Obama: ‘Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Weeks Ago?’
ABC News’ John Berman, Sunlen Miller, and Ursula Fahy report: Barack Obama today invoked the memory of Ronald Reagan and told an Indiana crowd to ask, "if you are better off than you were 4 weeks ago."
Tapping–in to the overwhelming economic concerns facing the country, Obama spoke before some 20,000 thousand people at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis. "The money you’ve been putting away for your retirement or your kids’ college education is disappearing faster than you can count," he said, "The dream that so many generations have fought for feels like it’s slowly slipping away."
Obama remembered the famous line that Ronald Reagan used to attack Jimmy Carter, suggesting Americans ask, "are you better off than you were four years ago?" Obama said, "At the pace we are going, you are going to have to ask if you are better off than you were 4 weeks ago."
Then, after spending a good deal of time essentially saying people should be worried, Obama told them not to worry.
In a speech that seems one-part political event, and one-part economic pep-rally, Obama said, "I’m here today to tell you that there are better days ahead. I know these are tough times. I know that many of you are anxious about the future. But this isn’t a time for fear or panic." He said what the country needs is "steady leadership," and he clearly thinks he is the man to provide it.
The event in Indiana today is interesting in its very existence. The Hoosier state not been won by a Democrat since 1964. Yet Obama is outspending John McCain 3 to 1 here on political commercials. And if even if he can’t win, it seems clear he will force McCain to fight in a state that has been safe Republican territory for more than 40 years.
Obama tried to reinforce some themes from Tuesday’s debate in Nashville lampooning John McCain’s health care plan which would give families a $5000 tax credit for health care, but for the first time, tax their employer-provided health care benefits.
"It’s an old Washington game, they call it bait and switch," said Obama, "He gives you a tax credit with one hand, he raises your taxes with the other."
Of course another old Washington game is to release campaign commercials that dovetail with your speeches, which is just what Obama did. He released an ad attacking McCain’s health care policy that says, "so what one hand giveth, the other hand taketh away." While Obama’s statement is true, it is somewhat misleading. Independent analysts suggest that the tax-credit most Americans would receive would be greater than the impact of the new tax, at least for a few years. And Obama’s assertion that 20 million people would lose their health care ignores analysis that suggests 21 million would have greater access to care.
Obama also seemed to test out a line he might have used from last night’s debate had it the tone turned more negative, or more personal. Commenting on days of statements from McCain aides, and his running mate Sarah Palin that question Obama’s character, the Illinois Senator said, "I can take four more weeks of John McCain’s attacks, but America can’t take four more years of John McCain’s Bush policies."
Obama was introduced by popular Indiana Senator Even Bayh fueling a flurry of VP speculation. (That’s a joke. Bayh was on Obama’s short list as a possible VP choice, before he ultimately chose Joe Biden)
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I mean a sleze is a sleze in every color…and what moves sleze is money and power. And, Obama is a sleze, and he is in fact moved and being moved by money and power and he is using his own people to help. ..like sheep to the slaughter.
And many of the so called white liberals would not know what to say to a regular black working person if they , if they happen to run into them on the street, and in many cases they would not run into them because they live apart from them. I have witnessed over and over this hypocrisy everywhere I have lived.
Posted by: HP Boston | October 8, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm
HP Boston: say hello to president Obama.
Posted by: samurai | October 8, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
Obama has played this race issue to perfection. He is not of a common heritage with American descendents of slaves. He is a new, more sophisticated mix of parentage. These people seem to have moved at will, around the world, being a part of every radical and subversive culture out there. He adopts the ‘downtroden AA’ persona when it serves his needs. He has harnessed the will and the efforts of millions of true black Americans to his cause, not because he is one of their true brothers, but because it serves his needs.
Posted by: HP Boston | October 8, 2008, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm
when have we had the luxury to live in hawaii…go to harvard and sip tea with rich terrorists? when have we ever thrown granny under the bus…where i come from u better never say anything about granny those r fighting words.
Posted by: HP Boston | October 8, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
HP Boston: I read this article…it says nothing about race or color or anything like that. But that is where you jump to at the get go.
How does it feel to hate a group so much because of skin color? Does it keep you warm inside burning with all that hatred?
Posted by: G in Mpls | October 8, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm
Mccain/Palin: Klan First!
Posted by: Joe | October 8, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm
ACORN Nevada Office Raided RE: Voter Fraud
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Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of ACORN after fielding complaints of voter fraud.
Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state’s office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about “erroneous” registration information being submitted by ACORN.
“Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications,” Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev.
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Numerous Invalid Registrations Reported in Indiana
(ACORN again!)
In Lake County….. a federal investigation into hundreds of voter registrations bearing fictitious signatures or the names of dead and underage people.
“Fraudulent applications are the workings of ACORN groups operating from Milwaukee and Chicago who are getting out the vote for Obama…”
“…it appears some ACORN vote canvassers pulled names and addresses from telephone books and forged their signatures.”
NOTE: Henrietta reports that when ACORN got caught in IN, they scrammed… ‘cos illegal registration is a felony there!
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BO-folks STEALING THE ELECTION IN OHIO
BO folks are transporting people, including the homeless, to register &/or vote early…
Posted by: HP Boston | October 8, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
so McCain’s health care plane will have a net of 1 million people additionally insured? He calls that reform?
Posted by: Louis | October 8, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm
HP BOSTON:
Look at McCain’s money. He has 8 houses, 12 cars, etc. He’s the well off elitist who cares about taking care of his rich friends only. I suppose you have $5m and therefore support McCain. That is the standard that he set when defiing someone as being rich. Per his definition, Obama is poor.
Posted by: TexGal51 | October 8, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm
It may take a few days for it to sink in but the distinctions drawn in the debate last night were clear. We MUST get off oil and 10 years is a generous time to get that job done. Utilizing just 10% of our oil purchases to mass produce cars that run on electricity will have a significant impact within 2 years. The technology already exists to do that. Further investment, call it an additional 10% into the mass production and implementation of solar, wind and tidal farms across the US, again using currently proven technology, will have a massive impact in energy production and an increase of nearly 8 million new jobs directly related and indirectly related to that industry. Energy costs will come down, jobs and economy will go up, environment will be positively impacted. Plus ripples into education, healthcare and global trade. All for money we are already committed to spending. John McCain wants to do what we’ve always done, talk about it and explain how we can’t afford it.
Posted by: Louis | October 8, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm
Amazing. We’re in October and the Democrat is holding a rally in Indiana.
Posted by: Paul | October 8, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
Here we have a man who was a lobbyist during his community oraganizing days, a man whose policies have helped fannie and freddie (and other programs like it) bring havoc to the economy and a man who says he is the one to fix it.
Rubbish.
Posted by: david | October 8, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
Nothing changed in my world from 4 weeks ago, cept maybe my undies….please the people who lost the money had the money.
Speaking of voter fraud, they are having a problem with it here where I live, haven’t heard anything on the national news, just our local news. They told us not to worry, if someone votes with your identity, you can still vote with a provisional ballot. Whoopie, and what about the fake vote that was cast? (Of course we have ACORN here)
Posted by: samhiguchi | October 8, 2008, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm
Aparently Hp in Boston has started his own Yankee bramch of the KKK. Great. Ya’ll enjoy wearing your bedsheets and don’t forget to put them back on the bed after you ride around in them all day.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 8, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
Why do they call McCain erratic? Uh, maybe because last night he tried tacking to the left of his Democratic opponent. And most likely today he’ll go back to the right.
I can guess Bob Barr last night went above the 1 percent threshold – which would be about three times what his LP predecessor got. I’m hearing from more than a couple Republicans who are getting tired of McCain’s positions being all over the place. Some of them will still vote, but not for McCain.
Posted by: Paul | October 8, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
“Are you better off than you were 2 years ago?”… 2years ago we had 4.5% unemployment, gas was $2.25 a gallon. interest rates low, virtually no inflation, Stock market climbing.. Then the Democrats came into power, especially taking over trhe banking committees and overseeing freddie mac and fannie mae, Look where we are now…. Democrats have destroyed America in just 2 years. This was thier plan to win the election, make people suffer.
Posted by: Arrest ANYONE thats disagrees with Obama | October 8, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm
sam – Glad to hear you are one of those rich guys. More power to ya. What about the people who have lost their jobs because of this mess. I am not talking the brokers etc, I am talking the receptionists, secretaries, runners mail clerks the lower minions and the like. What about the small business who may not be able to make payroll or get a nneded loan?
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 8, 2008, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm
McCain is getting Wip Lash!
Posted by: Thinking | October 8, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
As I said 6 months ago, this race is not even going to be close. mccain will be lucky if he manages to get 150 electoral votes. Obama/Biden 2008!!!
Posted by: pt | October 8, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
HP,
Paranoia! Mayhem! Whining! Greed! If hate this country and all it’s downtrodden people so much, then move to Iraq. After all, the surge is working! You and your racist, greedy, warmongers will be greeted like liberators. Enjoy!
Goodbye McCain/Palin ’08
Posted by: HP Los Angeles | October 8, 2008, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm
MASSIVE voter fraud in Ohio and Florida.. CALL your attorney general. Acorn is trying to steal the election with this “thug thizzle” CAll your attorney general now and INSIST on an investigation, they have to respond to you
Posted by: Arrest ANYONE thats disagrees with Obama | October 8, 2008, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm
I feel sorry for John McCain. He thought that he would easily win the election. He thought Karl Rove tactics would work on the people. We are hurting and it shows how little McCain and Palin care about ordinary people. I knew McCain wouldn’t do himself any favors last night and come out looking Presidental. He just has to stand next to Obama and know that is not going to happen. I wrote if John McCain was 5 years younger it may have worked but personally, I feel he’s too old. People are looking for young, fresh ideas. The issues affecting us today, are huge. I know anything can happen between now and election day, but America is looking for a leader to help get us out of this mess. I have hope with Obama. With McCain I have fear.
Posted by: LF | October 8, 2008, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm
49 workers suspected
Mucklin was among 49 voter registration workers who were referred to the Milwaukee County district attorney’s office by the Milwaukee Election Commission on suspicion of election fraud. He is the second to be charged.
Virtually all the workers under scrutiny were employed by either the voters project or by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Those groups were among several politically liberal organizations that launched massive voter registration drives in Milwaukee in advance of the Nov. 4 election.
Posted by: HP Boston | October 8, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
HP Boston, you’re a silly person. I’ve watched a lot of Obama speeches and have never once seen him “adopt the downtrodden AA persona.” Neither have you.
African Americans tend to vote overwhelmingly Democratic. It’s hard to imagine that Obama will win a larger percentage of the black vote than did Kerry or Gore or Clinton. Are they truer “brothers”?
You silly person.
Posted by: David | October 8, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
Arrest – then why is Obama beating MCCain? Why are the McCain/Palin supporters the ones making the threats to kill the competition? COuld it be that desperate acts are the results of failed attempts to beat Obama. Sorry folks my dog could have run as a Democrat and beat any Reublican you have out there. McCain has just gotten “Gored”.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 8, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
mccain can probably get Bob Dole’s old job of advertising Viagra after Nov. 4th.
Posted by: pt | October 8, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
WE WERE CERTIANLY “BETTER OFF” BEFORE OBAMA CAME ALONG WITH OLD CHICAGO POLITICS.. AND MARXISM.
I UNDERSTAND FEDS ARE UNCOVERING HIS VOTING FRAUD INSPIRED BY ACORN AT LAST.. HE STOLE ELECTIONS.
SOMEONE TELL OBAMA THAT IS IS RAINING VERY VERY HARD IN CHICAGO.. HIS OLD GAMES WILL COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM..
Posted by: TJ, THE CLINTONITE | October 8, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
McCain was a board member of the now discredited U.S. Council for World Freedom, an international group with ties to ultra right-wing death squads in central America. The group was directly involved in the Iran-Contra scandal.
McCain is dirty
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 8, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
From the October 1996 Update of the DSA ‘New Party’:
“New Party members are busy knocking on doors, hammering down lawn signs, and phoning voters to support NP candidates this fall. Here are some of our key races…
Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).”
Hey Obama were you a Socialist New Party member 12 years ago? Why yes you were!
Posted by: geevill | October 8, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
HP Boston:
It’s obvious you really have a problem. Don’t be so sour looser ! You’ll get over after a couple months and realize that Obama IS your man and will appreciate the uplift your country desperately need and the rest of the world !!
Posted by: anonymous | October 8, 2008, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
Wikipedia says there are 90 million houses in the U.S. I just googled mortgage delinquency and found that nationally 6.41 percent are currently delinquent.
So using my trust calculator, this means McCain wants the federal government to buy 5,769,000 houses.
Then he wants to adjust the mortgages to true market value and give people 30-year loans to stay in those houses.
Assuming that costs the government 20k per house (and it could be a lot more – my house has lost nearly 100k in value) we’re talking about an initial hit on the budget of over $115 billion.
Then consider the government expansion that would be needed to handle this process for more than 5 million houses – assessing values, processing paperwork, processing cash transfers to mortgage companies, processing mortgage payments from owners, and of course processing those who can’t make their mortgage payments to the government.
How many people will be needed to do this, and what will it cost to implement the people and plan? Also, how long will it take, and how many of the delinquent mortgages will have been foreclosed on before this government explansion is even in place?
Posted by: Paul | October 8, 2008, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
HP Boston,
I’m from Boston. You embarrass me.
Posted by: Donna | October 8, 2008, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
McCain has 154 former paid lobbyists associated with his campaign.
Maverick my ass
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 8, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm
Why does mr. palin not want to be part of the USA since he belongs to the AIP?
Posted by: pt | October 8, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm
geevill – was this party advocating Illinois secession from the Union? Lol.
Posted by: Paul | October 8, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
Since I am not a credit- lurping over-extended gluttonous swine, I san safely say that the last 4 weeks have had no effect on my lifestyle except I am enraged that Obama & McCain would both support an obscene and unnecessary bailout of Wall St crooks.
Posted by: enraged at both pols | October 8, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
I am better today than I was 4 years ago never the less 4 weeks ago! I will be even better when McCain wins and we see all the liberal media crying on TV asking how could this happen! Just like that Pastor at Obama’s church mocking Hillary Clinton! How could this happen, I am Black, I am entitled!
Posted by: chuck | October 8, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
McCain’s in-laws are connected to organized crime in Arizona.
McCain is dirty
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 8, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
HARTFORD CT — The State Elections Enforcement Commission has opened an investigation into allegations that a community activist organization submitted at least 10 false voter-registration cards in Bridgeport.
One of the phony registrations was for a 7-year-old girl in the Marina Village housing complex, whose age was listed as 27 on the voter card.
Another registration came from a man who later said he couldn’t have completed the voter card purported to be his because he was in jail on the date of the document.
Joseph J. Borges, the city’s Republican registrar of voters, filed the complaint with state officials after months of local complaints on the tactics that ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was regularly filing applications that were ruled ineligible.
Posted by: HP Boston | October 8, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
No I am not. Thanks Bush and McCain….empty suites. Has Bush done one good thing for this Country since he was first elected??? Anyone??? and then McCain stood side by side and even hugged him on stage.
Posted by: becky | October 8, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
So Barack decided not to use the name he had in high school, Barry, and went back to his given name.
And now — word is out — Cindy has changed John’s name to ED.
Posted by: Yankee | October 8, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
Voters, do your homework and you will find that the economic chaos today was started by the Democrats when they legislated policies for people to buy homes they could not afford. Many of the sub-prime mortgages required no down payment and only interest paid for three to five years. The Democrats and minorities demanded this, hence our economic down-turn. Obama’s policies will only increase the problems with all the new spending he has planned, like free health care. That is pure socialism. And remember, Obama supported and worked for ACORN, the voter fraud organization.
Posted by: Marla | October 8, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
McCain = Charles Keating, criminal and domestic economic terrorist
McCain = in-laws connections to AZ mob in the beer business
McCain = US Council for World Freedom and Iran-Contra
McCain is dirty
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 8, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm
How does your 401K look today??
Posted by: becky | October 8, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm
It’s obvious you really have a problem. Don’t be so sour looser !
Posted by: anonymous | Oct 8, 2008 2:42:31 PM
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OT IS LOSE! LOSER AS YOU MISPELL YOU SEEM TO BE THE REAL LOSER!
LOOSE IS WHAT IS IN YOR HEAD!
Posted by: HP Boston | October 8, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm
Nobody wants to take a shot at guessing answers to my McCain mortgage purchase plan, huh.
No worries. That was yesterday. Today is a new day, with a new McCain message.
Posted by: Paul | October 8, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm
McCain is dirty. Do not be fooled HP.
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 8, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm
Arrest Anyone,
I will try to type this slow so you can understand this.
Just because the Democrats have a number majority, they do not have filibuster prevention majority. This means that if Bush vetos a bill the majority Democrat Congress passes, they do not have the numbers to overturn the veto. This means the Republicans are still technically in control of the direction of this country.
Posted by: Mack | October 8, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm
Sarah Palin is a Governor of Alaska. Barack Obama is a Senator, oh and let’s not forget, a community organizer. Give me a break. Obama is running for President. The guy has no credentials, the people that he has called associates and friends over the past years are all dangerous to this country or crooks. What does that say about his judgment? He has taken millions in campaign contributions from the banking industry and repeatedly blocked reform of that same industry. He has socialist ties everywhere. He works with the likes of Bill Ayers. He is heavily involved with ACORN, which is now being investigated for voter fraud in many states. Yep, dead people and animals voting for Obama. The lists goes on and on and on… Want to know more? Visit:
noquarterusa.net/blog/
Those comments about Palin are so sexist they don’t even deserve a response. Is it a crime now to be attractive? Does that somehow make you less intelligent or qualified? People bitched that Hillary was old and ugly, now they bitch that Palin is attractive and sexy. WTF? And to criticize her for what time she puts her kids to bed. That is pretty pathetic. Gee, let’s look at Obama’s choice for VP. The drunk gaffe-master Biden. Real good choice!
I am not a republican, and I don’t agree with McCain on many things. However, country trumps party and my worry is for this country if Obama gets elected. I never want that man to have our nuclear codes.
Posted by: HP Boston | October 8, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
McCain needs to tread lightly. In his long career in Congress, he has been directly involved with some of the darker aspects of government and clandestine circumvention of it, and he knows it. Tenuous connections to Obama and Ayers pale in comparison to McCains direct support and involvement with terrorist activity dating back to the Regan era. With one of his platform stances being that of security and fighting terrorism, he knows it would be extremely damaging to have the media all over, and the voting public see his links directly to the support of it.
Posted by: Concerned American | October 8, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
I GOT NEWS FOR OBAMA….
EVERY 4 YEARS DEMOCRATS ARE AHEAD ON
POLLS BUT THEY LOSE IN NOVEMBER…..
LETS SEE IF OBAMA WILL JOIN THE LOSERS
CLUB THIS YEAR……..
BEST CHOICE IS:
McCAIN/PALIN ’08
Posted by: Nicholas | October 8, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm
HP Boston,
I’m from Boston. You embarrass me.
Posted by: Donna | Oct 8, 2008 2:42:42 PM
Donna don’t be so lazy go and find information on thatone, so as not to embarrass the whole state of MASSACHUSETTS!
Posted by: HP Boston | October 8, 2008, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm
Wow… there go the Jews in Florida for McCain. This was the guy that was just toting that “we cant have another holocaust on our hands” when talking about the threat of Iran attacking Israel… then come to find out… he is in cahoots with Nazi-backed death squads and Palin is tied to the Alaska Independence Party which tried to pursue sponsorship from the government of IRAN…. This is absolutely bat-***** insane. Obama tied to Ayers at age 8 is the least of my ***** worries… I could give a ***** less. But McCain and Palin? There are really still people who want to hand these nut-jobs the launch codes?
Is John McCain Supported By Terrorist Supporters? Nah.
Michael Scherer
This morning John McCain put out a list of 100 former ambassadors who are supporting his campaign. Number two is Lenore Annenberg, the wife of Ambassador William Annenberg, the founder of the Annenberg Institute of Reform, which funded the Annenberg Challenge, which once had two famous board members: former “domestic terrorist” William Ayers and Sen. Barack Obama. So either we should all be outraged that John McCain is supported by a family who funded a foundation that hired a domestic terrorist, or this whole William Ayers thing is just plain silly. I choose the latter.
Posted by: becky | October 8, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
HP Boston,
But how is it that Obama is to blame if people like him? believe him? want him for their President?
Are you at fault if some mananges to like you? Don’t Hate The Player, Hate the Game!!!!
Posted by: fempharoh08 | October 8, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
MASSIVE voter fraud in Ohio and Florida
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None of these pinheads whining about ACORN ever mention that 40% of the people ACORN registered are registered REPUBLICANS. (That number comes from the NY Post, not exactly a bastion of liberal thought.)
Posted by: Whatever | October 8, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
Paul, there is a huge part of Illinois that wants to leave Chicago and become it’s own state…been trying for YEARS, does that count? The rest of Illinois doesn’t like being associated with dirty Chicago politics and actually it’s a lot like taxation without representation (everything goes to Chicago)
Posted by: samhiguchi | October 8, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
HP Boston,
But how is it that Obama is to blame if people like him? believe him? want him for their President?
Are you at fault if some mananges to like you? Don’t Hate The Player, Hate the Game!!!!
Posted by: fempharoh08 | October 8, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
Let not forget Sarah Palin association’s with the radical Alaska Independence Party that wants to secede from this great country, the United States of America.
And here is a quote from Alaskan Independence Party founder Joe Voegler:
“The fires of Hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government, and I won’t be buried under their damn flag!”
I wonder how Palin explains her husband”s verified membership in the “ALASKIAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY?” Seems she doesn”t believe in the UNITED States of America, does she??
Posted by: becky | October 8, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm
Louis,
McCain’s Health Care Plan is not the only issue.
McCain’s Health is an issue.
Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 8, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm
Whatever: How do you think Bush got elected?? You really think the honest American People did that?
Posted by: becky | October 8, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm
HP Boston: And many of the so called white liberals would not know what to say to a regular black working person if they , if they happen to run into them on the street, and in many cases they would not run into them because they live apart from them.
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Yeah, HP, I don’t live in the White House, so I’m probably not going to run into the Obamas during the next four years. But if I did, I’d love to have a chat! It’s just skin pigment, HP, we’re over that in the 21st century. We have had a much harder time curing ignorance…
Posted by: obamamama | October 8, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
A new report out by the Wisconsin Advertising Project and TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG reflects the mounting intensity of the presidential campaign in its closing weeks
The analysis concluded that in the latest period, nearly 100 PERCENT OF McCAIN’S ADDS WERE NEGATIVE, compared to 34 percent of Obama’s ads.
Sure, McCain “knows how to reach across the table”…..sure he does, to punch someone.
Posted by: They've got nothing but smears | October 8, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
The answer yes, I am better off financially, thanks to the Bush Administration. If Obama wins, that is defintely another story. I am retired living on capital gains and dividends.
I made good decisions years ago about my retirement funds.
Posted by: Marla | October 8, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm
OBAMA WANTS A NATION OF RIGHTS AND HANDOUTS
NO WONDER EUROPEANS LOVE HIM!
THEY ARE BATTLING WITH SOCIALIMS NOW… LAZY CITIZENS SITTING AND COMOPLAINING TO MAO-TSE TUNG.
WE DONT WANT MAO-TSE-OBAMA.
HEALTH CARE IS A RIGHT?
IT IS A RESPONSIBILITY THAT GOVERNMENT MUST MAKE EASIER-THATS ALL
Posted by: TJ, THE CLINTONITE | October 8, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm
Nicolas,
Have you forgotten that there was a Democrat President between the two Bush terms? Clinton was ahead by 21 in the polls over Bush. During that time, there was an economic problem going on and people knew a Democrat would help the country out of the problem. People didn’t care about Clinton getting a deferment for school during the Vietname war because they were concerned about the economy. Just like this time people care more about who will help the economy and not about what someone a person worked with did 40 years ago.
Posted by: Mack | October 8, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm
Marla obviously invested heavily in oil companies and defense contractors
Posted by: The only companies doing well | October 8, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
HP: “I never want that man to have our nuclear codes.”
Lol, and you’d rather have McCain with them?
That might be the funniest notion I’ve seen on this message board yet.
Posted by: Paul | October 8, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
– Voters, do your homework and you will find that the economic chaos today was started by the Democrats when they legislated policies for people to buy homes they could not afford. –
It goes back to when banking regulations that had been in place since the 1920′s were lifted, allowing banks to, among other things, package and sell mortgages as investments. But at this point, that is simply water under the bridge.
– Obama’s policies will only increase the problems with all the new spending he has planned, like free health care. That is pure socialism. –
For someone suggesting that voters do their homework, it appears you have not taken your own advice. It is not free or socialized health care, and people claiming it is do not know what they are talking about.
Obamas plan is to create another insurance company, one that would pool policies and be able to negotiate lower prices just like large corporates do (which is why individual coverage is always higher than your employers plan). It would compete against all the other insurance companies out there, be affordable, optional and portable, so you can take it with you from job to job. In addition, businesses who provide health insurance to their employees would receive tax breaks for doing so (it is estimated the savings from that would be around $140 billion a year).
The net result would be that more uninsured Americans would be able to get health insurance. This also has two added benefits to stimulate the economy.. first, the $140 billion savings to businesses would be a direct injection of capital to spur new job creation and increased production. Second, the added influx of insured patients into the system would boost revenue for health care providers, again, causing an upswing in job creation and it’s cascading effect on other sectors of the economy.
This is not just a plan he pulled out of thin air. He has began pushing the idea when he was an Illinois Senator and has been refining it over time.
Compare that to McCain who just wants to deregulate the industry, tax employers so more people shift to private coverage, and give individuals a fixed tax credit regardless of income. His plan would cause more Americans to lose insurance due to inability to pay and pre-existing conditions, and like his tax plan, simply favors the wealthy.
Posted by: Concerned American | October 8, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
TJ: NO WONDER EUROPEANS LOVE HIM!
THEY ARE BATTLING WITH SOCIALIMS NOW… LAZY CITIZENS SITTING AND COMOPLAINING TO MAO-TSE TUNG.
——
Gosh, TJ, I think they need to up your meds. Lazy Europeans are complaining to Mao Tse-Tung, eh? During a seance? You do know he was the chairman of the Communist party in China, right?
Posted by: obamamama | October 8, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
– If Obama wins, that is defintely another story. I am retired living on capital gains and dividends. –
Then you will be glad to know two things.. first, under Obamas tax plan, seniors would receive a $50,000 exemption. The majority of retired seniors living on a fixed income would not pay any taxes.
Second, the capital gains increase (which will still be less than they were under Clinton) would only apply to those earning over $250K. All existing exemptions would be left in place as well. So under Obama, you most likely will pay no tax, or your tax would be reduced more than it would under McCains tax plan.
Posted by: Concerned American | October 8, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
Thinking
Did you mean wip lash or lip lash.
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 8, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
HP Boston;
Experience is only one factor in hiring people. Anyone who has hired people will tell you that attitude and education is as important, and most will tell you more important than experience. All that matters in the end is if you are hired and it looks like the American people are going to hire Obama.
Get use to saying President Obama. You should start practicing now, because from the looks of your comments, it will take you that long to learn how to say it.
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 8, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
I don’t understand why nobody points out that families with kids will surely get the short end of the stick with McCain’s healthcare plan.
McCain proposes to give tax credits of $5,000 to families and $2,500 to individuals. If a family consists of more than 2 persons, that family would not get any credit for the kids. But, as most families know, healthcare plans are more expensive the larger the family is. And if you have to buy an individual plan on the free market, as McCain wants everyone to do, – as opposed to your employer’s group plans – you can be sure that you will pay extra for each additional kid.
I have a family with a wife and 2 kids. I also have a PPO plan through my employer for which I pay $500 per month and my employer contributes about $1,200 per month. So, that’s a total of $20,400. With that much money taxed as additional income, I certainly will have to pay more in taxes than the $5,000 I would get. And if I had to buy that same plan on the free market as opposed to be part of a big group of insured, I am certain I would pay more.
On top of that, healthcare costs are sure to go up further, so the amount that I and my employer currently pay for my plan will surely go up as well. McCain’s tax credit does not.
Thanks a lot!
Posted by: John | October 8, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
DOES GOD NEED TO LOBBY OUR US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD ON BEHALF OF OUR POORER AMERICAN’S SENATOR OBAMA,OR ARE YOU WATCHING OUT FOR THEM ??
SURELY OUR US CONGRESS & US SUPREME COURT BOTH KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A STATE MURDER IN GEORGIA OR A POSSIBLE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS IN GEORGIA ???
OUR US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD CONTINUE TO DENY MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION EVEN THOUGH WRONGFUL EXECUTIONS & FALSE INCARCERATIONS CONTINUE ALL ACROSS AMERICA ???
*** 700 BILLION $$$ AVAILABLE FOR US BAILOUT, & NO $$$ FOR ALL POORER AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION ???????
WHERE ARE AMERICA ‘S RELIGIOUS LEADERS ??
SENATOR OBAMA, THIS JUDICIAL INJUSTICE HAS BECOME AN AMERICAN ART FORM, AND NO LONGER CAN BE KEPT HIDDEN OR SECRET FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE EVEN IF CERTAIN (501c3) U$ RELIGIOU$ LEADER$ HAVE BEEN $ILENCED ??
LETS ALL HOPE OUR MEDIA FRIENDS CONTINUE TO SHOW AN INTEREST IN REPORTING ON THIS AMERICAN HORROR FACING THESE (TENS OF THOUSANDS) FORGOTTEN AND TRAPPED POORER AMERICANS, AND HOW THIS PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER HANDLES THIS VERY SERIOUS ISSUE FACING AMERICA’S LATINO AND BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ????
WITH 80% OF THE BLACK AMERICAN VOTERS SAYING THEY SUPPORT SENATOR OBAMA IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, IT IS ONLY FAIR FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW PRIOR BEING ELECTED OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HOW THIS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TRULY FEELS ABOUT THIS AMERICAN JUDICIAL INJUSTICE CONTINUING TO INFLICT GRAVE HARM ON THE BLACK & LATINO AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE ??????
*** WHEN GOD’S FACE BECAME VERY RED ***
THE US SUPREME COURT GAVE ENEMY COMBATANTS FEDERAL APPEAL HC RIGHTS LAWYERS AND PROPER ACCESS TO US FEDERAL COURTS,AND POORER AMERICANS (MANY EVEN ON DEATH ROW) ARE DENIED PROPER FEDERAL APPEAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO OUR US FEDERAL COURTS OF APPEAL, AND ROTTING IN AMERICAN PRISONS NATIONWIDE ?????????
**** INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS !
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
****WHEN THE US INNOCENT WERE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY ****
The prison experts have reported that there are 100,000 innocent Americans currently being falsely imprisoned along with the 2,300,000 total US prison population nationwide.
Since our US Congress has never afforded poor prison inmates federal appeal legal counsel for their federal retrials,they have effectively closed the doors on these tens of thousands of innocent citizens ever being capable of possibly exonerating themselves to regain their freedom through being granted new retrials.
This same exact unjust situation was happening in our Southern States when poor and mostly uneducated Black Americans were being falsely imprisoned for endless decades without the needed educational skills to properly submit their own written federal trial appeals.
This devious and deceptive judicial process of making our poor and innocent prison inmates formulate and write their own federal appeal legal cases for possible retrials on their state criminal cases,is still in effect today even though everyone in our US judicial system knows that without proper legal representation, these tens of thousands of innocent prison inmates will be denied their rightful opportunities of ever being granted new trials from our federal appeal judges!!
Sadly, the true US *legal* Federal Appeal situation that occurs when any of our uneducated American prison inmates are forced to attempt to submit their own written Federal Appeals (from our prisons nationwide) without the assistance of proper legal counsel, is that they all are in reality being denied their legitimate rights for Habeas Corpus with our US FEDERAL COURTS and will win any future Supreme Court Case concerning this injustice!
For our judicial system and our US Congressional Leaders Of The Free World to continue to pretend that this is a real and fair opportunity for our American Middle Class and Working Poor Citizens, only delays the very needed future change of Federal Financing of all these Federal appeals becoming a normal formula of Our American judicial system.
It was not so very long ago that Public Defenders became a Reality in this country.Prior that legal reality taking place, their were also some who thought giving anyone charged with a crime a free lawyer was a waste of taxpayers $$.
This FACADE and HORROR of our Federal Appeal proce$$ is not worthy of the Greatest Country In The World!
***GREAT SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT PROTECT EVEN THEIR INNOCENT, BECOME THE GUILTY!
A MUST READ ABOUT AMERICAN INJUSTICE:
1) YAHOO AND 2) GOOGLE
MANNY GONZALES THE KID THAT EVERYONE FORGOT IN THE CA PRISON SYSTEM.
** A JUDICIAL RIDE OF ONES LIFE !
lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com
(424-247-2013)
Posted by: DOUGLAS FIELD | October 8, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
John
Don’t forget about the addition payroll taxes BOTH you and your employer will have to pay. On $20,000 your employer could be hit with another $2,000 per year. They will have to make that up somewhere. My guess is they will cut your health care coverage down a little bit and you will have to make up the difference. You will also have to pay social security tax on that amount. Between you and your boss McCain just hit you both for another $4,000 of tax. I know this is correct because I am a CPA..
Posted by: The Unshrub | October 8, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
– WHERE ARE AMERICA ‘S RELIGIOUS LEADERS ?? –
In their churches, synagogues, masques and other religious institutions where they belong.
Posted by: Concerned American | October 8, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
Hire a smart president not
an angry old man with another war
on his mind
Obama Biden 08
Posted by: scott not for- dipstick-lipstick-rove 08 | October 8, 2008, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm
HP Boston:
You must be from Southie. Stop with your vile bigotry already. It’s old. We have moved past this (or at least we are trying). The hate you spew is un-American and there is no place for that in this country. If continue w/ your racist remarks, let me say on behalf of this country, This great Nation does not want you here. You are un-American. Please leave.
Posted by: TruePatriot (from Boston) | October 8, 2008, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm
Yep, just keep repeating that the republicans are the only ones to blame. Even SNL laughed it up at that one…wake up to Obama’s shallow blaming…
Nothing can go wrong with a democratic congress and executive branch, right?
We shall see…
Posted by: Wade | October 8, 2008, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm
We’ve got to impose term limits on every incumbent running for Congress or the Senate in this election. They all deserve to be fired! We don’t need a constitutional amendment to do this, just vote against every incumbent running, Democrat or Republican. Fire every one of them. Doing this could very well force whomever is elected President to sit down with all the new faces and come up with real solutions to the serious problems we’re facing…and maybe even putting the long term interests of our nation first.
Posted by: TP | October 8, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm
America is very lucky because you never ever didn’t know what it is Socialism and Communism. I’m from former Soviet Union. I don’t know more terrible, humiliation country, where only leader is right and smart, where doesn’t have any kind of freedom. Many things from Obama’s company remained me stile of former Soviet Union. But looks like we will know what that is Socialism. I know, you won’t publish my e-mail, but everybody should think about this. Sorry, my English isn’t good.
Posted by: former soviet | October 8, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
My explanation for HP Boston and Mr. Field. He have an interesting psychological dynamic happening in the electorate and it’s apparent in some of the Republican Campaign events. 8 years of tripartite Republican rule and this nation and world are obviously falling apart. It’s is so blatantly apparent to everyone. Most people in the country have realized that the emperor has no clothes and are fleeing to the counterpoint in droves. However, those folks that have owned a viewpoint of being Republican as part of their personal identity…are getting angry and desperate. They are in an identity crisis. Undeniably people don’t want to be wrong, especially if that error is held deeply in their faith and belief system. They want the emperor to be clothed even if he is not.
So instead of admitting…even personally to themselves…that they might have been mislead by the GOP over so many years, they build up a dire amount of anger and angst and attack those that differ. Like cornered Mountain Lions…all will pay. The simple fact is that Obama only has a differing VIEWPOINT on what to do in our world crisis. That’s it, nothing else. He’s NOT the devil, he’s NOT a terrorist, he’s NOT going to destroy the world, he’s NOT going to tax you into poverty, and when he is elected the world WILL keep turning and the rapture WON’T come.
People need to not vindicate their utter existence simply by the views they hold. Many times views can be wrong. It’s OK to have a differing opinion on how to do something…it really is. Voice your opinion…listen to other opinions…change your mind when the facts outweigh the rhetoric…but don’t stake your entire self-worth on an ideal.
Fostering this ridiculous belief of righteous infallibility is the greatest crime the GOP has made over the last 20+ years. It’s exactly how the Nazi’s persuaded regular folk to exterminate a race. It’s exactly how the Islamic Extremists foster the hatred and fuel their terrorist agenda. Do America and yourselves a favor and realize that YOUR party screwed you…and then move on.
Posted by: SWMissouri | October 8, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
Obama is an Arrogant, Radical FRAUD.
The truth will come out about all these “friends” – the ones he does NOT know – Rev. Wright, Ayres, Raines,
ACORN – anyone else ?????
Obama you are Sleeze!
Posted by: Abby | October 8, 2008, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm
In my opinion, John McCain, the 71 years old man, who gets tired, senile and angry so fast , he proved beyond doubts that he is 100% disbale and rightly he has claimed dis ability benefits for the last 40 years. He is also has cancer. On the otherside he has poorly selected an attractive but brainless, merciless, thoughtless and above all visionless as her vice president candidate. His senate trems are also full of many wrong judgements including Iraq war, which has not only bankrupted our Nation but along with the western world is in financially crippled.
For the God sake, America sake and the world sake, OBAMA IS THE BEST CHOICE FOR THE PRESIDENT AND LET WE ELECT HIM AND SEND MCCAIN TO ARIZONA DESERT FOR HIS PEACEFUL RETIREMENT AND SEND BUSH-CHENEY-RUMSFELD TO HAGUE TO GET PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR SINS.
Posted by: John Dahodi | October 8, 2008, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm
McCain/Palin = Country First
Obanma/Biden = Socialism First plus a few terrorists, criminals, racists and hate mongers.
Posted by: Marla | October 8, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm
In my lifetime I have not seen a man more in tune with Americans and prepared to help them. Barack Obama represents the people of this country, and for gods sake I hope we don’t screw up and end up with McCain. The problem with the economy is that a large portion of the manufacturing jobs have left. Taco Bell doesn’t pay as much as manufacturing. Obama is the only one that wants to stop that. I hope nobody listens to the silly comments posted by McCain supporters on here. McCain has more radical ties than Obama. For gods sake our country finally gets someone that wants to represent Americans and take our voice to Washington. I’m white, a veteran, and I’m voting for Barack Obama.
Posted by: Eric | October 8, 2008, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm
As soon as Obama loses and goes back to Illinois or Kenya or Indonesia or whereever he’s from, I’ll be great!
Posted by: S Adams | October 8, 2008, 7:30 pm 7:30 pm
Wake Up. Obama wants to play Robin Hood and increase the hand-outs to all the lazy bums that don’t want to work. Why should the hard-working people who paid their way through college to EARN good paying jobs have to give up their HARD earned money to help those who don’t get health care and other free hand-outs from the government. Give me a break. Obama is making alot of promises and who do you think is going to pay for them ??/ Not just the people who make > $250k. Listne to his backpeddling already when he states that his initial promises may not be able to happen during his first term. He is already assuming he will be in office for 8 years. God help us.
Posted by: No free handouts | October 8, 2008, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm
– get health care and other free hand-outs from the government –
The government is already giving out food stamps and other welfare.
As for Obamas health plan, it is truely brilliant. It will create another insurance company which will compete against the existing ones. By pooling policies, it will be able to negotiate lower prices (which is why individual policies cost significantly more than those your employer can get). The plan will be affordable, completely optional, and portable so you can take it from employer to employer. The tax savings for businesses providing health insurance will result in an estimated $140 billion annually going directly back into the economy to be used for job creation and increased production, and the increased number of insured patients will inject revenue into the health care market, further stimulating the economy and creating jobs.
McCain just wants to deregulate, tax employer provided health insurance to shift workers to private insurance carriers, and give a fixed credit across the board regardless of income. Just like his tax plan, his health plan also favors the wealthy, and yet he keep saying that he is for ‘main street’, but fails to show how.
Posted by: Concerned American | October 8, 2008, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm
I feel sorry for the Jews. They will be the ones to suffer and they don’t even know it. He hooks up with Farrakhan, Rev Wright, not to mention the Kenyan connection, Ayers and whoever else is in his past who hate the jews. He’s a muslim b/c any Christian I know doesn’t go to a church and attack the bible for being racist. He’ll bring this country to it’s knees and blame it on Bush and Biden. Poor Joe, they’ll say he was asleep at the wheel when they decimate Isarel. I was going to vote for him but there are too many unanswered varibles that we should know more about.
Posted by: Kellogg | October 8, 2008, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm
Planting Seeds of Disaster: ACORN, Barack Obama, and the Democratic party
You’ve got only a couple thousand bucks in the bank. Your job pays you dog-food wages. Your credit history has been bent, stapled, and mutilated. You declared bankruptcy in 1989. Don’t despair: You can still buy a house.” So began an April 1995 article in the Chicago Sun-Times that went on to direct prospective home-buyers fitting this profile to a group of far-left “community organizers” called ACORN, for assistance.
At the time, however, that 1995 Chicago newspaper article represented something of a triumph for Barack Obama. That same year, as a director at Chicago’s Woods Fund, Obama was successfully pushing for a major expansion of assistance to ACORN, and sending still more money ACORN’s way from his post as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Through both funding and personal-leadership training, Obama supported ACORN. And ACORN, far more than we’ve recognized up to now, had a major role in precipitating the subprime crisis.
…
Another factor working in ACORN’s favor was that its increasing success with local banks turned those banks into allies in the battle with Fannie and Freddie. Precisely because ACORN’s local pressure tactics were working, banks themselves now wanted Fannie and Freddie to loosen their standards still further, so as to buy up still more of the high-risk loans they’d made at ACORN’s insistence. So by the 1993, a grand alliance of ACORN, national Democrats, and local bankers looking for someone to lessen the risks imposed on them by CRA and ACORN were uniting to pressure Fannie and Freddie to loosen credit standards still further.
…
Up to now, conventional wisdom on the financial meltdown has relegated ACORN and the CRA to bit parts. The real problem, we’ve been told, lay with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In fact, however, ACORN is at the base of the whole mess. ACORN used CRA and Democratic sympathizers to entangle Fannie and Freddie and the entire financial system in a disastrous disregard of the most basic financial standards. And Barack Obama cut his teeth as an organizer and politician backing up ACORN’s economic madness every step of the way.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjRjYzE0YmQxNzU4MDJjYWE5MjIzMTMxMmNhZWQ1MTA=&w=MA==
Posted by: LightSeeker | October 8, 2008, 9:38 pm 9:38 pm
To blame this terrible disaster of epic proportions on poor people buying houses is totally obsurd and stupid.
The lax regulation of the credit industries is to blame. period. They also violated disclosure laws that have been on the books for years. People did not know how much they’re payment would actually go up because it was not disclosed to them.
They also put people into the sub-prime market when they could qualify for a traditional 30 yr fixed loan. To blame the democrats for the economy is just not honest or truthful. The republicans had control of congress for 10 years and a republican president for the last 8 years.
Why can’t republicans learn from their mistakes? Or even admit them.
How unamerican that is.
Peace
Posted by: margoharris | October 9, 2008, 3:44 am 3:44 am
Barack Hussein Obama is plagarizing again. He needs to get a brain of his own. He is one scary dude that I do not want in the White House. I was a lifelong Dem.. but the Democrats made me sick all througout the primaries with their antics. Truly dispicable. I registered to vote this year as Independent and will vote for McCain. True American Military man for a truly American job.
He is a real man.
Posted by: ML | October 9, 2008, 7:28 am 7:28 am
Where was Obama 4 weeks ago?
Still campaigning while our economy was
going down in flames!
John McCain, the Only Leader in this
election did the right thing and suspended his campaign and returned to
Washington to try and work out a
rescue plan! It doesn’t matter whether
or not his first effort was successful
at least he tried!
Obama is so desperate to be president thathe would rather see our economy
destroyed if it meant he would be elected!
Country First! Just Say No to Obama!
Posted by: reaganfan | October 9, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
John McCain suspended his campaign because he was afraid to debate.This a CAMPAIGN for the presidency.If any thing McCain showed he didn’t have a clue what was going on and tried to hide behind and take credit for the work of his own party and couldn’t even persuade his party to get the necessary votes.This man is full of hot air.
Posted by: TV | October 9, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
Julia if possible give me an e-mail if you can. I think we must be relation. My e-mail is gshop_12sbcglobal.net
Posted by: glenn hoppock | October 9, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
Ooh, ooh me me me:
If you mean financially, yes, Senator, I AM better off than I was four weeks ago.
Less debt. A little more money in the bank.
Doing just fine. I don’t need you or anyone in government to rescue me.
Are YOU better off Senator?
Posted by: Fed Up With Them All | October 9, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm
This is a bigger mess than any of us will be able to cope with when it all comes out in the wash. Mean while, stay opinionated and remain insulting to others; because you are above it all, and your government will protect you; or will it?
Posted by: james teal | October 10, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm
TROY DAVIS, PLEASE REMEMBER THAT AMERICA IS NOT THE OLD SOUTH ~ AFRICA !
A $TATE ECONOMIC BOYCOTT OF GEORGIA INTERNATIONALLY WILL OBVIOU$LY BE THE END RE$ULT OF GEORGIA DECIDING TO MURDER A PO$$IBLE INNOCENT TROY DAVI$ WITHOUT A NEW AND FAIR TRIAL ?
US CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS WHO ARE ALSO LAWYERS BY TRADE, CONTINUE TO DENY poorer AMERICAN’S PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION !!!
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NEEDS TO BEGIN A FORMAL INVESTIGATION INTO THESE US CONGRESSIONAL CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BEING INFLICTED ON poorer AMERICAN’S LIKE MR.TROY DAVIS OF GEORGIA !!!
HAVING BEEN DENIED APPEAL LAWYERS FOR THREE YEARS ON DEATH ROW IN GEORGIA MR. TROY DAVIS IS NOW BEING EXECUTED FOR A CRIME HE MIGHT NOT HAVE EVEN BEEN INVOLVED WITH !!!
SENATOR OBAMA PLEASE LET THIS COUNTRIES VOTERS KNOW YOUR FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS ABOUT A NEEDED FUTURE REPAIR AND RENOVATION OF OUR BROKEN JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAT CONTINUES TO ALLOW THE EXECUTION’S OF EVEN POSSIBLE INNOCENT AMERICAN’S LIKE TROY DAVIS OF GEORGIA ?????
BEING THE WEALTHIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD SENATOR OBAMA, DON’T WE NEED AS THE LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD TO BEGIN ONCE AGAIN TO RE-INVEST THE PROPER MONIE$ IN OUR OWN US JUDICIAL SYSTEM, ASSURING ALL OF OUR CITIZENS THEIR RIGHTS TO FAIR TRIALS WITH PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION ???
DOES GOD NEED TO LOBBY OUR US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD ON BEHALF OF OUR poorer american’s SENATOR OBAMA,OR ARE YOU WATCHING OUT FOR THEM ??
***OUR US CONGRESS CONTINUES TO DENY MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION EVEN THOUGH WRONGFUL EXECUTIONS & FALSE INCARCERATIONS CONTINUE ALL ACROSS AMERICA ???
*** 700 BILLION $$$ AVAILABLE FOR US BAILOUT, & NO $$$ FOR ALL POORER AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION ? SENATOR OBAMA, THIS JUDICIAL INJUSTICE HAS BECOME AN AMERICAN ART FORM, AND NO LONGER CAN BE KEPT HIDDEN OR SECRET FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE EVEN IF CERTAIN (501c3) U$ RELIGIOU$ LEADER$ HAVE BEEN $ILENCED ??
LETS ALL HOPE OUR MEDIA FRIENDS CONTINUE TO SHOW AN INTEREST IN REPORTING ON THIS AMERICAN HORROR FACING THESE (TENS OF THOUSANDS) FORGOTTEN AND TRAPPED POORER AMERICANS, AND HOW THIS PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER HANDLES THIS VERY SERIOUS ISSUE FACING AMERICA’S LATINO AND BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ????
WITH 80% OF THE BLACK AMERICAN VOTERS SAYING THEY SUPPORT SENATOR OBAMA IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, IT IS ONLY FAIR FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW PRIOR BEING ELECTED OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HOW THIS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TRULY FEELS ABOUT THIS AMERICAN JUDICIAL INJUSTICE CONTINUING TO INFLICT GRAVE HARM ON THE BLACK & LATINO AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE ??????
*** WHEN GOD’S FACE BECAME VERY RED *** THE US SUPREME COURT GAVE ENEMY COMBATANTS FEDERAL APPEAL HC RIGHTS LAWYERS AND PROPER ACCESS TO US FEDERAL COURTS,AND POORER AMERICANS (MANY EVEN ON DEATH ROW) ARE DENIED PROPER FEDERAL APPEAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO OUR US FEDERAL COURTS OF APPEAL, AND ROTTING IN AMERICAN PRISONS NATIONWIDE ?????????
**** INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS ! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
****WHEN THE US INNOCENT WERE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY **** The prison experts have reported that there are 100,000 innocent Americans currently being falsely imprisoned along with the 2,300,000 total US prison population nationwide.
***WHERE ARE AMERICA’S RELIGIOUS LEADERS ??????? Since our US Congress has never afforded poor prison inmates federal appeal legal counsel for their federal retrials,they have effectively closed the doors on these tens of thousands of innocent citizens ever being capable of possibly exonerating themselves to regain their freedom through being granted new retrials.
This same exact unjust situation was happening in our Southern States when poor and mostly uneducated Black Americans were being falsely imprisoned for endless decades without the needed educational skills to properly submit their own written federal trial appeals.
This devious and deceptive judicial process of making our poor and innocent prison inmates formulate and write their own federal appeal legal cases for possible retrials on their state criminal cases,is still in effect today even though everyone in our US judicial system knows that without proper legal representation, these tens of thousands of innocent prison inmates will be denied their rightful opportunities of ever being granted new trials from our federal appeal judges!!
Sadly, the true US *legal* Federal Appeal situation that occurs when any of our uneducated American prison inmates are forced to attempt to submit their own written Federal Appeals (from our prisons nationwide) without the assistance of proper legal counsel, is that they all are in reality being denied their legitimate rights for Habeas Corpus with our US FEDERAL COURTS and will win any future Supreme Court Case concerning this injustice!
For our judicial system and our US Congressional Leaders Of The Free World to continue to pretend that this is a real and fair opportunity for our American Middle Class and Working Poor Citizens, only delays the very needed future change of Federal Financing of all these Federal appeals becoming a normal formula of Our American judicial system.
It was not so very long ago that Public Defenders became a Reality in this country.Prior that legal reality taking place, their were also some who thought giving anyone charged with a crime a free lawyer was a waste of taxpayers $$.
This FACADE and HORROR of our Federal Appeal proce$$ is not worthy of the Greatest Country In The World! ***GREAT SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT PROTECT EVEN THEIR INNOCENT, BECOME THE GUILTY !
A MUST READ ABOUT AMERICAN INJUSTICE:
1) YAHOO 2) GOOGLE
(MANNY GONZALES THE KID THAT EVERYONE FORGOT IN THE CA PRISON SYSTEM.) ** A JUDICIAL RIDE OF ONES LIFE !
***Someone please tell our US Congress that the GED degree that Manny Gonzales acquired in prison is not a LAW DEGREE !!!!!!
lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com (424-247-2013)
Posted by: DOUGLAS FIELD | October 31, 2008, 12:10 am 12:10 am