McCain’s Must-Win Battleground States

…waiting for the republican spinners to start their gyrations…
ITS OVER!!STICK A FORK IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY …ITS DONE!!!
enjoy the next 4-8 years of peace and prosperity you undeserving morons.

At this time last year, Bush averaged about 1.5 points better than Kerry in the Popular Vote, according to Real Clear Politics which averages EVERY poll. At this moment, Obama averaging 7.5 over McCain.
McCain might bring it closer, but that is a huge gap. Especially since some people have already voted.
Don’t worry Republicans, I know how you feel, because my party (Dems) lost two close presidential elections in a row. It was devastating to some of us. Also, all my worries about Bush seemed to come true.
Time to give the Dems a chance at the big chair! If Obama ends up being a bad president, you’ll be able to elect a new one in 2012.
Let’s see if the Dems can turn this nation around!

Those polls are looking to be a bit high, but the trend is certainly supported. But it is still a closer race than it appears. Obama’s young and new voters have to actually show up at the polls and be willing to stick out the inevitable hours long saga that will plague districts that are not prepared for the turn out.
McCain is down now, but if the Obama supporters let up early he certainly can still slip in.

Boy this is revealing about how McCain operates. Pretty scary–
http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/954/

We will no longer be divided into red and blue. We will no longer be divided by fear tactics and negative ads. We will no longer stand for fake patriotism.

When are people going to realize that the economic problem is a domino effect that has to start at the state level.
People should look at a overlapping map of the the states that are hitting a recession, a map of unemployment and a map of red and blue states. Throw in the education score and housing foreclosure and you will see an interesting correlation. The red states have higher education schools, lower unemployment rates and lower foreclosure rates. Those conservative governments of those states must have hide their true identities from the press. Those red states favor republicans.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― Police sources tell KDKA that a campaign worker has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter “B” in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.
Ashley Todd, 20, of Texas, initially told police that she was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield and that the suspect became enraged and started beating her after seeing her GOP sticker on her car.
Police investigating the alleged attack, however, began to notice some inconsistencies in her story and administered a polygraph test.
Authorities, however, declined to release the results of that test.
Investigators did say that they received photos from the ATM machine and “the photographs were verified as not being the victim making the transaction.”
This afternoon, a Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Todd confessed to making up the story.
The commander added that Todd will face charges; but police have not commented on what those charges will be.
According to police, investigators working on the interview process detected several inconsistencies in Todd’s story that differed from statements made in the original police report.
Pittsburgh Police Public Information Officer Diane Richard released a statement earlier today, saying: “Because of the inconsistencies in her statements, Ms. Todd was asked to submit to a polygraph examination which she agreed to do.”
No photos of Todd are being released by Pittsburgh Police at this time.
The investigation is continuing as officials determine what charges will be filed.

Does this comment about the correlation of high unemployment and blue states exist?

Danielle,
There is a strong correlation. It does not come up in the media because it shows liberal policies do not work unless there is a workforce that is willing to pay for it.

Just remember next year when you are standing in the unemployment line because your company’s higher taxes forced them to lay you off to “thank” Obama for your prosperity!
Hopefully he will have campaign money left over to “spread the wealth” but the way democrats spend spend spend, I doubt it.

Obama 08. Let’s go people. The time is now! Vote early if you can!
OBAMA, OBAMA

Told Ya that God is a Dem.

It’s politics. After election, all will be gone. We are back peace and glad it’s over. Whoever is president and it’s our choice and good or bad. Why everyone is so believe what they said. After election, let’s see what they do. that’s count. I don’t think either one or better than the other, definitely, Obama benefit by the financial crises. because he is not the in the office.

It amazes me the number of republicans not voting McCain. Can we say Palin.

What 667,
Obama is also about political expediency at it’s worst,recurring pattern radical associations,say or do anything to get elected,throw anyone under the bus to suit his needs,arrogance and socialist tendencies.We do not know what day which Obama will show up at the Oval Office..

McCain just had a terrible day.
A couple days ago, a McCain supporter claimed she was attacked by a black Obama supporter. Today, the woman admitted she made the story up to try to help McCain win in Pennsylvania.
This will be major news in Pennsylvania from now until the election. Look for McCain’s numbers to drop even further in Pennsylvania and neighboring Ohio.

The election hasn’t even taken place yet. George are you hoping all of the Mccain supporters will believe your BS and just not vote? Sorry buddy, but we aren’t that stupid. You may be able to fool the Obama camp into thinking he has a chance of winning, but we know better.

This can’t be right, the polls can’t be right, the pundits can’t be right. McCain and Palin are Republicans, so by definition they have to be ahead. The GOP is invincible, supreme, just, Godly. They are surely ahead by at least, using my GOP-calculator, 12 points. Hang in there Republicans, and remember to get out there and vote on November 5th… ;)

Put another way, *all* McCain has to do is win these eight usually reliably Republican states and he will win the Presidency.
All eight of these states were won by Bush both in 2000 and 2004, and both of those elections were very close. The exit polls were even wrong on both of those outcomes.
So if Bush can win those eight states twice in squeaker elections, it’s very possible that McCain can win them too.

It is wonderful that Obama, went to see his grandmother before she leaves for better place. It would be a special gift for this family and this women, that he so admires, to be able to see him succeed to the presidency. As a mother of a 54 year old, I would be very proud to be the mother of a wonderful man like Barrack Obama. May his grandmother live to see his greatness.

Debbie, no one is going to care whether some loon scratched herself in the mirror.
What they will be concerned with is whether or not voting for Obama is going to turn our country into Cuba, Venezuala or something worse.
We do not want a socialist/communist radical in the White House.

HH – Actually, Republicans have spent far more than Democrats. They just don’t mind borrowing to do it so they can shift taxes and cost to the next generation. Both, Bush and Reagan by deficit spending added significant amounts to the nation’s debt. And, by the way, the unemployment lines have grown and the financial debacle have taken place under the Republicans. Maybe, corporations shouldn’t offer those golden parachutes and should use the funds to invest in their employees and product development instead of nest eggs for failed management.

Im a Big Obama Supporter but i do not think the race is over, Ask me Nov 3rd, if the polls are the way they are on that day, then i will i say the race is over, i think we should wait 10 more days.

Michael – Yeah McCain isn’t practicing socialism when he votes for a bank bailout bill that gives government ownership to banks? That’s socialism in case you didn’t know. Come on dude, pull your head out of your arse.

Message To all you Obama Supporter and those leaning towards Obama.
Are you truely ready for a country run by the new “Big 3″, Obama\Pelosi\Reid ?
Do you really beieve Obama’s Mystical 250K line wont come crashing down when his plans hit the floor of the congress?
Already the House Dems are planning to go after everyones 401K and replace it with yet another government entitlement program.
House Democrats Contemplate Abolishing 401(k) Tax Breaks
http://www.workforce.com/section/00/article/25/83/58.php
Get Ready For it!!!

The republicans have been in charge for the last 8 years and look where we are today. Hopefully we will not have to endure another 4 years of this with John McCain. I will be glad when this is over and I do not have to listen to the McCain/Palin lies!!

andie:
are you seriously telling everyone that the Blue states in past elections New England, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, etc… have lower incomes, lower education, and worse economies and lower educational levels than states that voted red… Ohio, Indiana, Alabama, Mississippi, ect..
Please check your facts, The Northeast and Pacific Northwest have had the highest rates of growth, economic development, high tech jobs, and education. Many of the red states currently have the worst economies in the country
Let’s be real we need a balance in this country and we need to save ourselves from ourselves, which is why Obama will win. The country and the world will be a better place because of it.
It was not until the last 3 or 4 decades that the idea of America and capitalism became so corrupted that the US moved to an every man, woman, and child for his or herself. We have returned to the Gilded Age where the Robber Barons had all the money and the power, it is time for the American Public to take it back and make our world a safer, more productive, and yes equitable place.
As Obama said we are all in this together. And furthermore….Since when is providing tax breaks to working people socialism. What do you call giving Tax breaks to the ultra wealthy?

I am a Obama supporter, but do not expect the next 4 or even 8 years to be years of prosperity. It will take the next 8 or more years to get out of all the mess that the Bush adminstration as left for the next President. Do not get caught up in all the hype, this is still the government were talking about. Everything they do is slow and loaded with red tape.

PhilBgood – sorry Phil.
I wouldn’t have voted for it either (Obama and McCain voted for it).
Just remember that it was groups like Acorn (Obama worked for them and trained them!) that got us into the housing mess in the first place.
If you think the bailout is bad wait until Obama nationalizes healthcare and your savings accounts!

Micahel- You really need to get off the drugs man. McCain is on record and proudly proclaims that he has voted with Bush 90% of the time.

Check it out to see a comparison between the Obama and the McCain tax plans.
http://members.myheritage.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=5601&em_id=1761.0&JServSessionIdr001=3l4rxrn6d1.app303a

I, too, believe the polls are faulty.

Not a chance of that becoming a reality,,,

Michael – Nope, you’re wrong again. It was McCains deregulation that got our mortgage companies into trouble, lack of oversight. It’s the same thing he did with the Savings and Loan Industry 20 some years ago that got him a censor from his Senate collegues for his involvement with the Keating 5.

Tom I hope you loose some one you love see how much it hurts you are an aqq…..

You sheep are the same.
vote NObama

Desperate men make desperate moves… apparently… http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08298/922564-100.stm

obama broke his pledge on campaign finance which makes him utterly untrustworthy, and his health care plans, tax plans, and foreign policy will hurt Americans of all classes – if the media were not behind him, he would be farther down than mccain…………………………………………if george S. had not helped him cover up his “my muslim faith” line, this would be a landslide for mccain…………………george S. would not have done that for a republican………….instead of slipping someone else the right answer, he would have waited until the end of the interview and then crucified the interviewee……………………………………………………………………….and here we see george S. protecting obamiden yet again by leaving pennsylvania out of this equation…………………………………………..I for one have faith that the good people of Pennsylvania will see through the charade that is obama………………………………………………………………..p.s. , obama is an extremist on the anti-life issue as well and I think most of these states can figure that out………………………………………………….boy george, the boy wonder, you are not taken seriously anymore

SOCIALISTS.

I cannot wait for this crap to be over. We do not need 4 more years of the republicans… the repu8blicans need to go regroup and come again for the next four years. they screwed us long and hard and now we want a change. I believe Obama will be a damn good president, despite the fact that some might get offended because of his race. and again folks he is not full black and that should not matter. I say give the guy a chance he shows more steadiness than mccain, he is a quick learned and he is a fighter. i believe he is what this country needs right now. obama make us all proud and turn the country around for the better.

Common Sense – Makes no sense! Obama 08

Mike_C – Government grew at the fastest rate in the last 8 years (under the leadership of Bush/McCain) than it did since Lyndon Johnson. Most of the growth was due to the Bush/McCain creation of the unnecessary and cumbersome Homeland Securtiy Department.

Get used to saying PRESIDENT OBAMA. The people of the USA are fed up with the war mongering GOP. We are hep to your schoolyard lying tactics and your deceptive two-faced vaudeville antics… get used to saying “PRESIDENT OBAMA”

An Obama Nation is an abomination.

All of you anti-tax Republicans are hypocrites. I have been hearing the no-tax line from the Republicans for 40 years. It is pure bull. Here are the results; Ronald Reagan largest deficits in history; George Bush “no-new taxes” Senior – record deficits and raised taxes; Bill Clinton budget surplus and economic prosperity; George Bush Jr – record deficits and worst economic crisis since the great depression. Alan Greenspan said he was wrong about regulation. McCain said he did not understand economics and the economy was sound. The Republicans are economic morons. Their save the rich and big business at all cost has crashed our economy. It’s the deficits that have tanked the dollar. Anybody that believes the Republicans know what they are doing with the economy must have brain damage.

WASTEFUL SPENDING IN A SENSELESS LYING WAR IN IRAQ!

Notice to All Employees
As of November 5, 2008, when President Obama is officially elected into office, our company will instill a few new policies which are in keeping with his new, inspiring issues of change and fairness:
1. All salespeople will be pooling their sales and bonuses into a common pool that will be divided equally between all of you. This will serve to give those of you who are underachieving a ‘fair shake.’
2. All low level workers will be pooling their wages, including overtime, into a common pool, dividing it equally amongst yourselves. This will help those who are ‘too busy for overtime’ to reap the rewards from those who have more spare time and can work extra hours.
3. All top management will now be referred to as ‘the government.’ We will not participate in this ‘pooling’ experience because the law doesn’t apply to us.
4. The ‘government’ will give eloquent speeches to all employees every week, encouraging it’s workers to continue to work hard ‘for the good of all.’
5. The employees will be thrilled with these new policies because it’s ‘good to spread the wealth.’ Those of you who have underachieved will finally get an opportunity; those of you who have worked hard and had success will feel more ‘patriotic.’
6. The last few people who were hired should clean out their desks. Don’t feel bad, though, because President Obama will give you free healthcare, free handouts, free oil for heating your home, free foodstamps, and he’ll let you stay in your home for as long as you want even if you can’t pay your mortgage. If you appeal directly to our Democratic Congress, you might even get a free flatscreen TV and a coupon for free haircuts.

For those of you who cringe when you hear the word SOCIALISM, may I remind you that we already use many SOCIALIST SERVICES right no0w? The US POSTAL SERVICE, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, FREE CLINICS, SOCIAL SECURITY! … shall I go on? Only a corn fed hillbilly is sold on the SHALLOW SCARE TACTICS hurled by this desperate GOP campaign we are seeing here… it is shameful and frankly, embarrassing!

JOE THE PLUMBER IS A SHAMELESS LIE

I think the Bush Administration has already robbed our Wallets, our home values, our Jobs,Our Respected standing in the world destroyed all thanks to Bush and Co!

Detour4 – You are so right. Palin was a disasterour pick by McCain. The biggest feat the Dems had was McCain would pick Romney who with his business background would have helped McCain during this economic downturn. Instead, we got Palin spending $150,000 on clothes.

Obama and Dems supported sub prime lending that crashed our current economics. Obama represented ACORN in court to force banks to lend money to the people who could not afford it. Obama is the second largest recipient of money from Fannie Mae. They refused to regulate bad loan practice proposed by McCain in 2005.
It is funny how you point out that the republicans held office for 6 of the 8 years and the first 6 were great but someone asked for change and we Pelosi, Reid, Franks…a congress majority of Dumbocrats and looked what happened.

The Great White Hope is on its way…Obama is the man for the Season. We deserve him after 8 years of the Republican disaster.

((( obama broke his pledge on campaign finance which makes him utterly untrustworthy )))
I’d say that by not taking public financing and being the first candidate to privately fund his campaign took some courage and determination. And it seemed to have worked out for him. John could have done the same if he wanted, but knew he would have a hard time getting anyone to actually support him. On the other hand, McCain said he would run an honorable campaign and then broke his pledge and started flat out attacking and lying, repeatedly and continuously. I would say that makes him much more untrustworthy, and just shows that he will do anything to win, regardless of how divisive or damaging to the country.

“”Obama crashed economics”": are you aware that Mccain was the keynote speaker at an Acorn convention in 2006?

“Just remember next year when you are standing in the unemployment line because your company’s higher taxes forced them to lay you off to “thank” Obama for your prosperity!”
ACTUALLY, SOME OF US ARE ALREADY IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE. HAVE YOU BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO THE NEWS LATELY?

If anyone can win in a comeback, it is John McCain.
FOLKS. Wake UP!!
Remember George W. Bush vs Al Gore and George W. Bush vs John Kerry; and the House election in 2006.
1) GWB was behind in polls. AG was announced the winner by several Liberal TV commentators. GWB won.
2) GWB was behind in polls. JK was announced the winner by several Liberal TV commentators. GWB won.
3) Everyone said the Iraq War was the reason Democrats captured a majority in the House in November 2006. NOT REALLY. We are still in Iraq. The majority of the House authorized financing and equipment upgrades ever since. They approved the Troop Surge.
Today: WE WON. The troop surge worked. We are pulling out of previous hot spot cities. The Iraq situation is “fragile”.
Who do you want in the White House, the best experience capable of handling the job of President or the worst experience?
John McCain is the “best experienced” candidate by an 80% to 20% poll.
Barack Obama is barely qualified in experience with a 52% to 42% poll.
Among likely voters and registered voters, John McCain whips Barack Obama with his 80% to 20% categorization by those polled as the “best experienced” for the job of President.
John McCain is the only Veteran who served in combat with the US Navy in Vietnam. For 5 1/2 years he was a POW in the Hanoi Hilton. He was tortured.
NOT ONE SNIVELING 18 YEAR OLD LIBERAL DEMOCRAT WOULD BE ABLE TO KEEP THE TEARS AWAY IF HE OR SHE HEARD AND SAW THE DETAILS OF THAT IMPRISONMENT.
NOT ONE.
John McCain has high Ethics values. He has Integrity, Honor …….Honor demonstrated as a POW that refused early release because the Rule was First In, First Out.
VOTE FOR JOHN MCCAIN

amy
Why don’t you try coming back down to earth.

It’s official! Barack Obama was indeed a member of the socialist New Party when he first ran for the Illinois State Senate in 1996. The Obama organization and the ‘New Party’ have systematically attempted to cover up any ties between Obama and socialist organizations. However, it now appears that Barack Obama was indeed a certified and acknowledged member of the socialist New Party. A November 1996 editorial in the socialist journal “Progressive Populist” mentions that “New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago.” Check it out for yourselves at http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html. How many other things is he hiding from us?

Victor,
That is an interesting theory. To bad the media does not want to see it. It it was true, it would make republicans look like the heroes and not the goats.

I live in Florida and voted for Obama yesterday. I don’t like reports like this though because I worry that people will be complacent and not vote thinking Obama is so far ahead. The Republicans WILL rally so EVERYONE needs to vote!

GO Obama GO…. 10 more days , and YES Mr. Bush you are FIRED… and please move your ranch to Canada we do not want you back in Texas.

what are the plan of Johnny Sidney McCain ? Each time he is interview he say I will because I can. He can do what?

This could be the most important 8 minutes of your time if you are undecided. I had never heard of this man or this event. Scary.
canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5411

James – Republicans are not goats they are sheep.

Why is msnbc runing adds for mccain all day long.are thay a buch of republicans. if so my tv has cnn.

President Bush and the Republicans actually did give tax cuts to working Americans “In 2001 and 2003, President George W. Bush proposed and Congress passed a series of tax cuts to reinvigorate the economy and reduce the government’s burden on workers’ paychecks. Because of opposition to these measures from some in Congress, they were implemented as temporary tax cuts.” The first thing Obama and the Democrats plan to do if elected is to let the Bush tax cuts expire. That means everybody making over $40,000 will see their federal taxes go up. Obama says he will then raise taxes on the upper 5% of Americans – or about 15 million of us. According to the IRS that bracket starts at about $130,080 and includes a whole lot of two earner families. He has also said that he plans to do away with the cap on FICA which means that everyone making over $102,000 will see their payroll taxes go up by 6.2% on anything they make over that. The people Obama plans to raise taxes on are our doctors, dentists, lawyers, pharmacists, and other working professionals and successful small business owners who will have to raise their rates to cover their increased taxes. Think about it everyone. Who really pays for those tax increases? He also says he will give a tax cut to 95% of Americans. How can he do that when over 40% of Americans pay no taxes in the first place? Taxing upper income people and then giving their money to people who didn’t pay anything to begin with is not a tax cut, it is the socialist policy of income redistribution. The problem is that the man is lying to us.

Ron Howard supports Obama! Everybodys gotta watch the video on funnyordie.com. Its awesome! You know its really important if Ron Howard and Andy Griffith come out and support it. Even Henry Winkler “The Fonz” says hes for Obama. Im sure that will make everybody say Ayyyyyyy! Everybody get out and support Ron Howards candidate Barack H. Obama. Hes as american as apple pie!

Johnny Mac should go back to the Navy and become a “holy” Rear Admiral, proudly standing on the poop deck of his ship

Jano 1234 your an ass and a bigot to say it must be a black thing you are a jerk. I’m white and North American Indian and I voted for Obama you must belong to the KKK with that ignorant statement stay home and don’t vote we don’t need people like you voting.

Tucu – THAT WAS FUNNNNY :)))) Obama 08

Fairfax,
You ready to hand over your 401K to Obama, Pelosi & Reid in favor of another entitlement program that is “guaranteed” but the same government that allowed Barney Frank to make sure illegal loans were made to people who could not afford them!

msa123, you just described the communist society exsisted in Russia, China and Cuba. Socialist has been proven to be not working in Russia, China, and Cuba. Socialist makes people equally poor by taking away of rewarding hard working and innovations. Helping poor by encouraging business to create jobs, not free handouts that create dependencies.

Ashley Todd Hoax:
WORSE then the made up Ayers or J. Wright!
I am sure that the McCain camp thought this up as an OCTOBER SURPRISE !

professorj – you need to go back and re-do your fictious numbers.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/
Everyone will pay taxes. If you vote for McCain, you will pay a bit more due to him shifting the tax burden down to the middle class with his large tax cuts to the wealthy. If you happen to be wealthy, it is understandable how you might want to vote for what is best for your pocketbook rather than what is best for the country, but please don’t wave a flag when you do so.

It’s getting harder and harder for me to turn on Good morning America. Your outright support of Obama in what is supposed to be fair and unbiased news coverage amazes me. Today you sat down with an interview with Obama that was free advertising for him. Did you request an interview with McCain? Or – were you more interested in what Sarah Palin spent on her wardrobe when Obama is spending how much this month on advertising?

OBAMA IS A PHONY!!!!!!

I have an accounting degee. I have run the numbers and my taxes will definitely go up more under Obama.

professorj – I’d ask for your money back.

The taxpolicy center does not take into account the FICA cap increase.

Anyone else around this forum still waiting for Bill clinton’s “middle class” tax cut……
Everyone i know is!

The wealthy pay an average of 15-18% on income taxes. The middle class pays 25-28%. McCain would like to lower that for the wealthy. That seems fair since they are his best buddies.

canadafreepress.com is a garbage fake news report.

MIKE C
Can you Explain Mccain Taxing our Health Insurance we get through our Employers and Pay for?

So, what is Johnny Sidney McCain’s plan?

Dumb Mike_c.Think about it.

“Turn out the lights…
the party’s o-o-over…”
For those of you too young to remember, that’s how ol’ Dandy Don used to gently break the inevitable news to the ever- faithful.

hey dnc – why is it no demoCRITES care about honest anymore??? say what you will about public financing but three facts remain – - 1) obama had to break a “pledge” in order to go for the cash (NOT a little white lie) and 2)demoCRITES would have gone ape if mccain had done it and 3) the 100′s of millions set a terrible precedent not the least of which is the high probability of MORE corruption through influence peddling – SO OBAMA IS THE NEW BUSH – demoCRITES ignore these facts because they are true

professorj – Johnny Sidney mcCain also has been surrounded by radicals.

FROM THE LA TIMES…
More than 100 appointments to state posts — nearly 1 in 4 — went to campaign contributors or their relatives, sometimes without apparent regard to qualifications.
* Palin filled 16 state offices with appointees from families that donated $2,000 to $5,600 and were among her top political patrons.
* Several of Palin’s leading campaign donors received state-subsidized industrial development loans of up to $3.6 million for business ventures of questionable public value.
* Palin picked a donor to replace the public safety commissioner she fired. But the new top cop had to resign days later under an ethics cloud. And Palin drew a formal ethics complaint still pending against her and several aides for allegedly helping another donor and fundraiser land a state job.
Most new governors install friends and supporters in state jobs. But Alaska historians say some of Palin’s appointees were less qualified than those of her Republican and Democratic predecessors.
University of Alaska historian Steve Haycox said Palin has been a reformer. But he said she has a penchant for placing supporters, many of them ill-prepared, in high posts. He called it “cronyism” far beyond what previous governors have done and a contradiction of her high-minded philosophy.
Terrence Cole, an Alaska political historian, said Palin had in some cases shown “a disrespect for experience.”

Can one of you Mccain supporters please tell me why Mccain is gonna Tax my Healthcare I recive through my Employer? and pay for out of My Salary is he gonna Tax me to give to people who dont have Insurance? or to give it to the Insurance compaines please explain!

Well Mark I think you got us liberals confused with you conservatives it’s McCain that is doing the say a lie long enough and people start to believe it. His whole campaign has been a dirty campaign I guess that is the only way to win being dishonest and a coward.

Tayna…Why is it you think I havent done my homework?

I’m not currently making $250,000 a year. I could but the tax rates are already so high that it discourages me from trying to do so. To produce more income I would have to do so as an independent contractor and every additional dollar I make would be subject to 28% federal income tax, 8% state income tax, and 15.3% self-employment tax. If I invest my money I will have to pay 28% federal income tax, 8% state income tax, and 15% capital gains tax when I sell my investment. Either way that’s over 50% right off the top and then I pay a multitude of consumption taxes (excise taxes, personal property taxes, gasoline taxes, sales taxes, etc.) whenever I buy things with the 49% of MY MONEY they let me keep.

MIKE C
Mccain Admitted in the last Debate He will Tax our Health Insurance he Admitted It!
NOPE!

Mike_C – Yep!

“McCain’s not going to raise taxes. He’s gonna give the rich people a tax break so they have more money to spend on maids, nanny’s, lawn maint folk. It’s the trickle down effect.”
Go back and read a histort book to see what hoover did…Obama is propsing the same thing…

MIKE C
You are a fool I guess you dont watch anything but Fox news, you didnt watch the Debates you didnt Watch Alan greenspan Testify you my friend are living in a Cloud!

Jim Bob after the $700 billion about this is not trickle down but shovel up.

A lot of Americans are hard workers and over the last several years seen the standard of life go down. I also heard a lot about socialism. All Dems want is the Government to work for ordinary Americans as hard as they work for rich Americans. Isn’t that the way America should be? Ask any American worker if he or she thinks all should have health care and a quality education and I think you know the answer. McCain and Palin continue to bring division to the American people. The robocalls keep hyping on Ayers and trying to convince people that Obama palls around with terrorist. Millions of America will think we have a terrorist in Office if Obama wins and millions will be angry at McCain for the lies and division if he wins. Not good. McCain says to the lady that called Obama an Arab that Obama is a good and respected family man and yet the next thing you know McCain’s calls Obama a pal of a terrorist. What McCain should have said was he isn’t an Arab, but so what if he was. He isn’t a Muslim but so what if he is. By not saying these things he brings division and I’m sorry my friends, but my idea of America is a country where all religions and races are welcome with open hearts and minds and treated with equal respect. Many a Rep likes to use Jesus or being Christian as its base. Let me ask you. If you believe in the Christian belief and in Jesus’ teachings you would also understand that he didn’t like the Rich and wealthy and too, thought that all mankind was God’s children and believed in taking care of the less fortunate and hungry. He also thought forgiveness. So some that are claming a Christian base and yet are using division, racism or slander are going right against what they say they believe in. To knock any person strictly due to race, gender, wealth or religion is about the most un-American thing one can do. It takes away any since of patriotism or love for this country or its ideas or what this country was founded on. The Republican Party needs a self test and to reflect on what it really stands for. Remember there are 100 really good reasons to vote this election and one really bad reason not to vote and that’s prejudice. Obama has my vote and I am proud to support him.

“MIKE C You are a fool I guess you dont watch anything but Fox news” Posted by: Angie Uh, Angie, Mike is posting on an ABC News blog. lol

JJ – Amen to that. Obama 08

JJ Great idea. Let’s get rid of all of the educated professionals. That worked so well in Cambodia.

Regan took ‘trickle down’ and people renamed it Reganomics. During his term in office, Regan managed to raise the federal dept more than all presidents before him combined! Taking it from just under $1 trillion to over $2.6 trillion. In addition, the US experienced the highest unemployment rates in our history during his term.

professorj – Get over it. Is that the best you’ve got? It ain’t working! Try again. Obama 08

Just for the record, in 2004 Alex Baldwin promised to leave the country if Bush was reelected and that fat jerk is still here. lol

Bush Jr., with his trickle down tax policy managed to take the unemployment rate from 3.9% when he took office, to it’s current 6.1% which it hit in August.

professorj – That’s because Alex Baldwin is waiting for your to leave first lol :))) Who cares! Obama 08

professorj, Yeah well you have yet to prove that your an educated professional. You dont seem so intelligent to me, if you support the morons the republicans have offered us. You might be a used car salesman for all we know. Just because you act like a jerk doesnt mean you are intellectual. Besides that, there are plenty of GOOD intellectuals around who would stay, Im only saying get rid of the jerks. Intellectual or not.

Taxman Most of our economic problems have come about in the last two years. Democrats know that when the economy goes bad Americans incorrectly blame the President, when in actuality the President cannot spend, tax, or borrow a single dime without the approval of Congress. In 2006 the Democrats promised us change if we gave them control of Congress. We did and look at what has happened since. Are you better off now than you were two years ago?

Since statistics show that my IQ and education level to be in the top 1% of the nation I’m fairly sure that the odds are about 99 to 1 that I am smarter, more intelligent, better educated, wiser, and more experienced than YOU, and I am voting for John McCain and Sarah Palin this year. There are lots of intelligent and lots of not so intelligent people on both sides, as there has been in every Presidential election in my life. I have a philosophy that when ignorant people disagree with I can just to ignore them, but when intelligent people disagree with me I feel that I have an obligation to try to understand why. You I can ignore. :-)

President Bush has vetoed 11 bills since he has been in office. During the 6 years Republicans held control of Congress, he only vetoed 1 bill. In the less than 2 years Democrats held control, he has vetoed 10.

professorj – Maybe you’re probably to smart for yourself….that’s it!! Yeah! Obama 08

The other day on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read “Vote Obama, I need the money.” I laughed.
Once in the restaurant my server had on an “Obama 08″ tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference–just imagine the coincidence.
When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need–the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.
I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I ‘ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.
At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient needed money more.
I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.
THANKS!!

Young people today are used to being given so much with very little effort or responsibility. It is no wonder that they expect the same from government. I saw a sign a few years on a church that read “Teach your children to accept their responsibilities before they demand their rights.” We have not done a very good job of that.

Obama’s lead is not surprising. The people who get free stuff will always support the politicians who promise to give them more free stuff. When discussing the American Revolution, a Scottish-born British lawyer and writer Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813), was attributed as saying. “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.” Americans reached that moment with FDR’s New Deal and have been tumbling down the path of self destruction every since. Today over half of the households in America receive a regular monthly check from the government and nearly half (44%) pay no income taxes at all. Just how long do you think we can continue on this path? Obama’s socialist policies will break the will or drive off hard-working tax-paying American Capitalists until there is no one left to pay for all of his socialist programs.

Tina, The lesson here is dont eat at that restaurant again or that waiter will hocker in your food.

Tina, p.s. He might even wait for you by your car and redistribute your money for you.

Last week I was talking with a friend who has a small business that employs about 20 people. He is pretty sure that times will be tough next year. He said that if McCain is elected he thinks things will turn around next year so he will try to hang on. However he believes that if Obama is elected his taxes will go up and his business will go down to the point where he will probably have to lay off about half his people. Then he made the remark that he would start with those employees with Obama stickers on their cars because they helped cause it. Many small business owners and professionals are very concerned about Obama’s tax and spend policies and making plans to cut back if he is elected. I can’t believe that so many workers are willing to vote themselves out of a job.

Taxman True. Annual unemployment rates never went over about 9 and a half % under Carter. However we did have one quarter where it did hit 10.2%

I am not voting for Obama because of his lack of experience, his liberal “tax and spend” voting record and I am afraid that if he is elected he will surround himself with radicals — as he seems to have done in the past. However these arguments about Obama’s birth and religion are absurd and were debunked months ago. His birth certificate has been posted upon the web and verified by the State of Hawaii. He has publicly stated his faith many times and was a member of a racist Afro-centrist Christian Church for more than 20 years before he decided he had better disavow his racist America-hating mentor/pastor in order to get elected. Even if he was a Muslim in his youth Christians should be shouting halleluiah at his conversion. On the other hand, if that is the case, Muslims will have to issue a fatwa.

Glad to see you are voting for irrational reasons professor (what do you teach, kindergarden?)

McCain’s campaign can be basically be boiled down to gimmicks . “Mavericks”, “reformers”,”hockey mom”, “he pals around with terrorists”, “he’s a socialist”, “Joe Sixpack”, “Joe the Plumber”, “white flag of surrender”, “they’ll test him but not me”, etc, etc. They have all fallen flat for two basic reasons: 1- none have addressed the real concerns of Americans in this election- their angst about the economy and their immediate future and 2- they fail to have good substantive foundations. The “hockey mom reformer” has been looked shockingly ignorant of national issues at times, along with other embarrassments such as being found to have “abused power” in Alaska and spending $ 150,000 on clothing for the campaign. “Palling with terrorists” is a totally disingenuous exaggeration of a past relationship. “Socialist” is nothing more than a shrill cry from the far right. And “Joe the Plumber” looks like a total contrivance – both in the truth of what Joe’s situation really is and what it means for the economic well-being of middle class people…
In sum, McCain’s gimmicks have worked only in motivating a hard-core base of Republicans that were likely to go his way anyhow, but they’ve also managed to alienate a segment of moderate voters that could have conceivably been his had he run a more upstanding and dignified campaign. Instead, we can only hope that the American people on Nov 4 firmly reject his 3 ring circus campaign of gimmicks and punish him for not being true to his alleged roots of moderation, dignity, truthfulness, and open-mindedness that were supposed to be his calling cards prior to this election.

McCains ‘fix’ for Social Security:
John McCain supports supplementing the current Social Security system with personal accounts – but not as a substitute for addressing benefit promises that cannot be kept. John McCain will reach across the aisle to address these challenges, but if the Democrats do not act, he will.
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That’s it? “he will”.. and this is what McCain calls ‘straight talk’.

jdb, Hawaii dems have to stop offer free healthcare, they can not afford it. National health care will have people see doctors with minor discomfort and overwhelm the health care system. Really sick people has to wait for a long time for critical care and may be fatal in waiting, all at the cost of 50% tax rate. Wake up Americans!

The reality is this, America is screwed up and can a democrat OR a republican bring the country together on ANYTHING? I fear not. I don’t see any great change from either candidate, all I see is smears and insults from both sides. Both sides need to agree that NEITHER side alone holds the answers and we all need to have TOLERANCE and RESPECT, and learn to compromise. THAT is what being an AMERICAN is about.

Taxman OK I’ll accept your facts. Double digit unemployment did not come about until shortly after Carter left office. I was posting from memory and I just remember how really bad it was. I apoligize. Let me know if you have any other facts that I should consider.

Winnie
I agree. A president can only do so much. And America is not likely to change very much until Americans themselves change.

Mack asks “What college did you attend?” Now why would I give you personal information on a blog full of hate filled idiots? I thought I had already established the fact that I am not stupid. lol

Mack – You’ll be the first one on line. Just waive if you need urgent funds. Wearing my sticker and PROUD! :)))Obama 08

I think we have all established that George Bush and the current Congress have really screwed things up. Let’s not vote for ANY of them!

“Obama and the Tax Tipping Point How long before taxpayers are pushed too far? A core group of Obama enthusiasts — those educated professionals who applaud the “fairness” of their candidate’s tax plans — will soon see their $100,000-$150,000 incomes targeted. As entitlements expand and a self-interested majority votes, the higher tax brackets will kick in at lower levels down the ladder, all the way to households with a $75,000 income. Calculating how far society’s top earners can be pushed before they stop (or cut back on) producing is difficult. But the incentives are easy to see. Voters who benefit from government programs will push for higher tax rates on higher earners — at least until those who power the economy and create jobs and wealth stop working, stop investing, or move out of the country.The sequence is always the same. High-tax, big-spending policies force the economy to lose momentum. Then growth in government spending outstrips revenues. Fiscal and trade deficits soar. Public debt, excessive taxation and unemployment follow. The central bank tries to solve the problem by printing money. International competitiveness is lost and the currency depreciates. The system stagnates. And then a frightened electorate returns conservatives to power. The economic tides will not stand still while Washington experiments with European-type social democracy, even though the dollar’s role as the global reserve currency will buy some time. Our trademark competitive advantage will be lost, and once lost, it will be hard to regain. There are too many emerging economies focused on prosperity and not redistribution for the U.S. to easily recapture its role of global economic leader. Tomorrow’s children may come to question why their parents sold their birthright for a mess of “fairness” — whatever that will signify when jobs are scarce and American opportunity is no longer the envy of the world.” Written by Mr. Lerrick on Wall Street Journal. Mr. Lerrick is a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

RE: Post by Cheers professorj Wow. I get so little fan mail. Thanks. However when my work is caught up and I’m bored I come to these liberal websites just to hear them rant. Everyman needs a hobby. lol

Obama and Dems supported sub prime lending that crashed our current economics. Obama represented ACORN in court to force banks to lend money to the people who could not afford it. Obama is the second largest recipient of money from Fannie Mae. They refused to regulate bad loan practice proposed by McCain in 2005. Obama also proposed Global Poverty Tax of 50 Billion Dollars per year to spread your money to the corrupted UN. He also spread your money to his wife’s employer who doubled her salary to &300,000.00. He also spread your money to ACORN that is involved in voter fraud and housing crisis. He worked as community communist revolutionary organizer started by revolutionary Soul Alansky who proposed communist movement from bottom up and slowly working within the system to change to communist.
It is funny how you point out that the republicans held office for 6 of the 8 years and the first 6 were great but someone asked for change and we Pelosi, Reid, Franks…a congress majority of Dumbocrats and looked what happened.
Don’t forget Nobama promised to cut US defense and the Iran can deliver nuclear war head from a commercial ship. You and your family will be in real danger with Nobama-pelosi-Raid control US!

John McCains stand on Taxes – Feb. 2, 2000
JIM LEHRER: There was a suggestion today from some of Governor Bush’s supporters that maybe you’re not really a true blue Republican, that some of the things you support like campaign finance reform and your opposition to tax cuts are more like Gore and Bradley and Clinton and Democrats than Republican.
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: Well, I’m much more like Ronald Reagan, actually, than the present hierarchy of our party. I’m for tax cuts, but I’m for working Americans. Governor Bush wants to give 38 percent of his tax cuts to the wealthiest 1 percent. I want to give it to working families.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/jan-june00/mccain_2-2.html

OBAMA IS THE NEW BUSH – BROKE BUSHES RECORD OF SPENDING CAMPAIGN DONATIONS FROM HUGE CORPORATIONS INCLUDING OVER 100K FROM FREDDIE MAC/FANNIE MAE

This has been so much fun. However my secretaries want to go home and for some reason they don’t want to leave until I do. So long folks. Get outside and get some sunshine. You’re looking very pale.

Gov Palin is the most popular governor in US history with 95% approval rating. What is your achievements??? She open bet for oil company to compete to fight corruption while Obama give tax break to oil company and take bribe from corrupted Fannie Mae CEO.
Those college Nobama supporters think they are educated. After all we the educated engineers designed your computers, Internet and cell phones so that you could bash us conservatives online. Your political science, history and English majors educated by lib professors like the Nobama’s terrorist friend Bill Ayers only serve to pollute your mind.
All libs on my site thought they have better education because they can speak English. Any fool can speak. Do you know how to design computer and cell phone that you are using? You free loaders only know how to talk but too stupid to go to Engineering School and too stupid to contribute to society. I have 3 college degrees and multiple invention Patents. How many degrees do you have? English is not only education and it is just a second language. Do you know any other lauguages? That you can speak English does not mean you are educated and informed. I support conservative, not any parties. Obama and Dems supported sub prime lending that crashed our current economics since Carter’s years. Obama represented ACORN in court to force banks to lend money to the people who could not afford it. Obama is the second largest recipient of money from Fannie Mae. McCain in 2005 and Bush in 2003 proposed to regulate bad loan practice, but Obama and Dems refused pass McCain’s Bill.

I have a philosophy that when ignorant people disagree with I can just to ignore them, but when intelligent people disagree with me I feel that I have an obligation to try to understand why. You I can ignore. :-)
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Professor, I believe you are not part of the top 1% if you keep talking like Sarah Palin. ….”I have a philosophy that when ignorant people disagree with I can just to ignore them,…” Obviously you are not an English Major. Sarah Palin puts 5 propositions in every 8 word sentence. I do not believe, sir, that you are even a high school graduate based off of the way you speak.

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After all we the educated engineers designed your computers,
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You didn’t design mine.

professorj,
thanks for the laugh…your IQ and education in the top 1%. hahaha
Do you realize how childish and uneducated you sound with your republican bs, and without reliable sources to back up your claims. What kind of professor are you?
Also, YOU are the one that said you would move to China, was that another lie? I suppose so…

Professor, what exactly is a “comservative?”

Cheersprofessorj, Hey immigrant fool, it is with much regret that we have invited you into our country and you would be so disrespectful of our ways. Please exit our country in the same manner that you entered, if you cannot learn to show repect for those who have allowed you to live amongst us. If I knew arabic I would explain my words more clearly to you, perhaps your master professorj will translate the meaning to you? I have nothing against immigrants unless they wish to show disrespect to the country which has allowed them to be free.

Continued deficit spending over a sustained period leads to economic depression. What does the National Bureau of Economic Research have to say about Bushes tax policy?
“Never in the history of modern economics has a large industrial country run persistent current account deficits of the magnitude posted by the U.S. since 2000.”
And their analysis if we continue along the same path?
“A 21-to-28 percent depreciation in the value of the trade-weighted dollar and a considerable slowdown of the American economy. And that may be a “best case” scenario”.
http://www.nber.org/digest/mar06/w11541.html
And how does the Wall Street Journal see McCains tax plan?
“The McCain plan represents Bush economics on steroids. It has $3.4 trillion more in tax cuts than President Bush is proposing, largely directed at corporations and the most affluent. Sen. McCain would implement these cuts without proposing any meaningful steps to simplify taxes or eliminate distortions and loopholes. In addition, Sen. McCain has floated over $1 trillion in new spending increases but barely any specific spending cuts.
Do not take the critics’ word for it. Go look at the plans for yourself at http://www.barackobama.com/taxes. Get the facts and you will see the real priorities at stake in this election. America cannot afford another eight years like these”.

What has happened to the media in this country?? Back in the day, you young whipper snappers, we would have had the media interviewing ANYONE that even remotely knew the presidential candidates. Now, seems like the media is trying to discourage contact with the friends and families of the candidates. Hell, I can’t believe that the other presidential candidates (like good ole Ralph and that nutty Bob Barr) weren’t even allowed to participate in the debates. What is this country coming to…hell, I miss Mayberry!!

McCain seems to think that looking good is the basis people will vote on, not issues. Palins ‘stylist’ got paid almost twice as much as McCains foreign policy advisor. Over $22 grand for two weeks worth of work according to budget reports.. My aunt who is 76 and lives on a fixed income from her parents trust barely makes that in a year.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/24/palin-stylist-draws-higher-pay-foreign-policy-adviser/

“Palins ‘stylist’ got paid almost twice as much as McCains foreign policy advisor. Over $22 grand for two weeks worth of work according to budget reports.. My aunt who is 76 and lives on a fixed income from her parents trust barely makes that in a year.”
And Barry is spending $29 million a week. That’s a lot of arugula and lattes.

wow ,man there are some truly WHACKO republicans. that party sure is a magnet for the screwballs and rednecks.
most are so far out there and patently looney it really IS scary.
wait, thats not really news to anyone is it?
WHACK JOB REPUBLICANS YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED.
ITS SIMPLE ,THE ONLY DAY YOU WILL BE NEEDING TO REMEMBER AFTER NOV 4TH IS APRIL 15TH YOU LOSERS…

What is confusing to me is that Obama is leading in most of the states yet he is only leading nationally by 7.5 percentage points. I don’t have the data to work it out, but on the face of it, it does not seem possible. Can someone enlighten me?

Reason: They won’t elect a new president if Obama doesn’t do the right job as president and they won’t have to impeachment. It will be done for them by an outsider. And there are plenty of them out there waiting.

You got to love these poor lost souls who are hoping and praying that Berg, the same nut case who is suing the US Government saying they were responsible for 9/11, has a case.
These are the same people Karl Rove drools over, ready to buy into whatever character attack and slander he can throw at them, knowing that they haven’t got the brain cells to even know they are being duped, or the motivation to even care.

Welcome back Natasha (and all your other personalities)!

Every conservatives disregard the polls. Reagon was low in polls but took the landslide victory. Go vote for McCain/Palin the Capitalist. Down with the Socialist Dems!

jon: That would be the best news if the GOP steals the election due to the voter fraud of Acorn trying themselves names like Mickey Mouse. I didn’t know Mickey Mouse could vote.

All libs wake us and check your self in the mirror, Nobama think his own grandma is a typical white fork and that is what he think of you. Face the truth, he hate you and he think you are his trash. You should go to live in Cuba.

Nik: There is no reason to raise taxes at all. A person making $250,000 pays higher taxes than a person making $150,000 so why would Obama want to raise higher taxes. What is he going to use the money for? We are paying enought tax now and he should keep taxes the way they are like McCain said. No tax increase. I think Obama failed in mathematics. And he keeps talking about the economy? What’s wrong with the economy? Nothing. People are the cause of their own mistakes in biting off more than they can chew buying a condo they cannot afford or a house, stop paying and causing the banks to foreclose. Banks are at fault for giving these young people a mortgage with only 5% or no money down. Its the majority of these young people that want to live like the rich with a beer pocket.

Obama and Dems supported sub prime lending that crashed our current economics. Obama represented ACORN in court to force banks to lend money to the people who could not afford it. Obama is the second largest recipient of money from Fannie Mae. They refused to regulate bad loan practice proposed by McCain in 2005.
Obama’s Tax Plan is to spread your hard earned money around to the people of his chosen such as voting fraud organization ACORN and his wife’s hospital that doubled her salary in return. McCain’s tax plan spreads the opportunities around. Socialist has been proven to be not working in Russia, China, and Cuba. Socialist makes people equally poor by taking away of rewarding hard working and innovations. Helping poor by encouraging business to create jobs, not free handouts that create dependencies. National health care will have people see doctors with minor discomfort and overwhelm the health care system. Really sick people has to wait for a long time for critical care and may be fatal in waiting, all at the cost of 50% tax rate. Wake up Americans! Elect McCain/Palin who will stop Obama and Dems to force banks to lend Trillions of your money to the people who can not afford it and caused the current economic slow down. McCain/Palin will promote jobs and energy independence.

I believe it would be much better if an election were settled by total populat vote instead of the state electoral vote. The majority of the people I talk to say they would rather have a popular vote. why doesn’t the poll happy media take a poll on this!!!

Everyone pays taxes. If you don’t want to pay taxes, then stop working. If you want to pay a little more in taxes, then vote McCain since he will shift the tax burden down towards the middle class with his large tax cuts for the wealthy, and your tax cut will be less because of it. If on the other hand you are one of the 5% in this country who are wealthy, feel free to vote what is best for your pocketbook instead of what is best for the country.. but don’t try waving your flag while doing so!
FYI: The wealthy pay an average of 15-18% in income taxes, while the middle class pay 25-28%. Apparently, McCain supporters think that is just fine, and would like to see the wealthy pay even less.
http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/index.html

Taxman: Obama wants to raise the tax on people making $250,000 or over. Why? Taxes don’t need to be raised. We didn’t cause the deficit to be like it is so why punish the people. He is suppose to be so smart graduating from Harvard let him figure it out. In my opinion he doesn’t know how. Biden will be running the country while Obama is taking lessons from Powell about foreign policy. It is this stupid generation of young people that don’t know which way the wind is blowing that will vote for Obama. They have no common sense in knowing what is best for the country but they know how to take drugs and booze like Obama did in college.

Mack: The rich are not responsible for the poor. Palin was a very aggressive women who was determine to make it in the political field. So was McCain. Palin earned her money. You have to set goals in your life to make that kind of money. Sometimes people set their goals but something interrupts it and they can’t succeed. However, I believe that whoever is president he should get involved with the high payments of Medicare and lower that amount from $98 to $75 with no increases in the future. That would help a lot of people and add $23.00 more to their check. But the only one who mentioned social security was McCain who stated he wants to protect SS. Obama is no Bill Clinton and it will take Bill Clinton to help him in the white house.

professorj: And you hit it on the head. Obama will be sitting down having coffee with Hamas if elected. After all Obama had dinner several times at his house with a man from the PLO which is now Hamas. This man was shown on the TV last week with PLO above his head. What does that tell you. Will this country be attacked. Yes, like Biden stated there will be a crisis. Now, what does Biden know already. Al Qaeda will be planning an attack because it was stated that on the internet. This country is heading for a disaster and Obama will flee to Kenya.

CW: But the devil isn’t and he will be on Obama’s side. The devil likes those that don’t have christian values. And if Obama is elected the devil can also destroy him. That’s because Obama belonged to a racist, white hating, anti-american church for 20 years with a pastor that didn’t preach the gospel and the devil was right in that church. Ayers is also with the devil but his day is coming and it might not be long from now.

Everyone seems to argue about polls. Here is the most accurate one.
http://www.1800-sports.com/presidential-betting-odds.shtml

George,
WHY HAVE YOU FAIL TO REPORT THIS!!! THIS AFFECTS 300 MILLION AMERICANS AND OUR U.S. CONSTITUTION!!!
Pennsylvania Democrat Philip J. Berg, who filed a lawsuit demanding Sen. Barack Obama present proof of his American citizenship, now says that by failing to respond Obama has legally “admitted” to the lawsuit’s accusations, including the charge that the Democratic candidate was born in Mombosa, Kenya.
As WND reported, Berg filed suit in U.S. District Court in August, alleging Obama is not a natural-born citizen and is thus ineligible to serve as president of the United States. Though Obama has posted an image of a Hawaii birth certificate online, Berg demands that the court verify the original document, which the Obama campaign has not provided.
Now Berg cites Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which states that unless the accused party provides written answer or objection to charges within 30 days, the accused legally admits the matter.
Since Obama has only filed motions to dismiss and has not actually answered the charges in the lawsuit, Berg claims, according to Rule 36, Obama has legally admitted he is not a natural-born citizen.
Now Berg is asking the court for a formal declaration of Obama’s admission and asking the Democratic National Committee for another presidential candidate.
In a statement released today, Berg argues that he filed Requests for Admissions on Sept. 15, meaning Obama had until Oct. 15 to answer or face the consequences of Rule 36.
“Obama and the DNC ‘admitted,’ by way of failure to timely respond to Requests for Admissions, all of the numerous specific requests in the Federal lawsuit,” Berg’s statement reads. “Obama is ‘not qualified’ to be president and therefore Obama must immediately withdraw his candidacy for president and the DNC shall substitute a qualified candidate.”

So, john mcain won’t be able to answer the phone until his blood thinner kicks in.

The only ones who knows the devils will are those who are in leagues with him.. as mariann apparently is!!
Fortunately, the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster has already reached out his noodly appendage and is protecting Obama and his campaign from the evil one for eternity!
Obama/Biden ’08

That longwinded post that Obama is not a citizen needs to stop spreading lies and read the facts.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

What a remarkable series of comments! It appears that some insane asylum has, no doubt through a clerical error, released a group of nitwits suffering from delusions of adequacy. Mariann, I’m sure that your are a nice enough person when not naddering on about things far beyond your ken. Whyn’t you head home and have some anisette and coffee; it might calm you down. Fortunately, even in the unlikely event that McSwine is elected, no conceivable Congress is going to buy foreclosures at face value from the bankers who made the bad loans. If you really think this is a master plan, you are too dumb to vote. Voted for Bush twice, I bet, at least if they let you out.
‘Professorj’ claims to be a real cheese whiz, but I bet he is a Republican troll who only invented his story about being an engineer. I know plenty of conservative scientists and engineers, and also liberals, moderates, socialists and communists. Most American scientists are voting for Obama. We are heartily sick of stupid running the country. The republican party has been anti-science, anti-technology, and anti-reality for years, ever since the neocons took over. Four more years of their garbage will put us at about the technical level of Yugoslavia.

Hup – you sound like a bully! Get some counseling. Obama 08

Chuck, the wealthy billionairs (Buffet/Soro) and millionairs (Obama/pelosi/Fannie Mae CEO) are Dems. And the brian deads are you who educated by lib professors like the Nobama’s terrorist friend Bill Ayers only serve to pollute your mind. Don’t forget Nobama promised to cut US defense and the Iran can deliver nuclear war head from a commercial ship. You and your family will be in real danger with Nobama-pelosi-Raid control US!
Get unbiased news from foxnews.com and newsmax.com

“Benji and Alabama for Obama”
> Factcheck.org is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation, which also funded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama and William Ayers distributed tens of millions of dollars to leftist organizations
>Benji get your head out of your A** and go to the actual case file #08-CV-04083 at the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Pennsylvania website. There you can read the facts of the case,instead of posting your worthless comments from you and all other non-believers!! The facts you are reading are a matter of law, not website gossip!!!
> “If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don’t tell them he’s a damned fool, they’ll never find out.
- Life on the Mississippi – Mark Twain
> Support your comments with facts, reference, point of contacts, validated proof….DON’T WASTE SPACE WITH YOUR BS!!
>The only fear you have to face is yourself, denial to the facts will cause you more fear!!!

Already 13 fraudulent votes for Obama discovered by Palestra.com. How many more? I am sure the mainstream media will not comment or put their best spin on the issue.

Patrick, Well hang onto your shorts because the dems aren’t gonna stop that kind of crap until the polls close.

vic you and hup must have crawled out of the same hate hole. I live in Alabama and see your kind everday. Conferdate flags hanging from trailers so nasty I wouldn’t let my dog’s live in them. These people hate black’s and believe GOD loves them more than any black person. It’s easy to call a man a fool on a post. I know these people and they know me and none have called me a fool to my face. And who do they support,MCCAIN, In the debates I recall Mccain could never look Obama in the, so it seems birds of a feather fly together.

Not every conservatives are white. I am colored but I knew Nobama and all his racist friends (Wright, and Louis Farrakhan)will bring down this great nation no any terrorist could ever dread of. Nobama called his own grandma the typical white forks and that is how he thinks of all the whites. In his book and 1995 speech he wanted pay back time for him and his racist friends.
He thinks American is a down right mean country!

Vic,
Don’t you know, the real John McCain died in the Hanoi Hilton on July 27, 1968 shortly before the North Vietnamese produced the fake confession to war crimes which he supposedly signed. The current substitute McCain is a Russian spy. We demand a DNA test!

Thanks for the correction on the web site for Palestra.net. I do find it amazing that the college network broke this story. Were is the professional media. Opps, I forgot they are all at the shioe stores trying to discover Mrs. Palin’s shoe size.

Do you think anyone dare to walk 1 mile in Harlem, NY or Chicago south side after dark? Hope you know who lives there. Those are poor minority area. It’s the poverty and lack of education that create hatred. The way to help the poor is to create jobs by cutting taxes on business, not handouts that do not offer good lifes.

Fred, Drew Griffin admitted today that he misquoted the article. The article was in the National Review and Drew Griffin used part of a sentence that criticizing the media and made it sound like the article was critizing Mrs. Palin. They most likely removed it from the transcript you read because the National Review called them on it.

“Alabama for Obama” – The attorney in questioned is a life long Democrat, this has nothing to do with politics, it’s about the protection of the U.S.Constitution.
“Fred” – Read my comments, denial is your biggest fear!! You have provided “nothing” to support your claim, validate your comment, if you can. McCain by the way has provided his medical records (his DNA included), college records,birth certificate showing the “place” of birth and not “registry” of birth,to the Media and Federal Election Commission. To this date,Mr. Obama has fail to provide his medical records, college records, and placed a document showing a “registry” of birth in his website that Forensic Document experts determine to be ‘fake’.
This all can be resolved quickly by Mr. Obama giving out this information that Mr. McCain has already provided. However since you did not go to the U.S.District Website you don’t know this. Mr. Obama a/k/a Barry Soetoro has instead (8) attorney’s trying to hide this information from “YOU” a voter who has no “clue” what’s going on and just to damn lazy to find out!!! The lawsuit in Hawaii required his presents in order to prevent any information from being release before being heard in Federal Court. There are now several more lawsuit in progress from some of his own supporters who now have questioned his ID, only because of his paternal grandmother,Sarah Onyango Obama(his fathers mother)who witnessed by being present and signing his birth document as a witness to his birh in Mombasa,Kenya. You must understand that his grandmother was very proud and stating to everyone in public that her grandson will be President of the United States, without realizing what her comment has done, a BBC reporter picked up on this report. This is the matter currently being investigated, but most importantly the Attorney in questioned is expecting a decison from the U.S.District Court Judge before the November 4th elections. We can talk more about this if you like when the court case is closed!

ABC,NBC,CNN,CBS,and MSNBC are all jokes thay are all for obama and there polls are over polling Dem.’s and that why he has a lead in the polls. that poll of polls and average is fack thak poll that are old and put them in to put obama ahaed. For REAL POLLS GO TO http://newsexpress.weebly.com/

Vic,
I hope that you and Berg have a great time together in the psycho ward.

“benji” – Opps sorry forgot about you, I live in the same world that you live in except I don’t denial my fears, I seek answers. I’m assuming that you are a young kid trying to make a point and did not bother to go look at the U.S.District website because you are not use to seeking out “facts”. If you are in college then this is something you must do in order to obtain a PhD, you cannot defend your research based on hearsay. Let me bring it down to your level,instead of trying to be a Dr. McCoy, think more like Mr. Spock,think logically. Why would someone try so hard to hide something that is very simple to reveal,and would prove “everyone” wrong by doing this!!!

“alabama for obama”-Exactly my point thankyou.If you had read the case file you would have already known about the article in About,instead you refer to a “website” that refers to another “website” Factcheck.org(see my previous note about Factcheck.org) thus your “Urbanlegend”. Get the sleep you need it, because the most simple research has exhausted you. Leave it to the Attorney’s who will have to prove their cases not from webites or gossip but from facts!!!

Don’t forget Bradley’effect.In recently 2008 Democratic primary in New Hampshire the opinion polls showed Obama has led his rival by 11% on voting day. But he eventually lost by 2% to Hillary Clinton.If Obama’leads are less than 11% McCain will win this thing.

Christian should not put a baby killer in the White House.

woman4palin: I agree – a woman shouldn’t have any choice over whether she has a baby or not. If she’s stupid enough to fall pregnant, she should be forced to have the baby. It isn’t only her choice – it’s the choice of us all. After she has the baby, THEN it’s her problem. She can get herself two jobs and raise it herself, or adopt it out and hope that some lunatic doesn’t torture the child ’till it’s nine years old, murder it then toss it into the freezer. Our society DOESN’T CARE about the baby after it is born. Then it’s private business. But – when it’s in the womb – it’s public business. Right, woman4palin?

Joe the HOTHEAD!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081025/ap_on_el_pr/joe_mccain911;_ylt=Ai_P8ZCSy53Pq6dWF9JbQ7ph24cA
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1008/559004.html

Oonogli, I agree. I had respect in the past for George, but during this election have come to see his bias. I quit watching his show after the round table attacked McCain for calling for Mr. Cox to be fired. At that point they all called for Obama to win. It is unfortunate for all American’s that we cannot get the unbiased stories from the media. I try to find the truth between the lines, but it is not easy. It may get worst if one party get total control. I believe they will try to make laws to silent all opposing views. Watch after the election, the Obama media will have story to try to make them look unbias. A little late!!

Fakelin is not only a red neck but a domestic terrorist, she and first dud, are members of the racist AIP, why don’t the repugnant party want to discuss this very treasonous issue.

The Bradley Effect has been proven to be a myth. There were other factors in play with that election.

Ohio,Virginia,Pennesylvania,North Carolina,Florida,Colorado,Nevada,Indianaand Missouri. Please Go Vote Obama in. I can’t wait for your states to become BLUE just like me BLUE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC RUN state of Massachusetts. It is about time you spread the wealth and start providing for your own residents instead of sending them to Massachusetts to carry the burden of Housing and Welfare for the less fortunate just because we have such lenient and easy qualifications. With an Obama presidency I know you will all have to provide for the less fortunate and spread your wealth. Now may-be Florida and New York will take those signs down in their bus statons telling people to move to Mass. for our housing and benefits.( This is a fact, known by our Welfare and Housing dept.) I know I’m going to put a sign up at my bus station letting them know your states have turned BLUE and are providing the the same housing and wonderful programs as Mass. Thank-you, now may-be the Middle class tax burdened in Mass. can finally get a break.

McCain has been out-strategized, outmaneuvered, and out-gunned in this war called election by Obama. So much for his experience and judgment. As for his judgment, first he picks an unqualified running mate Palin, whom they are now they are calling ‘rogue’. McCain should be spending his time in a rocking chair on a porch and watch Obama fix the mess that his buddy Bush made with his support.

Who are the incredibly moronic 44% of Americans that want four more years of Republican destruction of America?

This election is making me a nervous wreck. I can’t wait for it to be over.
VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 08!
For all our sakes!

Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, brings far more promise to the office. In a time of grave economic crisis, he displays thoughtful analysis, enlists wise counsel and operates with a cool, steady hand. The same cannot be said of Sen. McCain.
Since his early acknowledgement that economic policy is not his strong suit, Sen. McCain has stumbled and fumbled badly in dealing with the accelerating crisis as it emerged. He declared that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong” at 9 a.m. one day and by 11 a.m. was describing an economy in crisis. He is both a longtime advocate of less market regulation and a supporter of the huge taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailout. His behavior in this crisis — erratic is a kind description — shows him to be ill-equipped to lead the essential effort of reining in a runaway financial system and setting an anxious nation on course to economic recovery.

I listened with interest Cookie Roberts analysis of Sarah Palin. My sense is that there is a lack of understanding how Sarah is perceived by the average voter.
Palin comes off as a zealot and until the word Diva was used yesterday, a reasonable description.
The bigger problem for Mc Cain and Palin is they failed to speak to the voter about what they are going to do, but instead focused on how bad Obama is. The tactic of fear and negative campaigning or speaking about very narrow issues does not broaden the base.
The notion that Palin was treated poorly is foolish. Out of the box she showed an inability to answer even basic questions or communicate clearly.
Wrong campaign, message, and Sarah Palin is not in the same league as Tom Ridge, Romney or a whole host of others.
George Will’s fixation with the narrow base is myopic and Peggy Noonan assessment is most accurate.

ABC and George Stephanopolous do you think you could report on Obama’s birth certificate? He was not born in Hawaii!!! And it’s not over yet. Obama better now forget to have them send the buses out to pick up the people Acorn registered to vote. That could make a big difference.

Alaska’s largest newspaper, the Ankorage News did announce that they endorsed Obama Yea!and they told why. Also, that stupid thing about Obama’s birth certificate was thrown out of court, since the court said his birth certificate was legit, also old Hawaiian newspaper archive that announced his birth in Hawaii.Some people on this blog and others need some serious help, never in my life read so much hate,racism etc and all the time most pretend to be godly, may God help us all.