Buyer’s Remorse?

I love these ABC news Political radar pieces. It is like opening a bottle of Snapple and reading the stupid worthless facts on the back of the bottle cap.

Who cares….they’ll all know her name Nov. 4, when they pull the lever for McCain/Palin. I heard talk radio today and dozens of callers (female) THRILLED at the Palin nom…..and passionate to see her elected. WOMEN = 54% OF THE U.S. POPULATION……and nothing like a woman scorned. There was revolt when Hillary was treated as she was, and I see it happening now…only difference is Hillary was fighting her own party for the nom. Gov. Palin has her base support already with her! This will become a groundswell of support from women…Reps, Independents, and even some Dems who have had enough. Obama’s young lib female sheep will not be swayed, but that’s a small percentage of the voting population.
50% of Americans vote with their emotions.
GO McCAIN/PALIN!

Debra–
Polls all say women aren’t going for her. Indeed she has secured the religious right but she has very little appeal to independent women who are not fanatically religious. Not to mention all of the stuff coming out about her lobbying ties and love of earmarks. After all the negative garbage about Michelle Obama, it is hilarious to have Todd Palin proven to be a secessionist, Country First? Guess not.

John McCain selected Sarah Palin, a woman, to be his vice presidential running mate.
Obama should have picked Hillary Clinton to be his vice presidential running mate, but Obama doesn’t feel that a woman is deserving to be vice president of the United States.

John McCain selected Sarah Palin, a woman, to be his vice presidential running mate.
Obama should have picked Hillary Clinton to be his vice presidential running mate.
However, Obama doesn’t think that a woman is deserving to be vice-president of the United States.
Instead, Obama rather have a good old boy, Lobbyist Buddy Joe Biden, as vice president.

I love the way all the conservatives shout little slogans without any basis in fact to cheer themselves up. No matter that Obama broke 50% in two tracking polls today and has a 6-9% lead depending on the poll while the press are spending all their time focussing on aspects of the Palin pick. This was a disastrous decision you guys need to face it.

From Hillary 44
“Sarah Palin, an elected Governor with executive experience is running against Washington insider, repeat presidential candidate, and loser Joe Biden (Biden received 9,500 this year). Palin has challenged a corrupt Republican establishment in Alaska and won. Obama bought into the Chicago political machine instead of challenging it.
Meanwhile many of the Disco Democrats compare Sarah Palin’s selection as a vice presidential candidate to the generation earlier selection of Geraldine A. Ferraro. The suggestion is that only desperation drove both selections. Women only get selected out of desperation – as a “hail Mary” desperation play.”

Well, John,
The bounce that usually follows a party’s convention is somewhere in double digits.
But, that didn’t happen for Obama who is supposedly contrasting one of the most unpopular Presidents in U.S. history.
Kind of makes the 6 to 9% pale in comparison to what it could have been.
For my part, I will be listening to Palin’s speech instead of media hacks.

Wow. Mark Shields has the audacity to speak for Palin’s daughter.

the dens are at their smarmiest tonight. Sarah Palin has them quaking in their birkinstocks. A woman who has it all-family and career-and is truly liberated, and they are slinging mud so fast they’re getting more on them than on her.
We can see the fear in your eyes. All you’re left with is sound and fury.

Obama should have picked Hillary Clinton to be his vice presidential running mate, but Obama doesn’t feel that a woman is deserving to be vice president of the United States.
Posted by: USmarine0331
Wrong! Obama knew that if he he picked Hillary, he would have lost all of the people, men and women who voted for him! Get it? His supporters would not have supported a ticket with her on it. I’m sick of the disgruntled Hillary supporters who keep saying this! You’re all wrong!

You bet we’re afraid. We’re afraid someone whose foreign policy experience consists of living closer to Russia than the rest of us might be a heartbeat away from having her finger on the red button.

Jayhawk |
Yet Sara Palin and John McCain are down 8-9 points. Check today’s electoral map. Obama 273 McCain 227 You only need 270 to win!

Hillary Clinton 18 million votes
Joe Biden 0 votes
Talk about buyer’s remorse!
Posted by: geevill
Yet, Hillary’s gone. She can’t even defend herself agains Palin calling her a whiner! Probably jealouse because Sarah’s thinner!

sexism in the media, Hillary was right
http://mitchellblatt.com/blog/2008/09/sexism-against-sarah-palin%22
Posted by: pam
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen! Unless you’re losing?

Kane
You deserve a bitch slap. Hillary is thrilled that BO is going down to defeat in November.

Susan, Obama has less experience than Palin. Obama has no executive experience, voted present on most bills when in the Illinois Senate, took credit for bills he did no work on and spent a total of 141 days in the Senate. In contrast, Palin has years of executive experience was head of the PTA, A mayor, and governor of Alaska, the geographically largest State in the Union. Clearly, Obama is dangerously untested ingenue is too unknown a quantity to be handed the keys to the White house.

McCain fought money on teen pregnancy programs
By SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 2, 3:10 PM ET
WASHINGTON – Republican John McCain, whose running mate disclosed that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, has opposed proposals to spend federal money on teen-pregnancy prevention programs and voted to require poor teen mothers to stay in school or lose their benefits.
Gee John, maybe if you had voted for that money maybe Bristol Palin wouldn’t be pregnant today!!!

mart
And yet he’s kicking their asses! A friend of mine who works on Wall Street said he was at work today and heard a group of guys standing around on the trading floor reading the newspaper when one of them shouted -White Trash in the White House!

Jayhawk
Why would I watch that snooze fest? That’s not my party. Besides, those people are human sominex! The question is, why aren’t you watching it? I’m flipping channels trying to find a movie on cable.

I am ticked off at this ticket. John McCain and the neocons are going to ruin a good woman. She does not hold the views of McCain. She has modified her views and turned on her Alaskans to run with a liberal.
They should have started show casing her this year and ran her in 2012 against Hilary.
Palin does have an inspirational story, and she is now the only true conservative in the race, but she is vice, and they don’t get much sway.
My prediction: She will pull out of the race and she will be replaced by Mitt or Tim

roxanne, The polls are rigged. I was called once by Gallop a few weeks ago and they told me they would be calling again. I was home the whole time and have never been called again. Guess when I said I was for McCain, they dropped me off their list.
Posted by: mart
You’re right about the polls being rigged and it’s not in the Republicans favor, and it’s not for the reason you might think. See, I have never been called and I have a land line. But the real problem with these polls is that they can’t call the millions of people with cell phones. This is why Obama will likely win by a landslide and the pundits will be left scratching their heads!

Roxanne
Gallup and Quinnipac are in the tank for BO. Some of their polling is skewed because they will call more Democratic voters. In addition, the way the question is framed can give a poll a flawed result. Rasmussen has more accurate numbers.

yoga82
You can call him all the names you want but come November, you’ll be calling him Mr. President! You losers continue to attribute all of this crap to Obama when he hasn’t said one offensive thing about this woman or her daughter. Grow up! Your candidate sucks, has no real judgment and it’s nobody’s fault but his own. By the way, with an effeminate screen name like yoga, I wouldn’t be calling anyone cupcake!

The media is so in the tank for Obama it makes me puke. The media should be covering Obama’s long term ties and friendship with the unrepentant terrorist Ayers. When Obama told the media that Ayers “was just a guy in my neighborhood” it was a lie. Obama chaired of the Annenberg Challenge that Ayers founded in 1995. The purpose of the Annenberg Challenge was to improve schools in Chicago and according to its own final report was a failure. Thus Obama’s only record of executive experience was a failure.
Whose pocket the 110 million dollars from the Annenberg Challenge went into is still a mystery. Instead of covering the pregnancy of Palin’s daughter the public would be better served if the press was covering Obama’s involvement in the Annenberg Challenge and other ties Obama has to crooks like Ayers and Rev. Wright whose church (that Obama was a member of for twenty years) taught the racist creed of black liberation theology.

Gallup and Quinnipac are in the tank for BO. Some of their polling is skewed because they will call more Democratic voters. In addition, the way the question is framed can give a poll a flawed result. Rasmussen has more accurate numbers.
Posted by: yoga82
Conspiracy Theory? Oh please! It couldn’t be McGeezer’s fault so it must be someone else’s! It couldn’t possibly be that he’s a flawed candidate could it? He’s lost this race before and I’ll bet that you were one of the geniuses who voted for Bush instead of your precious McPOW.

Palin and her family have been smeared relentlessly by the hard left and nearly the entire mainstream media this past week. McCain really caught them off guard and they are livid. Obama could have chosen a woman VP, but decided instead to go with a six-term Senator to represent his message of “change.” Since the announcement of Palin, the left sensed the damage this would cause and has become completely unhinged. Obama operatives are actively planting smears and talking points on multiple left wing blogs. Anything that terrifies the left is something we need much more of. Palin connects with common, decent people. She’s an extremely smart and popular governor who is fiercely independent and fights corruption wherever she sees it. The real unknown is not Palin, who already has an impressive record of accomplishments. The unknown is Obama. What do we really know about him beyond his rhetoric at the Temple of Zeus? Nothing. He’s a man with a murky past who the media purposely protects and promotes. He is an unprincipled elitist whose world views have been shaped by communists, socialists, terrorists, indicted fundraisers, anti-American preachers, and Chicago thugs. But somehow those associations aren’t newsworthy. Palin’s daughter! Now that’s important to our country’s future! The press has spent much more effort in the past five days digging up dirt on Palin than they ever spent unraveling Obama’s past and connections to radical organizations (like ACORN, the masters of voter fraud) in the past 19 months! You can’t make this stuff up. I’ll make a prediction. If by some fit of insanity Americans do elect Obama, you will quickly see a REAL case of buyer’s remorse unprecedented in our history. I’ve done a lot of research on Obama and his policies (since the media refuses to) and he is not who people think he is. He will, in lockstep with our incompetent Congress, run our wonderful country straight into the ground in short order. And his supporters will say in a state of shock, “How did we not know?” Mark my words.

Can any of you McCain talking point spewers explain this:
If Gov. Palin is so qualified, why is the campaign refusing to let her interview with any media? They must be afraid of the questions they might ask.
Take a look at Campbell Brown’s interview with Tucker Bounds. She dared ask what foriegn policy experience Palin has, and McCain canceled all interviews with CNN.
So the have shut out CNN and MSNBC. Is this how he will act to the media as President? The American people just want to know the woman they may be voting for.

KChicago,
Your right about that! After Obama and Biden win everything will be right!!
McCain will be back in the Senate where he belongs and Sarah will be back up in Alaska shooting animals from airplanes (oops I meant hunting) and trying to fund the “bridge to nowhere” again!!
Nobody in the Obama camp gives a hoot about Palin’s kid being pregnant fools! We care that she is a liar and a “poser” just like her Grandpappy McCain!!!
Check out her “Bridge to Nowhere fairy tale, MY FRIENDS!!!
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN3125537020080901
Obama/Biden ’08!!!!

Renee, Palin was just selected on Friday as McCain’s VP and the GOP convention is in full swing so Palin is busy preparing for her big acceptance speech tomorrow. What you should be asking is why Obama is refusing to participate with McCain in town hall meetings or go on the O’Reilly factor as Obama promised he would do? Obama is the one who is afraid he cannot handle tough questions and will only appear with the media types he is confident will ask only the softest of questions.

Yeah, like Obama is going to go on the o’reilly factor? Get real. O’reilly isn’t a reporter, he’s a partisan hack with an agenda. Obama agreed to half a dozen town hall meetings and Mccain said no dice, a dozen or nothing because really he didnt’ want to have them either. Obama doesnt’ need to be afraid, he thinks better on his feet than John “I still don’t know the difference between Suni and shiia” McCain.

As a Republican watching the convention,
all I’ve seen is a lily white bunch of
single issue fear and warmongers that want to continue to fool the American people with scare tactics and snake oil salesmen. The Neocons and their Jinsa and Aipac masters, fronted by Lieberman as well as the bought and paid for GOP insiders and lobbyists who are the front men for the NWO, are putting a happy face on a new cold war, war with Iran, a continuing occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan. They talk about rebuilding these countries and democracy there. How about doing that first here in America First. McBush in 2008 4 MORE WARS. This crowd sold out
the Real Americans and has duped the
Sheeple twice The third time will be the charm. If it happens, The American experiment will surely be over.

I don’t really care what Obama does. He doesn’t represent my party. McCain and Palin are represents my party.
Obama doesn’t want to do town halls because they are not debate. It is a venue for them to talk unchallenged. They won’t even be in the room together. I want to see a debate. I have heard their prepared remarks before. I want to see how they answer questions on the fly.
We saw how McCain answers questions on the fly…
just like Rudy’s noun-verb-911 McCain answers “I will refer to my friends
(insert names here)that I am surrounded by. Or, noun-verb-pow.
Don’t get me wrong, I respect his service, but he undermines it by using it to answer questions with no relation to it.

Oh and Mart-
She surely could have given 5 minutes to one of the thousands of journalists around her since friday. Get Real.
McCain wanted Leiberman, they wouldn’t let him so he picked the most unqualified person on the approved list. reference my prediction above.

HEY REPUBLICANS!!
I have been watching your convention. Say aren’t there any people of color in your party??? Serious, there isn’t hardly an Asian, Black or Hispanic face in the whole convention!!!
What the heck is going on here? What a FAILURE your little Lilly White gathering is!
Say how come Bush didn’t come in person? The storm was over last night and he is only a short Helicopter flight away… And where is Cheney? He isn’t doing anything related to Gustov!!
I think you guys just don’t want the standard bearers and HEROs of your party there…
WHY NOT??? TELL ME WHY NOT!!!

I do not believe the person who signed his name as “mart” is really mart. Who ever signed his name as mart is the real moron and thus a typical Obama supporter.
In reply, for the record the number of people Obama represented in Illinois as a State Senator was approximately 200,000. The number of people that Governor Palin governs in Alaska is approximately 700,000. Obama’s total executive level experience is zero. Palin total executive level experience is over seven years.
In response to a question to Obama about his executive experience, Obama claimed that he had more experience than Palin because of his experience managing his Presidential campaign. However, in May of 2008 Obama said “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.” So it looks like Obama is not running his campaign his staff is according to Obama himself.
Further, Obama refused to take on the corrupt Democratic political machine in Chicago, in fact Obama is a member in good standing of the corrupt political machine in Chicago. In contrast, Palin took on the corrupt political machine in Alaska and won.
So has more executive level experience, Obama or Palin? Answer: Palin. Who has a track record of taking on the corrupt political machine in their own party. Obama or Palin? Answer: Palin. Therefore it should be clear to all that Palin is much more qualified to be President than Obama.
McCain/Palin 08

NBRA
Many blacks love the Democratic party that: (1) fought to keep blacks in slavery; (2) started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize Republicans—black and white; (3) passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws; (4) fought every piece of civil rights legislation from the 1860′s to the 1960′s; and (5) attacked Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights protesters with skin-burning fire hoses and vicious dogs.
While hiding the racist past of the Democratic Party, Obama refuses to give credit to the Republican Party that: (1) started in 1854 as the anti-slavery party and fought to free blacks from slavery; (2) amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote; (3) started the NAACP to stop the Democrats from lynching blacks; (4) passed the civil rights laws of the 1860′s that were overturned by the Democrats when they took over Congress in 1892; (5) founded the HBCUs; (6) started affirmative action enforcement in 1969 to help blacks get jobs and contracts based on merit; and (7) fought the Democrats for over six decades until Republicans finally achieved passage of the civil rights laws of the 1950′s and 1960′s under the leadership of Republican Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois.

Well, the awaited media feeding frenzy is pretty much as expected.
Perhaps the surge at Sarah Palin is a bit more rabid in an effort to get the highest ratings, but the “lynch mob” mentality is quite evident.
Regardless of what media hype has not yet created about Sarah Palin, we do KNOW this much:
1. Sarah Palin has energized a feeble number of women voters who were going to sit this one out, and they won’t be voting for anyone who matters.
2. Sarah Palin has got more attention and scrutiny from the RePUBIC Party
in a few days than John (Grampy) McSame got in 18 months.
3. Glenn Beck was the only talk show host that got it right on the Sarah Palin choice and did an interview.
4. Regarding economic policy, Sarah Palin supports “a free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures outsourcing of American jobs to India, Pakistan and China.
5. Sarah Palin is pro-contraception, pro-woman, and pro-life.
(Oh really? …It that where her daughter learned about contraception? From her “Pro-Woman/ Pro-contraception” Mom???
The same one who refuses sex ed (pregnancy prevention education) in high school?
6. Sarah Palin respects the sanctity of marriage and defines such as a union between a man and a woman.
(And a boy and a girl…obviously.)
7. Sarah Palin supports the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms…but never bared her middrift when ”pregnant” last year.
And the list goes on…
This candidate was never thoroughly vetted. The RePUBIC Party is scrambling to keep up now!
And, as always,
Don’t be insane by voting ”Grampy McSame!…

Samantha,
Take a look at what the republican elite did to get McCain to the top.
Very corrupt business. Stopping caucuses if McCain wasn’t ahead, challenging signatures that were clearly legal, throwing votes for other candidates in the trash, excluding qualified candidates names from the ballot who should have been on, illegally accepting public financing to get ballot access and use a collateral on loans only to withdraw after getting ballot access and loans.
Face it both sides are corrupt.

mart, plenty of us attended state schools and we’re a helluva lot smarter and more accomplished than Obama. Washington is full of politicians who went to elite schools. Have you not noticed the results?

Davis, you sound like a racist to me thus a typical Obama supporter.
Posted by: gary | Sep 2, 2008 11:07:48 PM
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I am not a Racist! I am a 50 year old white guy! Turn on your TV’s you Republican fools! Geez, at least they could have gotten a few “token” people of color for the cameras!
Didn’t they think anyone would be watching them on TV? Oh, I guess not!
OBAMA/BIDEN ’08!!!!!!!

Okay Davis. I take it that you were never a POW. Enough said. You are just another Kool Aid drinking Iphone packing moron who has never served is country in the military, the way my brother and uncles did or John McCain. My brother is in Africa now fighting for stupid BOTS like you. I will go with the POW card over the Race card anyday.

Jim in OH,
Grampy McSame is one birthday candle away from the big dirt nap…and you want an on-the-job-trainee running the country???
McCain has had 4 cancers.
He’s already older than both his father and grandfather were when they died…
He’s known as an angry, loose cannon by his own party -which is why they weren’t behind him until the very last minute…and judging by his inability to remember the number 7; can’t remember how many houses he owns.
(Just SAY Alzheimers and get on with it.)
So when, not if, he falls over dead in office; we’re supposed to hand over the keys to the country to the mayor of Moosepoop Alaska!
She was a p/t volunteer “Mayor/Manager” then an 18 month governor of a state with less population than Erie County, NY.
Some states won’t give you a Cosmetology License with only 18 months under your belt, but you, BRILLIANTLY, want her in line to be President.
(What is in the water in Ohio!?!?)

Samantha,
You didn’t answer the question, you typical Republican troll…
For your information fool, I spent 6 years in the Army. So don’t get up on your “high and mighty” horse loser!
Just answer the question! What does being a POW 40 years ago have to do with running this country???

Jerry,
You’re a tool and because your post wasn’t even logical, it wasn’t even clever.
You’re another sheep who’ll follow Grampy McSame off the cliff.
(VOTE OBAMA…there’s no other choice.)

Darn straights there is BUYERS REMORSE among Republicans! Their new leader McDummy screwed them with this “lightweight scandal ridden” VP pick!!!
They won’t let her talk to reporters, but say she is tough as nails…
Who is this “Beauty Queen Hockey Mom” anyway, Chelsie Clinton? Come on McCain roll this woman out and let the press get a crack at her!! What’s wrong, afraid??
Figures you old senile fool…

Davis you are a liar. You have posted otherwise on this very same board and your past changes to suit whatever pount you make. Even if you were in the Army you obviously did not have a military career but like I said you are a liar and a porole violation is the closest you you ever come to having “served”.
I hope that you enjoy the cigarettes you are buying with the $11 an hour that Obama is paying you to blog. If you are on this site it must be your shift which starts at 10PM.

Jerry,
You didn’t say anything.
Now out of the basement and into bed with you.
Your parents are getting angry.
Obama…”The ONLY choice for Change.”

Samantha,
You are just a hopeless Republican troll that won’t answer a simple question…
Your also an idiot that doesn’t know what you are talking about, hasn’t been paying attention and not worth arguing with…

Davis,
Darn straights there is BUYERS REMORSE among Democrats! Their new leader mentally handicapped 57 State Obama screwed them with his scandal ridden past associations with unrepentant domestic terrorist Ayers, the corrupt Chicago Political machine, convicted felon Rezco and God D#### America Rev. Wright Obama’s Pastor for Twenty years.
They won’t let him talk to reporters like OReilly, but say he is tough as nails…
Who is this unvetted beauty queen, Obama who brings shivers up the legs of the fawning media anyway? Chelsie Clinton? Come on Democratic Party roll this man child out and let O Reily get a crack at him! What’s wrong, afraid Obama can’t cut it when it comes to the hard questions??
Figures you brain dead racist and sexist Obama supporters.

DemocratIC Party, what is the obsession on the left with death and ageism? Palin is a state governor who is extremely popular for being principled and decisive in an executive setting. Obama would be an inexperienced fool from Day 1. What’s he going to do? Defer all important esecutive decisions to his VP? It sure appears that way. Or maybe he’ll tap his pool of 300 advisors or maybe even a focus group for guidance. Is that what passes for Presidential leadership now?

Would someone explain to me why they thought a ”wide stance” elephant was supposed to be a good idea for the RePubican’s Convention?

Hey Palin Fans!
Sarah has a nut case Pastor too!! His name is Ed Kalnins.
A review of recorded sermons by Ed Kalnins, the senior pastor of Wasilla Assembly of God since 1999, offers a provocative and, for some, eyebrow-raising sketch of Palin’s longtime spiritual home.
That means there are videos!!!!
The church runs a number of ministries providing help to poor neighborhoods, care for children in need, and general community services. But Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to Hell…
Questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven, he charged that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq were part of a war “contending for your faith;” and said that Jesus “operated from that position of war mode.”
And if the political storm over Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright is any indication, Palin may face some political fallout over the MORE controversial teachings of Wasilla Assembly of God.
Gee, I remember the fuss all you Republicans made about Obama’s Rev. Hope you don’t mind if we do the same thing, OK!!!
Palin, the GIFT that keeps on giving!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!

DemocratIC Party, Again, instead of replying to any specifics you just name call. As to “change” what change, be specific.
== Higher taxes on small businesses and corporations that will drive jobs out of the US to China, India, etc.
Not true: Higher/their FAIR SHARE of taxes to lerge corporations who are already outsourcing jobs while organizing to prevent unionizing of jobs -which would provide insurance/ health care to US citizens.
For example: Corporations like Haliburton who have offshore PO boxes so they can avoid paying taxes SHOULD be forced to pay.
You made up the part about small businesses.
Obama also wants to raise taxes on the wealthiest 1% (think “billionaires”) so they also pay their FAIR share.
– Higher Gas prices due to the fact Obama refuses to drill for more oil build new refineries or new nuclear power plants.
We don’t NEED to drill for more oil.
Theye are thousands of square miles that they’re not even touching which is already reserved for their drilling.
The REAL question is WHY do they REALLY want more land?
Additionally, 3 cents less per gallon, 25 years from now does NOT make any difference at all.
Anyone with a brain in their head would say: Let’s get ahead of the curve! The next “Man on the Moon” challege should be for scientists to replace oil completely with new technology and sell THAT to the REST of the planet.
Pie and the sky government programs that there is not enough money in the whole wide world to pay for that will bankrupt the US,
You’re writing vague crap that time.
Unless you’re referring to pie-in-the-sky Creationism “Science” that Palin wants to push.
– Control of everyone’s life by government fiat until everyone in the US is a mere slave of the government elite just standing listless in a long line waiting for the next hand out.
As opposed to NOW?
The RePubic government has allowed the banks to run amok owning everyone.
If they’re not going to teach the fundamentals of economics in schools anymore…
the credit card companies shouldn’t be allowed to WRITE anti-bankrupcy laws which the RePubic Congress passed.
If The RePubics want to exclude banks/credit cards from personal bankrupsies…
then they should put a 12% maximum cap on the INTEREST RATES that the banks can charge on credit card debt.
Obama wants to limit usery.
(Credit Card Gouging.)
Now THAT is change.
Vote OBAMA for CHANGE (or you’ll be begging for change)

Samantha,
It’s Democrat IC Party…
Only A-holes say Democrat Party.
If you can’t spell it get a dictionary.
(Or maybe we should call you SaManThighs until you get it right.

Renee, McCain was not my first pick, but we have what we have. Certainly I would love to have an up-and-comer like Palin in place with more experience, but that doesn’t make Obama any more appealing. His International Relations curriculum doesn’t count at all in my book. I took a ton of economics classes in college, but that doesn’t make me qualified to be an economist. I understand how executives operate because I work with them on a daily basis. I observe their traits, how they view problems, how they do risk assessment, and how they make difficult decisions that can have huge consequences. Palin operates just like them. Obama is not able to fully grasp the enormity of some situations and often has to make restatements on positions over several days to clarify himself. The Russia/Georgia conflict is one glaring example. It took Obama three days to figure out who the bad guy was. McCain got it right the first time. That’s what I expect in a competent executive. What I think Obama does is rely on a network of hand-selected “experts” to script and polish his responses. Whenever he speaks extemporaneously, he becomes totally unfocused and drifts into the “world of nuance.” Remember the Saddleback forum? That was a disaster for him. That’s why he avoids open-ended town hall debates like the plague. Without external guidance, he comes off sounding very wishy-washy. In any case, he doesn’t have the mettle to be an effective executive, at least from my observations. And, despite what everyone says, he’s not all that intelligent either. Any one of us can sound intelligent if we’re scripted by talented writers.

Barry,
You trolls are ridiculous.
Didn’t Grampy McCain dump wife #1 after an accident for younger, rich wife #2?
Didn’t he publically call wife #2 a c-nt in one of his classic fits of rage on the campaign trail?
Didn’t McSame consistantly vote WITH bush while desperately trying to cling to his ”maverick” moniker?
Didn’t McCain sell out the US on film while captive in Viet Nam?
Didn’t he do this because he was tortured?
Didn’t he vote for torture along with bush?
Won’t that put our soldiers in danger of being tortured in the future…because if we ignore the Geneva Convention, why shouldn’t our opponants?
Didn’t McInsane CONSISTANTLY vote against funding for veterans…along with Bush?
Yeah, you’re a good republican but a bad American and a shity human being.
THAT’s why I rag on you RePUBICans.
You’re intelectually uncurious and morally dishonest.
If you vote for one more second of Republican corruption you should all burn in hell.
I’m out.

davis get your facts straight. I am a Southerner. You are the dunce. I hate it when Obama supporters can’t stand to here the truth. The Dems have thrown Blacks under the bus for years. The Democratic Party has hijacked the civil rights record of the Republican Party and taken blacks down the path of Socialism that has turned our black communities run by Democrats for the past 40 years into economic and social wastelands.

DemocratIC Party
Higher taxes on corporations and small businesses will drive jobs out of the US as proven in the Carter years. This is just common sense. Private corporations are profit driven which is a good thing as the profits are used to create jobs, develop new technology and pay dividends to people who own stocks or bonds. When taxes go up, corporations and small business must either lay off people to pay for the higher taxes or in the case of corporations, just move to some other country with lower taxes.
Drilling for more oil off shore and in Anwar makes sense since that is where the oil is and the oil is relatively easy to get to. Oil companies do not want to drill for oil on the current land leases because the oil is difficult to get to or the land has no oil. In any case, why not let the oil companies drill where they know the oil is and where the oil is easy to get to? Obama is also against building new refineries and new nuclear power plants. Without a growing energy supply, the US economy will decline, our standard of living will go down and more people will be out of jobs.
Obama’s plan for non carbon based power is just not feasible at this time wind and sun just will not provide the energy the US needs to sustain our current level of growth. Even Pickens plan admits that wind power is unreliable and will require a massive natural gas backup plan. The real question is why do this at great cost to the tax payer when the oil, coal and natural gas is there for the taking. Every other Nation in the world is going gang busters trying to get every last drop of oil they can. Why not the US?
As to pie and the sky government programs that the US cannot afford. To be more specific, Obama is proposing over a TRILLION dollars in new government programs and his plan to pay for these new programs just does not add up if you do the math.
As to government by fiat running our lives, just hear what Obama is saying, everything he talks about has a government component associated with it from health care to education to the so called green jobs he is talking about. Everything. That is why there is such concern about Obama’s communist mentors and their influence on him and his policies.
If you want change that equals:
Loss of jobs on a massive scale
Higher gas prices
A lower standard of living
Your life run by government fiat
I guess Obama is your guy.

jerry,
if retard-reagan hadn’t defunded all of the research for alternative fuels back in the 80′s we MIGHT not be in this mess.
Two words: Cold Fusion.
Regarding nuclear plants, two more words: Nuclear Waste.
Regarding drilling:
Let the frigging oil stay in the frigging ground.
Stop thinking inside the box.

joyce, you’re totally right. But that comes from simplistic liberal thinking. Everyone is pigeonholed into neat little groups and attributes are automatically assigned to them. This is why Hillary supporters are such a big problem for Obama. Despite his campaign’s claims that these supporters will “fall in line”, they fail to understand that women have very diverse views and different priorities and they’re tired of being taken for granted. The ones who now support Palin after seeing Obama destroy Hillary are called traitors and idiots by Obama supporters (see the Hillary forums). This is how the left demonstrates their virtues of tolerance, compassion, and the diversity of opinions.

Jim-
McCain said outright that he relies on his expert friends to tell him the answers.
McCain is no more qualified than anyone else on foreign policy. He has gotten so many facts wrong. He continually goes against the expert opinion that he asked for. The 911 commission as well as the CIA said that our invasions and aggressive actions causes anti-american sentiment and have actually increased the number of and size of terrorist groups.
No one gets it. Violence begets violence. We cannot be everyones savior.

PALIN FANS!
Take a look at her decision making skills in a Life and Death situation…
http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/4628/sarahpalinla4.png
Do you think she is qualified to step in as President of the United States??

Buyers remorse? No way.
The evangelicals told McCain what they wanted, and John did exactly what he was told. When the storys about the meetings between McCains staff and the Dobson crowd in St. Paul come out this campaign is officially over.
He tried to suck up to Falwell, but he died on him. He sucked up to Rod Parsley another evangelical. He pandered to John Hagee, and then had to back away from that fruitcake. Palin was part of the deal. People are starting to talk.

Jim
I never said Bush is creating more terrorists. Clinton was an interventionist nation builder as well. It is clear you don’t get the concept. Take a look at a country that is non interventionist. They don’t have terrorist attacks.
My view is simplistic because it is that simple. We need to mind our own. We spend so much time minding everyone else that we are leaving our borders open to these extremists.
I’m not saying terrorists wouldn’t exist. I’m saying they need a reason and a platform to rally their troops. We give it to them. Just like they gave it to us. They attacked us, and it rallied our troops. It brought us together when we were so divided because it gave us motivation to respond.
Which goes back to violence begetting violence. Clearly interventionism is not working. We have been involved in all of these conflicts and it has gotten us no where.
We armed saddam with the chemicals he used on his people. We befriended BinLaden and helped him take over afghanistan. What did this intervention get us? over 4000 dead soldiers and 40,000 injured soldiers. IS IT WORTH IT? IS IT FREAKING WORTH IT? This isn’t protecting freedom. This is playing risk and it is out of control. We would not be here if it wasn’t for our intervention. So go ahead, buy into the fear that we will be attacked by terrorists if we don’t invade every country that doesn’t agree with us. Go ahead and buy into the notion that Iran is going to attack us(even though they don’t even have a real army) Go ahead and join the war on terror. But remember that you are fighting an ideal, not a country or a person. You are fighting something that you cannot win. There will always be extremists, there are extremists in every religion that are fighting for the same exact thing with a different title. When you fight an ideal instead of a country or person it is an open ended conflict that will push us to the brink of extinction as a country. If Americans really love America, they will heed the advice and warnings of our founders, avoid entangling alliances and use diplomacy. Giving up our freedom in the name of freedom is sad.
In addition, ask our attackers why they did it. It is not because we are free and prosperous, it is because we march around on their holy sites and interfere in things we know nothing about.

Renee, I actually agree with some of your points. However, I would invite you to read up a bit more on global terrorism. There are MANY non-interventionalist countries experiencing problems with brutal terrorism today–particularly in Africa. I don’t buy the moral equivalence argument of “extremists in every religion”. People of every major religion can co-exist peacefully side by side, with the notable exception of those of the Islamic faith. Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, and Jews are slaughtered every week at the hands of Islamic terrorists all around the world. That will not magically disappear if all countries kept to themselves. While bizarre to us, the goal of Jihadists is to infiltrate and take down their host countries, with the ultimate goal of replacing the country’s laws with Sharia Law, as they are slowly doing in the UK, Denmark, and Norway with great success. And they have some really hateful crime related to it (honor killings, etc.) Those countries are having their cultures destroyed from within. Rather than fighting wars on foreign soil, this very well could be our fate in the future unless we are vigilant.
In any case, I do appreciate the discussion.

There will be buyers’ remorse if it turns out she really was involved with a secessionist political party.
That would make her a modern day Jefferson Davis. Pretty wild stuff.
Anyway, McCain shouldn’t have made such an important decision in such a kneejerk fashion.

Man or woman, Palin’s views on the issues are totally opposite of mine. What kind of a mother she is or what kind of experience she has don’t even matter to me at this point. I will vote for the ticket that best represents what I believe. I suggest you all do the same.

I can’t wait for Obama to be president so I can quit my job and get free things! We should all quit so the Big O will provide for us with his campaign money (corporation).
Hey, no incentive to work feels great – thanks Mr. O!

Sarah has EXECTUTIVE experience *running a government* (something NONE of the other candidates can actually boast, even John McCain as Governor of Alaska and got there by defeating the *incumbent* Republican Governor, who was definitely part of the “old school” and who WAS very much in the pocket of the big oil companies. We in Alaska wanted change – and we got it in the person of Sarah Palin!
Sarah Palin is everything she looks to be and more. Her approval rating as Governor of Alaska has been as high as 95% and is currently leveled out consistently in the upper 80 percentile throughout the state (and in both parties) – the HIGHEST approval rating of ANY sitting Governor.