to name calling. I’m checking out of this blog.

Posted by: borgrav | September 27, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm

– He kept referring to his opponent by his first name “John” constantly – yet no one in the media noted it. –
Maybe because that is such a non-issue.. just like how McCain wouldn’t look at Obama even when asked to.
Get over it.. vote on real issues..

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm

Mariann, these projection sites have a per state approach, here’s an example of one of these current projections:
McCain 189
(146 Strong, 43 Lean)
Obama 239
(171 Strong, 68 Lean)
Tossup 110
Strong McCain: Alabama (9), Alaska (3), Arizona (10), Georgia (15), Idaho (4), Kansas (6), Kentucky (8), Louisiana (9), Mississippi (6), Nebraska (5), Oklahoma (7), S. Carolina (8), S. Dakota (3), Tennessee (11), Texas (34), Utah (5), Wyoming (3) 17 States 146 EC votes
Lean McCain: Arkansas (6), Missouri (11), Montana (3), N. Carolina (15), N. Dakota (3), W. Virginia (5), 6 States 43 EC Votes
Tossup: Colorado (9), Florida (27), Indiana (11), Nevada (5), New Hampshire (4), Ohio (20), Pennsylvania (21), Virginia (13), 8 States 110 EC Votes
Lean Obama: Michigan (17), Minnesota (10), New Jersey (15), New Mexico (5), Wisconsin (10), Washington (11), 6 States 68 EC Votes
Strong Obama: California (55), Connecticut (7), Delaware (3), DC (3), Hawaii (4), Iowa (7), Illinois (21), Maine (4), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (12), New York (31), Oregon (7), Rhode Island (4), Vermont (3), 14 States 171 EC Votes

Posted by: pollster | September 27, 2008, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm

rover: Are there a lot of blacks working there and are the majority democrats? I read a poll that gave McCain 76% to Obama’s 60%. If you don’t know about polls you should study more. All the networks are pro-obama and naturally they are going to say Obama won. They have been pro-obama since he started campaigning. Didn’t they just lie when they said Obama was up 9 points only to find out it was a bogus raise and they are now 46 to 46% where they were in the beginning.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm

I laughed in the debate when Obama called John “tom” a couple of times. If he can’t figure out that name, god help up on the foreign names

Posted by: democrate4McCain | September 27, 2008, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm

You people talk about Americans dying in Iraq, but you have no concept of what happens right here on our own soil. Over 12,000 Americans die from driving accidents per year. Over 14,000 Americans die from murder per year. Over 1 million Americans never see the light of day due to abortion! Get your priorities straight people!

Posted by: Toonces | September 27, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm

McCain’s whole political being is focused on military spending and big oil companies. Cut all spending except for these and social security and medicare he says.
No infrastructure roads bridges airports.
Health care? Forget it.
Student loans, childrens programs, seniors, inner city will get no assistance.
All that matters to McNasty is killing and drilling.

Posted by: bill redington | September 27, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm

That rain was just the preview of the Republicans weeping after the election on November 4th!
As Palin has shown herself to be a fraud (Come out, come out, wherever you are!), so McCain showed himself to be a bully last night in the first debate. We don’t want these people representing the USA!
We’ve already had 8 years of bully diplomacy! 8 years of being lead by someone who didn’t have the judgment that God gave a hog (Axis of Evil). 8 years of someone who threw all of the Arabists out of Washington because they told him why he was nuts to invade Iraq. 8 years of “You’re doing a great job, Brownie”. 8 years of sucking the life out of the middle class.
We don’t want the sequel to that!
OBAMA/BIDEN ’08!!!!

Posted by: Donna Hughes | September 27, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm

McCain is so pathetic he lied, lied and lied some more, even about the help for veterans that he has voted against and about Eisenhower–who never wrote a letter offering his resignation. Obama is an honorable man who wouldn’t stoop to that level–and instead of living in the past, he has a vision for the future.
Virginia, we can go Democratic and change history. Now is our time.

Posted by: Real Insight | September 27, 2008, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm

I was surprised to see McCain cowering in the debate last night. He was utterly unable to look Obama in the eye. Oddly, he somehow managed to look both angry and ashamed. (No wonder he doesn’t want to go face to face with with an enemy. They would walk all over him, behaving as he does like a scared and embittered child.) Only one person displayed Presidential Dignity and Authority: Obama.

Posted by: patmac | September 27, 2008, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm

MCCain 26 yrs in D.C IS NOT a friend of VET but LOBBIST
Can we say KEATING 5 all over again for McCain. The only lessons McCain learned from the Keating 5 scandal were how to better cover his tracks.
Rick Davis McCain’s top campaign advisor was paid 2 million by Freddie Mac and Frannie Mae as lobbyist to prevent De-regulation. McCain’s is in a tailspin and is burning out of control…just like all of his naval flights.
Fiorina Scarce as McCain Adviser After Gaffe, CEO-Pay Spotlight
Carly Fiorina. the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive officer was fired asked to leave with golden parachute, $42 million, including stocks, options and pension.
McCain was challenged about Fiorina’s payout from a company that laid off 20,000 employees. “She is an example of exactly the kind of person he say’s is at the root of the problem,”
OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Posted by: Rick | September 27, 2008, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm

MARIANNE
HI—YOU ARE NOT MILKING THAT ONE UTER COW AGAIN ARE YOU.

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm

Pollster: I already viewed the map but that is just their opinion. That does not mean it will happen. And are you aware of the fact that Palin drew 60,000 in Laky Lake, FL? McCain drew 11,000 in Green Bay and Obama drew 6,000 in Green Bay. Tell me, what happened?

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm

McCain appeared to be a war monger. Have not we had enough sacrifice by our young men and women in Iraq war? How many more troops should be let killed. I am always disturbed when I see the names and pictures of young men and women killed in Iraq. Can McCain define when he will say we won? Folks there is no end point in Iraw unless we call it to be. All this non-sense that surge worked is BS because we are paying cold cash to Iraqis to lay down their arms. Therefore there is less violence.
Who in world is waging two wars and going bankrupt. It is time to focus on our own country.
Obama/Biden will change the scene. McCain will meke us go bankrupt.

Posted by: silkwool | September 27, 2008, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm

Every poll taken after the debate said Obama won by a wide margin. It’s easy to see why.
John McCain is SOOOOOO last century. I’m sick of his war stories, sick of him acting like he’s so capable. I listened to the debate on the radio, so I couldn’t see the candidates, but let me tell you:
John McCain sounded old, weak and wimpy compared to Obama. Obama made sense. The rest of the world is laughing at us, Obama is the only one to restore our credibility worldwide. Obama has a wonderful, booming, reassuring PRESIDENTIAL voice.
McCain’s high pitched whining sounds just like George Bush over the radio. BLEAH. We don’t need another four years of THAT!!
But above all, there is that little problem called “Sarah Palin”. I think she will drop out. If she does, her “base” will stay home and not vote. If she doesn’t drop out, intelligent people will come out in droves just to vote against her!
It’s a win-win situation for Obama and McCain only has himself to blame.
End of story.

Posted by: mavisdarling | September 27, 2008, 9:50 pm 9:50 pm

MARIANNE—WHERE IS LAKEY LAKE AT IN FLORIDA

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm

jefferson: And how old are your parent’s? I know their notin their 30′s. How long do you think your’ll live. Maybe your life will end before you reach 60 if your younger than that.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm

1. Obama has said that it’s his judgement that is better than the other side…even better than Hillary’s,yet he picked Joe Biden.
This is what you consider an indication of “judgement”??? You didn’t happen to notice who McCain picked did you?
2. Obama has voted 129 time “present” while in US State Senate…
Yup, out of 4000 total votes.. and mostly to signal his disagreement with provisions in the text. On the other hand, McCain has missed more votes in the 110th Congress than any other Senator, and Obama has actuall voted more time than McCain in this session.
3. He has never once voted against his party lines.
False. While he has voted with his party more than McCain has voted with his, both have voted against there parties many times.
4. Who do you think that the government doesn’t want to see in office…
Yeah, that’s why the republicans put him on the ticket! Get real.
– I was a huge supporter of Clintons, and I also notice that the big Dems are rushing to help Obama….why? –
Maybe because he was the better candidate? If these are the reasons you are not voting for Obama, you need to seriously reconsider your motivation and perhaps look at some real issues and the differences between McCain and Obama.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm

Reasons not to vote for Obama:
1. Ayers – Barrack started his political career in this terrorist’s home.
2. Rezco – Barrack accecpted donations and worked closely with this corrupt person for years.
3. Wright – Do you really think after spending 20 years in that man’s church he suddenly disagreed with every vile word that man spewed from the pulpit?
4. Experience – Barrack has none.
5. Taxes – There is absolutely no way he can put his socialist programs in place with out raising taxes and I mean everyone’s. It will be a classic eating crow moment when Barrack says we have to raise everyone’s taxes.
6. Michelle – A radical leftist.
7. Fruad – Pure and simple, the man is a total and complete fraud.

Posted by: Toonces | September 27, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm

Such a smooth talker..Obama/Biden are laughable. Get back to Washington folks and earn your $. Stop TALKING and start DOING. Oh, right no-one called them yet. Just $700 BILLION more they will throw anyone’s way.

Posted by: kathy | September 27, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm

McCain was so good last night that I wish he were 80, instead of 72. The man is incredible, alert, sharp, informative. Obama, although a little thin and frail, has a good suit and tie.

Posted by: young_voter | September 27, 2008, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm

democrat4mccain,
Let’s see;
Obama picked Joe Biden for VP
vs
McCain picked Sarah Palin for VP
and
this is one of the reasons you are voting FOR McCain?
You can’t be serious!
Oh, I see, you are a PO’d Clinton supporter who is now cutting off your nose to spite your face!

Posted by: Donna Hughes | September 27, 2008, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm

If McCain cares so much, where was he when bodies were floating in the streets of New Orleans three years ago.
Having a birthday party with the President and guest appearing on conan’s show.
Country first…… phoooey mccain first

Posted by: Omentum | September 27, 2008, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm

patmac: And you must be smoking what Obama smokes. I seen the evil eye that Obama was giving McCain because McCain was referring to Obama as a liar. And Obama used the same statement McCain had said previously making himself look like he was the one who gave warning about the downfall two years ago. No so. And how many times did Obama say to McCain, your right John?

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm

Obama is a joke. This country needs someone more mature, someone who faces death every day when he gets out of bed.
Obama | Palin ’08
Death to America!

Posted by: Waldo Pepper | September 27, 2008, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm

I guess those that claim McCain had a great night are the sames ones that think this bail out is going to be paid with imaginary money. Spare me the details. McCain is on the ropes and like a dirty prize fighter, he is prone to do anything to win.

Posted by: william | September 27, 2008, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm

– There is absolutely no way he can put his socialist programs in place with out raising taxes and I mean everyone’s. It will be a classic eating crow moment when Barrack says we have to raise everyone’s taxes. –
Obama has no ‘socialist’ programs, and both will drive the deficit up.. McCain more than Obama. And under Obama, only the wealthy will see modest increases, while the vast majority will see more tax cuts than under McCain.
http://taxpolicycenter.org/

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm

What was missing in last evening’s debate was a question about Campaign Finances. The Left has unleashed billions of dollars to undermine McCain and Palin. They have purchased MSNBC where all you see is these leftists, “for the first time proud to be Americans”, selling lies after lies. Where these money camming from?. One of the sources is the Venezuelan dictator with his NARCO/PETRO dollars that sends billons of dollars in luggage’s to propel leftist candidacies. Ask why the Judas from New Mexico, a dear friend of the candidate from the left, pays numerous visits to the dictator of Venezuela.

Posted by: Umberto Zanabria | September 27, 2008, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm

True the moose hunter and newbie politician got her 15 minutes of fame, that has faded in the glaring light of a reality. She is George Bush dumb and unfit to be in a political office which requires thinking. And by the way those crowds were wingnuts desparate to find someone they could use for their agenda. They stayed home in droves when it was McBush speaking.

Posted by: Eugene Elliott | September 27, 2008, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm

Obama/Biden are the perfect actors under rain. How many more rains do you guys need to win this election?

Posted by: alex | September 27, 2008, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm

i was very dissapointed with mccain—he did not tell us about his 100 year war–or how due to nafta we are living in an era of prosperity—or how he was going to bomb bomb iran–or how he the champion of deregulation could explain wall street as the result–the surge worked we won –but we are still there–and china gets the oil—-john has some explaining to do.

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm

Toonces: you need to stop beating them dead horses.. they were put to rest a long time ago.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm

Omentum: And when did Obama go to New Orleans looking for dead bodies? Isn’t he a senator like McCain. New Orleans disaster is not McCain’s or Obama’s problem. Their governor should take care of that. Not the senator’s. The president should take an interest in the disaster and allow funding for them. That’s his job.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm

It’s a shame that McCain put her where she is. I’m a Democrat but at this point I genuinely feel sorry for
her. She is in over her head and doesn’t know what to do next. People blame her for accepting the role,
saying she acted out of power hunger and ambition, but I think she was in a state of shock and awe,
dazzled by the offer. McCain didn’t give her time to think about it or discuss it with people who could have
grounded her and advised her. She has led a sheltered political life in her unique state of Alaska. Now she is
getting a truly harse reality check on how the rest of the US operates. Her world has expanded faster than
she can absorb it. She must be feeling like she’s on a roller coaster that left the tracks and is hurling through
space. Poor Sarah. How cruel of John McCain!

Posted by: Judi | September 27, 2008, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm

marianne —they are starting that moose thing again.

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm

There’s a silent vote,a bubba vote and
a redneck vote out there.Those voters
they don’t vote on primaries BUT they
vote in november…..
ROBERT…you are so right! Some of us are too busy to be polled over the phone! I guess we are “clinging to our guns and religion”…but we will vote in Novemeber and it wont be for some Harvard elitist scumbag crook and his Chicago gutter politics and racist America hating preacher/wife/etc.etc.

Posted by: Independent | September 27, 2008, 10:02 pm 10:02 pm

John McCain misspoke and used “Iran republican guards” instead of “Iran revolutionary guards. Obama who kept on affirming/aggreeing to what McCain said also used “republican guards”/
It would have been a knockout punch if McCain came back and said: Let me correct myself. I should have said “revolutionary guards” instead of republican guards. Obama would have been confused which is which and would look dumbfounded on TV.

Posted by: zoilodel | September 27, 2008, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm

McCain – Palin ’08 “Bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk”

Posted by: Mr. Coffee | September 27, 2008, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm

mccain went looking for dead bodies–all he has to do is look in the mirror.

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm

I just came back from the RALLY FOR CHANGE in Fredericksburg. Huge crowd of about 25,000 BLUE voters for Obama/Biden!
Yes, it rained and no, VA ISN’T McCain Country – It’s going BLUE!
YES WE CAN!

Posted by: Sue M Vet for Obama | September 27, 2008, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm

CNN has the latest from a conversation with Palin:
“How about the Pakistan situation?,” asked Rovito, who said he was not a Palin supporter. “What’s your thoughts about that?”
“In Pakistan?,” she asked, looking surprised.
“What’s going on over there, like Waziristan?”
“It’s working with [Pakistani president] Zardari to make sure that we’re all working together to stop the guys from coming in over the border,” she told him. “And we’ll go from there.”
Rovito wasn’t finished. “Waziristan is blowing up!,” he said.
“Yeah it is,” Palin said, “and the economy there is blowing up too.”
I’m looking forward to the VP debate!

Posted by: hanson | September 27, 2008, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm

Robert: I am an ex democrat and I don’t like Obama. I am voting McCain also. I don’t like his tactics and his dictorial ways. If the democrats voting for him think the got gold they are in for a surprise because they got zinc. Obama couldn’t run this country even if he was trained by his advisor’s. It takes experience, intelligence and capabilities and that let’s him out.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Barack Obama attracting 50% of the vote while John McCain earns 44%. This six-point advantage matches Obama’s biggest lead yet (see trends). Obama is now viewed favorably by 56% of voters, McCain by 54%.

Posted by: Mr. Coffee | September 27, 2008, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm

– I’m looking forward to the VP debate! –
Myself as well.. I think it will be a pivotal point in this election.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm

wow obamas preacher—get palins –the one that chases witches—you cannot be serious–talk about a radical

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm

Daily Kos: Wall Street Journal poll on tonights debate has Obama …
Wall Street Journal poll on tonights debate has Obama at 58.3%, McCain 34.4%. by attobuoy. Fri Sep 26, 2008 at 09:41:00 PM PDT. The WSJ has a poll on who …

Posted by: bob | September 27, 2008, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm

Bush, McCain can run. But they cant hide anymore.
What ever congress does to try and fix our stunning economic catastrophe needs to be done very carefully. Congress needs to take their time, and be sure of what they are doing. Whatever is done needs to be sharply focused at helping, and protecting the best interest of the ordinary Americans. In particular the vast American middle class. 700 billion dollars is a lot of the peoples money to spend to bail out a bunch of corrupt Bush loan sharks.
My fellow human beings, just as I warned you ahead of this catastrophic economic meltdown, I must now warn you that what is ahead has the potential to be even more catastrophic than what we are going through now. The worlds geopolitical landscape has been booby trapped by the Bush McCain administration and their republican allies in congress. These booby traps are poised to spring at any time.
Fortunately the Worlds Nations have been blessed with many excellent leaders (except the US) who have been careful, wise, strong, and self-restrained in dealing with the provocations, and antagonism’s of the Bush, McCain administration.
Barack Obama and the democrats are your best hope now. Tell your family, friends, and everyone you know to support them as best you can, and vote for them like your life, and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. Because it does. You will not survive 4 more years of Bush McCain.
JACK SMITH – WORKING CLASS…

Posted by: jacksmith | September 27, 2008, 10:07 pm 10:07 pm

Mariann Pepitone
McCain loves to “attempt” to distance himself from bush by talking about what he would have done during Katrina.
When actuality he was WITH Bush during Katrina.
How ironic. or moronic

Posted by: Omentum | September 27, 2008, 10:07 pm 10:07 pm

marianne –you made me laugh so much last night i almost passed out——lets talk about moose killer palin.

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm

http://fredericksburg.com/
26,000 of us. All colors, all ages -standing in the pouring rain.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08!

Posted by: Sue M Vet for Obama | September 27, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm

I thank the debate was one of the best debates we had in years. We have two very smart men running for President. Both men knew the subject in very great details. One gained his knowledge because he has been in politics for over 40 years the other one is just natural. We should be proud of both men.

Posted by: joesnopy | September 27, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm

McCain/Palin ticket supporters a few things you should investigate about the war hero/governor:
1. McCain’s participation in Tailhook (yeah the “war hero” was in the thick of sexually abusing women).
2. McCain cheated on his first wife and divorced her b/c she was disfigured in an auto accident, married the pretty rich girl one month later.
3. Palin’s church speaker stated that what Israel was going through was punishment for Jews not believing in Jesus.
4. Palin and her husband were part of a secessionist group. We want a person who wanted to leave the union being the 2nd in command?
Please educate yourselves about who you are supporting. Uneducated voters will be the demise of this country.

Posted by: Jackie | September 27, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm

Claim: Obama wants to Socialize Health Care
Fact: False
Reality:
The two candidates health care plans differ significantly. McCains plan primarily focuses on deregulation to stimulate competition between the insurance providers, reforming tax codes, and providing a fixed credit to all families. Obama wants to create a national health plan that would make insurance available to all Americans, particularly those who are currently unable to obtain insurance, and with guaranteed eligibility. It is not a mandatory system, as many have mistaken, and is completely voluntary, so individuals who already have existing health insurance do not need to participate unless they want to. Obama also calls for health care tax credits, favoring the low and middle class, as well as incentives to increase efficiency and quality in the health care industry. The two plans, while comparable in cost, differ in year to year patterns, however based on analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, Obamas plan outperforms McCains plan in coverage and efficiency.
http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/pm126
In a detailed analysis between the two plans, the Wall Street Journal comes to the same conclusion as the EPI, and has additionally said:
“Given the current inefficiencies in our system, the impact of the Obama plan will be profound. Besides the $2,500 savings in medical costs for the typical family, according to our research annual business-sector costs will fall by about $140 billion. Our figures suggest that decreasing employer costs by this amount will result in the expansion of employer-provided health insurance to 10 million previously uninsured people”.
When looking at the McCain plan, they state:
“In contrast, Sen. McCain, who constantly repeats his no-new-taxes promise on the campaign trail, proposes a big tax hike as the solution to our health-care crisis. His plan would raise taxes on workers who receive health benefits, with the idea of encouraging their employers to drop coverage. A study conducted by University of Michigan economist Tom Buchmueller and colleagues published in the journal Health Affairs suggests that the McCain tax hike will lead employers to drop coverage for over 20 million Americans”.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122152292213639569.html
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.27.6.w472/DC1
For a side-by-side list of both plans, please see the following:
http://www.health08.org/FINAL%202%20CANDIDATES%20Side-By-Side%20July%2022.pdf

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm

alex: They don’t need any raid because they aren’t going to win the election. That’s a dream Obama had for years after he read several books on MLK. He wants to walk in MLK’s shoes instead of his own. Obama is in this race to make history but I got news for him. If elected he will not be the first black president because he is Mulatto. He is half African half White. He is the offspring of a white/black marriage and that’s the name given to the offspring many many years ago. Its on the internet. Of course the blacks would be offended but I don’t care. That’s what he is and he can’t change it.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

I’ve read some of your comments on different blogs… Are you just McCain staffers copy/pasting your propaganda all over the internet?
America’s smarter than that.
President Obama.

Posted by: j0n | September 27, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

Obama all the way.Mccain seems all tired oldman. Electing MCsame is like electing Bush 4 eight more years. Yack!!! Give me a break.

Posted by: chungs Rep 4 Obama | September 27, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

To Independent – you are so right about the silent majority that see Obama for the fraud that he is.
To Rodney – Those are not “dead horses” and nor should they be treated as such. Obama has spent his entire political career listening to and acting on behalf of these “advisors”. Sure McCain has a skeleton or two, but Obama has entire bleacher section.

Posted by: Toonces | September 27, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

If I were Biden, I would mop the floor with Palin. This is not some beauty pageant. We are talking about one heartbeat from the leader of the free world. Either run with the big dogs or go back to alaska.

Posted by: Omentum | September 27, 2008, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm

rodney,
She meant Lady Lake. Look it up!
you must be one of the ACORN workers!

Posted by: Voter In America | September 27, 2008, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm

rover: Are there a lot of blacks working there and are the majority democrats? I read a poll that gave McCain 76% to Obama’s 60%. If you don’t know about polls you should study more. All the networks are pro-obama and naturally they are going to say Obama won. They have been pro-obama since he started campaigning. Didn’t they just lie when they said Obama was up 9 points only to find out it was a bogus raise and they are now 46 to 46% where they were in the beginning.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | Sep 27, 2008 9:44:59 PM
You’re out of your mind…
Check: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
He does the best job out of anyone as far as math and weighting polls.
Read up.
McCain is going to lose, don’t fool yourself now.

Posted by: Chad | September 27, 2008, 10:11 pm 10:11 pm

marianne –what kind of sheet does a female kkk wear—pink purple?????????

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:11 pm 10:11 pm

You don’t have to be a genius to debate Joe biden. He is the old plagarizing nut who dropped out of the 1988 race for copying someone elses work and using as his own! Clearly, some douch bag who can’t think for himself is no great threat! If she will be herself she will be fine and he can plagarize someone elses work and he will do fine also!

Posted by: Independent | September 27, 2008, 10:12 pm 10:12 pm

Obama was on his lawn last night. That lawn was foreign policy.
I was just waiting to see the geezer start shaking his fist at Obama while yammering Git of my lawn you durn kid..

Posted by: Omentum | September 27, 2008, 10:12 pm 10:12 pm

voter in arerica—she says lakey lake—i know where lady lake is.

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:13 pm 10:13 pm

To McCain Supporters,
There are a lot of ACORNs out there.
They are the fraud voters.
Don’t even bother to engage them. Just total useless like Obama. I meant Barry.
McCain/Palin 2008.

Posted by: Voter In America | September 27, 2008, 10:13 pm 10:13 pm

It’s still not raining McCain. He’s better hurry. And he sure would like to. But there’s the Palin Problem that will become a center stage issue in the weeks to come. I’m afraid all is lost for McCain’s campaign. Wrong VP pick, very very wrong. A disaster.

Posted by: kinship | September 27, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

Sue M Vet: Obama is lucky if there was 10,000. I understand his crowds are not as big as they use to be. And everyone that comes out to hear him may not be voting for him. They just want to hear what he says. And usually its nothing of importance. I do wish he would do something about those giant teeth.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

If I were Biden, I would mop the floor with Palin. This is not some beauty pageant. We are talking about one heartbeat from the leader of the free world. Either run with the big dogs or go back to alaska.
posted by Omenstrual
Big deal…Pelosi is two heartbeats away right now and that is more scary than Palin!

Posted by: Independent | September 27, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

McCain/Palin
The ticket to Nowhere

Posted by: Omentum | September 27, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

rodney,
Look dude, people mistyped sometimes.
I know I do occasionalllly…. seee.

Posted by: Voter In America | September 27, 2008, 10:15 pm 10:15 pm

obama kicked the old gesers butt—no if or ands about it—-and in november the boogy man will get you all….whitey will be picking cotton

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm

Er, Robert, the economic probelms are due to the policy which says government is bad. The Bush guys neutered the regulatory areas. It started even before this bush. Remember when Ronnie gutted the EPA. Nixon, arch libral set up the EPA. Best thing he did too. Obama is needed because he can make the JFK dream of honarable public service true. Government is a superior provider of services because they do not need to grub and scam the public to show a profit. Mc Cain will not raise taxes, Bush I made the pledge and brooke it when he realized he had been stupid. McCain is so old he just does not care whaty burden is left to the future. He cannot get his small mind off fossil fuel. Naturally, the millions the energy companies are feeding him are responsible. Rain on a parade or a poolitical meeting if need be, but do not destroy what nation we have left after Bush.

Posted by: Eugene Elliott | September 27, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm

I do wish he would do something about those giant teeth.
MP….me too! Those big dumbo ears are annoying. They wiggle when he is lying!
He should quit smoking and work out some. Such a wimpy little body and goofy head! He reminds me of a gay person, not that there is anything wrong with that…it just isn’t something I want in my next president!

Posted by: Independent | September 27, 2008, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm

Rodney,
See you mistyped my sign-on name.
voter in arerica… It’s Voter In America

Posted by: Voter In America | September 27, 2008, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm

Well at least Pelosi knows a lot more about running the country than the folksy witch slayer from Alaska.

Posted by: Omentum | September 27, 2008, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm

Independent
Sounds like you are bitter clinging to your stupidity

Posted by: Omentum | September 27, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

vboter you can help marianne milk her one uter cow–ask her about it.—do you seriously think mccain will win—-can you imagine the landslide if obama were whiter.

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

Omentum,
Are you one of the ACORN operatives?
Pelosi in the last two years has done absolutely NOTHING. Nada, zero…
She and Harry Reid can hold hands and heading to the sunset together…
America is much BETTER off without them.

Posted by: Voter In America | September 27, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm

Chad: No your the fool. If you think there are states that won’t vote for him your wrong. Why do you think Hillary won NY, NJ, NV, AZ, PA, OH. How come they didn’t vote for Obama if he was so popular. Obama was so desperate to win he went with Nancy Pelosi behind the scenes to talk to the superdelegates to switch their vote for favors. Why do you think Nancy didn’t want the superdelegates to wait until the convention? They are both underhanded and doublecrossing people and Nancy going against Hillary. That’s the democrat dogs for you.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm

It continues to amaze me that so many people want our country to continue further down the tube. Haven’t we suffered enough? Do you not see what Bush and company have done to our country? He gave us bigger government, the largest debt in history and it continues to grow. Yet you still sing the Republican song. “The Dems want big government, big taxes, etc.” That is what the Rs did. Do some research.
Obama will cut taxes for people earning less than 250,000 and return the rich to what they paid before Bush gave them the cut.
I can’t afford four more years of Bush/McCain.

Posted by: nanz | September 27, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm

Here you go again … more and more lies about Palin … Quotations from the un-ethical and immoral liberal press again. You have not shame en you effort to destroy the bases of our democracy with your socialist ideas.
We do not want a socialist health system where a careless and lazy government agency could be deciding about my treatment if I get sick and could finally decide my chances of survival.

Posted by: Umberto Zanabria | September 27, 2008, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm

Jeez Louise, Mariann Pepitone. You are not for real are you? Some doofus planted you here, right? Why should anyone take you seriously?
You can’t even speak English!!
“I seen the evil eye.”
HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! What a HICK.
The correct way to say that is this:
“I SAW the evil eye.”
You make yourself look DUMB when you can’t use proper grammar.
People like you are SO EASY to manipulate. People like you are the type that McCain’s Rovians just LOVE.
The McCain campaign spreads lies and rumors and you just eat it up. They play upon your sense of FEAR. They play upon your TOTAL ignorance, upon the fact that you cannot think for yourself.
You are a victim of right-wing propaganda if you think McCain is a good candidate. Either that or you’re racist. You sound racist. AND you sound dumb.
What a combination: DUMB AND RACIST.

Posted by: mavisdarling | September 27, 2008, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm

Obama was too polite. Probably should have said . . “Right . . . TALKING to other world leaders would be NAIVE. . . DANGEROUS even. Instead, we should continue with our current strategy . . . just send in our troops. Start an ill-advised war with no exit strategy. Try to figure things out as you go as US tro… Read Moreops lose their lives. TALKING to these people without pre-conditions would be way too risky.”
OH, and while we’re at it . . . we shouldn’t legitimize these leaders by sitting across the table from them, but repeating their comments regarding the stinking corpse of Israel in an internationally televised debate will certainly not give them the platform they need. Way to go, McCain.

Posted by: Undecided | September 27, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm

Acorn
I don’t even know what acorn is …..

Posted by: Omentum | September 27, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm

First off let me say John McCain wiped the floor with Barak Obama last night. But what I would really like to comment on, is the fact that everyone keeps saying that McCain was disrespectful to Obama during the debate as if he was better than him. Well now that I think back over it, it did appear that way. I don’t thing John feels that Obama belongs in the same ring with him. And it probably really ticked him off that this little arrogant twit didn’t take the economic crisis seriously enough and wanted the debate to go on inspite of it. So he breezes into town(unwillingly because he was working), body slams Obama without any rehearsal or notes, jumps back on the plane and heads back to work. Cracks me up when I think about it. After the debate I said to my husband, I’ll bet Obama wishes John McCain would have been AWOL.

Posted by: Brenda | September 27, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm

omentum
you can picture them dancing around in their sheets and pointed pillowcases—direct from the TRAILER PARK–in living COLOR–

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm

Voter In America: I just got through making a statement about Obama and Nancy Pelosi. I can’t wait until the republicans take over the house so Nancy can step down and Reid can retire. This is the worst democratic congress ever in all my years of voting. I am voting for McCain not Obama. I am positive that if elected Obama will put this country into another 1929 depression due to the fact he cannot, repeat, cannot run this country, its too big for him.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm

Why these Obama supporters always play the “damn” race card?
First, I don’t remember any of your Democratic President EVER put a QUALIFIED Black American on the Cabinet position. Bush did…
What are you whining about? Whitey this Whitey that…
Nobody cares about the race card. Personnally, I vote for the characters, quality, and capability.
Get a life! quit using the race card…It’s OLD and we all know it.

Posted by: Voter In America | September 27, 2008, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm

Oh, and Mariann, before you start calling people fools, let me correct your horrible English again.
You don’t say “YOUR a fool”, when you mean to say YOU ARE a fool.
The proper way to write that contraction is “YOU’RE A FOOL”
YOU ARE A STUPID FOOL, MARIANN PEPITONE.
You need to go back to school and learn third grade English before you start spouting off your ignorant blather.

Posted by: mavisdarling | September 27, 2008, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm

MAVIS
MARIANNE HAS A ONE UTER COW—-ONE WITH TESTICLES—AND SHE TOLD ME THIS LAST NIGHT.

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm

Myth: Obama will raise your taxes, McCain will lower them
Fact: False/Misleading
Reality:
Under Obamas proposed tax plan, only top earning American families will see an increase in taxes (those earning $250,000 or more, which according to the most current US Census data, accounts for just under 2% of the total households in the US). In fact, over 95% of Americans will see a tax cut under Obamas plan, with lower and middle class Americans receiving LARGER tax cuts than would be realized under McCains tax plan. Even McCains own economic advisor has admitted that the Obama plan would result in a net decrease in taxes for the majority of American households.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates_taxproposals_tpc/
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/taxes.asp
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1826219,00.html
The difference between the two plans is that McCain favors supply-side economics (sometimes referred to as “Trickle-Down Economics”), giving large tax breaks to the wealthy and large corporations, while Obama favors tax breaks for working class Americans. In it’s most recent analysis of the 2008 presidential tax plans, the non-partisan Tax Policy Center in Washington D.C. reports:
“The two candidates’ tax plans would have sharply different distributional effects. Senator McCain’s tax cuts would primarily benefit those with very high incomes, almost all of whom would receive large tax cuts that would, on average, raise their after-tax incomes by more than twice the average for all households. Many fewer households at the bottom of the income distribution would get tax cuts and those tax cuts would be small as a share of after-tax income. In marked contrast, Senator Obama offers
much larger tax breaks to low- and middle-income taxpayers and would increase taxes on high-income taxpayers. The largest tax cuts, as a share of income, would go to those at the bottom of the income distribution, while taxpayers with the highest income would see their taxes rise”.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?ID=411749
To see how much your taxes would be changed under the proposed plans, the Tax Policy Center has estimated tax tables comparing both plans.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm

Brenda: I watched that debate last night also and I thought McCain won the debate. Obama told John McCain that he was right about 6 or 7 times. What does that tell you. And don’t pay attention to the polls because the news media will say Obama won when he didn’t. They said he had a 9 point lead when he didn’t. They are 46% to 46% back where they were. All Obama’s polls are inflated because the media are pro-obama and they want the public to think that he is going to win the election so don’t waste your vote on McCain. But that’s a gimmick. I am well aware of all what’s going on. If you haven’t listened to Rush L. listen to one time.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

McCain didn’t behave like a president last night.
On his content alone, all his rebuttals basically involved his misstating Obama’s stand and trying to fear-monger. He tried distort Obama’s stance on meeting leaders like Ahmadinejad “as suddenly inviting them over for tea at the White House” to play to those who don’t know exactly what preconditions are. Well too bad Obama defined it and explained he wasn’t going to be working under the presumption that they could solve every problem before they even started talking.
On body language, Obama behaved like a president. McCain did not. I could have done with out his snickers and smirks when Obama was talking. Despite McCain’s behavious, Obama didn’t take the bait anyway, which is what we need in a president. Look at McCain all he talked about was wars, wars, wars, oh and the Viet Cong. Is he going to be smirking and rolling his eyes at say, the UN Secretary General because he wants the US to sign the Kyoto Protocol? To smirk at the leader of Spain because of his “cowardly” act of pulling out of Iraq?
Obama said “yes I agree…” it shows pragmatism and diplomacy. You need to win your opponents over, in talks with difficult countries if you outright disagree with everything, you won’t get anything done.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 27, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

To Mariann Pepitone,
I am with you on that. The ONLY thing that scares me the most is Obama’s operatives running around telling people all these lies and they would fall for it. Most of them are NOT well informed as we are.

Posted by: Voter In America | September 27, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

CINCERNED
THESE PEOPLE DO NOT REALIZE THAT MCCAIN IS FOR BIG BUSINESS—AND THAT HE FIGURES THE WEALTHY WILL THROW US A FEW CRUMBS—HOW SAD AND DUMB

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

Marianne Pepitone: Yeah, numbers get inflated- when it’s a McCain rally.He couldn’t match Obama’s crowd sizes even if he gave away big screen TVs at the door. McLame quoted huge numbers at his rallies,supposedly given by the fire marshal. But- oops! He got called out on his lie. The fire marshal said he never provided the #’s and the crowd was 1/2 the size McInsane claimed. Caribou Barbie can draw a few gawkers, mainly on her freak-show status, but nobody’s interested in McCain.He’s hated by his own party. He is as exciting as constipation. And he’s a carbon copy of George Bush policies.Any wonder he has to resort to “lipstick on a pig” to get attention? That’s because he’s a zero on his own.

Posted by: winnie47 | September 27, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

Where did all the republican f**kers come from? Are they born to humans?

Posted by: relig | September 27, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

Thank you Senator McCain for one of the most powerful performances in a Presidentidal debate America has ever known.
————————-
Another person who watched with the sound off.

Posted by: Funny Stuff | September 27, 2008, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm

As for Sarah Palin we all have to remember the democratic party and the biased liberal media have done a real hack job on her and her family(no morals or decency on the left). They went after her like she was the #1 on the ticket, because after the convention she made their #1 look mediocre. So she didn’t have the best interview with Katie, big deal, have you listened to Joe Biden lately and thats when no one is even asking him any questions. We have to go back to her accomplishments in Alaska and what made John pick her in the first place. He didn’t pick her because she gives a good interview, he picked her because she is a go-getter and she will help trim the fat in Washington. I have not lost my respect or support for her, that is exactly what the democrats want to happen. Fellow Republicans don’t play into it! Stand by our girl and she will work hard for all Americans in Washington. Think about it…witchcraft, armegeddon, affairs, etc. Who else could make up all this crap except the desperate democratic party. They have no moral fiber and that is why they will lose.

Posted by: Brenda | September 27, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HIT CHILDREN ON THE HEAD——-REPUBLICANS

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm

And are you aware of the fact that Palin drew 60,000 in Laky Lake, FL?
Mariann Pepitone| Sep 27, 2008 9:49:30
Are we supposed to believe the word of the Republican Party of Florida or the McCain campaign over a fire official?
I know you’re gullible, thankfully not everyone is.
*A fire rescue official estimated the crowd at 25,000 to 30,000, while the Republican Party of Florida pegged the audience at twice that size.*
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/696050.html

Posted by: bailey | September 27, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm

This one show Obama 79% and McCain 15% total votes 135,000:
http://jeffblack.newsvine.com/_question/2008/09/26/1919787-who-won-the-presidential-debate

Posted by: leighg1 | September 27, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm

BRENDA
BEHAVE OR WE WILL SEND PALINS MINISTER AFTER YOU

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm

Angry African: You can be as angry as you want. Who cares. I will vote for McCain because I don’t like Obama. He thinks the world owes him a living but I got news for him. We owe him nothing. Didn’t you hear Obama tell McCain 7 times that he was right. Where have you been. If there is a crisis don’t blame McCain for it or Obama. Lehman Bros. are to blame for their wrong decisions in loaning money. McCain and Obama are trying to fix that situation together in Washington. McCain and Obama disagree on politics but they are working together to reach a bail out.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 27, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm

If Obama/Biden think its raining now, wait until the night of November 4th when Obama has to give his concession speech to President John S. McCain!
McCain/Palin 08!
“COUNTRY FIRST!”
**************************
Yeh, it goes like this. Hey John, I’m really sorry I
have to leave you now. I’ll keep in touch with
you, By the way, on your way back to your seat
at the Senate, I would watch the republicans you stepped on during the election.
on, they reall
Whit

Posted by: spacerook1 | September 27, 2008, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm

– And are you aware of the fact that Palin drew 60,000 in Laky Lake, FL? –
That number comes from the GOP, not local officials who state it was more like 20-25,000.. but don’t fool yourself into thinking that they were there because she is so popular.. most were there because the GOP has done everything in their power to keep Americans from hearing her, and most want to find out what they are hiding (and if they aren’t hiding anything, then they sure are doing a good job making it look like they are).

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm

Obama and Dopey Joe Biden should take
this as an Omen!
The pity party starts on November 4th!
Get out your crying towels!
Obama was pathetic at the debate
last night and McCain swept the floor
with him! Palin will do the same
to Dopey Joe after she explains to him the fact that Franklin Roosevelt
wasn’t the president during the
stock market crash of 1929 and that
there was no TV at that time!

Posted by: reaganfan | September 27, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

ROBERT YOU FORGOT UNWHITE

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

I ask all to consider the life birth abortions: these are botched abortions that result in a fetus being born alive, and that baby is left to die. Obama backs this wholeheartedly, and this is a crime before humanity and God. Obama also leans to the left (Communism, anyone? — just look all over the Americas). I would fare well with Obama at the helm since I am disabled and need care which I don’t have; but, I see him and many of his supporters as lacking morals, and trust McCain to do the right thing.
And, no, neither I nor many others have forgotten that Sen. Obama has had the lack of insight to call man his mentor and twenty years later after a divisive scandal conveniently say he didn’t know the man: Reverend Wright.

Posted by: Emil | September 27, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HIT CHILDREN ON THE HEAD——-REPUBLICANS
Rodney, I rest my case about the dems and their morals and decency. You just made my point. Thanks!

Posted by: Brenda | September 27, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

MARIANNE IS IN lakey lake milking that one uter cow–ha ha ha

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm

To Mariann Pepitone,
Here is the comparison of Obama’s tax plan and the current one.
Income tax rate:
Current: 35%
Obama’s: 39.6%
Payroll taxes:
Current: 37.4%
Obama’s: 52.2%
Capital gains:
Current: 15%
Obama’s: 28%
Dividens:
Current: 15%
Obama’s: 39.6%
Estate:
Current: 0.0% by 2010
Obama’s: 55%
BTW, he boasted that 95% of American will not see a penny in tax. That’s NOT true. Since about 50% Tax Payers (not welfare receipients) do not pay any taxes and most is getting refunds in the form of Earned Income Credit. That leaves mostly all of us to bear the tax burden. So basically, Obama is preparing America for a Socialist Republic with an Income redistribution as the disguise.
Just for your info. Obama is a MUSLIM whether or not he denied it.

Posted by: Voter In America | September 27, 2008, 10:42 pm 10:42 pm

Omentum:
Don’t believe the polls.
Pigs will fly before Obama wins
Virginia! No Way!

Posted by: reaganfan | September 27, 2008, 10:42 pm 10:42 pm

Claim: I ask all to consider the life birth abortions: these are botched abortions that result in a fetus being born alive, and that baby is left to die. Obama backs this wholeheartedly, and this is a crime before humanity and God.
Fact: False
Reality:
For a complete rebutal, see factcheck:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obama_and_infanticide.html
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/does_mccain_want_to_ban_all_abortions.html

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm

hey brenda—-direct quote from jimmy stewart—that movie guy —but he sure was right

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm

And to all you people who are saying Obama made a mistake in the debate by saying “you’re right John”…
Uh, WRONG, people. What Obama was doing was being POLITE. It was called
D.I.P.L.O.M.A.C.Y
And that is what we are lacking in our foreign relations right now. We’ve had war-mongers at the helm for the last 8 years.
See, what you BUSH-WHACKING TUNDRA SUCKING people don’t understand is this:
We need a fresh approach. Other countries HATE us. We need to be DIPLOMATIC with bad countries, or they are going to give us MUCH GRIEF. We don’t WANT these countries to hate us. We are tapped out on $$$ to fight any more wars!
The last 8 years have made us into Yankee Devils overseas. Obama is the ONLY one who can change that. McCain will not change it. He’s a war-monger who’s living in the last century.

Posted by: mavisdarling | September 27, 2008, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm

pigs dont fly—–THEY WEAR LIPSTICK

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm

Can you Believe Palin – she answered another scripted but she didn’t realize that “DEMS” have said it all along. Just Dumb…Hell all we can do now is just laugh when Palin speaks… I can’t wait to Oct 2nd – Don’t drink but I will try so I be on the floor just laughing instead of crying…. How sad!
.
Sarah Palin suggests United States might go into Pakistan if it meant capturing suspected al Qaeda members.
McCain has shown poor & reckless judgment w picking Saraaaah – but please do not get rid of her…. This has been a very interesting last 4 weeks. Each day we are greeted with something from the McCain Camp trying to clean up this mess…. I love this reality show.

Posted by: meetoo8 | September 27, 2008, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm

Calling someone “John” now and then certainly isn’t as disrespectful as making faces and snickering when they’re talking. And not looking at them even once in the debate.
I think it says alot for people to wait in the rain and mud to hear Obama and Biden.
Palin has zero foreign policy, admit it. You guys say Obama is less experienced, but from hearing him last night, he clearly demonstrated a deep understanding of foreign policy. He would wipe the floor with Palin-and McCain- who doesn’t know that the Ayatollah Khomeini’s descendents are the ones considered to have great moral authority in Iran.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 27, 2008, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm

To rodney,
I don’t have anything against you. Just disagreed with you on your position.
There is no need for that kind of ref. to Mariann. It shows that you are IMMATURE. You certainly can disagree with her as your right, but don’t marginalize yourself with petty remarks.

Posted by: Voter In America | September 27, 2008, 10:46 pm 10:46 pm

Voter in America: Please cite references for your numbers and perhaps include comparisons to McCain.
For a real analysis, please see:
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 10:46 pm 10:46 pm

mccain, do you prefer boxers or briefs?
mccain: Depends

Posted by: pt | September 27, 2008, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm

MAVIS
the last 8 years the chinese have grown to love us –and our jobs—bushes loan company

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm

I JUST SAW A PIG SOARING OVER MY HOUSE HERE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE!
See ya McCain!

Posted by: Dave in VA | September 27, 2008, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm

Those same McCain/Palin supporters today Bush twice. They are as guilty as Bush for this mess. Come to your sense on Nov. 4 or you guys are really hopeless. McCain would be worse than Bush. Bush has his dad at least. McCain has Palin.

Posted by: leighg1 | September 27, 2008, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm

voter ask her about the one uter cow—the one with testicles—-this is her words—–dont get mad at me.

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm

Those same McCain/Palin supporters today Bush twice. They are as guilty as Bush for this mess. Come to your sense on Nov. 4 or you guys are really hopeless. McCain would be worse than Bush. Bush has his dad at least. McCain has Palin.

Posted by: leighg1 | September 27, 2008, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm

Very nice McCain,
Let’s continue having China to pick up the tab in Iraq. The number is running to the trillions, already, a few billion dollars here and there isn’t much. The interest will probably just baout make it two trillion, not much of an increase.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 27, 2008, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm

To Concerned American,
WSJ.

Posted by: Voter In America | September 27, 2008, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm

grey matter
that is most likely why china is developing oil fields in iraq and getting the oil out of there.

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm

WOW, Obama’s poll numbers just keep going up!!
Looks like the Palin VP pick, the Debate, McCain’s fake campaign suspension and then messing up the bailout deal in Washington didn’t help McNasty one bit!!!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html

Posted by: Davis | September 27, 2008, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm

Anyone who believes that so called trickle-down economics works has either not been paying attention or simply refuses to believe the reality history has shown us. The term ‘trickle-down’ was first coined by Republican President Hover to describe his tax policy of tax cuts for the wealthy. The policy was implemented in order to solve economic problems of the previous few years, however wound up increasing debt and triggering the greatest economic depression in history.
Most people point to former President Regan and hist “Reaganomics” policy of large tax cuts for the wealthy. In reality, under Regan, the U.S. experienced the largest jump in federal deficit in history, totaling more than all debt incurred from past presidents combined. Under Regan, debt increased an average of 13.8% per year, and was increasing by 17% by the end of his term. During his term, the debt jumped from just under $1 trillion to over $2.6 trillion.
President Bush Sr. continued these policies, until near the end of his term, when working with democrats in Congress was able to raise taxes in order to reduce debt, slowing the growth rate to 11% by the end of his term.
Clinton took office, and by the end of his term, had produced a balanced budget, increased revenue and brought about the greatest non-wartime economic expansion in U.S. History.
We have all seen what current President Bush II has done. Within his first year in office, he rose debt $133 billion due to his tax cuts. His second round of tax cuts set a record for the biggest single yearly dollar increase in debt in the nation’s history. As a result of this economic policy, debt has increased an average of $1.5 billion per day since the beginning of 2002.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm

Mariann, I got news for YOU sweetie.
Nobody of any morals or substance pays attention to people like you. You are racist and it OOOZES out of every sentence you write. Kind of creepy, really.
I will tell you what you DO have:
You have ONE MEASLY vote. And you can vote for whoever you dang well want to.
But the majority of people in this country are NOT racist, and you will see that soon enough.
Obama is the color of the world, honey child.
Obama is THE ONE!
OBAMA/BIDEN ’08 and BEYOND!

Posted by: mavisdarling | September 27, 2008, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm

mavis
thanks

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 10:58 pm 10:58 pm

rodney,
Great for pointing that out. Most of us think that Bush jumped in so he could access to the oil, right? That would be some “recoupment” of our “investment” (more like flushing money down the toilet).
Oh now what shall we do if there’s no oil for us to get? What sense is there staying in Iraq when THEY want us to get lost anyway? Iraq, Iraq, Iraq!
Coz’ Bin Laden and Petraeus says thats where the terror front is! Number one, WOULD you BELIEVE Osama? Obviously he’d like to send us on a wild goose chase. Petraeus? I thought he acknowledged it otherwise?

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 27, 2008, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm

ISN’T IT FUNNY THAT McCAIN “SUSPENDED HIS CAMPAIGN UNTIL AN AGREEMENT WAS REACHED”, THEN HE WHEN BACK ON HIS WORD AND FLIP FLOPPED YET AGAIN, FLEW TO MISSISSIPPI TO LOSE IN THE DEBATE, AND THEN HIS CAMPIAGN ADVISORS SAID TODAY:
McCAIN CAN GET HIS WORK DONE BY PHONE.
Hahahahahahaha
GOP meltdown! McCain looks is an irratic DRAMA QUEEN. What a fool.

Posted by: Can You Say Grandstanding? | September 27, 2008, 11:00 pm 11:00 pm

Please don’t mention “Reaganomics” because of him – I have to wait additional 10 years before I retire…

Posted by: meetoo8 | September 27, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm

– To Concerned American, WSJ. –
Sorry, can’t find any analysis or comparison of the two tax plans except ones pointing to the tax policy center..
All I was able to find was a couple of op-ed ‘opinion’ pieces. For the analysis all are pointing to, which is the most complete analysis (and up to date), please see:
http://www.taxpolicycenter.com/

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm

grey matter
another NAM—something mccain should be well aware of—-

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm

Brenda, you say Obama is an arrogant twit, so he is arrogant because he is well educated. I guess you think he should be subservant to you becuae you are not that educated. so what if he is a mulatto, I’m not voting for him because of his color, as the majority of you all that are not voting for him because of his color. Can we just take race out the picture. I don’t see anybody saying anything about Sarah Pain being arrogant she did go to 6 colleges, even though they were only community college.
The only reason mcpain was a pow is because he probably was sleeping with the enemy. hence, his military record being closed. Military records falls under open records act.
oh i can see you under that sheet, you can’t hide

Posted by: von | September 27, 2008, 11:05 pm 11:05 pm

Rodney, I know! And who’s gonna buy up all the foreclosed houses across our country?
Foreigners. The Chinese in particular.
That’s why we need to get along with foreign countries. Everyone wants a piece of America and right now it’s a BUYER’S MARKET!!
No lie. So get used to it. Other countries are going to own us. We won’t be a hot-damn super power anymore.
And this mess was brought to you by the people who profited the most from a de-regulated Wall Street: Bush and McCain and the rest of the greedy b@st@rd$.
I’m sorry, but I don’t think Palin and her sugar daddy are going to be able to handle this mess. At least Obama is friends with Warren Buffett. Warren can give him advice on economics.

Posted by: mavisdarling | September 27, 2008, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm

I just got home from this rally. It was AMAZING. So many people standing around in the pouring rain, waiting for hours for the chance to see history in the making. It was especially great to see them after Obama’s stellar performance in the debate last night. I was so proud of him and all of the people who want to work with him to make this country better.
GO OBAMA-BIDEN!

Posted by: Leia in DC | September 27, 2008, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm

I am truly stunned at some of the drivel I have read on these posts. “Obama called McCain by his first name and the press didn’t pick up on it.” Err, Hello? The nature of these debates is that the candidates are supposed to interact on a personal basis, and the use of a first name has always been encouraged in previous campaigns.
“Obama kept saying he agreed with McCain.” Well if candidates cannot agree on certain issues to a degree, then God help us. it is only natural to hvae a common consensus on some things, and Obama made the point several times he agreed with the end goal, but disagreed with the path to get there.
John on the other hand kept saying “Obama just doesn’t understand.” A hundred million Americans just don’t understand either then. What John means is if you do not agree with him on EVERYTHING, you are stupid.
If the country didn’t have such a racist bigot problem Obama would be ahead by a mile. Every one of our allies feels Obama is the only person they trust to improve our standings overseas. Our image has been battered by 8 years of Bush and his warmongering. Our healthcare system is a disgrace. We don’t even get into the top 50 globally in health care provision. Even Costa Rica beats us!
But you don’t see health insurance companies collapsing like the financial firms are doing. Why is that? Oh yes, it’s because billions that should be going to healthcare are going to their profits. Next time you are sick, jump on a plane to Europe where it is all free on demand, the care is far superior to ours, and costs a fraction of the money annually we are forced to pump into ours.
It’s time to wake up America. Remove our racially tinted glasses, and put the man in control that is our only hope of salvation right now.
We have become the laughing stock of the world, and the howls of laughter grew a whole lot louder when Palin got put on the ticket. The VP debate is going to be the best comedy we will see for years. I don’t like to belittle people, but if you think Sarah has what it takes, then you, like her, really are an idiot.
If there is a God and he is listening to the country, and we are not condemned eternally, Obama will surely win.
If you intend to vote Republican “because my daddy did and his daddy before him” then you deserve a rotten next four years. Bollocks to your pappy, think about the issues the country faces, and who got usd in the mess to start with, and vote with your own brain.
I pray for the day when votes are cast by computer because John doesn’t know how to use one, and most of the sheep who intend to vote for him probably can’t either.

Posted by: Ian | September 27, 2008, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm

Exactly.
What put me off was how he made it seemed like we must “win”. Oh, will he be ashamed of our soldiers who come home, some with broken or missing limbs, some missing their sight or hearing, tomorrow then, because they didn’t “win”?
To keep fighting for the sake of simply “making a sacrifice worth it” is a poor justification. I would rather send them to Afghanistan where they would actually be hunting down bin Laden. Any sacrifices there, we can be sure, would have been worth it. McCain goes on on his talk about genocide and how he helped condemn it and blahblah, well MCCAIN what HAVE you THOUGHT about SUDAN? Where there is a GENOCIDE going on now? Obama has. He has collaborated in a book about it, he has written reports urging intervention with fellow colleagues.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 27, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

RE: WSJ Poll
As of 7:30 pst
McCain 58.3% (91,000 votes)
Obama 38.5% (60,000 votes)
Nice try Obamabots. Lie and distort. It’s all you have left. You boy lost. Big time. Especially when he couldn’t remember the name of solider whose bracelet he CLAIMS he wears. ROFL! I’m sure the mother of that solider has to wonder why she even bothered to give that bracelet to someone who obiviously could care less. And I’m quite sure the men and women wearing the uniform were quite impressed by Obama’s ‘touching concern’ for one of the fallen brave. NOT! Then there is the fact that Obama basically said “John is absolutely right” nine times. Seems Obama is following the advice Guiliana gave at the RNC convention, “I have some advice for Senator Obama: Next time, call John McCain” LOL! Come Nov. 4th 41 states will go for McCain, and Virginia will be one of them.
Oh, and cling to your illusions while you can:
Drudge: 360,000 votes: McCain 68% Obama 30%
Fox: 60,000 votes: McCain 52% Obama 48%
AOL: 519,000 votes McCain 45% Obama 42%
MSNBC: 127,000 votes Obama 79% McCain 15% (hmmm, fair and balanced? NOT!)
Total it up and out of a over million votes: McCain 49.5% Obama 42.7%.
Spin away Obamabots!

Posted by: RHFrei | September 27, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

HEY REPUBLICANS!!
Can you give us your take on the Palin interview on CBS with Katie Couric ?
We are all interested in your opinion on that one. How do you think she did?
I heard her next interview will be on that show “Are you smarter than a 5th grader.”
All bets are on whether she can make it to the second round!!!

Posted by: Davis | September 27, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

von thanks—–i thought i was the only one aware of mccains military records—–and i do know a lot more—

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

A great night for Sen and future President John S. McCain. Obama looked green as McCain showed his wisdom. An easy victory for McCain and November 4th will be even easier. Congratulations President McCain we look forward to your leadership.

Posted by: Don | September 27, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html

Posted by: wordtothewise | September 27, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

rover, that WSJ poll….
you turned the outcome around; check again -
58% said that MCCAIN won!
LOL
Yeh, I was going to say she was also wrong,
because these greedy idiots also helped get us
in this mess!

Posted by: spacerook1 | September 27, 2008, 11:09 pm 11:09 pm

– And who’s gonna buy up all the foreclosed houses across our country? –
I’m trying my best.. but I can only buy so many of them. And the problem is that most are overvalued, owe more than the house is worth and have no equity. Good investments for long term, really bad for short term.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

RHFrei,
Hmmm, WSJ, FOX, Drudge and AOL….
What you can’t think of anymore right wing conservative web sites to get your poll numbers from?

Posted by: Davis | September 27, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

UTTERLY SHAMELESS, MCCAIN/PALIN.
Pimping out your daughter?
“McCain camp prays for Palin wedding”
The marriage of the vice-presidential candidate’s pregnant teenage daughter could lift a flagging campaign
Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.”
COUNTRY FIRST?

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 27, 2008, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm

Voter In America: I just got through making a statement about Obama and Nancy Pelosi. I can’t wait until the republicans take over the house so Nancy can step down and Reid can retire. This is the worst democratic congress ever in all my years of voting. I am voting for McCain not Obama. I am positive that if elected Obama will put this country into another 1929 depression due to the fact he cannot, repeat, cannot run this country, its too big for him.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone
***************************
Too late for that, your fearless leader
Bush already has us there. Great job Hoover II

Posted by: spacerook1 | September 27, 2008, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm

Leia in DC
Just saw it on the local news here in Charlottesville. Said there were 26,000 there. But you know how “biased” and “liberal” these central VA TV stations are :).
Glad you got to go!
OBAMA 08!

Posted by: Dave in Cville | September 27, 2008, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm

Those same McCain/Palin supporters today Bush twice. They are as guilty as Bush for this mess. Come to your sense on Nov. 4 or you guys are really hopeless. McCain would be worse than Bush. Bush has his dad at least. McCain has Palin.

Posted by: leighg1 | September 27, 2008, 11:14 pm 11:14 pm

Hey Davis can you tell us how Biden did in his interviews? Let me see, so FDR was president in 1929 and went on TV to explain things? Talk about smarter than a 5th grader. I asked my 4th grader if he thought there was television in 1929 and he said “no”. So Sorry Davis but your VP pick is much dumber than a 4th grader. Or he is just a liar. I guess when he plagarized his papers in college (it’s true look it up) or when he stole his speeches (again true) he wasn’t doing it because he was lazy, he was doing it because he was too dumb to write them himself.
and you have the gaul to insult Palin??? ROTFLMAO….
Now let me ask my child if he thinks there are 57 or more states and I am sure that we can prove that he is smarter than Obama as well.
McCain is our next president. Thank God :)

Posted by: Don | September 27, 2008, 11:14 pm 11:14 pm

Those same McCain/Palin supporters today voted for Bush twice. They are as guilty as Bush for this mess. Come to your sense on Nov. 4 or you guys are really hopeless. McCain would be worse than Bush. Bush has his dad at least. McCain has Palin.

Posted by: leighg1 | September 27, 2008, 11:14 pm 11:14 pm

mavis—the sad part is that most here dont realize what is happening—–massive trade imbalance—-billions going into iraq—hundreds of thousands of jobs gone or going overseas—opec sucking the blood out of us —and people worry about obamas color—this is becoming a very sick country.

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 11:15 pm 11:15 pm

– if elected Obama will put this country into another 1929 depression due to the fact he cannot, repeat, cannot run this country, its too big for him. –
That is the silliest stuff I’ve ever heard.. McCain is the one who wants to continue the trickle down economic plans of the last 8 years, the same ones that triggered the ’29 depression. Read a history book man!

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:15 pm 11:15 pm

Hey Don,
I suppose Palin is smarter? She thinks Putin will try to go to Alaska, then trudge all the way through Canada to “get” us?
Please. Biden: Head of Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Faced down dictators and conflicts.
Biden will wipe the floor with her.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 27, 2008, 11:15 pm 11:15 pm

– and you have the gaul to insult Palin??? ROTFLMAO…. –
Yeah, she is the one who said she had foreign policy experience because Russian leaders fly over Alaska when they come to the US, isn’t it?
Get over it, vote on issues, not BS.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

I love all these people making fun of McCain for suspending his campaign. They, who worship at the altar of Obama, cannot even fathom someone putting the country first, someone who decides that the economic crisis is more important that an election. Obama would never dream of doing that since he thinks he is God and all things should stop to accomodate him. You want him for your president? Then be prepared for the worst 4 years since Jimmy Carter and maybe the worst 4 years in History. You Obama Kool Aid drinkers are fools.

Posted by: Jim | September 27, 2008, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm

Concerned American,
Precisely. While Putin certainly is no angel, people usually try not to got out of the way to insult each other in diplomatic relations, especially a country like Russia, with whom a war with would be disastrous.
I don’t think Putin appreciates being liked to some sort of animal or a fugitive. (When Putin decides to rear up his head, anyone?)

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 27, 2008, 11:20 pm 11:20 pm

jim
the last 8 years are all yours–take them please

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 11:21 pm 11:21 pm

– They, who worship at the altar of Obama, cannot even fathom someone putting the country first, –
And please, please tell us how exactly did he do that? He doesn’t even have a hand in the plan.. He ditched Letterman saying he had to rush back to Washington only to go give an interview and didn’t leave until the next day. In the debate, he even admitted that he hasn’t seen the language of the bill.
Country first? More like a political trick to get people like you to believe what you just said.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm

Yes Palin is much smarter. She mentioned that she was governor in a state that had a foreign risk..so what. I noticed that none of you can even mention the repeated foul ups of Joe Biden. What is your response to that? What is your excuse? Why does Biden speak matter-of-factly about things that are not true? Why does he believe that FDR was president at least 3 years before he was? Why does he believe that TV existed in 1929? Why did he drop out of the presidential race because of plagiarism? Why can you not respond to those truths?
I’ll tell you why…because your VP pick is the worst pick since Perot picked that Admiral, and you have no excuse.
Obama could have won if he wasn’t too afraid to pick Hillary. Now he has lost. But none of you will try to defend Biden because you can’t, you’ll only attack Palin and it won’t help.
Nice try Obamaites..drink a little more of your yummy Kool Aid and sleep away all the bad thoughts.

Posted by: Don | September 27, 2008, 11:24 pm 11:24 pm

– And are you aware of the fact that Palin drew 60,000 in Laky Lake, FL? –
That number comes from the GOP, not local officials who state it was more like 20-25,000.. but don’t fool yourself into thinking that they were there because she is so popular.. most were there because the GOP has done everything in their power to keep Americans from hearing her, and most want to find out what they are hiding (and if they aren’t hiding anything, then they sure are doing a good job making it look like they are).
Posted by: Concerned American
*********************************
Poor Sarah, probably didn’t have enough
free ice cream to draw in the crowd

Posted by: spacerook1 | September 27, 2008, 11:25 pm 11:25 pm

Since you Republicans like poll numbers, why don’t you try these on for size. These are polls where the actually call people. Instead of just letting people click on a web poll as MANY times as the like…
USA today/Gallup = Obama 52% McCain 35%
CNN Opinion Research = Obama 51% McCain 38%
CBS NEWS = Obama 39% McCain 24% Tie 37%

Posted by: Davis | September 27, 2008, 11:25 pm 11:25 pm

don you dont need to attack palin——SHE SAYS IT ALL BY HERSELF—-a little on the uneducated dipsy side

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 11:26 pm 11:26 pm

The peace of the world depends on the strength of America, and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations. It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.
Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html

Posted by: wordtothewise | September 27, 2008, 11:27 pm 11:27 pm

Hey Republicans, go read the real polls numbers and weep!!
WOW, Obama’s poll numbers just keep going up!!
Looks like the Palin VP pick, the Debate, McCain’s fake campaign suspension and then messing up the bailout deal in Washington didn’t help McNasty one bit!!!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html

Posted by: Davis | September 27, 2008, 11:27 pm 11:27 pm

– Why can you not respond to those truths? –
Because it has no bearing on the election or their positions.. And yet, you continue espousing:
“I’ll tell you why…because your VP pick is the worst pick since Perot picked that Admiral, and you have no excuse.”
You see! Biden has more experience in Congress than Palins little toe, and yet you claim that she is the best thing since sliced bread. Please tell me how? Please explain what she brings to the table should she be elected? Please tell me why the GOP won’t let her talk or give Americans the opportunity to get to know her? Please explain how you could even begin to compare her to Biden or any other member of Congress. Get over it dude.. stick to the issues, not “lipstick on a pig” crap that has no bearing on them.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:29 pm 11:29 pm

– And are you aware of the fact that Palin drew 60,000 in Laky Lake, FL? –
That number comes from the GOP, not local officials who state it was more like 20-25,000.. but don’t fool yourself into thinking that they were there because she is so popular.. most were there because the GOP has done everything in their power to keep Americans from hearing her, and most want to find out what they are hiding (and if they aren’t hiding anything, then they sure are doing a good job making it look like they are).
Posted by: Concerned American
*********************************
Poor Sarah, probably didn’t have enough
free ice cream to draw in the crowd

Posted by: spacerook1 | September 27, 2008, 11:29 pm 11:29 pm

Hey Concerned American, are you going to paraphrase everything from the Democratic handbook and do you have an original thought? He skipped Letterman? Wow, what a tradgedy, the man who wants to run our country didn’t feel like cracking jokes during the worst economic crisis since Jimmy Carter had his liberal stupidity in the Whitehouse. Heaven forefend. How dare you not go to Letterman. Obviously it is much more important for McCain to do stand up than to perform his duties as a senator and help the Republicans get a grip on the plan.
And you say he had nothing to do with the plan? Were you in the room? No? Then you must be omnipotent..lol.
The Democrats begged McCain for help and then lied when he showed up claiming they had a plan in place. They got caught in their lie and looked like fools. McCain is a leader in his party and helped them just like he will help lead this country. Drink your Kool Aid though…everything will be OK.

Posted by: Jim | September 27, 2008, 11:29 pm 11:29 pm

– triumph of terrorism –
Isn’t it amazing how people keep spouting this stuff, when in reality we have spent billions and billions of dollars running this country into the ground over, according to the CIA, what amounts to a total of less individuals than those living in Wassila?

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

Haha, you know, I watch Palin not because I like her. It’s like gawking at a trainwreck.
Eh, come on. Palin won’t be able to deal with dictators if something happends to McCain if she can’t even face the “liberal, biased media”. Ahmadinejad is not going to be as nice.
Please, Biden makes small gaffes. He will never make a gaffe insinuating at starting a Second Cold War (which may not be cold this time). Yes, yes, her words were misconstrued, right? But the way she speaks is dangerous for diplomacy anyway. She sounded too casual discussing a nuclear war.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 27, 2008, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

I’ll defend Biden. He is a very down-to-earth intelligent man with a world of experience and great foreign policy skills. Name me one political candidate in history who hasn’t mis-spoken or made a mistake at some time. Name ONE! As far as the bogus plagiarism charge goes, he used that same speech numerous times while acknowledging the author, and the one time he forgets to do it, the press jumps all over him and it ends his presidential run. I think that he has paid enough for that mistake. Biden will be one of the best VPs in history.

Posted by: Leia in DC | September 27, 2008, 11:32 pm 11:32 pm

Jim,
Here’s what happened.
He told Letterman he had to go back to DC. Letterman was like go ahead, it’s fine. UNTIL he heard from people during his show McCain was actually doing an interview with Couric, NOT BOARDING his plane to DC!
He also spoke at an event later, and was still in New York until Thursday evening!

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 27, 2008, 11:34 pm 11:34 pm

COncerned American… So the fact that a liar, plagiarist, and a man who knows nothing about American History wants to be VP has no bearing, but the fact that Palin mentions that she had to deal with Russia as a neighbor does?????
I think I proved my point…you cannot defend Biden because everything I said about him is true.
Just imagine if Palin was stupid enough to say the words that Biden spews out, you guys would be all over her. Thank God she is not. But we will see in the debates. Palin will wipe the floor with your imbecile, unless of course he fakes a health problem and backs out, which is what I am sure you are all secretly wishing.
P.S. Still no defense of Biden…just as I said.

Posted by: DOn | September 27, 2008, 11:34 pm 11:34 pm

Jim,
I wasn’t that McCain “skipped Letterman” it was that he LIED to Letterman about it!
McCain said he had to catch a plane immediately to Washington, but then he did another interview on CBS and stayed in New York until the next morning…
Don’t you Republicans get it? It is the CONSTANT LYING by the McCain campaign that is the real problem here – they lie when the don’t even have to, and EVERYONE SEES IT!!!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | September 27, 2008, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm

Jimbo, you apparently missed the point.. he was running around flapping his wings screaming about the sky falling and how he was going to suspend his campaign and rush to Washington to ‘fix’ everything. In reality, he had little to do with any ‘fix’, and didn’t rush right off to Washington to do so. So, yes, it was a stunt and apparently many people fell for it, such as you.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm

grey matter
when the spout fighting russia——i get this uncontrollable urge to build a fallout shelter.–yikes

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm

lEIA, Bogus charges? Biden admited that he did it in college and then dropped out of the race. How can that be bogus?

Posted by: jOSEPH | September 27, 2008, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm

– P.S. Still no defense of Biden…just as I said. –
Still no defense of Palin..
PS: Biden has already explained his position, and given his reasons.
Palin has yet to say a word.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm

i have to go
but i wish mccain had picked paris –i could go to sleep thinking of her washing my car—-my my my

Posted by: rodney | September 27, 2008, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm

rodney,
You may have to, if McCain/Palin win.
I thought McCain even then would be an improvement from Bush, but now Bush seems actually good in comparison.
Bush certainly didn’t throw so many Hail Marys, pull so many political stunts and certainly picked a running mate who had better foreign policy credentials. And certainly did not threaten not to show up for his debate with Al Gore.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 27, 2008, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm

Concerned American,
you are exactly the fool that Americans should be concerned about. “Kool Aid.” You racist sh*tbag. Think with your brain, not your racially tinted eyes. You are a disgrace.

Posted by: Ian | September 27, 2008, 11:39 pm 11:39 pm

McCain gave Letterman an excuse. He didn’t want to be funny during a crisis. If you think that is bad, then I am not going to try to talk you out of it, I personally don’t think its a big deal to skip the show and give an excuse.
You want to talk lying look at Biden making up stories to try and prove his point.
Look at Obama claiming that he didn’t know his 20 year spiritual advisor’s politics.
Look at Obama lying about the NAFTA meeting in Canada.
Look at Obama claiming he never studied the Koran.
Look at Obama claiming that he is not racist and then speaking of the typical white person.
The list goes on and on.
Obama/Biden Liar/Liar
McCain/Palin Leadership

Posted by: Jim | September 27, 2008, 11:40 pm 11:40 pm

Palin had to deal with the Russians? Hahahahahaha! Quote me one example.

Posted by: Ian | September 27, 2008, 11:43 pm 11:43 pm

Jim,
Then why was he still in town to interview with Couric at the time where he would’ve been on Letterman? And didn’t leave New York until Thursday? He had said he needed to “Rush back to DC right away”
That’s the issue.
The world doesn’t want McCain to win. You wonder why? Maybe because they saw his behaviour, which was shown amply on the debate. Treating people you don’t agree with with contempt. Eager to continue the “Us vs Them” mentality. Eager to label people “Axis of Evil”.
That was last used to refer to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan during the Second World War. Nice.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 27, 2008, 11:43 pm 11:43 pm

Ian. Nice post. You have no defense for your mindless Obama love so you call someone (the wrong person by the way) a racist.
It doesn’t matter that Obama has the failed policies of Carter in mind, that he wants to overtax us, that he has no idea how to win a war and doesn’t want to anyway, that he blames America for everyone on Earths problems…All that matters to you is that you are too stupid to defend him so you have to swear and call people racists. I am sure the Liberal media will be calling us all racists on Nov 5th when Obama is forced to go back and have to learn to be a Senator for once.

Posted by: Don | September 27, 2008, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

Well, Bristol and Levi wedding could shut down the race if it’s ever revealed that Palin is the Grandmother of “Trig” and this is “Bristol’s” 2nd child but not “Levi’s”… Now that will shut down the race…. LoL
and…the stunts and saga’s continue..LoL

Posted by: meetoo8 | September 27, 2008, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

Sorry, bogus was perhaps the wrong word. As for the college “plagiarism” charge, it was merely a matter of incorrectly citing a source, not wholesale stealing another author’s work. I just finished my thesis, and believe me, getting all the citation rules straight is no easy task, as there are tons of different ones. It was a minor mistake. If it had been a serious charge of plagiarism, he would never have gotten his degree or had it revoked.
The charge that caused him to drop out of the race was for “stealing” someone else’s speech, despite the fact that he had given that speech many times before while admitting who the real author was.
As for the idea that he “knows nothing about American history,” what a crock. Can anyone here on this board cite every fact about American history from memory w/o making a mistake? Highly doubtful.

Posted by: Leia in DC | September 27, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

McCain/Palin stupid/stupider.

Posted by: Mike | September 27, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

AAh I see the GOP staffers are out tonight. Just to let y’all know, this is what happened. Obama held his own against McCain. That is all he needed to do. I was hoping McCain would actually do better than he did but alas… he came across as bitter.

Posted by: revhillbilly | September 27, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

– McCain gave Letterman an excuse. He didn’t want to be funny during a crisis. –
No, that wasn’t until after Letterman told what really happened.
– Look at Obama claiming that he didn’t know his 20 year spiritual advisor’s politics. –
Neither do I.. since I slept through most of ‘em anyway.. what a non-issue
– Look at Obama lying about the NAFTA meeting in Canada. –
Please provide specifics..
– Look at Obama claiming he never studied the Koran. –
So have I.. and many other ‘religious’ scripts. Some people actually go to school to study theology.. amazing! Again – another non-issue.
– Look at Obama claiming that he is not racist and then speaking of the typical white person. –
Hmm, you mean like some who talk about the ‘typical black person’, or ‘typical mexican’, or ‘typical new yorker’?
Again – a non-issue, yet it does show a great deal as to why you are really opposed to Obama, and apparently has nothing to do with real issues.
The list goes on and on.
Yeah.. it does on both sides when you want to look at BS.. nothing changes, but the content of the Roveian tactics fear and ignorance card.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:47 pm 11:47 pm

Grey Matter,
Now McCain is a Nazi? Wow you guys really are desperate. Call us racist call us Nazis all because you man doesn’t represent our beliefs. You know what else reminds me of Nazism? Trying to crush all oppositional thinking. Believing in one man even though he has never proven that he can lead. Blind faith in a leader.
McCain had a serious interview with Couric instead of a stand up routine on the night of a serious American crisis and you want to paint that as a bad thing???? Wow, the desperation is palpable.

Posted by: Jim | September 27, 2008, 11:48 pm 11:48 pm

I do believe that most of the bloggers are either paid or volunteers for Obama & Biden, so if you are uncommitted, pay no attention to their nonsense. I fully expect one to stated that raining on Obama & Biden’s parade was caused by McCann and Palin. If you want the facts, there are still a few newspapers who report the news and not THEIR opinions on how you should think; there are some good weekly news magazines also. As far as TV news, most are controlled by the radical liberals just like the communist control their newspapers. America is getting to be a difficult place in which to live. Will it soon be called The Socialist States of America?

Posted by: Henry Dennison | September 27, 2008, 11:49 pm 11:49 pm

The weather doesn’t make people catch cold.

Posted by: Andrew Austin | September 27, 2008, 11:49 pm 11:49 pm

– Concerned American,
you are exactly the fool that Americans should be concerned about. “Kool Aid.” You racist sh*tbag –
Excuse me? My voting for Obama makes me a racist?

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:49 pm 11:49 pm

– Blind faith in a leader. –
That would be called organized religion

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm

Obama wins debate over here by 2 to 1 margin…. Macain looks old and grumpy, sounds angry and incoherent. Obama looks good, sounds smart and prepared. \
***********8
Obama wins the debate.

Posted by: Europe Calling | September 27, 2008, 11:52 pm 11:52 pm

Concerned American,
Hmm, you mean like some who talk about the ‘typical black person’, or ‘typical mexican’, or ‘typical new yorker’?
YES..Thank you for proving my point. When Obama spoke of the typical white person it was EXACTLY the same as those racist remarks you quoted. Thank you for finally agreeing that Obama is a racist. I am glad you came around.

Posted by: Jim | September 27, 2008, 11:52 pm 11:52 pm

I laughed in the debate when Obama called John “tom” a couple of times. If he can’t figure out that name, god help up on the foreign names
Posted by: democrate4McCain | Sep 27, 2008 9:45:44 PM
Well if you would have noticed, McCain could even pronounce Iran’s President’s name; Ahmadinejad. Did he just learn the name. He sounded like Daffy Duck on prozac.

Posted by: lanawonders | September 27, 2008, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm

Isn’t it great that all foreign nations support Obama? Personally I love it. Foreign countries fear strong leadership in America, they don’t want us to be a superpower any longer, so they support the weakest link and Obama/Biden certainly fit that definition…Weak/Weaker.

Posted by: Don | September 27, 2008, 11:55 pm 11:55 pm

Don,
I know the policies of the last eight years have not been so good. Anyone who wants another four has to be pretty stupid. I don’t care where they come from, racist comments are not welcome anytime and there are far too many of them.
FYI I do not have blind love for Obama, but I can see this country is not where it should be both at home and its perception from overseas. Why do our 22 allies all favour Obama? I mean all 22, including the Spanish prime Minister who John seems to think might be an enemy.
We should care about what is right for the country, its people, its allies and think about moving forward. If I believed John was the man I would vote for him. I believe he could do an OK job, but I am seriously concerned for our future if anything happened to him and his mindless puppet had to take over. Then we would be screwed.

Posted by: Ian | September 27, 2008, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm

It’s ridiculous to think that a man who was raised by his white mother and white grandparents is racist against white people. He never speaks with anything other than pride and gratitude for his mother and grandparents.

Posted by: Leia in DC | September 27, 2008, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm

– Thank you for finally agreeing that Obama is a racist. I am glad you came around. –
Too funny jimbo.. I guess I’m not just one of them ‘typical americans’ who refuses to buy into the party line and instead votes for whats best for the country. Still haven’t heard a single real issue from you and where you stand, but I guess you _are_ one of them ‘typical Americans’.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 27, 2008, 11:57 pm 11:57 pm

This is what I don’t understand about the GOP staffers who squat on these blogs. Don’t you realize that using cut and paste posts over and over repeating the same lies that have been disproved over and over only shows who you are. It’s like a big blinking neon sign pointing to your posts that says;
“So biased and ignorant I must be getting paid for being here.”

Posted by: revhillbilly | September 27, 2008, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm

I was there for this. So what if I got a little wet and had to wait for about 5 hours? Dead Fred is my hometown and there couldn’t be anything better to happen to us.

Posted by: the buzz | September 28, 2008, 12:01 am 12:01 am

– Isn’t it great that all foreign nations support Obama? –
Yes it is.. Bush has done everything in his power to alienate our former allies, and our foreign policy the last 8 years has been one of military force instead of working with them. McCain I’m afraid will continue down the same road.
As proved over and over again in history, we need to keep our friends abroad, and it will be a huge task to get them back to the same relationships we had before Dubba.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 12:01 am 12:01 am

Ian,
That is a much better answer than the race card you played earlier. I respect your decision to vote your heart, but I disagree and believe that McCain is not a continuation of Bush, but Obama is definitely a continuation of Carter…now that’s scary.
Leia,
Obama threw his own grandmother under the bus and called her a racist…he mentioned that in the same sentence as the typical white person remark. He also mentioned that all white people are afraid of Black people (something Jesse Jackson has also spewed out). I think it is absolutley plausible for a man raised by white women to be racially confused and to become racist. Read his book, the whole thing is like a story of him searching for his racial identity. His wife feels the same way with her racial papers and comments. His CHOSEN preacher is definitely anti-white. The man has severe confusion and as Palin said the Presidency is not a position for a man who is still searching for himself. McCain knows exactly who he is and is a leader. Obama is not..at least not yet.

Posted by: Don | September 28, 2008, 12:03 am 12:03 am

Jim,
Can you even read my post properly?
I was saying MCCAIN was TOO EAGER to label different countries as “enemies” or “allies”. Bush had used the terms “Axis of Evil” when he decided to jump into Iraq- a reference to what Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were referred to during the Second World War.
He could have just told Letterman the truth, that would be better. McCain came across as trying to score political points. Look, McCain is not on the Senate Banking Committee, nor is he a majority leader needed to break a tie. He actually didn’t contribute anything, and the congressmen said he helped scuttle the talks by refusing to take a stand after coming down to DC.
He is a presidential candidate. NOT the President. He has obligations to speak to American people, he can fly back to DC later if he wanted to, no need to cancel the debate.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 28, 2008, 12:03 am 12:03 am

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news...
How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis

Posted by: Hostile Knowledge | September 28, 2008, 12:06 am 12:06 am

JIM: “mexican” is not a race neither is ‘typical new yorker”

Posted by: revhillbilly | September 28, 2008, 12:07 am 12:07 am

Concerned,
You have heard my reasons for disliking Obama, you just choose not to see them.
By the way, there is no such thing as a Typical American, but I guess you wouldn’t find anything offensive about that remark, you are too intent on claiming that Obama’s talking about the Typical White Person is not offensive.
I find that lumping people together by race, color, or creed is inherently bad. My Candidate has never done that, I wish your’s didn’t, but alas it is too late, he already has.

Posted by: Jim | September 28, 2008, 12:08 am 12:08 am

Poor Obama. He’s in for a REAL downfall on November 4th!!
Can’t wait!!
And memo to Obama: Life WILL go on without you and we’ll be just fine, thank you very much….
:)

Posted by: Jo | September 28, 2008, 12:08 am 12:08 am

revhillbilly,
Typical New Yorker is a derogatory term against Jews, of which I am one (half anyway). And I was quoting from Concerned Americans post, that was not mine.

Posted by: Jim | September 28, 2008, 12:09 am 12:09 am

Concession speech? LOL You keep on riding that train over that bridge to nowhere hon LOL and we will see you in November.
OBAMA 08

Posted by: Debbie | September 28, 2008, 12:11 am 12:11 am

I know is that if Obama is elected president it means that the decent,
good, moralistic people in this country are outnumbered by aggresive,
filthy-mouthed, evil, immoral, ungodly, live-for-yourself, angry people
- if the liberal democrats that have just posted reviews are a
reflection of the liberal democrats who are voting nationwide for their
‘savior’, Obama. That is a national tragedy! But maybe that’s what
their definition of ‘change’ is all about. They are endorsing the
silent message: let’s turn America into a free-for-all…lets all live
like animals and have sex whenever we want it with no consequences
because we can abort the fetus…marry our dogs if we want to…say
F-you whenever or to whomever we want…and don’t nobody dare to tell
us what to do. The irony is that most of you guys are so angry because
you come from homes that are split up, have siblings that were murdered
by your mothers when she aborted them and have fried your brains on
drugs and alcohol. Many of you are angry because you’re gay and inside
are ashamed of the perverted things you do. Whens the last time you
did anything decent, helped someone or put your needs behind the needs
of someone else? I don’t want to live in a country with angry, evil
people who are bent on getting even and always on the defensive and
always wanting their own way. I don’t want to live under a dictator who
calls all the shots and tells me my money has to go towards the murder
of innocent babies, gay benefits and many other things that make me
want to get sick to my stomach. I pray that people would wake up and
see that evil never is victorious in the end – no matter how appealing
it might seem at the time.

Posted by: hellinahandbasket | September 28, 2008, 12:11 am 12:11 am

McCain is the one who sees things in black and white.
He says thing about bombing Iran but forgets the millions of other Iranians who have no say in this issue.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 28, 2008, 12:13 am 12:13 am

Great medical advice in the last paragraph. Any f*cking idiot with a high school diploma should know that weather doesn’t cause illness. William Henry Harrison didn’t die from a cold, nor from anything he “caught” from being outside during his inauguration. Just like Obama isn’t likely to get sick from being caught in a rainshower when the temperature is in the 70s.

Posted by: David | September 28, 2008, 12:13 am 12:13 am

hellinahandbasket
Do you know what a Bigot is. Go look in a mirror.

Posted by: revhillbilly | September 28, 2008, 12:14 am 12:14 am

Debbie,
When will the Flower Garden to nowhere get reported? Obama gave a grant to a campaign volunteer who never made the garden. Then he paid money to a construction company that was created 3 weeks earlier by his wife, and still the garden was never made. Yet the media never reports it. Just like they glossed over the Rezco incidents. Obama is steeped in corrupt Chicago politics but no one seems to care that we have a candidate that is on the take.
I guessits the same way that they attack palin for every word she says but basically make excuses for Biden as he spouts lie after lie and makes mistale after mistake.
Its sad really that journalism is dead.

Posted by: Don | September 28, 2008, 12:14 am 12:14 am

Jim
Get real fool, go read the real polls numbers and weep!! All your arguments are just BS and LIES!
WOW, Obama’s poll numbers just keep going up!!
Looks like the Palin VP pick, the Debate, McCain’s fake campaign suspension and then messing up the bailout deal in Washington didn’t help McNasty one bit!!!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html

Posted by: Davis | September 28, 2008, 12:15 am 12:15 am

– You have heard my reasons for disliking Obama, you just choose not to see them. –
Yeah, you said you consider him a racist..
Even your candidate, John McCain doesn’t consider your example as one of being a racist.. when asked in an interview what he felt about the comment, McCain said:
“I think it was an important statement that he had to make at the time, and I think it was good for all of America to have heard it.”

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 12:15 am 12:15 am

Don,
I find it funny that you used the phrase “threw his own grandmother under the bus,” which is the exact same phrase several conservative bloggers have used to describe it. It kinda makes me wonder if you have read the book yourself (I have) or merely conservative reviewers’ responses about the book.
You know, my grandmother was an admitted racist. That didn’t mean I didn’t love her or have respect for her. I understood that she developed her perceptions of the world in a completely different time. Doesn’t mean I thought she was a bad person, only that she had some incorrect views that we need to work to change, which is basically what Obama was saying.
P.S. Being pro-black, like Rev. Wright does NOT mean you are anti-white.

Posted by: Leia in DC | September 28, 2008, 12:17 am 12:17 am

Because I know you won’t go look it up.
A bigot is a person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles, or identities differing from his or her own.

Posted by: revhillbilly | September 28, 2008, 12:17 am 12:17 am

– Just like they glossed over the Rezco incidents. –
Claim: Tony Rezco received “Political Favors” from Obama, including “$14 million from taxpayers”, and helped Obama purchase a home.
Fact: False/Misleading
Reality:
The $14 million quoted refers to a low-income housing project that Obama urged the city housing commissioner to support. The 97-unit Cottage View Terrace, which opened in 2002, was funded with taxpayer money, and Tony Rezko was involved in developing the project. The $14 million did not go into Rezkos pocket, it was the total for the entire project, and both men have stated that Obamas support was never solicited by Rezko.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/154782
In 2005, Obama and his wife bid on a house on the south side of Chicago. The owner was trying to sell a vacant lot adjacent to the property Obama was buying, and wanted the sales of the two to close on the same day. Obama mentioned buying the house to Rezko, and Rezkos wife wound up buying the vacant lot, allowing both to be sold on the same day.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/19/obamas-rezko-connection/
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/does_obama_have_a_real_estate_problem.html
In addition, Rezko was later convicted for fraud, however that occured well after Obama had purchased his home, and was in no way connected to it. After Obama learned about the conviction, he donated campaign contributions from Rezko and his associates to charity.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9054.html

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 12:19 am 12:19 am

A true lifelong democrate votes that way because the party represents the policies that they believe in.. Basically what you don’t wanna say is
…I can’t vote for the Black guy I would rather vote for the Old guy and the woman. I really don’t care about policies. my pocketbook, or the country…I know people choose who they will vote for, for different reasons. I just suggest this–vote with your mind= study for yourself the policies.. and ask yourself what will the candidate do for me and my family. Truthfully the choice is clear unless you are rich and own a Big business. But if you are middle class making less than $250,000 the republicans will not do much for you. IF you are a woman the republicans want to take away your right to choose and don’t want you to have equal pay. If anyone in your family is in a Union.. your happy days will be about over with another republican in office they want to do away with unions, If you are a vet — look at the republican record– they aren’t doing anything for you either. Elderly– ouch– young people — education is not a priority– lets be real and stop name calling… the truth of the matter is McCain wants to win and he has shown that he is willing to do and say whatever in order to do so. THe final straw for me was when he picked Palin. Women be real== open your eyes and look at the position he put her in.. Its very obvious that he did not vet her.. and its more obvious he chose her to excite his base- Women none of us like to be used and she is getting hers. We all know that he disrespects women– how could a man tell a joke about a woman getting raped and get this far in a campaign. Lets all take race and gender out of the equation. Truth be told if we want our Country to be respected we all need to step up to the plate and vote for Change. I know Obama/Biden are not perfect but they both will work for the people of this Country//… THey both will gain respect from other Countries..McCain/Palin will not bring respect to our nation. Other nations will look at us as a joke.. and GOd forbid if something were to happen to McCain and Palin became President… thats scarey..I do not want a President that will not be honest with people, would not defend herself in trooper gate and she said she was gonna be translucent. She hiding something and bring to much drama to the table. I am sure she is ok as a friend but not as a President. People wake up. Open your eyes and your minds and lets bring RESPECT and DIGNITY back to our nation. McCain cannot do it.. he has proven more than once that he is arogant and nobody knows anything how could he negotiate or debate with another country when he can not debate a fellow senator.. One key to having a conversation or debate with someone is to acknowledge that person and looking at them is a perfect way to do that.
I want Change— and I believe that this is the time for Obama/BIden 2008

Posted by: i count | September 28, 2008, 12:19 am 12:19 am

“…in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1964.” ‘scuse me? Dudes, Virginia’s current governor is a Democratic, and so is one of their senators. Do you even TRY to use real facts when you write, or do you just make everything up as you go along?

Posted by: Ezekiel | September 28, 2008, 12:20 am 12:20 am

People seem to forget that as much as Obama is of African descent, he is half-white too.
He was raised by his white mother and grandparents, they’re his family-why would he hate them or be anti-white? I see people of all colours at Obama’s rallies.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 28, 2008, 12:20 am 12:20 am

Just because McCain doesn’t think that Obama is a racist doesn’t mean that I have to agree. I also think that he subscribes to “Blame America first” politics. Any American sitting in a pew that could listen to the rants of Racist Rev Wright is not a lover of this country in my opinion. How could he not have walked out years ago? How could he subject his children to that way of thinking? How could he sip tea in the home of a man who bombed the pentagon? THE PENTAGON for God’s sake.
How could he do all this?
Read this article and tell me it doesn’t apply to Obama.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/the_blameamericafirst_crowd.html

Posted by: Jim | September 28, 2008, 12:21 am 12:21 am

revhillbilly
Expand your vocabulary
Morality
(from the latin moralitas “manner, character, proper behavior”) has three principal meanings.
In its first, descriptive usage, morality means a code of conduct held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong.

Posted by: hellinahandbasket | September 28, 2008, 12:23 am 12:23 am

Leia said
“You know, my grandmother was an admitted racist. That didn’t mean I didn’t love her or have respect for her…”
“Being pro-black, like Rev. Wright does NOT mean you are anti-white.”
Leia,
I am glad that you have such an easy time overlooking and excusing racism. I do not

Posted by: Don | September 28, 2008, 12:24 am 12:24 am

JUST FIVE MORE DAYS….
Then it is over for McSenile and his Republican henchmen…
I five days Sarah Palin gets up on Stage with Joe Biden in the VP debate.
I predict at around about the 60 minute mark that she is looking so foolish, uttering total gibberish, that she will run crying from the stage!
And that “My Friends” will be the end of the McCain campaign…
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | September 28, 2008, 12:25 am 12:25 am

Jim
wow. You actually believe Typical New Yorker is a derogatory term against Jews… wow.
How is “typical American” a racist statement? I didn’t know “American” was a race. are Russians a race, are Canadians a race? I am really interested in your logic.

Posted by: revhillbilly | September 28, 2008, 12:27 am 12:27 am

Good night folks. Enjoy your discussion. Vote your heart and mind and remember that we are all Americans in the end. We have enough enemies in the world, we don’t need to fight amongst oursleves.

Posted by: Jim | September 28, 2008, 12:28 am 12:28 am

Listen I was almost 70% that John Mccane was too out of touch, too old, and too lost to be president, after last night….. I’M POSITIVE!!!!!! I was getting there much faster after he chose that dumbass to be his vice president. Peopl esay shes just a normal american. She isn’t at all!!! I’m offended that people think all of us workingclass paying taxes folks seem that stupid. That women has no clue what goes on outside of her out of touch giant oil reserve of a state. I just dont get it. How people can look at a man who is so old vegas has odds on him living out the election, and a women who has NO expeirence, and think that they’re the better choice from two american guys who grew up in places just like most of us. Paycheck to paycheck small towners, not rich spoiled brats.

Posted by: Notheldbackbyaparty | September 28, 2008, 12:28 am 12:28 am

Jim,
Gald you took my advise to go to Real Clear Politics and look at the REAL polls…
Good man as I know it couldn’t have been a pleasant experience for a McCain-Plain supporter. Pretty grim for your grandpappy huh?

Posted by: Davis | September 28, 2008, 12:29 am 12:29 am

Revhillbilly,
Jim is correct. Typical New Yorker is a long used slur against Jews. It is a way of saying “New York Jew” without saying it.
Good night Jim.

Posted by: Don | September 28, 2008, 12:31 am 12:31 am

By all means Mr. Obama. Waste as much time as you want in Virginia. It ain’t going to happen there. You better get the close in Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Nevada to even have a rat’s chance. The rest of the toss-ups are McCain country. There was no close in that debate. Why can’t Obama ever close the deal?

Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | September 28, 2008, 12:31 am 12:31 am

Posted by: Hostile Knowledge | September 28, 2008, 12:32 am 12:32 am

Don,
You deliberately misunderstand, or perhaps you don’t have the capacity to do so. I never said I overlooked or made excuses for my grandmother’s racism. I tried to point out when she was wrong and tried to sway her where I could. But I also have a wide enough world view to understand HOW her opinions were formed, which wasn’t entirely her fault. We are all products of the times and places in which we live.
I reiterate: being pro-black does NOT mean that you are anti-white. As a white person, I can understand minority communities wanting to find strength and power in their shared culture and identity and wanting to use that shared strength to improve their lives and communities. Obama’s (former) church was NOT anti-white. They welcomed white people as visitors and members of the congregation.

Posted by: Leia in DC | September 28, 2008, 12:33 am 12:33 am

hellinahandbasket,
morality in your case is just very easy way to comfort yourself about your bigotry and narrow view of the world. You seem too far gone to help. I am truly sorry for you.

Posted by: revhillbilly | September 28, 2008, 12:34 am 12:34 am

Jim, it boils down to this.. if you want to base your vote on misinformation and racial motivations, fine. Guilt by Association is just one of the many logical fallacies used by people to support their decision.
I happen to base my vote on I believe each candidate would do for this country. I like Obamas tax plan, because I have seen how the trickle down plan McCain supports has failed, and failed big, in history starting back to its inception by Hover and how it triggered the great depression. McCain favors the wealthy, and we have seen what that does to working Americans.
I favor Obamas health plan because based on analysis, it would be more efficent and expand coverage to many more Americans than McCains plan, which would have a net result of Americans losing health coverage.
I favor Obamas stance on energy, moving towards alternative sources faster than McCain would, and favor Obamas stance on closing the enron loophole, which would cause an immediate drop in current oil and gas prices, while McCain simply says it needs more study. McCain has shown his stand towards ‘big oil’ in his past voting record, and Alaska receives most of it’s revenues from Oil.
I favor stem cell research and am pro-choice, something that McCain opposes (Palin is even more opposed).
The list goes on.. so go ahead and vote based on speculation and misguided ideals, I’ll vote for America and the American worker.. which I happen to be.
Thanks

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 12:35 am 12:35 am

It’s ridiculous to think that a man who was raised by his white mother and white grandparents is racist against white people. He never speaks with anything other than pride and gratitude for his mother and grandparents.
Posted by: Leia in DC |
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”
“I found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”
“The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person…”
“That’s just how white folks will do you.”
~Barack Obama

Posted by: concerned | September 28, 2008, 12:35 am 12:35 am

meetoo8 your pretty stupid!! Think really hard what you posted and count backwards!!

Posted by: flo | September 28, 2008, 12:35 am 12:35 am

Don
I would respond you… but I think a conversation with an anvil would be more interesting.

Posted by: revhillbilly | September 28, 2008, 12:36 am 12:36 am

Jim,
You can be assured that we will have less enemies under Obama. Talking to the enemy is a nicer alternative to hurling rocket propelled grenades.
I thought it was quite symbolic that McCain was standing under the side of the eagle’s talons that had the arrows clutched in it while Obama was standing under the one with the olive branch. Coincidence?

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 28, 2008, 12:37 am 12:37 am

good night all

Posted by: revhillbilly | September 28, 2008, 12:38 am 12:38 am

Leia,
Excuse #1
understand HOW her opinions were formed, which wasn’t entirely her fault.
Excuse#2
I can understand minority communities wanting to find strength and power in their shared culture and identity and wanting to use that shared strength to improve their lives and communities
That is excusing racism
And Obama’s church is not Anti-White? It is a black Theology church and it believes and preaches the following:
While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism.” [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 15]
“Black hatred is the black man’s strong aversion to white society. No black man living in white America can escape it.” [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 14]
“Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil.’” [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 40]
“[Black theology] is a theology which confronts white society as the racist Antichrist…” [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 135]
This is all on Wikipedia Leia, feel free to investigate. Also, feel free to excuse your grandmother and any other racist you want. Feel free to call me stupid all you want. Personally I fond you to be racist and not even know it. You excuse racism and don’t realize it. And frankly your opinion means nothing to me.

Posted by: Don | September 28, 2008, 12:40 am 12:40 am

OBAMA is our peace leader. ALLAH is with OBAMA

Posted by: Mohammad Hussien | September 28, 2008, 12:40 am 12:40 am

hello all, no way, no how, no mc’cant, mc’alzhiemers, mc’no-memory, no mc’senile, no dimenstia…..
i saw the debate, and i will say that obama will do for me and you more than mc’cant…..we need to vote for someone who will support the backbone of america……the working class…

Posted by: carlasue | September 28, 2008, 12:41 am 12:41 am

Senator McCain keeps saying country first. Perhaps if he would consider putting the citizens first, he would be ahead in this campaign. Watching him flip flop on his attack points, wimp out and then lie to David Letterman just solidifies my opinion of him. To me John McCain is the George Costanza of politics. (My apoligies to Jason Alexander) He will say anything to, do anything to become president. It’s time we said no.

Posted by: Greg | September 28, 2008, 12:43 am 12:43 am

Concerned,
Ever hear of Politifact.com or FactCheck.org? They have proven that those statements are either A. Completely made up and NOT in his book or B. Taken completely out of context.
I would suggest that from now on you don’t form your opinions based on emails forwarded to your inbox.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/517/

Posted by: Leia in DC | September 28, 2008, 12:44 am 12:44 am

Concerned,
I think Reagan’s policies pulled this country out of despair after the horrible conditions of Jimmy Carter (Obama’s policies match these very closely) and trickle down economics seem to work there.
Also, Sen. McCain supports Stem Cell research as well (as do I).
But as Jim said, I respect the fact that you are not a blind Obama follower you are reading the issues and making your choice. As will I. Many of the people on here tonight (for either side) are basing their decisions on much less.

Posted by: Don | September 28, 2008, 12:44 am 12:44 am

Hey, “i count” — live up to your name and help us out, ok? Your last post (9/28 12:19 a.m.) is such a long litany of inanity, spin, and false claims, I lost count about 2/3 of the way through. How many inaccuracies did you throw-in there? Seems virtually every statement therein is either at least half bogus or grossly unfair.

Posted by: Ezekiel | September 28, 2008, 12:44 am 12:44 am

exactly greg, mc’cant will no way take care of or look out for the middle class american who needs a damn break..

Posted by: carlasue | September 28, 2008, 12:45 am 12:45 am

not held back by a party made a very clear point. Palin is a moron who mccain brought in so he could point at her and say “My Friends, She has a vagina like Hillery.” NO OTHER REASON!!! Lets make the choice based on how long Mccain will be alive to make any of his new found liking to change, and then where will we be. Behind a women who has no backbone. She bends anyway anyone will tell her too, just like her daughter.
Not a cheap shot, a fact. What kind of President would she be if she cant even run her own household?

Posted by: Ex-Mccain Supporter | September 28, 2008, 12:45 am 12:45 am

Good night all.
McCain/Palin 2008

Posted by: Don | September 28, 2008, 12:49 am 12:49 am

ex-mc’cain supporter, that was a nasty post. i am not for mc cain, but i would never say those horrible sexist things you said. what the hell about any man who has no backbone who will bend any way they want them to….perfect example……..GW BUSH!!!!

Posted by: carlasue | September 28, 2008, 12:50 am 12:50 am

hellinahandbasket,
morality in your case is just very easy way to comfort yourself about your bigotry and narrow view of the world. You seem too far gone to help. I am truly sorry for you.
Posted by: revhillbilly |
Lets see here, you say being against the things below makes someone a bigot??
Do you live your life like this?
Would you train your children do live this way too??
“..lets all live like animals and have sex whenever we want it with no consequences because we can abort the fetus…marry our dogs if we want to…say F-you whenever or to whomever we want…and don’t nobody dare to tell us what to do.”
Well, Then I’m proud to be a “bigot”
and to use your phrase; YOU seem too far gone to help. I am truly sorry for you.

Posted by: hellinahandbasket | September 28, 2008, 12:50 am 12:50 am

“frankly your opinion means nothing to me”
Ditto.
There’s a difference between acknowledging the reality of something and excusing it. You claim that I am a racist who doesn’t know it. I think my African American husband would be surprised to learn that.
I wouldn’t call you a racist, but your inability to see something from someone else’s point of view indicates a little close-mindedness.
P.S. Wikipedia is not the first place I turn to for information.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_obama.html

Posted by: Leia in DC | September 28, 2008, 12:50 am 12:50 am

I think there’s good reason for McCain’s panic and throwing of another Hail Mary.
I looked at the electoral map, and Obama has eaten into all of McCain’s “leaning” states, and colouring West Virginia pink from a previous red. The rest are only McCains solid red states. Furthermore, Obama has pulled ahead in Virginia, which was a deep red in 2004, but at the same time he is hanging on to all his Kerry states and picked up Iowa, New Mexico and Colorado.
I think the Hail Mary actually made it worse.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 28, 2008, 12:51 am 12:51 am

– I think Reagan’s policies pulled this country out of despair after the horrible conditions of Jimmy Carter (Obama’s policies match these very closely) and trickle down economics seem to work there. –
Most people point to former President Regan and his “Reaganomics” policy of large tax cuts for the wealthy. In reality, under Regan, the U.S. experienced the largest jump in federal deficit in history, totaling more than all debt incurred from past presidents combined. Under Regan, debt increased an average of 13.8% per year, and was increasing by 17% by the end of his term. During his term, the debt jumped from just under $1 trillion to over $2.6 trillion.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/pdf/hist.pdf
http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=130546,00.html

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 12:54 am 12:54 am

ex mc’cain supporter, again i have to comment to your severely sexist remarks……i am not for mc’cain/palin, but her daughter being 17 and pregnant is a perfect example of her not being the first, and not the last. you are a frickin moron to judge a kid…..i will vote dem in the fall, but i will NOT judge a woman who has a teen daughter who is pregnant and has a down’s baby herself. that is not what this election is about. you are an idiot…shame on you!!!

Posted by: carlasue | September 28, 2008, 12:57 am 12:57 am

Lets unite for OBAMA.
WE cant afford to loose our SSI, Welfare and Food Stamps.

Posted by: SSI-4-Imigrants | September 28, 2008, 12:58 am 12:58 am

http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2008/20080924145932.aspx
Media Mum on Barney Frank’s Fannie Mae Love Connection
Democratic House Financial Services Committee Chair promoted GSEs while former ‘spouse’ was Fannie Mae executive.

Posted by: Hostile Knowledge | September 28, 2008, 12:58 am 12:58 am

to carlasue.
Yes, that was abit harsh, but this is how I view the Palin effect.
I’m a 47 yeat old White American from Ohio. I have 4 children, 2 boys, 2 girls. All their lives I’ve been the Co-Chairmen(or women) of Ford’s SUV auto-line. When iI was on the team that came up with the Ford Escape.
My job is stressful, and I had an issue with 2 of my children having sex in high school.
But no matter what me and my husband sat down with all 4 of them and explained how we felt about the issue. You’re telling me that Mrs. Palin, didn’t half an hour to sit down with her snowmobile riding hubby, and talk to her children about Sex and other issues.
I admire women that have made it as far as Mrs. Palin, I really do but she has no idea what shes doing, if Mccain was going to pick someone for the fact they were a women. I believe he could of found someone better.

Posted by: Ex-Mccain Supporter | September 28, 2008, 1:00 am 1:00 am

I have read several times already Mc Cain was mean and nasty. Well at least he had enough professionalcurtousy to call Obama by his title Senator Obama. While senator Obama called Senator Mc Cain by his first name John. I’m sorry but the smug cool talking Obama needs to go down next month. All i hear is we don’t need another 4 years. i think that the Democrats have been in charge for 2 years now and what outstanding bills have they passed to help our country ZIP. Oh yea we need Obama like a dub needs screen doors. Oh yea he is real cool the jerk how about some professionalism from him it is the least he could do. And so far from what I have seen that is pretty much all he has done since he has been a senator. The least he could do.

Posted by: DAve | September 28, 2008, 1:01 am 1:01 am

Ezekiel– not trying to make up your mind for you— do your own research–

Posted by: i count | September 28, 2008, 1:03 am 1:03 am

– i think that the Democrats have been in charge for 2 years now and what outstanding bills have they passed to help our country ZIP. –
You mean like the one that Dubba vetoed, which would have closed the enron loophole and reduce our over inflated gas and oil prices? Congress can only do so much when you got a big oil president in office.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 1:05 am 1:05 am

ex mc cain supporter, i appreciate your situation, you sound a lot like me. i am 52 years old, have three grandchildren, my daughter had my first when she was 17…..yes, kids make a lot of mistakes, but we cannot stand there in judgement…i don’t give a damn what party we support…
my job is stressful too….i am blind in my left eye and have worked in factories all my life and raised my two by myself. i am not telling you ms palin didn’t have a half an hour to talk to her daughter. i did. i talked to her for hours……she made a mistake…..as i said earlier, she is not the first and not the last. we must love, support, educate, and stand behind these children. and i agree with you…communication is very important….but if something happens, don’t view yourself, the world, or other women to blame…this is this thing called life…welcome it, embrace it…

Posted by: carlasue | September 28, 2008, 1:05 am 1:05 am

The very suggestion that anyone has a right to “run” a 17-year-old girl’s sex life would bring the most vile kinds of name-calling from the same people who criticize Sarah Palin over her daughter’s pregnancy (“What kind of President would she be if she cant even run her own household?” — ‘Ex-Mccain Supporter’ 9/28 12:45 a.m.)
Where can I get a license to own and carry offensive double-standards like that?

Posted by: Ezekiel | September 28, 2008, 1:13 am 1:13 am

I don’t think Obama was being disrespectful calling McCain John. Debates are kind of supposed to be more personal, and the opponents are supposed to try connect that way.
Even then, Obama’s body language showed he had more respect for McCain then McCain had for him. Obama was looking at McCain and listened intently to him, and he would turn in McCain’s direction when he referred to McCain. McCain not only didn’t even look at Obama, but was snickering and smirking through out the whole debate when Obama was speaking, interrupted him, and that’s what I didn’t like, aside from McCain’s content.
He did not behave a president.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 28, 2008, 1:13 am 1:13 am

Carlasue, You sound like a lovly person, and I was only trying to make the point that this women who has abused power in almost every aspect, can’t be President, she simple isn’t ready nor do I dont believe she ever will be.
I mean the question was asked when Palin came in the picture”Have you ever heard of her?” and infact I had. In November last year there was a story in my local paper about a “teen renagade” who had stolen a bottle of booze stolen a car and led the police into a foot chase, in alaska. Wanna guess who that young mans mother was? The courts didnt give him a full pardon, but they gave him the choice of joining the Army or going to jail.
I also read about troopergate on a GOP website whilst supporting thr Mccain camp about how Sarah Palin’s daughter was suspected to have birthed the yougest child in the Palin family. It refrenced flight records and hospital records that said her water broke at a time when Sarah Palin was in texas, and how her daughter was on leave from school for a month prior and after the birth of Van.
This women isn’t liek us, she has no control of her household, we do. How can she lead us, thats all I was pointing out.

Posted by: Ex-Mccain Supporter | September 28, 2008, 1:16 am 1:16 am

I’ve decided I will vote for Cynthia McKinney. Obama is getting on my nerves with his feigned concern for the middle class.

Posted by: misa | September 28, 2008, 1:18 am 1:18 am

(for context – I still have scars from the last time I suggested it would be good if sexual abstinence for teenagers could be the societal norm again)

Posted by: Ezekiel | September 28, 2008, 1:20 am 1:20 am

ex mcain supporter, i agree with you on all counts here….troopergate, abuse of power…etc. i agree that this lady is not ready to lead our country in the event something would happen to mc cain if in office.
we do have some control over our households with our children. i would hope that the young daughter did not birth the baby with down’s. that would make me sick.
we have all been there as kids, we have kids, grandkids, but we shall not judge kids, we need to help, and nurture them. now on the other hand, the parents, and if palin is guilty of these things, she should go to jail…….abuse of power in office, means neglect of leadership at home…..

Posted by: carlasue | September 28, 2008, 1:22 am 1:22 am

Ok! It’s not funny anymore. I actually feel sorry for Palin…. but I have to admit I have enjoy the clown show over the last 4 weeks..
I personally believe Sarah is the Victim but she did act out of power & ambition, but I think she was in awe amazed by the offer. McCain didn’t give her time to think about it or discuss the decision with someone who could have chg her mind. I just hope that she is not the grandmother of “Trig” seriously. That would be the end of her career for sure. I do feel sorry for her! I’m sorry – I can’t stop laughing… to type the rest..
but…Alaskans have fallen for her facade and when she get back she is going to “Fired” the entire state! LoL

Posted by: meetoo8 | September 28, 2008, 1:22 am 1:22 am

I will just back Cynthia McKinney. It is better to vote for someone you believe in and lose than vote for someone you don’t believe in and win, because that someone will surely betray you. I think Obama cares for Obama.

Posted by: misa | September 28, 2008, 1:23 am 1:23 am

– I’ve decided I will vote for Cynthia McKinney. Obama is getting on my nerves with his feigned concern for the middle class. –
Then you are apparently very wealthy. It boils down to McCain supports the wealthy while Obama supports the average working Americans. Go look at what bills each has introduced into congress. McCain is focused on Military, while Obama ranges from low income housing, better and affordable health care, increased emission standards, reduction on oil and shift towards renewable energy.. he has been pushing for the average American ever since being in Congress, and it is more than reflected in what laws he has tried to push through. Go look for your self:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/
http://thomas.loc.gov/

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 1:24 am 1:24 am

McCain handle himself well during the debate, natural, strong and convincing; Obama was just too shaky, too fake and too rehearsed by looking at those JFK old debate tapes.

Posted by: Ex-Obama supporter | September 28, 2008, 1:24 am 1:24 am

SO MANY THINGS WENT WRONG FOR OBAMA TODAY ESPECIALLY SINCE HE LOST THE DEBATE. THE RAIN IS NOTHING.
KISSINGER ISSUED A STRONG STATEMENT CALLING OBAMA A LIAR FOR MISREPRESENTAING KISSINGER AT THE DEBATE..
MCCAIN LITERARILY LECTURED HIM LAST NIGHT
“MY MAN, YOU ARE NAIVE, INEXPERINCED, DANGEROUS AND WAY TOO LIBERAL FOR ME TO EVEN NEGOTIATE WITH..BY THE WAY DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DO WITH VETERANS, I WILL TAKE CARE OF THEM.”
THEY SAY MCCAIN WAS CONDESCENDING BUT OBAMA WAS TALKING NONSENSE.. HE WANTS TO NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORIST?
I THOUGHT HE WOULD DENY IT
OBAMA IS A LIAR AND A FLIP FLOPPER.

Posted by: TJ, THE CLINTONITE | September 28, 2008, 1:25 am 1:25 am

I think Sarah Palin said it best:
“That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the—it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that. :
I think she’s suffering from overexposure to the liberal media.
I can’t wait for the VP debate….

Posted by: LisaK from TacWA | September 28, 2008, 1:25 am 1:25 am

Obama was cramming for the debates 3 days in a row. He was overcoached and underperformed.

Posted by: young_voter | September 28, 2008, 1:26 am 1:26 am

God help us if McCain wins. We all saw his weak debate perfomance ever. He just doesn’t get it. Republicans screwed up big by nominating him, but he made that look trivial by picking that dimwit Palin. She was drinking in a bar last night in downtown Philly! Great example there Sarah!

Posted by: Pete | September 28, 2008, 1:26 am 1:26 am

During the debate, McCain did not even have the guts to have eye contact with Obama – why? Just look at liars and dishonest people around you – that’s why.

Posted by: Saddam McCain | September 28, 2008, 1:26 am 1:26 am

The oddest thing about it is after my husband heard she was the VP on the red ticket. We tried to find the story we had read about her son and daughter on the GOP sites but they were gone.

Posted by: Ex-Mccain Supporter | September 28, 2008, 1:27 am 1:27 am

Strange, how the MSM is not reporting Obama’s use of the Missouri tax-funded police force to intimidate anyone who says anything negative about Obama. This is all over the blogs, and the Governor even made an official statement about it.
So, does ABC even mention it? They mentikon every little thing about McCain and Palin, but do they mention Obama’s Hitler-like tactics, destroying freedom of speech, and assuring that he will turn our free society into a police-state?
God help us.

Posted by: liberati | September 28, 2008, 1:28 am 1:28 am

Are you having problems paying credit cards? Thank Joe Biden for the 34% interest, double cycle billing, and loss of grace period, not to mention how he hurried to pass thw bankruptcy bill. Joe Biden and Barack Obama laugh at the middle class. Since when have the Dems and Reps listened to us. I feel Obama is patronizing me for my vote. Here we go again, as taxpayers, bailing out the crooks. I’d like to know why a new CEO of Washington Mutual gets paid $20 million for his failed 17 days of employement and a small stockholder of $1 thousand dollars is left stranded with no money. Courtesy of the Dems and Reps. Voting for the leser of two evils is like voting for arsenic instead of cyanide. Forget it. I will never back another Dem or Rep. They are not worth it. What is your breaking point? McKinney/Clemente08

Posted by: misa | September 28, 2008, 1:29 am 1:29 am

ex mc cain supporter, nice chatting with you, good luck with you and your family, god bless….time for me to say nite nite and go dems in the fall. we need to stop plant closings, discrimination, and everything categorically like that. will see ya again….carla sue

Posted by: carlasue | September 28, 2008, 1:31 am 1:31 am

Saddam — I can understand why Senator McCain would not look at Obama….I have had the same experience, if I am encountering a fraud like Obama, a liar, a piece of trash, I could not look him in the eye as well. He would not be worthy of my respect, or even my acknowledgement that he is worthy of any attention at all.
If anything, McCain gave Obama much more respect than he deserves.

Posted by: liberati | September 28, 2008, 1:31 am 1:31 am

Lets be honest with ourselves for once please, and I ask this question as un-bias as I can possibly be.
First of all, a lil’ bit of background about me, I’m a 36 year African American married father of two. I work
as an HVAC Engineer in the state of Minnesota. Between the wife and myself we make roughly a combined
$75K per year. I’m an Obama supporter simply because I believe……..err excuse me, because I know he’s the
absolute best choice to be the next President of The United States. I based this not on last nights debates or
his position on foriegn policy but solely because he has more of a plan to get us out of the current situation were in
and to get this country back on track. The Replicans had 8 years to do this and failed miserably.
No one on this board can honestly think otherwise and if so please state your case and prove me wrong.
Judging from the comments here, there are many that disagree and I totally respect that. Thats indeed what
makes this country so great, we dont all have to agree on our fundamental differences but we can atleast respect
each other opinions. So with that said I would like to ask a broad question to all McCain/Palin supporters.
Why do you feel McCain is the better choice to become The next President of The United States, seriously give me
concrete actual reasonings other than your obvious hatred for Obama.
Please state your case and tell my fellow Obama supporters your logic, maybe you can sway a few opinions.
Tell us how to make sense of the mess in Iraq, explain to us how spending $10-12 billion a month in Iraq and not
to mention Afghanistan makes us safer as Americans. Mind you we didnt not invade Iraq to liberate the country, occupy
there country or to fight the war on terror, we invaded in search of Weapons of Mass Destruction. We all know now that
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, there were NEVER any WMD found and Saddam was captured and executed
Tell me how can we support McCain/Palin after 8 years of failed Republican rule. After losing losing respect abroad
after the collapse on Wall Street and our current ecomomic crisis. Please anyone I swear I’m listening. Tell us how can
you honestly believe Palin is ready to become Commander in Chief after that debacle of an interview with Charles Gibson
and Katie Couric. Make us all understand. State your case for us please, I really want to hear an honest forthright,
knowledgeable opinion.
In closing if McCain/Palin win in November GOD help us all……………

Posted by: WTF? | September 28, 2008, 1:31 am 1:31 am

For all you neocon geniuses out there, a question.
When we “win” the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who will be sitting on the other side of the truce table from us?

Posted by: AbelBaker | September 28, 2008, 1:31 am 1:31 am

Young, Obama has never made eye contact with anyone that I have ever seen.
If you are young, vote for McKinney/Clemente to get something done.

Posted by: misa | September 28, 2008, 1:31 am 1:31 am

Obama understands correctly the role of Pakistan on terrorism. Mccain, on Pakistan just babbles and said some irelevant things. It scares the hell of me to see Mccain as President.
Go Obama!!

Posted by: Raj Jawahar | September 28, 2008, 1:31 am 1:31 am

I loathe Obama as much as I loathed Bush in 2000. I cannot stand these phonies. God how depressing that our nation would pick such a hateful person as Obama.

Posted by: misa | September 28, 2008, 1:34 am 1:34 am

– KISSINGER ISSUED A STRONG STATEMENT CALLING OBAMA A LIAR FOR MISREPRESENTAING KISSINGER AT THE DEBATE.. –
Nope.. he said he misrepresented his comments, and basically it was about semantics. Kissinger did indeed say that he thought the next president should begin dialog with Iran. That is the point Obama was making. The difference is at what level (Ambassador, Secretary of State, VP, Presidential), and that is what Kissinger wanted to make clear.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 1:34 am 1:34 am

I just get the impression Obama is never sincere in what he says. On the other hand, if we had listened to Cynthia McKinney on January 6, 2001, we would not be in this mess. Vote for a woman of color and vote for a woman at the top of the ticket. McKinney08

Posted by: misa | September 28, 2008, 1:36 am 1:36 am

What is the symbol of the O that Obama uses. Have you looked at it closely? Barack and Michelle must laugh themselves to sleep about how stupid their supporters are.
McKinney08

Posted by: misa | September 28, 2008, 1:38 am 1:38 am

– What is your breaking point? McKinney/Clemente08 –
Well misa.. unfortunately, it will be one of the two in office.. a third party vote will not change that, and you may wind up with the worse of two evils instead of the lesser if you don’t participate in that choice. Good luck..

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 1:39 am 1:39 am

Mark my word McCain will be president not because he was voted in. Because, they are preparing to do the same thing they did to Al Gore. The aliens will be taking over, I no longer know who these people are. Our votes will no longer count

Posted by: mary | September 28, 2008, 1:40 am 1:40 am

Do you know why the Governor in Missouri is not running for reelection? He is under investigation for email fraud and he has the lowest ratings ever of any governor in Missouri. Fact check that one…that’s why no one is talking about it…because no one listen’s to Governor Blunt anymore…One lie after the other…Just like Palin/McCain

Posted by: meetoo8 | September 28, 2008, 1:40 am 1:40 am

– What is the symbol of the O that Obama uses. Have you looked at it closely? –
Yup, got one on the back of my car.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 1:41 am 1:41 am

i seen people trashing JKF, FOR GOOODNESS SAKE THE MANS DEAD HAS BEEN FOR A VERY VERY LONG TIME!!!!! he was the youngest president ever, got a space program going so people could dream, respect him please for the love of all things good. Wanna trash someone trash people who deserve it, like Nixon or Bush or even Regan.

Posted by: Respectforonce | September 28, 2008, 1:42 am 1:42 am

i seen people trashing JKF
Posted by: Respectforonce
BAY OF PIGS!!
ReAgan won the cold war.
==McCAIN*PALIN 08==

Posted by: getreal | September 28, 2008, 1:52 am 1:52 am

We should not forget, how we got to this point where we are right now. we should not trust the fate of this great nation into the hands of another war monger in the name of being tough on foreign policy .
This nation as it stands today, cannot afford another war. we have lost more than 4000 young adults, in a war that has nothing to do with our national security.
our economy cannot sustain, another economic recklessness from some one who cannot rally our allies in a civil manner. we cannot afford to bully our way through the world again in the name of marketing our type of democracy.
This is the time for a wise and careful choice. think before you vote.

Posted by: wiseman | September 28, 2008, 1:53 am 1:53 am

Hey, ‘mary’ — Al Gore lost the 2000 election. FIVE recounts during 2001 confirmed that he lost Florida, including the final recount run by a collection of mostly-liberal news outfits (including Knight-Ridder publishers and the LATimes).
Of course, had he just carried his own home state of Tennessee, Florida’s result wouldn’t have mattered anyway.

Posted by: Ezekiel | September 28, 2008, 1:55 am 1:55 am

– ReAgan won the cold war. –
Yeah, but he sure did trash our economy.. much the same way the current numbnuts in office has and as McCain wants to continue.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 1:57 am 1:57 am

I was undecided untill last night. Obama was busy defending himself while Mccain explained what he wanted to do. I really could appreciate Mccain last night. This whole talk of Mccain did not look at Obama, WHO CARES.
I can’t trust someone I don’t know. I can’t trust someone who is filled with words and has nothing to back him up. Obama shows himself as an empty suit especially on Iran and Pakistan.
I have listen to all the “experts” I really could not see how Obama won so I am looking through the lens of my priorities rahther the CNN or NBC reporters. Mccain has earned my vote and I will be making another contribution Monday.

Posted by: A | September 28, 2008, 2:00 am 2:00 am

I am a democrat from PA.
One word to describe Obama’s performance at the debate: Liar.
Kissinger was on cable tonite saying that Obama lied. That’s all I need to know.
Obama “talking heads” are trying their best to “spin” Obama’s lies. Well, I guess it’s stupid is — as stupid does.
As Obama VP Joe Biden has said, Obama is not ready; Hillary Clinton says Obama is not ready; and believe me 99% percent of the democrats I know are voting McCain because we all feel like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton are right. Obama is just not ready.
McCain/Palin
Clinton 2012

Posted by: NielPA | September 28, 2008, 2:01 am 2:01 am

Reading through all the above comments was very amusing. One person, Mary Pepitone, blew me away the most though. I kept thinking: how can someone be THAT dumb?!?!
Then I saw this: “I am well aware of all what’s going on. If you haven’t listened to Rush L. listen to one time.”
Then, yeah, it all made sense…

Posted by: Matthew | September 28, 2008, 2:02 am 2:02 am

We should not forget, how we got to this point where we are right now. we should not trust the fate of this great nation into the hands of another war monger
Posted by: wiseman
Did you hear peacenik obama in the debate? Now he’s shoot first ask questions later tough guy (Pakistan) The man is insane and says whatever he thinks scores him points at the time.

Posted by: getreal | September 28, 2008, 2:02 am 2:02 am

*** ReAgan won the cold war. ***
He won it? It wasn’t even a war, and I believe it was due to their own collapse which had been coming for years that ended it. Regan just happened to be president at the time..

Posted by: HistoryRepeats | September 28, 2008, 2:03 am 2:03 am

Do NOT let a Mother Loose her Child, TO McJeepers Creepers, SAY NO TO THE DRAFT…McCandy Land, told Bush to Make Deal. McBush JR, WILL DO ANYTHING TO WIN EVEN LIE ON TV. Watch CNN and MSNBC and CBS for WHOLE STORY, not the half truths on this site if you notice, they are like the Repulican guard…Vote INDEPENDANT Before McPalin Wins. Why hasn’t Bush speaken out about Mac Cains, mental stability. Bush and Mac Cain wants a lot more Nuclear material, around the world. A Free Market will allow, a REPUBLICAN guard ,Extremist group, to use Chemicals against a UNITED AMERICA. Please do not be so EXTREME,and Vote on Moral. Vote Independant. AMTRACK seems to be buying fixed records.
What if Richard Shelby, and Rick Davis, knew they could buy anybody they wanted.
It Fixed McCains Records, in the past. And Do not, forget how it bought, Nixons election. I am sure, that special interest groups, who have paid lobbiests, could fix any paperwork. Bush, had bought paperwork fixers, and now McCain will have to distance himself, from Rick Davis and Bush scandels. They made Obamas paperwork disappear before. After all, the FBI has been bought before.
Those special interest groups, are still on Wall Street, and in other postistion in HIGH Government. McCain should not Debate Obama. McCain is still best friends with Clinton, and has covered up Rick Davis’ Paperwork as best as he could. The ‘Secret Government’, is still in place. We WILL remember McCain has been in Government, a LONG TIME. Imagine that McCain has MORE POWER to fix the POLLS, and FIX PAPERWORK. How Will AMERICANS, Be able to trust a Secret Group of Capitolists.
Watch CNN and MSNBC and CBS. How many in the Senate are still corrupt. The Far Right Republicans, have been caught in Lies TOO.
So the question becomes, what happened to paperwork?
Well, America. You already Know, you can not, get into collage without a Birth Certificate, Which the Collage had on Record. Yes, I would ask WHY, it Disappeared.
OVER-SIGHT, of PAPERWORK RECORDS? The current government, has made people disappear BEFORE. WHY? Corruption? Buy offs?
Well, why has Presidant Bush, not given America, an answer, about Rick Davis support of Mac Cains Campaign, STILL has not been Questioned, in FRONT of the WORLD.
CNN and MSNBC and CBS, has shown MORE about BOTH Canidadates. Both SHOW mistakes made, by Obama, McCain, Palin, and Biden. Interesting…
.
The Out of Touch, Has been Caught Lying, to 95% of America on CNN and MSNBC.
WHY? Why has McCain flip-flopped, on the Senate Bill? The Senate, DOES NOT have the answer either. CNN and MSNBC ask ALL Senate Members. None of them can give an answer.
Call your Senate Office, and ask Why.
Watch on CNN and MSNBC as ALL the Senators, give the ANSWERS.
Be an INDEPENDATE VOTER. NO DEMOCRAT or REPUBLICAN VOTERS, VOTE UNITED. INDEPENDANT, and FAIR. Who has access to fixing Paperwork. ‘Free Marketers’ means NO PAPER WORK IS WANTED. Is Wall Street Crooks Gone Yet? NO. They are Trading Micro-Generator Weapons, Made by PAC’s, Through AMTRACK.
Is Paperwork Still Being Changed? YES. What will Corrupt Wall Street do? Hide the Money for Rick Davis? Another McCain and Davis’, Frankie Mac Cain campaign? Has BB&T been De-Regulated? NO. So WHO CONTRIBUTED MONEY? Thanks Girls at C-Span.
Keep CNN and MSNBC, updated…..You Just showed the world WHY the FAR RIGHT REPUBLICANS SENATE Can NOT AGREE WITH OTHER REPUBLICANS…. :) BOTH DEMOCRATS and INDEPENDENCE ARE ASKING FOR INVESTIGATIONS. Watch the reports on CNN and MSNBC and CBS
Notice how ABC has not reported on what happened to Rick Davis? But ALL of a sudden writes against Obama…
Why Did McCain NOT support, The Veterns of American ‘Bill’. Until Just Recently. Let’s see ABC report about this. Don’t be shy.
CNN and MSNBC reports about it.Or is ABC, slipping out of Touch.
McCain WAS for Torture TOO, before running for President. Thank You MSNBC and CNN, for letting us veterns Know.
Do you support McCains Lies Too?
Or His Aggressive stance on the World? You do not like the REPUBLICAN guard, in Iran or Iraq do you? If the Countries were INDEPENDANT or have a DEMOCRACY, in place, then the Capitolist Extremists, would lose their PAC’s, of the Middle Class, in those countries.
Why are Bush and some Senators, making Nuclar deals with India, when we are already WORRIED about, Nuclear Material. Bush goofed two years ago with Nuclear material. Now Mac Cain is talking about MORE NUCLEAR plants. Scary, real scary. Only CNN and MSNBC, report on these. CBS also has good reports on what is happining, with Mac Cain. Thank You guys. Look for Peace, without war.
Call your State offical, and have them explain why PAC’s ‘free market’ paperwork, is NOT audited.
Vote ‘No’ to Mac Can’t Look You in the Eye
Is Palin Missing?
Thank You CNN and MSNBC.
Vote Independant….Say No to Mac Cains BuyOut Plan….Morgages for OIL.
Palin says Alaska Trades With Russia….Watch CNN and MSNBC for Updates, or go to MSNBC.com
McCains ‘Free Market’, let loose Nuclear Waste, and HE WANTS MORE.. CALL the SENATOR AND VOTE INDEPENDANT..
CNN and MSNBC calls ABC and FOX out…MSNBC and CNN wants to interview ABC and FOX, about MISINFORMATION.
ABC and FOX say….No. Ask them Why Not
Go to MSNBC.com and CNN.com.
Or watch MSNBC and CNN and CBS
Watch Palins Comments at Ground Zero, why she is Glad we are in Iraq.
She wants Everybody to come to Iraq? See Why, on CNN.

Posted by: historyremembered | September 28, 2008, 2:06 am 2:06 am

– Kissinger was on cable tonite saying that Obama lied. That’s all I need to know. –
Kissinger did not say he lied, only that the way Obama made his point was inaccurate as to “what level” of meetings he would have with Iran and Kissinger wanted to clarify that. Both Kissinger and Obama agree that they should engage Iran, and McCain and Dubba don’t. The rest is semantics.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 2:08 am 2:08 am

– Did you hear peacenik obama in the debate? Now he’s shoot first ask questions later tough guy (Pakistan) –
Pssst.. got a secret for you.. Dubba, McCain, Paetraus and all the other top military leaders want to go into Pakistan too, and we have been trying to get permission from Pakistan to go in for a while now. You do know that there is a difference between wanting to go some place and actually doing it.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 2:13 am 2:13 am

I find it ironic Palin is pro-life, yet she is all for the Iraq war.
I suppose the difference is that some of these children get to grow up but get sent to die for a stupid war eighteen or twenty years later. That she is pro-life but seems to supportive of wars instead of diplomacy. A war that left over a million Iraqis dead and injured and living in squalid conditions, and took a heavy toll on American soldiers.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 28, 2008, 2:14 am 2:14 am

– Did you hear peacenik obama in the debate? Now he’s shoot first ask questions later tough guy (Pakistan) –
Pssst.. got a secret for you.. Dubba, McCain, Paetraus and all the other top military leaders want to go into Pakistan too, and we have been trying to get permission from Pakistan to go in for a while now. You do know that there is a difference between wanting to go some place and actually doing it.
Posted by: Concerned American
Pssst.. YOU MISS THE POINT all along Obama’s main campaign theme has been that he will STOP THE WARS not start new ones.
Now, so as not to seem weak he’s playing the part of a military hawk.
WHAT A JOKE!

Posted by: getreal | September 28, 2008, 2:27 am 2:27 am

getreal,
He means like sending in small units to go out and take out the terrorists there, with Pakistan’s cooperation. Not being at war with Pakistan.

Posted by: Grey Matter | September 28, 2008, 2:35 am 2:35 am

I have a question?
Using Palin’s logic……I live in Minnesota, so do that qualify me to be an expert on Wisconsin, its right across the St.Croix bridge, I see Wisconsin License plates on the roads and highways,
plus I know a couple Packers fans……..

Posted by: WTF | September 28, 2008, 2:37 am 2:37 am

Obama looked and sounded like he was at a “high-school” debate.
Obama was obviously the loser. He showed how truly inept he is.
How could anyone actually think Obama can lead. The guy changes “stories” as the political wind blows.
Mr. Ego really has led his fans down an unsavory road for our country.

Posted by: NielPA | September 28, 2008, 2:38 am 2:38 am

Big anti-Palin/Troopergate rally held in Alaska.
http://www.mudflats.net
Funniest sign:
“Hey, Sarah! I can see the end of your political career from my house.”
Too funny…

Posted by: ChicagoSuz | September 28, 2008, 2:48 am 2:48 am

NielPA
“How could anyone actually think Obama can lead. The guy changes “stories” as the political wind blows. Mr. Ego really has led his fans down an unsavory road for our country”
McCain will do more damage in 1 years than Bush did in 8. His bully, arrogant style of governing DO NOT WORK, were hated almost eveywhere abroad. Wake up man, seriously you can honestly with a clear concious think McCain/Palin can lead, did you not see the debate? did you not see Palin’s interview? Have you NOT been paying attention these past 8 years?
FYI were in an economic crisis of Great Depression like proportions, were fighting two unpopular wars, one of which cost The American people $10-12 billion a month.
THATS WITH A B per month.
Vote for whoever you like but please save the BS for your family, friends and co-workers that think everything in our great USA is just fine the way they are.

Posted by: WTF | September 28, 2008, 2:53 am 2:53 am

“Obama looked and sounded like he was at a “high-school” debate.
Obama was obviously the loser. He showed how truly inept he is.
How could anyone actually think Obama can lead. The guy changes “stories” as the political wind blows.
Mr. Ego really has led his fans down an unsavory road for our country.”
my sentiments exactly

Posted by: rallph | September 28, 2008, 3:03 am 3:03 am

The media shd hlp the public to find out whether Palin graduated from high sch. Wrong tenses, lost mid-sentences dominate her answers to media questions so far. I hp her teachers are not making her cramm a lot in a short time.Because it will be shameful before the world to witness Palin committ sucide during the debate.
Concerned republican

Posted by: Peter | September 28, 2008, 3:06 am 3:06 am

Poor Nobama, he can only offer rain to his wordshippers.
Nobama agreed with McCain several times, so he recognized McCain was right and telling the truth.
So, dems, do you think Mr. America community organizer will meet Putin and Ahmadineyad without preconditions and convince them by his beatiful smile and flowery speech? Surely, if both leaders have seem the debate, they must be laughing at Nobama.
Nobama = no experience, no knowledge of economy and foreign policy, no concrete matters but confusing generalizations. Even the gaffe of using a bracelet in the memory of a soldier whose name he didn´t know. It´s a pity he didn´t have his teleprompter to remember.

Posted by: Stephen from Indiana | September 28, 2008, 3:07 am 3:07 am

To David fro Texas:
The question is are there enough red-necks and enough imbeciles (in Texas this means you have to look up the dictionary) to vote a self-serving lying and Rove-disciple McCain and a complete airhead like Palin ?
If there are then even God cannot save Anerica this time.

Posted by: Joe Rotes | September 28, 2008, 3:17 am 3:17 am

I thought the debate was a tie. Head over to http://progressives.blogspot.com and give your opinion!

Posted by: RedWing | September 28, 2008, 3:18 am 3:18 am

Stephen from Indiana
“Nobama = no experience, no knowledge of economy and foreign policy, no concrete matters but confusing generalizations”
Its funny on how I said the same exact thing regarding McCain and if Im wrong clarify, what knowledge of the economy, foreign policy and concrete matters
that McCain convinced you on, please help us understand your position.

Posted by: WTF | September 28, 2008, 3:19 am 3:19 am

Joe Rotes
“To vote a self-serving lying and Rove-disciple McCain and a complete airhead like Palin ?
If there are then even God cannot save Anerica this time”
WHAT HE SAID

Posted by: WTF | September 28, 2008, 3:22 am 3:22 am

*****
all along Obama’s main campaign theme has been that he will STOP THE WARS not start new ones.
*****
In case you forgot, it’s not a new war.. it’s about getting Bin Laden and the Taliban.. which is and has been an ongoing war in that region (remember? that Bin Laden guy who started all of this in the first place!). Doing so would get Bin Laden and END that one too.. What part of that don’t you get?

Posted by: BillyBob | September 28, 2008, 3:25 am 3:25 am

WFT, you need to be convinced by me???
That´s quite a silly thing. I don´t ask anybody to convince me. I have my opinion based on what I read and what I see. I´m sorry for you if you can´t make up your mind by yourself. Ask any doctor. You have a serious problem.

Posted by: Stephen from Indiana | September 28, 2008, 3:26 am 3:26 am

– WFT, you need to be convinced by me??? –
I don’t want to be convinced, but I would like to understand why you support McCain/Palin, when doing so defies logic.

Posted by: BillyBob | September 28, 2008, 3:33 am 3:33 am

Stephen from Indiana
“That´s quite a silly thing. I don´t ask anybody to convince me. I have my opinion based on what I read and what I see. I´m sorry for you if you can´t make up your mind by yourself. Ask any doctor. You have a serious problem”
Thats exactly the answer I expected from you, thanks for proving my point
I wont hold it against you. I was merely asking a simple question and got insulted for it. All i wanted to know was since you stated that Obama had “no experience, no knowledge of economy and foreign policy, no concrete matters but confusing generalizations”.
All I want you to do is explain, since you cant convince, McCain’s experience, knowledge of the economy and foreign policy, and concrete matters that actually matter to all American, and please
NO MORE POWN WAR STORIES, we get it

Posted by: WTF | September 28, 2008, 3:39 am 3:39 am

I think the same about Nobama supporters. They behave like members of a sect, displaying insults and hatred towards anyone who dares criticize his untouchable leader.
I vote the candidate I consider the best for my country. I needn´t give any reasons about my vote.

Posted by: Stephen from Indiana | September 28, 2008, 3:42 am 3:42 am

Stephen from Indiana
“I think the same about Nobama supporters. They behave like members of a sect, displaying insults and hatred towards anyone who dares criticize his untouchable leader.
I vote the candidate I consider the best for my country. I needn´t give any reasons about my vote”
C’mon Steve “Nobama supporters” the word alone is pure hatred, youre either an idiot or racist for supporting McCain. Did the last 8 years NOT happen?
Are we NOT in a recession? Is our economy NOT in the tank? If you really 100% believe McCain would be a better leader then I already know the answer on you being a racist or an idiot.

Posted by: WTF | September 28, 2008, 3:47 am 3:47 am

that Bin Laden guy who started all of this in the first place!). Doing so would get Bin Laden and END that one too.. What part of that don’t you get?
Posted by: BillyBob
Oh brother, now obama is going to spend the next eight years searching for the elusive bin laden?? thanks but no thanks!

Posted by: getreal | September 28, 2008, 3:48 am 3:48 am

BillyBob
“don’t want to be convinced, but I would like to understand why you support McCain/Palin, when doing so defies logic”
I’m far from a McCain/Palin supporter, I actually think clearly and know how to read. Only idiots support McCain/Palin and if youre not an idiot and still support McCain/Palin then youre in denial

Posted by: WTF | September 28, 2008, 3:50 am 3:50 am

On Question of National Security & Foreign Policy
Yes, McCain has lots of experience, but what kind of experience? Those were experiences that failed to achieve results, and had left caused McCain to be blogged down in the past with all the baggages. So, a freah different measured approach is required and Obama together with his advisors provides that. If you noticed, i suspect that President Bush is indirectly endorsing Obama, by doing things that Obama has advocated so long..having timetable for Iraq withdrawal, talking to Iranians, going to Afghan and Pakistan etc..
On the Question of Economy, everyone agrees that Obama and his team will do a better job. A strong economy is needed before a strong national security and foreign policy can be carried out.
The two wars and other conflicts have drained all the economic resources, that’s why the financial meltdown, and soon also national security and foreign policy meltdown.
With McCain, he will focus on wars and wars, and neglect the economy in the name of de-regulation, because he simply has no idea how to run the economy. Isn’t that what President Bush did..

Posted by: Philip Chia | September 28, 2008, 3:59 am 3:59 am

The reason that McCain could not look Obama or speak directly to him is very simple. After all the lies, character attacks and outright nastiness from the McCain, how could McShame look a honorable man in the eye.

Posted by: jld1959 | September 28, 2008, 4:07 am 4:07 am

– Oh brother, now obama is going to spend the next eight years searching for the elusive bin laden?? thanks but no thanks! –
That ‘elusive bin laden’? Man, are you so out of touch with reality that you don’t realize he was the guy who started this whole mess? If Dubba had sent in more than just a token force, we wouldn’t be where we are today. Instead, he decided that once his weak attempt to placate the public over bin laden hadn’t worked, he took us into Iraq as a distraction. And get real, McCain wants to continue in Afganistan as much or more than Dubba, AND continue in Iraq until we ‘win’.

Posted by: Concerned American | September 28, 2008, 4:24 am 4:24 am

Even Republican Friendly Sources Can’t Hide the Truth:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Barack Obama attracting 50% of the vote while John McCain earns 44%. This six-point advantage matches Obama’s biggest lead yet (see trends). Obama is now viewed favorably by 56% of voters, McCain by 54%.

Posted by: Mr. Coffee | September 28, 2008, 4:33 am 4:33 am

Obama understands and so do I.McCain has done almost nothing for Arizona. Why would we put him in charge of the country ! Retire old man!

Posted by: shannon | September 28, 2008, 4:52 am 4:52 am

Another even bigger ANTI-PALIN, ANTI-TROOPERGATE RALLY in Alaska!!
The signs and pictures are great! I really liked the one that said “No More LIES Palinocchio!” or “Palin Humiliating Alaska!”
They can’t stand her in Alaska either… Look like it is going to be back to Mayor of Wassilla for you Palin!!!
http://www.themudflats.net/

Posted by: Davis | September 28, 2008, 4:57 am 4:57 am

Barack cares about our nation and the people in it. It was very clear from this past week (and especially the debate) that McCain does not. He only cares about “his” agenda and that is NOT putting “country first.”
This country does not need an VP who thinks like a 4th grader nor an OLD man POTUS stuck on saying he’s “right” when he is dead WRONG.
Go ahead McCain, put our “country first” and suspend your bid for the presidency!

Posted by: Independant American Woman | September 28, 2008, 5:10 am 5:10 am

Barack Obama cares about our nation and the people in it. It was very clear from this past week (and especially the debate) that McCain does not. He only cares about “his” agenda and that is NOT putting “country first.”
This country does not need a VP who thinks like a 4th grader or an OLD man POTUS stuck on saying he’s “right” when he is dead WRONG.
Go ahead McCain, put our “country first” and suspend your bid for the presidency!

Posted by: Independant American Woman | September 28, 2008, 5:12 am 5:12 am

McCain Whats your older 5% for the New Draft. McCain Forgot to tell you about it.

Posted by: historyremembered | September 28, 2008, 5:15 am 5:15 am

To: Voter for America Seriously, with the “Obama is a Muslim” claim? You must be desperate if you have decided to regurgitate old Fox News talking points.
Has this country become so partisan, so blinded by ideology that you actually think McCain was presidential during the debate? Fine, disagree with Obama because you make over $250k/yr and don’t want to pay higher taxes, or think his pro-choice stance is out of touch with your own principles. That’s a position I respect. Just don’t disparage a man simply because he is black. How many stupid people become president of the Harvard Law review? If this man was white, no one would dare say a man with his education was stupid.
Speaking of stupid, one person signed off by calling Obama a “magate.” You lose credibility when you start calling somebody names that you can’t even spell! Today’s secret word is: maggot!
Right below the surface, there is racism. It is the elephant in the room. Certain voters simply will get distracted by flagpins, an innocent “cling” comment, or now most recently he won’t receive votes because he was too cordial and had points of agreement with his rival. They won’t vote for him because he won’t use the politics of slash-and-burn! Are you kidding me?? I repeat, if this man was white, this wouldn’t be issues to distract the electorate.
This race is generational. The real question for older voters needs to be “What kind of future do I want for my kids, my grandkids?” Government, under an Obama administration, will be cool again. He will finally advance that ball that hasn’t been picked up since RFK.
8 years of the world hating us. Can we afford another 4?

Posted by: LV4Obama | September 28, 2008, 6:33 am 6:33 am

Obama and his thinly coded sexist, racist and agist remarks. A litle child who gets upset when schooled in debates lke giving Clinton the finger after she whipped him.
Was he wearing Sgt. UH’s bracelet?

Posted by: geevill | September 28, 2008, 7:02 am 7:02 am

I’m so sick and tired of liberal hypocrisy, hate, and unjustified anger. For ex, Palin is not qualified, huh?? Compared to who, exactly….the Obama??? LOL
Now, the Chosen One is resorting “going negative” (in dirrect opposition to his campaign promises of “unity” and “deceny”) in campaign ads calling McCain a bigot.
Pretty sad state of affair when liberals have to resort to playing the non-existent race card, but then they know deep down in their hearts that they don’t represent America, just their narcissistic selves.

Posted by: Joe | September 28, 2008, 7:06 am 7:06 am

It is a shame to see MSM ( especially CNN and NBC) still in the tank for Obama. Their analysis on the debate was PATHETIC. Fortunately those “bitter” people clinging to their guns and religion will give a fitting answer. Guys, Bill O Reilly from FOX is sounding really fair and balanced these days.
BTW, I am boycotting GE products, I bought a Bosch diswasher instead of GE..
- A Democrat from Masachusetts

Posted by: vs | September 28, 2008, 7:10 am 7:10 am

The real issue I see in this election is what kind of change we are looking at.
With Obama, he is trying to make FDR’s New Deal appear free while socializing the rest of the country. (Giving tax credits to welfare recipients, that they can cash in is another word of Robin Hood; or better yet: Communism!) Just where does all this money come from? Oh yea, the top ’5%’. Last time I heard, the top 25% made about 70% of our GNP! I haven’t quite made it that far, but I am a dying breed called middle class. (I was enlisted in the Navy and take college courses online with a college loan. I wasn’t given a ‘grant’ to go to an Ivy League School, I am working my way through at the young age of 49.)
As for McCain, he might not be the youngster, but neither was Reagan and that turned around the failed policy of another promising Democrat: Carter! (You remember him don’t you? The guy who froze military pay for almost 4 years and had us running on outdated equipment until the ‘Hostage Rescue Attempt at Tehran’ fell apart, and even the Stark Attack from the same dictator that Bush Jr finally got rid or?)
The racism is a Red Herring that the Obama supporters are raising, just like the threats of riots if he doesn’t get elected are too. I hear the wonderful words of ‘Change’ and ‘Hope’, but I see McCain telling us to drill for our own oil and make more Nuc plants. That will put people back to work, not promises of research for alternative energy. What hope is he offering? More social programs with no offer of how to pay for them except tax the rich? (And one of his biggest supporters is the Kennedy Clan in their however many mansions they have while they hide the crimes they have committed? Like Chappaquidic and the more recent one with the nephew?
No this election is all about who will actually give us what they are promising. Obama is promising hope and change, which sounds all fine and good. McCain is offering change and a challenge. I’d rather take the challenge, it sounds realistic if he lets us know up front that there is a cost (and I’m not talking about sitting in a protest somewhere, that isn’t a cost; that is an inconvience, but only if you have a job that you are skipping).
McCain at least mentions that we have to all end up working to get out of our mess, I don’t hear that from Obama. (Not yet at least, maybe if he gets elected the real cost will come out.)

Posted by: T. MacP. | September 28, 2008, 7:32 am 7:32 am

Joe,
Where have you been living? You are either an idiot or blind, deaf and dumb. Every political commentator has highlighted the fact that racism is alive and kicking in the country, and it WILL affect the vote, because a bunch of redneck hillybillies won’t vote for a black guy if it would save their stupid necks.
As for Palin, perhaps you missed the interview with Katie Couric. I haven’t laughed so much at a politicians ignorance and naivety for a long time. I am off to the store to stock up with tissues to dry my eyes when the VP’s debate is on, cos it’s gonna be hysterical and will show the world how incompetent and unfit for the job she is.

Posted by: mike | September 28, 2008, 7:32 am 7:32 am

vs.
Fox news sounding fair? Well that’s a first.

Posted by: Ian | September 28, 2008, 7:35 am 7:35 am

vs.
Whoa! Boycotting an American company to buy a german one. What a patriot you must be!
Have you seen our balance of trade deficit? Lets just send some more money and some more jobs overseas, eh? That will really show them who is boss right.

Posted by: Ian | September 28, 2008, 7:41 am 7:41 am

Showers of blessings, showers of blessings….moving forward without being deterred. Wonderful spirit of these two men….A continued Republican administration will lead to the total downfall of America. I am convinced.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 7:46 am 7:46 am

when I saw a Fox poll that showed 75% thought McCain won the debate, I realized that Obama will be our 44th President.
If Fox, that fair and balanced right wing press release network can only muster 75% of the kool aid drinkers, you KNOW McCain is in deep deep trouble.

Posted by: Gus | September 28, 2008, 7:48 am 7:48 am

Obama needed Missouri Governor Matt Blunt to tell him he was violating the first amendment of the Bill OF Rights of the American Constitution. That shows everyone that governors have more knowledge about executive powers than Obama. Well, I guess that sums it all up for Obama. He is a know nothing lawyer when it comes to executive powers.
Sarah Palin is the governor of Alaska and she knows more about executive powers than Obama. She could very easily run the United States of America’s executive position better than Obama. Obama is a lawyer and doesn’t even know the American Constitution. That even makes Sarah Palin more knowledgeable than Joe Biden. That makes Sarah Palin more qualified for the Vice-Presidents position than Obama or Biden.
JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.
“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.
“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
“Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts – not a free society.”

Posted by: Judge | September 28, 2008, 7:58 am 7:58 am

hellinahandbasket,
I have seen some sick twisted and really stupid posts, but yours sure takes the biscuit. were you bullied at school, still believe in monsters in the closet, or are you just stupid beyond belief?
What we need in this country is for people to take an idiot test before being allowed to register to vote. This would prevent you from doing so, (and would prevent Palin from being a candidate),and at the same time probably reduce the republican vote nationwide to about three votes.

Posted by: Mike | September 28, 2008, 8:00 am 8:00 am

Obama’s attempts to create an unconstitutional police state.
Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement
JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.
“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.
“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.
“Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts – not a free society.”
Obama’s way of governing a free people is to control them with police threats using Hitler Nazi methods.

Posted by: Judge | September 28, 2008, 8:02 am 8:02 am

Wake up….This crap started after the assassination of JF Kennedy.
The financial crisis started the day Democrat President Johnson expanded the Vietnam War. There is no way this financial mess happened in just eight years. Besides, Obama was in Washington the entire time with President Bush and the rest of Congress.

Posted by: Judge | September 28, 2008, 8:09 am 8:09 am

I have just read some utter drivel in an earlier post from voterfromamerica in which he suggests that under Obamas amazing increases in taxes we would pay for the right to go to work and take home nothing. That on its own says to me he is a loony, but he caps it by saying Obama is a muslim!
Not withstanding the fact that is an outright racist comment, to be quite frank, i don’t care if it was true. Does being a muslim suggest you are mentally deficient or incapable of being trustworthy? Such inflammatory comments are not welcome to the majority of this countrys people, and will only serve to make the worlds disillusionment with this once great country grow even further. It was comments and attitudes of this nature that created 9/11 in the first place.
If you can’t say anything intelligent, shut up!

Posted by: Ian | September 28, 2008, 8:21 am 8:21 am

T.MacP,
sorry you are stupid. Drilling for oil will not help us. We have 3% of the worlds reserves and use 25% of the worlds fuel. All more drilling will do is deplete our reserves even faster. A Republican survey said with mass drilling it will take 18 years to take 0.2 cents a gallon off at the pump. Whooopee! So, let’s build more nukes to stop our dependency on overseas for our energy. And where exactly does nuclear fuel come from? Go on, I will let you guess,. Oh, you got it! Overseas!
Ummm! How exactly does this masterplan save us?

Posted by: Ian | September 28, 2008, 8:31 am 8:31 am

I’m surprised the event didn’t turn into a wet business shirt type contest to gaga over him.
“The young people understand the clouds?” Huh? This is it? Oooooooo, the prophet has spoken!
Wonder why he’s not talking about the bill he introduced this April where he was wanting to TAX .7% of our GDP to give to fight “global poverty” – ie, we are going to tax a little under 1% of EVERYTHING we do in this country, give it to the UN who will (haha) distribute it to other countries to make them richer.
This includes countries with greedy dictators, just like Saddam in Iraq who built stadiums with $ from international contributions whereby they were used for executions. Intended for ‘entertainment’, the officials in Iraq said executions were entertainment. Another fact liberals choose not to consider.
And to the poster who brought up the FACTS of how many people die in this country (and during 9/11) vs Americans dying in Iraq (over a period of 6-7 years), there is no comparison – yet CNN continues to ticker the deaths each day. Not that it is irrelevant, but sacrifice is necessary for freedom.
People choose to forget history, how America got to where it is and we didn’t STEAL it from the indians, nor do we owe them an apology – read your history.

Posted by: obamayomama | September 28, 2008, 8:48 am 8:48 am

How can a Hero can be so careless in making decisions.
Is that a way you would want a general or commander to lead his or her troops in combat?
Is McCane fighting a guerrilla warfare?
Is the old mentality of fighting 20th century war pervades his mind?
Does McCane have a concept of future warfares?
Has McCane been telling the truth about Vietnam?
Army or any other institution can lie too. They sometimes embellish their exploit for history books and future generation.
Is that one of those cases?
I do not know, but check this link and comment afterward.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1549669/Pentagon-spin-on-Iraq-%27heroes%27-exposed.html

Posted by: Omidal | September 28, 2008, 8:52 am 8:52 am

Stupid? I happen to work int the oil field industry (I work on a supply boat for those oil rigs). NOT drilling is only giving more money to the ‘friends’ that support the terrorists that are targeting us and our allies. We use 25% of the oil processed today (by those standards) and it won’t take 18 years to get it out from the shallow areas (12-50 miles offshore, where we need to get it from). Nuclear fuel is from this country too (how else do you think we got the Atom Bomb in WWII first?). The oil is a stop-gap to tide us over while we work on real energy replacement. Nuclear is a better step then ‘just stay at home’ policy that Jimmy Carter put out! You remember Jimmy? He is an outstanding Ex-President (does wonderful things with Habitat for Humanity and all that). Doing what Obama is suggesting, would be to stop importing oil? Yea, right. Guess that means you are planning on a vegetable garden in your apartment? And my bigger question is this: McCain is for Building; more oil, Nuclear Plants, Clean Coal, AND working on getting alternative energy research done. Obama is all for the research, but what are you going to go to work on? I work now and pay taxes. I served my country. I made a question about where all the money is going to come from for the Utopia Obama is trying to dream up. Or are you going to tell me to shut up like the rest of Obama supporters in Missouri? (Check out the latest from Governor Matt Blunt! That is the real threat, even the ACLU has forgotten what it is to stand for, except for its liberal interpretation.)
Sorry, I don’t agree that all will be great when ‘The One’ get into office. He has a goon squad trying to dictate opinion by using illegal tactics (that spells Hitler to me!), and it is time we do something more than make promises. I see nothing in Obama’s campaign saying anything about making our country strong or successful, only how he wants ‘change’.
Mussoulini brought change once upon a time, he even made the trains run on time and was very popular. His best buddy got him into helping exterminate millions in a war and even outside of one. Who is Obama’s friends? Oh yea, that guy from the Weathermen group who taught him how to politic successfully. (Bill Ayers), and even the guy he hung around with in Hawaii when he was playing with drugs. (Not that Obama will even give him the time of day anymore, it looks bad to have a convict associate with a Presidential Candidate.)
I was being civil and asked what Obama is going to do for our energy needs and I get excuses and insults. Guess that is the new Democratic way. Sorry I asked. Next time I will just throw insults around and not worry about logic. (Yes, I know something about Nuclear Power as well, I did graduate from Navy Nuclear Power School once upon a time. And you graduated from?…)

Posted by: T. MacP. | September 28, 2008, 9:05 am 9:05 am

my my my im so ashame as a independent i thought i was going to get something positive and deffrent from john/palin but bought dont make one i watch her interview she is straight dumb i watch john damn im dissapointed trust me obama i think i could put a little trust in italian american cant vote republican you guys dissapoint me

Posted by: antonio | September 28, 2008, 9:39 am 9:39 am

I’ve been reading Don bash Jimmy Carter since he started posting, and I want to stand up for Jimmy. Jimmy was one of the few good, moral individuals that has been president. He wasn’t a politician and didn’t know how to work with a Republican congress, and was essentially a worthless president due to that, however still a good, moral, and intelligent individual.
In all actuality, Jimmy Carter did a wonderful job when he didn’t have to deal with congress a.k.a. foreign policy. Now, he didn’t do much else, but like I said, he didn’t know how to deal with congress. Obama, on the other hand, not only knows Diplomacy, but seems, in my mind, able to deal with members of the other party pretty well even when they are insulting him, as John McCain proved beyond the shadow of a doubt (thank you very much McCain).
As for my political leaning (because it seems to mean so much to so many of you): I’m simply an American. Screw the party system, it seems to blind people to the real issues anyways. So many of you are cursing out the Republicans and the Democrats, geez, how can you be so sophomoric? Are we still in first grade? Because I didn’t get the memo.
It doesn’t matter which party they come from. They ARE people and, at least for the most part, Americans. And, I’ll say this much for Rodney (the one who has been the primary Republican insulter in here), he’s at least funny (I’m sorry to say it). Most of you who are die hard Republicans just are too serious. If you are going to insult someone, make it funny, not tragic. Don’t make me feel bad to say I’m American, make me proud. Tell me why you really don’t want to vote for a Democrat. Not the “Oh they are smelly filthy liars,” because then I have to ask, “Ok, why are you voting at all?”
I’ll admit, some of the things the more Democrat leaning people have said have been awful, but at least I got a laugh, and the same should go for the people that lean Democrat. Stay with the issue, and if you are gonna make fun of someone else, make fun of yourselves too.
Neither party fights fair, but at least Obama tries to make it seem like a clean fight, and does a good job of it.
Also, I wish I could vote based on the issues, because I might actually consider McCain for president, however, McCain has proven, at least to me, that he’s childish, doesn’t really have a plan, and just generally unfit to be president. Obama on the other hand has shown that he is all of the above qualities. A little naive when he said McCain was right in the middle of a debate, but still a good candidate. For those of you who claim that he doesn’t have experience, I’d like to point out Ab Lincoln for you all. He had practically no experience, but he turned out to be a great president.

Posted by: dark_matter_mobius | September 28, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am

I have never been a fan of John McCain ,and like Barack, I find some good qualities in John, but for anyone who watched that debate and still votes for McCain, I feel sorry for them. This is typical McCain. The Maverick wasn’t holding the cards, so the only thing he could do is bluff his hand. On the other side was Barack Obama who only had one ace, He looked at McCain and called his bluff. McCain blinked and then he folded. Maybe poker is not his game. Although as President, John McCain would be able to gamble with our money and our lives. Next time he will go for a crap shoot.

Posted by: Ron | September 28, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am

WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Sunday his Republican rival deserves no credit for helping to forge a tentative agreement on the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street.
Instead, Obama said he deserves credit
In between campaign rallies yesterday, Nancy and Harry called him and he put the bailout together. IS THIS THE KIND OF PRESIDENT YOU WANT???? One who plays heads I win and tails you lose.

Posted by: Somali | September 28, 2008, 10:53 am 10:53 am

I am convinced that Republicans do well in supporting McCain. He is also in denial. I read an interesting poll rating the debate.
Democrats- Obama 90% McCain 10%
Republicans McCain 93% Obama 7%
Independents Obama 67% McCain 33%
How smart was Obama not to trash McCain ?
The Independents did not like the way McCain handled himself towards Obama.

Posted by: Ron | September 28, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

@Michael,
Senator McCain is not the President-elect and I am certain that he won’t be. Is not Senator McCain’s first name John.
Senator Obama has always been kind. I would refer to Senator McCain as Senator
McDoucheBag!!!

Posted by: BillForObama | September 28, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

Look at CNN and MSNBC
No Hurrican.
Damage in Texas Not Bad.

Posted by: historyremembered | September 28, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

did palin graduate from HS?
That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the–it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.
she must have lived under power lines or in a house with lead paint…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

After the last 8 years what we need now is a president with some class and brains. That definitely does not describe McCain.
I am just wondering what trick he is going to pull next in an attempt to get Palin out of debating Biden.
Obama/Biden 2008

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm

If you have a Satilite dish, Find a Neighbor with a Land Line System.
Turn to CNN and MSNBC
Find out Why You have been Lied to.
No Hurrican?
FIRST Space Walk?
Have you Been living in a Bubble?
Wait till you find out about History.
Find a Neigbor, call a Neighbor with a Land Line
Watch CNN and MSNBC From a Land Line
fox AND abc are Lying to you.
See Fake Hurrican in Maine.
Wait till Later, for More.
Watch WHOLE debate, Never Seen on abc AND fox
See Katrina Left Overs. Looks Pretty Good to Me.

Posted by: historyremembered | September 28, 2008, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm

If you have a Satilite dish, Find a Neighbor with a Land Line System.
Turn to CNN and MSNBC
Find out Why You have been Lied to.
No Hurrican?
FIRST Space Walk?
Have you Been living in a Bubble?
Wait till you find out about History.
Find a Neigbor, call a Neighbor with a Land Line
Watch CNN and MSNBC From a Land Line
fox AND abc are Lying to you.
See Fake Hurrican in Maine.
Wait till Later, for More.
Watch WHOLE debate, Never Seen on abc AND fox
See Katrina Left Overs. Looks Pretty Good to Me.
Call fox AND abc and ask WHAT the Heck?
Who made First Spacewalk?
CNN and MSNBC from LandLine
:)

Posted by: historyremembered | September 28, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

Where any of you there last night? I was!!! OBAMA!!!!

Posted by: who_r_u_people | September 28, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

Sarah Palin is persona non grata in this campaign, she is the biggest political blunder ever made!
If the selection of this woman is an indication of the intelligence and leadership of John McCain then America is in serious serious trouble, John keeps telling us of his vast experience in world affairs, but apparently it’s lacking at home.
There’s a criminal charge called reckless endangerment and John McCain certainly qualifies as a recipient.
How anyone who should be of sound mind and body can select a replacement for himself who barely qualifies as a crossing guard, needs to have a psychiatric exam done, think about this seriously! would Sarah Palin have the capacity to step into the Presidents shoes in the event of John McCains incapacitation or demise?
If you agree she does, then you are just as guilty as John McCain is of Reckless Endangerment.
This election has been handed to Obama and the Democrats on a silver platter,
it’s over and done, stick a fork in McCain and Palin, they are toast.
Seriously John should be brought before a congressional ethics committee for putting his country in Jeopardy, dare I say an act of treason.

Posted by: Larry the Cable Guy | September 28, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

Let’s just remember that Palin is exactly one heartbeat (or one melanoma metastasis) away from the Presidency, if elected. This should be a compelling reason to vote the Democratic ticket, as well as to ensure we don’t suffer another 4-8 years of what we’ve just gone through.

Posted by: Bob | September 28, 2008, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm

mccain lies…
2 points
he voted FOR the bill that included the bear DNA study…
earmarks: they have gotten smaller in the last 3 years, not tripled…
depending on numbers ~16 bil now
1.5% of the entire budget…
some are good, water projects, etc.
but let’s say 1/2 are suspect…
8 bil or 0.75%…
or less than we spend in Iraq in 3 weeks…
I say we are worth 3/52 or 6% as much as the people of Iraq…apparently mccain doesn’t think so…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

Besides the fact that Palin is totally unqualified and that’s dangerous in of itself, but if they are elected, we are going to be the laughing stock of the world. I mean even above and beyond the damage to our reputation that the Bush administration has manaaged to caused.
John McCain has demostrated to us that he does not have the good judgement required to lead this country. He has zero finess is solely interested in becoming president at all costs.
Senator Obama is who I want to see communicating with world leaders on our behalf, because I think he realized what we have been doing is not working and we need to restore our good name in the world. He’s a thinker, a communicator. McCain is a sad little, linear thinking man who wants to send our kids off to war for the next 50 years, because he has never gotten over our loosing the Vietnam war. His statement “I know how to win wars” is frightening to me, one because there is no basis in fact for him to make this claim and two because it dogmatic and shows his lack of ability to build bridges. Senator Obama is the complete opposite and he gets my vote. He didn’t let anyone push him into picking Hillary. He selected someone he felt was right for the job and someone who was prepared to lead, should if necessary. McCain picked someone who get him votes, not the best person to step into the presidency should he die in office.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

i only wish obama had nominated rosie o donnell as his vp. she’s more what the palin haters are looking for. palin is too normal for you.

Posted by: 49er | September 28, 2008, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm

Sorry about all the typo in the previous comment. I wrote it too quickly, because I have never been so upset by an election before. Palin is alarmingly inept and McCain has shown the worst judgement I of any presidential candidate in my years of voting.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

i only wish obama had nominated rosie o donnell as his vp. she’s more what the palin haters are looking for. palin is too normal for you.
Posted by: 49er
____________________
ignorant, backbiting, vindictive meglomaniacal neo-con’s jesus freaks who speak in tongues, believe the earth is 5000 yrs old and hate anyone different than them is not ‘normal’, thank god…
unless of course hitler, stalin, pol pot, et al, are ‘normal’

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm

okay, maybe Pink was a better choice for you.

Posted by: 49er | September 28, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

okay, maybe Pink was a better choice for you.
Posted by: 49er
______________________________
sure as heck would have been for macain
anyone breathing would have been

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm

I was trying to find someone who fits you desire for nasty name calling and personal attacks. I figured rosie beacuse she could go around painting mustaches on all the palin posters.

Posted by: 49er | September 28, 2008, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm

I was trying to find someone who fits you desire for nasty name calling and personal attacks. I figured rosie beacuse she could go around painting mustaches on all the palin posters.
Posted by: 49er
___________________
name calling?
hitler was a bad person…
is that ‘name calling’?
palin is a bad person…
the truth stings sometimes

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm

I’ve seen lab monkeys with a frontal lobotomy ‘sharper’ than palin

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

arthur,
ignorant, backbiting, vindictive meglomaniacal neo-con’s jesus freaks who speak in tongues, believe the earth is 5000 yrs old and hate anyone different than them is not ‘normal’, thank god…
that’s name calling..Hitler was a bad person.

Posted by: 49er | September 28, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

Oh, please. First off I don’t hate anyone. This is a political debate, not a popularity contest and at least Rosie O’Donnell can put a fluid sentence together….and what’s this constant chanting about her being “normal, just like me, tough cookie, real down home folk” and on and on. She may be normal, but completely unqualified VP candidate. Go read the text for the last of her rare interviews. There’s not fluidity to her answers and that would be, because….she is not prepared to answer anything she hasn’t been coached on. So, if you want to debate Palin, please do so by telling us what she does know that makes her so qualified.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm

arthur,
ignorant, backbiting, vindictive meglomaniacal neo-con’s jesus freaks who speak in tongues, believe the earth is 5000 yrs old and hate anyone different than them is not ‘normal’, thank god…
that’s name calling..Hitler was a bad person.
_________________________
but still true…
hitler too wa a ‘no body’ when he started out, only when he got into power could he implement his ‘philosophy’, same for palin
in her acceptance speech she quoted an infamous ant-semitic racist, who once said he hopped bobby kennedy had his head blown off…
this is the person you admire and defend…a lot of germans looked at hitler the same way…as a ‘saviour’, be careful what you ask for…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm

So 49er, you do realize it’s Palin who said the dinasaurs walked the earth 4,000 years ago, not Arthur. It would seem to anyone who reads your comments that you are the one doing most of the name calling.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm

So 49er, you do realize it’s Palin who said the dinasaurs walked the earth 4,000 years ago, not Arthur. It would seem to anyone who reads your comments that you are the one doing most of the name calling.
Posted by: Sally
___________________
people only see what they want to ‘see’
which opens doors for meglomaniacs to get control…
palin would be dangerous if not so dumb…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm

we can agree that hitler was a bad person.
That has nothing to do with calling Palin nasty names.

Posted by: 49er | September 28, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm

Biden said FDR was on tv in 1929, before it was invented. that doesn’t make him a danger to the country..or does it?

Posted by: 49er | September 28, 2008, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm

I am still waiting to hear one thing from 49er about what makes Palin so qualified, but maybe to quote Palin “you want to find out and get back to us” on that.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm

No 49er it just makes him incorrect on a minor point. He probably meant the radio and misspoke. But McCain calling Pakistan a “failed nation” or Palin lying about the “bridge to nowhere” is a danger to this country.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm

honest answer Sally? I like her. she reminds me of the strong women i’ve had in my life and that helped shape my life. i think she’s fresh and different and a change from what we have now. that’s an honest answer. she doesn’t have the track record. i agree. i don’t think obama does either.

Posted by: 49er | September 28, 2008, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm

Gee, here I put down a serious question and get passed over? Sorry folks, but my question still stands: If McCain is promising to put us to work building power plants (if for no other reason than getting off foreign oil), what work is Barak Obama pointing us toward?
That is a simple straight forward question, and I see it may confuse the Obama crowd as maybe they don’t really expect to HAVE to work, but unless we point somewhere forward, all we are doing is going in circles.
As I said, Jimmy Carter was a great Ex-President; and yes I agree that he was a very noble man. Always wanted to wear the ‘White Hat’, but ruined our reputation overseas and made us weak and dependent on foreign oil (more than we had been before). You want an even better President (especially in self-sacrifice) try Ford. Yes he pardoned Nixon, he also healed the country from such a mess and got us pointed back to the front again. He knew that the minute he took office, he put his neck on the chopping block; all for the sake of putting the country back together again. The Democrats went beyond playing politics to destroying the country, while the Republicans thought they ruled it! Both were wrong.
As for Obama, if what I read about Missouri is right (an official statement from a Governor sounds pretty convincing), then he better get his ‘goons’ back under control. It is illegal to silence people the way it was put out out there. (And yes, that does sound like a Hitler tactic!) When McCain went to have lunch on a campaign trip, 3 rather large black fellows started shouting O-Bam-A while McCain was trying to order some food. C’mon, the Brown Shirts did the same thing to the other partys in the 1930s, before they burned down the Reichtag! McCain supporters shout U S A, not Adolf (or O-Bam-A). Obama is a very good orator and is highly educated (though I do have a personal bias against anyone from an Ivy League School: there is too much Kennedy and Anti-Vietnam Protester mentality there, and yes that spells elitism to me), while McCain only graduated from the Naval Academy (and became a Navy Pilot: I’m not always fond of officers, but POWs who can come out with honor have more moral strength than most of us put together), but that is still straying off the question;
What is O-Bam-a trying to make us accomplish? I see plenty of great plans and ideas (yes medical care needs ‘fixing’, and so does our social security – though I would rather have it go to work more than support more welfare), and I also see his idea to tax the rich (playing Robin Hood sounds good, but it won’t really get us to pay our bills; maybe it might make some of them pay theirs, but they are rich and can afford the best lawyers anyway for the biggest loopholes, or even the fastest Visas to get out that much quicker), but aside from ‘research on new energy sources’, where are all the people going to focus their energy on; where are they going to work? (Or has everyone forgotten that you have to work to pay for all the nice new projects he has in mind including what ever rabbit he has up his sleeve; like the wind/solar energy projects that will generate up to 25% of our electrical grid when completed in 10 years? Hydro is limited by the ecologists to pretty much what we have, and Geothermal too for the same reason, so where are we supposed to go to fill our cars and heat our homes?)
These wonderful promises won’t just fall out of the sky, they have to be paid for by someone somewhere. McCain wants us to put our effort into building an energy grid free from foreign oil and might even get there. Obama says 10 years with out a clue on how to do it! (No, solar and wind sound great, but are heavily dependent on batteries for power storage and are a real hazardous waste that even the car manufacturers are still trying to figure out how to deal with, why else don’t we have a car that goes much more than 40 miles/ and the batteries are only good for a year or two when using that much energy.)
Somebody tell me, where is the real work going to be done in Obama’s Nation? After all the rich cats either run away or totally dodge the tax bullet, who will end up paying for his programs as well as the Billions of dollars we already owe? (No, I didn’t forget that even McCain doesn’t want to talk about that problem though he atleast is willing to talk about cutting programs, Obama only mentions he will look at them but dodged even cutting programs.)
Who ends up paying for new social programs? I will tell you how it ends up: those that are working and can afford more than their mortgage, and that means eventually there will be a communist mentality that all men are created equal so all have to be paid equal! That is the real communist dream, but the reality was a lot different; look at how the Soviet Union ended up. Stalin was a dictator too, and even liked by his people when he first went up to take over his government. (Want another Stalin?)
So, who is going to pay for all this and what are we going to work for?

Posted by: T. MacP. | September 28, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

Please, the polls show Obama clearly held his own with McCain, a 26 year veteran of the senate, on Friday night and despite the propaganda from the right Senator Obama does have some qualifications to bring to the table. Palin can’t even hold her own in an interview with Katie Couric. You have yet to state any part of her resume that makes her qualified to run this country. This is what I find so odd. Anyone defending Palin, turns to the I like her, she’s a strong women, answer. What else have you got?

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

palin said she could not travel because she worked 2 jobs until pregnant with her first kid…
she graduated from tv journalism school (after attending 5 different schools in 6 years!!!) when she was 23)
btw: mccain never checked her school records, did she flunk out? did she even finish?
she had her first kid at 25…
so she ‘worked’ for 1 year…
hardly the ‘hardship’ she portrayed it to be…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm

T.MacP in your comment you already showed a contempt for someone with an “Ivy League” education and your continual use of bastardization of Senator Obama’s name tells me me a lot about where you are coming from and if you want a candidate who chuckles when he talks about being 5th from the bottom of his class, well you go baby. I suspect you were never going to vote for a black candidate anyway.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm

T.MacP in your comment you already showed a contempt for someone with an “Ivy League” education and your continual use of bastardization of Senator Obama’s name tells me me a lot about where you are coming from and if you want a candidate who chuckles when he talks about being 5th from the bottom of his class, well you go baby. I suspect you were never going to vote for a black candidate anyway.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm

Hey Arthur, don’t you find debating people who are for Palin a bit like…oh I don’t know, shooting wolves from an airplane?

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm

Hey Arthur, don’t you find debating people who are for Palin a bit like…oh I don’t know, shooting wolves from an airplane?

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm

For those of you who defend her, but seem to have read nothing about her, that is one of Palin’s hobbies.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm

Hey Arthur, don’t you find debating people who are for Palin a bit like…oh I don’t know, shooting wolves from an airplane?
Posted by: Sally
_______________________
at least the wolves have a chance ;)
the sad part? no one is changing anyones minds…we have an opportunity here to make a new way for the Country, much like the JFK era…
and after the smoke clears, we’ll still be divided down the middle no matter who wins…and still treading water…
we need a new approach, not more of the same…religious fanaticism has no place in government…
I’m caustiously optomistic that people will look beyong ingrained racsism and give the Country a chance to rebuild

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm

That’s my hope.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm

some some fundamental questions here…
1) why does mccain say he wants change in washington yet voted with bush 90% of the time?
2) why couldn’t mccain look obama or jim lehrer in the eye friday night?
3) why did mccain find it necessary to attack obama during the debate versus focusing on what her perceives to be his accomplishments?
4) why couldn’t sarah palin think of any specific regulation-related accomplishments her running mate has had in his 26-year political career?
5) why would anyone vote for mccain whose weakest platform is economics during our nation’s worst economic crisis since the depression?

Posted by: QueenBee | September 28, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm

That’s my hope.
Posted by: Sally
_____________________
you and me both my friend…
and I’m not your typical obama supporter…
ex-military officer
NRA lifetime member, CCW permit
president of an engineering firm
like to make $$, not as a yardstick for self worth, but for fun, sport, the challenge…
but I LOVE this Country and Her people, and that is what will guide my conscience…
great reference, all polls to date:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/poll-tracker.htm
I do take hope though…
even fox has obamo up by 6: 45 vs 39
even the rassmussen polls, the only ones recently to have mccain up (by 1 or 2 points) have reversed after the debate: obama up by 1, a nice ‘swing’…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

No, you’re right, you aren’t typical, but it just says to me that Obama is reaching all kinds of people. My father served in the Army and my grandfather was a lifer in the Air Force. I respect the right to bare arms, not ak40′s, but you know what I mean and I don’t believe that Obama wants to take anyone’s guns away. I feel certain he does respect and appreciate our men in the service. I think he just wants to make sure we are fighting for the right thing in the right place. That doesn’t seem important to McCain and that bothers me. Do you know many ex-military and if so what are they saying? You mentioned you have also been a part of the corporate world. Why did you chose to support him? I would be interested in knowing.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

sally
I have no doubt he respects the military members…
his answer in response to mmcains about our folks dying in ‘vain’ sums it up…
he said no soldier dies in vain, they all are executing the mission honorably, but the mission must be sound and moral and that’s potus’s responsibility…
re guns: we need more control…
you need a license to drive, but not to buy a gun…no training, no insurance, nada…
I know a good many current and retired military, they pretty much keep their politics private, but the ones that do talk, are evenly split…
they don’t trust bush, and visa vis, mccain…he potentially left POW’s stranded and is not supportive of veterans spending…
but just like civie life, you have both sides…
I feel obama turned a corner:
palin helped him a bunch
the economic crisis has too…
in addition he has shown he is on equal footing as mccain in the debate…
he’s reseaned, not reactionary like mccain…
the economy is sound
then it’s not
rushing to DC, suspend campaign
no debate, then debate
he’s getting shakey

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm

Arthur,
Thanks for your perspective. This is what we need to be doing instead of calling each other names. It helps me understand how you got your point of view.
One of the things I find so frustrating is that so many people are willing to accept Palin without asking more questions. If they believe so fully in her, then demand that she come forward and face the same rigorous vetting that all the candidates have gone through. If they believe in her, they should not be afraid of that.

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm

T.MacP in your comment you already showed a contempt for someone with an “Ivy League” education and your continual use of bastardization of Senator Obama’s name tells me me a lot about where you are coming from and if you want a candidate who chuckles when he talks about being 5th from the bottom of his class, well you go baby. I suspect you were never going to vote for a black candidate anyway.
Posted by: Sally | Sep 28, 2008 2:32:52 PM
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Sally, I am still waiting for someone (anyone) who can tell me what kind of work to expect us to be doing with Obama in office (and as for McCain, I give him the same name respect – last name to name him only to keep it simple). Just because I am concerned about the election and don’t prefer Obama doesn’t mean I have to be a racist, you never met my Uncle John. (He was a veteran, like my father, and was at my fathers bedside when he died and was not just brown, but dark black. I have been under military rule for most of my life where the LAW is no discrimination from color, sex, or religion. I feel offended by the insult and even by the suggestion that because I don’t like elitists that are black that makes me prejudiced? I would vote for Condaleesa Rice in a minute, or even Colin Powell, but Jessie Jackson is too liberal for me to support and so is Obama.)
It is Obama’s campaign people who contacted the police and prosecutors office in Missouri to ban any signs or comments or they will be prosecuted! That is dictatorship in the making.
I am asking what type of work we can look forward to and where we are going, not anything about Palin or guns or even who lied the most. Revising health care and social security are important, but without some kind of future work they are all just more socialization.
What work is Obama proposing? (Where will all the money come from? And don’t tell me we are going to just steal it from the rich again…)

Posted by: T. MacP. | September 28, 2008, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm

Enough bantering and bashing. Thank you ABC for allowing us to present very different views and actually allowing a free exchange on ideas and viewpoints (and yes, I am bashing both MSNBC/NBC as well as FOX). This might not have changed anyone’s mind, but it is a more open air forum than I have read yet. Again, Thank You ABC!

Posted by: T. MacP. | September 28, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

this is the person you admire and defend…a lot of germans looked at hitler the same way…as a ‘saviour’, be careful what you ask for…
Posted by: Arthur
Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html
Please sign the petition for Psychiatric Evaluation of Presidential Candidates
http://www.petitiononline.com/obamapet/petition.html

Posted by: wordtothewise | September 28, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm

sombody mentioned that palin received 60 thousound people in lady lake florida
you are full of crap i live in florida and they dont even have that many people that live in lady lake stop making up numbers i know you want palin to be a female obama and u mimic obama stealing his messages using the change argument saying biden is too old blah mccain even stole obamas approach to the bailout saying we need more oversight we need to make sure ceos like carly fiorona “mccain advisor” dont receive severence packages of 40 million after leaving the company a wreck and laying off another 25 thousound workers. heck your brod Palin even agree with obama about looking for bin laden in pakistan something the majorty of americans beleive we should have done 6 years ago instead of iraq Mccain palin except your republican failings at home and aborad the repubs have been disater for this country

Posted by: MCcant | September 28, 2008, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

Obama is clearly a very good actor. He has so many people actually believing that he can make things better. The only thing Obama has going for him is that he is a very convincing speaker. Well…Pres. Clinton was a very good speaker as well, “I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.” On the subject of the war: War is never easy. During WWII, times on the home front were very very tough. However, if you start something, you see it to the finish. What if we had said, Oops, we are losing too many men, let’s just leave Europe to Hitler. Oh, yeah and Japan you can do whatever you need to. I am so glad that I have morals and am a proud conservative American. My worst nightmare would be to die and come back as a liberal democrat.

Posted by: Concerned Conservative | September 28, 2008, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm

and mccain is a poor liar…
yet the sheeple still follow…
go figure
if you start something you see it to the finish? even if it’s wrong and pointless? this has cost 5000 US lives and x00,000′s of Iraqis, this ain’t a game, and the bodies ticks on a scoreboard…
definition of insanity:
keep doing the same thing expecting different results…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm

and Iraq sure as heck ain’t WWII…
you dishonor the veterans of WWII making that comparison…
the Japanese attacked us…
the Germans invaded poland, france, etc.
the Iraqi’s did nothing other than propose to change the oil currency trading basis from $ to euros…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 5:56 pm 5:56 pm

my worst nightmare (and America’s & the worlds) doesn’t involve my ‘death’ or reincarnation…it’s mccain and psych holy roller getting elected…
then again, with a dem house/senate, they will be stymied…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm

post debate polls:
zogby 47-46 for obama, a reversal
rassmussen 50-44 obama (previous 49-46 obama
gallup 50-42, yep obama
there is hope to reclaim our Country from the elements intent on destroying Her…
…from enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm

the ‘surge’
why it’s ‘working’
1
we are apying off over 100,000 people not to fight, the generals major concern is what happens after we stop paying?
2
we are allowing genocide of the sunni
they have all been killed/relocated from baghdad…some say as may as 700,000 civies killed so far…
a bunch of scientist just analyzed night time sat photos of sunni areas in major cities, the lights are out, and keep getting less and less…they are being killed and/or forcible located…
russia: evil,etc.
why will no one acknowledge georgia attacked first? launched rockets, etc.?
we are blind, arrogent and righteous…
all required before the enevitable downfall of any powerful nation…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 6:11 pm 6:11 pm

post debate polls:
zogby 47-46 for obama, a reversal
rassmussen 50-44 obama (previous 49-46 obama
gallup 50-42, yep obama
Posted by: Arthur
Careful Arthur, Learn from history
Goldwater beat Johnson = Johnson POTUS
Humphrey beat Nixon = Nixon POTUS
McGovern beat Nixon = Nixon POTUS
Ford beat Carter = Carter POTUS
Dukakis beat Bush = Bush POTUS
Bush beat Clinton = Clinton POTUS
Dole beat Clinton = Clinton POTUS
Gore beat Bush = Bush POTUS
Kerry beat Bush = Bush POTUS

Posted by: jay | September 28, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm

Arthur, Learn from history
Goldwater beat Johnson = Johnson POTUS
Humphrey beat Nixon = Nixon POTUS
McGovern beat Nixon = Nixon POTUS
Ford beat Carter = Carter POTUS
Dukakis beat Bush = Bush POTUS
Bush beat Clinton = Clinton POTUS
Dole beat Clinton = Clinton POTUS
Gore beat Bush = Bush POTUS
Kerry beat Bush = Bush POTUS
jay:
___________________
I suggest you revisit it, not revise it…
Riding a wave of economic discontent, the Democratic nominee now has the backing of 49 percent of the voters over all, compared with 37 percent who say they are supporting Mr. Bush, the poll shows. Despite Mr. Bush’s efforts to refocus his campaign and repackage his economic agenda, those standings are essentially unchanged from the last Times/CBS poll three weeks ago.
CNN 2004. Kerry (47%). 1%. n/a. 98%, 0%. Bush (51%)

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm

time:
the first time since the Presidential race became a two person contest last spring, there is a clear leader, the latest TIME poll shows. If the 2004 election for President were held today, 52% of likely voters surveyed would vote for President George W. Bush, 41% would vote for Democratic nominee John Kerry, and 3% would vote for Ralph Nader

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm

NY times:
Over all, 46 percent of the registered voters in the survey said they would vote for Mr. Bush and Mr. Quayle if the election were held now; 40 percent said they would vote for the Democratic ticket of Michael S. Dukakis and Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas.

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm

CNN 2004. Kerry (47%). 1%. n/a. 98%, 0%. Bush (51%)
Posted by: Arthur |
Not so fast Arthur
TEMPE, Arizona (CNN) — Sen. John Kerry appeared to gain more momentum heading toward November 2, easily beating President Bush in the third and final debate, a poll taken late Wednesday night suggests.
A CNN/USA Today/Gallup snap poll taken immediately after the presidential debate found that respondents gave a significant edge to Kerry over Bush, 52 percent to 39 percent…
Kerry scored big gains, as 42 percent of respondents said they had a more favorable opinion of him after the debate. Bush only increased with 27 percent of those polled.
When asked who would handle domestic issues better, Kerry scored higher in health care (55-41). There was no clear leader on the economy (Kerry 51, Bush 46), education (Kerry 48, Bush 47) or taxes (Bush 50, Kerry 47).
Kerry’s biggest win came on the question of who expressed himself better, where 61 percent of respondents chose him over Bush (29 percent).
The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Posted by: jay | September 28, 2008, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm

jay, you distort again…
who won the debate polls vs election polls…
the polls I posted were for the election, not the debate…
nice try, but no cigar

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm

polling has become a better and more exact discipline, mostly due to telecom/internet/computers
not looking good for the ‘song bird’, he may have sang his last song…
will trade info for food

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

The republicans couldn’t come up with a single reasonable candidate this time around, so McCain won by default, with no one at all (except McCain) very excited about it. Now they’re trying push McCain on the nation as if he’s sent from heaven, along with his neophyte airhead VP pick.
The democrats had a great field of candidates who toughed it out through a dozen debates and months of door to door handshaking right down until the very best person for the job emerged as a clear winner.
Obama’s the man, and Biden is wonderful choice for VP. No doubt the lies and trickery from McBush will continue and escalate, but Obama’s clearly up to it and ready to go in the office from day one.

Posted by: dontbestupid | September 28, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm

post debate polls:
zogby 47-46 for obama, a reversal
rassmussen 50-44 obama (previous 49-46 obama
gallup 50-42, yep obama
jay, you distort again…
who won the debate polls vs election polls…
the polls I posted were for the election, not the debate…
nice try, but no cigar
Posted by: Arthur
We ARE talking debate polls.

Posted by: jay | September 28, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm

The democrats had a great field of candidates who toughed it out through a dozen debates and months of door to door handshaking right down until the very best person for the job emerged as a clear winner.
Posted by: dontbestupid
NOT!
We Were Robbed!
http://clintondems.com/2008/09/we-were-robbed/

Posted by: nobama-clinton2012 | September 28, 2008, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm

Hey, Country First!
I demand that all of you McShame supporters step up and and join those of us who are actually FIGHTING THIS WAR and enlist.
Put YOUR BLOOD where your mouth is and send your kids or your grandkids to the Middle East, rather than sitting safely on your ARSE, spewing McShame’s platitudes.
McCain’s never done anything for us Vets, and we know it! He uses us for votes and sympathy.
VETS AGAINST MCCAIN!
BLUE STAR FAMILIES FOR OBAMA!

Posted by: Sue M Vet for Obama | September 28, 2008, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm

We ARE talking debate polls.
Posted by: jay
_________
WE are talking about many different things…
I posted election polls, YOU responded with debate polls…neither mean much, but the trends don’t look good for the ol’ boy…he’s shot his load

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm

VETS AGAINST MCCAIN!
BLUE STAR FAMILIES FOR OBAMA!
Posted by: Sue M Vet for Obama
________________
you mean like draft dodging bush or ’5 deferrment’ cheney…
they are willing to spill YOUR kids blood…war is fought on the backs of the lower and middle class…the very people mccain has disdain, and maybe even contemp for…
mccain will and has screwed vets…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 8:03 pm 8:03 pm

I hope this stays formated when I upload, but what it shows the change in approval rates for all four candidates since 9/11/2008. Senator Obama is clearly making positive headway and it looks like the “Palin Effect” is wearing down.
http://www.dailykos.com/dailypoll/2008/09/28
September 11, 2008
CANDIDATE FAV UNFAV NO OPIN
MCCAIN 55 44 1
OBAMA 56 40 4
BIDEN 51 30 19
PALIN 52 35 13
September, 28, 2008
CANDIDATE FAV UNFAV NO OPIN
MCCAIN 46 45 9
OBAMA 59 32 9
BIDEN 51 34 15
PALIN 40 50 10

Posted by: Sally | September 28, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

Dave in VA:
Dream On!
Rodney why do you wear Lipstick?

Posted by: reaganfan | September 28, 2008, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm

Mr Coffee:
Did you know that the last poll
Fox took before the 2004 election
gave John Kerry a 2 point lead!
Are you aware that the “exit polls”
taken by the major networks
indicated that Kerry had won the
election?
The only poll that counts is the
vote on election day and John McCain
will win that one!

Posted by: reaganfan | September 28, 2008, 8:21 pm 8:21 pm

last polls before 2004
org….date….bush…..kerry
GWU Battleground 11/1 50 46
TIPP 11/1 47 44
FOX/Opinion Dynamics 10/31 46 48
CNN/USA Today/Gallup 10/31 49 47
TIPP 10/31 45 44
GWU Battleground 10/31 49 45
FOX/Opinion Dynamics 10/30 46 47
American Research Group 10/30 48 49
TIPP 10/30 47 42
FOX/Opinion Dynamics 10/29 47 45
Newsweek 10/29 51 45
TIPP 10/29 45 44
FOX/Opinion Dynamics 10/28 50 45
14 < 1 week before the election
only 3 had kerry in the lead
2 of them fox…by 1 point
look at the margin in the other polls
it's trends that count…not cherry picking 1 poll
http://www.pollingreport2.com/wh2004a.htm

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

By VOA News
28 September 2008
Iraqi police say a series of bombings has killed at least 32 people and wounded many others in Baghdad as Iraqis prepared to break their daily fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
‘victory’ in iraq, per palin…

Posted by: Arthur | September 28, 2008, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

To the McCain supporters claiming that he won the debate on Friday, are any of you actually listening to what you’re saying? Those of us with a brain and common sense are reading your posts with great disbelief at the BS you’re willing to believe as long as it means McCain comes out over Obama. And none of it’s true. You’re an embarrassment to your country.
And you PUMA-Clintonista’s who’re claiming to be Democrats, you’re not. If you were a true Democrat, you’d support the party and vote for Obama. Instead you lot are throwing a temper tantrum and throwing away the reproductive rights of your daughters, grandaughters, and nieces. How shameful and disgusting, that you’d vote for McCain to keep Obama out of the White House.
I would have no problem running for Hillary if she’d run a better campaign and not been such a bitch during the primaries. But she lost because she mismanaged her campaign, and she and her advisors ran it into the ground with their smear tactics and racism. She has the capability to be a great leader, but she did not demonstrate those skills during the primaries, and so she lost.

Posted by: Nikolita | September 28, 2008, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm

How shameful and disgusting, that you’d vote for McCain to keep Obama out of the White House.
Posted by: Nikolita |
The wrath for a woman scorned!
Democratic Party delusional in 2008, ditched Hillary for? Well, watch many Dems go McCain all the way this year.
http://vbonnaire.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/democratic-party-delusional-in-2008-ditched-hillary-for-well-watch-many-dems-go-mccain-all-the-way-this-year/
Hillary Supporters for McCain
http://hillarysupportersformccain.blogspot.com/
Hillary Supporters for McCain
http://www.cafepress.com/hillary4mccain
Two More Hillary Supporters Endorse McCain
http://heroesforhillary.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/two-more-hillary-supporters-endorse-mccain/

Posted by: nobama-clinton2012 | September 28, 2008, 11:29 pm 11:29 pm

McCain who likes to call himself a strong supporter of our veterans has a 20% approval rating from the Disabled American Veterans and his voting record will explain why. From the same time period, Obama has 80% and Biden has 75%. Check it out yourself on Project Vote Smart. There is loads of info on this site. It took a while to find some of the cool stuff, but if you want to know more about who you are voting for, check it out. The Interest Groups rating are especially revealing.
http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm

Posted by: Sally | September 29, 2008, 12:17 am 12:17 am

How shameful and disgusting, that you’d vote for McCain to keep Obama out of the White House.
Posted by: Nikolita
kiss millions of our asses biatch!

Posted by: rallph | September 29, 2008, 1:00 am 1:00 am

First and Formost. Thank you ABC, I try to post the same anti Obama posts on the CNN or Honolulu Advertiser blog and they won’t post my thoughts.
Thanks again for you support of Freedom..

Posted by: saltyboy | September 29, 2008, 2:02 am 2:02 am

Listen, Obama supporters.
No amount of citations can stop these people because they don’t operate on reality. Every single rational human being on who has figured out how to use a computer has, by now, also figured out how to navigate to factcheck.org and figure it all out.
But don’t stop, it’s hilarious to see their partisan idiocy get thrown in their face by so many others.

Posted by: astroturf | September 29, 2008, 2:39 am 2:39 am

“ABC’s Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman Report: The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, Barack Obama played to a crowd in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1964.”
“his white dress-shirt clinging to his body”
What the hell is this, a Harlequin romance??
The Media’s infatuation with Obama has reached a new low! UGH!

Posted by: ACORN bailout | September 29, 2008, 8:31 am 8:31 am

Funny I didn’t read it that way. It kind of says where your mind is at.

Posted by: Sally | September 29, 2008, 8:48 am 8:48 am

I think I taste vomit.

Posted by: pchelli | September 29, 2008, 9:08 am 9:08 am

Fortunately, now way no how will 50% of the U.S. electorate vote for a muslim nigg.

Posted by: tec9 | September 29, 2008, 9:09 am 9:09 am

News please, not the visual eye candy of the first sentence…..we know you love the guy ABC…but geez….

Posted by: Pete | September 29, 2008, 9:10 am 9:10 am

it was more like 5,000 people…I was there! And he’s a terrible speaker!

Posted by: Brady | September 29, 2008, 9:10 am 9:10 am

COMPLETELY UNQUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT. NOTHING BUT EMOTION. A COMPLETE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FARCE.

Posted by: Dan Feerst | September 29, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am

I trust BRADY’s account , as he was there……
this obama is a charlatan and he is where he is cause the dumb DNC bribed all their superdelegates to push for him…..no different as the DNC taking all the kickbacks to allow our financial institution to fail….
fannie and freddie paid off big time to all the DNC’s …. MSM…where is the specifics of reporting that?

Posted by: carpenter.nyc | September 29, 2008, 9:15 am 9:15 am

Wait…this is news? Obama…wet in the rain? Was there a bailout to talk about?

Posted by: Jason | September 29, 2008, 9:15 am 9:15 am

They BOTH SUCK! Obama and his supporters run on emotion (that and 50 cents will get yo a cup of coffee), and McCain is a watered-down populist… any support for him is thinly veiled anti-Obama sentiment. Meanwhile these candidates are trying to outdo one another in how bad they can screw things up.
Neither of these clowns is the answer, and supporting any of them makes you look like a fool.

Posted by: Weew | September 29, 2008, 9:16 am 9:16 am

The media has lost it. Their description of Obama’s clinging shirt is from a romance novel. ManLove has gone overboard. A bunch of lonely liberal journalists — the female liberals so haggish that no man can stand them for more than 2 minutes, and the male liberal journalists so wimpy, so feminized, it would be like dating your mother. Truly, the media has lost its collective mind in its freakish love for Obama.

Posted by: Karen | September 29, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am

If you watched the Debate on CNN of course Obama won. There was a bar graph shown during the entire debate. Rep red, Dem Blue and IND Green and every time Obama spoke all levels of this faked graph lifted and every time McCain spoke all bars dropped. Your impression Obama is pulling it off. Reflection of the Debate certainly indicates that Obama agreed more with McCain on many issues and in fact McCain compared Obama’s refusal to acknowledge the success of the surge exacly like BUSH. Obama closer to BUSH then McCain. Welcome to another 4 years of the same.

Posted by: tom | September 29, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am

seriously. McShame? Falin?
these are the lamest “nicknames” i’ve ever heard.
Democrats are so uninspired.
to attatch McCain to Bush is a no go. We all know Bush hates the man and vice versa, and they never agree.
Left wingers need to become suicide bombers and make the world a better place.

Posted by: mogulus | September 29, 2008, 9:18 am 9:18 am

Ya,left standing in the rain alright.I am gonna save this picture for future loser reference.

Posted by: harleyrider1978 | September 29, 2008, 9:18 am 9:18 am

Poor MCcain had he been in that rain would be sick today , Nice to have a rain or sunshine soon to be president out there in the trenches.

Posted by: bingo-caller | September 29, 2008, 9:18 am 9:18 am

Thank you Senator McCain for one of the most powerful performances in a Presidentidal debate America has ever known. Obama has one of the weakest.
Posted by: politoli | Sep 27, 2008 9:03:54 PM
—————————-
Wow! Now you want to tell us how dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time? See some human footsteps in those dino prints? What else are you seeing with your eyes closed?

Posted by: FrustratedDemInNH | September 29, 2008, 9:19 am 9:19 am

I find it interesting that an Ivy League educated American politician cannot speak proper English. I was struck by this fact in last week’s debate. And, when Senator Obama indicated that he would increase funding for early education, whatever that means, it would include instruction in proper English, or ebonics (if I’ve spelled it correctly)? If he’s elected this will mean even greater degradation of the American way. When we know Western Civilization is under attack, doesn’t it make sense that Mr. Obama would portray himself as a protector of our way of life as opposed to yet another chink in the armor?

Posted by: Joe Blow | September 29, 2008, 9:19 am 9:19 am

Listen …. All you Fat Poll Bloated Liberal, arrogant, east-west coast elitist will never run this country…..got it!!!!……….we here in MICHIGAN, in Fly Over Country have had enough and WE ARE NOT GOING TO LET YOU TAKE OVER OUR FINANCIAL MARKETS like you have our school, businesses and colleges.
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We’ve had ENOUGH Of the Leftist environmental Wack Jobs Not letting our nation build more refineries to help our nation deal with the gasoline shortage. They Blame the Fat Cats. Republicans don’t want the oil companies to treat us like the do, but the people who put these Left Wing law Makers into our Congress should own up to what is all of their fault!
We’ve had ENOUGH Of left wing judges believing that they have the education to re-write our constitution from their bench. If we let you elitist Left Wingers win, You will have our constitution model what ever the ACLU says it should.
We’ve had ENOUGH Of you far Left Anti-War Pacifists’ and Your ilk of Bomb Makers. You and Bill Ayers Are on the Same……Aren’t You All So Proud Of Your Wako Leader, and his Buddy Barack Husain Obama.
We’ve had ENOUGH Of all the people who say “Not God Bless America” “God Damn America!”. Oh Yeah, I forgot, That was a Buddy Of Borack Husain Obama That Said That as Well! WE’VE HAD ENOUGH OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO SAY “NOT GOD BLESS AMERICA” “GOD DAMN AMERICA!”. OH YEAH, I FORGOT, THAT WAS A BUDDY OF BORACK HUSAIN OBAMA THAT SAID THAT AS WELL!
We’ve had ENOUGH Of you Leftist and Your Drive By Media Treating Our Republican Babe Like you are all so much better than her. Give Me A break…. You are than saying that you are better than 51% of America!,,,, Not a good idea when you are trying to elect your Savior. Barack Husain Obama!

Posted by: derrek michigan | September 29, 2008, 9:21 am 9:21 am

With all the lies told about Palin, most of which Democrats still believe, the democrats can not hold the high ground on that issue. If Obama wins we should immediately start steps towards impeachment because this guy will bankrupt america.

Posted by: sonofdy | September 29, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

politoli You must have watched the Debate a little cockeyed…McCains is a stumbling, bumbling 70+ year old man. I love my Father immensely and he is the same age as McCain and I am noticing slippage in how he handles himself and his thoughts, I see these same things in McCain…He simply cannot run this country. I have voted GOP for over 20 years, but not this year!!! WE NEED CHANGE

Posted by: wags | September 29, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

“White shirt clinging to his body”?!?!?
I sure hope whoever said that blew a load afterwards…

Posted by: JCee | September 29, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

This shows two things about Obama;
1: He is trying to win based upon slick marketing of sex appeal rather than showing leadership ability.
2: The man does not have the sense to come in out of the rain.

Posted by: Bart | September 29, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

Obama is a passing dream- nothing more. On November 4th the vast fly-over regions of America will wake up and say, “What was I thinking?!? A community-orgnizing socialist for president? NO way!”

Posted by: Gun totin' religion clinger | September 29, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

Obama is a passing dream- nothing more. On November 4th the vast fly-over regions of America will wake up and say, “What was I thinking?!? A community-orgnizing socialist for president? NO way!”

Posted by: Gun totin' religion clinger | September 29, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

A black version of Chauncey Gardener

Posted by: Renee | September 29, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

Wait until fire and brimstone comes raining down on Obama/Biden for their sinful campaign. These 2 clowns will sing you to sleep by philosophies
that support environmentalists saving trees adn women that kill their children.

Posted by: Ken | September 29, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

I can’t believe a McCain supporter wants to talk about intelligence. Let’s not forget that Obama is a Harvard Law School graduate, former editor of the Harvard Law Reveiw, and graduated near the top of his class. McCain on the other had special consieration to get into the Naval Acadamy becuase his father and grandfather were Adminirals. Let’s also not forget he finished near the bottom of his graduating class. Despite McCain’s sacrafices for the country, we can’t afford another dumb President.

Posted by: The Chosen One | September 29, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

This country is OBVIOUSLY badly polarized by ego, “”ideology,”" and just plain flat-out frustration. It’s sickening to see the way people talk about the candidates on most of the internet-gab that passes for thought or intelligence.
People are more and more VENTING their pet bias and hate. how sad, … and (often) ugly.

Posted by: Len | September 29, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

Anyone else notice the reference to Biden’s stool sitting on the slippery stage? Do we not have proof readers for this article?

Posted by: Jake | September 29, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

If Obama wins most people can expect to have a lower standard of living over the next four years. That is his plan, he has already said (channeling Carter) that Americans will have to make do with less & that America is a bad country. Just what the left wants, an american hating marxist. At least I will get to laugh at them when they get what they voted for. They will hate it.

Posted by: Joe | September 29, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

You Wait,,,,,,The polls are about to change People!!!!

Posted by: derrek michigan | September 29, 2008, 9:24 am 9:24 am

BIDEN IS ON NOTICE FROM OBAMA – HE BETTER NOT BLOW IT.
“As the rain began to pour harder, Obama noticed his running mate’s stool close to the edge of the slippery stage.
“I’m gonna ask Joe to move that stool up because I don’t want to have to choose another vice-president,” Obama joked.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/democrats-on-hi.html?cid=132664837#comment-132664837

Posted by: Obama's Warning to Biden | September 29, 2008, 9:24 am 9:24 am

“Waaaaah! Make it stop!!!” – B.H. Obama
Just get the truth-squad from Missouri to “hold back the tides” of distortion and misdirection. Yeah, like the “bailout” bill that will continue to fund bullcrap organizations like Obama’s A.C.O.R.N.

Posted by: Truthseeker | September 29, 2008, 9:25 am 9:25 am

Obama just like the left wing candidate of 2004 is leading in every single poll produced by the main stream media. However when they try to tell you Obama is winning in Oh, Pa, Va and Nc it only takes an hour of driving through these states to know that this is a “HOPE” not a fact.
Obama is a mile wide but only an inch deep. He offers empty promises, higher taxes, affirmative action and gay rights. None of his declared important issues are a positives for America. My wifes vote went out in the mail today mine goes out this week. No pollster has ever called me or any of my associates. McCain may win by a landslide then the main stream media will have totally unqualified itself to
report.
I don’t know how educated individual could vote for that empty headed teleprompter reading left wing evil Chicago hack.

Posted by: Michael | September 29, 2008, 9:26 am 9:26 am

Biden is getting his stupid chip installed this morning, so he can continue with making stupid remarks.
Why would we want this incompetent loser a heartbeat away from the presidency?
Because he is still got more experience than Nobama!

Posted by: Nobama | September 29, 2008, 9:26 am 9:26 am

Wow! Now you want to tell us how dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time?
————–
I assume you are talking about matt damons talking point that Palin thinks dinosaurs were arround 4000 years ago. That is a lie. Interestingly enough it was created by a website set up to mock all the lies coming out about palin. It was made up to show an example of the wacky lies coming out about Palin. Its not true.

Posted by: sonofdy | September 29, 2008, 9:27 am 9:27 am

To see grown men fawning over Obama would’ve made John Wayne cringe.

Posted by: Alina Petrovic | September 29, 2008, 9:27 am 9:27 am

“Sometimes the skies look cloudy and it’s dark. And you think the rains will never pass,” Obama preached, “The young people understand that the clouds -– these too will pass, that a brighter day will come.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WTF?! This guy loves hearing the sound of his own voice so much and considers himself such a great, inspirational, ethereal force of nature. He should just be a motivational speaker, for cripes sake. Why do some people (including Barack Obama) consider Barack Obama the Messiah? I don’t get it. You know what? I don’t even want to know.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 9:27 am 9:27 am

Obama is a socialist crook out of the Chicago machine with lots of “debts” to the leftists out there, most of whom he will bring to the White House – it is a disgrace that people are playing the age card against McCain..look at Pelosi, Reid, Biden – they are older too. If that is the best the people of African descent can give us, I’ll pass. I will never vote for a Socialist with a big ego and surrounded by thugs. If I wanted that I would move to Cuba or South America. God help the USA>

Posted by: Krystal | September 29, 2008, 9:27 am 9:27 am

Obama is a cult leader..no more no less.
The last time a candidate had such a strong and overwhelming support form the media was Adolph Hitler.

Posted by: Jack | September 29, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

Obama is a cult leader..no more no less.
The last time a candidate had such a strong and overwhelming support form the media was Adolph Hitler.

Posted by: Jack | September 29, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

If you look back to 2004 John Kerry won the debates. Slate magazine said Bush was done, stick a fork in him. Just goes to show you.

Posted by: kim | September 29, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

Wow!!! Does the press Love Obama or what??
This has to be, the weakest presidential elections in my lifetime, neither are worthy of the position.

Posted by: Jew4Jesus | September 29, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

Have any of you ever read Atlas Shrugged? it’s coming true. Sub-prime. Every one deserves a house. It doesn’t matter that they can’t pay for it, let someone else. Goodbye America

Posted by: galt | September 29, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

Obama is “not ready to lead” – said Joe Biden
Does anyone need that translated?

Posted by: Fiona Meyer | September 29, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

QUOTE: “McCain’s whole political being is focused on military spending and big oil companies. Cut all spending except for these and social security and medicare he says.
No infrastructure roads bridges airports.
Health care? Forget it.
Student loans, childrens programs, seniors, inner city will get no assistance.
All that matters to McNasty is killing and drilling.”
Can you show me anywhere in the Consititution of the United States where it states that the Govt. will provided any of this?
Work hard, be happy, annoy a liberal.

Posted by: Florida Red | September 29, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

When Hussain O is defeated, they will blame his pick of Joe Plugs Biden for VP, When John McCain “WINS” say it was his Pick of Sara Palin, VP that did it!!!!!!

Posted by: O>equals>zero | September 29, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

Obama is a cult leader..no more no less.
The last time a candidate had such a strong and overwhelming support form the media was Adolph Hitler.

Posted by: Jack | September 29, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

MSBNC reports: Obama walks on water. heals the sick and wounded, and feeds the hungry masses on loaves of bread and fishes.
MSNBC news flash: McCain accused of child labor law violations, kicks dogs, is member of Aryan Supremacy heavy metal band.

Posted by: Jeff | September 29, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

OBAMA will win (GAG) as he has signed up millions of illegal aliens convicts and other fruad voters thru the organization ACORN which was to receive 20 million of the taxpayer bailout until john MccCain stopped it- if obama wins goodbye america welcoce to 3rd world nation of hell

Posted by: sick of media | September 29, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

All hail Obama. Resistence is futile. You must belong to the collective.
(Here … have some Kool-aid.)

Posted by: Obama Borg | September 29, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

“White shirt clinging to his body”?!?!?
I sure hope whoever said that blew a load afterwards…

Posted by: JCee | September 29, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am

At the beginning of the comments someone said stop the liars, vote Democrat? Now that was hilarious. Thanks for the chuckle. How gullible.

Posted by: IOpian | September 29, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am

McCain is out of touch with “the middle class?” This was a group of mostly students I’m assuming. I, however, am part of Obama’s “middle class.” First of all, I’m not sure I have anything in my closet that has to be dry-cleaned. And even if my administrator husband came with me to an outdoor event, I know he would not be wearing his wool suit and silk tie. Obama says he’d like to pay the crowds dry-cleaning bill–but thanks for not asking because by paying his we are changing America? If I contributed to an election campaign, I don’t think I would feel that I was changing the country by paying Obama’s dry-cleaning bill. I guess I’d be paying for the special Obama ’08 napkins they use on the private jet too.

Posted by: tallykat | September 29, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am

“White shirt clinging to his body”?!?!?
I sure hope whoever said that blew a load afterwards…
Did you at least get a “reach-around” from Barry?

Posted by: JCee | September 29, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am

“White shirt clinging to his body”?!?!?
I sure hope whoever said that blew a load afterwards…

Posted by: JCee | September 29, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

What stuck out in the debate was Obama constantly saying “John you’re right”. Looks like Obama agrees with McCain.
http://www.pcbullbuster.com/breakdown.asp

Posted by: Carlos | September 29, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

“White shirt clinging to his body”?!?!?
I sure hope whoever said that blew a load afterwards…
Did you at least get a “reach-around” from Barry?

Posted by: JCee | September 29, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

November 4, 2008 will be the day real Americans defeat the enemy within. Obama-Biden.

Posted by: geevill | September 29, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

ABC’s Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman Report: The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body…
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Oh. My. God. Why doesn’t ABC just come out and write an article called “Our Sexual Fantasy About all Three of us plus Barack Obama!” with reporting by: Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman Report.
I mean, seriously.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 9:32 am 9:32 am

Barry draws crowds of 10-20 thousand. Palin draws crowds of 40-60 thousand, hmmmmm and Barry thinks he will win in a landslide….lol

Posted by: Cindy | September 29, 2008, 9:32 am 9:32 am

“White shirt clinging to his body”?!?!?
I sure hope whoever said that blew a load afterwards…
Did you at least get a “reach-around” from Barry?

Posted by: JCee | September 29, 2008, 9:32 am 9:32 am

Obama sounded like a little girl on the playground when he said … look, John, I have a bracelet too!!! and then stuttered over the fallen soldier’s name. What a loser … God help America if this foreign born commie ever becomes president!

Posted by: professor yaphank | September 29, 2008, 9:32 am 9:32 am

“More like a school bully who knows he is losing his power to push people around.”
Lighten up angry black man. My grandmother could push Obama the 90 pound girlie man around.

Posted by: geevill | September 29, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

Both Obama and MCcain are agents of the hard left. There is currently no small government conservative in the presidential race. In know the GOP would love to think its somehow a different way from that, but its not. Those of us who are awake and paying attention know for sure that a vote for McBama pushes America a few more steps towards complete socialism.
Its big govt vs big govt. No 2 ways about it. If you’re drinking the coolaid and have been fooled into thinking these candidates are different ask yourself this.
Which one will (in order to be in compliance with the constitution which is the rule of law) ;
Abolish the IRS
Abolish FEMA
Abolish the Patriot Act
Abolish the Federal Reserve
Abolish the FCC
Abolish the DEA
Bring troops home from 130 countries where money is being wasted to keep them there?
Neither. These guys are on the same page you need to hit the books hard if you think its otherwise.

Posted by: Immigrant | September 29, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

Such bashing, trashing, smearing of this woman named Sarah. Just what has she done so horrific that she deserves all this hatred being piled on? It is stunning that a good person (who is doing what 90% of people would not be capable of) can be so destroyed by the media for what?? When this is all over try some decency toward your fellow countrymen.

Posted by: Patricia | September 29, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

If you look back to 2004 John Kerry won the debates. Slate magazine said Bush was done, stick a fork in him. Just goes to show you.

Posted by: kim | September 29, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

“I’d like to cover everybody’s dry cleaning bill here tonight, but I can’t because I got to use it on the campaign, so consider it one more modest contribution to our efforts to change the country.”
Just Wait…more modest contributions on the way, many, many, many more.

Posted by: patrick | September 29, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

The democrats have been doing nothing but calling people names for the last 8 years. This whole thing about bush being dumb is a great example of that. Its not true. Thier petty insults are just that, petty insults of a 6 year old.

Posted by: sonofdy | September 29, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

Now he’s in the rain where was he duing the hurriane?

Posted by: TX | September 29, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

Who would have every thought that the second coming would be in the form of Barry Obama? Jesus Christ he is NOT even with ABC on his side.

Posted by: Jim K | September 29, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

The sad thing is with all of this is that nobody understands world events enough to not look through rose colored glasses for their own canidate. Everybody will spout their sounds bytes and talking points about “their guy” when it’s plain to see that neither one is going to be good for our country.
I personally have no leader to vote for. I’m so SICK of all the spin and bull with both these guys – I can hardly stand it. The media plays one up, and shoots the other down. Sadly, it’s not about who has the most strength in leadership – It’s all about who’s “hot” and young and agrees to give you the most *stuff* if they win.
We dont need a leader who’s holding their key’s above the baby per se, saying “lookee here” – we need a leader who has the courage to say “This is what’s going on – This is what we have to do as a nation to fix this – This is not going to be easy – we can do this”
I really don’t hear those leadership qualities out of either guy. I hear one saying “this is what I’ve done” and I hear the other saying “This is what I’ll give you”
That’s bad business for America, ladies and gentleman. Strap in – it’s going to be a heck of a ride.

Posted by: ACinTN | September 29, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am

If you vote McCain-Palin, you are already all wet.
* * *
Coming soon in a theater near you …
“Sarah Palin and the attack of the flat-worlders.”
See it and weep for the Republic (but not for the Republicans, who filmed this horror movie.)

Posted by: Martin Edwin Andersen | September 29, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am

It will take a great community organizer to lead this country. As a community organizer, Jesus raised people from the dead. Obama, as a community organizer, raised people from the dead and signed them up to vote. Who was it who said, “Vote Obama or Burn Baby Burn!”

Posted by: Reginald | September 29, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am

Wait a minute! If His Holiness can stop the rise of the oceans, shouldn’t he be able to make it stop raining, too?

Posted by: Nabbate | September 29, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am

After all the pubs did to screw up the country ,these you tube video’s will sho that it’s the dems who are going to fix it.I’d suggest you go to you tube and type in Barney Frank & Fannie Mae to see some good video’s on how the dems will handle this mess.

Posted by: Frank | September 29, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am

DID THE TELEPROMPTERS GET RAINED ON?! NOOOOOO……. SAVE THE TELEPROMPTERS!!!!!! BO NEEDS THEM OR HE SOUNDS AS ELOQUENT AS W.

Posted by: concerned teleprompter | September 29, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am

Democrats caused this economic mess and should be voted out of congress. Carter started it with Community development act then Clinton enforced it with penalties against lenders not giving mortgages to those who couldn’t afford it. Then Freddie and Fannie started buying off congressmen left and right with huge campaign contributions. Then freddie and fannie were allowed to grow larger by givning them unfair tax breaks so other companies couldn’t compete. The government caused this crisis not Wallstreet. Vote out the Democrats!

Posted by: Liberty | September 29, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am

Why didn’t the Messiah command the rain to cease! How come Obama gets all the money from Lehman and Faniie Mae and the main stream media never reports. Palin gets a free facial and it is front page.

Posted by: Phil L | September 29, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am

When Obama becomes president he is going to do everything for the brothers, at the expense of everybody else. If whites votes for Obama they are totally insane.

Posted by: Tim | September 29, 2008, 9:38 am 9:38 am

Jozy..you are a n idiot or worse a liar..Obama comments of the past have been as sitting president to have meetings with terrorist nations with no preconditions…Kissingers remarks were at the “Secretary of State level” read your own post, so therefore, Obama lied again which seems “par for the course”…No shouldn’t you be out petitioning law enforncement to stop anyone from disagreeing with Obama?

Posted by: Regular Guy | September 29, 2008, 9:38 am 9:38 am

Lets talk about liars and pure evil:
Whose party philosophy is;
1.SAVE THE TREES
2.KILL THE CHILDREN?
Which party blocked EVERY MOVE by the President and Senator McCain, in 2001, 2003 and 2005, to prevent exactly what happened to us financially last week? The Democrats lead by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd denied there was EVER any danger to the American Financial System and lead Congress and the Senate to block enforcement measures that WOULD have prevented this very disastewr from happening. Frank wanted people who had no income to be able to get no money down, no credit hassle loans so they could buy houses they couldnt afford. In addition speculators were allowed to flip houses (buy and sell) houses using the same lacks policies being enforced by these two COUNTRY destroyers. And here we are today, with Nancy Pelosi declaring the Bush administration and Wall Street failed to provide proper oversight…one problem the congressional record shows they did try and WERE BLOCKED by DEMOCRATS. Also take note of the extrodinary effort Nancy takes to point away from EVERYONE but her cohorts..this should be YOUR FIRST CLUE…everyone is guilty bu t them, and they ran the whole thing??? Come on now Nancy , even a dog can sense your culpability in what has happened. You dont see Bush or McCain pointing fingers, they will let the investigation do what it needs to do. The FBI will now sort this out.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were being administered by DEMOCRAT APPOINTED Government Employees , that were getting paid about $150K/year salaries, they left those Government positions as MULTI-MILLIONAIRES(Garelic, Reims, Johnson), these two administrators NOW WORK as financial advisors on the OBAMA campaign…so think again if you even have one thought that handing the reigns over to Obama will do anything other than destroy this country…the record is clear…more of this garbage from the democrats will certainly wipe out this economy.
PS The American PEOPLE bailing out private industry to help cover up GOVERNMENT FAILINGS IS THE WRONG THING TO DO, these institutions should fail, the Government representatives should GO TO JAIL, Republican and Democrat, and let this great country restore itself by how it made itself GREAT…THE FREE MARKET CAPITALIST SOCIETY! Send them all to Jail

Posted by: Tom | September 29, 2008, 9:38 am 9:38 am

Y’know, I can see the rain from my window, which makes an expert in meteorology.

Posted by: Waddy Peytona | September 29, 2008, 9:39 am 9:39 am

If you are a conservative,sane and want to vote for someone who is at least REMOTELY CLOSE to being a republican then clearly the obvious choice by deductive logic and sound reasoning will be Bob Barr. Amnesty Mccain is a joke who simply wants to increase the power of La Raza in the white house. I have no idea why at this point people are still pretending in a dillusional fashion that Amnesty “La Raza” Mccain is conservative or even republican. Vote conservative this year….Bob Barr is it.

Posted by: Gary | September 29, 2008, 9:39 am 9:39 am

Obama is such a moron. I cant believe how many sheep he has following him off a cliff.
Yay Change…its all you’ll have left in your pockets.
Mcain/ Palin will still be giving speeches after November.

Posted by: aaron | September 29, 2008, 9:39 am 9:39 am

it will be the end of america as we know it now if obama get elected. why is it so difficult to listen to what he saying .he nothing more than a communist in a shark suit but his people falling for his crap. well for all the fallen soldiers that has died fighting for america what i slap in the face. well go ahead vote for that sorry butt, when you not like what he does it to late you will really wish for change. but if you were to vote the REAL problem out pelosi,kennedy,leahy,fienstein,boxer,reid,kerry,frank,schumer,dodd,rangel personally i say send them on a one way cruise. they nothing but crooks. but oh well the days will not be so bright if mr.communist gets in we will be like ven. on fast trac. but when is it the media decides for america it is media who hate america

Posted by: jim hubbard | September 29, 2008, 9:39 am 9:39 am

November 4th: Existentialism versus Socialism.

Posted by: trent | September 29, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am

Why does Obama’s campaign and his “Truth Squads” remind me of Germany in 1932?
Do you want Bill Ayers as White House Chief of Staff and ACORN as the brown shirts?

Posted by: Ipsler Gonkler | September 29, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am

Oh my, standing out in the rain, shirt clinging to his body. What a heroic figure. What sacrifice. What courage and dedication to the cause. And oh look a photographer just happen to grab a shot to preserve this image for all generations. Guess he never heard of an umbrella. Probably wouldn’t know how to use one without his staff showing him.

Posted by: IOpian | September 29, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am

The funniest clip of Obama I saw recently (aside from his Teleprompter Follies) was him trying to explain how he has shown leadership in the current bailout crisis. While McCain dropped everything and flew to D.C., Obama (in his own words!) was on the phone “every day” with Paulson. Wow. Every day! That is some sweet heroism, Mr. Obama.
Oh, and your own website admits you were a citizen of Kenya until 1982. Good work.
http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate
“Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”
No wonder you refer to Americans as “them”.

Posted by: Rory | September 29, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am

“I’d like to cover everybody’s dry cleaning bill here tonight, but I can’t because I got to use it on the campaign..”
HOLD THE PHONES!!!! When has that stopped the Democrat before? Just ask Pelosi/Reid to add another provision to the bailout bill, somewhere near the funds it will continue to provide A.C.O.R.N.!
It makes for a great new campaign slogan – “Vote Obama / Biden and get taken to the cleaners!”
- Just say “NO” to B.O.

Posted by: Democrat Fact Checker | September 29, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am

my goodness… this reminds me of an image from the Chinese ruthless dictator Mao!!! When he claimed to be for the people!!! My parents are from that period.. running for their lives just because their families owned a small piece of land!!!

Posted by: e.proflab | September 29, 2008, 9:41 am 9:41 am

Wait a minute! If His Holiness can stop the rise of the oceans, shouldn’t he be able to make it stop raining, too?
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It was for dramatic effect. Precipitation machine on loan from Hollywood; might as wel get you money’s worth. (It came as part of the package when he ordered the Greek Parthenon for the DNCC).

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 9:42 am 9:42 am

Angry African. That username says it all. Sorry sir but you offer nothing. Just keep accepting the lies they spoonfeed you because there is always comfort in being a victim.
And by the way, reporters Miller, Jaffe and Berman: chilly, damp weather doesn’t cause a cold, germs do. Wake up. Your Obama delirium will wear off some day. Let’s hope your inner guilt does also.

Posted by: higgs | September 29, 2008, 9:42 am 9:42 am

I agree with Sen. McCain.
I agree with Sen. McCain.
I agree with Sen. McCain.
I agree with Sen. McCain.
I agree with Sen. McCain.
I agree with Sen. McCain.
I agree with Sen. McCain.
Who said it?
B. Obama – September 26, 2008

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 9:42 am 9:42 am

The photo shows him depicted as the “one” preaching on the “mount”. Don’t believe it. While the democrats have firmly joined the terrorists in fighting our President Bush and Kennedy first had the honor of first denigrating the man who has kept us safe for 6 years by comparing him to Hitler, Bush still protects the ungrateful American citizen. You ingrates who don’t want to fight may indeed die in your homes or businesses after Oboma declares defeat and the terror starts HERE.

Posted by: Jake | September 29, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

It’s amazing to read poster’s decscribe what “Obama will give us” when he has a track record of doing NOTHING?!?!? Might Obama be a great leader? Maybe…but let him prove his mettle after a few terms in the Senate!!! Does anyone realize this is the most powerful job in the world!??!? With Obama’s record he could not even qualify for CEO of a Fortune 1000 company!!! The fact that the left has presented such an obviously unqualified candidate leads me to believe something more sinister is at work….

Posted by: Regular Guy | September 29, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

God help us if this communist left wing liberal masquarading as a socialist gets elected by ignorant masses of Dem voters (BTW see Venezuala for a recent example of ignorant voters giving power to a communist in sheeps clothing). What do Dems want from government, a free ride? To steal from the rich and give to the poor? If people are concerned about the economy now, wait until small, medium and large business stop hiring. Why bother if a larger work force may result in additional income for the government, not for the people who took the risk to expand their work force in the first place. In the case of larger businesses, we will see a mass exodus to foreign countires the likes of which we have never seen before. A classic case of killing the goose that laid the golden egg. Dems what will you do when tax revenues do not meet the Obamasiah’s overarching big government spending programs? If people who are easily swayed by a smooth talking freshman senator with 3 years of experience (2 spent campaigning)in the Senate desire to elect this product of the George Soros/Moveon.org crowd, then so be it. Don’t cry when you loose your job because businesses refuse to be raped by the Obamasiah’s quixotic quest.

Posted by: Jose | September 29, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

What I dont understand is Obama is promising to give everything to everybody Just tell him what you want the government to give to them and he will do it. AND THE DEMS ARE BUYING IT.
I guess their still following Kennedies saying “ASK NOT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY ASK WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU”
sad arent they? After hearing this same old story every election season you would think they would smarten up. Where do they really think all the money will come fom??

Posted by: Bob | September 29, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

Obama will try to resurrect Prez Johnson’s Great Society. It failed once and it will fail again. White man’s guilt becomes the black man’s unfair advantage. Look at Obama – how could such an idiot get into Harvard. The answer – affirmative action. He didn’t get in there because of innate talent and ability. “Setting the clock back” (as the liberals like to say) is moving the country on the right tack again.

Posted by: tim | September 29, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

*read: “might as well get your money’s worth”

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

What I dont understand is Obama is promising to give everything to everybody Just tell him what you want the government to give to them and he will do it. AND THE DEMS ARE BUYING IT.
I guess their still following Kennedies saying “ASK NOT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY ASK WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU”
sad arent they? After hearing this same old story every election season you would think they would smarten up. Where do they really think all the money will come fom??

Posted by: Bob | September 29, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

We should all be hesitant about what we say about Obama, since there is a distinct possibility that he could send his “Brute Squad”. Oh, I’m sorry… he calls it his “Truth Squad”. How can you Dems really think that someone who attempts to crush any opposing views is really a “Democrat” in the true sense of the word. If Obama gets into the White House, we may as well revolt or leave this country because the freedom which our forefathers fought for will be crushed under the Obama Police State. The first step will be a 300% increase on ammunition so that no one will be able to fight.

Posted by: Corey | September 29, 2008, 9:45 am 9:45 am

With such hatred for Republicans, the devil himself could run for president on the Democratic ticket and win. And it looks like he may. I think I’ll vote for the guy that practices Christianity, and not the guy that only states he’s a Christian.

Posted by: Red State | September 29, 2008, 9:45 am 9:45 am

“I too wear a bracelet for a soldier, it is for uh uh uh hmm what was his name again….uh hmm uh well he is very dear to me his name is uh uh uh….well it’s around here somewhere… ah yes on my wrist….”
B. Obama – September 26, 2008

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 9:45 am 9:45 am

If any of you have read and understood the Constitution of the United States, the only way you would vote for Obama is if you were totally against it. And no, I’m not racist for simply not voting for him. I’d vote for Alan Keyes, or Condi Rice in a heartbeat.
Also, the roots of our economic crisis today go back into the Clinton years and beyond. After the original 1929 crash, laws were put into effect to keep commericial banks seperate from investment houses. Clinton signed into effect the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, effectively combining the two again. As Clinton came in, out going Fed Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker had said such action would lead towards another economic crisis…. Greenspan ignored it, and here we are today kids….

Posted by: USMC Scout | September 29, 2008, 9:45 am 9:45 am

Osama Bin Biden. God help us if they win.

Posted by: odh | September 29, 2008, 9:46 am 9:46 am

JR, McCain gave one of the most powerful performances in presidential debate history? Come on, he acted as if he were speaking to himself; his chin was on his chest, and he rambled on interminably without making a point. He looked old and tired. You probably think Palin is eloquent and erudite too. You may have convinced, err, deluded yourself that he was powerful, but not many are buying what yor trying to sell. John pales, not a pun, by comparison to Barrack.

Posted by: ChuckB | September 29, 2008, 9:46 am 9:46 am

Rain is traditionally viewed as a blessing since it nourishes the earth and brings forth life.
That the polls show Obama/Biden ahead in Virginia, a traditionally Republican state, speaks volumes.
May the rain continue to pour down upon these two and bring blessings to all of good will.

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 9:46 am 9:46 am

I can’t believe a TOTAL NOTHING, such as Obama, has been selected by the Democrats to run for President of the United States. That guy is a self-serving demagogue, a power-hungry empty suit, a product of Chicago corrupt political machine, a guy with very questionable acquaintances and credentials, a tool that offers nothing but meaningless rhetoric.
I was going to vote Hillary, but it’ll either be McCain or I’ll just sit this election out. But absolutely NO OBAMA! NO WAY! NO HOW!
You must either be insane or blind not to see through that cartoon character.

Posted by: Iggy | September 29, 2008, 9:46 am 9:46 am

It is utterly comical to hear the Democrats like Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, who were mostly reponsible for the economic mess we are in, lecturing us on what we need to do now to solve our problems. If it weren’t for the Dems blocking every attempt by President Bush, John McCain and many Republicans to sound the alarm about Fannie and Freddie, we wouldn’t be in this mess to begin with. The first step to economic recovery is to SWEEP OUT THE DEMS!!!

Posted by: Bill | September 29, 2008, 9:47 am 9:47 am

This redneck racist from Texas would vote for Condeleeza Rice or Michael Steele. I will vote for a black person with common sense, I would not vote for a puppet empty suit racist like Barack Hussein Obama.

Posted by: Darrell | September 29, 2008, 9:47 am 9:47 am

While leftist George steffie warns Palin, maybe he should also tell Biden to keep his big mouth shut since he can’t make one speech without insulting a disabled person, plagiarizing someone, or disassembling history by claiming FDR was on TV in 1929 when FDR was president. FDR was not elected for a few more years and the first television was a decade of more later. Tell Biden he has to match Palin or Obama is LOST.

Posted by: Jake | September 29, 2008, 9:47 am 9:47 am

angryafrican? your name says it all! McCain=smug and stupid?? Obama can use a little lesson in respect, kept calling McCain “John”. Obama can’t hold a candle to McCain…one thing McCain has that Obama doesn’t — CHARACTAR!!!

Posted by: jane | September 29, 2008, 9:48 am 9:48 am

He doesn’t have change to spare to cover dry-cleaning bills?
You mean, he is out of kick back money from Fannie and Freddie?
Oh….. I didn’t realize the privileged crowd he was speaking with were so addfluent that they could only dry clean their clothes…gimme a break!

Posted by: elle | September 29, 2008, 9:48 am 9:48 am

He doesn’t have change to spare to cover dry-cleaning bills?
You mean, he is out of kick back money from Fannie and Freddie?
Oh….. I didn’t realize the privileged crowd he was speaking with were so addfluent that they could only dry clean their clothes…gimme a break!

Posted by: elle | September 29, 2008, 9:48 am 9:48 am

9 out of 10 terrorists support Obama/Biden in 08.
The downfall of the US Military and our country begins the day Obama is elected.

Posted by: Kevin | September 29, 2008, 9:49 am 9:49 am

Wait until the October Surprise. My bet is that she is blonde, blue eyed, and good looking. Obama is sunk after this hits the campaign trail.
Oh no, sorry that was the other Democratic candidate who lost the primaries.
Obama’s big surprise is currently cutting a deal with the prosecuters in Illinios…..that would be Tony Rezko – registered slime bag and money man for the Illinios democratic machine.

Posted by: JimBob | September 29, 2008, 9:49 am 9:49 am

“I would approach the UN Security Council to have a resolution to have Russian troops removed from Georgia”
B. Obama – September 26, 2008
Fact: Russia is one of seven nations with veto power in the UN Security Council – wonder how that great resolution would go?

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 9:49 am 9:49 am

Barak Obama embodies all the dangerous and misguided ideologies that threaten the very fundamentals upon which this great country was founded. His policies mirror those of socialism almost exactly. According to Marx, the father of socialism, socialism is the stage upon which communism is achieved. You Obama supporters think that the government is too big now? Just wait. Pending his election, you won’t have to worry about making decisions for yourself because Barak Obama will make them for you. Four years of Barak Obama will take thirty years to fix. Or we may just slip into the trpa of world order and cease to exist as the great independent country that we once knew. Americans need to wake up and start thinking for themselves.

Posted by: AARON | September 29, 2008, 9:49 am 9:49 am

We should all be hesitant about what we say about Obama, since there is a distinct possibility that he could send his “Brute Squad”. Oh, I’m sorry… he calls it his “Truth Squad”. How can you Dems really think that someone who attempts to crush any opposing views is really a “Democrat” in the true sense of the word. If Obama gets into the White House, we may as well revolt or leave this country because the freedom which our forefathers fought for will be crushed under the Obama Police State. The first step will be a 300% increase on ammunition so that no one will be able to fight.
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This, my friends, is INSANE. We are watching Stalinism in action before our very eyes in the year 2008. He is enforcing a police state. These stories are becoming more and more frequent, and they are terrifying. Barry has his very own Gestapo. Isn’t it ironic that it’s called the “Truth Squad”, when they silence the opposition, even if they are speaking truth, if it goes against Barry? So sickening.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 9:50 am 9:50 am

Obuma is a typical elitist, and the true bitter American. Media and hollywood have tried to elect these unqualified ego-maniacs before and failed. We need to get out and vote against Obuma. He and his censorship goons should not be allowed to tarnish the White House.

Posted by: Spike Lee | September 29, 2008, 9:50 am 9:50 am

Rain is traditionally viewed as a blessing since it nourishes the earth and brings forth life.
That the polls show Obama/Biden ahead in Virginia, a traditionally Republican state, speaks volumes.
May the rain continue to pour down upon these two and bring blessings to all of good will.
Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya
O Lord, kumbaya
This is Dem voter. See why this country is in trouble?

Posted by: Jose | September 29, 2008, 9:50 am 9:50 am

Uh-oh. It’s a Drudge link now…Here come the crazies.
Luckily, my BINGO card has the following words: Mao, Marxist, Sleeper Cell, Muslim, Ayers, Scary Darkey, and Flag Lapel Pin.
I’ve got a fresh cup of coffee and I’m ready to play!

Posted by: Hayduke | September 29, 2008, 9:50 am 9:50 am

Obama is for REAL CHANGE? When he gets down with America if he is elected that is what the Dollar will be worth: Spare Change.Obama Lied in the debate, Kissinger is pissed. Check it out for yourself. You won’t because you are so closed minded. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/27/kissinger.iran/index.html?iref=hpmostpop
Why is it if a non black person votes for McCain it is because he is raisest? The last time I checked more none whites are voting for Obama than Blacks are voting for McCain. So if you are correct in your thinking maybe it is black people who are the raisests here. It is not what I think, however, The Black person has been sold down the river by the democratic party. The DNC wants this country to be divided by race,money and whatever other way they can divide us. That is the only way they can win. If we are in a crisis they blame Republicans. Truth is there is enough blame to go around. the democrats did whoever ruin the banking industry into the ground by passing laws to force banks to make loans to people that could not get a normal loan.

Posted by: keith | September 29, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am

OUR MOMMA
WILL WHIP
YOUR OBAMA!
YOU CAN PUT A SUITE ON A MONKEY,
IT STILL CAN’T BE A PRESIDENT.
OBAMA AND DEMOCRATS WILL
TAX THE PIG,
TAX THE LIPSTICK,
PUT LIPSTICK ON THE PIG,
MARRY THE PIG
AND CALL IT “ALTERNATIVE LIFE STYLE”.
GO MACAIN/PALIN.
SARAH-CUDA

Posted by: alexWV | September 29, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am

If any of you have read and understood the Constitution of the United States, the only way you would vote for Obama is if you were totally against it.
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I call this Palin logic. Completely nonsensical. Given McCain’s support for Bush’s Constitution-busting torture and eavesdropping, and Obama’s record of teaching Constitutional Law at the University Of Chicago, there is only one candidate who demonstrably has compromised the Constitution: McCain.

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am

Jefferson said, “I used to ask whether these people are stupid. Now I know, “yes, they are”. One thing for them… If McCain wins – it’s your choice. You make your choice. Live with it, pay up the next $700 billion+ and shut the f*ck up. You just lost your right to b*tch.”
I think you should look at what has caused this financial crisis a little more closely. You’ve oversimplified it. For one thing, McCain and others were warning of disaster for Fannie and Freddie in 2005, when they pushed a reform bill. You may be interested to know that Sens Dodd and Obama opposed measures to straighten that out – and just happen to be the #1 & 2 congressional recipients of Fannie & Freddie $$$ over the last several years. There is blame to spread around everywhere, especially in the Democrat controlled Congress.

Posted by: Publius | September 29, 2008, 9:52 am 9:52 am

Angry African–you and Obama can go back to Africa!

Posted by: BUC | September 29, 2008, 9:52 am 9:52 am

Apologies. Angry-African posted the comment I mentioned.

Posted by: Publius | September 29, 2008, 9:52 am 9:52 am

Why didn’t he just hold back the rain?

Posted by: Paul | September 29, 2008, 9:52 am 9:52 am

i don’t like Obama because he’s black

Posted by: john | September 29, 2008, 9:53 am 9:53 am

Palin is talking every day – the Press chooses to not report it unless she says something (in their opinion) they don’t like. Unfortuneately for them, she speaks common sense, appears very intelligent and more than holds her own with the likes of Couric. When the debate comes, all of America will see this with their own eyes and the press will be grinding their collective teeth. McCain will win on Nov 4 by about 12% I feel and with well over 300 electoral votes – not even close!!

Posted by: Dennis in Ohio | September 29, 2008, 9:53 am 9:53 am

Newer posts should go at the top, not the bottom.

Posted by: tarzan | September 29, 2008, 9:53 am 9:53 am

The more Obama uses the term “middle class” the more I feel like I live in India. Obama = higher taxes for all.

Posted by: M&M | September 29, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am

Some things to ponder…………………
MAYBE I’VE GOTTEN THIS ALL WRONG – ME JUST BEING AN AVERAGE
MIDDLE CLASS GUY.
THIS MAN WANTS OUR VOTE FOR U.S. PRESIDENT – HIS FATHER WAS
A KENYAN, AND A BLACK- WE SAW ALL THOSE PICTURES OF HIS
NICE AFRICAN FAMILY.
HIS MOTHER IS KANSAN, ATHEIST, AND WHITE. SO – WHERE ARE ALL
THOSE PICTURES OF HIS NICE WHITE MOTHER AND HIS NICE WHITE
KANSAS GRANDPARENTS – THE ONES WHO RAISED HIM ALL THOSE
EARLY YEARS?
LETS SEE – HIS FATHER DESERTED HIS MOTHER AND HIM WHEN HE
WAS VERY YOUNG AND MOVED BACK TO LIVE WITH HIS FAMILY IN
KENYA (THAT’S THE ONES IN THE PICTURES).
HIS WHITE MOTHER THEN MARRIED AN INDONESIAN MUSLIM AND
TOOK HIM TO THE CITY OF JAKARTA WHERE HE WAS FIRST SCHOOLED
IN A MUSLIM SCHOOL .
HIS MOTHER THEN MOVED TO HAWAII AND HE WAS RAISED BY HIS
WHITE MIDDLE CLASS – AMERICAN GRANDPARENTS THERE.
UMMM..NOW HERE’S THE BEGINNING OF THE HARD PART FOR ME
(HELP ME OUT HERE, IF YOU CAN):
SOMEHOW, SUDDENLY – HE WENT TO THE BEST HIGH DOLLAR PREP
SCHOOLS IN AMERICA, AND NEXT HE GOT INTO A TOP IVY LEAGUE
COLLEGE , AND LATER, INTO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL – HOW? WHO
SPONSORED HIM? WHO PAID FOR ALL THAT SCHOOLING?
(HAVE YOU LOOKED AT TUITION EXPENSES TO ATTEND UNDERGRAD-
UATE YALE LATELY?
HOW ABOUT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL ? SOMEBODY PAID A LOT OF
BUCKS FOR THIS KID’S IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION…….)
WHO? HE APPARENTLY DID NOT HAVE SCHOLARSHIPS THAT PAID IT
ALL FROM WHAT WE READ.
HE ALSO DID NOT HAVE TO BORROW FOR COLLEGE , ALSO FROM WHAT
WE READ. SO???
THAT BRINGS US TO THE MORE CURRENT YEARS,
A U.S. SENATOR’S SALARY IS NOT THAT GREAT, BUT THIS YOUNG MAN
AND HIS YOUNG WIFE JUST RECENTLY BOUGHT A $1.4 MILLION DOLLAR
HOUSE THAT HE ACQUIRED THROUGH A ‘DEAL’ WITH A WEALTHY FUND
RAISER, A FUND RAISER WHO APPARENTLY IS A CRIMINAL LAW BREAKER
PER THE NEWS.
WHAT SORT OF ‘DEAL’?
AND, RIGHT OUT OF HARVARD LAW, HE ‘WORKED’ AS A CIVIL RIGHTS
ACTIVIST IN CHICAGO . WHAT KIND OF PAY IS THIS, WE CAN ASSUME IT IS
LITTLE OR NOTHING PAY WISE! OR IS THERE OTHER KIND OF PAY INVOLVED??
HE THEN ENTERED POLITICS AT THE STATE LEVEL WHICH CERTAINLY IS A
LOW PAYING JOB, AND THEN MOVED RIGHT TO THE NATIONAL LEVEL. DID HE
“FUND RAISE” TO GET THE FUNDS TO GET ELECTED? WHAT KIND OF PROMISES
DID HE MAKE?
NOW, HE SCRAMBLES TODAY WITH A NICE SMILE BUT VERY MINIMAL
EXPERIENCE IN ANYTHING – WHILE OTHER PEOPLE WRITE HIS RAH-RAH
SPEECHES FOR HIM.
IN ALL HIS MINIMAL TIME IN THE STATE, AND NATIONAL LEGISLATURES -
HE’S NEVER LAUNCHED ANY IMPORTANT LEGISLATION, NONE WHATSOEVER.
MOSTLY, OF LATE FOR SOME TWO YEARS, HE’S BEEN OUT RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT.
THEN COME THE ENDORSEMENTS FOR HIM FROM OTHER COUNTRIES, ONES
THAT ARE NOT EXACTLY USA FRIENDS, LIKE THE IRAN PRES, FRENCH PRES,
THE IRAQ MINISTER THAT WANTS USA OUT. HMMM WHAT DO THEY SEE IN
HIM THAT THEY LIKE?
HE CLAIMS TO BE ‘PROUD OF HIS AFRICAN HERITAGE’ — NICE BUT — IT
SEEMS THAT HIS ONLY CONNECTION WITH AFRICA WAS THAT HIS AFRICAN
FATHER GOT A WHITE AMERICAN GIRL PREGNANT AND THEN DESERTED HER.
UMMM….WHERE IS THE OUTSPOKEN PRIDE IN HIS WHITE HERITAGE?
AFTER ALL – IT WAS WHITE GRANDPARENTS THAT RAISED HIM!
HE IS PRESENTLY A MEMBER, OR WAS UNTIL POLITICS NECESSITATED A
CHANGE, FOR OVER 20 YEARS OF AN ‘AFROCENTRIC’ CHURCH IN CHICAGO
THAT SEEMINGLY HATES WHITES, HATES JEWS, AND BLAMES AMERICA FOR
ALL THE WORLD’S FAULTS.
HE REPEATEDLY COVERED UP FOR THAT PASTOR AND THAT CHURCH -
SAYING THAT HE CAN SEPARATE THE RELIGION FROM THE POLITICS, WHEN
HE HEARS A HATE-WHITEY SERMON.
HE CLAIMED THAT HE WAS SIMPLY UNABLE TO CONFRONT HIS PASTOR
OF 20+ YEARS ABOUT THE PASTOR’S DEMONSTRATED UN-AMERICAN BIAS.
BUT — HE WANTS US TO BELIEVE THAT HE CAN CONFRONT NORTH KOREA
AND IRAN AND RUSSIA WHEN THE TIME ARISES TO TAKE AMERICA ‘S SIDE.
YEAH – WITH HIS BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE, HE ‘HOPES’ THAT HE
COULD BE A “UNITER” AND BRING US ALL TOGETHER;
BUT – WE ARE LEFT TO THINK THAT THE REAL ‘HOPE’ IS, THAT HE REALLY
HOPES THAT NO ONE WILL PUT ALL THESE PIECES TOGETHER, AT LEAST
NOT UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION.
YOU MIGHT SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND – GET OUT AND
VOTE.

Posted by: John D | September 29, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am

November 4th…
Communism vs Socialist Fascism
Where’s conservatism when you need it?
The Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves.

Posted by: gary | September 29, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am

The reporter foolishly left out the part where Obama raised his hands into the air and shouted “peace, be still” thereby quieting the storm.

Posted by: Dinsdale | September 29, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am

dennis in ohio,
newer posts always go at the bottom, close to the comment box. this is not email.

Posted by: alexWV | September 29, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

As this Race for the White House unfolds..I am amazed how angry the Obama
supporters are. Is it because they have soooo much hate in them??? To win their cause they should be stating (honest) facts about the accomplishments of their candidate to win over those in the undecided column..Not calling the other camp names(how childish!) Grow up and show your maturity as an american voting citizen.

Posted by: Cindy | September 29, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

Obama has no ‘socialist’ programs, and both will drive the deficit up.. McCain more than Obama. And under Obama, only the wealthy will see modest increases, while the vast majority will see more tax cuts than under McCain.
NO SOCIALIST PROGRAMS? ARE YOU KIDDING? AGAIN ANOTHER IGNORANT DEM. WHAT DO THINK A PROGRESSIVE TAX SYSTEM IS? “the wealthy will see modest increases”, err.. the fact that you differentiate between the “wealthy” and the “poor” thereby engaging in class warfare establishes a prima facia case of socialism! This is country is doomed by ignorance and the failure to heed the lessons of history. Study history and read a little, it does wonders for the mind.

Posted by: Jose | September 29, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

hey guys did anybody notice that obama’s chief financial advisers were former ceo’s of Fanny Mae and lehman brothers. I guess they didnt have enough money to blow let them in charge of DC and let them take it under. oh and by the way an internet poll of half a million people said Mcain won the debate 70% to thirty. reasons not to vote for obama if he was the perfect change kind of guy than the corrupt Daley-Chicago political machine would not have put him in power. number two the man can not do anything without a teleprompter or ted kennedys prepared scripts. 3 obama personally got more money from fanny mae and freddy mac than any one in the senate other than chris dodd. reason everybody will vote for mcain. people have forgotten that many democrats love john mcain republicans hate him. republicans like palin moderates and independents love mcain. and another thing the press has convienantly forgotten Mcain was john kerry’s first choice for vice president
and throughout the debates he always told bush that he needed to go and take some advice from mcain on the war. so all these years of telling the media telling everybody how great mcain do they honestly expect people to change their minds? and one last point Mcain and Bush dislike each other immensely Mcain sacked Rumsfeld organized the 9-11 commision does the press expect us to believe that they are the same? if so why did the republicans really not want Mcain to win the nomination? last but not least when Mcain stop his campaign last week and said the country needed this bill to go through and stopped his campaign obama said no i am not going to stop this campaign if you need me call me. in English he said i dont care about the country i care about getting the presidancy that is selfish

Posted by: andy | September 29, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

what a bunch of loser babies you libs are. Keep thinking that this gutter troll has a chance to win this election and you show how foolish you truely are. Truely Obamabots willing to follow him over a cliff. Maybe if these phony polls told the truth, we’d see how truely frightened you are that he is a loser and will always be a loser. Don’t worry though, the community that he left behind could sure use him since they’re tearing down all of the abandoned slum housing that he was responsible for getting built. Can’t wait to see you choke on your tears when he slinks away back into the hole he crawled out of.

Posted by: rod peters | September 29, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

It would be great if you Obama supporters would cease the racist postings under the guise of being a McCain supporter, trying to make it look like we’re all a bunch of illiterate KKK thugs because we don’t like your messiah’s policies. I’m sure they’re out there, but it’s a small (in all meaings of the word) minority. I’m just afraid that if he’s elected, any critic of The Beloved Leader will be ostracized and eventually sent to a reeducation camp. The Party is already cooking up the reinvention of the Fairness Doctrine so they can stifle any remaining dissent, a la H.Chavez. I can hardly wait to see what names I’ll be called by the open-minded Progressives: He is a racist homophobic lackey of the capitalistic class who refuses to see the obvious advantage of a one-party state which eliminates unnecessary arguments that only delay progress!

Posted by: cappyW | September 29, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

I was going to vote Hillary, but it’ll either be McCain or I’ll just sit this election out. But absolutely NO OBAMA! NO WAY! NO HOW!
You must either be insane or blind not to see through that cartoon character.
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Vote for McCain: maybe he would put Hillary in his Cabinet! Lol, at least we know he would consider it, if elected. He wants Dems, Reps, and Independents.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

WHy does having “4 Homes & 13 Cars” so bad for a person who wife is worth 300 million or so? Did anyone make this much of a fuss over John Kerry or Al Gores homes?? Answer NO!. Kerry had one home that he had not stayed in -at that point- for 4 years. Gore has Homes that could take in a hundred familes and still you would not see him. BUY NOOOOOOOOOOO you bi tch about McCain home and cars. First thing, He was on Jay Leno, told he has a Condo in DC where he lives during the Senate sessions, a Ranch in Arizona and a home in Arizona, and a Condo in CA. That is 4 home. NOW do you want to take into account homes owned by members of his family, or he himself? Plus what does it matter to have 1 home or 4 or 9. To be fair count the homes owned by every memmber of the Congress and Senate. You mayfind many ownmore then one home. As for McCain , check HOW he paid for them. Unlike Pope Barack the First, McCain used money from his 5 years as a POW, invested it and with what money he got from legal means, he got his first home. YET Pope Barack the First, his home in Chicago is under reveiw to see how much illegal money got to him from Rezko, who will be spending lots of time in jail for his crimes regarding funds.
WHo is the bigger crook, one who spent his POW money or one who got his from a convented crook? Nooo it doesn’t matter, just keep yelling McCain has 5-8-10 Homes and 5-8020 cars! Yeah just keep the Yelling going. We will see come Nov who the American people will elect. Then we will spend the next 4 years blasting away at whoever it maybe. Then spend another 2 years watchig someone new run against him. My question, is should Pope Barack be elected , at WHAT point willhe start running for reelection? I mean he has spent most of his 4 years in the Senate running for Pres, so when will he come out to say he is running againg for Pres? Sad state.

Posted by: R J..Miamisburg, Oh | September 29, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

Also, all of this “Constitution-busting” talk, could you please point out exactly where and how that has occurred? I mean, actually show me which specific articles, sections, and/or amendments were violated and how? It’s easy to throw those allegations out on a message board, but I would respect the opinion more with some support.

Posted by: Publius | September 29, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

How many college students take their rain-drenched jeans and t-shirts to the dry cleaner? Obama’s out of touch, or maybe that’s how life is at Harvard.

Posted by: Barbara | September 29, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

Obama is a Patriot and Islam is a religion of Peace. Move over or get ran over by the Obama express, were coming to town! Obama / Biden (forever)

Posted by: jonny | September 29, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

You’ve got to be kidding. We don’t need Obama and his wrong-headed views in the White House. People, get up, and vote for John McCain.

Posted by: Steve in SoCal | September 29, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

Who do our enemies want for our President – Egypt – Syria – Iran – Hamas – Russia?
Who will the Arabs dance in the street for and hand out sweets?
OK – then vote for the other guy!!!

Posted by: Thomas Hare | September 29, 2008, 9:57 am 9:57 am

Seriously, Obama just talks to hear himself talk and fills the air with tons of verbiage. No intelligent person could listen to what that street agitator, who I doubt was born in Hawaii, supported by, owned by and paid for by George Soros, and not recognize the familiar songs of Karl Marx! Obama is dangerous because he is naive, and he is smug, condescending and deep down harbors a hate for this country that is obvious. Sure, a bunch of mush filled skulls at a college turned out to see him. So what? Was there a free concert and food there?

Posted by: WallyG | September 29, 2008, 9:57 am 9:57 am

Not even enough sense to get out of the rain.

Posted by: ilikecheese | September 29, 2008, 9:57 am 9:57 am

Sounds like the folks at ABC have a touch of Jungle Fever !

Posted by: bobr | September 29, 2008, 9:57 am 9:57 am

Sounds as if the ABC reporters are the ones that “got damp”
“The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, Barack Obama “

Posted by: skippy | September 29, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

Interesting that Obaaaaamaaaaa the liberal sheeple is so insecure that he has to go stand in the rain i9nstead of staying in Washington to do the job he was elected to do and is paid 160 thousand a year to do.
Even more interesting how the liberal press has polled democrats to get the Obaaaaaamaaaaa predetermined answer when anyone watching saw an arrogant petulent school boy looking like he coundn’t figure out the answer at a spelling bee.

Posted by: Sable | September 29, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

“The rain fell, carressing his body, glistening on his skin, outlining every sinewing muscle as he stood erect in front of the crowd.
They were HIS crowd. They wanted him to win. Wanted to be with him. Wanted to BE him.
He knew this was so, as he had always known. Since childhood he’d had that effect on men and women.”
Excerpt from the upcoming MSM ode to Obama.

Posted by: Maurice | September 29, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

Mccain will rasie taxes its just he’s so misguided on the economy he doesn’t even realize how. He supports the anti-American federal reserve inflation “bailout” for the banks which will rasie taxes across the board, because the Fed will create money out of thin are AGAIN! WAKE UP CONSERVATIVES!! A socialist is the GOP candidate!!! Where else do you get $700 billion if the country is 9.6 trillion in debt!?!?! TURN YOUR BRAINS ON FOR JUST A SECOND CONSERVATIVES…MCCAIN IS NOT THE ANSWER. BARR IS.

Posted by: gary | September 29, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

So, according to the polls Obama will win the election. If the polls are right we have a lot to look forward to – none of it pleasant.
The big problem with Obama is his stance on energy. No drilling (don’t be fooled by the demise of the drilling ban, it will be back in place by next year with a Dem congress and Pres), no clean coal, no shale production, no new refineries, no new nuclear and just dollars thrown at newer technologies that are not feasible to meet our energy needs at this point in time. The problem, Obama is in the tank for the environmental special interests and OPEC couldn’t be happier.
Also, don’t expect that middle class tax cut he promises. I voted for Clinton in 1992 for the same reason and when he got in office, gee whiz he just couldn’t make that happen. Expect the same thing here. And, the sunsetting of the Bush Tax cuts will put a bunch of people of lower income back on the tax rolls, even if Obama doesn’t actively raise taxes on the middle class (though his proposed “tax on the rich, will lead to higher unemployment and more jobs going overseas).
So, between high taxes, $5.50 a gallon at the pump, increased unemployment and the probable continuation of the mortgage crisis, not to mention a shaky foreign policy that supposedly means sending more troops to Afghanistan to attack the mountains of Wariristan (a suicidal approach on high ground) I predict a Republican congress in 2010. Poor America.

Posted by: PinnyPed | September 29, 2008, 9:59 am 9:59 am

Debate moderator: “Mr Obama as of this afternoon we have significant financial turmoil what do you propose doing?”
“…raise taxes….”
“…..propose $600 million spending bill….”
“….need a $300 million spending bill….”
“…..increase capital gains taxes…..”
“…..close tax loop holes….”
B. Obama – September 26, 2008

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 9:59 am 9:59 am

hey guys did anybody notice that obama’s chief financial advisers were former ceo’s of Fanny Mae and lehman brothers
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I noticed.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 9:59 am 9:59 am

Omentum
The heavens welcoming a true leader? ARE YOU SERIOUS? This analogy of Obama being the “One” has just gone beyond ridiculous. Apparently you are a koolaid drinker too. God would NOT endorse or embrace a candidate who voted to end the life of babies born during botched abortions.
Try drinking water, it’s better for you.

Posted by: Brenda | September 29, 2008, 9:59 am 9:59 am

Obama, Frank and Dodd are very upset that the Republicans made them remove money that was allocated to ACORN from the Bail Out Bill.
I can’t believe the Democrats want to give money to a corrupt organization like ACORN…wait yes I can believe this, since Obama was once their lawyer and ACORN registers “dead” people as Democrats.

Posted by: susie | September 29, 2008, 10:00 am 10:00 am

This just tells me he’s to stupid to get in out of the rain.

Posted by: Ted | September 29, 2008, 10:00 am 10:00 am

“his white dress-shirt clinging to his body”
Gave you reporters a boner, did it?

Posted by: Roger | September 29, 2008, 10:00 am 10:00 am

What a joke. Obama will do anything to get elected. At least John McCain is principled and knows how to prioritize things properly. Obama is the least experienced candidate since James K. Polk, people. Polk made a bad president too.
There are still several weeks to the election, and may I remind you misguided DEMOCRAPS that Bush was behind at times in both of his election cycles, and all of you were whining on and on about how the Democrats were goign to win in a landslide, and blah blah blah.
The SILENT MAJORITY OF GOOD HARD WORKING AMERICANS is slowly waking up.
McCain/Palin will WIN in November. What a shame that in a season where it should be a PIECE OF CAKE for Democrats to win, Obama can’t even muster more of a lead. Just goes to show how uneasy the country is about electing someone with TIES TO A RADICAL DOMESTIC TERRORIST AND AN AMERICAN-HATING PREACHER.

Posted by: Pat | September 29, 2008, 10:01 am 10:01 am

Can any of the Obama supporters tell me what Barak Obama has done that was good for the American people? I am tired of the nothing talk. Please stop bashing others for their thoughts if different than yours. I feel the Obama supporters are the very young voters who have not experienced life and tax payers, workers, homeowners, mothers and fathers because if they were they would really understand why most of us differ from their thoughts that Obama is “the man”.

Posted by: Karen | September 29, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am

What is going on in this country. For the first time, I am actually frightened. Obama is such a fraud and the uninformed in this country are eating it up. Just because he is different and the media pumps up all this garbage about how dynamic and inspiring he is. Look at the facts of this campaign.
No special interests huh Obama. How much did you get from Freddie and Fanny? By the way, they are the root cause of all of these economic problems right now. But you don’t hear that from the frauds in the media.
No old politics as usual? The New York Times says Obama is running 5 misleading ads right now. And that rediculous blatently lying ad about immigration, running in spanish no less. That is disgrceful.
The most frightening part is he really thinks he is as great as his “belivers” say he is. He will run this country like a dictator. He is so wrapped up in himself, it is scary. What he doesn’t reallize is he is solely a creation of the media. He has done nothing in his entire life to merit the kind of coverage he gets. NOTHING.
The bottom line is, nothing has changed from day one of the primary campaign. He is an empty suit. He is not qualified to be a city councilman. He is arrogant, he is not at all eloquent(just listen to him when off the prompter, he sounds like a bumbling moron) he is radical and he is a socialist.
I am sick and tired of politicians (democrats mostly) bashing hard working people who have the nerve to be successful. And then go off to lower class people and say that its the rich who make their lives miserable and that the democrats will take their money away from those evil rich people and give it to the poor who deserve it more. It works every time.
I am sure all of you syciphants who don’t bother researching anything about these candidates will spew out some pre-programed lines like “Mcsame” and “Bush lied” and whatever else they feed you so you don’t dare try to think for yourself. And you will call me a racist because I don’t blindly follow Obama like you do. But what you don’t realize is smart people don’t get intimidated by threats and insults meant to bully people into their way of thinking. If everyone actually critically thought about this election, and did some research from all outlets, not just ABC, CBS, and NYT which are so blatantly in the tank for Obama it is downright disgusting, they would get an idea of what Obama truely is. He does not deserve, nor is he remotely qualified to be president.

Posted by: TRB | September 29, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am

Couldn’t ever put Hillary away, still can’t put McCain away. The closer this thing is the worse it is for Obama. Even the media can’t make a victory for him. At the end of the day people will look and see what they want: experience or an untested politician with limited experience. They will choose McCain.

Posted by: M&M | September 29, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am

This entire election is being shaped and manipulated by the lefty press which includes ABC, CBS, NBC and even FOX depending upon who’s face is on the screen at any given time. History will not look favorably upon today’s media. The little student journalists going to class (gonna change the world) listening to their angry hippie teacher looking to re-live their second revolution vicariously through impressionable students. You only hear what the alphabet liberal media want you to hear, and the rest is manipulated and delivered in a way as to mislead. Down with yellow journalism! Please with the sad metaphor with the rain, geeeeesh!

Posted by: Superpower | September 29, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am

How many college students take their rain-drenched jeans and t-shirts to the dry cleaner? Obama’s out of touch, or maybe that’s how life is at Harvard.
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Thank you. I’m 24 and I’ve never been to a dry cleaner. I’m going to avoid it as long as possible.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 10:03 am 10:03 am

JOHN D.
SOLID POST!!!!

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 10:03 am 10:03 am

“Live with it, pay up the next $700 billion+ and shut the f*ck up. You just lost your right to b*tch.”
Wow, another angry Dem! Why is that? Is it because they know they won’t win in November? I don’t get the angry, nasty Dems, I really don’t……

Posted by: mike | September 29, 2008, 10:03 am 10:03 am

Gary said:
Mccain will rasie taxes its just he’s so misguided on the economy he doesn’t even realize how. He supports the anti-American federal reserve inflation “bailout” for the banks which will rasie taxes across the board, because the Fed will create money out of thin are AGAIN! WAKE UP CONSERVATIVES!! A socialist is the GOP candidate!!! Where else do you get $700 billion if the country is 9.6 trillion in debt!?!?! TURN YOUR BRAINS ON FOR JUST A SECOND CONSERVATIVES…MCCAIN IS NOT THE ANSWER. BARR IS.
I can’t stop laughing. Barry is the answer!!!! OMG LOL…stop it..stop it…my sides hurt.

Posted by: Jose | September 29, 2008, 10:03 am 10:03 am

Can someone, anyone, (Bueller?) please tell me something great about Obama.
He has no record to run on, he has not accomplished anything substantive in his life – aside from degrees from Harvard, and Columbia and supporting his family.
I get that he is not George Bush or John McCain, who I sense many of you dislike.
Please resist your instinct to tell me how bad McCain is. JUST ANSWER THE QUESTIONS (below):
What is so great about Obama?
What REAL “change” will he bring?
Please provide CONCRETE examples. (Think of it as your opportunity to eductate us dumb “conserv-tives”)
Also – please do not provide happy dreaming points e.g. “better” healthcare, restoring America’s glory, etc. This is a serious request. Thank you.

Posted by: Ward | September 29, 2008, 10:04 am 10:04 am

Shirt clinging ,can they get any more onesided in their coverage. This is downright disgusting not only that these media males get all tingly in their legs but that they are blantant homosexuals. BTW you would think with Obama being GOD he could have “changed ” the weather and stopped the rain.

Posted by: big guy | September 29, 2008, 10:04 am 10:04 am

Seven & a half years!
George Bush has been in office for 7 1/2 years. The first six the
economy was fine.
A little over a year and a half ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2-1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
4) The DOW JONES hit a record high — 14,000+
5) American’s were buying new cars, taking cruises and vacations
overseas, living large!
But American’s wanted ‘CHANGE’! So, in 2006 they voted in a Democratic
Congress & yep — we got ‘CHANGE’ all right!
1) Consumer confidence has plummeted;
2) Gasoline is now over $3.75 a gallon & climbing;
3) Unemployment is up to 5%
4) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12 trillion dollars &
prices are still dropping;
5) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
6) THE DOW is probing another low ~11,300 — $2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS HAS
EVAPORATED FROM THEIR STOCKS, BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS!
YEP, IN 2006 AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE! AND WE GOT IT! A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS, NANCY PELOSI. HARRY REID.
Now the Democrats’ candidate for president — and the polls say he’s
gonna be ‘the man’ — claims he’s gonna really give us change! Just how
much more ‘change’ do you think you can stand?
Have a very nice day.

Posted by: skippy | September 29, 2008, 10:05 am 10:05 am

Excellent – TRB

Posted by: Karen | September 29, 2008, 10:05 am 10:05 am

Is this a sex novel or a political report . . . “The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body . . .”

Posted by: A. Lendel | September 29, 2008, 10:05 am 10:05 am

In a recent poll it was revealed that 40% of whites polled would not vote for Barack Obama simply because he’s black.
That’s disgusting.
In the same poll it was revealed that 90% of blacks polled would not vote for McCain simply because he’s white.
That, I guess, is enlightenment.
Just keep reminding yourself that whitey is the problem.

Posted by: higgs | September 29, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am

Senator McCain is tired and bitter, and it really showed in the debate. It isn’t surprising, seeing how his hockey mom VP pick is out of steam and he himself has nothing to stand on. POWs are not as rare as the good Senator would like you to believe, it’s just that the others are more humble and less tooting their own horn.
I don’t care that he has x houses and y cars, that was always a stupid talking point. I care about character and McCain has none, he betrayed his first wife in a horrible way, just to be with the rich blonde whose daddy gave him the means to become a politician.
McCain a maverick? Not so much. More a leeching, tired old snail.

Posted by: Hans Meiser | September 29, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am

This team is setting us this country for all kinds of things Nov 5.
They say he will win in a landslide…
If he is elected I see a landslide of another kind, meaning this country is going down off of a cliff
If McCain wins just wait for all of the accusations, and court cases.
But yet the dems point their fingers and say fraud, as they stuff the ballot box.
It is just unbelievable to me that those that feel they have to help their cadidate by stuffing the ballot box, must truely not believe in their candidate’s ablilty to win on their own

Posted by: mt | September 29, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am

OBAMA IS A FAKE..PHONEY..FRAUD..PUPPET OF THE LEFT..SCREW THE LEFT..BARNEY FRANK WOULD LOVE THAT..DO IT IN HIS BASEMENT…

Posted by: GMAN | September 29, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am

I am starting to see a trend across this country… “most” people who consider themselves Democrats are using hateful speech patterns insted of stinking to a more useful debate style of the issues.

Posted by: JED | September 29, 2008, 10:07 am 10:07 am

You bunch of no good liberals. Biden has been screwing up left and right but you overlook those gaffes and pick on Sarah Palin. Why???? Because she is a real person, w/real issues who does NOT act like a deceitful politician…turds like Obama!!! He is so disrespectful, calling John McCain by his first name and not Senator. Wow, you are all blinded by the so called light. Little secret…Obama looks down his nose at you and the rest of America. Wake up now!!!!

Posted by: Mary | September 29, 2008, 10:07 am 10:07 am

Did Biden tell the crowd it was just like watching FDR stand in the rain ( “Stand up Chuck !!” ) to give a speech on television ?
Did the press tell Obama that the family of the young man on the wrist band he put on the day of the debate is furious at him for wearing it ? Those folks are for McCain.
I’m sick of liberal media bias.

Posted by: Shaw | September 29, 2008, 10:07 am 10:07 am

Skippy spot on!

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 10:07 am 10:07 am

Poor Obama his pet slush funs ACORN was rightly cut out of the bailout plan

Posted by: skippy | September 29, 2008, 10:07 am 10:07 am

my my my im so ashame as a independent i thought i was going to get something positive and deffrent from john/palin but bought dont make one i watch her interview she is straight dumb i watch john damn im dissapointed trust me obama i think i could put a little trust in italian american cant vote republican you guys dissapoint me
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They’re not letting Sarah be Sarah, and it’s shaken her confidence, I would guess. It’s because of the initial hatchet-job the press did to her and her family in the first week or so of her selection. They need to stop handling her as tightly as they are. They gotta chill out, even though the press is truly hoping for her demise. Yellow journalism.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am

Look, any one can see that the media (sans Fox) is fully in the tank for Obama at this point. And regarding the polls, you need to look at the internals. Most all of the polls are favoring polling Dems over Reps as the media trys its best to support the “Wonder Kid.”
Think of it this way. The nation is pretty much 50/50 Dem/Rep and it’s a fact that 35% of the Dems (Clinton supporters) will not support Obama. So where is Obama picking up his support that puts him over the top? It’s got to be from one of three sources. 1)Biased polls, 2)Over 35% of the Bush voters crossed over to Obama or 3) New voters. The first two are wrong and the third one is unmeasurable until election day (but could be very valid).
This election is far from over and I would say the same thing even if it was McCain who was doing well the last week or so. Either way, the election will not be decided until late October if not down to the wire.

Posted by: DC | September 29, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am

The Democrats allowed Obama to run the meeting over this bailout to show his fine leadership skills. He managed to derail the so-called agreement by bringing his arrogance to the table and little else. If he was a success, the Democrats would be rushing to bestow credit. Solution? Blame McCain, who sat silent for most of the meeting and let Barry knock the train off the rails.
Friday night, Barry’s blank resume once again stares the audience right in the face. Solution? The Barack networks (ABC: All Barack Channel, CBS:Constant Barack Station, NBC:National Barack Channel) insist that Barry’s vague answer, weak performance and arrogant demeanor are exactly what this country needs.
There will be tears on election night and the Barack Networks will declare America racist for not putting the radical Marxist in the Oval Office.
…and they say that Fox News is biased??

Posted by: Bonham | September 29, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am

I think all Obama supporters are between 15 and 22 years old. That is a little scary, and I feel no better after reading thier comments. This group is clueless.

Posted by: wowseres | September 29, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am

Yassah, weez gonnta hab dah choclat’ white house,yassah.

Posted by: Vlad Tepes | September 29, 2008, 10:10 am 10:10 am

Yassah, weez gonnta hab dah choclat’ white house,yassah.

Posted by: Vlad Tepes | September 29, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

when things are bad, blame the ‘liberal’ media.
i got news people…our media ain’t that liberal.
mccain/palin can blame the media ’til the cows come home……….it doesn’t make their platform better. they need to recognize it stinks of desparation.

Posted by: Neil | September 29, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

It is unfathomable that the American public is unable to see through the curtin of truth and understand that the American mainstram media has entered into a period of hopeless, socialist, Obama-tauting lies that portray an inexperienced, pompous community organizer as a savior. The president of the United States of America should be a person who has the ablity to make a decision based on and educated, experienced background. Following the most recent debate, I observed McCain as a person who exemplified character, conviction, and experience at making decisions that will effect the world. I observed Obama as a young, stuttering, disrespectful orator who is incapable of committing himself to any issues other than raising our altready overtaxed nation. Why is it that the American public does not comprehend that if you raise taxes on big business, the cost will be transferred to you and I, the consumers. Therefore, we can reasonable conclude that this to would effect “Middle America.” Ask yourself is this the change we want?

Posted by: Marc | September 29, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

“The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body with the bright lights dancing off the plastic of the ever present teleprompters.

Posted by: Sofi | September 29, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

Note to all……………Bush Vs Kerry …According to the poll, 61 percent of Americans who watched the first presidential debate on Sept. 30 said Kerry won, 19 percent said Bush won and 16 percent said they tied. The number of debate viewers surveyed was 770……………..Now, The poll avg. will correct itself,,,,but while it is,,,,Borat Husain 0-Bama will be fighting, screaming, namecalling and kicking like a little girl,,,,,And America will see that as a Total Turn Off,,,,,,And McCain will Take the Election Hands Down….

Posted by: derrek michigan | September 29, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

McCain is a good fellow, but he is not the right person to lead this country into the future.
Obama, with Biden on his side, have the wisdom, judgement, temperament and birlliance to leade this country.
Under Obama/Biden Health Care will no longer be an issue of discussion at the kitchen table. Companies will stop sending jobs over seas and will invest right here in America. We will actually make a switch from OIL to Hydrogen/Electric cars etc…
I understand there is a lot of emotions, but lets put America First and vote democrat.
Eric

Posted by: Eric Balcom | September 29, 2008, 10:12 am 10:12 am

The bitter bile of the right wing is only exceeded by their prideful ignorance. They distort and dissemble constantly. Going from a surplus to a 11 trillion dollar deficit is wonderful in their book. Bailing out the billionaires is peachy. Makind doctors millionaires while we rank 35th in infant mortality. The blind think others cannot see. One can only hope the viscious and rabid haters allow Obama to be inauguarated.

Posted by: Buddha | September 29, 2008, 10:12 am 10:12 am

pay as you play obummer, remember illinois senate bill 1332? rezko is talking and you will be walking! pay as you play.

Posted by: easy brown | September 29, 2008, 10:12 am 10:12 am

Obama and his “truth squad” to use prosecutors to stiffle free speech in MO. If they dont like the message they will go after you? This is the guy America wants??

Posted by: skippy | September 29, 2008, 10:13 am 10:13 am

Would it be racist or sexist or anti-stupidist some other “ist” to require some basic test to obtain the PRIVILEGE to vote in this great country?
The first question would be “how many states are in the United States of America”?
OOh wait that question would disqualify B. Obama who indicated that there are 57 states.

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 10:13 am 10:13 am

That just the heavens rejoicing the coming of a true leader for the UNITED STATES.
The washing of the filth from the great commonwealth MY STATE – VIRGINIA
WE ARE GOING BLUE BABYYYYYYYYYY
When we take Virginia. GAME SET MATCH.
ITS OVER
– Remember 2002? These things go in cycles. So the Republicans can lose in November. And? What … you think Republicans won’t win again?

Posted by: Fuji | September 29, 2008, 10:13 am 10:13 am

Fact: Obama 2nd in contributions from Fannie and Freddie.
Fact: Obama’s advisors walked away with millions from Fannie and Freddie.
Fact: Bad loans in conjunction with Fannie and Freddie are the biggest reason for current financial crisis.
Fact: Democrats are mainly responsible for this current crisis.
Analysis: If the truth were known Obama and his minions would be getting the true blame and would more than likely lose the presidency.
Opinion: When in order to help poorer people get into homes they could not afford, they ruined the economy for ALL of us. This is just a preview of the damage social progressive policies will do to our country. Think of your country before you think of yourself and vote for anybody but Obama.
Suggestion: If you want real change get a write in vote campaign for “none of the above”, and this means in congressional elections too. If more than half the voters in the country did this the elections would have no legitimacy, and their would be no choice but to hold a new election with different contenders and maybe even a 3rd party candidate out of the business world with real economic and decision making experience.God bless America

Posted by: P. Caldwell | September 29, 2008, 10:13 am 10:13 am

Senator McCain is tired and bitter, and it really showed in the debate
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I watched the debate with an open mind (not for my vote, but for the performance over all), and I definitely saw Obama as the one who was pissy and frustrated. Did you not see his little smirks and snickers? And his constant head shaking and interruptions? They cut away the camera at one or two points because he looked so visibly frustrated. And because I’m sure the camera man or woman was instructed to make Obama look the best. (citation: Left-wing Media Bias).

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 10:14 am 10:14 am

It is unbelievable if even 10 years ago an article in a major newspaper read
“Junior Ilinois US Senator with a direct link to the Chicago political machine, having spent his college and post college years working with such groups as ACORN and involving himself with anti American personalities, one with confirmed terrorist background, having a close associate that is presently waiting sentencing on a federal convicition, on occasion having stood with Louis Farrakhan and Edward Said. This Senator has a voting history that is the most liberal in Congress follwing through some of his hard left votes in the Illinois state senate. His limited political experience is based on a far left idealogy – won his primary for the Presidency touting this record and then immediately began to reverse most of his positions – and currently he continuously promotes class distinction in most of his speeches and comments. He maintained a long relationship with an anti-American pastor.” Well this could turn into another paragraph or two. And today – this US Senator enjoys a lead in the recent presidential polls. Serious stuff.

Posted by: RAltiere | September 29, 2008, 10:14 am 10:14 am

If you like $4-5.00 a gallon gas…then vote for Obambi. The Dims are the reason gas is soooooo freakin high. They say they are for the Middle Class, yet they never say “we” only “you” in the middle Class. These guys have not been Middle Class for over five years.
All the Pols are Millionairs. The dims will never allow our energy resources to be tapped so get ready for $8.00 a gallon to pay for your healthcare.

Posted by: Will in Augusta | September 29, 2008, 10:14 am 10:14 am

Leave it to the master of metaphor to use the weather as a “shuck and jive” opportunity. Hussein Obama embodies the very worst of political sleeze.
Virginian’s know better than to be fooled by this smooth silky shuck and jive act…as does the rest of the country.
Remember, only one man in this race ever really fought for you, only one man in this race has the experience and knowledge to lead us through these turbulent times, only one man has the wisdom, grace, substance, and a record to prove it. That man is John McCain.
Peace, Prosperity, Reform
McCain/Palin – Leadership you can trust, change you can depend on.

Posted by: SensibleFella | September 29, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am

I believe I have just found Obama’s strategy playbook. It’s all right there in John Reed’s, “Ten Days That Shook The World”. I wonder, do all members of the Truth Squad wear something Red? Al Frankin was telling us the DNC’s tactics in the title of his book, “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”.
In Politics truth is the first casuality, because the masses can’t handle the truth, so we have the News Media to give us what they decide we can handle. And when the lie is more comfortable than the truth, print the lie. If they say that it is “the fact” often enough it will become the “truth” to the masses.

Posted by: Don | September 29, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am

“The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body,”
are they going for the sexy obama now? it ain’t workin’.

Posted by: cathy | September 29, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am

According to the crowd officals,the event was estimated to be 26,000. But then again Corp. ABC who’s counting? All you need to learn to say and report on is ‘President Obama’. Period, Full Stop! It is time this country come together and stop worshiping ‘The Valued Stupids’ amongst us. Give intelligence a try. If not, the only thing that we have to loose is our COUNTRY.

Posted by: therealmarie | September 29, 2008, 10:16 am 10:16 am

a quote…………………
“”"”when things are bad, blame the ‘liberal’ media. i got news people…our media ain’t that liberal. mccain/palin can blame the media ’til the cows come home……….it doesn’t make their platform better. they need to recognize it stinks of desparation. “”"”"”
ARE YOU KIDDING ME??????????????? MSNBC is not liberal???? NBC is not Liberal?? ABC is not Liberal???
You people who believe the Left Wing Media Is Not Trying to Take This Election Away from Hard working Cpmservative Americans ,,,,,,, YOU . MUST . BE . DELUSIONAL…!

Posted by: derrek michigan | September 29, 2008, 10:17 am 10:17 am

Those that are against Big Business?
Where you gonna work when Big Business leave the country due to higher taxes? Who do you think is going pay the taxes that are passed down…you!
Guess you can go back to picking cotton. Big Business Creates Jobs! Taxes put a squeeze on job creation and capital reinvestiment. Govt cannot create jobs, they only mess them up. Look at the Post Office. Oh yea, you can always join the miliary.

Posted by: Will in Augusta | September 29, 2008, 10:17 am 10:17 am

Buddha, please cite your source for ranking 35th (in the world?) in infant mortality. I don’t believe you.

Posted by: higgs | September 29, 2008, 10:17 am 10:17 am

Politoli, I’d be concerned about a leader who doesn’t even have the courage to look his opponent in the eye. At least Obama wasn’t afraid to talk directly to McCain – too bad McCain (once again) had neither the judgment nor the courage to return the volley.
I guess McCain was just too busy hoisting the memory of a dead soldier onto the stage to bother.
Disgrace … even Lloyd Bentsen offered more life than McCain.

Posted by: John McCain | September 29, 2008, 10:17 am 10:17 am

I am amazed at the foolishness of Obama supporters. Today, Howard Fineman at MSNBC declared that the bailout of the financial companies is the start of the Obama era. The bailout represents the failure of conservative politics, according to Fineman.
So, think about this. Obama and Bush are on the same side on this issue. Obama and Bush are on the same side of many foreign policy issues as Obama would go to war with Pakistan, Iran, and any country bothering Israel. Obama supports the war in Afghanistan. What is the difference? Obama supports the Bush tax cuts, apparently, until the economy improves. Obama supports Bush’s prescription benefit plan. Obama supports increase federal government role in education ala “No Child Left Behind”.
Who is the candidate of change?
Meanwhile, a person of no experience (Obama) is attacking a person with executive experience(Palin). Apparently running a successful campaign, so far, is sufficient experience to be President. Unfortunately, the government doesn’t run on contributions from special interest groups.

Posted by: Beaver7216 | September 29, 2008, 10:18 am 10:18 am

“The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body,…”
Is this a news story or a line from a romance novel?

Posted by: bored now | September 29, 2008, 10:18 am 10:18 am

Hispanics for McCain!!!!
who helps support small business by reducing business tax.
Obama is not a friend to the hispanics, McCain is.

Posted by: Linda | September 29, 2008, 10:19 am 10:19 am

John McCain won the debate. Both on points and substance. Do you know how I would know even if I didn’t watch it? Because the much talked about Debate dropped out of the headlines this weekend. Democrats and their PR machine the Mainstream Media would have been singing from the rooftops if they really thought Obama had won. They knew he hadn’t….check out http://www.withbias.blogspot.com for my indepth analysis of the debate

Posted by: Biased Girl | September 29, 2008, 10:19 am 10:19 am

Yeah — No money for ACORN in the bail out bill…..Lucky the rain hid Obama’s tears, since he was ACORN’s lawyer and showed them how to register dead people, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as Democrats so they could vote.

Posted by: Andie | September 29, 2008, 10:19 am 10:19 am

—There’s a silent vote,a bubba vote and
a redneck vote out there.Those voters
they don’t vote on primaries BUT they
vote in november…..—
Oh, thank god! Here I was afraid the election would be stolen by the educated.

Posted by: Shane | September 29, 2008, 10:19 am 10:19 am

Look, any one can see that the media (sans Fox) is fully in the tank for Obama at this point. And regarding the polls, you need to look at the internals. Most all of the polls are favoring polling Dems over Reps as the media trys its best to support the “Wonder Kid.”
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I agree: we just never know how things will go. About this time every four years I stop looking at polls, no matter where they’re sitting. Is it just me, or have the polls been wacky this year? For every candidate, I mean. They just swing too quickly and forcefully in too short a period of time. They just seem fishy to me, somehow, both ways.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 10:20 am 10:20 am

No matter who takes the W.H. as long as it is a person from either of the 2 major parties the USA will be a socialist country… The DNC will just take us there just a little faster… but either way this country is going to be a socialist nation!!! We need a 3rd party, but no body is willing to take that chance & “vote for that other guy because it will be a vote for McCain or Obama.” Welcome to the USSA (United Socialist States of America).

Posted by: JED | September 29, 2008, 10:20 am 10:20 am

A USA Today/Gallup poll released Sunday also found that by a 52 percent to 35 percent margin, viewers thought Obama offered better proposals to solve the country’s problems.
Governor Palin’s favorability ratings among independents are also going down as her unfavorable ratings are on the rise.
Facts are facts. America is finally waking up to the farce of the McCain/Palin team. Not a moment too soon.

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 10:20 am 10:20 am

most Americans see through the god-like persona Obama displays and the media jerks off over.

Posted by: 7.62 | September 29, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am

Osama Hussein Obama is a dump stupid MASTER MINDED…
He could blow up USA easily
He is very dangerous…

Posted by: Vietnames | September 29, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am

Can the media find anything else to write about? So it rained, so Obama got wet BIG DEAL, he is nothing more then a media darling. Democrats are so looking for a savior so bad they will pick anyone and the bias media is so hard up for stories about Obama, they will write a three page article if he farted. Wake up America he will tax all of us he will not take away or guns he will just make it harder to get or keep them, he lead us down a path of damnation not salvation.

Posted by: Bob | September 29, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am

I agree with Bonham. The Obama youth group are clueless – I remember 20+ years ago I was one of them, thinking that we just need love to make the world go around and all those low income people with be helped,they would vote for Socialism. Now I have realized and proved that ANYONE can be a millionaire, it all depends on what choices you make to get there. You can be like my 18yr son and just get by or like my 16 yr niece that is taking Advanced placement courses in high school and it in hyper drive. Choice = opportunities. Democrats are just spoiled brats and have no clue what it takes to succeed so they yell louder and louder and the media helps them along. People who don’t do what it takes to make enough money to buy a house like all us responsible people do not deserve a house or credit. Open your eyes!

Posted by: Chris | September 29, 2008, 10:22 am 10:22 am

Latest news about to take Obama down just in time for the November election. Remember that Obama and William Ayers, the Weatherman Underground terrorist, both served on the Woods Fund together? Well, a FOIA just unearthed both spent more than a couple days crafting the charter of that organization, and Obama sent funds to the foot of $100 million to fund Ayers radical education system. Ayers’ school and statewide education initiatives pushed that the US was immoral, corrupt, and evil, does not recognize US holidays but celebrates United Nations holidays. Does this shed a little light on why Obama gave that speach at the Brandenburg Gate in Germany?
How many years did the news media hide Bill Clintons womanizing ways? What other surprises await us in a year or two with Obama?

Posted by: Shawn | September 29, 2008, 10:22 am 10:22 am

McCain is the candidate for the low info voters who take pride in their ignorance. You hold on to him because you think he will get you through the stormy night. Too ignorant to realize that he is leading you and your families right off the cliff. Now, that would be alright because the society would be rid of such dead weight, but unfortunately too many others of value may be caught in the country’s crossfire.

Posted by: therealmarie | September 29, 2008, 10:23 am 10:23 am

According to the crowd officals,the event was estimated to be 26,000. But then again Corp. ABC who’s counting? All you need to learn to say and report on is ‘President Obama’. Period, Full Stop! It is time this country come together and stop worshiping ‘The Valued Stupids’ amongst us. Give intelligence a try. If not, the only thing that we have to loose is our COUNTRY.
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AHAHAHA! You just called people stupid and you spelled “lose” “LOOSE”. Hypocrisy is a bitch.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 10:23 am 10:23 am

I have read post here that make have serious questions about American Education! Let’s face facts, we have a tired old man with a good heart and a huge amount of pride,we have a really smart,excellent public speaker who is hiding his very left wing leanings. We have two very poor picks! The difference is McCain would never do anything to hurt the USA,Obama would say and do anything to get elected and will say and do anything to stay in office. We are at a crossroads, we are faced with the possible beginning of the end of the USA, after 8 years of BUSH four years of Obama could be our ruin. I am a DEM and will hold my nose and vote for McCain. A grandfather type man who loves this country dearly just seems a good pick with what we face and what we face may be the end of our country as we know it.

Posted by: John Stein | September 29, 2008, 10:23 am 10:23 am

I love America but if I could move my company to low tax Ireland I would. I see higher taxes coming my way from Obama and I am just getting by now.
You can count me and my 29 employees out.
Please don’t let Obama/Biden take my life’s work away from me.

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 10:23 am 10:23 am

America will become a communist shortly… and worst than that…
Trust me. He is very dangerous…

Posted by: Vietnames | September 29, 2008, 10:24 am 10:24 am

Since Obama and the democrats stopped reform of FNMA, and since Obama keeps Franklin Raines on as an advisor, I think only Americans who like the way ecnomy is going should vote democrat.
Of course as a proud member of the Chicago political machine, Obama knows he has the dead vote all tied up. And as a former organizer for ACORN, Obama knows how to get voter fraud going.

Posted by: hunter | September 29, 2008, 10:24 am 10:24 am

polls dont matter, fancy speeches dont mean anything. People will be surprised on election. its still up for grabs. People need to keep calm… no matter who is elected they are in for some of the worst years this country will ever see. So to think that one of these guys is a light at the end of the tunnel is just ignorant.

Posted by: vansizzel | September 29, 2008, 10:24 am 10:24 am

Just think how it was rainy he will be crying in Nov 4 2008 and I will give him baby bottle and diaper cause he will pissed is diaper when he know he lost his vote. No Obama 4 White House we don’t need White House to smell like Washington Zoo! My Gosh he makes me laugh my ass of he more of joke then anybody that I have ever seen my lifetime . Maybe he can get a job cutting grass for White House and he will get free lunch alot better then the soup kitchen he is used eating out of .

Posted by: BritneySpears4JohnMcCain | September 29, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

I would not mind seeing Palin in the rain…with a white t-shirt on of course (.)(.)

Posted by: Dan | September 29, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

hey ward, i have some answers for you.
Obama can get in bed with this dictators from other countries so that Europe likes the US again.
Obama can raise taxes on the ‘rich’ to pay for universal healthcare that won’t work in this country.
Obama can read speeches off a teleprompter better than any recent candidate.
Obama can eliminate the nuclear weapons in the world by talking and dazzling the world leaders with his command of the language. He will also learn the other languages of the world to fully bring us together as one.
Obama can change this country and make it back to what it was 8 years ago. we will have windmills all over the country, actually more that 1 per person living here and we will also have cars that run on frog pi*s.
believe this my freinds, it’s true!! it’s true!!! AMEN!!!

Posted by: rod peters | September 29, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

Obama and Biden did what they needed to do, which was accord respect to a crowd that had been waiting. Don’t blame gushy media coverage on the candidates.
The mainstream media has been wretched in its coverage of all candidates this primary season. That’s just one of the reasons why they all will eventually go under.

Posted by: Liz | September 29, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

Remember back when Bill Clinton was elected? He campaigned on no new taxes, then as soon as the election was over, he said “sorry folks, I looked things over and I just Can’t see a way that we canNot raise taxes. Dems will say anything it takes to be elected, then they act like they are raising taxes for our own benefit. Yes, I also remember that the first George Bush said no new taxes, then raised them after he was elected, but he was Pressured by the democratic congress to raise taxes, and caved in to their demands. The one problem I have with Republicans, is they cooperate with the Dems too often, then the dems turn around and kick them from behind. I’d rather trust a man like John McCain who is tried and true. Osamabama is a thug, “wannabe president”.

Posted by: Margie | September 29, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

I’m from Virginia and voting McCain. However, I’ve got a bad feeling we’re going to get stuck with Obama for a long 4 years of recession and continued over spending if the naive come out to vote based on looks and smooth talking. You’ve got to assume they will. Its just like when Jimmy Carter came to power. Any thoughtful and honest person knows that didn’t go well. Its amazing how quickly people forget.

Posted by: John | September 29, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

Osama and his wife will ” GOD EM AMRICA” for good…
Trust me this time…

Posted by: Vietnames | September 29, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

Antichrist

Posted by: D | September 29, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

The race is pretty much wrapped up, the only thing McCain can prevent is a complete landslide for Obama.

Posted by: Jesse | September 29, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

Nobama is the biggest hack puppet we have ever seen. He is the man behind the curtain. Go ahead, raise our taxes, bring illegals into the country, give everyone health care (by raising out taxes again), repeal the tax cuts (raising taxes again)
You are a hack! Most liberal senator with only 143 days in the senate before running for president. My garbage man has more experience.

Posted by: Nobama | September 29, 2008, 10:27 am 10:27 am

Mariann sounds racist to me.

Posted by: Rodgers | September 29, 2008, 10:27 am 10:27 am

You are right Nicole. It is people like you I am talking about. Let me spell it right……..L-0-S-E-R! Sheep to slaughter! Rovian childsplay.

Posted by: therealmarie | September 29, 2008, 10:28 am 10:28 am

Why didn’t Obama just wave his hand and stop the rain

Posted by: Don | September 29, 2008, 10:28 am 10:28 am

Sorry to say this this, but any neo-con that think McLame is going to win with Palin on the ticket, is an idiot.

Posted by: OMG | September 29, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am

Barack Obama – too stupid to come in out of the rain.

Posted by: One_American | September 29, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am

OSAMA HUSSUEIN IS A DUMP MASTER MINDED…
HE IS A TERRORIST BEST FRIEND…
HE WILL ” GOD EM AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”….
TRUST ME

Posted by: Vietnames | September 29, 2008, 10:30 am 10:30 am

Our boy a Marine Officer in Iraq! If you are in a fox hole who do you want covering your back McCain/ Palin or
Obama/Biden????? Hands down the McCain/Palin ticket won. End of story.
McCain/Palin 08
REally think about it. If you were in that situation and not sitting drinking your $4.00 coffee’s!

Posted by: Dean | September 29, 2008, 10:30 am 10:30 am

“The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body…”
Gee, fellas, you forgot all about the halo. (Good lord!)

Posted by: jnsesq | September 29, 2008, 10:31 am 10:31 am

Oops! I had no idea that this board is for Klan members only! Gotta Go! No intelligent Life To Be Found Here! Hate On!

Posted by: therealmarie | September 29, 2008, 10:31 am 10:31 am

This article makes me want to hurl!
The press no longer even tries to cover up their bias.
Jounalism = dead in 2008

Posted by: merle | September 29, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am

Posted by: Shawn | Sep 29, 2008 10:22:10 AM
All the “dirt” on Obama is thinly-linked connections with bad people. Woods Fund was a multimillion dollar organization with hundreds of employees and volunteers.
What about McCain, who was one of the Keating Five? He’s not “connected” to them, he WAS one of them.
I’m not even going to touch on your Ayers BS, because it’s just that – BS.
Haha, all you have is a flimsy argument based on e-mail forwards and right-wing conspiracies. You don’t have any actual substance or sources.
“most Americans see through the god-like persona Obama displays and the media jerks off over.”
Posted by: 7.62 | Sep 29, 2008 10:21:06 AM
You obviously haven’t seen any polls for the past month. Obama is winning, stop lying to yourself.
Anyone who isn’t a corrupt, ignorant fool comes off as having a “god-like persona” to Republicans. Republicans are scared of Obama because he is against everything they stand for – corruption, hate, and ignorance.

Posted by: VM | September 29, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am

Y’know, I’m not voting for either candidate, but the way some of you people talk about Obama, you need to take a BIG step back and PAUSE. It’s one thing to be proud or excited about a candidate, its another to speak of him in REVERENTIAL and HOLY tones. These kinds of attitudes have gotten many countries in TROUBLE. Anyone so willing to TRUST and ADORE a POLITICIAN, ANY politician, requires SERIOUS introspection. It reeks of gullibility and desperation.

Posted by: Reality | September 29, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am

Right Barry we all wear dry cleanable clothes all the time even when we are going out to a rally in the rain. Shows how you don’t have a clue have never been poor or working class. you are aren’t even a limosine liberal you are a surf board liberal. Not a teflon candidate a silicone candidate. go home to your grandma the BANK VICE PRESIDENT and your buddies from the fancy PREP SCHOOL you went to before HahVARD! *hole.

Posted by: moronpolitics | September 29, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am

I see from the picture that Hussein has acquired those new waterproof Teleprompters. What a guy! How can he go wrong now being able to read his preacher like “speech”, written by others and delivered flawlessly in the elements. What a guy! When I mention to my few left wing friends that Hussein is a Socialist, bent on changing our economic system from Capitalist to Socialist, they seem startled. America get smart quick, this Socialist will try to do just that. FREE medical for ALL (aliens included), FREE college for ALL (aliens included), FREE day care for ALL (aliens included), and I almost forgot REDISTRIBUTION OF YOUR INCOME so the lame, lazy and poor choice makers so that they will arrive at the finish line next to people who bust their asses EARNING a living. My friends THAT IS SOCIALISM. If Hussein can pull it off he will make Carl Marx so happy but not ME.

Posted by: Jerry in Tampa | September 29, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am

OSAMA WILL ” GOD EM AMERICA ‘ good…………….” GOD EM AMERICA”
” GOD EM AMERICA!!!!’
Trust me

Posted by: Vietnames | September 29, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am

“The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, Barack Obama played to a crowd in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1964.”
MY goodness, givin’ me the VAPORS !!!!!
Some of the media are not IN the tank,
they ARE the tank !!!
Is Joe Bidet still involved in this circus? We haven’t heard from him in so long that I thought he was up in the attic with BHO’s uncle.
I think O’Barry might have prefered that Joe Bidet do a Brody off of the stage so they’d have an excuse to pull an “Eagleton ’72″

Posted by: Ziggy | September 29, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am

Hopefully his teleprompters kept on working, otherwise he’d be completely drowned.
How dumb do you have to be to vote for this empty suit.

Posted by: Too Smart to vote for B. Hussein Obama | September 29, 2008, 10:34 am 10:34 am

You are right Nicole. It is people like you I am talking about. Let me spell it right……..L-0-S-E-R! Sheep to slaughter! Rovian childsplay.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~L0L

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 10:34 am 10:34 am

Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement
JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.
“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.
“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.
“Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts – not a free society.”

Posted by: One_American | September 29, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am

Doesn’t have since enough to get inside and out of the rain.
Just another reason he doesn’t get my vote.

Posted by: daryl | September 29, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am

I can’t wait till Obama wins and this country becomes the socialist country it needs to be. To hell with low taxes and less government. We need to all pay more and be willing to submit to our great and powerful leader Obama. Our friends in Iran and Venezuela are counting on us to do what’s right. We must not let them down. Join me in voting with the Hollywood gang because they are the heart and soul of America.

Posted by: GoBAMA | September 29, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am

Jim Jones and Hitler got his followers to stand in the rain to listen to him as well. ABC…this tells us nothing about his sustance…oh wait that is because he has none. They would follow him to drink the cyanide kool aid…Like lemmings jumping off a cliff. McCain/Palin 08

Posted by: Shishi | September 29, 2008, 10:36 am 10:36 am

Which candidate seemed more presidential at the debate?
Obama 46%
McCain 33%
McCain looked like my grandpa after his hemmerhoid medicine ran out.

Posted by: denver | September 29, 2008, 10:36 am 10:36 am

Obviously this country is divided. Here is the reason McCain will win and Obama will lose. I do not see Obama wanting to even make steps towards the center from his far left beliefs. You cannot say McCain is far right. I think he is more moderate of you ask me. Democrats like to “hype” everything up. Conservatives simply keep somewhat quiet and just vote. There are more people in this country who see through the B** S*** Obama (the puppet) is spewing. This is one big damn puppet show for the democrats!!

Posted by: D | September 29, 2008, 10:37 am 10:37 am

Get over it people. Mccain will raise taxes too. Just look at his plan. If you make under $100K, McCains plan will cost you .02% more in taxes then BO and then he wants to tax you health care benefits on top of that. Then he wants to give every family $5000 to help with your insurance… Where the hell is that money coming from? How many families are in this country.. You do the math.
You can’t spend spend spend without taking money in.

Posted by: Taxman | September 29, 2008, 10:37 am 10:37 am

Hi McCain should pick me as his VP. I lived in Africa and UK for some time.

Posted by: Jay | September 29, 2008, 10:37 am 10:37 am

To those who keep picking the “McCain has 13 cars and 9 houses” zit: Jealous? If so, you must be a democrat. Wealth envy is just one symptom of being a closet socialist. All members of congress are elitists: they’re all rich. All of them have had to sell out their ideals to some extent in order to get where they are. McCain’s houses are investment properties. Are you upset that someone is diversifying their retirement portfolio? Someone is being successful? Barry and Michelle O are the poster children for affirmative action and their socialist policies are going to ruin you and me. McCain may not be much better, but at least I know McCain isn’t a socialist. Oh yeah, if you’re jealous that other people have more money than you, get a better job and stop spending more than you earn.

Posted by: Berry O. | September 29, 2008, 10:37 am 10:37 am

Hey Shawn, good job bringing up the Keating Five !!!!
The problem is that most people don’t remember the details of the K5 scandal. Trying to pin it on McCain just makes folks look it up. Looking it up is not what Camp Obama wants you to do.
Remember that the Keating Five was four Democrats and John McCain.
Alan Cranston (D-CA)
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)
John Glenn (D-OH)
Donald Riegle (D-MI)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Oh yeah and McCain was cleared.
**********
“Democrat Robert S. Bennett, who was the special investigator during the scandal, suggested to the Senate Ethics Committee that it pursue charges against neither McCain nor Glenn, saying of McCain, “that there was no evidence against him.” The Vice Chairman of the Ethics Committee, Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, agreed with Bennett, but the Chairman, Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama, did not agree.”
**********
McCain and Glenn were cleared but the chairman of the investigation said they used poor judgment.
You see, when you actually look into what happened, it actually reflects worse on Democrats.
SO LET’S HAVE A PUBLIC DRAWING AND QUARTERING OF ALL THOSE “KEATING FIVE” GUYS, EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM !!!!

Posted by: Ziggy | September 29, 2008, 10:38 am 10:38 am

One thing is clear from the responses here: Republicans are terrified and desperate. You almost feel sorry for them. Wish you had better candidates then reckless John and incompetent Sara, but life sometimes just isn’t fair.
Foaming at the mouth doesn’t really help your cause, but we understand your frustration.
Better luck in 8 years!

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 10:38 am 10:38 am

wow, can ABC shill any more for barry? This reminds me of a feminist studies department; the absolute lack of professionalism here is astounding
perhaps sulen miller et al can fellate barry the next time he swings through washington

Posted by: bk | September 29, 2008, 10:39 am 10:39 am

wow, can ABC shill any more for barry? This reminds me of a feminist studies department; the absolute lack of professionalism here is astounding
perhaps sulen miller et al can fellate barry the next time he swings through washington

Posted by: bk | September 29, 2008, 10:39 am 10:39 am

Reader Donna Hughes….just to refresh your memory about Katrina…it was a Dem Gov and Dem Mayor who did NOTHING to prevent the tragedy by getting people out of harms way before the Hurricane and nothing afterwards until pressed…WHERE was Obama? seeing as you are so quick to point fingers. One finger pointed is three pointing back at the DEMS

Posted by: Shishi | September 29, 2008, 10:39 am 10:39 am

Reader Donna Hughes….just to refresh your memory about Katrina…it was a Dem Gov and Dem Mayor who did NOTHING to prevent the tragedy by getting people out of harms way before the Hurricane and nothing afterwards until pressed…WHERE was Obama? seeing as you are so quick to point fingers. One finger pointed is three pointing back at the DEMS

Posted by: Shishi | September 29, 2008, 10:39 am 10:39 am

Standing on a stage in the pouring rain with his white dress shirt sticking to his body….etc….
Just goes to show that Obama and Biden…aka…”dumb and dumber”…aren’t smart enough to get out of the rain.
Why didn’t they have a stage with a big roof to protect them from the elements?

Posted by: John | September 29, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am

It all goes to show that the stupid DEMS don’t have the sense to get outta the rain…Losers

Posted by: Bob | September 29, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am

Why dont you libs understand Obama is a socialist. Socialism will lead to communism. Creativity is crushed. Stop eating the cake.

Posted by: Daniel | September 29, 2008, 10:41 am 10:41 am

The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body – AND THE TELEPROMPTER got wet, oh the humanity! You mean he didn’t stop the rain? Don’t worry if Obama looses the elections, on the third day he will rise.

Posted by: J. Amoros | September 29, 2008, 10:41 am 10:41 am

VP said:
Republicans are scared of Obama because he is against everything they stand for – corruption, hate, and ignorance.
Wow another Obama acolyte, err… Dem voter. Obama is the product of a virgin birth and walks on water. OMG please pass the kool aid while your at it. This country is in serious trouble with such brilliant prose.

Posted by: Jose | September 29, 2008, 10:41 am 10:41 am

Rain? OMG! How’d the teleprompter work?!

Posted by: Scott Malensek | September 29, 2008, 10:42 am 10:42 am

Beaver7216, actually, it just shows that Bush is the one changing. As for Palin and her “executive experience,” you’re right, she is ready to lead!
“[McCain] also cited her nearly two years as commander of Alaska’s National Guard. ‘I believe she is absolutely, totally qualified to address every challenge as the next vice president of the United States,’ McCain said.”
Whoopee!!! Two years leading all 7,250 members of the Alaskan National Guard.
Yup. I’d rather have that kind of experience than someone who has worked with the National Government to pass some – what – 50 laws in 2 or 3 years (our of some 500 he drafted)? Someone with a proven track record of working with fellow Senators to get laws passed to benefit the people?
But, being Commander in Chief of 7,250 is clearly much better experience.
Too bad we don’t know anything else about her experience (except what is already in the tabloids) because she doesn’t even have the backbone to face even moderate questioning over it. If Obama is an empty suit, that means Palin is definitely a pair of falsies.
Then again, maybe she does have value: the President of Pakistan thought she had a great can. God, she couldn’t even respond to his chauvinistic comments with any grace, she just giggled like a schoolgirl. Maybe that’s the value she brings to the McCain ticket.
And to answer this other question: “If you are in a fox hole who do you want covering your back McCain/ Palin or
Obama/Biden?????”
Actually, I’d want a President who is smart enough that that would be a last resort, and that sure isn’t Loose-Cannon-McCain.
As for the $4.00 coffees? McCain has 13 cars and 7 homes – and I’m not allowed to have a $4.00 coffee? And the GOP actually thinks that KING JOHN – the guy who doesn’t even know how many houses he has – is going to change the Wall Street culture of greed?
And Vietnames, dropping out of school in 5th grade was really, REALLY not a smart thing to do. And this isn’t even about being arrogant over education. Seriously, your posts make absolutely no sense, so it might be time to go back to the “home.”
LOL!!!! This was my favorite:
“Osama and his wife will ” GOD EM AMRICA” for good…
Trust me this time…”
There you go, Dean, One_America, Nobama, BritneySpears4JohnMcCain, and the rest of you. That is the quality of thought in the GOP today … uneducated, myopic freakshow it’s become. And certainly not the GOP I joined in 1996.
So, this year, I’m proud to be a Republican voting for Obama. Because when it comes to McCain, I tell jokes, I don’t vote for them. Pathetic.

Posted by: BeaverNeedsEducation | September 29, 2008, 10:42 am 10:42 am

Chad: No your the fool. If you think there are states that won’t vote for him your wrong. Why do you think Hillary won NY, NJ, NV, AZ, PA, OH.
Mariann Pepitone
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -
Good point Mariann – But let’s not forget ALL the states that Hillary won over Obama:
CA
AZ
NM
SD
TX
OK
NY
NJ
FL
MI
PA
OH
WV
KY
PR
IN
AR
TN
RI
Notice Chad how many BIG states where A LOT OF PEOPLE LIVE that Hillary whooped Obama in – that’s how she got the 18 MILLION votes.
While Obama won mostly the smaller more densley populated states that democrats have NO chance of winning in November.
HILLARY 2012!

Posted by: ch | September 29, 2008, 10:43 am 10:43 am

What? Now the media is going to cheap dime-store romance novels for their by-lines for obama? Gawd, does anyone have a bucket?
What galls me more than anything is how absolutely stupid and ill-educated they are relying on the youth of America to be.
Jerry Springer would be proud of the obama/biden ticket.

Posted by: Gabby | September 29, 2008, 10:43 am 10:43 am

Oh wow…”The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, Barack Obama played to a crowd in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1964″…What a bunch of media hype. Gads, you would think these reporters were writing a “Love Story”. Can the media bias go any further this this dribble?

Posted by: Lars | September 29, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am

PAX-Americana is dead… the bail-out is the beginning to the end of all capitalism and is the dawning of “World Socialism”… welcome to… the New World Order… we’ve been warned of its coming by the last dozen of presidents (Dem & Rep)!

Posted by: JED | September 29, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am

Why does Obama need props such as weird Styrofoam Greek Columns, fake presidential seals, anyway?
Why does he need such gimmicks and over-the-top Hollywood silliness?
Obviously in such an important campaign they leave nothing to chance and would not use such gimmicks unless they felt Obama is so utterly lacking that he needs props.
I’ll tell you why, cause he’s an empty suit. A blowhard. Name one significant thing this community organizer has ever done.

Posted by: Maria | September 29, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am

I will be glad when this election is over. America becomes as stupid as a buck during the rut. Obama is going to turn this country into a socialist satellite of the former U.S.S.R. Face it, if he gets in, you better start learning Arabic. He is backed by fanatical muslims and supporters of a one government world. Do you really want that? I get tired of all this reading into McCain’s responses and emotions. The media needs to start telling the truth and stop raping it to misconstrue the facts.

Posted by: Gene | September 29, 2008, 10:45 am 10:45 am

OMG – is this man great or what? Standing in the rain all wet and black and sexy. I love it when he plays basketball too. He’s SOOOO hot! He gives me chills when he talks and I get all goosebumply up my legs. How could you people not vote for this man? Are you crazy? HE’S A GOD!

Posted by: ObamaMyHero | September 29, 2008, 10:45 am 10:45 am

The true number of the people in attendence was lass than 7,000
Also, Obama true to form viiated a confidence when he mispoke the dead sergent’s name. He was asked by the father of the dead sergent that Mr. Barrack Hussien Obama not use his son’s name due to the fact his son was a patriot and would not want his memory used as political fodder. Obviously that is all Obama thinks of his son and his ultimate sacrifice. Just another attempt to outshine McCain. U.S. Soliders, like America itself, means nothing to this man. He is more loathsome and less fit to live than any one of the thousands of soldiers who have died in combat.

Posted by: The Truth | September 29, 2008, 10:45 am 10:45 am

The ABC’s reporters prose almost sounded like another Chris Matthews “tingle running up my leg” moment.

Posted by: joanne | September 29, 2008, 10:46 am 10:46 am

I’m confused why people would vote for McCain when 80% of the country thinks we’re going in the wrong direction.
I’m not voting for Obama over McCain because of personality.
I’m voting for Obama because Republican ideas on war, economy, foreign policy, and heath care have been tried, tested – and proven that they FAIL miserably. We have had 8 years of failed ideas.

Posted by: beap | September 29, 2008, 10:46 am 10:46 am

I would be happy to vote for Obama if anyone could show me a single piece of important legislation he initiated and fought for through to a vote. The only thing Obama has done in the Senate is vote Present – that is on the days he bothered to attend.
He’s a rock star, he’s a great manipulator, he’s good at reading off a teleprompter, but good at memorizing, but he has absolutely no record of having done one thing – except for supporting ACORN.
I say he’s a snake oil salesman and if he is elected we will be into socialism in no time.

Posted by: Nona | September 29, 2008, 10:46 am 10:46 am

I was at this event and it was amazing to see thousands of people, including elderly and children, stand in the rain for hours to see Senator Obama speak.
Really good speech and he ditched the suit coat and an umbrella when he spoke to the crowd.

Posted by: Tim R | September 29, 2008, 10:46 am 10:46 am

“The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body,”
Puhleeze!! Are members of the MSM so freaking overcome with Obamania that they’re going to pee themselves or have an Obamagasm? Good grief. These idiots aren’t even trying anymore to appear as objective journalists. They’re nothing but red-butted monkey shills for the BHO show. I hope they all go out of business for lack of viewers. I’m sure not going to waste my time watching the hacks anymore. Nor will I be helping the careers of the empty-headed Hollyweird elite nitwits.

Posted by: BlueCaddy65 | September 29, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am

Jozy… This is from a phone interview directly with Henry Kissinger, on Saturday:
During a phone interview with FNC anchor Megyn Kelly, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who already voiced disapproval of Barack Obama’s attempt to suggest that Kissinger would agree with his intention to meet personally with Iranian President Ahmadinejad, on Saturday elaborated on his disagreement with Obama, and clarified his views on how America should negotiate with Iran. The segment began with a soundbite of Obama from the debate trying to lecture McCain about Kissinger’s views. Obama: “Senator McCain mentioned Henry Kissinger, who’s one of his advisors, who, along with five recent Secretaries of State, just said that we should meet with Iran, guess what, ‘without precondition.’ This is one of your own advisors.”
Asked by Kelly if he supported having a President “meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions,” Kissinger responded: “No, I don’t. I have argued that, at some point, negotiations with Iran are important. But it is my view that they should be on the working level, and that the President should not be involved until we know that we are close to an agreement, or that we know what the nature of the agreement is.” Kelly soon sought clarification: “So, in other words, you favor negotiations at the lower level, perhaps all the way up to the Secretary of State, but you do not believe an American President should sit down without preconditions, as Barack Obama says he would like to do.” Kissinger: “That is correct.”

Posted by: Scott | September 29, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am

It is frightening that such a politcal neophyte has gotten so close to the presidency. While I am a Republican, I would have been more comfortable with Hillary as president than this eloquent speark with no substance. Hillary at least was a pragmatist and not an idealogue.

Posted by: Jose | September 29, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am

For all of you Obama supporters – when do you think he will walk on water?

Posted by: T from Texas | September 29, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am

Hey “Omentum!”
I can tell by your diction that you are an “African-American” (N-Word)…
Affirmative Action ain’t gonna work for ya this time, groid.
, , you mights even has to gits a job!!!

Posted by: Dennis | September 29, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am

“the rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress shirt clinging to his body”: good God, I could puke at the media’s fawning over this cardboard cutout. It sounds almost like a soft porn introduction. We should all expect to get screwed.

Posted by: stonebridge | September 29, 2008, 10:51 am 10:51 am

I remember when I was young and though Jimmy Carter would really “change” things.
I was so wrong! High inflation, the mess in Iran, 12-15% mortgage rates….
Obama is so naive to think that he can say “This is the way it will be” and the world will just bend to his will.

Posted by: Gracie | September 29, 2008, 10:52 am 10:52 am

Obama is in a panic…and it is showing big time…he knows he cant count on the youth vote..they wont turn out in the nubers he thinks besides they are the easest ones to NOT count on…its the over 50, Woman and Baby Boomers crowd he has no credibility with..so its over before it started for Obama…Oh and one more thing even a idiot nows to get out of the rain…..WOW poor judgement again.

Posted by: Wont Happen | September 29, 2008, 10:52 am 10:52 am

Gee, I thought “The One” could make it stop raining? All you Kook Aid drinkers think he can do anything!

Posted by: BlameAmericaLast | September 29, 2008, 10:52 am 10:52 am

In the saga of our recent bailout of the financial industry, Barack “ACORN” Obama is much like the arsonist who initiates the conflagration; and, then arrogantly shows up to assist the firefighters in putting out the flames. Obama and his Democrat colleagues militantly protected Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from Republican efforts to tighten the Quasi’s grossly irresponsible lending practices in the acquisition and disposition of fraudulent/worthless mortgage assets. After which, Obama, having led the charge to prohibit mortgage lenders from tightening their lending terms for low-income recipients in the full knowledge that these individuals DID NOT have the capacity to repay these loans, welcomed the principal executive offenders, who had cooked the books to cover up this fiasco, into his campaign structure. Do you think there is any possibility that Obama’s status as a principal recipient of political donations from these mortgage institutions had any influence on his grossly irresponsible conduct? Greg Neubeck

Posted by: Greg Neubeck | September 29, 2008, 10:52 am 10:52 am

It’s time that the Americans choose some half decent candidates to run for the Presidency. Last good one in the race was Clinton – Instead of the artificial patriotism, it’s beter if you inject some common sense and find some good people to rule your country.
Bush was a monumental mess, the next will be as “good” as Bush. Wake up America.

Posted by: A European | September 29, 2008, 10:53 am 10:53 am

Obama said ” -– these too will pass, that a brighter day will come.”
So do kidney stones,but I wouldn’t wish them on anyone, even obama

Posted by: daryl | September 29, 2008, 10:53 am 10:53 am

Beave,
You are no republican, you are just part of the problem with America. The problem of people hiding behind an agenda rather than speaking truth.
You will vote for a weak man, that has many talents in this area.
You and your kind, really do need to get a grip on reality.
This financial crisis was totally conceived by the policies of the democratic party and you will see much more of it, if by hell OBH is elected.

Posted by: lol_lol | September 29, 2008, 10:55 am 10:55 am

dems obama biden
believe,
1/ increasing taxes -will not destroy businesses and jobs
2/ being a community organizer and law professor (with nothing to show even there ) is a better qualification than being mayer and governor ( very popular reforming one at that ).
3/ banning drilling and reducing oil supply will lower gas prices
4/ taxing oil will increase oil exploration
5/ taxing hard work and giving to do nothings will improve economy
6/ closing markets will improve supply
7/ enjoying fruits of success like suvs etc is bad and melts ice caps
8/ in saving the lives of trees, caribou, and the frozen tundra, in ANWR – and killing human babies
etc…
so much for their education and intelligence!
rain has nothing to do with that.

Posted by: sfernando | September 29, 2008, 10:55 am 10:55 am

Good thing it doesn’t really matter who becomes President. The country will go on. We survived 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Bush, we’ll survive anything.
So relax, folks, it’s pointless to get your britches in a bunch anyway. Remember, we have more operating nukes than anyone. THAT’s whats important!

Posted by: Rich | September 29, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am

You forgot to begin the story with “It was a dark and stormy night…”
“…his white shirt clinging to his body…”
I…I’m getting strangely excited…just like the authors of this story…
What crap.

Posted by: bobdog | September 29, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am

The left is so filled with hate, if we had Doris Day for our VP candidate she would be described as Satan!

Posted by: Darrell | September 29, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am

Obama may not be able to pay the dry cleaning bill of the people at his rally but if he is elected we will all be taken to the cleaners and you can count on that.

Posted by: frank3108 | September 29, 2008, 10:57 am 10:57 am

Why didn’t The Chosen One just command the rain to stop falling? He can stop the seas from rising, but can’t stop the rain? Whazzupwithdat? This guy is truly the weakest presidential candidate ever.

Posted by: Dilligaf | September 29, 2008, 10:57 am 10:57 am

Folks the truth about Obama and reverend Wright are about to come out. There is video of Obama in the audience when we see the notorious comments by Rev, Wright. You can’t hide from the truth

Posted by: Truth in Miami | September 29, 2008, 10:58 am 10:58 am

It’s shameful to read these blatantly partison comments, especially the *completely dishonest* ones, like calling the WSJ a bastion of liberal voice and discrediting their reports on polls about the debate. The Wall Street Journal?
Meanwhile, people criticize Obama for lack of experience, then criticize him for picking up a VP candidate who has experience in a field.. isn’t that a GOOD decision? That is what we WANT from a presidential candidate. What we do NOT want is a trophy wife being selected as VP nominate because somebody whispered into McCain’s ear that he might win over Clinton voters.
Palin is an absolute joke. I’ve yet to meet a woman who knows anything about her that is not wholly disgusted that she might be the face of women and feminist ideals everywhere. It’s admirable to be raising children while working — my mom was a single mother, worked full-time, AND provided me with everything I could EVER have hoped for. What is absolutely the most disrespectful thing to women EVERYWHERE, let alone in this country, where we supposedly treat women like women – as “equals”. Palin is nothing but a prize they hope to showboat, give prewritten speeches, with no questions allowed to prevent her from speaking her true mind — which would reveal how incompetent she is as a governmental figure — because that’s what she is to the GOP: a trohpy wife.
I have all of the respect in the world for McCain, for his accomplishments throughout life, along with a genuine presence in the US Senate (though, obviously, as should be expected of just about any senator — he has not always made the right decisions.) I was hoping for a McCain nomination in 2000, and honestly I was shocked that h could have lost it, mostly beacuse I was 18 at the time, a first-time voter, and it had not yet been beaten into me that honesty is only a virtue when it’s not shown through the filter of the media.
Now, however, is 8 years later — while I still have all the respect in the world for McCain, he has seen unsure of himself completely throughout this campaign, one which he seeks to be the oldest first-time President in the history of the United States, one who has had significant health problems in the past. Age has its virtues; age also deteriorates people significantly and, inevitably, kills them.
McCain probably would have been a great president in 2000. Unfortunately for him, well, unfortunately for everybody in America, it is now the year 2008. His time has passed, insultingly taken away by one of the most controversial presidents in our lifetime (only Nixon can compare), and sorry, my friend, John, I think it’s just too late.
Your chocie was pretty much sealed by selling out the very moment you felt like you’d won the nomination, and it descended into absolute condescendion for the American people when you selected Sarah Palin as your VP nominee. I wish you the best, father, but I think you’re much better suited spending the remaining energy in your life — which I know you will fight on until God himself comes to you and says it’s time to go — by continuing to try to be a principled member of the Senate, right or wrong.
Thank you for your service, and thank you for your future service — I just hope it’s in the Senate, where it belongs.

Posted by: youth of America | September 29, 2008, 10:58 am 10:58 am

It’s amazing that Barry’s entire agenda is to be portrayed as the COMING WORLD LEADER in photo op’s with help from our DISGRACEFUL “NEWS MEDIA” that portrays him as such. Why isn’t ABC reporting on Barry’s LARGE PART in this financial mess killing this country?

Posted by: killerbee | September 29, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

Did Obama provide flu shots for all these folks who stood in the rain?

Posted by: susie | September 29, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

We are only seeing an example of the team Obama in Missouri. If he is elected President, you will see freedom of speech squelched everywhere. Whether you agree with liberalism or conservatism, you will see an end to your freedom because if all holds true, you will be facing an Obama “arrest” team.

Posted by: Tom | September 29, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

As a Iraq vet with over 200 combat missions under my belt I could never vote for McCain. For one thing he said Iraq was so safe you could “just walk around”
Just frikin insane.
Also, McCain himself admitted that he gave information to the North Vietnamese, violating the Code Of Conduct. He has ZERO testicular fortitude.
Anyone with a computer can watch his confession video where he rambles on about the “American Imperialist agressor, opressing the poor people of vietnam.” What a joke
Palin is a terrible choice, the last thing I want is a leader who thinks she has a direct hotline to god.
Im not voting for Obama either. Pissed me off with the Biden pick and also he is tied into the CFR elite.
Going independent this round or will write in RON PAUL

Posted by: Silentsoldier | September 29, 2008, 11:00 am 11:00 am

The point on the Kissinger comment is that ObamaMessiah has said HE would sit down with the thug rulers. Kissinger is talking about high level talks, NOT talks between the U.S. President and the thugs. So that is what McCain kept trying to get into Obama’s head. Obama is the one that said HE would sit down with the other thug rulers with NO preconditions. That IS NOT what Kissinger said. Ya’ll Demodumbs are always trying to twist words, and it won’t work. Get your crying towels ready for November 5! (We won’t know the outcome until the early hours on the day after….)

Posted by: spk2moi | September 29, 2008, 11:00 am 11:00 am

Republicans choose Bush over McCain in 2000 look where we are now. McCain didn’t qualify then why should he qualify now??? You didn’t think he was good enough back then what changed your mind? I mean look what you republicans have done to our economy over the past eight years.

Posted by: Tiff | September 29, 2008, 11:00 am 11:00 am

Now I see why McCain DID NOT want to debate Obama, LOL! Obama kicked his old butt on Friday night, it was rather embarrassing for John McCain, EVERYBODY knows that Barack Obama won the debate pretty handily. Majority of Americans say Obama won, so you McSame supporters can dream on, it’s over. What I found most interesting was McCain NEVER looked at Obama, I found it laughable. I also found it to be disrespectful, he probably was muttering under his breath “Who does this uppity Negro think he is?”, LOL!!!!!!!!!! Obama is soooo much smarter than John McCain and it has to be sooo embarrassing to Republicans and wait until Thursday when Palin goes up against Joe Biden, LOL. Hell, she can’t even give a good interview where she doesn’t sound lost or ridiculous! SNL had a ball with the Katie Couric interview, LOL, I laughed all night long.

Posted by: tiger2471 | September 29, 2008, 11:01 am 11:01 am

One can almost find solace in the gentle sound of the reporters’ (who contributed to this prose) teardrops tapping on the keyboard of their laptops.
A pigeon, breaking free from the grasps of a hungry homeless man at the University quad during the speech, greatly symbolizes Senator Obama’s epic struggles to define realistic political views while the media defines him on god-like status.
What an absolute load of crap. Does today’s media have any spine? Who writes like this? Wet shirt clinging to his body? Lord.

Posted by: Dan Parry | September 29, 2008, 11:01 am 11:01 am

This so ridiculous how the media consistently reports on Obama no matter what the news is. It’s just the Medias ploy to instill what I call the mass hysteria craze. Its amazing when I talk to people who are going to vote for Obama and they really don’t know why other than the fact that he is black and they want to vote for him. This solidifies the fact that racism in America is alive and well. I respect anyone who tells me that they are voting for the man because of his platform, but I cannot respect anyone that says they are voting for him because he is black. That would be like me saying I am voting for the McCain and Palin because Gov. Palin is so HOT looking

Posted by: Ron | September 29, 2008, 11:03 am 11:03 am

Angry African and Concerned American,
You guys really need to get your facts straight -
1. “Live with it, pay up the next $700 billion+ and shut the f*ck up. You just lost your right to b*tch.”
Review the debate and you’ll notice that Obama outlined the bailout package just as President Bush did. I was actually very disappointed McCain didn’t point this out since he insists McCain is in lockstep with Bush. The truth is McCain went back to work in Washington because he realized last week that most Americans are opposed to this bailout as it stands.
2. “Reality: Under Obamas proposed tax plan, only top earning American families will see an increase in taxes (those earning $250,000 or more, which according to the most current US Census data, accounts for just under 2% of the total households in the US). In fact, over 95% of Americans will see a tax cut under Obamas plan, with lower and middle class Americans receiving LARGER tax cuts than would be realized under McCains tax plan. Even McCains own economic advisor has admitted that the Obama plan would result in a net decrease in taxes for the majority of American households.”
This is misleading and typical liberal class-envy politics. How can 95% of americans get a tax cut when the bottom 50% of wage earners in this country pay virtually zero taxes (only 3% of the federal taxes while earning 13% of the income)? Top 5% of wage earners pay 57% of the taxes while only earning 33% of the income.
http://www.american.com/archive/2007/november-december-magazine-contents/guess-who-really-pays-the-taxes
How come you liberals don’t understand that it is the wealthy who employ the middle and lower class in this country. Raising taxes further on these wage earners will hurt jobs and the very people Obama is pretending he wants to help. By the way, under Obama’s tax plan, the bottom 50% will not get a tax cut due to the reasons outlined above, they will get a tax rebate – big difference. This is income redistribution which is a SOCIALIST program. His healthcare program is also a SOCIALIST program.
Nice try with the taxpolicycenter.org. This site is run by the Brookings and Urban Institute – very left leaning think tanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_institute
As far as your analysis on trickle down economics, most economists agree with this policy as a way to stimulate economic growth. Another concept that liberals have a hard time understanding is that the president doesn’t have much influence over the economy (or at least isn’t supposed to according to our constitution). Presidents have two instruments to influence the economy – fiscal policy and monetary policy. Fiscal policy has to do with the budget – spending and tax policy. Monetary policy has to do with interest rates and the supply of money. Economists give a lot of credit to Reagon for his economic policies. Now, with regards to the deficit, Reagan defeated the Soviet Union through his peace through strength policies. While it is true that his spending led to deficits, it was necessary for our national security. Clinton did the opposite and cut spending on military dramatically to our detriment which is how he managed to balance the budget. Clinton made us weak militarily and his foreign policy was also very weak which lead to 5 major terrorist attacks on his watch.
Our current financial crisis started under Clinton with his monetary policy. See, Clinton had very little to do with the economic prosperity of the 90s which you liberals love to credit him with wholly. Bill Gates had more to do with the economic boom of the 90s that Bill Clinton did. When the .com bubble started to burst towards the end of his administration, he and Greenspan began slashing interest rates to artifically low levels to stimulate the economy with debt. Bush W has unfortunately carried the torch on this policy which has led to enormoous demand for debt over the past decade which leads to the market meeting that demand with risky loans and we have the result we have today.
Have you ever studies Economics? I’d love to hear how explanation on how Obama’s tax plan is going to help the economy…

Posted by: Informed American | September 29, 2008, 11:03 am 11:03 am

oh, good lord. I’m not one to post on a blog, but I can’t believe I’m seeing references to how McCain was smug, when his opponent kept calling him “John” instead of being any kind of statesman at all. The Senate is the most exclusive club in the country, and the least he could do is show an ounce of respect to a true statesman by using his title. At least John McCain recognizes the importance of the institution of the Federal Government.

Posted by: Jason | September 29, 2008, 11:04 am 11:04 am

The treacherous Obama should join Raines, Johnson, Dodd, Frank and the corrupt Democrats in waterproof prison jump-suits.
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2008/09/hey_congressman.shtml

Posted by: Marxism, Communism, Socialism and now Obamaism | September 29, 2008, 11:05 am 11:05 am

You forgot to mention how the rain pouring down upon the Messiah and stage impacted his teleprompters, also shown in the background.
Maybe you could add some flowing language about that, too, since it sounds like you’re trying to write a romance novel.
Obama, worried that his worshippers might be electrocuted, stopped his speech to ask campaign workers to shut off his teleprompters,
“Uh, um, uh, uh, uh, I’m gonna ask my, uh, campaign staff to, uh, turn off, uh, my teleprompter,” Obama said. “I don’t want my apostles, uh, to, uh, get, uh electrocuted.”
“Uh we’re the ones, uh, we’ve been waiting, uh, for.” I don’t remember what, uh, else, uh, to say.”

Posted by: SAM | September 29, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

To david from texas:
There is no way McCain/Palin are going to win this election. In the end, Americans prefer intelligence, nuance, rationale, measured thought, responsibility to brashness, rash actions, tough talk, dirty politics … and let’s face it … Palin is an absolute buffoon.

Posted by: David | September 29, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

Conservatives are
America’s Most Dangerous People.

Posted by: nikton | September 29, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

I am ashamed that Americans can spew so much hate. After browsing the comments above I can now see why this country is in so much trouble. McCain has a record of looking out for the American people and has joined the democrats when he thought they were on the right path. Obama is smart guy and he and his family are going through hell to earn a thankless job. We need to stop tearing down the few that stand up to lead and keep things focused on the issues. Why don’t we all try something different and use your words to point out what you like about your candidate and skip the attacks.

Posted by: witart | September 29, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

The Obama lovers are out in full force here. Obama is nothing but an empty talking head who says what ever he needs to say to get support. Back when Iraq was going badly, he said we needed to get out in 16 months and all the Bush haters loved him for it. Now that the surge has worked and it would be obviously stupid to cut and run, he says he will re-evaluate troop levels after he takes office. All you Obama lovers should realize that means status quo but you don’t really care about the war do you? You just used the issue to act out your hatred of Bush. Now Obama’s big issue is tax cut cuts. That sounds like a Republican talking except the part about raising taxes on the rich. Class warfare….NICE! What ever it takes right?

Posted by: t | September 29, 2008, 11:07 am 11:07 am

When Sen Obama gets elected, will we here from the Libs, from day one, anything that happens will be on “his watch”. It sure was overworked during President Bush’s term. My guess, everything will still be “Bush’s fault”. Good luck on that. This is a MSM election, they are going to get “their man”.

Posted by: Willie | September 29, 2008, 11:08 am 11:08 am

“Sometimes the skies look cloudy and it’s dark. And you think the rains will never pass,” Obama preached,
“The young people understand that the clouds -– these too will pass, that a brighter day will come.”
“Obama preached”?? Is drink the kool-aid next?

Posted by: Lori | September 29, 2008, 11:08 am 11:08 am

You cant vote present in the US Senate morons.

Posted by: nfamousb | September 29, 2008, 11:09 am 11:09 am

Oh — and “SAM”:
Our candidate may stammer and “um” while trying to think of an intelligent answer while your candidates fumble and stammer because they’re just plain dumb. Obama can correct his speech patterns. But with McCain/Palin — you can’t change dumb.

Posted by: David | September 29, 2008, 11:09 am 11:09 am

My Momma will beat your Osama bitches!!!!

Posted by: marcus | September 29, 2008, 11:09 am 11:09 am

Hey. Some people are saying the Blue Cool-Aid is poisoned. Its not poisoned, its just bad Cool-Aid. Its poorly thought-out. The Blue Cool-Aid isnt poison, its just BAD COOL-AID.
I love it when liberals get to chewing on the furniture. So much of what you people ‘believe’ is demonstrably untrue. Everything from ‘Bush lied about WMD!!!!” to “What about the Keating 5?!?!?!”
How about doing a little research and not trusting everything Obama texts you?
Actual, recorded history does not support your world view, people. And to ANYONE who says Obama would be better for America, I have some bad news:
You fit into one of three categories:
You’re either a liar, you’re a dupe, or you’re stupid.
Fortunately for you, most of you suffer at least enough of the third choice that you’re never going to have to face the reality of your situation.

Posted by: Not_In_MY_Face | September 29, 2008, 11:10 am 11:10 am

I touched the screen and Barak healed me! HE HEALED ME! BARAK FITZGERALD KENNEDY ’08!!!!!

Posted by: Mikester | September 29, 2008, 11:10 am 11:10 am

Hey. Some people are saying the Blue Cool-Aid is poisoned. Its not poisoned, its just bad Cool-Aid. Its poorly thought-out. The Blue Cool-Aid isnt poison, its just BAD COOL-AID.
I love it when liberals get to chewing on the furniture. So much of what you people ‘believe’ is demonstrably untrue. Everything from ‘Bush lied about WMD!!!!” to “What about the Keating 5?!?!?!”
How about doing a little research and not trusting everything Obama texts you?
Actual, recorded history does not support your world view, people. And to ANYONE who says Obama would be better for America, I have some bad news:
You fit into one of three categories:
You’re either a liar, you’re a dupe, or you’re stupid.
Fortunately for you, most of you suffer at least enough of the third choice that you’re never going to have to face the reality of your situation.

Posted by: Not_In_MY_Face | September 29, 2008, 11:10 am 11:10 am

Where is the story about the corrupt Obama campaigne usisng two creepy state attorneys {Bob MCculloch Phone# 314-615-2600 and Jennifer Joyce Phone# 314-622-3369} in St. Louis to intimidate people that are not supporting this empty suit and racist Obama. Obama has given 500,000.0 to this left wing hate group ACORN to register illeagal aliens and convicted felons to vote. The FBI has been prosecuting these creeps but how many will get by and dis-infranchise legal voters. Of course are creepy left wing press dose not think this is a story. The US Attorneys office should look into these two corrupt attorneys in ST. Louis and procecute them for working on Obamas campaign while taking a paycheck from the taxpayers. These two creeps work for all the people of the district not just for low intellect,smelly, unwashed obama supporters.

Posted by: Jill | September 29, 2008, 11:11 am 11:11 am

Its funny that the Obama supporters are coming up with all kinds of “clever” nicknames for McCain and Palin. Is it because they are having a hard time dealing with a candidate that AGREED with “McSame” 10 times during the debate? I’m not talking about him saying “yeah, but…”, he said “I agree” 10 TIMES during the debate. I guess if you don’t have foreign policy experience, Senator McCain is a good guy to follow the lead of.
By the way…I’m glad that Senator McCain insisted that they go to Washington to discuss the bailout. It seems like something that the next leader of our country should be involved in. Senator Obama seemed, well…indifferent to the matter. He just seems more fit to giving a good speech than worrying about policy. Maybe he can make a movie with Al Gore. I hear that he’ll have some free time starting Nov. 6th.

Posted by: wrldtallestmike | September 29, 2008, 11:11 am 11:11 am

In am ObamaNation ther will be much weeping & gnashing of teeth.

Posted by: JED | September 29, 2008, 11:12 am 11:12 am

VOTE BARAK FITZGERALD KENNEDY!!! ONLY HE HAS THE GUTS TO TAKE AWAY THE UNNECESSARY RIGHTS THAT WE HAVE!!! THERE’S TOO MUCH FREEDOM IN AMERICA! HELP US BARAK! HELP US!!!!

Posted by: Mikester | September 29, 2008, 11:12 am 11:12 am

witart- Well put… what a puppet?!

Posted by: JPL | September 29, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am

There’s no need to sit down and talk with the leader of rogue state after he’s publically stated his desires and plans to take out another nation……. You yellow liberals need to quit whining about people that wish to stand up against that kind of trash in the world…… I’m sure you’re wondering where our moral authority comes from in this positon, we’ll I’ll tell you. It comes from the position of respect that the US gives to life in general…..if you can’t accept that the US has this position, then it’s time for you and your ilk to move on…remember – Life, Liberty, and Justice

Posted by: 93Metro | September 29, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am

witart- Well put… what a puppet?!

Posted by: JPL | September 29, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am

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One of the marks of an intelligent man is to be able to lisetn to opinions he disagrees with, acknowledge them, and then dismiss them based upon his own judgment. In fact, this is a PRESIDENTIAL TRAIT – do you think JFK managed the Cuban Missile Crisis by refusing to listen to war hawks affiliated with the military, who (as they are trained to do,) presented the multitude of military-based reactions to the short- and medium-range missiles found in Cuba?
He listened to his Cabinets, who are paid to come up with every scenario possible — from “NUKE EM ALL” to “play it down and defuse the situation, strategically or otherwise, and work out a deal which is acceptable”. I’m glad that JFK not only had those options presented to him, I’m also glad that we had elected a President capable of making tremendously important decisions swiftly and correctly.
I’d rather have someone in office who has seen these kinds of views espoused first-hand so he can see how virulent and nonsensical they are than someone who would lose bladder control entering a church full of black people, let alone be able to listen and then come to the conclusion, first-hand, how nutty their views may be.
This is like denigrating Iraqi war veterans for having dealt with Iraqis, be they normal civilians, ex-Baathists, Sunni uprisings (who had targeted American assets for years), and, as of the news of late, have achieved tremendous strides in maintaining the stability and attaining the respect of many of the common Iraqi people.
Do you look down upon our very own US Soldiers doing three, four, even five tours in Iraq because they have been exposed to such “dangerous” views as religious radicalism and tribal violence? If anything, we should be looking up to them — even moreso than normal — because they are the few people in the world who have a real understanding of this.
Education is a good thing, didn’t you hear? Education, also, is not having someone tell you what you already believe. I, for one, have more faith in someone like Obama who can have sat through sermons like that and come to their own conclusions than someone who has never been confronted on some of the core beliefs in their life.
I, for one, respect and admire our US veterans in Iraq and Afghanistan more than just about anyone in their world — not just for their service, but also for the invaluable experience than they have learned and can share. LEARN IT, DO IT, TEACH IT.
You can fester in your own ignorance, sir, and no amount of little 3×5 cheap plastic American flags or bumper stickers will delude any rational human being into thinking you are anything but that.

Posted by: youth of America | September 29, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am

just another ‘rah rah’ Obama puff piece from one of his campaign outlets, ABC. he has yet to offer any evidence of an ability to deliver on any of his ‘more government, something for everybody’ promises, which often contradict his previous votes and basic anti-America, anti-capitalist, anti-military philosophy.

Posted by: Jack Wilson | September 29, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am

Where is the lightning when you need it?

Posted by: Jake | September 29, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am

Obama is in a panic…and it is showing big time.
——————–
LOL. Yeah, being ahead in all the polls is sure to bring on panic. LOL.
The only panic going on is right here among all the Obama haters. Feels like the lower decks of the Titanic. SS McCain is going down. Even conservatives are jumping ship and calling for Palin to resign.
Blaming the iceberg does not help. The ship builders and your captain is solely to blame.

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

“THE YOUNG” WILL UNDERSTAND?
Gee, aren’t we lucky to have us old folks corrected by those who just fell off the turnip truck. I guess anyone over 30 just doesn’t have a clue.
This crud brings back memories of the Nazis, who also targeted their young with their brainwashing propaganda, essentially turning youth into mind-numbed robots.
Please Obama, Keep the “Change”!

Posted by: Carl | September 29, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

How much more biased can the press be?
Imagine this guy spending 20 years with that rascist pastor and us expecting to “understand” it when he delivers some dumb speech! If any other politician had done the same but with someone as rascist the other way (i.e. anti-black and anti-latino) as this guy was anti-white and anti-latino he would have been drummed out of the Senate.
No wonder whites males are voting 2 – againt Obama and females are 60/40 against Obama.
I just can’t understand why any latino would vote for him given the anti-latino speeches given by his pastor of 20 years! (“and you will be getting your paycheck from a Mexican…” – direct quote from speech of J. White, pastor of 20 years to Barack Obama, who perforemd his marriage ceremony and baptised his children).
Take away the full media support from this guy and you have a pathetic unqualified radical rascist leftist do nothing – want everything to REALLY go down the tubes – vote for this guy!

Posted by: B. Samuel Davis | September 29, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

How much more biased can the press be?
Imagine this guy spending 20 years with that rascist pastor and us expecting to “understand” it when he delivers some dumb speech! If any other politician had done the same but with someone as rascist the other way (i.e. anti-black and anti-latino) as this guy was anti-white and anti-latino he would have been drummed out of the Senate.
No wonder whites males are voting 2 – againt Obama and females are 60/40 against Obama.
I just can’t understand why any latino would vote for him given the anti-latino speeches given by his pastor of 20 years! (“and you will be getting your paycheck from a Mexican…” – direct quote from speech of J. White, pastor of 20 years to Barack Obama, who perforemd his marriage ceremony and baptised his children).
Take away the full media support from this guy and you have a pathetic unqualified radical rascist leftist do nothing – want everything to REALLY go down the tubes – vote for this guy!

Posted by: B. Samuel Davis | September 29, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

I can’t believe how vicious some of you people are. From both sides… There is such a thing as supporting your candidate of choice, but many of these comments are embarrassingly rude and racist.

Posted by: Dan | September 29, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

I don’t understand why middle america LOVES politicians that are “just like them”. News flash! She wouldn’t be a politician if she was “just like you”.., and do you really want a relatively uneducated, narrow minded, simple thinking person (just like you) in the highest, and most powerful position in America..? I don’t want to see ME in the white house. I didn’t graduate from Harvard. I wouldn’t NOT vote for Palin/Mccain (in her words) because she’s a women, or a republican. I would NOT vote for them because She is NOT QUALIFIED TO BE VICE-PRESIDENT.., MUCH LESS THE PRESIDENT. Please don’t vote against your own best interests. Vote Obama/Biden. This country is where it’s at because of the failed policies of 30 years of Reaganomics. Let’s change our standing in the world, and be great again. Shut out these wolf killing, 9 house owning, war profiteering baby factories! Vote your conscience, and let’s fix this country!!

Posted by: jon Wadley | September 29, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

I don’t understand why middle america LOVES politicians that are “just like them”. News flash! She wouldn’t be a politician if she was “just like you”.., and do you really want a relatively uneducated, narrow minded, simple thinking person (just like you) in the highest, and most powerful position in America..? I don’t want to see ME in the white house. I didn’t graduate from Harvard. I wouldn’t NOT vote for Palin/Mccain (in her words) because she’s a women, or a republican. I would NOT vote for them because She is NOT QUALIFIED TO BE VICE-PRESIDENT.., MUCH LESS THE PRESIDENT. Please don’t vote against your own best interests. Vote Obama/Biden. This country is where it’s at because of the failed policies of 30 years of Reaganomics. Let’s change our standing in the world, and be great again. Shut out these wolf killing, 9 house owning, war profiteering baby factories! Vote your conscience, and let’s fix this country!!

Posted by: jon Wadley | September 29, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

All of you smug Obama bobble-heads and Ron Paul dorks, remember…William Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleiger, Tony Rezko, Sandra Bernhard, Bill Maher, Gwyneth Paltrow, Euro socialists, Al Queda. The truth measure of a man is based on who he surrounds himself with and who thinks highly of him. No “Truth Squad” in Missouri or anywhere else can kill the truth. Break out your high school lit copies of “1984″ and get a good look into the results of an ever-so subtle slide into the socialist world that, to some, is the Utopian ideal. Stifle dissent, control the past, and the future is yours. The above is all I have to know about the dissembler Barack Obama to know he is dangerously unfit to be president…

Posted by: MDWhite | September 29, 2008, 11:15 am 11:15 am

Re: http://fredericksburg.com/
26,000 of us. All colors, all ages -standing in the pouring rain.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08!
——————
Stupid is as stupid does! Idiots. Obama is a dolt so what does that make 26,000 of his followers? Demotards. It should be illegal nominate such a loser for POTUS, figures the Demotards would do it.

Posted by: Hahahaha | September 29, 2008, 11:15 am 11:15 am

It’s amusing how the whiny, self-pitying, “Victimcrats” criticize McCain for “appearing mean” during the debates (are you hormonal crybabies serious?) and then hypocritically proceed to fling the typical insults and stereotypes in this blog. You petty, hysterical children need to grow up. LMAO.

Posted by: LA Doc | September 29, 2008, 11:15 am 11:15 am

Sarah Palin thinks Man and Dinosaurs lived at the same time. Seriously – do we need a D student at the helm?
Root for McCain all you want, but he’s a hard drinking gambler who collects what he’s owed from indian casinos in fixed games.

Posted by: Fred Flintstone | September 29, 2008, 11:16 am 11:16 am

At times, I wish McOldie would take a chance and speak in rain. Knowing his old age, he would definitely catch Pnemonia and we would be stuck with “Plain” Palin as a Presidential candidate.

Posted by: KC | September 29, 2008, 11:16 am 11:16 am

And the Academy Award nomination for most dramatic actor goes to….Obama !!!
This guy is leading us all off a cliff.

Posted by: David | September 29, 2008, 11:17 am 11:17 am

Hey Daily KOS comment-spammers sitting in mommy’s basement in your underwear, you will lose.

Posted by: Tiv | September 29, 2008, 11:17 am 11:17 am

My question is what has Obama done to even run for President? Nothing!
You in the Media will prop up this communist MARXIST MUSLIM up until you die and he still won’t win! Ego, he said McCain was getting no credit, who shamed Obama to don go back to work by McCain, he does nothing at all, knows nothing, does nothing, just spews prepreared lines on his portable TelePromptor ,he is nothing but a blip of hot air in American politics! Lighening will strike he loses by the largest Margin in history of Elections! I love the Media in Canada, they said the liberal candidate was 20 points ahead the Parliments was going to get 30% increase of liberals! They lost all power the PM was the first conservitive in a long time and he supported the USA! Zogby for all who don’t like Obama said if Obama doesn’t get a real lead by this week and convince America he should be President he would lose bigger than Mondial Feraro! By him Bragging he will win by a landslide, he is setting himself up for the biggest lose in the history of USA elections! To all Democrats mouches don’t vote Americans vote More white people will vote in this election that will dwarf all the voter fraud by ACCORN he loses big!!! Pelosi Reid no longer in NOV no longer Majority leaders or even minority leaders thanks to there 7% aproval! Obama an empty suite! Gallop polls 40% Dems, 20% Blacks, 15% independents 25% Republicans as do ABC NBC CNN ETC they are all false polls!

Posted by: Obama not on your life | September 29, 2008, 11:18 am 11:18 am

t:
I had a brother die in Iraq — so don’t try and speak like you know what’s best for us in Iraq. I love how you Republicans always want to say “the surge is working”. Working for what? Is the problem fixed? Does the surge mean we’re going to win in what … 1 week, eight months, 2 years? What exactly does it mean to win? How is “winning” defined? So, you’re telling me that unilaterally going in, under a lie, creating a distrust with us among the rest of the world, resulting in the death of many young service people, to try and perform the eggheaded task of “democractizing” the Middle East and grabbing Hussein, while neglecting to find Bin Laden was worth it? I beg to differ. I could stomach my brother’s death if we were going after Bin Laden. I could understand it if we weren’t always kissing Pakistani behind or having our current president sitting at the feet of Saudis … but this is a shameful tragedy. Obama is right. You don’t stay longer in an area because we messed up in going there. This isn’t a mistake to “correct’. It’s simply a mistake. A mistake you’ve apparently bought hook line and sinker. And don’t for once fool yourself into thinking John McCain is the answer. He helped to put my brother in the grave.

Posted by: Steven | September 29, 2008, 11:18 am 11:18 am

“ABC’s Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman Report:” Shouldn’t that be gush? These 3 need to turn in their reporter badges for Obama sycophant ID cards. Try, really try to ask him a question that isn’t softer than my pillow.

Posted by: derek | September 29, 2008, 11:18 am 11:18 am

Just read UK Telegraph wire story; Obama internals show a landslide victory for OBAMA/BIDEN. Makes me sick!
Sort of make all comments here moot. You can pick story up on drudge.

Posted by: Dak | September 29, 2008, 11:19 am 11:19 am

Informed American
Outstanding commentary. Kudos to you.

Posted by: Jose | September 29, 2008, 11:19 am 11:19 am

After 28 years of Reagan “Trickle Down” economics that did nothing for the middle-class(it was just a license for greed)the chickens have come home to roost. So stand aside all you wingnut orcs the “Reagan Democrats” are taking their ball and going home.
GObama!!!!!!

Posted by: Shane in New Mexico | September 29, 2008, 11:19 am 11:19 am

I am a conservative and yet I can’t bring myself to vote for McCain. I believe he is just a wolf in sheeps clothing. Maybe his wife can sell those $280,000 earrings to help the economy. Give me a break, they are the rich elite and so is Obama and his $4,100,000,000 pay last year. Wake up America…None of them give a darn about the average American. They’re all scrambling around now to send 700 billion dollars to wallstreet, to save their own retirements, not YOURS!!!

Posted by: RobfromPa | September 29, 2008, 11:19 am 11:19 am

NO! Listen to the wisdom of Barak Fitzgerald Kennedy – ‘Uhhhh…. Ummmm, wait just a minute, heh heh… Now let me say, ummmmmmm… uhhhhh… What I mean to say, heh heh…. No, I didn’t say that!…. But,uhhhhhh……’
BARAK FITZGERALD KENNEDY – ELOQUENT GENIUS AT WORK!!!
BARAK FITZGERALD KENNEDY ’08!!!!
WORSHIP HIM!!
WORSHIP HIMM!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mikester | September 29, 2008, 11:20 am 11:20 am

I can’t wait for Nov 5, The “Yes we can ” campaign which copied that phrase from Deval Patrick of Massachusetts whom is currently putting Mass. in a fiscal crisis on his own. And which Deval used the same phrase when he ran for governor, they got from “Bob the Builder”. Gee, what a coincidance B. Hussien Obama and “tax and spend” it all Deval have the same campaign manager! Stay away from tall buildings on Nov. 5, especially the one that houses PMSNBC! Can’t wait

Posted by: Henry Kissinger | September 29, 2008, 11:20 am 11:20 am

To Silent Soldier:
You are not really a soldier. You are not telling the truth when you say you have been in over 200 times. If you are so against this, you would not have gone back the 2nd time. you are just a left wing liberal trying to say you were doing something for your country.
FROM A PROUD MARINE!!!!

Posted by: Tom | September 29, 2008, 11:20 am 11:20 am

One little action I noticed during the debate was when McCain spoke about the Bracelet he was asked to wear by a mother of a Hero that gave his life in the war against terrorism. McCain held up his arm and displayed he was actually wearing it. Obama chimed in that he too had a bracelet from a mother of a Hero but his was to reflect that no other parent should have to go through what that parent had to go through. PROBLEM: McCain was wearing his (Walking the Walk). Obama was not wearing his! (Talking the Talk)

Posted by: Pep | September 29, 2008, 11:20 am 11:20 am

I pray your are right about this..
“If Obama/Biden think its raining now, wait until the night of November 4th when Obama has to give his concession speech to President John S. McCain!”
McCain/Palin 08!
“COUNTRY FIRST!”

Posted by: NC conservative | September 29, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am

McCain has more class, experience,knowledge,honesty and is a genuine person who does not let himself be a puppet.
Obama was uuhhhing and duhhhing throughout the debate as well as rudely interrupting.

Posted by: Carrie | September 29, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am

Youth of AMERICA, there would not have been a Cuban Missle crisis had JFK not screwed up the Bay of Pigs operation where he LET thousands of Cuban Patriots die on Cubas’s beaches because he was a coward. Oh yeah, your history books have ALL been re-written so let me point out one more thing. JFK did decide to escalate VIETNAM, thousands of miles away but let Cuba go 70 miles away. Real history proves he made TERRIBLE INEXPERIENCED DECISIONS that we’re used to liberals making.

Posted by: killerbee | September 29, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am

Democrate4McCain,
You want to whine about Obama calling McCain “Tom” a “bunch of times”?? He called him Tom exactly ONCE as he was about to comment on Tom Coburn. Meanwhile, McCain can’t pronounce “Ahmadinejad”, doesn’t know the difference between Shiite and Sunni, thinks Al Qaeda is aligned with Iran, and Iraq has a border with Pakistan. Send the old man away.
And… who do you expect to believe you are a democrat supporting McCain with you can’t even spell Democrat???

Posted by: PalinHaHaHa | September 29, 2008, 11:22 am 11:22 am

Choosing between Obama and McCain is a bit like choosing between having a horse or a cow poop on one’s face. Neither choice is appealing, and we end up smelling like sh*t no matter what.
Why don’t more people complain about our choices? Why do we sit back and accept the morons both parties parade in front of us? And then, once the morons are the official candidates, why do so many of us defend these buffoons as if they are pillars of American virtue? Is it because of the little “R” or “D” by their names? Because neither of these guys even represents the founding ideals of either political party. Honestly, neither party represents its own founding ideals anymore.
We get the government we deserve. If we fail to change course, if we keep electing people who are part of the same corrupt system, we only serve to ensure our future downfall. We have absolutely no one to blame but ourselves if we keep pulling the lever based on tired cliches and divisive rhetoric.
Both parties now play to the lowest common denominator, and it’s for one reason alone: to get elected by people easily swayed by emotion. We have become a nation ruled by fear and hatred rather than pragmatic idealism (yes, there is such a thing).
Our nation’s founders are spinning in their graves right now. And I hate to say this, but it’s not because of these two presidential candidates; it’s because of America’s citizens. I apologize for the lecture, but it needed to be said.

Posted by: gb8898 | September 29, 2008, 11:22 am 11:22 am

Obama supporters must have blinders on to believe he is a better choice then McCain! The guy has nothing new to offer but the same old democrat party talking points, pandering to the poor, minorities, and those whose emotions cloud rational thought. “Hope” and “Change”, please, he should have been laughed out of the race a long time ago.

Posted by: Yankee Doodle | September 29, 2008, 11:23 am 11:23 am

Its funny that the Obama supporters are coming up with all kinds of “clever” nicknames for McCain and Palin. Is it because they are having a hard time dealing with a candidate that AGREED with “McSame” 10 times during the debate? I’m not talking about him saying “yeah, but…”, he said “I agree” 10 TIMES during the debate. I guess if you don’t have foreign policy experience, Senator McCain is a good guy to follow the lead of.
By the way…I’m glad that Senator McCain insisted that they go to Washington to discuss the bailout. It seems like something that the next leader of our country should be involved in. Senator Obama seemed, well…indifferent to the matter. He just seems more fit to giving a good speech than worrying about policy. Maybe he can make a movie with Al Gore. I hear that he’ll have some free time starting Nov. 6th.
Posted by: wrldtallestmike | Sep 29, 2008 11:11:38 AM
Funny you should mention this.. if McCain is as solid on foreign policy as you claim him to be, why would ANYONE be ashamed to agree with some of his ideas on it? What is so wrong with two people agreeing on the same concepts, other than the fact that you can’t claim to be morally superior in a bulletpoint news article?
As far as the bailout.. McCain insisted on canceling the debate and gonig to Washington to discuss it, then stayed in NYC so that he could continue to give press conferences, and continued airing his nothing but virulent, muckraking, attack ads against he Obama campaign despite signaling a “truce” where they would suspend campaigning in the face of a serious national crisis.
Of course, when he DID go to Washginton, he refused to take any kind of stand on anything, because he wanted to be able to appeal to the ‘fiscally responsible’ Republican base, while also appearing to be a major factor in constructing a $700 million cash-infusion into the markets which may prevent one of the greatest stock market declines in history and whatever other waterfall-effects that may have had on our economy and those of our international allies.
Appearing to be principled by being completely spineless. His “straight talk express” has become “talk talk talk”, accompanied by a Karl Rovian campaign that even Karl Rove has commented on being “over the top”.
He sold out as quickly as possible in order to gain any potential edge he could in the election, seemingly without even looking at the negatives it may cause. Foresight? Indifference? McCain has one of those qualities. I’m almost sure I would have voted for him in the 2000 election, had he not been derailed by one of the most despicable and dishonest campaigns ever run in US history (and that’s saying something).
That was 8 years ago. McCain lost an election trying to be mostly honest; now he’s sold out and, seemingly, doesn’t even care what he does or says, as long as it does not negatively impacts the polls, and even sometimes when it does! If he were a little younger, more sound of mind, and in good health, he might make a great President. Unfortunately for all of us, he is not.

Posted by: youth of America | September 29, 2008, 11:23 am 11:23 am

I would love to vote for Obama, but just can’t do it. I can’t bring myself to vote for a man who not only thinks it is ok to converse with domestic terrorists (Ayers), he also sat in a church for 20 years that spewed hate. Hate for whites, hate for this country…sorry but that kind of man will not be the next president of the united states. I may just stay home.

Posted by: Can't vote for Obama | September 29, 2008, 11:24 am 11:24 am

get ready to never retire boomers. Thank your stubborn GOP for that

Posted by: market down again | September 29, 2008, 11:24 am 11:24 am

On braceletes… “PROBLEM: McCain was wearing his (Walking the Walk). Obama was not wearing his! (Talking the Talk)”
Pep is lying. Look at any photo of Obama and there is the bracelet.

Posted by: PalinHaHaHa | September 29, 2008, 11:25 am 11:25 am

Republocrats! Both parties should crash and burn. They are identical and taking this country to the same place. It’s just in how we get there. Taxed to death, or dragged into so much debt that we drown anyhow. It’s time that we put someone else in office than a Republocrat. We need somebody who doesn’t bow to the will of a political party or special interest group, or we, as a country, need to crash and burn and then start over.

Posted by: Drew | September 29, 2008, 11:25 am 11:25 am

Right on “not in my face” You notice the liberals have so much hate in their diatribe that they can’t even articulate any point of view. Factually speaking, they never have a clue about anything. All they can do is spew venom at things they obviously know nothing about. For the record to all you libs that you think this is all(the bailout) Bushes fault and Republicans, think again. All you have to do is look toward Bill clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank.. Yes, they were the ones that wanted to give out Welfare Mortgages from Freddie and Fannie… Quit all your hate speak and start learning the real facts. Obama would be the real downfall of this great nation, trust me. Be very careful what you wish for!

Posted by: bostonbabe | September 29, 2008, 11:26 am 11:26 am

If you care about yourself and the future of the country, vote McCain Palin 08. If you believe the media, vote Obama. Its that simple.

Posted by: Daniel | September 29, 2008, 11:26 am 11:26 am

Steven, sorry about your brother, he is a hero and nothing less. I have been deployed to Iraq and you do him no honor by supporting a pacifist/socialist like Obama..SHAME ON YOU. We will unilaterally go in where it is neccessary and brave Americans (who volunteered) will put it all on line so elitists like Obama can bismurch their memory and efforts.
Also, to all you socialists who think McCain was condescending in the debate, you obviously didn’t notice all those arrogant “look down my nose” moments offered by your BOY Obama, or all is interruptions. I have never seen a more insolent and rude presentation.

Posted by: Maj Mark | September 29, 2008, 11:27 am 11:27 am

McCain has more class, honesty, integrity, experience, knowledge and is genuine.
It is really great to see and hear that Democrats are doing research and are going to vote for McCain.
If anyone even thinks that McCain is anything like Bush, they have their heads where the sun don’t shine.

Posted by: Carrie | September 29, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am

My God……People,,,,Get out there and tell your friends about this Fraud. Tell them about Ayers, Wright, Farrakhan. Let them know this man is not a Citizen of the US, that he attended a Muslim School……other schools he attended gave him a religious description as Muslim!!!!!!!!! This man has no History that He wants you to say,,,, There is not one person who has known this man for 10 years or more that can stand up and speak for him…..
People, We are in A Desperate Situation here,,,,,,, The Country Depends on you Standing Up For What Is Right,,,…..

Posted by: derrek michigan | September 29, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am

Having served for over 20 years and fought in 3 conflicts, I believe in some of Mr McCain’s rhetoric, but his tenure was completed when he was in his late 20′s! Still pressing a mute issue about the surge and not actually addressing the issues on the economy is acting somewhat lackadaisical. AIG, Wall Street bail out, Gas prices, housing, weak economy in general fixes is what I want to hear, not how to spend more money in a country which has gained the US no promise.

Posted by: A_Military_Retiree | September 29, 2008, 11:29 am 11:29 am

Google Black Liberation Theology and you too will learn the truth. We should all be careful…..

Posted by: Goose | September 29, 2008, 11:31 am 11:31 am

i am so tired of the “Obama is for the middle class” BS. this pri*K made $4 million last year running around the country giving speeches!! that’s all he’s good for is reading words off a teleprompter and wagging his stupid finger in everyone’s face. If Americans need to pay more for the socialization of this country, then why doesn’t his give more of his ill-gotten money to the government in voluntary tax? that’s right, it’s a voluntary tax system we have and you can pay more if you are so inclined. but he’s not interested in spending his own money, just that of the rich CEOs of this country. making a profit will be a federal crime under the obama administration. and enough with the oil companies “windfall profit” they make $.04 a gallon while the gubment takes $.12. who’s making the windfall profit here? screw you loser libs.

Posted by: rod peters | September 29, 2008, 11:31 am 11:31 am

“get ready to never retire boomers. Thank your stubborn GOP for that”
Wrong and partisan… There is plenty of blame to go ’round for both parties… read my post above. With that said, it was Barney Frank and Chris Dodd (both democrats) who shielded Fannie and Freddie from the reforms needed to steer us away from our current situation attempted by both the Clinton and Bush W administrations.

Posted by: Informed American | September 29, 2008, 11:31 am 11:31 am

I remember Bush and Rove talking about how their own internals surveys showed them holding onto Congress in 2006. Obama should have the same luck.
One person here said it best, Obama will lead us all off a cliff – I’m stocking up on food, investing in gold and buying a generator. This guy is scary – the false attacks on him aand Palin are at some point going to turn to violence mark my words. And its not just Obama – its the scary intolerant rascist people who are associated with him. Get ready for the end of the American experiment with democracy. After all, what would President Obama do, if, for example, Utah decides to leave the union rather than abide by the policies of an Obama adminsitration? Also, what does Obama stand for? Change? What the hell does that mean? I haven’t the slightest idea and neither does he!!!!

Posted by: B. Samuel Davis | September 29, 2008, 11:32 am 11:32 am

Obama = an empty suit with big ears and blue lips. He is a phony, communist, radical community organizer.

Posted by: Dee from NJ | September 29, 2008, 11:32 am 11:32 am

The more things change, the more they stay the same…..
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/special-preview-br%E2%80%94obama-s-leftism-12961
“Despite Obama’s tone of self-mockery, the passage discloses the milieu in which he immersed himself. In this light, it is not surprising that, upon graduation, he decided on a career as a “community organizer,” even if it was none too clear to him what exactly that meant. As he confesses in his early memoir Dreams from My Father (1995):
“When classmates . . . 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 . . . . Change in the Congress . . . . Change in the mood of the country . . . . Change won’t come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots. . . . I’ll organize black folks.”

Posted by: Ziggy | September 29, 2008, 11:33 am 11:33 am

Yes the iraq war was justified. How many other countries could, almost daily, fire @ us war planes and not be toppled? Could launch an assassination plot on a sitting US president, and plan attack against the us worldwide.
Name any other country in the world that could do this and not get attacked ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3819057.stm
If he didn’t respond then liberals would be crying he didn’t connect the dots !!

Posted by: owenscott | September 29, 2008, 11:34 am 11:34 am

So I take it all the Barack Husain Obama backers now think he is GOD. He is more like the Antichrist the destroyers of worlds. He will destroy this Country and will not confront the Evil and this world because he is too indecisive. This was predicted by Nostradamus.

Posted by: Steve | September 29, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

Obammy, will you please send someone to change my shorts? I fear I mussed them whilst watching you on the television Friday night. Thank you, All Powerful and Knowing One.

Posted by: The Unwashed | September 29, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

Obammy, will you please send someone to change my shorts? I fear I mussed them whilst watching you on the television Friday night. Thank you, All Powerful and Knowing One.

Posted by: The Unwashed | September 29, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

To: A_Military_Retiree,
Brother, I hang up the uniform after 20 (just 2 wars)in June and you make some truly good points. Ultimately, we have to decide the following: WHO CAN LEAD IN THE MOST DIRE OF TIMES. My friend, for all his imperfections I will pull the lever for that old fighter pilot who has survived TRUE service to his nation rather than that Ivy League socialist, I hope America joins me.

Posted by: Maj Mark | September 29, 2008, 11:36 am 11:36 am

Absolutely ridiculous! I can’t stand reporters and their ignorance and failure to do basic research! C’mon…we all know that you don’t catch a cold from being in the cold! William Henry Harrison caught a cold from being around so many new people in the first days of the presidency and was worn out from the long days. It was not the cold!

Posted by: eric | September 29, 2008, 11:36 am 11:36 am

I think they is no ways McCain gonn win. Obama is the mans. Yall wach and sees.

Posted by: Muhammed | September 29, 2008, 11:36 am 11:36 am

McCain is a festering limb on this nations body that needs to be removed. Palin is a fake puppit that has not a clue shes just being used by the GOP machine like all other Americans.

Posted by: William Denison | September 29, 2008, 11:37 am 11:37 am

Oh,please! Give me a break. Shouldn’t he be acting in Hollywood with those other phonies? Enough with the theatrics already. He has nothing to say other than what is written on a card or teleprompter. McCain is the real deal. In these times of such turmoil, I really need someone with experience to run this country.

Posted by: Rita | September 29, 2008, 11:37 am 11:37 am

This cracks me up! The Democrats want us to vote for change. Obama promised you tax cuts, better health care, jobs,financial security. Now he’s trying to back away from that saying that the country is broke. Geez, what a politician. More of the same.
I guess it doesn’t matter who wins at this point. McCain = Obama The Democrats are no better than the Republicans! I have no one to vote for!
Another thing… “The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body”… has the media not learned it’s lesson on putting this guy on a pedistal? The higher he’s lifted, the easier he is to knock down. The Republicans did it once and they’ll do it again. Stupid.

Posted by: Kurt P | September 29, 2008, 11:38 am 11:38 am

These are the only 3 reasons we need to not vote for Obama:
1. Pelosi – A wild eyed San Francisco liberal who has accomplished nothing but partisanship.
2. Reid – A clueless wonder who doesn’t know what the heck is going on.
3. Obama – A radical/racist/liberal state senator with NO accomplishments. He is an arrogant snob from the Chicago thug politics scene.
I am just grateful that I am from a conservative state, Texas, that will NOT go for Obama. We are not that stupid.
McCain/Palin 08

Posted by: Russ | September 29, 2008, 11:38 am 11:38 am

These are the only 3 reasons we need to not vote for Obama:
1. Pelosi – A wild eyed San Francisco liberal who has accomplished nothing but partisanship.
2. Reid – A clueless wonder who doesn’t know what the heck is going on.
3. Obama – A radical/racist/liberal state senator with NO accomplishments. He is an arrogant snob from the Chicago thug politics scene.
I am just grateful that I am from a conservative state, Texas, that will NOT go for Obama. We are not that stupid.
McCain/Palin 08

Posted by: Russ | September 29, 2008, 11:39 am 11:39 am

Vegas gives the odds go McCain. I think Obama will be seeing alot of rainy days ahead.

Posted by: Jim | September 29, 2008, 11:39 am 11:39 am

One does not catch a cold from the temperature. That is an old wives tale.
owenscott=douche rocket. Nostradamus!!1hahahahaha… I wrote douche rocket before I even made it the the Nostradamus part. Let me restate:
owenscott=super douche rocket

Posted by: joe | September 29, 2008, 11:39 am 11:39 am

It will be interesting to see just how much worse the prospective Obama Administration can make this crisis.
Since it won’t affect me in any tangible way, I’m actually hoping to see a hard left turn in fiscal and monetary policy. I look forward to 15% inflation and 20% unemployment. Let’s see people given shovels and told to rebuild the nation’s parks. Let 10,000 squatter camps spout like mushrooms.
Ah, a return to the glorious days of the Depression, when a man could afford to keep fifteen servants BECAUSE THEY WOULD OTHERWISE STARVE TO DEATH.
Yes, an Obama Administration, through its ideological fatuity, will be a great boon to the rich.
Bring it on.

Posted by: slinkybender | September 29, 2008, 11:39 am 11:39 am

“My God……People,,,,Get out there and tell your friends about this Fraud. Tell them about Ayers, Wright, Farrakhan…”
Fellow McCain supporters – This kind of stuff doesn’t help our cause. Stick to the issues – we win when we stick to the issues.

Posted by: Informed American | September 29, 2008, 11:39 am 11:39 am

I am a life-long Republican and I will be voting for McCain.
That said, I am ashamed of the people in this thread who smear Senator Obama by calling him Osama or making other snide insinuations that he is somehow evil.
Senator Obama is wrong on some critical issues. But he is also a loyal American who loves his country.
Keep the focus on the real issues and leave the personal attacks out of it.
Where oh where did our dignity go?

Posted by: Jack from Texas | September 29, 2008, 11:40 am 11:40 am

To the post that said “STOP THE LIARS”!:
You had the first part right, except the ending should have been vote Republican!
Gestapo tactics in Missouri durng the campaign! Imagine what will happen should Obama get elected! Perhaps, Freedom of speech will be a thing of the past!!!!

Posted by: Rank | September 29, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

Harrison died of a weather-related illness. Is this a prediction?

Posted by: Patrick C. | September 29, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago?
Body count: In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago; 221 killed in Iraq.
Sens. Barack Obama & Durbin,
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.,
Gov. Rod Blogojevich,
House leader Mike Madigan,
Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike),
Mayor Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)
…..our leadership in Illinois…..all Democrats.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago.
Of course, they’re all blaming each other.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
State pension fund $44 Billion in debt, worst in country.
Cook County (Chicago) sales tax 10.25% highest in country. (Look ‘em up if you want).
Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country.
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois. And he’s gonna ‘fix’ Washington politics for us!
He did this to Chiago, just think what he will do to America!!!!

Posted by: Ken Taylor | September 29, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

didn’t we run you off another blog for looking down your nose at us jason?
isn’t the real reason you claim to “not be one to post on a blog” that your own blog is now defunct? aren’t you in fact a deanocrat cum obamacrat?

Posted by: misunderestimated | September 29, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am

people voting for Obama are like a superstitious and ignorant tribe of people that have become excited by the drum beat and fiery torches, to them Obama is a healer, a witch doctor.
They chant, get angered easily, and will follow their new god anywhere.

Posted by: paul | September 29, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am

Why do they not send that pathetic negro back to africa?

Posted by: Ben Dover | September 29, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am

i kind of like the idea of not going along with this nonsense if this clown is elected. I mean honestly, can they throw every conservative in jail for not paying taxes? see how much spending you can do if the coffers are empty. these people wipe their arses with the constitution. i’ll see you other constitutionalists in Cell block C!

Posted by: rod peters | September 29, 2008, 11:45 am 11:45 am

“McCain has more class”
Who the hell said that? McCain has about as much class Charlie Sheen..
Obviously you don’t know what class is..

Posted by: OMG | September 29, 2008, 11:45 am 11:45 am

How brave O was to stand up against the war in a liberal America hating district. Dude has never stood up against anything except tax cuts and cuts in government spending. His connections to unsavory people are stunning but never investigated. He dissed our troops, never says the word victory. His legislative actions benefitted developers whose low income housing in uninhabitable. His political coffers were filled by these same developers. Earmarks? This guy is an earmark specialist. Look for Ayers, 50 Cent, Jeremiah Wright, Jesse and Rev Al in the Lincoln bedroom soon. We’re screwed.

Posted by: Barry O'Carter ll | September 29, 2008, 11:45 am 11:45 am

Surprised he didnt raise his hand, stop the rain and create a rainbow. oh wait, the editors removed that becasue it sounded like just a bit too much messiah worship.

Posted by: tr88 | September 29, 2008, 11:45 am 11:45 am

Umm umm ah Pakistan umm ah ah umm ummm ah ummm. Well, John Mccain, umm ah ah umm ah….

Posted by: Barack Obama | September 29, 2008, 11:46 am 11:46 am

Creepy, very creepy.

Posted by: alavasse | September 29, 2008, 11:46 am 11:46 am

There will be a high turnout this election. I’ve heard that Republicans are to vote Tuesday and Democrats vote Wednesday.

Posted by: Spike | September 29, 2008, 11:48 am 11:48 am

Bad news for McCain camp:
“In a survey of over 190,000 people, 53 percent said their opinion of Sarah Palin was mostly negative. 53 percent of the more than 182,000 people asked said that their opinion of Palin had gotten worse. But perhaps the most telling of all – 69 percent of nearly 153,000 people surveyed believed that Palin was not ready to become the next President of the United States in the event something were to happen to John McCain. The AOL political blogs are among the most popular on the Net.”

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 11:48 am 11:48 am

Wow, there sure are alot of Osama nut hugging cool aid drinkers in here.
Even if Osama comes to power, how long do you think he’ll live?

Posted by: AJ | September 29, 2008, 11:48 am 11:48 am

The intro to this story sounds like some cheesy dime store romance novel. But what else should I expect from a media outlet that is so in love with the democratic ticket they will do anything to get Obama elected.

Posted by: jason | September 29, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am

One does not catch a cold from the temperature. That is an old wives tale.
owenscott=douche rocket. Nostradamus!!1hahahahaha… I wrote douche rocket before I even made it the the Nostradamus part. Let me restate:
owenscott=super douche rocket
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Others… McCain being a soldier who was a POW has nothing to do with being a good president. He is no more brave than the millions of other Americans that have joined the service.
Calling Obama “Elite” and “Ivy League” and leaving the impression that McCain is a ‘regular guy’ is misleading, and I assume that you know that. Obama got to the ‘Ivy League’ via hard work and superb intelligence. He didn’t grow up rich with family connections. McCain got to where he was because of hard work and probably a little bit of influence from his high ranking daddy.
The Osama and Hussein crap is just silly. Can’t you see how stupid you make yourself look by uttering that stuff?
“A radical/racist/liberal”… That’s rich. HE’S FRIGGIN MULTIRACIAL!?!?! Do you really think he is that self-loathing?
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JR – On your “McCain, one of the strongest debates in history, Obama one of the weakest” comment. Seriously? Why are there so many slack jawed morons on the republican side (BTW, I was one for the last decade…not the slackjawwed part)? The debate was handled well by both sides. I’ll even give you that McCain did a much more impressive job than I estimated. But, holy jeebus, how can you have a straight face when you say Obama’s efforts were weak? Delusional.

Posted by: joe | September 29, 2008, 11:50 am 11:50 am

Give me a break. The main stream media gets off on this guy. It’s sickening. And they wonder why their ratings are dropping. He’s a freakin’ Socialist for pete’s sake! Google the word and then be afraid. Very afraid. Of course the liberals have their collective heads in the sand and refuse to acknowledge what stares them in the face.

Posted by: Jack | September 29, 2008, 11:50 am 11:50 am

Go to u tube and type in
Burning Down The House What Caused Our Economic Crisis
This video explains our current economic mess and whos to blame.

Posted by: Jay | September 29, 2008, 11:50 am 11:50 am

McCain won the debate hands down. Obama even said so about 8 times. Obama looked like a little boy standing next to a great man.
Can’t wait for Palin to wipe the floor with Biden.

Posted by: unseen | September 29, 2008, 11:52 am 11:52 am

No matter who “wins” on 4 November, the nation loses! Obama is a communist and McCain is a George Bush socialist. Both major parties have sold out the country. Vote the Constitution Party to return the nation to its founding principles.

Posted by: WarEagle | September 29, 2008, 11:52 am 11:52 am

There’s a line in Braveheart, “I know you can fight, but it’s our wits that make us men.”
I’m sick and tired of McCain’s and Pitbull Palin’s saber-rattling and fear mongering in the face of every problem our country faces. It doesn’t work.
I want thoughtful solutions. I want a President and VP with wits. Is that asking too much?

Posted by: M.A. | September 29, 2008, 11:53 am 11:53 am

Obama is not a leader, but a thug from Chitown. He told his supports to ‘get in the face yell at’ the other side. Obama blames the Bush Admin, and McCain for the current finical crisis when it was the Clinton mandate that fannie and freddie lend to people whether they could pay it or not. McCain tried to stop it 2 years ago but was shot down by… Democrats. Obama has never DONE ANYTHING. He is just really talented at spewing the talking points of the Bush-Bashing democratic party.
The democrats are a disgrace and I can’t wait until President McCain and Vice President Palin clean out the TRASH.

Posted by: McCainPalin | September 29, 2008, 11:54 am 11:54 am

America is doomed regardless of who is voted in as President. Vote “no one” in 2008.

Posted by: Jeff | September 29, 2008, 11:54 am 11:54 am

“His wet shirt clinging to his body” White left wing libertards make me nautious!

Posted by: obama=occult | September 29, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

Yep! If Obama gets elected, look at how many more Democrats will be able to claim “blindness” on their income tax forms next year. And Obama will probable pass an exemption for “dumbness” before April 15th.

Posted by: Cybergeezer | September 29, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

If McCain is such an intelligent man, why did he choose Palin? Surely there was someone who had better qualifications than her. Or was he just looking for a running mate with a nice rack, to lure the white female voters?
Please remember on Nov 4…
If elected, McCain will be the oldest President. Who will be left to carry on if something happens to him? Palin.
A vote for McCain is a vote for Palin.
Tell me that isn’t scary?
I like McCain but there’s no way I’d let that dimwit Palin get in the whitehouse.
She is soooo daffed, I cannot wait until Thursday, the 20% of voters on the fence will see her for the tool she is.

Posted by: Mike | September 29, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman have a crush on Obama. “The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body…” Sounds like a romance novel.

Posted by: OHswingvoter | September 29, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

Hmmm a new guy and a flip flopper….on top of a 97% voting with his party record…. oh wait when he votes at all. Change he is gonna change something allright, his mind is all he is going to change. he has an excellent record on that. Against guns ….yup his record speaks for itself there too.
Like Barrack Hussein Obama said John your RIGHT!!!
McCain/Palin for President/VP

Posted by: Russell C. | September 29, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

OH P L E A S E ! ! I think I’m going to THROW UP! OBAMA is NO MESSIAH! IGNORANT LIBERALS WHO WANT SOCIALISM NEED TO REALIZE THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE WHO DON’T WANT IT! All Liberals are delusional and are VERY SCARY!

Posted by: Girlymac | September 29, 2008, 11:56 am 11:56 am

Give me a break. The main stream media gets off on this guy. It’s sickening. And they wonder why their ratings are dropping. He’s a freakin’ Socialist for pete’s sake! Google the word and then be afraid. Very afraid. Of course the liberals have their collective heads in the sand and refuse to acknowledge what stares them in the face.
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Google Stalinism while you’re at it–that’ll explain Obama’s “Truth Squads”. Warning: you will be freaked out.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 11:56 am 11:56 am

I will start by saying that I am a conservative person. I do have a question though…..if all information is looked at factually…how can anyone say that Obama has more experience than Palin? Democrats seem to make a huge deal of this. I believe that neither of them has much. Educate me……

Posted by: Steve | September 29, 2008, 11:57 am 11:57 am

Barack Obama.
- He is against photo ID’s for voting.
- He is in favor of early release of sex offenders.
- He is in favor of pornography being permitted on school library computers.
- He thinks school sex education should begin in kinder garden then continue on to the 5th grade.
- He was against a bill that would ban porn shops within 1000 feet of schools or churches.
- He is in favor of tax funded abortion.
- He is against medical care for an infant on the operating table who survived the abortion.
- He is against parents of minors being notified when their daughter is going to have an abortion.
- His wife is in favor of partial birth abortion and thinks it should be protected.
- He favors homosexual marriage.
- He favors drivers licenses for illegal aliens, welfare for illegal aliens, food stamps for illegal aliens, social security for illegal aliens.
- He belongs to a black-separatist church.
- And he wants to immediately evacuate a key battlefield in the war on terror thereby handing it over and empowering our sworn enemies.
Icky. This doesn’t sound so warm and fuzzy to me. I guess I’m being to pragmatic. The movement was never about where you were going, its about how you felt while getting there. Like a group of people being high on drugs on their way to reform school. Its not about GPS man, its about LSD, its the trip, not the destination you need to concern yourself with.
While Bill Clinton put a smile on the Left’s anti Christian hippie jihad, this guy goes one better and offers you oxycotton. He is a relaxing soothing political date rape drug. And the dealer network is already in place – the mainstream media.
“Don’t be square, vote for Obama”

Posted by: paul | September 29, 2008, 11:57 am 11:57 am

I was impressed with John McCain Friday night. He had some good points. I just wish he would quit being nice and really hammer Obama. Obama’s speech reeked of memorizing–he reminded me of a college student who had crammed for the exams and had to try to get in everything he could remember. Someone needs to tell Obama that Asia is not a country.

Posted by: rerojeannie | September 29, 2008, 11:58 am 11:58 am

I am searching for a place to get the news. Just the news. Just facts. I get nothing but these opinion pieces. I am surprised that this piece did not have video, with Obama carrying an umbrella, Singing in The Rain, and dancing around a light post. What a pitiful excuse for journalism. It is a sad day when the media does nothing but wag the dog. Sad Sad Sad

Posted by: Sarah Wise | September 29, 2008, 11:58 am 11:58 am

oh great, his chance to walk on water…did he??

Posted by: DanTX | September 29, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am

You mean it can rain on the Obama parade? Gee, perhaps that means that he might also lose in November! I thought that whereever he went it was sunshine and roses. My wife, (a registered Democrat) has never been polled. I guess they must have found out that she decided long ago to vote for John McCain! Her opinion, Obama is vastly unqualified to serve as President, and Biden adds nothing to the ticket!

Posted by: Rank | September 29, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am

“His wet shirt clinging to his body” White left wing libertards make me nautious!”
did your mom teach you to spell at home school, or just how to handle snakes and speak in tounges?

Posted by: froth | September 29, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am

Well the Dems have a pair of half-wits running – will that do you M.A.?
I want to thank Senators Obama and Biden for messing up the traffic in the city of Fredericksburg all afternoon on Saturday, as well as for taking over the entire HOV lane of I-395 and I-95 and seeing to it that “regular people” had a difficult trip home if they were working in the District on Saturday. I want to thank them for being 4 hours late to their speaking engagement and I want to thank them for NOT taking a helicopter to the roof of Mary Washington Hospital and instead of costing the State of Virginia badly needed funds to provide them security – none of which is reimbursed. I want to thank Senator Obama and his blabbering numbskull of a running mate for telling outright lies and half truths, Senator Obama for wearing the bracelet of a soldier who died in Iraq AGAINST THE EXPRESS WISHES of that soldier’s family. I want to thank Senator Obama’s storm troopers who are trying to suppress free speech in Missouri, Indiana and Kansas and doubtless coming to a town near you soon.
I am sick and tired of the unprepared candidacy of an overhyped lightweight that endangers our nation’s safety every time he opens his mouth and doesn’t really give a flip because he is only interested in his own welfare.
Barack Hussein Obama is unfit and unprepared for the presidency and his running mate is a blithering idiot.
Any questions?

Posted by: Gayle Miller | September 29, 2008, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm

ABC, it sounds like your 3 reporters needed to towel themselves off after their drooling description of Osama, I mean Obama. Give me a break. BTW, why do you dingdongs think Obama know anything about economics when he has never held a real job???

Posted by: jim h | September 29, 2008, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm

M.A. – yes it is too much to ask especially with the Obama/Biden ticket.
Fear mongering? We would still be living in real fear if the democrats were in the house on 9/11. Look how much good your hero Clinton did with the terrorists while he was in office. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Clinton was too busy gettin’ bizzy.
Any stand taken by a person other than a democrat candidate is sabre-rattling?

Posted by: Elaine | September 29, 2008, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm

I knew he was to dumb to get out of the rain. Now he has proved it.

Posted by: Eric | September 29, 2008, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm

I’m surprised the press did not lead with “Obama Walks on Water”!

Posted by: Kerry | September 29, 2008, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm

abc news has a clip of obama saying that the word democrat means pathetic liar and worthless person. I believe him.

Posted by: art | September 29, 2008, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm

Hey JR,
Why don’t you tell us about the MANY accomplishments of your candidate. Oh, that’s right…..you can’t because there aren’t any! He’s as big a failure as the current DemoMarxist Congress.

Posted by: Stephanie | September 29, 2008, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm

For starters, what about William Ayers?
What about the venerable racists Rev. Wright? You can’t tell me the “Messiah” hasn’t been influenced by these freaks. You socialists need to go do some more “bong hits” cause you’re livin in obama-la-la land
McCain/Palin for President/VP

Posted by: M. Gordonski | September 29, 2008, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm

If McCain is such an intelligent man, why did he choose Palin?
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Two words: energy independence. She’s Obviously from Alaska, and she knows the drill. No pun intended. Seriously, I wouldn’t say something so cheesy on purpose.
And please, please stop trying to scare people about McCain’s age. The man has more energy than me, and I’m 24. Do you know what he does when he wakes up and he’s home in Arizona? He hikes in the mountains for most of the day. His mother is 96 years old and in good health. Don’t scare people about his age. He’s fine.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm

Re: Bad news for McCain camp:
“In a survey of over 190,000 people, 53 percent said their opinion of Sarah Palin was mostly negative. 53 percent of the more than 182,000 people asked said that their opinion of Palin had gotten worse. But perhaps the most telling of all – 69 percent of nearly 153,000 people surveyed believed that Palin was not ready to become the next President of the United States in the event something were to happen to John McCain. The AOL political blogs are among the most popular on the Net.”
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You obvious Demotard. These numbers are meaningless without providing a breakdown of the voters (if the survey is even real). My guess is that most were McCain haters anyway, so hardly a scientific poll. The only poll I believe will happen on Nov 4.

Posted by: Hahahah | September 29, 2008, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm

Here’s an image for all the potential NObama voters:
January 20th 2009, in the honored guest section, Rezko, Ayers and Rev. Wright. And then of course, the big group hug afterwards of NObama, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank, Rangel, Sharpton and all the rest of the far left. It’s more like a huddle, “Massive Tax Increase and Decimate the Middle Class on three…”.

Posted by: LowerMac1 | September 29, 2008, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm

Sarah Palin appeals to the white trash vote. She is a complete dumbass.

Posted by: Mike | September 29, 2008, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm

When will the Obama cult end?
This has been the most disgusting political theater I have ever seen.
The messianic Obama propaganda is simply off the chart.
Obama is the most unexamined presidential candidate in US history.

Posted by: Texasdav | September 29, 2008, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm

A crowd of 10,000 to 20,000?
When Sarah Palin came to Virginia, she had a crowd of 42,000.
I’M LOVING IT!!!!!

Posted by: JP Vanderbilt | September 29, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

Good things come with rain! This is just a preview of all the Good thats about to come on November 4, 2008.

Posted by: BarackDaVote | September 29, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

Barack’s campaign is just a modified version of Bill Clinton’s first campaign – “I can feel your pain”. But Barack says “together, me and you can feel you pain, we can do this people, if you just give me your support I can feel your pain”.

Posted by: paul | September 29, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

Barack Obama isn’t qualified enough to hold John McCain’s jockstrap.

Posted by: Bill Buckley | September 29, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

To much hate on this board. Stop the hate!

Posted by: don johnson | September 29, 2008, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm

I’m impressed at how many of McCain’s followers have learned how to lie just like him! Half truths and plain-jane lies… Must be an attack from the O’Riely nation

Posted by: Impressed | September 29, 2008, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm

This is truly becoming an Idiocracy. The author of this article almost sounds as though they want to make love to Obama “his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body”. Reminiscent of a dime novel, come on ABC, you can do better than that.

Posted by: Naz | September 29, 2008, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm

“Live with it, pay up the next $700 billion+ and shut the f*ck up.”
You mean the $700 billion we have to pay because the Clinton administration in 1998 signed legislation that forced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to give loans to unqualified borrowers who could not afford their homes? The bankers and lenders own a great deal of the blame, but failure to deal with illegal immigration coupled with the moronic idea the EVERYONE has the right to own a home, have combined to bring this crisis upon us by forcing lenders to give loans to deadbeats and imbeciles who didn’t deserve them. It it is a phenomenon created by the policies of the Democratic party and continued by the Republican Congress. Both parties are at fault. Anyone who says otherwise is a shameless shill with an agenda driven by who they will vote for in November, and not by common sense.

Posted by: Floyd daBarber | September 29, 2008, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm

That first paragraph sounds like a really bad attempt at fan fiction. But then, hey, it’s ABC so that’s fitting.

Posted by: karen | September 29, 2008, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm

Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage, and there’s not much content there….
If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself….
Only Palin can save McCain, her party and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons….
Do it for your country…..
–Kathleen Parker, Conservative Republican columnist

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm

Wow, some of these comments are absolutely ridiculous.
First of all, McCain is a hardworking, personable guy, not evil personified. I don’t agree with his policies, but the man deserves some amount of respect. And “McSame/Falin?” Seriously? His campaign seems to be making gambles; some have paid off, some haven’t. Either way, I’m not comfortable with that kind of recklessness in the White House.
The attacks on Obama are equally ludicrous. Changing his name to “Osama,” “Nobama” or repeatedly using Hussein means…what, exactly? Racist, Islamophobic remarks are not substantive, and don’t actually prove anything besides your own bigotry. Argue against his plans. And don’t blame him for media portrayal, as if he’s personally writing each and every complimentary article.

Posted by: Yasmin | September 29, 2008, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm

All the latest Obama and Biden updates can be found here: http://www.slander08.com. Fun.

Posted by: Bill Safe | September 29, 2008, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm

It’s sad that there are still those pathetic McCain/Palin supporters who think there is still something to be proud of on their ticket. Go back to high school beauty school dropouts!

Posted by: Gia | September 29, 2008, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm

Exactly how does one estimate a crowd at 10,000 to 20,000? That’s a 100% difference! I’ve either got a $5 or $10; wouldn’t you know? Seems to me someone is just trying to inflate the crowd appeal. I mean if it was really 18,281, then why wouldn’t you say 15,000 to 20,000? But if the crowd was really 10,100, I guess it sounds better to say 10,000 to 20,000 instead of 10,000 to 15,000.

Posted by: LEB | September 29, 2008, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm

My dog smokey is smarter than Obama. Smokey never hung out with terrorist {Bill Ayers} convicted felons [Tony Rezko}, Smokey did not get a shady deal or mortage on his dog house like Obama. Smokey liked eveyone , he was not a racist like Obama and his creepy wife, Smokey never would have hung out for twenty years with the racist reverand Wright, Smokey never would have taken 400,000.00 from fannie mae, or three hundred thousand from Lehmann Bros. like obama did. Smokey never needed affirmitive action to get into obedience school, and smokey did not care if you saw his grades. Obama a C student got into Harvard through affirmitive action and a letter written by a terrorist shiek in NY, Obama won’t show you his grades why? Obama is just a clueless empty head , empty suit, lacks the gravitas and intellect to be President, he would be a good teleprompter reader for the six oclock news, since you don”t have to be to smart for that, he could be the next Peter Jennings , Katie Couric, or the real dumb guy on ABC world news tonight, Charlie Gibson . Did anyone else hear that AP reporters are taking cash and gifts from democrats in return for positive storys. Hitler would feel right at home in todays democRAT party. It one big old hate group. By the way Smokey died in 1984, and if I dug him up and put him in the oval office he still would be smarter than Obama. Obama and his creepy lawyers in St.Loise should be investigated by the US attorneys office.

Posted by: Jill | September 29, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm

Who ever gets elected, will have such a mess to clean up and will get the blame for what Bush has left us!
Go Obama- Barock an Roll

Posted by: Stuart | September 29, 2008, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm

I have grudgingly accepted that bo will probably win the election. I also think he’s a charlatan, an empty suit, and an inveterate liar. I believe he will not be good for the country. I fear for our future. I don’t necessarily support JM but I think we’ll be stronger under him than bo. Palin? I think she’s closer to what our founding fathers wanted as leaders, “citizen patriots”, than any of the “career pols”. They wanted citizens to go to the capital, contribute and go home. I’m voting against all incumbents! Taxes? Yes we all need tax relief, but businesses especially small and medium size business need it. How many of you go to the neighborhoods to find a job. Blame? I think congress has more to do with our economic problems than the admin. It’s no suprise that congress has a lower approval rating than the pres and he has the hatemongering media and liberals to deal with.
America is strong, not as strong as we’d like and she should be. It’s become a nation of whiners and losers; “I want” groups; hyphonated excluders and hatemongers. Now bo wants to create a bigger group of underachievers, non-contributers sucking off the gov’t teet (more democrats). Kennedy was right when he said “Ask not what your country can do for you….” Bo’s socialism is not the answer.
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” Thomas Jefferson
Let it be known, if bo wins, I’ll watch closely and if things go the way I think it will, I am prepared to take up arms against those in power!
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants” Thomas Jefferson

Posted by: eldee | September 29, 2008, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm

Have the Republicans informed us of their poll that shows Palin won the Debate?
What?
What is that?
The Debate is not to take place for another 3 days?
But the Republicans already have 3 polls that show that Bristol “GangBang” Palin’s mother won!

Posted by: joel | September 29, 2008, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm

The rain washed out his teleprompters. Did he stutter as usual?

Posted by: Patrick C. | September 29, 2008, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm

All this talk about one leader over another, its very petty. I was reading a ways up when someone said they were sick of all this firing back and forth and that neither seem like real leaders, gotta agree. Talk is cheap, action costs lives, and political bashing takes millions. I really dont know where to go as far as voting goes, the economy is so bad off that this next leader will decide the world that I go into out of college and when I go to look for a job. Obama has his strong points but in fact he is nothing more than a promoter of baby killing and gay marriage, and with those two things accepted into America…I don’t really see this country as it once was as I read in history books. McCain is far too old and will probably die out of a heart attack half way through his term, then we are stuck with a woman leader, which don’t get me wrong her women but you are simply NOT strong leaders and are not meant to lead men, says so in the Bible and says so throughout history. I would hate to picture the day we get some menopausal woman in the white house leading the country, we’ll be attacking countries simply because her period said so. Overall I dont see much hope for the countries economy, the government is throwing as much money in the ocean as they can to try to create a ground for a sinking ship, and I’m sorry but the ocean is far too deep. Because of the mistakes and the greed of a few, thousands must pay the cost of their actions. I don’t know where this country is going and I don’t know what tomorrow will bring, what I do know is that if WE don’t rise to the times and do what is needed without greed involved, this country will fail.

Posted by: Jason Haskins | September 29, 2008, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm

Simple question:
How is it that Obama is qualified to be president?

Posted by: Jose | September 29, 2008, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm

So Obama is pointing the way out of the storm…well don’t believe it for one minute. He is pointing to the future he wants for our country-socialism. If you think we have too much government now, just wait and see what happens if he gets in. America is dead.

Posted by: cathmom2 | September 29, 2008, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm

…and the Obama Messiah came down from the clouds to the delight of his followers, who roared “Heil Obama, Heil
Obama, Heil Obama “, and a mystyrious
halo clouded the face and the head of
“The One” …..
P.S.: Next week: how Obama walked on water and how he turned water into wine
at the Southside of Chicago

Posted by: Lutzito | September 29, 2008, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm

WHAT THE HELL!!??? I posted like 3 pages worth about my viewpoint and they |changed| it to ”
Simple question:
How is it that Obama is qualified to be president?

Posted by: Jason Haskins | September 29, 2008, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm

Joel, it’s people like you I’d like to have a chance to take out! A lot of blue staters!!!!!!

Posted by: eldee | September 29, 2008, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm

Hey Rod Peters…Mr. I know everything…I’ve been in the oil business for 20 years and you are incorrect on the .04 a gallon. The average per gallon on a gallon right now is about .19 at a store level. That doesn’t now account for what the oil companies a makeing on selling the barrel of oil that cost roughly $36 to make and then sold at $100+…You idiot…that is why they are posting losses, right…you’re a fool. Go vote for another rich Washington Politician that is feeding you stupid uneducated rats marching to the pidepiper.

Posted by: RobfromPa | September 29, 2008, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm

Obama says the economy is bad but he made his millions with Bush at the helm.
What a hypocrite.
Palin is the true ticket for change.
Obama is a typical elitist politician wanting to enact socialism since everyone but him is too stupid to know what to do with their own money.
Palin has worked on her own and not asked for handouts. She has not been working with advisors of companies that have ruined our economy. The “open-minded” democrats hate her for existing.
If the Obama bin Biden ticket wins …we all lose. Incentive to work hard will be over since the govement will be leaching away even more of our money for those that think it is owed to them.

Posted by: AmeriCain | September 29, 2008, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm

Ehem, anyone pay attention to the last 8 years? Chasing 9-11 suspects in the wrong country. An illegal war based on false premises (Bush Doctrine). Katrina. Economic melt-down. Hello!
And some people on this board claim to be Democrats who just don’t like Obama and are voting McSame? Give me a break. What a bunch of hooey. A vote for McCain/Palin is about as unpatriotic and undemocratic an act as I can think of. Military donated to Obama over McCain six to one. They see front row center that the agenda in Iraq was different from the one broadcast? Palin may be a nice woman but she’s quite obviously clueless and anyone voting to have this woman acquire the nuclear codes really needs to have their head examined. Really. She should have known what the Bush Doctrine is. It was not a trick question. And the pseudo Hillary outrage and fascist nationalism rhetoric is nothing close to Patriotism. Wake up America. The house is on fire.
Last election when Bush “won” I decided that if that many Americans really wanted Bush in the White House then America deserves what it going to get. I predicted it would be bad. Well apparently the disasters of the past 8 year weren’t enough for some people. They want more. America is being strip mined of everything and its still not enough. The Constitution has been completely fouled on and some are still aying “Bring it on.”
This is real folks.
Your “values” and your “culture” are being used against you. It’s quite clear. You’ve been talked into accepting ridiculous predicaments. We are frogs in a slowly boiling pot and some are singing to turn the heat up higher.

Posted by: jojo12 | September 29, 2008, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm

“Bristol “GangBang” Palin’s mother won!”???
OMG. How on earth did something is vile get past a moderator?
This is just sick. Shame on the person that wrote it, and double shame to ABC to publishing it.

Posted by: Robert Howell | September 29, 2008, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm

obamalama as pres, please. He is either lying or is the dumbest man on the planet. 57 states, my muslim faith, nittly lions, he spends time with terrorists and sympathizers. Imagine FEMA in charge of your health care! Thats what we’ll get!
GO MCCAIN PALIN!

Posted by: Nick Beef | September 29, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

Sarah Palin is totally awesome. It is John McCains good decision making, and thought process that went into choosing her that clinches my vote.

Posted by: gm | September 29, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

This is written by “Jason Haskins” and not by “Patrick C.”
All this talk about one leader over another, its very petty. I was reading a ways up when someone said they were sick of all this firing back and forth and that neither seem like real leaders, gotta agree. Talk is cheap, action costs lives, and political bashing takes millions. I really dont know where to go as far as voting goes, the economy is so bad off that this next leader will decide the world that I go into out of college and when I go to look for a job. Obama has his strong points but in fact he is nothing more than a promoter of baby killing and gay marriage, and with those two things accepted into America…I don’t really see this country as it once was as I read in history books. McCain is far too old and will probably die out of a heart attack half way through his term, then we are stuck with a woman leader, which don’t get me wrong her women but you are simply NOT strong leaders and are not meant to lead men, says so in the Bible and says so throughout history. I would hate to picture the day we get some menopausal woman in the white house leading the country, we’ll be attacking countries simply because her period said so. Overall I dont see much hope for the countries economy, the government is throwing as much money in the ocean as they can to try to create a ground for a sinking ship, and I’m sorry but the ocean is far too deep. Because of the mistakes and the greed of a few, thousands must pay the cost of their actions. I don’t know where this country is going and I don’t know what tomorrow will bring, what I do know is that if WE don’t rise to the times and do what is needed without greed involved, this country will fail.

Posted by: Jason Haskins | September 29, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

MISSOURI VOTERS – UNITE! AGAINST DEM TACTICS WHO ARE TRYING TO TREAD ON OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH – THATS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS…YA CANT SAY ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT BARRY EVEN IF IT IS TRUE?>(*
WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS????

Posted by: Jules | September 29, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

September 29, 2008
You Have Lost Money in 7.75 Years with John BUSH McCain!!!!
President Bush’s 7.75 years in Office Results:
Dow Jones up 211 points = up 1.99%
Nasdaq DOWN 667 points = DOWN 24.18%
S & P 500 DOWN 178 points = DOWN 13.25%
President Clinton’s Complete 8 years in Office Results:
Dow Jones UP 7,325.22 points = UP 225.18%
Nasdaq UP 2,057.14 points = UP 293.55%
S & P 500 UP 1,343 points = UP 208.50%
President Clinton First Day in Office:
January 21, 1993:
Dow Jones 3,253.02
Nasdaq 700.77
S & P 500 435.49
President Clinton Last Day in Office:
January 22, 2001
Dow Jones 10,578.24
Nasdaq 2,757.91
S & P 500 1,343.00
President Bush First Day in Office:
January 22, 2001
Dow Jones 10,578.24
Nasdaq 2,757.91
S & P 500 1,343.00
President Bush Current Day in Office:
September 29, 2008
Dow Jones 10,789.00
Nasdaq 2,091.00
S & P 500 1,165.00

Posted by: joel | September 29, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

Obama will not save Americans from these dreary days, but he will provide the leadership, inspiration and means for us to work together to save ourselves and finally see the sunshine of success!
Vote OBAMA to UNLEASH the POWER of the PEOPLE!

Posted by: Andrew | September 29, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

Just watch Saturday night live to see Palin! She does not belong in the white House! Go Dems!

Posted by: tom | September 29, 2008, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

Obama keeps talking about change. The only change that’s gonna come is when the clocks go back one hour for the daylight savings time change. That’s what change Obama will bring should he win the office – fall behind.

Posted by: Awkins | September 29, 2008, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

i wish that democrats who intend to vote for mccain would just come out and admit that they are racist. there is nothing in mccain’s voting history or “values” that would or should appeal to a democrat. all this “im just not comfortable with obama” coded language is crap . have the courage of your convictions and come out loud and proud as the ignorant sad racists you are so that we can evaluate your position honestly.

Posted by: butters | September 29, 2008, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

Weather won’t stop Obama/Biden, Obama/Biden is getting ready to rain all over the McCain/Palin ticket and McCain and Palin can walk one another home in the mud.
Obama/Biden ’08
Because America cannot endure another Bush Term. Republicans – to elect them to office is the gift that keeps on giving — to Al Qaeda

Posted by: Bill Adkins | September 29, 2008, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm

Good grief! Is it possible for the media to be more star struck? This sounds like some silly entry in the diary of a 14 year old. If you were to poke a hole in that rock star persona of his he’d deflate like a balloon from lack of substance inside. What a scam artist.

Posted by: Lillie | September 29, 2008, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm

I love all these anti-GOP posts from the various/numerous producers of abc news and other programming
keep up the liberal fight. I love hearing the likes of Matt Damon, Tina Fey and other nasty idiots roll out the insults. This years campaign by Obama/Democrats is sooo predictable it isn’t funny.
1) get famous actors/actresses to put down the GOP nominees
2) get poll showing europe wants a dem president (this year the dems went with the whole world! wants Barack Hussain Obama
3) get all the polls to show that the GOP lost the first debate (and all others)
4) get the polls to show that Obama will win in landslide like Clinton did (Clinton won because of a third party–H Ross Perot the great spoiler) just check the popular vote from his elections to those of W Bush later and you can see as clear as day
5) do usual Dem concession speech
HA

Posted by: Paul | September 29, 2008, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm

Oh dear God, please tell me the teleprompters weren’t critically injured!!! If so, this campaign is over!! Everybody in Obamanation, join hands and say a secular prayer for the teleprompters!!

Posted by: Darren | September 29, 2008, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm

I did not know that my vote could define me as ‘white trash’. If so then the Definition of White Trash=
UNC Chapel Hill Grad
Own two homes
Own a horse farm
Own marketing company
No guns in my house
Pro Choice
No church, but I do alot of charity work.
Actually know what caused this financial problem (Fannie and Freddie the bank of Barney Flinstone Frank and Chris Dodd) of course along with ACORN the big nut.
How disrespectful I find left wing liberals who abuse those they know nothing about. It is OK to disagree on issues, but the other stuff shows your true moral character. If I have a choice between white trash and no morals…I guess I have to call myself trash.

Posted by: Sarah Wise | September 29, 2008, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm

rerojeannie-
For news you may try:
l. Drudgereport.com He has links to major newspapers everywhere.
2. For politics-try MICHELLE MALKIN OR TOWNHALL-at least you’ll get the “other side”.

Posted by: winstonabcde | September 29, 2008, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm

You libs are all a bunch of baloney! You’re telling me that Dem’s in WEST VIRGINIA are gonna vote for Barry? Heck, their liberal Democrat Senator Byrd is a KLANSMAN!! HAHAHAHA. Conservatives vote for a person policy. Lib’s for vote policy, skin color and abortion. MANY Dem’s will NOT vote for an African-American (or whatever BARRY is) when it comes down to it. HOW’S BILL CLINTON GONNA VOTE?

Posted by: killerbee | September 29, 2008, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm

What I don’t understand is how anyone could want four more years of the same crap? I voted for Bush in 2000, and I have regretted it ever since. I don’t know how he got re-elected, and I don’t know how anyone would vote for someone who cares more about Iraqis than they do about Americans! We spend billions per month rebuilding iraq! Hospitals, Schools, Roads, and other infrastructure! BUsh vetoes bills that provide healthcare for children without insurance because it was “too expensive”. It was 6 billion per year. We spend more than that per month in Iraq. How are you not angry? Why don’t you open your eyes? Think about who you are voting for, and what they are doing to the country! We need help! We need better schools! We need better roads! We need better healthcare! We need this money and these resources! This country is in serious trouble, and there are still millions of people out there who think its going to be ok. Its scary.

Posted by: Dan Halen | September 29, 2008, 12:32 pm 12:32 pm

nuff said
www youtubecom/watch?v=H5tZc8oH–o

Posted by: chris | September 29, 2008, 12:32 pm 12:32 pm

Now besides being inexperienced, Obama will also be moldy.

Posted by: Al Cabal | September 29, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

“wish i could help you folks out but i need the money for ME” .. yikes.
barack’s high school debate club performance in which he simply repeated lines from his speeches was no match for the depth of knowledge displayed by the extemporaneously speaking mccain.
how ironic that the same people who have complained of bush’s vapidity are now supporting a man who defines the word vapid !

Posted by: el polacko | September 29, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, um are you guys writing a romance novel or a report?

Posted by: Nancy | September 29, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

ABC news is lucky that they penned yet another piece fawning over Obama, or else Obama’s Truth Gestapo woild have them arrested and imprisoned

Posted by: obama lover | September 29, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

Jason & jojo12, I bet you 2 blame Obama for getting Bristol “GB” Palin pregnant.
When is the wedding, as promised?
Wouldn’t it be a ‘hoot’ if “GB” Palin’s baby is BLACK?

Posted by: joel | September 29, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

Why do people continue to ignore what was the biggest lie of the night during the debate? Obama said very early on that the current economic mess was the result of 8 years of failed Bush policies… and McCain stood there and took it!
The reality is that the subprime fiasco started before Clinton was elected, although his administration greatly enhanced the mechanisms that escalated it. And Barack was a lobbyist for one of the groups that was pushing Congress hard to make mortgages available to undeserving recipients.
It sickens me that Congress, which created the economic meltdown, now seeks to place the blame anywhere else but at its own doorstep. Barney (“the sky is NOT falling”) Frank? Hello?

Posted by: Tony | September 29, 2008, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

WOW ABC news, did you at least get a reach around after that beginning?

Posted by: M. Jones | September 29, 2008, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

“ABC’s Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman Report: The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, ….”
You guys writing a romance novel or what??
And tell me. How does this have anything to do with the technioal expertise to lead?

Posted by: Northerner | September 29, 2008, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm

“The presidency of William Henry Harrison, indeed Harrison’s life lasted a mere month after after he caught a cold at his inauguration, which was held outside on a chilly Washington morning.”
WE CAN ONLY HOPE.

Posted by: James Johnston | September 29, 2008, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm

How about we all see past the blinding lights that are Obama and Mccain and look towards the most truthful source,the Sun. our father looks down at us everyday in digrace for what we have done with the garden. these weather patterns are not something to ignore. Lets come together as one and form Unity. we are all brothers and sisters, look one in the eyes as you are then you can see past the blind, wicked and ignornace that has fueled society for to long.

Posted by: Ryne | September 29, 2008, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm

Obama is being investigated in Chicago for corruption. He made a least $125K off Freddie Mac donations and one of his chief adviers was the the CEO before he got kicked out for misplacing $10B dollars.
Obama is rotten to the core.

Posted by: David | September 29, 2008, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm

I have a few questions for nobama supporters. What foreign relations experience did slick willy have as governor or Arkansas; one of the poorest and least educated states? And you elected him president! Where are all of the lifelong supporters of Nobama? I have not heard anything from these people. Do they know something that you don’t that makes him a little scarier or less impressive than you want him to be? Where are his fellow lawyers that elected him president of one of the worst law reviews in Harvards history? Why does nobama cling to the African-American heritage rather than saying he is a mixed race american? Why does nobama not respond well to one on one questions? Notice how he stumbles. He may have taken a toastmasters course, but is he quick enough for a game of Ya Momma! And, to finalize this, are you people gullable enough to believe that 75% of black americans are voting for him because he shows great hope, or is it really true that they are voting for him only because he is half brown. You can put lipstick on nobama, but his lips don’t really tell the truth. Look for the socialist soul of this man. His arguments are similar to Hitler’s when Germany was in the throes of nationwide depression and low esteem!

Posted by: Fruntz | September 29, 2008, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm

Let’s look at the latest Hippie fad. White Liberal guilt in dire need to be “cleansed” by voting for a Black Stalinist. This sickness goes back to the 60′s when the Hippies realized that their vision of Utopia was nothing but a drug induced puddle of vomit. So what did these hippies do? They started to riot at the Chicago DNC Convention in 1968. So much for Peace, Love, and Understanding, man. These creeps continued to whine throughout history until it reached a point of no return when the present administration won Florida in 2000 by 535 votes. Which I might add was verified by 145 independent sources. Including the Pickle Smoochers on Morrisey Blvd. (The Boston Globe). At last, they have their new Stalin to pray to. Another chance for Utopia, and then the hippies will wake up on November 5th to see their dream gone. Great job in supporting the troops in Vietnam, you freaks. Stay out of the war on terror. Good riddance 60′s generation. Go find a nice nursing home.

Posted by: Bill | September 29, 2008, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm

Is it OK to guillotine Republicans yet?
If not why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapitation

Posted by: Allen Green | September 29, 2008, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm

The Democrats symbol – The Jackass – It represents a group of people that are: single minded, stupid, and stubborn and only meant to be beasts of burden.
The Republican symbol – The Elephant – It represents a group of people that will never forget, are big and powerful and will stomp you ass flat if you get in the way.
Thank God I’m not represented by a Jackass. And Obama is the biggest I’ve ever seen. His wife with those horse teeth is the most arrogant SOB to ever foul the earth’s surface.
What do you get when you mate a male Jackass and a female horse? A couple of mules.

Posted by: Oracle | September 29, 2008, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm

Did you hear that Obama worked with Barney Frank’s boyfriend hooking up other guys out of his lovers office? WOW

Posted by: J.Darling | September 29, 2008, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm

I’m so sick and tired of the bias media trying to make this empty suit of a Senator into Superman/Jesus. He is a puppet for the big wigs and that’s why they want him in office, so THEY can run the country and make it into a communist nation. It saddens me to see where the USA will be heading if this phoney gets to be the President. But if he is elected than the brainwashed people who voted him in will get what they deserve!!! 4 years of him impersonating Martin Luther King and Kennedy will just about push everyone over the edge. You think taxes are high now??? Wait until this Bozo makes them even higher, remember what Biden told us “It’s patriotic to pay high taxes”

Posted by: Tiredof theHYPE | September 29, 2008, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm

McCain supporters are not white trash, and McCain is not a bad person. He sold his soul to get elected, but politics is a bloodsport. I think they are too naive, or they are so well off that they don’t care, or they care more about Abortion than they do about Education, Healthcare, The War in Iraq, Golden Parachutes for CEO’s who caused another depression, etc etc etc. The fact remains, McCain isn’t going to make abortion illegal. It will never be illegal, EVER. So get over it, and quit trying to get your religious views involved with the government. Look at the state of the country, and the plans to make it better. Unless you are rich, and have enough money to live comfortably the rest of your life, than you should not have any reason to vote McCain. Vote for anyone, but him. Obama will try to fix the largest income gap in the history of this country. Its become the rich, and the poor. No inbetween. Anyone who is poor needs to open their eyes and see who will benefit. Take the power back and bring the country back to prosperity for all. Not just for the 1%. Cause they aren’t sharing the wealth, my friends.

Posted by: Dan Halen | September 29, 2008, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm

This election is not like any other, it is even more important. This election is about putting our Country’s needs ahead of personal gain. Our country needs a leader who will make a stand, without waiting to see what the polls say; Our country needs a leader who will do what is in the best interest of America, not what another country thinks is best for america;
Everyone wants to use these “talking points” to disarm the other candidate. The facts don’t lie, John McCain was not my first choice for president. After the nomination of Hussein Obama, he is my ONLY choice. Mr. Obama has done little to prove that he can do anything but “talk”. He uses a teleprompter at EVERY chance, he hasn’t had the hard questions that even Sarah Palin has had. The reporters have chosen what to and what not to report.
I am a saddened American that knows, that we have a media who slants the reporting to give ANY candidate an edge. When did every report become an editorial?
My last point: McCain at least has the GUTS to take a stand on issues while Obama waits to hear what McCain has said so that he can put it down. While he still has offered NO solution.
Please be sure to look at his extremely Liberal voting record. He has NEVER crossed party lines for a vote. He does not take critisism well (or at all).
He truley frightens me as a leader. Maybe he should have gone to the UN last week to learn about how the security council works and their VETO powers.
McCain and Palin have my vote!
By the way, Palin received 60,000 attendees in Orlando…

Posted by: A mom with the right to VOTE | September 29, 2008, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm

Please cite one single accomplishment (legislative or otherwise) that qualifies Obama to be president. All his liberal, big gov promises are empty as he has never reached across party lines to accomplish anything. All of his debate statements began with ..I suggested… I called for….I said at the time… he’s all talk as he has never led or managed anything. McCain has a proven track record. The most telling aspect of debate was at the end when Obama revealed his ‘true’ worldview in saying that future 9/11 attacks would be tempered if the world ‘liked’ the US more. To drive home his point, he cites his deadbeat, womanizing father as an example of someone that saw the greatness of America in the 60′s. Hello, does Obama not remember Vietnam, civil right riots, 3 assassinations and criminal and radical activities of his friend Bill Ayers during this time? Is he not aware of illegal immgration crisis? Millions of people want to come to this ‘tainted’ country. He blames America for the attacks and forgets about the billions of dollars of aid we provide and freedom that we have secured for millions around the globe. His foreign policy will be framed around if the French or Chavez approves.

Posted by: APK III | September 29, 2008, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm

The authors of this article should be embarrassed.
Did you guys lay palm frons down for him to walk on?
Im so sick of this; Im switching to McCain

Posted by: LA Dude | September 29, 2008, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm

There are a couple of things I think are of note here,one Senator Obama was never going to get the racist vote, includnig racist so called Democrats, much can be gleaned here from the language of the people whom are critical of Senator Obama, this country has never done anything noble and right unless forced to, vis a vis ending slavery, ending Jim crow laws, equal protection under the law for all and I could go on ad naseum, the facts are that there are enough illiterate ignorant whites in middle America alone to maintain the status quo,no wonder people who come into this country and settle in states like NY, NJ,CA,MA,WA, OR,CT, etc do far better than these people in the heartland, because yes the would rather cling to peheripial issues like religon, guns, flag pins,and claiming that somehow republicans are patriots, and somehow democrats are not, so the possiblity exist that they will once again vote the senile white man, and the imbicile white red neck female into office over their best interest, may God help us all.

Posted by: mike | September 29, 2008, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm

Yes, Obamagod will win in a walk. So all you Obamiots stay at home — there is no point in voting because he’ll have more than enough votes. So don’t trouble yourselves. What’s that? The youth vote you say? Sorry, college kids have way too many things to worry about on election days — homework, Keggers and sexual escapades. Inner-city voters? Nope, remember that you can not vote if you’re a convicted felon. And I would guess that a great number of supporters are reluctant to show their ID because they have a warrant or two. Plus there is the basic getting off your fanny thing that’ll probably hold up again in this election. They can take all the busses in there they want. It still requires a basic effort that many would just as soon skip.

Posted by: BlueCaddy65 | September 29, 2008, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm

Wow, alot of angry racist people posting on here. Obama is going to crush McCain.. who happens to look like a turtle might I add.. a very disgruntled and rude turtle :D
Yeah I can’t wait till the VP debates to watch McCain’s ELECTRIFYING VP Palin implode on stage. HAHA

Posted by: Jules | September 29, 2008, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm

Obama a Godling amongst men! to lead this republic into a NEW WORLD!
or not.

Posted by: mauricio | September 29, 2008, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm

i am so tired of the “Obama is for the middle class” BS. this pri*K made $4 million last year running around the country giving speeches!! that’s all he’s good for is reading words off a teleprompter and wagging his stupid finger in everyone’s face. If Americans need to pay more for the socialization of this country, then why doesn’t his give more of his ill-gotten money to the government in voluntary tax? that’s right, it’s a voluntary tax system we have and you can pay more if you are so inclined. but he’s not interested in spending his own money, just that of the rich CEOs of this country. making a profit will be a federal crime under the obama administration. and enough with the oil companies “windfall profit” they make $.04 a gallon while the gubment takes $.12. who’s making the windfall profit here? screw you loser libs.
Posted by: rod peters | Sep 29, 2008 11:31:38 AM
Sir, you can’t even seem to comprise a coherent argument. You argue that Obama is not for the middle class, and that if he were, he would volunteer to pay more taxes. Considering he has campaigned about cutting taxes for the majority of Americans (up to 90%), while placing small tax increases on the superwealthy (which he would fall under, if your $4million figure is correct), then not only is he standing up for the middle class, but he’ll be paying a lot more in taxes because of his belief.
Utah leaving the union is a joke. The union is much more important than contemporary politics, whether you like it or not — in fact, the beauty of the union is that states can vehemently disagree with presidential politics WHILE being members of the union. I think this has been proven before.
You don’t know what change means? That’s funny, because it’s a central tenet of McCain’s campaign, also. Are you just going to hole up in your Utah bunker with an AK47 at the start of November? I might think that, but I’m smart enough to know you’re just a partisan hack reinforcing his own beliefs with media soundbytes. Here’s something you might not know: freerepublic is part of the media.
Think for yourself, instead of listening to a hardline conservative media outlet telling you to think for yourself by following their beliefs.
I would appreciate this greatly, as it’s one of the core tenets of Liberalism — the actual meaning of the word, not the “liberal” butchery of English that has been spewn about as of late — that people are able to make rational decisions for themselves. If you don’t believe in this, then, frankly, you don’t really deserve a vote.

Posted by: youth of America | September 29, 2008, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm

Socialism is coming tra-la tra-la.
To get yours vote Obama bin Biden ’08

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm

The local newspaper, the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star is up in arms:
NOT ALL COUNTRIES guarantee their citizens the right to virtually unbridled freedom of speech. The United States does. Would someone please tell the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama? And the dozing guardians of liberty at the University of Mary Washington?
Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, is scheduled to speak at a rally at the university today. The public is invited to this forum, on property it, the public, owns. However, signs and banners will not be allowed, according to the organizers and compliant campus officials. Suddenly, UMW is a First Amendment-Free, or at least a First Amendment-Crippled, Zone, subject to the self-serving preferences of politicos. Why does an Obama rally–or a McCain rally or a Nader rally–justify taking a little off the top of Americans’ most fundamental rights?
A UMW spokeswoman says that the Obama campaign required the sign-and-banner ban. That campaign tells us that the ban is for “security” reasons. But a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, responsible for protecting presidential candidates, says that the service has no objection to signs at rallies, provided that no “part of the sign could be used as a weapon”–e.g., a heavy metal pole or a sharpened stick. Finally, the McCain campaign tells us, “We encourage people to make signs at our events.”
Just more Chicago gangland tactics from Camp Obama.

Posted by: KPH | September 29, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm

I think the 95 percent of Americans getting a tax cut is Bogus. Remember the tax cuts that a lot of Americans are benefiting from now will be gone in 2010. So, Obama might be right – anyone that makes under $250,000 will not pay more —- UNTIL 2010. Thanks Obama for a whole lot of nothin. You can take 98 percent of his speeches, have any politician in the US recite them and get applause. Let’s dig into the real issues please.

Posted by: Think_Bank | September 29, 2008, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm

Virginia is only ‘going blue’ because Northern Virginia is infested with northeaster carpetbaggers and foreign immigrants of all types (with crime up 22% in one year alone as a consequence). The voice of the rest of Virginia will be squelched.
I lived in Illinois when Obama stumbled into office. He stabbed his own mentor in the back to get his state senate seat and has always been about one man – himself. He was useless as a state senator, has been useless as a US senator, and will be a useless president should he stumble into that office. Those who view him as the Messiah might want to look into his Illinois track record before making a verdict. No wait, that might require thinking. Never mind.

Posted by: Hate Em Both | September 29, 2008, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm

I cant take this anymore. The media is making me sick to my democratic stomach. Zogby was right, McCain wins in a landslide I’m afraid.

Posted by: BLA96 | September 29, 2008, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm

Liberal Democrats have a death wish for this country. If Obama becomes president, the US will become very socialist. Taxes will go up, affirmative action with become three times bigger than it already is. This will not be a country of equality. It will become a country were minorities, particularly blacks will have more rights than whites. A black can call a white guy cracker and the Obamiates will say, well because of slavery he has a right to do that. However, if you say anything disparging about Blacks (as a white) you will go to jail. You’ll have Obama truth squads knocking at your door in the middle of the night. Believe you me, this country will change for the worst and if it gets bad enough their could even be a race war. If Obama, manchurian candidate becomes president, we have nobody to blame but the liberal whites and their successful campaign at duping ordinary Americans.
It seems that people are bored and looking for a modern day messiah. They think they found him in Obama. Obama is no messiah, anymore that McCain is. No person can correct all of societies evils. If you are looking for that, you probably like Obama because he plays off your need for a messiah. Realize that change doesn’t happen over night, and if it does it probably isn’t good change.

Posted by: Madashell | September 29, 2008, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm

CAN MUSLIMS BE GOOD AMERICANS?
This is very interesting and we all need to read it from start to finish and send it on to anyone who will read it. Maybe this is why our American Muslims are so quiet and not speaking out about any atrocities. Can a good Muslim be a good American? This question was forwarded to a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years. The following is his reply:
Theologically – no . . . Because his allegiance is to Allah, The moon God of Arabia.
Religiously – no. . . Because no other religion is accepted by His Allah except Islam. (Quran, 2:256)(Koran)
Scripturally – no. . . Because his allegiance is to the five Pillars of Islam and the Quran.
Geographically – no . Because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a day.
Socially – no. . . Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.
Politically – no. . . Because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of
Israel and destruction of America, the great Satan! .
Domestically – no. . Because he is instructed to marry four Women and beat and scourge his wife when she
disobeys him. (Quran 4:34)
Intellectually – no. . Because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.
Philosophically – no. . . Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran does not allow freedom of religion and
expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.
Spiritually – no. . . Because when we declare ‘one nation under God,’ the Christian’s God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as Heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in The Quran’s 99 excellent names.
Therefore, after much study and deliberation … Perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS
in this country. They obviously cannot be both ‘good’ Muslims and good Americans.
Call it what you wish it’s still the truth. You had better believe it. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country and our future. The religious war is bigger than we know or understand.
And Barack Hussein Obama, a Muslim, wants to be our President? You have GOT to be kidding! Wake up America!
Footnote: He refuses to pledge allegiance to the United States or put his hand over his heart when the National Anthem is played! The Muslims have said they will destroy us from within. Hello! Having a Muslim president would seem to fit the bill! Will you trust this man with our national secrets and freedom?
SO FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.
THE US MARINES WANT THIS TO ROLL ALL OVER THE U.S.

Posted by: Mornin Joe | September 29, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

I do declare that Mista Obama is a fine, clean and well spoken young negra..Not since the days o’ my lynchins and cross burnins have I seen a better young prospect…vote dummicratic!

Posted by: Sen Robert Byrd | September 29, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

Dan Halen said:
“Obama will try to fix the largest income gap in the history of this country. Its become the rich, and the poor. No inbetween.”
Translation: HERE COMES SOCIALISM!
Fact: If you want to make wealth and keep more of it, vote for John McCain. If you think the government needs to be the decider of what is fair and what is not in terms of economic sense vote for the Marxist B. Hussein Obama.

Posted by: Obamasuckfest | September 29, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

Dan Halen; you must think that you deserve the money from people who work hard. I have a suggestion for you; get a skill, get a job, work your way up! You can’t expect someone who has NO investment in their future to do as well as someone who worked two jobs and took out student loans to get through college. I have a problem with you! It is your mindset that the poor people deserve hand outs. It isn’t ANYONE”S responsiblity but your OWN to get ahead and make something of yourself. It definately isn’t the GOVERNMENT’s job to redistribute the wealth in this country. THat my friend is SOcialism… if that is what you want, there are plenty of places that you can live in this world. They like not having to work and getting the same thing as the people who make sacrifices.
By the way, my grandparents were orphans and the other set was from Italy. Both sets came from nothing and are very proserpous. AMazing what you can do when you don’t expect someone to do it for you!
McCain/Palin 08′

Posted by: A Capitalist Nation | September 29, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

None of the Above Traitors for President!
If you wanted REAL change, your missed your opportunity by not voting for Ron Paul.
Vote 3rd Party!

Posted by: NoneoftheAbove08 | September 29, 2008, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm

You Obamaistas should do your homework. He is an empty Suit! All talk no walk. People complain about the GOP VP nominee not having any experience. What about Barry. How long has he been a senator . And what the F–K is a community organizer?? What a loser job. He doesn’t vote for anything just “present”. People said Hitler was a great speaker and motivated the deceived German people and look how that turned out. Looks and Charisma does not make a leader. Substance, experience and oh yeah, the wisdom of age. An observation: Have you ever notice that “Obama•Biden” looks like “Osama•Binladen” when you look at it really quickly; It makes me nervous. Anyways Obama is a Marxist-Commy. Scary Barry.

Posted by: Mexicam | September 29, 2008, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm

Obama = Carter’s 2nd term
McCain = Reagan’s 3rd term.
Vote McCain/Palin ’08

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm

Aah ABC NEWS as objective as always..cough, cough. Feeling the ‘Bama luv now. eyes roll.
PS abcnews got any REAL news to report ?

Posted by: inl82008 | September 29, 2008, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm

Is it OK to guillotine Republicans yet?
If not why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapitation

Posted by: Allen Green | September 29, 2008, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm

ACORN (Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now)is evil, just like their boy Obama. I guess the libs just want more corruption in D.C. The change Obama will bring is more corruption.

Posted by: KPH | September 29, 2008, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm

Obama drives me nuts when he says that McCain wants to keep GIVING the “rich” more and more. Higher earners pay a much higher percentage of their income to the government, and their tax cuts amount to RETURNING some of that money to its original earners. I also don’t see how Obama can say that 95% of taxpayers will see a reduction in their taxes when over 40 percent of American households already pay no taxes (some non-taxed families actually get a tax refund!?!). This is class warfare plain and simple. As someone who put in thirteen years of post-high school education, and worked and went into debt to do so, I find it infuriating that liberals like Obama vilify people like me when we finally begin to make a decent living. Senator is eloquent and very charismatic, and I really wish that I could support him, but socialism and class warfare have no place in our democracy.

Posted by: Twister | September 29, 2008, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm

NO Bama NOvember!! NEVER OBAMA!!
PUMA~!!
Barack Hussein Obama…..You can Kiss my “typical white” a$$ I will NEVER vote for your fascist ways! it has nothing to do with skin but everything to do with moral values!!!
BHO…….go to H E Double hockey sticks!!
WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE ALL WE HAVE EVER KNOWN IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM IS LOST FOR EVER!
McCain Palin 08
Hillary Clinton 2012
Hussein Obama…NEVER! send him back to his REAL country ….Indonesia
oh and don’t forget to pack up that nasty american hating wife of his too!
“for the first time in my adult life time i am proud of my country” Meeshelle Obama
YUCK!!! the democrats now make me want to puke for the first time in my adult democratic life.

Posted by: djia | September 29, 2008, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm

THAT RAIN, WAS-
“GOD’S TEARS FALLING ON THIS MAN, WHO WOULD PUT AMERICA ON THE PATH TO SOCIALISM AND TAKE AWAY THE FREEDOMS THAT SO MANY GENERATIONS HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED FOR”

Posted by: Jo | September 29, 2008, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm

APK III wrote:
“The authors of this article should be embarrassed.
Did you guys lay palm frons down for him to walk on?
Im so sick of this; Im switching to McCain”
That is such a stupid reason to switch candidates. But hey, some people don’t vote based on the issues. One might call those people idiots.

Posted by: vince | September 29, 2008, 12:54 pm 12:54 pm

I am shocked!! I can’t believe that the rain didn’t stop, it suddenly turned to blue skies and a beautiful rainbow appeared. I mean, after all he is the Messiah!
I hope it rains on his parade in November too!!!

Posted by: lynnd currently in Chattanooga | September 29, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

With two parties the election outcome is easy to determine. The Reopublican party is backed by the ultra rich and poor whites–the sheer numbers of poor whites will be enough for McCain to take most states and win by a landslide.

Posted by: Hard toLoose | September 29, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

I’ve been reading many of the comments against Obama, and I must say that many of them seem to be bigoted in their responses. This proves a point that there will be a certain percentage that WILL NOT vote for a Black Man. I hope as the polls continue to climb, and people start seeing McCain/Palin for what they represent, that the percentage just won’t matter.
By the way, McCain didn’t even know the difference between a strategy and a tactic, which for a military man says something about him.
For the Record, a Strategy is a long term plan (“invading Iraq to bring democracy to the Middle East”) while a Tactic is a short term plan to take a closer objective ( The “Surge”). The fact that McCain kept saying Obama didn’t know the difference only makes it worse for him. I feel bad for McCain, he is NOT the man i was a delegate for in 2000. He’s old, tired, and should just go back to the Senate. His pick of that glorified Hockey-mom Palin also proves that there’s something wrong with him. She’s a complete moron and totally unqualified to run a grocery store, let alone being McCain’s Number Two.
Hopefully after this debate on Thursday, you will all see just how dangerous Palin could be if elected.

Posted by: Steve in NY | September 29, 2008, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

Well, now we know Obama doesn’t have enough sense to come out of the rain (a fine example for our children).

Posted by: Tora | September 29, 2008, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

If anyone bothered to check facts they would know that it was during the ’90s that banks were forced to deregulate mortgage lending. This was due to the work of ACORN and the left leaning attitudes in Washington. Result, people who normally could not qualify suddenly could get mortgages, and Washington felt so good about this. No one thought down the line, no one thought how people earning $3,000 per month could support mortgages of $2,000 per month. It was all about feeling good to the less fortunate.
Now it’s blown up in our faces, foreclosures are all over the place and Washington tried to slip a massive pay out to ACORNin the latest bill. Fortunately that was blocked.
But whose to blame? I suggest clever people look to see who worked for ACORN and who was their attorney. I will give you a clue – it wasn’t McCain.

Posted by: Nona | September 29, 2008, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

I want a President who has the sense to come in out of the rain.

Posted by: Gourry | September 29, 2008, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

The picture is great and inspiring, so are Senator Obama’s speeches; in fact I wish I could vote for him. Unfortunately, I have reviewed the context of his speeches and his voting record and they do not work for me. The Senator may be a president some day, but given his policies which in my opinion have not been thought through and can not work; I can not support such a grand plan. The present DNC plan for this country reminds eerily of the discussions we all had in college as sophomores, grand plans and change the world themes but with no substance, no real outlines as to how it would be accomplished and sadly we like the Senator did not have a clear understanding of how the world is and works in reality.

Posted by: AMBROSE PEARCE | September 29, 2008, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

Now it’s official: Obama doesn’t have sense enough to get in out of the rain…and proud of it.

Posted by: OwlCreekObserver | September 29, 2008, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm

Elmer Gantry returns to lead the Democrats to the Promised Land !
Hallelujah !
Lordy, lordy …I ain’t crippled no more…I can walk, I can see, I can…

Posted by: Old Time Religion | September 29, 2008, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm

Wait until the vice-presidential debate. Palin will eat Biden for lunch. He already admitted he doesn’t think he was a good choice for VP. He is scared to debate with her and run against her. His solution to the bail out is to raise people’s taxes. People won’t be voting for Mcain. They will be voting for Palin. Mcain will kick the bucket anyway. Obama talks about change but why did he choose some old fart who has been in Congress for 30 years? That’s not change. Obama is all talk. What worries me if he is president is that he will cater to one group of people at the expense of the rest of the country. Palin being the mother of 5 kids knows that you can’t just give one child their way just so they will like you if its not going to benefit the whole family. I think she is greatly underestimated by the democrats and liberals. She is not scared of anything. Where was she when they announced her as Mcain’s running mate? She was moose hunting. If anyone has ever been moose hunting knows what I am talking about. THAT IS A TOUGH WOMAN!
P.S. Oprah is making a huge mistake for not having Palin on her show. She has lost a lot of points there.

Posted by: Jerralee | September 29, 2008, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm

Why would it be the same old thing with McCain?Do we want change just for change sake? Better learn what change you’re voting for.

Posted by: Will Becker | September 29, 2008, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm

So, what is to become of this country on Nov 5th? Obama will have lost in a landslide, the media propagandists will be crying out loud about how could this have happened and the Democrat party will be virtually demolished.
Will the hysterical wailing from the “he stole the election” crowd interfere with the new administration?
Something tells me the Dems haven’t begun to whine like they will on Nov 5th.

Posted by: Hahahaha | September 29, 2008, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm

Real life Blazing Saddles coming this November

Posted by: Mike | September 29, 2008, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm

“Bristol “GangBang” Palin’s mother won!”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
You are mindless, filthy scum. I hope you’re proud of yourself. Ignoramus.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm

Every vote for Obama is a vote for higher gas and energy prices.
As the bail-out bill was being drawn up, Senator Harry Reid injected a BAN ON SHALE OIL into it. Our country has more oil in shale than Saudi Arabia has in resourses! Now, we can’t use it to free ourselves from foreign oil dependence.
Democrats stopped nuclear/electric plant construction in the late 1960′s and are STILL against building new plants.
Democrats are AGAINST drilling closer than 50 miles off-shore, where all the oil is recoverable! Yes, the ban expired, but son’t think they won’t reinstitute it as soon as the election is over.
Democrats CAUSED our dependence on foreign oil and have no intention of changing this, as Senator Reid CONFIRMS with his BAN on shale oil.
If you are rich…you might not care.
If you aren’t rich and vote for a Democrat for House or Senate you are voting to keep oil and energy prices HIGH. Prices will go even higher after the election if we give the Democrats control of the presidency, along with the House and Senate.
Democrats have a PROVEN RECORD on drilling (against it), nuclear power (against it) and shale oil ( did you hear about Senator Reid’s ban???).
Wise UP, folks! It is YOUR LIFE! Don’t vote to make things harder on everyone in this country because you like someone’s charisma. Look at what they would DO to make our country stronger and our lives easier, not harder.
All it would take to absolutely RUIN this country is to stop supplying us with oil or making it way more expensive.
Every vote for Obama is a vote to NOT using what we have to lessen dependence and strengthen our country.
How rich are YOU?

Posted by: Search4Truth | September 29, 2008, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm

Is it OK to sterilize Democrats yet?
If not why?
http://wikipedi.org/wiki/Sterilize/castrate

Posted by: Obamasuckfest | September 29, 2008, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm

“I too wear a bracelet for a soldier, it is for uh uh uh hmm what was his name again….uh hmm uh well he is very dear to me his name is uh uh uh….well it’s around here somewhere… ah yes on my wrist….”
B. Obama – September 26, 2008

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm

Obama lemmings! Welcome to socialism! Obama is the “new elitist.” They are the ones who claim to live modestly with one car, etc., but actually live off millions. They are enviromentalists and extreme liberals who think that anyone who does not “go green” or doesn’t want “change” is stuck in the past and should not have a voice. I will take my elderly parents’ wisdom any day over this new found progressive, green, liberal, socialistic, elitist “change.” My parents come from a day when a man worked for what he had, he was not given it by some Karl Mark elistist like Obama. An elitist who will take our money and destroy small business while all the while saying it is a “tax break.” Socialism leads to communism. Hail Comrade Obama!

Posted by: kian | September 29, 2008, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm

The first paragraph of this article reads like the writing in a romance novel.
Is this some “man-love” here?
Very strange for reporters to write about his white shirt sticking to his back,etc.
I can’t find words to say how totally this article revolts and sickens me.

Posted by: city girl | September 29, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

So let me get this straight. Jane Fonda gets photo’s of herself smearing a Communist North Vietnamese anti air craft weapon used to kill Americans AND YOU LIBS THINK SHE’S WONDERFUL! John McCain fought for this country, endured horrific torture (unlike Club Gitmo), refused early release, and was in captivity at the same time Jane was licking commie boots. DO YOU WACKED OUT LIBS EVER LOOK AT YOURSELVES IN THE MIRROR?

Posted by: killerbee | September 29, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

i am so tired of the “Obama is for the middle class” BS. this pri*K made $4 million last year running around the country giving speeches!! that’s all he’s good for is reading words off a teleprompter and wagging his stupid finger in everyone’s face. If Americans need to pay more for the socialization of this country, then why doesn’t his give more of his ill-gotten money to the government in voluntary tax? that’s right, it’s a voluntary tax system we have and you can pay more if you are so inclined. but he’s not interested in spending his own money, just that of the rich CEOs of this country. making a profit will be a federal crime under the obama administration. and enough with the oil companies “windfall profit” they make $.04 a gallon while the gubment takes $.12. who’s making the windfall profit here? screw you loser libs.
Posted by: rod peters | Sep 29, 2008 11:31:38 AM
Sir, you can’t even seem to comprise a coherent argument. You argue that Obama is not for the middle class, and that if he were, he would volunteer to pay more taxes. Considering he has campaigned about cutting taxes for the majority of Americans (up to 90%), while placing small tax increases on the superwealthy (which he would fall under, if your $4million figure is correct), then not only is he standing up for the middle class, but he’ll be paying a lot more in taxes because of his belief.
Utah leaving the union is a joke. The union is much more important than contemporary politics, whether you like it or not — in fact, the beauty of the union is that states can vehemently disagree with presidential politics WHILE being members of the union. I think this has been proven before.
You don’t know what change means? That’s funny, because it’s a central tenet of McCain’s campaign, also. Are you just going to hole up in your Utah bunker with an AK47 at the start of November? I might think that, but I’m smart enough to know you’re just a partisan hack reinforcing his own beliefs with media soundbytes. Here’s something you might not know: freerepublic is part of the media.
Think for yourself, instead of listening to a hardline conservative media outlet telling you to think for yourself by following their beliefs.
I would appreciate this greatly, as it’s one of the core tenets of Liberalism — the actual meaning of the word, not the “liberal” butchery of English that has been spewn about as of late — that people are able to make rational decisions for themselves. If you don’t believe in this, then, frankly, you don’t really deserve a vote.

Posted by: youth of America | September 29, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

BTW:
If you want to know the REAL Obama, I suggest you go to the following and read for yourselves and become informed
whether you are for or against this man:
American Thinker(Sept26) “Rules For Radicals”-Alinsky
and: Newsmax.com by Kenneth Timmerman of Sept. 3 & 4.
We need to have this man’s background exposed for ALL Americans-he is dangerous & wants to wipe out ‘freedom of speech’ for those who dare speak out about his dubious past. Read the Gov.Blunt of Missouri article about this
as Obama threatens to use law enforcement to silence people’s freedoms

Posted by: Jo | September 29, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

I was listening to one of the Demoncratic leaders say that once Obama becomes president, there will be no stopping Congress. What he meant by that was simple, there will be nothing to stop Obama or Congress from enacting any laws they wish. Obama will put liberal Judges on the Supreme Court that will legislate his will from the bench.
What this boils down to is a complete and total lack of seperation of powers. The Executive branch, Legislative branch and the Judicial branch will all be supporting the agenda of a single man.
Much like the Holy Trinity, they will be one in the same and inseperable. This amounts to a unstoppable Dictatorship with Obama as the head Dictator.
There will be NO checks and balances in government and anything Obama wants, Congress will make sure he gets and the Supreme Court will back them both up.
The Dems will turn the Unites States into a coast to Coast San Fracisco and there won’t be a damn thing anyone can do about it, not even the ones who voted for him.
This conversion of the three branches of our government into the un-holy trinity the Lord and Master Obama has dreamed of will be the change he has promised to all his mindless followers.

Posted by: Oracle | September 29, 2008, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm

We Conservatives finally found out what was wrong with Teddy Kennedy’s insane mind. Brain tumor. Time for all you libs to get an x-ray.

Posted by: killerbee | September 29, 2008, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm

Allen Green said:
Is it OK to guillotine Republicans yet?
If not why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapitation
Don’t worr,y that knock your door is only the secret service.

Posted by: Jose | September 29, 2008, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm

Dear Steve in NY,
PLEASE don’t pull that racist crap on my preference for a non-socialist candidate. Do tell us what percentages of black voters will be coming out for Obama vs McCain. On the surface, Obama is the more appealing speaker and leader, but his socialist proposals and sacrifice of a portion of the electorate (of which I’m a part) make it impossible for me to back him. His race has absolutely nothing to do with my choice. Besides, last time I checked he was just as much white as he is black.

Posted by: Twister | September 29, 2008, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm

“I’ve been reading many of the comments against Obama, and I must say that many of them seem to be bigoted in their responses. This proves a point that there will be a certain percentage that WILL NOT vote for a Black Man. ”
Translation: You better vote for Obama or you’re a racist whitey!

Posted by: Youcantwashstinkoffaturd | September 29, 2008, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm

Fact: If you want to make wealth and keep more of it, vote for John McCain. If you think the government needs to be the decider of what is fair and what is not in terms of economic sense vote for the Marxist
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I’m far from rich, trust me, but I don’t begrudge those that have worked hard, done well and made their money. What I do have a problem with, is those that have become wealthy and successful and have failed to donate some of their time and/or money to charity. If Obama’s going to tax the hell out of those wealthy Americans (and the middle class, too, even thought he says he won’t), won’t these people have a lot less money to give to charity? Won’t they instead have to pay for unnecessary government programs? This could be a very bad thing.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 1:06 pm 1:06 pm

Yes!
Todays’ latest poll shows Obama up by SEVEN in Pennsylvania. GREAT news for Obama/Biden and Americans everywhere!

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 1:06 pm 1:06 pm

How come the “messiah” didn’t tell the storm to “be still!”

Posted by: Jimma Carter | September 29, 2008, 1:06 pm 1:06 pm

Did Senator Biden have an accident on stage? he po-poed a number two(stool).? I guess in the rain it would get slippery up there on the stage. I guess the Obama campaign is so full of crap it had to come forward on stage.
Stand up Mr. Po-Po, stand up!

Posted by: DOnald | September 29, 2008, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm

Given a choice between Obama and McCain, the correct choice is, to quote Richard Pryor in “Brewster’s Millions,” “None of the Above.”
Seriously, are these the best two candidates that the parties could come up with? Of course not.
When Senator Obama is asked a question, he invariably talks about how such is the old way of thinking, that we need to look forward, and that he is about change. Very charismatic, but not very experienced (and maybe a bit too charisma, car salesman like).
When Senator McCain is asked a question, he starts out by talking about his years of experience – most likely moving toward his foreign policy experience. Very experienced, but not too charismatic (and maybe a bit too much experience in being a politician).
The problem is that there is no candidate out there that actually has ideas that he/she can articulate, ideals that most American’s can relate to, economic experience, foreign policy experience, and the ability to lead. But, then again, has there been a politician like that in the last 20 years or so?
In my opinion, the best candidate for President of the United States has never run for President. We don’t know him/her since they either don’t have the connections or, more likely, he/she has no inclination to run for any public office.
As the saying goes, those who can, do; those who can’t, teach; and those who can’t teach run for Congress.
(My apologies to my Mother, who is a teacher.)

Posted by: None of the Above | September 29, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm

What a friggin fluff piece!
What, is Obama polishing your knobs?

Posted by: Reality Check | September 29, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm

Given a choice between Obama and McCain, the correct choice is, to quote Richard Pryor in “Brewster’s Millions,” “None of the Above.”
Seriously, are these the best two candidates that the parties could come up with? Of course not.
When Senator Obama is asked a question, he invariably talks about how such is the old way of thinking, that we need to look forward, and that he is about change. Very charismatic, but not very experienced (and maybe a bit too charisma, car salesman like).
When Senator McCain is asked a question, he starts out by talking about his years of experience – most likely moving toward his foreign policy experience. Very experienced, but not too charismatic (and maybe a bit too much experience in being a politician).
The problem is that there is no candidate out there that actually has ideas that he/she can articulate, ideals that most American’s can relate to, economic experience, foreign policy experience, and the ability to lead. But, then again, has there been a politician like that in the last 20 years or so?
In my opinion, the best candidate for President of the United States has never run for President. We don’t know him/her since they either don’t have the connections or, more likely, he/she has no inclination to run for any public office.
As the saying goes, those who can, do; those who can’t, teach; and those who can’t teach run for Congress.
(My apologies to my Mother, who is a teacher.)

Posted by: None of the Above | September 29, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm

Just Released:
“Obama is now trusted more on all 10 major issues in new Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys Saturday and Sunday nights. He even has a statistically insignificant one-point lead over McCain in trust on the handling of the war in Iraq. Just two weeks ago, the Republican had an eight-point lead on this issue.”
YES!!

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

Socialism Sucks

Posted by: Brady | September 29, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm

STEVE in N.Y-
McCain was the one during the debate who
said that Obama didn’t know the difference between the tactic or strategy. Get your facts straight. You are being duped by Obama-the Elitist-the
Messiah-who is pushing America into the
Socialism he believes in. He has a past
that many do not know about, as the MSM
who are in the tank for him, won’t report on. So much for honest journalism
and integrity. BTW, I don’t care if he
is purple, black, green or red–the posts here are about FACTS, NOT COLOR YOU DUFUS. SUGGEST YOU INFORM YOURSELF
& GO TO THE SITES I POSTED ABOUT & SEE FOR YOURSELF.

Posted by: Jo | September 29, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm

I almost hope Obama wins. See how well all you kool aid drinking victims do after Obama pushes the socialist agenda, along with his stooges Reid, Pelosi and their masters at Moveon. I guess if he gets elected, Jesse and all the other victims will have to accept the fact that they no longer have anything to talk about. That alone would be worth it.

Posted by: Jimmy Carter | September 29, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

Dear America,
Give socialism a chance, it has worked wonders for us. Besides the pain will last only a century or so. Please give your vote to our good friend Obama in November.
Sincerely,
V. Putin
F. & R. Castro
H. Chavez
J. Carter
J. Stalin.
A. Hitler
I’m Barack Obam and I absolutely accept these endorsements.

Posted by: Obama/Biden '08 | September 29, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

Barack is an obamanation. His past is a nightmare the dems and the media love to avoid and ignore, and yet if that same past was McCain’s, the dems and media (same thing) would be having a field day using it as ammunition to bring him down. Dems and the media have made a science of double standards. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. Their hatred of God, country, innocent life and all things moral is enough to make any patriot with a conscience sick to their heart and stomach. obama represents evil in its many forms. He represents a party that is the haven for all things worldly, secular and hedonistic. He is all teleprompter and no experience. He plays the race card like there is no tomorrow. The only CHANGE he represents is change for the worse. He is an egomaniac of the highest order who claims that he is the one we’ve been waiting for. Dems need to forget their party just long enough to step back, do a little unbiased research, and see this wolf in sheeps clothing for who he is. Terrorists and tyrants the world over are anything but timid about who they want in the White House — obama. That alone should tell you something. If that isn’t a red flag, I don’t know what is. Time to pay attention folks. Time to set aside party loyalty and put your country first for a change — the LONG TERM good of this country rather than the short term gratification that comes from voting out of loyalty. Give loyalty to country a try. The importance of this election is far more important than any one party. It is all about keeping this grand experiment going for another 200 years, and hopefully much longer!!

Posted by: Nikkofly | September 29, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

No one in their right mind wants the Liberal extremist leaning Obama to select lifetime Judges. His associations with the likes of William Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan and the “Chicago” politicians are enough to scare lifetime Democrats throughout the country. Don’t put too much weight into these polls, Democrats will publicly support their candidate now, but would much rather face McCain again in four years with a much stronger candidate, then have to defend Obamas actions for four years.

Posted by: Maxwell | September 29, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

Conservatives are
America’s most dishonest people.
They make good punching bags though.

Posted by: nikto | September 29, 2008, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm

Besides, last time I checked he was just as much white as he is black.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
He is whatever is politically expedient at the time. Tomorrow, he will be Asian if Axelrod tells him it will help him win. This has a lot less to do with race, color, sex, age, etc, and a lot more to do with honesty, integrity and authenticity. Obama is cut from the politican cloth–he will claim to be anything he needs to be in order to grab your vote.

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm

Killerbee – my history books have not been re-written, sorry. Perhaps you should read a real history book about the Bay of Pigs, why it was planned, how it failed, and why it should have failed.
How did he let Cuba go 70 miles away? Do you even know what happened in the Cuban missile crisis? After a Republican president — not that it really matters — looked with a blind eye to the revolution in Cuba and the seizing and nationalization of assets there, JFK inherited a country with a pseudo-communist state 90 miles away from Flordia. A pseudo-communist state that was not a threat until it started strengthening ties with the USSR. When it did this, JFK told the USSR to back the f— off, or else.
And they did.
And, since then, Cuba has been a poor, miserable country, with almost nobody in the international community willing to support them in any meaningful way, LEAST of all in any kind of military way which would *actually* threaten the US.
I don’t know what history books you read — or where the f— you’ve been living, either — because the books I’ve read, the people I’ve interviewed, and just about every indication in the world has shown that JFK handled a tense situation brilliantly, played a game of heads-up political poker with a USSR which we couldn’t even properly evaluate the strength of, and won decisively. The USSR didn’t have the gall to act anything remotely similarly to that until its collapse.
If that’s the kind of TERRIBLE INEXPERIENCED DECISIONS — you know, the ones where he listened to the JCoS and all his advisers, many of whom were encouraging the start of what would inevitably turn out to be large-scale warfare between to nuclear armed states — then I’ll be glad to vote for a President who makes TERRIBLE, INEXPERIENCED DECISIONS.
It sure is a hell of a lot better than Presidents making sure-fire, experienced, typical decisions like making sure their constituents — read lobbyists and companies they have untractable ties with profit off of my tax dollars.
I read all kinds of history books, with all kinds of differing viewpoints. I guess I’m smart enough to form my own opinions when presented with facts, differing ideas, and strongly-opinionated biases, quite unlike yourself.
btw – the Bay of Pigs was a bunch of poorly-armed, poorly trained Cubans landing in tiny boats on Cuba. If anything, massive American military support would have just drawn more attention and escalated what was essentially a small issue into a much larger one, with the same results – Fidel Castro leading Cuba.

Posted by: youth of America | September 29, 2008, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm

Obama and his supporters to damn stupid
to even get out or the rain.
Stupid is as stupid does.

Posted by: Dan | September 29, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

hey mccain, vets rememeber how you vote vs. the emptiness of being mentioned briefly to score points with the general public.

Posted by: a | September 29, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

hey mccain, vets rememeber how you vote vs. the emptiness of being mentioned briefly to score points with the general public.

Posted by: a | September 29, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

Did the abc news reporters have a cigarette after they wrote the article? Or at least kiss their obama doll goodnight.

Posted by: nancy | September 29, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

This man don’t have sense enough to get in out of the rain. He is driven by a lust for power! He is not an empty suit as some say, but he is a suit of hot air and has no sense of history. I don’t like his muslim connections. Where was this man born? No one has produced a valid certificate to show he was born in the USA!
Wake up and smell the coffee before it is too late!

Posted by: Nikos | September 29, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

Did the abc news reporters have a cigarette after they wrote the article? Or at least kiss their obama doll goodnight.

Posted by: nancy | September 29, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

Has Biden converted to Islam yet. This may be why he was selected as VP even though he has a long history of political failures and blunders, Everyone knows Biden is neither articulate or clean and outside of his loser homestate which is populated by trashy and ignorant people he has nothing of substatce to offer and in fact s a detriment.

Posted by: AbuBakerSmith | September 29, 2008, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm

Obama surge is working!
Poll numbers up, up, up!
Palin numbers down, down, down!

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm

Anyone still enthusiastic over Governor Bambi Mooskiller after her lightweight “performances” over the past ten days deserves to be dismissed as an ignorant rube. Joe Biden will demolish her Thursday night – he’ll have to be like a high school coach who has to back off lest he run up the score against a totally outclassed opponent. As for November 4th – Obama wins with an excess of 300 electoral votes – the economy will be THE issue and the Republicans are totally discredited on their stewardship of the economy. Off with the countryclubber’s heads!

Posted by: Proletarian | September 29, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

Good Lord, did the reporter have an orgasm while he wrote this drivel?

Posted by: PTParks | September 29, 2008, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm

I can not imagine electing obama he has no experience and no plan to fix things. Two years of being in the senate and most of the time just voting present.. not yes or not but present.

Posted by: Michael | September 29, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

Marxist?? I hope so. 60′s radical?? Why not??? Black Nationalist?? It’s about time!!!! If we can keep Biden’s yap shut we might just win this thing!!!

Posted by: potluck | September 29, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

“John McCain is a great man, an American hero”. Quoted from Bill Clinton.
When asked to say something nice about Barry Hussein Obama, Bill said:
“um…huh…um….umm huh…huh…”
That’s right. McCain = leadership and experience.
OBama looked like a school boy taken to the shed by master in the debate. He is naive, inexperienced, has done nothing in an executive capacity, and based upon his memorization of far left wing talking points —> he couldn’t manage an ant farm.
“There is nothing wrong with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac”. Barney Frank, Obama’s buddy, quoted this year. Uhuh, the DEMS orchestrated this “social welfare housing” bail out to win the election. Make no bones about it, it’s all on their backs and they know it. But MSM won’t get the real story out to America, they hide behind the facade of WSW when all the lenders where warned by Janet Reno to grant this toxic loans in the first place or she would prosecute them. BLAME starts with the fare left liberalism that is bringing down America.

Posted by: left wing nut job | September 29, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

Gosh, doesn’t Obama look just like Elmer Gantry???!!??

Posted by: Wayne | September 29, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

“It’s always darkest right before it goes pitch black.”

Posted by: Adam | September 29, 2008, 1:19 pm 1:19 pm

“I would give a drowning man a glass of water”
“I would give a defeated enemy relief from American military dominance”
“I will certainly raise taxes in a sluggish economy for sure”
“But I will not under any circumstances give my brother, living in a trash hole, in my native Africa, a red cent.”
B. Obama

Posted by: Obama/Biden '08 | September 29, 2008, 1:19 pm 1:19 pm

This is the most important election in decades and will determine the fate of this country. It’s actually a very easy election. If you believe that to gain the American dream you get educated and work hard, revere the framers vision and are willing to sacrice for it, then you are a patriot and will vote for John McCain.
If, on the other hand, you think you are entitled to the money earned by someone else, that the framers vision is no longer relevant and you hate the military, you are then a thief of all things that make this country the finest ever designed by the mind of man and you will vote for obama.
Your children will of course come to despise you in the end for robbing them of their birthright, but you won’t care because you are a liberal and it made you feel so good at the time.
Wake up libs, you are smarter than this.

Posted by: Seawolf | September 29, 2008, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm

Angry African: Find another forum to post your uneducated, hateful drivel… and try to take better command of the English language so that you don’t have to resort to such ghetto-sounding cuss words. Thanks and GO MCCAIN!

Posted by: THOR | September 29, 2008, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm

Where’s conservatism when you need it?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Certainly not on Capitol Hill lately!

Posted by: Nicole | September 29, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

I get tired of reading comments by those who label, call names, and make derogatory remarks. I look for substance, sound arguments, good reasoning (doesn’t have to reach my own set of conclusions). I quit reading these comments part-way because I find none of what stimulates positive thought; mostly trash, and it embarrasses me to think we are all Americans, living, shopping, coexisting, and if I knew some of you, could identify who you were, I would turn and walk the other way. We don’t have to agree – but we should be able to communicate without calling names or referring to someone’s parentage. Sad.

Posted by: Justaguywhocares | September 29, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

Will Barry vote “Present!” again on the tough issues like the bailout today?

Posted by: Marcus | September 29, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

“John McCain is a great man, an American hero”. Quoted from Bill Clinton.
When asked to say something nice about Barry Hussein Obama, Bill said:
“um…huh…um….umm huh…huh…”
——————-
Laughing myself silly how Republicans are now turning to Bill Clinton to defend themselves. Absolutely priceless.

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

‘The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body…’
Gee, Do you think ABC News has an agenda here?

Posted by: Joe Morris | September 29, 2008, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

“Clinging to his body” give me a break. How about “Too dumb to come in from out of the rain”. Or is that line reserved for is Sara Palin is rained on.

Posted by: Dennis | September 29, 2008, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

“ABC’s Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman Report: The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body…”
Sounds like soft porn.

Posted by: GEAH | September 29, 2008, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

I was starting to wonder what web site I was on since this was a link from another page. As I read the comments i noticed the terrible sentence structure and spelling, I then knew it was a leftist site. I looked up and there it was ABC. Go figure

Posted by: al capone | September 29, 2008, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm

Angry African, your little public temper tantrum takes a lot of your credibility away from you. I’m not sure what TV network you were watching the debate on, but any sign of smugness from John McCain was totally overshadowed by Barack Obama’s smirks, interruptions, and impatience. He was totally disrespecting the debate process by trying to inject his rebuttals while Sen. McCain was in the middle of a sentence. It was really embarassing.

Posted by: Joe | September 29, 2008, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

“I would approach the UN Security Council to have a resolution to have Russian troops removed from Georgia”
B. Obama – September 26, 2008
Fact: Russia is one of seven nations with veto power in the UN Security Council – wonder how that great resolution would go?

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

doesn’t matter…
the only issue is race

Posted by: Peter | September 29, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm

Just released!
Yes!
11 out of 10 Marxists will now be voting for the skinny street punk. This is an increase from the 10 out of 10 who stated they will support him last week.
More great news as well from the racist black preacher demographic: Obama now has the support of 110% of Americas most influential racist black churches as well as the support of homegrown American terrorists such as Bill Ayers. Mr.Ayers stated that,
“We need Obama. We (Weather Underground) did a lot of fine work bombing America back in the 70s but much work remains. Obama will see that work through to the finish.”
Yes!

Posted by: Obamasuckfest | September 29, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm

Bob Barr for president

Posted by: roxy | September 29, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm

LOL. Truth hurts.
“Obama is now trusted more on all 10 major issues in new Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys Saturday and Sunday nights. He even has a statistically insignificant one-point lead over McCain in trust on the handling of the war in Iraq. Just two weeks ago, the Republican had an eight-point lead on this issue.”
Yes!

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

I’m happy for this financial mess. This will help us along to a better system based on european socialism. And, once Obama wins, we will have the House, Senate and Presidency. Obama, Reid and Pelosi will have no opposition to push through a fairer, socialist agenda that will stop this failed capitalist system in its tracks!

Posted by: 08obama08 | September 29, 2008, 1:29 pm 1:29 pm

You tell them Jozy. Who did the president have to call back to Washington to do his JOB? It’s amazing that Barak said if they call he will come back to work on the bailout. Why does he need to be called to do the job he ran for in the first place? Does he not understand what his real job entails? If he doesn’t respect this job what makes you think he will respect the job he is running for? Coming back to Washington is being proactive and that is what we need in this country, not some joke of a senator that has to be told when to come to work. I guess he really doesn’t want to work against the guys that gave him all that money. Why shouldn’t these people who gained so much from these companies not have to give the taxpayers money back and if they keep it then they should be prosecuted like the thug criminals they are and that includes Obama and his ilk.

Posted by: Linda | September 29, 2008, 1:29 pm 1:29 pm

You tell them Jozy. Who did the president have to call back to Washington to do his JOB? It’s amazing that Barak said if they call he will come back to work on the bailout. Why does he need to be called to do the job he ran for in the first place? Does he not understand what his real job entails? If he doesn’t respect this job what makes you think he will respect the job he is running for? Coming back to Washington is being proactive and that is what we need in this country, not some joke of a senator that has to be told when to come to work. I guess he really doesn’t want to work against the guys that gave him all that money. Why shouldn’t these people who gained so much from these companies not have to give the taxpayers money back and if they keep it then they should be prosecuted like the thug criminals they are and that includes Obama and his ilk.

Posted by: Linda | September 29, 2008, 1:29 pm 1:29 pm

Write in Ron Paul. The 4 clowns we have now are sickening.
Have fun owing another trillion to bail out bankers and oligarchical lobbyist companies.
Ron Paul.

Posted by: Mick Russom | September 29, 2008, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm

I watched the debate, took notes, fact checked- I saw McCain hand Obama his ass in a sling!
Obama came off as sa spoiled brat, rude , disrepsectful….he also had no aanswers! Of course, a few questions form the newly face-lifted Leher would have helped…
I had already decide to change my vote to McCain, this has cemented it.
Obama is letting down ALL of us black Americans- he is an embarrassing wart that needs to be removed. Loved the new gray highlights in his hair!

Posted by: Aubrey Maze,MD | September 29, 2008, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm

I’m a republican but Obama makes a point about the ‘trickle down’ crap not working. It trickles down about as far as the folks at the golf club or the resort staff. These jokers are sending the work out of this country, investing the rest and allowing the middle class to die on the vine.

Posted by: Bill | September 29, 2008, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm

I watched the debate, took notes, fact checked- I saw McCain hand Obama his ass in a sling!
Obama came off as sa spoiled brat, rude , disrepsectful….he also had no aanswers! Of course, a few questions form the newly face-lifted Leher would have helped…
I had already decide to change my vote to McCain, this has cemented it.
Obama is letting down ALL of us black Americans- he is an embarrassing wart that needs to be removed. Loved the new gray highlights in his hair!

Posted by: Aubrey Maze,MD | September 29, 2008, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm

I am so sorry that all of you poor liberals feel that the people in this country who make money are supposed toi give it to you so that you dont have to get off your butts and take care of yourself… If it were me that would be heading to the white house my first order of business would be to do away with welfare and medicare as well privatizing social security… screw the poor people who want a hand out… dont do drugs, dont drop out of school, dont be a waste of space pretty much and you wont need a hand out

Posted by: Jimmy | September 29, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

Let all the people and news media tell you how well Obama and Biden are doing. When election time comes, thats when those who are busy with their own lives come out to vote for the right candidate, as they did with George W. Bush not once but twice. And no one thought he’d be elected again in 2004, but those in the majority obviously can see that the media and news is corrupt. McCain is clearly going to win and do what is right for our country.

Posted by: jerseyboy88 | September 29, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

I can’t afford 8 more years of trickle down economics. CEOs on Wall Street with $500M+ compensation schemes (stock plus salaries) when our average wages are going down. What is McCain’s answer, give them more tax breaks, and if we’re really nice to them, they may share some crumbs with us. To heck with the crums, its time to take the meal.
It’s time for you right wing loonies to stop hating and start cooperating. Obama Nation!!!!

Posted by: The Chosen One | September 29, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

I can’t afford 8 more years of trickle down economics. CEOs on Wall Street with $500M+ compensation schemes (stock plus salaries) when our average wages are going down. What is McCain’s answer, give them more tax breaks, and if we’re really nice to them, they may share some crumbs with us. To heck with the crums, its time to take the meal.
It’s time for you right wing loonies to stop hating and start cooperating. Obama Nation!!!!

Posted by: The Chosen One | September 29, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

The actual # Of people that watched the Obama appearance at Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia was 30,000 not 10-20K. It was a great speach.

Posted by: Jed | September 29, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

I guess what pisses me off about Obama is his arrogant shuck-n-jive walk. has anyone else seen him shuck-n-jive his way on stage? Reminds me of being in down town Harlem. I’m surprise he doesn’t wear his pants down low so we can see his underware.
He reminds me of one of the characters on Fat Albert. You know the kid who says….Hebida…hebida…hebida, you know, the one with the huge lips that can’t say a single phrase without saying hebida…hebida…hebida first? Yeah you know who I mean. I don’t think I’d want him to be president either.

Posted by: Oracle | September 29, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

Today’s poll in Florida:
Obama takes 1 point lead among all men and Independents.

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

Palin crowds: the exact size being the most important news of the day.
Obama crowds: 10,000. 20,000. Somewhere in there. You know, we can’t measure these things very accurately.
Palin news: she got FREE SALMON. FREE. SALMON! Alert the DOJ! FREE! SALMON.
Obama news: through the magical funding fairy, Obama secured his discount mortgage. Rezko was convicted but that doesn’t mean Obama did anything wrong in getting his house and neighboring lot at a steep discount. Nothing to see here. Move along. Look over there! Palin’s getting a free spa treatment.

Posted by: w3bgrrl | September 29, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

I wish this jug eared minstrel would stop “voguing” and striking Christ-like poses while intoning Reverend Feel Good phrases like “these too will pass, a brighter day will come”.
The only thing more corny he could have done would have been to shout “Halleluejah brothas and sistahs” and then, for the “white folk” in the audience, broken into a chorus of “Da sun wih come out tomarrra—” while wearing a Buckwheat wig.
What a trained harbor seal this guy is.

Posted by: Bojangles Robinson | September 29, 2008, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm

Just another attempt by the mainstream media to portray Obama as a messiah. They will never scrtutinize Barack.
We the American people lose. Shame on the media. If Obama is elected and fails, none of the media will admit their shortcomings. Cowards, all of them.

Posted by: jillyus | September 29, 2008, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm

Why didn’t Barack Obama (praise be unto him) simply use his powers to halt the rain? As one who can easily walk on water this shouldn’t be a problem for him.

Posted by: bryan | September 29, 2008, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm

ABC= A Barack Company. Damn, makes you want to drop your pants and….oh forget it.
http://www.deathbydemocraticparty.com

Posted by: deathbydemocraticparty | September 29, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

ABC= A Barack Company. Damn, makes you want to drop your pants and….oh forget it.
http://www.deathbydemocraticparty.com

Posted by: deathbydemocraticparty | September 29, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

Hey “The Chosen one” Is that your solution to you being a loser? Just TAKE money from someone else who has some? That’s what the muggers in Harlem do when they need a fix, knock some old lady on the head and steal her money. Why don’t you get off your dead ass and work for it?
Grear Democratic attitude. ” don’t have enough so I’ll TAKE yours” Oh yeah, it’s the Patriotic thing to do!
What a dildo!

Posted by: Oracle | September 29, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

The rainfall on Obama was just the state of VA tell him what she thinks of him.

Posted by: Devorah | September 29, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

The rainfall on Obama was just the state of VA tell him what she thinks of him.

Posted by: Devorah | September 29, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

What an exceptionally peculiar “news” account. First of all, both local police and state officilas put the crowd size at “at least 26,000″. Second, the “news story” is that even though the pouring rain began well before the candidates appeared, no one went home; they kept coming.

Posted by: Jack McCraye | September 29, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

I’ve heard of people not having enough sense to come in out of the rain, but I always thought that was just a figure of speech.

Posted by: Mark Carlton | September 29, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

I just listened to c-span congressional hearing where the Democrats vilified the regulator of Freddie Mac tried to tell them that Freddie was in trouble. All the Democrats screamed he did not know what he was taling about. They said they were trying to “lynch” Raines who should be in jail. You will never here this from main street media. This crisis was born and bread in the Liberal Democratic congress. The Republicans tried to fix this and Democrats blocked any effort.

Posted by: eagle35eag | September 29, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

What an exceptionally peculiar “news” account. First of all, both local police and state officilas put the crowd size at “at least 26,000″. Second, the “news story” is that even though the pouring rain began well before the candidates appeared, no one went home; they kept coming.

Posted by: Jack McCraye | September 29, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

“I’m happy for this financial mess. This will help us along to a better system based on european socialism. And, once Obama wins, we will have the House, Senate and Presidency. Obama, Reid and Pelosi will have no opposition to push through a fairer, socialist agenda that will stop this failed capitalist system in its tracks!”
I would like to think that this incredibly stupid comment is sarcasm, but sadly it is all too true.
Stalin for president!!

Posted by: Chris P. | September 29, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Obama doesn’t understand that history repeats itself. Maybe he will keep his coat on after he reads President Harrison’s biography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison

Posted by: Indiana Jones | September 29, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

I will speak to god personally to ask him why it didn’t rain hard enough to actually drown the rat and all his pals. Odumblo is a dangerous dangerous hateful man, who due to stupidity may end up the most powerful. Some well placed lightning could have been beneficial here.

Posted by: rover | September 29, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

WOW! What a glorious piece from the All Barack Channel network. I was, well, emotionally moved with the first paragraph. Did the reporter capture any of the water that fell off his body? Is it for sale anywhere?

Posted by: LDC | September 29, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

These foolish liberals can keep insulting Sarah Palin if they like. It just shows they can’t find anything they don’t like about John McCain. Most should vote for McCain anyway. Obama is nothing more than an empty suit with socialistic, communistic tendencies. If elected he will take our money via taxation and our liberties as well. You think not? Look at what he tried in Missouri.

Posted by: Yukiko | September 29, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

The rain pouring down… ON HIS EMPTY SKULL…., his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body

Posted by: McCaniac | September 29, 2008, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm

Can’t anyone see that Obummer’s speeches are just empty platitudes, glitteing generalities and pie in the sky. He seems to think we live in perfect world.

Posted by: Deb | September 29, 2008, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm

The first few sentences, I didn’t know if I was reading a headline or a romance novel. To the writer…your bias is showing.

Posted by: EJ | September 29, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

I get wet when it rains too. My gosh, he’s just like me!!!!!!!!! except for the B.S. and hammy-ness.

Posted by: Bob from St. Paul, MN | September 29, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

More post partisanship from the Dems in this thread I see. As usual the liberal democratic agenda attracts a lot of those that cannot give you a valid argument and just attack with nicknames.

Posted by: Chris C | September 29, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

I want a president who is smart enough to get out of the rain.

Posted by: rocko | September 29, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

WOW!!! When I firdt saw the pic and the headline, I thought it MUST be a parrody. Then I realised its ABC! Why didn’t you sheep just photoshop in a HALO?! You “journalists” make me absolutely SICK! What happened to journalism? Hannity is EXACTLY right when he said “2008 is the year the media died”. And all you sheep that just keep swallowing it….I’m honestly as scared for my country right now as I heve ever been.

Posted by: Kirk Lepchenske | September 29, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm

This clown doesn’t have the intelligence to come in out of the rain. Guess his writers didn’t figure it would rain.

Posted by: jad | September 29, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

Drudge has a photo of Obama in that rain. He had his closest friend there – a teleprompter. All this Obama stuff is just a script, not a real life achievments. Because if had ones, everybody will know at least one Obama achievment. Now nobody can’t tell about at least one of his achievments. NOBODY. Even Obama. Just aks what he acheived as being a community organizer? Reduced crime? Improved living standard? Anything? Show me at least some real person he helped. His brother?
Name a law he wrote (not sponsored). At least one. Did his terms in IL senate lead to something, changed something, improved something? Did his term in US senate lead to something, changed something, improved something? Name at least one thing.
Obama = teleprompter (or a memorized script) + Nobama.

Posted by: Andrew | September 29, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

I think it would have been funny if Biden had slipped off the stage.

Posted by: Deb | September 29, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

mccain supporters= idiots.
you repubs only post idiotic, grammatically incorrect nonsense. do you think anyone with a brain will agree with you ? all you do is spread hate and lies.

Posted by: enrique a | September 29, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

A little over a year ago consumer confidence was high; gasoline was $2.19 a gallon; unemployment was 4.5%; and the Dow Jones was at a record high.
But Americans wanted change. They voted in a Democratic Congress.
Consumer confidence has plummeted (go through the transcripts and see that Republicans tried to reform Fannie and Freddie 5 years ago and were called racist and told they were wrong); gasoline–well everyone knows; unemployment is growing; the Dow is tumbling.
Yep, we got change all right. I can hardly wait to see the changes the Big O brings.

Posted by: Phoebe | September 29, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

hmmm, must I find a Black blog to find someone who actually has some even phony respect for the racist, marxist,Iam god candidate. I don’t understand how this blowhard can be leading in the polls. Naw, those figures couldn’t be gathered by marxists press could they? I doubt it. However if there is one thing I believe in its the Media. Someone shoot me.

Posted by: rover | September 29, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

John McCain has so many whistles in his speech it sounds like a basketball game is going on

Posted by: Dickey | September 29, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

John McCain has so many whistles in his speech it sounds like a basketball game is going on

Posted by: Dickey | September 29, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

0bama acted like a teenage girl. During the debates. He almost had smoke coming out his ears. Nothing presidental there. Rude! He spent most of the time interupting others. I wish he would go talk to Chavez and the like now. If he is going to do, DO IT NOW! He says he can chew gum and walk too? What’s in this “GUM” he’s been chewing?
Maybe he should go out and stand in the McRain again.

Posted by: CarDriver | September 29, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

Jack McCraye said: “Second, the “news story” is that even though the pouring rain began well before the candidates appeared, no one went home; they kept coming.”
What does that tell you? That liberals are starved for power. Obama said nothing new in this speech. You are just reinforcing his “Obamessiah” image that certain folks are trying to stick him with.

Posted by: Chris C | September 29, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm

“Obama is now trusted more on all 10 major issues in new Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys Saturday and Sunday nights. He even has a statistically insignificant one-point lead over McCain in trust on the handling of the war in Iraq. Just two weeks ago, the Republican had an eight-point lead on this issue.”

Posted by: McRUmi | September 29, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm

LOL at all the mcaine pailin people on here. i bet they’re paid to shill on here

Posted by: ted | September 29, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm

Vote Democrat!!! It’s easier than getting a job.

Posted by: R@dd@d | September 29, 2008, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm

Liberals=Deadheads with reality dificit disorder
Obama=teleprompter

Posted by: Deb | September 29, 2008, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm

“Obama is now trusted more on all 10 major issues in new Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys Saturday and Sunday nights. He even has a statistically insignificant one-point lead over McCain in trust on the handling of the war in Iraq. Just two weeks ago, the Republican had an eight-point lead on this issue.”
And the founding fathers are rolling in their graves. If the American public is so foolish and ignorant… they deserve what hell will come with the Carter administration redux.

Posted by: Chris C | September 29, 2008, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm

Thank God republicans are like constipation and will eventually and painfully pass into the sewer of ancient history and we can wipe and move on to a far better world of intelligence and humanity. Greed and corruption will pass CHANGE into compassion and understanding, financial responsiblity, and charitable contribution to those of worse condition than our own. You know, the way of democratic democracy led by example rather than force. You get more with sugar than you do with $hit.

Posted by: anOPINIONATEDsob | September 29, 2008, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm

I choose to vote for the best of what America has to offer and that is Senator Barack Obama. McCain’s political opportunism combined with his pathological lying, at a time of national crisis, with many American institutions and individuals facing perilous and uncertain times, that is the essence of what takes McCain from a mere political pinocchio to making him a traitor to his country. John McCain uses his military credentials and his carefully crafted reputation as a war hero to shield his true agenda, advance his personal ambition, even when it is to the detriment of his countrymen. One gets the sense that the angry warrior and his kin feel a sense of entitlement to the Presidency, perhaps as a just reward for his service. As stated by McCain Bimbette: “No one knows what war is like other than my family, period.” Frankly, there are some things far more important than putting a 72 year old man with a history of erractic behavior, cancer, physical and mental illness into the White House. John McCain is America’s New Benedict Arnold.

Posted by: Christopher London: John McCain Is America's New Benedict Arnold | September 29, 2008, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm

Every vote for Obama is a vote for higher gas and energy prices.
As the bail-out bill was being drawn up, Senator Harry Reid injected a BAN ON SHALE OIL into it. Our country has more oil in shale than Saudi Arabia has in resourses! Now, we can’t use it to free ourselves from foreign oil dependence.
Democrats stopped nuclear/electric plant construction in the late 1960′s and are STILL against building new plants.
Democrats are AGAINST drilling closer than 50 miles off-shore, where all the oil is recoverable! Yes, the ban expired, but son’t think they won’t reinstitute it as soon as the election is over.
Democrats CAUSED our dependence on foreign oil and have no intention of changing this, as Senator Reid CONFIRMS with his BAN on shale oil.
If you are rich…you might not care.
If you aren’t rich and vote for a Democrat for House or Senate you are voting to keep oil and energy prices HIGH. Prices will go even higher after the election if we give the Democrats control of the presidency, along with the House and Senate.
Democrats have a PROVEN RECORD on drilling (against it), nuclear power (against it) and shale oil ( did you hear about Senator Reid’s ban???).
Wise UP, folks! It is YOUR LIFE! Don’t vote to make things harder on everyone in this country because you like someone’s charisma. Look at what they would DO to make our country stronger and our lives easier, not harder.
All it would take to absolutely RUIN this country is to stop supplying us with oil or making it way more expensive.
Every vote for Obama is a vote for NOT using what we have to lessen dependence on foreign oil and strengthen our country.
How rich are YOU?

Posted by: Search4Truth | September 29, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

Someone please pass me the barf bag, even if it’s full. I’m feeling queezy.

Posted by: Tim | September 29, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

“You know, the way of democratic democracy led by example rather than force. You get more with sugar than you do with $hit.”
So you taking my taxes by FORCE is sugar? Oh and what do you get with more sugar? Fat and lazy. That’s exactly what happened to Europe and that is what Obama wants for America.

Posted by: Chris C | September 29, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

Shame on Obama for wasting an opportunity to turn millions of gallons of water into wine. The middle class could certainly use a drink, and government should provide it.
I don’t know what is more pathetic: A reporter at an Obama rally, or a tween at a Hannah Montana concert. At least the tween has an excuse.

Posted by: VRI | September 29, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

How appropriate – Obama and Biden are all wet! Both Mr. Green (totally inexperienced) and Mr. Gaffe (foot in the mouth) are a danger to our country.

Posted by: Harold | September 29, 2008, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm

“The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body…”
Sounds like an excerpt from a romance novel.
Obama has had ABC bent over the conference room table for the last 2 years.
Memo to ABC: Remove your kneepads and do some actual reporting. Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, ACORN, The Annenberg project, the famously corrupt Chicago political machine.
Here’s their work so far:
ABC: Senator Obama, what’s your connection to corrupt business man Tony Rezko.
Obama: He’s just a guy I know. I hardly know the man.
ABC (their idea of follow up): So you don’t know him?
Obama: That’s right. And you should stop asking me about him.
ABC: We should stop asking you about him.

Posted by: Lisa E. | September 29, 2008, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm

Those who vote for Obama are either uninformed or just fell like a suckers for his lame put-up job.
Liberals=suckers

Posted by: Deb | September 29, 2008, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm

In November Obama will most likely lose. His VP pick is a absolute travesty. His message has played itself out…..He is quite boring.

Posted by: D Cata | September 29, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm

In the future, there will be required reading about the history of American elections. And in the chapter titled, “Strange but true” there will be hundreds of pages devoted to the election of Obama. I wonder if in the future, people will look back on this time and ask, “How could those people have been so stupid as to have voted for a guy that was so obviously evil?”
It’s not all that uncommon though. The people of Germany fell for the free flow of diarreah that spewed forth from Hitlers mouth as well. We sit today and wonder “how could those people have been so stupid as to have voted for a guy that was so obviously evil.”
History will repeat itself. But in Obamas case, he won’t be a tyrant. He will be a pacifist. He will surrender our freedoms to the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda and Mahmoud Ahmadineja.
Welcome one and all the the land of the weak and feeble.

Posted by: Oracle | September 29, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

Obama may win VA. There are more illegal aliens, undocumented immigrants, and “english as a second language” people in Northern VA than there are native born Americans in the rest of VA.
So, given that observation, Obama’s chances are good…..

Posted by: jim | September 29, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

All you people out there blaming McCain for the current economic crisis, WAKE UP! True, there are lots of little things that contributed to this on all sides, BUT the BIG THING that is the ROOT CAUSE of all of this mess is the complete mismanagement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Current top Obama advisors, including Franklin Raines, presided over the “management” (i.e. rape) of those organizations, taking over $90 million in salary while he did it. Chris Dodd, Barack Obama, and John Kerry were the two biggest takers of money from those organizations in Congress. In 2004 both Bush and McCain spoke out about the mismanagement of both organizations, the need for oversight, and the downstream risks of not doing so. Republicans (and I’m a Libertarian) in Congress fought to pass oversight laws, but in all cases in both the Senate and House, Democrats including Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and Barack Obama fought off the measures. The reason, they wanted to see more loans given out to lower income people, effectively turning Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into vote buying, welfare programs. The mess today is a DIRECT RESULT of this. Now Congressional Democrats and Obama are politicizing this, trying to PASS BLAME onto Republicans. I’m not fan of the Democrats or Republicans, but I feel that TRUTH is what we need going forward, and therefore I must speak out against this complete misrepresentation of it.

Posted by: zeekbag | September 29, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

Hey “Oracle” when the rich steal from the poor, its our duty to take it back. By the way, your comment regarding working hard, I have a graduate degree from Duke and have worked hard all of my life.
You right wing nut jobs could care less about 50 million uninsured Americans. The rest of the Western Worlds sees this as a flaw and you renegrade Republicans see this as a badge of honor.
I can see a police car from my front porch, I guess that makes me qualified to be Chief of Police :-)

Posted by: The Chosen One | September 29, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

Hey “Oracle” when the rich steal from the poor, its our duty to take it back. By the way, your comment regarding working hard, I have a graduate degree from Duke and have worked hard all of my life.
You right wing nut jobs could care less about 50 million uninsured Americans. The rest of the Western Worlds sees this as a flaw and you renegrade Republicans see this as a badge of honor.
I can see a police car from my front porch, I guess that makes me qualified to be Chief of Police :-)

Posted by: The Chosen One | September 29, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

Obama is all wet. He’s not going to get VA even if he tries.

Posted by: Deb | September 29, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

More unexpected good news:
Endorsing a Democrat for president for the first time in 72 years, the Stockton Record in California praised Obama as an inspirational leader.
“He has demonstrated time and again he can think on his feet. More importantly, he has demonstrated he will think things through, seek advice, and actually listen to it,” the newspaper said in its Sunday editorial. “Obama is a gifted speaker. But in addition to his smarts and energy, possibly his greatest gift is his ability to inspire.”
Of McCain, the editorial compared him unfavorably to President Bush, saying “He tends to shoot from the hip and go on gut instinct. The nation cannot go through four more years of literally and figuratively shooting now and asking questions later.”
It also questioned the Republican for his surprise choice of Palin, who struggled in her interview last week with Katie Couric of CBS. “We worry he won’t have four years,” the editorial said. “If elected, at 72, he would be the oldest incoming president in U.S. history. He’s in good health now, we’re told, although he has withheld most of his medical records. That means Gov. Sarah Palin could very well become president. And that brings us to McCain’s most troubling trait: his judgment.
“While praiseworthy for putting the first woman on a major-party presidential ticket since Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, his selection of Palin as a running mate was appalling. The first-term governor is clearly not experienced enough to serve as vice president or president if required.”

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

Ted, learn to spell the names and someone might actually believe you know something to compliment your hatred.

Posted by: Kirk Lepchenske | September 29, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

Poor Barry. it must have been cold in that rain storm. HIS LIPS ARE PURPLE!!

Posted by: killerbee | September 29, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm

Enjoy your lead while you can, Dems, because it will be short lived. America is on the brink of an economic meltdown and at this very moment no one cares about the campaign. When this financial crisis is over two things will stand out in the voter’s minds: 1) McCain, the Republican Leader, was in Washington working on a solution. And 2) Obama, the Democratic, was standing in the rain.

Posted by: Tora | September 29, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm

Omentum said “If McCain cares so much, where was he when bodies were floating in the streets of New Orleans three years ago.
Having a birthday party with the President and guest appearing on conan’s show.”
WHAT was he supposed do? Drag out the bodies of the people who were too freakin stupid to evacuate? Jesus, if I NEVER here the words Hurricane Katrina again, it will be too soon.
By the way…where was “Chocolate City” Mayor Nagin then? Oh yeah…Dallas, Texas.
Hussein Obama was probably at church with “Reverend Wright” screaming “God Damn America.”

Posted by: LensmanCT | September 29, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm

Amazing how many Floyd Turbo clones are posting messages here. Don’t you dolts have anything better to do, like maybe inbreeding with your cousins? Sarah Palin, when she doesn’t look like a deer in the headlights, comes across as someone who’d have been VERY much at home in the Nazi Party. And “bomb, bomb, bomb” John McCain is a loose cannon whose basic dislike of the American fighting man is illustrated by his votes against GI Bill modernization, especially Jim Webb’s bill which passed Congress.

Posted by: Publicus | September 29, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm

To Marianne, who said the crowd was probably 6,000. Here’s a link from the Fredericksburg newspaper, which says the police estimate was actually 26,000. http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/Web/2008/092008/0927obama
Sorry, Marianne, can’t get off Gilligan’s Island yet!

Posted by: nanc | September 29, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm

Well how many were there? Big difference between 10,000 and 20,000

Posted by: David Van Buskirk | September 29, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm

Brady-
I did say that McCain told Obama that he didn’t know the difference between a Tactic and a Strategy, if your reading comprehension is as bad as your facts, then I see the reason you won’t vote for Obama.
Vote McCain/Palin!!
If you do, this is what you will learn under their administration…..
Learn from them that the Earth is 6000 years old!!
Learn that the “Flintstones” is actually a documentary, not a cartoon..
Learn that women shouldn’t be allowed to have equal pay for equal work
Learn that it’s a woman’s fault for being raped, then charge her for the rape kit and prevent her from having an abortion if she gets pregnant by a stranger or her own father/brother/uncle/grandfather
and learn that threats and invasions will be our new foreign policy, and many more proud young men and women will fight and die for a cause that is not just, nor honorable.. While Osama Bin Laden lives in his cave in Afghanistan is safety and comfort, cranking out his greatest hits tapes..
Yeah, keep thinking Obama’s a socialist, it’s not like our presidents nationalizing Insurance companies, or banks, or.. hmm wait a minute..

Posted by: Steve in NY | September 29, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm

Obama would have picked a better VP if he had any brains in his head. Biden is an idiot who insists on constantly chewing on his foot. I bet he will lose bigtime in the VP debate.

Posted by: Deb | September 29, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm

I just watched C Span and the Genius Speaker of the House informed everyone that this was all Bush’s fault. She then offered special commendation to Barney Frank for his hard work and intelligence in helping to develop the bail out. She indicated that she saw this problem developing months ago, and can not fathom how the Bush administration let it reach this breaking point.
My I remind everyone that just a couple of weeks ago she adjourned Congress to let the Republicans resolve the issue. as the Democrats shared ZERO blame. In 2003 Barney Frank declared, in the Wall Street Journal, that we needed to leave Fannie and Freddie be, as they were in no financial jeopardy. If we policed them too close they would not be able to allow mortgages to many of the people that became eligible under the terms established under the Clinton administration.
Before you liberals again blame Bush, I suggest that you review what happend during the Clinton administration, and in subsequent years when Bush and McCain asked for reforms, and your party voted them down!

Posted by: Rank | September 29, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm

Someone didn’t add enough chlorine to the hussein obama gene pool, he doesn’t deserve capitalization. Poor excuse for a candiate, poorer choice as an American. Where is the ligtning when its needed. Well at least Gore beat him to the internet thingy. If there was global warmning there would have been handy lightning around to greet the messiah, right between his eyes.

Posted by: rover | September 29, 2008, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm

Sullen and crew forgot the almost $30,000 a plate night for Obama/Biden campaign, including how he sucessful, reaching beyond $200 million. Why make a silly statement like that? How of a different politician is he? It may be too late to apologize to Hillary Clinton, because if she would have been on the ticket, this race would not be close. In all honesty, I’ve heard Obama/Biden on talk-raidio and compared it to television sound-bites and the contrast is alarming. The exception is Biden because he steps into consistantly.

Posted by: A Worried Democrat | September 29, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm

Sullen and crew forgot the almost $30,000 a plate night for Obama/Biden campaign, including how he sucessful, reaching beyond $200 million. Why make a silly statement like that? How of a different politician is he? It may be too late to apologize to Hillary Clinton, because if she would have been on the ticket, this race would not be close. In all honesty, I’ve heard Obama/Biden on talk-raidio and compared it to television sound-bites and the contrast is alarming. The exception is Biden because he steps into consistantly.

Posted by: A Worried Democrat | September 29, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm

Christopher London… you’re going to compare McCain to Benedict Arnold? Dude, go back and read your history. What Obama did when he discussed foreign policy with Iraqi offials, basically telling them to ignore our Commander in Chief and hold off any withdrawls until after the election, is more Benedict Arnold than anything McCain ever did. In fact, at the time of Benedict Arnold what Obama did would be considered treason and probably would have gotten him hanged. Though I don’t agree with the hanging part, what Obama did is TREASON and he should be held accountable for it!!!

Posted by: zeekbag | September 29, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm

Hold on to your panties, country-club Repubs, the House just rejected the bail-out.

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm

More ABC hateful posts… Libs, you’re setting yourselves up for one huge hissy-fit in November.
Yo Jozy-
Thanks for the CNN trasncription, but you- and Obama & his followers- are missing the point:
Obama said “I would meet with Iran without preconditions”, meaning “I AS PRESIDENT”, not “my cabinet”.
In fact, he felt it necessary to amend his statement the next day by saying “with preparations, nor preconditions”. He had the chance to clarify “lower level”, but didn’t.
THIS IS KEY.
Kissinger has since said Presidential talks are not appropriate, which is totally consistent with his earlier statement supporting low-level talks.
McCain missed a huge opportunity to clarify this during the debate… much to Obama’s favor.
This Iran thing is just like Obama’s Surge gaffe. He’s never owned up to a fundamental misjudgement; he just parses like Clinton from the 90′s to cover his tracks.
Yeah, that’s a big ‘ol slice of
“Change We Can Believe In”.
Spare me.

Posted by: Gift of the Maji | September 29, 2008, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm

Now now now “The Chosen One”. You are absolutely right! You can be police chief cause you can see a police car from your porch! After all, if a community organizer thinks he can be president, why not be something your not too!
Enjoy being police chief! Duke? Is that suppose to be impressive? Couldn’t afford a really good school? That’s too bad cause I could! My daddy’s got so much cash I’ve never had to work a day in my life and I don’t plan to.
You see my daddy stole all his money from a bunch of poor ignorant losers. They were really stupid people with no common sense so they deserved what they got. Anybody stupid enough to fall for a bunch of lies deserves to be taken to the cleaners.
Don’t look now cause I’m coming to take more of your money and you’ll give it to me willingly. Dude, its the patriotic thing to do!!

Posted by: Oracle | September 29, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm

yep he is not celeb!!!!
the way they describe him you would think he was Moses
nnnnnoooo the MSM doesn’t think he is the messiah or the dala bama huh

Posted by: rh | September 29, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm

yep he is not celeb!!!!
the way they describe him you would think he was Moses
nnnnnoooo the MSM doesn’t think he is the messiah or the dala bama huh

Posted by: rh | September 29, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm

Only a fool would choose to cast aside their freedom by falling victim to propaganda and voting Obama. Only a fool would welcome the government to take a larger and larger share of their wages. Only a fool would enjoy the 28% sales tax on home sales and think that it could spur the market again. Fools also think its wise to trust and negotiate Muslim fanatics who believe it’s their destiny to destroy the West. A fool buries their head in the sand and ignores the hatred and anti-American rants that are sermon in Obama’s church. A fool doesn’t question why their candidate associates with known domestic terrorists. Sadly, it’s true for there are many fools out there who are either too ignorant, stubborn, or filled with hate who will surely contribute to the decline of freedom, prosperity, and America itself.

Posted by: jon adams | September 29, 2008, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm

Obama and his liberal followers are sooooo gay.
Man up and vote Republican. You’ll get a gutsy President and a gorgeous VP. McCain/Palin 2008!

Posted by: Biff Mainstream | September 29, 2008, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm

This story started out like some kind of freaking romance novel. Could somebody have a crush on Baroken Promises Obama?

Posted by: Harely Quinn | September 29, 2008, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm

“The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body…”
Uh…is this the beginning of a romantic novel or an article about a presidential candidate? The bias of the liberal media is incredible.

Posted by: PT | September 29, 2008, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm

OBAMA NATION!!!! Has anyone seen Sarah. You would’ve had a better chance of finding Osama Bin Laden than Sarah Palin after the debate. What does that say about a party when they hide thier VP cadidate?

Posted by: The Chosen One | September 29, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm

The media is totally in love with Obama. That is the only reason Barry has even gotten this far. In reality, emperor Obama has no clothes. The masses have fallen in love with Obummer’s telprompter and speechwriter.

Posted by: renee | September 29, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

i like Obama as a person, I am just afaid that his policies are somewhat socialist, and some of his past associations with extreme left wing nuts and terrorists disturb me.
McCain on the other hand, seems like a nice enough guy, and other than the war, I tend to agree with him (oh yeah, and I dont agree with his wanting amnesty for the illegals either).
So the choice seems to be over the nicer, more charming guy, who will lead us towards a more socialist America, or an old dude who, other than the war, might so the right thing. I just wish I had a better option.
As for Sarah Palin, I like her, but she certainly isnt ready to be Prez if anything happens to McCain… although I would imagine, if McCain can make it at least a year, after that amount of time sitting in white house briefings, she should be prepared enough. As for Biden, that dudes a sneaky snake, nothing good to say about him. I think I would have an easier time voting for Obama, if we had a republican house and senate, that way they could balance out the any of the more radical ideas that he might try to implement, as it is I think I will have to vote for McCain. Oh, and to keep it topical, I see both candidates appear to be for this horrible bailout plan, the good news is it seems to be failing as we speak, so we shall see, but keep your fingers crossed.

Posted by: Neolithic | September 29, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

is he too dumb to get out of the rain?

Posted by: john | September 29, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

This article sounds like it was written by one of the devout followers of the Messiah.

Posted by: VA | September 29, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

This article sounds like it was written by one of the devout followers of the Messiah.

Posted by: VA | September 29, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

Barack lied so much at Friday’s debate it’s not even funny- it’s pathetic. He mst have done his prep work with Bill Burton, who needs his veracity questioned with every word out of his mouth. Barck will say anything or avoid any tough circumstance/issue to get elected. I’m embarrassed that my own peers are smitten over his speeches and don’t have a clue what his socialist policies will do to our future. If policy alone wouldn’t eliminate him then look at his judgement of friends and how easy his campaign throws around the victim/race card. Wake up America- this empty suit is all style and terrible substance.

Posted by: independents for honesty- Mc | September 29, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

Honestly I would love a third party, but we don’t have anybody who has the vision or the guts to do what we need, but trusting the Democrats is a foolish idea. The Democrats caused our economy downturn even when the Republicians attempted to fix or even reduce the fall. I still have a problem with Republicians, but I’ll trust them a bit more with the country for now.

Posted by: Eric M | September 29, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

Most democrats don’t understand world political history. But the historical note at the end of the piece was helpful, in any case.

Posted by: kyle mchenry | September 29, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

Barack lied so much at Friday’s debate it’s not even funny- it’s pathetic. He mst have done his prep work with Bill Burton, who needs his veracity questioned with every word out of his mouth. Barck will say anything or avoid any tough circumstance/issue to get elected. I’m embarrassed that my own peers are smitten over his speeches and don’t have a clue what his socialist policies will do to our future. If policy alone wouldn’t eliminate him then look at his judgement of friends and how easy his campaign throws around the victim/race card. Wake up America- this empty suit is all style and terrible substance.

Posted by: independents for honesty | September 29, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

So! I have a bracelet too! nananana tom I mean John, and its for Sgt. a…a…aaa…

Posted by: dave ohio | September 29, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm

So! I have a bracelet too! nananana tom I mean John, and its for Sgt. a…a…aaa…

Posted by: dave ohio | September 29, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm

This nation, will BE an Obamanation if he wins. He is the closest thing to a Nazi I have ever seen in American politics.

Posted by: William | September 29, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm

Will Americans elect Old Lumpy Liar and Caribou Barbie? I suppose it’s not completely impossible when a large chunk of the American electorate are as imbecilic as the Republican troglodytes that are posting here. I guess if you’re dumb as a bag of doorknobs, you wouldn’t notice how dangerously clueless your candidates are. You just like them because they reflect your own intellectual deficiency.

Posted by: 3M | September 29, 2008, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm

I started out actually liking Obama but have come to see him for what he is: one of the sleaziest, most deceitful and dishonest candidates in my lifetime (and I am 45). He will harm anyone and do absolutely anything to get elected, and you can not believe a word he says. He makes me sad for the future. I am not a big McCain guy but he is the obvious choice.

Posted by: dana | September 29, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

Obama is toast…his hypocracy and lies will catch up to him by November 4th, despite him having the MSM in his back pocket.
McCain/Palin ’08
http://www.conservativecave.com

Posted by: Go baby | September 29, 2008, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm

Would the media report if McCain had gotten wet in a storm? Of course not. They only do it for Obama. I guess they were protesting against Mother nature’s decision to drench the Messiah. I suppose they had expected the clouds to part and the sun to shine for him instead.

Posted by: VA | September 29, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

This description of Obama and Biden reminds me of the scene in “Caddyshack” where Bill Murray caddies for the priest who is playing his best round of golf ever while in a monsoon. The priest insults God after missing a put and is struck by lightening. Bill Murray, looks around, ducks his head and slinks away.

Posted by: jillyus | September 29, 2008, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm

Obama can be trusted just as much as you would trust a used car salesman. He will lie through his teeth just to get elected. I agree with Dana: he is the sleaziest, most deceitful and dishonest candidates I have seen in my lifetime

Posted by: VA | September 29, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

Its funny how the Obama people have become some hate filled, and rude. Calling McCain and Palin names… Whatever happened to the politics of hope? And can you people honestly say any longer that Obama has a clean background? He is linked directly to this entire financial crisis becuase he covered Fannie Maes backside, and helped get the CEO’s millions! Not to mention that Obama took more money than any political candidate in history from Fannie Mae… There are so many things about this snake oil salesman… He reminds me of Joseph Stalin… A young thugg off the street, with a questionable background.

Posted by: Super Nintendo | September 29, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

SOMEONE LEFT THE FAKE OUT IN THE RAIN!
Oh and it took so long to make it.
Don’t think that he can take it.

Posted by: CarDriver | September 29, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

Reading the posts is like hearing high school chatter.
When are you folks going to grow up and discuss issues rather than personalities. Personal attacks against the candidates and/or other posters does not indicate your intelligence. The worst example is what Joel wrote, “The Debate is not to take place for another 3 days?
But the Republicans already have 3 polls that show that Bristol “GangBang” Palin’s mother won!”
Someone once wrote, “Its better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool rather than opening it and proving you are a fool.” A word of caution to those who think that by electing Obama or McCain we will achieve Utopia guess again. Nothing in this world is or will be perfect. What you make of your life is up to you.

Posted by: Gator | September 29, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm

A couple questions for Mr Acorn’s supporters- how is the Chosen One going to pay for all his programs (e.g. national health care, $150 billion for alternative energy, tax relief for 95% of Americans (p.s. it is a form of welfare when 50% getting checks didn’t pay the federal income tax in the first place!), etc. Closing Corporate loopholes is nice but won’t come near his Trillion (yes, with a “T”) dollar price tag for his programs.
Also, how is Obama going to fight the wars necessary to protect America (his words) when he is on record for wanting to cut billions of dollars in new military programs. I want our soldiers to have the best equipment available. Please don’t tell me that his smooth “talking” to our enemies will make the weapons unnecessary. Putin is shaking in his combat boots right now. LOL
Why do you think all the terrorists and rogue nations want Bush out and Obama in? If Obama wins they’ll think they have died and gone to see Allah and the 70 virgins too!
2012 can’t come fast enough… HRC 2012.

Posted by: hil and bill 4 me | September 29, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm

Isn’t anyone else concerned about imagery and words used by by the the mainstream media to portray Obama? The pictures have religous and fantasy overtones. It’s Obama the icon and savior.
The world has had many iconographic leaders — Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Chavez, Kim Jong Il to name a few where the man and government are enmeshed by image. It is wrong and unhealthy for democracty to worship it leaders.

Posted by: TS | September 29, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm

Isn’t anyone else concerned about imagery and words used by by the the mainstream media to portray Obama? The pictures have religous and fantasy overtones. It’s Obama the icon and savior.
The world has had many iconographic leaders — Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Chavez, Kim Jong Il to name a few where the man and government are enmeshed by image. It is wrong and unhealthy for democracty to worship it leaders.

Posted by: TS | September 29, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm

Some people gripe that Obama agreed with McCain on some issues. What’s wrong with that? This simply shows that even though republicans have been wrong on a lot of things even they can’t get every single issue wrong, although they try real hard. The religious (excuse me, republican) party is now trying to destroy the constitution of this country in order to create a theocracy where their religious dogma can be force fed to every human in sight. Without going insanely mad I would just like to ask what it is that these right wing fundamentalists really want. Is it a replica of some middle east country where religion controls everything? Are they too stupid to see where the republican platform leads? Or are they simply brainwashed, religious, bible-thumping, gun-toting, backward, science-hating idiotic jerks? The answer is quite obvious.

Posted by: Sam Sharp | September 29, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm

@ slinkybender: Clearly no political outcome can affect you in any tangible or intangible way; it’s one of the unheralded benefits of a delusional psychosis. I’ll bet they have lots of slinkys where you live.

Posted by: Kelly Scott | September 29, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm

Yeah,..Now just IMAGINE if obama get’s real power?
http://governor.mo.gov/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EkkkVFulkpOzXqGMaj&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=newsitem
Every American should pay close attention to this issue,..WAKE-UP!
before it’s to late.

Posted by: Shane | September 29, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm

Have you had the new Kool-Aid flavor?
“Obama”

Posted by: BRUCE JOHNSON | September 29, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm

98th/100 in Seniority in the Senate and national experience
100th/100 in supporting fiscally conservative, strong defense and traditional values-oriented legislation; so what legislation did he support?
97th/100 in personal charitable donations per year for the years he’s been in the Senate
1st/100 per annum in receiving payouts from Fannie and Freddie while overlooking their problems while blaming their failure on Republicans
Nobama for President
No one leads (or trails) the entire rest of the Senate unless they are trying to. This is an agenda. Mr. “I am my brother’s keeper” criticizes the guy whose wife–using her trust fund money–gives fully-paid for homes and cars to their children and adopts children from 3rd-world orphanages. Mr. “I am my brother’s keeper” has never met a brother he has kept, amongst the many siblings around the world he has whom he will one day rule. Nor has he ever paid for his own house with his own money.
Can anybody tell me when he has ever been asked to lead something before this? He never captained his basketball team, or became a squadron leader in his “I thought about joining the military, but they didn’t need me then” fantasy career, or led any successful community events that we know of, or led his committee in any meaningful discussions–how could he, Mr. “If you need me, just call me, and I’ll come back to D.C,” while he just keeps campaigning.
Don’t forget that he won the nomination by losing more primaries than he won, but by inspiring his supporters to such fervency–possibly through payouts, it may be okay within election tradition–they were able to coerce or wear down Hillary’s supporters to switch their votes during the caucus discussions. Common sense Americans, don’t let the same happen to you!
Washington is so screwed up, even Mac–whose white horse is dirty in spots but at least is a proven man, reformer and leader–may not be able to fix it without a lot of outside help. But if Gov. Palin is not welcome to help bring change to Washington, who is? Who will? Are we really willing to say to her, “You’re too much of an outsider, so you can’t be part of this solution?” If so, who can be? 2 of the most ineffectual leaders from the least popular Congress in American history, who will merely serve as mouthpieces for the even worse leaders in Dirty Harry Reid and Queen Bee of San Francisco Pelosi who will have NO accountability to the American electorate as a whole?
Vote for common sense, gang. Let’s don’t overcomplicate this. The problem isn’t just that Washington is screwed up; it’s also that Washington is finally screwing up the rest of the country. If we even accept that both guys really want to fix Washington–which I don’t–do you put your trust in the Doer or the Talker?

Posted by: Rich W | September 29, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm

Gator, better watch it. Obama had his apologists are threatening lawsuits down in Mizzou when anyone contradicts the Chosen One’s “facts.” In your post you utilized Joe Blow’s Gaffe-A-Day motto: “Its better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool rather than opening it and proving you are a fool.” The Chosen One campaign may try to sue for trademark infringement!!!
P.S. Keep your chin up- Tebow is awesome and UF will be back on top by the end of the season.

Posted by: hil and bill 4 me | September 29, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

ATUNG…..Maybe Obama will get the local democrat prosecuting attornys to go after those who disagree with him like he is doing in Missouri….Obama’s brownshirts will be knocking on the doors of those who don’t OBEY!….SIG HEIL her Further Obama

Posted by: Kuffar | September 29, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

Sounds like a media event that went well for Obama. I don’t see this happening after November 4th. Yes, he got soaked, but McCain is a former POW, he gave much more for this country that Obama or Biden can imagine. I think all the negative comments about Palin are more out of fear. I am proud to be supporting McCain/Palin. I have two small children and four years with McCain/Palin put me at ease.

Posted by: Shelley | September 29, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

The first sentence makes me think 3 women wrote this…how sad. If this was about a Palin appearance in the rain it would have read like this: “The rains came down heavy on Palin, her make up running, hair plastered to her pale face like wet sheetrock tape” instead we get a Chris Matthews out of the closet moment…classic media.!

Posted by: Tony Darbo | September 29, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

What is wrong with this picture? A man who is not smart enough to come in out of the rain wants intelligent Americans to vote for him? Give me a break! I’ve got a lake with gators in my backyard, would BO like to go snorkeling?

Posted by: southernbelle | September 29, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

At least McCain has enough sense to come in out of the rain. I can hear Obama now, “John’s right, we shouldn’t stand out in the rain”.

Posted by: The real Weather guy | September 29, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm

I am so sad for our nation. If you don’t do the research and just listen to the TV, or if you can’t do the research because our education system has failed you, then you will cast your vote for some other ignorant, arrogant, and useless reasons. Find the truth for yourselves.
Don’t be upset that Sen. Obama won’t “dumb it down” so the Bush followers can understand. He expects, and sometimes falsely believes, you will put forth the effort to raise your level.
A vote for Sen. Obama is the only way to ensure that this nation will survive.
A vote for Sen. Obama is the only way to ensure you keep your job, keep your children fed, and keep the roof over your head.
McCain:
M y
c ountry
C an’t
A fford
I t
N ow
Vote Obama

Posted by: Trevor | September 29, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

I am so sad for our nation. If you don’t do the research and just listen to the TV, or if you can’t do the research because our education system has failed you, then you will cast your vote for some other ignorant, arrogant, and useless reasons. Find the truth for yourselves.
Don’t be upset that Sen. Obama won’t “dumb it down” so the Bush followers can understand. He expects, and sometimes falsely believes, you will put forth the effort to raise your level.
A vote for Sen. Obama is the only way to ensure that this nation will survive.
A vote for Sen. Obama is the only way to ensure you keep your job, keep your children fed, and keep the roof over your head.
McCain:
M y
c ountry
C an’t
A fford
I t
N ow
Vote Obama

Posted by: Trevor | September 29, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

HAHAHA, It is fun to see all you faithful brown shirts drooling over this socialist puppet! The “rescue” socialist bailout just failed! I’ll take that as a nod to the real America and the fact that the more conservative dems were shakin in their shoes. Lots of folks have the pitchforks out.So bring on these two clowns . You think Kerry lost big? I think i’ll buy stock in prozac, cause you idiots will be eating them like candy! heheheh

Posted by: marine 43 | September 29, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm

Actually, this is pretty good theater. It is not surprising that the entertainment community has embraced the O-man. He does put on a pretty good show.

Posted by: jcarob | September 29, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm

I can’t believe a guy who said he has visited 57 states and had 2 more to go is even on the ticket!! So giving a speech in the rain isn’t impressive at all. He needs to learn the basic facts of our country first.

Posted by: Debbie | September 29, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm

NGGA please

Posted by: STB | September 29, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm

If Obama was such a good community organizer he sould be able to get a couple umbrellas. Hmmm, failed again…
Funny that he was worried that Biden would fall off the stage. Actually, he was afraid that someone would push him off the stage to get his mouth shut. The daily gaffes are an embarrassment to the campaign.

Posted by: Acorn for life- Free $$$$$ | September 29, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

Accept the FACTS!! McCain LOST the debate, and he’ll LOSE the election!! Palin is a JOKE!! You Republicans are embarassing yourselves!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 08′

Posted by: bahnz | September 29, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

Did you notice Barry was acting like he needed to take a smoke break during the debate? LOL

Posted by: Marlboro Man | September 29, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm

Joe, where is the unbrella? Joe move your stool up here, and bring that dam umbrella. (I just knew I should have selected Hillary, as she would have made a much better President Uhmmmm VP)
Looks like the great saviour of the Democrats might as well get used to “standing out iin the rain”!

Posted by: "O" Guess who | September 29, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

Now if it was McCain talking and I was getting wet, I wouldn’t be so sure it was rain.

Posted by: phillyguy | September 29, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

The key is the difference in ideology… Democrats believe government, rather then individuals or the free market, can provide better solutions and thus push more government, the Republicans believe in less government and letting the individual (private sector) provide the solutions. History shows when goverment intervenes, things get worse, not better. Regarding the current financial problems; The CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) of 1977 started us on the slippery slope that has resulted in this debacle… Jimmy Carter and the Dems passed this act that required banks and S&Ls to offer credit to those who previously would not have qualified for credit. In 1989 we saw the first casualty of this policy.. the S&L crisis.. and the subsequent bailout. Bandaids were put on the CRA and life continued.
In 1995, Clinton ordered new requlations that invited even more risky credit approvals.
In 2002, Bush tried to push through changes that would supervise the primary agents guarenteeing subprime loans – Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – but the proposal failed when opposed by the Dems, led by Barney Frank.
… and today.. we have learned the cost of the “subsidized” loans the Dems have protected over the years…

Posted by: Marv | September 29, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

This was just s sign from above the Obama is ALL WASHED UP!

Posted by: Weather Man | September 29, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

I have heard that the “brothers” are going to burn their “hoods” if Obama looses. Are you going to need help with that?

Posted by: JonIscream | September 29, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm

How could anyone get the impression that folks like Independent are bitter?
Independent comments:
“Typical scumbag politician…”the young people understand.” I guess the rest of us just don’t get it, huh? Maybe those of us out here in the heartland who are “clinging to our guns and religion” understand more than this Harvard maggot thinks.” 2nd comment: “It will have to rain very hard to wash the filth off Obama. What a scumbag!”
I defy anyone to say that the above comments aren’t reflective of a well ordered mind and an adult that is comfortable with who they are and their place in the world.

Posted by: Kelly Scott | September 29, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm

this article is the most twisted piece of journalism i have ever read. uhbama is a liar and a thug. he should be in jail. find out about the real obama by watching this

Posted by: cloth | September 29, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm

Let me get this straight. When obama is elected there will no more world hunger, no more global warming, no more evil corporations, no more mean people, no more unfairness, no more terrorists, no more rich people and of course no more halliburton. Is that right? Just a regular bowl of cherries. All the above just majically goes away.

Posted by: Atilla | September 29, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm

Dat rain be rayciss n sheeit!!!!

Posted by: JJ | September 29, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm

It was Mark Twain that coined the phrase so let them sue me.

Posted by: Gator | September 29, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm

this article is the most twisted piece of journalism i have ever read. uhbama is a liar and a thug. he should be in jail. find out about the real obama by watching this

Posted by: cloth | September 29, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm

Independent is voting for Mao Se Tung Obama!

Posted by: JonIscream | September 29, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

• Obama’s extensive connections with Islam and radical politics.
• His 20-year religious affiliation with the black-liberation theology of Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
• Obama’s continuing connections with Kenya.
• Obama’s involvement in the slum-landlord empire of Chicago political fixer Tony Rezko.
• Obama’s far-left domestic policy.
• Obama’s anti-war, anti-nuclear foreign policy.
• Obama will be a radical on the abortion issue as signaled by his blocking of emergency medical aid for babies who survive abortion; IS OBAMA WORTH YOUR SOUL?????
Pro 6:16
¶ These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

• Obama will attempt to ban the use of firearms for defense by law-abiding citizens;
• Obama will raise tax rates up to 60 percent;
• Obama will “transform the U.S. Treasury into the United Nations’ ATM”;
• Obama will encourage high fuel prices and will remove more farmland from production;
• Obama will raise the percentage of Americans who pay no taxes at all, from 30 percent to 40 percent – at the expense of those who do.
• Obama will transfer child-rearing responsibility and authority from parents to the federal government with his “0 to 5″ program.
• Monkey is as Monkey does.
• Obama: Get in Their Face!
• Biden: Tax Hikes are Patriotic!
• Democrat Thieves Looted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
• Senator Obama talks a tough game on the financial markets, but he took more money from Fannie and Freddie than any senator except the Democratic chairman of the committee that regulates them. He put the chief executive officer of Fannie Mae in charge of the selection process for who he was going to select for vice president of the United States. Fannie’s former general counsel is a senior advisor to his campaign.

Posted by: porach monkey | September 29, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm

Every vote for Obama is a vote for higher gas and energy prices.
As the bail-out bill was being drawn up, Senator Harry Reid injected a BAN ON SHALE OIL into it. Our country has more oil in shale than Saudi Arabia has in resourses! Now, we can’t use it to free ourselves from foreign oil dependence.
Democrats stopped nuclear/electric plant construction in the late 1960′s and are STILL against building new plants.
Democrats are AGAINST drilling closer than 50 miles off-shore, where all the oil is recoverable! Yes, the ban expired, but son’t think they won’t reinstitute it as soon as the election is over.
Democrats CAUSED our dependence on foreign oil and have no intention of changing this, as Senator Reid CONFIRMS with his BAN on shale oil.
If you are rich…you might not care.
If you aren’t rich and vote for a Democrat for House or Senate you are voting to keep oil and energy prices HIGH. Prices will go even higher after the election if we give the Democrats control of the presidency, along with the House and Senate.
Democrats have a PROVEN RECORD on drilling (against it), nuclear power (against it) and shale oil ( did you hear about Senator Reid’s ban???).
Wise UP, folks! It is YOUR LIFE! Don’t vote to make things harder on everyone in this country because you like someone’s charisma. Look at what they would DO to make our country stronger and our lives easier, not harder.
All it would take to absolutely RUIN this country is to stop supplying us with oil or making it way more expensive.
Every vote for Obama is a vote to NOT using what we have to lessen dependence and strengthen our country.
How rich are YOU?

Posted by: Search4Truth | September 29, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

Gee, I guess we should all be glad BO didn’t melt in the rain. Maybe they should’ve had a wet shirt contest…

Posted by: outside observer | September 29, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

“26,000 of us. All colors, all ages -standing in the pouring rain.”
Soooo…. you admit to be too stupid to come in out of the rain? No wonder you’re a Hussein Al-O’Bama voter..

Posted by: Mr. Carter | September 29, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

“26,000 of us. All colors, all ages -standing in the pouring rain.”
Soooo…. you admit to being too stupid to come in out of the rain? No wonder you’re a Hussein Al-O’Bama voter..

Posted by: Mr. Carter | September 29, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

Obama=Carter=Marx

Posted by: Lee | September 29, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

YHGTBSM. Every action Obama has taken the past 10 years was to set the conditions to get inot higher offices. Any normal person can see right thru him….granted McCain is a politican too, but there is some genuine bones in his body.
McCain will win, the media is right, white dems will show their true colors and not vote for obama

Posted by: bubba's brother | September 29, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

“Maybe they should’ve had a wet shirt contest…”
Hussein Al-O’Bama was trying to pick up more gay males for sex in his limo..

Posted by: Mr. Carter | September 29, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

How come he keeps getting darker skin? the debate he was darker then his last interview. They are trying to make him lllo black. Hey! he is Malodor, he has a white monther.
Look at the next debate and see for yourself. This clown is trying to trick us.
• Obama will be a radical on the abortion issue as signaled by his blocking of emergency medical aid for babies who survive abortion; IS OBAMA WORTH YOUR SOUL?????
Pro 6:16
¶ These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Posted by: spook a roo | September 29, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

(((Posted by: TS | Sep 29, 2008 2:52:18 PM)))
TS, that’s true. Or we could embrace the Oppression of Barack Obama and help bring his Truth Squads to everyone across the country!! Bullsh*t, people. Vote McCAIN-PALIN. Keep Chicago politics OUT of the White House.
VOTE NO! to the Obama-Rezko ticket.

Posted by: Vermont Neighbor | September 29, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

(((Posted by: TS | Sep 29, 2008 2:52:18 PM)))
TS, that’s true. Or we could embrace the Oppression of Barack Obama and help bring his Truth Squads to everyone across the country!! Bullsh*t, people. Vote McCAIN-PALIN. Keep Chicago politics OUT of the White House.
VOTE NO! to the Obama-Rezko ticket.

Posted by: Vermont Neighbor | September 29, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

BARACK OBAMA IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITHOUT HIS TELEPROMPTERS. HE IS THE EMPTIEST OF THE EMPTY SUITS, THE PYRAMID SCHEME OF POLITICS SCAMMING THE PEOPLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. IT’S BEYOND ME WHY OBAMA SUPPORTERS CAN’T SEE THIS. IF IT’S REAL CHANGE THEY WANT, OBAMA ISN’T IT. ALL HE REPRESENTS IS A ‘CONCEPT’ OF CHANGE. THE REAL CHANGE AGENT ALL ALONG HAS BEEN SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN. HE IS NO GEORGE W. BUSH.

Posted by: Michigal | September 29, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm

I am a registered Democrat, and I vote! First of all, Nancy Pelosi does not, and will not ever, represent me. Barney Frank is as responsible for this mess, as is anyone. Senator Obama is NOT qualified to be my President, and I asked my husband to order a John McCain/Sarah Palin sign for our yard. The Democratic party that I knew has left the building, and I will vote McCain/Palin in this election. Finally, while I did not agree with everything that President Bush has done, I am so tired of my party blaming him for every problem this nation is experiencing (both parties are to blame). BOTH PARTIES need to start working for the good of this nation, rather than simply voting party.

Posted by: Mrs Rank | September 29, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

“Dat rain be rayciss n sheeit!!!!”
JJ; that was just plain funny!

Posted by: stgeorgeschapel | September 29, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm

OK, so many of you are ‘afraid’ of Sarah Palin, which I find amazing.
How many politicians have accomplished what she has in her state? How many have an 80% approval rating? (Or even 50% for that matter!) None that I know of. She saw rampant corruption, waste, and inefficiency, and she GOT INVOLVED and did something about it. When she saw that fellow members of the AK energy board were corrupt, she quit, (rather than serve alongside them)exposed them, and then ran for and won an office in which she could get them out. Like her personally or not, this woman has accomplished much in her relatively short time in office, and I want a “get it done” person helping to lead my country. I want more Sarah Palins in Govt, Repub and Dem, rather than the folks who are running us into the ground now.
So McCain chose her to lead the same charge in DC, which I believe is exactly what we need, especially given the corruption & greed that have come to light in the financial markets over the past month. She is beholden to no one, and promises to do her job to the best of her ability. I believe her.
I think McCain has chosen very wisely, and that we would be much better off with McCain/Palin as our leaders than Obama/Biden. We all have to make our choice for whatever is most important to us, and that’s what I choose.
So far, no one has given me an even marginally logical reason to vote FOR Obama/Biden. I’ve been listening a long time; I haven’t heard one substantial reason yet. I’m not holding my breath!

Posted by: Catherine | September 29, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm

Marv-
Think of Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover as the one two punch to your historically inaccurate argument.
More importantly, your take on the C.R.A. can’t be supported by anything more than personal dogma.I don’t mind a bad argument, but an argument that’s not only bad but ugly in it’s implications is inexcusable. Get the facts and get honest with yourself.

Posted by: Kelly Scott | September 29, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm

I find it hilarious how liberals jump all over Palin, but completely ignore the disaster that is Biden. Hypocrisy? That sounds like a perfect example.
And for Sam Sharp; what about the religion of environmentalism and abortion? It takes faith to believe that a fetus isn’t a real human being and yet this “church” of Planned Parenthood is sanctioned by the government. I won’t even go there with the dictatorship theocracy that is global warming.
The bottom line is that our country is divided down the middle and any attempt by either side to belittle the other only hastens another civil war. We need solutions, not accusations; leaders, not smooth talkers.

Posted by: Poet | September 29, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

Big Business? I have to be in favor of it because the alternative is lost business, lost jobs, stock market decline and MY 401K GOING DOWN THE TANK. That’s simple economics for you. I don’t have some big fat pension to rely on, or any free handouts to look forward to. I’ve worked 35 years and only have what I could afford to put into it.
Other Obama trivia: READ HIS BOOKS. He’s all about playing the race card. Why? Life birth abortions? Check it out. The IL legislation has him leading the pack in favor of murder.
Thinks on his feet fast? Come on. He’s just like any other of those claiming to be a “minister” and they very smoothly swindle people out of their money. Think he’s any different? He’ll be stealing whatever he can out of our paychecks. Do you honestly believe all of the new programs he’s promising come free? I sure as heck don’t want to lose any more of what I’VE WORKED HARD FOR. McCain might not be the best choice, but if you really do your homework you’ll see that Obama is the WORST choice for America and it’s citizens. And by the way, you know the mistake Obama doesn’t want his daughters to be “punished” for? Well I made one of those “mistakes” and he turned 38 lat week. I can’t imagine a world without him in it.

Posted by: Jacqui | September 29, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

When Barack wins, and he will, my greatest hope is that he will bring a spirit of true progress to this nation. As we are seeing today, capitalism is a system that needs to be severely restrained. It’s a brave new world of people first. May the blessing of President Obama bring the Revolution home.

Posted by: PeopleB4Profit | September 29, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

Obama loves the camera. He loves the accolades. He loves to be portrayed as the one who gives so much for his people. That’s why he won’t make a good president, and that’s why he won’t be elected. He needs to be in movies about presidents who gave their all. He could play the part of a president who gave his all, while real men who actually did give their all for their country, do the REAL job. McCain gave his all. McCain will win this election because though many of us admire Obama, and we like the idea of an African American becoming a leader in a country where his ancestors were once slaves to those in charge, we still cannot deny that he doesn’t know how to run a country and he isn’t the right one for the job, at this particular point in time. I hope that I do see a person of color as president some day, but it should be because they can do the job well, and not because we owe it to them. I also hope to see a woman elected for the highest office. I would have been thrilled to see C. Rice running for president this year. Now THERE is somebody that I think could have done the job.

Posted by: Librarian | September 29, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

There are a few O (short for zero) folks that are feeding this blog…so getting past them…McCain will win. The American People are not stupid. They know an empty suit when they see one. He is a Trojan Horse for some pretty unsavory Socialistic types…Sara is new;but she has Governed!!!! Which does not say much for Zero…Will Biden be the Shadow President??? OMG what a thought…
Are we voting for a leader or a Charismatic youth??? I really loath his personal emblem..the last guy who led a crowd down a dusty road had one also..a Swastika..
McCain-Palin all the way

Posted by: jan | September 29, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

What in the HELL was the point of this article? At the end it makes this cryptic reference to the fatal illness of a former presidential candidate who delivered a speech in the rain. So is that like wishful thinking with respect to Obama’s health? Jesus Christ, you conservatives need to calm down. I know the thought of having a black president tears at the fiber of your being but you need to plant your feet back in reality. The earth is not flat and the sun will not explode if Obama is elected. Show a little class in your defeat if it happens and, above all else, GET a grip!

Posted by: Ray | September 29, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

SOMEONE LEFT THE FAKE OUT IN THE RAIN!
Oh and it took so long to make it.
Don’t think that he can take it.
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LOL.
Pretty funny.
Lame and pathetic,
but pretty funny.
Otherwise. It’s amazing how ignorant and hateful you McCain supporters sound on this blog. You must be scared silly.

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

Wow. This is real bad news for McCain:
Poll for Tennessee today has McCain dropping to 12 points ahead…down from 25 a month ago…steadily losing steam even in deep Republican territory.
Dayam!

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm

Geez, you and my mother-in-law! Rain and temperature do not cause colds. Viruses cause colds. Get a clue, or two.

Posted by: G | September 29, 2008, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm

Precisely. These conservatives and the idiot who drafted this article make it seem as though the rainy speech was a bad moment for Obama. In fact, it was a great moment for him and McCain better count his lucky stars that the media will be too busy covering the financial crisis to pay any attention to it. Obama out in the rain with his supporters standing defiant against an onslaught of conservative bigots. I can already see the movie trailer. Lol.

Posted by: Ray | September 29, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm

Even morons in Kansas and Texas are realizing that the Palin issue is a red flag.

Posted by: G | September 29, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

…pulling up his pants while his lobbyist handlers try to crawl under the bed, John McCain channels Lenny Bruce as he turns to the camera and asks “who you gonna believe, you’re lyin’ eyes or the man you love?”

Posted by: Kelly Scott | September 29, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm

More bad news in today’s polling:
Obama 2 points ahead of McCain in North Carolina, another Republican stronghold.

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm

Both parties are a sham. These are not the candidates the people wanted, on either side. It’s high time we all get together and just say no to Republican/Democrat. There’s no difference. Let’s make a difference and vote third party.

Posted by: Katrinka Yobotz | September 29, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

Noe Pelosi lies to Amerrica blaming the GOP for the Bailout defeat. She fails to mention the Democrats control the House and Sensate. She fails to tell the people that the DEMOCRATS have run both Fannies since they started. Wake up Democrats they depend on your ignorance and stupidity.

Posted by: Ken Nemlas | September 29, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

You Obamanites have orgasms just watching this dude. This article must read like porn to you. What a nauseating bunch you iz. Worship your Master in private please, enough is enough.

Posted by: Karpy | September 29, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm

Sticks and Stones….
Politicians say whatever they can to get elected.
Senator McCain seems to change his mind far less than Senator Obama.
I worry about Senator Obama’s acquaintances and his business partners.
- William Ayers, a known terrorist, who also sat on Boards with Senator Obama.
- Tony Rezko – Loan shark who help Barack buy his home….
- Rev. Wright. Well everyone knows him but have you heard him speak?
There are lots of facts out there about Ayers and Rezko….not flattering at all about the specific dealings with Senator Obama

Posted by: PA Boy | September 29, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

New York Times Headlines
Monday, October 20, 2008
Last Update: 1:12 PM ET
Obama Changes VP Choice 2 Weeks Before Election!
By LIZ SIDOTI – Oct 20, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an unexpected twist for the race to the White House, Senator Barrack Obama has
announced that his running mate, Senator Joe Biden will be withdrawing his name as the Vice Presidential choice
of the Democratic party. When asked the reason for this sudden departure, Senator Biden replied “My health has
taken a turn for the worst and it would not serve the country for a Vice President not to be in top form.” When ask
who will replace Senator Biden as the new Vice Presidential pick, Senator Obama replied, “I will announce my new
choice at noon tomorrow”. Sources close to the Senator have hinted that Senator Obama has considered bringing
Senator Hillary Clinton back on to the ticket in order to counter the effectiveness of Gov. Sarah Palin. These same
sources have told the AP that this change of VP candidate had been planned well before Senator McCain had made
his announcement of Gov. Sarah Palin and was a strategic move to throw the election in to chaos. At this time
Senator Obama has refused to make comment on the timing of this change and has referred all questions to his
public affairs group. Asked about this sudden change, the McCain camp has yet to comment.

Posted by: Associated Press | September 29, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

Good Lord, did the reporter have an orgasm while he wrote this drivel?
Posted by: PTParks | Sep 29, 2008 1:17:42 PM
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No, but I heard that Barney Franks got a boner and had something dribbling out of his mouth!!

Posted by: Ken Taylor | September 29, 2008, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm

Good grief. It sounded like the ABC staffers who wrote this story were going through multiple orgasms during the process. Lighten up or take a cold shower. Or did you also go through a baptism that included a full-bidy immersion?

Posted by: Journalism 101 | September 29, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm

New York Times Headline
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Last Update: 12:45 PM ET
Obama’s New VP Choice Announced!
By LIZ SIDOTI – Oct 21, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — After an unprecedented decision to replace Ailing Senator Joe Biden
as the Vice Presidential pick of the Democratic party, Senator Barrack Obama has announced that
Senator Hillary Clinton will be his running mate as he continues his race for the White House.
Senator Obama said at the news conference Tuesday afternoon, “After careful consideration and
much soul searching, I believe that Senator Clinton has the experience and leadership qualities that
America needs at this time.” When asked if Senator Clinton was chosen to counter the Republican
VP pick, Gov. Sarah Palin, Senator Obama replied, “My choice of Senator Clinton is in no way in
response to Sarah Palin’s popularity, just the most logical choice for our party following the unfortunate
circumstances surrounding Senator Biden.” Senator Joe Biden did not attend the news conference and was
unavailable for comment as it was rumored he was seeking medical consultation at the Bethesda Navel
Hospital in Maryland. Senator Hillary Clinton was unavailable for comment, but sources close to the
Senator said she was honored to be chosen as the Vice Presidential pick and would rise to the occasion
with the same enthusiasm she had when running for the Presidential nomination. Senator McCain, the
Republican Presidential Nominee said following the news conference, “Senator Obama’s change of Vice
Presidential running mates was not completely unexpected. We had word from inside the Obama camp
that a shakeup was underway and we suspected that Senator Clinton would replace Senator Biden.
We did hope that the announcement would have come sooner, but with our comfortable lead right now in
the poles, I think it will be too little too late.” When asked whether he believed that Senator Clinton would
draw off woman voters and put Senator Obama back in the lead, Senator McCain replied, “I’m sure there
will be some that will change their minds and vote for Senator Obama now that she’s on the ticket, but I think
that by comparison, Senator Clinton will only amplify Senator Obama’s lack of qualifications and experience.
Women voters really need to understand that they are voting for the President and not the Vice President.
The Presidents agenda becomes the Vice Presidents agenda and I think that Senator Obama’s and Senator
Clinton’s agenda’s are in stark contrast with one another. This would make for a very difficult and ineffective
administration.” Asked to make comment on Senator McCain’s statements, the Obama campaign stated
that Senator Obama has a good grasp of the situation and is confident that those that supported Senator Clinton
in her bid for the democratic nomination, will in fact support the Obama/Clinton ticket. Sources inside the
Obama camp however, have doubts as to whether this “spontaneous” VP change will draw back enough
women voters to change the course of the election.

Posted by: Associated Press | September 29, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm

Buck stops in one place: President.
Bush is a massive failure. He has brought this nation to its knees. So much for his conversations with his “real” father. And now they want another religious loony…Palin.
The founding fathers were right to separate church and state. Too bad they had such foolish great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren.

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

Anybody remember JIMMY JONES??? He also was a “community organiser” as was Obama!! He also had a cult like following as Obama!! He also claimed to be a Christian as Obama! His followers looked at him also as a Messiah as Obama! He also was a blackman,as Obama! (Altho their is good reason to believe Obama is more Arab blood than negro or black African!) Well for those of you that live in Rio-Linda. He JIMMY JONES and ALL his followers commited suicide in Africa some years ago! Now we have another “self proclaimed Messiah” that has come to America FIRST. And then proclaimed he will expand his brillance to the WORLD! And those that BELIEVE IN NOTHING will believe in anything a CULTIC comes along with! It is true that Obama has a much larger following Than Jones did.However he never had the “media” supporting him either! (Which makes him all the more dangerous.) YOU ALL DO GET WHAT YOU DESERVE!! Another Venezuela 8 years from now?? Not far fetched as one might believe!

Posted by: mike | September 29, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman report.
So we know what turns these people on – Obama. perhaps he will give them a free massage. I mean it is unseemly the prose. It is in the same realm as Mathews getting chills up his leg.
As I’ve said over and over we are witnessing the emergence of the Chocolate Messiah. As with all things chocolate when things heat up the Messiah will melt.

Posted by: Ellenoday | September 29, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

Why is that 30% of democrats are proclaimed racists but then they try to play the race card on Republicans. Even in the replies to this story the dummycrats can’t refrain from trying to use racism. I guess it is racism because it rained on Obama.

Posted by: Byrd Man | September 29, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

Why didn’t The Messiah raise up his arms and stop the rain?

Posted by: Tom3 | September 29, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm

OBAMA………….YOUR ALL WET!!

Posted by: Ethel | September 29, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm

Hey Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman “The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, Barack Obama played to a crowd in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1964.”- What the hell, is this a romance novel? Sounds like it.
Angry african-great name-imagine that. You’ll never be happy.

Posted by: What the? | September 29, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm

@ Librarian, I don’t doubt the sincerity of your comment. But if as I suspect, you voted for George W. Bush I would respectfully suggest you take a deeper look into your reasons this time around.

Posted by: Kelly Scott | September 29, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm

I don’t understand this rain business. Why didn’t the “God Who Walks Like a Man” wave his hand and make the skies sunny again?

Posted by: Tim G. | September 29, 2008, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm

Who can get excited over politicians?
I am un-impressed by the presidential candidates.
Billy

Posted by: Billy | September 29, 2008, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm

Knew he didn’t have the brains to come in out of the rain. Of course the idiots that support the messiah expected him to part the clouds. Hope they don’t catch pneumonia & die.

Posted by: paulejb | September 29, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm

Hmmm…the beginning of this article reads like a pulp romance novel…or maybe the screen play for a porno flick.
Obama must be giving ABC a tingle up their leg now.

Posted by: ElvisX | September 29, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm

what gets me is the “between 10,000 and 20,000″ crowd of people – pretty big difference there, you would think they could nail it down better. My guess is considering the media bias toward Obama, and the spin they use, there was less than 10,000, but it sounds better for Obama to say between 10,000 and 20,000.

Posted by: Mark | September 29, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm

It is sickening to watch the mainstream media and they way they slobbery all over themsevles when it comes to Obama. This election has truly exposed the true agenda of the major media to work towards a common goal to get Obama elected. You can no longer call yourselves journalist and should be known going forward as propagandist. It is my one true hope that like the last 3 election the media polls will end up being wrong as the McCain/Palin ticket win this election and the media AGAIN sits around scratching their heads wondering what happened, and blaiming middle America for not being smart enough to elect their candidate.

Posted by: The Truth | September 29, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

And the great Obama said:
“Sometimes the skies look cloudy and it’s dark. And you think the rains will never pass,” Obama preached, “The young people understand that the clouds -– these too will pass, that a brighter day will come.”
“The young people understand”? When do young people ever understand this? It’s always the older people — Mom’s, Dad’s, Grandparents — who tell us that “a brighter day will come”. This guy’s rhetoric is wack.
Oh, did you catch Obama’s reassurance that Biden is NOT being replaced on the ticket? Yeah, watch that stool, Joe! A lot of people want to kick it right out from under ya.

Posted by: Karen Otravez | September 29, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

The beginning of this article should’ve read;
“The torrential rain pouring down, his magnificient jacket off, his majestic white dress-shirt clinging to his sexy masculine body, Barack Obama, the anointed one, played to a crowd in a racist state that hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1964″
Yes folks, that’s how the majority of media outlets in this country view obamessiah. There is no credibility left in the once objective news rooms of the print and broadcast media.

Posted by: Jim | September 29, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

Wow. This article was almost pornographic in it’s description of the candidate. Sounds like some guy has a little crush on Obama!

Posted by: William | September 29, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

I love Obama he is a wondrful intelagnt man! You make me angre to say abut him being a cult?? You do not no what you are talkng abote you dumb right wringer! You should ggo to school and learn more! Go jump i9n a lake,I hop you canot swim! Dumbie and I think you should have a nce day!!!

Posted by: Obama lover; | September 29, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

Two horrible candidates – we got Obama totally in the pocket of the special interests and the housing lobbyists – and McCain – you can’t remember who is VP candidate is.
we need a revolution – and we need it now.

Posted by: KenG | September 29, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm

Please help the Obama campaign and ACORN register even more illeagal aliens and murderers , rapist , and child molesters. Democrats don’t care who they have to disinfranchise as long as they win. Keep this left wing hate group out of the Whitehouse. The reports that dumb , dumb Charlie Gibson is missing can be put to rest, they found him with his lips super glued to Obamas ass.

Posted by: Jill | September 29, 2008, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm

Indictment coming! Well Mr. Obama should have been vetted by the msm. Mr. Rezko is cooperating with the feds and turning on the messiah as well as the Gov. of Illinois. You heard it first from me, a little birdie told me this will happen in the next few weeks! Maybe now people will realize why Bill Clinton has been so smug the last few weeks.

Posted by: billy | September 29, 2008, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm

As an Independent, I’m getting sick of this talk. So much about pointing a finger. The media and those people trying to get power these days are manipulating the population. I hear all of this ‘we can’t take more of this’. ‘the time for change is now’. ‘Us’. ‘Them’. A whole lot of accusation without presenting a plan other than vagueries. A plan, by the way, isn’t just the goal, it’s how you get there. Someone tell Barack Obama that. I really want to hear it, and maybe I’ll vote for him if it sounds workable. He could want to put a puppy on mars as a solution and make it happen, because if he gets elected, he’ll have a majority house and senate.
But this ‘us’ and ‘them’ nonsense is unbelieveable. They talk so vehemently, so angrilly, and point fingers while shouting the ills and follies so loud that people don’t look for a trial or an argument. It is dividing this country and rending it at the seams. Seriously, folks…The last time I checked, we have 3 branches of government: A legislature, an executive body and a judicial body. The judicial part is a reviewer and checks the authority based on constitutional merit, and largely irrelevant to our present issues. Where the country’s legislature has been democrat-majority for the past 2 years, all we hear about is the administration. How many bills has the president vetoed in the past 2 years? He’s not like his father, who kicked bills down like it was fashionable.
Our economic problems did not just HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. They are rooted in some deep flaws, and the systemic disease has now erupted in festering boils that all can see. Fuel costs rose not just because of America, but because the oil market is a global one. China, India, and other developing nations are sucking up a lot of the supply. We suck up ours, too…but it is simple. INCREASED DEMAND INCREASES PRICE PROPORTIONALLY. If you want to change the market dynamic, you can make America’s oil market independent of the world’s. Let’s see… after Reagan and Bush, everyone wanted houses, regardless of whether or not they could afford them. Certain legislators muscled in rules to allow high-risk lending, and here we are. But… all we hear is ‘the policies of this administration’. If they were so set on changing them, in the interest of you, the American, then why did they not enact legislation? Why are we waiting for year 2 (coincidentally an election year) to say that the problem needs fixing? If I were a solution minded person with the power to do what I felt nneeded to be done, I’d go ahead and do it. Why haven’t they?
Do YOU feel mmisled yet? Maybe you should…… Sadly, the people of this country are buying it, or they are if you watch the major television outlets and their online companion sites.
I bet all of those flocking to this charismatic man haven’t been told about the men who contributed to his campaign, or the fact that they sunk the largest Morgage Houses in the USA as acting CEOs? That those men are now WILDLY rich due to bonuses cut for fudging financial records? THEY SCREAM ABOUT LACK OF Oversight!!!! Where was it? Chuck Schumer, where were you? Come on….no…wait. Oversight committees…..led by Democrats… The Party of Change got the Congress in 2006 but what have they been doing? We hear about all of the concessions that the Republican man wants to give his ‘rich friends’. Who the heck are they? What about Jim Johnson and Franklin Raines? Whose friends are they? Surely not the Republican man, nor Bob Barr, nor the evil George W. Bush. Do they even know who James Johnson and Franklin Raines are? Why is this not making news?
WHY NBC? WHY ABC? WHY!!!!!! TELL US!!!! TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!!!!
The morgage crisis, by the way, precipitated the financial issues we’re facing now. We hear ALL OF THIS SHOUTING ABOUT SAYING “NO TO 4 MORE YEARS”, but those guys were literally giving away morgages and getting bonuses, and paying the now elected house and senate election campaign funds of democrats. There were likely republicans in on it, but the top 4 recipients of money, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, are OBAMA, DODD, REED, AND CLINTON.
Seriously folks, they’re every bit as bad as the ‘Evil rich’ they are dragging through the mud. What makes them worse is that they are RICH AND MANIPULATING YOU! They are lying to you and fanning the flames of your anger to elicit a response. Take a simple step back and see it! Then EDUCATE YOURSELF and make a choice.
I’ve worked hard all of my life to earn the little I have. I can’t say I identify with anyone rich. My riches in life have been my family. I guess my other main source of wealth is my intellect.
I can’t stand to see it getting insulted by people claiming to be like me and knowing where I come from. On my side? YEAH RIGHT! We called those people ‘Spotlighters’ in the Army. The guys who don’t work but yell at someone to divert negative attention onto someone else. Dividing and conquering. The easiest way to succeed is to use cunning to get places.
The sad thing is…..eventually those people get figured out. Will you all figure it out before or after the election?

Posted by: Rob | September 29, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm

We hope for change. We hope it won’t rain……..Oops, I hope that isn’t a sign about what else I want to change.

Posted by: BO | September 29, 2008, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, PeopleB4Profit is a perfect example! Capitalism is one of the reasons that America is the greatest country in history, don’t blame the financial nonsense on capitalism,, blame it on cronyism and abject criminality by a few in the lending industry – DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO OBAMA, and allowed to pull off these crimes by the direct blessings of your DEMOCRAT CONGRESS, and these are facts that you can not deny!!! If you hate this country so much, move to a nice successful socialist country (if possible) and quit trying to screw this one up further! I’m not exactly a fan of McCain, but anyone stupid enough to fall for B.O.’s drivvel doesn’t have the IQ necessary to be able to vote. If B.O. is elected, and you lose your job because your employer can’t pay both you and his taxes, you have no rights to cry, just continue to sit on your own shoulders and remind yourself how handsome you look in your starched brown shirt. And Ray, we conservatives don’t give a crap about B.O.’s color, don’t you see that it is just as racist to vote for him because he’s black as it would be to vote against him because of it, we care about his socialist ideology, how dare you call us racists!?

Posted by: jrstudio | September 29, 2008, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm

Let’s see: questionable political/personal background, inexperience, socialist…this is Mr. Obama and traits we do not want in our next president. Personal integrity/honor, military/political service, belief in democratic governing principles…that’s what we need and what we’ll get with McCain.

Posted by: Jim | September 29, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

I love Obama he is a wondrful intelagnt man! You make me angre to say abut him being a cult?? You do not no what you are talkng abote you dumb right wringer! You should ggo to school and learn more! Go jump i9n a lake,I hop you canot swim! Dumbie and I think you should have a nce day!!!
Posted by: Obama lover; | Sep 29, 2008 4
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A typical Dummcrat, the kind that stands in a line with his hand out.
Third grade education no doubt. Great spelling!!!!!

Posted by: Ken Taylor | September 29, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm

Wow, Obama looks like a participant at a San Francisco gay day parade!

Posted by: Cupid | September 29, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm

So the writer says Harrison caught a cold in chilly whether. Gees can you be any stupider? Colds come from viruses, NOT cold whether!!!!! He would have shaken someone’s hand that day (or within a couple days) and caught it that way goof.

Posted by: John | September 29, 2008, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm

I don’t know if this will make any difference to the blind followers of Obama but I heard from a VERY reliable source that he is a homosexual pedofile and the media is preventing the story from getting out……?

Posted by: Andy | September 29, 2008, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm

Osama Bin Laden , Saddam Hussien ,Adolpf Hitler, Members of the Taliban, Members of Al Queda would all feel right at home in todays democRAT party. The largest hate group in the country.

Posted by: Jill | September 29, 2008, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm

Didn’t we see that same pose in the movie ‘Cady Shack’? All that’s missing is the one iron! Remember the line “…even God can’t hit a 1 Iron”

Posted by: Bob in NC | September 29, 2008, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm

Why does Barack Obama concider himself black? Everyone says he’s black. The media says he’s black. He himself says he’s black. But if color doesn’t matter, why doesn’t he call himself white? He is half white if I recall. Is he embarassed about being part white? What about being white offends him so much he refuses to tell people he’s white? Will he lose the black vote if he keeps saying he’s white as much as he says he’s black? I’m confused.
I’d wouldn’t mind seeing a black man as president. But Obama is only half the man I’d want in office and Joe Biden isn’t a man at all so even if they get elected, we are still short one and a half men.
Maybe Obama should have found a half black half white guy that looks white and was gay as well. That way they could have gotten a lot more votes.

Posted by: Confused | September 29, 2008, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm

The silly – - – doesn’t have enough sense to get out of the rain…..

Posted by: G | September 29, 2008, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm

I will vote NO bama in November!!

Posted by: Jam | September 29, 2008, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm

“It’s a Drudge link now, here come the crazies”
So, when it was just an ABC link, we had the sheeple who:
1) Laugh at their sitcoms
2) Cry at their dramas
3) Believe their news
Who’s crazy here?

Posted by: Heather | September 29, 2008, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm

I liked the teleprompters in the rain….I liked the “commands” to Senator Biden even more…..
What I don’t like is how Senator Obama slammed my home state (and Senator Biden’s too) of Pennsylvania. Senator Obama’s comment in the Spring about ‘they cling to their guns and their religion’ still bothers me. Why?
Well it all unfolded when my Mother was on her deathbed at Hershey Medical Center (note, she beat the grim reaper and is alive and kicking). I had to sit there and watch it play out from the Neuroscience Intensive Care unit…That was elitist. So, it really meant was that he just doesn’t like Pennsylvanians….
Then I was in LA two weeks ago and there was a big party down the street and Senator Obama was at it again….
So I’ll ask, what does Senator Obama have against Pennsylvanians or for that matter anyone who loves God and owns a gun….
Sounds like double speak to me. The real person only comes out in private fundraisers.
Would you trust him to meet with the Iranian President? Sorry, that just isn’t going to fly with the American people.
PS Does Senator Obama smoke? I saw a picture of him puffing on one….

Posted by: PA Boy | September 29, 2008, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm

Obama is his own worst enemy. When he opens his mouth garbage flies out and the liberal rats run to lick it up, while the majority of normal people in this country are repulsed by it. Keep this clown talking, because with every word he pushes McCain and Palin straight into the Whitehouse in ’08. We are approaching landslide status at the rate Obama is spewing stupidity.

Posted by: . | September 29, 2008, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm

Obama is a jackass, as so is every close minded, liberal fool that backs him. Then again, most of them don’t have jobs, or if they do, they are minimum wage jobs, so naturally they would support someone like Obama who wants to distribute the income from those who do work and bust their ass, to those who don’t.

Posted by: oprah winfrey | September 29, 2008, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm

Why didn’t He just wave His hand and make the rain stop?

Posted by: Nathaniel | September 29, 2008, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm

who in the world would want to vote for a an anorexic chain smoking drug addict, with a muslim background, a hypocrite who says he is a Christian but belongs to a racist all black church, and very limited experince in politics, a cardboard cutout full of hot air who came from nowhere, that no one heard about until a few months ago? I know who! A bunch of idiots, half the democratic party, just like half of the country that voted for Bush not once but twice!

Posted by: pat | September 29, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm

I liked the teleprompters in the rain….I liked the “commands” to Senator Biden even more…..
What I don’t like is how Senator Obama slammed my home state (and Senator Biden’s too) of Pennsylvania. Senator Obama’s comment in the Spring about ‘they cling to their guns and their religion’ still bothers me. Why?
Well it all unfolded when my Mother was on her deathbed at Hershey Medical Center (note, she beat the grim reaper and is alive and kicking). I had to sit there and watch it play out from the Neuroscience Intensive Care unit…That was elitist. So, it really meant was that he just doesn’t like Pennsylvanians….
Then I was in LA two weeks ago and there was a big party down the street and Senator Obama was at it again….
So I’ll ask, what does Senator Obama have against Pennsylvanians or for that matter anyone who loves God and owns a gun….
Sounds like double speak to me. The real person only comes out in private fundraisers.
Would you trust him to meet with the Iranian President? Sorry, that just isn’t going to fly with the American people.
PS Does Senator Obama smoke? I saw a picture of him puffing on one….

Posted by: PA Boy | September 29, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm

PA BOY – Yes Obama smokes. He said he quit for the presidential election, but that was just to appease the non-smokers. I’m sure if he does still smoke, he doesn’t inhale. At least that’s what Bill Clinton told him to say.

Posted by: Oral fixation | September 29, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm

… for my democrat friends who want to blame the Republicans for our ills, watch this, then tell me you still think that B.O.’s an honest man surrounded by honest men – http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=184743

Posted by: jrstudio | September 29, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm

Obama will give the indicted left wing group ACORN more money to track down Osama Bin Laden and members of the Taliban And Al Queda and make sure they have absintee ballots to vote for Obama.DemocRATS can’t win elections without the illeagal alien vote or the murderers and rapist vote,all while having votes from american in the armed services votes scrutinized. And the left wing goobers in the press say nothing.

Posted by: Robin | September 29, 2008, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm

Obama will give the indicted left wing group ACORN more money to track down Osama Bin Laden and members of the Taliban And Al Queda and make sure they have absintee ballots to vote for Obama.DemocRATS can’t win elections without the illeagal alien vote or the murderers and rapist vote,all while having votes from american in the armed services votes scrutinized. And the left wing goobers in the press say nothing.

Posted by: Robin | September 29, 2008, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm

Obama will give the indicted left wing group ACORN more money to track down Osama Bin Laden and members of the Taliban And Al Queda and make sure they have absintee ballots to vote for Obama.DemocRATS can’t win elections without the illeagal alien vote or the murderers and rapist vote,all while having votes from american in the armed services votes scrutinized. And the left wing goobers in the press say nothing.

Posted by: Robin | September 29, 2008, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm

First he was able to make the seas recede, now the Obamamessiah controls the rain. How quaint.
G-d help us if this socialist, community organizer gets elected.

Posted by: Mike Jefferson | September 29, 2008, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm

I think the first debate was mild on both sides. I would guess the next two will show us more of the character of both candidates. More interesting will be the VP debate. I think these last four events will assist anyone with a doubt or question in regards who to vote for. I think its sad to vote for gender or race. I would hope the American people would choose based on the issues that are important to them. Remeber this is four years so pick wisely. Its not something to gamble on. God Bless America.

Posted by: Amazed | September 29, 2008, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm

Oprah–why so angry? Is it that every day, brings us closer to an Obama presidency, and deep down you know it, and there’s nothing your close minded podunk self can do about it?
No fun to be you. Welcome to 2004!

Posted by: Dr. Phil | September 29, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm

“I would approach the UN Security Council and have a resolution requiring Russian troops be removed from Georgia”
B. Obama – September 26, 2008
Fact: Russia is one of seven nations with veto power in the UN Security Council – wonder how that great resolution would go?

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm

Can the Obama Truth Squad track me on this website?
Bring it on you socialist Chicago thugs.

Posted by: Quinn | September 29, 2008, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

“who in the world would want to vote for a an anorexic chain smoking drug addict, with a muslim background, a hypocrite who says he is a Christian but belongs to a racist all black church, and very limited experince in politics, a cardboard cutout full of hot air who came from nowhere, that no one heard about until a few months ago? I know who! A bunch of idiots, half the democratic party, just like half of the country that voted for Bush not once but twice!”
2 groups:
1) Limosine liberal whites who are so wracked with guilt that they’d vote for a toad if it would stop global warming, deforestation, etc.
2)African Americans who demonstrate that as a demographic they are racist. Some 95% of AA’s support Osama. This isn’t a coincidence. If 95% of whites supported McCain, everyone would exclaim that whites were racist.

Posted by: Tom Thanos | September 29, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm

Yes Obama smokes cigarettes, he also still smokes crack, and he has a boy friend named Tony Sinclair. You would not know this from ABC News because Charlie Gibson, and George Stephonopolos are both trying to be Obamas wife. Google Tony Sinclair.

Posted by: Alex | September 29, 2008, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm

Here how’s this: “As he ripped his sodden shirt from his buff, manly torso his gaze fell upon me. I gaped up at his firm nipples as they glistened in the stadium lights. I felt a stirring in my loins as my own maleness became suddenly alerted. This magnificent Mandingo on the stage before me with his shimmering torso would surely drive me insane with desire. Never has this humble journalist felt such a magnetic pull to the subject of yet another well-balanced, objective piece of writing worthy of a Pulitzer.”

Posted by: Kool-Aid doesn't Kill people...people kill people | September 29, 2008, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm

Here how’s this: “As he ripped his sodden shirt from his buff, manly torso his gaze fell upon me. I gaped up at his firm nipples as they glistened in the stadium lights. I felt a stirring in my loins as my own maleness became suddenly alerted. This magnificent Mandingo on the stage before me with his shimmering torso would surely drive me insane with desire. Never has this humble journalist felt such a magnetic pull to the subject of yet another well-balanced, objective piece of writing worthy of a Pulitzer.”

Posted by: Kool-Aid doesn't Kill people...people kill people | September 29, 2008, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm

THE MAN WHO WANTS TO RUN THE MOST POWERFUL NATION IN THE WORLD DOESN’T HAVE THE SENSE TO GET OUT OF THE RAIN.
THIS HYPOCRITICAL DEMOCRAT PUPPET WILL DESTROY OUR NATION IF HE IS ELECTED.
PLEASE PAY NO ATTENTION TO HIS PARADE OF LIES!!!

Posted by: Pulsing Zombie | September 29, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm

Boy… there sure are alot of “facts” being bandied about, I wonder how some of you actually function in society.
Here are some observations from a somewhat perplexed american
1. We all somehow believe “our” politicians are telling us the truth
2. We all believe the “other” guy is evil incarnate.
3. If your a (R), then you MUST
(a) be a Religious zealot
(b) Own no less than 20 guns
(c) Squeeze oil from baby seals for fun
4. If your a (D), then you MUST
(a) be a Socialist or Marxist
(b) Abort (or Kill) 10 babies a day
(c) Want to destroy christianity
How on earth do you people actually believe any of this garbage ?
Lets see… I didnt see an American flag pin on McCain during the debate , so that must mean he HATES AMERICA right ?
I wonder if you all would even know the truth if you saw it.

Posted by: Karrel | September 29, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm

Boy… there sure are alot of “facts” being bandied about, I wonder how some of you actually function in society.
Here are some observations from a somewhat perplexed american
1. We all somehow believe “our” politicians are telling us the truth
2. We all believe the “other” guy is evil incarnate.
3. If your a (R), then you MUST
(a) be a Religious zealot
(b) Own no less than 20 guns
(c) Squeeze oil from baby seals for fun
4. If your a (D), then you MUST
(a) be a Socialist or Marxist
(b) Abort (or Kill) 10 babies a day
(c) Want to destroy christianity
How on earth do you people actually believe any of this garbage ?
Lets see… I didnt see an American flag pin on McCain during the debate , so that must mean he HATES AMERICA right ?
I wonder if you all would even know the truth if you saw it.

Posted by: Karrel | September 29, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm

Dow posts biggest daily point drop in history, and the US is on the verge of electing a political cartoon character–Barack Obama.

Posted by: Texasdav | September 29, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

Q. HOW MANY OBAMA’S DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB? A. IT WON’T HAPPEN, HE’LL ONLY PROMISE “CHANGE”!
Vote the godamn america party…vote demoRAT

Posted by: Gare of Frisco | September 29, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

Obama-bots remind me of Mao’s Red Guards. It’s a cult of personality. Ready to mindless act on anything the great helmsman says, with no regard to logic, reason or morals

Posted by: . | September 29, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

McCain didn’t look Obama in the eye, well I wouldn’t either.
He was an ugly, angry gay halloween monster.
Who did his makeup? They should be fired! He was dark and sinister, those damn eyebrows and scowls.
He just lost all the old folks vote.
scary as hell!
yeah blobama looked like a black version of Gollum the evil one!
Then again Obama looked like a gay monster in drag with all of that makeup.
Scary … and it’s not even Halloween!

Posted by: kimba | September 29, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

“The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress shirt clinging to his body…”
Is this a news story?? Because I’m pretty sure they stole that first line from one of those crappy romance novels that had Fabio on the cover..

Posted by: marty | September 29, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

I’m holding my breath until ABC news covers the Obama “Truth Squads” he’s unleashing on republicans.
Pray for me.

Posted by: kirk | September 29, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm

Another reality check:
Intrade:
Obama 61
McCain 38
In the 2004 presidential election, the Intrade market favorite won the electoral vote in every state.

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

I googled Tony Sinclair he claims he was Obamas boy friend. Maybe Obama campaign song could be I kissed a boy and I liked it.

Posted by: Susan | September 29, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

I googled Tony Sinclair he claims he was Obamas boy friend. Maybe Obama campaign song could be I kissed a boy and I liked it.

Posted by: Susan | September 29, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

The rain was falling, he removed his jacket and the shirt was clinging to his lean body. As the water droplets ran effortlessly down his gym hardened pecs and splashed off his rugged manly hands, he opened his firmly sculpted mouth to speak, and crap come flying out of his pie hole!!!

Posted by: Darrell | September 29, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

The smugness and arrogance of Obama is just too much to take. Having to watch that ego for 4 years and listen to that voice will be like fingernails on a blackboard.

Posted by: Daisy21 | September 29, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

just cannot see that stuttering, Curious George looking, Black militant in the white house. I am sure Jeremiah Wright would be hired to be his spiritual advisor. I will not pay reperations to some black man who was never a slave for something my great-great grandaddy did.
Don’t worry this will soon be over and Obama and his horrible angry wife will be history.
Guess what both Obama and Osama have in common?
They both have friends that bombed the Pentagon.

Posted by: suzy | September 29, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm

Barack Hussein Obama sure can fill the sails, but the boat goes nowhere.
McCain works. Obama talks. HUGE difference.
Don’t forget, it is the Dems that are responsible for this economic meltdown! They are behind Fannie and Freddie. You can Google for yourself that Barney Frank and C. Dodd received huge checks from them.
Franklin Raines, former CEO of Fannie Mae, was behind much of the bad policies that caused this current meltdown. Mr. Raines is now Barack Hussein Obama’s chief economic advisor!

Posted by: Frak | September 29, 2008, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm

ARE YOU REALLY BETTER OFF TODAY THAN 8 YEARS AGO ?
ANSWER THIS HONESTLY, YOU HAVE 2 CHOICES AHEAD OF YOU.
Something different , something the same
I.E.
You can vote 3rd Party or Dem
Or
You can vote Repub.
———————————-
The choice is yours, but if you ask yourself the above question there is no possible way you will ever decide to vote for the Repub ticket.
I make 6 figures.. have for a few years , am I lucky person indeed. But I can say without ANY reservation that these past 8 yrs (especially the past 4 ) have put a MAJOR dent in my financial prosperity.
“surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned” (Mark Twain)

Posted by: OprahsDaddy | September 29, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

well, i doubt that mc cain would stand out in the rain talking to people in a state he probably won’t win. but the, these were college students, probably all of whom were obama supporters. and since by in large they don’t have land line telephones, their opinions will never be recorded in national polling data.
that’s right. you can’t believe any of the national polling data. at all. because a huge segment of the population, all young (ie: under thirty), many newly-registered and practically all obama voters, are never contacted; their opinions are not part of the polling results.
obama by a landslide. it’s all there.

Posted by: andy | September 29, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

Vote Democratic… hasten one world government… Jesus is coming! Woohoo!

Posted by: 1DeadManWalking | September 29, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

Some hero McCain is or was. He did not have the balls to even look at Obama in the eye during the debate. Guess he will not look anything in the eye because his stares are vacant, full of deceit and McCain cannot bear to embrace and sell the American people with his failed ideas. Obama has what it takes and he cares much more about the entire U.S.A. not just the fat cats who have destroyed and manipulated our economy and country. Oh yes this will be close but hear this one and all… McCain should remain in the frozen foods section of your grocers freezer.

Posted by: Tragic Hero | September 29, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm

How did we get to this place where we once again have two less than attractive candidates running for the Presidency? The only joy I get is thinking that at least if Obama gets in, we’ll make a ton of money again. At least that’s something. More taxes, but probably more profits, too!

Posted by: Jenny | September 29, 2008, 5:08 pm 5:08 pm

McCain: Crashes 5 planes because he’s such a “Great Pilot”. Cheats on his married buddy with the guy’s wife. After Vietnam he dumps the buddie’s wife who is now his wife for the other “Other Woman” Cindy. Is as Guilty as Sin for the “Keating 5″ scandal in which his wife Cindy was Business partners with crook Charles Keating of the Lincoln S&L bailout which “only” cost the taxpayers $2.5 Billion at the time. He has blocked oversight in favor of “The Free Market – For the Rich”. And of course now he has chosen one of the Dumbest people to be his V.P. Vote McCain – Are You Insane? Respect your Momma – Vote Obama.

Posted by: Ken | September 29, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

The sad thing about the debate was that George W could have whooped them both and he’s a very poor communicator!
The both are poor debaters. No sizzle, no brilliance. Just the same old tired rhetoric they use on the campaign trail.
Boooooorrrrrriiiiiinnnnnngggg.

Posted by: Dave from Missouri | September 29, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

Team JoeBama is reduced to a wet t-shirt contest and the lamestream press has a tingle going up their collective legs again. Pathetic worms, why don’t you do a story on how the democrats caused and then watched over the financial debacle we are in??? Pelosi blaming Bush today? Good one San Fran Nan, you are a left coast bird brain.

Posted by: Red Ruffansore | September 29, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm

abc why don’t you just pull his pants
off and lick his ass….

Posted by: mikeg539 | September 29, 2008, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm

Obama/Biden in a landslide win this November. Count on it!

Posted by: american | September 29, 2008, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm

Go Virginia! We want an Obama landslide – send a message to Washington absolutely.

Posted by: McGreen | September 29, 2008, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm

Most of you have the I.Q. of squids.
Please do not reproduce for the sake of our world.

Posted by: SquidOo | September 29, 2008, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm

President?
He doesn’t even have enough sense to get in out of the rain.

Posted by: Saltine5 | September 29, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm

Hey little wild piggies, that “free” corn in the woods that nice man leaves for you really isn’t free. Don’t you see the new fence poles? He puts one in every day he brings the corn to the woods. Those fence poles are encircling the place where the corn is laid.
Have you forgotten how to find your own food? No worries… Soon there will be fencing and you will no longer need to do that. You won’t be free, but what the heck, the corn is!
Americans are the wild pigs, slowly being taken care of by the government goodies. Wake up! Provide for yourselves and quit picking at my hard work! Do your own!
This is absolutely sickening, Americans do not deserve liberty, they have no idea what bondage is either!

Posted by: 1DeadManWalking | September 29, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm

Absolutely ridiculous! I can’t stand reporters and their ignorance and failure to do basic research! C’mon…we all know that you don’t catch a cold from being in the cold! William Henry Harrison caught a cold from being around so many new people in the first days of the presidency and was worn out from the long days. It was not the cold!

Posted by: eric | September 29, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm

I just hope all the Obama worshippers don’t have their hopes up too high that he is going to be their “Savior”. Let’s remember that most of his platform relied on raising taxes. Guess what? There’s no money now! In the charity circles, there are no donations coming in! (People are going to hold on to their money for quite a while.) Now, what does he do? If he even thinks he can offer free health care…he’s nuts. Not going to happen! Good luck to all that were counting on him saving them!

Posted by: Janice | September 29, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm

There’s a huge percentage of people in our country that refuse to think, but rather follow what they consider the elite point of view. My own mother is one of those people that will repeat exactly what she hear’s on the liberal media outlets. You present facts to them and their eyes gloss over. It’s scary, it’s difficult to fight the propoganda coming out of the Left each day.
Barack Obama is about to become the President of the US of KKK (according to his own pastor of 20 years), and idiots are ok with this. You deserve what you get, I don’t. I deserve much better.
The people who gripe the most are the ones who have been sitting in the wagon the longest. Get out and help the rest of us pull, it’ll change your perspective a lot.

Posted by: kirk | September 29, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm

Two Party System == Epic Fail! There isn’t a good candidate in either one.

Posted by: Strange | September 29, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm

USA Today/Gallop Poll: Obama Did Better in First Debate
Obama Scores Big on Proposal to Change the Country
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A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows 46% of people who watched Friday night’s presidential debate say Democrat Barack Obama did a better job than Republican John McCain; 34% said McCain did better.
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John McCain, left, and Barack Obama embrace at the finish of a presidential debate at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., Friday, Sept. 26, 2008.
(Charles Dharapak/AP Photo)
Obama scored even better — 52%-35% — when debate-watchers were asked which candidate offered the best proposals for change to solve the country’s problems.

Posted by: BOBO | September 29, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm

I’m sure Sen. Obama apreciates the cautionary statement regarding William Henry Harrison. Update: The senator held his own at the debate the same night and is still on the campaign trail.
See this speech — go to You Tube and search for “Barack Virginia rain.”

Posted by: Paul Franklin | September 29, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm

“”"
“Bristol “GangBang” Palin’s mother won!”???
OMG. How on earth did something this vile get past a moderator?
This is just sick. Shame on the person that wrote it, and double shame to ABC to publishing it.”"”
Yes. Let me write that Michele Obama is a C.U.N.T. and see if that gets on here.
[If you are reading this, ABC is unbiased.]

Posted by: Jism Nasium | September 29, 2008, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm

I haven’t read all of the comments, so my sentiments may be a repeat: If the miraculous “O” can walk on water, why can’t he stop a little rain?

Posted by: Nules | September 29, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

obama is a socialist pure and simple, abc, nbc, cbs,cnn, mspms, is trying to get him elected. want the news go to the drudgereport.

Posted by: an american | September 29, 2008, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm

Typical nig*er; don’t know enough to get in out of the rain.

Posted by: Joe | September 29, 2008, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm

The rain, the mud, the crowd–it was just like Woodstock.
And Obama was just like, ah, just like, mmm, Did Yanni perform at Woodstock?

Posted by: WylieD | September 29, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm

To Liz from
The Cheney School
Department of Tactical Humor
Dear Aspirant,
After receiving your check (past due) I passed around your submission for review. I’m sure you’ll find the following excerpt invaluable:
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Posted by: Kelly Scott | September 29, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm

McCaim is tanking like the Stock Market! The only advice to McCain,”It’s to late baby, it’s to late!” Obama will win BIG on Nov 4th Big time! Republicans will be crying for years to come! McCain is no maverick just McSame!

Posted by: Sisto Maximo | September 29, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm

Sen. Obama delivered a powerful speech that night! Amazing!
John McCain would’ve needed a wheelchair to take him back to one of his 7 retirement homes. That’s where he needs to stay for the rest of his life.

Posted by: Melissa | September 29, 2008, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm

I wish more people would get their facts straight.
Do real research– don’t just buy into what the major media outlets try to tell you through crafty editing.
You can look to Barney Frank and Chris Dodd– both Democrats– to determine where a lot of today’s finanacial mess started. Are you aware that two of Obama;s chief financial advisors have strong ties to Lehman Brothers and AIG? Are you aware of the kind of money these Democrats have received from these failed institutions?
As for Palin– try going online and reading the complete interview with Charlie Gibson. You’ll see that ABC dramatically edited many of her responses. In doing so, they made her look far less knowledgeable than she is.
FACE IT– BOTH sides put forth half truths or lie with statistics. And a lot of you are swallowing it up like kool-Aid. Congress has caused a lot of the problems we have today– the Democrats control congress.
Just remember– you may just get what you’re asking for– and it may be too late. Obama is all smoke and mirrors.

Posted by: CAM | September 29, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm

Are you peopling so really stupid to think that republicans are responsible for this economic mess. If you believe that you people are truly the stupidest people I have ever seen. Check the history it was Dems in the ’90s doing socio-economic experimentation. Changing laws that forced people to give unwarranted loans, thus producing more greed. But what do you dems care you will just make other people pay for your mistakes take some responsibility. And don’t try that crap with deregulation dems are just as culpable. Both parties are to blame. But you partisan nimrods will blindly follow them. Also I got to think the reports who wrote this trivial little piece of journalistic crap, jaws must be hurting form whoring themselves so bad.

Posted by: Jason | September 29, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm

Are you peopling so really stupid to think that republicans are responsible for this economic mess. If you believe that you people are truly the stupidest people I have ever seen. Check the history it was Dems in the ’90s doing socio-economic experimentation. Changing laws that forced people to give unwarranted loans, thus producing more greed. But what do you dems care you will just make other people pay for your mistakes take some responsibility. And don’t try that crap with deregulation dems are just as culpable. Both parties are to blame. But you partisan nimrods will blindly follow them. Also I got to think the reports who wrote this trivial little piece of journalistic crap, jaws must be hurting form whoring themselves so bad.

Posted by: Jason | September 29, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm

What we do not need is two more lying lawyers in charge. Country First – McCain/Palin.

Posted by: Diogenes | September 29, 2008, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm

a vote for obama is a vote for socialism. for you stupid libs, thats really close to communism. and communism is bad. on second thought you guys would fit right in.

Posted by: me | September 29, 2008, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm

McCain/Palin 08
NObama- you think our country is in a bad financial state now– just wait if he gets elected- we’ll all be living in tents

Posted by: steve | September 29, 2008, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm

Wow.. its really sad to even see someone in jest post the n word .. I see the smile minds of men and women still exist and probably will forever.. the saddest thing ..
Its more possible this was a child, but obviously I can see his/her parents have failed them , or are racists, or “sympathetic” to racism.
Its a shame we cannot do away with this quicker. I hope one day, even though I probably will not live to see it,that this will not be happening or tolerated in any fashion.

Posted by: JLennon | September 29, 2008, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm

Biden is someone’s choice?
Really?
!
I’m sad

Posted by: Guy S. Florida | September 29, 2008, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm

The Republicans are 100% at fault with no excuses! Republicans reined in and adored no regulation and free markets to rip off the middle class! They laughed all the way to the bank with their lobbyists one by the name of Phil Gram and Rick Davies! Republicans are the champions of spin that will not work because their spin is all out lies!!!!

Posted by: Sisto Maximo | September 29, 2008, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm

hey jlennon, i don’t agree with him but its called freedom of speech. what did you mean by won’t be tollerated, throw him in jail. tell him to stop, have him pay a fine. our rights are rights not privledges.

Posted by: him | September 29, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm

Well I guess Michelle and Barack can’t be bothered with a washer and dryer. We ordinary folks can’t afford dry cleaners for our clothes. Who is out of touch with main street?

Posted by: ckinder | September 29, 2008, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm

McCain hasn’t seen a washer and dryer for the past thirty years! Republicans are a Joke! Is this McCain’s Joker Card? If it is thank goodness for Obama!

Posted by: Sisto Maximo | September 29, 2008, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen;
Neither of the men running for president are: racist, stupid,inverted liars, out to turn America into concentration camps or drive it oblivion. However, although I love to listen to Senator Obama’s speeches I have examined their content and reviewed his limited voting record and found it wanting. Senator Obama’s ideals are laudable but he promises things that simply can not be accomplished and his efforts towards those ends would inevitably bankrupt the country. I disagree with Senator McCain on some of his foreign policy and vehemently disagree with him on aminesty for illegal aliens and I have doubts about his economic policy. That being said Senator Obama’s plan for this country as mirrored by his voting record are naive at best and foolish and sophomoric at the extreme.

Posted by: AMBROSE PEARCE | September 29, 2008, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen;
Neither of the men running for president are: racist, stupid,inverted liars, out to turn America into concentration camps or drive it oblivion. However, although I love to listen to Senator Obama’s speeches I have examined their content and reviewed his limited voting record and found it wanting. Senator Obama’s ideals are laudable but he promises things that simply can not be accomplished and his efforts towards those ends would inevitably bankrupt the country. I disagree with Senator McCain on some of his foreign policy and vehemently disagree with him on aminesty for illegal aliens and I have doubts about his economic policy. That being said Senator Obama’s plan for this country as mirrored by his voting record are naive at best and foolish and sophomoric at the extreme.

Posted by: AMBROSE PEARCE | September 29, 2008, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm

I have a question for anyone willing to answer. If someone would have told us back on 911 or shortly after, that the American people would nominate or possibly elect a former muslim, someone with close ties to an American/home grown terrorist/ William Ayers, a US Senator with only 143 days on the job, someone with 0 executive experience and I could go on and on and on…. would any of us have believed it. I don’t think so. On several occassions when I bring up William Ayers to an Obama supporter, their reply is William who? We really need to look at the facts. This information is fact not propaganda.

Posted by: chill | September 29, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm

I find it ridiculous that some of the people on here are calling McCain a “bully” and a “snob” and saying he was “cowering” during the debate all because he refused to look at Senator Obama (notice I didn’t call him by his first name?). McCain didn’t look at Obama during the debate because he was trying not to laugh! It’s the same reason you don’t look at the drunk girl in a bar… you don’t want to encourage whatever they’re doing or saying.
I think Democrats would have been much more insulted had McCain looked Obama directly in the eye and said “Excuse me, Senator, but your arguments for the past 45 minutes have been completely nonsensical.” And then LAUGHED! Which is what majority of America was doing during the debate on Friday night… I know I was!

Posted by: ChristinaJW | September 29, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm

Somebody give the idiot a raincoat!
————————————-
NYT 2003 when Bush proposed a new regulatory agency for Fannie and Freddie:
”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3D6123BF932A2575AC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print

Posted by: Typical White Person | September 29, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm

All kneel and Hail Islam’s new God….THE OBAMA

Posted by: Snake | September 29, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm

With the dramatic photo of the handsome candidate and the glorious byline by ABC News one would think it was Elmer Gantry up there. Please!

Posted by: Sheilah | September 29, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm

The Big Chill! Who is Willaiam Ayers when you have McCain who wants to bring this country to it’s knees with cronies like Rick Davies, Phil Gram and Joe Lieberman! The biggest Gangsters since Bonnie and Clyde and Jesse James!

Posted by: Sisto Maximo | September 29, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

??? Country First? That old man doesn’t care about you, your family, your ideals, nothing you hold dear. That’s a fact.

Posted by: TVH | September 29, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm

What is it with Americans and taxes?
Do you not realize that your debt is so huge it’s becoming your #1 export?
Why do you keep starting wars and then refuse to pay for them? Just borrow, borrow, borrow.
Does that make you feel strong? All the debt?
I’ve read about Americans hatred of taxes all my life, yet you keep wanting to spend like crazy.
Do you realize how insane that concept is?

Posted by: Bobby the K | September 29, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm

Check out The Weather underground/netflix. Its a documentary, where William Ayers was interviewed. This film was put together before Husein announced his run, so it wasn’t made for political purposes. In the 60′s and 70s several Communists stated that the way America would be defeated would be in our class rooms. Guess what William Ayers does for a living, since he retired as a terrorists. He is a professor.
I’m outraged that this guy teaches and influences our children. There should be a law against someone with his background allowed in our school system. People need to think!! This is serious business.

Posted by: chill | September 29, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm

OMG – the Messiah didn’t stop the rain?

Posted by: lolnola | September 29, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm

There are only a few folks very happy reading all this garbage….
China
Russia
Iran
A house divided cannot stand. We are sowing our own destruction. Not Dems not Repubs, but all of us. No one is willing to look to the common good…only naked self-interest. Be prepared for the consequences.

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm

Obama will make the icebergs grow and the waters flow. Obama will tell Oprah what’s for, and make Palin snore. Obama will thicken the Ozon layer and remove smog with a blast of his breath. Obama will create life just thinking about it and then abort it without a thought. World peace will happen if he’s elected. He will ponder and discuss with Mahmood, and Israel will disappear. Obama will make flowers smell better and children run faster and jump higher. Obama will stun us with his visage in a wet shirt. Obama will smite McCain with his “Hillary Stick.” Obama will make the sun shine brighter. Obama will make capitalizm work in a way that Bill Ayres will approve. Obama will free Tony Rezko in time for the Super Bowl. Obama will make Hollywood the center of culture and Alaska will become a place where all bad folks who like to hunt will be sent to live forever. Obama will sew Joe Biden’s mouth shut. Obama will cure cancer before John Kerry makes Christopher Reeve walk again (oh, sorry. Too late for that one). Obama will make Bill Clinton keep his pants on. Obama will allow all felons to vote – Democrat of course. Obama will finally get rid of all the stupid Florida Democrat election officials and the vote will finally count. Obama will re-name Washington, D.C. “Obama City” and his statue will adorn the top of the Capitol Building. Obama will ban all John Wayne movies. Obama will make Michael Moore the new Propaganda Czar. Obama will have an affair with Susan Sarandon (simply because Barbra Streisand is not liberal enough). Obama will revoke George Bush’s citizenship retroactively (and charge him with loitering in the White House). Obama will provide everything to everyone – especially in his old neighborhood in Chicago. Obama will part the Atlantic so we can walk directly to France. Life will be good.

Posted by: Volkmeister | September 29, 2008, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm

Wow.
FOX News polling:
Obama now up by EIGHT in Pennsylvania!
TIED in Florida!
Down by just ONE point in Ohio!
Sweet Jay-sus!

Posted by: McRumi | September 29, 2008, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm

In Obama’s world, everybody dry cleans their clothes.
Sorry, Obama, we had to cut out dry cleaning when our taxes went up.
But no worries, we’re still getting arugula from Whole Foods.
I’m surprised Obama didn’t push Biden off the stage so he COULD pick a new VP – since Biden is so unsure of who he is, that he had to steal Neil Kinnock’s life!

Posted by: The other coyote | September 29, 2008, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm

McCain did not look at Obama during the debate while Obama spoke.
On the other hand, Obama did the opposite and showed McCain respect and looked over at him while he spoke.
One of these men is ready to lead us. One of them is not.

Posted by: Sweaty Texan | September 29, 2008, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm

Hey Johnny, that sounded like a snobbish remark a jerk would make!

Posted by: chitownjunkie | September 29, 2008, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm

Hey Johnny, that sounded like a snobbish remark a jerk would make!

Posted by: chitownjunkie | September 29, 2008, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm

Look both side of the aisle love to bash each other. look I am voting for McCain because of the 2 I believe his basic policies are healthier for America. But that does not mean that Obama is a bad guy or anything personal at all! it all comes down to the IDEAS!!! for me Look if there is a problem and then I am looking for the best idea to fix the problem, I’m going to with the idea that is the best. regardless of who came up with the idea it is the idea I care about not where it came from!! there might be some gay, hippie, Buddhist, with a brilliant idea then there could be a born again Christian who has a good idea.. Look both sides of the aisle want to go after all fuel and resources simultaneously, drill, solar, plug in hybrids, wind,, battery development to reduce our dependence on foreign oil!!! and if we can benefit the air we breath great! secure our borders!! incentives for companies that manufacture goods to stay here!! and pay off the G*d D*&N trade deficit with china, and our budget as well. I think we can all agree on that as well as our infrastructure of course MAG LEV TRAIN NYC-LA-VEGAS-HOUSTON-CHICAGO-MIAMI-ATL LOOK WE HAVE CAN THE WORLD CLASS SYSTEM HOW MANY JOBS WOULD THAT CREATE LOOK THERE SPENDING $700bln What if they put $100 bln in the MAG LEV train WOW! BUT NONE OF OUR CURRENT leaders have the vision for such things! look these guys do speeches just the Abraham Lincoln did in front of podium.. we are in the 21st century and we do not even get a power point presentation of how a candidate would makes his points and show us a solutions. It amazes me the closes we have gotten was Ross Perot and his charts. we need to step it up people because this is BU(( 5hit

Posted by: Scott | September 29, 2008, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm

Like I have said before one just have to look at the vitriolic bile that spews from the snouts of the right wing charlatans whom have nowhere else to run but the darkest, deepest, morass filled cesspool of the Republican party, Question , where will all the illiterate maggots hibernate when in a few years the mojority of Americans will be a combined minority, ha ha payback is a bitch, the mountains of appalachia, and west virginia will not be enough, I sujjest you all adapt, starting now, your evil stench has become unbearable and there will be consequence.

Posted by: mike | September 29, 2008, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm

Angry African: Nice getto talk. Do you have a big ring in your big nose? Happy American.

Posted by: bombem | September 29, 2008, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm

All of you talk about change but in reality you’re only promoting more of the same. There is no difference between JM and BO, they are part of the system and are controlled by party bosses who have sold their soul to money and the devil in exchange for the illusion of power and influence. You want change, you want to take a stand and really do something incredible in your life DEMAND A TOTAL REVOTE FOR EVERY ELECTED POSITION IN OUR COUNTRY!!! No more multi term politicians, 2 terms, 4 years each and nothing more. Demand a systematic review of finances and associations, VOTING History and let’s rip the cover off this bitch. Any politician and associate that show any corruption is to be jailed, assets seized and if shown to be gained by illegal mean put back into the government for the PEOPLE. I am a Republican and a proud nationalist and I believe that Democracy is the greatest form of government on the plant. In order for that to work YOU must stand up and FIGHT for what is right. How many of you have the GUTS to stand up now and demand a total revote this Nov 4? They can’t stop you and me from demanding this, because this is a government for, of and by the people right??!! Or is it, lets find out how much of a Democracy this country is. There is nothing wrong with making change in government as long as THEY say it is ok, anything else is sedition, Un-American and traitorous. The patriot act is un-American, political correctness is un-American, putting an ethnicity (e.g. Colombian American) is the most disloyal thing that has been done to this country. Our strength comes from us being one thing AMERICANS, and the CLINTONS and Liberals have done more to separate us from one another then any bed sheet wearing, goose stepping idiot. Take YOUR country back, take PRIDE in being an AMERICAN, stop insulting YOUR PRESIDENT all you are doing is sowing the seeds of your own destruction. 233 years ago a bunch of intellectuals, merchants, farmers, stone masons, silversmiths, tavern owners and common people got together and decided that enough was enough, its time for that to happen again. God bless the USA
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results
Albert Einstein

Posted by: francis | September 29, 2008, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm

Volkmeister:
Obamma say’ s: Es gibt Frieden und es ist ein Frieden ohne Juden! Sterben hoc Fhane

Posted by: chitownjunkie | September 29, 2008, 7:05 pm 7:05 pm

It is nice to see that politics is really all about who looks better on TV. McCain made better points in the debate and Obama looked better. McCain is the true independent candidate and would truly represent reform and change in washington. The only Democrat Obama has ever alientated is Hillary. There is nothing new here folks. The Democrats are running a dirty campaign. I have seen a dozen e-mail messages about Palin designed to scare people. All full of lies and misinformation to create of hatred and fear and distract people from the Republican running for PRESIDENT. That Plain is a book banner and hates women etc. All spin with no truth in it. She is an acomplished driven family woman and should be respected. What is so scary about a female governor with some values. How many Anti-Biden ads or smear e-mails have you seen?

Posted by: Sadly No | September 29, 2008, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm

All of you Dems. are still drinking the Kool Aide, Congress could of passed the bale the RICH OUT Bill!, with out the Republicans and the same foes for the senate. They are chicken because they know it was there fault to begin with. Stupid DEMS.

Posted by: Joe | September 29, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm

McCain wiped the floor with Obama in Fridays debate. OBama was sputtering and counterdicted himself a couple of times. Of course, the media doesn’t scrutinize Obama at all. The media is dead in this country.

Posted by: Chris D. | September 29, 2008, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm

Let me educate all of you Dems on the facts with a few passages from the NY Times in 1999:
“In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.
Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.
Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990′s by reducing down payment requirements,” said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae’s chairman and chief executive officer. ”Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.
In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980′s.
From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,” said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ”If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.”
I know all of you Kool-Aid drinking liberals don’t deal in facts, but I know all of you think the NY Times is NEVER wrong. So there you go.

Posted by: Stephanie | September 29, 2008, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm

Give me a break!!!
ABC should hire obama to be a news reader and maybe head up the evening news. I am sure that his community organizing experiece would help him in that role plus plus talking is the only thing he can really do well!

Posted by: Tim | September 29, 2008, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm

OBAMA HAS NO EXPERIENCE TO BE A PRESIDENT. HE HAS HORRIBLE JUDGEMENT AND IS A LIAR. MCCAIN IS THE MAN TO SAVE AMERICA.

Posted by: NOBAMA | September 29, 2008, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm

“I know all of you Kool-Aid drinking liberals don’t deal in facts, but I know all of you think the NY Times is NEVER wrong. So there you go.”
Typical republican mudslinging dirtbag tactics. How come the majority of blue states give more to the federal budget than the red states and also take less back in the form of federal welfare? Blue states are the the ones creating wealth, red states are federal welfare teat suckers.
I’m not even a democrat, but republicans are always pointing fingers, and now that they have completely run this country into the ground they just sit around and point fingers. Its really pathetic Stephanie. Admit it, this administration is enron in the white house.

Posted by: Tim | September 29, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm

ABC’s Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman Report: The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, Barack Obama played to a crowd in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1964.
ABC News,
Wow! Congratulations-I think this is officially the first time ever that THREE ABC reporters gave a Monica to a political candidate at the same time.
Nice work guys! Keep shaking those pom poms and cheering on your guy.

Posted by: ironchefofmunchies | September 29, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm

“Typical republican mudslinging dirtbag tactics. How come the majority of blue states give more to the federal budget than the red states and also take less back in the form of federal welfare? Blue states are the the ones creating wealth, red states are federal welfare teat suckers.”
Blue states have higher taxes. You think that the government taking your tax money is creating wealth? Move to China you commie idiot.

Posted by: Chris D. | September 29, 2008, 7:38 pm 7:38 pm

WOW just look at ALL of the blind , whiny Democrats that don’t do any research because they are too lazy.
Obama is going to be crying in the arms of his wife who hates America (yet conveniently praised it for a speech to make herself look good) when he finds out that his puppet masters did not do their job.
Mariane Pepitone, open your eyes and see how idiotic you sound when you say that conservatives hate him. IF they do…it is because he is NOT a damn puppet , he is his own man. He is the first candidate this country has had in a long time that actually acknowledges both points of view and acts accordingly.
Obama may be younger ,fitter (although he is a smoker), can dance on talk shows and has a cheese ball smile…he is NOT fit to be the leader of this country.
I don’t care if he is 50% caucasion, 43.75% Arab and 6.25% African (which is true look it up)…he is NOT the right candidate.
SMART democrats are voting for McCain because they are intelligent and know better.

Posted by: Carrie | September 29, 2008, 7:54 pm 7:54 pm

I’m a Dem and after today’s Pelosi screw up and knowing Obama is part of it, I’m switching to McCain.
Obumma stinks!

Posted by: Jen | September 29, 2008, 7:55 pm 7:55 pm

Obama is a neo-socialist opportunist with great histrionic skills and no fixed moral compass. Lying about his voting record on the issue of the Born Alive Act is unconscionable; lying about knowing that his pastor was pursuing racial rant for 20 years, and then chucking him overboard for political reasons when this became apparent, is unconscionable; and blaming the current crisis on American private citizens when it is the Federal Reserve, and governmental commands and subsidies, that have pumped bad credit and forced bad loans on the banking system, is unconscionable too.

Posted by: alan | September 29, 2008, 7:55 pm 7:55 pm

If Obama wins I can’t wait until I hear they whiiiining and crrrrying from Obama’s beloved middle class when the cost of everything jumps to accomodate the taxed companies. Yes, you kooky middle class folks who are going to vote for Obama for your tax cut. You have no idea. I’m Canadian and we are taxed in every direction you can imagine to pay for our socialist government. Please, go spend a week in Canada…really…go…buy food, beer, gas, shoes, clothing. Tell me how you like it. If you think your life is going to get easier please, tell me now…so I can chuckle at the whiiiining and crrrying afterward.
Canadians drive hundreds of miles to shop in the States…and even with the more expensive gas to fill our tanks for the trip your goods are so much cheaper that it still saves us money. We just have to be careful crossing back into Canada…or we will get stung with duty charges!!! That’s our government for ya ;)

Posted by: gigi | September 29, 2008, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm

Go JEN !!!
See all you B L I N D dems…follow Jen’s lead…get smart people !!

Posted by: Carrie | September 29, 2008, 7:59 pm 7:59 pm

“I know some of you got a little damp,” Obama told the audience gathered in the school quad. “I’d like to cover everybody’s dry cleaning bill here tonight, but I can’t because I got to use it on the campaign, so consider it one more modest contribution to our efforts to change the country.”
What an arrogant putz. He might want to consider what they thought when he said this…

Posted by: ken | September 29, 2008, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm

There’s a silent vote,a bubba vote and
a redneck vote out there.Those voters
they don’t vote on primaries BUT they
vote in november…..
Yeah, the same voters who gave us Bush. McLame/Palin will definitely get the moron vote.

Posted by: HeavyHitter | September 29, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm

Obama is a communist. He is a student of a communist. His father was a communist, his mother was a communist. His role models were all communists. He’s the messiah of a failed political system. The only people who follow this rat are mindless drones.

Posted by: Redlum | September 29, 2008, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm

“Yeah, the same voters who gave us Bush. McLame/Palin will definitely get the moron vote.”
Moron vote? Obama has got a lock on that one. The canidate with no track record that he will admit too. Oprah told to idiots to vote for him so you follow like lemmings. Tell the truth: You hate republicans so vote for Obama. That’s all you got. You are the haters and the race baiters. Good luck in Nov., Jackass.

Posted by: Chris D. | September 29, 2008, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

Rainin’ on Barry’s parade for sure…
Remember it’s the Dems who are responsible for this economic meltdown! They are behind Fannie and Freddie. You can Google it and see clearly that Barney Frank and Chris Dodd received huge checks from them.
Franklin Raines former CEO of Fannie Mae, was behind much of the bad policies that caused this current meltdown. Mr. Raines is now Barack Hussein Obama’s chief economic advisor.
Pretty scary!

Posted by: JD | September 29, 2008, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

Tell me one thing Obama has done to improve life/this country for all Americans! John McCain offerred a bill 2 years ago to have more oversite on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The committee hearing is available of tape. There is all his glory is Barney Frank and the other dems indignent that the republicans would say there needed to be more oversite. They said there were no problems. Hear their own words! McCain puts country first. We might not be in this situation had the dems not blocked Mac’s bill in committee!

Posted by: Angry Old White Woman | September 29, 2008, 8:16 pm 8:16 pm

Somebody give the idiot a raincoat!
————————————-
NYT 2003 when Bush proposed a new regulatory agency for Fannie and Freddie:
”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3D6123BF932A2575AC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print

Posted by: Typical White Person | September 29, 2008, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm

JR,
I now have to decide between electing a liar (Obama) or listening to morons like you (JR) call people liars if they do not. I’ll just listen to you (JR) and other morons who use the word LIAR. Remember folks, everytime you see an Obama supporter, look for the word LIAR. The Obama campaign gave their supporters one syllable words like LIAR to use on blogs since most Obama supporters really do have low IQs. Seriously. Go to one of their campaigns. Case in point. Uh, ah, eh, duh…. These Obama supporters are hilarious and pathetic.

Posted by: DRH | September 29, 2008, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm

“The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, Barack Obama played to a crowd…blah blah blah”
How low has reporting gone to make the elections sound like a stripper wannabe is running for the presidency?
I can see the headlines now…can’ help myself…ha ha
“In office Barry, donned in an Armani g-string, with Michelle at his side, clad in an Versace dominatrix outfit, signed the bill to raise taxes. Biden’s comment on this was: “how patriotic of them…now I need to check on my brain aneurysms…”

Posted by: Carrie | September 29, 2008, 8:21 pm 8:21 pm

Turkey farmers have to keep them out of the rain because they are so stupid they look up to see what hit them on the head and literally drown from the water pouring into their beaks.
Hmmmm?

Posted by: KoKoMo | September 29, 2008, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm

JR and other Retards,
Just foolin’ around with you. Liar has 2-3 syllables depending on whether you you pronounce the “r” in LIAR as an “r” or as “are-a.” Hee, hee.

Posted by: DRH | September 29, 2008, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm

Listen everyone this page of posts is massive and we need to really just chill on the whole thing,
two words
MCCAIN*PALIN

Posted by: Michael Cunningham | September 29, 2008, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm

Although McCain did miss numerous opportunities to put the bite on Obama’s ridiculous and ill-conceived plan to increase spending, it DOES NOT mean that Obama has closed the deal. It is a real possibility that he might be able to win the election though. With the help George Souros and the bobble-headed media, he’s a force to be reckoned with. Ya gotta wonder, how people can be so gullible, yet somehow it is not surprising.

Posted by: KoKoMo | September 29, 2008, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm

Joe is gonna blow a hole in Sarah’s world the minute she opens her mouth with that ‘eat your vegtables’ voice of hers.
This is the best the Republicans got?
Goodbye once and for all Republican Party, dont let the door hit you in the ass on the way out of existence.

Posted by: Dutch | September 29, 2008, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm

KoKoMo,
McCain was allowing Obama make an a-s out of himself without interrupting. McCain knows what he is doing… : )

Posted by: Carrie | September 29, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

This election is clear evidence of why we should repeal the 19th amendment.

Posted by: jim bob | September 29, 2008, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

Talk is cheap look at results. The Republicans controlled all branches of government only twice in the last 100 years. The first time under Hoover they gave us 1929 and the great depression. Then with Bush they did it again bringing the country to the brink of economic collapse.
The Republicans talk small government and fiscal responsibility. But they have grown government bigger and spent more in the last 8 years then all the Democratic presidents combined. Fortunately no one is buying the Republican BS anymore now that they have gotten to see the bumbling incompetence and corruption that Republicans call governance.
Equity markets, income growth, employment and the economy all do better under Democrats historically for a reason.

Posted by: franco | September 29, 2008, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

In the rain, shirt clinging to body… like Andy Dufrasne in Shawshank
He’s definitely got the foul-smelling sh!t all around him

Posted by: jode | September 29, 2008, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

McCain can’t seal the deal with his own party. THEY HATE HIM! He had to resort to begging Newt for help, and Newt forced him to put Whalin Palin on the ticket to appease the righties. Too bad she wasn’t vetted OR INTERVIEWD by McPain in advance. Maverdick move #1 FAIL.
Then he takes Obama nonpartisan bailout message and decides he will marverdick it up by pulling a stunt. Too bad he relied on the House Repubs who hate his old wrinkly a0s. MAVERDICK move #2 = FAIL.
I even forgot “we’re all Georgians.” MAVERDICK move #3 = FAIL.
3 strikes Maverdick, you’re out.

Posted by: Mariane Pepitone | September 29, 2008, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm

Maverdick move #4: 10 town halls = FAIL
Maverdick move #5: I am proud of my PAris Hilton ad
Maverdick move #6: FUndamentals of the economy are sound
3 strikes, you’re out

Posted by: Mariane Pepitone | September 29, 2008, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm

I used to really like Senator McCain. I think its great that a member of the Repub party could stand up to Bush. I never realized he was willing to cash all his “maverick” credit in to try and win an election. I am very dissapointed. More so that he cannot win.

Posted by: Lois, CO | September 29, 2008, 8:54 pm 8:54 pm

I used to really like Senator McCain. I think its great that a member of the Repub party could stand up to Bush. I never realized he was willing to cash all his “maverick” credit in to try and win an election. I am very dissapointed. More so that he cannot win.

Posted by: Lois, CO | September 29, 2008, 8:54 pm 8:54 pm

As stated before, it does not matter whether a candidate is blue, purple, green, or pastel orange, it matters if the candidate is suited to lead a country.
Mccain is the real deal.
Pelosi , a Democrat, screwed up Wall Street this morning….isn’t that fantastic you BLIND puppet following whiners.
Now, for those who enjoy using racial cards, these facts are for you:
Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and
6.25% African Negro from his father’s side….
The question no one wants to answer – particularly Mr. Obama and his
supporters, is, “Why do you think he has an Arabic name? Why does his father
have an Arabic name? Why does every ancestor on his father’s side have an Arabic
name?”
The answer is obvious: They have Arabic names because his father’s side of
the family tree is Arabic.
Need proof?
Research the Kenyan records for yourself. You will find that his father was officially classified as “Arab African” by the Kenyan government.
The greatest accomplishment of Obama’s career has been convincing African-Americans – the descendants of slaves – that he is one of them, even 50% one of them, when he has NOTHING in common with a single one of them.
FACT: Obama is a Kenyan-America – of chiefly Muslim Arab origins.
If this is NO BIG DEAL, then why doesn’t Obama tell the truth about it?

Posted by: Carrie | September 29, 2008, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm

Go Obama! I can’t wait to vote…there has got to be some kind of hope for us as a people, of the United States of America.

Posted by: Danp | September 29, 2008, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm

As stated before, it does not matter whether a candidate is blue, purple, green, or pastel orange, it matters if the candidate is suited to lead a country.
Mccain is the real deal.
Pelosi , a Democrat, screwed up Wall Street this morning….isn’t that fantastic you BLIND puppet following whiners.
Now, for those who enjoy using racial cards, these facts are for you:
Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and
6.25% African Negro from his father’s side….
The question no one wants to answer – particularly Mr. Obama and his
supporters, is, “Why do you think he has an Arabic name? Why does his father
have an Arabic name? Why does every ancestor on his father’s side have an Arabic
name?”
The answer is obvious: They have Arabic names because his father’s side of
the family tree is Arabic.
Need proof?
Research the Kenyan records for yourself. You will find that his father was officially classified as “Arab African” by the Kenyan government.
The greatest accomplishment of Obama’s career has been convincing African-Americans – the descendants of slaves – that he is one of them, even 50% one of them, when he has NOTHING in common with a single one of them.
FACT: Obama is a Kenyan-America – of chiefly Muslim Arab origins.
If this is NO BIG DEAL, then why doesn’t Obama tell the truth about it?

Posted by: Carrie | September 29, 2008, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm

Lois, I agree, disappointing (check your spelling!). He also lost all his POW credits by continually playing that card. I watched some of the bios there were showing around the conventions. He used his POW status to get out of that. He trades on peoples caring for a “War hero” for his benefit. That’s no maverick.
No one is particularly talking about McCain not even acknowledging Obama during the debate Obama whipped him in. I think it was racist, or at least a racist message to his base. I do think it had added benefit of being agist as well, playing to his old base.
He must be really proud of himself, playing to old racists.

Posted by: He's gonna focus | September 29, 2008, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm

It is very disappointing that McCain can only resort to racism and scaring people. Look at Intelligent Carrie’s posts. Makes you proud, doesn’t it. Way to go Carrie, you have made us all think (that you are a complete buffoon). I wish you the best at Belleview, loony.

Posted by: Mariane Pepitone | September 29, 2008, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm

Obama is the perfect candidate for those who’s god resides in Washington DC, elect him, send him your money and he’ll take care of your every need. If you think he can pay for all those promises to set up all those programs without using your money,then you are a brainwashed fool. How many times have you haerd them say tax the poor? If none, then why do the poor pay almost fifty percent of what they earn to the government. When your children are small it dosen’t take as much to feed them as it does when they grow up, same with the government, when it grows it takes more to feed it,thus less food for you. God is Governments only competition, the less God in society, the more government is required, people cease to govern themselves, calling for mans government to do it for them. Several things are wrong with this picture, you set them up as gods over your life, where you turn to them for your every need, which corrupts them, because you’ve given them the power of God over your life, which makes them feel like a god. Afterall,you’ve given them that authority over you. God in heaven asks for ten percent you choose to give them fifty plus percent (taxes (import and domestic), licenses, permits, tags, inspections, etc). You chose to tax the wealthy to fund your caretaking god thinking it won’t effect you. When your buddy gets laid off, your workload gets increased, the price of the product or service you’re producing or consuming goes up or the business you work for goes out of business, you’ll be the one wondering why. God in heaven is probably going to be real proud of you. If politics was a sport and the media was the referee, siding with one team all the time, it would be hung from the goal posts. Republicans are Americans also, and most of US don’t care about color or gender, we care about content.

Posted by: DEF | September 29, 2008, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm

Wow. Have you read through some of these posts? I guess it’s indicative of the one who is losing (or lost) to behave this way. What I don’t understand is why people continue to back him? It’s obvious he has no economic credibility. He’s doing things to show action, but it looks like he’s a chicken running around with his head cut off. I do think he’s pretty good at the tactics of the war, but he doesn’t show any ability to frame it in the larger context of the why, whats and whens. And blasting Obama over admitting the surge worked? Maybe when Mccain admits he was wrong to want to go fight in the first place … not admitting that is muc much more concerning. And frankly, Obama did tell Bill Reilly that it worked, who doesn’t believe you put more troops somewhere conditions will get better, but what do you do now, McCain has to leave them all there. And then all this COld War talk from him and those horrible Palin interviews. It’s just not going to work out John.

Posted by: Lois, CO | September 29, 2008, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

Lois, McCain is not a “big thinker” if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Mariane Pepitone | September 29, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm

Get a room and keep us out of your rain dime novel descriptions. He was probably no smoking too many cancer sticks that night, too bad the only thing missing is the daper smoker decried in such loving terms

Posted by: jdmccl | September 29, 2008, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm

Mariane Pepitone,
AAAhhhh speak for yourself Daaahling….
You definitely are an angry person. I was NOT resorting to racism if you actually know how to read… and understand l e t t e r s.
All I was saying was to those who DO enjoy the race card, which there are some in these posts,to see for themselves that Obama should not even mention what ethnicity he is. He is 50 % white for pete’s sake and he plays that he is African American….gimme a break!
PLEASE dear Mariane, make yourself look more intelligent… : )

Posted by: Carrie | September 29, 2008, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm

DEF, you are deaf. why dont you go post this on america’s most watched news network, fixed news. dim wit

Posted by: Mariane Pepitone | September 29, 2008, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm

Carrie, I do not care 2 shakes for your opinion, frankly, or how racist you are, which obviously you are. McCain played race in the debates to appease his base. All this subliminal racism is just another symptom that McCain’s own party hates his guts and he has to win them over. Too bad he loses an independent for every right winger he wins. It doesn’t matter what mix of what in anybody. If you didn’t just immigrate to US from Finland, you have black in you, baby, enjoy that.

Posted by: Mariane Pepitone | September 29, 2008, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm

Response to Ambrose Pearce
I must say, your conclusions are arrogantly breathtaking in both scope and certitude. While E=MC2 may have been self-evident to Einstein he was still expected to “show his work”
“SELF-EVIDENT, adj. Evident to one’s self and to nobody else” Ambrose Bierce in his Devil’s Dictionary.

Posted by: Kelly Scott | September 29, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm

What’s more impressive than the (obvioulsy gushing) review of “Obama in the Rain” is that 30,000 people hunf out in it to get some hope that the past 8 years and the 4 more McCain’s suggesting won’t demolish us all.
VOTE HOPE
VOTE OBAMA

Posted by: Carl I-can | September 29, 2008, 9:16 pm 9:16 pm

OMG…WHITE SHIRT CLINGING TO HIS BODY!!!! I’M GONNA CUMMMMMMMM

Posted by: WOW | September 29, 2008, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm

Now I won’t vote fo dat McCain dude cuz lyke he will cut out our wearfare check smf food stamps yo know wut im sayn?. I’m telln my momma to vote for Obama.

Posted by: Dave | September 29, 2008, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm

Mariane, I don’t mind talking to you, but at least make sense about you say. Most people that really don’t know how to defend their positions resort to anger. But you are right I am kind of a dimwit, I have sat back and let you establish your god in Washington DC that I have to help fund. I supose you do also, unless you are recieving a check for us

Posted by: DEF | September 29, 2008, 9:21 pm 9:21 pm

I’m a dope
So I’ll vote for Obama

Posted by: goof | September 29, 2008, 9:21 pm 9:21 pm

Mariane,
You are a VERY angry sad person, go to anger management classes before you blow.
You stoop desperately low to call me racist…I am FAR from that…so try another hit sweetie.

Posted by: Carrie | September 29, 2008, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm

I was certain that Barack Obama would have been the savior of this current economic mess with a brilliant analysis and a sound financial plan that would be beneficial to the American people. I am sadly disappointed in the man, and I fear he is, as he has been described, an empty suit with a glib tongue, fixated on placing blame for the turmoil, while John McCain pleads for a sane decision by both parties. I fear I must go with McCain/Palin in the interest of our country.

Posted by: Arthur | September 29, 2008, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm

Race card being played by the Obamanations, racists yourselves you be. As a immigrant, communists are bad, they ruin people and countries. Socialists are just closet communists. No to Obamanation/Beendumb, demonrats created this financial mess,now the same demonrats claim they canfix it. What a hoot!!!

Posted by: Krystopf | September 29, 2008, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm

Warren Buffet Supports Barack Obama.

Posted by: Kelly Scott | September 29, 2008, 9:26 pm 9:26 pm

Sure, Barack may lose a small percentage of votes to the “race” factor, but those will easily be made up for by the people who will turn away from the lies and deceit of John McCain and his campaign.

Posted by: chuck | September 29, 2008, 9:26 pm 9:26 pm

Again and let it sink in: Warren Buffet advises & supports Barack Obama. Adjust your economic arguments to fit that reality or take your bumper sticker theories back to your caves.

Posted by: Kelly Scott | September 29, 2008, 9:31 pm 9:31 pm

I just love how ol Mariane responds to every anti-Obama post with nastiness and name-calling.
No facts or cogent rebuttal, mind you. Just schoolyard taunts.
I wonder why that is?

Posted by: Porky | September 29, 2008, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm

I’m young and have little experience. I don’t know history nor world events. I’m too lazy to do any research to see how either candidate has voted in the past or what they’ve accomplished. I like slogans that don’t mean much and are pretty general. Hope and change …. hmmm I don’t know what kind of change so I’ll assume it is good change. Hope …. I hope the government takes care of me.Let’s see … the candidate for me is Obama even though I have no earthly clue what bills he’s ever authored or if he has ever changed anything. I’m clueless … so he’s the right choice for me(he’s young and cute with really big ears … looks like the kid who shined my shoes once ….that’s good enough for me )

Posted by: goof | September 29, 2008, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm

Hi , everybody . I like Obama. Do you like him too?

Posted by: goof | September 29, 2008, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm

Arthur, may I suggest that in the interest of the country that you light yourself on fire or otherwise get out of the gene pool.

Posted by: Kelly Scott | September 29, 2008, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm

I got a bracelet too!… uh uh uh, sergeant… uh

Posted by: Dirk | September 29, 2008, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm

Obama just compleltly turns you “journalists” and Obamanites on. The constant orgasms over this dude are nauseating. Gross.

Posted by: ObamaCon | September 29, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm

Obama just completely turns you “journalists” and Obamanites on. The constant orgasms over this dude are nauseating. Gross.

Posted by: ObamaCon | September 29, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm

“Kelly Scott”s answer to Arthur is the prototypical liberal answer to every criticism of Obama. Light himself on fire?
Amazingly despicable.

Posted by: Porky | September 29, 2008, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm

I’d vote for her, hell she has more balls than McCain does.
STill, you have to admit – neither party is ready to lead the country. So once again We US CITIZENS ARE SCREWED.

Posted by: Scott D | September 29, 2008, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm

Why doesn’t Obama borrow the money to fix the economy. Or use his credit card. He is smart. I think he made A’s in school. I’ll vote for him. He’s got nice bumper stickers and I like the way he hold his chin up when he reads his speeches and keeps his head going left then right then left then right …. looks like the little dog I have sitting the back winshield of my car. Guess he does that cause he is really important.

Posted by: goof | September 29, 2008, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm

Before I go…
Rock on McCain/Palin !!
May everyone on these posts have sweet dreams…even Ms. Arsonist, Kelly…..

Posted by: Carrie | September 29, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm

I am a retired journalism professor whonever donated to a presidential campaign. Because of John McCain’s very sleazy campaigning and because of his ridiculous choice for vp, I will proudly vote for the Obama/Biden ticket. John McCain has putting winning first, otherwise he would never have picked anyone with absolutely no knowledge of the national or world scene. When first asked about Iraq, she answered that she never gave it much thought. Anyone voting for McCain
at this point in time is just not looking at the whole picture.

Posted by: Cathy | September 29, 2008, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm

I am a retired journalism professor whonever donated to a presidential campaign. Because of John McCain’s very sleazy campaigning and because of his ridiculous choice for vp, I will proudly vote for the Obama/Biden ticket. John McCain has putting winning first, otherwise he would never have picked anyone with absolutely no knowledge of the national or world scene. When first asked about Iraq, she answered that she never gave it much thought. Anyone voting for McCain
at this point in time is just not looking at the whole picture.

Posted by: Cathy | September 29, 2008, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm

My freind says that I should do some research to see if Obama is the right choice. I told him I don’t have to. Obama is a Democrat and that is good enough for me. He will give us hope and change and some free stuff too.

Posted by: goof | September 29, 2008, 9:50 pm 9:50 pm

Mark my words. John McCain will be the next president of the United States of America. The End.
ps. Ok liberals, now you people can get back to spewing your lies. LOL…Oh I forgot…you’re voting for a liar. LOL

Posted by: Killian | September 29, 2008, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm

Did any members of the media suffer an orgasm while watching obamas shirt get wet and expose his flesh? Sounds like at least one went back to their hotel room and had their way with themself… man…Journalism is DEAD in 2008.. talk about being in the bag for a candidate.

Posted by: Tom | September 29, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm

Porky, if you in fact had any interest in facts or cogent rebuttal you wouldn’t mistake puerile rhetorical questions for legitimate argument or persuasive rejoinders.
As for Goof,satire is rarely a weapon appropriate for Republicans. Buckley and O’Rourke being exceptions.Use them as your a guide in your progress. Until ten, if you can’t be bright, try polite.

Posted by: Kelly Scott | September 29, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm

So Kathy, Obama gained his vast “national or world scene” experience by what, being elected a Senator 2 years ago? That’s pretty much all he’s got, and it amounts to zero.
Seriously, I guess journalism professors didn’t have to use logic much….
Then again, we probably have you to thank for all the hard-nosed, fair and balanced reporters and writers we have today…
Good job.

Posted by: Porky | September 29, 2008, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm

I guess this finally shows that he is just too dumb to come in out of the rain.

Posted by: Daryl | September 29, 2008, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm

I am polite. I haven’t called anybody any names. Not even to the old guy McCain. I’m not a Republican. I’m an Independent. But I like Obama. He looks like a nice fellow

Posted by: goof | September 29, 2008, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm

How can we expect the media not to be in the bag for Obama? He’s running against a skeleton on life-support and a stupid floozie.

Posted by: CTSadler | September 29, 2008, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm

And you thought Saddam Hussein was dead!
He has been resurrected as Barack Hussein Obama LOOK OUT AMERICANS, Commi-Muslims
are trying to take over!!!!!!!!!!!
Vote Obama and Vote for Terrorism.
WAKE UP and stop being brainwashed!

Posted by: DJS | September 29, 2008, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm

Lemmings. Blind, unthinking lemmings.

Posted by: Elsa | September 29, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm

Lemmings. Blind, unthinking lemmings.

Posted by: Elsa | September 29, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm

1. Where is ABC News investigative report on Obamas ties to and an expose on Sal Alinski, Obamas political mentor , professed satan worshipper, and Anti-American Marxist Obama identifies in his own book?
2. Where is ABCNews Investigative report on Obama’s relationship and co-chairmanship with William Ayers the Anti-American terrorist who attempted ot blow up the Pentagon, and whose wife blew up a police staion in which police were MURDERED?
3. Where is ABCNews investigative report on Obamas anti-american pastor of 20 years Rev (sic) Wright…who verbally berates America and whites in the most degrading and hateful of ways?
Folks are you seeing a trend here?
a. Obamas infatuation with all things ANTI_AMERICAN, and
b. ABC News inability to disguise they are working for the Obama campaign..oh if you havent heard any of these things read Obamas own books??? So dont think these came from a swift boater they came from Obama himself….but the News Media doesnt want you to know…they think you are idiots..personally, if you dont look into these people and Obama and see them for how seriously bad for America (agter all they are DEVOUT SELF PROFESSED ANTIAMERICANS) then there is something wrong with you.

Posted by: Jim | September 29, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm

What is Mr. Change trying to pull another cheap stunt and part the rain drops? Obama0-Biden – Losermen 2008

Posted by: Willy Brown | September 29, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

DJS – What do you mean brainwashed? Look at Obamas pretty bumper stickers and all his cool slogans. Isn’t that enough to make you vote for him?

Posted by: goof | September 29, 2008, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm

Sorry, Kelly Scott, I guess suggesting someone should kill themselves “for the good of the country” just doesn’t fit my definition of a childish comment. There is something wrong with a person who would say that.
No, after reading your other posts, I stand by my original opinion.
Despicable.

Posted by: Porky | September 29, 2008, 10:15 pm 10:15 pm

Did the writers of this story also blow kisses up to Obama as the rain dripped softy off their foreheads? This messiah-ing of Obama is sickening!

Posted by: Greg | September 29, 2008, 10:19 pm 10:19 pm

If this election Dosn’t expose the media for what they are nothing will and if it dosn’t wake up the ones whom they’ve indoctrinated (brain washed) nothing will. Even in their own personal lives they seek varying opionions of a happening seeking truth. But for some incoherent reason they give the tv/newspaper media unchallenged and indisputable credit for getting it right. NEWS= information from all perspectives and all directions “North East West South”= NEWS. Somehow I think we are being short changed by the media. In my belief I think they are trying to rig the election. If not before they need to state their political affiliation before giving us their opinion under the disguise of being neutral.

Posted by: DEF | September 29, 2008, 10:19 pm 10:19 pm

Who paid for Obama’s Harvard education? Anyone know?
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=305508174916939
Could a Obama supporter answer to this?

Posted by: hazel | September 29, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm

CTSadler,
Oh you mean the John McCain that fought for his Country, nearly gave his life for her, was so disabled by his torture wounds, that by the way..he didnt get from ladies panties being hung over his head..but I digress, so disabled that he CANT use a computer because he cant keep his arms up for any period of time. is that the skeleton you refere too? And as for sarah palin, you mean the Sarah Palin that has more leadership experience in a week as a mayor and in a day as a Governor, than Barak has at all! barak has avoided his duty station and dedication to work and country for the past two jobs he has worked, In Illinios he found it “nice” to be able to not show up to vote and in four years in the US Senate Obama has only sat in his chair 135 times…1/3 of a year..talk about a resume..what a loser..but you wouldnt notice since your too busy with your hand in your pants pleasuring your tingly feelings as you watch Obamas shirt get wet in the rain. Pathetic.

Posted by: Tom | September 29, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm

I’m sure that you Obama supporters are essentially nice people, perhaps a bit challenged when it comes to any minimal level of critical thinking, but nice none the less. Oh course the same could be said for the brainless multitudes that elected Hitler…

Posted by: Dave Demos | September 29, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm

Where did you go Porky? by all means present your argument and I’ll reply in kind.
Carrie, my acidic response to Arthur was proportionate to his comment, but you don’t really care much for reason do you? Mr. Kelly says may the sweetness of your dreams be in proportion to the sweetness of your thoughts.

Posted by: Kelly Scott | September 29, 2008, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm

Does anyone know: has Barack Hussein Obama stopped using drugs? Did he use hashish? I remember those commercials showing the brain on drugs, with eggs frying in a pan. (check web videos) Is it possible to get those fried eggs back in a complete shell or is it forever cracked? What are the long-term effects? Isn’t the use of cannabis linked to psychosis? Check the scientific literature.

Posted by: WorkDiscernLife | September 29, 2008, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm

Obama lacks any credibility when it comes to economics!! Franklin Raines, former Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae, is NOW Obama’s economic advisor. So, Obama is getting advice on what to do about the failure of Fannie Mae from the same man who cooked the books to make it fail! Talk about CHANGE??? Sounds like the same old Washington politics to me!!!! Obama is two-faced.

Posted by: Mary | September 29, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm

If you think Obama won the debate then I seriously doubt you watched the debate.
I never cease to be amazed at the hateful and nasty comments posted on the internet by Liberals, it is indeed despicable. A reason why my late father who had been a life long Democrat, changed to the Republican party the last years of his life.

Posted by: Madge Owens | September 29, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm

Here in Canada…we are PROUD to support President Obama…he will be OUR President as well!! CANADA for OBAMA ~ Y-E-S Y-O-U C-A-N !!!!!

Posted by: Valerie | September 29, 2008, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm

Oh incidentally, isn’t it strange that the blog for the “unbiased” ABC website is infested with liberals. I’ll bet Putin will use ABC as a model for the new and improved Pravda and we certainly can match the former Soviet Union in the number of folks who cling to failed ideologies such as Socialism. I truly wish that Obama becomes your dictator. I regret he may presume himself to be mine. The difference between a free person and a slave I suppose…

Posted by: Dave Demos | September 29, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

I call this race The decorated war veteran soldier vs. the “HERO of the stupid” Marxist. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. To be an Obama supporter requires the willing suspension of all FACTS. Yer boy aint qualified, he has never done anything, never ran anything, and frankly looks and sounds like aprepubescent teenager whose about to be elected class president of his junior high school..and almost has the same experience level of your average 14 year old boyscout. John McCain aint the best..especially if your a conservative, but one thing is for sure, he will certainly shake things up where they need to be shaken up. He just may not do what his voters want him to do..he never has…in fact if people werent so short minded they would remember that LIBERALS were in love with John McCain before he announced his presidency, the NYTimes endorsed him..that says it all!

Posted by: Jim | September 29, 2008, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm

Obama is a hollow man, he can fill himself with whatever you want him to be, because he knows that once he gets power, he can use it as he pleases. He realizes his power over people just by speaking. The only word he has to utter is change and the people flock at his feet….Some in the media have to feel guilty for what they are doing. All other professions on earth you get differing opinions, but in the media they all arrive at the same opinion. That should make some people at least scratch their heads.

Posted by: DEF | September 29, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm

Hey Tom,
Your proving how smart Obama really is. He has become a millionaire with out having to do any real work or have any real experience. He doesn’t have to do much of anything but read a telepromter,look good in a suit and try to sound inteligent. He is still getting paid to represent Illinios while galavanting around the country trying to get his next gig.
You’ve got to give it to him. Gotta be smart to be able to con yourself into a gig like that. That’s why I’m supporting him!!!

Posted by: goof | September 29, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm

Hey Valerie, Since you claim he will be you canadians President, why dont YOU GUYS elect him…after all Canada does nothing useful in the world, what could Obama hurt there? LOLOLOLOLOLOL My God canadians are dim whitted. They act like they are sofisticated, but the fact is if it wasnt for Americans EXACTLTY the OPPOSITE of OBAMA (aka Patriots and heros) Canada wouldnt exist, it took American BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS to Keep america free and all canada had to do was sit there like the useless idiots they are.

Posted by: Tom | September 29, 2008, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm

OF COURSE Canada Loves Obama, he is a Socialist and thats what you people are suffering under up ther, misery loves company……….

Posted by: To Valerie the idiot | September 29, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

I’ll bet the real reason the Chosen One cut his speech short was because he couldn’t see his teleprompters.

Posted by: Ralphie | September 29, 2008, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm

On November 5th, all of the “I’m positive McCain and Palin are going to win in a landslide” people are going to be here defending all of their posts, right?

Posted by: Nov5th | September 29, 2008, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm

hey goof,
You idolize Hate America First politician who got rich by stealing money from the American taxpayer to get ahead for his own personal gain. See goof for Obama to have gotten to where he is as a MARXIST (did you know he is a self proffesed Marxist?…oh Marxists are the dudes our fathers fought on the battlefields of Europe , you know the dudes who oppress the people by taking their money and giving to those who dont do anything..redistribution of wealth)..Most Americans have parents that fled countries with that ideology, yet you in all your wisdom and liberal education system think hes a pretty cool guy..dontcha? man are you gonna get a rude surprise.. a proper reward for your ignorance..see thats why we make candidates reveal all their records so we can see who the guy is..Obama had no record to release he hasnt done anything, all we have is his books he wrote and his friends..his ANTI-AMERICAN friends..so goof go ahead vpote for a guy who told you he was going to bring change..you just assumed it was ..good change…because you were too lazy to look into who BVarak Hussein Obama really is, now zip up and back away from our fathers, grandfathers and great granfathers and FOUNDERS graves, your done urinating on them now move on. pathetic..perfect name choice goof.

Posted by: Tom | September 29, 2008, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm

If you have the slightest clue as to how thoroughly and systemically corrupt Chicago and Illinois are and have been for half a century, then you see the tip of the iceberg Obama. He abused his constituents as a “community organizer” and state senator and left the poverty and violence in Chicago worse than he found it. The state he supposedly represents (when he’s not writing a memoir or runnign for president or visiting Kenya)is corrupt and running a huge deficit, and his friends are all under investigation or guilty already. He is a con artist and wants to “organize” our nation the way he “organized” the “communities” in Chicago he left in ruins. Crisis is a political opportunity to him. He wants to save you. I find it hard to believe he feels any real alliegence to America.

Posted by: jacko | September 29, 2008, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm

If you have the slightest clue as to how thoroughly and systemically corrupt Chicago and Illinois are and have been for half a century, then you see the tip of the iceberg Obama. He abused his constituents as a “community organizer” and state senator and left the poverty and violence in Chicago worse than he found it. The state he supposedly represents (when he’s not writing a memoir or runnign for president or visiting Kenya)is corrupt and running a huge deficit, and his friends are all under investigation or guilty already. He is a con artist and wants to “organize” our nation the way he “organized” the “communities” in Chicago he left in ruins. Crisis is a political opportunity to him. He wants to save you. I find it hard to believe he feels any real alliegence to America.

Posted by: jacko | September 29, 2008, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm

Good has some good points. Obama makes me swoon so I think I’ll vote for him. After all, 10,000,000 lemmings can’t be wrong. Right?

Posted by: Ralphie | September 29, 2008, 10:58 pm 10:58 pm

I’m tired of the republican’s pointing out all of the times Obama said he agreed with McCain. If you were paying attention, his agreements were with issues where the answer was so obvious that any reasonable intelligent person would agree to it whether they were Democrat or Republican. It was like McCain would say Iran should not be allowed to have Nuclear weapons, obviously Obama is going to agree with this. Give me a break!

Posted by: MG | September 29, 2008, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm

Posted by: Tuffy | September 29, 2008, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm

For now on, by decree of the ONE, we are barring use of the word “RIGHT”. for now on when someone says something correct, you will say “LEFT”. There will ALSO be some sweeping changes in Congress, there will only be the left side of the aisle, I have commanded it it, hence it will be done …after you all send in all your wages so i can redistribute to the poor (me). Also no more White Churches are allowed and I have a few faithful sheriffs who will serve as my new ministers of free thought police..there will be no free thought allowed, especially from lefties…formerly known as righties.
Sign by declaration of The One:
Barak Hussein Obama (Allah Ahkbah!)

Posted by: Tom | September 29, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm

God said not to have strange gods before me. 0bama is about the strangest one I’ve ever seen.
I had hope BEFORE 0bama came around.
He also is “Big Brother” we have all been warned about for so long.
He wants to tell you what to do, and monitor everything you do.

Posted by: CarDriver | September 29, 2008, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm

OBAMA thought he was entering a
Wet T-shirt Contest!

Posted by: Wasn't Me | September 29, 2008, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm

I think whoever wrote this over wrought nonsense should have gotten a wrap on the knuckles in college instead of bring it to a news outlet.
Maybe “People Magazine” would be a good bet. ABC has really dumbed down.

Posted by: linda | September 29, 2008, 11:05 pm 11:05 pm

EEEeeuuw…

Posted by: T Foreman | September 29, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

It’s raining. It’s pouring. Without teleprompter I’m so boring.

Posted by: J. Amoros | September 29, 2008, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm

“In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Say (O Obama) He is God the One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten, nor has been begotten, and equal to Him is not anyone.”

Posted by: Jimm | September 29, 2008, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm

JOZY please get your story staight. McCain and Obama are taling about at the Presidential level. Kissinger has never said the it is okay for our US President to meet with Iran without preconditions. Everyone else below the President is fine.

Posted by: Jenn | September 29, 2008, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm

Slumming tonight, linda? Just here bitterly clinging to my Winchester and Bible

Posted by: jacko | September 29, 2008, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm

The Republicans are the party that wrecked America. Take a look around and check it out for yourself!
Endless wars, economy is tanking, house reposessions. Even Cuba has a better health system than you do! But don’t worry, keep eating cheese doodles and watching Fox News & NASCAR like brain dead morons. People in other countries are laughing at how stupid you are. Wake up, get informed and do something about it. And stop all that bible thumping, it makes everyone scared.

Posted by: Steve in Australia | September 29, 2008, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm

The Republicans are the party that wrecked America. Take a look around and check it out for yourself!
Endless wars, economy is tanking, house reposessions. Even Cuba has a better health system than you do! But don’t worry, keep eating cheese doodles and watching Fox News & NASCAR like brain dead morons. People in other countries are laughing at how stupid you are. Wake up, get informed and do something about it. And stop all that bible thumping, it makes everyone scared.

Posted by: Steve in Australia | September 29, 2008, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm

Well folks the sad fact is, the media, like Obama, knows their power over people, they intend to use that power to persuade the misinformed (brainwashed, by them) to assend Obama to the highest position in our nation. God bless our grandchildren. Read the top of the subject page, it states “Political Radar” That means they are collecting information to help Obama (their man) win. Checking to see how the people feel, so they can tell the hollow man to fill himself with whatever the people want to appease the voters. They (the NEWS people) should be ashamed of themselves, but they aren’t, they’re driving jags and mercedes, living the good life.

Posted by: DEF | September 29, 2008, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm

EEEeeuuw…

Posted by: T Foreman | September 29, 2008, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm

EEEeeuuw…

Posted by: T Foreman | September 29, 2008, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm

It doesn’t seem to matter that Obama is clueless and not qualified to be the presidential canidate, no to mention the policies he does have in place aren’t clearly explained, but if he’s elected we won’t really have a president. I’m sure he’ll take credit for the recovering economy or if they kill Bin Laden of which he won’t be in charge of.
He won’t be a leader, he’s a star, a golden goose that lays sour eggs. It’s insulting that this guy was put up as a presidential canidate and even more so that he gets to capitalize on all this misery.
But if this comes to pass, I believe that most of us and those that will wake up should wear T-shirts with Obama’s image on it and say ‘not my president’ and also ‘We Have No President’ which will be more to the point.
This is ridiculous.

Posted by: Alex | September 29, 2008, 11:24 pm 11:24 pm

Mariann Pepitone,
So you aren’t voting for McCain because of Palin (and her anti-American tendencies in the AIP)? I didn’t realize she was white-hating and racist at the same time…

Posted by: Sal | September 29, 2008, 11:39 pm 11:39 pm

Obama is going to win cause he’s got all the smart people like me voting for him. He’s also very handsome. Just look at those ears. You know what they say about men with big ears ….arrggggh
Go Obama!!!

Posted by: goof | September 29, 2008, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

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*•. .•* *McCain/Palin o8!!
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Posted by: Todd | September 29, 2008, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

Obama worked hard and studied hard to get where he is today.
McCain’s academic record is worse than Bush’s. And instead of working, McCain simply dumped his first wife to marry a wealthy elite heiress.
As a hard working person, I have a lot more in common with Obama than McCain.

Posted by: Chet | September 29, 2008, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm

Mariann, we are not your enemy, unless you are a millionare like Obama and the people of the media and of the same mindset of those. If not then all we are trying to do is to let you know that there IS another way of looking at things that mightmaks a little sense if you would at least stop for a second and evaluate it instead of just pushing it aside …as the media would like you to do.

Posted by: DEF | September 29, 2008, 11:52 pm 11:52 pm

What about his nipples?? Inquiring minds want to know!

Posted by: blurboob | September 29, 2008, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm

Palin and McCain, now liars perfect together. Did McCain stay 3 extra months in nam for political reasons? Semper Fi, mac

Posted by: Henry Wener | September 30, 2008, 12:00 am 12:00 am

If McCain Palin win in November.. I am leaving this country and never comming back. Sarah Palin is the biggest joke to politics this world has ever seen. In John McCains picking of her, it shows his superior lack of judgement… Do we really want this man running this country? If he wins.. he will not be runnig my country.. because I’ll be a true Maverick and get the F out…
obama/biden 08

Posted by: mit | September 30, 2008, 12:07 am 12:07 am

LOL… so when is he going to part the waves and heal our souls?
Honestly this article reads like a 12yr old psycho girl reading teenbeat and pineing for the latest candy-coated heart throb boy-toy (think scott bao circa 1981)
Get a grip and grow a pair ABC, you USED to be the most respectable clown in the MSM circus.

Posted by: Jim Browdy | September 30, 2008, 12:07 am 12:07 am

Heaps of pretty broad charges there Steve-o. Perhaps you’d like to enlighten us with the details. You seem to have a very narrow, prejudiced view of America. All I can say is “Australia Australia don’t become…….Europe!” Cheers
Chet if you consider community organizing hard work you are wrong. It is a con game and political deals. It’s not real work.
Funny Obama talks about how bad the Bush years have been but since 2000 he’s become a millionaire, got his wife a $300k job, gotten millions in earmarks, bought a mansion, written his memoirs, and seen the world…all on our dime! I’m sorry, he’s the exception. He is destined to be wealthy and powerful that he may save us from the terrible situation we didn’t even know we were in until he came along.

Posted by: jacko | September 30, 2008, 12:10 am 12:10 am

Have at it. Elect the elitist snob who tells you that America is a great country while he pals around with America-hating radicals. Elect the guy who says the last eight years are the soup lines of 29 when Biden claims FDR was on TV telling us about it, but when Ms. Obama was knocking down 300K per year. Elect the guy who has no executive experience, no senatorial experience beyond rookie, no military experience, but reads a teleprompter full of George Soros sophistries. But you can tell your children when they are taxed at 80%, living with you when they are 45, that you were so taken you had a Chris Matthews leg tingle when you saw him in the rain. I didn’t know insanity was a national epidemic.

Posted by: Edge | September 30, 2008, 12:10 am 12:10 am

Yes Goof…I now see the light, and the pretty bumperstickers and cool slogans, I have become an Obama-ite. Heads bow and Thank Ala!!!!!
Kind of like being a Stepford Wife if you ask me.

Posted by: DJS | September 30, 2008, 12:12 am 12:12 am

Hey Chet — we don’t know Obama’s academic records in college … he won’t releae them. But we do know that he was a C student in High School. Just like me.
But he sure is cute. Him and his ears….

Posted by: goof | September 30, 2008, 12:12 am 12:12 am

LOL…Steve that’s why you are down under, we’ve heard about your problems also, please keep them there, Republicans are responsible for everything that goes wrong in this country the same as the ones responsible for the problems in your country is blaming it’s other party for your troubles. Dems here control our senate and congress but it’s the republicans fault, so the media says, so that must be true for people with shallow minds. As for the Bible thumping thumping… that’s what made this a great Nation, it’s when we turned away from it that we weakened

Posted by: DEF | September 30, 2008, 12:17 am 12:17 am

Was this ABC guy masterbating to a picture of Obama when he wrote this crap?

Posted by: bubba smith | September 30, 2008, 12:21 am 12:21 am

RON PAUL WRITE IN BOMB!!!
Lie to the media, tell only your friends, family and coworkers to WRITE IN RON PAUL election day.
Fool the pollsters, fool the politicians, opinion seekers and drop the write in bomb election day!!!
Let’s turn this ship around!

Posted by: Greg | September 30, 2008, 12:22 am 12:22 am

Gotta go to bed folks, have to work to help pay for the inevitable bailout. Would rather be paying for jailhouses, but we know that isn’t going to happen. Keep alert, lest you be indoctrinated. My slogan is “Jail not bail” seize the crooks assets and pay the debts off….simple solution that leaves the taxpayers out of it!

Posted by: DEF | September 30, 2008, 12:29 am 12:29 am

McCain could win despite the vacant Palin. Recall the idiot Reagan, suffering from early onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s, as president. The American public often makes bad decisions. That’s why their so far in debt, and a few of us, like myself, are worth over $100 million and are doing everything possible to keep them poor. Too bad little people Republicans. No stopping me now.

Posted by: Shabba Ranks | September 30, 2008, 12:34 am 12:34 am

Shabba Ranks — I’ve got one over on you … I’m worth $147 million …..

Posted by: goof | September 30, 2008, 12:36 am 12:36 am

Oh man, this story just made me vomit all over my laptop.

Posted by: the Dude | September 30, 2008, 12:38 am 12:38 am

One day the Nation will wake up and realize that Obama was nothing more than media hype. The Nation will ask who is Obama? and will not know. The nation will realize that they were victims alot like consumers watching a Tide commercial, and will be left with a man who has no experience, no accomplishments and no history. Just one problem…. You can not ask for a refund.
Happy voting people !!!!!

Posted by: Tinkers | September 30, 2008, 12:41 am 12:41 am

Shabba Ranks – Just think, we made all this money because Bush wqas the president. It’s only right that we will have to give most of it up if Obama wins …. whether we want to ‘contrtibute’ or not.

Posted by: goof | September 30, 2008, 12:42 am 12:42 am

I’ll say it again.. Sarah Palin is the biggest joke to politics ever. I would rather keep George Bush in office than see that redneck trash even close to running this country.

Posted by: mit | September 30, 2008, 12:45 am 12:45 am

Amazing how well the reporter can type with only one hand. Obvious what he is doing with the other one. Just as obvious that his candidate is on the down low. At least tell Obama that the White House is not the national closet. His wife deserves a man, not a guy that goes to Europe for his big night with the “fellas”.

Posted by: moronpolitics | September 30, 2008, 12:47 am 12:47 am

young people your vote for obama will bring the darkest of times you will ever experience

Posted by: marsi | September 30, 2008, 12:49 am 12:49 am

Since they were in public Joe had to move his own stool. In private, Barry would have been glad to pack it in a little tighter for him.

Posted by: Big John | September 30, 2008, 12:51 am 12:51 am

DEF you are right. G.K. Chesterton: “When you lose the big laws, you don’t get freedom, you don’t even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” European countries gave up their nationalism and their religion and wound up with a 600 page “constitution.” Talk about over-regulation. And a faithless unarmed populace castrated by political correctness is just waiting to die. That’s where Barry Hussein O wants to take us. He’s a citizen of the world remember. Wouldn’t some secret expensive complicated bail-out legislation and a Global Poverty Tax Act be just the thing. The Dems and their friends at the U.N. could be our bank AND our landlord, maybe our employer too, just to make it simple.

Posted by: jacko | September 30, 2008, 12:52 am 12:52 am

White shirt sticking to his body? Please, I may puke.

Posted by: Cheryl | September 30, 2008, 12:59 am 12:59 am

All that was left out of this article was video of the reporter humping Obama’s leg.

Posted by: bleah! | September 30, 2008, 1:01 am 1:01 am

Awww jacko……tsk tsk tsk
Go back to macking on little kids why dontcha?
Bye Bye Republicans

Posted by: Dutch | September 30, 2008, 1:02 am 1:02 am

The Media can put their tongue back in their mouth. They are trying way to hard to sell BHO to me. It was not the issues that swayed me it was the people he asociated himself with. He was mentored by hate mongers….case closed

Posted by: TripleA60 | September 30, 2008, 1:04 am 1:04 am

The Media can put their tongue back in their mouth. They are trying way to hard to sell BHO to me. It was not the issues that swayed me it was the people he asociated himself with. He was mentored by hate mongers….case closed

Posted by: TripleA60 | September 30, 2008, 1:04 am 1:04 am

I think 99% of the Obama followers are young (less than 30 yrs old) thus little life experience with little knowledge of history. For if they had experience and knowledge they would surely come up with a different ‘take’ on Obama’s views.
Just like when Castro took over Cuba. He was young and offered hope and change. The government before his was corrupt but no one went hungry and had a place to live.
Well they got just that. One corrupt government was replaced by something much worse. My parents came from there just before the ‘revolution’. Many of our relatives were left behind. They have good ‘free’ health care … which is needed becausde food is rationed just like most commodities. Life there is hell …
I’m just thankful that my parents came over when they did. My sister and I were born here and are thanful and love this country, my country
So be careful what you ask for. Remember not all change is good change.

Posted by: goof | September 30, 2008, 1:07 am 1:07 am

Posted by: Tuffy | September 30, 2008, 1:09 am 1:09 am

This is an incredible collection of thoughts from across the country. But please people, can’t we be a little more articulate?
I think that these posts prove a sad and dangerous path for American politics: that election have become more about cultural identity and less about real policy. So people tend to vote for who they identify with and less about who is actually acting in their best interests.
Of course, we’re always going to disaggree about what those interests are and what tactics to take…but at least we would be talking about real policy.
I’ll show my hand here: I’m a democrat. I believe that government can make a difference in people’s lives and has done some great things. Government brought us through the Great Depression, fought and won WWII, and landed us on the moon. I also think that government could help foster the greatest infrastructure on the planet and create a real healthcare system (where at least you wouldn’t lose your house and job just because you get sick).
But I can see the other side might say that they believe in small government, putting money in the hands of everyday Americans, and lower regulations on industry and business.
I can see that but I’m afraid that the argument has been you drink starbuck/I drink Bud Light or I watch tennis and you watch NASCAR. Those are cultural differences – not real political differences. We both have to pay for healthcare. Maybe I’m a freelance writer and you’re a plumber. We both work for ourselves and get screwed by Insurance companies who make 25% profits every year. Let’s work together to find a solution. Or at least lets demand these things from our candidates.
I’ll finally say this, I think that this cultural trend given us cultural candidates. Sadly I think Palin is an perfect example. She was chosen to help McCain culturally identify with some voters.
Now, you can say that Obama has the same cultural identification and is just as unproven. But I do think that you have to consider that Democrats voted for him in droves because they were inspired and saw leadership in him — just as McCain supporters did to him.
so I think the candidates are valid — it’s just the map and this kind of discussion that bothers me.
Why don’t we all agree to ask the same questions that truly plague this country:
How can we guaranttee that we get the health care we pay for?
How can we stimulate economic growth?
How can we build the greatest infrastructure on earth?
How can we build the most competitive transportation in the world?
How can we feel safe at home without going bankrupt oversees?
How can we feel that American lives are not being wasted in vain?
OK — you might change the phrasing in some of those questions — but aren’t they important? Wouldn’t it be refreshing to have a discussion on this level. I think that the electoral map would change. Penny pinching New Englanders might go Republican. Southerners who desperately need infrastructure might vote Republican.
And who knows? maybe we’d end up with a better America?

Posted by: James | September 30, 2008, 1:10 am 1:10 am

help Sarah Palin clean up Washington, visit http://www.sarahpalinhasaposse.com

Posted by: dlw | September 30, 2008, 1:13 am 1:13 am

Obamas friends caused the housing mess….ACORN…Community Reinvestment Act…..
Be careful what you say, Obamas stormtroopers…um ..I mean Truth Squad will get ya.

Posted by: chiapet | September 30, 2008, 1:16 am 1:16 am

Obamas friends caused the housing mess….ACORN…Community Reinvestment Act…..
Be careful what you say, Obamas stormtroopers…um ..I mean Truth Squad will get ya.

Posted by: chiapet | September 30, 2008, 1:16 am 1:16 am

Posted by: chiapet | September 30, 2008, 1:19 am 1:19 am

What Have we come to in America?
What is the real issue here?
When we have to say thing about people and talk about ther past and put them down remember folks we all have things we are not so proud of.Let’s stop the trash talk and put forth something that is worth reading !!!!!

Posted by: Swimmer1970 | September 30, 2008, 1:19 am 1:19 am

what are u refering to?

Posted by: chiapet | September 30, 2008, 1:22 am 1:22 am

McCain-Palin? Obama-Biden ….with either choice we loose. Our economy has just taken a turn for the worse and niether of these pair truly understand economics. Both think that the government is the answer to every thing when the truth is, the government is part of the problem. We have allowed our manufacturing to mover over seas. No truly great nation exist for very long without a strong manufacturing base. Remember the industrial revolution. That’s what made this country great. We don’t even produce our own steel anymore or very little.
It’s not an exclusive Republican nor an exclusive Democrat issue since it started during Clinton and continues today. And don’t be fooled, that won’t change with either one.
Even if Obama wins he will quickly realize (as he probably has already) that taxing the ‘rich’ will only make things worse and that the funds for all his proposed programs won’t be there.
Regardless of who wins. Hold on … it’s going to be a rough ride .

Posted by: goof | September 30, 2008, 1:38 am 1:38 am

To Nick from Texas:
Kissinger does not agree with Obama on Iran. What’s Obama going to say know ? Kissinger does not know he really meant, for example.
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From the Weekly Standard (and there are other sites with the same info).
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Henry Kissinger believes Barack Obama misstated his views on diplomacy with US adversaries and is not happy about being mischaracterized. He says: “Senator McCain is right. I would not recommend the next President of the United States engage in talks with Iran at the Presidential level. My views on this issue are entirely compatible with the views of my friend Senator John McCain. We do not agree on everything, but we do agree that any negotiations with Iran must be geared to reality.”
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So much for Obama “truth”

Posted by: Adb | September 30, 2008, 1:39 am 1:39 am

Google this: “Community Reinvestment Act” (1995) The DEMOCRATS added massive new provisions that FORCED banks to issue 1 trillion in new “Subprime Loans” (or pay big penalties) Google this: In 2003 the Bush Administration recommended major overhauls in the Housing Finance Industry but the Democrats tried to stop it… Google this: 2005 John McCain Warned of Mortgage Collapse Co-sponsoring a Bill “The Housing Enterprise Regulatory Act” of 2005 http://www.govtrack.us. Bill S-190 but DEMOCRATS blocked it. It came back in 2007 but Fannie Mae had friends – (Dodd, Johnson, Rains, Obama, etc…) “Change you can believe in?” LOL.. Sweetheart Loan, Sweetheart Deals… … Google this: “Center For Responsive Politics” http://www.opensecrets.org Do we want those who were part of the problem to now be overseers in the solving of the problem? —Greg——http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2734923/

Posted by: GregbeingFrank | September 30, 2008, 1:44 am 1:44 am

Google this: “Community Reinvestment Act” (1995) The DEMOCRATS added massive new provisions that FORCED banks to issue 1 trillion in new “Subprime Loans” (or pay big penalties) Google this: In 2003 the Bush Administration recommended major overhauls in the Housing Finance Industry but the Democrats tried to stop it… Google this: 2005 John McCain Warned of Mortgage Collapse Co-sponsoring a Bill “The Housing Enterprise Regulatory Act” of 2005 http://www.govtrack.us. Bill S-190 but DEMOCRATS blocked it. It came back in 2007 but Fannie Mae had friends – (Dodd, Johnson, Rains, Obama, etc…) “Change you can believe in?” LOL.. Sweetheart Loan, Sweetheart Deals… … Google this: “Center For Responsive Politics” http://www.opensecrets.org Do we want those who were part of the problem to now be overseers in the solving of the problem? —Greg——http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2734923/

Posted by: GregbeingFrank | September 30, 2008, 1:44 am 1:44 am

I was there and the official crowd count was 10,000 inside the quad and 14,000 outside. It was wet, muddy, and we were tired, but when Biden and Obama took the stage, we were all energized. Personally, I found it gratifying to have my own vision of America finally articulated by a presidential candidate. For once in all the years I’ve been voting (44), I’ll be wholeheartedly voting FOR a candidate.

Posted by: DT | September 30, 2008, 1:46 am 1:46 am

both parties suck. McCain is the lesser of the evils. I think he stands a better chance of changing things. Obama is a puppet for our miserable congress. How they tried to sneak the ACORN crap into this bailout bill is appaling and truly testimony as to their ultimate agenda… Keeping the dems in power and spending galore. Those who believe otherwise are too lazy to look up the truth.

Posted by: chiapet | September 30, 2008, 1:47 am 1:47 am

Dear Obama camp: If Barack dances the jig while getting his feet shot at in the rain, wearing a small monkey hat, turning a small music box handle, screaming the mid-east anthem of Allah Akbar, swiveling his head in rhythm, having his pants down and taking dump while also taking a leak, wearing a pair of shades, having his butt cracked with whip with barking dogs all around, while drinking a beer bong and chomping on pork rinds –all at once…, everyone would be so impressed that he’d would and should be the next President of the United States. Your attention to this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Posted by: Russ | September 30, 2008, 2:00 am 2:00 am

chiapet – I will agree with you on that McCain is the lesser of two evils. But if predictions are correct, the Dems will have a majority in the House and in the Senate and McCain usually sides withthe Dems. His closest friends are Democrats (Kerry, Kennedy, Lieberman). He will throw a conservative under the bus before he will a liberal. He has done it many times in the past. With his liberal tendencies, as preasident, he will put little resistance signing any liberal legislation that the Democratic Congress wil send him. At times he would have the clout to convince the remaining Republicans to support some of these leftists bills that he likes. In fact we may be better off with Obama winning. In that scenario the Republicans in Congress are more likely to fight an Obama president than a McCain president.
Either way. It won’t be pretty.

Posted by: goof | September 30, 2008, 2:00 am 2:00 am

OBAMA IS DONE… WHAT AMERICAN IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD VOTE FOR THIS MAN…. HE ONLY HAS 143 DAYS OF EXPERIENCE , AND YOU REALLY THINK HE CAN RUN THIS COUNTRY…. OBAMA IS VERY DANGEROUS TO AMERICA….
MCCAIN/PALIN 08 GOD BLESS AMERICA

Posted by: linda | September 30, 2008, 2:24 am 2:24 am

OBAMA IS DONE… WHAT AMERICAN IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD VOTE FOR THIS MAN…. HE ONLY HAS 143 DAYS OF EXPERIENCE , AND YOU REALLY THINK HE CAN RUN THIS COUNTRY…. OBAMA IS VERY DANGEROUS TO AMERICA….
MCCAIN/PALIN 08 GOD BLESS AMERICA

Posted by: linda | September 30, 2008, 2:25 am 2:25 am

I noticed during the debate that Obama kept calling McCain by the wrong name. He also kept interrupting McCain. In addition, regarding the economic rescue proposal, McCain co-sponsored legislation in 2005 to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but the Democrats blocked it. In fact, Rep. Barney Frank is on record at that time as saying, “There is no crisis in Fannie Mae.” Obama didn’t even weigh in on it, probably because so many of his close friends are/were CEOs in Fannie Mae, and some have been forced to resign because of serious ethical problesm. Pres. Bush is on record since 2001 with warnings about the size and lack of oversight re. Fannie & Freddie. The White House has issued a list of all of the Bush Administration’s attempts to get Congress to pass legislation regarding the mortgage giants and their shaky loans, but Democrats continuously turned a deaf ear to the warnings. Pelosi, the worst Speaker of the House

Posted by: S.E. | September 30, 2008, 2:38 am 2:38 am

That opening was so hot I almost started to beat off to it. You’ve got a career in romance fiction!

Posted by: Obama's gay Muslim lover | September 30, 2008, 2:52 am 2:52 am

After today’s financial nightmare, there is absolutely no chance whatsoever that John McCain will ever be in the White House – thank God.
President Obama, we need YOU!
SAVE THE USA – VOTE OBAMA 2008.

Posted by: SAVE THE USA | September 30, 2008, 3:03 am 3:03 am

Obama: not only not God, not even a real man. Can not wait to see him cry, and cry he will. You can cry with him, hippie.

Posted by: Lyman DeKoquonut | September 30, 2008, 3:07 am 3:07 am

Wow, ABC News totally glosses this event here, and in messianic terms.
lol.

Posted by: Ken | September 30, 2008, 3:15 am 3:15 am

Miraculously, sometime after the election, if Obama wins, you wait and see how within a week, two, maybe month, crisis has been averted, everything is fine now, we’ve all got it fixed, it was the right thing to do, the legislation, electing Obama, and then the market’s going to come back, markets in this country always do, they’re going to come back booming and bigger than ever, going to come back strong, for a while. And these guys are going to take credit for it and they’re going to claim this is how you do it.
With a dem in the whitehouse all will be better for us know. They eliminated those pesky tax cuts, rid us of global warming. Interesting how that will be a non issue with a dem in the WH.
Watch folks all will change, dems in power taxing us, making govt. bigger. We will all turn into Katrina victims.

Posted by: Atilla | September 30, 2008, 3:19 am 3:19 am

goof
I’ll give you that McCain isn’t the most conservative person, but I sort of believe that he really understands that Washington is Broken. I certainly feel he’d be a better check on our miserable Congress than Obama. Obama is Pelosi and Reids tool. Additionally, I find it hard to believe that Palin would’ve signed up for the mission unless she believed in it. Of all of them I think she is the truest one. Obama has too many alliances with bad people. He’s lied about these relationships initially and He hasn’t had to answer any questions about his working relationship with Ayers, No questions about ACORN/Saul Alinsky tactics and voter fraud in 12 states. He got a free pass last sunday on the TV channels. Nobodys asking him. Our media sucks, one really has to do some real research to know the truth. Rev Wrights book is coming out in October. I wonder if he’s gonna submarine Obama for throwing him Under the Storm Trooper Express Bus.

Posted by: chiapet | September 30, 2008, 3:22 am 3:22 am

I know O is smooth, but if you look at his background it is filled with mentors that are evil. Take Jerremiah Wright who uses the name of Jesus to expound hate. I pray to God in Heven that we don’t have to suffer under this man.

Posted by: Mike Byrd | September 30, 2008, 3:27 am 3:27 am

I know O is smooth, but if you look at his background it is filled with mentors that are evil. Take Jerremiah Wright who uses the name of Jesus to expound hate. I pray to God in Heven that we don’t have to suffer under this man.

Posted by: Mike Byrd | September 30, 2008, 3:27 am 3:27 am

Couldn’t he just part the rains?

Posted by: dam | September 30, 2008, 3:52 am 3:52 am

Reading all these posts has convinced me to Vote for Obama….
1 I want free money.
2 I want to Vote after I have died (I’m from Chicago so I’ve probably already Voted multiple times without Knowing it)
3 I want The truth squad to tell me what the truth is and what I should say.
4 Goof is right…Obamas ears are awesome
5 I want that Chris Matthews Tingle.
6 I want to have friends that bombed the Pentagon also.

Posted by: chiapet | September 30, 2008, 3:53 am 3:53 am

Obama is either the anti-Christ or a runner up. He is an architect of lies. You are under the spell of Satan. Christians will soon be out of here, raptured. Most of you will line up and take the 666 mark and be damned forever. The last few years of this age on earth will be sheer hell. You haven’t begun to see suffering compared to that which will come to earth under the anti-Christ that you worship. You will wish that you were dead, but death will only bring eternal hell.

Posted by: Kathleen | September 30, 2008, 4:11 am 4:11 am

Everyone here is just a chump. You are all being played. We are where we are because of the3 chumps like you who have idolized your man for the last 40 years. You elected all these people who said they would work for you and just retired rich. That makes everyone of you a chump…losers…morons. You are getting exactly what you deserve. And guess what…its only going to get worse. And while it does, both retardicans and dumbocrats continue to point blame and totally ignore the fact you have already lost and just dont know it. Fortunately for the few who do understand..you guys know nothing about surviving what lies ahead and you will rapidly leave the gene pool. lol
SUCKERS!

Posted by: chump buster | September 30, 2008, 4:45 am 4:45 am

where do you people get your information. From commentators who said we would be greeted in Iraq as liberators? who said the war would cost 2 billion dollars. Please, get the truth. You are hurting, destroying America, with your republican ideology.

Posted by: jaume | September 30, 2008, 4:54 am 4:54 am

where do you people get your information. From commentators who said we would be greeted in Iraq as liberators? who said the war would cost 2 billion dollars. Please, get the truth. You are hurting, destroying America, with your republican ideology.

Posted by: jaume | September 30, 2008, 4:54 am 4:54 am

Remember when Bill Clinton was running for president and he admitted smoking pot in college? (But he didn’t inhale, ha ha.) Why isn’t anyone concerned about Alibama’s crack smoking? He admitted to it, said he had a love affair with the crack pipe. Doesn’t that bother anyone? Is that what you want in the White House?
If he wants to run ads calling attention to McCain’s age and health issues, then why don’t we demand mandatory drug testing on Alibama?
I’d sooner have Cheech as president and Chong as VP.

Posted by: Concerned Independent | September 30, 2008, 4:58 am 4:58 am

What I and many Europeans who love America can’t understand is why would anyone vote for the republican party when they have essentially carried out war on the middle class for 8 years? I refuse to believe that the good Americans I know in the mid-west and elsewhere will simply ignore their economic hardship and vote for someone because they keep repeating corny soundbites about terror, guns and god. I used to respect John McCain, but seriously think he has lost the plot in picking Palin. There most literally be hundereds of more qualified republicans than her. Shame on you McCain.

Posted by: Motherpipe | September 30, 2008, 5:44 am 5:44 am

This Marxist class warfare rhetoric is mighty old.
Only a Barak Hussein Obama could make me Juan McCain supporter.

Posted by: Irving Schwartz | September 30, 2008, 5:52 am 5:52 am

Purple Lips Lieing In The Rain.

Posted by: Sam Deakins | September 30, 2008, 6:42 am 6:42 am

Obama say “White folks greed run a world in need”. How bout that white folks? I know the Europeans would agree since they have lost all respect for themselves in the past few years.

Posted by: Sam Deakins | September 30, 2008, 6:48 am 6:48 am

Motherpipe
How are those Carbon credits working out for you guys? Looks like the Euro economy is booming with all your extra “green” taxes. If you like Obama so much, please take him over the pond with you. Chicago style politics would do you well. I live in Chicago, I’ve seen 77yrs of Democratic rule destroy this city.

Posted by: chiapet | September 30, 2008, 7:05 am 7:05 am

This little storm is nothing compared to the cloud he’ll put this nation under if he actually gets elected.
What a massive liar, no wonder he picked Biden to “Change” America.
I ain’t buying his jive talk, I see right through it.

Posted by: ObamaIsAllWet | September 30, 2008, 7:27 am 7:27 am

The rancor and bitterness that I read in the comments posted here are more frightening to me than the incompetency of every major institution in this country. We have gone to war with the wrong country; we have allowed a major American city to flood; and, now we have allowed our economic system to implode upon itself. Instead of clinging to party lines and bitterly attacking the media and the other party, we need to survey our nation, determine what we’re doing wrong, and try to come up with solutions. The right-wing hate mongering and the left-wing blame gaming needs to stop. The truth lies somewhere in the middle. Some of the media is biased toward the left, true; but, there is always FoxNews for the right wingers. The media failed utterly in reporting on the war in Iraq. It allowed the Patriot Act, an act that set aside our fundamental Bill of Rights, to go through without even a comment. Even the torture was barely reported. Although some of the pundits (say Chris Matthews) have certainly fallen in love with Obama in recent months, the media is still avoiding the most important stories of our time. The incompetency of our governemtn seems broad and deep. From the flood waters of New Orleans to the crash on Wall Street, the American people are in trouble. And all you commenters have in you is hatred for the other political party. McCain and Obama are both good people who want to lead our nation. However, neither seems to have a clue as to how to fix things. It is up to the populace to demand decency again. If we had been acting in prudent, honest ways, none of these disasters would occur. We can start by shutting down the hate mongers. Hate radio, hate television, hate anything needs to stop. Deep study is what is needed–thoughtful commentators and an objective stance is what is needed. We can hope for the best in the American people. We are a hardy, optimistic people and we will work hard to set things right. But all this finger pointing and ugly commentary needs to stop and well-thought out actions need to begin.

Posted by: Donna | September 30, 2008, 7:27 am 7:27 am

Someone needs to advise the freshman Senator Obama from Illinois on when to get out of the rain!

Posted by: Ralphie | September 30, 2008, 7:34 am 7:34 am

“ABC’s Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman Report:”
It seemed to me that they were wetting their liberal panties at the mere sight of their new Messiah. That, and a little bit of homo-eroticism at the spectacle of “his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body”. Liberal media bias is alive and well at ABC.

Posted by: Hephaestus | September 30, 2008, 7:42 am 7:42 am

Speaking of Obama’s Chicago politics you have to see this investigative report from the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/1184049,CST-NWS-watchdog25.article
..and you want more of this?

Posted by: Ralphie | September 30, 2008, 7:50 am 7:50 am

Oh yeah, well my candidate is way better than your candidate–so there!!
Is too, is too, is too!!

Posted by: morons | September 30, 2008, 7:57 am 7:57 am

Not God Bless America…God damn America
Mentor and spiritual leader for 20 years.
I guess he is the chosen one how else do you explain Obama being elected. If we are blessed to have Obama as the next President we will have bigger government and less freedom.
That is all

Posted by: Rod | September 30, 2008, 8:02 am 8:02 am

More people were murdered in South Chicago this summer than U.S troops in Iraq ….. and I thought Obama organized all those communities ?

Posted by: greglest | September 30, 2008, 8:28 am 8:28 am

To the Obama minions: Maybe YOU (yes, y.o.u.) can be your Messiah’s three-hundred-first (301st) political adviser. The new one needed to tell him when it’s time to come out of the rain.

Posted by: Ralphie | September 30, 2008, 8:34 am 8:34 am

To the Obama minions: Maybe YOU (yes, y.o.u.) can be your Messiah’s three-hundred-first (301st) political adviser. The new one now needed to tell him when it’s time to come out of the rain.

Posted by: Ralphie | September 30, 2008, 8:35 am 8:35 am

Libs read this and if you still want this piece of dog shyt as POTUS you are a fvcking moron.
Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago?
Body count: In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago; 221 killed in Iraq.
Sens. Barack Obama & Durbin,
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.,
Gov. Rod Blogojevich,
House leader Mike Madigan,
Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike),
Mayor Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)
…..our leadership in Illinois…..all Democrats.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago.
Of course, they’re all blaming each other.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
State pension fund $44 Billion in debt, worst in country.
Cook County (Chicago) sales tax 10.25% highest in country. (Look ‘em up if you want).
Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country.
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois. And he’s gonna ‘fix’ Washington politics for us!

Posted by: Ken Taylor | September 30, 2008, 9:01 am 9:01 am

i am a republican voting democrat! i’ve had with all the lies and i have been told. mccain should not have selected palin as a running partner. she will be the reason republican control will fail. he should have gone inside the box with a real conservative like guillianni. i will always be a redneck.

Posted by: michaelcabbage1 | September 30, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am

A crooked Chicago politician? Tell me it isn’t so ….
http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/1184049,CST-NWS-watchdog25.article
Thanks Ralphie. I thinks it’s worth repeating

Posted by: goof | September 30, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

It just dawned on me. Have you notice that Obama has documented associations with radical/crooked bussiness partners, racist comments/views in his self written book, his self-admitted history of drug abuse, shady dealings … And the worse thing anybody can say about McCain is that he is part of party that is not very popular now? When the truth is ,he is not very liked in his own party cause time after time he has sided and voted with the Dems.
One candidate has character issues, shady past, racists views, lack of experience … The other is at worse … part of an unpopular party.
Yet some are willig to overlook this shady politician becuase he is young, inexperience and is using the key words (Hope …Change) when his past clearly details that he has at best a very typical Chicago style politician.
Proves my point. That the typical Obama supporter is either a dye-in-the-wool Democrat that is unwilling to vote any other way or very young (under 30 yrs old) who has limited world experience with very limited knowledge of history. Cause clearly no one else could possibly suport such a flawed individual. McCain is no dream either but at least we know what he is … at worse , a very liberal RINO.

Posted by: goof | September 30, 2008, 10:38 am 10:38 am

Posted by: greglest, “..and I thought Obama organized all those communities?”
Maybe that’s the bigger point here. He WAS the community organizer in Chicago. Impressive isn’t it! Wow! Just think what he could do if he organized the UNITED STATES!

Posted by: Ralphie | September 30, 2008, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm

Sam Deacons,
Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and
6.25% African Negro from his father’s side….
The question no one wants to answer – particularly Mr. Obama and his
supporters, is, “Why do you think he has an Arabic name? Why does his father
have an Arabic name? Why does every ancestor on his father’s side have an Arabic
name?”
The answer is obvious: They have Arabic names because his father’s side of
the family tree is Arabic.
Need proof?
Research the Kenyan records for yourself. You will find that his father was officially classified as “Arab African” by the Kenyan government.
The greatest accomplishment of Obama’s career has been convincing African-Americans – the descendants of slaves – that he is one of them, even 50% one of them, when he has NOTHING in common with a single one of them.
FACT: Obama is a Kenyan-America – of chiefly Muslim Arab origins.
If this is NO BIG DEAL, then why doesn’t Obama tell the truth about it?

Posted by: Carrie | September 30, 2008, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm

I will trade my men for food…
my name is john mccain and I support this message (but not the troops)

Posted by: Arthur | September 30, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm

obama is 1/2 white
1/2 african descendent for at least 4 generations on both paternal sides
the muslim name was taken by his grandfather (a kenyan) when he was stationed in a muslim country with the british army…
he has no arabic blood at all…that is a bald faced lie

Posted by: Arthur | September 30, 2008, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm

Isn’t Kenya in Africa and are we worried about some genetic code thing here. Good god kid, get with the program – this is politics. Also, I see a lot of blogs with foreign names making very negative comments about Obama. You might want to take a close look at any Republican gathering to see how many people you see that look like you in that group, and you won’t see very many. What rights you have, and the fact that you are here, is a product of latter day liberal politics. The conservatives, would have you shipped out by now. But Obama would fight for your right to express you ignorant opinion about him.
As for the people getting excited about the bible and guns comment, get over it, Obama did not coin it – he just used it. Besides, guns and bibles are part of frontier living (a good part – I might add) but perhaps Obama does not understand why the Bible people don’t trust their God to mete out justice, and the gun people don’t understand that AK47s have no place in a family home, unless of course the family has some very interesting ideas that don’t belong in an American home??? I don’t understand either and I would love to read a sane explanation.
People, the question before us is who is going to fight and work to keep us employed, help us pay our medical bills, and somehow regain our position in the world in the dark days ahead. McCain thinks “win”; crap, we can’t win anything anymore and anyone that thinks we can win in Iraq is not sophisticated enough to understand the Middle East and the true power of REAL HATE. But that is just one of our other problems.
We should all know after the fiasco this week that the President does not control everything. We now know after the last 8 years, with crystal clear evidence = bailout, Republican theories don’t work. But it’s not really a republican thing, it’s human nature. Think back to high school for those of us that went to normal schools were most kids came from working families. Remember how the rich kids hung together and only let the very talented or beautiful hang with them? The kept their bounty for themselves and their friends. Same thing, only bigger kids, but now beauty and talent only mean something if you are a fancy model or play for NBA = rich. If you are none of the above, wish as you may, then you didn’t make the cut. You can’t tow the line. But you may want to be one of those nerds that was always kiss’n up, trying to be liked by the rich kids (republicans) as you drive your toyota tercel, or 1998 vehicle around with a Republican bumper sticker in the rear – well keep on trying. You will never fit in, you are a failure in the Republican machine’s mind. Democrats are a mixture of people and some are not distinctly different from the Republicans in nature. The single difference is that the D’s were taught as children that they were suppose to share what they had. It’s that simple. Socialism??? Well, that looks like where we may be headed after 8 years of letting the Republicans have their selfish ways. And, oh yeah, about the excessive spending, it’s true and even I agree; the D’s do go too far with their programs on occasion. Maybe that’s why we need a system where each party has its turn at the podium??? We need the Ds in NOW! And anyone making less than $100,000.00 a year, right now, who thinks they are a Republican needs to really revisit who they were in high school and accept that those days are over. You don’t fit into that group if you don’t make the big bucks. The formula is that simple. And if you are not Anglo and you are a Republican, you may be in the right crowd with regard to monetary eligibility, but you must be blind not to see how you repulse those people. Wake up! Be an Independent and at least have some dignity; you can still invest your money just like a republican but please don’t pretend that those people can see you as anything but their servant.
Oh, some fool earlier signed his comment “Death to America”. Listen idiot, you can leave any time. No one forced you to come here and we certainly are not forcing you to stay – unlike your own country might do. So, if you know where Mecca is, get your tail out of here!!! Why would anyone with a brain stay somewhere that they hated, if they are free to go?

Posted by: Mary | September 30, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm

Read this to put some things to rest:
http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2008/09/13_myths_about_barack_obama.html
It is quite interesting…
As said before many times,
no matter if Obama is blue, black, white, purple, or green…he is NOT ready to lead this country.
McCain/Palin ’08

Posted by: Carrie | September 30, 2008, 8:06 pm 8:06 pm

I thought this was a blog, not the pages of a trashy romance novel. I bet it’s been a long time since the D’s have gotten this “hot”.

Posted by: Mandy | September 30, 2008, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm

mccain caused the forrestal
made propaganda for the VC
sold his country out
is as dumb as a brick 557/560
despite preferential treatment due to daddy and grandpa being admirals
committed adultary on his cripple wife
left his kids for a peice of ass, money and power…
he’s ready???

Posted by: Arthur | September 30, 2008, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm

christian republicans at ‘play’
NEWBERG, Ore. — George Fox University says four students have been punished for hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus.
The university said in a statement today the penalties are “immediate long-term suspension and public service.” The school says the four confessed to their involvement.
they were doing to actual black people not all that long ago…
country first! its citizens last!!!

Posted by: Arthur | September 30, 2008, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm

Those students should have been expelled!!

Posted by: Carrie | September 30, 2008, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm

For those of you who say Obama is not ready, are you saying Bush was ready? And, are you also, therefore saying that you are really happy with what this man of wisdom has done to our country? What is your criteria for “ready” to be President of the U.S?
As for McCain,is it old age or years of DC spinning that makes him “ready”?
ps. sorry about the earlier diatribe – guess I did get a little hot under the collar.

Posted by: Mary | September 30, 2008, 10:15 pm 10:15 pm

This is why Obama is not ready to lead….straight from Biden:
http://www.gop.com/obamasvp/

Posted by: Carrie | September 30, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm

Off topic , but good
Irena Sendlerowa
1910-2008
May 12 marked the death of a 98-year-old lady named Irena.
During WWII, Irena received permission from the Nazis to work in the Warsaw ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist.
She had an ulterior motive…
Being German, she knew the Nazis’ plans for the Jews and smuggled infants out in the bottom of the large tool box she carried. Larger children were placed in a burlap sack in the back of her truck. Also in the back was a dog that she had trained to bark each time the Nazi guards allowed her out of the ghetto and back in.
The soldiers, of course, wanted n othing to do with the dog, and its barking covered any noise made by the infants and small children. Iren a managed to smuggle out approximately 2,500 children before she was finally caught. When she was captured, the Nazis beat h er severely, breaking both her arms and her legs.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the children she smuggled out of that Warsaw ghetto and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her back yard.
After the war, she tried to locate any parents who may have survived so she might reunite the child with its family. Most, of course, did not survive the Holocaust, and the vast majority of the surviving children were placed in foster homes or adopted.
Last year Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but she lost to Al Gore, who won the award for presenting a slide sho w on Global Warming.
True story. Check it out at http://www.irenasendler.org

Posted by: Carrie | September 30, 2008, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm

To the Obama minions: Maybe YOU (yes, y.o.u.) can be your Messiah’s three-hundred-first (301st) political adviser. The new one now needed to tell him when it’s time to come out of the rain.

Posted by: Ralphie | September 30, 2008, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm

Carrie, I have always felt that he was Arabic, and not really a black man. I have thought from the beginning that this is what he is hiding. Where do you get your facts? Do you have links? He is totally going for the black vote and this is a big part of the reason he wants them to think that he is black. Do you know what country his Arabic roots are out of? What would blacks do if they find out he is a phony. Is only about 6% black enough for them to consider him black or will they feel like they were duped? Also, after 9/11 who knows how many Americans would not be willing to vote for an Arabic at this time. Like it or not this is most likely a political decision and one more lie to add to a Mount Everest of lies and foul play by Obama and his ilk.
He has gotten away with unbelievable deceit, lawlessness and trickery because as this article shows the media is in love with and worship him. Anything goes for their Messiah.

Posted by: Kathleen | October 1, 2008, 1:33 am 1:33 am

O.K.. I’VE HAD IT WITH YOU RELIGIOUS RIGHT WING BASTARDS! YOU ALL HAVE THIS COMING TO YOURSELVES. THIS MCCAIN/PALIN TICKET IS A SHAME WITH YOU RIGHTWINGERS. IF THERE IS A GOD, I HOPE HE PUNISHES ALL YOU WACKO’S FOR CREATING HATE AND DISCONTENT WITH TRUE AMERICAN HEROES, THE BACKBONE OF THIS PATHETIC NATION. YOU GO ON AND WASTE YOUR STUPID VOTE ON THIS REPUBLIKAN TICKET, BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY OR DO, OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE OVER AND CLEAN ALL YOUR CLOCKS OUT! I’M SICK AND TIRED OF YOU WACKOS RUINING EVERTHING YOU TOUCH. TRUE DEMOCRACY IS ON THE RISE AGAIN YOU NAZI VERMIN! HAVE A NICE ELECTION!!!!

Posted by: michaelcabbage1 | October 1, 2008, 11:52 am 11:52 am

Three interesting websites:
~ Arab view of Obama:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/aahome
~ Biden’s view of Obama:
http://www.gop.com/obamasvp/
~ Some myths solved about Obama:
http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2008/09/13_myths_about_barack_obama.html
Arthur,
Bill Clinton,a D, had a harem ….

Posted by: Carrie | October 1, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

carrie, you must be a fvkcing idiot! you must be married to an man who likes to be told everything on what to do. you have maniacal tendencies. you should see a witch doctor like palin did! have a heart attack soon…

Posted by: michaelcabbage1 | October 1, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm

michaelcabbage,
Thanks for the compliment sweetheart.
Witch doctors are really cool. I would like to meet one someday.Before they had all the SYNTHETIC drugs and such around, how else do you think people got cured? Tell me. Nothing is wrong with good old fashioned healing remedies.
I guess you really need to open your mind and free yourself from your panties , oops tighty whities being in a wad.

Posted by: Carrie | October 1, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

OOOh I forgot, the witch doctor Palin used is from Kenya. Look it up…

Posted by: Carrie | October 1, 2008, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm

obamas paternal grandparent were born in africa (kenya) for at least 4 generations…that’s as far as records go…
they were tribal…
his grandfather converted to muslim while on tour in north africa with the british army…
none of his ancestors are from
saudi arabia
syria
iraq
iran
lebanon
egypt
etc.
none…
btw: the last CMH winner was an arab-American, navy SeAL…lebanese

Posted by: Arthur | October 1, 2008, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm

Cool

Posted by: Carrie | October 1, 2008, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm

This is a great discussion…
Here is some more info..It is up to the voters to sift through all of these blogs and figure it all out and make the smart choice.
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A PILOTS PERSPECTIVE OF OBAMA
,,,,,,,,,,DO I HAVE THIS STRAIGHT?
HIS FATHER WAS A BLACK AFRICAN-ARAB-MUSLIM FROM KENYA . WE HAVE SEEN PICTURES OF HIS AFRICAN FAMILY
HIS MOTHER WAS A WHITE AMERICAN ATHEIST FROM KANSAS .
WHERE ARE THE PICTURES OF HIS AMERICAN FAMILY?
HIS FATHER DESERTED HIS MOTHER WHEN HE WAS ONLY TWO YEARS OLD AND WENT BACK TO AFRICA BY WAY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY . HOW? WAS HIS FATHER WEALTHY?
HIS MOTHER MARRIED AN INDONESIAN MUSLIM AND THEN MOVED TO JAKARTA WHERE HE WAS ENROLLED IN A MUSLIM SCHOOL .
WHEN HE REACHED HIGH SCHOOL AGE HIS MOTHER SENT HIM TO HAWAII TO BE WITH HIS WHITE GRANDPARENTS AND HE WAS PUT INTO AN EXPENSIVE PRIVATE SCHOOL. HE LATER WENT TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY . HOW? WERE HIS GRANDPARENTS WEALTHY?
HE LIVES IN A $14 MILLION HOUSE OBTAINED THROUGH A DEAL WITH A WEALTHY FUND-RAISER. HOW?
HE ‘WORKED’ AS A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN CHICAGO . HE HAS NEVER HELD A PRODUCTIVE JOB OR RECEIVED A PAY CHECK THAT WAS NOT GOVERNMENT-FUNDED AND/OR TAXPAYER SUPPORTED. THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHTS POSITION, NOR IS IT SUBJECT TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SET ASIDES; ON-THE-JOB TRAINING WON’T CUT IT.
HE ENTERED POLITICS AT THE STATE LEVEL AND THEN THE NATIONAL LEVEL WHERE HE HAS MINIMAL EXPERIENCE.
HE IS PROUD OF HIS ‘AFRICAN HERITAGE’ (A FATHER WHO GOT A WHITE GIRL PREGNANT AND DESERTED HER).
WHERE IS THE PRIDE IN HIS ‘WHITE HERITAGE’? (A MOTHER WHO FLAUNTED CONVENTION AND DID NOT BELIEVE IN GOD).
SOME MIGHT THINK THERE WAS NOT MUCH TO BE PROUD OF EITHER WAY.
HE BELONGS, AND HAS BELONGED FOR OVER 20 YEARS, TO AN ‘AFRO-CENTRIC’ CHURCH IN CHICAGO THAT HATES WHITES, HATES JEWS, AND BLAMES AMERICA FOR ALL THE WORLD’S PERCEIVED FAULTS. (INCLUDING CREATING THE AIDS VIRUS IN ORDER TO INFLICT IT ON AFRICANS).
HE REPEATEDLY WHITEWASHES THE PASTOR, HIS CHURCH AND THE MEMBERS WHO CHEERED AFTER HEARING VITRIOLIC TIRADES AGAINST AMERICA . HE COULD NOT CONFRONT HIS PASTOR BUT HE WANTS US TO BELIEVE HE CAN CONFRONT NORTH KOREA AND IRAN ?
DURING HIS VERY BRIEF TIME IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE HE HAS MANAGED TO AMASS THE NUMBER ONE ……..ULTRA LIBERAL……VOTING RECORD OUT OF THE ONE HUNDRED MEMBERS.
HE HAS VOTED CONSISTENTLY FOR BIGGER GOVERNMENT AND HIGHER TAXES. HE HAS VOTED FOR BIG ENTITLEMENTS AND LEGISLATION THAT WOULD SEVERELY CURTAIL AMERICA ‘S ABILITY TO FIGHT TERRORISM AND TO PROTECT OUR BORDERS AND OUR NATIONAL INTERESTS AROUND THE WORLD.
BUT, HE IS A GOOD ORATOR. ISN’T THAT A COMFORT?
YEAH, I THINK I SEE HOW WELL HE COULD UNITE THE COUNTRY.
I THINK THE TRUTH IS THAT HE HOPES NO ONE WILL PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER!
PILOT’S ANALYSIS:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO OUR NEW CHIEF PILOT.
HE HAS NEVER FLOWN AN AIRPLANE, IN FACT HE HAS NEVER EVEN SAT IN THE COCKPIT, BUT HE SAYS HE HAS RIDDEN ON PLANES BEFORE.
HE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT RADAR, OR HOW TO START THE ENGINES, OR HOW TO STOP THEM, OR ANYTHING ABOUT ALL THESE GADGETS, BUT WE ARE SURE HE WILL GUIDE US SAFELY THROUGH THE STORMS WE MAY ENCOUNTER ON THIS FLIGHT BECAUSE HE TOLD US HE COULD DO IT (And.. he is a great speaker!)
CONCLUSIONS:
WHAT ARE WE THINKING?
THINK LONG AND HARD BEFORE YOU VOTE.
What a great slogan:
‘My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.’ (B. Obama)
IF THIS DOESN’T WORRY YOU……FORGET THAT I MENTIONED IT.

Posted by: Carrie | October 1, 2008, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm

YOU PEOPLE SUPPORTING OBAMA HAVE TUNNEL VISION…AFRAID OF LOOKING AROUND?? YOU MIGHT HEAR THE TRUTH….I’D HAVE BET $100 A YEAR AGO HILLARY WOULD BE THE DEM NOMINEE…WHERE DID HE GET ALL THE MONEY UP FRONT TO BEAT HER???

Posted by: Hog Fan | October 5, 2008, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm

OBAMA SAYS MCCAIN CAN’T OPERATE A COMPUTER…GUESS WHAT – OBAMA CAN’T LAND AN AIRPLANE ON A SHIP AT NIGHT.

Posted by: Hog Fan | October 5, 2008, 9:13 pm 9:13 pm

oh!, i just love socialism! that,s why,this november, i,ll be voting for my man obama!

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