Obama About to Be Hit on Questionable Associates

Now this is the kind of campaign the press loves. Look for them to cover these stories with glee. I guess it’s just too bad the Obama campaign is too classy to keep dredging up McCain’s “associations” like Charles Keating, Joe Bonano, Vicki Iseman, Amy Lumet

I fully expect to see ads accusing Obama of being related to bin Laden because of thee similarity in their names. This will get ugly – like we’ve never seen before.

Bring it! We’ll hit McCain for cheating on BOTH of his wives and also the Keating 5

All I can say is it’s about time SOMEONE started looking into these matters.
I think the reason is because the McCain camp has decided to not play Mr. Nice Guy anymore and start bringing up things the MSM has refused to report on.
This will be their pathetic attempt to act like they got there first.

yes, jake, don’t point out that McCain has gone 100% negative at this point. that campaign has nothing to offer, no facts, expertise, or personal connection with the electorate. what’s left? back to attacking obama’s character.
country first!
hope you get an invite to the BBQ!

The problem with this is that the right wing has maintained a constant fever pitch of hate on these topics for months. How many voters are at there that a) would be swayed by the mention of these names and b) haven’t heard them ten billion times already?

Nothing to see here people , move along.

And the Obama campaign will respond in kind. There’s plenty of dirt on McCain.
I think each side was holding back until things looked bad for their candidate. Now McCain will get McNastier, and Obama will unleash similar attack ads.
If Obama is smart, he’ll emphasize McCain’s well-documented temper. There are a lot of Republicans that Obama can quote about that. That — along with McCain’s poor judgment — I think will be enough to counter anything McCain can come up with.

Jake, it’s not questions leveled by a political opponent in the Walsh case (Will County, IL). THe FBI has raided Walsh’s offices — that’s a little more than “questions leveled.” And Obama has reuqested many tens of thousands (maybe more; I didn’t research the figure) in earmarks for ole’ buddy Walsh.

It’s also amazing to me that while many newspapers in the this country are investigating and reporting on Obama’s ties to ACORN and their role in the mortgage/housing meltdown, the MSM has yet to cover this in any depth.

The McCain camp can’t for a moment stand on their commitment to the real issues affecting this country. They know their policies won’t help the majority of real, middle class people in this country, and so they know they have to resort to lies, deception, and manipulation to have any appeal whatsoever. Pathetic and dishonorable to our country.

Obama will go down as the ‘worst’ nominated democrat ever – due to his associations with the terrorists, anti-americans, marxists and communists.
Hillary would have been the best president ever but the Obama zombies screwed this election up.
McCain/Palin 2008 as care takers,
Hillary 2012

I lived in India, Europe and Now US. I have never seen such a worst media in my entire life.
almost all the medias are tank for Obama and are not reporting the facts of link with corrupt and radicals links.
America Started following and no onw could stop

S-W-E-E-T.

can you beleive the lies that they are just letting fly
just like Palin’s debate performance…they figure lets throw every bit of crap out there…
just like the last 8 years…
Mccain only has lies and slander left…
and Americans ain’t buying…
wmd, judicial appointments, Libby, global warming, energy meetings, abu ghraib…etc etc…
and now going for a 9th year
throw these bums to the curb.

How about a commercial with some footage of an Obama-organized ACORN rally? You know, 250 people that look like Flavah Flav screaming in a bank lobby that they are demanding mortgages?

people supporting obama, be careful, you might just get what you are wishing for, except it wont be what you thought it would.

What about McCain’s Gambling Associates? I am sure there are some waiting in the wings.

Being a racist is nothing to be proud about, and many in this country will have a wake up call if the racists have their way, just remember that…

Change is coming and the racists will find themselves at the end of their ropes. Change can be peaceful or not, it all depends..

Nobody can even come close to NOBAMA’s creepy associations!
NOWAY NOHOW NOBAMA
McCain/Palin 08
Hillary 2012

Mitch
That’s probably the MOST insane thing I’ve read on these boards. McCain cooperated with the enemy? That’s libel, are you aware of that? It literally makes me sick to my stomach that those of you on the left spew the hate and lies that you do in order to put Obama in office. OBAMA, not McCain has ties to American enemies, Ayers, Wright, and MANY MANY from the Muslim world INCLUDING the man that paid for his Harvard education. All of those connections are documented by the PRESS and by Obama himself, with actual paper trails. To assault McCain’s true record of duty to his country, is COWARDLY.
GROW UP

The Republicans are nervous… in basic panic mode. If someone in America doesn’t know about the Rev. Wright, Ayers, and Rekzo… then their simply in their own little world.
These association didn’t stop Obama back in April and they won’t stop him now.

NOBAMA has always tried to divid this country on Racial lines and income profiles. He is a traitor and we need to send him back to suthside Chicago where he belongs.
NOWAY NOHOW NOBAMA

Gotta love the GOP slime conspiracies! Sure there is a segment of the population that will believe whatever they are told, and the nastier the better. That’s is what gets them excited.
But this is 2008 not 1988. Responsible people can fact check anything they want in a matter of minutes if not seconds.
The playbook that Republicans are using is old and outdated, just like their political party.

Here’s the thing, and this is really key: none of Barack Obama’s associates have cost taxpayers BILLIONS of dollars.
But, maybe Americans like being cheated by Republican associates. Maybe they’re used to it, like women who are used to spousal abuse.

About time – yes, just the right time. Obama’s unholy trinity – Wright, Ayers and Rezko. Father, Brother*, and Holy Spirit (*He’s the son – the Obamessiah). His spiritual mentor, his political mentor – from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge onward, and his financial mentor. He can’t dodge that these and many other “machine” politicians and hangers-on are his past, the mess that is Chicago is his present legacy, and God help us what will be his legacy if he become President….

Whatever! I am prepared to vote Obama/biden,cos maccain is no alternative,simple and short!!you can call Obama whatever you like,he is still better than mCcain in all respect,period. I wouldn’t dare take this risks called McCain,never!!!!!
Obama/Biden ’08

oh Brenda
nice try but laughable
the spin and lies are in full bloom from the same team for the last 8 years…
Mccain palin trying to go for a 9th.
throw these bums out.

Brenda, Well you dont know because youve never seen his service record. You are assuming that since he served that hes a war hero. Thats ludicrous. I am a vietnam vet and I know that many who served were not heroes at all. Lets just take a look at his service record and I will shut up, I promise. Why would someone who is a war hero not want his record to be proudly presented to his bosses (all american people) unless there is edvidence of wrongdoing?It could be the cherry on top of his campaign and lay to rest all these rumors. But still he refuses to let his Bosses see what he did while employed. Sounds way too fishy to me. So stop your grandstanding and join with me demanding that his record be fully opened up

McCain pulls his campaign out of Michigan. Because, as we know, when the going gets tough, McCain leaves town.
Republican smears and inuendo. Yah, they’ve worked great so far:
ELECTORAL MAP
Obama 338 McCain 185 Ties 15
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
Obama 264 McCain 163 Toss Up 111
NPR
Obama 269 McCain 200
INTRADE
Obama 273 McCain 185
POLITICO
Obama 353 McCain 185

“The press has been force feeding NOBAMA so far. It is along the same lines as what happend in Germany when it got force fed by the propoganda machine of Hitler!”

I would venture to guess that you can scratch the surface of any politician (including Bush, and in his case you don’t have to look far) and find some dirt. Nature of the beast. It may boil down to what kind of dirt you are willing to accept in your elected officials. In my case, I’ll take Obama/Biden any day over McCain/Palin. At least my team has brains and intelligence and good judgment. McCain’s choice of Palin shows me he’ll choose fluff if he thinks it will help him win in November and the consequences of that amazingly bad decision will put the country in horrific situations. Can you imagine Palin at the helm? Well, I guess some of you are ok with that. Talking points over substance and thinking skills…I hope this isn’t America at its best because if it is we’re in deep doodoo. No, I’ll take Obama with all his supposed garbage any day because he will just be a better president and make better decisions than McCain and/or Palin ever could.

“He also, in 1993, joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a twelve attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996″
Nice try, but you know the facts. Obama was teaching ACORN volunteers how to use intimidation tactics, how to force up the voter registration resulting in voter fraud, and suing banks to force them to give out subprime loans.
You even know how this works with HUD holding the foreclosure assets for non-profit associations to fence the goods. It’s a scam and it is government wide with both Democrats and Republicans in it up to their bald lieing faces.
Prosecutorial malfeasance is a far bigger crime, fella. Here is where I agree with dl: throw the bums out but be sure you get all of the bums, even the ones with the degrees from the big ten schools and the family connections.
Bums can wear expensive suits as long as they take the money from the people on the street first.

Same old dishonorable, Republican sleeze. For a change, Mr. McCain, please tell us EXACTLY what you’ll do to move our country forward — I don’t think that you have it in you to do so!

Its true that he constantly puts in our face that hes a POW, POW, POW, so it is relevant that he should reveal in totality what he did while employed by us as a US serviceman. What does he have to hide? Its should be public record what he did while employed by us, especially since he now wants to be promoted to CEO.

Yikes that last post got mangled somehow.
Basically I was talking about hitting McCain as a deregulator.
And his deep entrenched economic philosophy that government oversight and regulation is bad.

Concerned in OH
The associations of Barrack Obama will hit like a freight train! I knew it would happen sooner or later

IT’s ABOUT TIME !
It’s about damm time!!!
I live in Chicago and these politicans are all corrupted that includes Obama.
Posted by: blksister | Oct 4, 2008 11:11:05 AM

I’m curious:
How many candidates are currently under investigation? (One that was started by a bi-partisan committee.)
How many of the candidates are currently ignoring subpoenas? (I mean, it’s just the LAW right?)
How many cadidates have $87,000 in income that mysteriously disappeared on their taxes?
Anyone?

I think Mitch should be the spokesperson for the Dems!

Obama has ENOUGH money and Messiah Complex he bought a TV station in Colorado so now you can have 24/7 Obama!
Come on now! I used to really admire the man, but now. If he has enough money to buy a TV station he has WAY TOO MUCH financial backing!
He just really lost it

Here is what NOBAMA’s associates have cost this coutry:
Jaime Gorlick, Jim Johnson, Frank Raines, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd: Trillion of dollars and their homes
Terrorist Ayers, Racist Farrakhan: Many innocent lifes due to their terrorist and proviking acts.
Racist, Anti-American Wrong: he brain washed people attending his church including NOBAMA, NOMichelle and their innocent children with anti-American sentiments.
Rezko: Many poor people their homes
NOWAY NOHOW NOBAMA

Concerned in OH: Well, that’s the problem with the “associations” that the smear machine is trying to make against Obama. The Chicago papers have known of these stories for YEARS, and they’ve written extensively about them. They know that there are no real ties to Ayers. Truth is that he does only know him in passing, and they happen to have served on a board together, Ayers hosted a political gathering, but contrary to what the smear machine is saying, Ayers has never even donated any money to him. The lies have been debunked time and time again by newspapers and independent fact-checkers, but people still want to smear Obama, and paint him as “the other.” Everyone knows that it’s all just a ploy to make him look “scary.” He’s not.
I mean, look at the Rezko thing. The Chicago papers’ (2 major papers — Sun Times & Tribune) investigative reporters have EXHAUSTIVELY (literally) interviewed Obama on this matter. Obama met with them and they asked him questions until THEY HAD NO QUESTIONS LEFT. They’ve dug through all the paperwork. They’ve concluded that there’s NOTHING THERE. No sign that Obama did anything improper. In fact, they COMMENDED Obama on his openness about the matter. Furthermore, even Rezko’s federal trial failed to produce even the slightest sign of Obama wrongdoing. Why? Because, though people want to smear Obama with his “radical connections,” there’s just not any “there” there. The feds pressed Rezko. You know what he said? He said that he would not lie to save himself, that he would not make something up about Obama, just to make the feds happy. (Rezko is meeting with the feds about Blagojevich.) Do you really think the press would have sat on this story if there was even the slightest sense that Obama did something wrong?! I mean, they’ve pored over everything else, but they would just ignore this? That notion is ridiculous.
With regard to Rev. Wright, Wright has said some very stupid and ridiculous things, but that’s not all he has done. I’m not trying to defend the guy, but Wright’s church was also known in Chicago for its work in the community. People of all stripes have commended its work on HIV/AIDS, education, employment, housing, etc. The church has done many good works for the common man and woman.
The bottom line remains that people will stop at nothing to assassinate Obama’s character. People so desperately want to see him as some kind of “radical” who is “outside the mainstream.” But look at the people who are his closest friends — the ones who really know him — they’re mainstream, including some VERY conservative senators, authors, intellectuals, everyday people of all kinds of backgrounds. Do you really think these people would be friends with Obama if he was some kind of “radical”? They just simply wouldn’t.
Stop the smears.
(And just for a final counterpoint, the press hasn’t really looked into McCain’s associations. I can guarantee you that they will though. Some of them may surprise people. Let’s see if the same people trying to smear Obama now will still believe in guilt by association when that information comes forward. Or will people change their song then?)

You forgot to mention that Former Alderman Dorothy Tillman was found guilty Thursday of trespassing at a hospital in Alabama six months ago.
Obama endorsed former Alderman Dorothy Tillman (3rd), calling her “a very early supporter of my campaign.” Tillman was then under fire for her stewardship of the scandal-plagued Harold Washington Cultural Center, where contracts benefited members of her family.
I have been very proud of my track record as a state legislator and as a U.S. senator in terms of maintaining highly ethical behavior throughout my public life,” he said in a recent interview. “Dorothy Tillman and Alexi Giannoulias were strong supporters of mine. There were no allegations that they had done anything illegal. And it was not a conflict for me to show my support for them.”

The choice has never been clear:
Either vote for American War Hero Maveric McCain Or Terrorist friend, Marxist, Friend of America haters, me first NOBAMA.

Questionable Associates—-what about Obama himself. Many bloggers were wondering why Barack Obama was not prosecuted by the State of Illinois for not telling the truth on his legal paperwork. In 1991 Mr. Obama signed an application to IBAB and denied that he owed outstanding parking tickets, he falsified his application and gained admission to the bar by fraud. It is because he resigned as a lawyer sometime in March 2007, and he could not be prosecuted because he no longer had his law license. Therefore if he loses the Presidential run he will not be returning to the law. By the way, he was blatantly flagrant as he had 17 outstanding parking tickets. Of course this does not clear up the part that he also lied about ever having used another name which there seems proof that he went by Barry Soetoro; Barry Obama; Barack Dunham; Barry Dunham.
Posted by: Ann | Oct 4, 2008 11:22:28 AM

Palin is appealing to the AK supreme court to stop the investigation into her dealings.
Look for details of her abuse of power to be released on the 10th.

Obama’s propoganda machine is EXACTLY like Hitler’s. Nobama now has his own channel, he has children chanting his name, he had his own Presidential Seal (while being a Junior Senator), the only thing missing is ‘a new salute’
NOWAY NOHOW NOBAMA

“Don’t hand me the crap that Obama was 8 years old when the Ayers thing happend, was he 8 years old when he sat on the same board as Ayers, or when Ayers held a fundraiser for him?”

Obama’s propoganda machine is EXACTLY like Hitler’s. Nobama now has his own channel, he has children chanting his name, he had his own Presidential Seal (while being a Junior Senator), the only thing missing is ‘a new salute’
NOWAY NOHOW NOBAMA

Associates? You mean McCain/Bush/Schmit/Rove!
These negative ads are from the same guys that brought us 2 Bush Terms!
Go Obama/Biden all the way!

All I can say is it’s about darn time someone looked into something on O, heaven knows the media isn’t going to do anything.

When will ABC, you, or other major news organizations take another look at The Keating Five scandal?
Talk about questionable associations!

Ofcourse thae GOP has to use negitivity and fear as a way to try to win. Its the only way they ever win. They cant win on their merits or the fact your better off today than 4-8 years ago.
They have already run the Ayers, Wright thing in the ground and the new attack approach will backfire on McCain. Like I said, with Rove and Bush in a dress this McCain ticket will just be more of the same. Why doesnt he talk about the immigration issues, failed border security, FDA and other sub branch failures, 760000 lost jobs in 2008 alone, a failing prison system, job outsourcing etc…Because he cant. He supported Bush on most Bush policies. I guess at this point he has to use negitive ads and campaining because until he is President he cant claim Executive Privilege. He broke under torture as a POW as others didnt. He graduated bottom of his class and was more interested in drinking and parties than studies. He voted against Vet affairs and the GI bill. Palin is a puppet that can only go by script and rehearsal. They are continuing everyday showing Americans they are the past, think like the past and are just a new Bush/Cheney/Rove ticket.

Obama is a dangerous man for the country.
All his friends and mentor are racist, bombastic, terorist.
He has no credit for doing anything good for this country.That is scared.

Obama is slimmy just like his friends.
If you take blacks out of the equation Obama who are going to vote for him 100 percent he would already be losing in the polls in a landslide

Dear Concerned in Ohio.
I wrote in John McCain’s name in 2000, because I couldn’t stand another four years of Clinton in the form of Gore. When I found that Hillary Clinton was running, I fully intended to vote McCain again.
So, there’s no “messiah” complex here. Just someone disappointed that the maverick reformer has, in the words of Jon Stewart, become a reformed maverick. I really hoped this election would have been different. But now I don’t know what McCain is thinking, and Palin scares the hell out of me because I *do* know what she’s thinking.
Why don’t you get out of the partisan mudpile and try to debate the topic brought up by Tapper, instead of slagging the other posters.

not to mention she is defying a court ordered summons…claiming executive priviledge
ugh
if that is not change…lol
same team
same tactics
same bull
throw these bums out.

It’s not going to work because the truth will come out and the truth will make McCain look desperate because his poll numbers are dropping and everyone knows that. Obama came from a good background and grew up with good values. And the Obama campaign are ready to counterattack, they knew this was coming.

Levi
I disagree
I think this will all backfire on mccain
because most of America knows we were lied into the situation we are in.
and all this bull just shows Mccain and Palin as a continuation of that same team
the same tactics
the same dangerous unAmerican bologne that got us in this mess.
throw these bums out.

This was brought up before but like the topic of John Edwards cheating on his wife the LIBERAL Media never covers the story.
It took the National Enquirer to break the story.

When America learns the full story of the Keating Five and the part McCain played in helping Arizona developer Charles Keating, voters will get a glimpse into the heart of a self-proclaimed maverick. There’s nothing maverick about a U.S. Senator lobbying inside the federal bureaucracy for one of his campaign contributors. McCain was dirty then and he’s dirty now. I can’t wait for the ads that will help us all learn more about the Keating Five scandal. McCain himself called it the worst thing he’s every done.

McCain is like a fighter going down for the count. He’s going to flail away with lies and distortions hoping to land a punch. McCain better remember his own past .. KEATING 5
Flail away McCain.. out of Michigan and next out of PA.

They are untrue! I’ve been following the democratic primaries and all of this already came up, and have been rebutted by the media and independent sources.

McCain is running on empty when it comes to issues, so he will go negative. We all knew it was coming. History will look back on his campaign and see that McCain’s legacy will be as the Sleaziest Presidential candidate ever.

The desperation from the McCain camp has become evident. They can’t win on policy (because they have none), they can’t win on judgement (because they have none), they can’t run on experience (thank you Ms Palin).
The Republican’s entire stagtegy has back fired and will cost then the election. Why? Because they have no real strategy accept try ands steal Obama’s message of change. Too funny!
Now they can only try personal smears based on inuendo and false accusation. People are tired of the Republican BS. It’s saying, “Yah, we know we suck, but look what they might have done”.
WHO IS CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION?
WHO IS IGNORING SUBPOENAS?
WHO CONDUCTED GOVERNMENT BUSINESS USING PERSONAL ACCOUNTS TO TRY AND AVOID POTENTIAL SUBPOENAS?
(HINT: It’s not Obama or Biden.)

This is what the bailout cost:
Bailout type Cost to taxpayers (Source: Reuters)
Financial bailout package approved this week up to or more than $700 billion
Bear Stearns financing $29 billion
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalization $200 billion
AIG loan and nationalization $85 billion
Federal Housing Administration housing rescue bill $300 billion
Mortgage community grants $4 billion
JPMorgan Chase repayments $87 billion
Loans to banks via Fed’s Term Auction Facility $200 billion+
Loans from Depression-era Exchange Stabilization Fund $50 billion
Purchases of mortgage securities by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac $144 billion
POSSIBLE TOTAL $1.8 trillion+
NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS PER U.S. CENSUS 105,480,101
POSSIBLE COST PER HOUSEHOLD $17,064+
This is enough to make anyone sick
Well BOTS looks like big big tax hikes and no money for the messiah to buy ya all new Cadillacs! The ONE will say sorry no money no tickie!
He wanted this huge bill now you all gtta eat IT!

If the McCain camp really wants to go here… bring it on.
McCain didn’t just meet a shady character… he is his own shady association. HE was the criminal in the Keating Five scandal. He didn’t just meet a criminal. He, literally, was the criminal himself.
And if Republicans really want to get into this territory, we can talk about McCain’s classlessness in dumping his sick wife for a much younger, thinner, wealthier woman after a prolonged, dishonest extramarital affair. That ought to go a long way with independent women voters.

I believe McCharacter has to introduce something new if this is to work. We know about the assosiactions and if media don’t get anything else, they will settle for the Obama defence, which is “attack is the best defence”.
When Dems shout liar, lies, old politics hard enough and the media fail to question it; I’m sorry, but some of the teflon stick. It’s not fair, because Obama is the worst sellout I’ve seen in years.
Palin is disgracing Obama every day by being there, a true middle class and hones politician, better qualified than Obama and number two – not one. McCain should let her loose, he can take the attention she steels.

The problem is everyone knows that McCain was censured by the Senate for the Keating 5 and anyone who’s undecided now, who the ads should be aimed at, are going see the hypocrisy in ads of someone associating with someone who’s under investigation, yet never resorted to using the government to try to rescue that person as McCain did.

McCain cannot win with a positive campaign. It will 24/7 character assassination from here on out.
He can’t talk about the issues because all his policies are just like George Bush’s, except the tax on your employer-provided health care which is a policy worse than George Bush’s.

the fact that you are still trying to tie Bush to mccain is beyond silly…. you wont get your way and you will be taught a basic poltical lesson
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That we don’t need to mention Bush anymore now that Palin has made an ass out of herself and John McCain?
Or that John McCain’s policies are so rediculously bad for the country, we no longer need to mention they are a mirror image of those of George Bush?
Good Points! Thanks for the “lesson”.
Hahahaha Your funny!

Obama came from a good background and grew up with good values.”

Well, before they start digging in Sen. Obama’s past, people better be mindful of McCain’s family tree also, which involves his great grandfather who owned a 2,000 acre plantation in Mississippi, and had 52 Black slaves in 1860, according to Bishop Henry C. Williams of Oakland California, who is the president and CEO of the Job Work Development Corporation. Bishop Williams states “Those slaves picked over 1,000 bales of cotton, corn and peanuts a year. Slaves and sharecroppers existed on that farm from the 1860s through 1958. THIS IS HOW MCCAIN’S FAMILY GAINED THEIR WEALTH, then the wealth passed down through generations!” Bishop Williams holds the Republican presidential candidate accountable for the continuing legacy of slavery in his Mississippi family history! So, if McCain and the Republican party want to get involved with dirty politics, or anyone else for that matter, then it is time for EVERYONE’S PAST THAT AFFECTS OUR PRESENT SITUATION COME TO LIGHT! And if you think this piece of FACT will lose steam, think again!!!

HP,
I get your bailout message, and agree it sucks, but BOTH campaigns SUPPORTED it. So what’s the point you’re trying to make?

Indeed, it is time for obama to be exposed. Obama’s little games to try and hide his past is going to be his downfall.
The other little goody missing from this story is the rumor that there is currently a federal grand jury in Chicago that is investigating Obama.
A multiple count federal indictment against the Illinois Governor AND Obama may be in the works. Rezko is talking to the Feds. You know he has the goods on Barry.
I’d love to see Obama being handcuffed by US Marshalls at one of his campaign events.
Obama is not going to know what hit him. Time ot expose Obama for his asociations and friendships with terrorists, and his total failures as a “community organizer” and Senator.
Do that, and his support will evaporate. Nobody wants a terrorist sympathizer in the White House. When it comes to delivering change for the people of Illinois, Obama has been missing in action from day one.
The media is in love with Obama. But they will be hard pressed to defend the Empty Suit when the real hard hitting begins this mointh and Obama is exposed at the next two debates.
Hit him and keep hitting him until he folds up his little tent and goes back to Chicago with his tail between his bony legs.
Obama is not a leader. He is a follower. He is weak. He’ll fold like the cheap suit he is.
Posted by: USVet | Oct 4, 2008 11:45:15 AM
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The Champagne is on ice!!!

The problem for the McCain campaign is this is not “new”. This is old news, been hashed and rehashed throughout the primaries. You can blame Hannity for running this into the ground too early in the election cycle.
What it will do is force the Obama people to pull out their oppo research on McCain’s past and inject that into the campaign which would be “new” news to some. Palin’s church and pastor problem have not hit the main stream media yet . I knoe the McCain campaign has officially gone 100% negative, but I fail to see how this is going to help them.

I can’t wait to see the ads with McCain and his buddies the Keating 5 who fleeced taxpayers during the S&L scandal in the 80′s. I can’t wait to see the ads with McCain and his campaign manager the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac lobbyist and former no-show contract hire. I can’t wait to see the ads with McCain accepting over 100,000 more from Fannie and Freddie executives than Obama got from that same group.
McCain probably doesn’t want to delve too deeply into sketchy associates when the worst one Obama has is a guy who was a nut when Obama was 8 years old.
John McCain is as crooked as any Washington politician. He says one thing and does the opposite and switches stances a few times in between. He’s a caricature of his former self now….a grumpy old man who’ll say whatever he feels will pander to the news of the day.

Will all you Obamabots please return to MSN and CNN. All this Obama worship is a little hard to take.

Everyone in America expects McShame to go negative next week. That’s what Republicans ALWAYS do because they have no answers on any real issue important to Americans. The difference this year is that Obama won’t sit still and not respond. Watch the whining on republican radio when Obama releases his own negative ads. Republicans believe that only they should be permitted to slime their opponent and they can’t take it when he fights back. They are like most bullies.

sometimes I read other posts before writing my opinions….
But this ad against Obama is RACIST and STUPID!!!!
It’s amazing how low and dumb folks would go to try and steal an election…
AMERICA!!!! Listen up: You are preparing to elect senator Obama as our next president; please do not allow this trash to sway you….
I digress a little here: The Stock Market dropped a record 777.68 points on Sept. 29th after the House rejected a bill to bail out this economy…..Investor were swayed by a temporary situation that ended up getting passed on yesterday—10/3/2008…
There is no need for the America people to vote as fickle as investors invest their money—-on EMOTIONS!!!
This is an emotional, racist appeal to America to doubt the integrity of senator Obama……
So, let us stay focus and vote for senator Obama; he’s better able to preside as president than anyone else during these times…..

“[Obama] is the guy who knocked out his mentor Alice Palmer from a race so that he could run unopposed. I do think he was responsible for getting the Chicago Tribune to unseal Mike Ryan’s divorce papers (via David Axelrod) so that his campaign would implode.
“Obama is a pro at negative politics and passive-aggressive tactics. He will do ANYTHING to get ahead, but somehow puts out a clean image. A lot of black politicians in Chicago say, ‘anyone but Obama’.”

TRY THIS INSTEAD: I’m a conservative Republican voting for Obama. The reason? I live near Phoenix and have read the Arizona news on McCain for years… including stuff that most Phoenicians have missed.
When McCain was campaigning to “take the high road” I could not stop laughing. This is the guy who lobbied bureaucrats on behalf of his mentor and campaign contributor Charles Keating, so Keating would give him more money for his campaign chest. I do think he was responsible for trying to get Keating a better deal with regulators during the Savings and Loan Crisis.
McCain is a pro at negative politics and passive-aggressive tactics. He will do ANYTHING to get ahead, but somehow puts out a maverick. A lot of politicians in Arizona say, “anyone but McCain.” Signed, McCain is Sleazy as Hell

why can’t mccain and palin discuss issues and now decide their old ‘maverick’ tactic isn’t enough… so their next tactic? attack and dig up dirt… god forbid they talk about policy… cuz guess what… their policies suck! and are the same as george bush’s

Are you tired of being called a racist just because you are not supporting Barack Obama?
“Frankly, the whole racism charge by the Obama supporters is becoming utterly meaningless. Just another conspiracy theory at this point – fabricated and propagated by those who see evil all around anyone who is against Obama. Perhaps everyone needs to examine their own demons and leave others out of it.”
“Mandos and the like gleefully pronounce people they’ve never met or talked to as racist, but give Obama a pass on his sexism, homophobia, and his own connections to the likes of the Rev. Wright, Meeks, and McClurkin.
Isn’t it amazing? This guy is dripping with bigotry and hypocrisy and {{{crickets}}}. Someday we will look back on this period as a seminal psychological study of denial, delusion, and abuse.”
The above are all statements expressed on the PUMA website. We are millions of womrn who supported Hillary Clinton but are voting Mccain/Palin in this election.
Former Hillary Supporters are not backing Obama. The Obamabots will say differently as results of their drive by polls mean virtually nothing. Please Google: PUMA or the Confluence.
We PUMA’s are answering the polls and saying that we will vote Obama. In November we are voting for McCain/Palin. Obama will receive a defeat that he was not expecting. We are millions strong.
PUMA-

GOP, you admitt defeat. That is nice. Because you have still nothing to say about your policies – people know them from the past 8 years and they have failed- you are behind in the polls, now the only thing that is left to you is character assassination. So you start bloating up things in this typical ugly Rove style. But I have good news for you though: If you want to find a criminal in this campaign then look in your own rows.There you wll be successful! Cause you have one “war hero” who left 600 soldiers behind in Vietnam to die miserably. Read http://www.thenation.org “Mc Cain and the POW Cover Up” and read for yourselves. And think about if it is right not only to delibaterately ignore those soldiers cries for help but even see to it that NEW LAWS WERE INVENTED TO BURY THEM FOREVER? Shame, shame, shame on you McCain.
Next point: your VP candidate is currently under criminal investigation as we all know (Troopergate). (Imagine for a second what would be if that were the case with Obama or Biden!) But I guess the fact that she is being investigated does not matter that much.Because she is a Republican. Right?

With this strategy, McCain is trying to make guilt by association an all or nothing issue. If you knew someone, you believe and support everything they’ve ever done.
I think the overwhelming majority of people realize that’s not true.

Can I get a PUMA costume from you? I always liked PUMAS. Good little kitty. I want to be a PUMA for Halloween.
Roooar, Grooowl, Raaaaw
“We’re milloins strong”… what a joke.
Rediculous people who cling to a useless cause are the minority.
This country has far more important things to worry about than some sore losers.

this is hilarious – McCain has more bad associates hidden in his closet than anyone. and a few not hidden – like George Bush. McCain has already lost. He should accept it gracefully. he is a shadow of his former self, a failure.

McCain has gone 100% Negative against Obama.
Here is what McCain thinks of that from quotes from the primaries:
McCain said he drew two lessons from the Iowa caucuses: that negative ads don’t work, and that, “If you’re a person who is trustworthy, you can do well.”
“People aren’t going to be fooled by negative campaigns” McCain said

To The Members of PUMA – Just let it go. Here’s a newsflash for you – nobody cares that you want to vote for McCain/Palin just to be spiteful. If Hillary had been the Democratic Party’s nominee for President, she would not have won anyway.
If you think the GOP is going negative on Obama, there is so much more negative stuff that would have come out about Hillary & Bill’s escapades while they were in the White House that she would not have stood a snowballs chance in Hell of winning the election.
As far as associates go, I’m sure that those throwing the most stones have also had friends and/or associates that you were friendly with and hung out with but that does not mean that you subscribe to everything that they have personally done. Nor should you be held accountable for another adult’s actions. I mean…people let’s please grow up and act like intelligent educated adults, if that is all possible. I am sooooo sick of all the mind games being played.
At 72 years old, and graduating at the bottom of his college class, John McCain could not even be considered a viable candidate for even the CEO of a major US corporation.
If you want to read some dirt, just go research how John McCain treated his “first” wife. I mean the one before the botox – plastic surgery one.

Nothing less would be expected at this point.

This is the type of positive Associates for Obama that have been making the news recently :-D
Barack Obama was at a recent fundraiser when he spotted former Vulcan and Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy. So, what did he do? Reportedly, acknowledged Spock from across the room with a Vulcan hand signal.
Obama/Biden ’08

McCain at it again, this has been looked at before. Doesn’t he have anything else? He is losing and now he wants to go negative? That is all McCain has done the hole campaign that is why he is losing. We American’s are tired of negative stuff, we have plenty with the economy. We do not need this.

The democrats really get p’d off when the same tactics that they use are used against them.

wow, the cult-like response of the republican trolls here are amazing! Asking if he’s born in Kenya? Using code words like ‘Drive-by’, ‘gangster’, etc. Just shameful, hateful and anti-american. If you don’t like Obama or democrats, fine, don’t vote for him, but keep your lies to yourself.

Am I the only person on this board who remembers Obama going to sit with an editorial board to answer these questions??? Does anyone else remember Obama volunteering the records of his transaction???
He answered every single question to the satisfaction of that editorial board (per their account). Has any other politician running in this election displayed such openness about charges leveled against them???
After clearing up that deal the Reverend Wright reared his head. Obama was forced to deal with that head on & he did. Now more crap is being thrown in & mixed with the old crap in an attempt to dump a pot of crap stew on Obama’s head & the media’s gonna play right on along??? Pathetic!!!

McCain told employees at BAE Systems that Romney’s loss was due to his negative campaigning.
(New Hampshire Union Leader)

I love it! It’s killing you all because McSlimey is sliding further down in the poles! Old lizzard tongue is toast! Watch Tuesday night as the old man continues to mumble and stumble through the debate. Just don’t expect him to offer anything on the economy which is all any of us care about!

its about time let the vetting of obama begin.

Concerned in Ohio,
Oh really? It’s well documented. Three campaign aides and reporters overheard it.
Alright, then how about calling Chelsea Clinton ugly and saying her father was Janet Reno, in an insult to Janet Reno and Hillary and Bill? This is something documented.
Biden wrote and got the Violence Against Women Act signed into law. Obama voted for the Equal Pay act while McCain opposed it.
McCain has NEVER fought for women’s right as Obama and Biden have. He shows lack of moral character, and uses expletives in public.
“Gooks” is certainly offensive.

I think its time that we find out about Obama’s career in Illinois. The media has taken Obama at his word and there has been very little about the “Chicago Political Machine”.

This is what the bailout cost:
PRESIDENT OMAMA WILL OWN THIS MESS!
Bailout type Cost to taxpayers (Source: Reuters)
Financial bailout package approved this week up to or more than $700 billion
Bear Stearns financing $29 billion
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalization $200 billion
AIG loan and nationalization $85 billion
Federal Housing Administration housing rescue bill $300 billion
Mortgage community grants $4 billion
JPMorgan Chase repayments $87 billion
Loans to banks via Fed’s Term Auction Facility $200 billion+
Loans from Depression-era Exchange Stabilization Fund $50 billion
Purchases of mortgage securities by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac $144 billion
POSSIBLE TOTAL $1.8 trillion+
NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS PER U.S. CENSUS 105,480,101
POSSIBLE COST PER HOUSEHOLD $17,064+
This is enough to make anyone sick
Well BOTS looks like big big tax hikes and no money for the messiah to buy ya all new Cadillacs! The ONE will say sorry no money no tickie!
He wanted this huge bill now you all gtta eat IT!

Cindy McCain makes the claim in July that:
“none of this negative stuff, you won’t see that come out of our side at all.”

McCain: did he help his old friend and campaign contributor Keating when Keating got charged in the savings and loan scandal? McCain barely escaped prosecution for his role in the scandal. Was McCain’s wife using her charity as a cover to have many prescriptions written, and then claiming the drugs were shipped overseas (no one could find them), then she got caught and had to “confess to a drug habit” while McCain used his influence to prevent her from being prosecuted? This is what I read.

OH how silly you bots are spinning and twisting. Relax you bagged it, we get it you never lie or spin! It is going to be a wonderful world! Hellaluooya!
KOOL AIDE FOR EVERYONE!
I’ll HAVE MY CYNIDE STRAIGHT UP!

Get ready for super nasty. McCain and his lobbyist and Swiftboat buddies have no positive program. We will hear all kinds of smears, and I suspect the Republican administration will try to aid and abet those smears. When you’ve been in charge of a collapsing economy and the highest inflation in 27 years, as Bush-McCain have, you have to preach a change you don’t believe in and won’t carry out, and you have to tear down your opponents. That’s all there is to do. The last time the American people bought the Swiftboat stuff, they got George W. Bush, lies about WMD’s and a collapsing economy.

It’s about time the media finally got around to checking out Obama! He’s a very questionable guy at best. Let the investigations begin, can we send money to help??

It would be hard to dredge up the Keating 5 story , since John McCain, and John Glenn were both exonerated of that. You can’t exactly point a finger at him for that, when he was found only to have used bad judgement.
As for the drug addiction. I believe Mrs. McCain is in recovery. A lot of people get addicted to prescription pain killers. That’s why they’re called narcotics.
If you want to go down that road, how do we know Obama isn’t still using cocain? How do we know that his stutters, and stammering aren’t a cause of that drug use?
Dirty negative adds? Obama’s put out plenty of his own against McCain. Politics gets dirty. Obama promised to take public funding for his campaign, then turned around and went to the private sector? Why? Because it seems, he’s taking contributions from some, in Iran.
And let me remind some, of the horrible ad Obama’s campaign put out, about McCain not knowing how to send an email. That was shameful, and embarrassing on Obama’s part. Which is why he pulled it so quickly. A simple search would have told them, of McCains physical limitations to working at a computer.
And before anyone uses those limitations as a means to say he’s not qualified to be President…..let me also remind you that FDR was in a wheelchair…and he was a Democrat.

I never thought that McCain could resort to this type of TRASH CAMPAIGNING. HE IS A DESPERATE OLD MAN WHO WOULD CORRUPT HIS OWN CHARACTER AND VALUES FOR THE SAKE OF BEING PRESIDENT.
WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT MCCAIN?
THIS IS SLEEZE AND TRASH AND I CANNOT ADMIRE A MAN LIKE MCCAIN…NOT A MAVERICK, JUST OLD TRASH!

McCain said, “This is a very respectful campaign. I’ve repeated my admiration and respect for Senator Obama.
Jake Tapper 8/1/08

Biden says he and Obama will bring about real change in Washington. Biden has been in Washington for 30+ years. Why is it still corrupt? Obama is the Senator for the state of Illinois. What has he done there that helps the people of his own state. Keep dreaming Obamabots.

No good policies to stand on – Check.
George W. Bush is our hero – Check.
Our VP candidate can’t read – Check.
Karl Rove is in the house – Check.
Just another slimy Republican campaign about to unfold. Pathetic.

Bravo, finally, ABC has grown a conscience ? Sometimes it better late than never, but what also has to be done is an investigation in Ohio. Another network aired mishandling of voters yesterday, on same day register,being influenced to vote Obama. This is wrong folks, stand up to this injustice, enough has happen with the stocks, and banking system, now a we must look over our shoulders wondering if this election is clean? Give us a break, let the people decide on their own merit, don’t drive them to the polls and say it was their own thought that morning when you woke them out of their bed. Please Wake up America!!!!

The people who are commenting against this, have you done any research on Obama’s political life in Illinois?
If you have and still think Obama is best to serve the people of the US, then that’s your right.
Just be aware of how he will run the country.

For those of you frothing at the mouth over Obama’s birth cert, Factcheck should satiate yout thirst.
They even took a close-up picture of the raised seal and signature on it for you to stare and scrutinise.
McCain’s behaviour shows his lack of moral compass. In his book he said he wanted to be president because purely of ambition, not patriotism or wanting to serve his country. Wow, no wonder he is stooping so low. I guess he didn’t mean it way back the beginning of this year when he said he wouldn’t take the low road.
Why doesn’t he attack Obama’s policies? Because he has nothing to say?
Country First! Country first!
Well, well! I suppose the smallest dogs bark the loudest!

McCain will prove once again that he is not a different politicican….just another sleazebag if he goes this route. I fully expect him to since he puts an election above integrity. Truth does matter to him as evidenced by his campaign thus far. Does anybody really this guy is a reformer? He is just another demagogue trying to get himself elected so his party can retain power.

Chickens coming home to roost for the Chicago mob thug, Barack Obama.

“Whoop-***”? How old are you?
Anyway, Obama has some odd and repulsive people in his circle. Phleger and Wright’s affection for Farakhan is very disturbing and Obama worked closely with them. If McCain had worked closely with John Birchers nobody would or should cut him slack.
I have no statute of limitations for someone like Ayers – his great defense is that his bombs only intended to destroy property. Too bad they killed people; that’s the way it goes.
I wish Obama had a more extensive record of public service that could be matched against his beautiful rhetoric and overwhelm the stench of Chicago city and machine politics.

McCains negitive ads will back fire I promise. Everyone has heard all this before in the primaries. Americans are living in a negitive/fear time and using that kind of ads and campaining will turn off people as people are tired of it.—-The Rep. amaze me. When McCain was ahead in the polls they beat their chest. Win the same poll sources show Obama ahead and Biden winning the debate, they say the same polls are biased. Now they praise ABC and yet 2 days ago they slammed ABC for being biased except when ABC showed McCain ahead after the RNC. Talk about a flip flop party.

I am not a supporter of Sen. Obama nor Sen. McCain and would never voter for either of them, but I do find it funny how all these things that are being talked about on here have all been mentioned extensively on news outlets. Every thing mentioned about Rev Wright, Rezko,Ayres and Keating 5 I have seen talked about extensively on CNN, FOXNEWS and ABC and NBC news and is how I have found out about these things. I think on both sides people kill their arguments when they blame the media. I find it funny how people on each side only hear or dont hear in these cases what they want to hear on news outlets.

I agree with Biden when he said Obama is not ready to be president. ” WE can’t afford to have on the Job training” Go Joe

Seems to me it is the Obots who are desperate. Look at their posts. Hilarious!!!!
Bring it ABC and all the MSM. Or else journalism will die in 2008.

McCain going more negative, is that possible. He is already 5-10 points behind running a negative campaign.
It’s clear that John McCain doesn’t get it, blaming the financial crisis is unfair to his election.
Do you know what’s unfair, the taxpayers bailing out the investment banks.
Raging against pork spending’s while your VP is a pork queen is unfair.
Going into the Iraq war that is based on lies is unfair. It’s this war that paved the way for Osama bin Laden to enter Iraq.

Any additional lies from McCain will be ignored as he has already shown himself as one who would sell his soul to be president, has no real plans to get the country going again, nor the judgment to run a country (ie. Palin choice). McCain has no integrity left.
Palin, geesh! Anyone that would want SP in a position to be president?…I don’t know, but I would have to suspect lack of intelligence here.

When Obama is president people that speak hate speach about dear leader will go to tolerance camps so they won’t be so mean! Obama will take away the guns so there will be no more crime! Obama will make everyone equal! No more immoral rich people making money off the backs of the poor! No more white oppression! Let the african-americans out of prison that have been jailed for only trying to feed their families. Obama will take them out of prison and send them home!

Jeanie..”It would be hard to dredge up the Keating 5 story , since John McCain, and John Glenn were both exonerated of that. You can’t exactly point a finger at him for that, when he was found only to have used bad judgement.” Is it possible that maybe Obama just used “bad judgement”? As far as Palin goes, she still has “Troopergate” hanging over her head and has refused to cooperate as she initially said she would..wonder what she’s hiding? As far as I’m concerned they’re all hiding something!!!

We have been hearing about Obama’s associations for the past 6 months at length and that strategy didnt work for Hillary and it won’t work for McCain. FoxNews, Rush, and Hannity have run that associations line to adnauseam. I suggest the McCain/Palin campaign work on telling people what a McCain presidency will mean for them. Obama as boogeyman isn’t and hasn’t worked.

“Throughout his life John McCain has held himself to the highest standards and he will continue to run a respectful campaign based on the issues.”
McCain Press Release 3/11/08

Look for the report on Palin’s abuse of power next Friday. Should be interesting.

We’ve seen this before and I’ve expected it all along in this campaign. McCain again says one thing and does another. He really is willing to lose his integrity in order to win an election.
Fortunately, McCain only has soft issues he needs to try to solidify in public opinion – Obama once sat at a meeting with so and so, Obama once said this [insert comment taken out of context].
On the other hand, Obama has substantive issues to use against McCain such as McCain’s extensive ties to lobbyists, the Keating 5 scandal, taxing our health insurance, demonstrated poor judgment on the economy, and a gambling mentality perhaps rising to the level of addiction – issues that actually impact voters.
McCain hasn’t been very good at this attack tact in the past. He was branded as a liar in his last attempt. We’ll see how this plays out in the next month. I think the main stream media and fact check organizations will assess his attacks for what they are; we’ll see how voters respond.
A McCain presidency will not bring the change we need. A Palin presidency will likely be an absolute disaster.

What bothers me is those silly political pundits on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, etc. who go around suggesting that McCain should do this, and McCain should do the other to shift focus…
Some of these fellows actually suggest bringing up these associations…..And folks got the nerve to say the media is in the tank for Obama…The media is not in the tank for Obama…
Certain folks in the media are beginning to see that Obama will when this thing….and now they all seem to be freaking out!!!! Even MSNBC…
The only person in the media that I see behind Obama to a great degree is Keith O. of Countdown….
All the others are beginning to freak out!!!!

“Overheated rhetoric and personal attacks on our opponents distract from the big differences between John McCain’s vision for the future of our nation and the Democrats’. ”
McCain Memo from Campaign Manager, Rick Davis

McCain simply has nothing else to say at this point. No solutions just vague references to reform. I fully expect McCain to get more negative….he puts getting elected above integrity and honesty.

Well….it’s OK, let them come at Obama, and try to throw the kitchen sink at him with all of the garbage they can manufacture. Obama is expecting it, and he will do just fine, and by the way, all you older voters out there, what this means is that the Keating-five episode that John McCain and all of his other Rip-Off Republican associates for which they were invesitgated for corruption charges is back on the Table. Her it is as a reminder:
The Keating Five:
Alan Cranston (D-CA)
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)
John Glenn (D-OH)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Donald W. Riegle (D-MI)
The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly aiding Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of an investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB).
After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised “poor judgment”.
All five of the senators involved served out their terms. Only Glenn and McCain ran for re-election, and they were both re-elected.
In 2008, McCain talks about Obama’s poor judgement, Ethics, and accociations? Well…McCain lives in a glass house, and his own record is also open for examination, while he was a SITTING US Senator.

Want to go negative? Let’s bring it.
McCain divorced his crippled first wife, to marry a beer heiress worth $100 million. Smooth move, meat. Really showing the FAMILY VALUES.
McCain took bribes from from convicted felon Charles Keating. Whoops. So much for character.
McCain graduated almost last in his class, and went on promptly to crash 5 jet aircraft and only survived to fly another day ’cause his daddy was an admiral. He wasn’t shot down over Vietnam because he was unlucky. He was shot down because he was incompetent.
Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain have the goods on his incompetence and treason while a prisoner of war.
Once they found out who he was (admiral as a dad) they moved him to a first rate hospital where he stayed. His buddies were left to rot in the Hanoi Hilton.
McCain had more lobbyists raising money for his campaign, than any other candidate combined. He’s in their back pockets, literally.
These are just the examples I can think of off the top of my head.
Sure you still want to go negative?????????
We’ve got negative. Believe me.

GOP, you admitt defeat. That is nice. Because you have still nothing to say about your policies – people know them from the past 8 years and they have failed- you are behind in the polls, now the only thing that is left to you is character assassination. So you start bloating up things in this typical ugly Rove style. But I have good news for you though: If you want to find a criminal in this campaign then look in your own rows.There you wll be successful! Cause you have one “war hero” who left 600 soldiers behind in Vietnam to die miserably. Read http://www.thenation.org “Mc Cain and the POW Cover Up” and read for yourselves. And think about if it is right not only to delibaterately ignore those soldiers cries for help but even see to it that NEW LAWS WERE INVENTED TO BURY THEM FOREVER? Shame, shame, shame on you McCain.
Next point: your VP candidate is currently under criminal investigation as we all know (Troopergate). (Imagine for a second what would be if that were the case with Obama or Biden!) But I guess the fact that she is being investigated does not matter that much.Because she is a Republican. Right?

Why not look at Obama’s OTHER associates? Like the ones from Fannie Mae – Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson (vetting committee). Or take a look at the over $100,000 he received from Fannie. Obama has been lining his pockets from day one.

The change Obama says we need, what does that mean? Does he mean socialism? Maybe the media can do their job and check into his background! If that is the change he means than Obama can keep the change….

Why is checking a candidate’s associations suddenly called mud slinging? Maybe it should be called that if there is a political machine digging up obscure casual associations and then trying to make them appear more significant than they are. In Obama’s case a little research shows that the man came into this fray already covered head to toe with mud. Some details about the nature of some of the associations may be debatable but the list of anti-American and criminal associations is long and well documented especially where they involve contributions.
Google some of these names to find a variety of sources left and right: Tony Rezko – helped introduce Obama to politics, gave large contributions to Obama, convicted of 16 felonies in June 2008; William Ayers – confessed to Weatherman bombings in the 70’s and also served with Obama on the board of a Chicago-based charity in Chicago; Rashid Khalidi – worked for the PLO; Rev Jeramiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for 20 years. The list is longer, just google “obama’s associations”. It looks to me that it will take quite a political machine to clean off the mud he’s rolled in. No mud slinging required.

It’s about time the public will finally be made aware of Obama’s land deal with convicted felon Rezko, which is how Obama acquired his $2 million mansion in Chicago, and Obama’s other shady associations. The pro-Obama media keeps suppressing these things which show Obama as the bad apple that he is. Also, let’s not forget that Joe Biden and Hillary both said that Obama was not ready to be President.

Ayers is actually a great guy and you should look into his entire life record before you go slapping that “terrorist” B.S. label on him. He was passionate about stopping the War in Viet Nam, he cared a great deal and was an American idealist. Yes, he committed a crime, but at least it was a crime in the name of conscience rather than a crime to make an extra buck, which is why the current criminals in the White House commit their crimes. It’s just soundbytes based on false premises. They’ve labeled Reverend Wright a bad guy, too, but this is wrong of you all. I am also angry at how America has behaved, and I seriously doubt we have gotten the entire truth about the connections between Bin Laden, the CIA and our government, does that make me a traitor?
As for the ad they are running, I wonder if Americans know how consistently horrible the legal decisions have been from Alito and Roberts, the two judges who keep blaming the victim and damaging the constitution at the same time. I am quite pleased to hear Obama voted against them.

Ladies and Gentlemen… “watch as the magnificent, nasty, cheating, dirty, republican party plays their mastery of trash once again!”… LOL.
This is the same party that…
(1) Controlled the White House just before the Great Depression when President FDR (a democrat) had to clean up “that” mess.
(2) The same republican party that brought you their dirty “smear” tactics against John F. Kennedy, saying, “If the country elects a Catholic, the Pope will control the White House”… LMAO.
(3) The same republican party that brought us “Richard Nixon”, the only president who resigned rather than be impeached.
(4) The same republican party that lied about “Weapons of Mass Destruction” in Iraq… so that their big contracts can make billions off of the taxpayer in a legitimate way.
(5) The same republican party that brought you the dirty “Swift Boat Politics”… basically disgracing a Vietnam Veteran who actually served in Vietnam, in order to re-elect a “draft dodging, I’ll get Daddy to put me in the Air National Guard”… “and then never even bother to attend any drills”.
(6) The same republican party that said the economy is “Fundamentally Strong”… only to drastically, two weeks later, say that the economy is about to collapse if Americans don’t dish out $700 Billion for their “big buisness” ventures.
(7) The same republican party that, in the end, it’s going to take a Democratic president (like FDR after the depression) to salvage the country and put it back on the right track again.
LOL… They can say all they want to about Obama… I voted for Bush in 2000, and have been an “X-Republican” since then, because of the dirty nasty lies that the republicans tell… all the time…
Obama in 2008…!!
X-Republican Because of George Bush

Wow, can people not have an intelligent conversation about the issues on here?
Im a Canadian who has followed this American election with great interest & find the dialogue concerning Senator Obama appalling…if you cant oppose someone on the issues your candidate obviously hasnt a platform worth voting on. We are in the midst of an election as well & I thank God our politics hasnt ever descended to this level.
You are not doing your candidate any favours by mudslinging. Voters want choices based on issues not personalities!
You have no idea how fortunate you are to have a leader like Obama..the rest of the world thinks of him as a highly intelligent leader & feels he will definitley make positive changes for the U.S and the world.
Debate the issues folks…leave the personalities out of it & you will elect the right leader for these times!

2 words for McCain: Keating Five.
4 words for Palin: Troopergate and Bridge to Nowhere.
And do please remember that McCain said 3 weeks ago that the economy was sound. Hmmm, guess he was wrong about, standing next to his buddy Bush while begging American taxpayers to bail out his corporate pals.

“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical
minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which
holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd
by the clean end”

Meaning you should expect to hear much more about these Obama associates — some questions fair, others not; many associates legitimately slimy, others mere road kill on this political Autobahn — in this last full month of the campaign>>>>>
Care to elaborate Jake, as to which are fair,which are not; which are the slime and which are the roadkill? Or just throw it all out there in the name of “objective observation”.
What role does the press have, in your opinion, when one major candidate implicitly says: I have nothing positive to say, no ideas, so I’m going to simply attack my oponent for a month in order to win? With as you seem to admit, some (if not all) bogus “been there/done that” garbage.
Does the press just report? Does the press debunk? Not saying I have the answers, but would like to see someone at least address it head on rather than
merely nip around the edges.

So much for Sarah’s comments during the debate about looking forward verse looking back. This issue is such small potatoes and yesterday’s news. McCain with Keating has no right to cast these stones. But as usual is spin, spin, spin, their beer drunken voters so thy really don’t know who their voting for. America, put that six pack down, sober up and accept that the Republican party had control for the past 8 years. They are the main contributers to the mess.
I think the question all you Maverick lovers should be asking, so McCain why did you vote for a bill will all those wonderful earmarks/pork? MaCain had his chance to prove he’s changed and blew it. That’s today’s news. McCain is not a man that keeps his word.
What happen to speak softly and carry a big stick?
Nows it’s bellow loudly and carry a twig.
With the McCain all our graphs and charts will continue the downward trend… it will be a three-peat.
The only benefit of McCain winning… the comedy of Tina Fey. Yup, we can all be laughing while the country goes bankrupt.
Vote Democrat.

The sleazier McCain’s ads become, the more they reflect negatively on MCCAIN not Obama! The more they confirm how PETTY, VINDICTIVE, SMALL MINDED, BIGOTED and NEGATIVE McShame is — and why he is NOT FIT TO RUN THIS COUNTRY! Shame Shame Shame McShame! We have REAL PROBLEMS – HUGE PROBLEMS to deal with. Why doesn’t he try talking about the issues and letting the public know why they should vote FOR him not AGAINST Obama?!!! I was once a Republican county chairman – left the party and consider myself an independent. McCain’s tactics — and his RIDICULOUS and SCARY choice of running mate — have lost my vote. There is NOTHING he can do to get it back. It’s over!

McCain’s the biggest FlipFlopper there is to date.. He says one thing yet does something totally different.. He bails and runs when things get tough (Michigan he’s not there for you).. His entire campaign is a Big Fat Joke! All he’s doing, Now, is taking risk after risk and gambling his campaign away.. If this is how he hanldes matters trying to become President, Lord knows I don’t wanna know what damage he’d do as President..

Does the term “right-wing nut” have anything to do with the close association of trolls with ACORN?

PEOPLE LISTEIN- YOU KNOW WHAT I SENSE: A WHOLE LOT OF RACISM. SERIOUSLY, YOU CAN’T FIND ANYTHING ON THE GUY SO YOU GO AFTER THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM. NEXT THERE WILL INVESTIGATIONS ON HIS THIRD GRADE TEACHER.LOL…PEOPLE YOURE LOSING FOCUS. WE HAVE TO MANY THINGS GOING ON IN OUR WORLD THEN TO WORRY ABOUT WHO OBAMA PLAYS POKER WITH.LOL. IF YOU DON’T LIKE OBAMA, FINE. BUT DONT GET SO CAUGHT IN THIS SILLY GAME OF POLITICS THAT YOUR NOT FOCUSED ON THE TASK AT HAND- THAT’S TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST OBAMA…

You have no idea how fortunate you are to have a leader like Obama..the rest of the world thinks of him as a highly intelligent leader & feels he will definitley make positive changes for the U.S and the world.
Vote in your election and we’ll vote in ours. Just because you think he’s the savior doesn’t mean we do. Those of us from his home state know full well about the shady dealings of this man. He’s also been ultra-liberal and socialist, which I guess would appeal to Canada but we prefer more independence in the US.

Alexi Giannoulis: Became Illinois State Treasurer after Barack Obama vouched for him. He has been described as a “man who has long been dogged by charges that the bank his family owns helped finance a Chicago crime figure”. Giannoulis “pledged to raise $100,000 for the senator’s Oval Office bid,” Charles Hurt reported September 5, 2007, in the New York Post. Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times reported, “Before he promised to raise funds for Obama, Giannoulias bankrolled Michael ‘Jaws’ Giorango, a Chicagoan twice convicted of bookmaking and promoting prostitution.
“Giannoulias is so tainted by reputed mob links that several top Illinois Dems, including the state’s speaker of the House and party chairman, refused to endorse him even after he won the Democratic nomination with Obama’s help.”

Ayres is NOT a great guy.
He killed a police officer. He’s never paid one day of penance for that. Not one. Then turns around after 9/11 and does an article for a magazine, saying he’d wished he’d done more. While on the cover of this magazine is Ayres, standing on the flag.
I don’t call that being a great guy. Tell that to the widow of that police officer, and his children.
Google Stanley Kurtz, before we go on a tangent about all the great things Ayres, and Obama did with the Annenburg grant they recieved for education. $50 million, and no positive results came from their ideas. Also, not all of that $50 million went into education.

Are you freakin kiding me, Michele? Obama who worked as a lawyer for ACORN, a group under investigation in many states for voter registration fraud, and is backing Barack Obama. ACORN was integral in getting these banks to loan out money for homes to people who couldnt’ afford them. Using welfare, and food stamps as their collateral.
ACORN was on the list to recieve millions in earmarks on the first bail out proposal. No doubt put there, by a Democrat, as they are a huge contributor to Democrats. ACORN is tied in with Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac, also huge Democratic entities. They in turn were connecting to these large banks using tactics, and questionable business tactics, to force these banks into giving out these loans…not to mention Clintons signing of a bill, to make it legal, but forceful to make these banks comply with it.
Franks, Dodd, and others for years kept it quiet about the bad bookkeeping going on with Freddie, and Fannie. Up to July of this year, when Barney Franks emphatically said that Freddie, and Fannie were fine, knowing as the head of that committee, they were NOT!!!
This whole bail out mess is Democrat from head to toe, with a few bad republicans thrown in. Dodds is number 1 and Obama number 2 on the list of highest contributions from Frannie, and Freddie.
An investigation has started. Names are going to be named, and don’t kid yourself. Obama’s name is in there too. I won’t exuse the Republicans for not acting on this when they had control of Congress, but when ever they brought the issue up, the Dems in charge of these entities always shot it down, as being racist.
Bottom line is, I will go and read both points of view, but Congressional records are just that. They tell what happened, and when it happened. There is no record of Obama coming to the floor and warning about this impending doom on our economy. There is a record of many Republicans, including McCain for warning, that this was coming.
Of course you won’t see evidence on the msm’s of this. THey want to protect Obama. That’s ashame too. It leads to distortion, and half truths. Even Clinton admitted that it was the Democrats fault, and even thru his administration.
Alabama Congressman Arthur Davis (Democrat) also admitted they were wrong.
Read something besideds the msm’s for info. They have failed every American, by inserting their personal politics into their jobs. As far as I’m concerned, by their biased behavior, they are complicit in this fall out.
Posted by: Jeanie | Oct 4, 2008 12:48:56 PM
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Good to see INTELLIGENT people posting here, most get deleted asap.

MCCAIN 2006 “I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.”
Where was Obama? Adding Fannie Mae members to his staff and collecting over $100,000.

Not only are Obama’s corrup friends voting for him, the campaign is now going door-to-door in some of the worst neighborhood tryng to register over 4 million ex-convicts who lost their right to vote while in jail, but now that they are “out”, Obama is seeking their vote because those are the kinds of people who think Obama is the answer.
The people who are lawbreakers, violent, corrupt and don’t give a rat’s aa$$ about America.
I truly think that should this man be elected, someone will assassinate him within 3 months of taking office. I have money to bet on that—any takers?

I am a democrat and I disagree with every thing the Republicans stand for. However, bringing up the issues of obama’s character IS important. Come on, we’re choosing a president. Do we really want an associate of Rezko or Ayers?? I blame the Democrats for this. They could have chosen experienced, tested candidates. Any would have been fine, Biden, Richardson, Dodd, Clinton or yes, even Kucinich. But instead my fellow democrats chose the least knowledgeable, the least experienced and the one with the most shady character. Well, ya get what ya ask for! No matter which one of these guys win, we loose !

seenthelight……..that’s a train coming at the other end of the tunnel.
Obama has no issues only platitudes. He WORKS for Daley and comes from one of the most corrupt counties in the country. He
knows the names of dead people that voted.
He is as corrupt as they come, or perhaps you only read permitted material.
He is trying to steal elections through voter fraud.
Lastly, if you can’t see he is a racist only God can help you.

SHARECROPPER SLAVERY
I understand the fact that politics is a very dirty business (although I don’t agree it should be), and whether there is a tactic, or not, to go against, or smear Sen. Obama, due to the Michigan campaign drop, the McCain/Palin ticket, Republican party, and their independent surrogate organizations better be careful in what they’re doing because when you live in glass houses throwing stones, the ultimate result will be broken glass, EVERYWHERE, acting as projectiles cutting down those who threw the first stone!
Therefore, before these people start digging in Sen. Obama’s past, , or begin a “smear’ campaign, people better be mindful of McCain’s family tree also, which involves his great grandfather who owned a 2,000 acre plantation in Mississippi, and had 52 Black slaves in 1860, according to Bishop Henry C. Williams of Oakland California, who is the president and CEO of the Job Work Development Corporation. Bishop Williams states “Those slaves picked over 1,000 bales of cotton, corn and peanuts a year. Slaves and sharecroppers existed on that farm from the 1860s through 1958. THIS IS HOW MCCAIN’S FAMILY GAINED THEIR WEALTH, then the wealth passed down through generations!” Bishop Williams holds the Republican presidential candidate accountable for the continuing legacy of slavery in his Mississippi family history! So, if McCain and the Republican party want to get involved with dirty politics, or anyone else for that matter, then it is time for EVERYONE’S PAST THAT AFFECTS OUR PRESENT SITUATION COME TO LIGHT! And if you think this piece of FACT will lose steam, think again!!!
The sheer truth of the matter is that a majority of people who are in the field of politics, and the wealthy (1%-5%) of the U.S. population mis-use and abuse their elected and appointed power/position by counting on the ignorance and fear of the American people! Such politics of this magnitude has gone on for so long through the “divide and conquer” methodology, which pitted Whites against Blacks, Blacks against Blacks, and in regard to class: Poor whites against wealthy whites, educated against the uneducated, as well as republicans versus democrats, and rep./dems versus independents! THIS IS WHY AMERICA IS SCREWED UP, to say the least! This is where we are today . . . America fearing a Black man who has a Black father, and a Caucasian (White) mother, who is, in my opinion, ordained to do what is right for ALL people, but again and again, IGNORANCE is dominating and clouding America’s judgment, and fate, for many years to come! WITHOUT Senator Obama as the U.S.A. President, there will be MORE LOSS OF jobs, healthcare, and MORE ACTS OF civil disobedience from Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians, etc., and MORE homelessness, home foreclosures, and NO MORE working middle class! WITH Sen. McCain as the U.S.A. President, there will be MORE homelessness, house foreclosures, and MORE LOSSES IN EVERY WAY FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

“Those of us from his home state know full well about the shady dealings of this man.”
Odd that Obama has a larger lead in the polls in Illinois than McCain has in his home state of Arizona then, isn’t it?
Seems that either you know but don’t care, or that you don’t, in fact, know much at all.
And given that Obama’s already been through highly competitive primaries without any real evidence of these shady dealings emerging, I’m rather inclined to think it’s the latter.

Obama, all you do is talk… talk… talk… and talk… You have not explained to the american voter how are you going to fund the health and other program that you’ve been talking… talking… talking and talking.. I am a single independent voter who was affected by your income tax plan that you implented for those who earned $40K or more. Your follower and believer are foolish. They need to wake up and reliaze that you do not have the credential to run this country.

Trapper’s article IS a McCain attack ad ! This is not reporting, it’s speading anti Obama gossip. What’s up with that?

Its about time that Obama and his associates are called out on this. Yes If it were a rebuplican with any of these ties we would have found them out long ago and that person would never be in the ticket. Why is it aht Obama can not even get in to the FBI, any one care to guess…?
its the security clearance challanges, and as a former member of the Armed Services who actually had to go through that process its down right tough. Now ask your self do yoiu want this idiot to have his hands on the most powerful military in the world and the button to our nukes. Oh yeah thats right we wont have a military or security for that matter after he gets elected, remember Jimmy peanut farmer Carter, cut our military budget so bad Canada could have taken us out. You people who want to vote this guy in good luck after the Left wing media finally has no option but to expose this guy for what he truly is and that is a 148 day unqualified senator who has his head up his fourth point of contact. I hope he gets put in jail along with his buddies for the millions of taxpayer dollars he stole.and to his wife Michelle I have always been proud of our country.

I’m from Arizona and know all about “The Keating 5″….. McCain was cleared of any wrong doing and the committie said he should not have been included in the investigation. You can go after McCain on other things posibly, but that one is a non story. I’m not a fan of McCain or Obama, whoever is elected is going to have 4 years of pure hell!!

Republicans Desperation & Fear Smells All So Sweet! GOP Lies won’t work on intelligent Americans.. If this is the best you got, bring it on while kissing your chances in November Goodbye, McSame!
Obama/Biden the next Pres & VP we Need.

“I am a registered Democrat BUT” —– hahahaha —- you you’re not you silly kids! But it does crack me up when you do that…

Some questions to ponder: 1) Is there any politician that is really ‘clean’? Very unlikely. 2) So if not, the next question is where do you want this country to head? 3) Do you like paying taxes? 4) Do you feel our government (both Dems and Repubs) have failed us? 5) Do you like having the government telling you how to run your life? 6) Do you want your government to tell you which doctor you can see and be in the middle of your personal medical decisions? 7) Do you believe that earmark spending (regardless of who requested what – they have all done it) needs to quit? 8) Do you believe that when a bill is debated and passed, that it only should be for the topic at hand and not have any additonal add-ins? 9) Is there a candidate out there that has stated that they would veto bills that come across their desk that have these extras added? 10) Will this practice of vetoing any and all bills that follow the add-in practice help to force change in DC? There is only one candidate that has said the government should have less of a voice in your personal life, the other wants to add significant programs that tell you what to do.

America needs to wake up! Everyone wants change. If you vote for Obama you will not only get change but you will never recognize America again! This great country I love and serve will be completley disappear and the change will not be for just 4 or 8 yrs, but for 30. With a democratic majority in congress and the most liberal presidential canidate in HISTORY we will not stand a chance if Obama gets in! What I honestly don’t understand is that some people truly believe that Obama is better qualified and prepared to be president of the United States than McCain. Does everyone know that all Obama has ever been is a liberal, racist, extremist teacher his entire life! He has never done anything for anyone other than himself. A teacher that’s all he’s ever been. Oh yes America we’ll get change if he gets in and then we’ll never be able to get away!

TJ, OBAMA IS RISING BECAUSE HE KICKED MCSAMES A$$ IN THE DEBATE, HAS BETTER POLICY, IS SMARTER, CONDUCTS HIMSELF LIKE A PRESIDENT SHOULD, DOES NOT MAKE UP LIES LIKE PALIN AND MCSHAME, AND HAS THE INTEREST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AT STAKE. THE FALL OF MCSAME IS BECAUSE HE SHOWED EXTREMELY POOR JUDGMENT IN SELECTING PALIN, DID NOT THINK OF COUNTRY FIRST, AND HIS VOTING RECORD OVER THE LAST 8 YEARS IS 90% FOR BUSH.. THAT IS WHY THE POLLS ARE THE WAY THEY ARE…

I just read this piece again. According to the author, Rezko is under investigation for helping out the Governor, not Obama. Obama is not being investigated currently for this. It’s all insinuation and guilt by association. Not saying that a politician never took a favor, but right now, it’s nothing, right? So there’s not a whole lot in that poker hand. Obama, on the other hand, has a formal reprimand against McCain in his arsenal. If I were McCain, I wouldn’t go negative on this.

Google Chicagoans Against Obama

Jeanie, since you are giving us a history lesson, why don’t you explain why Ayers was not convicted of killing a police officer. And why don’t you tell us when that happened, so that it becomes clear that Ayers’ name is coming into connection with Obama for reaally ridiculous guilt by association, since Obama was either an infant or perhaps not born at all when Ayers fought against the Viet Nam War. I thank him for that, because he saved my life. I was fighting in Nam at the time, and felt grateful to Ayers when I read about what he did in the name of stopping the war. He is my hero, and one man’s “terrorist” is another man’s “freedom fighter”. So many on this forum have such simple minded arguments, and their smears are based on twisted facts, language, and often outright lies.

It is only to be expected that the side behind in the polls would go negative as the campaign comes to an end.
However, what disturbs me about McCain is that he has virtually no message except to attack Obama. Where are McCain’s ads that emphasize his plans to improve the government and the lives of Americans?
I don’t expect McCain not to attack Obama. But I want to hear a positive message from McCain — and not endless angry attacks against the opposition. Tell me what you are for — not just what you are against.
This strategy is a mistake. It only adds to growing the perception of McCain being an angry old man who doesn’t have anything positive to offer.

“Obama who worked as a lawyer for ACORN”
He was part of a team of attorneys who represented ACORN in a single case, which forced the State of Illinois to comply with a federal voting access law. Other public interest groups, such as the League of Women Voters, also joined the case. As did the US Justice Department.
Obviously the US Justice Department is also horribly corrupt, what with joining in a case which the terrible evil ACORN were involved in.
Sheesh.

The slime isn’t just the people who are creating these smear campaigns, it is also the 30% of the republicans who want this type of campaign so their candidate can win under any circumstance.
The right wing of the republican party has convinced themselves that they are so superior to what is best for the US to believe they can lie and cheat to win because it’s best for everyone. They believe that liberals are too evil and stupid to govern and it is their responsibility to do whatever it takes to win, no matter at what cost and those who don’t agree with them and liberal and evil. Too many conservatives have fallen for this garbage. These right wring republicans have convinced other republicans that the press is also liberal and evil so when the press does report something they don’t like they just point their finger at the press and say, “See I told you so.” Unfortunately the media has become so scared of the right wing of the republican party they are not fair in their coverage of the news. The coverage of debate of Biden and Palin demonstrates this.
It is time people stand up to these scoundrels. McCain has become so obsessed in wining he has sold his soul. I would like to say McCain has changed the last several years but his past has been just as bad. The only reason he did not go to prison with the Keating 5 is because no one wanted to send a POW to jail. But we need someone better for President.

Trapper’s article IS a McCain attack ad ! This is not reporting, it’s speading anti Obama gossip. What’s up with that?
His associatiates and pals are not gossip. Even he admits to knowing them but just won’t come clean on the extent.

ROBERT, YOU ARE NOT AN EX DEM, YOU HAVE BEEN ON OTHER SITES AS A REPUBLICAN, STOP LYING. I LOVE THIS PEOPLE WHO SAY I AM A DEM VOTING FOR EVERYTHING DEMOCRATS HATE. WHAT LIARS. YOU THINK ANYONE BELIEVES YOU OR YOU ARE CHANGING ANYONE’S OPINION. PLEEASSSE!

The contradiction in McCain’s campaign is that he appeals to so-called low information voters with attacks you need a lot of information to understand. I can’t see how such negative attacks can do anything but firm Obama’s support. Of course these attacks are all McCain has left.

There is absolutely nothing in this article or any of these comments that is not just rumor or association. I’m sorry, I’m trying to keep an open mind, but there are just no facts!

Republican candidates are a bunch of Whiny Losers! After Nov 4th maybe they’ll shut up and go home..
Obama/Biden – the next Pres & VP

Have you ever heard of 6 Degrees of Separation? That’s the game you are all playing here with these stupid half-baked associations. If you played the game – you could all find an association you yourself have with a scandal. Some of you more than others I suspect.

Because Obama has no record or a very slim record to examine, it would seem logical that we can only make some judgments about Obama based on his associations.
I am middle class. I am a small business owner. Obama scares the crap out of me. If we have any more taxes, we will lay off people. We have obligations to meet just like our employees.
If corporations are further taxed, two things will happen. More job losses and costs passed to the consumer.
I have heard the young Obama followers talking about John McCain being old and out of date. This mentality by many who pay very few taxes is a result of the dumbing down of our school system. History is not taught correctly. We are so concerned about being politically correct, our children come out of school not even realizing the importance of learning from history.
This blind following of Obama is basically a failure of our public schools to teach history and basic analytical skills. If you agree with his positions, that is one thing, but a lot of these people just like the way he talks.
Also, I think everyone should vote. However, this business of busing folks to vote is ridiculous. If a person cannot muster the effort to register him or herself to vote and actually vote without some organizer babysitting them, then I really don’t think that type of person has enough sense to be an informed voter. I believe this is true, regardless of which party is doing it.

Nadhmi Auchi: This former member of Saddam Hussein’s government lent money to Tony Rezko just prior to the Obama’s purchasing their Hyde Park mansion. Auchi has also donated money to Obama’s campaign.

Posted by Kremlin: You have no idea how fortunate you are to have a leader like Obama..the rest of the world thinks of him as a highly intelligent leader & feels he will definitley make positive changes for the U.S and the world.
Yeah….well I the world isn’t allowed to vote, and the world is comprised of a lot of Socialism. I love the world, but when it comes to our politics, I don’t give a fig what they think.
Since you do…… Barack Obama is a “decidedly liberal” senator “who was finding his feet, and then got diverted by his presidential ambitions”, according to a frank verdict delivered to Gordon Brown by the British ambassador to the United States.

Rashid Khalidi: A Hyde Park neighbor of Obama and the co-founder of the Arab American Action Network, which calls the establishment of Israel a “catastrophe”, Khalidi is a former spokesman for the PLO, served on the Woods Foundation with Barack Obama, and has raised funds for him.

To Jimmy: How do you know what Obama did with Ayers, were you there? Fact is you were not. The times article does nothing to harm Obama, simply shows how people from all walks of life can cross your path at any given time. Obama has already denounced Ayers, like McCain did with some of his former Senator friends in the Keating Five scandel where McCain and five other senators were part of a US Senate corruption Scandel in the Savings & Load crisis in the 1980′s (See my previous Post).
You guys in this blog make a lot of assumptions, and it’s all conjecture to try and link one person with another just because they were in the same town on a particular day. (Guilt by Association-an old lawyer tactic. I wouldn’t want any of you guys on my Jury if something happened to me that required a fair evaluation of the facts. It’s a proven fact that lots of people like you send innocent people to prison & Death Row every day based on innuendo and rumor, and not the facts. I feel sorry for you, and your children if you have any, with your limited narrow view of the world and the people in it. The McCain campaign is counting on people like you for votes, if they can influence enough people of your limited means, they figure they can win, but lucky for the American People that this time around, in 2008, this garbage and guilt by association tactic by the Bush-McCain people will not have traction with the American People….You Just watch how McCain and his Campaign go south in the polls as soon they try that gargage in campaign ads. The American People are SICK of that JUNK, and will shut it down as soon as it appears. McCain is Finished, just check out the latest RCP Electoral Map, He’s done, his goose is cooked, and that Dog won’t hunt anymore (Negative Ads)!!!!!

I am european studying in the USA. You Americans are the most ignorant and low lives i have ever seen in my life. Its time for England to run the world again

danger mr Robinson
If we didn’t have dumb people is this country McCain would be behind by 20 points as well.

These stories about the “Truth Squads” are most disturbing to me.
I remember my grandmother talking about the activity in Germany prior to World War II.
Squads of citizens with power granted by the government went around bullying law abiding folks who dared to speak out against their government or its leaders.
These Obama “Truth Squads” seem to be the first steps for America to go down the road to a Muslim version of National Socialism.
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Ya and all the little children dressed in BLUE shirts siging about the OBUMA ONE!

since Obama was either an infant or perhaps not born at all when Ayers fought against the Viet Nam War.
Obama wasn’t an infant when he launched his career at Ayer’s home or when they lined their pockets. Illinois is run by Dems and we have a state budget in the red, more killings in Chicago than Iraq and maybe another Gov headed to jail. Just the kind of great place Obama learned his political tactics from.

Saying Obama is not qualified is not accurate. He is not a good candidate because of his baggage. We want some one who thinks positively about the American people.
I also think that the McCain ticket should be replaced with a Romney-Palin ticket.

It is simple.
REPUBLICANs WILL DO TO OBAMA WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO THE USA CITIZENS:
LIE ABOUT WAR IN IRAQ= LIE ABOUT OBAMA’S PAST.
LIE ABOUT THE KATRINA AND ITS RESPONSE: LIE ABOUT OBAMA’S GOALS TO HELP AMERICA
LIE ABOUT ECONOMIC MELTDOWN: LIE ABOUT OBAMA’S GOALS TO BRING JOBS AND HEALTH CARE FOR AMERICA
We already know what Republican will say about Obama. They have done it to the American public and they will do it again if (GOD’S FORBID) they get in the White House. All republican care about is Power over its citizens.
For the past 8 years evil has a republican face.
DEMOCRATS For AMERICA

Wow, whatever steve…go home why don’tcha?

What a Surprise! The McCain/Rove dirty tricks gang can’t talk about real issues, so alleged mud will spew like lava until November. How disgusting – another proof that McCain’s ‘maverick’ claim is nonsense. People want real answers on health care, economic issues and foreign policy. McCain has none. We can hardly wait until November 4!

Should we also resurrect McCain’s Keating Five scandal then?

Message to all the fake bloggers on this site, saying they were life long Democrats that are voting McCain because they afraid of Obama. You then point us to Republican spin sites as if that’s real proof. Yeah, right… which of you is Ann C. and which of you is Rush L?
You are not real Dems, you’re Republicans that think the Democrats the foolish to believe your rampage… News flash, we’re not, and we’re on to this tactic.
Vote Democrat.

Posted by: Steve
Well, England is welcome to run America again, but why would you want to? And if you do take over, could you please bring lunch? There’s a chip shop in Banbury that is utterly superb.

Zbigniew Brzezinski: High profile Obama Foreign Policy advisor criticized for his 2008 article defending the book “The Israel Lobby”, which accuses American Jews of McCarthyism. The former national security adviser has been at odds with elements of the American Jewish community since his stint in the Carter administration, and is seen by many as staunchly anti-Russian, which could exacerbate the current tensions between Russia and the democratic nation of Georgia.

Keating five, Keating five, Keating five. Should I say it again? Ok, Keating five. McCain’s got his own skeletons, and Keating five is just one of them. Obama has admitted his associations with these guys, but so what? Knowing them doesn’t mean he’s like them. On the flip side, we have McCain who only very narrowly escaped being indicted for his part in Keating five. His POW status saved his butt, otherwise he almost surely would’ve gone down for it. You know what they say…”those in glass houses….”. In McCain’s case, I guess it would be “those in 8 glass houses”….

Woody: I didn’t defend ACORN. I pointed out that Obama was part of a team of attorneys that represented ACORN in one single case – which the US Justice Department was also part of.
If I was defending ACORN, I’d point out that they have over 350,000 members, in 850 neighbourhood groups in over 100 cities. Tell me, what percentage of those have been involved in voter registration fraud? Can you honestly conclude that ACORN as a whole is corrupt?
But like I said, I don’t need to defend ACORN at this point, since Obama’s connection with them is rather more limited that you’d like everyone to think.

Raila Odinga: Obama’s African cousin on his father’s side, who Barack campaigned for in the Kenyan Presidential election in 2007. Odinga is now the country’s Prime Minister in a coalition government thrown together to avert civil war, and has been accused of mass political genocide across Kenya after his failed bid for the presidency.

And the fascists have more in common with the NeoCons then you ever imagined.

Last desperate attempt?
Dang. This has been news for the past year, of Obama’s associations, and is just now getting attention by the msm’s.
Why now? Because there might be some truth to it? Why did they sit on this for so long?
If anyone is desperate, it seems Obama supporters are. They don’t want this to reach the light of day, or to the masses.
Let the reporting, and investigating begin, then, in November, with all the info gathered…let each individual make up their own mind, and not the minds of the press…who have proven over, and over, who they support.
Have a candidate that you like, and want to vote for is fine, but when you let that interfere with a job that’s meant to be unbiased, and professional, that is wrong.
Some teachers in Virginia learned that lesson this week….now the press needs to learn that.
If you read the story…it said the FBI is investigating this, it didn’t say McCain was attacking with it. Rezko is unhappy with the prospect of years in prison, that was reported earlier this week, or late last week. He’s ready to cut a deal and talk. This is why this is coming about. Not because of McCain.

A desperate act of a man with no ideas, some thing new and fresh. Now he is going to suspend civility, and drag down the whole Republican Party with him. They are in revolt now in Michigan, wait until they see how the public will react. Th Republicans will have to attack McCain to even have a chance to win their seats.

“Aengil – and if the accusation prove to be true? What if there is something more significant in his closet? Will you still blindly follow him?”
1) I’m not blindly following him to start off with. Unlike some, I’m not blindly copying and pasting garbage off blogs.
2) It would depend on what it is, obviously. I think it’s unlikely that anything will emerge though, given the complete lack of real evidence of anything at this point.

“I remember my grandmother talking about the activity in Germany prior to World War II.”
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Then you truly understand how dangerous is to have aggressive mobs of Republicans religious fanatics bullying the Americans who do not agree with their radical agendas.
Democrats for America

Looks like the McCain campaign sent out an email.
So pathetic.
Gallup: Obama +8
Rasmussen: Obama +6
Hotline/DF: Obama +7
RCP Electoral Map: Obama – 264, McCain – 163 with 111 tossups.
With no tossups: Obama – 353, McCain – 185.
As a McCain aide said in mid Sept.
“Scoreboard”

The slime isn’t just the people who are creating these smear campaigns, it is also the 30% of the republicans who want this type of campaign so their candidate can win under any circumstance.
The right wing of the republican party has convinced themselves that they are so superior to what is best for the US to believe they can lie and cheat to win because it’s best for everyone. They believe that liberals are too evil and stupid to govern and it is their responsibility to do whatever it takes to win, no matter at what cost and those who don’t agree with them and liberal and evil. Too many conservatives have fallen for this garbage. These right wring republicans have convinced other republicans that the press is also liberal and evil so when the press does report something they don’t like they just point their finger at the press and say, “See I told you so.” Unfortunately the media has become so scared of the right wing of the republican party they are not fair in their coverage of the news. The coverage of debate of Biden and Palin demonstrates this.
It is time people stand up to these scoundrels. McCain has become so obsessed in wining he has sold his soul. I would like to say McCain has changed the last several years but his past has been just as bad. The only reason he did not go to prison with the Keating 5 is because no one wanted to send a POW to jail. But we need someone better for President.

Keating 5 is a non issue. Being from Arizona we’ve tried it already. McCain was cleared by his friends in the Senate. You will find no story there, start looking for something else if you want something that will stick!!

Aengil – then why are you so concerned – you are defending him to an extreme if there is nothing to it. And sorry, I don’t paste off blogs – I am an independent thinker and try to ask questions to get people to think.

A man is judged by the company he keeps.

- Barack Obama – First Presidential Debate, September 26, 2008
“I think Senator McCain’s absolutely right that we need more responsibility…”
“Senator McCain is absolutely right that the earmarks process has been abused…”
“He’s also right that oftentimes lobbyists and special interests are the ones that are introducing these…requests…”
“John mentioned the fact that business taxes on paper are high in this country, and he’s absolutely right…”
“John is right we have to make cuts…”
“Senator McCain is absolutely right that the violence has been reduced as a consequence of the extraordinary sacrifice of our troops and our military families…”
“John — you’re absolutely right that presidents have to be prudent in what they say…”
“Senator McCain is absolutely right, we cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran…”

Next time you go to church and we find out the Pastor is an adulterer, I’ll make sure and accuse you of lacking character.
If I stay there for 20 years go right ahead. I’ll just claim I “didn’t know a thing” like Obama did.

dvine: Is that why McCain camp pays the women on their staff MORE than Obama’s camp?

This can only mean one thing. The Republicans are in deep fear of loosing this election. It was bound to happen that the fear they have been breeding all along would turn on them.

I find Obama boring saying the same old things time after time.He has plans for this,plans for that.Pledges this and pledges that.Tells ya what you want to hear but plays a different story behind the scenes.I might vote for Ralph Nader.

For better or for worse this election will be decided by idiots who are still undecided. It happens every time, and these idiots typically don’t start paying attention until after the conventions.
There’s a strong case to be made to say many of these idiots are unaware of Obama’s past associations. Hell, no one knows much detail of Obama’s past because Ayers, Wright, Frank Marshall Davis and Rezko aren’t talking. Since they won’t talk that leaves the door wide open for the Republican slime machine.
McCain now has no choice to go nuclear. It’s probably too late to make a difference but it’s still going to be fun to sit back and watch the fireworks.
Obama/Biden/Carter/Dukakis/Chavez/Marx in ’08!

CLabs**** It was creepy no mater how you spell it!! I dont like either cantidate, but the media should investigate both of them more!!!!

today writes, “Peace is less likely than that we will be speaking French, Spanish, or Arabic.”
You and your legion of ignorant scare-mongers are DONE driving our national bus into the ditch. You will lose, the Republicans are going to lose, and it’s about damn time. We will pull this wrecked bus out of the ditch, turn it 180 degrees around and get off the potholed and ruined road you have taken us down. No amount of smearing or scare-mongering about Obama being “Islamic”, a “crook”, “not an American citizen” etc etc etc, is going to change the fact that you WILL LOSE thank God in November. I am tired of seeing idiots rule, there has been such a severe lack of intelligence in the way the nation thinks and the government runs for the last 8 years, that it is a relief to see Americans yank the idiots out of the driver’s seat and send them to the back of the bus where they should just shut the hell up and let somebody else drive us out of this mess, even as they will claim nothing was there fault and complain about every turn we are about to take. I’ve heard enough of your ignorance, shut up and lose…

Once Again McCain and Rove Go Negative.
Lets see, they want to win so they do anything it takes including try to deflect the public with a rash of non- essential BS. It doesn’t take a brain to see why they are doing this. It takes courage and common sence to fall for this narrow minded right wing BS.
Obama and Biden have demonstrated they do not need scum bags like rove and cheney to run thier campaigns. DO HONESTLY THINK THAT Mccain is smart enough to do this on his own. After all he chose the Alaskan Barbie doll with no brains as his running mate. “Ah Dawnit, now what do I when McCain goes senile” By hooking up with Cheney and Bush, he’s well on his way…

wanttheelectionover:
1) I’m not defending him to an extreme. I’m making short posts on a blog, using facts and logic. I’m sorry for you if you think that’s taking things to an extreme.
2) Your argument is basically “If it’s not true, why do you deny it?”
But you yourself deny cutting and pasting things from blogs (despite me not actually specifically referring to you). But by your own logic, it must actually be true, because if it was, you wouldn’t deny it.
See how ludicrous that is?

ludmila – the completion of the question – Is there a candidate out there that will veto bills if they come across his desk with earmarks (and they all do it) that have nothing to do with the original intent of the bill? By vetoing all such bills, the message will come across that this stuff is going to stop. Only one of the candidates has stated that. That is real change in DC politics.

Independent John – has Palin been convicted of anything? I had understood that the liberals supported the concept that a person is innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law?
Posted by: wanttheelectionover | Oct 4, 2008 1:16:32 PM
Wanttheelectionover, thanks for making our point for us. No, Palin hasn’t been found to be guilty (yet), but I think it speaks volumes about her integrity when she initially encourages the investigation only to change her mind and refuse to cooperate. Reminds me of someone else….Cheney I think is his name.
So, if we’re going to say it’s unfair to criticize Palin because she hasn’t been found to be guilty, I guess you must also be saying it’s unfair to criticize Obama…right?

ynot – I agree – these candidates are sub-prime. Kucinich is better than these two – and that is saying a lot.
Go Romeny/Palin!

wanttheelectionover, and I say, don’t trust a candidate who agrees with 95% of the Bush’s failed policies that turned the largest surplus into the largest deficit, economy into shambles and millions of American jobs into naught.

FACT:
McCain bringing up ? associations about Obama
PALIN & HUSBAND FIGHTING ACTUAL SUBPOENAS & CHARGES IN COURT FOR MISUSE OF POWER. If this were the Obamas you all would be RABID
? associations vs reality
A double standard has always existed, so let’s remain in denial.

Undecideds: The republicans here are calling you idiots. Go figure

When asked, McCain said he had condemned any anti-Catholic statements made by Pastor John Hagee, an evangelical leader in San Antonio who had endorsed him.
McCain said it was “probably” a mistake to solicit and accept Hagee’s endorsement, “but I admire and respect Dr. Hagee’s leadership … of his church”
Jake Tapper 4/20/08

Wow, Obama winning by 8 on today’s gallup!

i think mccain’s past associations are now fair game, such as the one with keating. mccain barely escaped prison on this one. the mccain/keating association was not a chance encounter but a close relationship. maybe his wife’s drug problem that caused a doctor to lose his license would also be appropriate or palin’s deliquent son who sought to disable a school bus. when you live in a poo poo house dont throw poo poo

Angie said: From what i understand there is a lot of young first time voters in this election that are seriously involed i say the time is now TO EDUCATE THE YOUNGINGS ON THE KEATING FIVE SCANDEL AND HOW MCCAINS FILTHY HANDS WERE ALL UP IN IT IT HAPPEN IN 1990 SO YOUNG ONES GOOGLE KEATING FIVE!
ANGIE!!!!!!!!!!!! McCain was acquitted, as was John Glenn. FOUND NOT GUILTY!!!! There is no scandal there. They were exonerated!!!!!!!!

“It’s probably too late to make a difference but it’s still going to be fun to sit back and watch the fireworks.”

The lifelong Democrats voting for McCain is absolutely a fact. Anyone who loves this country will not vote for Obama – he is a terrorist-befriending, “God Damn America” countenancing, present voting hateful immature tool who shouldn’t be anywhere near the White House. All of America is about to find out why.

This is news to the McCain camp simply because they’re never up to date on issues or anything for that matter..
McCain’s our past/Obama’s our future!
McCain/Palin= more wars & bleak future
Obama/Biden=better future/peace

Alex – I love my country. And I’m voting for Obama. I’m offended by your statement as should all of us who are not or have not decided to vote for McCain.

LIES=MCSAME, HIDING EMAILS=PALIN/BUSH/CHENEY/ROVE, CORRUPTION=KEATING 5, FAILURE TO APPEAR UNDER SUBPOENA= PALIN/CHENEY/ROVE/MYERS. DO WE NEED MORE OF THE SAME— NO WAY, NO HOW, NO MCSAME
OBAMA/BIDEN 08′
HEY YOUNG VOTERS LOOK UP KEATING 5. FIND OUT THE TRUTH.

Mark – Indiana – How long to you think the average american will continue to believe all the lies the republicans have told. It is alittle to late for this nosence and the economy is too bad and have taking front stage. So, we know that McShame will be doing at this coming debate lying his ass off.

What eveb kitchen sink you throw against Sen. Obama, it will not work because it will not create job, it will not stop the war in Iraq, it will not change the financial mess up. Mr. McCain in approving this kind of tactic is like Hitler doing some propaganda against the Jews. ENOUGH!!!

Wow, can people not have an intelligent conversation about the issues on here?
Im a Canadian who has followed this American election with great interest & find the dialogue concerning Senator Obama appalling…if you cant oppose someone on the issues your candidate obviously hasnt a platform worth voting on. We are in the midst of an election as well & I thank God our politics hasnt ever descended to this level.
You are not doing your candidate any favours by mudslinging. Voters want choices based on issues not personalities!
You have no idea how fortunate you are to have a leader like Obama..the rest of the world thinks of him as a highly intelligent leader & feels he will definitley make positive changes for the U.S and the world.
Debate the issues folks…leave the personalities out of it & you will elect the right leader for these times!

There is a LOT more than what you have here. What I want investigated is HOW this remained hidden from the American Public and get rid of the Dems who pushed this FRAUD upon us so we lost the best candidate…Clinton.
Democrat for McCain/Palin

Responsible writes a long argument comparing wars, but you are the one with a nonargument. Lincoln did not lie to start the civil war, nor did Wilson or FDR and Truman. That’s the basic difference. If you lie to start an unjust war, then yes you are responsible for the unnecessary death and destruction you sow. If Obama send more troops into Afghanistan, well, that’s where the U.S. was supposed to go to stop the Taliban and find Bin Laden, that is not a war started in the wrong country based on lies. Don’t mix apples and oranges and think yourself clever, dumb one.

palin is being investigated, but the mccain campagin is blocking it.

If memory serves…Obama’s mothers family owned slaves?
That might be why he threw his grandmother under the bus.
What’s funny is…Obama isn’t black. He’s arab, and white. He has no historical attatchment to slavery, other than his mothers ancestry.

Dee – your personal opinion. If you truly are from Canada, will you be the one down here paying the taxes for the overinflacted government? Thought not.

ALEX…you are the kind of American who will put this country down. Don’t be fooled. You are smarter than that. You can easily be brainwashed. POOR ALEX, I PITY YOU.

DNC to Silence Lawsuit over Obama Birth Certificate: According to WorldNetDadily, Drew Zahn, a prominent Pennsylvania Democrat and attorney Philip J. Berg filed suit in U.S. District Court two months ago claiming Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen and therefore not eligible to be elected president. Berg has since challenged Obama publicly that if the candidate will simply produce authorized proof of citizenship, he’ll drop the suit. Berg told WND the longer the DNC tries to ignore his lawsuit or make it go away – instead of just providing the documents – the more convinced he is that his accusations are correct. Despite assertions by the Washington Post and DNC that Obama has produced a certified Hawaiian birth certificate, Berg told WND he remains “99.99 percent sure” that the certificate is a fake and he wants a court, not a website, to determine its validity. Read the WND report … [Oct. 4, 2008].

McCain’s a hothead with a Screw or Two Loose.. I’ll Never, Ever Vote for McCain.. I Love This Country and don’t want to see it go further down the drain which is the reason I’m Not Voting For McCain.. He has no clue, at all, what to do but follow Bush’s Narrow Minded Dreadful Policies..
Obama/Biden “YES” We Can!

I have said this before and I will say it again…Obama is the democratic version of Richard Nixon. He’s only in it for himself and is as corrupt as they come. The media has refused to report on the questionable aspects of Obama’s life and career but yet have no problem shredding apart Sarah Palin. and if elected I’m sure somewhere along the line there will be an impeachment of the Obama Adminstration within 2 years of him taking office. The writing is on the wall clear as day for all to see but yet there seems to be a large number of people who continue to stick their heads in the sand and ignore the warning signs. Be carefull what you wish for Obama supporters–you just may get it (and not like the end result).

mccain is an old fool-palin is a dumba**. the debate was a joke, when she did not know the answer she talked about energy or taxes. Lets talk about taxes I have not heard Mccain say he was going to lower my taxes, he is going to lower taxes for these big businesses and oil company’s. Mccain is a joke.

“The polls are fixed. People are answering I will vote for Obama. But they will not vote for him in November. You think your 8 point lead is significant. If Obama was winning in a landslide he would be up by 20 points or more.”
Who said it was a landslide?
I just said he is WINNING.
And that is why the pathetic McCain campaign has go slimy negative.
But I love the claim that polls are fixed with zero evidence.
I guess right wingers need many lies to get thru their day. Reality is just too difficult.

Palin’s like Alaska Fools Gold, just a flash in the pan, but under examination….Worthless! Nuff Said

I’m not sure why people are surprised that the MSM doesn’t pick up these stories. Jeez, they were even scooped by the National Enquirer on the John Edwards story.
The press doesn’t do any investigating of Democrats anymore. They have been relegated to the cheerleading section.

Keating 5 McCain is down 8 points on gallup for a reason. Everyone knows he’s part of the deregulation problem that led us here.

Not sure the Repugs want to go this route….If it happends, it’s time to bring out the Keating FIVE tapes showing MCsame swearing in before a Congressional hearing. MCsame actually traveled on Keating’s Jet and stayed at his condo.If they spread the seeds of doubts, I think the Keating FIVE tapes will also spread the seeds of doubt..Play with fire, and you’ll get burned.Watch out.

You have no idea how fortunate you are to have a leader like Obama..the rest of the world thinks of him as a highly intelligent leader & feels he will definitley make positive changes for the U.S and the world.
Debate the issues folks…leave the personalities out of it & you will elect the right leader for these times!
You’ve already told us who the right leader is. Well I guess we can all go home now and vote for Obama on Nov 4. Sorry Dee but we aren’t socialists here.

Man, our Obama is a hideous fellow. His ratio of talk over action is approaching infinity. And his ratio of fantasy over lies is approaching one.

Keating 5 McCain is down 8 points on gallup for a reason. Everyone knows he’s part of the deregulation problem that led us here.
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You are right Bubba. McCain is down 8% for a reason. As I have said welcome to your worst nightmare Obamabots. People who are for McCain telling the polls that they are for Obama. In November they will vote McCain.

G.W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Rick Renzi, Bob Allen, Charles Keating, Hagee. I’d say Obama and McCain are even in questionable associations.

“Wow, can people not have an intelligent conversation about the issues on here? ”
You need two parties to have a conversation, if the other is ranting, insinuations and misrepresent the facts .. well that is where we are now, a mud fight.
So the question is how McCain is fixing the economy.. he cut spendings and lower the taxes. The 700 billion bailout, he plans to cut more spendings..
He is out of touch and it’s ludicrous.
And his choice of Palin is just scary. She can’t deliver a conversation with more than a single sentence, if she tries to do that she gets into trouble.

Aengil – ah, now you get it. If Obama has done nothing wrong, he doesn’t need to defend it (nor do all these posters) – it will come out on its own as it’s investigated. As I said before, at least earlier you said that if there was something discovered, you would take a look at it. I can appreciate that. So, let the vetting begin and we’ll see where it all comes out.

palin = cheney in stilletos.

Wow. For all of those people posting here from Chicago, it seems like all of you dislike Obama. I find it pretty odd considering that he was hugely popular in Illinois in the primaries and won election to the Senate by a landslide.
He ran unopposed by blackballing the other candidates. The Republican party threw Alan Keyes in at the last minute just to fill a slot but there wasn’t really any time for him to give Obama any fight. Do your research, you’ll find this is the only election he actually “won”.

The Ad has been there over a week now and it did not affect the polls. The RNC and McCain camp had a conference call aired on CSPAN about their new strategy with the ads and the fact that they can only win if they paint Obama as not acceptable.
IF YOU ARE JUST CARRYING THIS NOW. IT IS TOO LATE FOR YOU JAKE..THE ECONOMIC ISSUE THAT WE FACE IS TOO MUCH FOR US TO GET DISTRACTED FROM THE MAIN ISSUE AND THE POLLS ARE REFLECTING IT.

“If you are voting for Obama, then you ARE NOT a Repiblican, that simple.”

Mccain IS IN PANIC MODE he is losing troopergate is getting closer and closer now he will resort too this too bad its going to backfire on him you see when you lie about other people the truth comes out on you I mean come on people obama has been campaiging for 2 years and against the clintons in the primary if hillary couldnt dig up anything then you know what that tells you idiots THERE IS NOTHING THERE NOW MCCAIN YOU BETTER BE CAREFUL HOW DO YOU KNOW THE OBAMA CAMP DOESNT HAVE AN OCT SURPRISE ON YOU AND WAITING IT OUT!

To the person who doesn’t think that McCain would condone slavery….he fought pretty hard against honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his home state of Arizona. Maybe he’s not all about equality. He sure wasn’t about equal pay for women either.

Jim and Dvine – you ASSUME that just because someone is supporting McCain that they voted for Bush.

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10.25% Leads the Nation

“He ran unopposed by blackballing the other candidates.”
Gov Ryan imploding over his personal life is Obama’s fault?
“The Republican party threw Alan Keyes in at the last minute just to fill a slot but there wasn’t really any time for him to give Obama any fight.”
Yes the GOP given their infinite understanding of minorities in Chicago figured a black man was their best bet. They figured skin color mattered more than issues.
They were very wrong.

wanttheelectionover: You’re kidding me right? You still don’t get it?
In exactly the same way you denied pasting stuff from blogs BECAUSE you don’t), people defend Obama BECAUSE he’s done nothing wrong.
The idea that people defending someone indicates that they may have done something wrong is absurd. False accusations will usually be countered, not ignored – as you yourself illustrated when denying pasting stuff from blogs.

Bottom Line – Everyone knows Obama will win this election in November. To vent your frustration and lies due to this reality, is truly wasteful but entertaining.

Alix said: Well, it looks like Keating 5, McCain’s cheating on his sick wife with a rich heiress, and Cindy’s drug addiction/theft of drugs from her own charity will become fair game too. Then there’s also the whole McCain temper thing . . . There’s some pretty sweet footage and quotes of his blowups that will make McCain regret going down this path.
And Obama used cocain. And???
McCains temper. I don’t recall McCain using his middle finger to scratch his nose in the guise of flipping his opponent off, but I do recall Obama doing that to Hillary during a debate.

This just out! hussein and his wife had a horribl fight during their last trip to Chicago – about his association with another particular woman.

“$320 billion is spent a year on welfare for illegal aliens.” (wanttheelectionover)
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I SAY, call your representatives to complain. They controlled the Washington together with Bush for many years and have done nothing constructive about emigration issue.
Here is another shady association — Bush family and bin laden family are friends.
Palin is a earmarks queen. More earmarks per capita than any other state.

There seems to be a concensus here among Obama’s supporters that his associations with these unsavory individuals is completely innocent.
Perhaps some of you can explain why, if this is the case, has Senator Obama chosen to lie repeatedly to voters when questioned about his long term associations, and political/business dealings with these individuals.
Each time Obama was questioned about the campaign contributions of Tony Rezko (convicted felon and 20+ year associate of Senator Obama), he gave a different answer–ranging from $50K to $150K as I recall. Ultimately, he was forced to get rid of the money. Again regarding Rezko, Obama denied the real estate transaction involving Rezko that allowed him and Michelle to purchase their home. Ultimately, he somewhat acknowledged the wrong-doing by dismissing it as a “boneheaded mistake”.
Questioned about his attendance at a 2004 reception hosted by Tony Rezko for Iraqi-born billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi (also a convicted felon), Obama claimed he did not recall ever meeting Auchi. A witness at Rezko’s trail testified under oath that he saw Barack and Michelle Obama at the reception. Another attendee at the reception recalled that Obama made more than one toast at the reception.
In March, when the Rev. Wright issue surfaced, in a period of three days Obama was questioned daily regarding his relationship with Rev. Wright. Each time he gave a different answer. Obama then delivered his famous race speech a few days later, hoping to bury the issue by injecting race. We all remember that in this speech he said he could never disown Rev. Wright (his spiritual adviser of 20 years). As early as a year before Obama launched his campaign, he and Rev. Wright discussed that it may be necessary to distance themselves in the interest of Obama’s campaign at some time in the future. In July, when the Rev. Wright issue came up again in the campaign, Obama and Wright staged a skillfully choreographed event to give Obama an opening to publicly disown Rev. Wright in a subsequent speech, to save his campaign.
It was at the Chicago home of Ayers and Dohrn that Obama, then a “community organizer,” had his political coming out party in 1995.
Barack Obama made a joint appearance with Bill Ayers in 1997 at a University of Chicago panel on the outrage of treating juvenile criminals as if they were, well, criminals. Obama apologists say, “So what? People appear with other people all the time.” The panel was orchestrated by Michelle Obama, then an Associate Dean of Student Services. And Ayers didn’t just happen to be there. He was invited by the Obamas.
Ayers and Obama also served for three years on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago charitable organization. Together, they voted to donate $75,000 to the Arab American Action Network. The AAAN was co-founded by Rashid Khalidi, a longtime supporter of Palestinian “resistance” attacks against Israel, which he openly regards as a racist, apartheid state. Despite evidence to the contrary, Khalidi denies having been a PLO operative or having directed its official press agency for six years (from 1976 to 1982).
Barack and Michelle Obama, with Ayers and Dohrn attended a farewell party for Khalidi when he left Chicago for New York in 2005. Khalidi had also hosted a fundraiser for Obama in 2000, when Obama launched his unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives. Ayers also donated $200 to Obama’s 2001 campaign.
When questioned about his relationship with Khalidi in May, Obama responded by saying he has met Khalidi and spoken with him in an academic context, while teaching at the University of Chicago.

“McCains temper. ”
McGrouchy showed up during the debate and even more so during his interview with the Des Moines Register editorial board.
“I don’t recall McCain using his middle finger to scratch his nose in the guise of flipping his opponent off, but I do recall Obama doing that to Hillary during a debate.”

Did Obama kick your dog?
Yes he did, he has no respect for anything or anybody except himself and his political career.

This story must not of been linked to Drudge because only 80% of you are morons.

Look at the right wingers whine and stamp their feet that no one believes their lies.
This day is getting better and better.

Aw, too bad Republicans…
The Gallup numbers POST DEBATE are out!!
Gallup Tracking 10/01 – 10/03
Obama = 50%
McCain = 42% Obama +8
I guess Americans weren’t impressed with Palin’s canned answers and her little memorized speeches huh??
Also, is it within the debate rules to have answers written on notes cards at the podium like Palin had? It sure was funny to see her reading prepared “general answers” that didn’t even match the question asked half of the time…
You can’t learn how to be VP or President (if something happens to McCain) by cramming for a week….
How pathetic that the MSM even gives her any credibility at all!

Media’s kidding!!! Obama’s never ever wrong. You say something bad about Obama.
So, you’re raciiiiist.

I’m just curious why the press never mentions that Jim Hensley, Cindy’s father and the man that paid for McCain’s entry into politics, was a convicted felon with mob ties (he worked for Kemper Marley)?

WOW, as McCain DROPS further and further in the polls, rethuglicans just sink and sink in tactics. All Obama has to do is brush this dirt off his shoulders and keep the positive campaigning. Americans see straight through these dirty tactics. McCain and friends are definitely trying to take the lowest road to the highest office in the land.

Davis said: Also, is it within the debate rules to have answers written on notes cards at the podium like Palin had? It sure was funny to see her reading prepared “general answers” that didn’t even match the question asked half of the time…
She didn’t cheat. The only thing allowed on the podiums are blank sheets of paper, and a pen to which notes are placed apon the paper thru out the debate. If you noticed, both Biden, and Palin did this. The podiums were checked, and re-checked before the VP candidates came out.
If you were watching carefully you saw them both taking notes with which to refer to each others answers, or bring up their points throughout the debate.
Also, if you were paying attention, both Obama, and McCain were doing the same thing at their previous debate.
That being said, Obama was on camera gesturing to someone. Was that cheating?

LJC
Excellent post, but they still won’t believe you. Some think Obama is the Messiah and refuse to let facts get in the way.

Uhh..Why was he invited?.?
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The Arizona Republic Jan. 17, 1995 “About 300 guests turned out Saturday night to celebrate the 90th birthday of Joseph ‘Joe Bananas’ Bonanno, retired boss of New York’s Bonanno crime family. He retired to Tucson in 1968 . . . John McCain, R-Ariz., and Gov. Fife Symington sent their regards by telegram.”

Scoreboard Concerned!
Gallup: Obama +8
Rassmussen: Obama +6
Hotline/FD: OBama +7
Scoreboard!

One more surprise for the “October Surprises”: many of those “little contributions” the Obama campaign received ARE FROM FOREIGNERS (most likely, TERRORISTS). Just wait and see, this will blow up.

“Ultimately, the fall of Lincoln Savings and Loan will cost the U.S. taxpayers $2 billion. It lost $1 million dollars a day from the time Keating bought it in 1984 until its collapse in 1989, and yet he continued to pay off McCain as ‘one of his assets.’”
Regardie’s magazine, April-May 1992 issue.

Well HP, go UN vote!!!

I really think it is time to recognize that there has never been anybody running for president from any of the major parties that has such questions unanswered about who and what he reaaly is. In the history of elections nobody would have had a chance with the reported baggage that Obama has. It shows where this country has gone and why americans have been so grossly manipulated by government. A lot of us are agog that real americans would treat the presidency of the United States like star of year in the tabloids. For a democratic society to function at all, there needs to be a stopgap in the White House. You cannot allow one party to roll over the other one. For all you Bush haters Congress rules your lives. Government does what it wants under a smoke and mirror agenda that you won’t believe. If the 545 that rule 300,000,000 want something it happens. So that has to tell you that what you are living with right now was planned. Do your homework, read a little bit beyond a completey biased media snd you will see for yourselves why you are where you are and why if the democrats get into office it is going to more of the same. You have been set up for a royal screwing of the likes that you could never even imagine.

LOL…someone actually believes what is written in opednews.
There’s only one investigation involving any party on either ticket and that is Troopergate & Palin.
An actual report is due Oct 10th unlike the right wing made up nonsense about impending indictments.

No matter what kiind of silly tv ads McCain come up with I know who I’m voteing for and its not him.I don’t need a man of the past to run four years of the future !!!

What about the investigation of Sarah Palin and her troopergate case? How are we doimg?

Ryan C – I take it you didn’t live during the Carter administration, or you wouldn’t make that comment. I did, and I would really hate to see this country go there again.

obama’s trump card: mccain=BUSH
nothing the mccain campaign can top that. sorry

The Washington Post profiles a McCain bundler, and the paper seems to imply he might have reimbursed donors. The bundler is Harry Sargeant, a defense contractor. “Some of the most prolific givers in Sargeant’s network live in modest homes in Southern California’s Inland Empire. Most had never given a political contribution before being contacted by Sargeant or his associates. Most said they have never voiced much interest in politics. And in several instances, they had never registered to vote. And yet, records show, some families have ponied up as much as $18,400 for various candidates between December and March.
Both Sargeant and the donors were vague when asked to explain how Sargeant persuaded them to give away so much money. ‘I have a lot of Arab business partners. I do a lot of business in the Middle East. I’ve got a lot of friends,’ Sargeant said in a telephone interview yesterday. ‘I ask my friends to support candidates that I think are worthy of supporting. They usually come through for me.’ Sargeant’s business relationships, and the work they perform together, occur away from the public eye. His firm, International Oil Trading Co. (IOTC), holds several lucrative contracts with the Defense Department to carry fuel to the U.S. military in Iraq.”

Fox Noize will be in full McCampaign mode this week. There’s only 4 weeks left.
And their polar opposite MSNBC will be in full Obama mode. Looks like a stalemate to me.

Jeanie,
When Obama gestured during the debate he was gesturing to the Jim Lehrer, the moderator, that he wanted to reply to some of McCain’s answers. McCain did the same thing at times. Stop with the conspiracy cheating stuff and just admit Obama did a good job. I have seen this brought up several times already who are reading too much into everything.

None of this will matter to the devoted followers of The One. They want to bring down our Country.

Ryan – Leherer was to Obama’s right. He was looking and gesturing to his left.

“Obama people are thugs too. I finally told my coworkers I was a PUMA, and one of them, a young woman in her 20’s said that she caught her teenage brother stealing McCain yard signs. That has been a problem here since the primaries. The two obots in my office thought it was funny and great that he was so into obama. Don’t they know that it is an offense to democracy itself? these are really scary times…”
P U M A

IF PALIN DID SO GOOD AT THE DEBATE AND SHE IS SO SMART, smarter than Biden like you Republicans say…
Why isn’t she on the Sunday shows like Meet The Press, This Week and Face The Nation this weekend?? Why hasn’t she had a press conference yet?
Why is the McCain campaign still hiding her from reporters??? What are they afraid of? Being that she is so smart and competent!!!

Typical republican BS. Just the fact that McCain hired the same sleezeballs that worked for Bush who spread the lies that McCain had an illigimet black child says it all.
McCain has no integrity. He has betrayed this country and all americans by putting himself before the country. Impeach McCain for treason! Impeach Palin for stupidity!

wanttheelectionover: “Let the vetting begin”? In case you hadn’t noticed, Obama’s already been through a few elections already. These issues are all old. He’s already been vetted.
And no, I haven’t misunderstood your point. I understand it fully. It’s just completely illogical. Let me put it this way. You said:
“I will challenge you – find one of my posts here that is a copy paste. There are none. If Obama has nothing to hide, he should welcome the scrutiny. No one needs to defend him – the truth will speak on its own”
If you think someone accused of something doesn’t need to defend themself, why do YOU feel the need to defend YOURSELF and challenge me so? Won’t the truth speak on its own? Hrm?
The idea that people should ignore false accusations is just idiotic – particularly since you yourself don’t do that, even at the same time as saying other people should!

First I’ll say I’m backing McCain. But the William Ayers connection, waste of time. The connection is too weak. The Rezko connection, much stronger, and it shows that Obama is either a) oblivious, or b) not adverse to playing typical Chicago greed-based politics. Finally, the Jeremiah Wright appointment — this shows that Obama is either a) oblivious, or b) suspiciously tolerant when it comes to people spewing hate speech. Either case, in both cases, makes Obama NOT presidential. He’s a stealth candidate that will weaken our country. McCain is made of true grit, he’s our man.

ablanche08, let’s hope you have the pleasure of serving as a juror on this kangaroo court you fantasize about…

I still have GWB swift boat ad that downed McSame in SC. I will be running it as an independent ad here in OH.

Oh yes, I know Davis the polls. I told Gallup that I was for Obama. I am voting McCain in the election. We know that you guys overpoll and we just wanted to help you out with that.
Mccain/Palin 08′

Obama’s trouble are just starting to bubble. He’s got “progressives for Obama” coming out of the woodworks and these include other associates of Ayers. When Rezko starts singing, Obama’s only response will be the entire deck of the race card.

Oh, and along with both ignorance and fear that runs rampant in America is the fact that whenever a candidate like McCain has to resort to smears and lies against an opponent in order to win a presidential election, then those tall telling signs reveals fear, insecurities, lack of integrity, and lack of character! Such negative tactics also reveals that McCain DOES NOT have anything concrete regarding policies and issues to offer the American people! McCain and his cohorts prefer to insult us by behaving like children with “He said, She said,” tactics to DEFLECT AWAY FROM WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, such as taxes, the economy, creating more jobs for the American people, etc.! Insult after insult after insult to the American people with these OLD RUN-OF-THE-MILL tactics that are suppose to keep our minds cluttered with sheer stupidity, and no validity to what WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE need to know! Damn, stop insulting our intelligence McCain, and stick with what is important: employment, creating jobs in our country, health care, dental care, small business owners, and everything else that deals with US, and NOT YOU! THIS ELECTION should be based on policies, and issues, that are important to the American people, and our survival during a crucial time in history! Because if it’s mud slinging you seek, then it’s mud slinging you will get!

Aengil -very simple. When and only when there is proof of wrongdoing, is there wrongdoing. All I said is – I haven’t copy pasted and the proof shows that. If there is no wrongdoing by Obama, then any further vetting will prove that also. So let it begin. We are saying the same thing.

No need to explain to the barricude with lipstick what the VP does everyday. Its over! She can just go back to Alaska and hope Troopergate doesn’t destroy her.

GW. BUSH HAS TURNED OUT TO BE THE
GREATEST SLUMLORD IN THE HISTORY
OF THE WORLD…. McBUSH FOR MORE YEARS
OF THE SAME………….
they lie on us… vote mcbush

“None of this will matter to the devoted followers of The One.
They want to bring down our Country.” (Susan)
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Bush was your the One and now is McCain to finish up with plundering of this Country.
Whereas Obama wants rally Americans and together with them restore this Country.

Yes Obamabots I have been called by Gallup and I said yes I was voting Obama. In November I am voting for Mccain.
You poll obsessed Kool Aid drinkers have fallen for the oldest trick in the book.Be very surprised in November when Obama falls on his face.
Posted by: Democrats—————Some republicans are just plain idiots. They cant win on merit or a fair campaine but only by deception, lies, fear and negitivity. Kind of the way they run the country. This kind of tatics is becoming a thing of the past and I imagine on Nov. 4th if it were to stay at 8 in the polls that Obama will win by a lot more. Take a look at how Obama is doing in the electorial and swing states. That is more accurate and consider all the new yourg reg voters that they are not polling. But keep it up McSamer’s. The country is tired and over your way of doing things.

Long post does not = quality post. i.e., they don’t get read.

Take a look at Palin’s criminal records in Alaska and her son Track on school bus vandalism.

And you think the Bailout was a huge news story of the century…how about the biggest con of all.
Obama has 3 days to submit documentation to the Courts — ordered by the courts. The writing was sort of on the wall when Obama hired several attorneys to handle this case instead of just letting the courts examine his paperwork.

Speaking of cramming Obama is in Chicago cramming for the next debate. Too bad he had to take an unexpected trip to the Dirkson building downtown to speak with attorneys about Rezko singing to the FEDS.
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LOL and the bots are freaking wetting themselves every day B/C AMERICA LOVES Governor PALIN!!!

Yes CW, I will be so laughing when Obama loses in November it is going to be shocking for the image the party of donkey has made in God’s image
THE GOLDEN ***

ablanche08, you are nothing but a damned cut and paste spammer. Knock it off, or I’ll try you in one of your kangaroo courts for treason-spamming

Democrats No More, the only way Republicans will win is the same way they won the last two elections: cheating and stealing the election. But if they try that this time around, I think it will raise far too many questions and you’ll see a revolution to stop the Republican corruption machine.

wanttheelectionover: “When and only when there is proof of wrongdoing, is there wrongdoing.”
Indeed. But it’s odd that you should say that, because when other people point that out regarding accusations about Obama, you accuse them of ‘defending him to an extreme”.
So, why are you defending yourself to an extreme if you’ve done nothing wrong, hrm? ;-)

I don’t get it. Obama had everything going for him. Why does he always have to cheat to win?
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I agree. Even as late as this year, he could have taken Hillary’s offer of Clinton/Obama. Instant unity, victory, 16 years in the White House….
Instead he chose to damage the Clintons, split the party, probably become the McGovern of 2008.
Not a display of good judgement. Nor was choosing the Daley Machine when he could have gone anywhere after Harvard.

Ann.. “—all Americans should come first and foremost.” It’s obvious you fail to realize that not all American’s are treated or perceived the same for example; (1) during Katrina African American’s were called “refugees” and not “displaced citizens”, (2) Congress has passed laws like; Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action “all Americans should come first and foremost” just to give every American the same opportunities. And I hope your comment also applies to big companies that have moved (Outsourced) American jobs to foreign markets “all American’s should come first and foremost.” but major cooperation’s don’t consider all American’s first and foremost, but hopefully the next President will. I need a President that represents every American and not just corporate America like our current President…

Aengil – again – you are way too funny!!! You need to smile a bit and not be so serious. And us conservatives are accused of being too serious? You have yourself twisted into a tizzy. Let the truth speak for itself – plain and simple.

hmn: “ABC decides to bring this up NOW! Man, maybe the media really does love McCain after all.”
I think it’s just ABC, taking place for the now infamous FauxNews to spread lies and incite flames for the GOP.

Ryan, is a common-tater up there with a po-tater?
The rule…the rule, I am not racist because I am black.
I just voted today!!! So, my arguing with you is over…I have made my decision.
Just hope all of you get the free things you deserve with your decision.
I am sick of all this garbage on both sides, dem and rep. I have been waisting my time reading all the bs you dems are putting out about how stellar Obama is. You only have to watch him parade to know just who he is, just another egotistical black man looking for a basketball game.

If McCain brings up J Wright in ads now after all this time, we will know that he is deperatate. GET TO THE REAL ISSUES!

What are you smokin’ Rocker?

Where are those who said Palin won the VP debate?
Obama has widen his lead in the latest Gallup poll. Obama +8
It seems after every debate Obama widens his lead. Why?
B/c he’s right on the issues and right for America. Palin and her fake folk accent made matters worst for McCain.

“I say, I don’t want a president that will put forth taxation policies so that government has a say in my personal life. I will choose my own doctor, thank you, and we will make the decision together on the best course of action.” (wanttheelectionover)
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And I say, none of the running candidates are for depriving you of these choices (unless you know about McCain something I don’t know since he “reforms” himself often).

Mr. Obama is simply not squeaky clean. Why not just look at these associations and honestly review them. Why the paranoia?

Good, attack his associations…I am tired of utopian veneer over this typical Chicago-style democrat…
Go negative, because I despise this glad-handing know-it-all. Anyone but Obama..
If he is elected, America will have sadly missed its second opportunity to have a truly great man be president.
On the other hand, it will be somewhat entertaining to see things fail to improve…and Obama break his promises left and right.

ABOUT TIME!!

The only people that love Palin are the conservatives. Independents weren’t impressed by the debate.

Hahahaha.
Yah, the two dozen PUMA people left in the nation are scewing ALL the polls.
Sure, millions and millions of pumas are secretly waiting to “pounce”.
We have a collapsed financial system, a two front war, a housing market collapse, growing unemployment, $4/gal gasoline,inflationary pressures, a record deficit, record national debt, and record international borrowing just as a basic start in this election.
No one gives a ratt’s *** about your pathetic grudges. The rest of us have more important things to worry about.
Raaaw, Roooar, Groooowl
Hahahaha

I have always been a Hillary’s BIG FAN. When Obama used ILLEGAL CONTRIBUTIONS to beat my candidate, I PROMISED TO MYSELF THAT I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO NOT LET OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Who should be in the White House, if not Obama. Well, the voters have other choices: Nader, Barr or McCain.
NO WAY. NO HOW. NO OBAMA.

i am a republican who is waiting for mCcAIN to start talking about the issues. the more he keeps bringing up rezco and ayers the more he is telling me he doesn;t have the answers. it looks like mccain is getting desperate. don’t lower your self john. stay on the issues, because that is what we want to hear at the moment..

ludmila said -”And I say, none of the running candidates are for depriving you of these choices ” Are you kidding me? Socialized medicine promoted by Obama will take away my personal choices and tax us to death in the process.

In this article, the republican operative said” we have to change the subject”. So in other words: the Mccain’s campaign cannot discuss their stance on the economy, jobs , finances,etc. NO they cannot have a decent conversation over the things that American are facing everyday. So they want the campaign to operate like a “soap opera” or the serious “Desperate Housewives” Let’s start rumors because we have no substance or fail to educate our base on what we are going to do for the America people. We can’t beat Obama/Biden so lets play games like we are in high school or act like “gossip girls”.. I am so disgusted at the Republican party. Thanks for lowering the standard of the debates, discussions over whats important, and integrity. Thanks Mccain/palin….what a way to lose again!

Do you associate with gangsters?

NO!!! America does not love Palin.
You chose George Bush because you thought George was a good old boy, like you and look at what you got. Screwed by the Rep. as usual.

Just wait guys there is trouble brewing in Chicago. Rezko is naming names and one thing Obama has going against him is that in Chicago No one is really your friend. He received a subpoena on Friday from the US court of Appeals 7th circuit in Chicago and another from the Criminal Court. Imagine a cesspool of bottomfeeders- that is Chicago Politics and when you try to crawl out they pull you back in. That is what is going on now

Can’t win on issues and your own credibility? Dig up some irrelevant and ancient trivia on your opponent. Worked for Bush against Kerry, didn’t it? And Kerry had it all over Bush from intelligence to national service to foreign affairs to experience…you name it. One more nail in the coffin of fair campaigning and elections from the Republican party of opportunist who repeat the same thing until the little monkey brains in America believe it. Gotta love the way some people never learn.

why is obama cramming for the debates. he can do just what he did last time and duplicate mccain’s answers.
obama thinks american’s are fools. well, we will see on election day
NEWFLASH…………..
MCCAIN WINS ELECTION BY LANDSLIDE….
CNN JUST COULDN’T UNDERSTAND WHY..BOO HOO.. CNN SAYS THE POLLS SAID OBAMA LEADS..WAKE UP THE POLLS MEAN NOTHING NOTTA NOTTA…NOTTA. ASK 10 PEOPLE AROUND YOU WHO THEY WILL VOTE FOR, I BETCH YOU GET 9 FOR MCCAIN 1 FOR OBAMA. POLLS ARE RIGGED MY LITTLE ONES, DON’T BELIEVE THEM.

No doubt GOP and McCain camp are trying to steal this election with lies and tricks again. After 8 years of disastrous Bush/Chaney/Rove, we know what this kind of lies and tricks has done to us. It was FauxNews working for/with those liers then and FauxNews has lost all its creditibility now, but is ABC trying to take its place to conspire with GOP and spread their lies?

Krystal, it’s nada lol And as long as the focus is on the economy Obama will win.

Obama and Biden ticket is similar to Bush and Cheney ticket in disguise. A new president with not much hands on experience with learning curve supported by a Washington old-timer politican. The country will end up run by the VP just like the past 8 years. Biden has been part of all these snow-ball mess cumulated in the last 30 years. No much better changes will be brought to our country under Obama and Biden ticket, unfortunately.

LOL and the bots are freaking wetting themselves every day B/C AMERICA LOVES Governor PALIN!!!
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We sure love seeing her on SNL every week!

Who didn’t think that when push came to shove that McCain wouldn’t get as far in the gutter as he felt he needed to go? Pitiful. This guy is proving himself to be as erratic and untrustworthy as they come. He has turned his back on anything moral character he may have once had. I guess he is more interested in solidifying his Republican base than actually garnering any new votes from the middle because these tired, already disclosed tactics will do just that. He offers no hope for the future so he goes as negative as possible.

Here is a quick look into 3 former Fannie Mae executives who have brought down Wall Street.
Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe irregularities in Fannie Mae’s accounting activities. At the time of his departure The Wall Street Journal noted, ‘ Raines, who long defended the company’s accounting despite mounting evidence that it wasn’t proper, issued a statement late Tuesday conceding that ‘mistakes were made’ and saying he would assume responsibility as he had earlier promised. News reports indicate the company was under growing pressure from regulators to shake up its management in the wake of findings that the company’s books ran afoul of generally accepted accounting principles for four years.’ Fannie Mae had to reduce its surplus by $9 billion.
Raines left with a ‘golden parachute valued at $240 Million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear. http://housingdoom.com/2006/12/18/fannie-charges/ . The Government noted, ‘The 101 charges reveal how the individuals improperly manipulated earnings to maximize their bonuses, while knowingly neglecting accounting systems and internal controls, misapplying over twenty accounting principles and misleading the regulator and the public. The Notice explains how they submitted six years of misleading and inaccurate accounting statements and inaccurate capital reports that enabled them to grow Fannie Mae in an unsafe and unsound manner.’ These charges were made in 2006. The Court ordered Raines to return $50 Million Dollars he received in bonuses based on the miss-stated Fannie Mae profits.
Tim Howard – Was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard ‘was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a ‘stable pattern of earnings’ at Fannie. In everyday English – he was cooking the books. The Government Investigation determined that, ‘Chief Financial Officer, Tim Howard, failed to provide adequate oversight to key control and reporting functions within Fannie Mae,’
On June 16, 2006, Rep.. Richard Baker, R-La., asked the Justice Department to investigate his allegations that two former Fannie Mae executives lied to Congress in October 2004 when they denied manipulating the mortgage-finance giant’s income statement to achieve management pay bonuses. Investigations by federal regulators and the company’s board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004.
Howard’s Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!
Jim Johnson – A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO.. A look at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s May 2006 report on mismanagement and corruption inside Fannie Mae, and you’ll see some interesting things about Johnson. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson’s 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million.’ Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae.
Johnson’s Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
FRANKLIN RAINES? Raines works for the Obama Campaign as Chief Economic Advisor
TIM HOWARD? Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama
JIM JOHNSON? Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama’s Vice Presidential Search Committee
IF OBAMA PLANS ON CLEANING UP THE MESS -
HIS ADVISORS HAVE THE EXPERTISE -
THEY MADE THE MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Would you trust the men who tore Wall Street down
to build the New Wall Street ?

About to be hit ?!?!!
Are you kidding me!!!!!!!
How long has this been in the news. Is this all you got. All these shady characters rolled together and multiplied by a million don’t even amount to The Keating Five. How many Billion of dollars they swindled out of investors (elderly pensions, kid’s college tuition money, family savings).
The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around $160.1 billion, about $124.6 billion of which was directly paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.
90,000 (rezko MONEY) – 160.1 billion (AMERICAN’S MONEY)
come on Tapper!!!!!!! Hannity does a good job all by himself. He doesn’t need your help.

Gotta love it. It’s about time someone other than Fox brought up BHO’s associates. I know, I know, FauxNews, FoxNoize, et al.. is killing MSNBC, and CNN in the ratings. There is a reason for that. People are sick of hearing Obama give great speeches and then stumble when he has to speak from experience, of which he has ZERO.
The only people that seem to be supporting BHO are anti-Bush as opposed to anti-McCain. Shows their level of hatred for America and their desire to live in a socialist country. Canada is due north, and Europe is east over the Atlantic.

I like both Ayers and Wright. They tell it like it is. I wish Obama were more like them, but I’ll probably vote for him anyway.

We heard all this stuff before it is posted daily on the blogs. I would prefer McCain spell out what his plans are for the country. Those type of ads only reek of desparation and are a complete turn-off.

12_angry – Four more words – and four were Democrats

Obama appears to sit on a nexus between Marxist revolutionary activists, unrepentant former terrorists, Black Power racists, Chicago mobsters – oh, and a Saudi who is trying to buy up America. If you were to turn up at US immigration control with a background of such associates, it’s a fair bet they wouldn’t let you off the air-bridge. Yet this man may well become President of the US!”

Keating 5, Jim Davis and Phil Gramm won’t help McLame go down in history as a great person either.

Joke of the day:
“radical left C.A.C. organization”
Only for someone to the right of Mussolini, that is.

You supporters of Obama have to ask youself at least one question:
Why did the Obama campaign give ACORN $800,000 – an organization convicted on multiple occasions of voter fraud, registering the underaged, illegal aliens, fellons, and even fictitious names as well as the deceased?
ACORN was also involved in the same fraud during the 2004 Washington State governor election, where the Democrat Christine Gregoire had plainly lost, but forced multiple recounts of the votes (including a mysterious box of ballots that showed up at the last minute) until she was a few hundred votes ahead, giving her just enough to win. After she was declared the winner, it was found that the mysterious box contained over 1800 fraudulent votes.
Democrats are plainly mobster thugs and crooks – to invite them to take public office is insanity.

The only people that seem to be supporting BHO are anti-Bush as opposed to anti-McCain. Shows their level of hatred for America and their desire to live in a socialist country.
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It actually shows the contempt we have for the party that has SHREDDED THE CONSTITUTION over the past eight years and the morons who ramble on about psuedo-patriotic flag waving BS.
Which party has TAKEN AWAY more civil liberities than any other in the last 50 years?
If you don’t like the freedom to challenge the corrupt government, you can use that ticket to Laos.

Aengil – You truly are dense. I challenged you to provide proof. You couldn’t. It comes down to proof. If it’s not there, will be no proof. Now please, get back in the conversation – you’ve been obsessed with this for the past hour.

Joke of the Day:
That BHO supporters still think he is gonna win.
After Nov 5th you socialist out there will still be to dull to figure what went wrong for the “Chosen One.”

One_America
Actually I would be impressed if Obama was involved with Acorn
The dirty republicans have been stealing elections for as long as I can remember.
I can still remember as a kid in the south the republican operatives would come through the neighbor handing out liquor for votes.
So please thanks for the info and I hope Obama is involved in ACORN. You gotta play hardball with the worthless republicans and I am happy he is just not being passive.
OBAMA 08

Did you see that? All of those Bush Republicans scattered like rats and roaches trying to disassociate themselves and their candidate from the truth. McCain = more of the same. That’s what “trickle down” means.

Try Again
Please explain what of your constitutional rights have been “shredded.” From where I sit, I haven’t noticed ONE IOTA of difference since the Patriot Act was passed. Unless you communicate with terrorist, or are a criminal then you are only complaining to hear yourself speak.

Tapper … have you been hannitized.

Any respect McCain had from this Independent just went out the window. He is showing he is a typical Bush by his new campaine plan and ads. What a looser. To use fear/lies/deception to win an election is about as low as you can get. Anything but policies and issues.

“Posted by: red dog
Two words: Keating Five.”
Yes, lease read all about it.
McCain was completely cleared of ANY wrongdoing by the extensive investigation of the so-called Keating Five. The DEMOCRAT prosecutor even wanted to leave him out of it completely but was forced to leave him in by the rest of the ‘review board’ who were trying to spread the blame.
Yes, bush SIGNED into law the BIPARTISAN bill that was passed by the DEMOCRAT-majority House and Senate. Something has to be done to try to clean up the mess started by CLINTON’s administration …

Isnt there any point that you republicans can win fair. Your mentality
is the reason we are hated around the world. You treat everyone as if they are lower class than yourselves. You force your beliefs on people and when you cant win fair you use deception, lies, fear and executive privilege. You should be ashamed to call yourselves Americans. No wonder racist are attracted to your party. Go google John McCain and his POW years. You will find plenty o dirt on Mr McCain and why some vets and other dont consider him as a hero nor honorable.

Obama is a reprehensible human being with no ethics, a dangerously volatile personality, and, it appears, some serious mental illness as a result of his unfortunate experience with illegal drugs! How could anyone stoop as low as Obama? Blind ambition mixed with desperation, I suppose.
I guess it’s time to dredge up some tidbits from Obama’s past, starting with the Rev Wright, Rezko, Ayers, Sinclair,etc,etc,. We can take it from there, there’s so much DIRT in this man’s past, we’re going to need a shovel. No, a fork lift. Dump truck???

Oh, ok “Hannah”. Whatever you say….

Hannity has been talking about this for years now. EVERYDAY FOR AT LEAST 500 DAYS.
THESE WERE DEBATE QUESTIONS DEBATE ISSUES.
THESE FOLKS HAVE BEEN WATCHED REWATCHED AND WATCHED AGAIN FOR ANY AND EVERY SHRED OF EVIDENCE LINKING THEM TO OBAMA
All the information has been combed with a fine tooth comb. Observed with an electron microscope. AND NOTHING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Worthless pigs trying to serve up a October suprise.
ToO bad McCain served himself with an August Suprise.
Governor Clueless Bimbo Troopergate folksy, bridgetonowhere, bewitched, did I mention clueless PALIN.

Incredible. What a joke, here we go again.just like in the primaries.. Obama was 8 years old and millions of miles away when Ayers blew a bomb that hurt no one, nor was he convicted. 30 years later Obama meets Ayers for the first time in his life on a board meeting for Education that included Democrats and Republicans alike, and now the sick Republicans who are all out of ideas resort to this while our our great country is in serious turmoil.
What a shame.

“OBAMA HAS NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY” Raj Mujahadeen
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I say, BUSH and even more so MCCAIN and PALIN have NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY

All your Ayers, Wright ammo has been run into the ground. You will make yourselves and McCain to look desperate and foolish. This stuff was run into the ground during the primaries. Cant wait to see it backfire on you.

McCain has made this too easy – and now the “fun” is gone. Palin is a running joke. “Suspending” his campaign to rescue us. Negative lies. And now its not even close. Its a blow out – time to go home and beat the traffic by early voting for Obama. Game over.

HANNAH
Obama is getting dinged for this crap and he has clean hands.
McCain used poor judgement involving himself in such a scandal. His hands are filthy.
Obama knows criminals (if that’s what you choose to call them and oh by the way Ayers was NOT prosecuted either….
McCain is a criminal.

Hannah & Rick58,
I think you guys have your FACTS WRONG about McCain’s involvement in the Keating-5…
Here is a brief refresher course, if you want I can go into a LOT more detail, as I am sure the Obama campaign can as well!!!
McCain was one of the ONLY Senators that TOOK MONEY from Charles Keating, he even had to pay it back in the end…
McCain and Keating had known each other since 1981 and had become fast friends. Of all the “Keating Five,” it was McCain who moved into the life of the Lincoln S&L chief.
The two men vacationed together multiple times, with the whole McCain clan (babysitter included) heading out for Keating’s private Caribbean property on Keating’s private jet.
McCain didn’t think to actually report these trips, or pay for them, until the investigators were breathing down his neck.
McCain took his payment in the form of more than just vacations. Keating and other members of Lincoln’s parent company padded McCain’s pockets with $112,000 in campaign contributions.
In John McCain’s biography, he called his meetings with Keating and regulators “the worst mistake of my life,” though from the text you’d think this was a spur of the moment decision, not something that McCain did repeatedly over a space of years.

That Bill O’Reilly wimped out on Ayers tells us SOMEthing … but what?
———–
That even O’Reily wouldn’t stake his reputation and “credibility” on a lame story, false accusations, and internet rumors.

Aengil – “As for the conversation, as I already said, by YOUR own standards there’s apparently nothing to discuss because there’s no proof” So, then, back to the original question. If Obama did nothing wrong, why are all of you defending him so mightily? Are you afraid that proof will come out? After an hour, you finally got it. I’m going to enjoy the sun now.

wanttheelectionover
I applaud your beliefs, and before King George II I also voted republican, but I than did a little research and I found out the most of the laws interfering with state and individual rights are in fact supported by republicans. Most modern day republicans claim they are federalist, including McCain. I think you should check what is in the federalist doctrine. A federalist is someone who believes in a strong federal government and a weak state government. The modern day republicans only call themselves conservatives because they want people like you to vote for them.
Conservatives of the past believed in strong state and individual rights, but those days are a long time gone. Of late, republicans say they are for strong state rights, until the states disagree with them. It was the republicans who passed the federal law to interfere with Florida’s law in the Terri Schiavo case. It’s the republicans who are fighting California and other states with medical marijuana. It’s the republicans who opposed Oregon’s drug laws. This list can go on and on. Look past the scare tactics and you will find that the republicans have not been the champion of individual and state rights for many years. George Bush has interfered with individual rights more than any other president in history and John McCain as been right there with him. These are scare tactics the republicans use every four years to get votes. Don’t let them fool you again, educate yourself and you will find that the republicans have been taking away your rights.

OK here’s your chance—anybody —tell me why Obama deserves to be president.DON’t bring up the dems or rep or other lame talking points.
WHAT EXACTLY HAS he done to deserve this priviledge.

“None of this hokey stuff derailed Obama in the primaries when he was running against much less obviously ethically-compromised candidates than McCain (yes, McCain’s even more ethically challenged than Clinton).”

prepare for 30 days of slime. The Republicans have no new ideas, a terrible running mate, a senile old liar, and they can only make it about personality now. thats all they have left.
whether you like it or not kiddies, Obama is going to win this thing. he’s focused on what matters, the Republicans are treating it like a high school election. its embarrassing.

Doreen the reason Obama is ahead in the polls
1. True. The economy is viewed by america best managed by Democrats. America take a bow. Smart America!!!!!!
2. McCain is OUT OF TOUCH. If he was a pinball machine, he would have a big blinking TILTED sign on his forehead.
9am – THE ECONOMY IS STRON
11am – WE ARE IN A CRISIS
NOON – LETS FIRE COX
NEXT DAY – SO BAD LETS SUSPEND MY CAMPAIGN
LETS miss the debates.
Lets go to DC to inject the congress with some election political vitriol to spark partisan bickering
Now lets blame it on Obama when my plan bombs.
This loon has been all over the map this week
3. Sarah Palin has been writing for SNL. They don’t even have to embellish her words for laughs.
THAT’S WHY OBAMA IS AHEAD IN THE POLLS

WHAT EXACTLY HAS he done to deserve this priviledge.

When are the Dems gonna open up the best can of whoop*** we have – the one that details McCain’s divorce? He started fooling around with Cindy when his wife, who had been in a serious car accident, gained weight and lost 4 inches in height due to surgeries and living in a wheelchair. HONORABLE? This man is lauded as a paragon of honor. Sorry, no. He’s just another POS guy who wanted a barbie doll wife, even though he was an emaciated wreck who couldn’t even lift his arms. When his barbie became damaged, he threw her out and got a new one. Bloody shameful…

Hey, Concerned in OH,
Socialism is a state’s MONOPOLY on ownership of industry and capital (state’s totalitarianism).
Fascism (from “fascio”: faction/clique/group/party) is a faction’s MONOPOLY on ownership of industry and capital (faction’s totalitarianism) .
Therefore, a right-wing party’s (right-wing faction’s) totalitarianism is Fascism.

Palin and McCain are sleaze-mongers.
Keep this up, McCain/ Palin, and you will not only alienate and disgust all both the most extreme right wing of the American people, but you will also destroy your own political careers, such as they are.
Can you say “keating 5″?
Is this really the electoral campaign that we want?
Incidentally, Ayers was never convicted of anything. The last I checked, people in this country were still innocent until proven guilty.
There are REAL ISSUES out there, like a war we’re fighting and an unprecedented economic crisis. The American people need to hear about that, not diversionary tactics.
For shame, McSame.

Hannah
From the words of your ditsy VP nominee
Lets not look back. Lets look forward.
But any way. Obama has shown superb judgement. If this election is based upon how many years you have been in washington. GAME OVER McSame wins hands down.
Don’t you see. Again from the words of Caribou Barbie. Goverment is the problem and McCain has been there for over 26 years .
yeah yeah I know …. what about biden he has been there longer than mccain. I say to you biden is not at the top of this ticket. Obama is
Biden didn’t win or even compare to obama in the primaries because Obama was the only CHANGE candidate. Everyone else running on EXPERIENCE. This time Experience is NOT A GOOD THING.
Crooks have experience at breaking in houses but that doesnt mean I want him to be president.
Realize how McSame started talking about change and reform. hahahahah America is not buying that bridge to nowhere.
Cant teach a old McCain new tricks.

It amazes me how Palin speaks about looking ahead, not back, when that is exactly what the McCAINT campaign is doing. All McCAINT talks about is his war experience and how he has faught the republicans during his time in the senate. If he has continously faught them, why is he still a republican? Then, how can he fight them and vote with George Bush 90% of the time.
As for ScriptLip Palin, she scares me crazzzy. She is simply a cheerleader for the republican party, and her eye-winking and cliche’s reflect her level of stupidity. According to Bloom’s Taxonomy, she is clearly on the knowledge level when she should be able to perform on the Evaluation level.
It is true that we should look ahead and not remain in the past. Moreover, it is potential suicide to forget the road you have traveled.
I believe that Obama/Biden will be victorious on November 4th. Thus, they will have tremendous challenges ahead because the republicans will be bitter and evil. They will try at every hand to dicredit the democratic ticket. Thus, I believe they will do a tremendous job as leaders of this great nation.

Expose Obama. He’s a FRAUD!

FINALLY!! HOORAH SARAH! The truth is finally coming out that Obama is a socialist facist with ties to terrorists and the most extreme left-wing radical. His big government ideas will criple our nation at a time that we need the strength of a LEADER, not just an Orator! Obama is the worst presidential candidate since George Wallace!

Obama is going to win and there isn’t a thing republicans can do about it. They and rant and rave all day long but at the end they are going to be reading about Presdent Obama for the next 8 years.

Todd Palin is a member of a political party in Alaska that wants to secede from the U.S. The leader of the party makes Rev Wright look like a beginner in the hate America contest. Bring it on

WHAT EXACTLY HAS he done to deserve this priviledge.
—————————
He has developed an economic, medical, and tax plan that benefits the vast MAJORITY of Americans. (Veresus the top 10% of wealthiest Americans)This is GOV’T BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE just in case you had forgotten.
He has shown that his view of the world and international relations is much more in tune with the current environment than that of McCain’s and the current administration’s.
Simply put. That’s what he has done.
Or do you think that calling yourself a “maverick” and standing in front of some waving flags makes one “deserve” it more?

Can any McCain supporter please tell me the difference between his policies and the policies of George Bush? If you can, then can you send them to the McCain campaign, because everything I have heard so far are the same that are in place right now.

McCain/Palin are putting the robe around their necks that are going to hang themselves. Have they not watched the CNN stats. How turned off independent voters were when either party was slamming the other. Lies are not a good foundation to build trust on.

Well-here it comes. what every Democrat and certainly the Obama team has been figuring would start to happen eventually.: the Republican attack machine with John McCain’s attack dog Palin leading the pack, is foaming at the mouth. They’re desperate because they know their sliding like an LA house in a mud slide during rainy season. What’s left for them to do? Nothing else has work so let’s start the fear-monger, race-baiting, and personal innuendo smears about Obama’s character. We’ve been down this road before. They’ve got nothing. No doubt it will have some effect; negative ads always do. But this time they are going to be up the creek without a paddle. In the end, this time the tactic will do far more damage to McCain’s own character than it ever does to Obama’s.

O.K. now we get to the “fun” part. Except, this time Dems. won’t be chumps.
So lets talk about ALL of McGollum’s affairs, Charlie Keating, the strippers, the Brazilian lover, beating someone with a tire iron(see Sen. Thompson speech), the “craps” addiction, Cindy’s drug addiction, embezzlement, faked sprained wrist so she didn’t have to “touch the little people.
Repubs, in the words of your witless leader, BRING IT ON 1

To all the women on this blog: Did you like Palin’s little winks,Ah shucks Joe,little flirty come on looks like a waitress at Hooters?Do you think your “Joe six pack” husband votes with a beer in one hand and his @#@$ in the other? That’s what Palin thinks. She’s brought it all down to the lowest denominator.HEHEHE McCain is an idiot.

It is about time! Let the American people find out about the real Obama. I too was fooled up until December of last year. I even got angry when a news story broke out about his being a Muslim. Then I did some research and this man is scary. No more Mr Nice guy. This is the best news I have heard in awhile! Great job ABC for reporting it!

THANKS FACT CHECK
tapper take notes. cant wait to see this as the next blog.

Re: Oct 4, 2008 3:58:38 PM
Re: Oct 4, 2008 4:08:31 PM
jB, I hear you!
(By the way, I’m Independent and am for Obama.)

Elaine: Who flew out all of Bin Laden’s family on a private jet right after 9/11.Connect the dots……

I like Jake Tapper’s face and his reports.

Is that the best you can do,shoot your mouths off!?!? Come on give me one good reason why your ” god” Obama deserves the job of POTUS? HMMMMMMMMMM? What has your boy done to earn it?

Hannah
ok tell us what has mccain done (that he still supports today)
he has turned against almost all the legislation he has sponsored.

By the way, if Blagojevich falls so may Obama. You connect the dots.

Imagine hearing the painful slow droning voice and his vp’s shrill for the next 4 years
please america …… don’t vote for mccain
I would rather listen to fingernails on a chalkboard.

The only man who can take on Washington is John McCain.”
Posted by: think | Oct 4, 2008 4:23:04 PM
—————–How can he take on himself?

People, all this rage does nothing but show how completely uninformed you are. It is so nieve to think that somebody trying hard to be your father figure can just jump in and make everything wonderful. What a bunch of sheep! No president could even come close to delivering what Obama is trolling out. First of all Congress calls the shots. Congress approves the budget and passes all the bills of change. Are you just thrilled to death with where you are right now? The democratic spin machine has been working over time to shield Obama from his past. They are doing a good job. After all, all they have to do is placate a bunch of sheep. Politicans are human. They have no magical powers or magic wands. It’s going to take years to right this ship. There is so much coruption that nobody, even John McCain knows where to start. It will be gradual and under the covers. Politicans don’t want you to have a clue as to what they really do. I know a few. One, who I see as a friend says that he feels like he almost had to sell his soul to work in this system. It isn’t about what is really good for the country anymore, it’s about deal making and spending dollars that can only be covered by taxing people to death. Are you people really stupid enough to believe that taxing people with a higher income is going to do anything? Do you really think you can get out of Iraq in 16 months? You can’t even move out the equipment in that time if you started today. Do you have a clue the funds it will take just to ship things home? Are you also aware that if we pull out too soon there will be mass murder in the country? Have you sheep gone so far around the bend that you think something we started in error should just be thrown to the wolves? Wow just like the cowards in this country that we have become. Leave everybody else to deal with the horror stories and buy a new SUV. And, in closing, we have become stupid sheep, we have let the congress of the United States make us into victims. But instead of looking real facts in the eye you would rather see who can win dancing with the stars. (oops, sheep!)

I am going to veto every beer

JVH
There is only one thing someone needs to do to “earn” the job of POTUS: convince people to vote for you.
Mission accomplished.

I pray daily that some miracle with happen to SAVE AMERICA from this big farce of a man. This news is “old hat”, but glad the FBI is finally investigating some of the corruptness of Obama and his regime. If the new Hitler is elected, then maybe the self-destrictive American society will get what it deserves. Too bad there are so many good, intelligent and innocent people who will have to suffer though. Thanks to the biased media, it looks
like there are anough brainwashed everage Americans out there to elect him, but I have prayed that there will be an intervention of some kinds to Save America from his Likes, so we can be a prosperous Nation and not “go down the tube”. We have a perfect person for our President in McCain….a military person and experienced Gov’t participant. He knows what needs to be done to revive America and keep them NUMBER 1 IN THE WORLD.
.

The Republican party is run
by dumbed down political dregs.

Hey WestCoastMessenger,
Hmm, and Hillary is campaigning for which candidate? Is she saying “No Way, No How, No Obama!”? Me thinks not! Try as you might, but the more you folks resort to this type of politics, the more it turns people off and I am tired of it! Debate the issues!

Hit Obama hard because this guy could be the president. Some of us are concerned over these relationships that he has with these radical friends and associates that were apart of his life. Think about this..if McCain had a terrorist in his home, the media would cream McCain’s judgement. This is such a double standard from the media. I agree with Palin, Obama is not of presidential character. I am afraid of what Obama would do to this country.

This subject is sure more interesting than the tanning bed in Gov.Palin’s house.

Well, I was hoping the “revelation” would be in the form of actually finding a legitimate birth certificate for Obama that would prove he is indeed not an American Citizen, but was born some other place liek Guam. The regulations for president actually stated that you must be “full” American born and not 1/2, so that would also apply. I just hope something will save America from this self-destructive course.

wanttheelectionover, you are confusing Hilary Clinton’s healthcare plan with Obama’s.
It’s Hilary Clinton who promoted universal/socialized healthcare, not Obama.
Obama has a diferent plan. His plan will not take away your right to choose.

shooflies…this is hard to believe because if you want a passport, you have to show your birth certificate…Washington Post had it and confirm his birth certificate and factcheck as well.
The guy is a loony and bitter. This case will be dismiss like they dismiss JOHN MCCAIN on the same case on citizenship!

Hey, Jeanie, STOP MISQUOTING ME!!!
These are my words: “wanttheelectionover, and I say, don’t trust a candidate who agrees with 95% of the Bush’s failed policies that turned the largest surplus into the largest deficit, economy into shambles and millions of American jobs into naught. ”
And these are wanttheelectionover’s words: “$320 billion is spent a year on welfare for illegal aliens. That is more than is spent on the war. Now tell me….which party is pro welfare? Which party then spent more on welfare programs than the war?
Democrats welfare programs got us into this economic mess. That’s why they’re liberal. With our money. Not with their own.
Mr., and Mrs Palin make less than the Bidens, yet give more to charity. How do you explain that?
wanttheelectionover”
And then in my response TO wanttheelectionover I said this: “call your representatives to complain. They controlled the Washington together with Bush for many years and have done nothing constructive about emigration issue.
Here is another shady association — Bush family and bin Laden family are friends.
Palin is an earmarks queen. More earmarks per capita than any other state.”

I have to say..the more I see Obama in your face. I don’t want to see him in my life for 4 years. McCain, you know what he thinks and who he is. No surprises there. Obama is trying to pull NRA ads out of VA-Ohio-MO-PA-MI. That’s not supportive of free speech. People please wake up because we’re losing our country every day to this liberal conditioning.

POTUS OBAMA
VPOTUS BIDEN
NOMCCAIN
NOPALIN
NOWAY
NOHOW
NO

Thank GOD the media is reporting these FACTS to the American people – before it’s too late and this Radical Fraud
“changes” our country.
As a DEM – I will NOT vote for obama -his radical associates is one of the many reasons – and there are Millions of Americans that feel the same way.

He has already answered all of this questions. This is old news… Seems like McSame and Palin (there) are real shamful, and using lyes and everything else (there) to get elected. And of course they believe they will (NOT)…

As an evangelical American I hope the NYT will elaborate on McCain being Washington’s maffioso godfather of the world of gambling.
McCain is a lobbyist’s dream. IMO he’s a criminal, for he lobbies for a criminal gambling empire.

McCain is incompetent and
unstable. He is crashing in
the polls. He has nothing
to show for his 26 years in
politics. No attack ads of
of any kind will change
anything about his dismal
career.
The worst ever Republican
nominee for POTUS is headed
for a crushing defeat.

Why has it taken the MSM over 2 years to start reporting the obvious connections of Obama and some radicals? My guess is that the MSM is doing it with their noses held because they’re being forced to after being called out for being in the tank for Obama.

Wait a minute – you mean 30 days before the election, members of the MSM are FINALLY looking into Obama’s shady past? Yeesh guys, what took you so long? Tired of looking through dumpsters in Alaska for evidence of Sarah Palin’s late library books? The MSM has successfully protected Obama to date, but maybe, just maybe the truth about him will come out.
For all of you defenders, if these are just smears, let the truth come out – whether he comes out clean or not, let it happen. If you fear that, then you must believe there is some truth to the accusations. I have been saying for some time that it is very strange that a 47 year old man has NO ONE from his past who can attest to his character except his wife. Harvard Law School graduates take pride in the incredible network they have. It is certainly an elite school and Obama was president of the Law Review. How is it that not a single student has a word to say about him? It’s as though he was never there. Ditto for Columbia – not a single student remembers him and no one has anything to say about his time there. Other than the Obama inner circle, no one really knows who Barack Obama is, what he really stands for and who/what has influenced him. He is an enigma – frightening for a presidential candidate. Finally, fact is that Obama has never had a difficult election race. He has never had to withstand real scrutiny in Illinois and now the national press has turned a blind eye. If we have an Obama presidency inflicted on us, we’ll survive, but it will take a lot of work to make sure he doesn’t sell us out to socialism and worse.
As for the Keating Five, McCain was found guilty by the Senate Ethics Committee in 1991 of using “poor judgment” for attending meetings with regulators on Keating’s behalf. So all the spin that he was close to going to jail is just that – spin.

Hello WestCoastMessenger!
Anyone remember PassPortGate? Remember when that story broke, saying that Obama’s privacy had been invaded? The media was all over this story and tried to imply that it was the Clintons’ doing. Then the internet broke the truth. Obama’s own people were the ones responsible for the break-in. “Suddenly, in a completely amazing and dreadfully convenient disclosure, it seems our Passport Invaders looked at McCain’s and Clinton’s passports as well.”
The question is – what were Obama’s operatives trying to remove/cover up????
Hmmm – How about Obama’s birth certificate? You know, the one that he has shown all over the internet but is unable to produce in court to get that “bogus” lawsuit dismissed?
PUMA! McCain/Palin 2008 – In lieu of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her sex.” – Susan B. Anthony

The question is, will all the facts about Obama come out in time to convince all (or at least some – most are gone forever) of the suckers that they’ve been had? Wake up, you naive and spoiled children.

>>>Christie, do you like what Bush (with McCain’s support) did to this country?
I don’t like what Bill Clinton did to this country. And I sure don’t like what the left wingers in congress have done for the past 2 years to this country. Bush covered their butts on this bailout. Your guys couldn’t balance a budget to a ice cream shoppe. Your guys Dodd, Franks should be jail. Get a better excuse, ok. The Bush thing is old. The repubs don’t think McCain is Bush. McCain is a moderate. So, your spin falls flat.

Obama, get ready for your career to be over.
You are a radical, and you have no standards for who you associate with.
Nobama!

As for your susan b anthony quote
No woman should shelter herself with her sex either. That exactly what the mccain campaign done to her.
This is not a shelter moment … put yourself out there and introduce yourself. noooooo I don’t trust John McCain. This is not a trust but verify moment ……
Palin is UNQUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT. accept that.
Governing Alaska is like being on the moon. She doesn’t have a clue. and she shows it.
McCain is not the healthiest guy and his temper and out of touch-ness doesnt do anything for me either.
sorry … if you want to gamble. las vegas is open 24/7
this is an election for the leader of the free world.”
Omentum –
Hmmmmn – I don’t think so. I think McCain/Palin is a sure thing, we know what they are about. Obama? We get nothing but lies and cover-ups.
Talking about taking a gamble? Voting for Obama is like going to court – you don’t know how in the HELL you are going to come out.
PUMA! McCain/Palin 2008 – In lieu of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her sex.” – Susan B. Anthony

>>Why did the DNC file a motion to dismiss in the lawsuit that is pending against obama in regards to his birth certificate? He has been ordered to produce it. What are they trying to hide?
It sure makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

Just for fun folks-why don’t you “google” Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and top political contributions. Maybe that will be your wake up call. Go on-I dare you…..
When your done with that check out the testimony on his vocal opposition to Live Abortion Survivors while he was in Illinois

For the media to get their candidate elected to office, they had to drop the bar of character and integrity. Could the bar drop any lower folks?

McCain has been harming
the country by proposing
or supporting policies
injurious to the middle
class for over a quarter
of a century.
This election will be the
end of his presence in
presidential politics.
He should also resign
from the senate when he
is soundly defeated on
November 4.

NO…Sarah Palin doesn’t need to be investigated. She already has been thoroughly screened.
She is Commander of the Alaska National Guard in Alaska, the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from ballistic missile attacks, is on permanent active duty, unlike other Guard units. She is briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism. She’s also commander in chief of the Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF), a federally recognized militia incorporated into Homeland Security’s counter terrorism plans. Palin is privy to military and intelligence secrets that are vital to the entire country’s defense. She can be entrusted with our national security, because she ALREADY IS.

Hey Joe, don’t you wish now that you had help to make Hillary the candidate. I don’t agree with Hillary’s views though I can see she should had been on top of that ticket, not Obama. The Clintons help you now, Barack and you trash them as you slip the knife in their backs. Anything it takes to win, right?

Why not Obama? He has not placed anyone in danger or in the welfare lines. He is trying to give solutions to the problems that we face as a country so that less people would find themselves in that situation. Why not Obama? Are you afraid that he is going to level the playing field? Are you afraid that you can’t over charge for your goods and services? Are you afraid that somebody is going actual get healthcare? Are you afraid that you can’t steal retirements any longer? Are you afraid that you can’t steal investments? Are afraid that you can’t come up with ways to subprime the public? Are you afraid that you are going lose the creative ways to cheat people? Are you afraid that you are going to have to really do your job that you were hired to do in the public sector? Are you afraid you can’t get away with lairing? Are you afraid that you really going have to pay your employees for what they really worth? Are you afraid that you can’t ship jobs overseas? Are you afraid that you are going have to provide benefits? Are you afraid that you can’t fire your employees before retirement time so that you don’t have pay for healthcare or retirement? Are you afraid that people are going to getting an education? Are you afraid that you can’t over charge for higher education any longer? Are you afraid that you are going have to pay your fair share of real taxes? Are you afraid that the loopholes are you going to be closed on you? Are you afraid that he is going have a government that will work for the people and not for a few select? Are you afraid that he will make this economy strong again so that it will include everybody that works hard for a living? Are you afraid that you can no longer place out dated food on shelves to be sold or target areas with unsatisfactory products? Are you afraid that you can no longer pay for cover ups? Are you afraid that you can no longer pay for wrong justice or tip the scales of justice? Are you afraid that you can no longer do verbal assassinating of a person? Are you afraid that his energy plans will save American at the gas pump or home? Are you afraid that he will uncover so much wrong doing of past presidents that it may cause a civil war in this country? Are you afraid that world leaders will give him the time of day and the respect that you lack? Are really afraid that you are going have to treat your neighbor like a real neighbor and not hide behind the keyboard? So, why not Obama?

I loved the comment about Clinton balancing the budget and leaving a surplus…what I love more than that is the fact Clinton raised IMMENSE taxes in order to do that. So….while the “surplus” thing sounds good to many uneducated bloggers, it was YOUR money HE took for the gov’t to grow even bigger! Guess what…I guess if Obama raised taxes and balanced the budget…that would be ok with you? Then what? More programs, more costs and more corruption! Get the money out of the federal gov’t's hands and give it to the people!

This must be McCains idea of reaching across the isle and working with Dem’s. Reform my you know what. Same ole-Same ole

Why is it when 93% of blacks say they will vote for Obama because he is black (Really only half)it is not racist? But if 93% of whites said they would vote for McCain because he is white it would be viewed as blatant racism and cause race riots throughout the country!

WONDER WHAT EVERYONE WOULD THINK IF WE PLAY SOME OF MCCAINS BROADCASTS FROM THE HANOI HILTON—YOU KNOW THAT PROPAGANDA STUFF HE IS KNOWN FOR—–THIS IS ONE GUY WHO SHOULD NEVER THROW STONES.

Don’t worry. The NY Times ran a piece today saying that Ayers and Obama weren’t close. That must be true. It’s the NY Times, after all. Today, Obama’s campaign, after the article, said that the two aren’t close. How convenient.

Come on Rep’s bring it on. Unlike previous elections your swift boat tatics arent going to work this time. You will turn off not only some in your own party but Independents as well. We wont let your failing party keep the White House this time. This kind of BS didnt work for Hillary and it wont work for you. The difference is Hillay is ten times better than McCain/Palin/Rove.
Speaking of that crook Rove. This smells of Rove type politics.

That explains why the entire media (Obama surrogates all) is working overtime to inoculate Obama from the associations. NY Times, I heard Fox jumped into this too, they all assure us that years of money exchanges with the guy who tried to blow the Pentagon is nothing serious…
You guys didn’t have to work this hard to push W past 2 elections…

That’s horrible.
How many opportunities have the Republicans had to embrace different people from different walks of life? How many times do they reject that path and later complain that nonWhites and women won’t give them a shot?
How many Southern Strategies?
How about that nonsense Republicans ran against Harold Ford for Senate?
What about rejecting voters from voting rolls after their houses have been foreclosed on or trying to scare people away from the polls by telling them police/state troopers will be checking their identification on the way in?
You love America and hate Americans who don’t look and act just like you. Why don’t you do some of us a favor before you start talking about terrorist ties—find some facts to support your nastiness.

John McCain is a disgrace to veterans everywhere. What happened to running an honorable campaign?

- Sarah Palin is currently under ethics investigation in Alaska, an investigation which the McCain camp has been trying to silence. Sarah Palin, and her husband, and her staff have all refused to answer to subpoenas which have been issued for them, but the investigation still continues…
- Sarah Palin worked as director of a 527 Group for Senator Ted Stevens (Ted Stevens was indicted in July 2008, on 7 counts of corruption).
- Sarah Palin’s church believes that the violent acts against Jews in Israel, by the Palestinians is deserved by Jews, because Jews do not worship Jesus. Sarah Palin herself has been in church when these types of sermons have been preached against Israel by pastors.
- Sarah Palin’s husband was registered, and belonged to a group called AIP, which wants Alaska to become it’s own separate country. Officially, the AIP is a political party which advocates, becoming a separate nation. To break away from the USA.
- John McCain was investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee, for meeting with federal investigators twice and PRESSURING THEM them to stop investigating his good friend: Charles Keatings for his crimes.
Charles Keatings was convicted of 73 counts of FRAUD, conspiracy, and other crimes.
Charles Keatings lavished John McCain with lavish gifts, such as vacations, as well as HUGE amounts of campaign funds. Cindy McCain also had business dealings with Charles Keatings.
John McCain is the epitome of CORRUPTION!!
(By the way Savings and Loan Fraud scandal that Keatings and John McCain was involved with cost the taxpayers $2 BILLION DOLLARS in taxpayer money)
- John McCain admitted to intentionally filing false income tax returns to defraud the IRS by not claiming thousands of dollars in gifts McCain and his family received from Charles Keating and Keating’s company. Years later, when the IRS noticed Keating’s company had written off the gifts to McCain as business expenses, McCain had to fess up and admit to filing false returns and then made a “donation” to the U.S. Treasury to cover the amount he defrauded American tax payers.
- John McCain’s intervening with prosecutors, and cutting a deal with them using his influence as a Senator to get his wife, Cindy McCain off on serious charges which could have resulted in felonies for her stealing of drugs from a charity. Crimes of fraud, and larceny, were dropped against Cindy only because McCain used his political office to exert pressure on the prosecutor.
- Now once again, John McCain is using his political office to try to silence the ethics investigation into his running mates actions as Governor of Alaska.

It’s kind of sad that this is all that Palin/McCain have left. Neither one of them will come out of a “guilt by association” game in very good shape. Given the state of the country and the world, this is not what the average voter wants to hear about.

Was it not the “great” Republican, Ronald Reagan that stated, “Are you better off than you were four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment…than there was four years ago?” My question is “Are you better off now than you were eight years ago?” Hmmm, I think NOT!
Enough!

Dear Jake: Please spend some time and research on Palin’s witch experience and her religion.

>>>Dear Jake: Please spend some time and research on Palin’s witch experience and her religion.
For you to have written this, it goes to prove that Obama’s associates would had made an impact “effect” towards his thinking.

What about Sarah and Todd Palin’s connection to the Alaskan Independent Party? They have been members. She sent them a video in 2008. Isn’t this treason?
Plus, if you follow the links in the AIP site you end up in white southern groups wanting to separate. Does this make Palin a traitor or a racist?
She might be throwing mud, but she better wipe the mud off her hand.

This is pathetic. The Republicans are grasping for straws.

Everyone who has half a brain already know that this kind of nasty tactic of McCain-Palin is a LIE and has been debunked many times. But I guess if one has an evil heart, if one is unqualified to be VP and president, and whose campaign is in the toilet; then I guess it’s the only thing one can try to dig up.
The only thing that is true is: Sen. Barack Obama was a young boy – just 8 years old – when Ayers was conducting his horrible activities. Obama is not a terrorist, and he can NEVER be held responsible for the actions of Ayers. Everyone knows that Barack has condemned Ayers’ actions.
For a few years starting in 1999, Sen. Obama was on the Woods fund board with Ayers, though he no longer has a formal association with the group. The Woods Fund of Chicago board — a charitable fund / anti-poverty foundation — was founded in 1941 by a prominent lawyer and telephone company executive. It is a South Side Community Organizing Initiative, that focuses its resources on less-advantaged residents who have historically been left out of the democratic process. The foundation is committed to building a more robust community organizing infrastructure in this part of the city.
No weapon forged against you [ Sen. Barack Obama ] will prevail, and you [ Sen. Barack Obama ] will refute every tongue that accuses you [ Mrs. Michelle Obama and Sen. Barack Obama ] . This is the heritage of the servants [ Sen. Barack Obama ] of the LORD, and this is their [ Sen. Barack Obama ] vindication from me,” declares the LORD. – Isaiah 54:17
” I [ God ] will send my terror ahead of you [ Sen. Barack Obama ] and throw into confusion every nation you [ Sen. Barack Obama ] encounter. I [ God ] will make all your [ Sen. Barack Obama ] enemies turn their backs and run.” – Exodus 23:27
It’s time for the American people to get it right and NOT vote for McCain-Palin, instead vote for change. It’s time for this country to turn the page and seek a new and better future for ourselves and our children.It’s time for REAL change in Washington, it’s time to elect Barack Obama for president !
Obama-Biden are the wiser and stronger team to solve the crucial challenges we have in this nation and abroad !

Kimo: “Was it not the “great” Republican, Ronald Reagan that stated, “Are you better off than you were four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment…than there was four years ago?” My question is “Are you better off now than you were eight years ago?” Hmmm, I think NOT!
Enough!”
Such a moronic post. Reagan was running for his SECOND TERM. Therefore it was relevant to look back his achievements during the previous 4 years as President.
McCain is running for the FIRST TIME for the White House. McCain was not the President during the last 8 years!
The current problems are not caused by John McCain alone. Both parties share the same blame. For example, the Democrats and many Republicans, including Obama, ignored McCain’s repeated warnings on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac in 2005.
John McCain was not President the last years. Stop looking backward. Or, AMERICAN PEOPLE will say: “There, you go again, always looking backward…”

It is a sad state of affairs when an unpatriotic wind sniffer like HUSSEIN OBAMA is the candiate of the democratic party. They actually had a qualified candidate but the democrats decided to screw Hillary over.
As it was clearn in the Biden-Palin VP debate: OBAMA is unqualified to be president. Only those that have gone mad with the liberal media Kool-Aide will vote for OBAMA. Patriots, however, will vote for McCain.

In 1995 Ayers was quoted as saying “I am a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist.” That was the same year he held a soiree in his home to introduce Obama to Chicago politics. Are we to believe he had a sudden change of ideology or that he found someone who could bring that ideology to the White House? It is also interesting that the founding documents of the Weathermen called for a “white fighting force” allied with the “Black Liberation Movement” of Jeremaih Wright fame. Coincidence? I think not.

It is about time someone looked into Obamas questionable friends. 20 yeasrs of listening to a man preach gd america! How can we expect Obama to care about the United States? I hope people wake up before it is to late. Oh, I am one of those bitter pppeople that clings to religon. I have also been a lifelong democratic. I am 76 years old.

Democrats: do something patriotic on election day and vote for McCain. He may not be perfect but he truly puts the best interest of the country first. The wind sniffer of OBAMA is a panderer of the worst kind; Hussein has done NOTHING for the country and only cares about his political advancement. If you use your brain, you will see OBAMA for what he is: full of fluff and passing around the Kool-Aid.

Please lets focus on the main issue. Lets use our brain. Please. Let’s stop dirty politics.

Hey what’s the deal with the AOL straw poll? According to that McCain wins every state. That can’t be accurate.

merle: If you think Obama is so classy why did he associate himself with Ayers, Farrakhan and Rezko along with attending a racist, anti-american white hating church for 20 years. Its people like you that are the ruination of this country along with this generation of college students who would vote for a candidate like Obama no matter if his associate bombed the white house.

Dems’ and Independents. Its fight or flight for McCain. We have him backed in a corner and this is his only way out. Not directly comparing the two, but Al Qaida and the Rep party approach things the same way.When they get backed in to a corner they use scare/fear/terror as a way of trying to force people in going their way. They both want us to carry a holly book in one hand and an assault rifle in the other. They want to force their beliefs on not only fellow Americans but on other countries. Its their way or no way. Now they have turned to negitive and fear type campaining because they cant win on policy, domestic or international. They cant win on the economy or on the war and certainly cant ask if we are better off than 8 years ago. The slander and old Ayers/Wright topics are all they have left. Now they have programmed brain Palin to do the dirty work for them. I am an Independent that voted Reagan and Bush Sr and Bush JR once. The rep. party is not the same party that Reagan belonged to. Atleast in my eyes. They no longer beleive in deplomacy as a tool. Its shoot and ask questions later. They bring in Karl Rove, and except for Executive Privilege he would probably be serving Fed. time right now. They preach reform but now show that they are the exact same as Bush/Cheney/Rove. The only change they bring will be to the names occupying the White House.

Now doesn’t this just remind you of John McCain’s friend Don Diamond, the real estate guy?
Doesn’t this just remind you that John McCain used his power in the Congress to deny POW families access to information about their loved ones?
Doesn’t this just remind you Sarah Palin should be brought into court as a tax cheat for not paying taxes on her $17,000 of per diems?

When will we start talking about Keating5, Phil Gram and Republican McCain who is one of the guys he is now talking about he wants to go after? Republican McCain will say whatever he has to in order to get your vote. He’s against regulating the financial markets that are now failing but if he thinks you will vote for him he will tell you he is for it. He thinks the economy is fundamentally strong but when asked what economy is he talking about? He changed his statement to say he was talking about the American people are fundamentally strong. The American people he consistently votes against on issues such as healthcare, seniors, labor, unions, keeping jobs from going overseas, energy, childcare, active military troops, veterans and even hurricane survivors? Will the real John McCain please stand up?McCain voted NO on S AMDT 210 to S Con Res 18: To repeal the tax subsidy for certain domestic companies which move manufacturing operations and American jobs offshore.Republican McCain may lie but his record does not! Here is how Republican McCain voted for the American people:06/26/2007 Union Organization BillHR 800 Voted:NO08/02/2007 State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization HR 976 Voted:NO09/19/2007 Time Between Troop Deployments S Amdt 2909 Voted:NO10/05/2005 Health Care for Veterans AmendmentHR 2863 Voted:NO02/02/2006 Medicare Part D AmendmentHR 4297 Voted:NO11/17/2005 Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit AmendmentS 2020 Voted:NO11/03/2005 Medicare Premiums AmendmentS 1932 Voted:NO11/03/2005 Prescription Drug Plan AmendmentS 1932 Voted:NO07/11/2006 FEMA AmendmentHR 5441 Voted:NO11/03/2005 Medical Assistance and Prescription Drug AmendmentS 1932 Voted:NO11/03/2005 Hurricane Health Care for Survivors AmendmentS 1932 Voted:NO10/27/2005 AIDS Drug Assistance Program AmendmentHR 3010 Voted:NO06/27/2003 Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit billS 1 Voted:NO07/25/2006 Teen Pregnancy Education AmendmentS 403 Voted:NO10/26/2005 Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program AmendmentHR 3010 Voted:NO06/16/2005 Reduction in Dependence on Foreign OilHR 6 Voted:NO06/16/2005 Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) AmendmentHR 6 Voted:NO05/08/2002 Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002HR 2646 Voted:NO03/29/2007 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill of 2007HR 1591 Voted:NO11/03/2005 Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA Appropriations ActHR 2744 Voted:NO10/27/2005 After School Funding AmendmentHR 3010 Voted:NO11/08/2001 Veterans Affairs and HUD Appropriations Act of 2002HR 2620 Voted:NO11/17/2005 Additional Funding For Veterans AmendmentS 2020 Voted:NO06/29/2000 Health Care AmendmentHR 4577 Voted:NO11/15/2005 Reporting Matters in Iraq AmendmentS 1042 Voted:NO11/15/2005 Iraq Progress Reports AmendmentS 1042 Voted:NO04/25/2002 Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) Act of 2001HR 4 Voted:NO

Fact Check- Annenberg Fact check- read the header on the site. Its funded by Dear Leader Barry.
Again follow the money.

John McCain Profile:
John McCain hobby? Political stunts!
John McCain dream? Be the president no matter what!
John McCain political ideology? Opportunist!
John McCain cheerleader? Sarah Palin.!
John McCain favorite place? Florida, many elderly residents and you can manipulate the voting results!
John McCain favorite Cable news? FOX spin masters!
John McCain favorite movie? Pinocchio!
John McCain favorite song? Bomb.Bomb..Bomb Iran!
John McCain favorite word.? President Reagan ,my friends!.
John McCain friends? Wealthy people like him.!
John McCain ability ?Regular flip flop.!
John McCain number of houses? Seven!
John McCain Number of cars?Eleven!
John McCain definition of middle class?Under five million dollars assets!
John McCain family business value? Over hundred millions!

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People watching McCain Spin ads are in Risk of Permanent Brain Damage!
Excessive Political spin can harm your perception of the reality and impair your Judgment for ever!
CYNICAL BIAS TACTICS OPERATE ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

McCain has not been associated
with energy independence in his
quarter century in congress. He
has never been an advocate of
issues middle-class Americans
care about. He has always voted
against veterans’ benefits and
recently voted against the
GI education bill. He is for
privatizing social security,
for deregulation of businesses
and corporations run by crooks.
His best friends are lobbyists.
He is not sympathetic to women’s
issues.
He just plods on selling snake
oil and calling for war in
places like Georgia and Ukraine
that have nothing to with our
national security and interests.
His taste for recreational wars
like Iraq makes him a dangerous
candidate to be entrusted with
a position of real power. His
incompetence will further wreck
the economy.
Luckily his campaign is sick and
is on its death bed. He should
drop out of politics on November 5.

I remember when Bill Cosby was the first black guy on a national TV series, I Spy. The comments and shock that a black guy would be on TV every week, yet nothing bad happened, and Cosby turned into a very good role model. So if your basis for opposing Obama for President is his “difference”, don’t worry it will be OK.

A very enlightening post CrystalD. I didn’t know Obama was that far to the left.

you must be out of your mind thinking that OBAMA is the last hope for America to get the country out of this finanical mess. OBAMA will be the culmination of this mess. He is UNQUALIFIED to be president. He thinks doing community service is equivalent to serving the country in military service. OBAMA is DILUSIONAL, a NEOPHITE and MEGALOMANIAC.

McCain: Ask what you can do for your country
Obama: Ask what your country can do for you.
Barry says no signs at Virginia rally : 27 Sept 2008
Missouri Sheriffs & Top Prosecutors Form Obama “Truth Squads” & Threaten Libel Charges Against Obama Critics
MORE THUGGISHNESS: Obama threatening the licenses of TV stations that run NRA ads.

The dictators, communists, and autocratic goverments around the world can only look at the US media with envy. They would kill to have a media like America’s main stream media that is so biased. News oranizations were supposed to be impartial but they are far from it. They are misleading americans and are nothing more than political arms of the extreme left.

Subject: Something else to ask Obama about
Meet Obama’s new Bill Ayers associate
Ex-Communist tied to terrorist scrubbed from campaign website
he 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.
Michael Klonsky (born 1943) is an American educator and political activist, a leader of the New Communist Movement.
Klonsky’s father, Robert Klonsky, had been arrested as a communist in the 1950s and convicted of violating the Smith Act. In the late 1960s Michael Klonsky was the national secretary of the Students for a Democratic Society,[2] which he joined as a student at San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge). He was one of five S.D.S. members arrested on May 12, 1969, when prank phone calls sent police and firefighters to the S.D.S. offices in Chicago. In the 1970s he headed the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), in which role he was one of the first westerners allowed to visit the People’s Republic of China.
More recently Klonsky has been a professor of education at the University of Illinois, Chicago; his academic work focused on small school size as a solution to the problems of inner city schools. He is now the director of the Small Schools Workshop, a school outreach program associated with UIC.
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Nothing about this guy to like for any American

Here we go again … more right-wing propaganda! It reminds me of the propaganda the Bush administration put together to try to convince the American people that we had to invade Iraq because of “proof” that Saddam had WMD.

I don’t have time to read all 1020 comments, but has anyone asked if 0bama has ANY normal friends? Anyone to stand up an vouch for him? Anyone?

Palin doesn’t have to worry about her family. She has more money than you will ever make in your lifetime and she has her husband and two daughters to take care of her newborn. She brought up her family while being a working mother and she did a tremendous job.

Palin is shockingly ignorant.
She’s also too dumb to realize
that she is an atrocious candidate
for VPOTUS.

I gotta tell ya, god darn it, it watched the clip and it did not change my vote. Still OBAMA/BIDEN all the waayyy…..

This is going to backfire on McCain.
Obama associations with Ayers, Rezco and Wright will be followed by intense examination of McCains association with Kemper Marley, Charles Keating, Arizona mafia, and Iran-Contra to name a few. Palin’s association to Ted Stevens and her husbands connection to the Alaska independant party will be scrutinized.
Obama has been through this same speculation and unfounded allegations before and won his parties nomination. McCain and Palin haven’t been and are opening Pandora’s box.
So much for a respectable campaign John McCain.

“McCain was not the President during the last 8 years!” (ablanche08)
—————–
McCain has morphed into Bush — he supported and agrees with the 95% of Bush’s failed policies that turned the largest surplus into the largest deficit, economy into shambles and millions of American jobs into naught.
And Palin signaled her dedication to and agreement with Bush by learning to mispronounce “nuclear” (“nu-kle-er”) as “nu-ku-lar.”

Palin’s foreign policy was
honed in collaboration with
her husband. They are
dedicated to making Alaska
a foreign country.

Palin should be last one who talk about association or in her case lack of association. When does she have time to bond with her 5 month old special need baby,or is it country first and special need child last.
Well at least the baby isn’t funneling money to radical groups like ACORN.

Questionable? Do you think anybody sees how big a PIMP John McCain has become? Isnt whgat he is doing with sweet Sarah Pimping ? She shows up – a crowd forms, McCain campaigns alone and he is -in a small crowd. Exploitation of a woman for gain, isnt that pimping??

Ayers was such a big terrorist he didnt even go to jail. McCain is just reaching for straws now. He is commiting political suicide and doesnt even know it. Backed in to a corner and going down screaming and kicking.

For goodness sakes! This was in the 60′s and Obama was just a child at the time! I protested the VietNam War, as did thousands like me, during those turbulent times! Does that make me a Terrorist?
I hadn’t made up my mind completely about who I was going to vote for. But the more I hear and see of Gov. Palin and stupid accusations such as this one, the more I’m leaning toward giving my vote to Obama!
Please Gov. Palin, show some class!

All I want to know, is Obama a natural born citizen or not. If he isnt, it needs to brought out now. Plus do we really need someone running the country with so many left wing radical friends. And how is it that it didnt take Oprah long to realize the Rev. Wright was too out there for her and could possibily be an embarassemnt later on, but not Obama?

Ayers is a Distinguished Professor
in the College of Education at the
University of Illinois at Chicago.

Frank Marshall Davis, alleged Communist, was early influence on Barack Obama.
http://www.electionnews2008.com/FMD-and-Obamas-mom.htm

Sept 11 – Terrorists attack WTC and Pentagon
Flash Back – 40 years ago Bill Ayers attacked WTC and Pentagon and even claimed not enough was done
Flash Forward – Obama launches his political career in Bill Ayers home
Obama’s Campaign – Bill Ayers and Obama are very good friends cuz their children go the same school … YEAH RIGHT !!!
AL Qaeda = Terrorists
Bill Ayers + Wife = Terrorits
Obama = Friend of Bill Ayers and served with him in the same board
Verdict – ?????
Obama and Tony Rezko = friends and buisness partners
Obama used his political muscule to get $14 million for Rezko
Verdict – ?????
ACORN – One of the culprits who caused the economy meltdown. This organization is known for VOTER FRAUD, several of their execs are behind bar
Obama trained ACORN employees during his community organizing days and when he was practing law
Verdict – ?????
Rev Wright – This loon spewed anti American comments & even attached the troops
Obama went to this church for 20 years … he claims that he never heard any anti American comments when he was there … he did not want to dis-associate with him UNTIL it was affecting his campaign
Verdict – ?????
Obama’s association with an Iraqi Billionarie whos has shady dealings with terrorists
Verdict – ?????
To be fair, no individual should be judged on his/her association with a shady character … but when it becomes a pattern, it cant be shooed away as just another ‘wrong place at the wrong time’
Almost all of the above individuals have helped Obama to progress politically at different stages of his career …
Why is the media not covering these unanswered questions ???
An army of journalists were shipped to Alaska to find dirt on the trooper-gate issue
Where is ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN ???
Obama for President ….. after reviewing all of the above controversies … No to Obama
Nobama for 2008

Ayers current status as a
Distinguished Professor of
Education dwarfs that of
the pack of riffraff that
runs tax cheat McCain’s
campaign.

Ayers current status as a
Distinguished Professor of
Education dwarfs that of
the pack of riffraff that
runs tax cheat McCain’s
campaign.
Osama Bill Laden is a CIVIL Engineer and a product of the most powerful and educated Laden family in Saudi Arabia
Does that clear him up of all the nasty things he has done/ doing all the world ?

Checks and Balances
Bush approval – about 28%
Congressional approval – about 18%
What I’m going to say is distasteful to me. But to remain silent…and let a slick, smooth-talking con artist that has attained his position thru multiple criminal associations without having one meaningful accomplishment of his own…is criminal on my part and yours.
There are two types of crimes…
Crimes of COMMISSION (you commit the crime) and…
Crimes of OMISSION (you let someone else commit a crime and do nothing about it)
My greatest fear in this election is…
It is driven by HATE for the present administration…and not REASON.
No country has ended up with a better life when ‘Rebellious Hate’ was the motivator.
It’s called “JUMPING FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE.”
The media wants a historic event…well the last few weeks have provided that.
Do they want to live in a country ruled by CHICAGO and BOSTON style politics
for a long time? I hope not.
It is an imperfect world but a liberal Socialist state will not make it better.
The problem is…most people in America have never experienced one… I have.
It is not a pleasant place to live for ANYONE…but the tyrants that rule.
Please look at the FOOs (friends of obama). You ARE known by the company you keep.
He has a more than a casual association with a long list of people that are ‘Haters of America’ and that includes his wife (“America is a Mean Place to live”) THAT Michelle.
To mention three others – WILLIAM AYERS (Chicago bomber/terrorist),
FRANKLIN RAINES (CEO of failed Fannie Mae),
KWAME KILPATRICK (convicted mayor of Detroit)…NOTICE: They are ALL BLACK. This is NOT a RACIST STATEMENT. IT IS A FACT.
And then the 100,000 member national organization ACORN (Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now…known perpetrators of voter registration fraud in several states and, just now discovered, used hoodlum tactics to coerce banks to make housing loans to low-income minorities {blacks} that we now know that many could not afford them).
ChicagOBAMA and his associates have been PLANNING this ATTACK for a long time and America has been ambushed. WAKE UP…before November 4th.
In closing…a free society remains free when Checks and Balances exist. Debate works.
We have a Democratic Congress that needs to be kept in check.
And we don’t need a president that has risen to power with the help of known criminals.
A single party system is what exists in most of those countries that we consider enemies.
I’m sure they will accept emigrants if you like that kind of government.
Theo6