McCain Encourages Supporters to ‘Stand up and Fight’

How does instructing his supporters to “stand up and fight” while still asking incendiary questions about Obama tone the extreme rhetoric down?
Jeffrey Goldberg with The Atlantic makes an interesting analogy:
In the months before Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, he was the target of numerous vitriolic demonstrations, during which he was labeled a liar, a traitor, and a coddler of terrorists. Bibi Netanyahu, his opponent at the time, did little, or nothing, to tamp down the anger of the crowds. We know how that story ended. Those demonstrations, and the anger hurled at Rabin, created the climate for what might be considered the worst day in Israeli history, and one from which the country has not recovered.
John McCain did the right thing by calling out demonstrators and defending Barack Obama’s decency last week. But we should see that continually. And Sen. McCain, how about instructing your running mate on the fundamentals of decency as well? I’m not suggesting something terrible is in the offing. But the anger of these crowds is a dangerous thing to democracy. Thank God, if nothing else, for the United States Secret Service.

The best thing Ole McCain could do is shut the hell up for the last 3 weeks. Every time he opens his mouth he hurts himself. Maybe that’s what he means about fighting, fighting himself and his erratic actions.

Who can stand up… he is so busy spinning. No one knows what direction he is going in minute to minute….Empty Suites….
It will be a very very long time before I vote for a Republican. H*ll will probably freeze over…

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
Who ever thought John McCain would be paraphrasing Bob Marley, lol!

Meet John McCain radical right-wing pals
Gordon Liddy served four and a half years in prison in connection with his conviction for his role in the Watergate break-in and the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in “if necessary”; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a “gangland figure” to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap “leftist guerillas” at the 1972 Republican National Convention
Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain’s campaigns since 1998, including $1,000 in February 2008. In addition, McCain has appeared on Liddy’s radio show
during the presidential campaign, including as recently as May. An online video labeled “John McCain On The G. Gordon Liddy Show 11/8/07″ includes a
discussion between Liddy and McCain, whom Liddy described as an “old friend.” During the segment, McCain praised Liddy’s “adherence to the principles
and philosophies that keep our nation great,” said he was “proud” of Liddy, and said that “it’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program.

He knows how to win in Iraq
He knows how to get Bin Laden
He knows how to fix the economy
He knows how to win an election
Gimmicks First – Palin McCain 2012

I can’t believe ANY Obama supporter would dare say anything, considering just last month Obama told his supporters to argue with McCain supporters, get in their face…a little different than stand up and fight for your rights.

Forget Ayers or Wright or Rezko. These are in fact the people with whom Barack Obama worked to change Chicago into what it is today. He can defend these people, he can even apologize for having once advanced their agendas, but to deny that he’s ever served their cause is dishonest, and to hide behind the economic fiasco of our day is cowardly and devoid of the dignity of the office which he seeks. Personally, I think who Sen. Obama chooses to ally himself with for political and personal gain are fair-game, but if he wants to exploit the financial crisis and use it to call everything else “smears” or “distractions,” we’ll beat him there. Sen. McCain has the courage and track record to win on the topic, any topic, of the opponents choosing. When all was going swell in Afghanistan and terribly in Iraq, the Democratic party said, “no talking about Afghanistan, only Iraq!” and McCain won; the surge he proposed since 2003 worked. Sen. Obama says that well it didn’t, it was designed to foster political reconcilliation, and it hasn’t. But it has! Sunni Awakening Councils are killing Al Qaeda terrorists who claim to be Sunni, and the Shiite government is killing Iranian backed Sadrist millitias who claim to be Shia. That’s political reconcilliation; you see, in the war on terror, there are no Sunni and Shia, only the forces of good, freedom, and democracy against the forces of evil, tyrrany, and terrorism. When the Democratic caucus made oil an issue and tried to fault McCain for the high price of oil, he proposed lifting the drilling moratorium, pushed it through Congress, and now oil has dropped almost 50%.
In today’s financial crisis, there are villains. Former CEOs of Fannie and Freddie like Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson wrote themselves compensation policies that paid them just for writing loans, getting money out the door with utter disregard for whether or not his government-run quasi-company will get it returned. What he did was wrong and selfish, but it wasn’t illegal; we don’t throw people in jail for just wrong and selfish deeds. In fact, what they did was encouraged, no… required by the government. You see, there’s a regulation in the books, it’s called the Community Reinvestment Act, signed by Pres. Carter and augmented by Pres. Clinton. What it did was create the sub-prime mortgage by saying that commercial banks can’t discriminate on whether or not a borrower can pay that money back.
Sen. McCain knew the trouble that was brewing; it’s well documented. He spoke on the Senate floor and co-sponsored S.190 in 2005 to rein in Fannie and Freddie. He wrote a letter, signed by two dozen fellow Senators who happened to all be Republicans, to the Senate leadership to rein in Fannie and Freddie, or face potential collapse, so be ready for it. But the Senate did nothing. They must have thought his sounding of the alarm was… “erratic.” I don’t know why they did nothing. Maybe Senate Banking Chairman Dodd was in the tank for Fannie and Freddie, because they stuffed his tip-jar silly with the highest campaign contribution in Fannie and Freddie history. Maybe House Banking Chairman Frank was in bed with Fannie and Freddie, too. Maybe Sen. Obama’s handlers from Fannie and Freddie told him not to. I don’t know and I don’t care, what’s important is Sen. McCain was right, and everyone who disagreed with him, Democrat or Republican, was wrong.
ACORN is an evil organization. It’s history of attempted electoral fraud is well documented, not just by the partisans, but by the hostile media as well. It lobbied at branch managers homes if their branch was seen as peddling insufficient sub-prime loans. It raucussed in branch lobbies if they thought that branch wasn’t making enough loans to people who couldn’t pay it back. Why, at the height of this financial crisis, did the majority caucusses tried to inject a $300M a year every year slush fund to ACORN, is a mystery to me. Sen. McCain was right, this was an emergency, and there was no consensus. He went back to Washington to tell the oppossition party, “What do we have to do to get this non-sense out of the bill?” Instead of giving ACORN $832K, it would have been nice had Sen. Obama went back and told his party, “Get this garbage out of here,” too. But I guess he liked the slush-fund, or maybe he saw the crisis as a non-emergency, or maybe he though actually acting on the crisis would be… “erratic.”
You see, the problem with the sub-prime mortgage is, in and of itself, unfair. Do you think the billionaire CEOs were taking money out of their pocket to house people who can’t afford their own homes? Of course not. Do you think the super-rich paid for the houses of those who couldn’t afford their own houses? Of course not. Like Barack Obama, who lives in a $2M house he bought for $1.5M, he made $4M last year! They pay cash up-front; no mortgages, just 15,000 Benjamin Franklins. The people who subsidize subprime mortgages are the hardworking, tax-paying middle class Americans, who have to pay a higher interest rate to make up for the toxic sub-prime loans. In and of itself, I guess it’s fine. For the banks, it’s a cost of business. For the hard-working, tax-paying middle-class, it’s the price we pay for living in a socialist democracy. But it doesn’t end there; it didn’t end there. Sub-prime mortgages took the bottom out of our banking industry, trillions of dollars evaporated, banks closed, and businesses are shutting their doors. The fat-cat CEOs aren’t hurting, they’ve got their bonusses. The sub-prime borrowers aren’t hurting. They’re getting kicked out of homes they never were supposed be in in the first place anyways, and lay-offs don’t affect them either. Who is really getting hurt are the hardworking middle-class Americans who played by the rules, paid their taxes, and lived within their means. They bought a house they can afford, took out a mortgage payment they can meet, and for all their trouble, they lose their jobs.

Missouri Obmna 51 McCain 43?

More fighting? Really? More fighting? Personally, I’m tired of fighting; everyone I know is tired of all the fighting; and not only that, we are tired of hearing about fighting from McCain. How about some fixing, instead of fighting?
Obama/Biden ’08

Obamacrat for McCain | Oct 13, 2008 1:34:18 PM
There is a terrific photo of McCain at an ACORN event posted at Politico.

I have found it to be true! While most conservitive republicans vote based on facts. The Dem’s do things based on feelings. I think I’ll stick to the facts. Look out Obama! Cause the MCCAIN TRAIN just smoked thru your block!! That’s what happens when you back a great fighter into the corner!

McCain hammered Obama as an untested and untenable choice for president, frequently voicing the refrain: “Who is Barack Obama
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John McCain and Sarah Palin have both been tested and have both FAILED!
Who is this John McCain, the President wanna be of 2008?
According to quite a few of his colleagues, he is a VERY different person that they knew in 2000 and they are now asking that question themselves.\
Who is John McCain?
Who is Sarah palin?
We have gotten quite a glimpse and what we have seen so far ain’t pretty.

Obama’s 95% illusion!!
One of Barack Obama’s most potent campaign claims is that he’ll cut taxes for no less than 95% of “working families.” He’s even promising to cut taxes enough that the government’s tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% — which is lower than it is today.
APIt’s a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he’s also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of “tax cut.”
For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase “tax credit.” Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand no fewer than seven such credits for individuals:
- A $500 tax credit ($1,000 a couple) to “make work pay” that phases out at income of $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 per couple.
- A $4,000 tax credit for college tuition.
- A 10% mortgage interest tax credit (on top of the existing mortgage interest deduction and other housing subsidies).
- A “savings” tax credit of 50% up to $1,000.
- An expansion of the earned-income tax credit that would allow single workers to receive as much as $555 a year, up from $175 now, and give these workers up to $1,110 if they are paying child support.
- A child care credit of 50% up to $6,000 of expenses a year.
- A “clean car” tax credit of up to $7,000 on the purchase of certain vehicles.
Here’s the political catch. All but the clean car credit would be “refundable,” which is Washington-speak for the fact that you can receive these checks even if you have no income-tax liability. In other words, they are an income transfer — a federal check — from taxpayers to nontaxpayers. Once upon a time we called this “welfare,” or in George McGovern’s 1972 campaign a “Demogrant.” Mr. Obama’s genius is to call it a tax cut.
The Tax Foundation estimates that under the Obama plan 63 million Americans, or 44% of all tax filers, would have no income tax liability and most of those would get a check from the IRS each year. The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis estimates that by 2011, under the Obama plan, an additional 10 million filers would pay zero taxes while cashing checks from the IRS.
The total annual expenditures on refundable “tax credits” would rise over the next 10 years by $647 billion to $1.054 trillion, according to the Tax Policy Center. This means that the tax-credit welfare state would soon cost four times actual cash welfare. By redefining such income payments as “tax credits,” the Obama campaign also redefines them away as a tax share of GDP. Presto, the federal tax burden looks much smaller than it really is.
The political left defends “refundability” on grounds that these payments help to offset the payroll tax. And that was at least plausible when the only major refundable credit was the earned-income tax credit. Taken together, however, these tax credit payments would exceed payroll levies for most low-income workers.
It is also true that John McCain proposes a refundable tax credit — his $5,000 to help individuals buy health insurance. We’ve written before that we prefer a tax deduction for individual health care, rather than a credit. But the big difference with Mr. Obama is that Mr. McCain’s proposal replaces the tax subsidy for employer-sponsored health insurance that individuals don’t now receive if they buy on their own. It merely changes the nature of the tax subsidy; it doesn’t create a new one.
There’s another catch: Because Mr. Obama’s tax credits are phased out as incomes rise, they impose a huge “marginal” tax rate increase on low-income workers. The marginal tax rate refers to the rate on the next dollar of income earned. As the nearby chart illustrates, the marginal rate for millions of low- and middle-income workers would spike as they earn more income.
Some families with an income of $40,000 could lose up to 40 cents in vanishing credits for every additional dollar earned from working overtime or taking a new job. As public policy, this is contradictory. The tax credits are sold in the name of “making work pay,” but in practice they can be a disincentive to working harder, especially if you’re a lower-income couple getting raises of $1,000 or $2,000 a year. One mystery — among many — of the McCain campaign is why it has allowed Mr. Obama’s 95% illusion to go unanswered

McCain really speaks to the heart of every racist! See how they throw in the Africa thing, with their praise of McCain in comments on this blog. They show up at campaign rallies(more like KKK rallies) with monkey dolls with sticker of Obama on them, they yell kill him, go back to africa, hang him, racist names, they spread rumors and false emails because they fear what is different from them. If you think they are only racist towards Obama, think again, they are scared of anyone who speaks against this hatred they spread to try to keep their place (as they see it) in history, Republicans will go down in history as racist thanks to the tactics of the Mccain campaign. McCain campaign has lit the fire of all the racists hiding under the rocks and behind the cross of religion. The campaign has destroy McCain’s honor and Palin has turned him in to a poster for racism. They have invited these type of people and now those people are more representing the party then conservative views! The time has come to change our country from petty, ignorant, selfish views and get the country on the road to greatness and they only way to get there is to speak out against the now Republican view and take up with the Democratic view. Vote out every republican running for re-election or election, make a stance and let them know the time has come to move forward for all, either get on board or get the hell out of the way!

Obama on T.V. right now asking his supporters to “Organize” with him.
Great choice of words there.

Barack Hussein Obama II
By Judah Benjamin, Guest Author
It has been asserted by a number of sources, including Andy Martin, that Barack Hussein Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya and not in Hawaii. Philip Berg’s Latest Motion to the Court is more explicit since it gives an exact Place of Birth. I must assume that Berg did not simply pluck the Location out of thin air, Mombasa has more than one Hospital, though Coast Provincial General was the best in 1961.
British Birth Certificates have a Standard Format which has been more or less the same since 1837 and they can only be challenged in a British Court. Kenyan Law is explicit and can only be challenged in a Kenyan Court.
Indonesian Law is explicit and can only be challenged in an Indonesian Court. Be clear, if Obama was born in Kenya this is not simply a matter for the US Courts, or US Law.
If he was born in Kenya, and his parents were Legally Married [which on the Preponderance of Evidence they were, his father's first "Marriage" being a Tribal, or Village, Marriage, which was not Legally Recognized] due to the age of his mother he would NOT have been a US Citizen. The Immigration and Nationality Act 1952, 8 U.S.C. 1401. Sec. 301 (g) [Effective November 14, 1986] does not apply, nor does Title III, Immigration and Nationality Act Section 309. [8 U.S.C. 1409].
Unless he has taken the Oath of Allegiance as a Naturalized Citizen since he was 18 years old, and if he was born in Mombasa, Kenya, Barack Hussein Obama II would not be a US Citizen, period. The issue of whether or not he was Natural Born under Article II of the Constitution of the United States would cease to matter and he would need to be Deported as an Illegal Alien.
Impeachment as a Senator would seem not to be necessary since he would never Legally have been one, but Diane Feinstein and the members of the Senate Ethics and Rules Committee would be liable to Impeachment. So would their opposite numbers in the Illinois Senate and the appropriate officials of the Illinois State Supreme Court and Bar, so far as I can see.
If Senator Barack Hussein Obama II was born in The Coast Provincial General Hospital at Mombasa in Kenya at 7.24 PM on August 4th 1961, or at any other time, he is not a Natural Born Citizen of these United States and he never was. Philip J Berg, Esq, is correct, under the Nationality Act of 1940, as Revised June 1952 and in accord with United States of America vs Cervantes-Nava 281 F 3d 501 (2002) and Drozd vs INS, 155 F 3d 81, 85-88 (2d Circuit 1998) Senator Barack Hussein Obama II would not ever have been a Legal US Citizen at all, unless he was Naturalized.
If he was born in The Coast Provincial General Hospital at Mombasa in Kenya any Certificate, or Certification of Live Birth, issued for him by the State of Hawaii is a Fraudulent and Illegal Document. At Birth he would have been a UK and Colonies Citizen and in accord with the Kenyan Constitution he would have become a Kenyan Citizen in December 1963. He would not have been a US Citizen.
Alternatively, his UK and Colonies Birth Certificate issued in Mombasa in August 1961 could be a Fraudulent and Illegal Document. The two BCs would need to be compared. By this I mean the Original Vault Copy of the Hawaiian Birth Certificate and not the Amended, Post Adoption, Copy, Legally available to the Senator, assuming he was, as indicated by the Preponderance of Evidence, Adopted by Lolo Soetoro. This case might also need to go through the UK and Kenyan Courts and becomes a Matter of International Law and Controversy.
If Barack Hussein Obama II was born at The Coast Provincial General Hospital at Mombasa in Kenya at 7:24 PM on August 4th 1961, or at any other time, it is certain that he is not Eligible to hold the Offices of POTUS or VPOTUS and highly probable that he is not Legally entitled to hold the Office of Senator either and that he was not Eligible to be an Illinois State Senator.
In that event the Senate Ethics and Rules Committee, Chair Diane Feinstein, have a problem because they are responsible for the Certification of a Candidate’s Compliance with Constitutional Requirements, a job they would have conspicuously failed to do. Should he be Elected the poisoned Chalice would pass to Nancy Pelosi because as Speaker of the House she, and the House, have the Responsibility to ensure that the President Elect can Effectively be Sworn In and Legally Assume the Office and Duties of the President.
Be very clear here, if Barack Hussein Obama II was born at The Coast Provincial General Hospital at Mombasa in Kenya at 7:24 PM on August 4th 1961, or at any other time, Diane Feinstein’s Committee have already failed in their Duty, as has every Secretary of State in the Union.
Let me repeat myself, if Barack Hussein Obama II was born in The Coast Provincial General Hospital at Mombasa in Kenya at 7:24 PM on August 4th 1961, or at any other time, he is not a Natural Born Citizen of these United States and he never was, he is not even a Citizen by Birth. I had assumed ab initio that Obama was born in Hawaii and that his Hawaiian Paperwork was basically “on the up and up”, I could not conceive that a lie of this magnitude was possible, I thought that the INS would have caught on long since. If he is a US Citizen under these circumstances his Oath of Allegiance must be on Record somewhere. If it isn’t he is not a US Citizen.
Hawaii may Legally be able to Issue a Birth Certificate under these circumstances, according to their own Code, but it would breach of International and Federal Law if they have. It would breach Hawaiian Law if the Place of Birth is spurious.
“[§338-17.8] Certificates for children born out of State. (a) Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health shall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that proof has been submitted to the director of health that the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child.
(b) Proof of legal residency shall be submitted to the director of health in any manner that the director shall deem appropriate. The director of health may also adopt any rules pursuant to chapter 91 that he or she may deem necessary or proper to prevent fraudulent applications for birth certificates and to require any further information or proof of events necessary for completion of a birth certificate.”
So by that section he could get a certificate claiming Hawaiian birth even if he was physically born outside the US but the Place of Birth would need to be correctly recorded.
Understand, the Hawaiian Authorities may be able to Issue a Hawaiian Birth Certificate under these circumstances but they cannot make you a US Citizen. A child born in Kenya to and underage US Female and a UK and Colonies Citizen in 1961 was not born a US Citizen under any US Federal Law, under British Law, or International Law. The only way such an Individual could be a US Citizen in terms of the XIVth Amendment, or any Statute, or Code of US Federal Law is by Naturalization.
Under Common Law no Person can Testify as to their own Place of Birth, this is established Law upheld by stare decisis. Therefore it would be possible, even given the he was born in Kenya, for Obama to claim that he believed a Hawaiian Birth Certificate made him a US Citizen under the XIVth Amendment and that therefore he was acting in Good Faith running for an Office which he was Constitutionally Incapable of Holding. Unfortunately for him, his actions in regard to the Admission of his UK & Colonies and Kenyan Citizenships and his Indonesian Citizenship by Adoption, his frequent apparent Breaches of the Logan Act, his probable breaches of the Hobbs Act, the Hatch Act, USC Title 18 Part One Chapter 63 § 1346 and the RICO Statute make this Defense wholly Untenable, especially when one considers the fact that he holds a JD from Harvard Law. One may throw in the Misprision Statute for good measure. It is difficult to find any action or statement of Obama’s since 1992 that could be used to suggest Good Faith could be used as a Defense in this Case. I am not saying that Obama is Guilty of any of these Felonies or High Misdemeanors, only that his actions and pronouncements are such as to lead to a reasonable suspicion that he may be.
Under INA §349 “2. taking an oath or making an affirmation or other formal declaration of allegiance to a foreign state or a political subdivision thereof after having attained the age of eighteen years.” This is an “Expatriating Clause”, if you hold Dual Citizenship and do this you void your US Citizenship. Well Obama campaigned actively for Odinga in Kenya and apparently also took some kind of Luo Tribal Loyalty Oath. He may also have joined Odinga’s party. Of course his Dual Nationality lapsed in 1982 but INA §349 could, perhaps, still apply here, if he was born in Mombasa. It might even be concluded that Obama was providing grounds to restore his Kenyan Citizenship by Prime Ministerial Decree, which is Legal under the Kenyan Constitution. That would certainly look Expatriating to me, but I do not know how a Court would react.
There is indirect reason to believe that this may be true. “2d Session S. RES. 511: Recognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen.: In the Senate of the United States.” was Sponsored by Senator McCaskill and co-sponsored by Senators Leahy, Obama, Coburn, Clinton and Webb. Why? Why were Democratic Senators trying to pass a Resolution making Senator McCain undoubtedly Legally Eligible when this issue had already been cleared up in 2000 and again in 2004? And why did Senators McCaskill and Obama reportedly insert the following Clause?
“Whereas previous presidential candidates were born outside of the United States of America and were understood to be eligible to be President;”
This Clause has no particular relevance to McCain and the following Clause, which it is reported McCaskill and Obama attempted to REMOVE shows that:
“; and Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936:”
It seems clear that McCaskill and Obama were attempting to create a blanket Resolution covering ALL Foreign Born candidates. Why do that if not to benefit a Foreign Born Democratic Candidate, who did not have a US Military background?
McCain did not need this resolution, Richardson did not need this Resolution, so far as I can see nobody needed this Resolution unless somebody in the race was born outside the USA and was “Covering his/her Ass” and the only individual in the race that that could apply to was Senator Obama! This in turn would show that the Senator is a liar who has been peddling untruths about his birth for at least 16 years!
Likewise it would explain why Michelle Obama tried trawling the “very single mother” canard. Were he illegitimate there is precedent and Statute that says if his parents were unmarried at the time of his birth he would have become a Citizen of the USA at Birth under Title III of the Immigration and Nationality Act Section 309. [8 U.S.C. 1409]. However, as Miller v Albright, 523 US 420 (1998) demonstrates there is, and was, a split in the Supreme Court as to whether this Law is in fact Constitutional under the XIVth Amendment. A new case might change the precedent. For now it stands.
I do not insist that any of this is true and to me it makes little difference if it is, I hold him Ineligible anyway and have seen no solid Legal Rebuttal of my view from any source, but if he was born in Kenya he has, and can have, no defense of any description and any Document he has from Hawaii is Fraudulent on several levels. To hold the Office of POTUS one must be a Natural Born United States Citizen, if he was born in Mombasa Obama probably isn’t even a United States Citizen much less Natural Born. He would be guilty of Fraud and a list of other offenses and any and all persons who had aided him would be guilty of Misprision, in all probability.
Source: http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/obama-born-in-kenya-new-information/

The Unshrub,
Your an goofball! Your friends at Acorn are the ones trying to fix an election! And they are supposed to be a non-partisan group yet they have people on the ground in Ohio trying to recruit voters and telling them who they are supporting. Please get your facts straight.

Even Karl Rove is saying Obam is going to win the election and electoral vote. GO OBAMA!
http://www.congratstothewinners.com/2008/10/karl-rove-obama-has-electoral.html

mccain and palin are the ultimate bullies….
HATE ANGER HATE ANGER HATE ANGER
Their constant message and theme is
HATE ANGER AND MORE HATE ANGER….
THIS IS FRIGHTENING AND
it will most certainly motivate Obama supporters….the GOP has gone MAD… and dangerous… with ANGER

Here is the facts on mccains healtcare policy
Under a Mccain Administration we may end up losing our health Insurance that our Employers provide, Mccain wants to treat the Health Insurance Industry like the banking Free market with no regulation,Yes he will provide a 5000 dollar tax credit but that does not go to us but the Insurance compaines, He also proposes TO TAX US ON OUR HEALTH INSURANCE that is provided to us from our employers as if it were INCOME so yes he stating a tax break but then again gonna tax our benifits and Everyone knows HEALTH INSURANCE FOR A FAMILY IS MORE THEN 5000 DOLLARS with a mccain healthcare policy we are doomed!

Obama’s Kenya campaign
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-kenya-ghosts/
How will Obama spin this one.

This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.
In its broad strokes, McCain’s life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers’ powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives’ evangelical churches.
In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.
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This, of course, is not the story McCain tells about himself. Few politicians have so actively, or successfully, crafted their own myth of greatness. In McCain’s version of his life, he is a prodigal son who, steeled by his brutal internment in Vietnam, learned to put “country first.” Remade by the Keating Five scandal that nearly wrecked his career, the story goes, McCain re-emerged as a “reformer” and a “maverick,” righteously eschewing anything that “might even tangentially be construed as a less than proper use of my office.”
It’s a myth McCain has cultivated throughout his decades in Washington. But during the course of this year’s campaign, the mask has slipped. “Let’s face it,” says Larry Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel who served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. “John McCain made his reputation on the fact that he doesn’t bend his principles for politics. That’s just not true.”
We have now watched McCain run twice for president. The first time he positioned himself as a principled centrist and decried the politics of Karl Rove and the influence of the religious right, imploring voters to judge candidates “by the example we set, by the way we conduct our campaigns, by the way we personally practice politics.” After he lost in 2000, he jagged hard to the left — breaking with the president over taxes, drilling, judicial appointments, even flirting with joining the Democratic Party.
In his current campaign, however, McCain has become the kind of politician he ran against in 2000. He has embraced those he once denounced as “agents of intolerance,” promised more drilling and deeper tax cuts, even compromised his vaunted opposition to torture. Intent on winning the presidency at all costs, he has reassembled the very team that so viciously smeared him and his family eight years ago, selecting as his running mate a born-again moose hunter whose only qualification for office is her ability to electrify Rove’s base. And he has engaged in a “practice of politics” so deceptive that even Rove himself has denounced it, saying that the outright lies in McCain’s campaign ads go “too far” and fail the “truth test.”
The missing piece of this puzzle, says a former McCain confidant who has fallen out with the senator over his neoconservatism, is a third, never realized, campaign that McCain intended to run against Bush in 2004. “McCain wanted a rematch, based on ethics, campaign finance and Enron — the corrupt relationship between Bush’s team and the corporate sector,” says the former friend, a prominent conservative thinker with whom McCain shared his plans over the course of several dinners in 2001. “But when 9/11 happened, McCain saw his chance to challenge Bush again was robbed. He saw 9/11 gave Bush and his failed presidency a second life. He saw Bush and Cheney’s ability to draw stark contrasts between black and white, villains and good guys. And that’s why McCain changed.” (The McCain campaign did not respond to numerous requests for comment from Rolling Stone.)
Indeed, many leading Republicans who once admired McCain see his recent contortions to appease the GOP base as the undoing of a maverick. “John McCain’s ambition overrode his basic character,” says Rita Hauser, who served on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 2001 to 2004. But the truth of the matter is that ambition is John McCain’s basic character. Seen in the sweep of his seven-decade personal history, his pandering to the right is consistent with the only constant in his life: doing what’s best for himself. To put the matter squarely: John McCain is his own special interest.
“John has made a pact with the devil,” says Lincoln Chafee, the former GOP senator, who has been appalled at his one-time colleague’s readiness to sacrifice principle for power. Chafee and McCain were the only Republicans to vote against the Bush tax cuts. They locked arms in opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And they worked together in the “Gang of 14,” which blocked some of Bush’s worst judges from the federal bench.
“On all three — sadly, sadly, sadly — McCain has flip-flopped,” Chafee says. And forget all the “Country First” sloganeering, he adds. “McCain is putting himself first. He’s putting himself first in blinking neon lights.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23316912/makebelieve_maverick/print

DNC VP pick Biden is on record saying, just a couple months ago, obama does not have enough experience to be president. BUT once Biden got picked as the VP you didn’t hear nothing but smooching from there on.

I’m done with McCain – I’ve just been so disgusted at how he (through Palin) have been encouraging the worst barrel scrapings of America to come out with monkey dolls and death threats, that I don’t ever want to see him again, never mind vote for him. He’s doing the same thing to Obama that Bush did to him, and for that he should be ashamed of himself.
Ain’t what this country is supposed to be about. Least not in the 21st Century.
I want this election over already. We’ve got work to do.

Wow! talk about drug addition…last I checked Cindy is not running for POTUS, coke head obama is!

McCain:
fight, war, bomb
fight, war, bomb
fight, war, bomb

mccain is hate, anger and fear.
Obama is hope, peace and prosperity.

Speaking to a convention of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, whose endorsement of Barack Obama has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media, not only declared his support for Obama, but also told his followers that Obama was the “Messiah.”

Still spouting McCain history. Where is the Obama history lesson? When will that begin? Please tell us all. I would gladly support Obama if you could give me his life story! But no! He won’t release so many things about his life. Why is that Sallie? Please tell us all?

all day, extremist radical republicans will sit her slinging HATE…while we’re out campaigning for hope and Obama.
Hours from now, the extremist GOP will be sitting here typing HATE AND FEAR AND ANGER AND TELLING YOU TO BE SCARED.
WE WILL BE OUT WINNING THIS ELECTION FOR OBAMA AND FOR THIS COUNTRY.
RANT ON, HATERS. NO ONE WANTS TO BE LIKE YOU….FULL OF HATE AND RAGE AND ANGER…..SAD.

“DNC VP pick Biden is on record saying, just a couple months ago, obama does not have enough experience to be president. BUT once Biden got picked as the VP you didn’t hear nothing but smooching from there on.”
Funny, I heard Hillary say the same thing.

Well come on Obama supporters! Lets have it? Why is it that Mr. McCain’s life history is an open book and Your precious Obama’s life is a freakin closed door? Please tell us all?

“I also noticed that McCain didn’t give any specifics about WHAT he will do. I just watched Obama’s speech on CNN live and he gave SPECIFIC information on how to bring the economy out of its slump.’
The only change that Barry will bring is the same double digit inflation that the country suffered through under Carter.

This country is headed for even a greater disaster then the financial mess; if McCain happens to win, there will be backlash from Obama supporters and this country will suffer.
Obama should have never gotten this far, it’s insane!!!

“…referencing the press…” Since when has “reference” become synonymous with “refer?” To “reference” means to cite as a reference.

Obama supporters get so offended when his record is questioned because they know it is their weakest argument.He has minimal experience at anything and his moral lapses combind with political expediency are a toxic mix.It was perfectly fine when he was labeling Bill Clinton a racist and Hillary as Annie “Monster”Oakley or when there are ageist attacks(“erratic”)against Mccain and ready to rehash Keating 5 at the drop of a Greek Column!!

Say it ain’t so Sallie! Out supporting Obama? Seems to me your sitting in front of a computer typing your little heart out. When are you gonna start telling us all about Obama’s life and why we should vote for him? Or is it that you just came here to sling your racist political agenda?

I was very glad to see McCain tie Obama in with Pelosi and Reid in this speech.
He needs to emphasize this over and over again in the debate on Wednesday.
That is the scariest part of an Obama victory for me. Pelosi and Reid telling Obama what to do.

Waaaaaaah! Sniffle*, sniffle*, waaaaaaaah!
“THAT ONE” took and drank all of my MILKSHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE! Now I don’t have ANYYYYYYYYYYYYYMOOOOOOOORE!
Chicago cans of whoop a** make you do that, don’t they?
You whiners need more cheese or shall I saw MORE CROW?
Grey Poupon?
POTUS OBAMA – McChicken’s worst nightmare

All this BS reteric doesn’t mean a thing people. The end of life in America as we know it is just about over no matter who wins this corrupt election. We spoiled our selves so much in the past 50 years or so that we can’t face our present dismal immoral reality with out us blaming some one else for our present condition. In Biblical times God punished his people severly when they disobeyed his commands whether people believed in his divinity or not. America was blessed from it’s conception and was sustained on GODly principles for over 200+ years. Recently in our society we have turned away from GOD and now indulge in all sorts of debauchery and every evil one could imagine. Greed and self have brought us to this present state and I see nothing but distruction ahead of us. I know the sceptics are laughing and blaspheming at words like mine but I am a student of history and thus I firmly believe that the day of the Lord is at hand. Woe be unto the people of the world unless we seek the one who created it. There is “No HOPE” in either candidate nor the party he will lead. If any of us believe there is then we are all the foolish of fools thru out history.

Why thank you for your response Indy-voter. I do feel as you that some things are really not for the voters. Mrs. Sallie found it in her heart to paste several post that are very detailed. I am curious about Obama’s associations with some of the people that have come up in the media. I am in no way assuming that he is guilty of any wrong doing but in all honesty don’t you feel he should give some explination? I wish to vote for who is gonna fix this mess. I’m tired of being lied to by our goverment.

Obama’s talking about unemployment going to 8% under McCain…under Obama if he taxes business like he wants your going to see more jobs flee this country and unemployment hit about 12%. Just the opposite he should do.

Obamabots have a hit a manic phase!!Elections are on Nov 04 ,2008.Let people vote.If he is president we will all wish him well.Saying hateful things about Mccain and his supporters just like you attacked Hillary and her supporters will be a loosing issue for you.He merely walked across the finish line in June carried over on the strong shoulders of Pelosi and Reid.

Mp.
Well thats the problem. All they want to see is that McCain supporters are racist,uneducated,hate breeders! Obama supporters don’t want to look at the facts, they don’t want to look at history, there motto is will fix it after we screw it up then blame the Republicans for it then try to win an election on how the Republicans have done this and done that!

So the McCain is changing campaign strategies AGAIN? Seeing as that I saw the fat lady warming up & is about to sing, let me say this to the GOP. Your party’s most fatal mistake in this campaign was to insult to the American peoples’ intelligence. To think you could just roll any ol’ body out there & win is about as arrogant as it gets. Out of all the women John McCain could’ve gotten to run with him, Kay Bailey Hutchison or Condoleeza Rice, he chooses Grandma Dynamite, a rural mayor & a wilderness governor with all kinds of skeleton bones in her closet. We now find out that her husband was sitting in on meetings & using state resources for his own personal use. Had Obama done any of this, the Republicans would be screaming bloody murder. How insulting is it to women to think all you have to do to get their vote is to put any woman on the ticket with you? How insulting is it to think that attacking & criticizing your opponent would somehow get you a vote. Americans want solutions to these problems we’re facing, not someone calling their opponent a Muslim when you have no proof that they are. Our country is in trouble, yet the GOP is carrying out these infantile diatribes & wondering why they’re down by double digits in some polls. It’s simple, we Americans aren’t nearly as stupid as the Republican Party thinks we are.

White supremecy and all that it stands for appears to be on it’s deathbed and is now calling it’s immediate family to the hospital to give its last rites.
That’s what this election is really about. America is “TURNING THE PAGE” on it’s ugly past and is now moving into the millineum with the perfect leader who’s best equipped to deal with the world as a whole.
Nitey Nite Gramps….
Donkeys don’t win thoroughbred horse races.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK

Where is McCain;s flag pin?

McCain/Palin represents hope, peace, prosperity and self-reliance.
Obama represents SOCIALISM–take from those who have and give to those who are weak minded and lazy–those who did not plan for their future.
Obama’s economic plan has a jackass mentality.
ACORN which is trying to defraud the election process was paid $800,000 by the Obama campaign for their work.

No matter what we all say and do at this point, it doesn’t matter. No candidate as come back from this far behind in a presidential race and won this close to an election. Nobody is going to be persuaded by what we write here.
So its over.
Thank God.

GoBama: What GOD?

rhbate: Remember what John Paul Jones said when his ship was sinking? We have not yet begun to fight!!

Wasn’t McCain going to make some earth shaking announcement today at his rally? I think they did say today is the day when poll trends will start shifting their way. This was going to be a prelude to the debate this week which they categorize as game changing event. Perhaps in tomorrow’s rally……

McCain has done nothing wrong, Obama and his thug friends have lied and when caught cried foul. When you are trying to appear to be something that you are not “moderate” you have to hide and cover up all of your radical left wing friends, associates, and 832K of ACORN related companies for voter fraud.
If Obama is a far left wing socialist then he should own it. His incramentally admitting only what can be well documented is very telling. Every other poll besides ABC’s shows that McCain is gaining on Obama and with all of the fraudulent voter registrations I don’t know how you can rely on polls at all anyway. I saw no mention of the dead people and duplicates reflected in the raw data.

— GoBama: The GOD of Abraham, Issak, and Jacob? There is only one, do you agree? —
Nope.. there are many, depending on your belief.. such as:
http://www.venganza.org/

– McCain has done nothing wrong, Obama and his thug friends have lied and when caught cried foul. –
Can you please provide a reference to where he lied and was then caught?

Can someone show me where Obama’s support was for this :
I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.

Nat, your a black racist aren’t you? The donkey is you messiahs’ party logo you dummy. Crack kills.

I bet McCain is sorry he let Karl Rove run his campaign, its sinking faster than the Titanic!
They should play ‘Nearer, My God, To Thee’ at the next rally…

Factcheck on Obama and Ayers:
We find McCain’s accusation that Obama “lied” to be groundless. It is true that recently released records show half a dozen or so more meetings between the two men than were previously known, but Obama never denied working with Ayers.
Other claims are seriously misleading. The education project described in the Web ad, far from being “radical,” had the support of the Republican governor and was run by a board that included prominent local leaders, including one Republican who has donated $1,500 to McCain’s campaign this year. The project is described by Education Week as reflecting “mainstream thinking” about school reform.
Despite the newly released records, there’s still no evidence of a deep or strong “friendship” with Ayers, a former radical anti-war protester whose actions in the 1960s and ’70s Obama has called “detestable” and “despicable.”
Even the description of Ayers as a “terrorist” is a matter of interpretation. Setting off bombs can fairly be described as terrorism even when they are intended to cause only property damage, which is what Ayers has admitted doing in his youth. But for nearly three decades since, Ayers has lived the relatively quiet life of an educator. It would be correct to call him a “former terrorist,” and an “unapologetic” one at that. But if McCain means the word “terrorist” to invoke images of 9/11, he’s being misleading; Ayers is no Osama bin Laden now, and never was.
McCain is not accurate when he says – as he does in the Web ad – “When their relationship became an issue, Obama just responded, ‘This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood.’ ” McCain is using the same line in personal appearances, too. He said on Oct. 9 at a campaign rally in Waukesha, Wis.:
McCain: Look, we don’t care about an old washed-up terrorist and his wife, who still, at least on Sept. 11, 2001, said he still wanted to bomb more. … The point is, Senator Obama said he was just a guy in the neighborhood. We need to know that’s not true.
Obama never said Ayers was “just” a guy in the neighborhood. The quote is from a Democratic primary debate on April 16 in Philadelphia, and Obama actually was more forthcoming than McCain lets on. Obama specifically acknowledged working together with Ayers on a charitable board, and didn’t deny getting some early political support from him. Here’s the exchange:
ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, April 16: An early organizing meeting for your state senate campaign was held at his house, and your campaign has said you are friendly. Can you explain that relationship for the voters, and explain to Democrats why it won’t be a problem?
Obama: George, but this is an example of what I’m talking about.
This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George.
Sen. Hillary Clinton then said, “I also believe that Senator Obama served on a board with Mr. Ayers for a period of time, the Woods Foundation,” and predicted that “this is an issue that certainly Republicans will be raising.”
Obama responded, “President Clinton pardoned or commuted the sentences of two members of the Weather Underground, which I think is a slightly more significant act than me … serving on a board with somebody for actions that he did 40 years ago.”
We wrote back then that Clinton had gone too far by suggesting that “people died” as a result of Ayers’ actions. And nothing Obama said then has since been shown to be false. It is true that he did not bring up his work with Ayers on a second project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama was board chairman and Ayers was an early organizer, and where the two were together for half a dozen or so meetings. But neither Clinton nor Stephanopoulos asked him about that project. McCain could fairly accuse Obama of not volunteering the information, but it is false to claim he “lied.”
“Pal Around”
The first to begin using the new line of attack against Obama was McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, after a lengthy article appeared Oct. 3 in the New York Times about Obama and Ayers:
Palin, Oct. 5: Our opponents see America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who would bomb their own country.
She’s repeated the charge again and again at different campaign stops since then, citing the Times. What the Times article actually says, however, is this: “[T]he two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers.” The Times says its review of documents and interviews with key players “suggest” that Obama “has played down his contacts with Ayers,” but describes their paths as having crossed “sporadically” since their first meeting in 1995.
And far from palling around with Ayers, the two haven’t spoken by phone or exchanged e-mail messages since Obama came to the Senate in January 2005, according to an Obama spokesman. He said the two last saw each other more than a year ago, when they accidentally met on the street in their Hyde Park neighborhood.
Obama addressed Palin’s claim on Oct. 8, when questioned by ABC News’ Charlie Gibson:
Obama, Oct. 8: This is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois. … And the notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that … I’ve ‘palled around with a terrorist’, all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points.
Stormy Weather, Underground
Bill Ayers’ notoriety dates from the radical, anti-Vietnam War group he helped to start in 1969, splintering off from the activist Students for a Democratic Society. The members of the new group, the Weather Underground, favored shows of violence to further their cause. On March 6, 1970, though, three of them blew themselves up in a Greenwich Village townhouse during a bomb-making session gone badly awry. Ayers and his fellow Weathermen, as they were called, soon dropped out of sight.
Barack Obama, who was born Aug. 4, 1961, was 8 years old at the time.
The Weather Underground continued setting off bombs, including one in a men’s lavatory in the Capitol building in 1971 and another in a women’s restroom in the Pentagon in 1972. Nobody was killed, due to evacuation warnings the Weathermen sent out in advance.
After the Vietnam War ended, the group’s activities petered out. In 1980 Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, another member, surfaced and turned themselves in to police. Because of illegal federal wiretaps, pending charges against Ayers for allegedly inciting a riot and conspiring to bomb government sites had been dropped. Dohrn pleaded guilty to separate charges of aggravated battery and jumping bail; she was fined $1,500 and given three years’ probation. Ayers and Dohrn, who had had two children together while in hiding, married in 1982.
Several other Weather Underground alums, including Kathy Boudin, along with some members of a group calling itself the Black Liberation Army, were involved in a bungled 1981 robbery of a Brinks truck in Nanuet, N.Y., in which a security guard and two policemen were killed. Ayers and Dohrn have never been publicly tied to the incident, which took place after they had turned themselves in. Dohrn was jailed for seven months for refusing to provide a handwriting sample to the grand jury investigating it.
Dohrn is now a clinical associate professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Locally, Ayers’ radical past hasn’t been much of an issue. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet wrote last spring that it “was no big deal, or any deal, to any local political reporters or to the editorial boards of the Sun-Times or [Chicago] Tribune.” Ayers was named a Chicago citizen of the year in 1997 for his efforts in the field of education.
In Chicago, Ayers is seen less as a “terrorist” and more as a prodigal son of the local establishment. His father was a prominent corporate executive and civic leader. Thomas G. Ayers was president and chief executive of Commonwealth Edison, the electric utility that lights Chicago and northern Illinois. There is a residence hall named for him at Northwestern University, where he was a trustee for 30 years. Bill’s brother John Ayers, according to Education Week, headed a school-reform group called the Leadership for Quality Education, which represented business leaders’ interest in schools. John is now a senior associate of the Chicago-based National Association of Charter School Authorizers.
Despite the fairly mainstream life he lives now, though, Bill Ayers’ image took a hit with an article that appeared in the New York Times on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Ayers was quoted in the lead paragraph as saying, ”I don’t regret setting bombs” and “I feel we didn’t do enough.” The interview had been conducted earlier, in connection with the publication of Ayers’ memoir of his years as a fugitive. But when the quotes appeared on the same day thousands died at the World Trade Center and elsewhere, they enraged his critics.
Ayers called the story a deliberate distortion of his views. In a response on his blog, Ayers wrote:
Ayers: My memoir is from start to finish a condemnation of terrorism, of the indiscriminate murder of human beings, whether driven by fanaticism or official policy. …
I said I had a thousand regrets, but no regrets for opposing the war with every ounce of my strength.
That’s hardly an apology, referring as it does to the U.S. role in the Vietnam War as “terrorism.” Ayers has maintained a public silence since then, refusing all requests for interviews.
Even so, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley had kind words for him recently:
Daley (New York Times, Oct. 3, 2008): He’s done a lot of good in this city and nationally. … This is 2008. People make mistakes. You judge a person by his whole life.
According to an Obama spokesman, the two men first met in 1995, when Obama was tapped to chair the board of the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers had been instrumental in creating the organization, which was to dispense grants for projects that would improve Chicago’s schools.
The Challenge was one of 18 projects supported by a $500 million grant announced at a White House ceremony Dec. 18, 1993, by the Annenberg Foundation, founded four years earlier by Philadelphia publisher Walter Annenberg. It was the largest single gift ever made to public education in America. The Chicago project received a $49.2 million grant in 1995, and officials administering the grant funds at Brown University announced at the time that the Chicago proposal was developed through discussions among “a broad-based coalition of local school council members, teachers, principals, school reform groups, union representatives and central office staff” convened by three educators – one of whom was Ayers. Mayor Richard M. Daley, a Democrat, and Gov. Jim Edgar, a Republican, took part in a ceremony announcing the grant.
There are other connections between Obama and Ayers: The same year the two men met through the Annenberg Challenge, Ayers hosted a meet-and-greet coffee for Obama, who was running for state Senate and who lived three blocks away from him. Obama and Ayers also were on the board of an antipoverty charity, the Woods Fund of Chicago, where their service overlapped from 2000 to 2002. And Ayers contributed $200 to Obama’s campaign for the Illinois state Senate on March 2, 2001.
In addition, Obama told the Chicago Tribune in 1997 that a book Ayers wrote about the juvenile court system was “a searing and timely account.” This is sometimes billed by Obama’s critics as a “book review.” Actually, a reporter simply asked three Chicagoans for a sentence about whatever they were reading at the time.
The Annenberg Challenge connection has drawn the most attention recently, though, mainly because of articles written by Stanley Kurtz, a conservative contributor to the National Review, the publication founded by the late William F. Buckley. Kurtz first suggested on Aug. 18 that there was a “cover-up in the making” when he was unable to gain access to 132 boxes of project records housed at the University of Illinois. Records were released nine days later, along with all records held by the Annenberg Foundation itself.
The Chicago Tribune, after examining the records, said they showed Ayers and Obama “attended board meetings, retreats and at least one news conference together as the education program got under way.” It also said Obama and Ayers “continued to attend meetings together during the 1995-2001 operation of the program.” The story played on page 2. According to the New York Times, the documents show the two attended just six board meetings together, Obama as chairman and Ayers to inform the board on grantees and other issues. (In a press release, the McCain campaign puts the number of meetings at seven, five of them in 1995, one in 1996 and one in 1997.) Ayers was an “ex officio” member of the board for the first year of the project.
United Press International summed up the reaction to the contents of the group’s archives with a story headlined “No ‘smoking gun’ in Obama relationship”:
UPI, Aug. 27: Reporters reviewing records in Chicago have so far found nothing startling in documents linking Sen. Barack Obama to 1960s radical William Ayers.
Where news reporters found little of note, though, Kurtz – the conservative writer who initially suggested a “cover-up” – cast it differently. After combing through the Annenberg records, he published an article in the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal saying he found that Obama and Ayers acted as “partners” and together “poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.” He said money went to groups that “focused more on political consciousness, Afrocentricity and bilingualism than traditional education.”
A “Radical” Foundation? Hardly.
What Kurtz – and McCain in his Web ad – considers “radical,” other observers see differently, however. Veteran education reporter Dakarai I. Aarons, writing in Education Week, says the Chicago Annenberg Challenge actually “reflected mainstream thinking among education reformers” and had bipartisan support:
Education Week (Oct. 8): The context for the Chicago proposal to the Annenberg Foundation was the 1988 decentralization of the city’s public schools by the Republican-controlled Illinois legislature, a response to frustration over years of teachers’ strikes, low achievement, and bureaucratic failure. … The proposal was backed by letters of support to the Annenberg Foundation from Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a Republican, local education school deans, the superintendent of the Chicago public schools, and the heads of local foundations.
Among the mainstream Chicago luminaries on Obama’s board was Arnold R. Weber, a former president of Northwestern University, who in 1971 was appointed by Republican President Richard Nixon as executive director of the Cost of Living Council and who later was tapped by Republican President Ronald Reagan to serve on an emergency labor board. More recently, Weber has given $1,500 to John McCain’s presidential campaign this year.
Others on Obama’s supposedly “radical” board included Stanley Ikenberry, a former president of the University of Illinois system; Ray Romero, a vice president of Ameritech; Susan Crown, a philanthropist; Handy Lindsey, the president of the Field Foundation of Illinois; and Wanda White, the executive director of the Community Workshop for Economic Development.
Kurtz originally claimed that Ayers somehow was responsible for installing Obama as head of the board, speculating in his “cover-up” article that Obama “almost certainly received the job at the behest of Bill Ayers.” But after days of poring over the records, he failed to produce any evidence of that in his Wall Street Journal article. To the contrary, Ayers was not involved in the choice, according to Deborah Leff, then president of the Joyce Foundation. She told the Times, and confirmed to FactCheck.org, that she recommended Obama for the position to Patricia Graham of the Spencer Foundation. Graham told us that she asked Obama if he’d become chairman; he accepted, provided Graham would be vice-chair.
The bipartisan board of directors, which did not include Ayers, elected Obama chairman, and he served in that capacity from 1995 to 1999, awarding grants for projects and raising matching funds. Ayers headed up a separate arm of the group, working with grant recipients. According to another board member, Ayers “was not significantly involved with the challenge after Obama was appointed.” One possible reason had little to do with Obama himself, but instead was related to cautions about conflicts of interest; the group was funding some of Ayers’ own alternative school projects.
In any case, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge failed to bring about improvement in students’ test scores, classroom behavior or social competence. An independent consortium of educators concluded in 2003 that “Annenberg schools did not achieve an overall effect on student outcomes” compared with schools that received no support from the project. Education Week quoted some project supporters as saying it succeeded in raising interest in helping failing schools.
Conclusion
Voters may differ in how they see Ayers, or how they see Obama’s interactions with him. We’re making no judgment calls on those matters. What we object to are the McCain-Palin campaign’s attempts to sway voters – in ads and on the stump – with false and misleading statements about the relationship, which was never very close. Obama never “lied” about this, just as he never bragged about it. The foundation they both worked with was hardly “radical.” And Ayers is more than a former “terrorist,” he’s also a well-known figure in the field of education.

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– They are generating an Aryan Nation, Skinhead response that is reminiscent of the Nazi rallies at Nuremburg and our own KKK lynch mobs –
Is it no wonder? McCain has called himself the ‘original neocon’ and sat on the advisory board of the US Council for World Freedom. Look them up and see who was involved and what they supported.

Concerned American: Yes, but you can’t deny that “THIS COUNTRY” was formed and constitutionaly based on Judeo,Christian belief’s no matter how one would spin that. Why do you attempt to malighn my belief, no where have I IMPOSED them on any one? My faith and beliefs are grounded on historical facts that some folks choose to disregard for fear of being accountable for some aspects of their life styles. Obviously some of us will be right, and some will be proven wrong, to there shagrin. I choose to believe in intelligent design as proposed in the Bible, you can believe what you want.

The way Senator Mc Cain and Governor Palin have been campaigning for the past several weeks, some of his supporters are ready to stand up and fight “The Civil War”
Have a nice life Senator Mc Cain you deserve that. Governor Palin should be content with tending to her family.

John McCain loves to brag about how he has stood up to his own party over the years. Hopefully, he’ll have the courage to stand up to his own supporters over the next three weeks. It really is remarkable to see the difference in these two campaigns. While he has been very critical of McCain’s stance on issues, Obama has consistently praised John McCain for his service to his country, which the supporters at Obama’s rallies have generally applauded. McCain, on the other hand, gets booed by his own supporters for just saying that Obama is a ‘decent man’. Obama will win this election simply because he truly believes that being an American is more important than being a Democrat or Republican, and as such he tries to push people towards the middle, encouraging the left and right to work together to move this country forward. In contrast, McCain, Palin and the RNC continually push people towards the fringes. I particularly find Sarah Palin’s statement that Obama “doesn’t see America like you and I see America” to be extraordinarily disgusting. I’m proud to say that I see America like Barack Obama does: a multi-racial, multi-cultural community where freedom of speech, religion and respect for the rule of law is absolutely paramount in ‘preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution’. Considering her statements during this campaign and her actions as Governor of Alaska, I’m not sure what America Sarah Palin and her supporters see, but it’s pretty obvious that it doesn’t include people like me.

Posted by: bombem | Oct 13, 2008 4:31:48 PM
HEY BOMBEM, EVOLUTION IS A FACT. THE ONLY THEORY IS IN THE SELECTION PROCESSES. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND STEP INTO THE 21ST CENTURY.

And that tells us all we need to know! Yea’ and let’s wonder who us is?

“Obama claims to be African-American! How is that possible? Does he not have a white mother?”
What–do you want him to say he’s White? He is bi-racial. I have two beautiful daughters who are half Black and they choose to be referred to as Black. It’s a matter PERSONAL CHOICE how you want to be referred if you are bi-racial. It would make no sense to say he White if he looks Black!

Walter: OH, do you mean the inlightened generation. I think there’s been that sort of a remark made over the mellenia of history and never proven, but some how you atheists just don’t get it. Well Walter, I believe there is a selection process and you I’m afraid have selected a path straight “TO HELL” believe it or not.

roarks – “GOP voter suppression” is like saying it’s OK for the Democrats to use ACORN and other organizations (like the one I work for – and yes, they do it here) to register false names via the phone book without having a secure verification system in place to qualify voters but when anyone (like me) regardless of party affiliation attempts to qualify voters it’s termed “suppression.”

McCain belongs in an Old Age Home and Palin belongs in a Centerfold.

Hmm..If there’s only 20 Republicans..why do Democrats feel the need for voter fraud?

McSame, who hasn’t done a thing for us, over the last 26 years in congress is now promising that he would bring us all to heaven??? Give me a break! He has no idea of how to do it, let alone promising to help us. He forgets what he has promised the very next day, and then goes off on a tangent. How can you even trust his words, when you know that these are just empty promises.

Why to vote for John McCain: he was tortured. He supports non-governmental intervention in the marketplace. He served his country. He is a man for change. He wants to tax health care plans. He is pro, pro, pro what?
I could care less about his platitudes. He has not addressed the fundamentals of what has recently become very apparent and wrong with the financial system in America. People on mainstreet USA do not want secondary derivatives plaguing their investments. That is the monumental problem of AIG, Fannie, Freddie, and the failing investment houses. Add on top of that a $800 billion for gasoline and $700 billion for the war on Bin Laden’s contra-peers and you can see we have some reprioritization that is necessary. As a result, the American voter is going for radical change because change is necessary for survival. Let’s see what we are doing. We are paying our bills as per usual. We are purchasing less and saving more. We are buying CFL’s. We have planted vegitable gardens. We are hanging on to jobs we once wanted to leave. We are taking jobs we once considered unpalatable. We will do what is necessary to change the equation forced upon us to rebalance our lives. We don’t need candidates causing harsh visceral reactions by supporters. We need leaders who will work the problems with a pre-assigned program to correct them. The American voter is looking for pragmatism, not conservatism. We want progressive solutions that ensure the middle class enlarges, prospers against other classes, and gets a bigger piece of the pie. Knee jerk anti-government solutions do not work in a government by the people constitutional system. That is pragmatic thinking. The government is mine and better work well or don’t run for office to dismantle my government. I pay for that government and it should act as promised. Anybody who wants to call me a socialist out there for wanting my republican government ended is an anti-Consitutional prig and an ass and knows nothing about the purpose of the law or democratic governance.
Mr. Obama, who I admit I know less about because I took time to organize and pay for a small business, and have had little time to read even as much as the Alaskan, is my candidate because I am betting that his faith in the American dream is a better faith than Mr. McCain’s. Mr. Obama and I share some indirect history together. I have been a member of the United Methodist Church, a church that believes in the direct ministry of Christ to all who would have faith in him, no matter what type of sins they possess currently. Mr. Obama has been chastized for that membership because one pastor has a faith that put God above country. Good for him! Amen brother, I am with you that God stands above country. Call me a traitor, unAmerican or whatever you want. I call it following the 1st Commandment and the 2nd. I will not put my country before God Almight. How’s that for a voter’s choice for Obama. I could care less who else votes for Obama or what their sins may be. If Louis F., Ayers, or other radicals align with my vote, well, stranger bedfellows have come together with out knowing one another before. I am sure there will be far more non-radicals voting for Mr. Obama as well. People like me who go to Christ’s church on Sunday, who go to work for more than 40 hours per week deliving goods and services to their fellow Americans, who pay their bills, mortgages, and taxes knowing that what they pay for does not come cheaply.
I live in a good home. I drive high MPG vehicles. I am friendly to all in my community. I could care less who helps to register voters, whether it be an election judge or a member of ACORN, guiding an unregistered person to a registered status. I have known many on the left who have registered more than just the displaced and dispossesed. Just because some states think a person must disprove they are from pluto does not mean they are not voters trying to use the franchise. If a Republican wants to register voters, hurrah! Welcome, citizen! Only the crazies of each party want to challenge all newly registered voters as being suspects in a foul play. They can all just kiss my Army veteran arse. Let them vote. That is why we have election rolls, election judges, registration systems, and Secretaries of State. Either the system works or it doesn’t and either way the outcome should not be challenged by what we do not know occured in a secret ballot or the secret is lost and so is our privacy.
I will vote for Obama because he did work for voter enfranchisement against what many want of our fellow citizens. The homeless should be able to vote, because often the laws of our country have forced them out of homes due to no intentional action of their own. We have so many in need from foreclosures where the terms only known at the close could not be made known to them in advance and as all homeowners know, the close is the signing of dozens of documents rarely if ever seen in advance. Yet, with little or no time to read it all, we sign anyway. That practice needs to end and the contracts simplified to one or two pages so that the buyer can truly know at the close what is happening. That would be reform!!! Instead, the paperwork will probably go way up and the complexity multiplied by the current financial mess. And, the banks will ultimately be even more powerful in people’s lives. Is my house really worth paying an additional 150% of the purchase price so that an investor can be satisfied with the return on his investment? Americans should have options to use investment money in more places than retirement or education with less taxable implications than these limits. McCain may like that idea, but his banker friends won’t. They will prevail upon him to give up on that as a priority. So, I will vote for Obama. The divergency of ideas is not just between parties it is also within the ideas within the parties as to what is the priority. That is why I will vote for Obama. I think his priorities more closely resemble my own. McCain does not get it. He just does not read my priorities very well. So what if some of Mr. Obama’s priorities are not even on my agenda. For the greater balance of these things, I believe, and yes it is belief, Mr. Obama appears to be a hands down sure bet for me. I can bank on him not destroying my money more so than what the current POTUS or Congress have done to my life work and resources. I am placing my bets on the new kid on the block.

We are the undecided-the Clinton leftovers. These are the things that Obama should have known: that Rev Wright was a Racist, that Rezko was a shady man who raised funds for him. And Ayers, background in terrorism against America was well known to Obama when they ran around. He has refuted all these associations. What America does not know is that Obama will raise taxes on the Middle class once he gets into office. The other thing we found out is that Obama had a sexual relationship with Larry Sinclair in 1999 and did cocaine with him. Obama is for gay marriage and would not put it past him to think that a gay presidency is in his future administration. He does not want to refute the relationship with Larry, because all the gay surrogates working for his campaign would leave, and that would signal that he is not going to work for their agenda. We were told that the reason he did not want to work within the campaign financing was to raise undetected millions on his own. He’s the richest black candidate in world’s history, and that some of the monies is from terrorism groups. He knows that there is no way to verify until the election is over. As, we cannot verify the voter fraud that is going on by Acorn for him. The bad economy is due to illegals getting credit cards, and purchasing homes they could not afford. If Obama wins by fraud, there will be a race war.

Hey, just curious, have any of you seen the new Palin documentary by larry flint. Its called (“NAILEN PALIN”). Looks like a WINNER

TruAmerican: Where are you?

Classic irony.. bombem says:
“TruAmerican: And you sound like a fearful athiest ”
and then turns around and says:
“None of the GOD fearing Republicans”
Who, in your world, is afraid of what?

Typical all he knows is fight and war and then he’s not that good at it either or he wouldn’t have been captured.

TruAmerican: My friend, I appreciate your quick response. I remember back in the early 60′s when prayer was removeded from our public schools and soon after we experienced a rapid decline in our educational experience. Total secularism is what got us where we are today, in my humble opinion. A moment of silence would have been appropriate don’t you think, then our children could at least be respectful to a higher power to what ever that may have been? Now they respect nothing! I totally respect science because I believe that it is the way to GOD, in fact many prominent scientists have become creationists. I am proud also that you have found your fortune in my country America, great country isnt it? Only history will show us if a war was useless or not, the free Iraquis will determain that. We forget Sadam and his brutallity don’t we? Side note: Are you not fearful of your good fortune under an Obama Admin? Be careful what you wish for. :)

bombem,
I am ABSOLUTELY looking forward for Barak Obama to be the President of the US of A.
This will send a clear message to the whole world that We are READY for change.
Even if you may argue that he lacks the years of experience but I will say this: He is at least thinking in the RIGHT direction AND he surrounds himself with Intelligent people who will guide him when he needs it. He is also Calm and Composed. In this point in time, we need an American president who is a Thinker and a bringer of peace and hope.
Do you honsetly feel peaceful and hopeful when you hear McCains or Palin’s speech?
One cannot ALWAYS live in the fear of someone attacking us. That is paranoia. What is use of a democracy and freedom when we spy on ourselves and build huge walls, etc. I am done with this B.S.
Yes, every human wonders in his/her life what is his purpose and what if there are other planets where there could be other life-forms. In the deep of all our hearts we all do pray when technology cannot help us and all that is remained is hope.
Still when we get out of that phase, we thank our creator and get on with our life. If we are a space scientist, then we go back to finding other life-forms on other planets.
We never take anything for granted otherwise what is the purpose of space travel?
You see the difference is that we all do belive in higher power and we carry on with our daily lives but there are a few guys like you who think that their OWN brand of religion is the best and other should follow it or they are condemed. That is completely WRONG.
Talking about wars, YES those wars were based on LIES. It was ALL about control in the Middle East.
People around the world dislike Americans not because they hate us or our freedom (that is a joke!) but they hate us for our BAD foreign policies.
Have you travelled abroad? And I dont mean cruises or just visiting fancy hotels. Have you really seen any other country in Europe, Africa or Asia?
Try it and it will change your horizons.

I think that the level of integrity has fallen to an all time low in this election as fat too many outright lies and major distortions of the actual truth are flying from both parties, but especially from McCain and Palin. I find it repugnant the way they have been rabble-rousing with such vengeance taking pride in their maligning Barack Obama with so many blatant lies it sickens me. Obama is not free of guilt for promoting lies regarding to McCain, but none of them are so vile, hate filled and toxic as those being spewed out by his opponents, John McCain and Sarah Palin. It is so incredibly viscious! The end results were seen the other day when the crowds went rabid with hate towards a man they have never met & do not know on a personal basis. When you churn up people (who are all ready angry from watching their country self destruct and their investments fall dramatically in value) with lies and misinformation about another person, whose name is different than most people, you are very inclined to incite a riot. If you happened to watch the news you saw what happened. John McCain has done just this with his constant barrage of unjustified slams and smears of his opponent, Barack Hussein Obama. To me this is all to reminiscent of the angry mobs in post Civil War America up through the 60s (mostly in the south & other middle America areas) when lynching was on the minds of the people in a mob who were going to make someone man pay for the ills of the country. McCain lost control of his audience this time by his never ending, hate filled speeches. He has gone too far and created an atmosphere of hate and intolerance. I find it truly frightening that humanity has not come further along than this since the days of overt racism. Thank you John McCain and Sarah Palin. You have brought back a very ugly period in American history in a very real & potentially dangerous manner all in the name of soliciting your candidacy for President of the United States. Shame on you!

All of Europe and a lot of the Middle East and South America. I must admit that you remind me of Nevil Chamberlain when he claimed peace in our times just prior to WW2. I think you have your head in the sand (I WONDER IF IT’S MIDDLE EASTERN SAND) either by blindness or design. Your damn right I’m concerned about being attacked, remember 9/11? Eternal vigellance is the price of freedom Sir, and if you can’t see that then I suspect that your head in the sand might be by design. Islam is the greatest threat to my country I believe in our history. And may I say that I, and millions of other Americans and millions of people around the world will appose their RADICAL RELIGION untill death. Do you see my religion beheading and murdering their own people just because they question. Don’t you dare accuse me of pushing my brand of religion on anyone because I merely express my beliefs, you and your kind are the real bigots. Bottom line, “MY COUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG” And finally I will appose that non American (can’t prove his citizenship) Muslim sympathiser now, and after, GOD forbid he should steal this election.

Walter: GOD fearing depicts respect and you know that, don’t you?

It is scary to be ruled by a man whose only solution to his problem is “bomb, bomb, bomb,…” and “attack, attack, attack, …” and who is proud to be a fighter despite his experience of war. God bless him.

All of you Obama followers are very DUMB even after he admitted he was friends with Bill Ayres a terrorist you are still voting for him, what??? no wonder alot of americans are stupid… if anybody knows military things its McCain and Palin her economic stance are great “you wouldnt like to save money on a bridge to nowhere?” Pfff Biden was in the Republican race what a wishy washy idiot…. please just think before you vote DEMS

The USA’s enemies are drooling at the thought of Obama. They love the naïve inexperience weak amateur. Where there have been young leaders in the past, they had over a decade of (real)experience, yet we paid a price for it. The last thing the USA needs at this time is an Amateur. There is no time for on the job training. More Socialist debt is definitely not what we need. Research what and who you vote for, check your resources, do not buy into the hype, think and reason for yourself. Being what one “guppy” called an old f*rt, I have already survived this type situation, and really shiver at the thought of having to go through it again. Therefore the inexperience definitely concerns me. The Socialist leaning is a big red flag. His record shows nothing to recommend him. Pretty words and rhetoric may soothe the soul but do nothing to solve problems.
For those fighting the party wars.
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.-Alexander Pope
If your 20 and not a Liberal, You have no Heart. If you are 40 and not a Conservative, You have no Brain–Sir Winston Churchhill

Which A$$ still doesnt get it that Ayers was on a Republican-run board: ANNENBERG – look it up. these attacks have failed. But Fix-News still keeps saying them thinking that will make them true.
McCain’s campaign is starting to smell of LOSER-DOM.
Key senior conservatives are jumping ship – Kristol, Florida governor, Hitchens…
This shows you the depths to which this campaign has fallen.
Not only will Obama-Biden win…but it looks like a landslide.
Palin is a deceiving and unscrupulous woman who appeals to the basest elements of her audience.

“It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too,” Obama responded. “My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
Posted by: Mike from Texas | Oct 14, 2008 7:06:11 AM
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DO YOU REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT QUOTES??! because we can bring up a few on McCain & (Oh GOD HELP US) Palin…
and we won’t even have to take them out of context! lol!

Wendy Powers: I suppose that in your way of thinking I’m one of those people behind all of those adjectives you threw out there to describe the people that you don’t agree with. But let me ask you, who’s truth and who’s facts, yours? Do you trust your choice of candidate who sends out goon squads from A corn to steal an election. Believe me if your favorite little Muslim wins there will be blood in the streets. We will not give up this country to uncontrolled liberalism! That is a fact and a truth.

bombem,
you are an idiot and I am sad that I have wasted my time conversing with you.
It is YOUR ass I hope that the Statue of Liberty kicks. Or better still, I hope that the NSA picks you up on a mistaken identity and put you in Gitmo and then you will find yourself unable to even prove your innocence coz you just lost all your Rights! (Thats what you want right? – Govt. ‘protecting’ the American people.)
Guys like you are threat to the gene pool.
Just for kicks I’d have Loved to see ya’lls faces after Obama becomes the next President of the US of A.

It’s obvious to me and I’m sure to many others now that TruAmerican is nothing more than a border jumping illegal refuge who snuck over the Canadian line in the middle of the night on the way to some fast food store, probably in some Detroit Muslim enclave where he was offered a mimimum wage job. You should be in Gitmo were I served as a proud US Marine many years ago while you wondered around some Asian slum dreaming about some day of coming to MY country. Those lousy scum of the earth Muslim terrorists and that includes you should die and rot there as an example to all who would do harm to this country. You liberal, foreign, unpatriotic morons enjoy it while you can because all your doing is putting pressure on us Real Americans who are going to reach a point and say enough is enough. And I hope that’s when you see my face pointing to some pier where your sorry ass is going to get on a boat and go back to the hell you came from!! And if Obama should become President on Nov 4 you and your kind should start getting a little nervous on the 5TH.

There not blind, just educationally dumbed down for the last 50 years and saddled with a guilt complex thanks soley to the Anti American news media who will be held responsible for the chaos following this joke of an election.

Senator McCain, you are not the only one in this campaign that has fought for their country. We are all in this campaign. Some will vote, some will not and some are not eligible. Millions of us have fought for our country whether it is in the military or public service. Hundreds of thousands have more than 20 hours of combat. Many suffered more severe injuries than you. The American people have paid you from the age of 17 to represent and defend us. That would make you a mercenary, no more and no less. We paid for your education at the Naval Academy and you gave us less than your best. We paid for your flight training and you gave us less than your best. As a reward for being ‘songbird’ as a POW, we paid for you to attend the National War College. Senator you make more than $250,000 a year and how many non government jobs have you created?

Gee Gareth you sound like a spoiled sport. What do you do besides critisize?

The John McCain Fight Song (Stand up and Fight)
Stand up, stand up. Stand up and fight
Don’t ask if it makes sense, don’t ask if it’s right
Just grab an American flag and hold tight
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight
The big surge is working, yippee and hooray
So what if it costs us a billion a day
Our economy is in the tank anyway
We’ll leave it for the next generation to pay
Stand up, stand up. Stand up and fight
Don’t ask if it makes sense, don’t ask if it’s right
Just grab an American flag and hold tight
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight
Got me a cute fireball for VP
Don’t know who she is, but she looks good to me
Don’t know much about her but she’s great on TV
A heartbeat away—seems a good choice to me
Stand up, stand up. Stand up and fight
Don’t ask if it makes sense, don’t ask if it’s right
Just grab an American flag and hold tight
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight
My lifestyle could be considered quite cush
But you better believe I don’t sit on my tush
I’ve been working my buns off, voting with Bush
I’m a maverick who plays safe when shove comes to push
Stand up, stand up. Stand up and fight
Don’t ask if it makes sense, don’t ask if it’s right
Just grab an American flag and hold tight
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight
Let’s drill for oil, let’s poke holes in the ground
Let’s suck it all up ‘till there’s no more to be found
And in 25 years we’ll all hear the sound
Of the waves hitting Wall Street with no hope of rebound
Stand up, stand up. Stand up and fight
Don’t ask if it makes sense, don’t ask if it’s right
Just grab an American flag and hold tight
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight
We are the masters of our own fate
Why should we listen or negotiate
With God on our side we will charge from the gate
So come on and join us before it’s too late
Stand up, stand up. Stand up and fight
Don’t ask if it makes sense, don’t ask if it’s right
Just grab an American flag and hold tight
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight

Obama is buying television. I have never seen such wasteful, over the top money on ads. No one watches them in the Va. area any more. People are desensitized to their frequency. If money can buy the election, Obama ought to win handily.