McCain Confronts the Anger

To late McCain! You sold your soul to the the nut case slime portion of your party

I think there are Obama plants in these crowds shouting this crap to give McCain bad publicity.

No coincidence that he becomes Mr. Nice Guy again as the polls show it is not working and as he knows the ‘troopergate’ thing is coming out.

We know that the Obama campaign placed plants at Clintons campaigns, who is to say that the guys yelling unkind words were not put there by someone on Obamas staff?

If Palin wasn’t a candidate, the secret service would be investigating her.

Concerned in OH – It doesn’t matter WHO the “kill him” line was about Obama or Ayers – it should not have been said. Don’t try to excuse it.

mccain and palins base are now booing him… it’s a joy to see the republican party imploading in on itself

Do you honestly think Rezko is dumb enough to ruin his chance at a pardon if he has anything on Obama? Please.

So she abused the public trust and violated ethics laws.
I mean, does that mean we should trust her less? Or that she’s somehow unethical?
Surely someone can violate ethics laws and still be ethical.
Surely.

Who’s the Fraud now?
Sarah Palin’s a CONVICT.

Hallelujah TROOPERGATE!!!
There is a GOD!!!

Inquiring minds want to know,
Good line.
Who is the “real” Sarah Palin?

It’s offial now.
Sarah Palin = violation of trust.
McCain violated MY trust in him when he picked her.
Now he has the perfect reason to let her go.
If he keeps her on board after she violated her state’s ethics law and the public trust, I’ll protest: I will vote for Obama.

ok you McCain/Palin supporters, admit it…. Palin stuck her foot in her mouth trying to stoke up the fires under Obama and it’s now backfired on her and McCain. Remember, no bad deed goes unpunished…lol

USMarine0331-
Point is she lied about this for the last two months.
So, now, tell me how does she go out and say Obama has lied about his associations and so we just can’t trust him. Using her own logic, we just can’t trust her.
Her standards, not mine.

SARAH PALIN … KARMA IS A B*****

What the Republicans are engaging in are fear tactics, pure and simple. The words coming from Palin’s mouth are reminiscent of the Brown Shirts of Hitler’s Nazi party

No One should be trying to excuse what has been taking place at the McCain/Palin rallies. They have lit and fueled this hate fire and deserve to have it blow-back on them in full. It is embarrassing to see my fellow Americans being so hateful and ignorant.

I would just like to say I am from Minnesota and we do not all feel the same way as the ones at McCain’s rally. I am not dumb enough to be scared by the McCain/Palin tactics. They are unchristian with all the hate they are spewing and why has nothing been brought up about McCain’s religious beliefs,or his church. Does he go to church? Is he a Christian or an Athiest why is this not being brought up.

Too late McKKK!!!!
You and your witch running mate were spewing lies and hate.
Some of your rallies as rightly pointed out by another poster yesterday only lacked “hood and sheets”.
Sadly I have now more respect for Bush as he ran a far decent campaign even with all the evil strategy of Karl Rove.
It makes me scary that people are not outraged by this kind of behavior, Hope Republicans do not turn this country to like of Congo or Rwanda.
I am amazed by people angered about Obama rather than by this current Administration and Republican policies which has almost brought our countries to sad condition.
Hope good sense come to the citizens of this great Country.
Where are all the conservatives who are Christians and have any fear of God could condone these kind of outright lies and hate mongering.
The right wing propoganda of Rush, Hannity, O’Riley has created maniacs.

Concerned in OH- “A partisan witchunt” ?
___________________________________________
A witch hunt from the Republicans on the
BI-PARTISAN committee or the Democrats? The investigation and conclusions were unanimous.
Nice try though.

Hey,
I was at today’s McCain Town Meeting in Lakeville, MN. The crowd was not about getting “angry” about Zerobama and his Crooked Friends, Ayers, Pelosi, Frank, Franklin Raines, and Jim Johnson. WE will get EVEN on Election Day!!!
VOTE MCCAIN OR YOU’RE INSANE!!!

On July 30, 2008 Barack Obama said that the Republicans would do this. He said they would not be able to run on the issues so they would make him out to be:
Not Patriotic enough
Has a funny Name
Risky
I remember the GOP and many of the neo-cons on this Blog cried foul. Looks like Obama had the vision to see the vile GOP playbook. See THE JED REPORT or YOU TUBE to go back in time and face reality.
Obama/Biden

Thank you Sen. McCain. I always thought you were a decent man, and I am glad to see you are taking control of your campaign and allowing that decency to come through. Thank you for trying to bring intelligent discourse back to politics. Keep it up, please. The rational, thinking population would like you all to get back to the real issues.

It’s all over! Palin, god bless her soul, put the final nail in the McCain coffin. Great job of vetting, McCain, I’m sure the GOP will just love you for it. Bye, Bye.

It’s about time John McCain, and good for you! It is about time you to stepped up to the plate and showed your character.
Thank You

NebraskaVoice:
You are aruing “apples & oranges”…
Your anolgy of the “beyond a reasonable doubt” threshold applies to criminal cases. There is no evidence Obama has committed any criminal act. Secondly, in a criminal case, the alleged “accused” is not required to prove his innocence, that’s the burden of his accusers. No evidence! No case! But you are correct on one thing, this
election will be and should be decided on the character of the candidates. I find John McCain lacking in that respect….just look at what he permitted his campaign to engage in, after he was on record saying he would “not” engage in this type of campaign. I rest my case.

Former REPUBLICAN governor Milliken BACKS AWAY from McCAIN
Reports Pat Shellenbarger of the The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS — He endorsed John McCain in the presidential primary, but now former Republican Gov. William Milliken is expressing doubts about his party’s nominee.
“He is not the McCain I endorsed,” said Milliken, reached at his Traverse City home Thursday. “He keeps saying, ‘Who is Barack Obama?’ I would ask the question, ‘Who is John McCain?’ because his campaign has become rather disappointing to me.
“I’m disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues.”
Milliken, a lifelong Republican, is among some past leaders from the party’s moderate wing voicing reservations and, in some cases, opposition to McCain’s candidacy

McCain and his supporters have nothing specific other than a vague hint of “otherness” here. What’s totally unattractive is that on this vague feeling alone, totally sane, educated, rational adults accept the hostility and extremism of a few rather than having the decency to say enough is enough. Deep down inside, I think the maverick is truly there but it’s a little too little a little too late.

LINCOLN CHAFEE, FORMER REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM RHODE ISLAND SHUNS McCAIN
Reports Pat Shellenbarger of the The Grand Rapids Press
During a stop in Grand Rapids on Thursday, Lincoln Chafee, a former Republican U.S. senator from Rhode Island, said he’s voting for Obama and urging others to do likewise.
McCain campaigned for Chafee’s unsuccessful re-election bid in 2006, but Chafee said he is concerned McCain has swung to the right, a divisive strategy that could make it difficult for him to govern.
“That’s not my kind of Republicanism,” said Chafee, who now calls himself an independent. “I saw what Bush and Cheney did. They came in with a (budget) surplus and a stable world, and look what’s happened now. In eight short years they’ve taken one peaceful and prosperous world, and they’ve torn it into tatters.”
As for McCain’s choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for his running mate, “there’s no question she’s totally unqualified,” Chafee said.
He had similar reservations about Obama’s lack of experience, but said the Democrat’s handling of the campaign convinced him he’s ready to lead.
Chafee said he has spoken with several other moderate Republican leaders, and “there are a whole lot of us deserting.”
Phil ArthurhultzOne of them is Phil Arthurhultz, a former Republican state senator from Whitehall, who was traveling the state with Chafee to drum up support for Obama.

If McCain is getting booed then he is the one at fault for this. His rallies draw the KKK and red-neck kind of people,Hillary tried to ralley them in West Virginia and it did not work for her. Hate will not get anyone a job or health care.

The sorry old man McCane – you know, the one with intimate ties with convicted criminals and advocates of domestic terrorism like Gordon Liddy and organized crime figures – who wants to win the presidency at all cost is getting so desparate that all my friends – most of whom are moderate Republicans and independents – are denouncing the old man and his potty-mouthed running mate Palin – and voting for Obama and Biden.

again
Palin and her chanting and innuendo and fanning the flames
was not ready for the job
and her rally’s and uneducated and lack of judgement in fanning these flames
shows very clearly hints of the AIP and Joe Vogel
this is why the AIP and her speeches adn Todd Palin’s membership (which he joined after Vogel was killed trying to acquire bombing materials) and he attended the convention where they wrote their “constitution”
that is not innuendo or lies…
that is the truth
and their fanning these flames of a future McVeigh or Vogel
clearly shows either her lack of knowledge of what she is doing
or worse…
her knowledge of it.
John McCain (who I have to say in the video from the rally tonight …you could see John mccain trapped in a horrifying amusement ride that he can’t get off)
needs to tell her to go home and pick someone else.

I find it rather interesting that ABC believes they are fair and factual, but their comment section is 10 to 1 Liberal, what gives?

Obama is a trained and studied Marxist. Obama has extensive ties to a domestic terrorist, a hate mongering pastor, a crooked slum lord, and a voter fraud organization called ACORN. Hey! What’s the problem?

Thank you John McCain for standing up to stop the hatred abuses against Obama. Even though I am a Democrat I admire what you did today. I was always fan of you until recently you picked Palin and you resorting this meaningless mudslinging over Obama. Please continue this path and fight over policies instead of irrelevant issues such as name of Obama, Bill Ayers, etc.
Even though I am going to vote for Obama I will always admire for your priniciples (except the one you did last 2 months).
- Chris

“The “Kill Him” line was when Palin brought up Ayers. Not 0bama.”
The Kill him line was when she connected Ayers to Obama so its unclear who the right wing lunatic was referring.
McCain is trying to save the last shred of his decency but its too late as pandoras box has been opened.
Posted by: Ryan C
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I didn’t get to see this rally, but I’m willing
to bet that Sarah Palin was the first speaker up,
rallying this mean spirited anarchy. Palin is
bringing out the true ugly side of the republican
party, which John McCain does not wish for. This is
a Rove tactic, which Sarah is being fed. Ironic,
these same tactics were used by Bush on John 8
years ago.

The choice is clear.. What more do we need to know about McCain? He is a bitter old man who desperately wants to be president at all cost. McCain has close ties with GORDON LIDDY – the convicted criminal and WATERGATE figure, and an advocate of anarchy and domestic terrorism; McCain is related by marriage to an ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILY (through Cindy McCain); McCain has been linked to CUBAN TERRORISTS who have murdered people in the US. And as for his judgement… well he picked a potty-mouthed nobody like Sarah Palin for his running mate. Decent Republicans are running away from the McCain-Palin candidacy. The only way McCain and Palin are going to win is by stealing the election – using dirty tricks perfected by GORDON LIDDY during the NIXON era.

Here’s an open letter to John McCain by Frank Schaeffer, son of the late evangelist Francis Schaeffer; it appears as an op-ed in today’s Baltimore Sun:
John McCain: If your campaign does not stop equating Sen. Barack Obama with terrorism, questioning his patriotism and portraying Mr. Obama as “not one of us,” I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate, and therefore of potentially instigating violence.
At a Sarah Palin rally, someone called out, “Kill him!” At one of your rallies, someone called out, “Terrorist!” Neither was answered or denounced by you or your running mate, as the crowd laughed and cheered. At your campaign event Wednesday in Bethlehem, Pa., the crowd was seething with hatred for the Democratic nominee – an attitude encouraged in speeches there by you, your running mate, your wife and the local Republican chairman.
Shame!
John McCain: In 2000, as a lifelong Republican, I worked to get you elected instead of George W. Bush. In return, you wrote an endorsement of one of my books about military service. You seemed to be a man who put principle ahead of mere political gain.
You have changed. You have a choice: Go down in history as a decent senator and an honorable military man with many successes, or go down in history as the latest abettor of right-wing extremist hate.
John McCain, you are no fool, and you understand the depths of hatred that surround the issue of race in this country. You also know that, post-9/11, to call someone a friend of a terrorist is a very serious matter. You also know we are a bitterly divided country on many other issues. You know that, sadly, in America, violence is always just a moment away. You know that there are plenty of crazy people out there.
Stop! Think! Your rallies are beginning to look, sound, feel and smell like lynch mobs.
John McCain, you’re walking a perilous line. If you do not stand up for all that is good in America and declare that Senator Obama is a patriot, fit for office, and denounce your hate-filled supporters when they scream out “Terrorist” or “Kill him,” history will hold you responsible for all that follows.
John McCain and Sarah Palin, you are playing with fire, and you know it. You are unleashing the monster of American hatred and prejudice, to the peril of all of us. You are doing this in wartime. You are doing this as our economy collapses. You are doing this in a country with a history of assassinations.
Change the atmosphere of your campaign. Talk about the issues at hand. Make your case. But stop stirring up the lunatic fringe of haters, or risk suffering the judgment of history and the loathing of the American people – forever.
We will hold you responsible.

Carville said recently that if Obama did not win, there would be trouble. Paraphrasing. Most have interpreted this to be “rioting”. So now someone yells something at a ralley and McCain Palin are responsible.
Obama listened to a racist preacher for 20 years. The video of Farrakhan calling him the “Messiah” stokes some strong emotions also.
Jake, my prediction is that if Obama goes in, there will be a 12-18 month honeymoon. Then, the One will do something and get some criticism, and the press corps will find out that if they dare criticize, they are racist. The resentment will fester and the media will proceed to tear down what they built up. What goes around comes around.

everyone needs to track down the video they shot of the people going into the rally
it will chill you seriously.
makes the Killem line…not matter
or the woman tonight who said “Bomb Obama”
ignorance only needs a match and houses burn
and what palin and McCain did …knowingly or not (Iknow that john mccain didn’t know what would happen)
they just lit a million matches.
very scary
let us all remember Timothy Mcveigh
if you want to know what the values are of some of are most notable domestic terrorist… those palin rally tapes look familiar?

Obama is a trained and studied Marxist. Obama has extensive ties to a domestic terrorist, a hate mongering pastor, a crooked slum lord, and a voter fraud organization called ACORN. Hey! What’s the problem?
Posted by: Bill
******************************************** I don’t really blame you folks who feel you have to manufacture garbage against Senator Obama, as an excuse for supporting McCain and Palin. If I were supporting them , I would have to become willfully ignorant as well, and pretend to believe all this nonsense.
Pretty embarrassing, isn’t it?

FYI
Obama’s link with Ayets is thru the Annegerg Challenge . . . [Daily Kos]
First, Obama began working with Ayers and others (Republicans, Independents, and Democrats) at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Well, what is the Anneberg Challenge? Who is Annenberg? Well according to NPR,
The Obama campaign says he first met Ayers in 1995, when Obama became chair of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a $50 million fund that awarded grants to groups trying to implement new programs to improve inner city education in Chicago.
Walter Annenberg, a lifelong Republican and former ambassador who was appointed by Presidents Nixon and Reagan, funded an ambitious program to reform urban education in many cities in the mid 1990s. Ayers was an important member of the group that developed and wrote the grant proposal to the Annenberg Foundation.
Second, there were people of all political persuasions working on this effort with this “terrorist” Ayers and who saw him as acceptable and Obama was no closer than any of the others.
…no one on the board or on the Annenberg Challenge staff remembers Obama being any closer to Ayers than to any other member of the board. The Annenberg board also included several civic, business and education leaders, many of them Republicans…

Wow…I just watched the clip with the woman saying Obama is an Arab. Dear god, are there really people so ignorant living in this country? Where do these folks come from, and why are they allowed to breed? I try to live in an inclusive way and not judge, but this crap really shocks me. Some guy afraid of bring his child into a world where Obama might appoint liberal judges…what, so we can pass laws that allow us to eat babies? So we can make it legal to sell them on the open market? It’s getting Friggin’ nuts out there! Folks need to settle down and use some reason for a change. I was really pissed off when Bush was allowed to stay in office last time around. I didn’t like it, but that’s the way it is. Now the conservatives are getting all whack because they don’t like the outcome…well WELCOME TO MY WORLD. Looking at the direction we’re headed, I can’t imagine how anybody would be upset at the thought of some change. Change can be good if you just relax and let it unfold. And if it’s not, we get another chance in four years. A true patriot who loves this country should accept this as our system instead of trying to incite fear and hate.

McCain, you reap what you and that pit bull have sowped!

May your soul be blessed, John McCain. You fueled this anger in your own campaign and now you’re acting as if that wasn’t your intention? I hope not to hear more about you on Nov 5th. The choice is crystal clear, I am voting “THAT ONE”!

John McCain’s sudden interest in good campaigning sounded inspiring, except for the fact that he was only too glad to stand back and let Sarah Palin incite his supporters at rally after rally until the hate boiled over. So now those making the angry outbursts were “Obama plants”!! Give me a break. There is no end to the rationalization in McCain’s support bunch.
Now comes his campaign’s diatribe after the results of the “troopergate” ethics investigation, which was started well before Palin was named the VP candidate. It was all done by Obama’s liberal supporters. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Was she, or was she not VETTED?? If so, McCain knew about the charges. His attack dogs have no use for the truth, just like the Bush bunch. November 4th can’t come soon enough.

That lady at the end of the video clip is a MORON! Everyone yelling “kill him” and what not shouldn’t be an American. Where do these idiots get there sources?
I’m tired of stupid severe conservatives opening there mouths. All the comes out is irrelevant and ridiculus!
If your “scared” of Obama, then get the heck out of this country because no one wants you here.

I would like to ask you all one question just for the sake of asking:
Had Senator McCain not been nominated to run for the Republican ticket in running for the Presidency, and Secretary of State Colin Powell had,,,,
who do you think would be leading in the polls right now?…….
Obama or Powell?
Posted by: Piza Pie
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Interesting question. Since we pretend to believe
that race is not an issue in both analogies, we have
to dismiss that from the cards. They both have great charisma, both are intellectuals and both concluded that we are in the wrong country for
the war. I would give Powell the vote for being a
5 star general, and former secretary of state.
Now it’s my turn… If Romney wasn’t a Mormon,
and not treated McCain like a jerk, would he
pick him as a VP?

I think John McCain is starting to see what the path he has taken is leading to. I have studied the rise of popularist leaders (those that invoke hatred and other forms of negative popularism) and this campaign has started to scare me. I am glad to hear that is is scaring McCain as well. I beleive that he will look back with shame on how ‘power’ corrupted him.

spacerook1
Powell did back when bush was running initiated an exploratory group and he was castigated by the gop party.
his wife convinced him and he decided to never run because of all the pushback they were getting and he wasnt even a candidate yet.
so this question is moot.

excellent post James – thank you.

Does anyone else think this is the funniest thing you’ve ever seen? McCain is getting booed at his own rallies now? John McCain, please come back. Please go down with dignity.

John from California
You live in California. GREAT. Why dont you invite about 30,000 of your friends from Georgia out to visit you on November 3-5 …. Tell them that they can vote in California so no need for a absentee ballot.
I really want this landslide to look great.

I don’t know which had dropped lower.
The stock market
or
The GOP Party.

Can you spell “COGNITIVE DISSONANCE?”
First, MaCain and Palin incite violence in their followers by preaching how BAD Obama is. Then McCain tells the hyped up rabble that Obama is a decent man.
Did McCain have a spasm of lucidity?
Regardless, I’m sure that the right wing-nuts are rationalizing like crazy to reduce their internal dissonance.

That means don’t vote for non supportive of the war.

That woman in the clip who called Obama an “arab” is a fool who needs to educate herself before popping off her mouth at a campaign rally. Hearing a person who can vote say this is a very scary thing.

republicans are pro: violence, hatred, and fear.

rockinroad posted a list of members of the Board of the Annenberg Challenge, or at least I think that that is what it is. I’m curious as to why Mr. William Ayers is not listed. I mean, if he was a “Distinguished” Professor of Education, one would think he would be found there. This was certainly after his “Fugitive Days”, right?

the behavior and actions of many supporters of both mccain and obama have been absolutely horrendous and decidedly un-American, especially those against Senator Clinton and her supporters by the obama lemmings…..America deserves better, our children deserve better and our troops deserve better, and the better person and candidate is Senator Clinton

Re: Below The Challenge (The Annenberg Challenge) . . . the basis for the Ayers-Obama controversy. Note: Annenberg was a Ronnie R. republican apointee:
The below listis a list of the people who served on the “terrorist board” with Barak Obama when he served on a board in Chicago with “that domestic terrorist, Ayers.” See below.

American’s are are tired of being set up.Go back to the newsroom and create another crisis for next week.

Troopergate is the tip of the Alaskan Iceberg. The AIP and Todd Palin is next.
***Guilt-by-association means McCain & the rest of the Republican Party pal around with this brand of Anti-Americanism and will continue to destroy America.
Vote Against McCain-Palin; they are anti-American and wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Finally Sen. McCain is willing to show some leadership by reining in his crowds. This is good. The next thing he has to do is rein in his running-mate. The next next thing is to reform his message. He has to stop his politics of distraction and focus on the economy, the real issue.

I’m glad to see a remnant of the McCain I remember, these racial epithets and politics of hate mongering are painting him into a corner with the lunatic fringes.
Palin is just another snake oil politician.

McCain: Who is the real Barack Obama
McCain; He is a decent family man that you should not be scared of.
Thanks McCain.

And not only did Obama pal around with terrorists but we also have pictures of him on TV hanging around and talking with someone who filed a bogus tax return!! Wait…who is that??? Why It’s John McCain who filed the return. Yep…the repubs are right…..how can we trust Obama???

Too little, too late.
A desperate and unscrupulous McCain provoked the response with hateful personal attacks, said nothing for days, and responded only when he was criticized for the hatred and potential for violence he unleashed.
And now he can’t control the forces he set in motion.
What a sad and shameful political end for a man who once was honorable.

its too late for mccain to temper his crouds since it was he and paling that stoked the vile language in the first place

The DNC made sure that Hillary, the best candidate they had, was pushed out of the race, and look what we have now. The only way the DNC can redeem itself is to bring their people back from Chicago, and get rid of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Dr. Gov. Howard Dean. And to partially address the economic situation, they should rid themselves of Sen. Chris Dodd.
But, Democrats, you made the bed you must now lie in. Don’t say you weren’t warned enough.
Hillary was ‘vetted’, and she had some very good and practical solutions. But she had two problems. She was a woman and she is still married to a very controversial President.

Obama’s been every bit as dirty, inciting incredible amounts of disrespect toward McCain and Palin in his followers. So shut up!Posted by: John | Oct 10, 2008 10:25:25 PM
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We didn’t start out disrespecting McCain or Palin. They both have had to work hard to earn it!
As far as their biggest supporters. They are willfully ignorant because they need an excuse to be supporting McCain and Palin who they know are going to continue destroying our country.
I would want to fabricate some foolish excuse too.

only the ignorant think Hillary would’ve lost or was not the best candidate that we so desperately need right now

The media is not covering the “illegal alien” story because it is completely bogus.
Desperation and deception bred with ignorance is pathetic. If I have to open another “Obama is a muslim” e-mail. I’ll vomit.
Conservatives keep slinging mud, hoping something will stick. They’re trying to “swiftboat” Obama anyway they can. It worked against Kerry in 2004, McCain in 2000. Let’s hope we’ve learned our lesson.

Can someone explain to me why it’s racism to refuse to vote for someone based on skin color, but to vote for someone because he IS a certain color is not racism? I have seen on TV and read in the paper many blacks’ opinions that they’re voting for Obama “because I want a black president”. What if I said I’m voting for McCain because I want a white President?

I’m happy McCain finally stood up to stop the hate , but it’s too little too late. McCain is in way over his head and has not shown he fit to lead the greatest country in the world.
Obama is a kind and decent man
ps: as a MN voter..MN nice is the norm and the boundary waters are spectacular.
Obama/Biden

This nonsense was started and they couldn’t control it, Mccain is doing the right thing here. But, America will see it is too late, he took the wrong advice and it will end his chance to win.

I must give this to McCain. He did the right thing this time by putting his foot down on frivilous and hateful words that some of his supporters are spewing. I want Obama to win, but I can live with McCain as a president. Like Obama, he too is a decent man. The ignorant and intellectually challenged folks among the Republicans are not helping McCain.

Another day, another out of left field action from the McCain camp. Really, people, you want this guy as your president? After basically calling Obama a terrorist, a liar, and unfit for the presidency, now he says Obama is a decent person? Which is it, McCain? Is he going senile? I am only half joking. A person running for president should not be this erratic in his words and actions. The maverick label fits him to a tee, and it definitely is not what we need in the oval office.

Thank goodness someone finally convinced McCain where all this hatred was headed. Now, maybe Senator McCain will tell Palin to stop it.
How quickly America forgets the papers that were spread in Dallas on November 21, 1963. The papers handed out said, JFK was wanted for Treason. JFK was assassinated the very next day.

The Annenberg Challenge where Obama served on board was funded by President Nixon’s Ambassador to the UK, a man was also a close friend of President Reagan: Walter Annenberg.
** The founding Board of Directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as announced in 1995 were:
1. Patricia Albjerg Graham
2. Barack Obama, civil rights attorney at Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland; lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School; member of the board of directors of the Joyce Foundation and the Woods Fund of Chicago; winner, Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 award, 1993; former president of the Harvard Law Review (1990–1991); former executive director of the Developing Communities Project (June 1985–May 1988)
3.Stanley O. Ikenberry, president of the University of Illinois (1979–1995); member of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago (1983–1995); former professor of education (1965–1971) and senior vice president (1971–1979) of Pennsylvania State University
4. Arnold R. Weber, president of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago (1995–1999); member of the board of directors of the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial and the Tribune Company; former president of Northwestern University (1985–1994) and the University of Colorado (1980–1985); professor of labor economics and friend and colleague of George P. Shultz at MIT, the University of Chicago, and in the Nixon administration
5. Ray Romero, vice president and general counsel of Ameritech; Chicago School Finance Authority board member (appointed in 1992 by Governor Jim Edgar); candidate in the 1996 Democratic primary for the 5th Congressional District of Illinois; winner, Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 award, 1991; former Illinois Commerce Commission commissioner (appointed in 1985 by Governor Jim Thompson); former civil rights attorney as Midwest regional director of MALDEF where he was lead counsel for Hispanic plaintiffs in the 1985 Chicago ward remap
6. Wanda White, executive director of the Community Workshop on Economic Development; former policy director of the Women’s Self-Employment Project; former deputy commissioner of economic development under Chicago Mayors Washington, Sawyer and Daley
7. Susan Crown, president of the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial; vice president of Henry Crown & Company; daughter of Lester Crown
8. Handy Lindsey, Jr., executive director (1988–1997) then president (1997–2003) of the Field Foundation of Illinois; former associate director of the Chicago Community Trust (1986–1988)
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The final Board of Directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in 2001 were:
1.Patricia Albjerg Graham
2.Barack Obama
3.Edward Bottum, managing director of Chase Franklin Corp.; former president and vice chairman of Continental Illinois Bank
4.Connie Evans, founder and president of the Women’s Self-Employment Project
5.Susan Blankenbaker Noyes, former labor attorney at Sidley & Austin; daughter of Republican former Indiana state senator Virginia Murphy Blankenbaker; goddaughter of Patricia Albjerg Graham
6.Scott C. Smith, president, CEO and publisher of the Chicago Tribune; former president, CEO and publisher of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale; former chairman of the South Florida Annenberg Challenge
7.Nancy Searle, consultant to the Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust
8. Victoria Chou, dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago
9.John W. McCarter, Jr., president and CEO of the Field Museum
10.Jim Reynolds, Jr., co-founder, chairman and CEO of Loop Capital Services
THESE QUALITY EDUCATED PEOPLE WERE THE PEOPLE WHO WORKED ON THIS FOUNDATION — LOOK AT THEIR EDUACTIONAL BACKGROUND, TLOOK AT THEIR CREDENTIALS, AND STOP BUYING INTO THE SMEARS THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN IS PUTTING OUT THERE.
THIS WAS A GOOD ORGANIZTION FOUNDED BY A REPUBLICAN, AND WHOSE BOARD MEMBERS WERE MADE UP OF QUALITY EDUACTED PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO INPROVE THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN ILLINOIS.

Another McCain’s flip-flopping. He has been atttached Obama for the whole week. Now he suddenly said O is a decent guy. How can he conflict himself so fast so often? I think he’s totally lost.

Imagine that it’s November 4th, election day. You’ve read up on all the candidates, local and national, and are ready to cast an informed vote. You get off work a little early and head to the polls.
But after waiting in line, you find out you are not on the voter rolls.
You argue with the poll worker — you’ve voted before! They don’t know why you aren’t on the list, and weren’t trained on what to do. Frustrated and embarassed, you leave without voting.
Purged?
Scenes like this happen more often than you might think, according to a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice. The study found that “thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia reported purging more than 13 million voters from registration rolls between 2004 and 2006.” And while affirming that purges correctly-done are an important way to ensure voter rolls are dependable and up-to-date, the study found that:
“Far too frequently, however, eligible, registered citizens show up to vote and discover their names have been removed from the voter lists. States maintain voter rolls in an inconsistent and unaccountable manner. Officials strike voters from the rolls through a process that is shrouded in secrecy, prone to error, and vulnerable to manipulation.”
Though the report notes that the “secret and inconsistent manner in which purges are conducted make it difficult, if not impossible, to know exactly how many voters are stricken from voting lists erroneously,” it lists multiple instances where tens of thousands of voters were improperly stricken from the rolls.
Protecting Your Vote
The Brennan Center report offers long-term solutions to ensure every eligible voter has a chance to vote. But the 2008 election is just around the corner, and what if you or someone you know is purged?
Election Protection, a non-partisan coalition, offers voter education and protection through an informational Web site and an election hot-line (1-866-OUR-VOTE). They’ve also offer a useful voting checklist flyer you can print out and bring with you to the poll.

For one brief shining moment in the 2008 campaign, John McCain regained some small smidgeon of the courage and honor and integrity that served him so well in the past and which he has seemingly abandoned in his quest to top his father’s rank of admiral.
It’s too little too late, but at least it might help him to regain a good bit of the honorable reputation and image that many of us held of him prior to his stunning downturn which began with his cynical, reckless kow-towing to the far right wing lunatic fringe of the party with his mind-boggling nomination of the stunningly inept Sarah Palin.

Sometimes I just hate being a conservative, especially when I have to endure being in the same room with all these stupid, ignorant people. “I’m scared of an Obama Administration” — give me a break. Our country is in deep peril, and the ignorance of individuals who vilify political differences are only contributing to our eventual demise. Let me quote from Mr. McCain’s predecessor: “We must not see malice in honest differences of opinion, and no matter how great, so long as they are not inconsistent with the pledges we have given to each other in and through our Constitution. Our Republican cause is not to level out the world or make its people conform in computer regimented sameness. Our Republican cause is to free our people and light the way for liberty throughout the world.” — Barry Morris Goldwater 1964 It seems Mr. McCain’s constituents have lost their way.

McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936. His parents were American, but he was born in a foreign country. In 1937, a year after he was born, the United States Congress passed a law allowing those born to Americans living in the Panama Canal Zone to claim U.S. Citizenship. This law is not retroactive. McCain is not eligible under the Constitution to be President.

McCain did the right thing. People are scared. You cannot control people’s feelings. Many people had great questions. Obama scares me because he is a close friend of Ayers and Rev. Wright. Michelle Obama sat on a board with Ayers’s wife. I don’t trust Obama at all.

Palin and McCain are whipping their supporters up into a frenzy. McCain may try to rein it in. But the rage and hate that they are unleashing against Obama is scary. All you need is one lunatic fired up by this kind of rhetoric to try to solve things their own way. Saying that Obama is basically a scary terrorist is inviting personal attack against him and very dangerous stuff.

You go to a Obama rally..you want to talk about hate speech for the repubs..Been there, done that. Go over to HuffPost and DKos and see the hate..now, you condemn the people at this rally.

McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936. His parents were American, but he was born in a foreign country. In 1937, a year after he was born, the United States Congress passed a law allowing those born to Americans living in the Panama Canal Zone to claim U.S. Citizenship. This law is not retroactive. McCain is not eligible under the Constitution to be President.
-post by Missourian
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Speaking of such, why does Obama refuse to produce a certified birth certificate to prove he’s an American? Why does the media not ask?

McCain’s policies tend to favor job creation better than Obama’s
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OH that is very interesting. Can you tell me what that policy is?

Do you people even care?
Anyone???
Posted by: Ana | Oct 10, 2008 11:30:55
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No, we don’t care about meaningless distractions. Most of us don’t spend our time frothing at the mouth over nonsense. =post by TruthMatters
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Sorry, TruthMatters, in my silliness I forgot that to a Liberal, illegal activities are “meaningless distractions”. Any means to an end, right?

Bravo, Yavo Lem! Please keep up the good fight!
Posted by: Ana | Oct 10, 2008 11:23:32 PM
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Thank you. I’ll do my best.

It is certainly not unusual for Republicans to be fearful – after all, they have campaigned on fear for the last decade and ruled by more fear-and-smear. Fear is all they know. Even in their “religious” beliefs, they focus on the fear of God.
It’s just this time the American people aren’t going to coddle their fear any longer.

Sorry, TruthMatters, in my silliness I forgot that to a Liberal, illegal activities are “meaningless distractions”. Any means to an end, right?
Posted by: ana
********************************************* No, I’m just not into willful ignorance.

So, does this mean if Obama were to win and if the people gathered in masses they could not speak freely or only speak those words permitted by Obama. It feeds into the idea of his radical views.

How about McCain’s tax policy, unlike Obama’s, which strangles small business by taxing 50% of their income, forcing them to layoffs?
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By the way, how is business doing today? :-). More-of-the-same is JUST what we need, isn’t it?

QUOTE: Speaking of such, why does Obama refuse to produce a certified birth certificate to prove he’s an American? Why does the media not ask?
REPLY: Google before you think. Factcheck.org has seen the cert.

I in no way, whatsoever, defend the people who are booing or saying outrageous things at the McCain rallies about Obama. I also do not agree with the slant the McCain campaign has taken recently in regards to Ayers . I do believe though that Ayers, Wright and Pfleger are legitimate issues though but not because they are dangerous, sinister, racist, terrorists and so on but rather that they are representative of a far left ideology that is further to the left then the majority of this Country. I personally feel satisfied, for the most part, that Obama is not as far left but to pose the question or to take pause and consider the possibility is appropriate and people can come to their own conclusions. Unfortunately though, some who do not support Obama have chosen to take the focus off political ideology and instead try to portray Obama as some sinister Muslim, Black Theologian, America hating, friend to terrorists. While I do not believe the McCain camp’s decision to focus on Ayers in the manner in which they have is helping the situation and indeed is exploiting it, I think most of these people have felt this way about Obama for sometime now and in fact I don’t even think alot of them are that keen on McCain but rather he is the only other option they have at this point. Ayers, Wright and Pfleger are fair game in this election but the McCain camp needs to pull back and put it in the perspective in which it belongs instead of stoking the flames
of some who have taken it to a whole new level.

Free speech does not include threatening the life or safety of a public official. For those of you who don’t understand this need to check your moral compass. This is anti-American in the purest since of the word. If you think this is OK, then you are impaired.

You want to talk about anger? I am furious at the outright stupidity of Obama supporters. Radical socialists are trying to take over the US and you guys want to just hand it over to them. You don’t desrve the freedom you live under. America is about to give up its country to the Marxist-Socialists, and they didn’t even have to fire a shot. They were patient, took over the colleges and public education system with their liberal ideas. They took over Hollywood and the media and led you like sheep to the slaughter.

McCain/Palin have descended to a new low from which they will not recover. What a waste for America. And to think that the rest of the world is watching these thugs manipulate their own brethern into anit-religious haters, mongers of lies and filth. Goes to show that God has NOT blessed America.

Obama will not extend the Bush Tax cuts. Net result EVERYONES taxes go up. But he isn’t “raising” taxes he is just letting them expire, thus allowing them to return to regular levels. To me it is a tax increase. To Obama it isn’t..just another lie from The Messiah Obama.

So, you’re the final authority on what’s ignorance? How typical of an arrogant liberal. You’re a waste of time.
Posted by: ana | Oct
********************************************* Nope, but I am pretty aware of when it is faked.

Oh please! It was obviously a set up by GOP!

I think John McCain acted like a statesman or a father figure. I like seeing that.

Most unfortunately, John McCain sold his soul to stupid advisers. He should have trusted his gut and ran an anti-Bush, anti-Rove campaign. Instead, he tried to embrace those who willfully dismantled him in 2000. This is a Shakespearian tragedy. The man who suffered torture for his country and was able to sacrifice his physical body, but was too quick to forsake principle and moral authority.

McCain is toast. No matter what other erratic behavior he displays.

Any fool knows that you have access to numerous sources of information. If you have little cusiousity, you can rely upon Wikipedia; however, if you really want to know, go to your local library, to your local university’s library, to your court’s library, to your friends.
If you’ve got a problem with the energy it takes, that’s your problem.
If you’ve got a problem with how easy it is, talk to your Congressman.

McCain and Palin has opened up a pandora box of fear tactics and now they will find it hard to put back in. How utterly irresponsible on their part.

“McCain is toast. No matter what other erratic behavior he displays.”
After the Feds are done getting to the bottom of the ACORN/OBAMA voter fraud scandal, Obambo’s lucky is he wins 10 states!!

Does anyone know the definition of “Pandering”? It will be my pleasure to let you know. Pandering – To cater to the lower tastes and desires of others to exploit their weaknesses. Republicans used to be the party considered educated. It’s interesting to see how they’ve fallen for the oldest campaign strategy in the world. Birth certificates, college grades, etc. That’s pandering. For all those that fall for this, you shouldn’t be deciding who runs this country. The informed voters have had it with this junk.

Just out of curiosity, Amy. . .what religious litmus test must a candidate pass to run for President?
Thought so – and I’ll bet you’ll claim to be a real “patriot” too.

bosco5021:
Religion is a fabrication of man. If one chooses to be religious, one can be any religion one wants. Whatever “rules” may exist in the culture are not valid in another culture. Christ, for example was a jew.
Does that mean he could not have converted to Christianity? Sammy Davis was a black jew – converted by choice. Casius Clay became Mohammid Ali.
It is all artificial in the first place. It’s not like rabbits and chickens, where you are born one or the other.

The response to Hurricane Katrina was fine. It was an unprecedented disaster in a highly populated area. The population decided to stay put and guessed wrong. A hostile media out to humiliate George Bush, start screaming “Wheres the help, wheres the help”. No one challenged this myth. It was a natural disaster of huge proportions over a huge area of the gulf coast. I don’t buy any of it. When the money and supplies arrived most of the democrats stuffed the cash in refridgerators.

He should prove it by sharing his original birth certificate so people will know. An attorney in PA., is suing Obama to see his birth certificate. The court has ordered to see the original. The DNC is fighting this??????????????
Posted by: Amy
*********************************************** I’m curious Amy. What is the reasont that you post absolute BS?

It looks to me that the McCain-Palin campaign has come to the end of their wit.
It’s shameful that Sarah Palin has the gut to attack another person after abusing her office as the Alaska governor within twenty months of taking office, this marks the end of her political career.
McCain is also winding up his political career because after Obama’s first term in office, McCain will have been 76, too old to even talk about politics.
WE NEED THE PERSON THAT WILL TAKE US OUT OF THIS MESS INTO WHICH WE HAVE BEEN DUMPED AND THAT PERSON IS NO OTHER THAN BARACK OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PRESIDENT OBAMA I WILL BE GLAD TO ATTEND YOUR INAUGURATION ON JANUARY 20, 2009.
GO OBAMA GO!

I’ve got news for ya, Christie – MANY AMERICANS are upset at the moral bankruptcy of the Republican Party…and the fact that the GOP is trying to pass off the man they rejected in favor of George W. Bush as the “best” candidate. Many Americans are upset at the astounding amount of lying and manipulation which went into making us spend a fortune on this war. Many Americans are upset at how the GOP let this economy crumble.
And all you have is attempts at character attacks. Even though your own candidate has flipflopped more than anyone else campaigning this year. Even though your own candidate has a history of lying over even simple things…like his age…like the fact he was still MARRIED when he took out a license to marry someone ELSE. And if a Man does that in his private life, what do you think he’s going to do with a public he doesn’t care about?
Don’t even make us go to the long laundry list of McCain’s own associations…along with the confessions of many in his own party who cite his volatile temper as worrisome.
Conservatives have absolutely nothing to be arrogant about this year – they have messed up every policy they’ve touched, driven the nation to the brink of bankruptcy, ignored the veterans, attacked their own fellow citizens, and now you want to talk about CHARACTER?

It’s refreshing to see many level-headed Americans responding to this report on the current pent-up anger and hostility produced during this presidential race. I heard that Mr Obama would be in town so I went to the stadium and hear his message. Mr Obama was calm, collected, sharp, positive, uplifting, and inspirational. He provided inspiration- we desperately NEED some around here. Jobs are being lost. Money lost daily in the markets. Big US company names like GM just down the street falling down. The last thing we need is mis-informed unjustified rumors about a candidate spread around our country to cause this insane fear. I lost my job here. The major retail chain just went out of business here. I watched the video of folks waiting in line at the McCain/Palin rally- My advice for them is to calm down and start getting your news from just one radical source. So many of them said Mr Obama was a terrorist or Arab. The guy at that McCain rally that was afraid for his wife and child because he heard Obama was a terrorist- Whoever put fear into that man should be ashamed. If he had only been here and heard Mr Obama’s message of unity. Mr Obama is about as peaceful and PATRIOTIC as you get. The veteran behind me was standing up most of the time and he was very elderly, but remained standing to watch. Another veteran that spoke at the podium was as energetic and heroic as they come. The young couple on my right said they were just ‘getting by’ financially and liked Mr Obama’s message of optimism and hope for rebuilding the country. A young man with his son on my left said he would not let anything get in the way of bringing his son up to listen tp a message of HOPE. 8500 Americans in that stadium looking for HOPE. Mr McCain is smart to admit that Obama is an Arab Terrorist was absolutely the WRONG message for his camp to present to supporters. Mabey he will wake up and realize just how DANGEROUS the message coming from his own campaign staff is getting. It’s like kicking around a hornet’s nest. Now he is trying to carefully put it back up in the tree. Too late, the hornets are loose!!! Anyways, the message I am sending here is everyone get out VOTE. VOTE for who you think would be make the best leader for this country. My assessment of the current presidential election:
OBAMA/BINDEN camp=POSITIVE MESSAGE
MCCAIN/PALIN camp=NEGATIVE MESSAGE
You Decide!! then VOTE. After that- take your friends and neighbors up and VOTE. If you live in OHIO you can vote early.

Amy: “The court has ordered to see the original”
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Why don’t you just tell us which court that is?

McCain pushback on Florida polls: “Our polling shows us up 7. My guess is they over sampled AA’s and under sampled Cubans.
McCain pushback on Q-polls: “These polls are laughable. We hope Obama thinks they’re true. The national tracking is clear: Some polls have us down 2%, some 4, some as high as 6. How could you have national numbers like that, but have those kinds of numbers in three of the largest, most competitive states in the country? These states are bellwethers because they closely mirror national demographics. Given the volume of campaigning in those states, we expect that they are close to the national track – if not tighter.”

Amy: “The court has ordered to see the original
***************************************** I don’t mean to be rude, but it seems you have some information that nobody else has, except you didn’t offer any resource or validation.
It almost seemed like you were just making it all up.

We are partners in a small business and the taxes and health insurance combination that Obama is proposing could put us under.
Posted by: concerned in missouri | Oct 11, 2008 12:29:46 AM
********************************************* Oh you must have looked closely into the proposals from both parties then. What is Obama’s proposal, anyway?

I do not support John McCain’s candidacy, and he will not be getting my vote. But I want to firmly say that I respect him in this instance for standing up to his own supporters who were crossing the line. Now he is also responsible for the actions of his campaign in the past week which has been stoking these fears and trying to capitalize on some of the worst side of voters’ characters, but at least today, he drew a line in the sand and stood up for some common decency. It was honorable, and I respect and thank him for it.

The problem with the current Republican economic philosophy is that it put most of the wealth in the hands of the few. This is considered a primary cause of the Great Depression.
As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth — not of existing wealth, but of wealth as it is currently produced — to provide men with buying power equal to the amount of goods and services offered by the nation’s economic machinery.
Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. This served them as capital accumulations. But by taking purchasing power out of the hands of mass consumers, the savers denied to themselves the kind of effective demand for their products that would justify a reinvestment of their capital accumulations in new plants. In consequence, as in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.
That is what happened to us in the twenties. We sustained high levels of employment in that period with the aid of an exceptional expansion of debt outside of the banking system. This debt was provided by the large growth of business savings as well as savings by individuals, particularly in the upper-income groups where taxes were relatively low. Private debt outside of the banking system increased about fifty per cent. This debt, which was at high interest rates, largely took the form of mortgage debt on housing, office, and hotel structures, consumer installment debt, brokers’ loans, and foreign debt. The stimulation to spend by debt-creation of this sort was short-lived and could not be counted on to sustain high levels of employment for long periods of time. Had there been a better distribution of the current income from the national product — in other words, had there been less savings by business and the higher-income groups and more income in the lower groups — we should have had far greater stability in our economy. Had the six billion dollars, for instance, that were loaned by corporations and wealthy individuals for stock-market speculation been distributed to the public as lower prices or higher wages and with less profits to the corporations and the well-to-do, it would have prevented or greatly moderated the economic collapse that began at the end of 1929.

Good for McCain. I always thought he was a decent guy, but was starting to wonder. It makes me feel better that he came out and said that.

What do Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden have in common? They both have pals that bombed the Pentagon!
Oh, but I forgot, Obama is now saying he didn’t know ANYTHING about Ayers past or, knows nothing about Rev. Wright’s racism, or Tony Rezko’s criminal acts, ect., ect. It seems if Oboma has such a bad memory or lack of knowledge of HUGELY SIGNIFICANT problems with his associations, maybe he lacks what it takes to be president? Ya think? But then again, he could just be, well, lying.

That is to say,
can’t sell your soul to the devil THEN say you’re only kidding…

The liberals caused most of this because they put this unsavory guy on the ticket. The dems are to blame for the money crisis as well as Chris Cox. Pelosi, Dodd, Franks, Paulson, Cox and others should be investigated. The dems get in, nothing will be done. Obama, another Jimmy Carter, but only much worse. Thank you dems!

It is odd that Obama supporters are now screaming foul about the “Vile Haters” on this board. Does anyone not remember the last 8 weeks of sadistic comments about Sarah Palin?

I was at a Palin rally in Leesburg with purportedly 60K people. You are not accurately reflecting McCain Palin supporters. We stood in line for hours to get into the secured area an clear security. Everybody was very nice and considerate. It wouldn’t surprise me if the hecklers were planted from Obama’s camp so they could cry foul. Where was the outrage from the Obama camp when his campaign was telling supporters to “get in their face.” I have had McCain-Palin signs that are well within my property line stolen and flattened.

bosco5021said:
McCain knows what he is doing
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This is based on what exactly?
Remember, the democrats did this to us?
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Oh really enlighten us?
The mere fact that you’re still a supporter of Bush
and McCain speaks volumes about your overall creditablity.
Do you honestly, seriosuly think our lives would be better
with McCain/Palin in office? Can you really say that with a straight
face.
Are you so blinded by you Republican allegience that you would
rather go down in flames than reach for a water hose. This is sickening
sad.

How about we stick to a discussion relating to the article.
‘McCain Confronts the Anger’
Again:
OBAMA/BINDEN camp=POSITIVE MESSAGE
MCCAIN/PALIN camp=NEGATIVE MESSAGE

John and Sarahs rally’s have sounded more like Klans meetings. He have caused his supporters to become so mean and vile and now he is not able to control them. He is sending them mixed messages by talking out both sides of his mouth!! what more can mcCain do? He is constantly running negative, sleazy, smear-filled untruths about Obama. Now McCain is trying to take the highroad in the way Obama has done so well.

Can we get past the hatred.
Quit posting lies. Everyone knows he is a christian.
I get sick reading this crap.

I currentl live in Minnesota and when I tell me family and friends back home in Chicago, St.Louis, Atlanta and Jackson Mississippi that these white folks up here are worse than the south, they dont believe me.
It’s sickening even in 2008, on the verge of one of the most important elections in our lifetime that people are still ignorant and racist. Will we EVER overcome

Here’s the real problem. Leadership matters. When Palin and McCain started targeting Obama more viciously (not that Obama didn’t deserve it) this sent a signal to those that are less restrained that Obama is a real danger. Now I don’t think Obama is a danger, but when McCain painted him as an extreme radical, this sounds an extreme alarm in the less restrained. The term radical has been used for red-baiting for many years. McCain was not red-baiting, but it only has dawned on him of late that he triggered a nasty fuse. It will probably only get worse as the election bears down. McCain would have been a great President 8 years ago. Unfortunately, he has been out-campaigned, albeit including some dirty tricks, and he is headed the way of Hillary. At this point I’m predicting that Obama will be a one-term President.

Beau Reeves
Not all of us are vile and odious. ;-)

There is a small segment of the population who are very susceptible to Right-Wing propaganda, and others who see it as the pure BS that it is.

This jerk McCAIN IS SET UP TO LOSE THE ELECTION. The whole race is a fraud.

This race card crap is really getting old. If Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice were running, they’d be kicking everyone’s ass. Unfortunately, we’ve got a no-name minority that few can relate to (and even less trust), which makes it easy for you to cry foul. Sorry. Not gonna work this time.

The McCain campaign lit a match in a dry forest and now they are trying to put out the fire.

Hey MAD DAD — You can put away your shotgun! Nobody’s comin’ after you. It’s really not about race, it IS about the differences in fundamental beliefs about America and government. Alan Keyes is my favorite — He is a pure conservative who explains why conservatism works,
Unfortunately, when an African-American runs as a conservative, traditional Black leaders vilify them as sell-outs.
These Republicans aren’t crazy about McCain either because he isn’t always conservative. Keyes, Romney, or Huckabee would have been stronger candidates.
My concern for my African-American friends is that they are voting for Obama just because he is Black and not because he is best for America.

Alan Keyes? Seriously?
Keyes’ problem is not that he is a conservative, but that he is a nut. Even Bush called him “a piece of work.”

Do you people ever just sit back and read what you’re saying on here? On both sides, it is horrible, hateful nonsense.

Farrakhan on Obama: ‘The Messiah is absolutely speaking’… ….and the hateful language that has been said about Sarah Palin’s children and McCain’s mother. Americans turning on one another and taking up for a man named Obama who lives down the street from Islam radical leader Farrakhan and terrorist Weather Underground William Ayers.. doesn’t make sense. McCain, the POW is now referred to in some of the most disrespectful names.

Chris – I understand that because I’ve watched the videos and it truly disturbs me. I’ve also seen how people refer to McCain as feeble.
How about we give both of them some respect?

>>>It isn’t Obama. He is damnation, not salvation!
That is so true. Rev. Wright, rest my case.

James, Thank you for your great post. And whoever the poster was who did all the work to find the Board Members of the Annenberg Challenge – thanks to you too. And Bosco? Keep tellling us more about righteousness and what evangelicals believe – about the end-of-days, about how the middle east and russia play into the end-of-days, about rapture, and about how evangelicals feel about Catholics and Satan. We need to know much, much more about Sarah Palin and you sound like just the man to tell us.

There’s a big difference between criticism and hate-mongering. How can anyone dispute that Bush deserves criticism, and lots of it? By all accounts he’s the worst president EVER, and the evidence is all around us – two wars that he hasn’t been able to wrap up, doubling the national debt, a collapsed economy. Don’t just take my word for it – he has the lowest presidential job approval rating EVER.

It’s strange how the leftwingers in control of the banking committees got rich by thief, they broke wall street, crush banks and our economy goes in the tank and who could be the most happiest? This is all too strange. Bush/McCain seem to have no clue while the trojan horse moves in. Very scary.

I’m not sure how many times Obama has to answer about Ayers before you right wing nuts start to realize no one cares. I think most people understand that this is a whole lot of nothing.

TideWillTurn
You really think the media is gonna turn their back on their “messiah” I think the only reason why the media wants this guy elected SO badly is because they have so much crap on him it will be months and months of nonstop scandal. That is why they did not want Hillary Clinton, with Hillary she is an open book, we know about her past with Bill, all the scandals, Monica Lewinsky, etc, with Obama, it would be a field day, remember this is the way it is with the media, they will bring you up so fast, make you into a God, then turn around and bring you down just as fast

getsmart – that was an honest comment and I for one appreciate it. I don’t support McCain (which will probably afford me some nasty comments). But, he did an honorable thing today telling his supporters the truth and asking them to show respect.

McCain said, “Obama is a decent man, a citizen, and someone you should not be afraid of as President of the United States.” Hello wingnuts, your leader just told you the truth about Obama. Will you let your blind hate and racism down for a minute and realize your disgusting actions is only polarizing our country in this desperate hour?

Thank you Iraq Vet. I hope you agree with me that they both need to be shown some honor and respect.

pennsylvania
True. I can remember the huge man-crush Chris Matthews had on Bush and then he turned on him like a rabid dog.

I saw the light come on in McCain’s eyes today. It seems that it suddenly occurred to him that he has been conducting a very dangerous character assassination against Obama. Listening to the crowd boo when he called Obama “decent” must have been a very sobering moment for McCain. Good. He needs to sober up from the blood lust his campaign has been dealing in while pandering to the lowest common denominator of the electorate.
There is no way he will ever crawl out of the bottom of the barrel he’s been scraping, with his honor in tact. Perhaps that thought has finally dawned on him.

And to Iraq Vet…thank you for your service. I know a few that have been there through my job and they’ve all made it back alive, thankfully.
Thank you.

This country has been slowly evolving into that which we have sacrificed countless lives opposing–a militant nation with an agenda driven by religious extremists who promote freedom of thought only so long as it does not conflict with their own ideas. Sound familiar? We have become the enemy.
The GOP has always been and will always be the party of exclusion, the party that attempts to diminish those who look different than themselves, pray to a different deity, or follow a different lifestyle. They are the party that uses fear and hatred as a weapon to intimidate any who do not share their points of view.
It is time for a fresh perspective, a new philosophy of America’s place in the world. It can no longer be us versus them at all costs; the world is far too small for such a narrow-minded point of view.
It is time to embrace those who are different than ourselves and accept them for who they are–it would be the “christian” thing to do.

Now Obama is responsible for burning churches in Kenya?!? LOL
Man this guy gets around! Do you think the tsunami was his fault too?
Posted by: jock59801 | Oct 11, 2008 1:39:08 AM
No, I think they blamed that one on Bush!

If Obama does get “elected” the hard left Obommunist wing of the party will immediately purge the remaining democrats who do not subscribe to their “re education plan. all talk radio that is not hard left will be banned ,schools will institute revisionist teachings whereby a whole generation will be indoctrinated with this socialist crap , they will do their utmost toturn our children into brainwashed obots who will be force fed farrakhan idolization of Obama tripe. Once socialist autortarians like these people take power they never give it up voluntarily…… Mcain Palin2008 or New Zealand anyone??

Bill Ayers has been working on injecting his version of socialism into the school systems. Turning out children and so called collage grads who are now spouting communistic drivel like candy.They have the habit of not knowing the phrases they use are out of Lenns past. They assume they are superior everyone else. So their Buddy Obama fits right in with Ayers plans.We see that the leftists just pretend everyone is too stupid to catch on.

The socialist use the technique of persuasion to brainwash or by making one come to decisions through guilt. There’s plenty here. College kids are messed up.

Now that McCain respects Obama, how is his negative adds going to work?
Now that we don’t have to fear an Obama Presidency how is his negative adds going to work.
Now that Obama is a decent family man, citizen how is his negative adds going to work.
I know Michelle isn’t?
Whatever, he put himself in a box, he just countered a weeks worth of ranting, and we see the BS he has been throwing around.
McPalintank

We have been hearing since Reagan that “Government is the problem”; that government should get “out of the way”; that the private sector can always do it better and cheaper.
If one has this philosophy then it is natural to undermine government; to get it “out of the way”. Conservatives since Reagan have systematically undermined the efficacy of the government by gutting any agency which it views as “standing in the way”.
You appoint “your guys” no matter how incompetent; you oust the professionals; you gut their budgets. You oppose anything which might “impede” the private sector corporations – consumer protections; food inspections; road and bridge inspection; financial regulations.
You politicize the Justice Department, so that it finds nothing, even torture, objectionable. Anti-trust enforcement becomes non-existent.
You never lift a voice or use the bully pulpit against corporations shipping jobs wholesale overseas. Our retailers buy their inventory from China and you ship them our money, never insisting that China adjust its foreign exchange rate. Then you borrow the money back from China to plug our budget deficit, caused by corporate tax cuts and cuts for the top 1% of Americans. You ship the borrowed money to our oil suppliers and oppose any effort to reduce dependency by seeking alternative renewable sources of fuel. After all, you’re an oil man.
You start an unnecessary war costing hundreds of billions of dollars much of it going to favored construction companies doing work shoddy enough to electrocute ten soldiers in their showers. Hired thugs masquerading as “security details” rake in more of the money, answering to no one. You “rebuild” Iraq (which we never had to destroy anyway) while the Iraqis have almost $80 billion in the bank.
You shred the Constitution, abridge habeas corpus. You get elected by selling your “values” while robbing the country blind. You never talk about economics. You always scare the voters with the next bogeyman around the corner. When the media disagrees with you, you attack it as “unfair” with “liberal bias”. You start your own propaganda media outlets that parrot the party line.
You take the country into a permanent state of war with a volunteer army – a state so permanent no one even notices it anymore as they go to the mall. You ask nothing from them but their acquiescence. “Just go shopping folks!”
You want to spend a trillion dollars to rescue the financial sector, run up a half a trillion dollar budget deficit and still spew nonsense about “small government, deregulation and lower taxes”.
We are witnessing the impoverishment of America. ….and this Grand Old Party (remember it?) wants four more years.
Posted by: toritto

Americans should please make up their minds what Barack Obama is because some of us outside the US are geting confused. Is he a Muslim with a Christian Pastor?. Ok I know, he must belong to this new religion called Chrislam.
Guys grow up!!, those of us outside the US are just amazed at the level of ignorance and racist tendencies of some of you Americans.
George Bush had all the experience, look at where he has put all of you?. Oh yes, experience does count indeed, experience at taking the wrong decisions!

The world is watching and I am embarrassed for our entire country that McCain and Palin, regardless of their political affiliations, would allow the campaign (heck, they pushed it…) to erode to such a level of outright hatred and racism. Wake up, people…in case you’ve been asleep our country is a total disaster. Our military is depleted. Our economy is a failure. Your future economic well-being has been destroyed. The rest of the world is not only furious at us but in many parts of the world we are hated, we no longer have any moral standing around the world (I know those of you who don’t have a passport don’t care about this…but you can get a passport too, just like Sarah did last year!)…we need a complete “do over” in Washington, with a leader who can bring in a new era, a new beginning, a new philosophy…otherwise, I think we are doomed.

The “KILL HIM” line came from a plant. That was planted by the Obomo campaign.

There are zealots in every political party in the United States. However, the United States government should put in surveilance these instigators of both parties who cry for the asssination or harm of other candidates. They should be charged for inciting to lawlessness, let alone murder. That military person in military uniform who was rudely criticizing Senator Obama during a political rally for Senator McCain, I will recommend preferall of charges against you for violating a lawful military order under Article 92 of the UCMJ. I have already requested the TV transcripts of the major TV networks which will be used as evidence against you. As a minimum, you could face six months imprisonment in a special court-martial. You would have wished you never joined our US military. You could argue that your mind was obfuscated by your emotions, however the crime you committed requires no intent; meaning, your mere attendance to these rallies while in uniform constitutes the crime per se.

The democrats should be terribly ashamed of scaring all of these citizens by allowing a person like Obama to be running for the highest office when he has such close ties to many radicals. Our country will never be same. This is the liberals doings. Whatever happens, it’s their making. May God help us.

People really need to start playing connect the dots and stop sticking their heads in the sand.
Would anyone on this blog approve of their child choosing to hang around a known UNREPENTANT terrorist? If not, than why would you approve of your President to do so?? Would you feel differently if Ayers name happened to be Bin Laden? They aren’t any different you know…
It is amazing though how ridiculous this country is given the fact that Ayers is a PROFESSOR at the University of Illinois. The only reason why Ayers is free is because he got off on a TECHNICALITY!!

What would Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater or Nelson Rockefeller think of today’s GOP? Do you think they’d approve? They’re probably spinning in their graves.
Here’s what MD Republican congressman GilChrest recently said to the Washington Post:
“We’re in this bad place as a country because of the evangelicals, the neocons, the nasty, bitter and mean . . . very clever ideological groups that use money, technology, fear and bigotry to lead people around,” he says. “Voting according to your knowledge and experience — that’s out the window. Competence and prudence? Forget it.”
“I haven’t stepped away from my party,” Gilchrest says. “The party has stepped away from Eisenhower and Goldwater and Nixon and Ford and even Ronald Reagan. It’s been driven away by this anti-government combination of Milton Friedman and Jerry Falwell.”

Honestly, all of the barbaric comments regarding Sen. Obama is getting out of hand. First and for most, Palin has no room to speak about honesty. Take her lack of experience and the allegations of firing a public safety official for not taking “appropriate actions” in dismissing her former brother-in-law from his career. Secondly, how can anyone have confidence in her to lead this country?! Where is the honesty? It certainly takes ignorant and ill-informed citizens to agree with these remarks. If you want to trust the Republican party, then we might as well keep digging a larger national debt as seen over the past 8 years. Why was the national debt not anywhere close to where it is today when President Clinton was Commander in Chief? It’s all too easy to jump on the bandwagon without knowing your facts or history, do some research people before you attack either party!

Chris, you are a prime definition of an ignorant individual- how in your right mind can you say Obama is a racist? If he were racist then explain to me how he is a Senator?
Marie, you are also very glib.
Since both of you have such “great” things to say about Sen. Obama, please explain why neither of you are running for office?

One last comment, this is for all of you who have posted outrageous remarks on this blog, ask yourselves is there a such thing as a PURE AMERICAN? No. So, on what grounds can we make such discriminatory assertions? We cannot.

It’s pretty sad that this is what McCain and Palin have come to. They talk about how great America is, yet rile up their supporters in such a way that brings shame upon all Americans. All the right wing whackos are now coming out of the woodwork and throwing rocks within their glass houses. You can’t reason with these people. They are so quick to attack Obama’s character and associations, yet turn a blind eye to McCain’s associations with the likes of Keating, Jesse Helms, and Sen. Byrd (former KKK member).. they also ignore Palin’s association with the Alaskan Independence Party, a group she recently praised and which her own husband was a member of for about seven years. This is a group whose founder stated that he hates America. It’s pure hypocrisy.

Wow. I can’t believe this is all McCain and Palin have. What are they thinking? This “Smear Surge” does nothing but appeal to the far right. It’s not going to get the much needed independent and moderate vote. I take comfort in McCain now seeming to recognize this, but then again, I’m not sure there’s much he can do to control some of the madness we’re seeing at these rallies. The negativism and fear-mongering needs to stop. Neither side has a monopoly on morality and righteousness and it’s true folly to think otherwise.

We had eight years of NeoCon Bush/Cheney 2 unfinished wars, the slow poisoning of a once healthy economy, the fiscal bailout of the airlines, the insurance companies after 911 and again in 2008. The rhetoric that came out of Washington with all the color coded terror alerts was be afraid of any person of color, and especially if they are Muslims. Christian organizations especially Evangelicals and Pentecostals had this whisper campaign going on against all people of color, the full gospel business fellowship had a speaker from Homeland Security come and talk and increase paranoia levels among these christians, I have watched them in supermarkets and other places always afraid of colored people, always eyeing them with suspicion, if they speak a different language or speak with an accent it is even worse. At work places these folks bully them into leaving the job. The word Christian means the anointed one, follower of the Messiah, Jesus Christ asked that we pray for our enemies, and forgive seventy times seven, turn the other cheek when smitten by our enemies.
Pagans like Gandhi took his message and lead a non violent movement against their colonial rulers.
In a country that professes to be Christian sadly one does not often see his followers practice what Christ preached beginning with the President Bush and followed by evangelical preachers like John Hagee and the likes of him. Jesus weeps every time these folk who profess to talk to him daily and hear from him continually speak in his name. By the way Jesus did not like capitalists, who arranged to have him crucified because he stood up to them, He was a socialist who feed five thousand men women and children for free paid for by the grace of God. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves, we are choosing a leader to lead this nation, vilifying them while the world watches, how can we expect them to respect these candidates if one them wins after we have torn their decency away and made them despicable in the eyes of the citizens and our children.
This is a moment in history we all need to put aside our differences, put aside all the brainwashing we have had to be our brothers keeper and not call it socialism.
The World is watching America. We must once again arise to be the great Nation we are are work to wipe away the debt created by irresponsible fiscal policies (even the USSR when it collapsed did not have a national debt as great as ours)
Bring back our nation with hard work and God’s graces to be the great nation the we were intended to be, The City on the Hill.
God Bless America!

“Sir, my need is sore.
Spirits that I’ve cited
My commands ignore.”
Goethe, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Me, I’m kinda likin’ this quote. Time to rumble (How’s that for Mikwaukee colloquial Ms. Palin).
We the people are sick and tired of being screwed by the Washington DC, Wall Street, Oil interests that you represent.
We the people are sick and tired of getting screwed by you.
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.” Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.
We would rather wage war on Washington, Wall Street and Oil Interests . . . and you all would prefer to accept the bailouts, have your parties, enjoy your eglitarian luxuries “than let your [plantations] perish.”
Hollywood, you are the same.
A revolution of sorts is in play. The extravagant amounts of money you folks made, in light of the little security we have in our jobs, homes and health is a disparity that must end.
We want our money back. We want parity.
Are you on board?
I hope Obama is. McCain, if you are a leader, you take responsibility for your crew.
Anything bad happens to Obama . . . I won’t be involved, but scary as it may be, all bets are off.

McCain fed this enormous beast of hostility and paranoia and NOW he wants to tame it??? He’s really let this campaign run away from him.

Wow, people will say anything to keep Obama from being president. Desperate, huh?

Thank you John McCain for finally standing up to these nut jobs that are attending your rallies. I mean this is how far these outright lies have gotten. I didn’t hear about this until this evening and I am very pleased that McCain set that woman striaght. I think it is funny that this woman made this comment about Obama being an Arab because today on a local radio program a guy called in and said that Obama is half white and half black(which is true) but then the caller said that being half white and half black makes him an Arab which is the strangest math I have ever heard.
To the lady in Minnesota who said “I don’t him….He’s an Arab” I would like to know as a fellow Minnesotan (now living in North Dakota) did you learn your racist ways or do you think you where born that way. Even if Obama was an Arab that would not make him any less qualified to be President. Arab is a race not an ideal and has nothing to do with whether or not someone would be effective in a position. There seems to be this atmosphere in America these days that Arab = Terrorist, I will remind you Timothy McVeigh(Oklahoma City) was white, not an Arab. Shame on you lady. We live in America where ALL men and women are created equal.
I also have to laugh when I hear people say that Obama is a Muslim and then in the next sentence talk about how Reverend Wright was his spiritual advisor.
By the way I know many Republicans that have a problem with his association with Reverend Wright because of the snippets of two speeches that Reverend Wright made and if you do have a problem with the comment you heard from these two speeches I urge you to look the up on the internet and watch the whole speech not just what the news covered because I as a white republican agree with most of the statments made in both speeches.

Dear “Ray”
You do realixe that Minnesota will most likely go to Obama and not McCain. Thes “fanatics” are in every state they are called the “Republican Base.” There are probably some of these people in your own neighborhood or maybe even in your own family. You can’t call out an entire state based on the comment of a few. Minnesotans don’t judge people based on what a small population of their state says and I would say it is probably very similar in whatever state you are from. By the way in Minnesota the leading candidate for U.S. Senate is Al Franken who has a national radio program and you might remember him from this little TV show call Saturday Night Live. Oh and also there is another guy who gaduated from Minnesota State University Moorehead who has a national radio show and regularly appears on Larry King Live his name is Ed Shultz.
So what is your problem with Minnesota?

Credit to McCain for finally trying to put a lid on this kind of thing. Better late than never.

Although I am a Republican, I’m very ashamed and embarrassed of the Republican party. ‘Kill him’ and ‘terrorist’ shout outs of that nature are definitely off-limits. This is AMERICA, and not a Banana Republic, and while I will not be voting for Barack Obama, I also have to admit that I’m not going to be voting for Mr. McCain or Mrs. Palin. They’re acting too extreme and are not running a good campaign, and they’re NOT talking about the economy at all! They’re ONLY smearing the Democrat nominee for President. It’s a shame, because I’ve never missed a vote in a general or state election ever since I was 18, and I’m 56 years old now.

If he name calls, has entirely negative ads, and instructs the VP canidate to behave like a viper, what do you expect. Being uncivil brings out the uncivilized. Poor leadership with no foresight. Way to bring people together and a nasty legacy for his remaining years. He actually should have been incarcerated for the Keating incident.

Reading this has shown me how much paranoia Mr. McCain has brought out in people. What Mr. McCain has created in me is fear. I’ve been checking the news more often to make sure Obama is OK. That’s not right John MCCain.

hmmmm i recall something about …”sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind”
if anything does happen to obama ,the republican party will CEASE TO EXIST that day .

Racist hate, pure and simple. Who are the people who now make up the core of the Republican party? Judging from the things they shout from their crowds, they sound like a bunch of frightening, ignorant people with no respect for the law themselves. Sarah Palin should be highly ashamed for inciting that element of society, and giving them precedent to boldly believe their unbridled hatred is permissible to express. Hers are the types of crazy and unfounded allegations that I expect to see expressed in anonymous emails and KKK rallies, not being proffered by a VP candidate. She is a dangerous woman with no real moral compass. Barack Obama is a good man who wants to make America better. Americans, LISTEN to them both and decide, really, what kind of person you would be confident in having in our leadership. And if you are a racist, please do it with your eyes closed. This woman is only pretty on the outside.

It is a true shame that someone like Palin was ever allowed behind a microphone to spew hate and garbage. The Moose is cooked. The hatred boat has sailed. The McCain/Palin ticket is self destructing faster then wall street. Senator McCain it is time to fire whoever is in charge of your campaign.

The water is too muddy to see clearly. Who knows who is intigating this. Palen’s attacks don’t help, the evangelical extremists will do anything to see their daughter Palen in power. I also don’t discount hillary clinton. If Obama wins it may kill her political dreams. The clinton’s promied us they would be out campaigning for Obama. It’s not happening. They’re dirty. This campaign is a mess. The politicians created this division in our society. Now it’s comming back to bite them in the ass. Reap what you sow.

i know it is unseemly Harry , but thats american politics for you. when it works correctly it is a good (not nearly perfect though) system of government but even such a good system can become overly twisted around and distorted by enough money and power,ie; the republican “win at any cost” political machine.
mccain and the republicans have made bedfellows with the lowest common denominator american voter , because it is easier to fool a fool than a smart person. now that they have made the connection to the jim crow/kkk/abortion clinic bomber types etc , it is going to be very hard for them to accrue any real political support for the foreseeable future .
honestly though , there are really a lot of very nice and smart people here in the usa and we are going to gang up on the morons over the next several election cycles and take control of this country again.
god help us all if we cant…

McCain is like an arsonist trying to put out the fire he started.

Judging from the comments here, the strategy to let people know of Obama’s poor choice of associates is working! He chose to have his political career kick off at a Domestic Terrorist’s house, he worked with the same guy to “change” the education system to a socialistic system hell bent on changing our country as a capitalistic based one to socialism. He sat at the feet of a riot incenting, bigoted, hate America preacher, Jeremiah Wright, who he baptized his kids and gave moral direction to him for 20 years and then said he didn’t know Ayers was a terrorist or that Wright held these views. Never in 20 years had he heard this from Rev. Wright! And we’re supposed to believe that?
McCain is trying to be honorable and keep the far right from going too far and I understand his position, however, we are awakened to the danger of electing this Socialist, Elitist, Holier than thou Messiah of a individual who will bring this nation down with his policies and lack of judgement. He will be back for our economy, the troops, our morale as a nation and I truly fear him not for what McCain or Palin has done, but for what he has done and has been brought to light by McCain and Palin!
McCain-Palin 08

It’s time to just divide the U.S. into two countries, the Blue and Red states. The Blue states will of course have the wealth, the tax base, the top universities, the high tech industry, the manufacturing, and the culture. The Red states will have NASCAR.

Jailed political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.

Just another thought as well, how could I deflate McCain’s rally’s excitement and momentum? Plant some people in there to act like total right wing extremists to embarrass McCain and have him try to reign them in and thus embarrass all the Republicans.

Clint,
“McCain might as well be whistling Dixie with that GOP hate group. They love Palin because she represents what Hannity, Limbaugh, and other right wing coward nuts represent….hate, prejudice, and most importantly mind control”
Exactly what I was thinking. Sarah Palin appears to be the new mouth piece for Hannity, Limbaugh, Chris Plante and Mark Levine instead of her own candidate. Sad, really.
Obama/Biden 08!

Am not surprise at all this but let these brute know that america did not belong to the white but to the indians all americans are immigrants to hell with mcain and palin politics of hatred you can not deny obama his achievement in life ,we americans are no fools

The neocon base is out of control. These people need to be punished for their hatefulness. They are responsible for the mess our country is in, and they have the gall to be on the warpath when THEY are the ones who voted Bush in twice, supported and cheerled the Iraq (bankrupting) war and who have been WRONG on EVERYTHING they have advocated and done in the past 10 years. If they want to get nasty, there are plenty of real Americans who would love to have words with them. We are sick of them and their act. So who the all-fired-h3!! are they to boo McCain for wanting a note of reason to be injected into this keyed up hatefulness of theirs. A big finger to these fanatics. We’ve all had just about enough of the right wingers in this country…just about enough of them…and we have the same visceral dislike of them that they have for us….so let’s get nasty if that is what they want…I’d love to tell them a thing or two.

It is almost laughable some of the comments here, about the hate filled GOP,rednecks, etc. As if the other side has been so nice either! If Obama were to lose, there would be riots and murders and all kinds of crying. Remember all of your “people in glass houses” preaching. We truly are a nation of whiners.

Is MaCain truly proud to be repesenting the party of that angry crowd? Funny that when Obama has called McCain an honorable American and admired his service to this country, the democrats applause and recognize it.

I TOLD you this would happen. Back when he started the flow of slime, I warned that as the election neared McCain would suddenly “get religion” and resurrect the Principled John McCain We All Knew and Will Now Know Again, giving the very people who are nervous about Obama for all the wrong reasons a rationale/path for voting Republican next month. McCain and his handlers have always had this ace up their slime-slickened sleeves just in case the relentlessly negative campaigning became counter-productive. That approach has done its work; now, miraculously, we will see a re-emergence of Papa John (irresistible to white female voters in particular), duly chastened and implicitly penitent (for the benefit of the Christian Right) while still manly enough — and white enough — to appeal to the so-called “working class” voters. The Republicans have been mightily criticized for their “strategery” during this campaign. I think that, dealt a very weak hand, they have been brilliant in making this process about the spiritual journey of John McCain rather than about this issues. Of course, I think anyone who lives in the abyss of such cynical manipulations IS an issue. I get scared to death imagining how this sickening way of operating would play out with President McCain at the helm of our country.

All you have to do is read some of the posts on this board to figure out why people are so riled up. It isn’t just coming from one side it is coming from both. So all of you preaching, need to go back and re read some of your own posts, to figure out why this is happening. The more you spew your hatefulled BS the worse it gets! BOTH SIDES!

We have already had a rightwing mass murderer in Tennesee target those that they deem liberal and now they are worried?! They stoke this hate 24X7 on radio and on FOX!!

Hannity (of Fox News) rimes with insanity.
Given the sad list of assassinations of public figures in our nations’ history, Mrs. Palin and Mr. McCain will carry a heavy responsibility on their shoulders if something stupid happened to senator Obama before or after the election. The Republican Party and its candidates, and their supporters, have a moral duty to stop the inflammatory rhetoric and get back to real issue affection all of us: the economy. Both, Obama and McCain are qualified to run for President of the United States. Period.

I THINK MCCAIN IS ONLY PRETENDING TO DEFEND OBAMA.OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT AMERICA WANTS NOT MCCAIN.THEY ARE JOKERS

Thank you McCain campaign for making USA look like an African “democracy”. You are so power hungry that you are willing to tear down the nation … fear-mongerers…. this is right out of Karl Rove’s textbook. Shame on you!
If you see what happened under republican leadership in the last 8 years, I will concede this election!
And thx for the stage-hands asking these questions posing as “real-americans”. None of you are
Welcome to the third world, America!

Ironically, Obama is a natural-born American, and McCain is a natural born citizen of Panama who obtained US citizenship under a technicality in the law.

McCain and Palin have already opened the Pandora’s Box of hatred and evil, so it isn’t surprising that McCain has lost control of his hate-filled mobs. He has only himself to blame if anything happens to Mr. Obama or his family.

” if something stupid happened to senator Obama”
Their minds are poisoned by these NeoCon allegations. Fabricated facts.
Trying to link Obama with Chavez, Hamaz, Iran… it’s nuts.
It’s when intelligent moderate people rules, the extreme religious sides get crazy because they are threatened.
Rabin, murdered by a right-winged fanatic. Sadat, murdered by a fundamentalist fanatic.

These people at McCain rallies need to stop listening to Rush and Billy O. Talk about media bias! The political polarization (on both sides)is by far the biggest threat to our democracy. The civilized notion that someone can respectfully disagree is lost on these people. Everything is black or white, right or wrong. As bush said, you are either with us or against us. This dichotomous way of thinking is why we are in such a foreign policy mess to begin with.

Maybe McCain has some class and character even if his supporters and advisors do not.
I need him to explain what he will do to my health care. I have never taken a penny of government money, went to school, worked hard and chose to work for an employer not just because of money but the benefits package. My benefits are superb, human resources said it costs 30k a year average per employee. I want to know if I will be taxed on that 30k? If so at what rate? Will I have to buy medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance all for 5k if so where? What kind of coverage can I get for my family for only 5k a year?
Why is he getting involved in what goes on in a private arrangement between my employer and myself? I thought Republicans don’t want government in our lives and wish for smaller government? Why is he raising taxes on me to pay for less coverage under his plan than I get under my employer?

John McCain and Sarah Palin are feeding the hate with lies and deceit to their supporting troops. So if this irrational behavior causes any harm to Obama then McCain and Palin should be held personally accountable.

I like what author Frank Schaeffer, of the Baltimore Sun stated about the way McCain has been running his campaign. Keep in mind that Schaeffer is a Republican. I think he states it best don’t you…`
“John McCain and Sarah Palin, you are playing with fire, and you know it. You are unleashing the monster of American hatred and prejudice, to the peril of all of us. You are doing this in wartime. You are doing this as our economy collapses. You are doing this in a country with a history of assassinations.
Change the atmosphere of your campaign. Talk about the issues at hand. Make your case. But stop stirring up the lunatic fringe of haters, or risk suffering the judgment of history and the loathing of the American people – forever.”
Enough said…

Funny, when Palin came on the scene and all the left wanted to investigate her background they said it was “right as anybody running for political office is open to that”, but now that were looking into Obama’s background and connections ohooo! it’s an “attack” and “were attacking Obama”. Nothing like a double standard, huh! No wonder you have to cheat to win an election. Stop trying to screw the Americans and the American democratic vote process.

It’s easy for you liberals to make all these comments about republicans toning it down because you have an overwhelming voice and advocate in the general media. I believe you’re underestimating the frustration republicans feel at being virtually shut out of this election by the media. Therein lies our anger. When you silence the voice of one candidate over another you relegate their supporters to the fringes of communication where anger foments. The media is creating a monster it can’t control by pretending it isn’t there and they’re just going to make it worse by blaming the republican candidates. I truly hope that is not the goal – although it appears to be.

Mc Cain is frustrating his supporters with his “nice guy” routine. You don’t see the DEMS being “nice guys”. They’ve lied and trashed both he and Palin in their ads.
The DEMS have Obama “community organizer” groups like ACORN pulling voter fraud in at least a dozen states. Yesterday a report here of a 98 year old woman with Alzheimers used in a voter fraud operation.
Mc Cain better realize the Democratic Party, and Obama are more dangerous to this country than the dictators we fought in WW2 and the Cold War combined. The very heart of our nation is at stake.
GET ON THE STICK MC CAIN AND GET IN THE FIGHT!

When the woman says ” He’s an Arab “, McCain replies ” No, ma’am, he’s a decent family man.” Really ? You can’t be both ?

Jack
that’s bologne
what we saw this week were the fanning of the flames of a bunch of future Timothy mcVeighs
it was not only ignorant and stupid to do on Palin’s part…
it was clearly antithetical to her words…
she was causing domestic terror qualities to go up…not something American.
she needs to go back to Alaska…
and Mccain needs to serve on Obama’s cabinet or as an advisor.

Our democracy is eroding due to a vastly polarized media. And it shows in our party system. Everything is either right or wrong, yes or no, white or black, etc. If you have a nation of uninformed people, it’s easy to scare them.

No one has spewed more hate and anger on these boards than Obama supporters. They’ve said rude and terrible things about the Clintons,McCain ,Palin and their supporters. They have dissed seniors, rural people,religious people, gun owners, etc.. They’ve called people racists, idiots, jerks, uneducated, losers and traitors. They’ve name called, told McCain to just go somewhere and die, made fun of Hillary’s physical characteristics and clothes, said nasty things about Palin and her family and called McCain a traitor. I don’t think Obama supporters have the moral high ground on this one as they have been flinging hate since the primaries.
Posted by: Tom in MA | Oct 11, 2008 9:31:40 AM
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What planet have you been living on???

I’m glad McCain had the dignity to grab that mic from the anti-Arab woman, because this mob-like audience also has the capacity to bring down his presidential race, not just Sarah dumb Palin.

urma
“Our democracy is eroding due to a vastly polarized media. And it shows in our party system.”
Yeah off course, blame it on the media if it blow in your face.. pretty lame if you ask me….

Be very clear where domestic terror tends to come from.
Go look at what Timothy mcVeigh and Joe Vogel believed and what there values were…
and then go watch the Palin rallies.
or watch the video of comments of all the people going into that Mccain rally yesterday.
ignorance only needs a match to burn down a community.

I think McCain is going to have a hard time getting the genie back in the bottle. He opened Pandora’s box and the republican filth and hate is spilling out. I just hope Obama’s got enough security around him and his family. At times like these, hearing the amazingly ignorant and downright stupid things coming out of people’s mouths, I am NOT proud to be an American. The republicans and/or McCain supporters can spin this any way they want but the fact is, this is downright disgusting and shameful. These ugly sentiments are worthy of the Taliban, not Americans

You left wing morons – the guy can’t win can he? Didn’t he just defend the messiah? You people are sick in the head

prcleburn
actually I am as scared as anyone who recognizes how bad what palin and mccain have been doing is for our country (and please morons…only one teams rally is instigating a set of next generation “timothy mcveighs”)
but what mcCain was refering to was the fact that that woman was sayign she couldn’t trust him because he is Arab.
Yes he didn’t say anything about the arab part
but mccain was trying to address the more important lie… that this is a guy you can’t trust…
John McCain himself knows that is not true…even though he said it last week for political points.
JOhn Mccain yesterday clearly showed he bought a ticket on a train he clearly does not want to be on…and made a deal with the devil by picking Palin. She is that woman who called Obama an “untrusted Arab”
that is the problem…
he picked a “low information voter” as his vice president
one whose largest political experiences are speaking and supporting and joining her husband at a secessionist group that was founded by literally…a domestic terrorist.
The worst choice for Vise President our nation has ever seen
and we should all be very scared…seriously.

Concerned Voter: the media is not addressing the silly issues you think do important? If the media wasn’t addressing the ridiculous Ayers thing, you wouldn’t be blogging about it, now would you?

I’d be impressed with McCain’s admonishments of fear and hatred toward Obama, if it weren’t for the fact that his campaign is still spewing the vitriol through their advertisements and their surrogates.

Bob: Who’s blogging? This is a message board, and if you don’t know the difference, then that explains some things.
William Ayers is what he is. Obama associated himself with him. That is a fact. It’s undeniable.
ACORN is committing significant voter fraud. Undeniable fact.
Obama wants to be President. Excellent. Let’s have a dialogue about that and his qualifications. Drop your “Silence In The Name Of Political Correctness” sledgehammer and let’s talk about it.
Nothing to be afraid of since he’s got nothing to defend….correct???

“. . . he’s not, he’s not – he’s an Arab” . . . . These are the times I am embarassed for our country. What utter ignorance

CLabs
As I mentioned before – it’s easy for you liberals to make comments dismissing republican anger; all you can say about the media bias in your favor is “lame excuse.” That’s because you’re riding high on a constant rush of media slant for your candidate. We on the right have seen very clearly how you liberals react when your candidate is not in office. It isn’t nice…

A difference
I know you want the media to ignore their brains
ignore facts
ignore what is right and wrong
and ignore science
but they can’t just say what you want them to …just because you are wrong and you are stubborn in that mindset.
The media can be accused of being biased in both directions.
The problem is what we saw at mccain’s rallies yesterday…
ignorance + anger = a very bad road

Just to correct someone’s earlier comment that these rallies are somehow creating the next generation of Timothy McVeigh’s. I think what they MEANT to say was they are “creating” the next generation of William Ayers’s. And that’s a good thing right? – because he’s good company for a Presidential candidate- and a fine American. Good grief!

Do you think the right wing talk radio commentators had anything to do with poisoning the minds of these supporters? (Yes, I hear it from the left too, but it’s hard to find on TV and radio, mostly on internet blogs).
As patriotic Americans we should reject this sick rhetoric crap from whatever source, that poisons our minds with hatred and blinds us from being objective and doing what’s best for our country. And God knows our country needs our best, NOW.

I wonder how the narrow minds in Lakeville might feel about McCain if they knew about the confessions he gave to the North Vietnamese while he was held prisoner?….I think the country should get a look at his service records that have been locked away all these years…

I’m sure that at the ripe old age of 53, I remember further back than most of the posters here, many of whom appear to be kids. For anyone of my age, John McCain is known above all for being at the heart of the Keating 5 scandal. To make a long story short, the last time there was a huge crisis based on faulty mortgages, only 2 decades ago, John McCain was one of a handful of people in the country who were most responsible. McCain escaped criminal indictment, but was NOT exonerated, he was censured by a BI-PARTISAN Congress. Republicans and Democrats alike rebuked him for his poor judgment. Now insane Republicans want to turn THIS financial crisis over to John McCain’s judgment. John McCain is liked and respected by many Democrats, including me, for a lifetime of service to his country — but he is the LAST person in the nation who should be trusted with the economy now.
By the way, for historical interest, another person involved in scandal at that time was Neil Bush — brother of the current so-called President, who escaped indictment for massive fraud at Silverado S&L. He too, was censured for his ethical dystrophy.

Ramage100: Please tell me that you aren’t holding “confessions” made by McCain while being tortured by the NVA against him? Extreme pain will make you say anything.
McCain was severely tortured because he refused to be released “out of order” by the NVA — who wanted to let him go before others that had been held longer than he was. Think about that for a second: He knew he would be tortured and stayed anyway. THAT is courage.
And saying that we need to investigate his “confessions” resulting from that torture is…..well, dumb.

You need to do some research and base your comments on fact not fiction.
Fact Check: Did Afghan general say ‘surge principle’ won’t work?
The Facts:
Gov. Sarah Palin, who lauded the successes of the “surge strategy” in Iraq, asserted in the debate that “the surge principles, not the exact strategy, but the surge principles that have worked in Iraq need to be implemented in Afghanistan.”
But Sen. Joe Biden disagreed, saying “our commanding general in Afghanistan said the surge principle in Iraq will not work in Afghanistan. … He said we need more troops. We need government-building. We need to spend more money on the infrastructure in Afghanistan.”
Biden is False: McKiernan said in Washington on Oct. 1, he called for a “sustained commitment” leading to a political and not just a military solution.
He said Afghanistan is a “far more complex environment than I ever found in Iraq.” The newspaper paraphrased him as citing the country’s “unique challenges” — “the mountainous terrain, rural population, poverty, illiteracy, 400 major tribal networks and history of civil war.” Never said the “surge “ would not work.
Fact Check: McCain was for de-regulation!
Fact Check: Sen. Biden said that McCain was for de-regulation and that’s why were in the mess were in now.
Biden is False: McCain was against de-regulating the investment banking system and vote for Bush’s bill to inpliment more regulations and oversight on the investment banks in 2003 that was blocked by the Democrats. The real facts are that the Democrats are the one’s responsible for the investment crisis. The low income loans the Liberals have pushed such as “ACORN” are the main reason for the loss and now blame the Right. BIDEN: Complained about “economic policies of the last eight years” that led to “excessive deregulation.”
THE FACTS: Biden voted for 1999 deregulation that liberal groups are blaming for part of the financial crisis. The law allowed Wall Street investment banks to create the kind of mortgage-related securities at the core of the problem now. The law was widely backed by Republicans as well as by Democratic President Clinton, who argues it has stopped the crisis today from being worse. Actually it made it much worse.
Fact Check: Biden: Warned that Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s $5,000 tax credit to help families buy health coverage “will go straight to the insurance company.”
THE FACTS: Of course it would, because it’s meant to pay for insurance. That’s like saying money for a car loan will go straight to the car dealer. It’s not a “cash in the pocket” tax credit.
Fact Check: BIDEN: Said McCain supports tax breaks for oil companies, and “wants to give them another $4 billion tax cut.”
Biden is False: Biden is repeating a favorite saw of the Obama campaign, and it’s misleading. McCain supports a cut in income taxes for all corporations, and doesn’t single out any one industry for that benefit.
Fact Check: BIDEN: “As a matter of fact, John recently wrote an article in a major magazine saying that he wants to do for the health care industry — deregulate it and let the free market move — like he did for the banking industry.”
THE FACTS: Biden and Obama have been perpetuating this distortion of what McCain wrote in an article for the American Academy of Actuaries. McCain, laying out his health plan, only referred to deregulation when saying people should be allowed to buy health insurance across state lines. In that context, he wrote: “Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.”
Fact Check: BIDEN: Sen. Obama is going to lower taxes for the “middle class”.
Biden is False: Sen. Obama has called for raising the top ordinary income-tax rate, now 35%, to 39.6%. (This means a tax increase for everyone). He also has proposed raising the current 33% rate to 36%. But he would leave the other income-tax rates unchanged. Sen. Obama wants to raise the top long-term capital-gains rate on stocks, bonds and other securities (as well as the rate on qualified dividends)( down goes your retirement nest egg), now 15%, to 20% for households with income of more than $250,000 or individuals over $200,000. He hasn’t said what he would do about the top capital-gains rate, now 28%, on sales of art and collectibles.
Fact Check: BIDEN: Climate change is made by man.
Biden is False: Of course, the biggest “untruth” told by Biden is the “fact” that climate change is totally the fault of people. What hogwash! The earth has been going through cyclical changes since WAY before we had SUV’s. Climate change has occurred for century’s and will continue to occur.
Fact Check: BIDEN: During the debate, Biden said, “Oh, on clean coal. My record, just take a look at the record. My record for 25 years has supported clean coal technology.”
Biden is False: However, during an early campaign stop once he was announced as VP Candidate, Biden said, “No coal plants here in America. Build them, if they’re going to build them, over there [China]. Make them clean. We’re not supporting clean coal.”
Fact Check: PALIN: Criticized Obama’s “plan to mandate health care coverage and have universal government run program” for health care, and added: “I don’t think it’s going to be real pleasing for Americans to consider health care being taken over by the Feds.”
Palin is right: He promises to make health insurance affordable but would only mandate that children, not adults, have coverage. Estimates of how many would remain without insurance would leave 15 million people uninsured. ~ Said Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Obama comes up with this “I’m going to cut taxes for 95% of the American public.” Would someone please explain to me why McCain has never directly responded to this absurd line? “You’re going to lower taxes for 95% of the people? Perhaps you don’t know this, but 45% of American wage earners don’t pay any federal income taxes. That places the entire federal income tax burden on just 55% of income earners. Please … we’re waiting … tells us how you lower taxes on 95% of the people when only 45% are paying those taxes in the first place. I suspect that when you start explaining your plan we’re going to learn that what you’re really proposing is not tax cuts, but income redistribution.” This is more socialism…..

I may not be voting for McCain in the upcoming election but I have a lot more respect for him now. It takes great intregety to defend the person your trying to beat to the White House.
McCain did the right thing by defending Obama from the bigots that are found in the bowels of our country.
Those of you who only see Obama for the color of his skin, well you all should be ashamed of yourselves. The color of ones skin has nothing to due with their ability to lead a nation, nor does the relgion they chose to practice.
If you choose not to vote for Obama for the color of his skin or the relgion he believes in you are truly cowards in this century.
Vote for the person who can bring a postive change to this country. Vote for them for their stands and changes they will make.
It makes ashamed that I share a country with so many racists….it’s sad that you bigots are so nieve to the world around you….

It’s not often the true filth of the GOP base gets exposed the way it was at that meeting. But the truth under their breath was revealed in cold, clear unedited video. These people could be motivated to do very ugly things, with violence probably not far behind. This shows that ignorance and hate are the main ingredients of GOP ideology.

Welcome to America. Where extreme religion, racism and people who shouldn’t be breeding run rampant.
It’s a shame that after all this, if by some miracle Obama becomes president, his life will be in extreme danger by the same people he’s sworn to serve. The vast majority of Americans that vote are just like that ignorant, inbred man and woman in the video. I hope I’m wrong, but we’ll be seeing McCain/Palin as the next presidential team, and it’s Palin that I’m concerned about.

Now let see what EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE DOES OBAMA AND BIDEN HAS…Boys club of the DNC, senators with massive wasteful earmarks spending, cigar poker room buddy, back room corruption, Obama Requested $3.5 Million For The USC Annenberg Research Network, co founded by guess who Ayers, $14 Million for Rezko real estate redevelopment, for a $1.6 Million dollar home deal. And here are the members of the DNC boys club, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Bob Cassey, Jim Webb and the one who said CA pass on the delegates count at the dems convention, Barbara Boxer, she probably wants to be the first female president too…Now that is a WOW! People get with the game, the Washington insider is Obama not Senator McCain. Senator McCain has no corrupted earmarks spending and Governor Palin, 21 months in Office as Governor and she has taken an 11 Billion Dollar deficit and turned it into a 5 Billion Dollar surplus. Plus gave back 1.5 Billion to citizens of Alaska and reduced their property taxes 41%. THIS IS THE CHANGE WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR, I AM SO EAGER TO VOTE THIS NOVEMBER FOURTH. This is one Hillary supporter who WILL VOTE for MCCAIN/PALIN 08 FOR SURE

We should not be divisive in this country. This is not what the country needs. The Republicans and Dems both are represented by an array of Americans of different backgrounds. I think the Republicans are doing a dis-service by creating such a divisive atmosphere at there rallies. There rallies are turning into “klan” rallies. This is not what the country needs.

Far left will be scratching there heads, sure won’t be the right. My error.

Nobody has divided this country worst than the Leftists. Tax the rich (the person that works hard) and give to the poor (the person that doesn’t want to work) is class warfare at it’s finest.

“fling mud” here we go again with that double standard. Ok to call Palin or McCain a “Nazi” but you can’t say a thing about Obama? Get real Obama started with the attacks a long time ago. Attack, attack, attack that’s the way of the whole Dem party.

McCain finally realized he was charting a dangerous course!

Republicans reading the lie in the book written by the Republican SWIFTBOAT writer who admitted that the book was NOT based on facts at all. That Republican writer said, he wanted to prevent Obama from being elected and that was why he wrote those lies.
Now did McCain tell his followers that that book was not accurate? No! Instead McCain was happy that people read that book and believed those lies making it easier for John McCain to added more lies at his campaign rallies to get people even more riled up against Obama. Add to that the Lies Palin told at her rallies and Now you have a massive lynching Republican Crowd who are believing all those lies.
Cindy is right about one thing, the Campaign has gotten dirty, and Her Husband, John McCain is in the middle of it.

America have faith. Pray hard and come out to vote for John McCain.
Rest assured that a muslim man will never be President of this nation.
GOD bless America.

Yes, Obama has worshipped at the altar of class warfare and created this problem! He has preached that the poor are poor because the rich are sticking it to them. What utter nonsense. No wonder people are afraid. The smart ones are terrified. Obama’s election may tear the country apart.

I don’t trust the liberal elite media.
John McCain will be the next President of the United States of America.

The only thing taring this country apart are the REPUBLICAN LIES!
If only McCain stuck to the real issues instead of creating issues of lies making people fear a blackman with a different sounding name.
Now McCain and Palin have increased the massive Republican hate aimed at the young U S Senator.

G. Raye Gnade:
Okay, so McShame has one day in which he attempted to staunch the bleeding from the weeks (months?) of negative rhetoric and lies coming from his campaign and Governor Palin, not to mention his utter lack of respect for Senator Obama during each of the debates.
There’s no noble gesture here. His own surrogates and endorsers were blasting him for the violence-inducing turn his campaign has taken, and poll numbers were going down (are going down) even further. He changed his tune because it was only working with his base — and his base won’t win the election!
We’ll see how long it lasts. McShame’s wandering around the stage at the last debate was a metaphor for his campaign, so I’m guessing the negativity at rally sites will return, even as it hasn’t disappeared from ads.
Remember: Ayers, Arabs and Wright didn’t work for Hillabeans. They won’t work for McShame either.
Obama/Biden 08

OBAMA ACTUALLY HAS GREAT IDEAS THAT MAKE SENSE …I TRULY BELEIVE HE WILL WORK HARD FOR US AND THIS COUNTRY AND IF NOT THEN WE ALL KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN …..BUT I KNOW OBAMA IS GOING TO DO GREAT THINGS FOR THIS COUNTRY …

So now its called “fear and bigotry” to question the qualifications of the dem candidate?
First time I have ever seen a candidate deploy “truth squads” and use state officials to threaten the public with investigation if they ask questions about a candidate. Now the same candidate is using the press to silence public opinion.
Despite everything that disqualifies Dear Leader Barry from being a valid candidate, this abuse of my right to question makes it clear he is NOT the POTUS for those who love freedom.
Anyone who actually takes the time to research . . . with a “fine-tooth comb” . . . Obama’s legislative voting record, both in Illinois and in Washington, can clearly see that his voting record rarely meets the lofty standards of his rhetoric.
Obama’s disciples are like religious zealots. They are emotionally and psychologically incapable of looking beneath the surface and accepting the fact that Obama is NOT what he claims to be. He IS a “stealth” Socialist.

PRESIDENT OBAMA!

It is amazing to me how many people like the woman in the video think Obama is an Arab. ( and other hate filled ideas like this ) They obviously have been watching too much Fox News. These McCain supporters are SCARY!!! Good for McCain taking the mic away from her. These people are misinformed about Obama and that is very unfortunate.

Someone ought to point to McCain and Palin how elected officials of US Government can condone those who advocate violence against any US citizen let alone assasination? McCain and Palin should dis-associate themselves from this crowd instead of insiting them. Every ad that portrays Obama as somehow un-American plays into the lynch mob mentality. Sooner or later it will escalate to something worse….Mark my words…And Palin and McCain will act just like all the other Republicans and deny any responsibility for what happens..

Who does McCain think he’s fooling? My 7 year old grandson gave a better performance in the school play.

And they arrest people for protesting war?
Shouldn’t McCain and Palin be charged under the Riot Act?

Too little too late mr mccain.
In fact, you should have never let the race baiting at your rallies go so far – or even start. You have dishonored yourself by doing so.
You have no one to blame but yourself…and you think you have the judgement to be president? Think again.

Name one good thing that Obama has done for America?
Name one good thing that Biden has done for America?
The choice for president is obvious: McCain-Palin.

Many voters still don’t know who Obama is, maybe the people in Chicago know him. We know Biden but he is a VP candidate. Every american knows Mccain, he is a decent man who loves his country very much. He deserves to be president and I hope voters will remember that when they vote in November.

Many Americans still don’t know who Obama is, except some negative things about him. How is the Democratic party going to explain about this. McCain is a war hero and we are proud of him. He is the most honest man we have.

“Voters, give Palin a chance. It is about time to get women involved in serving the country. Don’t you think they have been outsiders for a long time?”
I completely disagree with this. Women are and have been involved in “serving the country” for decades. What gender do you think the Speaker of the House is? Sarah Palin doesn’t deserve anything, especially being VP. She, like every other VP has to earn it. Not to mention, this woman and her crazy religious beliefs will be watching over the U.S. Senate. She doesn’t even know what the job of the VP is, and it’s stated in the Constitution!
McCain/Palin and their followers are racist, xenophobic warmongers and do not adhere to clear, anaylitical, logical, thinking that is needed for the two highest positions in America.

‘dirty setup’….Voters, give Palin a chance. It is about time to get women involved in serving the country. Don’t you think they have been outsiders for a long time?
McCain could have picked from several highly qualified Republican women (U S Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, U S Senator Elizabeth Dole or even Condelessa Rice) but instead he chose to pick a nut case from Alaska who wants to secede from the rest of America.

The McCain camp defend these comments as the comments of “real Americans”. Yep, they are real. They aren’t the majority, but they are real. And that’s sad. Can we get back to the economy now?? I mean, in McCain’s own words – it’s “cratering”. I would have thought he’d be interested in addressing that in the closing weeks of his Presidential run. He no longer appeals to the majority of GOP. Mainstream Middle America are real people too – and they’re the ones voting the new President into office in a few weeks time – and they aren’t at McCain’s rallies. In pandering to such ignorance, McCain has lowered the tone of his campaign to a point past desparation. It’s an insult to Middle America. Sir, Middle America isn’t stupid – win or lose, you owe this Great Nation better than you are giving. You are a disgrace.

serious voter,
You can’t be serious. Obama’s been running for 2 yrs. If you don’t know him, it’s because you don’t want to know him.

All the stuff the McCain campaign has said it on tape. That “kill him” came during Palins speech, She avocates Hate. Nothing she can say that will change whats on tape. Nothing McCain can do to change whats on tape.Nothing all them white folks said can be change it’s all on tape. McCain and Palin have to place in the White House for they dO NOT represent what MOST PEOPLE WANT. They represent a small percentage of people who are narrow minded and believe they are better than anyone else. They have lied and twisted everything to thier advantage.but lucky for us..IT’S ALL ON TAPE. “Thank God”

If McCain wanted to tamp down the nuttery manifesting itself among his supporters his sesponse could have been simply this: “Like me, Barak Obama is an American. His racial background is African and Caucasian. He is not an Arab or a Muslim. He professes faith in Jesus Christ as I do.” He would then be free to savage Obama on any issue he wants to guilt free. The answer he gave to the woman who called him an Arab was basically to say Obama could not be an Arab because he is a decent family man and a citizen. Last I checked those descriptions applied to
the vast majority of Arab Americans.

If Barack Obama filed lawsuits for defamation against everyone who has defamed him, the culprits would fill a stadium. I believe that most people would not ordinarily indulge in character assassination, however, during political races, it seems that defamation, a civil tort, is acceptable. Maybe a lawsuit is necessary in order to diffuse some of this abominable behavior, and possibly discourage it in future elections.

As an outsider Mccain is a joke and he is bring the worst side of The Americans Citizten out . In 2008 you hear some people comment that make u wonder . Did you see the kinda people that support him ? please , are a big mass of no ignorant people with no clue of what s really going on……Man i will fell really sorry if Mccain would win this elections……For all ya Americans.