By Nitya

Oct 14, 2008 8:24am

Actor Duvall Blasts Palin Critics at Fundraiser

ABC News’ Imtiyaz Delawala Reports: Introducing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at a GOP fundraiser Monday, actor Robert Duvall blasted conservatives who have criticized the McCain-Palin ticket in recent days, calling conservative columnist George Will a "super-nerd" and former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson a "block of wood".

At an RNC fundraiser in McLean, VA, Duvall introduced Palin for the third time since her nomination to the Republican ticket, taking the opportunity to accuse Republicans critical of the McCain campaign as giving "credence to the other side."

"It bothers me that certain people in the Republican Party are attacking the McCain-Palin ticket, like super-nerd George…What’s his name?” Duvall asked, prompting a few attendees to laugh and shout out George Will. “George…George, I can’t even think. George Will," Duvall said, referring to the Washington Post columnist who has been critical of Palin.

The legendary actor then attacked former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, who campaigned with McCain last Friday in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Thompson had expressed unhappiness with the McCain campaign in an article that appeared in Sunday’s New York Times. Asked if he was happy with Sen. McCain’s campaign, Thompson told the paper, "No," adding, "I don’t know who is."

"Tommy Thompson of uh, that original block of wood, from Wisconsin," Duvall responded at the fundraiser. "He attacked the team today. I mean, that’s like being, instead of Monday morning quarterbacking, it’s during the game. It’s Friday and Saturday night quarterbacking. It’s like giving credence to the other side.” 

The rhetoric was a departure from recent days, where Palin has toned down her criticism of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama. Duvall used no such caution in his remarks, saying of Obama, "we gotta keep this guy out of the White House."

Duvall then introduced Palin, who quickly thanked him "for that very kind introduction" before giving her standard stump speech to the crowd of 400 Republican donors.

User Comments

Typical Republican…name-calling and everything.

Posted by: Lee | October 14, 2008, 8:28 am 8:28 am

I’m happy that Duvall has not “toned-down” his criticism of “The One.” This made my day!

Posted by: tina | October 14, 2008, 8:30 am 8:30 am

Does this make Sarah Palin a celebrity?

Posted by: Enviro | October 14, 2008, 8:31 am 8:31 am

It doesn’t matter. We might as well get ready for “The Republic of America” with Comrad Obama as our “Good Leader”.

Posted by: sandalwood | October 14, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am

Both Obama and McCain internal polls show this race is close – that’s why Obama is buying half-hour slots of TV. (Remember the last candidate who did that – President Ross Perot??) Much of the poll numbers put out by the MSM are skewed to favor the liberal candidate – big surprise there. McCain Democrats, do you really believe what the polls say, that 90% of Democrats are supporting Obama? Look around at your own families and friends – are they 90% on board for Obama? The liberal media is attempting to create an air of inevitability around Barack Obama by skewing polls, and by ignoring or playing down stories that might harm Obama. They hope to discourage McCain voters from going to the polls. This race is not over until the polls close in November. If you stay away from the polls, you are doing exactly what Obama and his allies at ABC, NBC, CBS and ACORN, the voter fraud specialists to whom Obama gave $800,000, want you to do.

Posted by: JB in St. Louis | October 14, 2008, 8:35 am 8:35 am

Sarah Palin is such a lightweight. I really get tired of her hate filled yapping. My most recent “you’re kidding” moment is the fact her daughter’s boyfriend is QUITTING SCHOOL to go to work to support Palin’s daughter. He’ll be a high school drop out! Gimme a break! What kind of example is that for kids? I guess it’s just as good as “abstinence only” for pregancy prevention. Where’s that family support Palin talked about? Where are their heads?

Posted by: LittleMissMooseShooter | October 14, 2008, 8:36 am 8:36 am

“I can’t even think.” said Duvall.
Eminently qualified to support Sarah Palin.

Posted by: Cincydaddy | October 14, 2008, 8:38 am 8:38 am

Duvall: Stick with the sinking ship no matter what!

Posted by: linda n carolina | October 14, 2008, 8:40 am 8:40 am

Robert Duvall? Wasn’t he an actor once? Didn’t he used to make movies or something back in the 80′s?

Posted by: Tom | October 14, 2008, 8:41 am 8:41 am

This country has always been a Republic. What’s your point, sandalwood?

Posted by: Rodger | October 14, 2008, 8:42 am 8:42 am

Both Obama and McCain internal polls show this race is close – that’s why Obama is buying half-hour slots of TV. (Remember the last candidate who did that – President Ross Perot??) Much of the poll numbers put out by the MSM are skewed to favor the liberal candidate – big surprise there. McCain Democrats, do you really believe what the polls say, that 90% of Democrats are supporting Obama? Look around at your own families and friends – are they 90% on board for Obama? The liberal media is attempting to create an air of inevitability around Barack Obama by skewing polls, and by ignoring or playing down stories that might harm Obama. They hope to discourage McCain voters from going to the polls. This race is not over until the polls close in November. If you stay away from the polls, you are doing exactly what Obama and his allies at ABC, NBC, CBS and ACORN, the voter fraud specialists to whom Obama gave $800,000, want you to do.

Posted by: JB in St. Louis | October 14, 2008, 8:43 am 8:43 am

Finally a positive from the media on PALIN!!!!! whew whooo….

Posted by: Joe V | October 14, 2008, 8:43 am 8:43 am

Always loved Robert Duvall. Love him even more now!

Posted by: Lily | October 14, 2008, 8:44 am 8:44 am

hey sandalwood -
we are already a republic – read the back of your currancy – have been for years – catch up and get educated

Posted by: jozy | October 14, 2008, 8:45 am 8:45 am

Fact: ACORN has implemented the most sophisticated quality-control system in the voter engagement field but in almost every state we are required to turn in ALL completed applications, even the ones we know to be problematic.
Fact: ACORN flags in writing incomplete, problem, or suspicious cards when we turn them in,. Unfortunately, some of these same officials then come back weeks or months later and accuse us of deliberately turning in phony cards. In many cases, we can actually prove that these are the same cards we called to their attention.
Fact: Our canvassers are paid by the hour, not by the card . ACORN has a zero-tolerance policy for deliberately falsifying registrations, and in the cases where our internal quality controls have identified this happening we have fired the workers involved and turned them in to election officials and law-enforcement.
Fact: No criminal charges related to voter registration have ever been brought against ACORN or partner organizations. Convictions against individual former ACORN workers have been accomplished with our full cooperation, using the evidence obtained through our quality control and verification processes – evidence which in most cases WE called to the attention of authorities
Fact: Most election officials have recognized ACORN’s good work and praised our quality control systems. Even in the cities where election officials have complained about ACORN, the applications in question represent less than 1% of the thousands and thousands of registrations ACORN has collected.
Fact: Our accusers not only fail to provide any evidence, they fail to suggest a motive: there is virtually no chance anyone would be able to vote fraudulently, so there is no reason to deliberately submit phony registrations. ACORN is committed to ensuring that the greatest possible numbers of people are registered
ACORN will not be intimidated, we will not be provoked, and in this important moment in history we will not allow anyone to distract us from these vital efforts to empower our constituencies and our communities to speak for themselves.
Thank you, ACORN, for both the tireless work in support of democracy, and for not being intimidated by those who hate it, and who realize that if it exists, they cannot win elections.

Posted by: linda n carolina | October 14, 2008, 8:45 am 8:45 am

Robert Duvall is MORE QUALIFIED to be Vice President than Sarah Palin.
At least he can *act* presidential. Sarah Palin’s appears to be acting out the role of one of the frat girls from ‘Animal House’.
Wink. Wink. Wink. Wink.
Hell, my mother would make a better president should the need come up. My boss, also a woman would DEFINITELY be a better president than Sarah. Barbara Walters should be on the list before Sarah.
Whoopi Goldberg! She is both thoughtful and funny, two qualities Sarah is missing. I would trust Whoopi Goldberg with the future this nation WAY before I would trust Miss Bridge to Nowhere.

Posted by: John McCain's conscience | October 14, 2008, 8:45 am 8:45 am

Palin has no foreign policy experience to be a VP. I wonder what is she going to do in that office???
I am a republican but I would rather vote for OBAMA because he has addressed most of the issues facing us in this year presidential campaign.

Posted by: I.A.T.SMITH | October 14, 2008, 8:45 am 8:45 am

Maybe Duvall will look at the moon from his back yard and decide he’s qualified to be a rocket scientist.
Or maybe Duvall is on LSD. Whatever,
if he thinks Palin is remotely qualified to be VP, he’s trippin on something.

Posted by: Gus | October 14, 2008, 8:47 am 8:47 am

Palin has no foreign policy experience to be a VP. I wonder what is she going to do in that office???
I am a republican but I would rather vote for OBAMA because he has addressed most of the issues facing us in this year presidential campaign.

Posted by: I.A.T.SMITH | October 14, 2008, 8:48 am 8:48 am

Duvall is right. If Thompson was campaigning for McCain then he should support him all the way. I don’t know why Huckabee and Romney are not out there campaigning for McCain like the Clinton’s are for Obama. Of course Obama needs the Clinton’s because him and Biden can’t do it alone. He believes Hillary is an attraction. However, Palin is a bigger one and took all the celebrity status away from Obama. Also, race is not an issue in this election issues are. The economy is good. People that bought houses or condos with no money down or 5% down are the problem because many stopped making payments and caused the foreclosures. Banks and Mortgage lenders are not always at fault. Gas prices are going down. And food will be next. I don’t know why the public is so caught up on the economy issue and jobs. Apparently they don’t understand that the population in this country is greater than the job industry. We need a president with the experience to know how to run this country not try to control it. And that is McCain. And one that has never associated himself with terrorists but has a good clean background.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 14, 2008, 8:49 am 8:49 am

Thank you Mr. Duvall. A gifted actor who did not go “Hollywood”.

Posted by: geevill | October 14, 2008, 8:50 am 8:50 am

Damn, this is disappointing. I’ve always admired Robert Duvall’s work. Now that he’s exposed himself as a blockhead, it will be hard to separate the actor from the actual.

Posted by: PlayActor1 | October 14, 2008, 8:52 am 8:52 am

JB,
Gee. I thought Obama is buying air time because he can. Every time Americans see him they think more favorably of him. The man looks presidential. He sounds presidential. He has that quiet confidence that makes everyone stop and listen when he comes into a room.
Also, the man is smart. While that may be a turnoff for some voters, maybe some of them remember how they put George “20% approval” Bush into the Whitehouse because he seemed like a good guy to have a beer with.
This time, the smart guy is also the guy you would like to have a beer with. John McCain? As friendly as that crazy man down the street that yells at you every time you go past his house.

Posted by: John McCain's conscience | October 14, 2008, 8:53 am 8:53 am

Robert Duvall is THE best actor in Hollywood – nobody else comes even close!

Posted by: MissSherry | October 14, 2008, 8:53 am 8:53 am

The most telling piece on Obama was his comment to the Plumber in, I believe, Ohio, who expressed concern about Obama’s tax plan taking more money away from him.
Obama’s response of ‘I don’t want to punish your success’ followed by his explanation that they’d essentially be redistributing this man’s hard-earned money to people with less money is what should be scaring everyone with a brain away from Obama.
This was not a Fortune 500 CEO – this was a guy who, most likely, built up his business through hard work and dedication – a local businessman – perhaps someone like any one of your neighbors. And Obama’s plan is take more money from him and give it to others. THAT, is socialism. Combine that with other Democratic comments recently such as one who said they’d take over the oil companies, and Hillary, who said she wanted to take the profits of big oil and use them as her government saw fit – THAT IS SOCIALISM PEOPLE! Wake up!
This is America where you WORK for what you want. Those standing around with their hands out are going to the polls in 3 weeks…. ARE YOU?

Posted by: John | October 14, 2008, 8:54 am 8:54 am

I.A.T.Smith: There are no issues facing this country. People are the cause of their own destruction. They bite off more than they can chew by wanting to live like the rich with a beer pocket. Why do you think there are so many foreclosures. They buy a condo with no money down or 5% down. Keep it for a year, stop making the payments and go back to renting causing the foreclosures. Our economy is good. And as far as jobs are concerned, the population of this country is greater than the job market. We have over 12 million immigrants living here that are not citizens and should all be sent back to Mexico. And they are taking up a lot of jobs from the American citizen’s.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 14, 2008, 8:54 am 8:54 am

Palin has no foreign policy experience to be a VP
Obama has no foreign policy experience to be the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES.
If Obama is elected, the states will no longer be united.

Posted by: leatherneck | October 14, 2008, 8:55 am 8:55 am

Palin’s future son-in-law is dropping out of school and that’s a shame. However, he will earn a good living working in the oil fields so won’t be asking the government for a handout. I applaud him for taking responsibility for his actions and not taking the easy way out by aborting his child. Many families in my parent’s generation “had” to get married. They put their children ahead of themselves. We could use more of that these days.

Posted by: Josie | October 14, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am

I live in Wisconsin and I’m a Republican, and Tommy Thompson really was a “block of wood”. Unfortunately, he was much better than the crook for a governor we have now.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 8:57 am 8:57 am

I am sorry but I reject anybody saying they are republican and voting Obama! Sorry you are just a Liberal trying to add to the lies being spread by the Liberal media! Fact is if you are a TRUE Republican you would never vote for Obama!
If you are truely stupid enough to be registered Rebulican and vote Obama you need to switch your party affilation today!
Anybody who is Republican and knows all the facts about Obama would clearly see he is all talk! He can not even take a stand on his relationship! The artical in the Washington Post today hit it right on the head when they say..
“The Obama campaign is now distancing itself from Acorn, claiming Mr. Obama never organized with it and has nothing to do with illegal voter registration. Yet it’s disingenuous to channel cash into an operation with a history of fraud and then claim you’re shocked to discover reports of fraud. As with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers, Mr. Obama was happy to associate with Acorn when it suited his purposes. But now that he’s on the brink of the Presidency, he wants to disavow his ties.

Posted by: chuck | October 14, 2008, 8:57 am 8:57 am

“I would trust Whoopi Goldberg with the future this nation WAY before I would trust Miss Bridge to Nowhere.”
And THIS is the type of person who gets to vote. Kee-rist, and you think GWB is dumb.

Posted by: John | October 14, 2008, 8:57 am 8:57 am

Maybe palin can become an astronaut on November 5th since I heard she can see the moon from her house. 01-20-2009 The END of an ERROR…

Posted by: pt | October 14, 2008, 9:00 am 9:00 am

Question: If Obama is such an obviously better choice, why do the DEMS need voter fraud to win?

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:00 am 9:00 am

But wait he’s a celebrity… Oh right, the only worthy opinions come from liberal celebrities… Oh, NOW I see… Talk about hypocritical!!!

Posted by: hmn | October 14, 2008, 9:00 am 9:00 am

Gus: Let me go on record to say, Palin has more experience than Biden and Obama who has no experience at all. His experience is reading the speeches of JFK and RFK to know what to tell the people on the platform. Other than that he has nothing going for him. If he would stop trying to walk in the shoes of MLK and walk in his own you would notice the difference. A person with intelligence would not associate himself with a terrorist like William Ayers. Even if Obama was 8 years old he wasn’t 8 when he met him in 1995. The were as close as two peas in a pod. Obama lied at first then pressured to tell the truth. There is a lot more to know about this candidate that hasn’t come out yet. Also, Ayers and Obama are involved with Acorn the company that is registering anyone off the street. Like the young guy who registered 73 times. And it was stated that Obama gave Acorn 886,000 and another man $90 million from his campaign fund.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 14, 2008, 9:01 am 9:01 am

Ah linda n carolina, you forgot to thank ACORN for registering Mickey Mouse to vote, other wise he might not have gotten to vote!

Posted by: samhiguchi | October 14, 2008, 9:03 am 9:03 am

Actually when is comes to stupidity, it’s hard to beat Biden. “Come on up here..stand up..opps..er..I’m sorry..”
By the way, someone should tell Biden the resturant that he discusses politics in NOT on the street he named, and it closed about 20 years ago. ROFL!

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:03 am 9:03 am

Palin is a non-thinking, no-brains choice for vp. She’s a right-wing Bircher who assumes she has more power than her Wasilla voters gave her. Can you spell C-H-E-N-E-Y? And McCain’s choice of her is just plain politics. And the most dumb-a.. thing he’s ever done.

Posted by: nomorerepublicans | October 14, 2008, 9:03 am 9:03 am

Sarah Palin is more qualified for the presidency than Obama and she’s only running for the VP spot.
Obama is a community organizer from ACORN! And ACORN is up to their necks in 15 states for VOTER FRAUD!

Posted by: FrankG | October 14, 2008, 9:04 am 9:04 am

Don’t worry libs. Obama, his ACORN thugs, and his illegal foreign donors will find some way to steal this election.

Posted by: Cory | October 14, 2008, 9:05 am 9:05 am

The Rasmussen polls have always increased the percentage for the Democrats. However, they did the same when Hillary was running against Obama. They had Obama ahead of Hillary in NH, NV, CA, OH and PA. Hillary won all those states. Rasmussen is full Democrat for Obama and will increase his poll numbers all the time even if McCain is ahead. Obama and McCain are running neck to neck in NC as stated this morning on Fox News. Rasmussen has Obama ahead.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 14, 2008, 9:05 am 9:05 am

And WHO is Robert Duvall?
Now, don’t go throwing names at Tommy – he’s one of our favorite sons, and rather correct in his assessment of the situation.

Posted by: Sara, Wisconsin | October 14, 2008, 9:05 am 9:05 am

Ever notice how the wierd celebrities seem to support the republicans, like duvall, chuck norris, etc. The cool celebrities support the Dems like Springstein, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon.

Posted by: pt | October 14, 2008, 9:05 am 9:05 am

Many conservatives will only be satisfied when they are a “majority of one” because for them there is no room for disagreement, period.

Posted by: George | October 14, 2008, 9:07 am 9:07 am

Aren’t Republicans always the ones criticizing Hollywood actors for giving their opinion on politics?

Posted by: Slate | October 14, 2008, 9:07 am 9:07 am

I’m a Nigerian visiting the US; the next time Jimmy Carter comes to my country to “observe” our national elections to enure it’s “free and fair”. I’ll organize a protest of citizens demanding that he goes back home and ensure his country’s election is first free and fair; United States of third world America. It happened to Alexander the great’s empire, then the Roman empire, Americans brace up it’s your turn now thanks to the looney left. lol

Posted by: chibuzor | October 14, 2008, 9:07 am 9:07 am

as stated this morning on Fox News.
———————–
mariann, You may as well read the National Inquire, it’s much more credible.

Posted by: pt | October 14, 2008, 9:08 am 9:08 am

Cory: You are so right. That is a democratic organizataion and I believe this election could be stolen from McCain. However, the Fed’s are involved now in 15 battleground states. Can you imagine this young man that was on TV was registered 73 times and another man over 15 times.? This whole election is going to be a farce as far as I am concerned. Obama has been affiliated with Acorn in 2007 and offeren them a chance to reshape America. He wants them to make sure he wins the election. He already knew their tactics like he knew William Ayers bombed this country but denied it.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 14, 2008, 9:09 am 9:09 am

JB in St. Louis,
Keep on dreaming buddy.
Afterall this is a free country and you are allowed to dream.
The internal polls have it closer than the regular ones of course, they are more rigorous and more conservative.
But you must realise that even though it is not the 10pts that the other polls show, McCain himself acknowledges that his internal polls show he is down 6-8 Pts.
The Obama camp is not taking anything for granted. Michelle is not “measuring Whitehouse drapes” yet.
The Obama Campaign wants to insure that nothing and we mean NOTHING can derail this victory. That is why Obama is buying airtime.
BTW weren’t Repugs supposed to be richer funders than Dems. Repugs should also buy time and sell their message on the “issues” and not spend time on bigoted insults that are dividing this country.
I can guarantee you that if nothing changes in the McCain camp in the next 5 days, it will be an Obama Landslide or do I say an OBAMASLIDE.
McSlimmy is toast.

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 14, 2008, 9:10 am 9:10 am

Now you did it Robert.
Now liberals will hate you too. It is what they do best. They will now tear you down and belittle you.
Nothing stands in the way of liberals and their quest for power. No matter how hypocritical they are, it doesn’t matter to a liberal. Free speech? Only if liberals approve. All other speech is hate speech and racism.
Liberals and their hate have been on a quest to derail Sarah Palin. Liberals have been aided by a one-sided press in this quest. Add the sheep at SNL, the sheep that will leave the planet if Sarah wins, and it is a successful mission.
Negative attack adds? No Obama takes the high ground and only talks about the issues. He doesn’t have to go negative. The press, SNL, View, Oprah, his 527′s and his liberal populace are negative for him.
A liberal once told me that Obama would be President, no matter what. I didn’t know what she meant at the time and blew it off. Now I understand. I need remind her it is her democrats in Congress that have failed the economy – they contol the spending at the Federal level. Second thought, why bother her with facts, liberals hate facts that don’t support their jihad.

Posted by: Go out and hit the pace car | October 14, 2008, 9:10 am 9:10 am

Talk about fixed elections. Can you imagine if the 2000 election was won by AL Gore. (As we all know it really was.) Can you imagine how much better off everyone would be today. I mean we would have had someone intelligent running this country for the last 8 years. Obama/Biden 2008!!!

Posted by: pt | October 14, 2008, 9:11 am 9:11 am

Why do McCain supporters continue to attack those that disagree with them?
I guess this is why both McCain (1980′s) and Palin (2008) were ruled by government to have committed ethics violations. They continue to attack those that disagree with them. If they are elected, this will be just like Bush/Cheney.

Posted by: Dan | October 14, 2008, 9:12 am 9:12 am

Actually, Duvall usually plays a strong guy, tough guy role. So obviously DEMS couldn’t appreciate that type of role. They prefer that tub of lard “actor/director”. Micheal Moore.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:12 am 9:12 am

FACT: ACORN is under Federal investigation for voting registration fraud on a massive scale. No amount of “papering” with your NC “snooze and observer” boilerplate will prevent people from understanding you are a criminal conspiracy funded in part by the Obama campaign who now disavows any association with you. Your acorns won’t even sprout.

Posted by: Drew | October 14, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am

Why in the world would anyone follow this abuser Sarah Palin, she has no place in the White House. As long as she is on the ticket many Republicans will vote OBAMA…to many of us look at this as the problem with McCain and his campaign

Posted by: Col. NATHAN JESSUP | October 14, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am

Why would anyone vote for the Democratic Party?
DEMOCRATS: Supported slavery
REPUBLICANS: Abolished slavery
DEMOCRATS: Created Jim Crow Laws
REPUBLICANS: Abolished Jim Crow Laws
DEMOCRATS: Voted barely 50% to pass Civil Rights Act of 1964
REPUBLICANS: Voted over 80% to pass Civil Rights Act of 1964
DEMOCRATS: Continue enslavement via the narcotic welfare plantation for votes
REPUBLICANS: Color blind and judge people by individual merit and effort.
The Democratic Party has a horrific history and continue that record even
today.

Posted by: FrankG | October 14, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am

A vote for Obama is a vote to have William Ayers in the white house advising Obama how to run this country. And other’s will be Wright, Farrakhan and Father P. The people of this country better wake up before they vote for Obama who wants complete control. Plus this is the worst democratic congress in American history especially Nancy Pelosi. We need a good republican house speaker back again. I am hoping McCain makes a good comeback and stuns the democrats. McCain would never associate with people like William Ayers. Obama did because he didn’t care as long as it got him what he wanted.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 14, 2008, 9:15 am 9:15 am

pt..actually even the DEMS have admitted Bush won. But they did site the ignorance of their own Democrat voters in Florida in not being able to figure out a voting ballot. No wonder they have ACORN in abundance this year. The DEMS figure if their supporters are that stupid, they’ll have “others” help with their vote.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:15 am 9:15 am

I guess it’s true what they say about actors. They really are dumb. Palin fits quite well into that group.

Posted by: Dave | October 14, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am

Ego ego ego-on the McCain campaign-
a Strong person can admit the truth and be responsible-This campaign will never be in this responsible spot.
they are erratic/dysfuntional-not focus, no comsistency and no real plan-
I do not want this sort of politics running our government-
GO OBAMA

Posted by: Sophia | October 14, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am

Fascinating to read the Republican posts. Especially the notion that our economy is strong. Please, I beg you – run on that slogan. Run loud and hard and put it our everywhere. And follow it up with your drivel about Ayers and Acorn. And keep calling the guy who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard to be an intellectual lightweight. That is really working for you – hold on to that. At least till Nov. 4th

Posted by: nh bob | October 14, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am

Col. Nathan Jessup: What an appropriate name. A character so blind by his own ego that he resorts to lying and obstruction of justice. Any connection to ACORN?

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:19 am 9:19 am

WOW! I now have no respect for Robert Duvall!! I use to like him but now see what he really is!! If he thinks that McCain/Palin ticket is what it is all about, so much for him!! Palin has shown nothing but embarrassment and he thinks she would be a good leader??? It has even been proven she showed abuse of her power in her position as Gov. of Alaska–Maybe he just wants to go moose hunting with her!!! Get a life, Duvall, and read up on McCain/Palin!!!

Posted by: lola | October 14, 2008, 9:20 am 9:20 am

No more “United” states. We will be a Socialist Republic very soon. Comrad Obama will see to that.

Posted by: sandalwood | October 14, 2008, 9:20 am 9:20 am

I love how the left gets outraged with every comment from the McCain camp, and then proceeds to follow that with a slew of comments of their own each filled with more hate-mongering and name-calling and divisiveness than anyone from either campaign ever has.
Get those “Palin is the C-word” tshirts out and let’s go burn down some more McCain yard signs – but in an enlightened thoughtful uniting liberal way of course.

Posted by: Vern | October 14, 2008, 9:20 am 9:20 am

Bob’s comments showed a lack of class

Posted by: John Austin TX personal training | October 14, 2008, 9:20 am 9:20 am

Ever since the Democrats took control of both Houses of Congress the once robust U.S. Economy has tanked and tanked hard. And the Democrats and their illegal activities with ACORN, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have brought ruin to this great nation!
Obama and his buddies at ACORN are going to prison for VOTER FRAUD!

Posted by: FrankG | October 14, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

Why are some Republicans down right nasty and mean very unattractive!

Posted by: angie | October 14, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

I can see a see an Obama Presidency now.
Bill Ayres and his wife Bernadine Dohrn staying in the Lincoln Bedroom. After a party with other terrorist/anarchists there, they can wait for the Marine Color Guard to lower the flag above the White House so they can stomp on it. Maybe afterward, Bill & Bernadine can take Barrack and Michelle on a D.C. tour of sites they’ve bombed.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:24 am 9:24 am

FrankG: I am glad you said that. I have been a democrat for years, voting republican for John McCain. I don’t like the underhanded tactics of the democratics and the dirty pool they play. I just heard Obama’s speech in 2007 stating that he would offer Acorn a chance to reshape America. This is the company that Obama and Ayers are involved in and Obama knows what they are doing to get him elected. There is vote fraud in 15 battleground states. The government should clean house by taking all the registrations back from all the states and close them down or Obama is going to steal this election someway.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 14, 2008, 9:25 am 9:25 am

I wonder if Obama is fully coscious of the assisstance he’s getting from the mainstream media or whether he actually believes, “yes. I AM that wonderful.” It’s hopeless for McCain. The media has erected a firewall around Obama. And McCain cares to much what the media, who never REALLY liked him to begin with, thinks of him.

Posted by: John Smith | October 14, 2008, 9:25 am 9:25 am

TO MARIANN PEPITONE–Quote-’The economy is good!’ Unquote–WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN–IS YOUR HEAD UP YOUR A–???? We have lost trillions of dollars in our savings and you say ‘THE ECOMOMY IS GOOD!’ You had better start getting out of the house and see how people have lost their savings for retirement and for schooling for their children. I personally have lost money that I thought was going to help me in retirement but see now that I will probably HAVE to work longer!! OBAMA/BIDEN FOR ’08

Posted by: lola | October 14, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

Well at least we get to see another DEM “affair” scandal again like Bill. Hiding her out in the Caribbean won’t help.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

Hey Frank, I’ve got news for you. Your old buddy George Bush has been in the White House for the last eight years. Deregulation has resulted in the condition we’re in.
You can’t blame this one on the Democrats. Let’s all give a cheer for free market enterprise; without any rules!! This is where it’s gotten us. We are so “full” of ourselves that we seem to think our system is best for the entire world. Even though the rest of the world has a history much longer and intensive than ours.
Got news for you buddy; I’ve been to Europe numerous times and their system beats ours by miles. At least they actually care about their citizens. In America, only the rich get the benefit of the doubt. And, you know what; that will be the downfall of this country.

Posted by: Dave | October 14, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

IOLA…You can thank Barney Frank & Chris Cox for this mess.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am

Hey Chuck,
I’m a Repub and I’m voting for Obama…it’s called being an independent thinker…you should try it.
As for the handfuls of mud…for every handful you can sling at Obama, I can sling one at McCain. No one gets this far without questionalbe associations… deal with it.
I actually have admired many things about McCain in the past but when he picked a clearly unqualifed VP that sealed his fate for me.

Posted by: melsey | October 14, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am

Jack,
No, you can thank Bush, deregulation, and spending 10-12 billion dollars a month in Iraq for this situation.

Posted by: Dave | October 14, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

Jack: You have that right. I live in Chicago, born and raised here and I remember in 1968 how they tried to unseat Daley’s father at the convention. There were police all over the place. It was hell on earth. Ayers called themselves the Chicago 7. And Bobby Rush who just died was a member of the Black Panther’s. I don’t know how he ever got elected. Ayers went underground for 10 years and was on the most wanted list. He came out of hiding later and the judge threw it out of court because of wiretapping. He got away with all those bombings and said today he wished he had done more damage. That’s the kind of people Obama likes. He also was associated with one of the then PLO’s which was shown on TV and this man had dinner many times at Obama’s house. I think the PLO is now Hamas who hopes Obama wins the election. A candidate that involves himself with terrorists does not belong in the white house.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 14, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

Hey Dave, if you like Europe, why not move there. Within a generation most of it will be under Islamic Law.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

Can’t ABC EVER report without snark? I love the last line about Palin then delivering her “standard stump speech.” You mean that Obama and Biden speak extemporaneously each time they get in front of a group? Obama has trouble getting out a sentence with the teleprompters and the only change in Biden’s speeches come from his new “whopper” dujour.

Posted by: Mart | October 14, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

Jack,
Believe me I would if I were younger, And here’s something else for you to chew on; I’m a retired military member. I served this country for 24 years.

Posted by: Dave | October 14, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

Alaska Beauty Queen Sarah Palin abused her power while governor of Alaska by finally firing a guy who would not fire her ex-brother in-law that allegedly tasered her sisters kid, amongst other trailer stuff. She was a 44 yr old mother of 4 when, just a few months back, she gave birth to a special needs child making the total to 5 kids. Her teenage daughter is pregnant with the High School Hockey jock’s baby who just dropped out of High School to work in the oil fields and make money to support his unborn child, “DRILL BABY DRILL!!!”. Just a few things that’s going on with this Chick in less than a year. This is what McCain has offered to step in, as the President of the United States, if/when he croaks. Thanks but NO THANKS Johnny!!! He and she are, and have been from day one, opportunists. He has nothing to offer this Great land of ours other than to win a pissin match between himself and his deceased dad and granddad. Sarah is just power hungry, even her 5 children’s expense. Get smart folks and send John McCain back to the Arizona SUN and Sarah Palin back to the Alaskan ICE.
Vote……..
Obama/Biden 08

Posted by: Ralph | October 14, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

I FIND IT totally weird that people are letting all of Obama’s wrong doings go by like no big deal!!!
I guess everyone wants a president that likes to hang around with people who hates America!
By the one……..Obama as of yet produced a birth certificate showing he was born in the USA!!! His own grandmother says he was born in Kenya!
This loser shouldn’t even be running for President………he is not America Made!!!!!!!
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tari | October 14, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

Tari,
From your comments, it’s obvious that you are American made.

Posted by: Dave | October 14, 2008, 9:36 am 9:36 am

Melsey..actually, from what you’ve said, you’re neither DEM or GOP. You’re one of those types with no real convictions. You
vacillate between parties as if there is no difference between them. Each party has platforms, ideals. Anyone switching sides really has no real political convictions. But you’re is a large group of voters.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:36 am 9:36 am

Dave,
Bush, McCain, and the Republicans all presented bills to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dating back to 2003. The Democrats blocked ALL bills that would REGULATE Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. THAT IS FACT OF RECORD!
The economic crisis is 100% Democrats and their forcing banks to give loans to people who cannot afford the loans. And now the USA is in economic ruin becuae of the Democratic Party!
Obama sued Citibank into giving loans to people who cannot afford them. It’s public record!
THE DEMOCRATS WHO TOOK CONTROL OF BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS HAVE RUINED WHAT WAS ONCE A ROBUST ECONOMY!!!

Posted by: FrankG | October 14, 2008, 9:38 am 9:38 am

Ralph…So you’re saying a mother of 5 isn’t qualified to do anything more than sit home with the kids? Interesting view for a liberal.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am

“…
I FIND IT totally weird that people are letting all of Obama’s wrong doings go by like no big deal!!!
….”
Posted by: Tari | Oct 14, 2008 9:34:18 AM
_______________________________
WHAT OBAMA WRONG DOINGS?
It is McCain and Palin that have been found Guilty of Violating State and Federal Ethics Laws.
McCain was reprimanded for his violations but was not indited.
Palin will be reprimanded and possibly indited.
Can you tell me what laws Obama has violated??????
You Repugs are just crazy mad goons.

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 14, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am

“Tari,
From your comments, it’s obvious that you are American made.”
This reflects a very positive view of Americans in general, don’t ya think? Obama ’08!

Posted by: Johnnn | October 14, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am

It’s pretty clear who the block of wood is Duvall…. btw, Robert Duvall have you met my friend, President Barack Obama?

Posted by: dem in chicago | October 14, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am

I’m trying to figure out how ACORN got into the comments about Duvall—oh, well! Just to make a point, I suppose.
It’s not voter fraud until voting takes place. ANYONE can register and put ANY NAME he / she wants to put down. All registrations have to be turned in. Those whose job it is to check usually catch the bad ones. When a person goes to vote he / she must show ID (registration card or picture ID like driver’s license).

Posted by: George | October 14, 2008, 9:41 am 9:41 am

Mariann – Did you finish high school? Are you on medication? Barack Obama even talking about “pie” like he did yesterday is far more interesting and substantive than anything McCain/Palin could say in that period of time. They are both losing it, and I mean this General Election, and you still want to be a cheerleader for the other cheerleader and her Master Puppeteer. Go ahead, it’s your time to waste. I’m going over to the Obama website to make another contribution!!

Posted by: geecee | October 14, 2008, 9:42 am 9:42 am

Dave, congrats on serving 24 years in the military. (If true..it’s easy to say)
There was also a member of the American military that preferred the way they do things in Europe. His name was Benedict Arnold.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

And guess what Frank G. Republicans ran both houses for 6 yrs. Dems have only been there 2. Dems are for helping the poor any way they can. That’s what makes Dems different. Some of these home owners were just like you until they lost their jobs due to this top/down job creation that McCain is throwing at us just like Bush did 8 yrs ago. Where are the Jobs??!! All human beings, specifically Americans, should have housing whether it’s affordable or free. It should be a Right not a Priviledge!
Obama/Biden 08

Posted by: Ralph | October 14, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

Duvall and other mindless supporters of Palin are wrong. Their rabid attacks on George Will and others who rightly criticize Palin — and McCain’s decision to put her on the ticket — are simply killing the messenger.
I am a Republican, and I am deeply chagrined by McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as a running mate. She is completely unqualified, and her recent attacks on Obama have provoked racial hatred and brought shame onto our party.
There are plenty of good reasons to oppose Obama without descending into race-baiting or pathetic attempts to link him to an superannuated radical. Too bad that McCain chose not to make any of those arguments and chose not to tell voters why they should vote for HIM. I guess he was too busy making personal attacks that simply turn off independents and galvanize the opposition.
Why have we Republicans been catering to the dumbest, most bigoted members of our society? Why can’t we make an intelligent case for conservative principles? Liberals will say it’s because we can’t make such a case — and no wonder. It’s been years since any Republican made the attempt.
Historians will look back on McCain’s choice of Palin as the greatest in a long string of missteps that is costing Republicans the election.
I am so disgusted with my party that I’m sitting this election out.

Posted by: Ronna | October 14, 2008, 9:44 am 9:44 am

MARIANN PEPITONE-Here we go again!! Quote,’McCain would never associate with people like William Ayers.” Unquote!! What about the Keating 5??? Again–GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR A–!!!! And, he is a good friend of Gordon Liddy==So,do NOT say McCain would never associate with people like William Ayers–You need to read up on McCain and while you are there, read up on Sarah Palin, who has been telling nothing but lies. You must love her cutsy ways, lies, wink, wink but that is NOT what we need to be a leader of our country!! Obama is intellegent and long with Joe Biden, who has experience in politics and foreign affairs, will be two great leaders. Again, GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR A–!!!

Posted by: lola | October 14, 2008, 9:45 am 9:45 am

George..they aren’t checking them in MY state..they’re obstructing FEDERAL LAW here.. Our Atny. General is taking them to court for NOT enforcing the law. But, of course, a ruling in favor of checking the registrations will come well AFTER the election.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:46 am 9:46 am

Ha ha ha, first off Marianne Pepitone, what do you think G. Gordon Liddy is? Or how about the Iran-Contra mess your buddy John was right in the midst of all of that.
Oh and ACORN, guess what, he supported that as well, so take your geritol, get some new valid points or stop talking.

Posted by: make it known | October 14, 2008, 9:46 am 9:46 am

Oh and Frank G, in case you forget history, what is now the Republican party was the democratic party, and vice versa. Nice try though.

Posted by: make it known | October 14, 2008, 9:48 am 9:48 am

Ronna..it’s simple as far as the “conservative principles” are concerned.
Of the McCain/Palin ticket, it’s Palin who’s the conservative. McCain is really a stealth Democrat and real conservatives know it.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 9:50 am 9:50 am

Ralph wrote:
“And guess what Frank G. Republicans ran both houses for 6 yrs. Dems have only been there 2. Dems are for helping the poor any way they can.”
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LOL!!! Those 6 years under the Republicans the U.S. economy was robust: low unemployment, low forclosure rate, low food prices, low energy prices, and a growth of GDP up to 8%! Ever sine the Democrats took control of both Houses of Congress the U.S. economy has tanked and tanked hard!
AS for helping the poor! LOL! The 2001 & 2003 tax cuts reduced the entire federal income tax rates for everyone: low income, middle income, high income. And the Earned income tax credit was increased as was the child credit. Obama is going to allow that to expire and the taxes for everyone will go back to the higher rates of the year 2000! The poor will get screwed big time!
As for this current mess, it is because of the Democrats not regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when the Republicans called for regulations that we now have total economic collapse!

Posted by: FrankG | October 14, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am

So DuVall blasts intellectuals and supports a twit like Palin. What a jerk! Conservatives like him just don’t get it. In the long run he is just another Hollywood idiot who thinks that someone cares who he supports.

Posted by: indy_voter | October 14, 2008, 9:53 am 9:53 am

When experience is limited, education and knowledge count. Both Obama and Palin may have limit foreign policy experience, the difference between them is the wisdom and knowledge of how to deal with it. Palin can not even handle interviews nor conference with local medium, can we trust her to handle complicated foreign affair?

Posted by: CT | October 14, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am

I love the “Republicans” in DemoRants clothing trolling here. Not for a minute do I believe they are “sitting” out because they don’t like Palin. She has more brains in her little fingers than “I’ve beenaround Congress for 35 years and noone ever wanted me to be their VP” BIDDEN! Or Linda from ACORN, of the “VOTE TODAY, AND VOTE OFTEN”–Acorn, is a aberation of our voting priviledges and I am working with my congressman to make sure it doesnt receive any more of my tax dollars!

Posted by: lovemyUSA | October 14, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

JB in St. Louis,
You guys need to give up bashing the media. They have been bending over backwards to be fair in reporting. From my perspective on the more liberal side of spectrum I think the main stream media has gone very lightly on McCain and given Palin far more credibility than she deserves. If you don’t like the way your candidates are being portrayed maybe it is because they are simply bad candidates. But, Republicans never take responsibility and look to blame others…

Posted by: indy_voter | October 14, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

CT…it’s actually quite simple. You can look VERY Presidential IF the media is in your corner. You can have them help you by NOT going after a gaffe. (57 states) You can have them help you by then correcting your statement in an interview, for you. (my Muslim upbringing) You can have them help you by having them throwing you softball questions while asking “gotcha” questions of the other side. Stop and think about it. The media is about to deliver the election of a man with NO EXPERIENCE for being President, with supporters/friends that would disqualify him from being elected dog catcher.

Posted by: Jack | October 14, 2008, 10:01 am 10:01 am

Frank G wrote:
LOL!!! Those 6 years under the Republicans the U.S. economy was robust: low unemployment, low forclosure rate, low food prices, low energy prices, and a growth of GDP up to 8%! Ever sine the Democrats took control of both Houses of Congress the U.S. economy has tanked and tanked hard!
I say that the U.S. economy was and will always be fictitiously robust. Riding on others coattails to get rich. Just like the Dot coms, Enron, and now housing bubbles an unregulated free market will always produce this. There’s no end in sight. Who relaxed the regulations that were in place to keep this together? I think it was the republican controlled houses during the Clinton Admin.
Taxes for anyone making 250K or more will go up. This time it’s not a false Top/Down like GW dupped us into believing about job creation. The scary part is Johnny is trying to preach the same thing today. Who cares about CEOs. I think if you can’t do the jobs of the folks under you then you shouldn’t be supervising or managing them. This time it will be a true Bottom/Up. Without the American worker, the top would not exist and all the skill-less orchestrators will need to compete for a change. Makes sense to me.

Posted by: Ralph | October 14, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am

Mariann Pepitone,
I don’t think you live in the same country I do. Everything may be fine in Republican USA but it is not fine in the rest of the country.

Posted by: indy_voter | October 14, 2008, 10:03 am 10:03 am

Good for Duvall! I think Palin is a super pick for McCain. In fact, I had contacted every GOP leader during the primaries to take a serious look at the Alaska governor. I have been researching her and even notified her via email, that I was recommended her to run as VP on everyones/anyones ticket.
GO PALIN, GO McCain, GO Duvall…..

Posted by: citizen1 | October 14, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am

If you are truely stupid enough to be registered Rebulican and vote Obama you need to switch your party affilation today!
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I actually with this statement. But I will also say if stupid enough to be registered Democrate and vote McCain|Palin you should switch as well. Folks who think Republicans will support Democrat’s causes or Democrat’s will support Republican’s causes are naive. That is why McCain = Bush. Plain and simple…
P.S> I am an Independent with party affiliation

Posted by: indy_voter | October 14, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am

Some one earlier said that Palin is a light weight. Thing is…. Sarah Palin is more qualified to be VP than B-O is to be President. That is the scary part. This guy could not lighter… wait there he is… look… he floating away… everybody sing now… Up, Up and awaaaay.

Posted by: LD - Denver | October 14, 2008, 10:10 am 10:10 am

Dave: What is more important, the war in Iraq or a terrorist comming to the white house. You are forgetting one thing. Obama wants to make friends with the enemy and no preconditions. Hamas will be dancing in the streets if Obama is elected.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 14, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

Obama = Socialism on the move. Abortions for all including infanticide, redistribution from workers to leaches, sharia law creeping in, free housing as a “right” why pay your bills or mortgage, every left wing operation taking front and center making demands.
Dopey undecided voters whining “I don’t know if I want the same old thing.”
Vote for Radical Socialism you jag-offs, with a swipe of the hand the demoncrat president and congress will make every illegal a citizen and DEMONCRAT in the New Order.
I can’t wait.

Posted by: Khalif | October 14, 2008, 10:12 am 10:12 am

NOT DRILL BABY DRILL!!! IT’S RUN BABY RUN!!! I AM THRILLED THAT OBAMA HAS HAD STRANGE RELATIONSHIPS AND AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW AND WHY PEOPLE HATE AMERICA. IF BUSH, OR ANY OTHER PRESIDENT, HAD THOSE TYPES OF CONNECTIONS 911 WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED, THE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA WOULD NOT BE LOADED WITH NUKES, GLOBALIZATION WOULD HAVE WORKED THE WAY IT WAS INTENDED AND THE EARTH WOULD BE BACK ON ITS WAY TO GOOD HEALTH. KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE BUT YOUR ENEMIES EVEN CLOSER. YA GOTTA KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE GAME OR YOU WILL GET BURNED. HE NOT ONLY KNOWS WHAT IT’S LIKE BEING HATED AS A BLACK MAN, A HALF BREED AND AN INTELLECT, NOW HE ALSO KNOWS WHY PEOPLE HATE THIS COUNTRY. IT’S TRUTH OR DARE TIME FOLKS!!! EITHER HE’S HERE FOR OUR WELL BEING OR HE’S HERE TO FINISH BUSH’S JOB WHICH IS, “DESTROY THIS PLACE”!!! IT IS DEFINITELY THE FORMER OF THE TWO.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Posted by: Ralph | October 14, 2008, 10:14 am 10:14 am

Same old, radical right-wing Republican hate attacks. Can’t you people come up with something substantive? Lies like “terrorist” in the white house just don’t wash.

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 14, 2008, 10:17 am 10:17 am

With Obama’s track record of coddling terrorists he’ll probably name Bill Ayers as Education Czar, Reverend Wright as Faith Based Program Czar. Face it OBAMA is a Chicago political thug!

Posted by: Phyllis | October 14, 2008, 10:18 am 10:18 am

Talk about socialism, Bush was just on the tv and radio this am talking about the gov’t. taking over banks. If nationalizing banks is not socialism, then what is? THIS cannot be blamed on Obama, this is McCain’s best buddy Bush!

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 14, 2008, 10:19 am 10:19 am

Enviro: Sarah Palin was a celebrity when McCain first introduced her to the public. Obama lost his and he’s trying like heck to regain it back. Too late for tears. Palin draws a large crowd when she is campaigning and in Virginia they drew an extremely large crowd. Palin drew 60,000 in Lady Lake Florida alone. I don’t believe the polls because Rasmussen always inflated Obama’s polls when he was running against Hillary. They had him ahead in several states and Hillary won those states. The media had Obama ahead in NH and had to eat crow because Hillary won there. It appears on TV that there is vote fraud in all 15 battleground states and now Acorn is in trouble with the government. What they wanted to do is steal the election because they feared McCain would win. Obama and Ayers are involved with Acorn.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 14, 2008, 10:19 am 10:19 am

McCain will appoint geniuses like Phil Gramm as Sec. of the Treasury; Carly Fiorina will be Chief of Staff. His spiritual advisor the Rev. Hagee will no doubt swear him in. What a bunch of losers!

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 14, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am

I love Obama, how mysterious he is. Like, I don’t even know what he stands for other than Hope and Change, whatever that means. It sure sounds important though. And if those really smart people in Hollywood support him, that tells me all I need to know. Gobama!
We should be thankful to have as our next President a man who makes Biden look credible, who hangs with domestic terrorists, who lets minorities help him land sweetheart real estate deals in Chicago, who has told his dirt-poor Kenyan half-brother to pull himself up by his bootstraps, who works with ACORN to keep Mickey Mouse and even the dead pulling the level for the DNC.
Oh, I gotta go, I’ve got an Obamagasm coming on.

Posted by: Obamaniac | October 14, 2008, 10:22 am 10:22 am

Republican family values, Alaska version: Hubby gets a DUI and belongs to an Alaskan separatists party. Gov. abuses her power to try to get her ex brother-in-law fired. Gov. bills state for nights spent at home. Gov. has affair with husband’s business partner. Gov. hides her last pregnancy. 17 year old daughter gets pregnant (abstinence, anyone?). Father to be “does not want children” but submits to shotgun wedding plans.
Yeah, great family values. The Addams family looks better.

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 14, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

Does John McCain “pal around with terrorists?”
Certainly McCain’s continuing “association” and relationship with the convicted Watergate burglar and domestic terrorist G. Gordon Liddy might suggest that is the case, if we are to apply the standards drawn by the McCain campaign.
In 1998, Liddy gave a fundraiser in his Scottsdale, Arizona home for McCain’s senatorial re-election campaign — the two posed for photographs together; and as recently as May, 2007, as a presidential candidate, McCain was a guest on Liddy’s syndicated radio show. Inexplicably, McCain heaped praise on his host’s values. During the segment, McCain said he was “proud” of Liddy, and praised Liddy’s “adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.” From the program:
LIDDY: Your experience in the Hanoi Hilton is remarkable. I mean, I put in five years in a prison [for masterminding the Watergate burglary, and associated crimes], but it was here in the United States, and they didn’t torture – the only torture that I had was being forced to listen to rap music from time to time.
McCAIN: Well, you know, I’m proud of you. I’m proud of your family. I’m proud to know your son, Tom, who’s a great and wonderful guy. And it’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon. And congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.
Which of Liddy’s “principles and philosophies” was McCain referring to? Liddy’s advocacy of break-ins? Firebombings? Assassinations? Kidnappings? Taking target practice with figures nicknamed Bill and Hillary?
During the same period that Bill Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground, Gordon Liddy was making plans to firebomb a Washington think tank, assassinate a prominent journalist, undertake the Watergate burglary, break into the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, and kidnap anti-war protesters at the 1972 Republican convention.
Re: Liddy’s “continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great:” Did McCain mean to include Liddy’s instructions to listeners of his radio show in 1994 (around the time Ayres and Obama were on a board together discussing education programs and other plots) on how to shoot Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents (aim for the head)?
If ATF agents attempt to curtail a citizen’s gun ownership, Liddy counseled, “Well, if the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they’re going to be wearing bulletproof vests.”
More recently, Liddy explained making the Clintons objects of shooting practice: “I did relate that on the 4th of July of last year, when I and my family and some friends were out firing away at a properly-constructed rifle range and we ran out of targets, and so we – I drew some stick figure targets and I thought we ought to give them names. So I named them Bill and Hillary, thought it might improve my aim. It didn’t. My aim is good anyway. Now, having said that, I accept no responsibility for somebody shooting up the White House.”
The Liddy-McCain symbiosis has been mentioned in a number of posts on the Internet – mostly by bloggers and sites identified with The Left. But the documentation of their interaction (Liddy has also contributed financially to McCain’s presidential campaign) is not a matter of Left or Right: It is astonishing that, given the prominence of the Ayers matter accorded by virtually every “mainstream” news outlet in America, there has been virtually nothing on the subject in the major newspapers and broadcast networks. This is a real journalistic failure and abrogation of responsibility.
Is Liddy any less a domestic terrorist than Bill Ayers? It is a zero-sum argument, for sure. I do not believe, incidentally, that John McCain shares the most abhorrent of Liddy’s values, as expressed in Liddy’s actions during the same period that Ayers was a Weatherman – and which Liddy continues to express, unapologetically, to this day.
But McCain has now become so unmoored from the principles he once espoused, so shameless in his courtship not only of the Republican “base” but in his eagerness to unleash a poisonous arsenal of character assassination and guilt-by-association – and plain-and-simple incitement of people’s fears and prejudices – that, now, inevitably his and Sara Palin’s rallies and campaign events have taken on the aura of mobs at times.
“Kill him,” a man in the crowd responded last week, when Palin declared -yet again – “He’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” In Virginia, the State Republican chairman announced a set of talking points to campaign volunteers – stressing the incendiary connection, reported Time magazine, between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: “Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon. That is scary,” the Republican chairman said.
The most recent McCain ad on the subject shouts, “Obama worked with terrorist William Ayers when it was convenient” – perhaps suggesting, indeed, even that the candidate was there planting bombs.
The intended message of the McCain campaign is, of course, that Obama is less than patriotic – enunciated even by the candidate’s wife, Cindy: “The day that Senator Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body,” she recently told a crowd of several thousand, which also heard her husband and Palin sound similar notes. (The chairman of the Lehigh, Pa., County Republican Party, William Platt, “implored the crowd to work hard to elect McCain or wake up November 5 to see ‘Barack Obama, Barack Hussein Obama,’ as the president,” reported The Washington Post.)
Like Cindy McCain, the campaign’s “Ad Facts” also trumpet – misleadingly – the only troop-funding bill that Obama voted against, in 2007 – without noting that Obama first voted for the bill, in a version that included a timetable for withdrawal. Nor did Cindy McCain mention that her husband, too, voted against the troop-funding bill – in the version that contained withdrawal language.
Thus has John McCain embarked on a scorched-earth death struggle for the presidency – cultural warfare that knows no bounds, exceeding perhaps even the mendacity and ferocity of the campaign waged against him by George Bush in 2000, and of which McCain once said there was “a special place in hell” for the Bush operatives who smeared him. (McCain also said of the Swift-boat attacks against John Kerry by Republicans in 2004: “I deplore this kind of politics. I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable.”)
The lethal weapon of the McCain campaign’s dreams is the explosive allegation that, in Palin’s words – Obama “pals around with terrorists.” McCain, wisely, did not raise the matter himself in the last presidential debate. Why?
At the time, much of the commentariat attributed the omission to McCain’s purported concerns that Obama would respond by reciting the history of McCain’s “association” with the S&L swindler Charles Keating, for which McCain was cited by the Senate Ethics Committee early in his career, for exercising “poor judgment” for intervening improperly with federal regulators on behalf of Keating, as part of the infamous Keating Five scandal.
But the more likely explanation of why McCain avoided a debate confrontation about “palling around with terrorists” is McCain’s very real – and recent – symbiotic association and praise for another (not Ayers) domestic terrorist emblematic of the Vietnam era: G. Gordon Liddy.
And of course, that McCain doesn’t have tthe stones to say it to Obama’s face.

Posted by: truthbetold | October 14, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

Hooray for Duvall. He is an actor with a brain, unlike the many stupid Liberals that call other people stupid. If someone does not remember who Robert duvall is, Then I guess you must be one of those stupid people, someone who does not read perhaps or watch any kind of events. Just sit at your computer and think you are smart.
The Liberals hate Sarah Palin because she is mainstream America and the liberal elites ccan’t stand this. I guess the liberals will vote Obama in and then all the people that actually work for a living will have their wealth spread around to those that do not work and will not work. Sure they can sit on their duffs and have aGovernment provide for them. Is this what you stupid Liberals really want or are you just to dumb to figure this out. Go ahead and attack Duvall and other people with a brain. You are leading this country to its destruction. This is the only time I am glad to be old because I probably will not be around to see what Liberalism does to this country!!!

Posted by: RuthD. | October 14, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

If you cannot pass a security review because of your associations, you do not deserve the top seat.

Posted by: Judd | October 14, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am

If that is the case, Judd, McCain is out due to his past association with the U.S. Council on World Freedom, which is linked to Iran-Contra.

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 14, 2008, 10:30 am 10:30 am

i just read what Lee wrote.and you can not be serious?either you are drunk or on drugs and being a democrat probably both.

Posted by: victor | October 14, 2008, 10:31 am 10:31 am

Wow … Boo Radley endorses Sarah Palin.
(For those of you who don’t get the reference, go watch “To Kill A Mockingbird.)
By the way, has anybody noticed that you never see Sarah Palin and Monica Lewinski in the same place at the same time? Hmmm. Hey, wait a second …
She’s baaaaaccccckkkkk.

Posted by: Gus | October 14, 2008, 10:31 am 10:31 am

10-14-2008, I am somebody! What is it about being Republican! A mystery to me! NO, I’ve have never been a Republican! By decree you all are supposed to always fall in line, to suppressing the masses for the benefit of the very wealthy! Because they know best what to do with it! The world was a lot better off when the small guy had a a bigger piece of the pie! but then you knew that, the wealthy are always supposed to get richer and the poor should be great full they have a job, a job that that they don’t want to do! Well a change is coming, time to sell your Hallaberton Stock! that is not American any more! More Democratic share of the pie for the better of countryman and do the good thing for the greater good. No profit in self esteem your thinking! Greed has made the climate It is today! the change is coming in the next election a awakening process to becoming a reality. What is forgotten is that it took the sweat of the common worker that gave you your privileged life! the respect of small guy that wants to gust make a living a voice! As for Sara Palin the every day sacker mom that fine for a neighbor not someone to run a country! Lets weight for the outcome of the abuse of power charge pending! Republican retort,It was for our own good to get into a war in Iraq! some think Vice President Shanies Halliberton company made out from the war! Most people did not want the War! It will be proven later to been a very stupid move! based on revenge for President Bushes father! The common people will have a important vote, and bring back dignity! and pride to our country over profit!
Thanks for reading this!
EHU

Posted by: Ed Uchalik | October 14, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am

What hate the libs on this site spew. Getting a little nervous?

Posted by: KansasGirl | October 14, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am

I love McCain. How captive he is. Captive of the special interest lobbyists who have permeated every position in his campaign. I don’t know what he stands for besides Country First and Not Change We Can Believe In.
I know he is smart enough to turn the economy over top Phil Gramm and foreign policy to Generaql Petraeus even though they keep issuing statements that contradict his.
Oh, Ive gotta go. Need more Viagra.
Thanks Obamaniac from the bottom of my Mcranium.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 10:34 am 10:34 am

I’ve always liked Robert Duvall. One of the few thinking actors who are left. Oops, remaining. Jon Voight also got his eyes opened after being a revolutionary of the 1960s. Hopefully his daughter will follow suit.
I’m still dumbfounded by how the supposed watchdogs of mainstream media are ignorning Obama’s inconsistencies, dishonesty, controversies. That ain’t a halo around his head, it’s a poisonous mist.

Posted by: Mike Rostad | October 14, 2008, 10:39 am 10:39 am

I’ve always liked Robert Duvall. One of the few thinking actors who are left. Oops, remaining. Jon Voight also got his eyes opened after being a revolutionary of the 1960s. Hopefully his daughter will follow suit.
I’m still dumbfounded by how the supposed watchdogs of mainstream media are ignorning Obama’s inconsistencies, dishonesty, controversies. That ain’t a halo around his head, it’s a poisonous mist.

Posted by: Mike Rostad | October 14, 2008, 10:39 am 10:39 am

Wright 101
Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Rev. Wright’s anti-Americanism
By Stanley Kurtz
It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. And guess what? Bill Ayers is still palling around with the same bitterly anti-American Afrocentric ideologues that he and Obama were promoting a decade ago. All this is revealed by a bit of digging, combined with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in the late 1990s.
John McCain, take note. Obama’s tie to Wright is no longer a purely personal question (if it ever was one) about one man’s choice of his pastor. The fact that Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Wright’s anti-Americanism means that this is now a matter of public policy, and therefore an entirely legitimate issue in this campaign.
African Village
In the winter of 1996, the Coalition for Improved Education in [Chicago’s] South Shore (CIESS) announced that it had received a $200,000 grant from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. That made CIESS an “external partner,” i.e. a community organization linked to a network of schools within the Chicago public system. This network, named the “South Shore African Village Collaborative” was thoroughly “Afrocentric” in orientation. CIESS’s job was to use a combination of teacher-training, curriculum advice, and community involvement to improve academic performance in the schools it worked with. CIESS would continue to receive large Annenberg grants throughout the 1990s.
The South Shore African Village Collaborative (SSAVC) was very much a part of the Afrocentric “rites of passage movement,” a fringe education crusade of the 1990s. SSAVC schools featured “African-Centered” curricula built around “rites of passage” ceremonies inspired by the puberty rites found in many African societies. In and of themselves, these ceremonies were harmless. Yet the philosophy that accompanied them was not. On the contrary, it was a carbon-copy of Jeremiah Wright’s worldview.
Rites of Passage
To learn what the rites of passage movement was all about, we can turn to a sympathetic 1992 study published in the Journal of Negro Education by Nsenga Warfield-Coppock. In that article, Warfield-Coppock bemoans the fact that public education in the United States is shaped by “capitalism, competitiveness, racism, sexism and oppression.” According to Warfield-Coppock, these American values “have confused African American people and oriented them toward American definitions of achievement and success and away from traditional African values.” American socialization has “proven to be dysfuntional and genocidal to the African American community,” Warfield-Coppock tells us. The answer is the adolescent rites of passage movement, designed “to provide African American youth with the cultural information and values they would need to counter the potentially detrimental effects of a Eurocentrically oriented society.”
The adolescent rites of passage movement that flowered in the 1990s grew out of the “cultural nationalist” or “Pan-African” thinking popular in radical black circles of the 1960s and 1970s. The attempt to create a virtually separate and intensely anti-American black social world began to take hold in the mid-1980s in small private schools, which carefully guarded the contents of their controversial curricula. Gradually, through external partners like CIESS, the movement spread to a few public schools. Supporters view these programs as “a social and cultural ‘inoculation’ process that facilitates healthy, African-centered development among African American youth and protects them against the ravages of a racist, sexist, capitalist, and oppressive society.”
We know that SSAVC was part of this movement, not only because their Annenberg proposals were filled with Afrocentric themes and references to “rites of passage,” but also because SSAVC’s faculty set up its African-centered curriculum in consultation with some of the most prominent leaders of the “rites of passage movement.” For example, a CIESS teacher conference sponsored a presentation on African-centered curricula by Jacob Carruthers, a particularly controversial Afrocentrist.
Jacob Carruthers
Like other leaders of the rites of passage movement, Carruthers teaches that the true birthplace of world civilization was ancient “Kemet” (Egypt), from which Kemetic philosophy supposedly spread to Africa as a whole. Carruthers and his colleagues believe that the values of Kemetic civilization are far superior to the isolating and oppressive, ancient Greek-based values of European and American civilization. Although academic Egyptologists and anthropologists strongly reject these historical claims, Carruthers dismisses critics as part of a white supremacist conspiracy to hide the truth of African superiority.
Carruthers’s key writings are collected in his book, Intellectual Warfare. Reading it is a wild, anti-American ride. In his book, we learn that Carruthers and his like-minded colleagues have formed an organization called the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC), which takes as its mission the need to “dismantle the European intellectual campaign to commit historicide against African peoples.” Carruthers includes “African-Americans” within a group he would define as simply “African.” When forced to describe a black person as “American,” Carruthers uses quotation marks, thus indicating that no black person can be American in any authentic sense. According to Carruthers, “The submission to Western civilization and its most outstanding offspring, American civilization, is, in reality, surrender to white supremacy.”
Carruthers’s goal is to use African-centered education to recreate a separatist universe within America, a kind of state-within-a-state. The rites of passage movement is central to the plan. Carruthers sees enemies on every part of the political spectrum, from conservatives, to liberals, to academic leftists, all of whom reject advocates of Kemetic civilization, like himself, as dangerous and academically irresponsible extremists. Carruthers sees all these groups as deluded captives of white supremacist Eurocentric culture. Therefore the only safe place for Africans living in the United States (i.e. American blacks) is outside the mental boundaries of our ineradicably racist Eurocentric civilization. As Carruthers puts it: “…some of us have chosen to reject the culture of our oppressors and recover our disrupted ancestral culture.” The rites of passage movement is a way to teach young Africans in the United States how to reject America and recover their authentic African heritage.
America as Rape
Carruthers admits that Africans living in America have already been shaped by Western culture, yet compares this Americanization process to rape: “We may not be able to get our virginity back after the rape, but we do not have to marry the rapist….” In other words, American blacks (i.e. Africans) may have been forcibly exposed to American culture, but that doesn’t mean they need to accept it. The better option, says Carruthers, is to separate out and relearn the wisdom of Africa’s original Kemetic culture, embodied in the teachings of the ancient wise man, Ptahhotep (an historical figure traditionally identified as the author of a Fifth Dynasty wisdom book). Anything less than re-Africanization threatens the mental, and even physical, genocide of Africans living in an ineradicably white supremacist United States.
Carruthers is a defender of Leonard Jeffries, professor in the department of black studies at City College in Harlem, infamous for his black supremacist and anti-Semitic views. Jeffries sees whites as oppressive and violent “ice people,” in contrast to peaceful and mutually supportive black “sun people.” The divergence says Jeffries, is attributable to differing levels of melanin in the skin. Jeffries also blames Jews for financing the slave trade. Carruthers defends Jeffries and excoriates the prestigious black academics Carruthers views as traitorous for denouncing their African brother, Jeffries. Carruthers’s vision of the superior and peaceful Kemetic philosophy of Ptahhotep triumphing over Greco-Euro-American-white culture obviously parallels Jeffries’ opposition between ice people and sun people.
More of Carruthers’s education philosophy can be found in his newsletter, The Kemetic Voice. In 1997, for example, at the same time Carruthers was advising SSAVC on how to set up an African-centered curriculum, he praised the decision of New Orleans’ School Board to remove the name of George Washington from an elementary school. Apparently, some officials in New Orleans had decided that nobody who held slaves should have a school named after him. Carruthers touted the name-change as proof that his African-centered perspective was finally having an effect on public policy. At the demise of George Washington School, Carruthers crowed: “These events remind us of how vast the gulf is that separates the Defenders of Western Civilization from the Champions of African Civilization.”
According to Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, Carruthers’s training session on African-centered curricula for SSAVC teachers was a huge hit: “As a consciousness raising session, it received rave reviews, and has prepared the way for the curriculum readiness survey….” These teacher-training workshops were directly funded by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Another sure sign of the ideological cast of SSAVC’s curriculum can be found in Annenberg documents noting that SSAVC students are taught the wisdom of Ptahhotep. Carruthers’s concerns about “menticide” and “genocide” at the hand of America’s white supremacist system seem to be echoed in an SSAVC document that says: “Our children need to understand the historical context of our struggles for liberation from those forces that seek to destroy us.”
When Jeremiah Wright turned toward African-centered thinking in the late 1980s and early 1990s (the period when, attracted by Wright’s African themes, Barack Obama first became a church member), many prominent thinkers from Carruthers’s Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations were invited to speak at Trinity United Church of Christ, Carruthers himself included. We hear echoes of Carruthers’s work in Wright’s distinction between “right brained” Africans and “left brained” Europeans, in Wright’s fears of U.S. government-sponsored genocide against American blacks, and in Wright’s embittered attacks on America’s indelibly white-supremacist history. In Wright’s Trumpet Newsmagazine, as in Carruthers’s own writings, blacks are often referred to as “Africans living in the diaspora” rather than as Americans.
Asa Hilliard
Chicago Annenberg Challenge records also indicate that SSAVC educators invited Asa Hilliard, a pioneer of African-centered curricula and a close colleague of Carruthers, to offer a keynote address at yet another Annenberg-funded teacher training session. Hilliard’s ties to Wright run still deeper than Carruthers’s. A close Wright mentor and friend, Hilliard died in 2007 while on a trip to Kemet (Egypt) with Wright and members of Wright’s congregation. Hillard was scheduled to deliver several lectures to the congregants, and to speak at a meeting of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization, which he co-founded with Carruthers and other “African-centered” scholars. On that last trip, Hilliard accepted an appointment to the board of Wright’s new elementary school, Kwame Nkrumah Academy. Speaking of the need for such a school, Wright had earlier said, “We need to educate our children to the reality of white supremacy.” (For more on Wright’s Afrocentric school, see “Jeremiah Wright’s ‘Trumpet.’”)
Wright delivered the eulogy at Hilliard’s memorial service, with prominent members of ASCAC in the audience. To commemorate Hilliard, a special, two-cover double issue of Wright’s Trumpet Newsmagazine was published, with a picture of Hilliard on one side, and a picture of Louis Farrakhan on the other (in celebration of a 2007 award Farrakhan received from Wright). In short, the ties between Wright and Hilliard could hardly have been closer. Clearly, then, Wright’s own educational philosophy was mirrored at the Annenberg-funded SSAVC, which sought out Hilliard’s and Carruthers’s counsel to construct its curriculum.
Perhaps inadvertently, Wright’s eulogy for Hilliard actually established the fringe nature of his favorite African-centered scholars. In his tribute, Wright stressed how intensely “white Egyptologists recoiled at the very notion of everything Asa taught.” As Wright himself made plain, it seems virtually impossible to find respectable scholars of any political stripe who approve of the extremist anti-American version of Afrocentrism promoted by Hilliard and Carruthers.
Ayers’s Pals
An important exception to the rule is Bill Ayers himself, who not only worked with Obama to fund groups like this at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, but who is still “palling around” with the same folks. Discretely waiting until after the election, Bill Ayers and his wife, and fellow former terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn plan to release a book in 2009 entitled Race Course Against White Supremacy. The book will be published by Third World Press, a press set up by Carruthers and other members of the ASCAC. Representatives of that press were prominently present for Wright’s eulogy at Asa Hilliard’s memorial service. Less than a decade ago, therefore, when it came to education issues, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright were pretty much on the same page.
Obama’s Knowledge
Given the precedent of his earlier responses on Ayers and Wright, Obama might be inclined to deny personal knowledge of the educational philosophy he was so generously funding. Such a denial would not be convincing. For one thing, we have evidence that in 1995, the same year Obama assumed control of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, he publicly rejected “the unrealistic politics of integrationist assimilation,” a stance that clearly resonates with both Wright and Carruthers. (See “No Liberation.”)
And as noted, Wright had invited Carruthers, Hilliard, and like-minded thinkers to address his Trinity congregants. Wright likes to tick off his connections to these prominent Afrocentrists in sermons, and Obama would surely have heard of them. Reading over SSAVC’s Annenberg proposals, Obama could hardly be ignorant of what they were about. And if by some chance Obama overlooked Hilliard’s or Carruthers’s names, SSAVC’s proposals are filled with references to “rites of passage” and “Ptahhotep,” dead giveaways for the anti-American and separatist ideological concoction favored by SSAVC.
We know that Obama did read the proposals. Annenberg documents show him commenting on proposal quality. And especially after 1995, when concerns over self-dealing and conflicts of interest forced the Ayers-headed “Collaborative” to distance itself from monetary issues, all funding decisions fell to Obama and the board. Significantly, there was dissent within the board. One business leader and experienced grant-smith characterized the quality of most Annenberg proposals as “awful.” (See “The Chicago Annenberg Challenge: The First Three Years,” p. 19.) Yet Obama and his very small and divided board kept the money flowing to ideologically extremist groups like the South Shore African Village Collaborative, instead of organizations focused on traditional educational achievement.
As if the content of SSAVC documents wasn’t warning enough, their proposals consistently misspelled “rites of passage” as “rights of passage,” hardly an encouraging sign from a group meant to improve children’s reading skills. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge’s own evaluators acknowledged that Annenberg-aided schools showed no improvement in achievement scores. Evaluators attributed that failure, in part, to the fact that many of Annenberg’s “external partners” had little educational expertise. A group that puts its efforts into Kwanzaa celebrations and half-baked history certainly fits that bill, and goes a long way toward explaining how Ayers and Obama managed to waste upwards of $150 million without improving student achievement.
However he may seek to deny it, all evidence points to the fact that, from his position as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama knowingly and persistently funded an educational project that shared the extremist and anti-American philosophy of Jeremiah Wright. The Wright affair was no fluke. It’s time for McCain to say so.
— Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Posted by: uncle sam | October 14, 2008, 10:42 am 10:42 am

This country is really going down hill fast. It seems that the media is so preoccupied with getting Obama elected that they are willing to conceal the truth. Acorn is stealing the election for Obama. Ayer’s was involved with him and in all likelihood still is. This was an unrepentant terrorist. Rev Wright is an Anti-American these are people associated with. If Obama gets elected with control of a democratic congress we are going to be repentant. This country will fall in total control of the liberal left. No checks and balances. In my opinion many in the media should be arrested for treason to this country. The Obama campaign is crying racism, this is the way they avoid the truth. This is the same thing they did to Hillary, cry racism when someone spoke the truth and they had no answer. When is AMERICA going to wake up? When is the media going to report the truth? Obama is a fraud!!!.

Posted by: DavidM | October 14, 2008, 10:43 am 10:43 am

This country is really going down hill fast.
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Maybe it is because of bonehead Republican ideology that has been permeating this country for the past 20 odd years and presents mediocrity (Bush, McCain, Palin) or power without concience (Rumsfeld, Cheney) as something to be admired.

Posted by: indy_voter | October 14, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am

Mike Rostad if you didnt know, the old has-been Jon Voights daughter hates her a-hole dad.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 14, 2008, 10:48 am 10:48 am

Bobby Duvall is a fine actor. So is Sean Penn. I enjoy their craft. I enjoy them exercising their first amendment rights and particiapting in our democracy. I think the same about plumbers. I don’t pick my plumbers for their politics, or judge their craft based on their views. Anyone who does appreciates neither the art of acting or the trade of plumbing.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am

Thing is…. Sarah Palin is more qualified to be VP than B-O
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Since when is being a hockey mom who went to 6 different universities and never served in the federal government make her more qualified than a Harvard law school grad (top of his class), who taught constitutional law for 12 years, and who was a US Senator for 2 years. Maybe for Republicans who exalt in mediocrity in their elected officials and then wail about why they are not smart enough to fix what is wrong with this country but not for me.

Posted by: indy_voter | October 14, 2008, 10:53 am 10:53 am

My hats are off to “Uncle Sam” for being able to cut and paste that long soliloquy from Col. Kurtz. It was almost as good as Co, Kurtz’s long one in “Apocalypse Now” where he described the horror of this Republican economy.
Glad you are contributing to this Hollywood and Politics thread, Uncle.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 10:55 am 10:55 am

JoeHomoe

Posted by: LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | October 14, 2008, 10:55 am 10:55 am

William J. LePetomaine,
Sounds more like something from the Jerry Springer show…

Posted by: indy_voter | October 14, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am

Robert Duvall would make a perfect Rudy Giuliani to play in a movie! And would probably win an Oscar by portraying him in drag!!

Posted by: NtellIGent | October 14, 2008, 10:57 am 10:57 am

Kick indy_voter off this Hollywood and Politics thread. He does not know the difference between trash TV and fine film making. On the other hand, this is about celebrities and Palin, and Palin’s family does kind of fit the Springer show guests.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

Republicans just like to insult people. That’s the only thing I can figure.
They finally understand the insults against Obama weren’t politically effective. So what do they do? They start insulting other Republicans.

Posted by: Paul | October 14, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

Blind eye Ricky – That’s what I thought, attack everybody else, but turn away from the truth of Obama and his past and present radical ideology!

Posted by: uncle sam | October 14, 2008, 11:00 am 11:00 am

Paul – It’s amazing how you won’t even mention liberals critizing everybody and thing under the sun, other than liberals themselves, you’re a hypocrite!

Posted by: uncle sam | October 14, 2008, 11:02 am 11:02 am

I wonder what Robert Duvall has to say today about the Anchorage Daily News, which called Palin an embarrassment to Alaska.
It specifically called her claims of vindication in the troopergate report as either ignorant or Orwellian.

Posted by: Paul | October 14, 2008, 11:02 am 11:02 am

To: LittleMissMooseShooter. Sorry, but dropping out of high school is not a bad idea. Levi will be going to work on the North Slope – where he will make more money than most college graduates, and learn things useful. I know about this. I dropped of high school, worked hard starting out as a horse wrangler, went to evening college, and recently retired at age 60 with an $80k plus annual pension, and live in a $1+ million home that is paid off. So poor old Levi has nothing but success to look forward to. Liberal run schools are of little value to the intelligent and industrious.

Posted by: axlenut | October 14, 2008, 11:03 am 11:03 am

uncle sam – give me a for instance…

Posted by: Paul | October 14, 2008, 11:04 am 11:04 am

axlenut: “Liberal run schools are of little value to the intelligent and industrious.”
Congrats on your personal successes, and granted there are quite a few who are as successful and even more so after dropping out of school. But are you seriously arguing that education has no value?

Posted by: Paul | October 14, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

Poor “Uncle Sam.” He doesn’t know how to accept a compliment.
I agree with Bobby Duvall. I think George Will is a nerd too, although I would describe Tommy T. as a block of cheese, not wood.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 11:08 am 11:08 am

Ricky, what do you think of Gov Crist, after he declined to attend a McCain event the other day?

Posted by: Paul | October 14, 2008, 11:11 am 11:11 am

I have lived in Alaska for 40 years. The once very Red State is turning purple due to these Liberals who have crushed the hard working Alaskans with their Arts will save us spew! Killed the Timber industry, anti industry stance. These invading left wing puppets have locked up our state, so arrogant Hollywood elitists can fly to their Yachts for a week in the summer! Obama is a socialist, and the Democrats will destroy this country with their loyalty. Soon I will quit working for a living, smoke a bunch of dope and become a Democrat. Hey give me stuff.

Posted by: No Where | October 14, 2008, 11:17 am 11:17 am

I agree with Gov. Crist on some things just as I do Robert Duvall. I, too, would pick Disneyland over a McCain-Palin rally because Disneyland is based on characters who shaped American thinking and McCain-Palin rallies are just gimmicky horror fare that only scare juvenile audiences.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 11:18 am 11:18 am

“No Where” gave himself away with that last line, “give me stuff.” He forgot to delete it when he copied the McCain web page to prove he earned his points as a campaign troll. By “stuff” he means the McCain gold bags they give away for getting today’s talking points posted on the web.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am

Robert Duvall the greatest actor alive today. I just don’t understand as a white person other people like myself voting for a guy who praises the efforts of ACORN which we all know is run by thieves. Shame on you blue collar workers supporting Obama. I hope he taxes you to death and appoints a supreme court that takes away your guns. Not only that he’ll instantly award citizenship to 15 million illegal aliens. Be careful of what you ask for because you might get it.

Posted by: Dix Handley | October 14, 2008, 11:22 am 11:22 am

George Will has 10x’s the insight and intellect as Duvall. I do agree about Tommy Thompson. Duvall just another self serving rich guy, who cares what he has to say? He just lost millions of fans.

Posted by: Perspective | October 14, 2008, 11:24 am 11:24 am

Robert Duvall has his head firmly up his ass. That’s why he keeps shaving it…

Posted by: Jim | October 14, 2008, 11:25 am 11:25 am

Shame on all of you who take issue with Palin about being a ‘light weight.’ She is honest, practical, down to earth, and a very refreshing breath of fresh air in this very stale, distorted and depressing political arena currently. She and McCain are our best hope at any degree of sanity. I do not agree with all their statements or policies, but demoncracy is about discussiing differing points of view with the greater good of soceity in mind, based on personal and individual rights as articulated by and protected by our Constitution. The other side, Obama/Biden are left wing socialists with nothing on their minds but breaking down the moral and political will of free thinking and freedom loving individuals and families.

Posted by: James | October 14, 2008, 11:26 am 11:26 am

Robert Duvall is yesterday’s news – just like Palin will be in 3 weeks. No one gives a crap what he has to say.

Posted by: Jim | October 14, 2008, 11:27 am 11:27 am

Dix, you forgot to mention that Maverick McCain was sponsor of the last alien citizenship give away. It was one of the things he does when reaching around or across the aisle or whatever he calls it. Not only does McCain want those 15 million illegal aliens here, he wants to arm them. Didn’t you see Viva Max?

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 11:27 am 11:27 am

Governor Palin is awesome….saw her yesterday in Richmond, VA with 30,000 pro-Americans.
Funny, now that Barack gets nothing at his rallies, “big rallies” are now big news with ABC and the other olde media.
If you’re a Hillary supporter, the new strategy is: McCain ’08, then Hillary ’12.
We must all come together to sink the Chicago marxist….Let’s roll.

Posted by: exDemocrat | October 14, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am

Also a little curious why Duvall picked on just these two. Aren’t there many Republican commentators expressing frustration with the McCain campaign?
Bill Kristol says McCain should fire his entire staff, take down all the ads, and start over.
Granted Kristol seems to like Palin, and Duvall was specifically pointing toward Republicans who criticize her. But still… even that specific criticism isn’t limited to just Will and Thompson.

Posted by: Paul | October 14, 2008, 11:29 am 11:29 am

You republicans need to get up off your asses and work as hard as PUMAs to get McCain/Palin elected!

Posted by: hipelayne | October 14, 2008, 11:34 am 11:34 am

exDemocrat: “Governor Palin is awesome….saw her yesterday in Richmond, VA with 30,000 pro-Americans.”
Local police and the fire marshall put the number at 12,000.
That’s still a significant rally, but it also fits a trend of the McCain campaign exaggerating its draw.

Posted by: Paul | October 14, 2008, 11:34 am 11:34 am

Why does George Will have trouble sleeping at night? Is he afraid he will wake up, pull back his atin sheets and find a severed moose head in his bed?

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

exDem: “If you’re a Hillary supporter, the new strategy is: McCain ’08, then Hillary ’12.”
Also, its hardly a new strategy. I’ve been reading posts like that for months.

Posted by: Paul | October 14, 2008, 11:36 am 11:36 am

Let me understand this….the extremely “family oriented” we-support-our-daughter Palins, apparently draw the line at financial support? Rather than help this young couple (Johnston/Palin), they’re ok with the 18yo father quitting high school in his senior year to get a job? I don’t know, but in my family that’s not how we define “support.”

Posted by: Alexandra | October 14, 2008, 11:40 am 11:40 am

The swing part of Virginia is the outer bands of Northern Virginia – Loudoun, Prince William and western Fairfax Counties.
If McCain wins these areas handily, he wins the state. If Obama can force a somewhat even split there, he wins the state.
Right now its hard to say how these areas are going to vote. And its also somewhat notable and surprising that neither campaign has focused on them much, suggesting neither is being advised well on the dynamics of Virginia politics.

Posted by: Paul | October 14, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST!
HIS MOST RECENT SERMON CLAIMS:
“I THINK WHEN YOU SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND, IT’S GOOD FOR EVERYBODY.” What Barack means is for government taking from one group of people (the people who worked hard and earned it) and giving it to those who did not earned it (welfare cheats).
WELCOME TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S NEW AMERICA, IT’S CALLED REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH and his tax cuts for 95% of America is nothing more than Government welfare for people that don’t pay taxes at all. Haven’t we already been down this path ? This was done in the 70’s and the Democrats are bent on bringing it back.
One of Barack Obama’s most potent campaign claims is that he’ll cut taxes for no less than 95% of “working families.” He’s even promising to cut taxes enough that the government’s tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% — which is lower than it is today.
It’s a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he’s also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of “tax cut.”
For Barack Hussein Obama, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. IN HIS REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH PLAN, A TAX CUT INCLUDES TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS THAT ARE DISGUISED BY THE PHRASE “TAX CREDIT.”
Will hard working Americans support to cater to the ”parasite class” and bury the American worker further? Mission almost accomplished.
UNLESS YOU VOTE FOR THE PATRIOT JOHN MCCAIN, AND PRESERVE AMERICA AND OUR AMERICAN VALUES!

Posted by: Manolete | October 14, 2008, 11:47 am 11:47 am

Alexandra: “I don’t know, but in my family that’s not how we define support.”
Its most likely a ploy, to show further evidence of these Alaskans’ hard-working, blue collar roots.
We saw all the evidence we needed of Palin family values when they kept an infant out at loud convention and debate halls late into the night.
Sorry, but I have a hard time believing a candidate for vice president couldn’t find a sitter, and thus have to conclude the infant was used as a political prop.
I’m sure if McCain were to somehow win this election, the high school kid would change course, leave the oil fields, and take advantage of the opportunities that would open to him.

Posted by: Paul | October 14, 2008, 11:51 am 11:51 am

RICKY lost his Man purse!!!! Facts about Ms. Palin. She governs a land region that stretches from Savanna Georgia to Santa Barbara California. You will never see your fantasy Alpha males wearing Dew Rags, doing one of their Survivor episodes here in January? She will kill a pack of wolves trying to eat her dog, because she cant wait for Disney Productions and PETA to teach her how wonderful they are. She has yet to tell you Metros-Sexuals that counting soldier deaths of 4000 while ignoring 1 million abortions a year is pure selective outrage. She along with most Alaskans do not have to fear MS 13, Crips, Arian Brotherhoods and Bloods like you Urbanites because we will not allow this type of behavior to dominate us. Talking points you say? Talk, don’t cut it up in Alaska, and sheep don’t like it here! Please visit the nearest REI, or Eddy Bauer store and pretend you have the balls to speak about a Woman from Alaska! Our woman can kick most men’s asses. And they are not afraid to be conservative.

Posted by: No Where | October 14, 2008, 11:54 am 11:54 am

You go Mr. Duvall! About time we heard something legit out of Hollywood! I knew there was a reason you had become my favorite actor!
As for Mrs Palin, she has more common sense in her little finger than Obama has in his whole Acorn organization!

Posted by: Ida | October 14, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

What a pleasant change of pace from the usual America-hating leftist that comes out of Hollyweird. We definitely need to do everything we can to keep that Marxist / socialist out of the Oval Office. The Republic can’t possibly stand an Obama administration. You Obama-drones DO know we were never intended to be a Democracy right?

Posted by: GunRights4US | October 14, 2008, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm

Up above “Sandalwood” says we should get ready for the “Republic of America”. Maybe he or she should read the constitution or look at the words to that oft repeated pledge.
The U.S. is a republic. Even two George Bushes doesn’t make it a monarchy.
And the republican party by the way takes its name from the concept of this form of government, no matter how much they may have lost touch with the party of Honest Abe.
As for living in Europe as someone suggests, I already do.
Chris Brown in Hamburg

Posted by: chrisbrown1 | October 14, 2008, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm

I believe that there is a “silent revolution” taking place among the voters.
i sense that also. The anger that has emerged in the McCain rallies has a lot to do with the fact that the media has not given a voice to the average American voter. In fact, they have attacked us for simply asking that BO be vetted as any other candidate would have been. If we question or criticize we are labeled racists. Racism is real and that it is being used for political gain is unconscionable. I think it was a British paper that pointed out that BO won’t be able to use the race card once he is president in the international realm. If Sarkozy (sp?) criticizes him is he going to call him a racist?

Posted by: HP Boston | October 14, 2008, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm

Voters are remaining quiet because of the threats by BO’s thugs. Even Hollywood entertainers dissing Palin sound like bullies.

Posted by: HP Boston | October 14, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

I’m thankful for Sarah Palin. She is saying what I believe and have known for years. Because of her, I will vote this year. Americans are so brainwashed from the liberal media that no one thinks for themselves but just fall in line with what they hear. VERY VERY DANGEROUS.
NOBAMA!

Posted by: Misty | October 14, 2008, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm

Thompson was a hideous governor inspite of being popular because he allowed the budget to balloon to unsustainable levels. He ran a campaign for President that left him with insignificant recognition, and he’s criticizing McCain?
Thompson should just shutup and go away. I’ve never liked him or any of the governors of Wisconsin! Wisconsin is a stinkhole politically and we have lost our way morally and ethically.

Posted by: El gato | October 14, 2008, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm

Well at least Mr. Duvall didn’t stand up with a scowling angry face, in the name of comedy, and spout off that the opposing candidates VP should be gang raped, if they ever came to New York.

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm

Well folks, as a business owner I’M comcerned about the “re-distribution of wealth” plan that Obama is presenting. Almost all of you that have placed comments appear to be somewhat intellegent. I suggest you look into his plan very closely, is that really the direction we want to go???

Posted by: Mark | October 14, 2008, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm

If these posts are examples of the polite supporters of McCain and Palin, I’d hate to hear how the Republican “thugs” present their well thought-out arguments.
Chris Brown and the not so silent majority

Posted by: chrisbrown1 | October 14, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm

IAT Smith said: Palin has no foreign policy experience to be a VP. I wonder what is she going to do in that office???
Neither did Carter, or Clinton! All of their speeches on foreign issues were memorizing facts, and from coaches.

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm

ya nice, finally a member of Hollywood has the guts to speak up. Obama is scary and still has yet to answer for his affiliations with Ayers, Fannie and Freddie, ACORN, Wright, not to mention not disclosing his birth records. I’m sorry- but that’s questionable at best.

Posted by: esm | October 14, 2008, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm

obama is a liar, and fraud. The evidence is piling up that Bill Ayers wrote Dreams From My Father. I’ve never seen such an attempt to manipulate an election by the media in the 40 years I’ve been paying attention to the election process. They’ll get a shock on November 4th, when McCain and Palin win. obama with having spent almost half a billion dollars isn’t getting much bang for his buck.

Posted by: greg | October 14, 2008, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm

ChrisBrown….I would advise you to go look at the Daily Kos, and then come here, and say Republicans are being ugly.
Ugly is as ugly does….and the attacks and venom spewed on Mrs. Palin, and her children from day 1 was uncalled for, but accepted by the Democrats…as acceptable, funny, and warranted. No one ever said you had to like her….but the attacks were way out of line.
I have never attacked Obama, or Biden. I simply state the facts, as I know them. If I read an opposing point of view, I will take the time to go off, and read, and figure things out for myself. SOmething I’m sure is not done by everyone.
I do not hate Obama, nor Biden. I dont’ agree with their ideologies. Pure, and simple. Redistribution of wealth…is not something I can get behind.
For that simple reason, and even for others, such as African Americans who don’t agree with Obama, are labeled traitors, and worse. I get labled being a racist.
When this first started, I took the time to listen to Obama. I was moved by his words….but as time goes on, I let my head do my thinking, not my heart. I let logic, and reasoning enter into my politics, as it should be, and I made my choice. I’m not thrilled with McCain, but he’s a far sight better, than this redistribution of wealth.

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm

Linda N Carolina writes:
Fact: Most election officials have recognized ACORN’s good work and praised our quality control systems. Even in the cities where election officials have complained about ACORN, the applications in question represent less than 1% of the thousands and thousands of registrations ACORN has collected.
My COMMENT: That must mean thousands of bad ones are getting through.
Fact: Our accusers not only fail to provide any evidence, they fail to suggest a motive: there is virtually no chance anyone would be able to vote fraudulently, so there is no reason to deliberately submit phony registrations. ACORN is committed to ensuring that the greatest possible numbers of people are registered.
COMMENT: Then why are some of the workers doing it? What is their motive? At the very least it points to shoddy training on your part.
ACORN will not be intimidated, we will not be provoked, and in this important moment in history we will not allow anyone to distract us from these vital efforts to empower our constituencies and our communities to speak for themselves.
COMMENT: yes, We know you are dedicated communists, or maybe useful idiots… one of the two.

Posted by: Dave | October 14, 2008, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm

Wonderful actor and a wondeful activist. Man of determination when everybody’s writing off the campaign. We need people like that running for office and be part of decision making process that effect our lives.

Posted by: Shelly | October 14, 2008, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm

Wonderful actor and a wondeful activist. Man of determination when everybody’s writing off the campaign. We need people like that running for office and be part of decision making process that effect our lives.

Posted by: Shelly | October 14, 2008, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm

hey Linda, the Acorn fan…check out http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/article852295.ece and see the voter Acorn registered named Mickey Mouse in Orlando Florida…amongst other make-believe voters.Someday you will see the truth. I hope before it’s too late.

Posted by: cas | October 14, 2008, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm

Hey Gus:
So sorry to hear that you have turned your back on the Republican party.
Fact: Obama (Osama) is Anti-american and Anti-jew. He is totally muslim.
If people vote for him to be President, get ready for a big change. This country will become a country like Germany was in the past and Russia who is getting ready with Iran to try to devistate Israel. This country may pass away but you can count on Israel being saved because these are God’s chosen people. Don’t forget this when you see this happen in the future.

Posted by: kbird | October 14, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

Its so obvious. If Obama is elected, Bill Ayers will be president.

Posted by: Gary | October 14, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

I want to know why no one is asking the reasons Libya’s Gaddafi and Venezuela’s Chavez and the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan along with every Muslim terrorist organization on earth and other radical organizations and individuals are endorsing Obama? The two things all of these people and groups have in common is their contempt for white people and hatred for the United States of America. Their main desire is to witness the destruction of America. So why would they enthusiastically endorse Barack Hussein Obama for President? Is it because he refuses to salute the American flag or place his hand over his heart at a reading of the Pledge of Allegiance? Or are there other reasons?
Based upon his past voting record Obama will push for higher taxes to pay for all of the ‘free stuff’ he is going to give to all of the poor people in America. Whether legal or illegal. When will people wake up to the fact that there is no ‘free lunch?’
Birds of a feather flock together. No one would stay in a church and listen to its pastor’s anti-white and anti-American ‘sermon’ for 20 years unless he agreed with them? Anyone who would think otherwise has got to be either a moron or out of touch with reality.

Posted by: BobPortCharlotte | October 14, 2008, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm

Sorry I took a break. I had to fetch the lipstick from my man purse because the pig was getting ready to go on Jerry Springer or I would have responded to “No Where” earlier. I urge you to go back up the thread if you missed his rant. He presents all the salient facts about Sarah Palin you will ever need to know.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm

Looks like someone copied the talking points from ACORN’s website, Linda in North Carolina…Do not believe anything you hear on the major networks. This race is close and McCain will win if the turnout is solid. ACORN is a criminal organization that should be investigated and prosecuted.

Posted by: spack | October 14, 2008, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm

Finally someone has the balls to say what needs to be said. Now if he could only help McCain find his then there might be a glimmer of hope.

Posted by: Pat | October 14, 2008, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm

Good for Robert Duvall we need some level headed non-PC types in Hollywood. The other dimwits like Wil Smith and Matt Damon, who are both clueless, have no idea what common sense is and what a socialist/lefty like Obama would do to this country. Even if they did they would not be able to express themselves because they are controlled by Politcal Correctness run amuck.

Posted by: Phil | October 14, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

Since many of you lack the time, or are intimidated by the Obama thugs hiding in your computer, I thought I would reiterate No Where’s many good reasons to be for Palin:
“Facts about Ms. Palin. She governs a land region that stretches from Savanna Georgia to Santa Barbara California.”
He did not mention she still has time to harass that trooper who tased her nephew 2 years before she voiced concern about it.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

I think Sandalwood meant “Socialist Republic”….if you vote for Barack Hussein Obama, you can’t possibly even think you’re a Republican or ever were…possibly a “socialist” Democrat in Republican clothes! Obama is a Marxist socialist through and through….no Republican would align with a socialist! No how…no way!

Posted by: Reagan Republican | October 14, 2008, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm

More good reasons for you
“metrosexuals” to be Palin according to No Where:
“Facts about Ms. Palin….. She will kill a pack of wolves trying to eat her dog, because she cant wait for Disney Productions and PETA to teach her how wonderful they are.”
Unlike the Governor of Florida, she would not go to Disneyland instead of a McCain rally.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm

No matter how deficient the McCain-Palin ticket might be, someone like Barack Hussein Obama who campaigns in Kenya in 2007 (at taxpayers expense) for the genocidal tyrant that rules the country now, is someone not fit for command. Someone who 8 days after 9/11 said that he understood why Hamas and Hezbollah used terrorism to validate their positions has not love for this country. Someone like Hussein Obama who for 20 years sat in a church permeated by ethnocentrism, defined as an ati-American church “God D**M America” as its pastor has declared, is someone whose character, in the best of cases, is questionable and undeserving of the highest office. He is a radical socialist. The “cause” (read power) is what matters, not this country about to become The late Great USA, should he become president. By then, it will be too late to wake up.

Posted by: PISICO | October 14, 2008, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm

Since when is being a hockey mom who went to 6 different universities and never served in the federal government make her more qualified than a Harvard law school grad (top of his class), who taught constitutional law for 12 years,
Yes…and Mrs. Palin garnered her education thru Scholarships, and loans. Obama had his paid for, by a man with ties to Arab nations, and terrorists. And where are all of Obama’s college chums, backing him up?

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

A final selling point for Sarah Palin as posted above by her fellow Alaskan, “No Where.”
“Facts about Ms. Palin…. She along with most Alaskans do not have to fear MS 13, Crips, Arian Brotherhoods and Bloods like you Urbanites because we will not allow this type of behavior to dominate us… Talk, don’t cut it up in Alaska, and sheep don’t like it here!”
I am not sure if the lack of sheep is related to the rate of rape and incest in Alaska.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm

Christians were slaughtered in Kenya, and not a single Mosque was harmed, yet several Christian churches were destroyed. Obama supports Odinga. His cousin. Tie this in with Rev. Wright. Farrakhan. Ayres. Monsour. Starting to see a pattern here?
I found this amusing, and well…it really explains a lot. LOL
Stern sent a reporter to interview people on the street to find out why they supported Barack Obama — and whether they understood his policy positions at all.
The reporter attributes John McCain’s policy positions to Obama, such as being pro-life and in favor of keeping troops in Iraq until victory — and Obama supporters enthusiastically support them. So what does this prove?

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

I only wish Bobby Duvall had had Alaskan “No Where” writing for him. He could have used these words to refer to the many conservative Republican critics of Sarah Palin.
“Facts about Ms. Palin…. Please visit the nearest REI, or Eddy Bauer store and pretend you have the balls to speak about a Woman from Alaska! Our woman can kick most men’s asses. And they are not afraid to be conservative.”
Bobby Duvall wouldn’t let George Will carry his man purse anywhere near Sarah Palin.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm

Duvall: “I can’t even think ….”
Yeah.

Posted by: jpr | October 14, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

Let’s see… If you admit to using cocaine and associate with domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers who bombed the Pentagon.. could you get a job with the FBI? could you get security clearance with a government contractor? NO? But you COULD become Commander in Chief, right? This is very wrong!!!

Posted by: SoCalAngel | October 14, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

In fact, the only candidate with executive experience is Sarah Palin. A governor has to make decisions and take responsibility. Senators are part of a group, members who do not have to face to responsibility, not to make decisions that will come to bite them later. Look at Barney Frank, he pushed for loans for people who could not afford them (using what funds? our tax dollars) and he is not even man enough (he has never been) to accept his part in this debacle. Therefore, Gus and all other libs trying to infiltrate out minds, lay off! Obama is someone that he began organizing the radicals in the Democratic party from day one in Congress. He wants to redistribute our income (not his) so America will be a better place. What makes those blithering Dems think that Socialism can succeed in making this a better country. Is defunct! Even China has gone capitalist!

Posted by: PISICO | October 14, 2008, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm

I am broad minded, so I will not let “No Where” be my sole source of what is going on in Alaska. As you know, Sarah Palin said the nvestigation
of her by the overwhelmingly Republican legislature was partisan. So she asked the Personnel Board, appointed by the Governor, to do its own investigation.
According to tdaus Anchorage Daily News her is what these friends of Sarah are finding:
“The state Personnel Board investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin’s firing of Walt Monegan has broadened to include other ethics complaints against the governor and examination of actions by other state employees, according to the independent counsel handling the case.”

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm

Ricky, the lead investigator was a Democrat, and I seriously doubt the republicans were standing behind Mrs. Palin. She ticked them off BIG TIME by bucking the system. If anything, they sat there licking their chops hoping to find something more incriminating. Like she was hanging around with domestic terrorists, or campaigning with leaders who advocate genocide, or cavorting with groups who commit voter frauds. Sheesh
Ooops.

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 1:29 pm 1:29 pm

PISICO, do net tell Gus and “other libs trying to infilitrate our minds” to lay off. Just keep your tin foil cap on tight and stop spinning the propeller when you type real fast. That keeps the infiltration rays away real good, dude.

Posted by: ricky | October 14, 2008, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm

Liberal men wouldn’t understand Robert Duvall because they have been effeminized. Liberal women will fear him because they can’t emasculate him.
Robert Duvall is a man who is instilled with that great American trait of rugged individualism and pioneer spirit.
If we only had more like him.
From one of his biggest fans

Posted by: Candace | October 14, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

And now for something REALLY different.
A North Kansas City couple has been left scratching their heads after they became the victims of a political scam.
Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month — a $2300 donation to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The Larman’s say they don’t want this to be about their political affiliation, but they say they’re not about to give the Obama campaign any help from their pocketbook.
They said they notified Chase, their credit card bank, to report the fraud.
“(They) said that they had seen-they were familiar with this,” said Steve Larman. “It was fraud, they believe through telemarketing but they were going to be doing some more investigations.”
The Larman’s don’t want their politics to enter into what is essentially just a fraudulent charge. But they say that the charge involves the Obama campaign adds insult to injury for the registered Republicans.
“They (Chase) kept on asking me ‘are you sure you wouldnt have gone to a site in support of Obama’,” said Rachel Larman. “And I repeatedly said ‘Im voting for McCain – I would not be going to an Obama site’.”
Chase dropped the charge from the Larman’s card. The couple is thankful thay they caught the charge on the card, but worried that others may not see that type of fraud on their own credit cards before it’s too late.

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm

I always thought there was something great about Robert Duval that went beyond his acting skills.

Posted by: Wake-Up! | October 14, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

Linda n carolina: Don’t post your idealized bullcrap of the very corrupt and polarized ACORN. It is a subversive organization that supports handouts and laziness and will do anything to keep the hard working tax payers as slaves. Shove your organization up Obama A s and yours. You are a just a festering boil on the butt of the world. Good Day

Posted by: john fracker | October 14, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

I laud Duvall for pointing out that Geo. Will & Tommy Whatshisface are effete & arrogant ninnies.
I a Viet-Nam veteran would far prefer to share a fighting hole with Sarah than either of the foolish windbags whom Duvall took to task. Likewise, I’d far prefer her working my side tending to livestock during a blizzard. And I’d trust her with my bankbook, but I wouldn’t either Geo. or TT.

Posted by: Banshee5 | October 14, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm

Sarah Palin is Imminently more qualified to be PRESIDENT then Obama. What on earth qualifies him? You talk about a lightweight the man was a US senator for 5 months when he started running for president. The man has accomplished NOTHING in his entire life.

Posted by: dally | October 14, 2008, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm

—————–
ELECTION 2008
School textbook promotes Obama
Angry mother of 8th-grader exposes
publication lauding ‘change’ theme
——————————————————————————–
The mother says she understands “many teachers are liberals, but does the school have the right to shove Obama down our kid’s throats?”
“All the kids grouped together and read the story,” she writes. “After that, they discussed it. … I guess it appears that Obama is planning ahead. If he doesn’t get his coveted presidency, Obama is going to make sure, that the younger generations know all about him, and his ‘life of service.’”
Textbook praising Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
The mother of an 8th-grader in Wisconsin is blasting school officials over their use of a textbook lauding Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s “change” theme and highlighting his 2004 Democratic National Convention as an example of good literature.
The mother, whose name was withheld because of concern over retaliation, said on the RealDebateWisconsin blog her son is taking an advanced English class in the Racine, Wis., Unified School District.
“I just found out that my son’s new (copyright 2008) Wisconsin – McDougal Littell Literature book has 15 pages covering Barack Obama,” she writes. “I was shocked – No John McCain, no Hillary Clinton, no George Bush – Just Barack Obama.”

Posted by: HP Boston | October 14, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm

All of this irrational hate coming from the left directed at Sarah Palin is because she is everything “The One” is not. She’s smarter then he is, more qualified to be President then he is, genuine, gorgeous, and doesn’t need a rock start to draw large crowds for her. The left wing is SCARED to death of her because they know she can knock that crown off of their anointed ones head.

Posted by: WV34 | October 14, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm

To Paul: Education is essential. However, I am an autodidact, largely self educated. To relegate your education to a single source of information is foolhardy, especially a source with a proven anti-American political agenda. I used state colleges and universities for science and engineering classes, private universities for philosophy and arts, and read a literal ton of books. I held two state licenses in environmental engineering industries when I retired. Like Palin’s family, mine just does what it must, and doesn’t let anyone tell us we must follow the herd. We’re Americans after all.

Posted by: axlenut | October 14, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm

Stick to the tango dancing, Bob. Nobody cares about your political views.

Posted by: MHill | October 14, 2008, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm

Those posters who are badmouthing Sarah Palin can all kiss my “Obama”.

Posted by: Me | October 14, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm

I did’nt know there was anyone in hollywood who actually has more common sense than a turnip…Duvall is a pleasant surprise.

Posted by: mc | October 14, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm

MHill said: Stick to the tango dancing, Bob. Nobody cares about your political views.
But you do care, when Sandra Bernhardt singles Mrs. Palin out, for gang rape, or Pam Anderson tells Mrs. Palin to suck it. Or any of the other endless ramblings of the Hollywood set….right?

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

Awww did it hurt your wittle feewings when big mean Sarah says bad things about poor Obama? Poor little Obama. It’s not nice when people talk about his connections to radicals that tried to blow up the Capital and Pentagon. It’s especially not nice when they bring up him campaigning for that African muslim warlord named Odinga that murdered 200 people in a church in africa. I wish mean people would stop talking about poor little Obamababys ACORN buddies that register mickey mouse and the dallas cowboys. Don’t you mean people know that community organizing is Obamas bestest qualification for President? Mean terrible awful people!

Posted by: FormerDem | October 14, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

Dally said: The man has accomplished NOTHING in his entire life.
Oh but he has. He can rabble rouse, and rally masses of people to commit voter fraud, for a nominal fee of $800,000.
That was is version of wealth redistribution. LOL

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

The man has accomplished NOTHING in his entire life.
Posted by: dally
Really?
“I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments and I will respect him.”
- John McCain.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/11/mccain-to-crowd-dont-be-scared-of-obama-presidency/
“I have to tell you, he is a decent person, and a person that you do not have to be scared as President of the United States.”
Oct 11 2008, the day John McCain endorsed Barack Obama.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 14, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm

JoeShmoe…..would he be labled a racist as many of us have been, if he didn’t say it? Of course he would be labeled a racist.
That’s the only way to fight back….or avoid the BIGGER issues. Using race. I also noticed you used a liberal site for your link. Interesting. I’ll bet other posts made about McCain aren’t so nice.
Hillary, and Biden both also said, that they felt McCain would make a better President, than Obama.

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm

McCain’s hero Ronald Reagan sold weapons to Iran to fund an illegal war in Central America. Great hero. His other hero is Charles Keating.
In 2003, the Republicans had the majority in Congress, so if something didn’t pass, enough Republicans voted against it.

Posted by: Brian | October 14, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

“Obama and his allies at ABC, NBC, CBS and ACORN”
Loony! Put your tinfoil hat on tighter, friend.

Posted by: USMC | October 14, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm

“Obama and his allies at ABC, NBC, CBS and ACORN”
Loony! Put your tinfoil hat on tighter, friend.

Posted by: USMC | October 14, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm

GO BOO RADLEY GO ! Scare the bejesus out of them like you did in ’62! My absolutely FAVORITE film.
Use Sarah’s rifle to clip those mockingbirds wings!!!!

Posted by: BJ~Maine | October 14, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

In the third and final debate will McCain say the words “middle class?”

Posted by: Brian | October 14, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm

Btw didnt John McCain had an illigitimate black baby? Karl Rove said it, it must be true.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 14, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm

Posted by: John McCain’s conscience: “Gee. I thought Obama is buying air time because he can. Every time Americans see him they think more favorably of him. The man looks presidential. He sounds presidential. He has that quiet confidence that makes everyone stop and listen when he comes into a room.”
So did Richard Nixon. In fact, after watching the PBS American Presidents documentary on Richard Nixon, I was struck by how similar Senator Obama’s campaign is to Nixon’s Presidential campaign.

Posted by: LJC | October 14, 2008, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm

HP Boston….I read that. It’s appalling. Not because Obama was added, but because of those, who were omitted, who I believe have a place in texts as well.
The mere fact that we tax payers pay for this, blatant biased liberalism is galling.
It makes me as angry as my tax dollars going to fund ACORN, when they are so very obviously liberal, and endorse, and support a Liberal candidate. It’s wrong, and unethical, and this kind of crap needs to stop!

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm

I have always liked Robert Duvall as an actor. I didn’t know that he is one of rare conservatives from Hollywood. To show my support for his conservatism, and anti-Obamination, and to, hopefully, send a message to the commies in Hollywood, I am going to buy every DVD movie he is in! This is one way we can show our support for those who do have the limelight that we Real Americans appreciate their efforts.

Posted by: Lee Keohan | October 14, 2008, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm

Joe Shmoe said: Btw didnt John McCain had an illigitimate black baby? Karl Rove said it, it must be true.
Ummm nope! That was a rumor started, during political campaigns. McCain’s youngest child is an adopted child from Bangladesh, whom Cindy brought home to adopt. Cindy worked over there helping children, with severe cleft palates get the medical help they needed, and fell in love with this baby, and adopted her, from Mother Theresas orphanage.

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

That was a rumor started, during political campaigns.
Posted by: Jeanie
Well, that was exactly my point. The same guys who started that rumor is advicing John McCain now. Doesnt that tell you something?

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 14, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm

In my excitement for Mr. Duvall’s speech, (He should run for Pres.)
I forgot that Mockingbirds are us – the good guys. So go get the vultures, Boo.

Posted by: BJ ~ Maine | October 14, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

Get out the vote for McCain/Palin. It’s time to SAVE our country from the liberal socialists and the corrupt demorats in Washington. Everything they touch is corrupt! There is no excuse. Obama has bad bad bad bad judgement. I don’t trust him and I don’t see how anyone could at this point.

Posted by: Michelle | October 14, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm

Joe Shmoe said: Well, that was exactly my point. The same guys who started that rumor is advicing John McCain now. Doesnt that tell you something?
Nothing more than McCain said he was “informally” advising, and that doesn’t bother me, anymore than Raines from Fannie Mae Freddie Mac fame “informally” advising Obama.

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

Props to T.Sheen for this:
George Bush has been in office for 7 1/2 years. The first six the economy was fine.
A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) the unemployment rate was 4.5%.
4) the DOW JONES hit a record high–14,000 +
5) American’s were buying new cars, taking cruises, vacation overseas, living large!..
But American’s wanted ‘CHANGE’! So, in 2006 they voted in a Democratic Congress and yes–we got ‘CHANGE’ all right. In the PAST YEAR:
1) Consumer confidence has plummeted ;
2) Gasoline is now over $4 a gallon & climbing!;
3) Unemployment is up to 5.5% (a 10% increase);
4) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12 TRILLION
DOLLARS and prices still dropping;
5) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
6) as I write, THE DOW is probing another low~~
$2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS HAS EVAPORATED FROM THEIR
STOCKS, BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT
PORTFOLIOS!
YES, IN 2006 AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE…AND WE SURE GOT IT! ….
REMEMBER THE PRESIDENT HAS NO CONTROL OVER ANY OF THESE ISSUES, ONLY CONGRESS.
AND WHAT HAS CONGRESS DONE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
NOW THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT CLAIMS HE IS GOING TO REALLY GIVE US CHANGE ALONG WITH A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS!!!!
JUST HOW MUCH MORE ‘CHANGE’ DO YOU THINK YOU CAN STAND?

Posted by: darryl from indy | October 14, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

In response to the person who said Palin had no experience to be VP, what experience does Obama have to be POTUS? Name one thing he accomplished. Nothing. Zero, Nada. Also, very troubling is his trip to Kenya to campaign for Odinga on our taxpayers dollars. Odinga campaigned for SHARIA LAW. When Odinga lost, his thugs initiated ethnic cleansing.
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/obama-and-odinga-new-video/#comments
WAKE UP, AMERICA, this man is dangerous. This will be Nazi Germany all over again. Obama is a socialist/Marxist. Elect a real American, John McCain.

Posted by: Ladyhawkke | October 14, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

I find it laughable that the Obama supporters on this site like to point out Palin’s inexperience, when the only experience that Obama has is”organizing” for the corrupt ACORN group and distributing millions funnelled by Bill Ayres to “educational” groups which appealed to their socialist and Marxist views.Make sure to continue to keep those eyes firmly shut while you’re chugging that koolaid, lemmings.

Posted by: ceejay | October 14, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm

All of you liberals out there disgust me. You can not articulate a true argument and are pathetic with your slams and lies. Sarah Palin is a good person and Barak is a fraud. He even has Bill bamboozled. Hopefully America’s prayers will be answered and the republican party will win this election. Oh, by the way, atta boy duvall, you said what I was thinking.

Posted by: Neal | October 14, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm

Welcome to the New Venezuela everyone. See you in line.

Posted by: Judd | October 14, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

To Lee Keohan -
Of course “To Kill a Mockingbird” is the absolute BEST.(his acting debut) Also check out RD in “A Family Thing” with James Earl Jones (fantastic) 1 more if you haven’t seen it – “Secondhand Lions” touching and hilarious. BJ

Posted by: BJ ~ Maine | October 14, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm

So refreshing to hear a Hollywood celebrity put his neck on the line for conservatism and not be shy about it! Way to go, Robert Duvall!! Keep up the good work. Hopefully you can enpower others in your industry of the same persuasion to do likewise.

Posted by: tarheelgyps | October 14, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

God bless Robert Duval. He is not only a great actor but a terrific American as well.

Posted by: RAberto | October 14, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

This is how the press overseas views the way Palin is being treated;
“Unfortunately for the Democrats, the beauty queen in question, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, has struck an enormous chord with Middle America. As a result, Barack Obama’s media supporters are making a huge effort to destroy her.”
And this is how they are viewing troopergate;
“And just what was that personal interest? Palin wanted a state Trooper fired because he had assaulted his 11-year-old stepson with a stun gun, been caught drinking alcohol in his patrol car, and the Palins say was threatening to kill a member of their family.
Certainly, there was a conflict of interest because Wooten was the Governor’s sister’s ex-husband. But shouldn’t the real question be why such a man was not fired?
What is really astounding, however, is the hue and cry over this non-event in Alaska while a raft of disturbing evidence about Senator Obama’s connections is being either glossed over or not reported at all.
This may come as a shock to most people, but Obama is at the centre of a network of radical associations which he has tried to conceal.”

Posted by: rrow | October 14, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm

IF Gov. Palin were “such a lightweight” as noted above, she would not continue to call-out Obama (and Biden). The woman has GUTS and I appreciate it!
I don’t think John McCain could have chosen a BETTER running-mate than her… she really is doing a fantastic job in bringing many (including plenty of Dems and Indy/Dem sympathisers — incl. ME) to the fold.
However, the Republicans DO need to hold tight and stick together in this race. Obama as prez would be a disaster as far as our economy is concerned. He doesn’t seem to “GET” that his 95-percent across the board tax cut would NEVER WORK and if he were to actually attempt to implement this, it would mean disaster in the way of an out and out depression in this country;
No way, NOBAMA.

Posted by: Abeck | October 14, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

Let’s not forget that just one year ago the unemployment rate was 4.5%, gas —2.19—stock market 14000 points. Life was not that bad even though we are at war, wake up smell the coffee, see the forest not the trees,do you really believe that you will not be taxed if you make under 250K, please. There is a trickle down effect, tax the oil companies higher and pay higher amounts at the pumps for gas and also for heating oil; it has to be recouped somewhere.

Posted by: cmt | October 14, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm

This is 1984. What is good is bad and what is bad is good. There are so many lies out there you cant find the truth. In fact I doubt if anyone can handle the truth. We have reached the point where we are now indoctrinated and marinated. Obama said yesterday to the Plumber I want to “spread the wealth around”. They use to call that communism. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. That was Karl Marx. Stick a fork in me I am done. Welcome to the USSA. United Socialist States of America.

Posted by: Roland T. Stiles | October 14, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm

Surprise! Illegal ACORN registrations do, in fact, lead to illegal ACORN ballots! From the NY Post:
Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and CAST A BOGUS BALLOT with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that nearly 4,000 registration applications supplied by the left-leaning activist group were suspect.
The vote of Darnell Nash, one of four people subpoenaed in a Cuyahoga County probe of ACORN’s voter-registration activities, was canceled and his case was turned over to local prosecutors and law enforcement, Board of Elections officials said yesterday.
Nash had registered to vote repeatedly from an address that belonged to a legitimately registered voter, officials said during a hearing at which the subpoenaed voters were to testify.
Board officials had contacted Nash this summer, questioned his address and told him to stop repeat registering.
But still, he breezed into Ohio election offices – the state allows early voting for president – reregistered with a fake address and cast a paper ballot, officials said.
“He came in on 9/30 and Mr. Nash again registered to vote at [someone else's] address, and he cast a ballot,” said board official Jane Platten.
Nash did not turn up for the hearing.
Expect to hear about a lot more of these, especially in Ohio, where the Obama campaign is trying to steal the state with great help from same day registrations.

Posted by: Illegal ACORN Voters = Illegal Votes | October 14, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

Hey Linda…everyone thought Hilter was a man of his word, just ask the English!!! ACORN is corrupt and so is the Obama machine…sorry…IMHO !!

Posted by: RK | October 14, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm

The socialist/communist have been waging a war on America since the late 1800′s. Back then they were known as the “progressives”.
Obama is a radical socialist and one of the great deceivers. He speaks lies and is deceiving America with every word. These socialist have infested every segment of our culture and are rotting it like cancer. It scares me to see the idol like worship of Obama. Seems like the same thing happened in Germany back in the 30′s.
But it is not just the democrats. The republican party has also been infiltrated. Both parties have destroyed America. McCain is just as dangerous as Obama. I think Palin has been hoodwinked, but she could prevail. I liken her to a young David, taking on Goliath with nothing but a sling. They laughed at David too, but God intended him to be king, and a great King he was.

Posted by: Jtm | October 14, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm

Robert Duval is 100% correct. George Will sold out to the Godless Leftist Lieberals long ago. I used to watch ABC Sunday and thought Will held his own. I was appalled when he started selling to keep his job. He makes me sick now! Here’s hoping we win a landslide election in Nov with McCain and Palin Victors. You can make it happen by voting a straight Republican ticket!!!!!

Posted by: Kellski | October 14, 2008, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm

What? …the Republicans are using actors now for their campaings. I thought that is what democrats do. Mr. Duval, isn’t he that bad actor in The Godfather? Poor man, at 78, he is as senile as MacCain. Just yesterday he was supporting Obama.

Posted by: Jai | October 14, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

Very mature Jai. Your rebuttal was thought provoking, inciteful, refreshing, intelligent, and so so liberal.
Obama votes for infanticide, should we do the same for those over 50, as they become senile, old, and seemingly stupid? Pay attention. You MIGHT learn something. Oh wait…are you one of those voting for Obama because he’s black, or because you will benefit from wealth redistribution, or it’s the hip thing to do?

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm

I just wish Robert Duvall would go out every news station and take on the liberal media. He’s so good and what a wonderful patriot.

Posted by: Jan | October 14, 2008, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm

ha ha ha ACORN is such an OUTSTANDING ORGANIZATION WITH AN OUTSTAND REPUTATION. ha ha ha You ‘kool aid’ drinkers out there, you must have been educated in Gov’t Schools to believe this crap. Acorn is paid by hardworking (i.e. taxpayers) people and like all Dem programs, it is wasted and thrown down the drain. It’s sickening how Democrats just are ‘acceptable CHEATERS AND CROOKS’. Just like their leader, the Messiah Obama.

Posted by: lana | October 14, 2008, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm

Wow always loved Duvall and now LOVE him more!!! Always knew he was a conservative and a man of true grit! Go McCain/Palin!!!!

Posted by: thiaCyn | October 14, 2008, 4:40 pm 4:40 pm

I noticed that some person way up the list of comments commented that Mr. Duvall had not acted since the 80′s thus somehow disqualifying him from having a comment. Jai, when you hit ’78 we will put you out to pasture and ignore your wisdom.
I looked up his list of work since 1990 and it is quite impressive, about 50 movies.
Get Low (2009)
The Godfather: Part II (2009)
Tom Hagen Crazy Heart (2009)
Four Christmases (2008)
The Road (2008)
We Own the Night (2007)
Lucky You (2007)
The Godfather: Blackhand Edition (2007)
The Godfather: The Don’s Edition (2007)
The Godfather: Mob Wars (2006) (VG)
Broken Trail (2006) (TV)
The Godfather (2006)
Thank You for Smoking (2005) ….
Kicking & Screaming (2005) “The American Experience” …. Narrator
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken (2005) TV episode
Secondhand Lions (2003)
Open Range (2003)
Gods and Generals (2003)
Assassination Tango (2002)
Assassination Tango (Argentina)
The 6th Day (2000)
A Shot at Glory (2000)
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
A Civil Action (1998
Deep Impact (1998)
“Saturday Night Live” (1 episode, 1998)
Garth Brooks (1998) TV episode
The Gingerbread Man (1998)
The Apostle (1997)
The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996)
Sling Blade (1996)
Phenomenon (1996)
A Family Thing (1996)
The Scarlet Letter (1995)
The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)
Something to Talk About (1995)
The Paper (1994)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Falling Down (1993)
Stalin (1992) (TV)
Peste, La (1992)
Newsies (1992)
Convicts (1991)
Rambling Rose (1991)
Days of Thunder (1990)
A Show of Force (1990)
The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)

Posted by: Michael | October 14, 2008, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

I’m a democrat but I’m voting for McCain/Palin because Obama has no experience at all. He is a very good speaker but this doesn’t match the executive experience of Palin and the foriegn policy experience of McCain.

Posted by: Dan Southern Oregon Coast | October 14, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm

Linda in NC,
Thanks for making my state look stupid. ACORN is not a wonderful prestigous organization with an impecable reputation. What it is however, is a group being investigated by the authorities in 13 states for voter registration fraud. 1 guy, 73 times. One volunteer took a group homeless persons registered with YMCA addresses to the early voting in Ohio and told them to vote obama. She was interviewed on TV and didnt think she had done anything wrong.
Voting is our right. People have died defending that right, and to have it ABUSED by these socialist thugs is reprehensible!!

Posted by: SICKOFDUMMYCRATS | October 14, 2008, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm

And speaking of celebrities…Tina Fey is so much more attractive as Sarah Palin than she could ever be as herself! ;) Oh – and I’m not a Republican either. Right on Robert…so brave of you to speak up in Hollywood, er, Jonestown!

Posted by: tabooda | October 14, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

Isnt it time to look closer at Palins ‘reform’ records:
“Palin has checkered history on ethics issues”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081014/ap_on_el_pr/palin_state_ethics;_ylt=AkPyoJgNycr7h2wWODfpXcXCw5R4
Some examples:
She pummeled opponents for giving oil companies and other businesses too much control of state government. Yet she appointed the founder of an engineering firm that received $6.8 million in state business as head of the transportation department.
She has accepted dozens of gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars since taking office, including two free trips last year that she failed to report on disclosure forms, despite criticizing state legislators for the gifts they take.
She is under another investigation, accused of misusing her office to campaign against a voter referendum calling for tighter mining regulations. Her husband, Todd, has accepted free trips from a mining company to look at their proposed new site.
Another ethics complaint, unresolved, accuses her staff of finding a state job for a friend and campaign contributor.
A friend from her Wasilla High School class was named to manage the state’s agriculture office after a career in real estate. A family friend and campaign worker became head of the state agency that distributes dividend checks to Alaskans from oil revenue. Her real estate agent’s husband received an appointment to the state real estate board.
Lets face it, shes just as dirty as some of the politicians that preceeded her. Under another ethics investigation??? Is that the “november surprise”?
Palin the bribe taker.
Palin the nepotist.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 14, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

Linda in carolina,
fact: Acorn is a pro democratic entity promoting fraud of all policticla processes.
fact: Acorn accussers have shown proof of flagrant fraud and proof of corrucption on a grand scale!
fact: you run with crooks and terroris lovers.
fact: you work with stupid people and don’t know it!

Posted by: crayon51 | October 14, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

I have just four words for the Republicans on here who are throwing stones: Palin = Alaskan Independence Party.

Posted by: vote4peace | October 14, 2008, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm

JACKSON ON OBAMA’S AMERICA
PREPARE for a new America: That’s the message that the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveyed to participants in the first World Policy Forum, held at this French lakeside resort last week.
He promised “fundamental changes” in US foreign policy – saying America must “heal wounds” it has caused to other nations, revive its alliances and apologize for the “arrogance of the Bush administration.”
The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where “decades of putting Israel’s interests first” would end.
Jackson believes that, although “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” remain strong, they’ll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.
“Obama is about change,” Jackson told me in a wide-ranging conversation. “And the change that Obama promises is not limited to what we do in America itself. It is a change of the way America looks at the world and its place in it.”
Jackson warns that he isn’t an Obama confidant or adviser, “just a supporter.” But he adds that Obama has been “a neighbor or, better still, a member of the family.” Jackson’s son has been a close friend of Obama for years, and Jackson’s daughter went to school with Obama’s wife Michelle.
READ FULL STORY
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_o_jesse_knows_133450.htm?page=0

Posted by: Real Story | October 14, 2008, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm

Show me your friends and I will show you who you are! It is very disturbing that these radical associations want Obama in the white house? Why?
Obama will be the end of freedom in this country. If you criticize him, suddenly you are a racist. Wow. We are headed down a socialist road. Liberals scare me. Look at Congress! Good lord, wake up people! I am terrified Obama will win! And to all the Palin haters: Newsflash! Palin has more experience and has achieved more in political office than Obama! And he is running for President. The ignorance is astounding!

Posted by: Lisa | October 14, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

Great Cartoon – Just a Guy in My Neigborhood
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77938

Posted by: KH | October 14, 2008, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm

Now I know why Ive liked Mr. Duvall all these years as an actor…its because he lives the character of the roles he plays in his daily life. He’s got a pair.
And because he’s not a sell out Hollywood elitist like Clooney and most of the whack jobs that transform and morf into liberal weenies before our very eyes once they start making it big there.

Posted by: BigD | October 14, 2008, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm

Dave, lol
“”"You can’t blame this one on the Democrats. Let’s all give a cheer for free market enterprise; without any rules!! “”"
There were rules. The rules were that banks had to give loans to bad credit risks. The free market would have never concocted this brain-freeze of a scheme on its own.
You can’t blame this one on deregulation. The only regulation that would have stopped Frannie and Freddie’s meltdown was the regulation proposed at the outset by republicans: namely, that we don’t force banks to give bad loans.
This economic mess was and is the responsiblity of Obama and his acolytes.

Posted by: Mike Kuyel | October 14, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm

OBAMA = ACORN
ACORN = HOMES FOR LOW INCOME PEOPLE
ACORN = VOTER FRAUD
Therefore:
OBAMA = FNMA FDMC CRISIS, VOTER FRAUD
Not only that but he is not proud of America and refuses to salute the flag?
He wants to redistribute wealth, or to steal it from the best of us, those who are successful at business and give it to others. Sounds like socialism to me.
Kruschev said that in order for communism to come to America, we would first have to accept socialism in small steps…and then one day we would wake up to find that we are now a communist country…
WAKE UP PEOPLE!

Posted by: Duane Bartlett | October 14, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm

Here it is from the horses mouth. Obama gets confronted by a plumber, who questions his tax policy:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77949
Obama tells this man, “I want to help those behind you (give others your hard earned money). He then says “Spreading the wealth is a good thing”…. There you go. Barrack Marxist Obama.
We can’t afford Obama.

Posted by: JTM | October 14, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm

Fox Toledo Picks up the Berg Lawsuit against Obama Not A Natural Born Citizen
If True he is off ticket
go to http://www.myfoxtoledo.com/myfox/pages/News/Politics?pageId=3.14

Posted by: oscar wilde | October 14, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm

I.A.T.SMITH, Romney has spent a huge amount of money campaigning for McCain, lets give credit where credit is due. Huckabee has done nothing but bitch about Romney being a Mormon. As far as I can tell, he has not stumped one bit.

Posted by: Chance | October 14, 2008, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm

Well Obama is a socialist this is true, So is McCain for buying up bad mortgages… This is all nonscence. The Democrats and Rebublicans are all in the same house of representative. If one doesn’t want to vote for a bill, the other offers ear marks so they will vote for the bill. We are all getting racked over the coles. Anyone ever heard of divide and conquer? They divided us while they all stay united. Don’t ya’ll get it? We need to all take this country back. And I say WE. Meaning blacks and whites and browns and yellows. And just to let all the racist know, not all white people hate blacks. Geez If I keep getting accused of being a racist cause i won’t vote for a racist (Obama), whats the point of even arguing then… I mind as well be a racist since I’m already hated. Can we just get over it and move on? For crying out load. And one more thing, I don’t owe anyone anything except my own kids… So get off your high horse and get a freaking job…

Posted by: Tyson | October 14, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm

Barak hussain obama. Are you people even kiddin me? jimminy christmas!

Posted by: kboy | October 14, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm

Robert Duvall: : “I love the smell of napalm in the morning…it smells like victory”…. (Apocolypse Now).. Thank you Robert. I liked you then, and I like you even more now! Liberals are like cockroaches… shine a light on them and their activities and cronies and they tend to scuffle nonsensibly. Especially the Ivy League educated ones. Joe McCarthy was right… just ask Alger Hiss. God Bless the Republic!

Posted by: Marvin Gardens | October 14, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm

I so love that his 2 biggest supports (Oprah and Michelle O.) are undeniably racist. Read Mrs. O’s essay from her college years or look at her in the picure with Farrakan’s wife. Ignorant fools.

Posted by: kboy | October 14, 2008, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm

It’s time for Repub Hollywood to step forward and damn the “blacklisting” that is happening on the part of Liberal Hollywood against even the moderate Repub or Kennedy Dem. It seems that McCarthyism is alive and well among the far left and media..So what happens if Obama screws up big time..do we dare speak out against his policies or are we on the road to a dictator rather than a president…My thanks to Duvall…enough is enough of verbal harassment and suppression of free speech…

Posted by: socalvoter | October 14, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm

“I love the smell of Napalm in the morning.” Robert Duvall has my respect.
A great actor PLUS guts.
Hollywood is mostly dysfunctional in their personal lives so how would they know what’s good for America.

Posted by: DJ | October 14, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm

Intersting that Obama rebuked Walmarts CEO for rolling $10 mill while his wife (who sits on the board of directors of Tree House inc. a NON-PROFIT) watched as her CEO took $29 million in pay yet runs a company 400 times smaller than Walmart. What a hypocritical jerk! Oh, be shure and check the facts on this one libs and demorats, its all documented.

Posted by: kboy | October 14, 2008, 6:15 pm 6:15 pm

Of course, the leftist wakos will throw the hate bating racist rhetoric; it’s all they have.

Posted by: Uncle Sam | October 14, 2008, 6:16 pm 6:16 pm

I also love how Islamabama has verbaginated “welfare check” to “tax rebate”. This guy is more solialist than this country is ready for.

Posted by: kboy | October 14, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

Where u at libs, demorats? No one responding to my posts? I invite you to dispute this stuff! I dont believe McCain is perfect either. But I dont vote my emotions or what cLOONY and Oprah tell me neo-sheep. Truth and fact trump all. Pathetic weasling baby killers.

Posted by: kboy | October 14, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm

I have no evidence, but only want to pose a question? Is it possible that some of these guys (George Will, Judge Andrew Napolitano, et al) could have a sexual fantasy for Barack Obama? I wouldn’t think so in their case, although it may be more likely in the case of Chrissy Matthews and his little buddy Keith Somebody on the msnBS loser network.

Posted by: twittybird | October 14, 2008, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm

Vote4Peace said: I have just four words for the Republicans on here who are throwing stones: Palin = Alaskan Independence Party.
From this very same site….and there is no concrete proof.
Officials of the AIP said Gov. Palin was once a member, but the McCain campaign — providing what it says is complete voter registration documentation — says Palin has been according to official records a lifelong Republican.
A day after making its assertions, on Tuesday evening, AIP chair Lynette Clark acknowledged she was mistaken and that Gov. Palin was never a member.
(Which to be honest seems more in keeping with the ambitious pol. Republicans have a much better track record than the AIP.)
Gail Fenumiai, director of the Alaska Division of Elections, tells ABC News that “Gov. Sarah Palin first registered to vote in the state in May 1982 as a Republican, and she has not changed her party affiliate with the Division of Elections since that time.”
So in keeping with some peoples discontent with the United States…Bill Ayres, Rev. Wright, Farrakhan etc…and the fact that Susan Sarandon has voiced that she’d be so unhappy if McCain/Palin won, she’d leave the country and live abroad…how is that any different?
I’d be shocked not to see a lot of these groups pop up, should Obama become President.

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm

It’s about time somebody says something about this!
Dems have lied, slandered, harassed Palin since the night her candidacy was announced. Obama laughs when people approach him speaking derogatorily against her.
Yet Dems whine if someone says anything negative about their candidate?
All this as the liberals pay to watch yet another Hollywood hate film about Bush.
What a bunch of whiners.

Posted by: tricias_mind | October 14, 2008, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm

Tina Fey moans about her suffering while immitating Sarah Palin. Numerous actors have whined saying they’ll leave the US should their candidate not get elected. We’ve heard this before, folks.
Tina has made a nice bunch of cash from her performances however if she doesn’t like doing them, she can simply stop. why pretend to be a victim?
Same goes for the rest who moan about the elections every four years. If you hate the idea of an opposing candidate getting the limelight, leave. Everyone is replaceable.

Posted by: tricias_mind | October 14, 2008, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm

I can’t believe anyone calling them selves Rep./Conservative would even mention voting for an obvious Marxist, who may not even have been born in this country. Susan, why don’t you take #@^&# Baldwin with you; though he VOWED to leave the country, he’s still here typical liberal “living up to your mouth”

Posted by: Dean Zahn | October 14, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm

Thank You Mr. Duvall.
I will tell you what I heard from one who used to work for polling companies.
He said when they call people to find out who they support, most of the people hang up on them, or tell they are not going to say who they will vote for……the ones they are getting the most of, are Obama supporters.

Posted by: Bobc | October 14, 2008, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm

McCain should have chosen Ambassador Alan Keyes as his VP choice. Foreign policy experience …
I’ll be voting for Mr. Keyes.

Posted by: David | October 14, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

Polls are intended to amp up another canidate. in 2004 they said that John Kerry was winning most of the time and I believe he lost to a healthy margine. The one thing the crooked polsters don’t realise is that I think it has an adverse effect. “If I see my guy losing, I better get out there and vote” mantalisty is displayed. If Joe bimbo Biden is a devout catholic, how can he be pro-abortion? You guys have got to be kidding me.

Posted by: Tyson | October 14, 2008, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm

Forget Palins’s credentials,you want frightening? I give you Pelosi,3rd in line for the Presidency. This botoxed grandma is the wealthiest member of Congress and funnels cash to her already rich hubby. Favorites include giggling over S&M street faires in her debauched, violent SF and, hiring illegals for her winery and cancelling Congress sessions whenever anything important is up for a vote. She might make a good marinara sauce but has no creden5tials to lead-anything,.

Posted by: Mad max | October 14, 2008, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm

Spot on David.

Posted by: kboy | October 14, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm

Nany HELLosi and her SF boy toy Gavin Newscum are an absolute waste of human tissue. They both sign up for an Shia hug.

Posted by: kboy | October 14, 2008, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm

My dear departed daddy once said that all he fought for in WWII and Korea would one day be for nothing. The libs would do more damage in one year than Germany and Japan together did in 10 years. Never thought I would agree with that one…..go figure

Posted by: Watson Forrest | October 14, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

OK, so everybody thinks Obama is going to win, by hook, crook, or high water. In spite of that, I will still vote the educated voter way–McCain and Palin. But, s*** happens, so Plan B. I have worked since I was 16, a single mom, supported my kids, never could afford a house nor send my kids to college. BUT! If Obama wins, I will quit my job (I’m 55)sit on my duff and cry with Oprah all day. I will qualify as the “poor and downtrodden”. Then the Feds will come to my door, according to Obama’s “plan”, and say “I’m from the government, we’re here to help”. I will then get my “right” of a house and college tuition for my kids. Why should I work? Why would anybody? There are those I know who plan to work only up to the $240,000 mark, then quit for the year. Others will outsource to other countries. There won’t be enough people at the top to pay for those at the bottom! The incentive to do well and work hard will have been taken away–just like the plumber. This is why communism failed. Ask anybody who came from a socialist or communistic country. My best friend’s family fled Poland–her father said recently “Never in my wildest nightmare would I have imagined that the country I fled to would become like the country I fled.” Free lunch? Good luck with that.

Posted by: I Quit Too! | October 14, 2008, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm

Wake up before it is tooooo late. Obama on TV telling a man that was worried about taxes, Obama’s reply to him was, its ok to spread the wealth to others, man got on tv next day and said OBAma scares him with that message because even if he is middle class he had work hard all his life for what he had and did not believe in obama for saying that. Everyone should be scared of him, Americans are flocking to him like they did JIM JONES and look what happend to them with the kool aid. Vote for a man that has defended our great nation not one that wants everyone to be on same page. Most of OBAMA’s supporters cant even tell you the real reasons they are voting for him, they surely don’t know his record. If yu want more big gov. and everyone to be on same page, vote obama, if you want this great nation to continue to grow and someone that will fight for us all vote MCCain. Remember obama stated on his debate that 18 BILLION DOLLARS in earmarks was nothing, but that money could have been spent on the american people for housing and food. Look at OBAMA”S ties to ACORNNNNNN. That is an injustice to all Americans, black and white, rich and poor. He gave 800,000 dollars to them then denied it. He even said they were going to set the agenda when he became President. Can you as Americans see that in your mind. He can promise you the world, but what is he really going to deliver…..

Posted by: Shirley | October 14, 2008, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm

Ummm, I don’t think Robert will find a job in Hollywood now. WTG Robert! You rock!

Posted by: LOL | October 14, 2008, 7:47 pm 7:47 pm

THIS IS ESSENTIAL READING FOR EVERY HILLARY SUPPORTER http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-wilentz/james-clyburn-happy-to-pl_b_99320.html

Posted by: Clinton Democrat | October 14, 2008, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm

Aw, don’t feel sorry for Robert! He can join me and watch Oprah. He’ll get a free house or his mortgage frozen! The moratorium you see…no worries, Obama’s at the helm. Promises, promises…
p.s.: Can you believe there are people walking upright out there who really believe this stuff?!?!?!?

Posted by: I Quit Too | October 14, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm

LIBERALISM, MSM & LOBBYIST are trying to DESTROY The United States of America…
http://www.supportbillayers.org/
Honorificabilitudinity in “08″. Vote for Theodore Roosevelt…
De inimico non loquaris sed cogites – Don’t wish ill for your enemies; PLAN IT!

Posted by: St Paul | October 14, 2008, 7:57 pm 7:57 pm

Obama = Farakan = Wright = Acorn
This summarizes Hussein Obama – corruption with a radical black agenda. Wake up Democrats – you have a fake and a fraud on your hands.

Posted by: harold | October 14, 2008, 7:59 pm 7:59 pm

To Iquit too, you are correct about what is going to happen, myself and my husband are going to quit work, get our welfare checks send the grandkids to college free, and wait for the next Goverment handout.

Posted by: Shirley Price | October 14, 2008, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm

There was a time in this Country when someone like Sara Palin would be respected for standing for life, for fighting to get to the office of govenor and ousting the good ole boys. Now she is mocked for having values. Wrong is now right. It’s a sad day for American. I read some of these comments and I can’t believe the venom spewing out. We used to be honorable people who treated those with whom we didn’t agree with respect. Newspeople are now as low as lawyers. Both professions were once honorable.
I wonder what the liberals will be saying once we are in a socialist society that will ban what’s allowed on the airways, in the news and in your home. WAKE UP AMERICA!

Posted by: Marianne | October 14, 2008, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm

You bleeding heart liberals make me want to vomit. You have no clue what this nation is about. If patriots of this nation ever really had there fill of you, you would all be deported to your homelands, cuba, soviet union, china,north korea,and lets not forget your muslum homelands where freedom really exists.. Love it or leave it.Or just get the hell out of our country. GOD bless America….

Posted by: biff | October 14, 2008, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm

Oh please!….and the stinking socialists…errr, democrats never call people names!….pull your head out moron.

Posted by: Debbie | October 14, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

Hold onto your privates B.O. supporters. If he gets elected, you are the first into the camps or worse. Soilant Green anyone? What a scam and you socialist bigots are allowed to vote. Go figure.

Posted by: Conservo | October 14, 2008, 8:12 pm 8:12 pm

Well, when the rich flee, with all their money, the responsibilty will fall to those of us making $100,000 or less, to pick up the slack.
Please say thank you!

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm

Linda,
Thanks for the update on all the ACORN “facts”.
All I know is that thousands upon thousands of your registrations are phony, and dozens of states are investigating or prosecuting your employees for knowingly turning in duplicate or phony registrations. And the word from the multiple registrars themselves is that the ACORN folks say they need his signature to get paid. And sometimes they pay the person signing the multiple forms. Illegal.
So much for ‘paid by the hour’.
FACT– ACORN has not registered any Republicans at all, or only a token few, in the 1.3 million new voters they claim to have registered.
FACT– ACORN is a Democrat party activist group on the one side and a ‘voter registration’ group on the other, but the two sides are sharing money, which is illegal, and getting millions of taxpayer dollars, which is also illegal if they are using it for party activism, which they are.
FACT– Barack Obama was their lawyer and also a top ‘instructor’ in the tactics that Americans are presently learning about, mostly on Fox because the MSM won’t run stories harmful to Obama.
FACT– the book “rules for radicals” by Saul “The Red” Alinsky gives many of the fundamentals of ‘community organization’ which we see at work now in ACORN, and Saul Alinsky was unashamedly promoting RADICAL REVOLUTION OF THIS SOCIETY.
FACT– Michelle Obama, when she famously said “Barack sees the world not as it is, but as it should be” was quoting Alinsky.
FACT– Alinsky also recommends making extensive use of the words “hope” and “change” in attempts to overturn the entire American society. Ways to create or overemphasize despair in the middle class are also taught.
FACT– one of Alinsky’s top ‘students’ was the man who wrote the letter recommending Obama to Harvard. He goes conveniently unnamed in Obama’s autobiographical tome, which also mentions nothing of his three years at Columbia (if he was even there– nobody from that time remembers him).
FACT– of five thousand voter registrations turned in to an elections office recently by ACORN, two thousand were examined without finding ONE ACTUAL REAL PERSON, upon which the volunteer elections officials just gave up on the box of cards entirely.
ACORN has been active for decades and is a blight on the American system of free and fair elections. If a person is not grown up enough to register to vote, that person should not be ‘helped’ by activists for only one party. This is obvious and wicked subversion of the system. PERIOD.

Posted by: Dave in Texas | October 14, 2008, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm

Palin has got way more than Obuma ever had or could have. Hu,’insane’ {Nobuma} and his pals, Jessie are going to be like Mr. Hankie the Christmas Poop in the white house listening to Rev Rights new rap song with “Busta Roid” getting down with the guys from Airplane…and paint the place purple and park their Escalates on the grass..little Eddie Murphy in Trading Places. This is all too fun that these guys are going to take this place down just like the Nazi….might as well laugh at ourselves for not paying attention…HUH…

Posted by: Drew Mudd | October 14, 2008, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm

Ricky are you still there,,,, My 6 year old just killed his first Fawn, he ate the hart raw! This is a great day for manliness here in Alaska! I hope you find your man-purse otherwise you won’t be able to eat Ben and Jerry’s ice cream with your food stamps. Obama said Health care is a Right! Please find that right in the constitution, it should be right next to the right to Bow to Socialized Teaching on Television. Bring your masses to the city, so big government can be Yo-Mama! 9 million people in LA County! Less than 1 million spread across Palins state. It’s no wonder so many folks are wigging out over this Socialist Obama. You live in a cage! Build a real fire, climb a real mountain, and finds a real beach without a soul on it! Get some perspective outside of Katie Curics camera butt ride.

Posted by: No Where | October 14, 2008, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm

Way to go Mr. Duvall. You are one of Americas finest actors and patriots. These hyphocritical left wing loony hacks are idiots with nothing between their ears but hot air and BS! I am proud of you and I am sure Duke Wayne would be also!

Posted by: Hawkfan | October 14, 2008, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm

To all you Obamanations…
Be careful what you wish for – you just might get it. Ever read “The Monkey’s Paw”?

Posted by: Rob | October 14, 2008, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm

I give McCain credit for doing one thing right – choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Posted by: John | October 14, 2008, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

linda n carolina, fact: Do you listen to the news or read any newspapers at all? every statement is incorrect.
I.A.T.SMITH . And Obaba does? Everything he says is a lie and I can back it up with his voting record. From guns, to taxes, to energy, no service record, and NO experiance! Why do you compare Obama to Palin and not McCain?
Any republican that dosn’t vote party lines is a fool for allowing Pelosi and the far left loons that tanked the ecomeny have free reign to create a socialist state!

Posted by: dorfs | October 14, 2008, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

“Typical Republican…name-calling and everything.”
ARE you insane? EIGHT YEARS of Bushhitlerchimp-halliburton-moron, and you DARE say “typical REPUBLICAN namecalling?” In 2004, across the street from the Republican convention, a play was staged about Bush being ASASSINATED.
The President of the United States of America has been trashed for eight years and now you say “typical Republican”
If Obambi wins, I only hope you get what is truly coming to you—your own surprise, something you never expected.GOD I hope so!

Posted by: watcher | October 14, 2008, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm

Lee.. left wing throw out way more names and they even have violent protests… don’t even go there.

Posted by: raymond | October 14, 2008, 8:57 pm 8:57 pm

Yes, JB the democrats in my family are voting for overwhelmingly for Obama because they care more about the economy and the enviroment than to let racism blind them to the point that they change parties.
Now, we are falling behind many other countries after eight years of dumming down our democracy. This country has become a laughing stock to the rest of the world. Our colonialism, greed, and conceit have landed us in a finanical downfall, an enviromental crisis, and we literally no longer lead the pack. What has 8 years of Republican posturing and strutting by a closeminded executive branch gotten us? Polls are not skewed. They are not always accurate, but the independent polling companies are not even owned by the media.
ACORN has done worlds of good in the community and helps support low-income families that is why Obama donated money to them.
The voter registration portion is handled on a commission bases. Employees profit for the more people they sign up. They are faking registrations for personal gain, how is that Obama’s fault?

Posted by: Cathleen | October 14, 2008, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm

Saul Alinsky’s son, David, has said that his father would be proud of Obama because he learned his (Alinsky’s) tactics well. Obama knows how to speak and get into the weak heads of the ones who follow him. The BO supporters believe they will have someone to take care of them because they are unable to take care of themselves. It is no different than a person being brainwashed by an Evangelist. It is pitiful. Obama has kids singing songs in honor of him, at one time his own presidential seal, 24 hours a day advertising on cable, infiltrating America’s computers,and web sites informing people what to say to non Obama supporters. He wants to change the National Anthem also. Sure sounds like communism to me…

Posted by: dee | October 14, 2008, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm

Sing along, if your a McCain supporter and feel so inclined, with the lyrics here:
McCain – Palin Tradition
By Hank Williams Jr.
The left wing liberal media have
Always been a real close knit family
But, most of the American People
Don’t believe em anyway ya see
Stop and think it over
Before you make your decision
If they smell something
They’re gonna come down strong
It’s a McCain – Palin tradition
Now this old Union’s got problems
That is plain to see
The Democrats bankrupted Fannie Mae N Freddie Mac
Just like 1, 2, 3
The bankers didn’t want to make all those bad loans,
But Bill Clinton said you got to
Now they want a bail out, what I’m talking about
Is a Democrat liberal who doo
CHORUS
John N Sarah tell ya
Just what they think
And they’re not gonna blink
And they’re gonna fix this country
Cause they’re just like you N ole Hank
Yes John is a maverick
And Sarah fixed Alaska’s broken condition
They’re gonna go just fine
We’re headed for better times
It’s a McCain – Palin tradition
I am very proud of America’s name
Bu no society is perfect
And we have had our stains
If I’m down at the coffee shop and
Somebody wants to give our flag friction
We say please move on
Cause we’re standing strong
That’s an old John McCain tradition
CHORUS
John N Sarah tell ya
Just what they think
And they’re not gonna blink
And they’re gonna fix this country
Cause they’re just like you N ole Hank
Yes John is a maverick
And Sarah fixed Alaska’s broken condition
They’re gonna go just fine
We’re headed for better times
It’s a McCain – Palin tradition
Some are bound to tell you I’m
Preaching to the choir
And that is very true
And we are going even higher
Like a mama bear in Idaho
She’ll protect your family’s condition
If you mess with her cubs
She’s gonna take of the gloves
It’s an American female tradition
CHORUS
John N Sarah tell ya
Just what they think
And they’re not gonna blink
And they’re gonna fix this country
Cause they’re just like you N ole Hank
Yes John is a maverick
And Sarah fixed Alaska’s broken condition
They’re gonna go just fine
We’re headed for better times
It’s a McCain – Palin tradition

Posted by: KH | October 14, 2008, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

It doesn’t matter which side you cry baby conservative wan bees want for president. McCain and Palin are our only chance to beat this socialist scum ticket of Obama and “Slow Joe”! If elected the resistance will begin against this racist man Obama!
You people who call yourself conservative. If you let this happen you will regret it for 100 years.
A new Nationalist movement is coming and the democratic Socialist party and Republican Party will be no more. The majority of working Americans, we Will fight you all!
The time has come for the cleansing of all those takers and users in our society, for those of us who have been giving to society the past 70 years we are coming for redemption.

Posted by: Newnation | October 14, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm

O.B.A.M.A.
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Birth of
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Muslim
America

Posted by: Laves sus Manos | October 14, 2008, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm

I am sooo glad that there are still a few in hollywood that dont belong to the “hollywood communist party” I think its time for more like him to stand up and be counted. This election is far to important to let the leftis media, the hollywood communist party, and ACORN decide this election. Yah Mr. Duvall!

Posted by: BG | October 14, 2008, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm

Cathleen…Obama said, ACORN will help shape the agenda of his presidency.
What does that mean, considering Minnesota was just added to the long list of states, with fraud going on, and ACORN being at the center? Obama did not donate money to them. He gave them $800,000 to get out the vote. I don’t think his money meant for both parties….but for himself. ACORN has endorsed Obama, and primarily only registers democrats. With that knowledge, and this….
Plumber to Obama: “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more. Isn’t it?”
Obama: “It’s not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
This man has designs on more than just 2 terms. We’re entering dangerous territory, and I promise you…when the wealthy all flee….we’ll be the ones holding the bag. It won’t be good!

Posted by: Jeanie | October 14, 2008, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm

In the true spirit of Obamaism, we will work harder, we will sacrifice our eggs and our milk, and we will “voluntarily” work on Sundays, because Comrade Obama is always right. Orwell, no doubt, is laughing from his final resting place.

Posted by: Ed | October 14, 2008, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm

Redistribution of wealth, either Obama suffers from delusions and thinks he is
Robin Hood or he is a Commie! I choose the latter. He feels like the government should raise children and not the parents! Sounds like Adolf Hitler to me. Acorn should be closed down or tarred and feathered and driven out of this Republic!

Posted by: LoneStarLady47 | October 14, 2008, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm

I don’t see Sarah Palin as producing hate, I see her as trying to get to the truth of Obama. The MSM certainly is not doing it. I think his associations and affiliations are important.
Again, Sarah Palin has been bashed and subjected to the most crude, tasteless rhetoric that Hollyweird can produce. Larry Flint, Madonna and all the rest. I am ashamed of those that would behave in such a manner! To compare this with questioning of Bill Ayers,is beyond belief. What about Frank Davis, Farrakhan, Tony R, and lets not forget his courting the Socialist party. Oh, I forgot, we don’t have a right to know. Truth squads, Acorn..yeah those are some issues.

Posted by: Angie | October 14, 2008, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm

Barack Obama will not produce an original birth certificate. Why? What is he hiding? Could it be that he was born in Kenya, as many suspect? Wouldn’t this make him ineligible to be the president of the U.S.?
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Who is Philip J. Berg? Search Google and find out.
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Posted by: Scott | October 14, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm

Seems to me that no one has questioned BHO’s ability to buy up all the commercial times and half hour slots. It’s not because there are so many people in our country who want to see his face every 15 minutes- could it be perhaps he can afford more air time than McCain because his campaign has been receiving illegal contributions from people in such places as Gaza and Iran who are praying to their allah for Hussein’s victory?

Posted by: canadianredneck | October 14, 2008, 9:57 pm 9:57 pm

Barack HUSSEIN Obama has never had an original thought in his life! He is merely a puppet of socialists like George Soros. Thank you, Robert Duvall, for standing up to these commie creeps.

Posted by: feathersax | October 14, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

There is one thing that really bothers me about the left. Their refusal to acknowledge the atrocities the Clinton admin did to his own people (WACO) and abroad (he bombed the hell out of Bagdad numerous times). His Anti-Terrorist Legislation of 1994, which was aimed at our own, authorized warrantless wiretaps against American citizens and was the foundation to the Patriot Act.
His jackbooted thugs, under the direction of the intolerant and hatefilled Janet Reno, killed 88 innocent men, women and children at Waco and busted down the doors of an innocent family to kidnap an innocent boy (Elian Gonzales) by machine-gun point.
Bush is certainly no saint, but if we are to bring back the government to it’s Constitutional origins, we all need to start working together in identifying the enemies and routing them out. News Flash…..it’s ALL of them….repubs and dems.

Posted by: jtm | October 14, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm

Christopher Buckley, the son of the respected conservative and the founder of the National Review, the late Bill Buckley (may his soul rest in peace) has resigned from National Review after endorsing Obama.
He was quoted as saying
” So, I have been effectively fatwahed (is that how you spell it?) by the conservative movement, and the magazine that my father founded must now distance itself from me. But then, conservatives have always had a bit of trouble with the concept of diversity. The GOP likes to say it’s a big-tent. Looks more like a yurt to me.
While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for. Eight years of “conservative” government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case.
So, to paraphrase a real conservative, Ronald Reagan: I haven’t left the Republican Party. It left me.”
This is indeed a historic moment! Republicans with a conscience are dumping the McCain-Palin ticket and voting for Obama-Biden ticket.
Perhaps there is a God, and America has a future after all!

Posted by: Jane Sixpack | October 14, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm

I loved Tender Mercies. The Consiglieri is a little harsh, but I can understand that after what the Turk, Sollozzo did, I would be a little wary too. I did travel on an Indonesian passport, but I was on assignment for the Weekly reader

Posted by: B. Hussein Obama | October 14, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm

Duvall struck a nerve on the Libama Expression.
HEIL HITLR

Posted by: squeeling lib/stuck pig with lipstick | October 14, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm

Empty suit that has never had a job, hustler, shake down artist, the “Huggy Bear” pimp type from Starsky and Hutch…. When he loses and all of the investigations catch up with the junior senator will put him in Leavenworth for a couple of years….

Posted by: Veteran | October 14, 2008, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm

Robert Duvall is a class act. You lefties can have Hugo Chavez’ buddies Sean Penn and Danny Glover. Give me a good solid American like RD every time. He is right about Sarah Palin too. Unless you want to move towards Socialism, you non-thinking followers better get your gray matter charged up and start backing McCain-Palin.

Posted by: Doug | October 14, 2008, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm

The brother from another planet that is runnin for our President is a member of the group that has kept our people down for ages.. Remember, it was the Republican party that passed the Civil Rights laws, not the Democrats…. It saddens me to see that the papers and TV are on Obama’s side. I wish that someone who followed Ronald Reagan would step up. God Bless the readers of this, and God bless the U.S. of A!

Posted by: Tyrone W. | October 14, 2008, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm

This article and, others like them, have given me enough cause to be concerned, as an American Citizen, as to whether or not our MSM has been biased (fair and balanced) in their coverage of the Conflict In Iraq, our economic crisis and, more importantly, this Historical Presidential Election.
The tragic underlying reality in all this, in my opinion, is that, if my concerns have merit, it leads me and, more than likely, other Americans, along with individuals from other nations around the world, who are closely watching the Iraq War, our economic crisis and our Historic Presidential election, to question our, supposedly, unbiased (fair and balanced) democratic election process, a process that our country has historically been preaching and aggressively assisting other nations (e.g. Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.) to adopt, at any cost. And, more importantly, a cause for which millions of our young Americans, as members of our Armed Forces, which I honorably served in for 20 years as a Marine, continue to, proudly and selflessly, help to uphold by honorably serving, fighting and dying for.
I Hope and Pray that my concerns are unfounded and have no merit, but, if they are NOT, which, tragically, we probably won’t even find out until after this election over with, I demand that our MSM (e.g. CBS, ABC, NBC, etc.) do some serious soul searching and have the integrity and fortitude to step up to the plate and take some credit for helping to fuel the current negative ads, racist attacks, anger and fear that is now visibly consuming some of us, through their blatantly biased (unfair and unbalanced) coverage of the Iraq War, our economic crisis and this Presidential election. And, if the MSM chooses to ignore my demand to come clean with all of us, all I can say is: ”God Bless America.”
P.S. I have taken the time to email each of the MSMs
with my concerns.

Posted by: WeroInNM | October 14, 2008, 11:05 pm 11:05 pm

At least get the facts – and if not, use your heads! ACORN REGISTERS voters – ACORN does not cast votes. The organization hires people to register voters – these people are paid according to a quota of registrations turned in. ACORN, by law, is OBLIGED to turn in all registrations, questionable or otherwise – they FLAG the Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck types. Unless Mickey Mouse goes to Nebraska to cast a vote (which I believe would be highly unlikely), there is no voter fraud. This is voter registration fraud perpetrated against ACORN by unethical hirees.
I cannot believe the way people immediately cling to these issues without any analysis whatsoever. The ACORN situation is a non-issue as to Barack Obama – silly. Did you listen to him? (Oh right – everything that emanates from is mouth is a lie. However Sarah Palin who DID abuse power and ethics according to the Troopergate Report does not lie when she states she is so happy to have been EXONERATED!
Obama is NOT a commie, is NOT a socialist. He is not a terrorist and (even though there is NOTHING wrong with being a Muslim) he is not a Muslim. It is fine to support John McCain (I used to think he was a great man as well, until he abruptly changed course) – but most of your comments are embarrassing and IGNORANT. The same thinking that brought us 8 horrendous hears with GW Bush (thanks so much!).

Posted by: Marti C. | October 14, 2008, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm

Josy
Fact: your a idiot.
Fact: Obama will lose.
Fact: There is a suit and charges filed again ACORN in ohio.
Get it straight liberal waste.

Posted by: josyisdumb | October 14, 2008, 11:15 pm 11:15 pm

Anybody tired of listening to the other side complain? Both conservative and liberal? How about dividing the country in two…libs take first pick, hell I don’t care which side you take just get me the hell away from your fricking blind politics. You can live off your own government handouts, and those of us “on the other side” can be rid of your polictical correct BS which is ruining our great country. Oh yeah, forgot, you don’t think this country is great, do you?!!

Posted by: Nomorefrickingliberals | October 14, 2008, 11:36 pm 11:36 pm

People, lets just jump to the chase. The liberals on this board are like all liberals. They hate America and want to reshape it into a quasi Socialist/Marxist state. They come from two backgrounds. First, the lazy and drug induced welfare class, and second, the power hungry liberal elite that want to dictate how every American should live, think and talk. This is a battle between those who believe in the Constitution of the United States, and all it provides, and those who are either too stupid to understand, or are truely evil. This will not end with this election. Regardless of which side wins, those who believe in the Constitution, and yes, in GOD, will not allow themselves to become slaves of these Marxist masters. My advice to hardworking conservative Americans? Keep your guns loaded and by the bed, because one morning they will be knocking on your door to take everything away from you, and you better be ready to fight to the death.

Posted by: Bill | October 14, 2008, 11:42 pm 11:42 pm

Come on!What do you want and what kind of country do you want to leave for the future?A Socialist president and a country to match?Think about it who gets the pass on alot of the issue’s from the mian stream media?

Posted by: Tommy T. | October 14, 2008, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

Give ‘em hell, Boss!

Posted by: wnaegele | October 15, 2008, 12:04 am 12:04 am

The people who say “I am a Republican but I blah blah blah” are so full of you know what that their eyes must be brown. I had no idea anybody from Hollyweird had any sense at all. I am also so so impressed by ACORNs defense of themselves – what a hoot that is. How many states are investigating them now? I think that’s what the country needs – elect Obama and see some REAL suffering, then find out later that ACORN stole it and the MSM didn’t report it. That ought to give the impetus to take out a lot of trash all at once.

Posted by: Rick H | October 15, 2008, 12:16 am 12:16 am

HEY OBAMA SUPPORTERS:
BET YOU CAN’T PASS THE TEST!
http://barackobamatest.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.home

Posted by: Ed | October 15, 2008, 12:28 am 12:28 am

Obama will bring in Marxist views and give them to us with a smile!
He is a dangerous man. He is starting to speak more like himself. Just a few days ago, he admitted that he wanted to raise taxes to “Spread the wealth” The USA was not founded on “Spreading the Wealth”
His main objective is destroying the free market. No one in their “right” mind would raise taxes in a time like this!
Follow the money when it comes to ACORN.

Posted by: mnjrupp | October 15, 2008, 12:33 am 12:33 am

> Posted by: JB in St. Louis | Oct 14,
> 2008 8:35:55 AM
> My most recent “you’re kidding”
> moment is the fact her daughter’s
> boyfriend is QUITTING SCHOOL to go
> to work to support Palin’s daughter.
> He’ll be a high school drop out!
> Gimme a break! What kind of example
> is that for kids?
I would say it is a good example. He is taking responsibility for his (their)
child. His life is hardly over because he is leaving school. I left school at age 17 and joined the Air Force. I later obtained my G.E.D., scoring quite well on the test. I am now a SELF-EDUCATED software developer who has worked at several Fortune 500 companies and at several luminary computer manufacturing corporations. I feel blessed and thank the Lord.

Posted by: Kent | October 15, 2008, 12:44 am 12:44 am

The more I get to know about Sarah Palin the more I like her. I really like how the liberals lose their cool and slam her for the lamest stuff. The media and the left get so offended whenever anyone questions anything about Obama, but they think its perfectly okay to call her vile names and stalk her family. Why are they so afraid of her? Are they afraid that she might say a prayer for their lost souls or something? That about much of a religious “activist” she will be if elected.

Posted by: dlc | October 15, 2008, 1:00 am 1:00 am

All liberals together now, This is our country, land of our birth; this is our country, grandest of earth.
And after eight years of moronic leadership, given to us by the same people supporting McCain and Palin, we’re getting it back! The presidency and Congress! Supreme Court here we come.At last, sanity will reign and Palin can go moose hunting!

Posted by: DavidKnows | October 15, 2008, 1:12 am 1:12 am

One of the few in Hollyweird who has a clue… Supporters of Barrack Hussein Obamam, If this SOCIALIST is elected get ready for bigger government, no serious miltary support, a pacifist concerning foreign policy, a globalist who will subject our country to the new world order, world courts, our soverignity will be threatened just as England’s has.

Posted by: mark | October 15, 2008, 1:16 am 1:16 am

Yes, Obama is popular. Very popular. Dare I popularity also swept Hitler and Karl Marx into power? The issues should be the issues, not simply that Obama makes your leg tingle, and yes, Obama’s character is an issue.

Posted by: JeffM | October 15, 2008, 1:17 am 1:17 am

Yes, Obama is popular. Very popular. Dare I say popularity also swept Hitler and Karl Marx into power? The issues should be the issues, not simply that Obama makes your leg tingle, and yes, Obama’s character is an issue.

Posted by: JeffM | October 15, 2008, 1:19 am 1:19 am

William Ayers & Barack Obama
The Facts
Obama is not a dummy, He may think that you are, but I assure you he is not.
With that in mind lets go back a few years, We live in Chicago, we have Degrees from some of the best Ive League Universities, and we aspire to be in local politics, with an end coal of National Politics.
At present, we are involved in community organizations, that put forward both political and educational opportunities for Mid Low to Low Income Families.
Several of our co-workers have been talking about how good we are as organizers and that we should run for State Office.
Over a period of time, we research possibilities and decide to run for office.
We speak with associates and form a committee to introduce us to the public and start our campaign.
The kick-off will be at the home of William Ayers. Mr. Ayers has worked with us on various committees and is well know by our friends.
Now – What I want all of America to believe is that I am to dumb to check out and know what everyone in Chicago Politics knows about William Ayers.!! You do believe me – Don’t you????
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Obama, Ayers, Black Panthers, Weathermen, ACORN, Jeremiah Wright, Father Pfleger, Annenburg Challenge, Khalid al-Mansour, Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky … the pieces all fit together quite nicely as more and more information comes out.
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1987 William Ayers meets Barack Obama 1988 Ayers solicits Khalid Al-Mansour to raise money for Obama’s Harvard law School education 1988 Michelle Obama works at Sidley & Austin lawfirm with Bernadine Dohrn 1989 Tom Ayers and William Ayers get Obama a summer job at Sidley & Austin (where he meets Michelle Obama); Ayers’ wife Bernadine Dohrn also worked at Sidley at about the same time as Barack and Michelle. 1993 Ayers places Obama on Woods Foundation 1995 Ayers makes Obama Chairman of Annenberg Challenge 1995 Ayers hosts a coffee klatch for Obama’s political debut (Obama falsely claims this is when he met Ayers) 2007-2008 The structure of Obama’s presidential campaign increasingly comes to resemble an Ayers-designed national “community organizer matrix” straight out of Maoist theory. This is not merely a presidential “campaign.” Obama’s organization is the first installment of an ongoing movement being paid for with tax-exempt contributions to his campaign, approaching half a billion dollars. 2008 Obama In response to ABC News, Obama tells a national TV audience he was “eight years old” when Ayers bombed federal buildings, and they are only casual neighborhood acquaintances. A lie.
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Ayres and Obama where both members of the Democratic Socialist/New Party in the same time frame when Ayers hosted the political event for him is troubling as well.
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William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are the adoptive parents of Mr. Chesa Boudin (who was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Go figure.) His mother is erstwhile Weather Underground leader Kathy Boudin, a close associate of Ayers-Dohrn. Ms. Boudin was one of the 1981 Nanuet NY Brink’s truck murders (two guards, one cop) and robbers. She was caught at a roadblock trying to escape and is doing concurrent, long prison bits. So Ayers-Dohrn adopted Chesa, whose given name is presumed to be in honor of fugitive Black Liberation Army murderer Joanne Chesamard , Chesamard has asylum in Cuba courtesy of the Castros.
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With those facts, Senator Barack Obama is disturbingly close to horrible, subhuman people involved in heinous crimes, yet this guy seems unconcerned and unrepentant.
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Winston Churchill

Posted by: BillinNORCAL | October 15, 2008, 1:27 am 1:27 am

HEIL OBAMA! SIEG HEIL! SIEG HEIL!

Posted by: EveryKneeShallBowToObamitler | October 15, 2008, 1:36 am 1:36 am

Obama can have my guns.
Bullets first, of course. ;)

Posted by: DonkeyHunter | October 15, 2008, 1:39 am 1:39 am

I would vote for Obama, but his being a smoker and former crack addict I worry he will die before finishing his term.

Posted by: Ken L | October 15, 2008, 1:59 am 1:59 am

Honestly, if someone needs an agency-paid worker to come to their door, promise them cigarettes and money to register to vote (and tell them who they should vote for) should they really have the right to vote? If you’re so apathetic about your own life (not to mention the rights bought with the blood of many selfless men and women) should you be making decisions about how our country is run? By all means, register and vote – but only if you realize what a precious thing it is!

Posted by: Mark | October 15, 2008, 2:02 am 2:02 am

Who wants to bet that if Mr. Duvall were out kissing Obama’s butt he’d be hailed by the Libs as the quintessential Thespian whose intelligence knows no equal?
Thank you Mr. Duvall for having the moral COURAGE to go against the others in your business that I’m sure you have to put up with that have little or no talent, decency, nor moral fortitude to think for themselves.

Posted by: Grand Old Party | October 15, 2008, 2:06 am 2:06 am

30 years of public dumbing down by the Lefty Nazi Crusaders, we will now elect them they’re perfect Know Nothing-Marxist-Commie Loving-Treasure Hunting- Black President. Finally they will have achieved they’re victory & primary goal,….removing the White Man.

Posted by: Poco Marajeta | October 15, 2008, 2:56 am 2:56 am

Raila Odinga. Rmember that name. Raila Odinga. It has a ring to it. Raila Odinga, like Barack Obama, cousins from the tribe. Raila Odinga. More to come on Barack and mohamar’s close friend. Raila Odinga. May it be whispered on the winds of this great land from shore to shore, from Canada to Mexico. Raila Odinga.

Posted by: Infidel | October 15, 2008, 4:41 am 4:41 am

Listen up Obama supporters. I have worked since I was 12 cleaning offices on the weekends and babysitting. I worked my way through college (took me 6 years NOBODY helped me), including junior year abroad, and finally my MBA which I financed through student loans and sacrficed to pay back BEFORE the car, tv, nice clothes, vacations, eating out, etc. I think I have the credentials and experience (working 10 years as an economist), that, LISTEN NOW,
RECESSION + HIGHER TAXES + RESTRICTIVE TRADE POLICIES = GREAT DEPRESSION.
You people have no idea how bad things will get. People will not be lining up for iphones, they will be lining up for bread and water. Google Herbert Hoover if you don’t believe me.
Now, my best friend from 1st grade, smarter than me, dropped out of school at 16, ran away from home to become a groupie for some rock band, came back and has 3 kids by 3 different guys, never applied herself, and she is smart, does not work and receives benefits and food stamps. She had all the fun and has the biggest flat screen TV I have ever seen. She is a big Democrat. Can someone tell me why my taxes should support her? If she was disabled, or mentally-challenged, sure, I would be first in line, but she DOESN’T want to to work because she is content with the handouts.
Hello? I now live between the UK and Spain and can tell you first hand that socialism sucks- there are no jobs in Europe, health system terrible – when Europeans get really sick, they do everything they can to get to America – Socialism DOES NOT work, why destroy the great last hope?
Wake up people – my Dad fought on Peleliu at age 17 – more people died during the initial battle than 3x the 3000 casulaties in Iraq – WWII was fought to preserve liberty – if we are going Socialist, we should have not bothered after Pearl Harbor and just let Hitler take over the world – THINK ABOUT IT. Millions did not die for Obama to waltz in with Louis Farakan to act out their hatred for our country. Obama has had all the opportunites one could hope for. He went to Columbia and Harvard for goodness sake. He is just pissed off that his parents abandoned him. And I feel bad for him for that. That is why he had to go to Chicago and seek out a foster family. Too bad they convinced him that the country was out to get him. It is like a kid in a bad neighborhood in LA becoming part of a gang. Obama is misguided and we will all lose- even you Obama supporters. The benefits will all run out and we will all be in the poorhouse.
Annie

Posted by: annie | October 15, 2008, 5:49 am 5:49 am

I love Obama, how mysterious he is. Like, I don’t even know what he stands for other than Hope and Change, whatever that means. It sure sounds important though. And if those really smart people in Hollywood support him, that tells me all I need to know. Gobama!
We should be thankful to have as our next President a man who makes Biden look credible, who hangs with domestic terrorists, who lets minorities help him land sweetheart real estate deals in Chicago, who has told his dirt-poor Kenyan half-brother to pull himself up by his bootstraps, who works with ACORN to keep Mickey Mouse and even the dead pulling the level for the DNC.
Oh, I gotta go, I’ve got an Obamagasm coming on.
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This is the coolest post I’ve seen in a long time! Classic! It shall go into my ‘gallery of rogues’ next to the photo of Hussein as Stalin. So true LOL

Posted by: Darrell | October 15, 2008, 6:39 am 6:39 am

Robert Duvall is yesterday’s news – just like Palin will be in 3 weeks. No one gives a crap what he has to say.
Jim
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Kinda like you Jim, yawn…

Posted by: Darrell | October 15, 2008, 7:02 am 7:02 am

Shocking development: Mrs Obama decides enough is enough: “My husband was born in Hawaii and adopted by his step father, does that make him unpatriotic; she asks”, on a direct telephone to API.
Posted by africanpress on October 15, 2008
Accusing API of colluding with American internet bloggers in an effort to bring down her husband, Mrs Obama said she decided to call API because of what she termed, API’s help to spread rumours created by American bloggers and other racist media outlets in their efforts to damage a black man’s name, saying she hopes African Media was mature enough to be in the front to give unwavering support to her husband, a man Africans should identify themselves with.
When API told her that our online news media was only relaying what the American Bloggers and other media outlets had discovered through their investigations, Mrs Obama was angered and she came out loud with the following: “African press International is supposed to support Africans and African-American view,” and she went to state that, “it is strange that API has chosen to support the racists against my husband. There is no shame in being adopted by a step father. All dirt has been thrown onto my husband’s face and yet he loves this country. My husband and I know that there is no law that will stop him from becoming the president, just because some American white racists are bringing up the issue of my husband’s adoption by His step father. The important thing here is where my husband’s heart is at the moment. I can tell the American people that My husband loves this country and his adoption never changed his love for this country. He was born in Hawaii, yes, and that gives him all the right to be an American citizen even though he was adopted by a foreigner; says Michelle Obama on telefon to API.”
This is a very interesting turn of events. The American man Dr Corsi was recently reported to have been arrested in Kenya because there was fear that he might reveal information on Obama when he wanted to hold a press conference in Nairobi.
The question now is why he was arrested and who ordered his arrest. Was Obama’s hand in this in any way? We will never know the truth but what is clear is that Dr Corsi was seen as a threat while in Kenya.
When API asked Mrs Obama to comment on why Dr Corsi was arrested by the Kenyan government and whether she thought Kenya’s Prime Minister Mr Raila Odinga was involved in Dr Corsi’s arrest, she got irritated and and simply told API not to dig that which will support evil people who are out to stop her husband from getting the presidency.
When asked who she was referring to as the evil people, she stated that she was not going to elaborate much on that but that many conservative white people and even some African Americans were against her husband, but that this group of blacks were simply doing so because of envy.
On Farakhan and his ministry, Mrs Obama told API that it was unfortunate that Mr Farakhan came out the way he did supporting her husband openly before the elections was over. That was not wholehearted support but one that was calculated to convince the American people that my husband will support the growth of muslim faith if he became the president, adding “even if my husband was able to prove that he is not a Muslim, he will not be believed by those who have come out strongly to destroy his chances of being the next President. Do real people expect someone to deny a religion when 80 percent of his relatives are Muslims?; Mrs Obama asked.
Mrs Obama asked API to write a good story about her husband and that will earn API an invitation to the innoguration ceremony when, as she put it , her husband will be installed as the next President of the United States of America next year.
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/shocking-development-mrs-obama-decides-enough-is-enough-my-husband-was-born-in-hawaii-and-adopted-by-his-step-father-does-that-make-him-unpatriotic-she-asks-on-a-direct-telephone-to-api/#comment-35974

Posted by: KH | October 15, 2008, 7:16 am 7:16 am

If these posts are examples of the polite supporters of McCain and Palin, I’d hate to hear how the Republican “thugs” present their well thought-out arguments.
Chris Brown and the not so silent majority
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Boo hoo Chris from Hamburg, we don’t fall for your phony holier-then-thou grizzle.
Didn’t Hussein imply Palin was a pig with lipstick! Clown, cry baby somewhere else if you can’t handle it!

Posted by: Darrell | October 15, 2008, 7:26 am 7:26 am

Littlemissmooseshooter. So funny to see all you libs spew hatred for Sarah, We all know that if she was a liberal, that she’d be praised.She is way more qualified than Mrs Clinton! Yeah remember her? What is really gonna be sweet is to see all the votes for Sarah coming from Hillary supporters. Ive been to their sites, and they are many!So I’m supposed to believe… most all blacks are voting for Barry(but it’s not racist)that lots of women are voting from your side for Sarah (but it’s not sexist)I see a landslide here, but it’s for McCain/Palin. Lots of Barrys supporters just lost their “ride” to vote. OBAMACORN is goin down in flames!

Posted by: marine 43 | October 15, 2008, 7:57 am 7:57 am

The difference between obama and osama,is just a little BS.Cant for the life of me figure out why anyone would vote for this muslim ass clown.

Posted by: JOJO | October 15, 2008, 7:58 am 7:58 am

Obama is a Fraud

Posted by: jj | October 15, 2008, 8:23 am 8:23 am

You know what people, I feel a shift happening….I really believe McCain/Palin might do it! Honestly, so many skeletons are falling out of Hussein’s closet now, even his wife is ringing the media defending him. Sounds like desperation to me.
Overseas news agencies are now questioning the MSM’s fawning coverage of the Obamessiah! They just didn’t think they could get away with it for the whole campaign, did they?
After refusing public money to fund his campaign and raking in one half billion $$$’s in campaign finance, he still can’t slam dunk McCain/Palin who are doing it on only about $85 million. And people say he is running a great campaign?!
You know what that tells me, there are plenty of doubters out there, that’s what!!

Posted by: Darrell | October 15, 2008, 8:49 am 8:49 am

lol Obama is the Magic Negro.

Posted by: wii | October 15, 2008, 9:03 am 9:03 am

Robert Duvall is the best!!! and guess what he lives Virginia!

Posted by: sally | October 15, 2008, 9:46 am 9:46 am

Please Obama let me know were you were born. My vote depends if you meet one of the two requirement of a candidate for the presidency! A candidate must be a natural born citizen, are you?

Posted by: undecided | October 15, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am

I thought Duvall was smarter than this–can’t believe he’s backing that moron from Alaska.

Posted by: Betty | October 15, 2008, 10:00 am 10:00 am

Sarah Palin doesn’t want to turn this country into a socialist craphole like you dear one Obama. I cant believe that
anyone would vote for that fake on legs. Palin is a real person, not a dummy in front of a telepropter and she has a real life that has not been tied to the public dole all her career. Has Obama ever had a “real” job? Oh I forgot he had a tough time as a community organizer coffee drinker.

Posted by: Ken | October 15, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am

lets not give up now we have the chance to put a woman in office!!! who wants to mess with a woman in her time of month its what we need the outsider thats one of us!!!!!!!!!! besides i wont vote for a muslim….. i fought for my country in desertstorm i saw it and i dont want here……….

Posted by: midnite | October 15, 2008, 11:18 am 11:18 am

Hey Frank G, you have it right!!!!!!!!! I have tried to understand why the American people have continually voted democrat when the history clarifies they have not only not fulfilled the promises…they actually keep the issues on the table year after year. For instance when Ted Kennedy was announced at the DNC convention did anyone notice the short film introduction…it was Kennedy over 30 years ago with dark hair talking about health care for the poor, housing for the poor etc… all the topics they are running on today, why is it the American people don’t notice this??? Well I’ve noticed something this election I hadn’t notice in previous elections…THE MEDIA, THE MEDIA, THE MEDIA, so many of us rely on them to tell us the whole story and THEY ARE NOT ONLY NOT TELLING THE WHOLE STORY, THEY ARE DEMINISHING ONE SIDE OVER THE OTHER. JOURNALISM IS DEAD DEAD DEAD. BETWEEN HOLLYWOOD AND THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN DON’T HAVE A CHANCE FOR AN EVEN PLAYING FIELD OF WHICH TO WIN THIS ELECTION…IT’S A HARD PILL TO SWALLOW BUT AMERICANS WILL BE PLAGUED WITH A SECOND JIMMY CARTER ADMINISTRATION ON STERIODS IN JUST A FEW SHORT MONTHS…IT AIN’T GOIN TO BE PRETTY AND THE MEDIA…AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED WILL BE THE MAIN CULPRIT FOR OUR PROBLEMS. Politicians will be politicians when the media starts weighing toward one side over the other, our information is contaminated and we are no longer informed. This is a very scary time.

Posted by: Carol V | October 15, 2008, 11:40 am 11:40 am

Palin is such a lightweight, airhead, bimbo, big-hair, Tina Fey-can’t-stand-her, The View-can’t-stand-her moron, isn’t she!? The NYT especially fears her as they send more reporters to diss her/dig into her than for Gore/Kerry/Obama-Biden combined ….
Face it liberal Democrats (I used to be one until another ‘idiot’ – Ronald Reagan – began to illustrate to me & other Reagan Democrats the gross power hungry nature of most – not all – most Democrats, more left than not – see Cong. Rahm Emmanuel, Ch Rangel, Chris Dodd & ACORN for obvious current examples) …. you live in mortal fear of Palin. Not only must be Plain stopped, she must be utterly destroyed never to constitute a presence on the national scene. She exposes the lack of experience of “I-have-run-a-campaign so-I-am-qualified-to-be-President” Sen Obama. I am not a racist as so many are now trying to imply (my family has done more for race relations, real tests & courage – not fake ‘concience’ only words stuff – since the 1950s- certainly more than 95% of Democrats – my sister worked in the slums of West Side Chicago > Precious Blood in fact, she stayed with the 1st AfrAm couple that tried to move into Cicero a tmortal risk to herself & them). I will not vote for Obam. I just know Chicago too well as I grew up there and much of my family knows politics directly there. Afr-Americans have been de-facto racially segregated on the Southside & near Westside for decades by ‘the machine’. Jesse Jackson, to his eternal credit, when young did not accept ‘buy outs’ as Sen Obama has done to advance. Look in the mirror Mr High Principles – you, as have many guilt-ridden ‘progressives’ implicitly also have done, have sold one of your core constituencies, African Americans down-the-river for decades as a few maintain a lucrative choke-hold (ala FNMA & FreddieMc) on political ‘representation’ & power.
Dismiss this as ‘just another lunatic hate filled crank right wing nut poster’ if you want to …. but all of this just happens also to be correct … no matter whether the national media is either corrupted (maybe half of their families, good friendd & spouses are connected to the Democratic party which you will never be told) or professionally inept/incompetent.
Thank you Rbt Duvall & Jon Voight for the courage to stand up when all around you are mocking you – you are the principled minority ‘speaking truth to power’ now. To repeat: Palin must be destroyed. It is imperative to our self-image & view of what America should be/should not be! An overreaction you say? Then look at the overreaction of the media & left in their attempts to annihilate this woman. I know serious smart Democrats, who because of the media blitz on her are totally unaware of what she did to overcome the corrupt old-boys politics of Alaska & intelligently side-step/nail Big Oil which tried to check-mate her.
So little objectivity when so many cannot put aside their ideological prisms. I challenge the Palin-haters here to try and be objective – did she not do one good thing in her short time as Gov.? … or are your ‘marching orders’ still in effect – do everything you must to destroy her.

Posted by: Reaction to Closed Minds | October 15, 2008, 11:52 am 11:52 am

Vote McCain. if we don’t. Obama wins.
Forget the Polls, we just need to vote.

Posted by: adpark | October 15, 2008, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm

Who is the pro-ACORN nut job? ACORN is the biggest scam to come along in years – I hope they prosecute every one of them and jail them for the voter fraud they perpetuate. Libs can’t win elections outright, so they have to lie, steal, and cheat.

Posted by: Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder | October 15, 2008, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm

Go Sarah!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Screw the media b o pimps!

Posted by: Tobey,Guthrie,Oklahoma | October 15, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

boy is abc now just another obama news network ,as far as i can tell there is not one current story about the sixth circuts ruling last night.i mean its like it didnt happen,oh well just another example of abc sticking its head in the sand.

Posted by: don tufts | October 15, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

I think Sarah Palin should be on the top of the ticket.

Posted by: Sam | October 15, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

Fact: ACORN registered a man 72 times to vote.
Fact: ACORN registered a 7 year old girl.
Fact: ACORN registered more people in Ohio than there are actually people in Ohio!
Fact: ACORN registered a cat, the entire starting offense for the Dallas cowboys and Jimmy johns resturant to vote.
Fact: they are bing investigated in over a dozen states for voter fraud.

Posted by: Kevin | October 15, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

ACORN…… IS NOT JUST ABOUT VOTING REGISTRATION…DO YOUR RESEARCH …LOOK AT BANKING ISSUES. STOP WATCHING MAIN STREAM MEDIA. LIBERAL AND SOCIALIST.
I am liberal when it comes to social issues, but coservative when it comes to $$$$$ and imigration and terror Thats my view I am screwed who ever wins this election

Posted by: JJ | October 15, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

I do not get americans. Dont they see what have happen in Europe? It is the same left you see in US that did destroy Europe. You can say that it is not the same but it is. During this campaign I have seen the same people in your country that I have seen here for many years now and they are just as crazy that our leftis. They will not stop for any thing.
what we see over here now is that the door to hell that they open is now hitting them in their as, and do they say that they where wrong? No they hide, and hope that we do not see them, but we do.
Let this be a lesson to all american leftis, that the door will hit them too, trust me on that.

Posted by: Mos | October 15, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm

BHO or better known as BO has affiliation with a lot of unquestionably charcaters. Check out the website of Worldnetdaily.com and get the low down info. If the two canidates were both black who then would you vote for? Or if the two canidates were both white who would vote for? Don’t look at race look at qualifications…then judge.

Posted by: Joseph | October 15, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

linda n carolina, What is the source of your so-called “facts”? ACORN themselves? Well there ya go. Libs spouting trash as fact. If you tell a lie (and the bigger the better) enough times and enough people repeat the lie, it will become fact. Post sources next time or don’t post at all.

Posted by: Republic of NObama | October 15, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

Hey Tom, you’re not talking about some third rate C list actor when you talk about Robert Duvall. He is an A-list Oscar winner and he has no less than three movies coming out in 2009. So, what was your point? Oh, am I keeping you from watching the Lindsay Lohan special on TMZ tv?

Posted by: kellirc | October 15, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

test

Posted by: goodness sakes | October 15, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

I love Robert Duvall!
If you have not seen Tender Mercies, rent it today.

Posted by: margo | October 15, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm

I’m a Republican, but more important than that, I’m a Christian. My views have changed some over the years, and I have become more and more conservative. I don’t see the Democrats on the left and the Republicans on the right anymore. I see them as both being on the left, with the Democrats being a bit further to the left. That being said, I don’t think any of the candidates are exceptional.
But I would like to give my opinion on Obama. As a voter, I consider it my duty to study well the backgrounds and views of the candidates I intend to make a choice about by voting. From what I have read and seen, Obama had a relationship with a former terrorist that was ongoing for at least two years. He also went to a church whose pastor was openly racist, at least part of the time, for about 20 years. I have read other things that are negative about him, but I would like to focus on those two things, partly because those two things are well known and partly because I think those two things give anyone the ability to make a fair judgment about his ability to lead the USA in a fair and peaceful manner.
My opinion of Obama is that he is extremely leftist. I would have to say that relationships with a former terrorist and an openly racist pastor make a person such. People who chose to ignore his past relationships do themselves and other Americans a disservice.
Also, it is just my opinion, but Obama is also “too Muslim” for me. Islam is the only religion on Earth that wants to force its beliefs on everyone on the planet. I find that quite offensive. Christians and Buddhists and Hidus all get along fairly well, but Muslims cannot tolerate any other religion. I’m not saying Obama is a Muslim. I’m just saying that his background implies to me that he would be more sympathetic to Muslim agendas.
As i said, I don’t think that the Republican ticket is awesome, but I cannot imagine having the lack of civic responsibility it would take to vote for Obama.
To those in the middle class, I ask you these questions. Democrats classically take tax money and give to the poor, even to people who chose not to work for a living. Republicans classically take tax money and give to the rich, who for the most part work for a living. Who do you want your money to go to, for it is going to go to one or the other? Do you think the poor are going to create any jobs for you or you descendants? Really, do you think the poor are going to do anything to help you and your family at all?

Posted by: goodness sakes | October 15, 2008, 5:08 pm 5:08 pm

It is difficult to argue Palin is unqualified and at the same time argue Obama is qualified for high office. It’s obvious that he does not have an edge in that category. It is painfully obvious he does not have the experience to be president of the United States, but I guess people can’t see past their allegiance to what ever party they support. There seems to be a serious lack of original thinkers in America. Just do what you know.

Posted by: KAS | October 15, 2008, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm

No wonder Michael didn’t trust him toward the end of Godfather II.

Posted by: Jim | October 15, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

Hey all you Obama Koolaid drinkers… if your boy messiah wins, we’ll see who has the last laugh. See you in the food line with your welfare check next year.

Posted by: Wisdom | October 15, 2008, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm

I am a conservative, and completely agree with the poster “margo”. It is time for Judeo-Christians to examine what is best for the democratic republic in which we live. Race seems to enter this political arena more than it actually should, and never where it is actually found! Rev. Wright is the perfect example of what influences Obama and the members of his church. Black people saying they hate white people because of their race creates the same hostilities as when white folk do and have done the same thing. It shouldn’t take a really objective thinker 20 years to resign from the church and its views, and only when the press and other presidental campaigns mention it.
And the poster “goodness sakes” examplifies my thoughts relating to his experience versus Palin’s- they are both inexperienced for the DC crowd. That is not a bad thing! It is just that Obama gives off n “I’ll take care of you” lulluaby and Palin is going to fist-fight her way through the mud. What won America her freedom in all wars? Listening to and letting a president say he will get you more money and that he is here to save you, or getting in the thick of it and risking your lives for the sake of freedom? (I know some of you are going with the first choice, but it is the American Solider who won us freedom, not a rookie politican. Palin and McCain understand that some times times are just rough-Deal with it and overcome it-can’t imagine prison camp being a walk-in-the-park).
Lack of original thought is right. We are still in a war, and are still fighting the MUSLIM terrorists, like it or not. FDR is not here to put a chicken in every pot. We need to ask ourselves what is the best thing for the security and continuing operations of domestic freedom, and who can best abide by those rules?
Sorry liberal friends, but not all of us should have access to the same healthcare benefits because it is not Barbie’s dream house…this is a real-life and it is tough-deal with it and get another job if need be.

Posted by: Miss G.H.Scott | October 15, 2008, 11:34 pm 11:34 pm

And sorry for any typo’s
And I love DUVALL!!! He was the best Augustus McCray there ever was.

Posted by: Miss G.H.Scott | October 15, 2008, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm

Palin is a cute dim lit bulb
Her husband Todd Palin is a high school
dropout.
Duvall is as old as McCain and they are both nice little washed up old guys.
Put this country first, Obama / Biden 08

Posted by: Truth | October 16, 2008, 12:53 am 12:53 am

Let me say first of all. I am an independent voter. What I find incredible about my fellow americans is how ignorant they are. Obama is a socalist..McCain is evil. What my fellow americans need to be aware of is that the world is changing fast. And The USA is not on board. No matter who becomes president, we are looking at a one world bank wether we like it or not. Also the days of America being a superpower are over. Don’t get me wrong…I love my country. But there have been events in the last few years that have put us in that position. Remember folks…WE THE PEOPLE run this country. When a resounding majority of americans said no to this bailout…what did congress and the senate do. Passed it! regardsless of what WE THE PEOPLE TOLD THEM!!!! We have no legitmate voice. Regardless who is the next prez….Fasten your seatbelts it gonna be a bumpy ride!

Posted by: thedivo | October 16, 2008, 1:48 am 1:48 am

This is the single largest collection of simpletons outside of a Palin rally. Listen to yourselves!!!!!

Posted by: bob | October 16, 2008, 4:55 am 4:55 am

Well I want THAT ONE for president, and THOSE ONES back to the freak house they came from.

Posted by: GIGI | October 16, 2008, 6:50 am 6:50 am

I LOVE Robert Duvall, one of the greatest actors of all time and, as insiders well know, one of the nicest men in the biz.
I agree with him totally.
America may well be passing into the night but men like Duvall remind us of what once was.

Posted by: Laurel | October 17, 2008, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm

Why I am voting Democrat!
I’m voting Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending MY MONEY than I would. I think when you spread the wealth around it is good for everybody! It’s Patriotic!
I’m voting Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. All profits are evil and should be confiscated for Government Redistribution.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe that MORE Government regulations and higher taxes on Business will stop Business from exporting their jobs to Countries with LESS Government regulations and lower taxes.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe terrorists should be allowed to have trials in American courts. And be able to subpoena top secret documents, soldiers, government officials, etc. to cross examine for their defense. They should have ACLU lawyers who can help intimidate Americans who serve on the juries!
I’m voting Democrat because I believe in a FREE government health care system. I believe doctors, nurses, hospitals, drug companies, etc. will gladly donate their time, products, services, facilities, etc. for FREE and that will be a better system.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe in and support trial lawyers, frivolous lawsuits and outrageous jury verdicts.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe 9/11 was an inside job to con the American people to go to war for oil.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe social security is solvent and that there is a social security lock box and I don’t believe social security is a Ponzi scheme.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe Gay Marriage should be the law of the land and will probably produce better children.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe English should not be the official language of the United States. I don’t mind pushing one for English when I use the phone.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe partial birth abortion is okay but water boarding a terrorist is disgusting.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe having a domestic terrorist like Bill Ayers as a close friend is a good thing. It allows for great relations with foreign terrorists.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe MOST AMERICANS are bitter and cling to their guns and religion. Let’s rid our country of guns and religion!
I’m voting Democrat because I believe illegal aliens deserve all the rights of ordinary Americans plus some additional rights Americans do not have.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe groups like ACORN who register felons, drug addicts, wino’s, homeless drifters, illegal aliens, dead people, children, fictional Disney characters, etc. makes my vote count more.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe celebrating the winter solstice shows compassion for the small minority of people that do not celebrate Christmas.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe hard core criminal murders and rapists deserve life and that the innocent unborn deserve death. It’s a choice I can live with.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe Bush caused Hurricane Katrina and he blew-up the levies in the ninth ward of New Orleans.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe our soldiers are AIR RAIDING villages and killing innocent people.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe sex in the Oval Office with an intern is a private matter and that everybody lies under oath about sex.
I’m votin Demokrat becuse I wus edumkated at a publick sckrool.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe that any one who is not partaking in one of the many wonderful government programs obviously has too much money and should pay higher taxes.
I’m voting Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq the terrorists will be happy and now think of us as good people.
I’m voting Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as it does not offend people. Can’t we all just get along?
I’m voting Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits are wrong. I believe higher taxes on oil companies will produce lower prices at the pump.
I’m voting Democrat because I believe we need to rid ourselves of dependency on foreign oil, BUT I AM AGAINST offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, drilling in Anwar, building nuclear power plants and clean coal technology.
And finally, I’m voting Democrat because I believe Reverend Wright when he said “GODDAMN AMERICA” and “OUR CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST”. Hey let’s make a comfortable nest for those chickens!
Why are you voting Democrat?

Posted by: Average American Mom | October 17, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

Who knew, an actor that isn’t a socialist butt kisser! With the balls to take on all commers! May God bless him and Palin also! yet let that scum sucking open border no enforcement jerk John Mc Cain go to Mexico where he belongs!

Posted by: Fred | October 20, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

An ACTOR with a set on him. God Bless Mr. Duvall, and all you “Infanticide supporting Leftist Hollywood wanna be Scumbags”. can kiss my “Irish Catholic Ass”. To much coffee, but you get my drift……………..

Posted by: Jack D. Ripper | October 21, 2008, 7:39 am 7:39 am

Would anyone please ask Sarah Palin what her stance is on the “Pebble Mine”?
No one has brought this up and it’s a huge issue in Alaska.

Posted by: joe | October 25, 2008, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm

Most of us would not shake hands or even stay in a room with William Ayres nor would we associate with Wright, Khalidi and other radicals. Why, oh why would any American vote for Obama, knowing of his association with radicals.
A vote for Obama is a vote against freedom. He boycotted a TV station in Florida for asking Joe Biden a tough question; he threw three reporters off his campaign plane because they worked for newspapers that endorsed Sen. McCain. There will be no freedom of the press – or the people with this man in the White House! He is a brilliant orator who will say anything (and has) to win.

Posted by: Karol | November 1, 2008, 12:37 am 12:37 am

Just according to keikaku.

Posted by: Light Yagami | January 10, 2009, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

Minimum fine art gone nowhere fast.

Posted by: traducteur en anglais | October 19, 2011, 9:26 am 9:26 am

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