By Lee Speigel

Oct 14, 2008 10:29pm

McCain Fighting for Florida, North Carolina

ABC News’ Ron Claiborne reports: Talk about having to play defense in the waning days of the campaign. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is scheduled to make stops in Miami and Melbourne, Fla., this Friday. He flies Friday night to Charlotte, N.C., presumably to campaign Saturday in the Tar Heel state.

It is not a favorable sign for the McCain campaign that he is still trying to nail down these two traditionally Republican states. President Bush won Florida in 2000 and expanded his official margin of victory in 2004. North Carolina last went Democratic in a presidential election in 1976, when Jimmy Carter, from neighboring Georgia, won it.

The latest polls show McCain and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., locked in a tight race in North Carolina. Obama is narrowly ahead in Florida, the nation’s fourth largest state.

User Comments

“Obama is narrowly ahead in Florida, the nation’s fourth largest state.”
Well, what is “narrowly”? In the RCP AVERAGE for Florida, he’s exactly 5 points ahead. In the latest Fox/Rasmussen poll: 5 points as well.
With 3 weeks left in this race, it looks like Obama will even win Florida.

Posted by: man | October 14, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm

Even Florida Governor Crist who helped McCain win the primaries in Florida is distancing himself.. Florida voted for Clinton. And then voted Bush the last two elections.. they have been burned twice, and won’t let it happen again.

Posted by: greg | October 14, 2008, 10:48 pm 10:48 pm

I prefer to follow the money instead of the many different polls out there. Intrade.com has Obama ahead of McCain in Florida 71% to 28%. NC is closer with Obama ahead 56% to 44%.

Posted by: samurai | October 14, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

McCain = DISHONORABLE; Palin = SCARY!!!

Posted by: Howard Gallas | October 14, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

How come ABC wont address that Palin wont answere question?
How come ABC wont address ACCORN 2006 mccain connection?
How come ABC wont address Palin Highest rape and womans violence in Alaska?
How come ABC wont address MCCain lying to his own supports at rallies?

Posted by: Brian | October 14, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

These polls that are being shown by the
liberal media are not surprising. Maybe they polled those voters registered by
ACORN.

Posted by: Hector P. Luat | October 14, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm

The media wants Obama, so the public wants Obama. John was stupid enough to think they would choose HIM over their own party. Stupid John, REALLY STUPID! The GOP isn’t even trying to contest local elections. They’ve given up. Now we get at least four years of the “Obama brigades.” Thanks GOP.

Posted by: hmn | October 14, 2008, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm

If americam elects an african american president in 2008 will it be time to begin restricting affirmative action programs?

Posted by: al | October 14, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

After watching tonights episode of frontline on PBS I now realize that Obama has accused his oppenents of playing the race card after having lost a 200o election to Bobby ross in chicago

Posted by: al | October 14, 2008, 11:14 pm 11:14 pm

Turn off the lights, the party is over! I am sure gonna miss the opportunity to see Palin lead the free world – that would be hilarious.

Posted by: pietro | October 14, 2008, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm

– Maybe they polled those voters registered by ACORN. –
Then it would have shown McCain in the lead since the GOP has done it’s best to purge voter registrations… again.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/10/09/2008-10-09_gop_in_push_to_erase_voters_purges_acorn.html

Posted by: Concerned American | October 14, 2008, 11:20 pm 11:20 pm

HAHA
It will be with the utmost Joy to see the following faces on November 5th after the landslide
hannity
limbaugh
mccain
cindy
palin and the first dufus
o’really
all the trailer trash fox bimbos
loserman
guliani
this will be great ……..

Posted by: Omentum | October 14, 2008, 11:21 pm 11:21 pm

In the 2000 chicago election in which Obama lost to a black congressman named bobby ross obama was accused of not being black enough. By accusing his opponents of playing the race card, Obama prevented this from happening in the 2008 election.

Posted by: al | October 14, 2008, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm

– The media wants Obama, so the public wants Obama. –
Apparently, the people aren’t as stupid as you make them out to be.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/108043/Candidate-Support-Education.aspx

Posted by: Concerned American | October 14, 2008, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm

4 more years under republican administration and the country Can kiss itself goodbye more $ going to Iraq until we win win what??? Keep the $ here where it is badly needed for health care, jobs, economy, other forms of energy, education the list is as long as your arm.

Posted by: Rose Szymanski | October 14, 2008, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm

as a candiate, obama has been a some what sneaky candiate, not that the gop hasn’t been sneaky in past elections. its just politics has usual. Obama is no different from any other politican.

Posted by: al | October 14, 2008, 11:26 pm 11:26 pm

– its just politics has usual. –
And amazingly, most Americans just bend over and take it. Palin is a perfect example of how low this country has sunk in terms of expectations for political leaders.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 14, 2008, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

VIRGINIA …. IS MOVING FROM TOSS UP TO OBAMA
NEWS FLASH. MCCAIN ECONOMIC ADVISORS are working on a new solution to assist in the getting the US ECONOMY back on track
McCain should suspend his campaign and send that money back to supporters.

Posted by: Omentum | October 14, 2008, 11:32 pm 11:32 pm

This is very funny, all of a sudden the republican ticket can find jobs for people, what the hell have they been doing for the past eight years, go to hell McCain/Palin, and that hockey mom can put lipstick on my butt, morons!!!!

Posted by: pete | October 14, 2008, 11:41 pm 11:41 pm

We are mired in debt, the trillions in surplus McCain’s party got has been spent and more, ten BILLION dollars of taxpayers money is being spent for the Iraq war; could we not use that money here, for American families and small business owners? John McCain’s chief of his transition team aided Saddam Hussein – yes, that’s right – the man we fought TWO wars against – the “evildoer” and American soldiers died and shed blood for and John McCain hires this guy and is friends with him. This man BENEFITTED financially by aiding Saddam Hussein. Is this country first? Proof? Here it is:
“William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.
The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein’s government.
During the same period beginning in 1992, Timmons worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park, on a previously unreported prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil. Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through.”
McCain picks Palin who is intellectually deficient and everyone agrees is incapable of being fit for the office of VP – this is serious – we live in a complicated world and we need intellect and we don’t need someone who isn’t even educated about her own country. There is no comparison between the two tickets.
You don’t pick a VP for gender or to play to “the base” – that is just irresponsible – you pick someone who can guide us through these very difficult times internationally and domestically.

Posted by: jti | October 14, 2008, 11:41 pm 11:41 pm

well thier is a nice little article in the API and mo calls non obama supporters white racist

Posted by: Bishop | October 14, 2008, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm

Mccain will win Florida for sure.

Posted by: brigitte | October 14, 2008, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm

OBAMAMNIACS JUST CONVERGE HERE TIO CELEBRATE THE OBAMA CORONATION… SETTING YOURSELVES UP FOR A HEARTBREAK COME NOV 4TH.
MCCAIN/PALIN 08

Posted by: TJ, THE CLINTONITE | October 15, 2008, 12:01 am 12:01 am

– OBAMAMNIACS JUST CONVERGE HERE TIO CELEBRATE THE OBAMA CORONATION. –
Nope, most are concerned about the direction of our country and simply doing what we can to fight the BS coming out of the GOP.
Consider it a moratorium on ignorance.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 12:06 am 12:06 am

To all the Obama supporters out there: While it is great Obama is up in the polls, the polls mean nothing if we don’t go out and vote by the millions. Please, don’t get too complacent. Tell your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, your parents, your siblings, your babysitter, your dog-walker, your house sitter, your postman, your garbage man, your newspaper delivery man, to V-O-T-E and V-O-T-E for Obama!!!

Posted by: Joe Reed | October 15, 2008, 12:09 am 12:09 am

the pollsters are not reliable, for example john zogby’s brother is james zogby who is the head of the American Arab Institute-yes zogby tweeks the polls to favor obama, you betcha!
i would dismiss at least 2 pts off each pollester, most of the pollsters are left leaning-and in zogbys case extreme bias. take an additional 1-2% for no-shows/and 1-2 % of independents-and yes unfortunately the bradley effect will rear its ugly head and will trim another 1-2% off obama. votes. this race is not over.
the goal for tweeking the polls is to discourage republicans from voting.

Posted by: landsend | October 15, 2008, 12:13 am 12:13 am

republicans typically do not get ‘noisy’ like the libs, they just show up to vote, and that is what matters on election day. this race is not over…

Posted by: landsend | October 15, 2008, 12:17 am 12:17 am

Joe Reed
I believe everyone that is voting for Obama understands what is at stake. They will VOTE for Obama, no one is going to stay home. Not every some conservatives that refuse to vote for McCain. Like the First Family Eisenhower’s and Christorher Buckley.

Posted by: Ethel | October 15, 2008, 12:20 am 12:20 am

– V-O-T-E and V-O-T-E for Obama –
Been there.. doing that. Have ‘converted’ at least a couple hundred former McCain supporters who were just voting the party line or because of his POW status. Once they looked at the issues and where each candidate stood on them, the choice was easy. Most respond instantly to the difference in education. Next important is tax plans.. followed closely by energy, environment and health plans.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 12:28 am 12:28 am

ethel are you are suggesting that 100% of obama supporters will show up to vote? dream on!

Posted by: landsend | October 15, 2008, 12:30 am 12:30 am

Mccain should give us back that 84 million he bamboozled us out of to launch his general election run.

Posted by: james | October 15, 2008, 12:30 am 12:30 am

Concerned American i went along with obama supporter’s at least 5 times just to get rid of them. they have become like jehovas witnesses very annoying. so don’t be so confident that your ‘converted’ will actually vote for obama.

Posted by: landsend | October 15, 2008, 12:35 am 12:35 am

When Jenna Bush announces she is also voting for Barack Obama, I think McCain will go ballistic against the Bush family again.

Posted by: evando missouri | October 15, 2008, 12:35 am 12:35 am

james and obama should give back the 800 hund thou he gave acorn.

Posted by: landsend | October 15, 2008, 12:37 am 12:37 am

Tomorrow’s debate should be amusing. With any luck, Grandpa McCrankypants will lose his cool, get red in the face, and finally BURST OUT WITH A CURSE-LADEN TIRADE!!
We are working hard here in NC not only to win the state for Obama, but also to unseat our absentee Senator, Libby “Never in NC” Dole. Any money sent to Democratic Senate candidate Kay Hagan is much appreciated!

Posted by: balthus | October 15, 2008, 12:39 am 12:39 am

– james and obama should give back the 800 hund thou he gave acorn. –
He didn’t just give it to them, it was payment for services related to a get out the vote effort during the primaries.
Sorry to confuse you with ‘facts’, but someone has to :)

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 1:04 am 1:04 am

I saw on the news today there are still problems in Florida with their voting machines etc. After what happened with Bush/Gore, You would have thought they’d have gotten things fixed by now and all the bugs worked out.

Posted by: Shelley | October 15, 2008, 1:05 am 1:05 am

– so don’t be so confident that your ‘converted’ will actually vote for obama. –
Don’t worry, I know for a fact they will. I don’t go door to door like the bible thumpers. This is in an academic setting with open minded individuals who simply did not know the issues or where each candidate stood.
But thanks for caring!

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 1:07 am 1:07 am

Any Jew in Florida that would vote Obama is nuts. This guy has a Director of Muslim outreach, Minha Husani (mayber a relative) and has said he wants the support of the Muslim community and Arab Americans. Do you think Sen. McCain has a Director of Muslim outreach, and wants the Arab American vote?
NEVER OBAMA, COUNTRY FIRST McCAIN!

Posted by: Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama '08 | October 15, 2008, 1:12 am 1:12 am

Jessie Jackson knows Obama is not a friend of the Jews, as he isn’t and neither is Rev. Wright. FLORIDA BEWARE!

Posted by: Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama '08 | October 15, 2008, 1:13 am 1:13 am

Democrats, Obama is up in the polls, but racism can still lose him this race. As an American I believe this great nation stands for much more than racism, and that is why everyone has to turn out on November 4th.
On the issues, every economist says Obama’s economic plan for America is much much better than Senator Mccain’s. Obama’s health care, education, energy policies are better than the GOP’s. Why wouldn’t people who care for the future of this country and the future of their children not vote for him.
We have to be bigger than racism. If not, we are doomed to a future of mediocre leaders.

Posted by: redgirl | October 15, 2008, 1:15 am 1:15 am

people’s personal finances will trump any prejudices. it’s self-preservation.

Posted by: thoughts ... | October 15, 2008, 1:17 am 1:17 am

Political Radar is like the Dem skewed polls…..mostly Obots. Thank God, we Republicans are a quieter bunch, but we’ll riot in the voting booth!
Most of McCain’s supporters would never troll these boards….they are out working a job like most Middle Americans who are not all that bitter and have faith McCain will be our 44th Prez.

Posted by: Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama '08 | October 15, 2008, 1:20 am 1:20 am

– Any Jew in Florida that would vote Obama is nuts. –
That is indeed rich, considering that John McCain sat on the advisory board of the US Council for World Fredom, which was a council created by retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub and was the U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-07-mccain-iran-contra_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 1:21 am 1:21 am

– but we’ll riot in the voting booth! –
I believe they have already been doing that at the McCain and Moose Mama rallys.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 1:23 am 1:23 am

I had seen on the news there are still problems with Florida’s voting system. You would have thought by now they’d have everything fixed and all the bugs worked out.

Posted by: Shelley | October 15, 2008, 1:23 am 1:23 am

I see the fearmongers are out in force. When you have no issues on which to run, instill fear in people. Isn’t that the mantra of the politics of the past 8 years?
Who says Florida won’t vote for Obama?
You haven’t seen The Great Schlep? (www.thegreatschlep.com) My husband called his aunt and uncle in FL (yes, both Jews) and they said: the choice of Palin by Sen. McCain sealed their vote for Obama. His grandparents said the same thing. And they are also Florida Jews.
You fearmongers can scare the poorly educated ideologues who follow you but Jewish voters are smart, and well educated about the issues.

Posted by: redgirl | October 15, 2008, 1:25 am 1:25 am

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

Posted by: UnPolitically Correct2008 | October 15, 2008, 1:26 am 1:26 am

The GOP lovers on here have finally convinced me who to vote for. They have convinced me that Obama is an arab. And since I now truly believe this I will be voting for Obama because we need an Arab in office to make sure we get more oil from his Arab Brethern than we are now getting.
Thank you for showing me the light.

Posted by: democratic | October 15, 2008, 1:26 am 1:26 am

obama throws jesse jackson sr. under the bus for stating that under an obama administration american support for the zionists/israel would end, said jackson.
obama campaign immedoately distanced themselves from jackson ‘stating that he does not speak for the campaign’. interesting that they distance themselves from jackson but not from acorn whom they will still need to get out the vote in nov. after nov they get tossed under the bus as will his supporters. so much for hope and change …

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

– interesting that they distance themselves from jackson but not from acorn whom they will still need to get out the vote in nov. –
Nope, it’s McCain distancing himself from Acorn:
Bertha Lewis, Chief Organizer of ACORN, said, “It has deeply saddened us to see Senator McCain abandon his historic support for ACORN and our efforts to support the goals of low-income Americans. Maybe it is out of desperation that Senator McCain has forgotten that he was for ACORN before he was against ACORN; he was for immigration reform before he was against immigration reform; and he was a maverick before he became erratic. We were thrilled to partner with him to help reform the outdated immigration laws in this country, and were pleased to work closely with him on this issue.”
Lewis continued, “We expected Senator McCain to support our efforts to give voice to millions of Americans who have never participated in an election before. We are surprised at his efforts to vilify an organization that, until recently, he saw as an ally. Maybe this surprise attack and change of heart is indicative of his state of mind, and the way he would govern.”
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnewstt_news=22386&tx_ttnewsbackPid=12387&cHash=5706e23a2f
He has supported them for years, and even spoke at a keynote speach in Miami:
http://www.mdc.edu/Home/Press/rally.htm
Of course, neither are involved in the current issues, but McCain would like to distract people from the fact that he has a failed platform and no vision for the future. Obvious by the current tactics of both the candidate and their supporters who are unable to defend their stance on any issue that truely matters to real Americans.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 1:45 am 1:45 am

As we now find ourselves all affected by the current economic situation, coupled with other situations,let us exercise caution, by being sufficiently wise, in the selection of the best candidate for president. It is true, that every person now desires real change, and that real change I feel can only come from an Obama/Biden administration. They can best deliver to the American people, so let us all vote on the 4th of november, to ensure that America will be in good hands, under the leadership of Obama and Biden

Posted by: revnorbert | October 15, 2008, 1:52 am 1:52 am

McCain and his supporters are desperate, look at the some of the absurd posts.
Folks it is over, I have never seen such absurd statements, and links to the most ridiculous sites.

Posted by: Thinking | October 15, 2008, 1:52 am 1:52 am

UnPolitically Correct2008 interesting we (family and friends) have been posting our concern regarding obamas disregard for the judge berg vs obama case for a couple of weeks now. it seems logical to me that all obama has to do if he has nothing to hide is present the required vault birth certificate, and required paperwork yet he refuses to do so.
so yes, it does heighten the suspicion regarding his citizenship. thanks for your post, i will research it. goodnight for now …

Posted by: landsend | October 15, 2008, 1:53 am 1:53 am

Concerned American difference between mccain praise for acorn and obamas involvement is huge, bama gave them hard cold cash 800 hund thou during the primaries. he served as legal council and trainer for acorn. mccain praised them oh no!!! goodnight

Posted by: landsend | October 15, 2008, 2:00 am 2:00 am

“Main Street” conservatives and moderate Republicans have been abandoning McCain in droves, largely because of the preposterous selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate. That leaves him with the extreme right wing, including the religious right, and the moron vote. Both are sizable blocks (with a lot of overlap), but not large enough to win.

Posted by: Skeptic | October 15, 2008, 2:05 am 2:05 am

well Obama is campaignly feverishlty in Pennyslvania where Democrats have won easily before.
So why is Obama campaigning in a so called blue state.
Nice to see some unbiased reporting from the ABC (sarcasm off).

Posted by: Greg h | October 15, 2008, 2:14 am 2:14 am

To landsend
I think it only fair that you produce your birth certificate also.

Posted by: democratic | October 15, 2008, 2:16 am 2:16 am

– bama gave them hard cold cash 800 hund thou during the primaries. he served as legal council and trainer for acorn. mccain praised them oh no!!! goodnight –
Paid them for services, yes. Served as legal council in their suit against the state of Illinois for voter discrimination charges, and was backed by the US Justice Department and League of Women Voters.. And they won. Gave two one hour seminars on leadership training and received no compensation for them.
McCain has supported them for years and worked with them when he was pushing his immigration reform and gave a keynote speech for them, and is now denouncing them.
The point is; neither has any connection to the registration debacle, which ACORN themselves reported to officials, identified the employees who were responsible and fired them. There has been no implication of either candidate, and attempting to form a tenuous one to either is simply an attempt to distract people, a typical Rove tactic. Speaking of Mr. Rove:
“In case you haven’t been paying attention, this is nothing new.
Republican leaders in New Mexico raised the same claims against an ACORN registration drive in the last presidential vote. Then they tried to pressure New Mexico’s U.S. attorney, David Iglesias, an appointee of President Bush, to bring a voter fraud indictment just before the 2006 congressional election.
After an investigation, Iglesias concluded there wasn’t enough evidence. A few months later, he was fired by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in what became a big Justice Department scandal.
Last week, the department’s inspector general concluded the firing was “engineered” by former White House aide Karl Rove and New Mexico’s Republican Sen. Pete Domenici for Iglesias’ refusal to pursue voter fraud indictments.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/10/09/2008-10-09_gop_in_push_to_erase_voters_purges_acorn.html?page=1
Fortunately, the more intelligent citizens of this great nation have seen through the deception, and the reasons for it, which is why the more McCain continues to try and attack his opponent rather than discuss issues, his numbers in the poll continue to slip.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/108043/Candidate-Support-Education.aspx
It is unfortunate that americans have become so inept as to believe that this is the best the GOP could come up with, and is a sad statement at how low our expectations have become for those who would seek to lead this country.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 2:19 am 2:19 am

I am surprised that people in Florida where Obama did not want their votes to count in the primary are in favor of Obama. He believes in corruption, not the will of people when he thought he might be losing. Think the McCain’s plan would help retired or nearly retired more. I know it will for me with my income from dividends and capital gains plus a annuity set up from disability injuries. Obama’s new taxes would hurt new job growth.

Posted by: Mary | October 15, 2008, 2:24 am 2:24 am

thanks for the link wow! Here is the website…..again …
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/shocking-development-mrs-obama-decides-enough-is-enough-my-husband-was-born-in-hawaii-and-adopted-by-his-step-father-does-that-make-him-unpatriotic-she-asks-on-a-direct-telephone-to-api/
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/shocking-development-mrs-obama-decides-enough-is-enough-my-husband-was-born-in-hawaii-and-adopted-by-his-step-father-does-that-make-
Posted by africanpress on October 15, 2008
Shocking development: Mrs Obama decides enough is enough: “My husband was born in Hawaii and adopted by his step father, does that make him unpatriotic; she asks”, on a direct telephone to API.
Posted by africanpress on October 15, 2008

Posted by: landsend | October 15, 2008, 2:29 am 2:29 am

That ‘fearmongering’ BS again? I guess 9-11 wasn’t real enough for you Libs…oh, that’s right, it was the evil Bush’s doing-totally forgot about that.
Actually, I guess some of you all were too afraid to fly to Baghdad to become Saddam’s human shields. Funny how events shape our destinies. Pity.
Wanna talk fearmongering? How about Obama, assorted MSM hysterical talking heads, sycophants, Communists, so-called economists and millions who think they’re entitled to free this and that from the government wailing on and on about how we’re headed towards another Great Depression. It’s been said for ages that that can’t happen again, but such things are conveniently forgotten when ideology is at stake.
People knew they were in the Great Depression because FDR and the other Social Democrats kept telling them so…often, and kept getting re-elected. We even have the WPA Socialists and their photos and assorted art as proof, not to mention Brother Can You Spare A Dime written by a Communist. The Great Depression didn’t end until the early ’50s…think that people during and after World War II knew they were still in the Depression?
And then we have an FDR Socialist legacy in the form of Fannie Mae of ’38 coming back to bite us in the rear with the assistance of Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, and Reid.
Vote for Obama-his party’s gift of economic misery should the best reason ever to vote for one of their very own.

Posted by: Grand Old Party | October 15, 2008, 2:39 am 2:39 am

– I am surprised that people in Florida where Obama did not want their votes to count in the primary are in favor of Obama. –
Sorry Mary, but Florida screwed up. No democratic primary elections here.
As for the rest of your rant, you believe what you like.. I’m in a similar position as you, probably a little better off. And I have examined both candidates positions, and will cast my vote for what is right for America, my fellow Americans, my children and the future generations to come after them.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 2:40 am 2:40 am

UnPolitically Correct2008
You are one ignorant individual who refuses to believe the truth about Obama’s birth place. THe courts never asked for his birth certificate. It was someone filing a suit in court. The counts refused to issue a order. YOU ARE SO DUMB.

Posted by: The Unshrub | October 15, 2008, 2:41 am 2:41 am

– I guess 9-11 wasn’t real enough for you Libs…oh, that’s right, it was the evil Bush’s doing-totally forgot about that. –
Ummm, it was Bin Laden.. remember?
Where is he again?

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 2:42 am 2:42 am

michelle’s own words from the african press story published today.
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/shocking-development-mrs-obama-decides-enough-is-
Do real people expect someone to deny a religion when 80 percent of his relatives are Muslims?; Mrs Obama asked.
Mrs Obama asked API to write a good story about her husband and that will earn API an invitation to the innoguration ceremony when, as she put it , her husband will be installed as the next President of the United States of America next year.

Posted by: landsend | October 15, 2008, 2:44 am 2:44 am

to The Unshrub the person that filed the request for obamas vault birth certificate is a JUDGE his name is judge phillip berg.

Posted by: landsend | October 15, 2008, 2:48 am 2:48 am

– Do real people expect someone to deny a religion when 80 percent of his relatives are Muslims? –
So, you are saying that you are the religion you claim because most (or all) of your family is the same religion?
And, might I ask, would it make a difference if he was say Jewish? How about a Buddhist? Suppose he were a Pagan, would that swing your vote?

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 2:50 am 2:50 am

– to The Unshrub the person that filed the request for obamas vault birth certificate is a JUDGE his name is judge phillip berg. –
Umm, Phillip Berg is NOT a judge, and is the same nutcase suing Bush and the US Government claiming they were responsible for 9/11..
http://www.911forthetruth.com/

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 2:56 am 2:56 am

Concerned American THESE ARE THE WORDS OF MICHELLE OBAMA IN THE AIP STORY/INTERVIEW SHE GAVE TODAY NOT MINE…YOU CAN CLICK ON THE LINK AND READ THE WHOLE STORY…

Posted by: landsend | October 15, 2008, 2:58 am 2:58 am

to The Unshrub the person that filed the request for obamas vault birth certificate is a JUDGE his name is judge phillip berg.
Posted by: landsend | Oct 15, 2008 2:48:25 AM
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Every night the birth certificate thing from your dumbass! Can you please to a new stupid attack?
Didn’t you get you talking points memo from the McCain campaign this morning? Wise up you Republican parrot moron!
Your old fool grandpa McNasty and his Parrot Palin are down 14 points in the polls and you are still talking about birth certificates?
Why don’t you show us McCain’s you moron? He was born in Panama you know!!

Posted by: Davis | October 15, 2008, 3:04 am 3:04 am

correction phillip berg is a lawyer not a judge nuff said for now goodnight.

Posted by: landsend | October 15, 2008, 3:10 am 3:10 am

– READ THE WHOLE STORY –
I did, and I fully agree with her:
“The important thing here is where my husband’s heart is at the moment. I can tell the American people that My husband loves this country”
It also contains a factual error, Corsi wasn’t arrested, he was refused entrance and deported. I fail to see any relevance..

Posted by: Concerned American | October 15, 2008, 3:11 am 3:11 am

Concerned American ,
It is not concerning that Obama is muslim or not.
It is just Obama’s lies surrounding it.

Posted by: Gregh | October 15, 2008, 3:31 am 3:31 am

when Obama said in the last debate the healthcare should be a right…not an obligation or a luxory he proved his socialist roots. Healthcare wasn’t a right when this country was founded and I shouldn’t be forced to pay for it for other americans who can’t afford it.

Posted by: David | October 15, 2008, 4:00 am 4:00 am

McCain is in the sack with ACORN ALSO
Read and weep: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Major Rally in Miami to Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Senator John McCain and many others to speak at the rally at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus
Miami, Florida – February 20, 2006 ― Leaders from a diverse array of sectors will hold a rally in Miami on Thursday, February 23, 2006, in support of comprehensive immigration reform in an effort to keep immigration reform at the forefront of the public debate. Leaders from both political parties, immigrant communities, labor, business, and religious organizations will gather to call on Washington to enact workable reform.
The rally will feature Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) as the headline speaker along with elected officials, immigrants and key local and national leaders. Sen. McCain is one of the chief sponsors of the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act; bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform legislation introduced last Congress and scheduled for consideration by the Senate in the coming weeks. A similar rally with Sen. McCain is planned for New York City on February 27.
WHO: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL), Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL.), and immigrant, religious, community, business and labor leaders.
WHAT: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Rally
WHEN: Thursday, February 23, at 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: Miami Dade College – Wolfson Campus
Chapman Conference Center
Bldg 3000
300 NE 2nd Avenue
EDITOR’S NOTE: Miami Press Availability: Sen. McCain will be available for interviews starting at 4:15 p.m. on location, Feb. 23.
The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act was introduced in the Senate by Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and John McCain (R-AZ) and in the House by Representatives Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL). It addresses border security and illegal immigration while bringing the 11 million undocumented immigrants out from the shadows and onto a path to legal permanent status; setting up legal channels and realistic caps for workers and family members to enter in the future; providing for tough enforcement; and enabling more immigrants to learn English and prepare for citizenship.
The rally in Miami is being sponsored by the New American Opportunity campaign (NAOC) in partnership with ACORN, Catholic Legal Services – Archdiocese of Miami, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, Florida Immigrant Coalition, Miami Dade College, People for the American Way/Mi Familia Vota en Acción, Service Employees International Union, and UNITE HERE.

Posted by: Jersey Joe | October 15, 2008, 4:10 am 4:10 am

I’m Republican but this election I’m going to vote for Democrat. I am tired hearing the same story over and over. I see no differences between BUSH and MCCAIN.They have the same mentality.
OBAMA/BIDEN ’08

Posted by: I.A.T.SMITH | October 15, 2008, 4:24 am 4:24 am

Do you think that the liberal Media are trying to do 2 things here? Frist they are trying to discourage the Reblicans from going out and vote buy saying Obama is up by 14%, when in fact Zogby today has the race 48 to 44 with 7% undecided and Rassmusen has it 50 to 45! No considering that Zogby and Rassmusen are legit pollsters I would have to believe thery are more accurate!
Second do you think that the media might be trying to setup a riot should Obama actually lose this election. I can hear it now “the eelction was stolen, he was up 14-15 points” no way McCain won this election! They will be marching in the street!
Be careful of the polls this thing is a lot closer than they are leading you to believe, and when you still have 7-8% undecided out there not looking godd for Obama!

Posted by: chuck | October 15, 2008, 4:49 am 4:49 am

Interesting
Another Deeply Troubling Comment From Jesse Jackson
Editor’s Note: In his October 14 column in the New York Post Amir Taheri quotes from an interview he did with Jesse Jackson when he was in Evian, France last week to attend the World Policy Forum. Jackson told Taheri “although the ‘Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades’ remain strong, they’ll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.” Jackson says he is not an Obama confidant or adviser, “just a supporter.” But he also describes him as a “member of the family.”
If the quote above is accurate and in context, Jesse Jackson has again exposed himself an anti-Semite at a level far deeper than his reference to New York City as “Hymietown” some years ago.
The blaming of Jews for the world’s problems is a familiar refrain from bigots who seek to shift attention from the more difficult task of finding solutions instead of creating scapegoats. It was Hitler’s first step toward the Holocaust.
Barney Frank, who heads the House Banking Committee, is Jewish. Would Jackson include him among the “Zionists who control American policy,” or is Frank culpable for his regulatory oversight failings irregardless of his Jewishness?
What does Jackson mean that Obama is part of the “family”? Would that be the family of African-Americans, or the family of anti-Semites? If the latter, the public needs to know before the election. And especially American Jews need to know, given their support for Obama in such large numbers.
Changing American policy toward Israel is a major goal of Arab and Muslim groups inside and outside of America. They support Obama in large numbers. Bob Schieffer should ask Obama about Jackson’s remarks in tomorrow night’s debate. He should also ask him to which “family” he belongs.

Posted by: chuck | October 15, 2008, 5:20 am 5:20 am

I have never heard the anger and I have never read the anger like in this American Presidential election. Perhaps the Democrats should have selected a candidate more like Denzel Washington or Chris Gardener. Both men are known exceptional people that are devout Christians and true to the American way.
The Chris Gardener story is an example of a man wanting and being rewarded through his desire to succeed. The kind of man that would get my vote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Gardner
The Denzel Washington story is another fine example of a devout Christian being rewarded through his desire to succeed. The kind of man that would get me vote. I am just pointing to the kind of person the democrats could have chosen for a candidate.
http://www.people.com/people/denzel_washington/biography
This is a look at Barack Obama and it is the kind of person that will NOT get my vote. It does not matter what is in his heart, it is what is in his head from all the years of questionable associations. A person is the sum of that which they learn.
http://www.theobamafile.com/

Posted by: Independent Voter | October 15, 2008, 5:31 am 5:31 am

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

Posted by: KH | October 15, 2008, 7:12 am 7:12 am

API should print and broadcast all informaton about Barack Obama. We do not care what is in Barack Obama’s heart because a person is the sum of that which they learn and that stays in his mind.

Posted by: Independent Voter | October 15, 2008, 7:21 am 7:21 am

McCain cannot defend the indefensible. Even North Carolina cannot be sufficiently rigged this time to “deliver” for McCain.

Posted by: paine | October 15, 2008, 7:36 am 7:36 am

Obama and ACORN connection
It’s frightening.
You tube has many videos connected with Obama and ACORN

Posted by: al from nj | October 15, 2008, 7:50 am 7:50 am

“Even Florida Governor Christ who helped McCain win the primaries in Florida is distancing himself.. ”
That’s pretty bad when even Jesus turns his back on you.

Posted by: clifton | October 15, 2008, 7:51 am 7:51 am

Facts:
• Michelle Obama scheduled a round table with Barack Obama and Bill Ayers at The University of Chicago in 1997
• The round table and the press release connect Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Bill Ayers
• Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Bill Ayers exchanged ideas before, after and during the round table Michelle Obama organized
• Barack Obama and Bill Ayers collaborated during this conference, and their exchange of ideas informed Obama’s opposition to the Juvenile Justice Reform Act in the Illinois General Assembly in 1997
• This exchange of ideas reveals that Ayers’s governing philosophy is reflective of Obama’s views; indeed, Ayers’s philosophy shaped and determined Obama’s views
• Obama’s relationship to Ayers is anything but flimsy
• Obama lied during the Philadelphia debate
• One of Obama’s present votes in 1999 in the Illinois state Senate on juvenile justice legislation is also a result of his 1997 collaboration and collusion with Bill Ayers
• Obama’s legislative activity in Illinois can be tied to his intellectual relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers
How does the Obama campaign account for this official University of Chicago press release? And does Michelle Obama also share Bill Ayers’s ideas? It appears she does.
Michelle and Barack Obama have deep and controversial ties to Bill Ayers the Weather Underground terrorist and bomber.

Posted by: al from nj | October 15, 2008, 7:52 am 7:52 am

Tip to anti-Obama posters. Your efforts are failing. If you have a reason to give people to vote for McCain, do so.
Your other messages have not worked.
Focus on why a 72 year old man with Bush policies and instincts, backed up by a VP choice who is ignorant is not more scary than what you have falsely alleged about Obama.

Posted by: ricky | October 15, 2008, 7:54 am 7:54 am

The Media Better get “With it”
The media is not being honest about our candidates. Actually they haven’t been honest about Obama since day one.
Why is anyone pushing Obama and Biden?
Obama has no experience.
He’s risky.
He is scary.
His friends, his associates and his background should be questioned daily.
Rev. Wright, Farrakhan, Rezko, William Ayers, Father Plaeger and now ACORN.
We have a racist, an Islamic leader, a criminal, a terrorist and a fraudulent grass root community group.
Obama is running for President of our country, not for American Idol or for a “public speaking” position.
If the media doesn’t do it’s job. Obama and his group of “obama girl” followers might end up in our living rooms.
Obama is embarrassing.
McCain is experienced and a true patriot.

Posted by: al from nj | October 15, 2008, 7:54 am 7:54 am

Senator McCain, are you prepared now to demonstrate your “maverick” courage by retracting your defense of the 9/11 Commission Report? It has been exposed as a fraud by “ordinary” men and women who put “country first”. Are you as heroic as they?
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/barry-jennings-speaks/

Posted by: dragon | October 15, 2008, 7:55 am 7:55 am

McCain is on the defensive just about EVERYWHERE – and ABC should be reporting it. Obama is AHEAD in NC and Missouri. He is getting close in WEST VIRGINIA of all places! He’s making inroads in North Dakota and Georgia. He won’t win all of these states – but if he wins ANY of them it will be remarkable, and make things very hard for McCain.

Posted by: jon in maryland | October 15, 2008, 8:06 am 8:06 am

This is sort of a snowball scenario. If McCain is barely hanging on in these two major red states, his chances in the real battlegrounds are virtually gone at this point. You can’t fight for North Carolina and pull off a stunner in Pennsylvania.
http://www.political-buzz.com/

Posted by: matt | October 15, 2008, 8:13 am 8:13 am

al from nj – Here’s some “facts”
Back in the 60′s, when Ayers formed the weather underground, America was God Damned just like it is today. Remember Kent State? When our God Damned government was shooting children as they attended college and protested peacefully.
Thanks to Ayers and other patiorts who took the fight to Washington when peaceful protest failed, we got the hell out of Vietnam.
By the time Obama met Ayers, Ayers had moved beyond that, and was a college professor respected widely in the community. As he remains today.
Any by the way, my friend al from nj, if Ayers was the “terrorist” that you claim, why was he never convicted of any crime? Maybe because you’re just parroting words you heard from McLie and Failin’?

Posted by: clifton | October 15, 2008, 8:20 am 8:20 am

Hector: From what I understand the poll takers are only counting the people that are democratic leaving the republicans out. It is a gimmick to make the people believe that Obama is on top of the world. No so. Obama may be ahead but not by that much. One poll had him winning by 10%, another by 7%, another by 5% and the last one by 4%. I don’t believe any of these polls. All the networks are pro-obama and did that to Hillary Clinton also. And Acorn is pro-obama and wanted Obama to win by a landslide only to get caught. The government should take all the registered applications and close them down for good. The Acorn fears a McCain win and they want to steal this election. There are voter fraud issues in 14 states according to Fox. And Acorn was on the defense even knowing they were a fraud.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 15, 2008, 8:27 am 8:27 am

clifton,
The reason he was not convicted was issues with the evidence.He freely admidts what he and his wife has done and states that he wish he would of done more.I dont know about you but I would not be apart of someones life if they robbed a bank and got away with it admits it and says he wishes he did more

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 15, 2008, 8:29 am 8:29 am

JERUSALEM – The official campaign website of Sen. Barack Obama has completely scrubbed a series of user-generated blog postings on the candidate’s site by a former top communist activist who is an associate of former Weathermen terrorist leader William Ayers.
The move has raised questions regarding Obama’s relationship with the deleted blogger, Mike Klonsky, who runs an education organization that was founded by Ayers and that received a substantial grant from a group directed by Obama.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=75282

Posted by: Independent Voter | October 15, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am

Obama backs away from anyone he was involved with that does not get him one step closer to the white house .Simple if these people are your friends or associates then say so.Defend them and say yes they are my friends and they did nothing wrong or they did and they made mistakes and regret them!He would get rid of Michelle if it meant one step closer and if she would give him back his testicles

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 15, 2008, 8:34 am 8:34 am

Who dares call Ayers a patriot?
Ayers was a Weatherman, and was resident in a Greenwich Village townhouse where his lovely group was working on a bomb intended to kill army personnel at Fort Dix in 1970.
Fortunately, the device destroyed the Greenwich Village townhouse where it was being assembled and killed three of the bomb assemblers instead of innocents.

Posted by: Independent Voter | October 15, 2008, 8:36 am 8:36 am

reddog0216 – Ayers did not rob a bank, he attacked Government when peaceful means of protest failed to stop the bloodshed of innocent American youth fighting a stupid war in Vietnam.
Ayers saved American lives by contributing to ending the war early.
Who is the real terrorist – a president who sends 4,200 Americans to their deaths for a lie, or a man who starts a violent protest when necessary to save American lives?
What was Ayers real intention? Was it to destroy America? Or to drive out a God Damned government that was not responding to the will of the people?

Posted by: clifton | October 15, 2008, 8:38 am 8:38 am

I think it will be nice when Obama brings us all together as a Nation,Unfortunately it will be on a bread line or welfare office

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 15, 2008, 8:38 am 8:38 am

reddog: You are so right. And Obama does have close ties to Ayers whom he met in 1995. I read Obama’s BIO in the NYT. Obama was a racist at an early age disliking his mother’s race. Obama did not like this country that is why he attended a racist white hating anti-american church for 20 years. Now he wants to be the president. For what reason, so he can have full control like the ruler in Kenya? I don’t trust him and would never vote for a candidate like him. McCain is a true American, fought for his country and deserves to be our president. Obama is lucky he won the senate race and its only because he betrayed the woman who was going to run against him by lying to the courts about her.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 15, 2008, 8:39 am 8:39 am

To Fox News aficionados:
Now you know why Obama runs a dignified campaign. There are many reasons:
1. He never raised the issue of Palin lying and parsing the findings about Troopergate,the investigation of which was supported by EIGHT Republicans and just FOUR Democrats.
2. He never mentions Palin’s ties to the Alaskan Independent Party, a local terrorist organization that wants to separate from the United States. She even prepared a video for them just last March.
3. He never talks about the fact that the McCains continued BUSINESS DEALINGS with Keating, the guy responsible for the economic collapse of the late 80s.
4. He never talks about the fact that the current head of McCain’s transition team is responsible for lobbying for Saddam Hussein.
5. He never talks about the fact that McCain’s top campaign manager’s firm continued to receive lobbying money from Fannie Mae.
Does Fox News report on any of these? None. NADA. They just talk about ACORN, which in truth was tasked to submit even erroneous voter registration forms, which the states would of course flag as illegal. NONE of the above issues are repeated again and again on Fox News.

Posted by: Gerard | October 15, 2008, 8:42 am 8:42 am

I bet the McCain campaign, when it got to NC and Fla. was glad they saved their Obama tire gauges so they could measure how little air was left in the bus.

Posted by: ricky | October 15, 2008, 8:42 am 8:42 am

clifton,
I know what he did I was using it as less of an example.
Get over the fact we sent people over to Iraq there is enough speeches from democrats out there before 9/11 even that belived Saddam had weapons of Mass destruction.You forget the weapons inspectors were there for a reason.You forget the thousands Saddam killed with mustard gas.It must be so easy to be a monday morning quaterback

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 15, 2008, 8:43 am 8:43 am

You do not murder people to benefit anything. Ayers was against everything American. He wanted to destroy anything for his criminal reasons.
How dare you think of him as a patriot?
.

Posted by: Independent Voter | October 15, 2008, 8:44 am 8:44 am

Gerard,
Try again they do report it.The only problem is that the way you pitch it is incorrect

Posted by: reddog0216 | October 15, 2008, 8:47 am 8:47 am

Obama’s misconception on terrorism:
Peter Bergen, author of “The Osama bin Laden I Know:” Overall it (Obama’s speech) was a very strong speech. Here is a minor criticism: While there is no doubt that conflict zones can breed terrorism, the 9/11 plot was actually planned in Hamburg. The idea that weak and failing states are causes of terrorism is wrong. There is in fact overwhelming academic literature that demonstrates the reverse is true. Terrorism is a sort of bourgeois endeavor. On a related point, the idea that madrassas are a big problem for violence against the United States is also wrong. Madrassas lead to problems regionally, and are a big problem in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not in terms of terrorism against the United States.

Posted by: Independent Voter | October 15, 2008, 8:51 am 8:51 am

Mariann Pepitone:
What you did not mention is the fact that JF Kennedy was ready to withdraw from Vietnam. President Johnson escalated the Vietnam War enriching the military-industrial complex. President Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex.

Posted by: Independent Voter | October 15, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am

Independent Voter: Obama’s speeches are strong for one reason that people don’t realize. Obama has been studing the speeches of JFK for a long time and using those speeches but adding some of his own words. He also has a book on RFK’s speeches taking the words of hope and change from them. For a Harvard graduate he is not as intelligent as he has people believing. He uses a lot of other’s knowledge to get ahead. He may have a degree in law but there are thousand’s who have that and didn’t go to Harvard. And lawyer’s that can throw rings around him. Obama didn’t care who he associated with as long as they could do for him what he wanted. He used Rezko for the purchase of his house then turned his back on him. He denied knowing Ayers but changed his mind when caught. He is one of the biggest phony’s this country ever had running for the presidency and I hope he loses.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 15, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am

This is a look at Barack Obama and it is the kind of person that will NOT get my vote. It does not matter what is in his heart, it is what is in his head from all the years of questionable associations. A person is the sum of that which they learn.
http://www.theobamafile.com/

Posted by: Independent Voter | October 15, 2008, 9:02 am 9:02 am

Why is the media not reporting this?
McCAIN IS SICK, VERY VERY SICK.
I tell you the old geezer will die in office if elected.
The media must investigate and force McCain to release his latest medical records.

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 15, 2008, 9:04 am 9:04 am

Barack Obama must release all the data about his personal life.
I do not know why the news media does not press for the immediate release of all of Barack Obama’s personal information.

Posted by: Independent Voter | October 15, 2008, 9:12 am 9:12 am

McCain released his records back in May. This is just a transparent attempt to stir up questions about his health closer to the election, even though those were answered in May. I think people will see through this and figure out what you’re doing. It’s very obvious.
Where is Barack Obama’s vault birth certificate?

Posted by: Independent Voter | October 15, 2008, 9:19 am 9:19 am

QBAMA,TEAM ARE VERY AGITATED AND FRIGHTENED, ABOUT TONIGHT DEBATE. THEY SHUDDER TO THINK OF QUESTIONING, OBAMA ,TO EXPLAIN TO THE NATION, ABOUT HIS CONDUCT INVOLING, WILLIAM AYERS ,ASSOCIATION IN 1995.ON THE OTHER HAND,THE MC CAIN ATTACK, TALKING ABOUT ACORN,DRILLING NOW, AND FINALLY THE REMEMBER OF MAINE, PEAR HARBOR,AND 9-11 ATTACK

Posted by: ENE M DIAZ | October 15, 2008, 9:53 am 9:53 am

I am not a college graduate but have a very good high paying technical job…I think I have pretty average intelligence..Reading mindless support conservatives have for a twit like Palin while denigating Obama’s intelligence is insulting…I would take a Harvard law grad who has taught constitution law over a high school beauty queen with a journalism degree (and she shuns the media?) from six universities anyday. Even thinking conservatives see through her. So, keep up with your mindless support (I know some conservative have to support the team) but you are insulting the intelligence of Americans to suggest she is even remotely qualified to be vice-president.

Posted by: indy_voter | October 15, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

QBAMA,TEAM ARE VERY AGITATED AND FRIGHTENED, ABOUT TONIGHT DEBATE. THEY SHUDDER TO THINK OF QUESTIONING, OBAMA ,TO EXPLAIN TO THE NATION, ABOUT HIS CONDUCT INVOLING, WILLIAM AYERS ,ASSOCIATION IN 1995.ON THE OTHER HAND,THE MC CAIN ATTACK, TALKING ABOUT ACORN,DRILLING NOW, AND FINALLY THE REMEMBER OF MAINE, PEAR HARBOR,AND 9-11 ATTACK

Posted by: ENE M DIAZ | October 15, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

Obama is doing well in North Carolina because he has taken the time to campaign here. McCain has ignored the state until recently. In the senate race Kay Hagan is running neck and neck with the Bush lackey Elizabeth Dole. Dole is running on past reputation but has done zero for the state since being elected. In the six years she has been in the senate she has been practically invisible. She needs to be kicked to the side along with all the other Bush lackeys (like McCain).

Posted by: indy_voter | October 15, 2008, 9:59 am 9:59 am

this seems to be a election of carrying on the Bush “legacy” vs. inexperience. Unfortunately, McCain will be a paying a high price for the Bush “legacy” by losing this election; it won’t be because McCain is unqualified, but because of President Bush. Voters are making the comparisons, and they’re not liking it. I’m not liking it either, but inexperience in a job interview usually doesn’t get you the job either, so basically America wants change, and that change is a change in party, it doesn’t matter who is delivering the rehotric on the democratic side, America was change (a change in party)

Posted by: Joshel Peterson | October 15, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am

I grew up riding horse. When you took a horse down a trail, if the horse shied and got skittish… a person had to remember that a horse can see and sense a snake or a predator before a person can. If that horse won’t go down that trail – it might be cuz there’s a predator.
Now, I keep hearing from people how great they think Obama is. He’s a great Christian they say. Meanwhile, a very large group within Christians are saying he’s not a Christian and he’s a Muslim. How do you know they don’t see a predator on the trail before you do – cuz they can see and sense a snake in the grass and a predator before you can?
#1 He’s the most viciously pro-abortion candidate in the Senate, voted 3 times in IL for infanticide, and says that when human life/rights begin are “above his paygrade”.
We Christians look at that and know someone doesn’t have the same love in their hearts as Jesus if they can vote to let a living baby outside the womb born a live… die.
#1.. His father was Muslim.
#2.. He was raised in Indonesia under his father’s Muslim influence and “Islamic” was listed as his religion when he entered school (where Islamic students studied the Koran as part of the curriculum of Islamic students)
#3… He changed his name from Barry to Barack and his last name back to Obama. Shows identification.
(He’s lied about so many things I check gackground and asociations – not just listen to what he says).
#4… He identifies with Africa more than the US as a Black Liberation THeology devotee for 20 years.
#5… The “black” (per James Cone who created BLT) stands for “Muslim Malcolm XX”. This is a “new Jesus” Theology that centers in Muslim faith and forsakes Christian doctrine – even of who Jesus is… and is a religion that hates Jews which the Nation of Islam embraces. REv. Wright gave a “Lifetime Achievement Award” to Louis FArrakhan of the Nation of Islam because the BLT movement is a Nation of Islam relgion… and Wright and Farrakhan want to achieve the same things. Farrakhan says “Judaism is a gutter religion” and “Hitler was a very great man” and Wright says, “Trinity Church is giving you a Lifetime Achievement Award for your commitment to truth and education!” Wright and Farrakhan are 2 apples that fell from the same Muslim Malcolm X Nation of Islam theological/philosophical/ideological tree. They’re both Muslim in theology/philosophy/and ideology and beleive in the same “truths”… and preach the same doctrines and religion.
Farrakhan quotes the Bible, too – but he calls the same doctrine “Nation of Islam” that WRight calls “Christian”. They’re the same religion – they just call it by 2 different names.
#6… Barack Hussein Obama travelled to Kenya to campaign for Raila Odinga – Muslim Socialist for Kenya President who developed, as a campaign promise, a promise to institute Islamic law across all Kenya and stop the war on terror thus making Kenya a radical Islamic terrorist state. You don’t see a snake in the grass and a predator?? Many Christians are shying and saying, “We won’t go down the trail! Obama is a snake in the grass! He’s a Muslim in ideology and uses the term “Christian” in a way that we do not recognize as “Christian” in doctrine, theology, ideology, association, and background!”
#7… He has as a close friend PLO terrorist organization operative and background Muslim Rashid Kalidi. He and Michelle many times have gone to dinner with the Kalidi’s and funneled thousands of dollars to Kalidi’s anti-Israel foundation.
#8… Obama chose Muslim roommates when attending college AND travelled to Pakistan with them. These influences “don’t matter”?? The associations and allies in a person’s life shows their allegiances. ” Dr. Khalidi was a director of the official PLO press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982. During this time the US State Department considered the PLO a terrorist organization and the PLO was involved with terrorist attacks. WAFA was not an independent, unaffiliated news organization. Dr. Khalidi… cannot pretend he was some outsider with no ties to the policies and practices of the PLO in the late 70s.” (from No Quarter).
#7… Obama’s association with Kahlid Al Monsour who, like Wright and Farrakhan and source of BLT Cones, believes the “white enemy” can be destroyed by any means possible and syas this, ““White people don’t feel bad, whatever you do to them, they deserve it, God wants you to do it and that’s when you cut out the nose, cut out the ears, take flesh out of their body, don’t worry because God wants you to do it.” (That’s the Black Liberation Theology – look up comments by James Cone who is the creator of BLT)
This is the man who organized leverage by wealthy Muslims to get Obama into Harvard per Sutton: Sutton says: “I was introduced to him by a friend who was raising money for him and the friends name was Dr. Khalid al Mansour from Texas. He is the principle adviser to one of the world’s richest men. He told me about Obama. He wrote to me about him and his introduction was ‘there is a young man that has applied to Harvard and I know that you have a few friends left there becasue you used to go up there to speak, would you please write a letter in support of him?’…I wrote a letter in support of him to my friends at Harvard saying ot them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I sure hoped they would treat him kindly.”
The Saudi richest man – who al Monsour worked for gave $20 million dollars to Harvard. Do you think that was the reason that Obama got into Harvard?? His educational background was not exceptional enough to “slide him” into Harvard. He had “pull”… and that pull – Sutton says – came through Kalid al Monsour.
Listen, I am short on time. The MSM does not truly “understand” Christian faith as most persons who are not Christian in the US do not understand it. Those who understand it best are those who practise it and have personal faith that the Bible is the infallible Word of God and Jesus is the Messiah – the only Way of Salvation. That you don’t agree with that is not the issue. The issue is this: Christians will be the first to be able to line up doctrine and tell you that according to the doctrine professed, Reverend Wright, Cones, and Trinity are a sectist BLT cult which has departed from Christian faith in apostacy and has aligned itself with Nation of Islam teaching – and hatred for whites and Jews – and is not Christian but is rather a Farrakhan Nation of Islam “sister church” (as the association between WRight and Farrakhan clearly highlights in that “Lifetime Achievement Award”).
You would be wise to further research why it is that so many Christians – who know their own faith and have examined the above and much much more – the above is just the tip of hte icebert – tell you “Obama is a Muslim” not only in his upbringing but in association with Reverend Wright’s teachings which are Nation of Islam rooted in a “Muslim Malcolm X” religion that Wright’s theologian – James Cone – created when he created a new religion in the “Black – which means Muslim Malcolm X per James Cone who should know since he created it – LIberation Theology”.
Obama is wearing a mask.
His assertions are the promises and story of a politician.
Judas was a politician… Pilate was a politician… Herod was a politician.
Do you think a Muslim politician who is a Manchurian candidate for a Nation of Islam derived religion (in Cones creation of a Muslim Malcolm X theology he wanted to call “Christian” but denies the Jesus of Martin Luther King and is a different Jesus, a different religion, a Muslim religion source)… i sgoing to say, “I’m a Muslim” rather than “I’m a Christian” to be elected to the Presidency of teh United States??
As the MSM parrots what Obama says, do you think that is the truth underneath the veneer of the term “Christian”??
There is much more to this story. If you would vote for a Muslim or for a man with Muslim ties and a core of religious faith who uses the term “Christian” to describe himself… to President… in this day and hour… that’s your choice.
But the horse is shying on the trail… and you are assuming the horse is just imagining something. No, there are those who will see things first.
TAke a look. There’s much more information out there. I have things to accomplish… but don’t believea politician before you believe the underlying doctrines of his church, their associations, his associations, and before you realize that Islamic religion calls itself “Christian” under Reverend Wright. It’s just a name.
“Islam” by any other name (including Christian) is still Islam. Look deeper than the name and label – and don’t believe what politicians – and their handlers – and those whose love for him is blind.
Believe the horse… and look to see what the horse senses and sees.
There’s much more facts – check them out.
Don’t wear blinders. Look and see. ANd be skeptical instead of gullible.
Some more closing facts: “In an exclusive interview with Newsmax from his home in San Antonio, Texas, al-Mansour said he would not comment specifically on the statement by Percy Sutton” (that he requested Sutton to write the letter of reference for Obama to get into Harvard). “But in the lengthy interview, al-Mansour confirmed that he frequently spoke on university campuses, including Columbia, where Percy Sutton suggested he met Obama in the late 1980s, and confirmed his close relationship with Prince Alwaleed.”… ” Prince Alwaleed’s Kingdom Foundation has given millions of dollars to Muslim charities in the United States, including several whose leaders have been indicted on terrorism-related charges in federal courts.
He also has given tens of millions of dollars to Harvard and other major U.S. universities, to establish programs in Islamic studies.” From “newsmax” blog 9/3/08.
To those of you concerned about the “Bridge to Nowhere”… you’re backing a man who is backed by powerful Muslims… who, imo, based on his doctrine, etc, at Trinity is NOT Christian – but rather the Black Liberation Theology is MUSLIM.
That’s what hte MSM lacks sufficient doctrinal analogy (and perhaps raw nerve) to see and tell you. Obama won’t tell you. His campaign won’t tell you. And the MSM often can only see what the Obama campaign tells htem.
If you discount Christians who are saying “Beware… his underlying doctrine and theology background and associations are radical, left, Socialist, Muslim”… and you believe what he and the MSM say… well, the MSM believes Obama. And Obama is saying what you and hte MSM want to hear.
Sometimes people know the truth underneath the facade won’t get them elected. Why?? Because it’s not safe, in my opinion, to elect Obama.
Grace

Posted by: eternal vigilance | October 15, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am

Perhaps the Democrats should have selected a candidate more like Denzel Washington or Chris Gardener.
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Perhaps Republicans should have selected someone other an erratic old man like McCain who in turn chose a moron like Palin. McCain\Palin are an insult to thinking people’s intelligence.

Posted by: indy_voter | October 15, 2008, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm

Obamas wealth redistibution plan or trickle up poverty initiative has all the parasites, mooches, and bums salivating like Pavlov’s dog.

Posted by: Hippie Smasher | October 15, 2008, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm

McCain cannot win his election fight, because he is fighting against the common sense of the American people. The weapons of his fight are fear and anger, which Americans reject. His weapons are lies and propaganda from the mouths of the misinformed conspiracy theorists. Americans don’t buy that. America needs more than “bottom of the class” leadership. Give John McCain a medal for trying and send him back to Arizona!

Posted by: Citizen of Chicago | October 15, 2008, 7:47 pm 7:47 pm

I am reading these comments in amazement. Hope you guys enjoy socialism.

Posted by: amazed | October 22, 2008, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm

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