Attack Blowback

To me this is simple; if the election was a trail in a court of law the defendant would have to be found guilt ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ in order to convict. Well this isn’t a court of law; but it is a court of public opinion and I believe the same principles apply. If there is a ‘reasonable doubt’ about the candidates’ character then you can not elect them. And there is a reasonable doubt about Obama character; there are simply too many questions about his past and his associations that haven’t been answered.
The issue is we need to have a President with character; no matter what the issues are; if that have strong moral fiber, and unquestionable character; they will have the countries best interest at heart and will keep a steady hand on the tiller.

This is good news. McCain won’t listen to all the good people who have been trying to warn him that he (and his terrible running mate in particular) has gone too far, but maybe he will listen to the voters.

Barack Obama is a United States Senator. To question his allegiance to the United States is LUDICROUS, PARTISAN and REPELLENT. Grow up you hate-mongers. It is the 21st Century.

Barack’s attacks are there, but they are much more insidious and subtle in nature. His labeling of John McCain as “erratic” & “out of touch” are simply Barack’s cowardly code words for “old” and “alzheimers”. Barack is no idiot, he knows how to play dirty but look clean. I simply do not like the way this man operates on any level. Add his lies about Ayers, Wright, & Rezco and you come up with a man who is simply not credible.

Now, now…it wasn’t just their communist and terrorist things that drew Ayers and Obama together…
It was also about scamming money from the foundations and putting them into Ayer’s and Obama’s pockets. Follow the money.
A political whistle blower once told an eager reporter to “follow the money.” That turns out to be pretty good advice. In politics, money and relationships tend to go together. So let’s look at some of the political/financial relationships between Barack Obama and the Ayers family and see if Obama’s claim that he had no significant relationship with Ayers still sounds reasonable.
All told, boards on which Barack Obama sat delivered $1,087,556 to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop.By now everyone knows that Barack Obama and Bill Ayers worked together as part of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, distributing over $100 million dollars to Chicago schools. Obama was picked from relative obscurity by someone to help deliver the funds to eager applicants.
The first wave of grants was issued in 1996. Just 35 awards were made out of over 150 applicants that first year. Among them was $175K for the Small Schools Workshop, Bill Ayers’ think tank at the University of Chicago. Obama was literally helping to fund Ayers vision. But that’s just the beginning.
The Joyce Foundation was originally the financial nest egg of a widow whose family had made millions in the lumber industry. After her death, the money was taken over by philanthropists who increasingly dedicated their giving to liberal causes including gun control, environmentalism and school reforms.
Barack Obama served on the board of the Joyce Foundation from 1994-2002. A review of the foundations website shows some interesting connections both to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and Bill Ayers in particular:
1996
The Joyce Foundation gave $50K to a group called Leadership for Quality Education run by Bill Ayers’ brother John Ayers. According to this May 1998 issue of Catalyst magazine (a periodical focused on Chicago school refrom) Leadership for Quality Education is “a corporate group that administers the umbrella Small Schools Coalition.” The Small School Coalition website shows John and Bill Ayers are the lead members on the “Policy Committee.” In short, the Ayers brothers were parners in the Small Schools initiatives in Chicago. A donation to LQE, for all intents and purposes, was support for Bill Ayers vision for Chicago schools.
1997
Even as Obama worked with Ayers at CAC, the foundation gives $337,556 to the Small Schools workshop at the University of Chicago.
An additional $95K to John Ayers’ Leadership for Quality Education “To continue assisting the recruitment, startup, and operation of charter schools in Chicago.”
1998
Another $149K to Leadership for Quality Education “To assist in the recruitment, startup, and operation of charter schools in Chicago; to evaluate the need for a similar approach in the Chicago metropolitan region; and to assist charter school proponents in Cleveland (18 mos.)” [HT: RBO for this one.]
1999
Another $125K to John Ayers’ group Leadership for Quality Education, the stated purpose of which was “To organize, in cooperation with a network of grassroots and reform organizations, a citywide campaign to generate greater participation in Chicago’s local school council elections.”
An additional $160K grant to the University of Illinois College of Education “To continue providing technical assistance to a network of small schools in Chicago and to continue advocacy and policy work promoting the expansion of the small schools concept within the Chicago Public School system” The link provided goes to the Small Schools Workshop website indicating this money was granted to Bill Ayers’ group.
2000
$365K to the Univ. of Illinois College of Education “To continue developing small schools…” Although it is not mentioned by name in the description, the link included with this grant goes directly to the Small Schools Workshop website. So once again, this money went to Bill Ayers.
John Ayers’ Leadership for Quality Education gets $187,100
2001
The Foundation gives $600K in grants to found the Chicago Public Education Fund. This is the successor to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Archives for their website are mysteriously unavailable, but both John Ayers and Barack Obama are listed as members of their leadership council.
2002
A $1.5 million, five year grant is given to the Chicago High School Redesign Initiative. The initiative is interested in turning 5 Chicago high schools into “small schools.” The planning grant for this initiative lists both Bill Ayers book and his Small Schools website in its appendices. Coincidentally, Bill Ayers co-edited a book with Patricia Ford, executive director of the Chicago High School Redesign Initiative (the book was published in 1996 and it’s not clear she held that position at the time. She may have taken it on later)
John Ayers’ Leadership for Quality Education another $75K.
But that’s not all. Obama was also a board member of the Woods Fund from 1999 to 2002. Also serving on the Woods Fund board was Bill Ayers:
1999
A grant of $50K to the Leadership for Quality Education which is described as “a pooled fund to underwrite costs for community and faith-based institutions to conduct outreach for candidate recruitment for Local School Councils and to encourage voter turnout for the elections.” So in this case both Obama and Bill Ayers are directing money toward John Ayers.
2001
A $50K grant to the Small Schools Workshop, headed by you-know-who.
All told, boards on which Barack Obama sat delivered $1,087,556 to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop. These same boards granted another $731,100 to John Ayers’ Leadership for Quality Education group, which as I’ve noted already funded the Small Schools umbrella group he ran with Bill Ayers.
Additionally, there’s the $1.5 million to redesign five Chicago high schools along the lines Bill Ayers was promoting (He’s highlighted prominently in the grant writing appendices). All in all that’s a not insignificant contribution to the Ayers family and their causes, certainly enough to rebut claims by the NY Times that the two men merely “crossed paths.” Barack Obama, more than any other individual one could name, funded Bill Ayers’ goals in Chicago.
Of course one might argue that Barack Obama was only one member of both the Joyce Foundation and Woods Fund boards. But clearly, the giving paints a picture of a relationship between Obama and Ayers that goes way beyond “a guy from my neighborhood.” To put it another way, if Barack Obama didn’t know who Bill Ayers was during this period, he was an extremely irresponsible board member.
Finally, it’s worth noting that Bill Ayers the radical and Bill Ayers the reformer were one and the same in the late 90’s. In March of 2000 Catalyst Magazine devoted an entire issue to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The end of their lead article quoted Bill Ayers on the results:
“I think it’s a mixed picture,” says Bill Ayers, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who worked with Chapman and Anne Hallett to pull together the original grant-writing effort.
Ayers believes Annenberg “played a big role” in fostering smaller, more intimate, less anonymous learning environments. But he says that the goal of making teaching more of a profession “is a goal yet to be realized.”
“I don’t think that’s in very good shape in Chicago right now,” he says.
Still, Ayers believes the Annenberg Challenge was good for Chicago “in the sense that it provoked and deepened our conscientiousness about some very important issues that go to the heart of lasting school improvement.
“Did it work? … It’s like asking, ‘Did American democracy work?’ It’s a work in progress. Did it work? Not yet. Not for a lot of people.”

The only attack ads in OH I’ve seen have come from the McCain side. Obama’s ads are usually centered around correcting the McCain ads misrepresntation of his policies. We’ve grown weary of them. And then to see their rallies and the hateful rhetoric. I’m looking forward to the debate. McCain needs to be put in his place for allowing his hateful message to go on as long as it did. If you take the time to read what they have to say, listen to their intrviews and watch the debates, I don’t know how anyone could say they don’t know where they stand.I know I’ve seen and heard enough.

OBAMA , WORKED WITH ,AYERS, IN 1995. AYERS ADVSED,OBAMA, ON ILLEGALS ACTIVITIES IN POLITIC POLICY. OBAMA HAS TAKING ADVICE FROM FORMER EXECUTIVES OF FREDDIE-FANNIE M.. FAILING TO SEE THAT THEY WERE HEADING FOR A MELTDOWN, DID NOT PROPOSED ANY RECUE PLAN TO THE NATION

But here’s the problem. Voters likely regard the “attacks” as something that Republicans “do”. It’s part of their Rovian nature, expected…like a scorpion stinging the frog who gave it the ride across the river.
It’s in his nature…so not inherently “bad”.
Also it’s somewhat expected that someone behind will play dirty in order to catch up…once again it’s viewed as typical…if not acceptable.In fact many may equate it to “fighting spirit”.

I always liked McCain, who was very funny on The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live, but he’s lost control of his campaign and his supporters, and if he’s done that, he’ll lose control of his Presidency.
I see few downsides to Obama. He went to Harvard, he’s served as a legislator for more than 10 years (and Illinois, by itself, is far larger than many countries) and he’s tried to keep a tone of dignity and optimism. I wish John McCain nothing but the best, but a vote for the Presidency must be made with an eye to the future.

Keep up the good work, McCain- you’re doing a great job- the polls show it and that folksy woman you picked as your VP- great choice- really shows off those “maverick” skills of yours. Whatever you and your campaign are doing- please don’t stop.
Those of us on the other team, are truly grateful that our country is not only getting to know you (and Governor Palin) as you really are- but also truly beginning to comprehend what a disaster a McCain administration would be to our country and to our planet. You think the country’s not smart enough to see throught your pathetic, outdated and frankly, insulting tactics? You’d be wrong, Senator
McCain.
Obama-Biden 08.

The tactic is to attack. Then, accuse your opponent, claim foul, demand an apology, all to make it seem that you are on the high moral ground. This is text book GOP strategy. McCain does not deserve an apology. Furthermore, McCain should stop staging questions at townhall–abusing or paying people with comments and questions is pathetic. This country is in real trouble and deserves better.

Republicans:
The rule of thumb is-
Don’t go to the grocery store when you’re hungry. Let’s apply that to this case, don’t go to the polls angry. The moral of the story is AVOID IMPULSIVITY!
2000: Republicans were fired up against Gore (just like they are now)
2004: Republicans were fired up against Kerry (just like they are now)
One question: how is that decision working out for you?
All I ask is that you remove the anger, remove the fear and ask yourself. “the last time I was passionate like this, did I make the right decision?”

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Obama talks about the issues??? WHEN? All he does is whine about McCain’s attacks and that Obama will bring change. He never says what kind of change…but he says he will. I’ve only seen 3 of Obama’s ads and they ALL are negative and don’t talk about the issues. Democrats are just believing what Obama is saying…Obama is a great salesman and he is selling people a load of crap and they just repeat what he says. ABC interviewed three women of Friday after an Obama rally and they couldn’t name ANYTHING on why they were voting for him. People have NO idea of his platform. Obama talks a great talk but he has no experience or legislative accomplishments to back it up. Obama is just a typical politician that is being followed blindly by Democrats and people who don’t educate themselves on the issues.

I’m sure McCain is totally panicking that his character assassination techniques aren’t working, and most Americans are embarrassed by the tone his rallies have taken on.
Since he’s the wrong side of all the issues, what else can he do but smear?

I think Americans are above scurrilous attacks, and can smell a rat a mile away when a candidate tries to muddy the pool with personal tirades. If McCain had focused on improving the lives of Americans, he might have had a shot, but it’s too late.

Thinking – HA HA! Excellent point.

It seems that McCain’s decision to focus on attacks instead of issues is having an impact, although it’s probably not the one he expected. From editorandpublisher: “Barack Obama picked up at least 12 newspaper endorsements this weekend, including six in swing states Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina and Missouri. John McCain, as far as we know, gained none.” Obama/Biden ’08!

I guess it depends on what you believe the issues are. I believe that Obama’s allies and shady friends are a major issue. I believe that ACORN and Obama’s ties to this voter fraud organization are a major issue. I believe that Obama’s record on abortion and gun rights are major issues. I believe that Obama’s unwillingness to release his college records, his medical history, his birth certificate and other documents are major issues. If asking questions and demanding answers from someone running for President is an “attack” then I am glad McCain is finally doing it because the media sure isn’t.

The only thing that McCain has done wrong is to bring on Palin as is running mate. He should have picked Lieberman as I beieve that he wanted to. The problem was unenthusiastic support from the conservative base, and she brought that. The problem is she is not qualified and has excited the conservative base, but not the moderate republicans (yes, there are moderate republicans and democrats) and has not done anything to bring on independents and the moderate swing voters of both sides. I feel bad for McCain because he was almost forced to chose her. However, he is clearly the more experienced and has a stronger love of country than Obama.

The Federal Election Commission Said and Fact Check said: McCain took over $160,000.00 from Lobbyists, CEO’s, and Executive Officers in campaign money of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now what is the name of that Reform Legislation that McCain is so proud of?
The Federal Election Commission Said and Fact Check said: Obama took only $16,000.00 from the working middle class employees of Fannie and Freddie.
Yet McCain keeps lying that Obama was the recipient of the second highest contributions from Fannie and Freedie.

Front: I agree. Vets deserve our thanks (and our care, which they’re NOT getting) but we must choose the best candidate, not the most honored.

like the old lady that is afraid of obama he is a arab—-hahaha—just another mccain setup rovian style—mccain put these people up to the terrorist thing and now he wants out this was done to make it look like he had nothing to do with it—–he is an old dog with old tricks—-farewell mcdummy ,we are not as stupid as your vp pick.

The economy is tanking, billions are going towards the war every month, our infrastructure is crumbling this very moment, and on and on….
If McCain talked about fixing things, he might have a chance. Instead he chooses to act like an scared senile attack dog, BECAUSE HE HAS NO SOLUTIONS!!!!

To you blow-hards who say “there are too many unanswered questions about Obama,” where has your head been the past year and a-half? admit that all of these issues have been thoroughly addressed, and that you’re just looking for any excuse to justify not voting for someone you’d never vote for anyway.
Your false indignation is completely transparent.

frontier52 – Obama was not on Capital Hill when he spoke out against the war. He wasn’t in the position to hear the facts that were presented (or misrepresented) and to vote on it. That makes his opinion of little consequence whether he was right or not. I was also against the war, but again, my opinion was of little consequence.

I have to hand it to Obama .. if his opponents would just stick to the issues Obama will debate about the Economy, Iraq, Health Care or any other issue. Even against Hillary he avoided personal attacks. Of course, he now has to deal with the Neocons. Masters of the ‘Swift Boat’ campaign smears snd other bottom of the barrel attacks. Neocons Campaign Motto is “We will sink to any level to win!’ LOL

hmm, seems to me that the tightening of the polls says a lot. Keep putting the pressure on Obama to tell the truth, do not let up.

I’m pretty confident the bitter-enders will never be convinced, but they’re only a few per cent of Americans, and a lot of far-right people are moving to Barr. He’s only getting a few percent in most states, but that’s enough to lose McCain the election.

I am so tired of the McCain-Palin 3-ring circus. Give me the steady hand of Obama-Biden. I’m voting for Obama!!

I’m tired of the democratic parties robin hood message that they roll out every election to give all the serfs hope to try and garner their vote. Obama nothing new here tax the rich and big business and that will create jobs?
I’m sure that when you roll out the tax increases to americas corporations to make them more competitve in this global economy everything will be peachie. What a maccaroon.

McCain lost this independent Nebraskan’s vote with his selection of Governor Palin. She is not ready to be the vice president of the United States, and it really is that simple. Nothing McCain’s campaign has done in the past three weeks has tempted me to change my mind. I don’t care that Senator Obama knows Ayers, just like I don’t care that Senator McCain knows Keating. Ayers is obviously not a “terrorist” today or the FBI would be crawling all over him. I can’t say if Keating is still a crook. I just don’t know. But I do know that I am tired of all the hate-spewing coming from McCain’s supporters, and I have noticed that “Ayers Ayers Ayers” seems to be the only official McCain policy lately. If that’s all he has to run his candidacy on, I sincerely hope he loses this election.

Sarah Palin should be a shamed of her self by now,if she has any dignity left.I hope her husband is talking to her or is he as greedy as her.Do they care about their children hearing and seeing all this bad flack about their Mom.I think she needs to withraw as Vice President,don’t try and be a big women.Consider your family and look at what she is putting them through.So what is she going to do pay a nanny to care for her baby while she out polticking around.Poor baby.May God Bless you Sarah remember what goes around comes around.Every man shall reap what they sow,whatever ever seed you plant that what you also shall reap/

If these poll numbers won’t change McCain’s campaign tactics, nothing will. Americans are tired of the type of negativity coming out of the McCain/Palin camp and we want answers to the ISSUES.
Quit beating the dead horse McCain. Talk about your proposed solutions. That is, if you have any.

justahousewife: Obama’s Ayers connection was reported earlier in the campaign. It didn’t get much play because there wasn’t much there.
I used to work with someone who had sexually harassed women at his previous company. By the standards of the McCain campaign, I would be “palling around with sexual harassers.”
The Obama-Ayers connection is news now only because McCain has made it the centerpiece of his campaign. It’s a pathetic and desperate campaign in which he can only attack his opponent and will not discuss the issues or say what he is FOR.
I’m not some Obamabot who drank the Kool-Aid. I’m an independent who supported McCain — until he chose Sarah Palin and descended into desperate personal attacks. I haven’t decided if I will vote for Obama yet, but I know I won’t vote for McCain.

Speaking of “issues”–have any of you read the recent reviews of McCain’s proposed health care plan? Almost all watch-dog agencies in the medical field and related fields find that his proposal will RUIN our healthcare system. It will tax employers, create a net loss for workers, eliminate many options and will drive up costs.
The reason McCain doesn’t want us to look at his approach on issues, is because his ideas suck!

I’m pretty confident the bitter-enders will never be convinced, but they’re only a few per cent of Americans, and a lot of far-right people are moving to Barr. He’s only getting a few percent in most states, but that’s enough to lose McCain the election.
Very right.I am one among the moderate republicans who has decided not to vote for right or left.I am gonna vote for Barr. Tired of all the nonsense attacks with no substance from Mcain Campaign.Palin’s selection was a real turn off to moderate republicans. When there are so many efficient woman leaders in Republican I strongly disagree with John Mcain’s campaign to go all the way to Alaska and chose a newbie.As expected she is damaging the campaign big time.Race is over and not much is going to change in the next 3 weeks.Obama played a smart political game and he is going to win.I fully agree with what Billy Kristol said on fox news today.John Mcain is going to lose because of his poor strategy and he cannot have a strategy where he places his leg on one side of the court and another on the opposite side of the court.Consistency lacking and John Mcain as a good decent man and war hero might be regretting to shed his own maverick image and fallen in to whims and fantasies of some staunch core republicans in his own party.I always wonder do these core stalwarts really want John Mcain to win this election?seems to me there is some hidden strategy in gop camp.

Dic: guess it depends on what you believe the
issues are. I believe that Obama’s allies and shady
friends are a major issue.
Both have issues, whether shady or sleezy. Neither
will win the Mother Theresa Award, after all, they’re
politicians.
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I believe that ACORN and Obama’s ties to this voter
fraud organization are a major issue.
The understanding is that his involvement did not
involve any fiduciary responsibility for the
organization and no control over the organization,
so he need not report it.
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Dic: I believe that Obama’s record on abortion and
gun rights are major issues.
Polls tonight from CNN indicate BOTH received a
C+ from the NRA. McCain is not a true Republican
believer of an all out ban of abortion. He believes
that under certain circumstances the fetus may be
terminated.
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Dic: I believe that Obama’s unwillingness to release
his college records, his medical history, his birth
certificate and other documents are major issues.
We haven’t seen McCains either. I would be more
concerned with McCains skin cancer than anything
else. Obamas birth records are a sustaining issue
that has no merit. Don’t you think the State of
Hawaii would have challenged it, when this
nonsense first occurred?
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Dic: If asking questions and demanding answers
from someone running for President is an “attack”
then I am glad McCain is finally doing it because
the media sure isn’t.
When members of an audience use violent verbal
threats to kill ANYONE, then it is out of order.
Luckly McCain diffused the ill-informed woman
who made totally false statements about Obama.
What do you think would happen if he didn’t say
anything?

spacerook
i think that last one was a setup to get the pressure off mccain and the hate politics.

zzzzzz LOL. Too all of you Obama bashers out there: You actually approve of the last 8 years of the Bush administration???????????????
Cause McCain voted with him over 90% of the time. Guess you want 4 more years of that bull. Geez, instead of the issues, all you guys can do is name call. Look at the educational backgrounds of each candidate. It’s obvious you guys call Obama elite because he’s articulate, well-studied and not impulsive, like McCain. McBush was wrong on the war, is wrong on his tax breaks for the upper 1-5%, trickle down economic theory, taxing health benefits and many other issues including his deregulation of the financial markets which lead to this disaster. And believe me, the economic news will NOT go away any time soon. Say bye bye to the whitehouse GOP:)

IF Barrack Obama wins the election, our country will fall. We are not ready for his issues or plans. It will take years for them to take place anyway. THE McCain/Palin ticket is the way to go for 2008…

El Pajaro,
What exactly about Obama’s associations do you want to know? He admits he knows Ayers. He admits he sat on boards with him. Ayers was honored as a leading citizen of Chicago by top democrat and republican individuals. So what are you suggesting? That Obama shares the views of Ayers regarding his career in the Weatherman faction of SDS? Tell me what you think of Palin’s anti-semitic pastor? Should she be accountable for that? What about the evangelicals that McCain hugs who believe the Catholic church is an abomination? Crawl back under the rock where you guys belong. I’m glad that the public realizes what crud the Palin/McCain ticket is.

The end is near for the Mccain Campaign. I am a Democrat who believes it is time for america to move to the next level. It is time for a new era in america. It is time for a new wind to blow into in america. It is time to turn the page on old ideas and look to a future for all americas of all race’s creed and color.

John McCain is too old to change his disposition and Karl Rove will not stop at nothing to get someone into the White House. He gave us George Bush, didn’t he? Karl Rove runs his campaigns using personal attacks, mud-slinging and smears and Sarah Palin seems to be the attack dog. Trouble is, the drool is ruining her lipstick! Wink, Wink, Wink!

dream on spacerook. There is no tightening of the race. Red states are getting more red, since they’re made up of people who believe the earth is 6000 years old and that evolution is a communist plot. In the battleground states the Palin/McCain are losing more ground by the second. Tsk tsk tsk. The only question is how many GOP congressmen and congresswomen are going to go down with the Pitbull with Lipstick and her running mate Erratic McCain.

I’ve seen enough. I’ve already voted for Obama/Biden. If McCain ever had a chance to win my vote, he lost it choosing Sarah Palin. She may be good enough for Alaska, but she is unqualified for VP.

SeanBean:
Not sure why I’m even addressing you, but to imply that someone will assasinate Barack shows just how brain dead you really are…
You, Sarah Palin and John McCain can do a double tuck with a twist off the “”Bridge to Nowhere”!
And trust, you won’t get 8 gold medals when you’re done!

aj you hit the nail on the head.

This election has moved from being a referendum on Barack Obama to one on John McCain.
John McCain has proved himself to be undeserving of the office he seeks.
His moral cowardice and erratic behavior disqualify him.

no respect for a war hero?????shame shame shame

MyCane knows this is the last opportunity he will ever have to be Prez. thats why he is pulling out all the stops. not that it is likely to win the election, but its kind of fun watching his ” run a clean and respectable campaign ” totally disintegrate. hahahaha. we will be watching this on tv for years to come. remember Howard Dean and ” i have a scream “?

How is McCain even as close as he is??
He is running the dirtiest race I’ve ever seen in my lifetime.
Wake up America! Do you want someone who will do anything, smear anyone, attack anyone who stands in the way of his greedy need to be called “Mr. President”?!?!
Please tell me that McCain will take a major hit for this and he will be buried on election day under the weight of his own vile and disgusting attacks! Please don’t fall for his lies about how he’s not running on dirt and smears. And please tell me you don’t want a VP who STILL THINKS THEY DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG EVEN THOUGH A REPORT SAYS SHE DID!
Tell me you are smarter than this America? Vote for Obama/Biden and lets move forward into the future!

Karl Rove politics has probably hurt McCain more now than in 2000. Karl Rove engineered a nasty campaign that helped Bush defeat McCain in 2000. Now, his disciples who are steering McCain’s campaign will probably cost him not only the election but his integrity. So sad.

Game over. It’s too late for McCain to return to the issues without looking like it’s a political ploy. That’s the risk of their strategy of trying to make the election about Obama — a “character” election: it’s turned out to be a referendum on McCain’s own character.

All these people who shout about Obama and his guilty associations and evil links should ask John Mcain and Sarah Palin one simple question….why in the world these news didnt come up on air when Democrats have chosen Obama as their presedential candidate?Why did they hide all these so called valuable information in the closet or barber shop all these days ? what makes them bring it out 30 days before the election and on the same day the whole country acknowledged that we are in deep economic crisis?

This is all just another Obama tactic to distract the public from examining his associations and character. Whenever anyone questions anything about Obama you are either a racist or negative. I say lets find out everything we need to know about him before November 4th.

cheryll:
What cave are you living in?
The MSM widely reported that McCain tried to counter the personal animosity of the mob against Obama — and was booed for his pains.
They also reported that Obama said he appreciated McCain’s efforts.

It’s safer for McCain not to talk about issues. When he talks about issues, he starts making outrages, “more liberal than thou”, kind of statements like buying back all bad loans using taxpayer money, which will guarantee to bankrupt our country. The conservatives are now more afraid of him than Obama. His only chance is hoping one of his attack slogan will stick.

Conservatives, I’m sorry. You chose poorly when you nominated Senator McCain who, at this juncture in history, cannot reconcile what he truly believes with what the radical right fundamentally believes, and Senator McCain chose poorly when he picked a running mate who is as anti-intellectual as the Republican base of fundamentalists seems to be. Carl Roves tactics will not prevail again. Game over!

As a Republican I admit that I was somewhat disappointed in Senator McCain’s VP choice. Although she is “articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking” lady that gives a great speech clearly she is not yet prepared to be President of the United States. It really scares me to think that we might end up with someone with so little experience running the country. Unfortunately I don’t think either John McCain or Joe Biden selected a qualified running mate.
However Sarah Palin is not running for President. John McCain is and he has over forty years of honorable service to our country. Four years ago Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator and Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. The mere fact that Barack Obama has to defend his experience against Sarah Palin should make everyone realize that neither of them is actually qualified to be President of the United States next January.

Geez – all the things you list McCain has acknowledged and addressed. If you are looking for a list let me provide that for you:
1. Member of the New Party (a socialist party).
2. Part of education reform with Bill Ayers (who endorses communism)
3. His pastor for over 20 years, Rev Jeremiah Wright who spews hate and is most famous for his statement “God Damn America!”
4. Cousin Odinga of Kenya, a genocide supporter
5. Columbia Prof. Rashid Khalidi (ties to the PLO)
6. Convicted felon Tony Retzko who helped him make a shady deal on his house
7. Fannie Mae Vice Chairman Jim Johnson, an Obama Campaign fundraiser
8. Religious advisors Father Pfleger and James Meeks
9. Represented ACORN in the past and made $800,000 in contributions for the registration of voters (Now under widespread fraud investigation)
The why hasn’t Obama addressed these issues; or even the questions about is time at Columbia. Where are his records? How did he pay for that? Now if he had a political record to point to that showed his leadership and willingness and ability to stand strong in the face political risk; I might be able to accept him as a viable candidate…but he doesn’t. The biggest concern for America is how Obama’s character and ideology was formed; who are the people he will turn in a time a crisis; we don’t know. And based on who he has associated with in the past that is a risk that America should ne take…Obama is a risk.

Do McCain supporters here not see the irony in posting Ayers attacks in their comments on this story about McCain’s negative campiagn?
That’s all you have! Nothing about McCain’s honor? His integrity? His positive message? Gotta love it!

Hey Repubs….NEWSFLASH!
Obama has been seen palling around, or at least having public discourse with a man who filed false tax returns. Another example of Obama’s bad character or at least his judgement, right?? The American people have a right to know about this!!
Oh…..
I forgot to mention….
the man who filed those returns…..
is…..
JOHN MCAIN!
I am hoping that this will help enlighten you as to how trumpted-up, useless and ridiculous your character attacks are!!
Let’s get to somethng real, people!!

If it was just Obama’s close association with one unrepentant domestic terrorist maybe it would not be such a big deal. But Obama has a long history of associating with radicals who despise the American way of life — Bill Ayers, Bernadette Dorn, Jeremiah Wright, Frank Davis, Rashid Khalidi, Michael Pfleger, Raila Odinga, Mike Klonsky, and who knows who else.
Just prior to the bombing of the New York City Police Department in 1970, Bernadette Dorn spoke for the Weather Underground, saying, “Our job is to lead white kids into armed revolution. . . . Ever since SDS became revolutionary, we’ve been trying to show how it is possible to overcome the frustration and impotence that comes from trying to reform the system. . . . Tens of thousands have learned that protest and marches won’t do it. Revolutionary violence is the only way [quoted in Powers, 1971, p. 212].”
In November 2006 at the World Education Forum in Caracas hosted by dictator Hugo Chavez Bill Ayers told the great humanitarian Chavez: “Teaching invites transformations, it urges revolutions large and small. La educacion es revolucion.” It is that form of socialist revolution that Ayers, Dorn, and Obama, are trying to bring to America. If elected Obama will probably appoint Ayers Secretary of Education.

It will be interesting to see if people are just saying they trust him or if they really do. I know several people that are voting for the Democrats running for Congress this year, but then voting for McCain because they don’t trust Obama. They wouldn’t say this to anyone outside our group because Obama, his campaign and bloggers have created an environment where you can’t question him or else you must be a racist. This has made alot of people angry. I have a feeling the polls aren’t accurate.

Given up on thinking bob?

who is obama? empty suit,no experiences
who will vote for him on nov. 08? do not think that he will be your “savior” ? or will give you free health care? it is a joke!
he is far left.if you a empty suit to be your president, vote for him.

The reason why people think McCain doesn’t care about the issues is because: He doesn’t.
Issues are of no importance to republicans. What is important to republicans?
The return of the Racist Confederacy.
The rise of Evangelical religion.
Integration of church and state.
Tax breaks for Wall Street CEO’s.
Debt, Debt, and more Debt.
Killing as many US soldiers as possible.
Fathering their teenage daughter’s children.
Pretending to be moral.
Preventing blacks from achieving equality.
Destroying our planet for the End of Days.
Who cares about the Real Issues facing America today?
Economy
Jobs
Mortgages
Iraq
Afganistan
Capturing Bin Laden
Bringing our troops home
Regaining respect of our allies
Balancing our budget
President Barack Hussein Obama, that’s who.

Remember, The McCain base is made up of the 26% of America that still thinks Bush is doing a good job. You can show a neo-con the error of his ways, but you can’t make him think.

It is so great to hear everyone discussing these things so calmly. I tend to think the Ayers connection is overblown – but the deal is, it isn’t really important. I’ve been on committees and panels with people who could easily have done illegal things in their past and I would not know about it. McCain can’t throw too many stones – because he has Phil Gramm and other links to Iran-Contra and the Keating 5. This is the course of politics.
I was in the airport today and 2 couples were talking about how bad it was going to be because Obama was going to win. I reached over to them and said that it was going to take all of us pulling together to get us out of this mess and to start blaming Obama for what was happening now wasn’t really productive. I acknowledged that everyone is worried about what is happening and this was no time to tear the country apart.
I think the hard right wing is so entrenched in Rovian politics they just stand around caldrons and boil spiders and stick pins in little dolls, and things like that. However, there are many incredibly intelligent conservatives who are going to be needed to help us come up with the innovations we will need to dig ourselves out of all of this.
Let’s keep it calm and pray that we can find a way to come together as a country. I don’t want to hear about Ayers when Obama is trying to get this country rolling again. Love, Mom

Items Barack Hussein Obama has not released.
1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — ‘not available’
4. Harvard College records — Not released
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — ‘not available’
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9 Certified Copy of original Birth certificate – - Not released
10 Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published — None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
13. Your Record of baptism– Not released or ‘not available’
14. Your Illinois State Senate records–’not available’

Remember McCain is attacking on issues that Barack Obama has lied about. He has told for separate and distinct stories on his relationship with Ayers. He did the same thing with Wright. All of this could have been avoided if he told the truth. He did the same thing with this relationship with ACORN. Why not just admit that he is from Chicago and these were the kinds of people you had to work with in Chicago and move on. The lies are what is bothersome. Obama should just stop lieing! To lie and then cry foul when you get caught is manipulative and wrong. Obama should be man enough to own his behavior.

Q: Which is worse, the republican politician that is in over his/her head and not up to the job or the dingbat that votes him into office?
A: seah

Someone needs to speak out against the sexism being exhibited by the Obama supporters at Gov Palin’s rallies. Talk about spewing hate.
ABC News: PLEASE report on this just as much as you have about McCain supporters. Oh I forgot you’re in the tank for Obama.

I certainly believe McCain has lost focus on what really matters to hurting people. None of these attacks do anything to offer hope to retirees who have lost 2 Trillion dollars in retirement funds in the last two weeks. They don’t do anything to bring hope to three quarters of a million out of work in the last nine months, not to mention the thousands that lost jobs this week. None of these attacks help those who have lost homes, jobs, pensions, health care, retirement funds and are paying the highest inflation in 27 years. At a time when we need hope and a call for courage, McCain-Palin offer the negative, and Obama offers a call which does bring hope, a call for all of us to work together. We won’t get there by being divided, and nasty attack ads of the sort McCain-Palin are using divide. It is time for McCain-Palin to talk about what they will do to help hurting people, to lay off the attacks.

Americans are sick of the spin and the sleazy accusations designed to manipulate us, we want to hear what these men plan to do to help us better our country and our lives. McCain knows he cannot win on that front, as the people he will serve are corporate lobbyists and the wealthy few, not ordinary Americans. He doesn’t have a clue what an ordinary American is, having been born to privilege as the son of an admiral and later married his way up to billions. Middle-class honor and struggle to secure the future for our families mean to him what stories of starving children in Africa mean to most of us, a disturbing but remote new item that we can choose not to think about if we wish. And he does just that, conveniently chooses not to think too much about us, rationalizing this with the ludicrous myth that what is good for the wealthy cannot help but benefit everyone. The way I see it, the wealthy have now robbed many middle-American families of their savings and their hopes for a secure future, and are walking away laughing as they make smart deals to buy up the fire-sale assets of America, all the while crying that this economic crisis is hurting them too.

Yes, I know there is some junk on this blog – however, I’ve always seen this stuff as the equivalent of a cork in a bottle of good wine, it has to come out to get to the good stuff. However, if people are writing the same junk over and over, that isn’t helpful.
I would very much like to hear from both sides, what you see as the changes we need in our country.
I just heard several Native American Elders from Alaska speaking – they were incredible. But their way of life is changing to the point they don’t know what to do. We are so worried about the stock market, when their entire way of life is going away before their eyes with global warming. One woman was from the tribe that has ANWR as their traditional land. They don’t want to “drill, baby, drill”.
Have to go. Love, Mom

Ahumbleopinion –
Why is Biden a better choice for VP then Palin; when Biden has ran for President 3 or 4 times and NEVER made it out the primaries! He is a walking gaffe machine, which has his own character questions. Palin is more qualified to be President than Obama, she HAS executive experience; as both a mayor and Governor. So she talks a little different, or hasn’t been inside Washington DC for years; why is that bad?

McCain will get back to the “issues”. It will be too little, too late and will further reinforce his erratic behavior in this crisis. This behavior versus Obama’s steady and throughtful approach to the crisis and his campaign is a crucial factor in Obama’s gains among independents. Now McCain is going to kick butt in the next debate? He will look ever more foolish to his own rabid base when he does not go after Obama on the “character issue”. This will further define McCain as a very erratic and very undependable character to his own base!

I guess it is true that what you put out comes back to you ten fold. McCain/Palin need to worry less about Ayers and more about finding a message for the next three weeks. Running on pure fear mongering and negative attacks just does not seem to be working out so well for them.

The McCain campaign came out on Monday of last week and said that they were going to attack Obama’s character and if that didn’t work, THEN, they were going to have to change strategies at the end of the week!! Look for a new stategy this week by the McCain camp. I really don’t think they want to know about Ayers and Obama, as much as they want to know what the voters are thinking…this is becoming such a sad campaign refrain for them!

So-Republican’s don’t see what the rest of American voters do- that McCain/Palin are running a very negative campaign. How can this be?
They’re calling for McCain to fight harder- don’t they realize that if McCain were to follow their wishes that he WILL LOSE?
Has the day finally come where negative ads have lost their use? It would sure be nice.
Issues are the ONLY reason to elect someone to office-
squishy things like ‘feelings’ and ‘character’ are just too hard to define and win an election.
Is it too late for McCain/Palin? Maybe.
But I think they will turn to issues- but just not the issues the majority of voters want to hear about….instead, look to see McCain/Palin focus on abortion and gay marraige-two issues that most voters really don’t care much about any longer.

When you base the entire campaign on attacking your opponent, sooner or later the people realize that the day after the election, all they have is someone that will get “Real Mavericky” on the issues. Whatever getting “Real Mavericky” means and not knowing for sure if being “Real Mavericky” is good or not. Is it good? “You betcha” NOT.

interesting that so many McCain supporters here don’t seem to have read the article at all, which has nothing to do about “issues,” per se, or associations, or specific “attacks,” but on the perceptions of groups of voters on whether or not the candidates are doing more attacking or addressing issues. and it’s pretty clear from the statistics that majorities of each group *except* the Republicans think that Obama addresses the issues, and McCain attacks. and that may be what actually decides the election, not partisanship.

Rolling Stone Magazine Article on John “The Make-Believe Maverick” McCain
” Growing up, McCain attended Episcopal High School, an all-white, all-boys boarding school across the Potomac in Virginia, where tuition today tops $40,000 a year. There, McCain behaved with all the petulance his privilege allowed, earning the nicknames “Punk” and “McNasty.”

When Obama was a commuity orginiser
in Chicago he sat on many boards.
It just so happen that Bill Ayers
was on one of them.Both Barack and
Michelle were never socially involved
with Bill or Bernadete NEVER.While
McCain was very close friends with a
convicted felon who served 4 1/2 yrs
in a fed pen for leading a gang in
the break into the
Watergate conplex.This man also
threatin the life of a national
columist and the life a central
American dictator.This man is now a
right ring talk show host who has
contributed a lot of money to McCain
campain funds.Now talk about nutcakes
G.Gordin Libby is on the top of my
list.

Palin is the death nail in McCain’s campaign. A pitbull that is seen for what she is: incompetent and spiteful. For years to come the role of the VP mate in elections will use her as a negative lesson.

Here is how I view this Presidential race:
* Imagine that you (the voter) are in the wild west 11 o’clock at night and you see two cowboys firing at each other. You don’t know either one.
There is a dangerous animal running after you and now you have two choices:
1. turn around and go towards the dangerous animal and hope not to get killed
2. Pick a side and run towards one of the cowboys and hope that he won’t kill you
The dangerous animal represents the American economy. The two men are Barack Obama and John McCain.
Make your choice.

If McCane has an ounce of self-respect left, he will render a public apology to the American People – Republicans and Democrats – for the racist hate-filled dangerous divisive demagoguery of his campaign.
The McCain we see on the campaign trail is not the McCain that many once admired, if not for any other reason, his service in the US Armed Forces and the years of his life he had to sacrifice as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. My Republican friends are saddened by the fact that McCain, in a desperate attempt to win the presidential election at all costs, has risked irrevocably tarnishing his own reputation and legacy through his lies, half-truths, and shameless pandering to racists, bigots, and the so-called christial conservatives whose actions would make Jesus Christ spin in his grave! I personally don’t think that there is much of reputation that McCane has to be tarnished – other than perhaps the carefully crafted public persona McCain has created for himself. The reality, given his ties to criminals like Gordon Liddy (of Watergate notoriety, an advocate of domestic terrorism), his cozy relationship with Cuban terrorists, and his and his wife Cindy McCain’s intimate connections with organized crime, is much uglier.
As for Sarah Pallin, David Brooks, a dyed-in-the-wool Bill Buckleyite conservative is right on the mark when he called Sarah Palin “a fatal cancer to the Republican Party”. In other words, the Republican party has a deadly case of SARAH PALINOMA.
If the Republican Party does not want to lose all those decent Republicans who are getting disgusted with McCane-Palin candidacy, it needs to denounce the McCain-Palin candidacy and focus on tough task ahead – that of rebuilding the Republican Party on the principles thatthe great Republican luminaries Abraham Lincoln stood for.

Here is the real change for all Obama supporters:
1. Change we can believe in (Hot Air)
2. Change we need (All my money)
3. Change (laundering money between crooks)
If you follow the money trail, it will show the true Obama.
He’s so AFRAID of his PAST, the money trail that coming from oversea terrorists.
Obama’s PAST is muddy. Come on now, come CLEAN to the voters. Don’t commit fraud.

Look like Jane Sixpack has MORE than six. Most of them are Kool-aid with coke flavor to keep them fighting the Socialist of America. Citizen like this, who needs enemy?

McCain 1st you disappointed me with your attacks and inuendo against Obama now you just disgust me. Palin and you will go down in history as being the most negative self serving destructive political figures of the 21st century.
What a legacy to a long career.
Former supporter
Independent voter
Vote Hope Note Hate
Obama/Biden 2008

According to another news source, it appears Pelosi and Reid are going to try and BUY the election for BO….
“After consulting with Barack Obama, Democratic leaders are likely to call Congress back to work after the election in hopes of passing legislation that would include extended jobless benefits, money for food stamps and possibly a tax rebate, officials said Saturday. The bill’s total cost could reach $150 billion, these officials said.”

Fraggenboots –
Thank you for the post; and you know what is really interesting is this article from Ayers has a strikingly similarity to Obama’s books. Hmmm… did Obama really write those? I wish we had something from his time at Columbia and Harvard to compare his books too; but we don’t because he refuses to release this information, or maybe it doesn’t exist.

These polls are surprising? McCain is running the most dangerous campaign in modern history. I hope he can get his supporters to stop spewing violence towards Obama.

GOP means Government Oppression of the People. Kick the Repubilcans out. Vote straight Democrat and help save America.

Let’s see, Obama beat McCain in both of the debates according to national polls. If an empty suit can beat McCain, what’s that make McCain?
And McCain’s campaign slogan “Be afraid of the black man” has caused him to slip in all the polls, especially in the battle ground states.
McCain is paying the price for hiring all the ex-bushies to run his campaign. Better luck next time John.

People are just sick and tired of Bush, McCain.Cheney,Palin, all these race baited attacks and their rallies with hate spewing out. I tell you now, McCain was negative before but when Palin came in she brought just plain nasty and dirty to the ticket, from what I read she is the same in Alaska.

The hate-speak begin by McCain, and especially Palin borders on domestic terrorism all on its own. Inciting crowds to yell “Kill HIM!” in regards to a Senator is the lowest form of slimeball attack – something one would expect in a minor 3rd-world dictatorship. The lies, the racial hatred, continues via Palin, even though McCain is trying to get that nasty genie back in the bottle. Good luck dude, but I think the fat lady is already singing.

“Down the Drain for Palin and McCain”

McCain/Palin supporters: war-mongers, hate-filled, elitists and discriminators.
Obama/Biden supporters: progressive thinking, peaceful and inclusive.
It’s that simple. You choose.

McCain has been throwing a lot of stones for a man who lives in a glass house. His running mate has a lot to answer for concerning her own past relationship with fringe groups and good ol’ boys networks. He has a number of former lobbyists working on his national campaign – lobbyists for such companies as AIG, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch.
There’s a lot of questions that need to be asked about McCain/Palin’s associations…so why aren’t they being asked?

Truthteller,
“Obama/Biden supporters: progressive thinking, peaceful and inclusive”
The same go for Barney, Rosie, and little lo HAN.

McCain, himself said if you don’t have any ideas go negative. At the last debate he said he knew how to do many things, maybe share his secrets, or admit it is simply noise. Just more Bush.

Funny polls are showing that the race is tightening and the ads are working.
Yet ABC NEWS claims that the negative ads dont work.
If the ads dont work then Obama would not be squealing about it.

It kills me when the conservatives whine about Obama being too liberal. BOO-HOO, how are we supposed to live with a liberal in the white house?? BOO-HOO.
WELL, WE liberals had to endure 8 dreadful years of the most conservative president in our lifetime. HE FAILED us. I guarantee OUR liberal will do a much better job than that moron conservative that’s leaving office. Why would we vote another conservative in? You conservatives are DONE.

Just as President Bill Clinton was coined as the “Comeback Kid” I think a real possibility is and it very well may be that John McCaine could go down in the Hisotry books as the “Comeback Old Geezer”
MED

Voter in America: a little angry? still like president bush? still like the war? voting for Mccain? think palin is a smart gal? let me guess…yes to all of the above. you are in the MINORITY now…how does it feel?

Hussein Obama has a dream like MRK. It
won’t work, sorry thats life !!!!!!!!

No one who voices opinions here about Obama and Ayers has commented on why the lead Prosecuter of the weathermen trial in 1972, a conservative republican, has now come out in support of Obama. He removes any doubt of issues with what Mr Ayers became as an adult.
William C. Ibershof, lead Federal prosecuter of the Weather Underground, attacks McCain over smearing Obama with Ayers association. He expressed outrage over the linking of Barack Obama to Bill Ayers by the McCain campaign.
To quote the letter in the New York Times:
As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972), I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.
Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.
Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago

“What McCain didn’t mention is that he has his own Bill Ayers — in the form of G. Gordon Liddy. Now a conservative radio talk-show host, Liddy spent more than 4 years in prison for his role in the 1972 Watergate burglary. That was just one element of what Liddy did, and proposed to do, in a secret White House effort to subvert the Constitution. Far from repudiating him, McCain has embraced him.”
…
“Last November, McCain went on his radio show. Liddy greeted him as “an old friend,” and McCain sounded like one. “I’m proud of you, I’m proud of your family,” he gushed. “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 principles would those be? The ones that told Liddy it was fine to break into the office of the Democratic National Committee to plant bugs and photograph documents? The ones that made him propose to kidnap anti-war activists so they couldn’t disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention? The ones that inspired him to plan the murder (never carried out) of an unfriendly newspaper columnist?”
“Liddy was in the thick of the biggest political scandal in American history — and one of the greatest threats to the rule of law. He has said he has no regrets about what he did, insisting that he went to jail as “a prisoner of war.”"

JUSTATAXPAYER: In your post you said: “Jim, you have got to be joking. The fact that Obama is a senator means nothing. There are reports that he has violated the Logan Act by trying to negotiate with the Iraqis on his Mid East trip. There are reports that he was a direct participant in the ACORN training process and taught volunteers how to pressure banks into giving mortgages to people who could not afford them.” Why don’t you take the time to get your fact right? Obama PARTICIPANTION WITH ACORN WAS YEARS AGO, NOT RECENT and he NEVER TAUGHT ANYONE TO PRESSURE BANKS!! As for Obama
violting the Logan Act by trying to negotiate with the Iraqis on his Mid East trip this is simply another of your REPUBLICAN LIES! Just this morning the Iraq Prime Minister called all of the major news organizations and publicly stated that Obama never did any such thing. He NEVER encouraged the Iraq Government to put off a deal with the U.S. until after the election. Again , more and more Republican LIES!! But both YOU and JUSTAHOUSEWIFE all ready knew that didn’t you!!! Your feeble old man is going down in flames. Too bad, but you should have pick a better candidate!! GO OBAMA-BIDEN!!!!!!!!

Try a little pity along with your anger:
Pity those who call the black conservative derogatory names. Be angry at their actions but do not join them.
Pity those who, contrary to all evidence, including statements by the candidate they support, are consumed by their prejudice. By angry at their actions but do not join them.
Don’t hate them. Pray that they will repent.

Too bad Shakespeare isn’t here to listen to Palin. I believe he would have said “me thinks she doth protest too much”. Sort of add a different perspective on the term “barking dog”, doesn’t she?

As I read the comments It seems a fact
most people the numbers from bloging John Mccain is not in control of his vice presidents apperance and message she sending to the people. Lying and then turning the truth around until it becomes truth in her mind and then convencing others as a following of her are so engrossed into winning the election. The republicans are secretly acting as the this national dept was bought on by the democrats. Democrats need to constanly remind the greedy on deregulation bought this own and the war in Iraq. And contiuing down this same path is what we are not going to do.

Criminal investigations Obama and his campaign is currently being investigated for: (1) ACORN voter Fraud . There IS a RICO investigation of ACORN and the Obama campaign underway. Federal agents are investigate ACORN, which has been funded with upwards of $800,000 in questionable donations from the Obama campaign (in what appears to be the expressed and explicit direction to engineer voter fraud in the general election). – (2) the Sun Times is reporting that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is about to make a plea deal with Rezco that may finger Obama for quid pro quo for two sweet heart deals Obama benefiet from for purchase of his homes. (3). There is a lot of activity in Chicago right now, with a lot of IRS agents looking into the finances coming in and out of this city, and across state lines (this was established on Monday when the GOP issued emergency press releases that much of Obama’s campaign contributions could very well be illegal foreign contributions – what appears to be deliberately poor record keeping designed to hide the true identities and monetary sources of online donors is at issue here.

You Republicans amaze me. I guess Charles Keating means nothing to you. As long as there is an “R” after the name, everyone gets a free pass. Kathy, maybe you could put your mad skills (and unbelieveably long-winded writing talents) to better use, and give us all a history lesson on the Keating 5. I actually think that is a lesson that bears strongly on the events that are going on in the market and country today. All of you have forgiven McSame for taking free rides on the private jet of a criminal , but you can’t forgive the charity board work? Hypocrites all.
You make all kinds of connections when you run for office. Both men have met questionable people, and have questionable followers. The country is full of crazy, marginal, racist, liberal, conservative folks. You might know them as your neighbors. They are definately all of our countrymen. But in that group, there are those who are truly unstable. Inciting ANY of these people to violence puts the blood of any candidate that is at the business end of a gun on their hands, period.

McCain has basically lost control of the Republican Party. The Republican Party has become a stark raving mob under the McCain, Palin’s leadership. Now he is trying to conduct damage control and the mob is resisting his efforts. We are Americans. We need a leader that can stay on course with a steady hand. We need a leader who can motivate us in positive way. We need a leader to unite this nation, to solve our economic issues, and to lead us in a positive way.
Senator McCain has fallen off the path of leadership and honor.

The media has not let the public know about the real dirty campaigning Obama is doing. McCain’s so called dirty campaigning is just letting the public know about the fact Obama is friends with terrorists, communists and crooks. A fact that the media has neglected to tell the public about.
The Obama campaign contributed $800,000 to ACORN who is now under investigation for voter fraud in numerous States. Obama is clearly using Alinsky type tactics in his campaign by lying about his relationship with Ayers, Wright and Rezco Obama is using ads that accuse McCain of not being able to use a computer when in fact McCain is not able to use a computer due to his war injuries. It is Obama that is doing the dirty campaigning and the media is covering all of Obama’s dirty tactics up.

As a Vietnam infantry veteran and a lifelong Democrat, I regardless have always had a positive attitude about John McCain. Not any longer. McCain has sold out his ethics to his lust for power.
An American hero? Hardly. He’s America’s national disgrace.

I want to know who has been doing the polling, who they’ve been asking and what their political views are. It is well known that tortured data will tell you whatever you want to hear and media pollsters have a history of promoting the leftist agenda. Did they ask you? They didn’t call me.
McCain hasn’t been attacking Obama, he’s been helping introduce Obama to the people. We need to know who this man is before he moves into the White House. He has been associated with a radical, racist, anti-American organization, he has close ties to a former domestic terrorist who claims he didn’t do enough. Obama has associates in Chicago who are known criminals. Friends with an African dictator. Associated with almost every leftist radical in this hemisphere except Castro who spoke in support of Obama yesterday.
Obama has supported the DC gun ban then claims he knew it was unconstitutional. He still supports the similar ban in Chicago. What other parts of the Constitution does he plan to ignore? McCain supports the Constitution and the Supreme Court who agrees with 73% of the American people.
Obama who isn’t a veteran thinks he knows more than the generals who have spent a lifetime learning how to fight a war. McCain who is a veteran knows to listen to the generals and let them do the jobs they were trained to do.
Obama thinks raising taxes on people who earn a lot of money is a good idea. Never mind that those people will just pass the tax on to us by raising prices. Obama supports the death tax which is the biggest threat to family farms and family businesses since the dust bowl. When asked which programs he was willing fund at current level or eliminate, Obama only gave a list of programs he wanted to increase funding for.
Obama isn’t only a radical leftist, he’s dangerous.

Oonogil: can you give me links to everything that you just said? and please, nothing that refers to McCain sites or any RNC sites. thank you
BTW: who is more dangerous, an unethical adulterer or as you call Obama, a “leftist” with no police or ethical record. Tell me, how many times has Obama been called on his ethical record? Hmmm….

Mack: i see you are afraid of truth. you rather live in that web of lies that McCain is spinning. “Oh what tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive”

Mack,
It gets reported. That’s how I found out about the 30 minute Keating Five video. Makes Obama’s association with Rezko look like two alter boys sneaking the sacramental wine before mass

Chicken coming back home to roost.
McCain and Palin are just reaping what they sowed.
I was for McCain before and they I could not even believe what I was seing coming from the McCain camp.
After our meetings with other Christians, it was clear…
Now I know that this time the McCain are truly the raveneous wolves in sheep clothing…

McCain – Representing the ICK in Maverick.

McCain and Palin don’t get it. People are concerned about more than the personal attacks. Pay attention Mr. McCain.

The negative attacks are hurting Obama. I was at a large party this weekend where alot of folks were reevaluating voting for this guy. The ACORN voter registration scandel is also hurting Obama.

Remember what John McCain said, during the Republican primary, that he would rather lose an election than lose a war. Well, MY FRIENDS, he’s obviously in another war, a war of media propaganda, and I’m pretty sure he would rather take a chance on losing the general election than to have the people of America uninformed about his opponents (Barack Obama’s) questionable character and friends of ill repute. Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched Democrats of the Obamanation. They tried counting McCain out before and he came out swinging and won his primary. The trouble with the liberal media and the Obama Democrats is they are way too cocky about this election. Nothing is over until the American people enter into their private voting booths and make their choice with ALL the information they need to elect a true American, John McCain.

Nebraska voice –
I presume you would think the Georg Bush ‘has character’, at least more than Bill Clinton had — at least according to the rabid republicans (ala Bob Barr), and I not saying all republicans. So by your logic, Bush is a much better president than Clinton.
Give me a break. First of all, when I look at Obama’s life I would say he has shown character. But even if he hadn’t, do I want four more years of Bush, since all I hear from McCain is the standard conservative baloney over the past 30 years. Lower taxes — whether the economy is doing well, doing poorly, or staying even. The answer is the same, let the wealthy keep more of their money since they obviously know more than others how to use it, since they have it in the first place.
I am sick and tired of the conservative approach of Spend and Borrow.
It is time for change. I support Obama, and to tell you the truth, I don’t know if he will change things. What I am sure of is McCain won’t, other than possible reducing a few earmarks, which is not going to solve this countries problems. The way McCain is running this campaign he is making a toxic wasteland of the political ecosystem. He is demonstrating quite clearly he is more interested in winning, than leaving the election process with a united American that can face up to its problems. It is not about this election, it is about what is in store for the American people after the inauguration.

Obama said he thought Ayers had been rehabilitated? Where? The Betty Ford Clinic?

Where is Mrs Obama hiding? Are they afraid she will say something brilliant like its the first time she is proud of her country?

About the Chicago Annenberg project: Obama was involved with this for 5 years and they spent 100 million dollars. The test score of those children DID NOT GO UP. So even if you don’t believe that Obama and Ayers taught them radical Politics, was this a successful 100 million dollar program???You have a lot of nerve critcising Sarah Palin.

Here’s a hint about the fake ACORN controversy: if they HAD tossed those obvious registrations they would have been guilty of voter registration fraud. They SPECIFICALLY separated the suspicious ones so the election offices, whose job it is to verify the information (not ACORN’s) could do it a bit more easily. I just hope it doesn’t turn out it was Republican plants that did the fake canvassing for ACORN and planted the fake applications. Election fraud penalties are pretty stiff.

Woman love Sarah Palin, and the more you poke fun at her, the madder they get. She did the right thing involving the trooper. After all if she didn’t try and fire the guy and he did something crazier, she would have been critcized for not getting rid of him because he was a relative. Go Sarah we love you.
Hey look up “deer in the headlights” and you’ll see Bidens picture there.

Fake ACORN scandel??? I guess the fake FBI is investigating them.

depblkman That’s rich! After Obama messes with ACORN voter registration and gives them a @@@@ load of money to fix up the registrations he covers his @@@@ by writing a bill to keep the Republicans from doing the same. Nice move for a slick fella. I’m still laughing at the goat man.

Gort and you mean to tell me that McCain’s economic policy, which changes like the wind blows, is better? one day he’s like “i’m going to do this for our economy” the next day “i changed my mind. we’re going in this direction” stay away from the wine man. it’s clouding your judgement. i guess it’s good to agree to disagree. this way, in the end, there can be only one….

We have never heard one thing about Obamas economic plan except “raise taxes on the rich”. But did you know he will let the Bush Tax cuts expire which will raise taxes on everyone? Bush wrote a letter warning about Fannie and Freddie in 2006. Obama said they were just fine last year. In fact took money from them. Yeah he knows about the economy. He was an ineffective community organizer. He spent 100 million on childrens education in chicago and the freaking scores didn’t go up. Gosh for a 100 million he could have imported some smart kids and raised the scores, But noooooooo.

McCain Continue the incindiary speeches. The public is finally looking at Obama and his record and they don’t like what they see. After 8 weeks of humiliation of Sarah Palin by the democrats, turn about is fair play…enjoy

Mcain in the past couple of weeks has been a disappointment by all means.It is not the real Maverick people in this country know.He is bullied by the egoist crap politicians in gop .It is time for republicans to lost this election and they should learn a lesson that smears and attacks cannot win them for ever.It worked once and we are paying the price for it now.GOP should be freed from Karl Rove politics and poisonous propaganda by cut loose radio talk host shows on fox tv and else where.My vote not this time for republicans.

ACORN & the laws in various states:
When some field agents do not do their work right and brings back bogus or phony voter registration cards, the law still REQUIRES that ACORN turn the forms in to the voter registration office. This law in force in several states rightly doesn’t want anybody throwing out voter registration forms for ANY REASON.
But ACORN goes a step farther. They have people assigned to do quality control on all the cards–calling people on the forms after they fill them out. When they find bad information on the cards they attach a cover sheet to the card but, as mentioned above, they turn in the cards as required by law. The effect is that a few bad canvassers or a poorly run office will mean that bad cards are submitted as part of the normal process. But ACORN has done everything possible to make sure voting officials know to check the forms.
The sad fact is that in at least one state–Nevada–the voting officials disregarded ACORN’s cover sheets flagging the voter registration forms. That should have never happened. The resulting blowup was a scandal in search of a scandal ”
So, why is this important piece of information not mentioned on any TV networks or newspapers? I believe it is McCain’s strategy to supress voter turnout and also file lawsuits on election night if necessary.

how in the hell people who blog here talks crap about terrorism as if like they have seen the evidence?no wonder mcain is lagging in the polls it is all because of crap talks about terrorism rather than economy.where in the hell all these crap was hiding 4 months back when democrats has chosen Obama as their presedential candidate?Enough fooling around.

For Sarah Palin: If I had a rubber tree plant: everyone knows a ant cant climb a rubber tree plant but he has high hopes…

I voted for Obama just sent in my ballet.
I heard that John Mc bush said that there are jobs in amercia that we (the people) will not do, and said he would pay 50 dollares an hour to pick lettuce in Yuma, I just want to know when should I be there, and how long is the job good for, and will I have a shack or place to stay, will you take out taxes?
I live in Florida so I will need the job to last at lest 2 months so I can save money to get back home, I am looking forward to pick lettuce foe 50 Dollares an hour….

If you can get a job for picking lettuce for 50 dollars an hour you are a master. David

I have to really laugh at the McCain campaign and many supporters on this thread. People care about the issues when the economy is tanking in particularly. Kepping up the negative attacks will assure a victory for Obama. Many of you Republicans do not understand that people do not care about Obama’s race, associations and other petty issues if they think he has the best policies to put America on the right track.
So keep up all the negative BS McCain, Palin and his supporters.

And don’t forget even though Obama is denying being involved—please remember he worked for them, represented them in a court case, radicalized some students for them, and this year year sent them $800,000 to help get him elected officially—this doesn’t include all the federal funds he has directed their way.

I have been reading these postings and have come to the following conclusion:
Obama supporters use name calling more than they do facts.
McCain supporters bring up a lot of information about Obama’s creepy friends.
Obama seems to be for increasing the taxes of the rich and lowering the taxes of most everyone else and using the money to increase government spending on health, schools, the UN food program, etc etc.
McCain seems to be for lowering the taxes of the rich and most everyone else as he thinks it will help them create more jobs in the private sector and is for less government spending.
So the choice is between, Obama, who believes that a bigger more powerful government is the answer to most of our problems, not the private sector, or McCain, who believes a larger private sector and a free market is the answer to most of our problems not government.
Guess it comes down to what kind of Nation you want to live in, a socialistic type state with more power vested in a centralized government run by Obama or a more free market private sector economy with less power vested in a centralized government.
Problem I have is that government is in large part responsible for our current financial crisis by encouraging Fannie and Freddie underwrite all those bad loans. Even when the government knew there was a problem on the horizon the government did nothing to reign in Fannie and Freddie. So I don’t much count on government to do anything right.

Bush is Republican, McCain is Republican. What can he say? Eight more years war, big oil, etc.

Kay
“Guess it comes down to what kind of Nation you want to live in, a socialistic type state with more power vested in a centralized government run by Obama or a more free market private sector economy with less power vested in a centralized government.”
Nobody – except the wealthy – wants to live in the nuthouse created by Republican “free market” ideology launch by Ronald Reagan. Good paying U.S. jobs have disappeared overseas, pensions are gone, the products we get are junk and contaminated, we have an overly expensive health system (not “care”, the only “care” is for profits) that doesn’t cover 44 million(!), deregulation of fundamental economic institutions leading to market crash, environment being trashed – now that’s some record for “free markets” and the “private sector” and “deregulation”.
I want: decent jobs paying a living wage, health care for everyone, protection of the disabled, children, and elderly. “Free markets etc” have obviously failed to deliver, and I’m ready for something else.

As a conservative who did NOT vote for Bush, I stand vindicated. The Republican brand has gone the way of NeoConservatism with respect to Foreign and fiscal Policy and NeoLiberalism with respect to Economic policy. On all fronts America is failing miserably. That’s not unpatriotic, that’s truth. The only conservative thing about the Republican Party at this time is their stance on social issues, and that is at times almost as extreme as the sect of religious extremism we’re fighting against. It’s time for Americans to take back the government from the maligned republican party. We live in one world with many different people – the world needs leadership not bullying, and we need to get back to our conservative, rational, and reasoned standards that made us the nation that provided that leadership. Barrack Obama is the person to start the long agonizing process.

McCain is running out of ideas and running out of time. No other than himself and Palin are responsible for encouraging ‘hatred’ and some racial attack against Obama, as you can see in their rallies. Obama is a patriotic, proud American son

I know I could not have been the only woman who heard Rick Davis, the McCain Campaign Mgr., on FOX TV yesterday (Sunday) morning refer to Code Pink Ladies and “Code Pink Freaks”. FREAKS? So now the campaign has fallen so low as to call ladies “Freaks”! He did this in the presence of David Axelrod, the Democrat Campaign Mgr. Ladies do you want people in power who think we are “FREAKS”??? McShame is already wallowing in hate “rallies” against Sen. Obama; so now they are so emboldened to refer to women as FREAKS!

It’s all ok because the fortune 100 company I work for is planning on laying off 25% of their workforce if Obama is elected in order to pay for their higher tax bill.

Two more absentee votes already cast for Obama, from me and my wife.

NIA-New Mexico | Oct 13, 2008 6:02:05 AM: You think the Obama/Biden ticket will better address the Issue of Foreclosure! I have one question for you on this what party pushed for high risk sub-prime loans? Democrat! What party lead the way in Campaign cash received from Fannie & Freddie? Which Candidate was # 2 on the list Despite only being a Senator since 2004? Obama. Which candidate has had Financial and Economic advisors tied to the Fannie and Freddie scandal? Obama! Who are all the Key Players in Freddie & Fannie? Franklin Raines, Johnson, Dodd, Obama, Kerry, Clinton both Bill and Hillary. Who used the race card against those who called for tougher regulations on Freddie and Fannie? Democrats! They apposed this and said there was no problem at Fannie and Freddie and thanks to the Leadership of Franklin Raines “who by the way earned 90million in 6 years” while in charge of Freddie Mac! Democrats said this was nothing more than a “Political Lynching of Frank Raines” Know Frank Raines is African-American and for Democrats to accuse the Republicans of “lynching” is an obvious use of the “Race-card” McCain and fellow Republicans knew they were falsifying records to hit bonus levels! They said if it went unchecked it placed a serious threat to the American tax payer and our economic stability! They were right and when the Democrats blame Republicans for this you believe them, you follow them like blind rats and just eat whatever they feed you. All the facts point toward the Democrats and you don’t care.

More mainstream propaganda.These pollsters need to get out in the neighborhoods not just in the cities and they will be surprised how many people are voting for McCain. Many are former Hillary supporters who have become fed up with the democratic party and the bias of the media. For those of you who have been researching on the internet, you have seen the blatant disregard of the facts regarding Obama,congress and the election as a whole.

cinkid56: you need to stop drinking the Republican kool aid. Answered, answered again, and if you could only read….. all in his first book.
How about McCain answers SOME of the questions put to him about HIS past associations? And – did he really call his wife that horrible swear word?

That explains it, I’m sure a lot of Obama/Bided supports get a lot of good hard facts from places like Rolling Stone magizine. Everyone keeps writing about how the dems have not attacked McCain/Palin. I believe Palin has been dragged through the mud by just about every kind od democrat. And Obama can say it doesn’t come from him, but it all starts at the top of the ticket. Just like Bush is getting blamed for the financial crisis, because it happened on his watch. When that facts are, he tried to reform Fannie and Freddie, which are at the heart of the problem, as soon as he took office and was blocked by Frank, Dodd and the Dem party. Obama says what everyone wants to here, but the facts are that he will create about a trillion dollars worth of more spending and taxes will go up. I’m a joe six pack and already pay about 50% of my salarie in taxes and I’m not even close to the 250k which he claims is middle class. 40% of the people don’t pay any taxes as it is under the current system. There is medicare and medicaid programs to assist the poor. Plus a lot of private faith based programs and charities. If you raise employment taxes on corporations, more jobs will go overseas. People wake up, with Obama’s associations and ideas, he has no business in the white house. Biden didn’t even think so when he was running for President, or Hilary.
Wake up America. You may not think McCain is a good choice, but he’s the best of the 2. He will not be another George W., he is his own may and has his own ideas for moving the country forward.
Regards,
rb

WHAT HAPPENED TO OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE DID IT JUST DISSAPEAR

Questions about Obama’s character have been answered — with truthful explanation, yes… but far more important with the measure of the man himself.
He is a man of excellent character. To say otherwise is to use innuendo, distortion and flat out lies as a basis for the opinion.
He will steer the wheel of America with a calm and steady hand because his motivation is to serve as well as to lead.
“I am a voter and I offer as well as approve this opinion.”

Obama is supporting his cousins in Kenya who happen to have received a million dollars in contributions. They seem to be supporting radical Islam.yet liberals have no care that Obamas tribal connections has killed others to gain power. they destroyed over 80 Christian churches But is something liberals don’t want to know. It’s not important.

It is up to the individual voter to check on his or her voter registration status! Take it as a personal insult. Someone just said they do not think you deserve to vote and took it upon himself or herself to remove your name from the voter roles. Notice they never remove the people they think will vote their candidate? Get mad check with your local voter registration office. Protest!

El Pajaro,
The trouble with your argument is that only a few Republicans are asking those questions – not the American public as a whole.
Those “questions” are simply political slime jobs, like that which we’ve seen in the two previous elections.
Did you ever read the story of the boy who cried wolf? No objective people believe Republican presidential candidates anymore.
Posted by: Paul L | Oct 14, 2008 3:17:14 AM
*I concur

Wow, the supporters of McCain are just as negative as his campaign.
These numbers are pretty undeniable.
Personally, I’ve usually voted Republican, but McCain’s false attacks turned me off.
If you go to factcheck.org, you’ll see that the majority of statements made by McCain are false or misleading; Obama’s are generally correct.
McCain chose Palin – a pretty idiot – as his running mate. The reality is that woman should not go negative; they look bitchy. I know many people who are supporting Obama as a vote against Palin.
I predict that Palin’s favorability will line up just above the percentage of evangelicals in the U.S., around 25% — the same number that Bush gets for approval ratings.

Florida voter,
Well said! You nailed this one.

Common sense should teach us that despite the fact that we are Christians, God has a purpose for creating others too with their diverse religious believes. The bias and bitterness we show towards other religions and especially towards islam goes to show that we are worse that hypocrites. Even Christ in his time called all men to him not by demonizing them but by preaching the good news…showing love and compassion. We as christians ought to follow in that footsteps…or how else do we intend to accomplish our task as to be fishers of men. Those religious leaders who are today instigating and trying to influence their followers as to who to vote for have only but shown to the world who they really are – hate mongers, false teachers, and the anti-christ – Christ warned us of them. When mere men, who can only see within the length of their truncated noses begin to play god…then I dont think there is yet another sign to indicate the end of time.
How else can we explain the political trail…A democratic nation ( one that leads the rest of the world in the believe that all men are created equal), with all the evidence showing that Barack Hussein Obama is twice better in every ramification than his opponent John McCain, still has die-hard so-called “conservatives” not wanting to agree…its unbelievable. Even the rest of the world from their distance see what we inspite of our vantage position cant see. It goes to show that even in this age and time…21st century, there are still those who believe that people of color are inferior to them…what a sad thing…America the devil is real and lives in our midst.

There are lies and deliberate mis-representations in most political campaigns but in this election, the ugliest ones are coming from the Republicans about Obama. I think this is going to be the GWB legacy to the party unless we prove to them that it doesn’t work.
Obama ’08

Obama is sticking to the issues. McCain just keeps rattling on about nothing that sets the record straight about what he will do.
I am an undecided voter, but after tonight I am leaning toward Obama. He has won the debate, because he addressed the issues.

McCain may be “attacking” Obama, but for good reason: Obama should be attacked.
The mainstream media is so gentle around him, because one: if you’re not, you’re racist and two: because the mainstream media is mostly liberal. They hardly every point out his flaws, and bad connections (and there are many), While McCain and Palin get picked on for everything that they do. It’s so bias. Even this site is bias. I’m glad McCain is saying all the stuff that needs to be said about Obama. People say McCain doesn’t directly answer a question, have you listened to Obama’s “answers”? He goes in a circle, most of the time repeating what McCain just said, but throws in the words disagree, hope, change and a story that has nothing to do with the question.
If Obama can translate all that talk about “true leadership and effective policy,” into an answer of how we’re actually going to do it, that would be real change.
If not, we’ll be asking “What do we do now?”
I think McCain is balancing it out between “attacking” Obama(which needs to be done) and sticking to the issues, very well. It’s a Presidential race! If you knew someone was going to have a negative effect on the Country you would “attack” them too. It’s not even attacking, it’s pointing out the fact that Obama has many errors in his history, many important errors that need to be brought to our attention. Good for McCain!

I am going with Lancaster and Latepink, McCain continues through all these debats as being angry all the time and to hypricritical. If McCain had changed his actions weeks ago then maybe just maybe he’d be doing better in these polls you see. I have surfered from website to website that have polls,and obama continues to win. Why? Because he’s keeping his cool and focusing on what important the people and the economy. Very rare does McCain make that clear. To be honest if McCain wins I thik it will be a complete lie, but for the record Obama will win this election.

After watching the final debate, I’ve decided to vote for Obama. We don’t need an angry old man in White House. What really scares me is the idiot he picked for V.P.

As a lifelong Republican, I will NOT vote for McCain. He refuses to take responsibility for his own deep role in the current financial crisis.
Oh, and Palin is simply national joke.

Powell certainly could have answered Katie Couric’s question, “what newspapers do you read?”

McCain has a past of fooling around on his first wife. He’s known to fly off the handle and watching him thru the debates shows what difficulty he has in being civil. He seems to be in a permanent rage and barely able to control himself. He doesn’t listen to questions all the way through and he doesn’t listen to responses.
The message he gives is that he’s outraged we dare to question him. WELL he needs to get over that. Being president is a tough job and it requires someone who has alot more control and finesse than McCain.
We’re not fooled – it’s time to move government towards working for ALL the people. It’s time to invest in our future, to ensure we have one. Health care, education, energy, infrastructure – Obama is the man with the plan.
McCain just has more complaints, attacks and discussions about Obama.

HI AMERICA!!!!!!
MY FEELINGS ARE THAT JOHN MCCAIN DID BETTER IN THE DEBATE, JOHN MCCAIN EXPRESSES THE MORE MORAL SIDE OF THIS ELECTION.
JOHN MCCAIN IS THE REAL EXPERIENCED CANDIDATE!!!!!
JOHN MCCAIN STANDS UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT!!!!
JOHN MCCAIN IS ON THE SIDE OF RIGHT VERSUS WRONG!!!!!
THE DEMOCRATS HAVE HAD TWO YEARS TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AS CONGRESS HAS THE REAL POWER, NOT THE PRESIDENT!!!!
I SAY WAKE UP AND SEE THE LIGHT!!!!
I SAY DON’T BE SO NAIVE AS TO OBAMAS PROMISES….
THE DEMS PROMISED THIS AND THAT BEFORE, BUT GUESS WHAT IT DIDN’T HAPPEN, AND IT WON’T THIS TIME….
YOU WANT REAL CHANGE, THEN YOU CHANGE CONGRESS…
ALL YOU PEOPLE ARE MAD AT THE REPUBLICANS,ETC, OVER SOMETHING THAT REALLY BOTH PARTIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR, ESPECIALLY THE LEFT!!!!!
YOU GUYS ARE FUNNY THINKING THAT OBAMA IS GOOD FOR THIS COUNTRY…
I WILL WAIT AND SEE AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT I TOLD YOU SO, BUT YOU FOLK ARE SO BLIND THAT YOU WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING….
GO AHEAD AND LET BIG GOVERNMENT RULE AND SEE HOW FAR YOU GET….
SEE HOW MANY OF OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS ARE AFFECTED, AND WHEN WE GET ATTACKED AGAIN, SAY WELL I SHOULD HAVE VOTED FOR EXPERIENCE BUT I VOTED FOR THE LOTTERY IINSTEAD, AND LOOK WHERE IT GOT US…
FOLK’S WAKE UP, VOTE FOR MORALITY, VOTE FOR RESPONSIBILITY, VOTE TO SAVE CHILDRENS LIVES, MAKE WOMEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR PREGNANCIES, DON’T GIVE THEM A WAY OUT!!!!
ONE DAY YOU WILL ANWSER TO GOD FOR THIS, AND THEN IT WILL BE TO LATE…
THE BIBLE SAYS PLAINLY DO NOT KILL!!!!
THE ONLY TIME IT IS JUSTIFIED IS IN SELF DEFENSE, AND TIME OF WAR, NOT MAKING WAR ON SWEAT, INNOCENT LITTLE LIVES THAT DESERVE OUR RESPECT…
LADIES, PLEASE STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, PLEASE VOTE FOR LIFE, NOT DEATH…. YOU WILL BE JUDGED FOR WHAT YOUR POSITION IS, AND I FOR ONE WANT TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THINGS, BECAUSE YOUR VERY OWN LIVES MAY BE AT STAKE IF YOU MAKE THE WRONG CHOICE..
I ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ THE BIBLE, EVEN IF YOU NEVER HAVE, STRAIGHTEN UP YOUR LIVES, REPENT, GET SAVED!!! AND THEN YOU WILL FINALLY KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT!!!
DON’T HATE FOR THIS MESSAGE!!! THIS IS
A MESSAGE OF LOVE…, PEACE…., AND JOY THAT CAN BE YOURS…
I MUST TELL YOU FOLK’S THAT ARE SEXUALLY IMMORAL,ETC. THAT THE BIBLE IS CLEAR ON THAT SUBJECT AS WELL…
MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND WOMAN ONLY, NOT SAME SEX, BE A FRIEND, BE A BROTHER, A SUPPORTER, BUT CHANGE YOUR WAYS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE…
THIS LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO MAKE A WRONG CHOICE…
THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR WAYS, YOU CAN GET FORGIVENESS, BUT YOU MUST REPENT…..
I PRAY FOR YOU ALL
VOTE JOHN MCCAIN AND TAKE AWAY YOUR PAIN.
MCCAIN/PALIN 08!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: silthunder |

Jimbo, if the national media released everything about Obama’s past and background, they would have to do the same to McCain too. I don’t think you’d want that since McCain has as much
if not more of a shadier past. Frankly, there isn’t any truth to all the accusations. Such as Ms. Martha’s remarks about him being a muslim and terrorist simply because of his middle name? Thank god Obama is running for president and not stupid ignorant people like you. Don’t hate him because he’s smarter.

God bless you, Vietnam Vet!

I don’t know what polls you are reading; the non-biased polls show just a 2 – 4 point lead for Obama and this small gap is continuing to close.

I have read most of the comments…it seems that the hate is from 90% of the people voting for Obama. Apparently none of you care about reading the FACTS! Talk about personal Attacts! The media has been for Obama from the get go, and only now they are dribbling the facts out about Obama, however, NO ONE seems to have an open mind to do their own Research! Why are you letting blogs and the media be the ones to tell you who to vote for?? This is SERIOUS business. You still have time to get the Facts before placing your vote….DO THE RESEARCH (your own) before you go Vote. We could be losing what we know as America,
God help us all! Pray, Pray, Pray.

I am really getting tired of you people attacking Obama.You people are the ones who act like McCain and Palin do no wrong.McCain and Palin are nothing but desperate low life people who will do anything to get someone to vote for them.The moment Obama says something he is the one in trouble; but if it is McCain and Palin attacking it is different? Come don’t jugde Obama if you can’t judge McCain and Palin.I feel Obama is intelligent and educated. Also you want to attack Obama about experience why don’t you look at George W Bush who is an idiot;He did nothing but messed up this country and the economy because of his greed to make the rich more richer.So if you want to back someone with the same policy as Bush like McCain because he is more experienced; well you asking for more years of the same problems we have been suffering for 8years.Well I will not take it no more I am tired of suffering because of this economy with prices going up to the point you can’t afford anything. I watched an Ad that John McCain did saying that he will make it better yeah right; how can he make it better if he has the same policy as Bush. And a I am also tired of McCain using this damn Joe the plummer ; I am sure Joe the plummer wants a better economy for his family and business, not some greedy scam that will make him either lose his job or go overseas in order to work.All I’m saying is Vote for McCain and Palin all you going to get is the same problems we are facing with now.

Governor Palin has more experience than Barack Obama. Moreover, as Joe Biden and Hillary said, Obama is not ready to be President. That’s the bottom line. So the pro-Obama media should quit smearing Governor Palin (like they did to Hillary) and Joe the Plumber, who Obama sought out and Joe the Plumber asked Obama a question and Obama screwed up. The pro-Obama media is cared to death of Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin (like they were of Hillary). Let’s stop Obama’s ACORN group from stealing the election for Obama in all the swing and battleground states and some red states with the thousands of fraudulent votes they submitted on Obama’s behalf in those states. STOP OBAMA AND HIS ACORN GROUP FROM STEALING THE ELECTION. The majority of people do not want Obama.

McCain has resorted to hate and division to win the highest office. Let’s look into McCain’s character and his sidekick whose unlawful abuse of power echo McCain. No wonder these two are a match. McCain got off with Keating 5 she in Troopergate. LOL

The Character of McShameless is irreversibly tarnished. He did this to himself by running such a nasty campaign. All one has to do is see how a candidate runs his campaign to see how he would run the government. McShameless is the wrong one for the job. Shame on him. He has used extremely poor judgment on every issue, even his choice for a VP, at least he could have chosen a smart person for that job, instead of the idiot. McShameless/Palincant have much more to explain than Barack Obama has. He explains, but they are just too stupid to get it, and that makes them too stupid to run this Country. They are a pair of bigotted, white supremist hatemongers. Palincant should be explaining her own ties to the White Supremists and the ones in Alaska who hate America so much they want to secede from the Union. bye bye y’all!

Way to go Joe! Now tell me whay I can see this story on Fox…but, not on ABC
My Take?
American War Hero vs Smooth talking Lawyer …enough said!
Joe Biden says he’s certain that if Barack Obama is elected president, there will be an international crisis to test his strength within the first 6 months of his presidency.
“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America.” he told a fundraising crowd in the Pacific Northwest on Sunday. “Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
“He’s gonna have to make some really tough – I don’t know what the decision’s gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s gonna happen.”