Stephanopoulos: Obama Campaign Raised $66 Million in August

My wife and I are both in the military. She is serving her 26th year and Im on my 29th. One year to go for me. We have always voted fot the Republican ticket in the past even though we are Independent. After keeping up with this campaine and researching everything we could, we will be supporting Obama. McCain served his country with honor, but that in itself doesnt mean he will be a good President. What really sent us over the edge was the pick of Palin. The thought that she could be our Commander in Chief one day is scarey. Both Kennedy and Reagan were great at deplomacy and the Berlin Wall came down and we prevented a war with the Soviets during the Cuban missle crisis due to having brains in the White House that believed in deplomacy first.At one point Kennedy’s four Generals and Chief of Staff were pressuring Kennedy to attack. Kennedy didnt fall to the pressure and used is brains and deplomacy to possibly stop a war and it worked. Does anyone acually believe, if McCain and Palin had been in office that they would have gone against their Generals and used deplomacy. I think not. If something were to happen to McCain, Palin would be in charge of the most powerful military in the world. I know about the Alaska National Guard but I also know she as never given them one single command. My Wife and I are sure in our beliefs that if McCain and Palin are elected, at the least, we would just continue with Bush policies or even worse. Obama believes not only in deplomacy first, before conflict, and has the brains to make it work. He will keep our military strong and country safe and will help fix the the worlds view of us. Remember the days when the international community respected and looked up to us. Please support the troops and God Bless America.

$66 million…Jesus!

If i can just get a slice of either obama or mccain monies God help meeee

The more amazing number is half a million new donors. If you donate, then that means you are pretty energized. If you are energized, you will try to bring others along with you. If you bring others along with you, then these polls CANNOT be accurate. There is no “likely voter” model that can be accurate. IT’S GOING TO BE A BLOWOUT!!!

All of America demands Obama release the IP addresses of all the donated internet money. And how much of that really came from big money donors. If you believe the crock that most of itcame from small donors you need to be whipped and flogged.

CW – While I disagree with your opinion, I respect your decision to vote for Obama. I also appreciate the fact that you didn’t spew negative garbage and inflammatory statements. We need a lot more civility around here. People should be able to have differing opinions.
I’ve posted before that on November 5th, there will only be one winner, and I hope that EVERYONE will get behind him and give whoever wins a chance.

I regret that McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin compelled me to be one of the 500,000 new contributors to the Obama campaign. Then more I read and learn about Sarah Palin the more I am convinced that she is power crazed individual that will stop at nothing to get what she wants and needs. McCain will be just one more mentor that she will turn on and turn in when she sees an opportunity for gain. The Palin mafia is not what this country needs.

Me and my family are in complete agreement with CW. Two sons in Iraq, both Army active duty, my wife an Army Civilian and I’m a 25 year vet. CW summed it up precisely as is our mindset as well.

….here’s what has stuck in my mind as to why Obama gets my vote as of now:
- The swarm of homogenous fresh faced GOP convention floor elite yelling “zero, zero, zero” when “community organizer” was mentioned in several hate speeches… Not the America I want to see my children and grandkids participating in.
- John McCain rides the coattails of his life inspiring story in a POW camp only to spiral into dishonest campaigning thus taking away the honor for me of that sacrifice. He said he would run an honest campaign yet I think he has surrendered his integrety to Rovian bile. By leaning on the miliatary part of his story he is now soiling the definition of an “honarable military man”.
- the economic issues are important but the lawyering up circle jerk in Alaska to stop the politically charged trooper gate reminds me too much of what I’ve watched on TV for the last eight years coming from Bush/Cheney.
- the Maverick we used to vote for here in AZ ain’t the same man he used to be. Age is an issue.
- Palin…I actually enjoy her attempt at Tina Fey impressions. Time to start framing the McCain/Palin brand for what it is…Politicians (McCain) reaching his destination via the gutter instead of a journey with character. This is not change.
- The fiscal conservatives, which I typically gravitate towards, have been overtaken by sincere religious Americans with leaders who are hypocrites in how they choose or not choose to voice support from one day to the next based on wedge issues.
- My uncle has taken care of his wife day and night continuously since her early 50′s without the benefit of outside medical centers. She is bed ridden, unable to share the joys of their family’s life stories and close to a vegeatative state. My uncle stuck with his wedding vows still after 15 years of this life and never complains, brings her Communion each Sunday and demonstrates what I see as honor and committment. The bar is high….

Only $66 mil!!! Not enough to CHANGE voters’ decision.

And people complains about the economy.

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Under Palin, Wasilla charged rape victims for exam
Submitted by admin on September 11, 2008 – 12:01pm.
Two state leaders lashed out at the public record of Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday as witnesses in a new “Alaska Mythbusters” forum coordinated by supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Speaking to a teleconference audience of reporters around the nation, former Gov. Tony Knowles and current Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein — both Democrats — accused Palin of misleading the public in her new role as the vice presidential running mate of Arizona Sen. John McCain.
While some of their complaints have already been aired, Knowles broke new ground while answering a reporter’s question on whether Wasilla forced rape victims to pay for their own forensic tests when Palin was mayor.
True, Knowles said.Eight years ago, complaints about charging rape victims for medical exams in Wasilla prompted the Alaska Legislature to pass a bill — signed into law by Knowles — that banned the practice statewide.”There was one town in Alaska that was charging victims for this, and that was Wasilla,”
Knowles saidA May 23, 2000, article in Wasilla’s newspaper, The Frontiersman, noted that Alaska State Troopers and most municipal police agencies regularly pay for such exams, which cost between $300 and $1,200 apiece.”(But) the Wasilla police department does charge the victims of sexual assault for the tests,” the newspaper reported.It also quoted Wasilla Police Chief Charlie Fannon objecting to the law. Fannon was appointed to his position by Palin after her dismissal of the previous police chief. He said it would cost Wasilla $5,000 to $14,000 a year if the city had to foot the bill for rape exams.”In the past we’ve charged the cost of exams to the victims’ insurance company when possible,” Fannon told the newspaper. “I just don’t want to see any more burden put on the taxpayer.”An effort to reach Fannon by phone Wednesday was not successful.Knowles and Weinstein also went after the Republican ticket on several statements now airing in campaign ads around the nation, including Palin’s claim that she opposed federal money for the “bridge to nowhere.”The governor has refused to acknowledge her explicit support for the $230 million Gravina Island Access Project in her effort to sound more like an anti-earmark reformer to a national audience, Weinstein said.And she still supports spending $400 million to $600 million on “the other Bridge to Nowhere,” the Knik Arm Crossing, which would provide residents in Palin’s hometown of Wasilla faster access to Anchorage, Knowles added.”That project is moving right ahead,” said Knowles, who served as governor of Alaska from 1994 to 2002. “The money for that project was not diverted anywhere else. … So (for her) to say she said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks….’ I would say she said, ‘Thanks!’”A phone call to Meg Stapleton, a spokeswoman for the Alaska office of the McCain-Palin campaign, was not returned Wednesday.However, the Republican side lost little time in organizing a national truth squad of its own to battle what it considers “smears” of Palin by Democrats. A list of the names of more than 50 members of a Palin truth team, posted Monday on the Atlantic Monthly magazine Web site, included three Alaskans: Stapleton (a former Palin aide); Kristan Cole, a longtime friend; and Republican Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell.As a former governor, Knowles said, he’s reluctant to criticize an active governor. But he decided to make an exception with Palin.”In this situation it’s not just a sitting governor,” he said. “Our current governor is a candidate for the vice presidency and a heartbeat away from the presidency.”
Sue, 53, Mother of 6, USMC Veteran, Mother of a Veteran
Palin is a lying loon, McCain WILL NOT vote for Verterans benefits!
OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Careful, the GOP has very deep pockets.
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namebrandx———–Thanks for your response and there certainly is nothing wrong with respecting eachother’s opinions even if they are not the same. We will have either McCain or Obama sitting in the Oval Office. The President isnt what makes America great, but it is and always has been the people living in this great nation.
We will be fine as long as we kep our elected officials in check and hold them to their word. At the same time we, as the people, need to take responsiblity for ourselves and quit blaming DC for all our problems. Americans make this country what it is.

mccain will do so much more damages and we will not be no 1 in the world anymore that title will go to china

A week ago the Dems were tripping about Palin, now they are just trippin’.
My feminist side rejects Palin-politics, but the sexisme, lies and character smears she is being attacked for brings back the underhanded and negative campaign Obama ran in the primaries against Hillary Clinton. Reminds me how much I dislike Obama.
What I don’t get is how for no apparent reason the press can compare Palin to Quayle; an insider from Washington whose name became synonymous with “stupid” after misspeak and spelling error. They even said she was “worse than Quayle”, which I guess reference her gender? Goodlooking Biden is the one they should compare to Quayle.
Rampant sexism in the USA is the best argument for voting on a woman anything in this country. And the Obama outrage is as I see it the chicken coming home to rooster!

i would hire the best man and that man is OBAMA

I hope he uses it to attack the lies. Attack McCain and ignore his little pet Palin because she’s been totally assimilated into the program. Stop being so wimpy (or shoud I say polite) Obama and bring it on. Check the web, there are already scripts for attack written or else you lost it.

obama will take this country back.People need to quit judging people by the color of thier skin but content of thier______ You fll in the blank….
People are realizing that the democrats are the ones who will bring back jobs to ohio that has been lost. The democrats are the ones who will help lower these gas prices. The democrats will bring us back to a surplus and take us out of this def.
God bless
Obama08
Ohio

this country is going downhill because of bush and now mccain/palin will just punch up to the ground and kill us. i hope we are looking at the man and not his skin colour because the man is great and that man is OBAMA

To Disillusioned2008 posting at 9:00:25AM:
India and Pakistan (and Bangladesh) woman leaders were dynasty related. Ignore that.
Yes, we do need a woman leader here, *capable* leader that is. I don’t endorse Governer Palin as capable by any stretch of imagination.

IF I HAD TO ASK A QUESTION TO PALIN IT WOULD BE ARE YOU PROLIFE OR PROCHOICE
DO YOU BELIEVE IN DEATH PENALTY, A LIFE IS A LIFE

Wake up AMERICA we don’t need a VICE PRESIDENT who has five little babies.And another on the way that her 17 year old daughter has.. Look at OUR economy,gas prices,jobs…. If this woman is the next VP we are in serious trouble. I can see MITT ROMNEY somewhere secretly laughing at how stupid mccain is.

WE MUST BE ALL RICH SO WHAT WE ARE LOSING OUR HOMES SO WHAT GAS PRICES ARE UP AND WE ARE LOSING OUR JOBS TO CHINA. THE CNN POLLS ARE SAYING THAT MCCAIN IS IN THE LEAD SO WE WILL JUST SUCK IT UP AND GO FOR ANOTHER 4 YEARS AND LOVING IT. BECAUSE PALIN CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM HER HOUSE AND WE ARE SAFE.

Page 1 NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?hp
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
She is Bush/Cheney in a skirt

Eight years of Republican rule have undermined our economy and our international status and influence in the world. On almost every issue, McCain/Palin will continue a failed ideology and policy. This is why their campaign runs on belittling and spreading false rumors about Obama and Biden.
This is why I decided to support and donate to their campaign, I still believe in our country and what it can achieve.

I guess it isn’t hard to do when you get money from all around the world…Nigeria comes to mind.

Josh Marshall poses a very interesting question at http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com
“If John McCain were still in the Navy what consequences might he face for being caught telling a long series of lies?”
Here is a link for the answers http://usmilitary.about.com/od/punitivearticles/a/mcm133.htm?p=1
Sadly McCain is giving us an indication of how he would run the Government. It would be Palin and more neocons doing it not him. Not only sad but downright scary. The red flags of warning are flying high just as they did with Bush.
I hope the country reads them this time or God help us!

Way to go. Good work. Here’s the key to this election: turn-out. We need the Dems to turn out like never before. We need to use this money to aggressively expose and fight the Republican vote caging that is already in full swing. We need to register all the kids who can vote for the first time, and all the African-Americans and Latinos we can find. There is no nobler calling for a political campaign than to raise voter participation. I wish Obama’s website gave us an option how to spend the money we donate: I’d opt for registration and voter disenfranchisement fighting every time.

This is an amazing number – 66 million -and I’m proud I’m one of them!
This election is simple:
Obama/Biden will help restore our place in the world, which has been ravaged by Bush and Cheney. We will finally be able to achieve meaninful health care reform and tax relief for the middle class is long overdue. (note even independent groups have found that his tax plan will save 80% of tax payers money).
John McSame and Governor Mooseburger don’t actually promise more of the same – they’re worse! John McCain has proven over and over again that he doesn’t have the judgment to run a card game much less the nation. (anyone recall McCain singing Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran?). He’s jingoistic to say the least – moreover when was the last time you heard a canidate for president tell you 1. that he’s out of touch and 2. he doesn’t understand the economy; a fact clearly supported by his naming of Phil (there’s no recession – people are whiners) Gramm has his crief economic advisers.
His lack of ability is merely highlighted by his VP choice. Palin is ill prepared to run Alaska much less the nation. She’s petty and power hungry; which would frightening even if not combined with her ignorance and her complete inability to identify the truth in a line up.
She continues to lie about the bridge to nowhere – she lied about going to Iraq – she has repeatedly lied about troopergate and has now lawyered up – she has lied about trying to ban books – and lied about her record vis – a – vis earmarks – she has lied about her record on taxes and the budget. Under her Wasilla went from no debt to a 20 million debt – Alaska’s budget grew over 30% in only 19 months and taxes have gone up.
Frankly, in private you know perfectly well that you know that her inlaws wouldn’t hire her to run their gas station.
Assuming people are awake and voting to better the economy, reform health care and rehabilitate our standing in the world this election is over! Obama in 08!

I’m moving to some third-world country if McCain/Palin are elected. Eight years of shame is enough.

The public interest demands and urgently requires Campaign Finance Reform. I supported Hillary Clinton because she pledged to support reform.
We need a national system similar to the one established in Arizona. We need donations to be anonymous so that lobbyists cannot influence (or appear to influence) politicians.
That said, GO OBAMA! WIN!

Only $66 million? That’s disappointing. We were aiming for $100 million and have fallen short.
I’m, btw, one of the 500,000 new donors and pretty disappointed…Oh well, better luck next month…
CS

Let’s see…McCain cheated on and then dumped his loyal wife, who nursed him back to health after his captivity by the North Vietnamese, the brave and noble woman who stoically raised his children devotionally and unquestioningly. While eventually marrying the drug addicted pillhead heiress who with inherited money enabled McCain to establish a political career and live a life of elite luxury, McCain then exhibited the questionable judgment usually associated with adulterers, choosing a woman who signed off on the egrigious notion that a woman who is raped, if compelled to seek prosecution by the authorities in her little hamlet Wasilla, to pay for her rape kit herself.
The heartless adulterer McCain didn’t stop there. No. Reportedly, he called his new heiress wife pill junkie a “trollop” and the nasty rhymes with bunt word.
Then, showing the sensitivity usually associated with serial adulterers, McCain asked a group assembled to hear his witicisms “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?”…thinking only of a 12 year old girl’s self-esteem and sensitivities, McCain then lovingly provided the answer: “Because Janet Reno is her father!”…to a hail of hearty guffaws.
So…this is acceptable, because…uh…the “sexist” Obama allegedly called Palin a pig, even though the fact of the matter is, he did not.
Think about that, you Republican hypocrites when you wallow in your metaphoric excrement of all consuming hate for real change.

QUESTION TO ASK PALIN: Will you unequivically state here and now that you WILL NOT reinstitute the DRAFT if you get elected? And will you also state unequivically that America will NOT go into a war with Russia unilaterally? (God help us all).

Well, my concern is that it was August. Obama’s speech was on the 29th. Most of the Palin stuff was in September.
Basically, Obama supporters do not get cocky. Keep sending in money. They need to reach the rest of America that doesn’t know the truth about McCain/Palin.
I’m under a mountain of debt. Might as well give $10-20 more for the cause.

Sylvia said:
“I’d rather have a respectful president with manners, than a president that can e-mail.”
Well then Sylvia, vote for Obama and you get both! Obama has been nothing BUT respectful to both McCain and Palin, while they on the other hand resort to snarking, sniping, mocking and OUTRIGHT lying!
McCain has been anything but honorable, and his bad manners despicable. He’s become a desperate, nasty old man, constantly lying and mocking and spreading false rumors, all of these charges backed up by the NYT, Washington Post, FactCheck.org, etc.
So much for the honorable man OBAMA constantly refers to at every rally and town-hall; always giving him his props. Gutter politics, anything to win, Swiftboating; McCain admitted as much the other day when confronted with his dirty campaign. “I’m in it to win.” Disgusting.

I am literally shaking knowing that there are American’s looking at Palin and truly believe in their hearts that this woman could possibly be an effective VP. Have we lost our minds? How many more children will we allow to suffer by the hands of another Bush family -McCain and Palin? Don’t you see that McCain has stooped so low, he couldn’t care less about the American people. Look into your hearts, and ask yourselves if this man is honest. You would realize that the Republican Party is doing everything in their power just the way they did 8 years to screw the American people. Greenspan says McCain tax cut is not good for our country. Why are we using our likeness over policies to put two no brainers in the White house?. Has anyone read THE NEWYORK TIMES today? Please read it.
We must stop this politics and put our families first..Palin destroyed so many families to get to where she is. Do you really think that she will look out for your family? Palin hired her best friend from high school with the only qualification “she likes cows” and paid her 95,000 yearly to be a member of her adminstration..She fired any and everyone that wasn’t her “friend”. How blinded are we not to see what will happen if these two uneducated clowns win the election.
I am asking everyone to look at the faces of the children in your household, around your neighborhoods, the ones that cannot afford a good nights dinner because the cost of food has escalated, the ones that cannot afford college, feel your neighbors pain, the ones that have lost their houses to foreclosure because of our economic downturn, a friend or neighbor that has had their car repossess even though they work 12-15 hours a week to keep up, feel the pain of your grandparents that cannot afford their medication because they do not have Universal Health care, their little Social Security is being taxed to death, they cannot live in a comfortable home because the cost of rent is so high, they cannot get the care or assistance they need because they cannot buy Long Term Care insurance, look at your own situation and ask, Am I better off these 8 years?.. When you look at these very import issues, not the face or the color of an individual, you will say No Way, No How, No McCain/Palin. We cannot afford to make this GRAVE mistake again. We really cannot. Eight years ago, the majority that voted for Bushed, voted for him because he was well liked although he was not well educated or shred most of our middle class values…Look at the pay back?
This time it will be a NIGHTMARE if we use the same criteria to put the next President in office. These two together, MCPalin, are not educated and their policies are like, if not worst, than Bushe’s. Research it for yourselves.

Obama has shown great managment skills and good decision making. He found one of the most powerful tools in the world, the internet. When campaining against Clinton he pulled in almost twice as much money and continues to do so. This country needs a good manager and with the intelligence to make good decisions. There are two canidates and one believes in almost a “military” type nation with domestic issues and policies coming in second.(Like Bush). Another that puts domestic problems, issues and policies on the same importance as having a strong military. We have long lost our general respect around the world. 9/11 had the world waving the American Flag and the world at our back. Iraq changed all that and the way Bush handled it. Communication to the international communities is important. Deplomacy can be a powerful weapen. Listening and not just talking or threatening is part of communication. To regain the respect of the world, we need somone that can commincate and with the brains to use deplomacy like Kennedy and Reagan. That does not mean having a weak military or not being ready to use it if we need to. But only after all else has failed or we are attacked first. Bush and McCain failed to have an exit strategy when we went in to Iraq. Bush has now left us with a military spread so thin, that if we were attacked, we would have a hard time addressing it in a quick response.A good manager or President with good advisers would have seen that coming and would have taken steps not to let us be in this situation. We should have put our forces into Afg and finished that war which would have been won by now if we handnt gone in to fill Bushs agenda in Iraq and the SOB that attcked NY is still free and alive. Obama has shown through his campaine that he makes good decisions, manages well, talks issues and problems in American on an even playing field while stressing the importance of a strong military. He is great at communicating both on domestic, international and military issues. Obama 08

“I’ve posted before that on November 5th, there will only be one winner, and I hope that EVERYONE will get behind him and give whoever wins a chance.”
If McCain wins it is because he lied his way into the White House. A man that will lie to the people to become President, will also lie to them once he is in office, like lying us into another war like Bush did. If McCain becomes President he will already have proven that he cannot be trusted and the people must be skeptical of everything he says and does.

It is ludicrous to compare Sarah Palin’s experience to that of Reagan. Reagan had been a two term governor of the largest Stae in the Country. He had run for president before and was in his sixties by the time he became president.
Sarah Palin is a confused unqualified Govenor who behaves like a well rehearsed beaty pagent contestant.
A lot of this polling issue is about closet racism that is not going to be addressed because the republicans has master the game of turning the media and the american people against themselves and their best judgement when it comes to presidential elections. They lie , smear and fear monger all the time when the US is in an economic.

Donate another dollar ‘sweetie’
OBAMA=SEXIST PIG

I’m I’m a public school teacher and one of the small donors to Obama (and now Biden). I started with $50 in the spring and my Aug+Sept total alone now equals $600. I don’t think I’ve given a total of more than $100 to any candidate in the past. Now I have to make sure I don’t go over the individual limit! America NEEDS Obama/Biden. Since I live in a soldily Obama/Biden state I’m donating $ to help volunteers in the closer states. I think we’ll see some amazing numbers for the September Obama/Biden fund raising total. Does all this money seem obscene? Not when one considers what’s at stake. We cannot continue to suffer from lacluster leadership. Fanny and Freddie are only the tips of the icebergs that we’re steaming toward. There is a definite contrast between Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin. To me they are respectively quality leadership vs. recklessness. I’m putting my hard earned $ where my mouth is.

I am proud of Barack’s fundraising in August. Like some of the other posters here, I contributed for the following reasons:
1.) Barack cares about the health of the country
a.) we are facing massive budget deficits and need to reform spending AND revenue.
b.) Barack understands that the middle class tax payers — those making between about $40 and and $80 grand — can’t afford a tax increase.
c.) He understands those on the high-end absolutely can afford a tax increase and these folks will get one (look at how much money our government is spending to “protect” Lehman shareholders, if you think our government only helps those in the lower- and middle-income areas).
2.) Barack understands the need to really drive change by embracing a movement. He likes the idea of health care changes, but when he hears the stories of those that are harmed by our health care system, he looks for real solutions. His health care plan is a real solution — universal coverage through private sector activity.
3.) Like Reagan and Kennedy and Roosevelt, Barack understands the value of diplomacy. Most Iranians want a civilized society. Most Koreans do, too. And, we should as well. The solutions involve engagement. Military power only accomplishes so much, but appealing to the folks that work and live in these countries is a viable method of ensuring real change takes place in these societies.
McCain isn’t even close to Obama on any of these issues.

For all of you that are criticizing Obama and his fundraising prowess, remember it’s McCain who can’t recall how many homes he owns. When will his lazy, do-nothing beauty queen wife donate her $100 million to the middle class? And, raising money is not “buying an election” – it’s called AMERICAN POLITICS, and I know McCain supporters wouldn’t be criticizing it if McCain could do it – but he can’t, since he and Palin LIE about almost everything (including the number of people coming out to see them, when they – goodness me – grace us with a rally or interview).

CW, what an excellent post and I share the same sentiment. My husband who is a retired Army and now a JROTC instructor and a die-hard republican is now spreading Barack Obama words. My 3 daughters who are republicans will be all voting democrat this year mind you, even my daughter who is currently a Captain in the US Army will definitely voting for Senator Obama. You see, it is no longer what party you belong but what this country is all about and what it stands around the world. I have been a volunteer for Senator Obama’s campaign since the primary but I will work harder because of the notion that an incapable politician might be a heartbeat away from the presidency. We need an intelligent with incredible temperament to be the Commander-in-Chief of this great country and I am one of those nameless supporters in the trenches helping him to be the next PRESIDENT. God Bless and SPREAD THE WORD!

If it cost a nickel to s**t then I’d have to puke. But I believe so strongly that Obama/Biden is the best ticket to bring change, that I have become a first time donor.

I AM A WOMAN ALSO 56 YEARS OF AGE ONE DAY THERE WILL BE A WOMAN PRESIDENT BUT NOT THIS ONE A VP ALSO . PALIN IS A CANDIDATE OF KARL ROVE WHO SHOULD BE IN JAIL ALONG WITH BUSH AND CHENEY THEY GOT OVER 5,000 YOUNG TROOPS KILLED IN A SENSELESS WAR AND HOW MANY THOUSANDS MANE FOR LIFE NO LEGS NO FACE AND ARMS GONE. I CAN’T SEE HOW SHE BRINGS ANY THING TO THE TABLE BUT NASTINESS SHE CAME IN THE GOP CONVENTION SPITTING VIPER AND YELLING OUT KARL ROVE WORDS AND JUST LIES AND MCCAIN SO SENILLE AND SO GLAD THAT HE GOT SOME ATTENTION WAS HAPPY LIKE THE CROWD AT DEVILISH PLACE . I HOPE AND PRAY OBAMA BECOMES THE PRESIDENT THE GOP HAVE DONE SO MUCH DAMAGE . ENOUGH ALREADY!OH YOU SEE HOW QUICKLY SHE GAVE HANNITY OF FOX NOISE HER 2ND INTERVIEW IS THAT NOT AN EYE OPENER.BUT THE PRESS CAN’T ASK ANY QUESTIONS.

BUSH CHENEY ROVE ALL ARE COWARDLY VIETNAAM DRAFT DODGERS. THEY ARE GUTLESS. THE COUNTY IS NEARLY BANKRUPT BECAUSE OF THEM AND THE WAR THEY STARTED. I CAN ONLY HOPE THE CITIZENRY
COME TO THEIR SENSES AND SEND THE REPUBLICAN COWARDS HOME.
VIETNAM VET 1967-68

So, I saw a post on here that said women should vote for McCain so we don’t succumb to a male leader again?
When Kathleen Sebellius is running I will vote for her, not some evangelical nightmare who wouldn’t even pay for forensic rape kits. She doesn’t stand for anything that I, or Hillary stood for. Hillary supports Universal Healthcare – Palin is quoted saying it shoudl be market regulated. Feel free to email me if you want to hear more.
As for the pig on lipstick, not only was it directed at McCain not Palin (Palin came later in the speech) but the LA times has a great point:
Meanwhile, McCain may have conveniently forgotten (hey, the dude’s, like, really old) that he once used the same analogy in a 2007 Chicago Tribune article about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s healthcare plan. And I didn’t hear anything about Hillary demanding an apology.
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” McCain is quoted as saying about Clinton’s proposal.
Yes, thats right Hillary supporters – flock to McCain, he loves women! So much that he’s even using one to get your vote.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/09/barack-obama-sa.html
So, it’s not that Obama freaked out that he was losing and chose to insult Palin – it was the McCain campaign who decided that the American people were stupid enough to believe anything. He followed that comment with one about wrapping a fish in newspaper for 8 years and calling it change – I’m surprised the Newspaper Industry wasn’t more outraged at this blatant barb from anygry Obama. Give me a break.

Have you all read the latest of McCain/Palin lies – she never visit Irag! When will they start telling the truth to the American people. For someone potentially be a comander-in-chief by praising her foreign affair experience by “see Russia form her home” is very scary. If you think Bush/Cheney is reckless and corrupted, be afraid of McCain/Paulin.
Let’s take back this country in the right direction…vote Obama/Biden.

The Palin pick – must have motivated people. I know I was so scared the night of her speech at the convention that I was here donating money. Considerable amount of money for a working girl who has never contributed for any candidacy before.

Yes, the Obamanots have been raiding their piggy banks ever since McCain announced Sarah Palin as his V.P. pick.
Then they had to raid their kids’ piggy banks after Palin’s acceptance speech.

As for the post saying that the $66 million was from large companies, nearly everyone I know has been writing checks like crazy. I donated twice and I’ve never contributed to a campaign before. An entire convention of people laughing at community organizers really scared and angered us Democrats.
I was supposed to get a shirt with my last donation and they haven’t even sent them out yet as too many people donated. Everything in his store is sold out.
The more smear I read on Obama, the more helpless I feel and the more I donate. I would truly do anything within reason for this man to get elected.
Meanwhile, Republican voters are clutching at liptick related straws while everyone seems to ignore the fact that laughing at community organizers is possibly the most offensive thing you can do – these are people who give up riches to help others. True humanitarians. Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor.
Let’s donate more money!!
https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/standardvidbottom?source=action_menu

das2
You shouldn’t talk about Hillary that way.

I have never donated to a Presidential Campaign before this year. When McCain picked Sarah Palin I sent money to Barack Obama. This election is too important
for this country. I am now invested in this candidate and I will volunteer to help Obama get elected.

Henry, if I were McCain, I would seriously be worred that the neo-cons chose Palin for him because they don’t intend for him to make it through his first term. She is alot like W, and she knows maybe even less than he does, so they could pull her strings even better.

WAY TO GO OBAMA ON THE DONATIONS!!! SUPPORTERS KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
We need to stay behind him because,
it is quite funny that everytime Obama fights back he has to be a liar, a hypocrite and whatever these pathetic Republicans want to call him. I suggest if you can not play the game then get out. Palin called herself a pitbull with lipstick. The last time I checked a pitbull is a savage and vicious dog so, what is the difference a pitbull with lipstick or a pig with lipstick both animals wallow in slop. She referred to herself as a savage and vicious person. DO WE NEED THAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE? Then most importantly McCain says that he is a maverick. Why would we want the stupidity of Bush to continue in the White House with Palin and McCain? All he could come up with is using Palin as a token to get the women voters. We are not stupid McCain the value of women is much higher than what you think. If you are thinking at all. We know that you are trying to use Obama’s thoughts and wisdom to get ahead. It is not going to work. So let this so called maverick go back to his unorthodox ideas and attitudes. Vote Barack Obama and Joe Biden ’08 The change we certainly need.

McCain/ Palin can run but they can’t hide from answering and discussing the issues that matter. They can use Karl Rove’s smear strategy and tactics to try to distract the people and the media. At the debate Sarah the Baracuda will meet Joey the Shark and MCSame will meet Obama the real Change for America and the World. McCain has lobbyists, special interest groups and Karl Rove to pay and run his campain but Obama has the people that pay and run his campain until he is elected President of USA.
YES WE CAN !!!
Obama/ Biden ’08

66 million? And his poll numbers keep dropping? Just goes to show that money cant buy everything.

Midnightsmom, so now, when we keep saying that many of the people who oppose Obama are racist, and when the wingers get indignant and say that’s not why, I hope you will remind everyone of what you just posted. I almost never agree with Michael Moore, but he said people who were still racist in the 21st century were unamerican, and I have to agree with that.

I don’t understand this comment posted by Sylvia Johnsen
“I’d rather have a respectful president with manners, than a president that can e-mail.”
Neither campaign has been completely respectful or acted with manners all the time. The severity with which the McCain campaign has disregarded the use of either is apparent though. So what you’re saying is that you actually will be voting for Obama, since he has acted with better manners and respect than McCain. It was just the e-mail portion of the comment that made it confusing.

It seems the narrative of BHO failing (which is false) is more newsworthy than fact of his success. How many worried aunties were reporting breathlessly that the numbers were off for August?

I’m 100% for Obama/Biden.
I’m a professional white woman in the medical field.
I’m a 4 year ARMY vet from the mid-1980′s.
In my late teens and early 20′s (over 30 years ago) I was one of the first women forest fire fighters in California. Back then I was also one of the only women anyone knew of who ran a chainsaw daily at work.
I now have two adult children in college.
I never considered myself to be a feminist. I have just done work that I enjoy and am thankful to all the women who have struggled for women’s rights.
Sarah Palin scares me and McCain frightens me even more than before for choosing Palin as his VP running mate.
Senators Obama and Biden are intelligent, thoughtful, and capable of leading our country. Barack Obama has inspired me to be a better person. I’m 49 years old and I never thought I would live to see the day when I would be inspired by a politician.
I have been a contributor to the Obama campaign and I believe a significant factor in the tremendous amount of money his campaign has raised recently directly reflects just how many people have become terrified of a McCain/Palin White House!
Obama/Biden just have to win. If they do not, our country and probably the world is in deep doo.

Obama said it best: This election is not about him. IT’S ABOUT US!
We have to make a real honest decision: Can we honestly afford FOUR (4) more years like the last eight we’ve experienced? Or, do we need something completely different than the current course we’re on?
If you can truly say that things are fine, that gas prices are under control, that Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are weaker than they were on 9/11, that the economy is good, that food prices are low, that the housing market is in great shape, that our financial institutions are fine, and that unemployment is not the highest it’s been in FIVE YEARS, then you should vote for John McCain and keep the Republicans in charge of the White House.
However, if you feel that things have gone wrong and that the country is on the wrong track, you have to do something different and you CANNOT let the Republicans back into the White House. They will happily give you four more years of crap (I’m a longtime former Republican and it gives me no pleasure to write this).
If you don’t like Obama, PLEASE VOTE FOR RON PAUL OR BOB BARR OR EVEN A SPACE ALIEN. Because any one of them will do 1000 times as well as Bush or McCain. These two bozos worked together to take my country into Iraq so that contractors could get rich through NO BID CONTRACTS! That gave Al Qaeda time to get stronger than ever!
If vote Republican after the last 8 years, you’re borderline committing treason (whether you know it or not).
Notice the veterans that have chimed in here. THAT’S NOT BY MISTAKE! These folks put their lives on the line for your hide and know that Bush and McIdiot made their job a lot tougher.
Pay them back by saving our country. These next four years are our very last chance to do that. Don’t fool yourself (as we did before 9/11) into thinking that things are ok and we have more time to make things right. WE DO NOT!
(TRUST ME – I thought things were fine and almost took a banking job in those very towers in 2000).
Last chance to leave the building! – Good luck.

Reid,
If I were a boss considering the rest of Obama’s resume, such as his associations, BIG RED flags would pop up!
Regarding the story about campaign contributions, since it was the month for the Dem’s coronation ceremony, the spike in contributions is not suprising.
All together, McCain has had more in his war chest than Obama’s campaign.

All the money in the world cant help him it seems.

Obama is feeling really good about breaking his public campaign financing promise right now. In case you forgot, here is a direct quote from Newsweek magazine:
Obama filled out a questionnaire from the Midwest Democracy Network that asked, “If you are nominated for President in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in the presidential public financing system?” Obama’s answer? A check next to the box marked “yes.” Underneath, the Illinois senator elaborated:
In February 2007, I proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public financing system in the 2008 election. My plan requires both major party candidates to agree on a fundraising truce, return excess money from donors, and stay within the public financing system for the general election. My proposal followed announcements by some presidential candidates that they would forgo public financing so they could raise unlimited funds in the general election. The Federal Election Commission ruled the proposal legal, and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has already pledged to accept this fundraising pledge. If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.

A lot of Americans are voting for McCain/Palin and a party who laughed d(uring their convention) at community organizers and people who work to make the community better. That spoke volumes of who Republicans are..I always tell people that the Republican party are the elitist party for people who are rich and people who pretend to be rich. I read where McCain’a wife wore a $300,000 outfit to the convention and michele Obama’s dress worn for her speech was $150.00 now go figure! How in heaven’s name..middle class and poor suffering people(who’ve lost their homes to forclosures,lost their jobs, cannot afford to drive too far because of the price of gas)vote for McCain baffles me..how is it that McCain is ahead of Obama in the polls really baffles me..My friend explains it to me this way “Americans are the most gullible people on the face of the earth and believe every thing they see or tv or hear on the radio..and the Republicans are better at negative ads,spin and downright lies” I must admit he’s right! Heaven help us all and save us from those Republicans!

The links below shows Picture of Lou Dobbs patronizing Racist vendor selling Waffles boxes with racial stereotype of Obama’
Please see the Waffle box in Lou’s hands at the Values Voter Summit in the pictures below.
Sources: Ben Smith of Politico.com and the New York times allso wrote about the event.
See Links below:
http://images.politico.com/global/waffe2.jpg http://images.politico.com/global/obamawaffle2.jpg http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Obama-Waffles.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Sol

Dee dee said: “[McCain/Palin]they don’t have votes!” Please check out http://realclearpolitics.com/ It seems you might be incorrect.

Half a MILLION NEW donors?!? Wow!!!!
Buy-bye McCain-Palin! Buh-bye!!!!

I am not one of the new donors but did struggle to double my donation in August. I would love to see a woman President or VP but Palin is a sad and cynical ploy perpetrated on the American people. Although I support Obama I would have respected McCain had he picked a qualified, experienced Republican woman. But he did not. “Country First” is now officially a joke. But it is the whole ticket and what they stand for: permanent tax cuts to the rich, a rejection of American values and unprecedented lies and distortions. Nor do I believe McCain’s POW status qualified him to be President: Wesley Clark was correct. He endured and survived – good for him and God bless him. But he is permanently damaged, mentally: an unbelievable number of reports from elected GOP officials discuss his explosive temper and impulsive decision-making. I do not want this man representing me when it comes to Iran, Russia, etc. He stands for the opposite of national security. There is a 1 in 3 chance he would not survive the term. This would leave Palin in charge: God help us. Ignorance and apocalypse-driven bellicosity. That’s not religion nor is it what Jesus died for. It’s stubborn ignorance masquerading as religion.

McClone has swallowed his own bitter saliva & bitten his own tongue by the outcome of his pick on Sarah Palin. His camp & republican strategist was hoping that such pick could generate votes from the Hillary’s supporter & American women; OR may even create similar to swift boat effect if Obama over react to her. However, they forgot one important factor in their equation: The American people are much more intelligent and smarter today after eight years of living under political lies and financial hardship. The humongous amount of donation to Obama comparing to the much smaller amount of McClone have spoken our American true feeling and the real public opinion.

They always say whoever wins Ohio wins the election. They said it in 2000 & 2004 and see who won. How’s that working for ya!
Obama/Biden 08

I am a small time donor having given $100 spread out over this year when our family could afford it! Do criticise our next POTUS’ “small time” donors! We are taking back OUR country and setting it back on the moral, respected ground that you republicans have ruined. Poor model Sarah you are a crook and criminal just like McShame and Bush! She hired her own people for jobs that the were not qualified for and got rid of those that dared to challenge her. Sound familiar!!! No republicans, No McCain and certainly no I lie and cheat to get where I am Palin!

OK I don’t get it. I thought the rational for public financing (which McCain has accepted) was to limit fund raising. So why is McCain still doing it if he can’t spend it. Or is “McCain raised 44 million a stand in for the Republican Party getting a shot of money. And,if that is so, what’s the point again? The party spends it on campaigning instead of the candidate – same end result. Is that the same reason that BonJovi can have a fund raising party for which entry fee is $35,000? Somebody please explain.

Palin’s supporters whine about sexism when Palin is criticized as inept, vengeful and extreme. But just remember, she and Bush together prove that stupidity and belligerance are NOT gender specific behaviors.

I’m voting for Obama because we cannot afford to leave a power vacuum in the strategically important state of Alaska. I want Sarah manning the antiaircraft guns when Bush declares war on Russia.

Obama’s Coke Dealer | Sep 14, 2008 10:30:26 AM
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You are so very typical of the jerks that support Bush-McCain

What in the world 66 million!!! If he can’t live and campaign with less money than this, what is he going to do with our tax money he is going to collect!!! This sounds very wasteful!!! Way too much money. I think this elitist is getting used to the Oprah life. Not Good for this Country. Nothing Middle Class about OBAMA.

Palin hasn’t turned as many heads as McCain would like to thing. Once the AFL-CIO ads, Biden, Bill Clinton hit airwaves and the trail, the plug will come out on McCains bathtub.

ericmiami, You wont have to go anywhere if McCain gets elected because THIS will be a third world country.

McClone has swallowed his own bitter saliva & bitten his own tongue by the outcome of his pick on Sarah Palin. His camp & republican strategist was hoping that such pick could generate votes from the Hillary’s supporter & American women; OR may even create similar to swift boat effect if Obama over react to her. However, they forgot one important factor in their equation: The American people are much more intelligent and smarter today after eight years of living under political lies and financial hardship. The humongous amount of donation to Obama comparing to the much smaller amount of McClone have spoken our American true feeling and the real public opinion.

Let’s not forget what Obama has been listening to for the past 20 years.
Malcolm X’s statement on Black Liberation Theory:
“Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy.”

Last month was the first time I ever directly donated to a campaign! McCain only cares about winning. Obama cares about the real problems of the American people. Obama/Biden is the clear choice.

DBoz….nice try HAHA. Now you expect Obama to give all his money away he’s raised. Why don’t you try asking Cindy to give some up for the cause.

ABC News: put the country first and start reporting on the issues, starting with McCain’s health! Why is Cindy McCain constantly by John McCain’s side? here’s the answer: Because she’s there to (a) reduce his anxiety and (b) cover over any gaffes. Why? Because he is suffering form the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Just like Nancy Reagan covered for Reagan in 1987-1988, Cindy McCain is covering for John McCain. Report the truth, ABC! And this tells you all you need to know about why Palin was chosen — not just to distract from Bush issues hanging around McCain’s neck like an albatross, but to distract attention from McCain himself and his failing health. Report the news, ABC!

“Donate another dollar ‘sweetie’
OBAMA=SEXIST PIG”
Thanks Julia. I just donated $25 more.

I am 62 years old and have never been so involved in a campaign as this. I have never donated to a campaign before and I now intend to donate to Obama/Biden and fully support them. I am an independent and after McCain chose Palin as his choice I made up my mind not to support McCain. Palin scares the bejesus out of me for many reasons. If McCain chose her because he feels he could draw support from women he is totally out of touch because women are more intelligent than we are given credit for.

“Well, I don’t care too much for money, cause money can’t buy me LOVE……”
-The Beatles

Fired Up, Ready To Go!! Keep taking the high road Obama. We will FINALLY change this country and restore our standing in the world!! Obama/Biden 08

Want to know who Palin appointed to State Division of Agriculture ($95,000)…old classmate who stated as one of her qualifications as” her childhood love of cows”

CW… nice post. I was military, Navy years ago, also Independent, now a Democrat voting for Obama… Our military is this country’s great strength and should not be abusively thrown into wars that are motivated by a political agenda that do not serve our country’s highest integrity. I fear with McCain in the White House we will only have more of the same, sword and shield of our military stretched into more wars and our economy pitching us into recession. McCain has shown even now that he will cave under the pressures of the right wing in his pick of a VP. he has shown that he puts being a politician first, not his country first…. And as for Reps. saying that the surge is working… at this point, with lies flying around thickly to keep the public view off the real issues facing this country. I don’t really believe anything they have to say anymore…

Hey Chad,
same goes for FLORIDA, I live in Florida and only 2 people I know, and that is from every single race, every single age group, and both genders, and every occupation. NO 1 IS VOTING McCAIN DOWN HERE in the 18-30 age group of people I know….
OBAMA WILL CARRY FLORIDA, THE POLLS ARE WACKO
Veterans For Obama
Obama-Biden ’08-’12

PoliSciGuru
>>The young vote is never counted, because we never get polled (no landlines, we use cell phones) So Obama supporters don’t get discouraged !!! WE ARE UNITED !!<<
United wasn't enough for John Kerry. The youth have to actually vote to make a difference.

Thanks to CW and Reid for your excellent posts. I wish they both could be made into prime time commercials. As a 50-something white woman, who in the 1970′s worked to try & get an Equal Rights Amendment passed, I would NEVER vote for McCain or Palin. For those who remain undecided, please don’t think it is elitist to have the best educated, intelligent candidates elected. That’s not elitist, it’s common sense.

Let’s see…McCain cheated on and then dumped his loyal wife, who nursed him back to health after his captivity by the North Vietnamese, the brave and noble woman who stoically raised his children devotionally and unquestioningly. While eventually marrying the drug addicted pillhead heiress who with inherited money enabled McCain to establish a political career and live a life of elite luxury, McCain then exhibited the questionable judgment usually associated with adulterers, choosing a woman as his potential VP… who signed off on the egrigious notion that a woman who is raped, if compelled to seek prosecution by the authorities in her little hamlet Wasilla, to pay for her rape kit herself.
The heartless adulterer McCain didn’t stop there. No. Reportedly, he called his new heiress wife pill junkie a “trollop” and the nasty rhymes with bunt word.
Then, showing the sensitivity usually associated with serial adulterers, McCain asked a group assembled to hear his witicisms “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?”…thinking only of a 12 year old girl’s self-esteem and sensitivities, McCain then lovingly provided the answer: “Because Janet Reno is her father!”…to a hail of hearty guffaws.
So…this is acceptable, because…uh…the “sexist” Obama allegedly called Palin a pig, even though the fact of the matter is, he did not.
Think about that, you Republican hypocrites when you wallow in your metaphoric excrement of all consuming hate for real change.

PALIN, THIS COUNTRY IS IN A TRAIN DERAILMENT WHY IS IT YOU WANT TO MAKE MATTERS WORST? WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE FEED UP WITH BUSH/MCCAIN AND NOW YOU!!! WOMAN STAY HOME AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR LAST CHILD. HE NEEDS YOU! NOT US. BYE LIER.

McSame and Palin are starting to get caught in their lies. EVERY speech they have given since the convention has had misleading statements about their policies and flat out lies about their credentials!
But it’s catching up to them. The GOP believes that if you just repeat something enough, it becomes true. Funny to hear that even “The VIEW” called out McCain on his lies. So what did they do with the “maverick” anyway. He’s totally sold his integrity just to appeal to the right wing fringe.
Gibson did a good job in is interview. I would have like him to ask even more specific questions about the inconsistencies with what she says and what she does. But even trying to answer basic questions, Palin showed her lack of knowledge.

United wasn’t enough for John Kerry. The youth have to actually vote to make a difference.
Levi Redneck, I understand the young vote has to come out, and when they are faced with the fact that John McShame might b the president with his fake little sidekick as VP, No doubt they will show up, WE YOUNG PEOPLE AREN’T RACIST, So no doubt we will show up, every1 I know is excited to vote Obama, I wish the election were today !!
Veterans For Obama
Obama-Biden ’08-’12

Hey Herb,
Think you should revisit those polling websites. The trend is back toward Obama again…the more people learn about Palin the lower those McCain numbers will go. By the way, McCain has never been ahead on the Electoral College…but nice try.

777 – Yes, Barack Obama is aware of black liberation theology. His eyes are open. He is aware of a great many viewpoints that he does not subscribe to. Some of us call this “experience.”

Bob, Thank you for being smart and accurate !!! OBAMA has never trailed even when including Likely REP-Leaning REP, this includes Florida, NC, GA.
Nice Try Herb, Stop Watchin The Fox News Polls
Veterans For Obama
Obama-Biden’08-’12

mccain is going to take ohio for sure- lots of folks around here dont obama- he couldnt even beat clinton in ohio!

Must be a strong indication that people like Obama, and he will be elected president if the majority of people in America have any common sense at all. Why would anybody want a small town, inexperienced person like Sarah Palin to possibly become Commander and Chief of the most powerful Nation in the world? Compare what we have running for the highest position in America right now. An old 72 year old man with cancer, and a young, small town politican, and mother of five children. Or, a young, aggressive, brilliant man with many goals for America, and a very experienced, hard charging politician ready to fight for change in America. Now, you be the judge, and it doesn’t take a “rocket scientist” to figure out who you would want to be in charge of our great country.

who are those small donors?..

A lot is at stake here. An awful lot. The thing I fear with the “US vs THEM” tactics (small town vs Everybody else) is that this is going to backfire.
There is NO integrity in McCain’s run. Quite honestly, minorities have seen these games played on one scale or another all their lives. It’s unfortunate that those who play these games don’t realize HOW transparent they are. But, they work for those who are like-minded. The problem is, fewer and fewer of us are sharing that same opinion. Barack has demonstrated that half a million NEW people are rejecting that garbage. While McCain is attempting to paint certain individuals as “elitist”, his party is portraying themselves as true, snobbish, Aunt Bea from Andy Griffith Show elitist, who was soooo sweet to everyone but REFUSED to share a set w/a guest black actor.
During the convention, WHERE were the minorities? WHERE was the INCLUSION????
They have painted themselves into an ugly corner. And IF people think this election has been stolen from them because the tactics have been coded for racisim and discrimination, there will be a helluva price to pay come November IF by chance Palin/McCain win. And it will be frightening. Not only economically….but with the stakes being so high….and so many new voters being engaged…they may create massive protests and rioting in the streets.
McCain NEED to clean up his act. And as commander in chief, he should take SOLE responsibility for the garbage that is being spewed from his camp. Stop trying to win at any cost…and REALLY put AMERICA first.
Nothing wrong w/good competition….but when MOST of the MAJOR newspapers are calling them out for outright LIES and distortions….it won’t go unanswered by the American public. It has been absolutely obvious to most of us the tactics they’ve used to divide this country. It’s unfortunate. It is evident that if he WERE to win…country unity means nothing to him
I’ve traveled world-wide, not only seen Russia from a US shore, but placed a foot on Russian soil. That does NOT qualify me to be V.P. I’ve been fortunate enough to have dinner w/dignitaries from different countries (and not as the server! LOL). We’ve engaged in REAL conversations regarding regional differences, poverty, etc. I am STILL not qualified to be V.P.
As ambitious as Sarah is, I can’t understand why now all the excuses that were used AGAINST Obama, now play to Sarah’s strengths. Is it because she is the tough but defenseless white woman? The message the John McCain has sent out LOUD and CLEAR for ALL the world to hear is: “Barack should know his role.”

Old Crumudgeon:
Nice to hear you have lots of money to try and influence the election in November. Unfortunately, in this Democracy, people cast votes – not dollars! With Obama gaining new individual voter enthusiasm, there’s a little thing called Mo, as in Momentum. Time for a Capitalism Tune Up, folks. The Republicans represent people of privilege. You like your ludicrously excess wealth and want to keep it that way, The Republican administrations have made serious blunders over the past decades. Chief among them is believing in the myth of “trickle down” economics. This relies on the premise that “Rich people know best and will spend their money to lift the American economy”. What they missed was that in a period of accelerating globalization, their “trickle down” sprung a leak and became “trickle over”, as in, trickle over somewhere else. Money makes money, and it chases lowest cost production to maximize profits. The tax breaks for the rich ended up only partially benefiting the American people, The balance essentially fueled multiple capitalist bubbles Worldwide. This mis-guided policy was good in intent, but failed in execution. We financed China’s economic explosion, and now they own us! Time to re-balance fundamental values. Instead of compensating people based on how much money they have, they will be compensated based on how much energy they produce – as in “How many Joules did you generate today”? People of privilege don’t generate energy – they consume it. Only farmers, miners, drillers, & “processors” generate energy. Government employees, lawyers, stock traders, and all the rest of us service folks consume energy. Capitalism rewards production, but it has become twisted by the Republicans to also reward financial manipulation, for their own benefit. Increased economic inequality within our society has been the result. Instead of CEOs receiving 1,000 times minimum wage rate, maybe just 100 times minimum wage rate will have to do, to reward them for their management of risk. I trust Barack Obama to lead us into this economic transformation. He is intelligent and knows how to listen and work with people. These are two traits that Republican reactionaries (McCain=Palin=Bush) lack. I would entrust him to oversee this fundamental re-distribution of wealth within our society. It’s still capitalism (reward production), just a more balanced version of it.

“Every Lie’s good for twenty-five” McCain/Palin lies will win this election for Obiden ’08

HH – Palin was presented as VP pick on Aug 29th not Aug 31st.

Ironic how McCain tries to smear Barack Obama for voting for sex education, when his own running mate allows her daughter (a minor) to associate with a self-described thug (an adult). I guess anything goes in the Plain family as long as Sarah gets to choose the name of the baby.

PALIN ACTION FIGURE:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/telnaes/telnaescomments09122008.html

We are also a military family voting for Obama. I’m not surprised to hear the fundraising was a success. Many people in our family donated to the campaign for the first time in August and September. It’s exciting!

For those who remain undecided, please don’t think it is elitist to have the best educated, intelligent candidates elected. That’s not elitist, it’s common sense.
Posted by: M in LB | Sep 14, 2008
thank you for that!

to ALL active military and military families voting O’Biden ’08:
Thank you so much!

For the “person” (I use that term loosely) who said:
half a n i g g e r, if you have kids, sure hope Social Services is on the way to the freeway underpass where you will be living, should McSame win!
FOR ALL YOU VETS VOTING OBAMA. THESE PEOPLE KNOW, THAT OBAMA HAS AN 80% FAVORABILITY RATING ON VETS ISSUES.
MCCAIN HAS ZERO RATING FOR VETS ISSUES.
MCCAIN DEFINITELY WILL **START THE DRAFT** MCCAIN WILL START THE **DRAFT**
So all you folks under 35 yrs old, back your bags, women too!
McCain will start war with RUSSIA
McCain will start war with IRAN
And at no time does McCain talk about what he’ll do about the economy! Except, CUT EARMARKS. Well, old, very old man. Not with little Sarah you won’t. SHE LOVES EARMARKS> Too the money for the bridge to nowhere and kept it, didn’t she. Reform what, you dope!
YOUR WIFE WORE AN OUTFIT WORTH OVER $300,000 TO THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. WHY ISN’T EVERYONE OUTRAGED ABOUT THAT!
SARAH PALIN IS THE AMERICAN TALIBAN!

I am one of the new doners in Sept. I have never donated to this in my life. I will do everything I can to get rid of McSame.

Looks like “that republican cable news network” has finally picked up on this story…I’m sure their blogs will be well thought out.
Make sure you all chime-in at different outlets on the internet.
OBAMA! Supported by the American Middle Class earning less that $5 million a year.

I’d rather have a respectful president with manners, than a president that can e-mail.
Posted by: Sylvia Johnsen | Sep 14, 2008 8:56:53 AM
Is that what you call a man who called his current wife a “c….nt”? Is that what you call a man who made a rude insulting joke about another man’s daughter? Sorry, this man is not respectful in any way shape or form. He is a snarky little man who is proving that our country is so lazy mediocrity can now rise to the top. He is a nasty little man who proves that we are too lazy to demand he run an honorable campaign – - we are too lazy to laugh in his face over the Palin pick – - we are too self-absorbed to delineate between a smart talented woman and a woman who has no clue of professional ethics.
Also:
mccain owns 7 homes and his wife has given them to her family to live in- her mom and dad worked hard and became rich – isnt that the american dream? why knock folks for it and besides obama made 5 million last year how can he relate to middle class????
Posted by: lynette | Sep 14, 2008 10:46:33 AM
How can he relate? Because he earned that money himself versus marrying it? Because he was raised in middle class home? Because his wife is from a blue collar background with a strong work ethic? Because he and his wife are more middle class than McCain will ever be? McCain’s family connections kept him in school when he continually broke the rules. McCain dumped his first wife to marry a younger rich woman – - a woman whose father BOUGHT him the AZ seat.
I don’t know… call me crazy, but I don’t really see what McCain ever accomplished on his own. That isn’t a middle class issue; that is no class.

Posted by: don | Sep 14, 2008 9:07:50 AM
The one that didn’t sit in a racist, GOD DAMN AMERICA church. The one that doesn’t affiliate itself with radicals that like doing harm to their own cuntry. Folks that are always proud of their country. You can twist it all you want that it doesn’t matter. How could that not matter to anybody. It defines his character. Both candidates will tell you what they want you to hear to get in office but sitting in that church alone, I really don’t need to hear anything else he has to say. Hate is hate, it is what it is. With a degree from Harvard and it took this man 20 years to figure out it was a mistake. C’mon that is crazy!

I’m a 23 year old student. I gave $25 dollars in June to the Obama Campaign, but I haven’t gave since.
I gave another $25 dollars this past week, and I’ve started working 2 jobs this month to ensure that I will be able to give AT LEAST $25 dollars EVERY WEEK FROM HERE ON OUT. I’m hoping that my age group, which Obama depends on for his campaign money, will start giving more as well. I know that I’m trying to get every friend I have to start doing the same thing.
I’m not surprised by the latest 66 million. In fact, I only expect September to be a better month.

I regret that McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin compelled me to be one of the 500,000 new contributors to the Obama
Henry
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Liar !!!
He picked Palin on Aug 31
HH
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You too a lair,
August 31st is still part of August, now i know how dull you McSame supporters are,
McSame :United States Naval Academy – Class rank 894 out of 899.
Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester
University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in journalism
Are we gonna allow two brainless dull heads to manage the affairs of this country at this critical time?

When are women going to stop screaming SEXISM!? For god’s sake, give it a rest already. Obama was never sexist towards Clinton. The media was. And don’t forget that she and her idiot husband didn’t do themselves any favors.
And Palin doesn’t really deserve much respect from women either. How can a woman, as mayor, be part of a process that charges other women for Rape Kits? Really?!!! Her stories about everything change from day to day (Ireland, Kuwait, Iraq, Bridge to Nowhere, earmarks…and on and on).
Can any progressive woman really vote for her? Republicans talk a good game, but the last eight years they have destroyed their own franchise. Actions speak louder than words and everything they say they are, they are not.
Palin is a woman. But she is a woman that is a part of a machine that thinks women have gone in the wrong direction. She wants to take women backwards while using the platform that many progressive women bought for her with much marching, pain and suffering. Trust me on this. I come from a conservative, religious upbringing.

if obama is such a shoe in -than why are all the dems falling over each other to get money to him??? ARE YOU GUYS SCARED ,AFTER ALL HE IS FALLING IN ALL THE POLLS_ ITS SAD WHEN A STAR BEGINS TO FADE!

Well said comrade jenn!! Wait until the marxist leaning “your guy” gets into the White House and you realize too late that he plans to bring us under control of a one world government and make us all even no matter what effort we put in. My question to this money thng, Where is it all coming from? Our economy is in the tank, people are losing their homes, but there is so much money available to buy the election. Oh, people would rather give the money to Obama than meet their obligations, right?
My favorite kool-aide is black cherry so if any of you see your guy tell him to make sure he has that flavor available. It will take a lot for me to stomach a socialist in the White House.
Enjoy America while you can.

Obama has made two big decisions so far…Biden, and to refuse public funding…both demonstrate how poorly he thinks. He had three choices for a running mate..Hillary, Hillary and Hillary, and he chose biden. He had two decisions to be economically sound…public financing and public financing…he chose poorly, and
September is very weak. Based on these two HORRIBLE decisions we can see he wants to take us back to the 70′s McCain chose a winner, and is well financed due to his wisdom BEFORE the results were known. Those who claim FEAR of Palin or McCain need only see how poorly Obama makes decisions. I have decided that a community organizer is nothing more than a political operative.

I donated to the campaign for the first time and I am an independent. Feel free to take my IP address. We need a real change and there is no way I can let Palin into office. She would be the worse candidate to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. She has to know that she is over her head here. This is not american idol.

People need to understand McCains’s “judgement” in chosing his VP.
Please read about what Ms Palin actually did as mayor. Which she is touting as one of her “key experience” arguements.
The mayor of Wasilla oversees a police department created three years before Palin took office; the public works department; the parks and recreation department; a planning office; a library; and a small history museum.
Palin limited her duties further by hiring a deputy administrator to handle much of the town’s day-to-day management. Her top achievement as mayor was the construction of an ice rink, a project that landed in the courts and cost the city more than expected.
The universe of the mayor of Wasilla is sharply circumscribed even by the standards of small towns, which limited Palin’s exposure to issues such as health care, social services, the environment and education.
Firefighting and schools, two of the main elements of local governance, are handled by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, not the mayor.
THAT’S IT! A TOWN OF 5,500 and 53 employees. THIS WOMAN IS NOT READY TO LEAD OUR NATION IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO McCAIN!
Alaska has fewer people in the whole state than the city of Indianapolis. The state is not like any other because of the emormous amount of revenue per capita generated by oil. Ms Palin is grossly and frighteningly unqualified for the VP position. She has NO international background at all.
If you read about Palin’s methods of governing, it gets even scarier. She has repeatedly used th power of the office for personal vendettas and to put friends in high paying positions.
THERE IS NO CHANGE HERE FOLKS. YOU’RE BEING DUPED BY GOP SPIN DOCTORS!

Why is Michelle Obama NEVER with Barack Obama? Why is TEAM OBAMA hiding her? Are they afraid she’ll mouth off her “Hate America” campaign again? Why wasn’t she in New York on 9/11? Does she have a “foreign” belief about 9/11? Why do we never see or hear from her anymore? Democrats must be SCARED TO DEATH about what she might say.

Why is Michelle Obama NEVER with Barack Obama? Why is TEAM OBAMA hiding her? Are they afraid she’ll mouth off her “Hate America” campaign again? Why wasn’t she in New York on 9/11? Does she have a “foreign” belief about 9/11? Why do we never see or hear from her anymore? Democrats must be SCARED TO DEATH about what she might say.
Posted by: Hiding Michelle! | Sep 14, 2008 11:16:24 AM
Elohe Sra is that you? you have OCD

I am an American living in Europe and I can tell you that this is an important election not only for the USA, but also for the relationships that our country has to other countries. I am voting for Obama, because I believe that he can do a much better job than McLiar. Simpleton Sarah is a disgrace to all accomplished women around the world, and any who compares her to an Angela Merkel, Germany, obviously does not know a thing about Merkel.
I would like to get one thing clear before I say what I am about to say, and that is McLiar is the WORST thing that could happen to the United States. Unfortunately, a part of me wants him to win because I want the American people to see how ignorant they really are (not all, but those who are so blinded by thier own prejudices). These people would risk another four years of the same, than trying to better not only themselves, but their country as well. McLiar is part of the same party that has put our country into this mess in the first place.(Bad economy, two wars in which one was on false pretenses, high gas prices, poor healthcare, many forclosed homes due to highest unemployment in years, maybe which could be a result for corporations getting tax breaks to ship jobs overseas.) For over 20 years this man has been in Washington, and he has not changed Washington at all. Washington has changed him. Now he is asking us to believe him. The Americans are being given a test… Realize and apply what you learned from history and do not let it repeat itself, or continue to make the same mistake over and over by using the same technique and HOPE that it will yield a different result. McLiar and Simpleton Sarah are more of the same, but American will have to hit rock bottom before they get up and fight. Remember this one thing, the German people fell prey to proprogada once in their history, and to this day, they are still paying for it. Do not let America to continue to lose their image and utimately be branded as the idiots of the world.

Hiding Michelle-
Umm, let’s see – Michelle is smart enough to campaign alone because she knows the issues and can help spread the word on the ticket. She also has small children, which I am sure she is trying to spend time with.
Why don’t you ask the same question of Sarah and Todd? I don’t think you will like the answer to that question if you know your facts about these sad candidates.

What I meant to add on to my last post…I come from a conservative, religious upbringing. My own mother who will unblinkingly vote for McCain/Palin thinks that women screwed up the household by wanting to take jobs and make money. She thinks many of our country’s ills come from that action. She thinks women who get abortions are murderers.
My own conservative father thinks dinosaur bones were placed here by the devil to trick us into thinking evolution is true and that the story of Adam and Eve is just mythology. This is what many on the other side believe…not all, but a good portion.
NO progressive, and no progressive woman can in good conscience let these people into the White House. You’ve seen what they did the last eight years. Action speak louder than words.
You may not like Obama, but under them we could end up facing the worst America has ever seen, if the last eight years are any indication.

Sylvia Johnsen: Although I value highly your strong support and desire to have a woman in our highest office I cannot agree with Palin as a possible person to do that. I am a man with 4 daughters and a very strong and inspiring wife. Our daughters are of this same caliber. I consider myself a man with a woman’s lib attitude as I have so many wonderful woman around me who I want to be successful and happy in the future. Palin worries me greatly by her extremist values, her lack of proper judgment, and a real lack of experience. I had a very hard time deciding between Clinton and Obama but the better candidate won to take our future out of the right wing doctrines of fear, deceits, greed and divisiveness. So, please, Obama will be much more supportive of our goals for the balance needed in our society between the sexes. Palin will pull you back about 50 years. I wish you the best in your choices.

To those American voters who are suffering financially in the last eight years under the Reign of Lies, my advise is that even you can not afford to donate to the just cause of Obama’s CHANGE vision, at least you can write something to express your true feeling and help our country to steer in to the right direction.

Obama needds your change. It’s his new campaign slogan. His projected change needed was 100 million, but he only raised 2/3 of that. So, he hauled out the plea for change slogan. Now, get to it! Give that man your money right now.

I’d rather have a respectful president with manners, than a president that can e-mail.
Posted by: Sylvia Johnsen
What? Respectful? You mean like Bomb Bomb Bomb ,Bomb Bomb Iran? The man is an idiot and he’s clearly got lots of company!

Sherry,
If someone does not vote for Barack Obama, why does that make them a hater? Explain please.

Only $66 mil!!! Not enough to CHANGE voters’ decision.
Posted by: alex
Except for the 500,000 new donors? Alex, you need a lesson in mathematics!

You Obama supporters are sooooo desperate you are submitting your comments twice. This is only the beginning… Obambi is roast come the debates… it is going to be clear that he has no experience and in no way qualified to be president. Notice how angry he looks lately?

Careful, the GOP has very deep pockets.
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Posted by: Etherspirit
But not enough new voters!

I’m a guy and even I can tell the media and the Democrates are being sexist in attacking Palin. You wouldn’t ask a guy if he can handle his children and the VP position. Shame on the party who always claimed to be pro women.

Roxanne, I desagree, I am switching to McCain… Obama and his supporters have proven to be sexist and dirty… they are doing to Palin what they did to Hillary.
McCain/Palin and Hillary 2012!

The reason Obama is able to get so much more money is because he is smarter than McCain. McCain graduated from the Naval Academy almost at the bottom of his class. It took Palin 6 colleges to get her so called Journalism Degree.

Posted by: Maria Leeds | Sep 14, 2008 9:39:01 AM
I’m moving to some third-world country if McCain/Palin are elected. Eight years of shame is enough.
I’m so sick of hearing that. Get out already! better yet just go live in ANY other country and see just how bad you have it here. Give me a break. You will be back with your tail between your legs.

Obama is comparing himself to Palin… shouldn’t he be comparing himself to the president not the vice president? Oh well, I guess he already knows he doesn’t qualify.
Latinos for McCain/Palin

Boy am I glad to see how stupid Americans are!All those insults to each other!All of you sup of hussein and Mc should go to Kenya,grab machetes and start choping up each other.Remember wath happen in kenya earlier this year?Hussein is kenyan muslim and muslim love choping off each other.So you stupids,join the club.

I’m a guy and even I can tell the media and the Democrates are being sexist in attacking Palin. You wouldn’t ask a guy if he can handle his children and the VP position. Shame on the party who always claimed to be pro women.
Posted by: Mark
You wouldn’t ask a man that question because men traditionally do not stay at home and raise the children. Sure, there are some men who do but the overwhelming majority do not. This is just another example of the stupidity that is running rampant in this election.

Roxanne, I desagree, I am switching to McCain… Obama and his supporters have proven to be sexist and dirty… they are doing to Palin what they did to Hillary.
McCain/Palin and Hillary 2012!
Posted by: Fran
What are you talking about? Mismanaging her campaign? The Bosnia story? It’s interesting that these are your reasons and not the economy, the war and the general direction of this country!

mink/celes:
What is happening in Kenya is a muslim/christian conflict. The muslims are killing the christians because the muslims want Kenya to be an islamic state. The same thing is happening in Sudan. Christians are being killed. And then, the liberals here, call Christianity radical. Liberalism is a mental disorder.

To all women. If you paid attention to the interview on how she felt about abortion, she said she agreed if the woman’s life was in danger, but she did NOT agree if the woman has been RAPED. She said she respected MCCains position on this matter. Under her leadership Alaska has the highest Rape and aggrivated assault rates in the Nation. Under her leadership, women who were raped were charged for their rape kits.
So before voting for her because she is awoman, see what she stands for, if not we will be back in the 60′s error. If you don’t know, Obama help to pass a bill for veterans medical help. I admire the work he has done on our behalf. McCain lost my respect a long time ago with the Keating five and the Daimond land deals. Which goes to show he supports the rich and not the middle class.

Charlie is just another of those good old boys who think that women shouldn’t be voting at all. I’m surprised he didn’t slap her around for back talking.

Hey Charlie, I your not getting the answers that you want to hear, lay one upside her head. She’ll straighten up.

I have been following the posts here, and it is so clear that the Republican paid bloggers have gotten up and started typing at this point this morning. You can see the talking points in many of the posts – another deceit posing as something they’re not. I see many of these same posts word for word on other blogs under the same names.

Part 3 of my nightmare…. And I heard another female voice coming from the 1st lady room screamed, “You old fool, I told you to stop flirting with that bxxxx, and now you even call her in the middle of the night!”

99 PERCENT OF THE COMMENTS OFFERED ON THIS AND OTHER SITES ARE COMMENT WITHOUT FACTS. OPINION ARE NEITHER RIGHT OR WRONG. YOUR OPINION MAY NOT BE MINE.
SO, FOR ALL THE SO-CALLED SILLY SEASON EXPERT HERE JUST REMEMBER THAT YOUR OPINION YOUR SIMPLY YOUR OPINION.
YOUR OPINION WILL NOT SWAY ANYONE ON THIS FORUM. NO ONE IS HERE TO GET INFO — JUST TO VENT THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO ONE CANDIDATE OVER THE OTHER.

MM-
You know what a hater is-don’t play. And you know “hater in this case has nothing to do with NOT voting for Obama just because you disagree with his policies. That’s fine and that’s what we are supposed to do. Vote your heart and your mind.
But as I (and other supporters) out here can attest to is all the ugly, bitter, racist, divisive ignorance that is spewed on this board and others on a daily basis. I, personally, don’t give a good rat who you vote for. Maybe your life is as it was 8 years ago-your food and gas isn’t ridiculously high, your job is secure, your home and finances are intact, your health is in order. Good for you.
All I know is from what I see going in MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA today, we all should be worried if all we demand from our leaders is that they be white, dysfunctional (just like the rest of us-YEEHAWW!) and from a small town because I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the world is SOOOOOO not all about US anymore. The rest of the planet (developed and otherwise) is moving on without our dumb behinds….
It seems lately that our country revels in ignaorance in all corners and the Republicans have seen fit to reward such low, base attitudes. As I and others hvae said, all you see from folks who say the will vote against Obama is lies and name-calling. I have yet to see any who appear to have done any real research on his positions AS HE HIMSELF has laid out. And might I add, as John McCain has not.
So yes, I guess if all you do is repeat lies and call names, you are a HATER.
Here’s hoping that gets you through the hard times!
Peace.

One of the last interviews that Michelle did she said she was cutting back to spend more time with her girls because it was taking a affect on them.
Yes she did put her children first people. As I understand, its going to come about Palin’s son and the real reason he joined the military.
I don’t care how much money, or what position I am offered, if my children are in trouble or need guidance then they are first, not the limelight.

I’m not getting paid (like Roxanne), nor I need to, I’m one of those Hillary supporters that will be voting for McCain/Palin all the way!!

winter99:
You’re right. I am a paid republican blogger. I amke $19.50 an hour, but I won’t get benefits for another year. The hours are rough. I have not been able to see my family for weeks. I miss my children. But, I have a job to do – because I am a paid republican blogger. Give my family my love. I hope to see them again. The life of a paid republican blogger is really really tuff. But, I’ll make it.

It is absolutely imperative to follow the money trail of Obama’s supporters.
Large amount of money in transit from Nigeria to America , was intercepted in England.
Money was raised by Nigerian people for Obama’s campaign.
I hope American people are smart enough to realize that the election is not for sale and not going to the highest bidder.
Quite frankly , these bragging rights who raises the most money , is obscene to say the least.

Thanks for the clarif,Africa

if i were a boss doing the hiring it would be obama and biden or Hillary against huckabee and Romney…that old geezer, the second he said Czechoslovakia for the THIRD TIME..disqualified him…

An “Alaska Women Reject Palin” rally in Anchorage drew more than 1,400 people and was significantly bigger than Palin’s “official” rally that got all the national media coverage. This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state!
Americans are waking up and realizing a) John McCain’s choice was intensely political and b) Sarah Palin is not ready to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency. The backlash has begun!

Isabella: I hope your prepared to show proof of your claim. Cite your source please. A LEGTIMATE source please.

Sherry,
Your post was kind and thoughtful. But, noone is demanding that our presidents be white. That comment alone, is hateful and in indirectly demonizing to whites. It was the northern whites who forced this nation into Civil War to end slavery. I would just caution you on your use of race to make a point. You cannot deny that Obama played the race card with Bill and Hillary Clinton in the primaries. Bill Clinton said, “Jessee Jackson won states in 1984, but that does not mean he became president.” Hillary Clinton said, “If it were not for LBJ, then much of what Dr. King fought for would not be law.” Both are true statements, but Obama and his campaign inferred the comments as racist. Since then, Bill Clinton has been labeled a racist., You know he is not. In addition, just last week, the SC Democratic chair stated that “the only qualification Palen as to be VP is that she did not have an abortion.” Also, democratic Rep. Cohen of Tennessee stated, Jesus was a community organizer. Pontious Pilate was a governor.” These are hateful statements towrds Palen that the media did not criticize. Also, keep in mind that these two individuals work directly for the Obama campaign. Hate goes both ways. I assure you that Obama is not a victim. Peace and love to you and yours also.

Here, here, Winston.

Sawrad, you are funny… LOL… WE LOVE PALIN!!
Latinos for Palin!!
Unlike the African Americans, we are not voting on race.

Wow: Your labeling of feminism as liberal is just labeling and distracts from the issues. Do you have an issue to discuss or are you just going to disparage people with your negativity? Are you afraid to discuss these issues because it scares you to face them. Are you just trying to protect something with the only tool you have, and that is name-calling I for one am proud of these “labels” of yours. Now, have you always had problems being around strong woman? Are you having problems in your relationships? So, make note, Obama can and will help woman in our nation. My four voting age daughters and their Mother are all proud supporters of Obama and would have been just as proud to vote for Clinton. The McCain/Palin ticket would be a step backward 50 years for the needs of all Woman. McCain/Palin worry me greatly by their extremist values, their lack of proper judgment, and another 4 years of the Bush doctrine. Obama/Biden will take our future out of the right wing doctrines of fear, deceite, greed and divisiveness.

AT THE INAUGRATION OF THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, SENATOR McCAIN. OVERWHELMED AT THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HIS LIFES GREATEST AMBITION IS SO HYPE ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF IT ALL THAT THE STRESS OVERTAKES HIM AND HE SUFFERS A DEBILITATING STROKE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE NATION. SARAH PALIN BECOMES THE LEADER OF TH FREE WORLD. AMERICANS MOVE EN MASSES TO CANADA. SHE APPOINTS TODD TO BE SECRETARY OF DEFENCE AND CHENEY REMAINS AS VICE PRESIDENT. MEXICO DECIDES, F*CK to plan an invasion and then team up with argentina and venezuela in prepoaration. THE TALIBAN LAUGH. CHINA REJOICES. THE IRANIANS MAKE IT A NATIONAL HOLIDAY. RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE AND BEGINS TO BUILD A GAS LINE ACROSS GEORGIA. AND WHILE ALL THIS IS HAPPENING…BY THE THIRD WEEK OF HER IN OFFICE….PRESIDENT PALIN calls a press conference.. and it starts like this..’oops..im pregnant again…’

So Udall ssein raised 60 mil this month hein?Before that 50 mil and 50 mil before that.Now turn around and look at the polls!what do you see?he is loosing there!Hey he is even loosing now in MIN!If hussein does not have at least a good 15 pts the day before the 4th of november in each battle gound state,he will loose.U need a proof?Check this out;10 mil in Florida ater 2 months,he behind by 5 pts.13 offices mil in Geogia,10 pts deficit there.I wish him e best of luck a month and a half from now.

65 Million Dollars!! Wow… When Obama talks about McCain ‘lobbyists’ he ought to look at his own house.

Sutter, you like dreams? here ya go. Obama turns over in bed and looks Michelle in the face and says ” Damn!!!, were are gonna have to take a healthy chunk of that sixty-six million and get that fixed”

Obama camp is doing poorly and they are once more trying to portray an air of confidence. Look to their usual fairytales of record breaking money fundraising, all those new registered voters and changing the electoral map. All of these stories trying to embrace the idea Obama is different, while all we can see is just another politician. Worse, a Chicago politician!

dlboggan,
Please define ‘right-wing doctrines.’ Also, I sent you this link to help you understand the so-called Bush Doctrine. Sorry it’s so long, but sometimes you may have to do a little extra work in order to be truly informed, as you say are.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR200809120457_pf.html.

mm-
I can’t speak directly to what’s in anyone’s heart. I don’t know what’s in BC’s heart, but I do know that the truth speaks when folks are under pressure. Period. I also know what I know as an African American, 43 year old woman and much of what I have seen on this board is only because Obama is black. Up above us is an ugly comment using the “n” word. Nope, not about white folks, nosireee….
If you don’t vote for him because you disagree with his policies-good for you. That’s all you can do. Me, I like what he stands for, so I’m am voting for him Nov 4th.
Simply, the only reason many folks are not voting for Obama is because he’s black. It’s just a fact. Black folks know that. It’s certainly not new by any stretch. I for one, am not mad about, and totally expect. It’s the way of our nation. What else is new?
I respect anyones’ opinion, but please, as Judge Judy says, “don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.” I recognize and respect genuine dissent and disagreement. But I also recognize genuine racism. I truly know the difference, so I don’t have to qualify that to anyone.
Do and live as you see fit and be happy. Peace.

Obama’s dirty money will not buy this election, nor will the media.
Americans think before you vote!
No Obama bin Biden!

The Boston Globe is reporting that Sarah Palin Lied about going to Iraq! Bloomberg is reporting that The McCain campaign is lying about crowd sizes in Virginia last week McLiar/Palin reported a crowd of 23,000 when the truth is there was no more than 8 thousand and all the other lies they have told in the last two weeks e-bay, earmarks on and on! The American People have been lied to for 8 years time for the “change we need”!
Senator Barack Obama and Senator Joe Biden for President and Vice-President of the United States of America! IT’S TIME!

Enough,
If you are unable to comprehend current issues and history, then you shut the f*** up.

mnote, what are you talking about? His family is from Africa, so what? Did you get that info off http://www.iswearitstrue.joke?

Obama can raise $200 million but “it ain’t” gonna happen. Obama and his ObamaTons alienated women first by attacking Hillary and now by attacking Palin. The blogs, caucases, throwing away Hillary’s votes in MI and FL and now they are working over Palin. This has hurt Obama badly among women. The heartland vote is also against Obama because they are sick of being called rednecks and racists for not voting for the marxist street organazier born in Kenya with the bogus Hawaii birth certificate. A lot of Obama’s money is coming from offshore credit cards that may not be Americans. The good news is Obama’s attacks on Palin have fired up Republicans and donors who were not giving to RINO McCain. the Democrats will lose seats in Congress because of Obama and Obama will lose. Democrats running for office in swing states don;t want to be seen with Obama. Also millions are being diverted to Obama’s losing campaign that could have gone to other Democrats. Dems in Congress are worried and nervous because they will lose seats because of Obama. The Clintons will end up picking up the pieces after Obama goes down in flames.

Zero Obama, I have the same questions and concern as you do. Appearance of good personality does not qualify to be commander and chief of this country.
I don’t think Obama can handle a major crisis… he can’t even handle unrehearsed questions.

By Michael D. Shear and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 22, 2008; A01
For years, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has railed against lobbyists and the influence of “special interests” in Washington, touting on his campaign Web site his fight against “the ‘revolving door’ by which lawmakers and other influential officials leave their posts and become lobbyists for the special interests they have aided.”
But when McCain huddled with his closest advisers at his rustic Arizona cabin last weekend to map out his presidential campaign, virtually every one was part of the Washington lobbying culture he has long decried. His campaign manager, Rick Davis, co-founded a lobbying firm whose clients have included Verizon and SBC Telecommunications. His chief political adviser, Charles R. Black Jr., is chairman of one of Washington’s lobbying powerhouses, BKSH and Associates, which has represented AT&T, Alcoa, JPMorgan and U.S. Airways.
Can we say HYPOCRITE?!!

You too mm!

Bikernaz10:
Mexico and the United States of America are neighbors and friends. Second, you greatly underestimate the military and economic strength of America. For you to assume that Russia, China and Mexico will topple us proves you know very little about the intricate power of America.

Carmen,
You do realize that a great number of Republicans are actively trying to remove immigrants, ESPECIALLY those from Mexico and Latin America, removed from this country by any means necessary?
Not in the least, the gang that Palin represents and the bunch McCain sold out to (Rush, Dobbs, Hannity)?
Good luck with all that profilin’ and stuff….

By the way mm, I’m not a paid blogger, I like to go to the blogs and voice my opinion while educating my self at the same time.

Obama showed his ignorance of foreign policy when he suggested that the UN Security Council should take action against Russia for invading Georgia. Obama was ignorant to the fact that the Russians have a veto on the UN Security Council which precludes the body from taking any action in the conflict. What will Obama say if he is chosen to answer the phone in the White House at 3:00 a.m. – “Duh…I don’t know”?

edwidder, the majority of people donating are regular mislead folks donating about $50 – $100, but their are also many others donor that are not regular folks donating thousands… ever wonder who they are?
Why did Obama change his mind about public funding?

MM— You need to re-read my post. Ya missed the whole meaning, sir.

One more thing. I hope Obama keeps dumping money into Florida where he does not have a chance in hell. The good news is NJ, WA and Minnesota are in play. I think McCain will pick up NJ because Jewish voters in NJ are concerned about Obama’s family and Obama being Muslims, his connections to Hamas and the global Muslim Brother hood (wealthy Saudis supporting Al Qeada), his connection to Jew-haters Farrakhan, Wright and Jesse Jackson. Keep raising that offshore credit card money Obama because you are spending it even faster.

Linda ,N Carolina
There was an investigation done by Scotland yard and it was well documented and reported in most of the major english newspapers.

All of America demands Obama release the IP addresses of all the donated internet money. And how much of that really came from big money donors. If you believe the crock that most of itcame from small donors you need to be whipped and flogged.
–Posted by: rag head | Sep 14, 2008 8:50:57 AM**
——Of course this information would never be used in a retaliation if McCane and Palin were to be elected….Sure nobody would ever abuse their power…..Right…I believe this…hmmmmm…
fool me one, shame on me…

John McCain’s top campaign advisors are ALL Lobbyists. Now, how did he say he was going to “change” Washington?
Rick Davis
Campaign Manager
Charlie Black
Vicki Iseman
Hector Alcade
Kirk Blalock
Kyle McSlarrow
Wayne Berman

Sherry,
You really don’t know anything… you must be one of those people who believe Latinos are ignorant maids and grass cutters. Your comment was completely laughable.

Gov. Sarah Palin: her friends call her Sarah.
Obama: his friends call him from prison

Gov. Palin to Congress: “Thanks but not thanks on
that bridge to nowhere. If Alaskans wanted a
bridge, we’d build it ourselves.”
AMERICANS TO OBAMA: “THANKS BUT NO THANKS ON THAT
SPEECH TO NOWHERE. IF AMERICANS WANTED A SPEECH,
WE’D WRITE IT OURSELVES.”

Dan, you should retract your statement or leave the blog. If you are going to misinform us… just go away. Some of the names you listed are names of former lobbyists. The word is “former”. McCain does not have lobbiyists working on his campain.

Leigh,
I am afriad you are the one with incorrect facts: First, Guantanemo houses non-citizens suspected of plotting attacks agaist the United States, of which there is ourt prescidence to do so following German cases in WWII. The Japanese-Americans who FDR placed in camps were citizens – many of them soldiers who fought for the country. Second, Bill Clinton had a ‘projected’ surplus, not an actual one. Third, America is the wealthiest nation on earth and we are nowhere near bankrupt. And if you are really concerned about economics, tell your democrats to stop expanding unecessary social services which are killing the taxpayers. Annually, taxpayers spend more on Welfare than Iraq. Also keep in min d,much of the money spent in Iraq comes back to the United States.

To Sheery regarding Obama’s 275 paid bloggers and McCain’s zero paid bloogers. I saw this last election where I volunteer for Bush against Kerry. Bush has turned out a bit too liberal for me but he was better than Kerry. Anyway – the Democrats through MoveOn.org poured in hundreds to thousands of volunteers in Florida. these thugs drove around in rented vans harassing Repub volunteers, pulling up Bush signs, and other devious tactics. The good news is Kerry had very few volunteers. Once they stopped getting paid, they gone. Meanwhile, Repub volunteers went door to door, made signs, made phones calls all weekend long. McCain was not our first choice because he is liberal and pro-open borders but the base is fired up over Sarah. Obama’s paid bloggers and paid volunteers will not change the tide. Having more real volunteers will always win. Obama’s ObamaTons also alienate people. They are nasty and obnoxious because they have no ideas. They just parrot what they are told.

Carmen, what are you saying about Obama not being able to handle unrehearsed questions? He can actually speak intelligently on the full range of critical issues. It is McCain who has to “depends” on a teleprompter. McCain’s a puppet! Obama-Biden 08!

I was registered as a Republican for twenty years. I have always voted independently. i have watched this election closely for over a year.
After the Republican convention, I changed my voter affiliation to independent. I registered to donate to Senator Obama’s campaign regularly. I am one of those 500,000 new donors.
I am not ambivalent. Nobody has ever called me to do a poll even though I live in a swing state.

If you notice a pattern in his reporting – all of the Obama MSM reports his campaign is in trouble in fundraising – creating a panic in the nutroots and supporters then suddenly we have a record busting month.
I will get real sick of that type of manipulation to get money real quick. I would never contribute to a campaign that manipulated to get money.
Unbelievable gullible supporters.

Emily you are obviously a paid Obama blogger with that kind of unbelievable personal story.
Sorry, don’t buy it.

Martha, where do you live, in la la land ? Do you think for one minute he doesn’t have bloggers ? McCain also is sending out false election forms with the wrong adresses on. That counts for not being able to vote, with the wrong address. Found out he can send them out, he will try anything to win.The Republicans are also trying to get people off the voting list that are loosing their houses in Michigan.

pga39120,
Good post and nice strong argument. Could not agree with you more on the abortion issue. Gotta run….My Indianapolis Colts are on.

Economy is down, middle class is suffering from job loss, struggling to pay billd, still they could raise 66 million dollars for Obama in one month. I am trying to connect the dots in here…..DO YOU SMELL WHAT OBAMA IS COOKING?

Why would I be a paid blogger when I will do it for free?
And anybody who thinks there are no former Republicans who are voting and donating to Obama has simply not looked at the facts. Republican registration is down in my state.

edwidder, have you seen all of Obama’s debates? He goes… ah, ah, ah…
Why do you think he doesn’t want to debate McCain? Plus he is going to have to come clean about his plans to increase the government and raise taxes.

mm, darlin’-you’re peeing on my leg again…. :>)
I love it when white people call me racist! It means I am on point. Thanks!
You can call it scaling back if you want. To say that illegals are a drain on our society is a LIE and ESPECIALLY a lie these days condisering we are spending billions on two wasteful wars every day, in addition to the other mess our country is wallowing in these days. But mm, whatever gets you through the day, baby. I ain’t mad at you.
Give me a hard working immigrant, illegal or otherwise, any day.
The Republicans know that all they have to do is promote “AMERICAN” (code in many corners for “white” and you know it, espeically in this current McCain bunch) and so many folks just fall in line. The Republicans know and count on the lack of critical thinking, knowing that many will not ask any questions, that they just need to hypnotize those easy folks by waving the flag in their face.
Count on the ignorance, self hate and apathy. Happens every four years.
mm-I sincerely hope you are never “scaled back” from anything.
Peace.

If and when the public is able to follow the money, it will be an eye-opener as to who his contributors are and if they are using their own money or if they are charging their contributions on their charge card. Follow the money!!!

Obama what about your Indonesia citizenship and the lawsuit against you and the DNC? The federal jusge accepted the lawsuit and Obama and the DNC are crying like babies.

Obama never raised $66 million in August. That is a combination of 2 to 3 fundraisers. They said that because McCain raised $10 million after he picked Palin. The Obama campaign should stop inflating his millions and tell what he really has and it isn’t even $50 million. I am willing to bet on that. Their supporter’s know that he is losing the battle and they want people to think he has a lot of new voters signing up for him. Not true. I don’t even believe he will win in November because he is being found out little by little. And Hillary and Bill Clinton do not like Obama. They are campaiging for him so Hillary can win re-election to the senate. The democrats are doublecrossing and underhanded especially Nancy Pelosi and Dean.

Mariann Pepitone is scared for her guy McCain and starting to doubt the polls. LOL
500,000 NEW DONORS in the month of August ONLY

If this election were a job interview, there is no question Obama/Biden would be the best qualified. Unfortunately, nearly half of all Americans don’t know how to make a thoughtful and educated decision.

“All of America demands Obama release the IP addresses of all the donated internet money. And how much of that really came from big money donors. If you believe the crock that most of it came from small donors you need to be whipped and flogged.” Well, if you do the math, if we were only counting NEW donors, it woul be about $132.00 per donor, which is not a lot of BIG money. I contributed just 5 bucks during August. I have never given to a political campaign before, but the Sarah Palin picked certainly energized me. I love this country — LOVE this country. And, this ticket is a threat to all that I love — and I suspect others feel the same as I do. America cannot sustain another four years of what we have been subjected to. Congress let us down when they did nothing about calls for impeachment of Bush AND Cheney. Anyone, if you love this country, I encourage you to donate $5, or what you can afford. Americans must take back our Constitution; we must take back our great promise.

Chuck— It’s your money, blow it on whatever you want. But let’s just say, for instance, that you decide to spend it on a hooker. You know upfront, that she is gonna screw you out of that money. Obama is not going to be that honest with you. The outcome may be the same, ya just don’t know it from the git-go.

I am an independant and I can see no valid reason to vote for the empty promises of Barack Obama. There is no experience, is no track record, is no consistency, and are no kept promises. He is one fake ass bag of hot air.
I am a libertarian. And HE is everything I and the libertarian party are against. He is, other than maybe Carter, THE worst candidate for president in the history of our country. He doesn’t want to honor our constitution – only dig deeper in our pockets and redistribute our wealth.
Who has a valid reason to vote for Obama? The people on welfare. On section 8. With no job. No stocks. No bonds. Obama wants to take the wealth you and I have worked so hard to grow, and redistribute it to the undeserving.
And do you REALLY believe all of that money came from new YOU and I’s? Please. I smell scandal and he tries to funnel dirty money into his campaign so he can keep up.

OMG… I feel like I’m blogging with kids… Segamil, you keep repeating the same comments. Sherry are you kidding me?
You guys are not making this fun anymore… it’s like taking candy from a kid.

Carmen: You said the right words. Vanessa says whatever comes into her head because she lacks intelligence. She has been on this message board many times and has never been able to form her words right. I don’t even know if she is educated or not.

He can be a “celebrity,” with all the money like a rock star or movie star, or even “savior-like” figure, but still is inexperienced as a commander-in-chief in a dangerous world.

Carmen – are you still there?

LOL. The republican haters are out in great numbers.
500,000 new DONORS in the month of August ONLY.

hope: And that’s you can do right now as Obama is losing the battle. Good for McCain. Let’s face it Palin is the celebrity now and Obama is in the past. She is a drawing card and drawing thousand’s of people when campaigning. I can’t wait until they go to California, Arizona, PA and OH plus NY and NJ. Even if Obama picked Hillary, Palin is just too popular and Obama would still be trailing.

Vanessa— Actually, that would be five hundred thousand new donors and still dropping in popularity. This man should have McCain by ten points at this period of time. You can kinda see where this is headed.

Dear Carmon – I was outside working in the yard when you responded to me. I hope you come back and check in.
I will retract nothing.
McCain is a hypocrite and a liar and always has been.
“Former” and current lobbyists are run throughout McCain’s campaign team. He plans to change NOTHING. His policies mirror every policy the Republicans have been pushing years. McCain is offering NOTHING new except an unqualified soccer mom as VP>
The Blotter from Brian Ross
McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates, according to the latest finding from government watchdog group Public Citizen
By AVNI PATEL and JOANNA JENNINGS
Jan. 29, 2008

It could be worse Barack. You could slide from second to third place.

Carmen: Right on. I have listened to Obama in a debate and he does say AH AH AH because he doesn’t have the intelligence to answer the questions. He has never won a debate and he lost the forum interview. He also hesitates and thinks then answers. And all the polls have McCain ahead of Obama. I believe that McCain is going to win this election because of Palin. The crowds are getting larger and larger for her and Obama’s celebrity status is over and done.

Isabella writes:
“Marie ,
As I mentioned before this was investigated by Scotland Yard and reported in all major english newspapers.
I was in England at the time and I am surprised that this was not picked up by the press over here.
Then again , should I be surprised , the media is making sure , only news complementing Obama reaches the american people.
Fair and balanced journalism is non existing in America.”
Isabella, I really feel for you. First of all, journalism…despite what Fox news and all of the Rupert Murdoch hack news rags say, isn’t supposed to be “fair and balance.” Truth is not fair and balanced! Either something is true and fact based or it isn’t. This has been one of the most scandalous( and there have been many of them) things that the right wing has convinced people of for the past 30 years. If Scotland Yard and the Bush Justice Department had any evidence…any at all of any Obama campaign malfeasance, that would end the Obama campaign in the mind of the media and perhaps end his career. The republicans would love that. It ain’t gonna happen honey. Just because you might wish it to be, doesn’t make it so.
Now, I understand you would like McCain to win…no matter how ugly and divisively he would, but you just can’t go around making up things and reading Murdoch news rags and taking them as fact.
I am sad that so many people think that people of color, Senator Obama and his family and supporters don’t love this country as much as people like you and other McCain supporters. Especially when so many of us have fought and died for this country and in the streets and back roads of this country to protect the rights and liberties for everyone. It is your right to feel that way. You are entitled to your opinion, but not your own set of misleading stories and lies. I can’t stop you from believing them or spreading them. I am sorry that you will vote this election for your fears instead of your hopes and your wallet. That is also your choice. A critical thinker might ask herself a simple question…
What is it that McCain can do that as a strong Bush supporter he couldn’t do in the past 8 years, and as a strong conservative, he hasn’t been able to do in 26 years when his party has run the country for most of it?
I am sorry you have chosen to use your vote to vote against something instead of for yourself.

Sarah Palin has motivated me to dig deep in my wallet for Obama!

Vanessa, Here, let me see if I can help you out with this one. New supporters equal prospective votes. New donors don’t make any difference at the polls. Hell, those new donors could be a last attempt by old supporters.

Obama/Biden 08: The only change Obama knows is the change in his pocket and he’s lucky he has the intelligence to know how to count it. Palin will tape Biden’s mouth in the debate on Oct. 2 and us McCain’s voter’s will be laughing out loud. Obama never won a debate and he never won the forum interview. What did Obama do in his young lifetime besides drugs and booze. A community organizer? I wonder what trashed neighborhood he was in on the southside when he did his job. I am sure it wasn’t in Englewood.

I initially supported Sen. McCain in the primaries for his honor and sacrifice as a fellow Navy veteran, but now it has become apparent that he lost his honor some where along the way. I would vote for John McCain the “maverick” but I won’t vote for John McCain “I’m going to be just like George W. Bush.”
Why would any of you vote for a dishonest man while so much is currently at stake in this country? Wake up! The Democrats don’t want to “socialize” the country like your talking-heads claim, they want to restore the balance. We live in a mixed economy that represents both Capitalist and Socialist values and trust me that you wouldn’t want to live purely under either economic system. Our children will be paying for Bush’s tax-cuts! Obama will cut taxes for all of the middle class and invest in our infrastructure to get our economy moving again. Our nation needs a pragmatic leader, not a bully that thinks with his gut. Eight years is enough!

I have a question for those that are brave enough to answer?
People are quick to judge Obama for staying at Rev. Wrights church, but explain this to me.
How can millions of people that are catholics and believe in the POPE support a church that have known sex offenders residing over congregations. How can members support the church when nothing other than moving them to a new parish is done after raping a child. please explain this one to me.

Mariann do you also believe in Creationism??

sure, OBAMA has “higher education” and knows how to work “the system” for his benefit. He would make a good “under secretary”. Elected officials are supposed to REPRESENT your ideals and values, and make choices for you. Maybe a POWER HUNGRY young politician is what the USA needs.

Mariann Pepitone writes:
“He also hesitates and thinks then answers.”
THAT’S CALLED INTELLIGENCE!!!!!!!!!
This completely underscores what I wrote above.
Republicans would rather vote with their unresolved psychological issues, rather than intelligent thought.
Absolutely frightening, and not what America needs.
America needs an intelligent leader, not a war-hero or a hockey-mom.

Sandra: Are you jealous of Palin because you didn’t accomplish anything in your lifetime? Your not the only one. There are men also that hate her because they hate themselves for not progressing in life. Jealousy is a disease and its eating you and them up. Why would I vote for a candidate that hated white people and this country at one time. Obama doe not like America and never did and the only reason he is running for president is for history only. He doesn’t care a darn about the people. He is using the Clinton’s and they are the biggest fools out. One thing about Palin, she won’t be used like Hillary and she wouldn’t let Nancy Pelosi tell her what delegates she could count like Hillary. Get a life.

USA— The exact same argument could be raised about Obama’s experience and heis asking us to rely on his inexperience. That is pretty rediculous. I don’t want an inexperienced pilot during my flight.

I’m telling you 500,000 new donors… that’s Bush in 2004.
Bush ran a great ground game in 2004. Obama running an even better one in 2008.
Why esle would Obama have leads in traditional red states (Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio) and inching closer in others (Virginia, Nevada, Missouri)
Give ONE blue state McCain leads?

As people realize that McCain/Palin aren’t answering and discussing the issues that matter and realize that McCain/Palin policies are almost no different than Bush’s policies their numbers will be going down in the polls.
Sarah Palin calls her self a pitbull with lipstick but the Republicans, the McCain camp and Sarah Palin herself are afraid to let the media and the people ask her questions about the issues that matter. That’s why her first interview was a disaster. Although they tried their best to prepare her for the interview to minimize the damage she failed. It seems to me that she is more a puppy with lipstick than a pitbull with lipstick.
The new NEWSWEEK Poll shows that McCain is now tied with Obama among registered voters nationwide, 46 percent to 46 percent.
Obama/ Biden ’08

Just Obama campaign propaganda and you guys swallow it ..hook, line and sinker!! So much for the educated voter! Obama’s community organizer group ACORN which has been litigated because of voter registration fraud,should be abolished…google: Acorn Scandals….double dog dare ya!!!

Hillary, we understood your message:
“No way, no how, NObama, not now, not ever”!!!
From the lips of Hillary, Biden and mcCain – Obama your not qualified and not worthy of the office of president!
All the money in the world will not change this fact!
Message received – PUMA, PUMA, PUMA !!!

66 million and counting, I am one of many for change, donating a minimum of $10 every paycheck.
they are millions of us standing firm for change and hope. :) and just when the pundits were saying he wasnt raising enough money
hehe :)

Mariann Pepitone
The jealousy the jealousy.
500,000 NEW DONORS

Here’s the thing I don’t get, y’all are complaining about the economy, gas is high, food is getting higher, foreclosures, etc, etc, etc….and yet here come Obama with 66 mil for the month….where’s that money coming from if y’all are hurting so bad??????????

I worry about this country… A democracy is only as good as its people are informed and educated…
IT’S LIKE THE TITANTIC… These are crucial and dire times in our history and yet we may be putting a corrupt, dishonest, Rigid, Fundamentalist with no international experience a heart beat away from the presidency.

McSame voted with Bush 91% of the Time… NO CHANGE THERE!
McSame employs 134 Lobyests on his campaign …. NO CHANGE THERE!
McSame has the soon to be indicted Carl Rove working for him …. NO CHANGE THERE!

Real people, not criminal muslim money led empty suits.
I can associate with Sarah, she has done great things in her 13 years of public service, with executive leadership experience. She went from mayor, to the Alaska energy commissioner to govenor. Impressive resume.
My dollars will go to this great leader, she will be the next vice-president.

Anybody who believes in Creationism would have to ignore hundreds of years of scientific data
and reject all of Geology, Biology, Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics, Archeology.
In other words you would have to be of very low intelligence. And of short sighted provincial attitude. To ignore all the understanding that humanity has gained as a body of knowledge throughout the ages.
The Only place on earth where a large group of people believe in Creationism is the
DUMB BELT or Red State Bible Belt of the USA.
Palin believes in Creationism…. OR Does She?
What would be worse? If she believed it? OR
She knew it to be Garbage but used it as a political stepping stone?
Hmmm. If she actually believes it, That is pathetic
She belongs in a Group house not the White House.
AND DANGEROUS!
If she is faking to please the Right wing fundamentalist Cooks…
That is EVIL!

Also, his religion: he never converted. According to Islam, if your father is a muslim, so are you.
Why did Barack Hussein Obama not covert and keeps claiming that he is a Christian? How come? So if your mom is a Jew, are you a Jew or not? My mom is. And I am, too. Although I dont practice and never went to Synagogue. But deep inside, I know I am a Jew. Yes.

Some of the presumptive comments in here based on mccin campaign lies are the reason america is in the process fo destroying itself on a number of fronts.

Anyone notice how badly the Repulican supports express themselves here. Bad english, Broken grammar, and no content
just lies

Raider: That’s why Obama will lose in November because McCain will have the chance. And besides that, Biden would have to run the country because the lack of ObamaOsama’s intelligence. There are high school graduates that can throw rings around him when it comes to intelligence. I think he lost it in between his drugs and booze.

If you trust a Chicago-style mobster, it is new 500 000 people.
Do you really think that so many people care for him? If they did, he would be beating Hillary handily. He barely made it in the end. Just becuase of his initial wins.
American does not like the Muslimo, and you got to see it as it is.
The kinds of Rezko are sending him the money using other people’s names, just to sound legit. I bet.
Or he would be up in the polls. Like by 10 points, which he should be given the current economy.

Biker – Let’s hope that money can’t buy an election either lol!! What is really sad to me is that the money from both campaigns could really help us bitter, clinging folks bear up under these astronomical gas and food prices!! Maybe I should write my dem Congressman, oops I forgot they are on vacation – LMAO!!

“Have you realized that the last two years the democrats were in charge of congress, as the ecomomy tanked. Their big spending and earmarks caught up to them. The president may propose a budget, but the congress accepts the budget.”
WAR ON IRAQ HAS BEEN THE BIGGEST ECONOMY DAMNING “EARMARK” IN OUR NATION’S HISTORY.
THIS WAS A DECISION FROM YOUR BOY MCCAIN… HE BACKED UP THE BIGGEST ECONOMY COND3EMNING EARMARK IN AMERICA’S HISTORY, WHILE OBAMA RISKED HIS ENTIRE CAREER ON A CORRECT CHOICE TO REBEL AGAINST IT AND CALL IT A STUPID WAR.
THAT MAKES MCCAIN THE KING OF EARMARKS.
OBAMA WAS RIGHT, MCCAIN WAS LITERALLY DEAD WRONG.

jms55: Obama is a Mulatto, he is the offspring of a white/black marriage and look that word up on the internet. It has been around for a long time only the blacks don’t want to use it. Obama went to the best schools and his grandmother put his thru college when his mother died of cancer at age 53. He never wanted for anything and was never pool. He was heavy on drugs and booze at a young age of 17 and continued thru his college days. He disliked his mother’s race and began to become racial at a young age. He was also anti-american like his wife Michelle who just now likes America. I read his BIO printed in the NYT. His mother was never on food stamps like it was stated and she was never poor. She had a college education, married and divorced three times, his father four times and he has half brothers and sisters all over Kenya. He is close to his half sister in Hawaii. He chose crooked friends like Rezko and Ayers along with racist Wright whose church he attended for 20 years. What does that tell you. McCain and Palin even Biden don’t have that reputation.

Why does Obama use personal attacks?
First lipstick on a pig and now he is making fun of a disabled vet and POW.
Obama: I’ll ‘respond with the truth’
I’ll point at the cripple and laugh at him. Yea, um um uh, cause he can’t use a computer keyboard and has to have his wife type for him. HAHAha…
Ya’know, um uh uh, the dude can’t even tie his own shoes or raise his arms high enough to comb his own hair. McCain is so OLD! HAHahaha…

fairsuper— How are ya man? Can you imagine having even a small portion spent on the primaries and the GE. That would buy us a mess of guns and bibles. There might even be enought left over for thumpers.

Obama, freshman senator, attended congress 53 times in 3 years. He has a history of hard drugs, weed and alcohol. His political career was initially started/funded by Resko and Auchi, convicted criminals. Attended a racist anti-american church for 20 years. His pastor, uncle, mentor, and family member, a former muslim, was his spititual guide for 20 years. He freely associated with known terrorists, Ayres and Dohrn for years.
Who in their “wright” mind would contribute to a “joke” like this?

LiarHussein: You said it and he is a liar. I just heard on the internet that his 66 million in August is a combined total of his 26 million he had left over in July and 40 million in August for a total of 66 million. No, he doesn’t have 550 thousand new donors. Hillary’s big giant fundraisers that he had hoped to get told him blankly NO! Some of them are going to donate to McCain. He has a habit of lying thru those giant teeth of his to make the public believe that he is the candidate that should win. Give me a break. He is the dumbest, lying, cheating, underhanded candidate that ran for president. And don’t believe the polls that say they are running even. Not so. McCain is ahead of Obama by 3 to 4 points.

A lawsuit was brought by Philip J. Berg, Esquire, [Berg is a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania; former candidate for Governor and U.S. Senate in Democratic Primaries; former Chair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery County; former member of Democratic State Committee; an attorney with offices in Montgomery County, PA and an active practice in Philadelphia, PA, filed a lawsuit in Federal Court on 8/21.
“MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR
TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND FOR EXPEDITED DISCOVERY”
“Plaintiff Philip J. Berg, Esquire [hereinafter “Plaintiff”] hereby offers this Memorandum in support of his motion for a temporary restraining order, to enjoin Defendant Barack Hussein Obama, a/k/a Barry Obama, a/k/a Barry Soetoro, a/k/a Barack Soetoro, a/k/a Barry Dunham, a/k/a Barack Dunham [hereinafter “Obama”] from running
for the office of President of the United States”
“Obama’s grandmother on his father’s side, his half-brother and half-sister all claim Obama was born not in Hawaii but in Kenya. Reports reflect that Obama’s mother traveled to Kenya during her pregnancy; however, she was prevented from boarding a flight from Kenya to Hawaii at her late stage of pregnancy (which, apparently, was a normal restriction, to avoid births during a flight). By these reports, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama gave birth to Obama in Kenya, after which she flew home and registered Obama’s birth.”
The DNC is looking into Obama’s Kenya origial birth certificate. Another lie from “The One”. Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya. This will be the downfall of “the one”. Obama was a citizen of kenya, USA and then Indonesia. When he became a citizen of Indonesia, he lost his status as citizen of the USA. he can never be a “natural born” citizen of the USA. Therefore, he can’t be elected president, only natural born citizens can be elected president.
“A research team went to Mombassa, Kenya, and located a Certificate Registering the birth of Barack Obama, Jr. at a Maternity Hospital, to his father, a Kenyan citizen and his mother, a U.S. citizen.”
Can’t wait to see this play out

I see the hired McCain supporters are finally here on the blog…go on boys…SMEAR & LIE it’s what you guys do best.
The more you do it…the more I skip a meal to give to the cause.
Peanut butter is helping support OBAMA|BIDEN!

Well ladies and gents, I have to leave for now. Fairsuper, Keep these bean sprout, Evian drinking, tofu eating liberals in your sight. Vanessa, you’ll be the last to leave so catch the light switch, will ya?

Mariann Pepitone note to me completely underscores my previous post about “unresolved psychological issues” and the “voices in her head” with her illogical and emotional rants.
This is called “projection” and it means attributing to another what you hate in yourself.
Republican’s are unable to think outside their internal world, their cage of safety. Consequently, new ideas are terrifying, unless of course, they think of them–then they are brilliant.
The Republican party is outdated. It’s views no longer work. But I’ve seen many people hold onto their little minds and unfounded beliefs up until death, because to let go means to suffer their grief of being wrong–and that they could not bear.
Obama represents a new way of being in the world. For people who need to feel powerful, it’s frightening because it rocks their very foundation–simply because they have no center. If you take away what they believe in, no one’s home.
True power in inherent in one’s integrity–rich or poor, we’re all the same. And that when one suffers, we all suffer.
I don’t have to call Mariann Pepitone names, or say she doesn’t have a life. All I have to do is to illustrate the illogical claims she makes.
When you can see beyond your own biases, when you begin to “think about your thinking” to question why someone appeals to you or why you reject them, then you have progressed to the ability to see reality, and not the past in the present.
Once you are able to do that, the choice is clear: Obama is the best choice for President of the United States of America.

And re: the absurdity of the “McCain can’t use a computer because of his war injuries” claim? Someone should really notify Stephen Hawking.

So if McCain is more of the same as I read in these responses, Is it fair to say that Obama is more of the same congress that most americans think sucks? I am no bush apologist, nor did I vote for him, but not only are we plagued by a bad administration, but also a bad congress. Do we really think that a candidate that racks up 66M in contributions in a country where people are losing their homes and penny pinching to save for gas has not received a solid part of that money from the usual suspects (big oil, big media, big anything…)?

I am tired of hearing about sexism. I am a woman voter and I know that some questions about family and ability to work should not be the issue, but remember when we asked Sen. Edwards if he was planning to continue his campaign when his wife was diagnosed with cancer? No one said that was inapropriate then. These are legitimate questions but should be pharased carefully when it comes to women, but enough is enough about shielding her. This is a strategy from the McCain campaign to stop the media from asking the real quesitons about Palin’s qualificaitons. She will be a heartbeat away from the presidency, let the media do the vetting that McCain never did.
For example, look how their ad is dishonest about how the word pretty became sexit.
Why dosn’t anyone draw attention to those buttons that the men delegates at the RNC Convention were wearing stating that Palin is “hot” and other sexist remarks. Biden pointed out that Palin is prettier than him when he was asked, but he said it in the spirit of the moment and without any disrespect. He was actually joking and denigrating his looks I wish ABC would get their hands on some of these clips during the RNC convention and would show these delegates with their comments and their buttons how Palin is a looker, hot, etc…
Please combat this false sexism charge that the McCain campaign is falsely spreading about Obama and show who is really being disrespectful. Whoever read this, please spread the word so that the media can scrutinize McCain instead of just perpetuating the negative and false ads from McCain without a counter punch. The media are playing into his hands.

Biker – Doing well here. You’re right about the money being able to go a long way. We’ll need it to buy extra firepower in a hurry if Obama is elected because you know things will get tough and tight quick. I wonder how much of the Obama campaign war chest is being spent on the dem witchhunt in Wasilla?? The more Obama and his minions (including the lib MSM) try to crucify Palin the better she does lol.

I am tired of hearing about sexism. I am a woman voter and I know that some questions about family and ability to work should not be the issue, but remember when we asked Sen. Edwards if he was planning to continue his campaign when his wife was diagnosed with cancer? No one said that was inappropriate then. These are legitimate questions but should be phrased carefully when it comes to women, but enough is enough about shielding her. This is a strategy from the McCain campaign to stop the media from asking the real questions about Palin’s qualifications. She will be a heartbeat away from the presidency, let the media do the vetting that McCain never did.
For example, look how their ad is dishonest about how the word pretty became sexist.
Why dosn’t anyone draw attention to those buttons that the men delegates at the RNC Convention were wearing stating that Palin is “hot” and other sexist remarks. Biden pointed out that Palin is prettier than him when he was asked, but he said it in the spirit of the moment and without any disrespect. He was actually joking and denigrating his looks I wish ABC would get their hands on some of these clips during the RNC convention and would show these delegates with their comments and their buttons how Palin is a looker, hot, etc…
Please combat this false sexism charge that the McCain campaign is falsely spreading about Obama and show who is really being disrespectful. Whoever read this, please spread the word so that the media can scrutinize McCain instead of just perpetuating the negative and false ads from McCain without a counter punch. The media are playing into his hands.

When is anyone with a conscience from the McCain campaign going to stand up against this “win at any cost” campaign? Where is the outrage from honest Republican commentators?
I’m afraid that it will all come after the fact, and someone will write a book bemoaning the fact that negative campaigning works. And one of the staffers who is coaching Sarah Palin now will tell us, when it is too late, that she really was unqualified, but they were afraid of losing their jobs.
Where is the integrity from anyone on the McCain campaign?

All this money to Obama, it is very troubesome. Obma and michelle, both failed their entrance test to college. If it was not for affirmative action, both of them would be in a minimum wage job. You can fool some of the people, some of the time. Looks like the taxpayer was “taken”, by the Obama’s.

SARAH PALIN’S OWN WORDS JUST A MONTH AGO:
“As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?”
McCain’s Own Words:
“I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.”

Rick: Where have you been all these years. RFK and Bill Clinton used the word change in their speeches when they were campaigning for president. If fact, Hillary used it first then Obama stole it and added hope to it. Hope was also in RFK’s speech. You better start reading more and get with it on politics. Obama only knows the change in his pocket nothing else. Who do you think would be running the country if Obama won. BIDEN! Obama doesn’t have the intelligence although he makes people believe he as with his sincere lies.

USAevolve – I think one of the main issues to be concerned with is that Obama wants to almost double the capital gains tax. This is going to hurt EVERYONE in a big way. Obama also wants to create a huge new bureaucracy with his new universal healthcare program and doesn’t have the numbers crunched to pay for it or give it the oversight it will need. Our healthcare system needs to be fixed, NOT overhauled. If we have gov’t healthcare, all of the good docs will just go underground and give the appointments to those that can pay more and on time. Look at the Medicare/Medicaid mess. Many docs won’t take new Medicare patients now and the programs are rife with fraud. STOP BIG GOV’T OBAMA NOW!!!

CPUSA or the Communist Party of the USA has fully endorsed Barrack Hussein Obama, saying his policies fall closer into line with their Communist agenda… communism is no stranger to Obama he was raised in it.. his own Mother a devote Communist denounced her own US Citizenship

All the DNC horses and all of its men could not put the Messiah in the lead again…LOL its over for you Osama no matter how much you, the MSM, and Hollywood try to buy your way into this election

Regarding “Latinos for McCain/Palin” by Carmen… I am a latina and I am NOT for McSAME/Lying… How dumb can you be, you think this people think of you as their equal!??? Please, if it was for Palin… you’d be back in Mexico.

man-dinga: You must be reading wrong. McCain would be a citizen anyway for fighting in the war. It has been stated that Obama was born in Kenya because she had no choice, later brought him to Hawaii to register him here. If he was born in Hawaii what hospital was he born in. They never said that. That’s what they have to show, a copy of that and the hospital has those records. His registration of birth was stated that it is a fake. His real birth certificate his mother was given but propably lost it due to moving from one place to another because of three marriages. But where he was born is still up in the air. My oldest brother wasn’t a citizen of this country but when he was inducted into world war II he received his citizenship papers immediately. And so did my uncle.

On November 5, 2008..you will wake up knowing that the United States has elected the first president of color in our history. It won’t matter who the right wing bigots have thrown at him, Palin will be back in Alaska trying to explain to the citizens of Alaska why she abused her power and why she let her husband Todd be an unelected co-governor and run a shadow government, and at long last John McCain can join some of his lobbyist friends in the private sector and try without success to lobby the new ethics reformed Democratic congress.
Some of you haters will blow a gasket and threaten to leave the country because you can’t abide being under an Obama administration, and some of you will stop watching reality television and Fox news and actually get an education so that you can stop being duped by the extremes of your party. Some of you will continue to make yourselves sick as you wallow in your bigotry and racism, and some of you will raise your children with the new incentives and tax breaks that you have been wanting and needing, some of you will continue to listen to Rush while he plows himself with drugs, booze and Viagra and lives behind his compound while making a fortune off of naive and gullible listeners, and some of you will learn the new technology and get good paying green jobs. Some of you will sit alone at your computer and continue to spew lies about our new president, and some of you will join a community organization and work block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood to make this a better country. And finally, some of you will go off to the loony bin and keep repeating over and over again…
“Rezko, Ayers, Wright…Rezko, Ayers, Wright…Rezko, Ayers, Wright…while the rest of us celebrate getting our country back. But, at least you will have good health insurance, because our president, President Barack Obama will take care of you too! Ain’t life grand?

It’s an absolute waste of time to attempt to reason with delusional thoughts–yes, I mean the ranting Repbulicans.
There is so much insanity on this board, it’s just plain silly.
Great job to those of you who post serious points on both sides. People are afraid of change, but we need fresh and thoughtful ideas in the White House.
Have a great day everyone!
Obama/Biden==A Better America!

Its great to see hordes of fiscal conservatives bailing on McCain-Palin
Greenspan the latest!!
Now only racist uninformed Dumb Belt Social conservatives who believe in Creationism are the base of McCain’s support

McPainlin: Look you fanatics type and write way way too much. How old are you 66 and up? Clearly your old man Ain’t gonna get into office. Face it. Just because he chooses a prettier face DoOeS nOt mAke NeoCOn’s Right. The COn game of the last 8 years. You bible belters are complete Weirdos and Lunatics just like grand Dad McPainlin. And you think Luslims are bad, Heck Look at yourself in the Perverbial Mirror. Perv’s

alomagirl, I too am a latino, could you enlighten me as to how we latinos have done so much better during democrats reign in the white house? or are you one of these latinos that thinks that your wellfare check will stop if a republican gets elected? Neither of the two parties care about latinos or blacks or anyone for that matter. They care about big money (please see convention parties worth 58M for each party)people dont matter in our two party system. Money matters.

yeah where did the money come from, I hear money comes from the skies when terrorist are supported does it come fast or what?

pepitone, I too fought in a war, and I am not eligible to run for president because I was born outside of the US, You have to have been born in the US or be born to US citizen parents on a temporary absence from the US. No ifs and or buts.

USAevolveNow, do you have a life? its sunday for pete’s sake, watch some football…

REPUBLICANS
If Rush Limpnuts told you that he would think for you … would you let him?
Obviously yes
Obama -Biden ’08

: man_dinga
I should watch Football
so your Republican counterparts can ontinue to ruin our country…NO WAY!

man_dinga
Evolve is a cut-and-paste BHO supporter. No original thought required, only namecalling.

Excuse me, but does a political “campaign” really need $66 MILLION a MONTH to 0perate? I DOUBT THAT.
I think they should help the people of this country that need it way more than they do. like the IKE victims.

Obama is a muslim!

Obama is not a muslim, he is a devoted christian, with strong values and faith!
And what’s wrong with being a muslim anyways?

A vote for McCain/Palin is a vote for more unnecessary wars.

I have 31 years of military service under MY belt. I don’t understand the appeal for the McCain/Palin ticket. It is very clear to me, as an Independent voter, that Obama and Biden are the best candidates to lead the USA into the 21st Century. My goodness, if McCain/Palin win and something happens to McCain, not unthinkable, our country will be steered by a another photogenic idiot. Too frightening!

Jeez. Am I the only person who finds the amount of money politicians spend on elections to be grossly unacceptable? We have people living in the streets, children starving with no health care and poor education, soaring unemployment and ever increasing grocery prices but these people can raise and spend MILLIONS on attaining an elected office???? It happens across party lines and for virtually every higher office in this country and it is just wrong!!!! What happened to “of, by and for the people”, when did being a government leader become a career and money making scheme instead of a calling?

Kathy
Uh oh, the old R word. You BHO supporters are a joke a minute.
BTW: Cindy’s dress was only around 3000-4000. It was her jewelry that cost so much.

McCain serving in the military doesn’t mean he can be a good president. Also, just for serving in the miliarty doesn’t make one entitled to be the president. If that is the case every men and women served in the amry should be able to fill in president’s post.
America badly need a person of Obama’s calibre to take lead the country. It is the people’s wrong decisions in the previous elections cost the country 8 years of economic progress. Hope they don’t do the same mistake AGAIN. I earnestly beg people not to overlook Obama’s glaring abilities to lead this country. If they fail to realize this it will be a tragic in American political history.

Go Obama. This republican and her family will be voting for you.
McCain has lost our vote with this reckless choice for VP, pandering to the far right of our party. Obama/Biden are now the safer choice. As I lsiten to Obama and the see comparisons of his plan against McCains, I am convinced that it is better for majority of Americans. Also, our image abroad is so badly dented, we don’t need another bush think alike.

Observer
Thanks for the “observation.” I was waiting on what bad spellers and the gramatically challenged had to say.
It’s a joke a minute with these BHO drones.

sexistnbc
Obama’s half-brother George is not starving. He says he is doing just fine and doesn’t want anyone’s help.
Obama has no full brothers, but several half-brothers on his father’s side in Kenya, most of whom he has met only briefly once or twice. George is one of those.

I am discouraged by the uncivil tone of so many of these responses. So many anti-Obama folks seem to depend on one-liners, personal attacks, conspiracy theory, snide inuendo, etc. to bolster their opposition to him. Why not rely upon facts? What are your objections, based on the record, based on the Republican and Democratic platforms? What we have here is a tabloid and mainstream media-circus driven hate-fest. I am a middle-income person who has donated $500 in small increments to the campaign because I’m scared to death that our uniformed electorate is ripe for fascism. I’ve seen his contribution records and understand that he also has major donors, corporate donors, but what politician doesn’t–not McCain, certainly. Obama won’t be a perfect president, but I know he will be a thoughtful one, who sees the value of deliberation when it comes to considering the tough problems we face. I’m tired of leaders who never even blink before they make their rash decisions.

All these attacks at Obama are personal and hateful, this is what Republicans are about, they are a disgrace to society.

The amount of 66 million alone would go a long way in “reformning” this country’s economic policies. But power is seductive and those who want to be in power are even more seductive. The money is not for Obama per se; it is for the liberal agenda, pure and simple. It is not about “change” – Biden’s choice nullifies that alone- It’s about power and always will be. So once again, be very careful of charismatic people – what they say and what they do are two very different agendas.

McCain supports the worst president in United States history. He took us into a war that cost 4000+ lives, and neglected to catch the killer responsible for the 9/11 attacks, and instead of helping our economy, he wants to help the Iraqis, that’s pathetic.
The Republicans don’t deserve to run this country, not this time.

Obama spent the $66 million paying hate bloggers to spew their barf all over ABC news. Although ABC news is in bed with Obama.

sexistnbc,
Bush sent 4000+ innocent soldiers into harms way and they were killed for what? To turn Iraq into a democracy? Is that America’s purpose in the world? Sacrifice innocent lives to enforce our values and beliefs on other countries? The republicans supported this war from the beginning and are still saying that it wasn’t a mistake, but it will go down in history as the biggest mistake in our nations history and Bush will be the worst president in history. The republicans don’t deserve to run the country again.

The McCain-Palin ticket is a joke!!! And if they win then the joke is on all the stupid voters who voted for them. I have a great high paying job but many americans dont and they will continue to suffer because McCain-Palin do not care. Its safe to say the 60% of the McCain-Palin supporters are suffering economically and will continue to suffer. Get the cans of spam ready to eat…..

Kathy
Since when has supporting the Commander-in-Chief as a well-respected Senator been a bad thing. Obama supporters have nothing more than to say “McSame” or “Bush III.” McCain does what he thinks is best for the country, not what is “cool.”(BHO)

MORE PALIN PROTEST PICTURES FRON THE ALASKA DAILY NEWS!!!
Biggest protest against “anything” ever in Alaska!!
Alaska women aren’t being fooled by mcCain and Palin – ARE YOU???
http://www.adn.com/photos/v-gallery/story/525182.html?/1521/v-section_front/gallery/525186-a525252-t3.html

I am a daughter of Southern Baptists, my father served 20 years in the Air Force, born and raised in the South, in my early thirties, a married mother of one young daughter, make about what the average American brings home, and am a devout Christian. Want to guess who I am voting for in ’08? OBAMA/BIDEN! Don’t let Repubs and the media fool you, us young white middle-class women aren’t “in the tank” for McCANT/PAIN ticket. The hateful and deceitful speech coming straight from the mouths of these two people (not all the bloggers, but the candidates themselves) are an embarrassment to our society, especially Christians. They want to “divide and conquer” and it will not work this year.

Jill,
I have never made any comments about Palin’s family and the Obama campaign has done no such thing either, in fact he defended the Palin family saying that children and family are off limits, and for anyone democrat or republican to bring family into a presidential election is just wrong, but something else that is wrong also, and that you have failed to mention is that personal and hateful attacks on someones race and religion is unacceptable also, which many people on this site and other sites have done.

sexistnbc
Since you must know by now that Obama’s half-brother George is NOT starving, why do you keep lying about it?

Dawn
Since you have a “high paying job” then vote for Obama and get ready to pay for unproductive, able-bodied to continue their sloth ways. Democrats have no legs to stand on right now, so Obama’s team of 30 fellow lawyers shifted their focus to Alaska’s Govenor.
Was the worst they could come up with on McCain that he “cannot compose an email?” So now they a trying their hardest to find something other than Troopergate and supposed book banning to smear her with. I haven’t heard anything worse than Obama has done so far. Wright, Phelps, the left-wing media, Rezko, Ayers, and the rest have not been mentioned in any detail, why is that? And dont try and tell me with that cast of unsavory characters, their is something not morally wrong with the DNC’s choice of this fellow.
Let’s face it, Hillary probably would have handed that Democrats the White House, but they could even get that right.

Mariann Pepitone:
Do your research before you say that McCain does not affliate with less than honorable people. His career has been full of controversy. Again, look up the Keating 5. Look up the Diamond Land Dealings and then rephrase your comment. Lets not forget about the fact of how he did his first wife because she was disable and had put on weight. Stop relying on the republicans for information and take time to research. Palin’s background is getting ready to hit the fan. It is a FACT that under her leadership she allowed rape victims to be charged for their own rape kits. She left her town 22 million in debt which was once debt free before she took over. These documents are available online. Research your candidate first, then make a choice.

ANYONE know how many big Banks will
still be around On Election Day?
Yep Bush and McBush what they have
Done for the United Sates Should be
A Crime……………..

Doesn’t anyone wonder where this money is coming from and who Obama will be indebted to for financing his campaign?

BHO supporters know nothing other than slogans, McSame, and moose killer.
That is all I read here. It truly is a joke a minute with you MSM, MTV, Oprah, Hollywood followers. Please put down US Weekly and atleast try a left-wing book. There are not very man of them, because you prefer to get your news in soundbites.
What hard hitting issues was BHO going to tackle on SNL 50 days before the election?

Kathy
Would you prefer that McCain supported leaving our troops hanging in the wind?

Moose Killer ok.. sure
I like Kitties… does she Kill them too?

Anita Yova
Keep watching MTV to find out.

I’m just more bored.

Sandra: Are you trying to tell me Obama has intelligence? No, hesitating to answer is because he can’t think of what to say. Get real. Hillary, McCain or Palin do not hesitate. How come? They answer immediately. Obama gets confused on the questions that’s why he has to think first. Even Bill Clinton and Bush can answer quick. Get a life.————-This is a common mistake people make about Obama. Just because he THINKS before answering is an asset.
He didnt leave top of his class at harvard because he is slow or dumb. Do you know how hard it is to even graduate from Harvard? The difference is where McCain, Bush and others answer questions on a snap is because they have rehearsed the same short answer over and over. They answer without thinking and therefore they give you the same answer over and over and its usually a short answer with no explanation. Obama does something we are not use to in a politician. He thinks about the question and thinks about his answer and usually gives an explanation as to why he answered the way he did. He is also sincere in his answers and tries to be as honest as he can. The ones calling him dumb or slow are the ones that cant see beyond the short answer and are usually the ones that thing lipstick on a pig, and such trivial bull is important in this election. Obama lectured on consititional law. I would rather have a thinker than just someone that answers or reacts without thinking. Its called intelligence. If people are going to judge the debates on one or two word answers, rehearsed answers, then people like Bush and McCain will probably your favorite. If people that mentally research the question, take in the facts and answer with honesty and an explanation as to why he answered that way, then Obama is the canidate.
I cant believe people do not see that. Maybe they do but like the way the GOP campaines they dont want to see it. Act like dumb sheep and thats the way you will be treated and the way your canidate will talk to you.

I don’t believe the polls unless it’s the election. The Republicans couldn’t even fill a 20000 seat arena and we know what it’s suppose to look like, remember OBAMA’s win of the nomination. It was held in the same hall.
Peggy Noonan, Mike Murphy and Chuck Todd have already let the American public know the MSM are writing columns of LYING propaganda and talk shows are LYING for the Republicans that the average American can see for themselves. It has become so blantant that a puff show like the View and its viewers get it. The only thing Palin did was excite the Republican base who are not voting for OBAMA anyway and that’s not enough to win.
To my fellow OBAMA supporters just keep doing what you are doing get out the vote. If people were not energized they would not be donating period.
OBAMA-BIDEN ’08

Obama has shown great managment skills and good decision making. He found one of the most powerful tools in the world, the internet. When campaining against Clinton he pulled in almost twice as much money and continues to do so. This country needs a good manager and with the intelligence to make good decisions. There are two canidates and one believes in almost a “military” type nation with domestic issues and policies coming in second.(Like Bush). Another that puts domestic problems, issues and policies on the same importance as having a strong military. We have long lost our general respect around the world. 9/11 had the world waving the American Flag and the world at our back. Iraq changed all that and the way Bush handled it. Communication to the international communities is important. Deplomacy can be a powerful weapen. Listening and not just talking or threatening is part of communication. To regain the respect of the world, we need somone that can commincate and with the brains to use deplomacy like Kennedy and Reagan. That does not mean having a weak military or not being ready to use it if we need to. But only after all else has failed or we are attacked first. Bush and McCain failed to have an exit strategy when we went in to Iraq. Bush has now left us with a military spread so thin, that if we were attacked, we would have a hard time addressing it in a quick response.A good manager or President with good advisers would have seen that coming and would have taken steps not to let us be in this situation. We should have put our forces into Afg and finished that war which would have been won by now if we handnt gone in to fill Bushs agenda in Iraq and the SOB that attcked NY is still free and alive. Obama has shown through his campaine that he makes good decisions, manages well, talks issues and problems in American on an even playing field while stressing the importance of a strong military. He is great at communicating both on domestic, international and military issues. Obama 08

Haha It’s ALL ova, America. Obama gon make yo bitches BLEEEED! They NUUTHIN yo can do about it now an yo no IT, america! Ain’t NO stoppin him NOW, america! NUTHIN!
OBAMA GON MAKE YO MUDAZ BLEED!
AMERICA DIES IN 2008!
OBAMA 08!

Crazy desperate liberals out in force today. Enjoy your little moment as you are totally out of touch with the average americans and the excitement they have for Sarah and John. This is the turning point in the election and no matter what Lies (yes you all lie too) are told i just dont care anymore. this election is a media circus – created by Obama. NoBama…

I think it will be interesting to see how many people send Obama money in September. I bet it will be even higher than the August figure because so many people are appalled by McCain’s pick of an unqualified, ignorant, fundie nutjob as a running mate. I’ve made a couple of contributions to Obama’s campaign and am budgeting more. I only wish I could afford to send the limit. It’s not that I think Obama walks on water — it’s because I don’t think this nation can endure another 4 years of Bush administration even if it is under another name.

I was a Hillary SD at Denver!
I was forced to write a check for $100 to the Obama campaign and all of us had to donate!
Since Palin became so popular, I feel like, Michelle Obama’s hate and Barrak;s arrogance created Sarah Palin
If those idiots would have put Hillary on our ticket we would have been 15 points leading now and there would NOT be any Sarah Palin at the Republican ticket!
Since this happened NOTONLY ME but many of Hillary supporters DO BLAME Obama and especially Michelle Obama!
To please the first lady of hate Obama could NOT be able to put Hilary on the ticket!
Now I bet with you, August will be the last month of Obama’s big donations unless some other big money is giving away donors illegally money to donate to the Obama campaign!

Dear Alex, your referring to Sarah Palin as “an unqualified, ignorant, fundie nutjob” speaks volumes as to your own level of bigotry. Is this the new politics that Mr. Obama calls for?

Beej, your candidate is a sophisticated linguist. His audience roared in appreciation and approval when the “lipstick on a pig” line was uttered – they knew exactly what he was talking about, you coy assertions to the opposite nonwithstanding. By linking Palin to pig, and later pig to pork and porkbarrel spending, he was attempting to create an image in the public consciousness that would hurt McCain and Palin every time they talked about “pork” or “porkbarrel spending.” I had predicted that Obama would also use the phrase “making a sows ear into a silk purse” in order to also associate the word “earmark” with the “sow’s ear” as part of the pig/Palin analogy. He hasn’t, though, because this has blown up bigger than he thought. As Obama has said in the past, words DO matter.

Don’t be blind by the eloquent speeches of Obama, but look beyond that. He refuses to salute the flag, that to me says a lot. He believes that all American should become Muslin in order to get along with the Middle East. Read his book.

Sarah palin is the HADRPON COLLIDER and election date is the BIG BANG DATE!
If the experiment goes well and HADRON COLLIDER DOES WORK WELL , WE ARE ALL SET, IF A BLACK HOLE OCCURS IN OTHER WORDS OBAMA WINS, THE END OF THE WORLD IC AHEAD BECAUSE THE BLACK HOLE WILL EAT UP THE EARTH NOT ONLYTHE UNITED STATES!

Just a few thoughts:
1. If you really want to know where campaign funding comes from, try OpenSecrets.org. They will give you the facts, not the McCain campaign’s made-up garbage.
2. Why is it wrong for Obama to take money from big donors, but it’s perfectly okay for McCain to do so?
3. John McCain hasn’t had any “executive” experience either.
4. Palin appears to me to have many of the characteristics which have made George Bush such a poor President: ignorance, lack of curiosity, decisiveness. Put all those qualities together and you have the recipe for a disaster. (see: George Bush)
5. Smart enough to surround oneself with people who really are expert in their fields and to listen to what they have to say trumps having to have the difference between Sunni and Shia explained to you not once, but over and over.

Don’t be jealous McSame supporters.
Way to go OBAMA-08

Palin previously acknowledged she smoked marijuana but said in a 2006 interview she no longer used the drug. “I can’t claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled,” she said.

I can see Obama getting $66 million. The American people are not going to allow McCain/Palin to lie there way into the White House. Obama keeps trying redirect McCain back to the issues. Because he does not have a solid plan, He lies and attacks Obama personally. The reason why they picked Sarah instead other more qualified Republican women, because they would have more class and maturity than to play their pitiful game. That is why many Republicans are turning to Obama.
This race and McCain’s commercials are blantant lies and totally embarassing for the Republican party. OBAMA will win because the American people know that our lives and country are at stake.
This amount will only grow each month for Obama. The polls may lie now, the vote will be strong, conclusive and without a doubt in November. Eight years is ENOUGH !!! We will have a New Beginning with OBAMA/BIDEN.

MLK’dream was for that day when America will judge a person more for his character than the color of his skin. America witnessed during the primary the 96% support African-Americans gave Obama, whose ancestry was not even connected to the Civil Rights movement. They shunned the Clintons who championed Black America’s cause. What MLK fought and died for will be in vain if on election night America still witness the 96% support to Obama. If he loses, MLK’s cause for racial equality and fairness will have a severe setback.
We should practice the GOLDEN RULE.

Sylvia Johnsen said “I’d rather have a respectful president with manners, than a president that can e-mail.”
No problem, Sylvia. Vote for Obama and you can have both.

Why is the media so bias towards Obama?
There is something very wrong in our society when the media selects a candidate as a favorite.
Have we not learned from history where such blind worship leads?
The dictators Hitler, Mussolini, Kim Jong Il all began as a cult of personality worship. The media for these dictators where slanted during their rise and then controlled after they assumed power. Obama is clearly following the same pattern.
Obama and his wife have a horrendous history of evil and whenever facts of Obama’s infamous life is mentioned, the press ignores it. But for Hillary, McCain or Palin, if they so much as sneeze, they are mercilessly taken thought the ringer and insulted by the press relentlessly.
Is this because we are afraid to criticize an African American or because some powers above are manipulating our society?
- It is also interesting to note, that my Obama critical posting are often banned or removed by the mediators of the blogs or newspapers.
Obama is not even elected, and Obama’s cult followers have already managed to implement restrictions on Freedom of Speech. What will happen to us after he is elected? He will teach our youth to be thugs like himself. And if you don’t know why I call him a thug, find out how he got elected as senator and look at all the ill associations he has hobnobbed with throughout his life. Remember when he gave the finger to Hillary on national TV and now calling Palin a pig.
We have clearly become a society whose depth of thinking is equivalent to that of Britney Spears and we will pay for this lazy intelligence and lack of critical thinking skills with our country. We are setting the stage for an American Mussolini.

I am afriad you are the one with incorrect facts: First, Guantanemo houses non-citizens suspected of plotting attacks agaist the United States, of which there is ourt prescidence to do so following German cases in WWII. The Japanese-Americans who FDR placed in camps were citizens – many of them soldiers who fought for the country. Second, Bill Clinton had a ‘projected’ surplus, not an actual one. Third, America is the wealthiest nation on earth and we are nowhere near bankrupt. And if you are really concerned about economics, tell your democrats to stop expanding unecessary social services which are killing the taxpayers. Annually, taxpayers spend more on Welfare than Iraq. Also keep in min d,much of the money spent in Iraq comes back to the United States.. MM are you serious? Give your head a shake. WHta a bunch of malarky your trying to spew on here. America is not rich and powerful as you think. Get off your idiotic ass and learn soemthing. What a moron you are. America is over 9 trillion dollars in debt owe to a communist country(China) and the military is stretched to its max. Right now if this country was attacked, it would be over in a week. We couldn’t defend ourslves if we wanted to. Son, you talking out of your arse with statements like that. I suugest you do some reseach before you open thattrap again.

Barack Obama has pledged to cut middle and working class taxes…has McCain? Obama has said he would do away with the tax loopholes for companies that send middle and working class jobs abroad…has McCain? McCain will bring you Phil Gramm as an economic advisor though…the same Phil Gramm that slipped in a 262-page measure called the Commodity Futures Modernization Act in a $384-billion congressional omnibus spending bill on December 15, 2000 (also known as the ENRON loophole) that has resulted in $4 gas at the pump. In 1999, Gramm also pushed through a historic banking deregulation bill that decimated Depression-era firewalls between commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, and securities firms—setting off a wave of merger mania…resulting in the credit crisis that has almost crippled the housing and lending markets. Is this the kind of nonsense you want to continue in Washington? I’m voting for Obama, I want higher pay, lower taxes and the value of my home to go up instead of down…how about you?

Yes it wouldbe great to have a woman one day – but not just ANY woman. How is that different from an African American voting for McCain if he had chose Clarence Thomas as a running mate. We are in a period of dumbing down America. The republicans want us to believe that being highly educated is bad/elitist. It is not enough that Sarah Palin can answer questions. The problem is that her answers lack depth, substance and intellect. In these difficult times we need someone that will blink before pressing the nuke button. Palin’s term as mayor left the little down in debt for the first time. We do not actually know what a term as governor would mean as she has never finished a term. My son-in-law is on his third tour in Iraq. He strongly supports Obama and swears that he does not run into military people that support McCain.

Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said the USA will be crippled even further if Republican presidential contender John McCain goes ahead with his proposed tax cuts.

I was an undecided voter until Obama’s comment about the selection of Gov. Palin being same old Washington politics.
Let’s take a look at Obama’s “new Washington politics”. He runs with Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and Joe Biden (life long Washington politicians). He degraded Hillary and called Bill Clinton a racist in the campaign. But now with the polls showing him behind he wants to buy his way into the White House by bringing Bill Clinton into his campaign.
Senator Obama might have started his campaign 19 mths ago as a common decent mid-class American but he has turned to the other side just like most greedy and selfish politicians. In the past 19 mths Obama has become a multi-millionaire personally. He has spent millions of the American citizens dollars in this campaign. He signed up for a fixed campaign fund but decided not to adhere to his word. To me that means he may not be able to balance a budget. He is spending away all of the campaign funds. He reported record donations in May/June, strange because that’s when the Tax Rebate checks were mailed. He accepted the poor peoples rebate donations instead of encouraging them to buy the necessary personal items they needed for their families. The rebate was to stimulate the economy not fill Obama’s pockets.
Fellow citizens/voters take a hard look at who is actually demonstrating “change” and true to his word. McCain said he wants to shake up Washington and break the politics as usual. He did that with his VP choice, he brought in a fresh middle class perspective.
Gov Palin’s reference “difference between hockey moms and a pit bull is lipstick” was a wonderful reference to those tough women who manage a family. Obama’s reference “lipstick and a pig” is a despicable comment towards those hard working women.
I have made my decision and will continue to pray the American people will make theirs by truly evaluating what political team will do the best for all of us.

Hello Tony Ruzko. This is BHO. I hope this phone is not tapped or we’ll be in big trouble. I already have the money to buy that adjacent lot. I’ll have my lawyers prepare the deed of sale and other documents. Thanks for your help in launching my political career. I didn’t know that “running for president” will get me these tons of money. Of course not to me directly, but via Michelle. I just gave myslef a raise ooops its Michelle. sorry for the slip up. Talk to you soon. Don’t worry I’ll do everything in my power to get you out of jail soon. Hang in there buddy.

American Citizens are trying to take our country back at nearly whatever cost it takes.
To H*LL with big corporate sponsored political dogs…BE AN AMERICAN,VOTE OBAMA!

Whoever fell for Greenspan’s (Andrea Mitchell’s husband) info on the economy had better research Greenspan.
He is the very reason we are in this mess today. Greenspan and Clinton’s policies did it!!!!!!!!!! Let’s get honest here folks.

man_dinga:
If I were a republican, and I were confronted with the large and growing list of gay-and underage- sex scandals in the republican party, I’d want to watch football too. While you’re watching football, what’s larry craig doing with our tax dollars? Scoping out a new men’s room?

$66 million (guess $60 million came from Tony Rezko, Oprah, Exelon corp)
New 500,000 donors ( could be 300,000 new names of people from the grave again).
people from the grave have risen from the grave and vote for obama during the democratic primary.
Oh, what happen to the fake fainters during Nobma’s speeches/rallies?
Obama, the messiah, the rockstar is behind in polls and electoral college.
Nice JOB Howard Dean, DNC. Pick the wrong candidate. I agree with Geraldine Ferraro that the DNC, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and other democratic party members and the media treated Hillary Clinton so bad and even branded the Clintons as racist.
McCain 08
HILLARY CLINTON 2012, 2016!!!

Isabella writes:
“Marie ,
As I mentioned before this was investigated by Scotland Yard and reported in all major english newspapers.
I was in England at the time and I am surprised that this was not picked up by the press over here.
Then again , should I be surprised , the media is making sure , only news complementing Obama reaches the american people.
Fair and balanced journalism is non existing in America.”
Isabella, I really feel for you. First of all, journalism…despite what Fox news and all of the Rupert Murdoch hack news rags say, isn’t supposed to be “fair and balance.” Truth is not fair and balanced! Either something is true and fact based or it isn’t. This has been one of the most scandalous( and there have been many of them) things that the right wing has convinced people of for the past 30 years. If Scotland Yard and the Bush Justice Department had any evidence…any at all of any Obama campaign malfeasance, that would end the Obama campaign in the mind of the media and perhaps end his career. The republicans would love that. It ain’t gonna happen honey. Just because you might wish it to be, doesn’t make it so.
Now, I understand you would like McCain to win…no matter how ugly and divisively he would, but you just can’t go around making up things and reading Murdoch news rags and taking them as fact.
I am sad that so many people think that people of color, Senator Obama and his family and supporters don’t love this country as much as people like you and other McCain supporters. Especially when so many of us have fought and died for this country and in the streets and back roads of this country to protect the rights and liberties for everyone. It is your right to feel that way. You are entitled to your opinion, but not your own set of misleading stories and lies. I can’t stop you from believing them or spreading them. I am sorry that you will vote this election for your fears instead of your hopes and your wallet. That is also your choice. A critical thinker might ask herself a simple question…
What is it that McCain can do that as a strong Bush supporter he couldn’t do in the past 8 years, and as a strong conservative, he hasn’t been able to do in 26 years when his party has run the country for most of it?
I am sorry you have chosen to use your vote to vote against something instead of for yourself.
Posted by: Marie | Sep 14, 2008 1:56:10 PM
Fyi.,
I do not vote in your election and as for the news article I mentioned , it was published in reputable newspapers in England .
So save your diatribe and drivel for somebody else.
The fact in this matter is precisely as I mentioned , with the emphasis on
” Interception of illegal money aimed for Obama campaign “.
I should also remind you that I wrote about journalistic reporting not being any longer fair and balanced , nothing to do with truth and fiction.

Obama is a muslim!

What a poor excuse for political debate–and to what end? Nobody’s listening to reason. This process is just a way to vent our political frustration. I’m disgusted by the disrespect people show for one another. No one knows how to listen any more. The media loves to highlight the wedge issues and toss the public a bone to gnaw on, and gnaw they do like a bunch of Pavlov’s dogs. Reviewing the level of discourse in most of these comments leads me to believe we’re doomed as a nation. Half of the people who comment have something substantial and intelligent to say, republicans and democrats alike. The rest ignore the substance and stoop to the basest level. I’m completely disgusted and will never participate in this kind of farce again. None of the people of good will who try to offer their views will ever change anyone’s minds. I wonder if the tenor of these comments would be different if people were talking face to face? Go out and talk to your neighbors. Respect your fellow citizens, listen, and thoughtfully promote your views, if you disagree.

Way to go, Senator Obama – and without taking the money from taxpayers pockets!! Elect OBama/Biden in 2008, take America back!!

Obscene. Sen. Obama should not be asking poor blacks and single mothers on welfare to commit their finances to a failing campaign. No tax money? Ha who do you think is paying for his campaign but the everyday middle class Americans? At least he says so. I have a hunch he’s got some hidden wealthy friends who are slipping a little extra from their real-estate holdings.

I’m proud that Obama’s campaign is financed by regular people and not lobbyists…no doubt the corporations will retaliate by donating to McCain’s campaign (in case you were unaware, under his administration they would receive substantial tax cuts)…This might be our last chance to rescue this country from the brink, and I fear for what the world will look like in the next few years if we don’t start using our good sense as citizens…
I ask anyone who hasn’t already done so, to go to the candidate’s websites and look at what they are actually proposing for policies…if you still decide to vote for McCain, then so be it, but at least inform yourselves!

Mark: Please followup your information about Obama’s Mother with facts and proof otherwise remove yourself from this forum as you will be considered a nuisanse.

Dear mr(s) “no obama 08″: I think your the one doing the name calling and “USAevolveNow” is hitting you where it counts with facts and information that has been obviously researched. I have read your posts and I can’t find a single fact that backs up anything that you have to say. You spout lies, deceit, anger, fear and hate as those are the only tools you have at your disposal. All very typical extremist right wing tactics. I think you need to do some research of your own and provide “real” facts and information if you want “anyone” to believe anything you have to say. I wish you an interesting future.

McCain takes $85,000,000 from American taxpayers to fund his sleazy campaign. I want my money back, McSleaze.

I’t funny how people can go to Harvard and Yale and then give up all our jobs to the other countires and leave us woth nothing from NY stock why did all the jobs leave America? Who caused this to happen?? Is this taught at the finest schools of America to make the money no matter who makes the products?
I waitng for Jesus to save us from them

By pandering to the fears and smears of swift boat tactics, McCain has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he and Bush are one-and-the-same. He ain’t a maverick. He’s a political dinosaur and a future footnote to the failed policies of the Republican Party.

Fellow taxpayers: we gave $85,000,000 to John McCain and all we got was another sleazy Republican campaign filled with slime. Rip off! America, it’s time to pull the plug on Bush, Rove, Cheney and John McCain.

McCain does not care about middle class Americans except to pander to their fears, trolling for votes. The Bush-McCain tax plan is for wealthy people in the top 1%. Bush’s policies (same as McCain’s) have already failed us. This housing problem could have been stopped with federal oversight. Lobbyists got in the way and now taxpayers foot the bill.

Daily Tracking Polls
Rassmussen
9/14/08
McCain 50%
Obama 47%
Gallup
9/14/08
McCain 47%
Obama 45%
So why does ABC still erroneously state that Obama’s ahead of McCain? Can’t you guys update your data, oh like more than once a month or something?
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
He’s ahead in EC votes too!
What the hellheck kind of butcher reporting is this ABC?

pullmanherb, It’s too close to say that McCain is ahead.

In a direct and honest head to head comparison of Palin versus Obama -— I can think of a number of categories where Sarah Palin would be superior to Obama….
- Undeniable or disputable love and loyalty to America.
- Undeniable or disputable non-Muslim background or roots.
- No felons as close friends or advisers.
- No minister/mentor who is a black racist rabble rouser.
- No American Terrorists as friend, advisor and fund raiser.
- No convicted felon who assisted in a self admitted “bone head” real estate deal.
- No suspicious money coming from Hamas or the PLO…
- No endorcements from the leaders of Islamic or weeny European government leaders.
- Never voted to kill babies who survived an abortion.
- Never criticized America military, or doubted our RIGHT to pursue and kill our enemy wherever we may find them.
- Never endorsed or praised the pimp Mayor of Detroit, who is now going to jail.
- Not a close friend or admirer of “Calypso Louie” Farrakhan.
- Not ashamed to wear the American Flag pin or salute the flag of our nation.
- Never supported Washington, D.C. law banning the right to own a firearm and keep it in one’s home – which USSC overruled.
- Never made a trip to Pakistan as a “student”..
- Never attended classes on the Koran at an Islamic school.
- Never held a passport from Indonesia.
- Never admitted doing drugs, including cocaine.
- Never accused of having a homosexual relationship.
- Never worked within the Chicago Political Machine.
- Never confronted the corruption in the city government, he “served” as a community organizer.
- Never named the most Leftist member of any group, as Obama has been named in the Senate.
- Palin’s husband quit a job in the Oil Fields to avoid conflict of interest – Obama’s wife accepted a $300,000 salary from a hospital after her husband secured a large “ear mark” for the same hospital..
- Palin has been proud and defensive of America – her ENTIRE adult life, contrary to Obama and his wife.
- I could go on…….but you get the drift…
Obama is worse that a black racist empty suit..
There is NOTHING in his life of “accomplishments” to indicate this angry arrogant man is WORTHY or TRUSTWORTHY to even retain his position in the Senate to say nothing of being the President….
Credit goes to river rat at Free Republic

Steve, are you just nuts. Where did you get this information. Do you have actual facts, information and proof to back up your insinuations that have no basis in truth. “Back – it – up”, or get off the forum. This goes for all of you on both sides. If you don’t have anything of substance and constructive to contribute, then leave. You don’t belong in this conversation. Cry free speech if you will, but starting riots with outright lies and insinuations is down right un-American.

Wow Now Lehman. Hope you former W people are happy. Look what your vote got us for leadership. BEAR STEARNS, Fannie and Freddie Leh AIG. If this had been on BO’s watch You ALL WHO RIDE HIM DOWN THE RIVER. DON”T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE WITH MCCAIN and end up looking DUMB. They (MCCAIN CAMP won’t even mention his name and are trying to make you think they’re not even republicans. It’s time to try something different. Don’t forget the Trillion $ defict. You people are TOO much.

you maccain/palin supporters,
if obama called palin a pig,
Maybe he learned from Maccain.
Maccain called Hillary a Pig last year.

Palin has an 80% approval rating, and the smear machines go out and get the “opinions” of the few that don’t like her—-how sad.

Steve from Danville – What about the wars Obama wants to start?

Sara, you have been trying to push that ACORN balony on several forums now. ACORN is a great program to help those with less find a way to live in a home of there own. Fanny and Freddy failed because of a pure high-profit at all stakes gamble with speculation that drove up property prices and poor loan practices that made the rich, richer and force a whole lot of people out of homes who should not have had the types of homes that purchased. Most forclosed homes were of the higher priced mansion types or homes some people should have waited for. Your second opinion that the “rich” will raise the price of our goods and services if we raise their taxes makes no sense at all. One, that means that the rich are calling the shots on your quality of life and don’t give a damn about it. It’s not the rich that raise your price of goods and services but the corporations and those that supply them that may raise prices. But, at what point do the raise the prices before they can’t sell the products anymore as no one is going to buy do to overpricing. God forbid that they make less of a profit so the Rich as you say cannot buy that more expense 9th home and the 2nd Mercedes. Get a clue, Sara, the rich do not give a darn about you and your needs. Trickle down economics is a economic experiment failing big-time. Power to the middle class and may our new Obama/Biden administration and the people that support it help those like yourself.

WoW how can you throw away hard earned money on a fool like Obama? You need to do some research on the “ONE”

Where oh where did the money come from? The poor – the middle class without jobs? Or could it be the non-existent from the Obama voter registrations records from when he was a Community Organizer? Or, maybe from George (the Marxist) Soros or Obama’s Arab family and friends? It has a ring of freaky, scary non-American to me.

Hillary will be POTUS after Obama’s presidency.
If Palin becomes VP this time, she will compete with Hillary in 2012, that is more difficult for HIllary to win.

Wonder if it is true that the candidate that bumps off mutual opponent wins in November and it has nothing to do with issues and popularity polls?
Apparently the mutual opponent not only exposed corruption within both parties but is wealthy and is presently targeted. Once bumped off, his wealth is be easily stolen.
The question is how?
Will the Dems use an OJ Simpson-like, black convict with jail time due? BTW, OJ Simpson is available til tomorrow morning for his own robbery and kidnapping trial in Las Vegas.
Will the GOP use a Guiliani-like mob ties like his protege had and was indicted for up to 140 jail time? Or Gotti, Jr. who is available tonight before his murder trial begins in the morning in Florida?
Will both political parties employ the popular law enforcement practice of ‘sweetheart exchange deals’ where convicts commit crime/murder, gets less jail time, conveniently covered up and the real culprits are not publicly suspected?
As we share this information, will we too have to worry about our physical safety day by day until the election on November 4? For example, do we have to worry about our jogging in public, shopping, or sleeping in the middle of the night as our habits and plans are well known in advanced via bugging devices in both private and public?

McCain’s supporters cannot argue his policies because his policies (the same as Bush) are morally and financially bankrupting our country. Prove me wrong… name ONE McCain economic policy that will make America better

Wonder if it is true that the candidate that bumps off mutual opponent wins in November and it has nothing to do with issues and popularity polls?
Apparently the mutual opponent not only exposed corruption within both parties but is wealthy and is presently targeted. Once bumped off, his wealth is be easily stolen.
The question is how?
Will the Dems use an OJ Simpson-like, black convict with jail time due? BTW, OJ Simpson is available til tomorrow morning for his own robbery and kidnapping trial in Las Vegas.
Will the GOP use a Guiliani-like mob ties like his protege had and was indicted for up to 140 jail time? Or Gotti, Jr. who is available tonight before his murder trial begins in the morning in Florida?
Will both political parties employ the popular law enforcement practice of ‘sweetheart exchange deals’ where convicts commit crime/murder, gets less jail time, conveniently covered up and the real culprits are not publicly suspected?
As we share this information, will we too have to worry about our physical safety day by day until the election on November 4? For example, do we have to worry about our jogging in public, shopping, or sleeping in the middle of the night as our habits and plans are well known in advanced via bugging devices in both private and public?

I am no fan of GOP, but it is often stunning to read comments from Obama’s supporters, I am at loss how they can be so brainwashed…Obama gives great speeches according to the majority of opinions (I am in minority here), however, the most unsettling part about him is his associations and his judgement. The reason he is where he is now is because of his backers: Daschle, Kennedy, Kerry, Peolosi, Reid, and all of those Democrat in power in congress. How can Obama be independent of them and be answering for you when he is in power? He’s got too much debt to pay. He has never proved in his entire life that he is capable of reform or change the establishment where he is part of. How can you believe it will be different once in power? Have you seen any work done by the democratic congress?
I think a lot of our problems lie in the party politics. A great president is a great president, regardless of it’s party. From that point of view, I see McCain/Palin is a ticket of actual reform and a ticket that can give a much needed kick at the political establishment. I wish there would have a viable third party candidate, but short of that, I will take McCain/Palin…which is a gamble that may yield great return based on past track record.

Obama’s attempted rape kit smears of Palin……lol, you guys are disqusting.
The latest myth touted on liberal blogs that’s bubbled its way into mainstream news headlines is the one where Sarah Palin ordered rape victims to pay for their own rape kits.
“Palin’s Town Used to Bill Victims for Rape Kits” was headline on a Thursday USA Today news story. Reporters Ken Dilanian and Matt Kelley used a 2000 quote from former Wasilla Police Chief to blame Palin for an outdated, now illegal policy she never supported.
“In the past, we’ve charged the cost of exams to victim’s insurance companies when possible,” former chief Charlie Fannon told the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman in 2000 as then-Democratic Governor Tony Knowles was signing legislation to make local police branches cover the costs of the kits.
“I just don’t want to see any more burden on the taxpayer,” Fannon said at the time, which was reprinted in the USA Today.
Fannon went on to say that he believed the criminal should be held responsible for the costs, which run from $5,000-$14,000 per year for all assault cases. USA Today did not reprint those quotes from the interview, though. “The forensic exam is just one part of the equation,” Fannon said at the time “I’d like to see the courts make these people pay restitution for these things.”
Liberal blogs like HuffingtonPost, DailyKos and Salon.com are using this interview the Frontier conducted with Fannon to accuse Palin, who was mayor of Wasilla from 1996-2002, of supporting making rape victims pay for their rape kits– a charge vehemently denied by her aides.
“It would appear that Sarah Palin has a problem with Rape,” blogger Steven R wrote on the DailyKos. “In addition to not supporting the availability of Abortion for victims of Rape, Mayor Sarah Palin, Maverick, Fiscal Conservative, also had citizens of Wasilla pick up the bill for their own forensics tests.”
Palin spokeswoman Maria Cornella told USA Today that Palin, “does not believe, nor has ever believed, that rape victims should have to pay for an evidence-gathering test.” Continued…
“Gov. Palin’s position could not be more clear,” Cornella said. “To suggest otherwise is a deliberate misrepresentation of her commitment to supporting victims and bringing violent criminals to justice.”
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign advisers organized a conference call Tuesday with former Alaskan Governor Knowles and Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein to do just that.
Knowles told reporters, “There was one town in Alaska that was charging victims for this, and that was Wasilla, and the — the original police chief had been fired by Mayor Palin, and her replacement for that police chief was protesting it, and even when I signed the bill.”
Weinstein added, “Wasilla under Sarah Palin’s administration chose to charge sexual assault victims for the forensic kits, and that’s the choice they made. They easily could have made the other choice.”
Palin appointed Fannon as police chief in 1997. His predecessor was fired by Palin over his willingness to limit the town’s bar operating hours. Fannon was one of three candidates considered for the job and the City Council confirmed him in a 5-0 vote.
Palin later tangled with Fannon when he ran for Wasilla’s mayoral office during her gubernatorial race. Fannon created campaign ads containing a false endorsement from Palin. Palin did not support Fannon for mayor. She supported his rival, Curt Menard

CW WRITES:
Obama does something we are not use to in a politician. (Refering to thoughtful process)
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D0 RESPONDS WITH THIS INANE RESPONSE:
You got that right! There has not been a phony politician or any career like Zero-bama, who has accomplished nothing, done nothing, competed nothing, authored nothing except his own memoirs, and collaborated nothing.
His Nothingness comes to being because of Affirmative Action, deception, and accusing his fellow democrats as racists against his nothingness and equates the Clinton administration that brought about the most peaceful and prosporous period time in the history of this country to that of George W. Bush’s.
Yet, there he is. Nothing, nothing we have seen before indeed.
………………
TAKING WHAT CW WROTE COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTEXT, USING IT FOR FODDER FOR AN EMOTIONAL OUTBURST.
AND WRITING WHAT??? IT MAKES MY HEAD HURT JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT
IF YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE SUCH AN EMOTIONAL OUTBUST, AT LEAST BE ABLE TO HAVE AN EDUCATED AND FACTUAL FOUNDATION.
OTHERWISE, YOU JUST LOOK STUPID AND IDIOTIC.
IT’S AMAZING HOW NEW IDEAS CAN STRIKE TERROR IN CLOSED-MINDED PEOPLE.
IT’S INTERESTING THAT THESE NEGATIVE ALLEGATIONS AND FEARS KEEP ARISING AGAINST–CLEARLY–THE BETTER CANDIDATE.
WHAT IS IT THAT TERRIFIES REPUBLICANS SO MUCH?
THEY STAND TO GAIN IN EVERY RESPECT:
REDUCED TAXES
INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY
CREATIVE DOMESTIC SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY,
ECONOMY, GNP, EDUCATION
A RENEWED FAITH IN AMERICA AND IT’S PEOPLE
PRIDE IN AMERICA
I’VE FORGOTTEN HOW THEY THINK, EVEN THOUGH I ONCE WAS A REPUBLICAN.
I HAD ALL THESE FEARS IN MY HEAD BECAUSE I BELIEVED WHAT PEOPLE AROUND ME SAID, AND I THOUGHT THAT EVERYTHING I THOUGHT WAS TRUE.
THEN I TRAVELED THE WORLD AND GOT AN EDUCATION.
I LEARNED THAT ALL OF THE THINGS I WAS TOLD WERE CRAZY. I LEARNED TO QUESTION MY ASSUMPTIONS AND OPINIONS–BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T BASED ON FACTS.
EXPERIENCE TAUGHT ME WHAT BELIEFS WERE CRAZY AND WHAT WAS SANE.
INSTEAD OF SIMPLY WATCHING WHAT REINFORCES YOUR WORLD VIEW, TUNE INTO THE DEMOCRATIC CHANNEL.
YOU’LL FIND THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE; BETTER FOR YOU AND BETTER FOR OTHERS.
OBAMA/BIDEN FOR A BETTER AMERICA.

Sara, have you ever heard of the ammendment in our constitution that states an person “or entity” is innocent until proven guilty. Is it possible that those that are bringing suite have alternative purpose, ie profits and less competition for their on means to an end by all means. Evidence is not full proof nor does the investigation mean wrong has been done. Your links that you attest to did not appear in you message. So is this a way to make an accusation and not back it up? And by the way, where do you fit into this? Whom to do you represent? I don’t think you are here just as an interested taxpayer. What is your true purpose?

tim: You do not belong in this forum. Please leave….

Only $66 million—-Terrorists and Socialist unite to BUY Obama the election.

Gov. Sarah Palin may be a MILF but she sure motivated me to dig deep in my wallet for Obama
When is anyone with a conscience from the McCain campaign going to stand up against this “win at any cost” campaign? Where is the outrage from honest Republican commentators?
I’m afraid that it will all come after the fact, and someone will write a book bemoaning the fact that negative campaigning works. And one of the staffers who is coaching Sarah Palin now will tell us, when it is too late, that she really was unqualified, but they were afraid of losing their jobs.
Where is the integrity from anyone on the McCain campaign?

dlboggan: “You do not belong in this forum, please leave”…. Just hate to hear the truth about Obama don’t you? just like every Obama facist , you want to shut people up you don’t agree with. Another good reason to make sure you and your ilk do not get power in America and turn America into a facist State

The best candidate money can buy! Except the job is not for sale. Obama can do this because of his famous flip-flop on financing.

Today Karl Rove said the McCain’s negative ads had “gone too far.” There’s your proof. McCain has no honor anymore.. he is morally bankrupt. McCain supporters: If you can’t name ONE McCain economic policy that will make America stronger then you are a part of the problem.

Tim, I expected some name calling from you. Much like the fear, deceit, greed and divisiveness that you and others like you have been posting to this blog. You have nothing of substance and no proof of anything. You would never say any of these things directly into anyones face. Only cowards say such things in places such as these. So, please take your 14 year old mind and vacate from our view. Your comments are not contructive, just school yard bullying at it’s worst. Get an education and then come back to talk to us.

Steve from Danville, Oh so Obama’s campaign tactic of using ageism against McCain and mocking him because he cannot e-mail when the reason McCain cannot use e-mail was due to his war time injuries is not “sleazy ” ?. As to one economic policy of McCain that will improve the economy how about keeping President Bush’s tax cuts in place. If Obama gets his way and President Bush’s tax cuts are rescinded a family of four earning $50,000 taxes will go up by $2500. Obama’s tax increases of $2500 on the family of four earning $50,000 will hurt the US economy. Also, McCain is for decreasing capital gains taxes A decrease in capital gains taxes will encourage investment and provide the middle class a way of increasing their wealth by invest in the growth of the economy. Obama is against all this, he does not want to help people increase their wealth, just the opposite, Obama wants to keep people down so everyone is poor and under the thumb of the government.

Bloggers for McCain: Please take a timeout from spreading lies and smears and conspiracy theories and tell us ONE single McCain economic proposal that will make America better?

dlboggan, Please stop the name calling and tell me what is untrue about what I said about Obama?
Obama wants the US to lose in Iraq and so does Osama. True or False?

McCain supported Bush policies over 90% of the time….
1. Lied about WMD.
2. Unilaterally invaded a sovereign nation without provocation and justification. (BUSH DOCTRINE)
3. Lied during State of the Union speech re: Niger Uranium.
4. Responsible for pre-9/11 intelligence failures in White House, CIA, FBI.
5. Allowed 9-11 murderers to remain free while diverting precious military and financial resources to his vanity war in Iraq.
6. Lied about Saddam/bin Laden connection.
7. Turned Iraq into a terrorist breeding ground.
8. Lied about nation-building.
9. Opposed creation of 9-11 Commission and Homeland Security Department.
10. Disrespected and alienated the U.S. from French, German and other key allies.
11. Lied to Americans about the real cost of war.
12. Fostered an environment of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.
13. Lined Halliburton’s pockets in Afghanistan and Iraq with fat no-bid contracts.
14. Under-manned and under-equipped our armed forces in Iraq, resulting in unnecessary death and injuries.
15. Ignored the nuclear build-up in both Iran and N.Korea; marginalized Kim Jong Il.
16. Shunned Kyoto Treaty.
17. Lied about effects of man-made pollutants on the environment to support corporate pals.
18. Lied about the insolvency of Social Security.
19. Gave huge cuts to the wealthiest taxpayers.
20. Lied about true cost of health care bill.
21. Lied about Free Trade stand.
22. Bitterly divided the nation along religious, party and sexual preference lines.
23. Guilty of numerous cronyism appointments (Homeland Security, Supreme Court, etc)
24. Rewarded failures of Condi Rice and other cronies with key promotions.
25. Dreadful energy policies lead to record gas and oil prices.
26. Responsible for the largest debt in U.S. history.
27. Colossal failure of preparedness, rescue and relief during Hurricane Katrina.
28. Fostered a culture of corruption among GOP and top leadership (Tom Delay, etc).
29. Allowed Donald Rumsfeld to keep job despite utter failure in Iraq.
30. Presided over the U.S.’s lowest popularity throughout the world.
31. Saw No Child Left Behind fail.
32. Lied last week about Iraqi troop strength during Saturday radio address. Directly contradicted by testimony given earlier in the week by Gen. Abizaid.

Hey Timmy do you believe in Creationism too…
Cause your reasoning is that of a child.
Black and white

Senator McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin lifted McCain’s approval among Republicans, Independents and some Democrats across America. Now, in response to McCain’s rise, Senator Obama has approved Bill Clinton to help the effort of his campaign in an attempt to regain a confident lead. Today’s story is that Hillary is also emphasizing her support. It should be obvious that Obama would not enlist the Clinton’s support unless he thought it necessary. One question this raises is what price will Obama pay for the Clinton’s support? The Clinton’s and Obama’s objective of power converges from now forward to election night. We the people should expect to elect men and women to our highest offices who have exhibited impeccable character. The character issue and Obama’s willingness to sign up the still popular Clinton’s is why I’m here. I just want you to check out a couple of things.
http://www.blockingthepath.com/trailer.html
One: The Clinton’s role in blocking the DVD release of ‘The Path to 9/11′. You can go to the web site pasted above to watch a trailer of the doucmentary about the censorship of the Path to 9/11. The Path to 9/11 is an ABC mini-series which aired once on TV over 2 years ago. The producers thought that the Bush administration would go crazy. Wrong. The Clinton’s not only screamed, they suceeded in preventing its DVD release. Why would Hollywood fear the Clinton’s? You can probably recall a few documentaries which were very critical of the republican administration yet those can be rented or purchased today.
The other issue I have is the Peter Paul fundraising event which took place during Hillary’s fund raising for her Senatorial election. You can just Google Peter Paul, you’ll find it. The Clinton’s may have a habit of making things happen with an increasing boldness that really ought to cause some concern.
The way I see it, Obama has just made a faustian bargain. You can bet the terms of the agreement leave something very appetizing for Hillary (and Bill).

• NEWS ALERT • NEWS ALERT •
Trig Palin is the new Messiah THE SECOND COMING IS HERE!
God sent his son in the form of a downs syndrome baby to test our faith.
ALL GOOD FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS
SHOULD HEAD TO ALASKA…POST HASTE!

Tim: Osama True, Obama False, now prove your false accusation about Obama. My proof is located here: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/iraq/
These are Obama’s own words. If you are unable to understand it then ask someone with an education to help you.

demigodery…. ? what, pray tell is that… maybe the practice of right wing fundamentalist forcing their views down our throats. GOPers have a hard time expressing themselves in writing

hey scary gary,
Greenspan Warren Buffet and Bill gates dont’ agree with you and neither do I… Take econ 101 and get back to me.

TO ALL OF THE OBAMA/BIDEN SUPPORTERS. I AM SO PROUD OF YOU. YOU STAND WHEN THE OPPOSITION COMES AGAINST US FROM THE MEDIA, AS WELL AS FROM THE FALSE COMMERCIALS AND STATEMENT BY MCCAIN/PALIN. BECAUSE THE MCCAIN LYING COMMERCIALS IS SO BLATANT, EVEN THOUGH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SUPPORTS REPUBLICANS MORE, THEY EVEN HAD TO MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT THE TACTICS OF LIES MCCAIN’S CAMPAIGN IS ISSUING. SAD, SAD, SAD !!!
TRUTH ALWAYS WINS OVER LIES WHETHER THEY ARE LIES FROM A MALE OR FEMALE. THEY ARE STILL LIES. WE WON’T TOLERATE LIES FROM MEN OR WOMEN, MCCAIN OR PALIN.
HER ABUSE OF AUTHORITY CASE MAY CHANGE THE RACE ANY WAY, IF SHE IS FOUND GUILTY. STAND STRONG. IGNORE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT WITH US. THERE ARE MORE WITH US BY FAR. STAY FOCUSED.

Gary, again your facts are incorrect. This is an exerpt from ABC news: “Under Obama, the wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers, those making roughly $600,000 or more, would see their taxes go up on average by $93,709 in 2009, according to an analysis done by the Tax Policy Center, because Obama would begin implementing his tax changes even before the scheduled expiration of the Bush cuts.
Under McCain, those same taxpayers would see an average reduction of $48,860, reflecting in part additional cuts he is proposing.
By contrast, the bottom 20 percent of taxpayers, those with taxable income of roughly $19,000 per year or less, would see their taxes cut by an average of $567 under Obama’s program and $21 under McCain’s plan, the tax center estimates.
For the 20 percent of taxpayers right in the middle of the income scale, making roughly between $37,600 and $66,400, the tax break would be $1,118 under the Obama plan and $325 under the McCain plan in 2009, according to the analysis done by the tax center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, two Washington think tanks.” Now the “trillion” dollars you throw out there is to be found now where. Where did you get that number? Show me a “legitimate” source.

I used to respect McCain… He stood up to the religious right before… But the Maverick is gone and all we have is a desperate shell of the man he once was… pathetically pandering to extreme right wing fundamentalist Cooks… really no different than the Taliban… Had these same personalities been born in Pakistan I’m sure they would be extremist taliban terrorists

Letter to the Preditor: Please keep it civil. I’m a proud Obama supporter and that means we need to not stoop to Republican tactics. We can all win here if we stick to the facts and then vote for the better candidate. I’ve called a couple of others on this on the other side and I’m having a hard time keeping a proper tone too. Go Obama!

McCAIN REPEATEDLY VOTED AGAINST VETERANS’ HEALTH BENEFITS
******* McCain Opposes the 21st Century GI Bill Because It Is Too Generous. McCain did not vote on the GI Bill that will provide better educational opportunities to veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, paying full tuition at in-state schools and living expenses for those who have served at least three years since the 9/11 attacks. McCain said he opposes the bill because he thinks the generous benefits would “encourage more people to leave the military.” (S.Amdt. 4803 to H.R. 2642, Vote 137, 5/22/08; Chattanooga Times Free Press, 6/2/08; Boston Globe, 5/23/08; ABCNews.com, 5/26/08)
******* McCain Voted Against Increased Funding for Veterans’ Health Care. Although McCain told voters at a campaign rally that improving veterans’ health care was his top domestic priority, he voted against increasing funding for veterans’ health care in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. (Greenville News, 12/12/2007; S.Amdt. 2745 to S.C.R. 95, Vote 40, 3/10/04; Senate S.C.R. 18, Vote 55, 3/16/05; S.Amdt. 3007 to S.C.R. 83, Vote 41, 3/14/06; H.R. 1591, Vote 126, 3/29/07)
******* Opposed an Assured Funding Stream for Veterans’ Health Care. McCain opposed providing an assured funding stream for veterans’ health care, taking into account annual changes in veterans’ population and inflation. (S.Amdt. 3141 to S.C.R. 83, Vote 63, 3/16/06)
******* McCain Voted Against Adding More Than $400 Million for Veterans’ Care. McCain was one of 13 Republicans to vote against providing an additional $430 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs for outpatient care and treatment for veterans. (S.Amdt. 3642 to H.R. 4939, Vote 98, 4/26/06)
******* Voted Against Establishing a $1 Billion Trust Fund for Military Health Facilities. McCain voted against establishing a $1 billion trust fund to improve military health facilities by refusing to repeal tax cuts for those making more than $1 million a year. (S.Amdt. 2735 to S.Amdt. 2707 to H.R. 4297, Vote 7, 2/2/06)
McCain is a tool of Washington lobbyists. “His campaign manager lobbies for corporations outsourcing American jobs,” the ad states, flashing an image of McCain with top aide Rick Davis. “The campaign chairman he picked last year . . . a bank lobbyist,” it continues, with an image of McCain and former Texas senator Phil Gramm. “If seven of McCain’s top advisers are lobbyists, who do you think will run his White House?”

McCain is not an advocate for veterans rights, even though he claims to be. Clearly he is dishonest, lying to the American people and using their concern for veterans for his own political gain. He’s a vet himself. How can he be so callous to other vets? How can he lie about this with a straight face? Where is his conscience?
-Obama -08

I must say “letter to the preditor” you have done your homework … BRAVO …GREAT JOB… maybe some others will wake up and see the light……I think maybe only people should vote if they have an IQ of above 90 lol for real, a white veteran woman voting for barack………….the biggest crime is seeing mccshame preach the great veteran hero screwing the veteran now, may he burn in u know where./

Nonsense….I married to a vet and I am all for Veterans Rights, however I am not for bills that don’t really help veterans and only serve to screw taxpayers….like McCain is. Just a bill says poor, child, or vet on it, does not mean that it is a good bill. Geez….don’t Obamabots know anything.

Mcliar and liar with lipstick are beginning to be found out what big liars they are. I guess they are doing their own version of sniper fire. When the ladies of the View call McLair on his lies, it will started a chain reaction. I have heard to much the religious right after their initial support for Palin. I guess they are waiting on Palin daughter shot gun wedding so they can continue to support her without looking like the hypocrites they are.

Tim, You are unclear on the facts, Obama has been saying for quite sometime now that Iraq is not as great of a threat right now as the terroists are in Afghanistan, the terrorists have relocated and are attacking in Pakistan as well,obama said months ago we need to responsibly withdrawl from iraq and redeploy to afghanistan, also leet me add that many military leaders have been telling bush the same thing, but i guess haliburton making money on iraq is more important….do u remember why we were told we were invading iraq??? it was due to weapons of mass destruction which were never found…WAKE UP…bin laden was never there…this was a money scheme for cheney and bush….do u also remember bush stating “bin laden dead or alive we will get him” yea yea well u cant convince me with all our intelligence he cant be found….sometimes i think it was a conspiracy for the special interests and money…..anyway. obama is right, iraq has a 75 billion surplus while we are going bankrupt babysitting that country….we should not be there but be where the threat has moved and that is afghanistan…funny obama said it, as well as military leaders, and only now is bush acting on it….mccain still wants to sit in iraq or maybe he has changed his position AGAIN just to get a vote..white veteran woman for obama

I just talked to one of friends in and she say on Mccain Taxs Plan it will hurt because her husband employer paids $800.00 a month for medical insurance. Time the by x12=$9,600.00 which will be taxable income for her when she files federal income taxes. We must defeat Mccain/Palin ticket. Ever since the convention they been deceitful and misleading to the American People.

PS for all the “evangelicals”, while I do believe in God, my Bible, MY GOD gives me FREE WILL. and if God gives me free will then who is someone else to cram their views down my throat, we are all sinners, but there is seperation fo church and state for a reason, and that is probably it, too many extremists want to dictate THEIR views….FREE WILL BY GOD = NO MAN DICTATING MY DECISIONS ON RIGHT TO CHOOSE….Palin claims to be sooooooooo rightous, yet she eloped due to pregnancy(obviously since the track was born 8 months after their private wedding) and now her kid has followed suite, which is FINE with me…bot dont profess to be soooo dedicated to your faith when you havent lived the faith such as FORNIFICATION, well the repubs excuse her but if it was a dems life they would be smearing them……how TRANSPARENT

Listen Tim, I’m against the war in Irag, but that does not mean I want us to lose the war in Iraq. Your attempted association with Osama’s desire that we lose in Iraq with Obama being against the war in Iraq does not fly. If your for another 100 years in Iraq than vote for McCain, if you want the Iraq people to take ownership of the war against terror in their own country and for the U.S. to leave, with honor, then vote for Obama. Your attempted negative association is junior high at it’s best.

Alright Sara, let’s say that the accusations about ACORN are true. If the organization is run correctly without the corruption that has been identified, do you think that ACORN goals are good and honest and for a greater purpose? Are you wanting to destroy it because of Obama’s supposed association or would you support the basic principles of ACORNS goals. Or are you a big supporter of the front group for the large credit card companies who want to take away from those who are trying desperately to get ahead in this world in order to improve there own companies bottom line profits? What is your purpose in bringing this to our attention. To what end is your goal? Have you been harmed, at this point by this miss-management at ACORN, which can and will be corrected in good time or do you just want to destroy something as a means to an end?

Sam, could you please inform the rest of us what those Veterens bills that McCain supported and helped pass? Am I wrong or have I noted that there is a pretty strong opposition to McCain among veterens because of this very issue? I will do my research too and we can meet back here later. One more request, could you give us a percentage of votes for and against these bills. Thanks!

dlboggan, ACORN is just the tip of the iceberg with Obama. You admit ACORN is corrupt. Obama has a pattern of bingin involved with many other corrupt, dishonest and anti-American individuals and groups.
For example, Obama’s association with the Ayers and the Annenberg Challenge that is well documented in Global Labor and Politics
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/ which Obama’s associates are doing their best to cover up.
Obama’s associations with the convicted felon Rezco and the corrupt Chicago political machine. Obama first denied that Rezco was associated with Rezco in any way but finally had to admit that Rezco had been one of his biggest campaign contributers.
Obama’s twenty year association with his friend and mentor Rev. Wright who preached the hate whi##ty creed of black liberation theology.
The above is just a few of Obama’s many dubious associations, with crooks, anti-Americans and racists. So yes, I do question Obama’s association with ACORN given Obama’s pattern of very dubious associations.

NINE ELEVEN do you also believe in Creationism… Hate filled racist… your tumor is growing fast and interfering with cognative function. GET HELP. or die

• NEWS ALERT • NEWS ALERT •
PALIN EXPOSES HER IGNORANCE IN FIRST INTERVIEW
She doesn’t know what Bush Doctrine is! Most Republicans don’t though
“US-Russia war over Georgia may be necessary”
Says her international affairs experience is energy…. HUH, WTF???
Still vague on Global Warming cause. but flipped from her original
position She must have pissed off her fellow “Flat Earth Society”
on that one.
Palin gives non answers to most questions just launching into
memorized “change” diatribe. What a phony!
Plain links Iraq to September 11th attack

Sara, your a wing dinger and a rumor monger. Try as you might to associate Obama with these accusations, you and your compatriots continuously fail at all levels. These tactics have been tried over and over again and you fail at every turn. Intelligent people see through your deception and dismiss you out of hand. You’ve said enough and have nothing to stand for. Your very nature makes you a person to feel sorry for with your desperate attempts to overcome your impending defeat.

Tim your response also shows me your ignorance to follow what you here…you are a SHEEP…baaaaaa//////for one 9/11 (god rest their soles) was NOT an attack by a nation but by a group….that makes it a criminal case. bush preached binladin dead or alive, yet we did not go where we knew he was, but where bush wanted to go, he claimed there were weapons of mass destruction…were there tim??? NO, did we leave once we figured out we made an error???NO…..saddam though a dictator, is and was not the issue….we were suppose to be getting the culprits of the twin towers which will never be seen……it is NOT our job as a country to declare a war on a nation to MAKE THEM BE A DEMOCRACY, that is not how it works….WE ONLY GO TO WAR WHEN WE ARE THREATENED OR ATTACKED and we were neither by Iraq….GO BACK TO SCHOOL BOY……it is not our militarys job to keep this country safe..FROM WHAT….we should have never invaded iraq, there was NO PROOF TO DO SO WHY DO YOU THINK colin powell resigned????? he was so ashamed, embarrased and angry…..this is what bush wanted for oil and he could care less whether THE CRIMINALS NOT A COUNTRY is caught or not///////////APPARENTLY YOU ARE NOT MILITARY AND NOT WELL READ

NINE-ELEVEN! YOU DISHONOR THOSE THAT DIED DURING THAT HORRIFIC DAY BY USING THAT CALL-NAME. TRY AS YOU MIGHT, YOU ONLY DISHONOR YOURSELF AND YOUR PARTY WITH THE WORST KINDS OF LIES AND DISTORTIONS. YOU WOULD BE THE LAST PERSON COVERING MY BACK IN A BATTLE. YOU CAN NOT USE YOUR OWN NAME AS YOU KNOW THAT OTHERS WOULD DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM YOUR PRESENCE. YOUR A HATEFUL HUMAN BEING WHOM HAS LEARNED NOTHING FROM THE TEACHING OF JESUS OR WHOMEVER YOU CLAIM TO FIND YOUR PEACE WITH. I PRAY FOR YOUR SOUL.

Palin is a tyrannical woman who pursues vendettas and fires people who cross her, The New York Times said.
This picture emerges from a review of public records and her two years as Governor of Alaska as well as interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials, the newspaper said.

Greenspan is the very reason we are in such trouble on Wall St. Don’t let him escape the blame by letting him pin this on McCain. Greenspan did it. Mr. Bubble himself, Greenspan, bailed out and now needs a bag holder.

NINE ELEVEN….I MUST agree with dlboggan YOUARE A DISGRACE TO THE MEMORIES OF THOSE WHOM DIED 9/11….YOU ARE IGNORANT,A BIGOT, AND MOST OF ALL YOU DONT EVEN KNOW YOUR FACTS…..you are an example of a TRUE repub……come one everyone….lets vote out these criminals and their ignorant cronies

Looks like Alaska is not too fond of Palin:
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/alaska-women-reject-palin-rally-is-huge

liarslayer: You appear to be a man comfortable with God and the insightful philosophy. It is important that we can walk with God and know he is always with us to help us with our insights. But we also must learn to walk with find insight with each other on this Earth. God is still with us but we need to learn to work with each other without all of this hate and deceit which accomplish nothing but destructiveness. So, with you understanding and insight about truth, bring some of your wisdom and thoughts into this process. We all welcome your you ideas and insights and truthfulness if we are all human.

I think MOST Americans have developed their political opinions from the media, and when the media develops a story for the “news,” they think in terms of seconds and minutes of air time (leaving sufficient timeouts for their paid advertisers, since we pay them nothing). They also think in terms of viewer retention – boring news doesn’t attract viewers.
As a result, they like to blurr the facts in the interest of expediency. To the point that watching the news for your information is like watching a movie based on book, instead of reading the book. In the movie version, the characters are OFTEN merged together, and some plots are eliminated, because there’s no time for character development in 90-120 minutes (the typical length of a movie).
You need to realize that watchnig the news is like watching the movie – you’re missing A LOT of the truth.

Agreed… is there a third choice for President? When did we become a two-party Republic? I don’t like EITHER candidate, but for different reasons.

There are many kinds of people that have the power to make huge differences in our lives and our futures. Those that have a lot of information but do not know how to apply it. There are those who have a lot of theory but again do not know how to apply. And there are those who have a lot of guts and glory and apply at whatever without real thought or proper information. The true leader should be able to apply all of these things in a balanced manner when and however it should be applied for all the right reasons and for the results that make us all winners with no losers. I see McCain and Palin if were to be, as shooters from the hip and win at all costs for purposes not quite understood. Their message seems confusing and directed from behind the curtains. Obama and Biden seem to have more of a balance in those qualities that I mentioned above. Think before you talk, be not afraid to talk when talk is needed. Bring people together despite the differences. Look for all the solutions and think outside the box. Don’t back down when it gets rough and maintain your cool when it does get rough. But, also, don’t be afraid to use the stick if it’s required, but also only as a last resort. Just some thoughts.

I would advocate that we add a third choice to EVERY ballot – “None of the Above.”
If that choice gains the majority vote, then the election is a “do over,” and NONE of the current candidates can run again, in any capacity. They also can’t go back to their former position, IF it was an elected position (senator, governor, dog-catcher, whatever). The follow-on election would be limited to 2 months of “vetting,” and then we vote again. But again, “None of the Above” is still on the ballot.
We continue until one of the candidates beats out “None of the Above.” The incumbent Administration continues until the next Adminsitration can be determined.
Imagine, a candidate’s strategy no longer being “Beat the other guy,” but rather, gain enough favor with the American voter that you can beat “None of the Above.”
Imagine, too, if a State’s elected representatives had to be confirmed by the rest of the country? How angry are you that the state next to yours got too many ear-marks? Well, then vote to not confirm their Congressman after their next election.
Congress has an approval rating BELOW Bush, and the MEDIA has a lower approval rating than CONGRESS!! I think “None of the Above” would come out on top for quite awhile.

A third party would be a true blessing now. But, as it is, we have only the two to choose at this time. I have not seen any other party able to make a dent in the present two part system. May be some day. So, for now, we must choose with what we have. I for one like my choice. I’m sorry that you have not been happy with either of them. I hate using the choice of two evils in you case but that is what it it is. Not to vote would be the worst thing that any of us could do. As long as we are keeping our election system fair, we must all support the winner, whomever that may be.

Namako_H3: I like your suggestion for the “none of the above”. Your logic seems to be moving in a good direction. How close is this the the parlimentory systems used in Europe, IE votes of confidence to stay in power? How long would your “none of a the above” be allowed to keep someone else in power until the new elected official is chosen. Can such a system be abused to maintain a person or party already in power? Should there be a limit to how long such a process would be maintained.

Brad, an error of plus or minus 2-3 % points does not connote a “slaughter” It’s a tie, if anything. Give it 3-4 weeks and then come back and make our boast, if you can.

Americans do not need another 4 more years of Bush policies. Remember, just 10 years ago we were the envy of the world.
Palin is so much like Bush but is a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

The world almost seem like a gay parent family, the US decides everything and Russia nothing. Sooner or later that will cause a huge fight, in which the other countries are forced into siding with one or the other, stiring up even more problems. The thing about politics between nations is that it has to leave room for saving face, and doing what is right. When it comes to the Georgia conflict east of the EU, the political leadership there in Georgia has been accused by the international OSSE of voter fraud, and according to the wellknown BBC News the Georgian president decided first to bomb his own people (similarly to what Saddam did once), the victims where russians – and then the McCain camp says it would have gone to war with Russia over that. Where is the logic? Russia has saved up hundreds of billions from many years of massive oil sales, and now has a proud well-fed population, a population which demands more of its leadership. Rumours may say that even 911 was invented by daddy to ensure a crappy president for a double-term, even if not true – it is amazing that there is even a possibility that someone like McCain will have the presidency, someone who probably still has not dealt with the hate against those who tortured him many decades ago. Obviously he likes the beautiful much younger women around him, but if the voters choose McCain, they have so chosen with the full knowledge that he obviously looks for conflicts and that Obama obviously looks for resolutions. McCain is just a nicer package of the current vp. Please choose Obama as the next President, please. And maybe you can all start to think about one other thing; how smart is it really to privatize more and more, if the cost to the consumer is higher or the benefit is lower?

The main fact is Obama and the foolish NCare confused and dismayed .SArah Palin Power to the people. NO MOre corruption!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ed
Wasn’t Air America a great big flop? When you tell me that the Democratic party is unified, I ask why do left-wing books, movies, and even talk radio continuously flop? My answer would be that the Democratic party has become a guise for any anti-war, anti-American, conspiracy-driven “community organizer” that can find enough money to get elected.
As much as you complain about the “Repug” party, you have to admit they are united in a common goal, which is to defeat a socialist from running/ruining the US.
Namecall, belittle, let’s hear the “McSame” argument one more time, or answer like a civil, intelligent, non cut-and-paster. I’ve seen irrelevant babble from BHO supporters ever since Gov. Palin was selected, meanwhile Obama is pushing closer to a complete meltdown just about any day now. Pressure and Democrat do not belong in the same sentence.

White Mountain
Sounds more like the policy of the MSM.
What infuriates Democrats more?
1) the politically incorrect TRUTH
or
2) the people that speak it.

White Mountain
Rereading your post, I have to agree. Except for one thing you got Republican confused with Democrat in your first sentence.
Case and point: BHO’s MANY dubious associations
1. Don’t ask–you are a racist if you any questions in those directions
2. Don’t think–you actually believe BHO never heard Rev. Wright make anti-White, anti-American statements in 20+ years?
3. Don’t tell–the media is told that all has been investigated, case closed.
Thanks for allowing me to see it a little clearer.

Lars
I see where you are going, but the US will not be Zimbabwe that soon. After the ethnic cleansing of White farmers in Rhodesia(the breadbasket of Africa) the country became just another example of African corruption asking for handouts.
Luckily, the US isn’t to that point of no return yet. BHO and his socialist policies(handouts to able-bodied, unproductive citizens) are a big step in that direction though.

Lars
I, too, am a smart guy, I have 2 engineering degrees. Process simplification, efficiency testing, and limit specification would be GREAT qualitites in a President. What I don’t think that America needs is an Ivy League, big government, bureaucrat. As inefficient as the local, state, and federal governments have become, why would anyone in their right minds want to increase the current mess? Obama will, McCain won’t. To me, it’s that easy.

The difference being, oldcrumodgeon (is your real name halliburton or mellon scaife?), that this is a very broad based movement of citizens so terrified of continuing the Republican mess, that we just want to ‘buy’ our country back from the narrow and special interests that have stolen it from us. Don’t worry you’ll do fine under a return to real democracy. Cheers

ive always known this mccain is not serious,he new he had no sound economic policies,instead of picking romny he went 4 the liptick.i dont know where the polls come 4rm,but it shows the american people are begining to see the lies,u cant cheat ur way to the whitehouse,am not agaist a woman president,but not in this election when it means so much.what goes up suddenly must come down,once people start seeing her 4 what she is,it will even down than b4,if only peolple could drop their hate there would have been no election,in the 21century,we cannot afford a president that cant send an email,and you samhiguchi,get ur facts well and stop all this lies..he did not receive any money 4rm nigeria infact he so alarmd n rejected the idea,some crooks were swinddling people in nig usuing obama as coverfase.OBAMA WILL WIN ROMNY KNWS IT.

WHAT DOES MCCAIN MEAN BY RISE UP N FIGHT
IT IT NOW HE KNOWS ITS TIME TO FIGHT WHEN HE’S PARTY HAS BEEN IN POWER..I KOW WHAT MCCAIN MEANS BUT LACKS THE GUTS TO SAY IT.ALL HIS YRS IN THE SENATE HAS HE BEEN SLEEPING,WAKEUP BOZO WE HAVE GONE BEYOUND THAT LEVEL,SAY IT AS U MEAN IT,I DARE U TO….

if obama really has got these money, good for him at least they can pay more people to blog negatively to their opponents.

if obama wins his government will be the most corrupt in the history of america.

With the Mortage meltdown, the election should be about McCain and Obama and not about the VP’s. Every weekday, my local paper is full of Trustee sales of forclosed homes. I have driven to see aome of these homes using Google maps. It is interesting, that they are often in the 300 thousand dollar range; way to big for the average wage earner and often long distance commuter.
Amreicans are having problems where bread has reached $4.00 for a premium loaf of bread in some stores.
The financial meltdown on Wall Street is not good either. It is not time to elect Republicans.
It was Harding, Coolidge and Hoover that helped get Roosevelt elected. Now, to stop this “cut taxes and go to war attitude” that seems to be the matra of the Republicans. They think cutting taxes will help the economy by the “Trickle Down” effiect.
Trickle down has never worked.

Who here is absolutely fed up with seeing nothing but 5 headlines of smears on Sarah Palin and John McCain on every media political page website every day, while the real SHAM Obama gets free pass after free pass? I have never seen such a disgusting display of media bias in my life. I hope that that the people of this country realize that this is an all propaganda smear campaign on the McCain Palin ticket by the liberal run media, who are doing everything in their power , from playing the race card to flat out lying to get the unqualified Obama elected .

Badger,,, I am on the other side- Liberal and I too am fed up with the Palin crap on every page. She is not the one running for Pres. I am pretty sure you can not only blame the media but, your guy, McCain seems to like it this way,,, Anything to keep away from the issues…
I gotta get to work… later

8 YEARS OF REPUBLICAN POLICIES RUIN THE ECONOMY
World Stocks Sink… US Stocks Set To Plunge At Open… Deal: Merrill Sells Itself To Bank Of America For $44 Billion… Lehman Files For Bankruptcy… Fed Takes Emergency Steps… Insurance Giant AIG Scrambles For Cash… Banks Roll Out $70 Billion Loan Program… Greenspan: America Can’t Afford McCain’s Tax Plan…

Who is donating this money? Let’s see a list and full disclosure. How much is coming in from non-US citizens? Why is Obama interferring with Bush’s negotiations to bring home our US Troops?

It’s pretty funny when people say Obama hasn’t sone anything. He wrote 890 bills during his 8 years in the legislature and sponsored another 1096. He’s authored another 152 during his first year in the Senate and co-sponsored another 427.
Ever wonder what type of bills Barack Obama introduces into the Senate? Ever wonder what exactly he is working on everyday? Take a look at a small portion below. I think you might be surprised.
16. S.133 : A bill to promote the national security and stability of the economy of the United States by reducing the dependence of the United States on oil through the use of alternative fuels and new technology, and for other purposes.
17. S.433 : A bill to state United States policy for Iraq, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 1/30/2007) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: Senate Foreign Relations
Latest Major Action: 1/30/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
18. S.453 : A bill to prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections.
Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 1/31/2007)
19. S.674 : A bill to require accountability and enhanced congressional oversight for personnel performing private security functions under Federal contracts, and for other purposes.
20. S.692 : A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a Hospital Quality Report Card Initiative to report on health care quality in Veterans Affairs hospitals.
21. S.713 : A bill to ensure dignity in care for members of the Armed Forces recovering from injuries.
22. S.737 : A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 in order to measure, compare, and improve the quality of voter access to polls and voter services in the administration of Federal elections in the States.
23. S.767 : A bill to increase fuel economy standards for automobiles and for other purposes.
24. S.768 : A bill to increase fuel economy standards for automobiles and for other purposes.

gomac—-i will vote obama with alot of faith in him. i would never never vote the evil empire republican party again(or until they grow up and stop takeing from the poor and working class and giveing to the rich. mccain is a nasty hatefilled warmongering man. he left his first wife for a rich young women when his first wife was crippled from an accident. mccain is a victim he uses his pow time as a crutch and his meal ticket, he is a digusting had everuything handed to him person…obama is a self made man everything he is he is because he made himself that way he wasnt born to a rich admiral he didnt dump his wife so he could marry rich.

What we are seeing in the fund raising of Oblma is the desire of the American people for Change, I am happy to see our( Major News out-lets )? or starting to ask question that has some substance that make a point on who has a plan for All that we need in this County not just A Show & tell Story as McCain clearly have shown us. Example: McCain was asked what specific experience his V.P. had in foreign affairs? His answer was, I quote was (Energy) what an answer what a President RIGHT ?

Tom..I do not know where your head is! I SAID this economy at THIS time is because of the mortgage crisis..what the hell does that have to do with fair trade? Ignorance must be bliss when you cannot even read a simple statement with accuracy! AND raising taxes in this atmosphere like Obama wants to do is a toxic cocktail if ever I saw one!
And fair trade…tell it to the blue collar worker that shops at Walmart, Kmart, Sears, ..they all cannot shop at Neiman-Marcus! If the unions had not demanding and greedy these items could have been made in the US..but, per usual, greed seems to be rampant in this country anymore! Obama’s GREED to suck every last dollar out of middle income, and middle income it will be, will be his downfall! Tell the wife of the husband she just buried that along with the $5,000.00 she has to pay for the funeral will be hit with a 45% death tax on his insurance policy! Or tell that widow when she sells her home she has to pay a 28 to 37% tax on the capital gains she made…what dumb idiot would vote for a guy who wants wealth redistribution to pay for the lazy people who can work but won’t or the welfare cheaters….NOT this DEMOCRAT!!!!!

mfmros—-you are so out of touch just like mccain that i will not even bother to try and explain what us big adult people know. you seem so ignorant that you will continue to follow the republicans down into hell.

mfmros—-we are liveing in a disaster right now and mccain will make it worse… and obamas tax plan is light years better then mccains. hsi plan will make the rich pay ther fair share and it will lower what i pay and what all us working class pay. taht is fact fact fact fact….so i say again stop following the evil empire republicans for they will destroy this nation.

Tom: you are in denial! The only break that Obama’s tax plan will be on your back!! No matter how you slice it..the middle income people…that would be me..will pay dearly along with small businesses which, BTW, are the backbone of this country! You should listen to every economist in this country, not affiliated with Obama, and they will tell you the same thing! Also, Greenspan, the ex-mighty Fed Reserve guru who now supports Obama, is responsible for a lot of this nonsense and is trying to clean up his act!
To L-81..I would like to see the list of his donors…if the economy is in such dire straights..who is giving to his campaign..I will bet you it is not the little guy struggling to pay his mortgage, or buy gas and groceries..it is probably Soros and his gang! That does not constitute the “regular” guy out here!!!! It would be interesting to see Obama’s donor list!

mfmros…I understand you are against Obama, but why is it so hard for you to believe that there are a lot of people donating to his campaign? Whether you like him or not we’d have to agree on one thing, the man’s grassroots efforts and crowd turnout are unbelievable considering the apathy that the majority has towards politics in this country. Even if he doesn’t win, the fact that he has energized a lot of people who never pay attention is a testament in and of itself. I’m an “average joe” myself, let me tell you i know personally people who donate to his campaign on a monthly basis religiously… some of whom have never bothered to even vote before in their lives. These people do not follow polling or every single nuance that we may either….they’re average people who just want to see him win. That’s just the truth. Just as Palin has energized the Republican side, its not outrageous or unreasonable to believe he has just as many people that want to see him win as does McCain…

For the life of me, I cannot understand why intelligent people do not have a problem with the type of people that a potential leader of a country surrounds himself with. Let”s just say… that Obama is not a racist or radical or activist… his cronies and friends are. Many, many of them. These are the people with whom he will continue to surround himself with. Are these the folks that we want to see in the White House?? They don’t care about America’s economy. They have one mission in life, and I think we all know what it is. Not to mention the fact that you can count on one hand how many ways Obama has proven that he has the ability to be the ”agent of change”. He”s a lightweight, can”t seem to make a decision on anything… he voted present 94 times for God”s sake. Come on people – what is not clear about his record?? He has stood up for nothing – nothing. He has not fought no battles – and I”m talking political battles. He goes with the flow of his party and opts out when he can. And people really believe he is going to make changes? And I am going to make it rain today because we need rain. The man is a mirage… surrounded by those who want someone in office that they can control, push around, and with whom they can easily push their agenda forward.

mfmros—you republitards love saying do-nothing congress then you blame them for the problems… if they have done nothing and we are running on what the republicans had in place then i would say it is the republicans fault.. yet you want to vote for a guy that has been in the congress since early 80,s and is a major part of the problem. the democrat congress has tryed to do alot but at every turn bush vetoed them. it is bush who has played bad politics. and mccain by his owns words voted 90% of the time with bush.

mfmros—oh and on the oil drilling taht is not the answer,it will only make the oil companies even more money and cost the tax payers alot of money.you see what you republicans wont tells us or dont get is that bush and the republicans want us tax payers to pay for the new oil rigs and refineries and give them to teh big oil companies..i am sick of giveing to teh rich why we take from teh poor and working class.

If you’re in the middle class and you’re voting for McCain you might as well go home and shoot yourself in the foot. He’s got nothing for you. He pretends to care about the middle class but check it out: nothing new on health care, wants to gut Social Security by handing it over to Wall Street, nothing new on developing jobs in America, still supports companies that ship jobs to China. He is the candidate for corporate CEO’s. Not for us.

I see that Obama is so desperate that he is spending some of his new found money on hiring more Obama bloggers! So, you cannot argue with a paid Obama blogger…a job is a job…..see ya!!

Looks like mfmros can’t imagine that there are people who actually disagree with him without being paid.
This is the narcissistic hubris we continually see in the Republican Party.
Only able to see one side of everything–their view–they split, into either denigration of the other, or inflation of themselves.
Many of the Obama supporters have terrific posts here, I love the one about the dysfunctional family of Republicans. You absolutely nailed that one!
It’s a frightening world when reason is replaced by hubris. Even more terrifying when it comes at the hands of so-called adults.
Just goes to show that you can grow up chronologically, but remain a child developmentally.
Despite the name-calling, the tantrums of lies–both acusatory and their denial of truths–and the sheer idiocy of continuing repetitive actions that simply do not work, we Obama supporters must not give up.
The insanity of the wall of delusion that we are up against is like trying to convince a terrified child who believes that there IS a monster in that closet, that they are safe.
But the terror of opening that closet door can feel too much to bear.
Consequently, we have to recognize that fear is a powerful motivator of inacurrate beliefs. Fear is what fuels the Republican machine.
Gratefully, increasing numbers of us have seen that there is a reasonable world out there, despite the people that we need to be afraid of (such as terrorists).
Hold fast to what you know and refuse to let the fear-mongers get into your heads. They will pull you into their chaos if given the chance–that’s how panic occurs.
We have faith in Obama because we see his capacity to make sense of this insane world that power and greed and corruption have created.
Great leaders have a way of arising in necessary times and are often resisted by those who fear change or who are envious and hateful.
Obama/Biden have the wisdom and clarity to help us open the doors of illusion and fear and find creative ways to inspire and restore America’s faith in itself and the world’s faith and respect in us.
Let’s end this insanity of Republican endorsement and dysfunction.
Obama/Biden for a Better America.

if only i was smart enough to hook up w/ a right wing super rich corrs brewery type woman while i was married to a disabled woman…oh the luck…

Sen. John McCain has proved himself to be unqualified and incapable of effectively leading the United States of America into the future by, among other things, his reckless, irresponsible, impulsive, and dangerous judgment in picking Sarah Palin as his running mate. Sarah Palin is a minor distraction not even worthy of discussion. However, Sen. John McCain has shown his contempt for the intelligence of the American people by making this unequivocally cynical decision to use an unknown, untested, and corrupt, serial liar like Sarah Palin to deceive voters into believing he stands for change. Sen. John McCain also disgraced himself by demonstrating a lack of courage in his choice of Sarah Palin at the last moment over much more qualified Republican men and women simply because she appeals to the base of the Republican Party, a group of voters he was going to lose. What Sen. John McCain doesn’t understand is that by appeasing the extreme right wing of the Republican Party, he is going to lose the voters that really count, i.e., moderate and independent voters, and, in doing so, certainly lose the election. Obama/Biden 2008!!!
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1043793620080910?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsafternoon
According to the Pentagon, we are losing Afghanistan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7610405.stm
“No victory in Iraq, says Petraeus”

In a recent interview with Time Magazine McCain blew his stack when asked this simple question: “What is your definition of honor?” McCain’s campaign is taking the low road through the slime and mud, just like George Bush. He’s not any different from the Bush Republicans who have driven our economy and our foreign policy into a ditch. McCain doesn’t have the judgement, political courage or temperment to be our president.

The Republican party has nursed at the pig trough for 8 years, sucking money out of the Treasury like mother’s milk. Feeding the lobbyists our tax dollars. Building the biggest deficit in our history. Now they try to distract with lies, smears and conspiracy theories. Do not be distracted. We deserve better.

chris—it came from hard working middle class and poor people like me and all my familiy here in the ehartland minnesota. it cam efrom all the people working at those great wal-mart jobs bush has made is a need to have. keep up the stupid talk it just shows repueklicans for what they are.

People should realize that the oil crisis and the down turn of the economy is not just happening in America.
Although democratic political candidates use it as political fodder ,it is absolutely silly to blame the Bush administration for everything.
What has the democratic controlled congress , with Pelosi at the helm , been doing for the last couple of years . Nothing…!!!